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Mostly cloudy. Mild temperatures. Hopefully a little less breezy than yesterday. Today's high about 43 degrees. Tomorrow, we're looking at the warmest day of the week. We'll have partly cloudy skies. Breezy, windy, that's not going to help. But a high of about 52. We drop down 10 degrees for Thursday. Sunshine high 42. Maybe a little rain moving in as we head into the weekend starting on Friday. Hello. Hello.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. And today is Tuesday. It is January 28th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, a lower Mukunji Township couple is facing charges in connection with the disturbing allegations of abuse involving two teenage boys in their care, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office. 36-year-old Joshua DeCant and his wife and the mother of the teens, 42-year-old Tracy DeCant,

were both charged this week with two felony counts, each of endangering the welfare of children. Officers responded to the 1200 block of Divot Drive back on January 22nd after authorities say a naked 15-year-old boy was seen running around in the neighborhood during the extreme cold temperatures. According to the district attorney's office, the victim told police his stepfather, Joshua DeChant, forced him to go outside naked as a form of punishment. Terrific. It's awful.

I, yeah. Temperatures were reportedly in the single digits at the time. The victim also told troopers that he was outside for about 20 minutes as his feet were bright red from running around in the cold and the snow. A nearby neighbor, I mean, thankfully for good people, a nearby neighbor was able to get

help when the boy knocked on the door. The neighbor reportedly told troopers that he would not stop eating once he was inside. During a news conference on Monday, Lehigh County D.A. Gavin Hollahan said neighbors responded wonderfully to open their home to a stranger who was at their door. They took the child in, they fed him, they clothed him, and they called police.

The criminal complaint states that the victim appeared very malnourished and extremely thin when he was taken to the hospital. Authorities say the boy weighed 53 pounds. 53 pounds for a 15-year-old? Oh, my God. 53 pounds. 53 pounds, and his twin brother weighed 55 pounds. Oh, my goodness.

Medical staff said the boys should weigh approximately 143 pounds at their age. The complaint noted that in the past eight years, both victims gained only 10 pounds. So in eight years, they gained 10 pounds. Do they go to school? They don't, Casey. Okay. Yeah. Investigators said the couple subjected the boys to other types of abuse inside the home, including the denial of food and water, forcing them to walk around the home naked, forcing them to stand outside naked in freezing temperatures, and forcing them to sleep on the floor with

only a single blanket to share. And by the way, Kathy, I mean, not that you can draw conclusions about anything, but this would be a house you'd pass in any

You wouldn't think twice about it. Yeah, you saw the picture at the house. It's just like, yeah, in a neighborhood. Yeah, you never know what goes on behind closed doors, but these poor kids. In another instance, the criminal complaint alleges the boy's stepfather would tackle him at random times and throw him against the floor. The biological sister of the boys told police she hadn't lived in the home since April of 2023, but that she was also subjected to similar punishment, including being placed out in the cold undressed.

The boys and other children at the home are now being cared for by other family members. Authorities say the twins were not attending school. The suspects were both released on $75,000 bail. They released them on $75,000 bail? Uh-huh. I know. Oh, my God. No. There needs to be a no release or million dollar bail or something like that. That seems that's obscene. Bizarrely light. And I know people talk about this all the time, but I was actually recently talking to

to somebody who's in the industry and said that the jails are just so overcrowded that they are, you know, like instances like this, they do release them on bail and they're like letting people out. Until they have their trial. Yeah, yeah.

Workers at a Whole Foods market in Pennsylvania voted to unionize on Monday, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the Amazon-owned grocery store chain. Employees at the Philadelphia store cast 130 votes, or about 57% of the ballots cast in favor of joining a local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union for the purposes of collective bargaining. According to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the election, 100 workers rejected the motion.

The result marks the first successful entry of organized labor into Amazon's grocery business, which includes Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh, and Amazon Go convenience stores. Amazon, which purchased Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion, has tried to fend off organized efforts in its stores as well as by delivery drivers and warehouse workers.

Many people are scrambling to try to get to the Super Bowl. So I checked Philly sports trips this morning. They can get you to New Orleans with packages starting at $5,100. All of their trip prices are priced without tickets to the game, but they do offer an option to add game tickets onto your package, which significantly obviously increases the total. The Green Legion is offering packages starting at $6,000 per person and go all the way up to $15,000. They do include tickets to the big game, but you have to be okay with sleeping on a boat.

A barge. Yeah, so their packages include accommodations on a riverboat. Okay. And they sold one out. They said that they're looking to possibly book a second one. So if you're interested, there's a form you can fill out if you want to stay on the riverboat with them. I think some cities are more...

more ready for something to accommodate this. But you had places like when we were in Jacksonville years ago, like that place just was not prepared. Couldn't handle that. Pretty far away. You were like in an RV. It was totally... It seemed mismanaged. Well, I mean, listen, you know, we...

We just sort of pieced it together. You know what I mean? We did what we were able to do. Well, for this event, you don't have to just accommodate for the people that are actually going to the game. There are thousands of others who just want to be in its orbit. Well, I think that's why Philly Sports Trips has their packages with no game day tickets. You can just go if you want and then you add the tickets on if you want to go to the game. We're going to be doing that. New Orleans is a party city. Just be near it. At Philadelphia,

The International Airport major carriers are adding flights from Philly to New Orleans. A spokesperson at the airport said American Frontier, United, Delta and Southwest are all adding flights from PHL directly to New Orleans in time for the Super Bowl. Those flights start February 6th, run to the 8th, all returning on February 10th.

Once you land in the Big Easy, it's not so easy to get a hotel room. Some are already listed at $5,000 a night. So one of the already planned packages might be the best deal. You know, as a season ticket holder, I am, you know, part of this lottery, right? Where you can buy tickets at quote-unquote face value. I don't know anybody who's ever even gotten a sniff as a season ticket holder. Really? Yeah, because I don't know how many seats they actually release to season ticket holders. Like...

And they don't tell you. Think about logistically the amount of juggling that has to go on for something like this and all the stuff that falls through the cracks. I was thinking about, Kathy, the addition of flights and so on and so forth. What if air travel is impeded? What if the weather is a bad condition? All of these variables are in play. Yeah.

Marissa's got a comment real quick. Casey, the game was over at 724. I was looking at photos the other day. At 811, I got an email from the Eagles that said, thank you for being a season ticket holder. You are not selected. Go Birds! But they don't tell you how many. I don't know how many seats there are in the Superdome.

But you got to say, you got to think somewhere around 70,000. Yeah, but it's every team, every player has options to buy tickets, every client. There's so many seats that are out there that are promised to other people. I was surprised. And clearly, they have to make some ticket accommodation available for...

to the players, but it's not a lot, right? I don't think so. They have to purchase. Yeah, and they have to purchase. If you remember in the Kelsey documentary around the last Super Bowl, I don't remember how many tickets they bought, but they were out like 50 grand, and they were buying them at face value. That's crazy.

Unbelievable. So just the Super Bowl tickets, if you already have your hotel room, you've got your flight, and you want to buy a Super Bowl ticket. You've got your boat you're sleeping on. You've got your boat. You have your river boat. The Super Bowl tickets range from $7,500 to $56,000. So good luck in sports this morning.

What the f*** is that? The Flyers beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 last night in South Philly. Wait. I was waiting for it. Bobby Brink, Joel Farabee, and Garnett Hathaway scored to help the Flyers build a three-goal lead, and they held on for the win. They did!

Scott Lawton had a goal and an assist to help the Flyers end a two-game losing streak and win the opener of a home-and-home set. Travis Konechny had two assists, and Samuel Erickson stopped 31 shots in the Flyers' fourth straight home win. The two teams play each other again tomorrow night with a game in New Jersey. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. The Sixers, who have won two games in a row after losing seven straight, are at home tonight to host the L.A. Lakers.

We'll be right back.

The rest of the team will take a few days off before they start to prepare for the big game. Super Bowl 59 is on Sunday, February 9th at the Superdome in New Orleans at 6.30. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thank you so much, Kathy. Welcome to Tuesday morning, folks. We will have your chance to win a Preston and Steve show themed tattoo. And all you have to do is text the word tattoo to 39333. Up for grabs, $350 gift certificate from our friends at Floating World Tattoo and Piercing World.

on South Street. So go ahead and get yourself signed up for that. We also have a couple of guests on our program. We're going to have Ryan Airy, who you know from the Screen Crush crew. We've had him on the show many times. Anytime a really big, awesome pop culture or genre film comes in, we get him on because Ryan and his crew break down the movies, all the Easter eggs, all the cool little hints to other films, and, you know, just...

Stuff you wouldn't even think of. Deep dives. Yeah. And it's a fun experience to kind of, after you've seen the movie, go through it and have them lead you through it. They're terrific at what they do. So we'll check in with Ryan today because the Screen Crush gang are going to be coming to Philadelphia on Sunday. And they are going to be at City Winery. Nice. That should be pretty awesome. And speaking of people doing shows, we will have on guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani this morning. Around 9.30 he's going to be joining us.

The G3 Reunion Live. New album. This guy really knows how to play guitar. That's me actually talking about Joe Satriani in 1989. But anyhow, the new album is with Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Eric Johnson. Unbelievable. And that comes out on the 31st. And then he's going to be joining Sammy Hagar for the Best of All Worlds 2019.

2025 tour, Vegas residency. And that is at the end of April, moving into May. So reading up on Satriani, I had no idea he was Steve Vai's guitar teacher. And Kirk Hammett of Metallica. It's amazing. That's what he did first. He was a teacher. And yeah, he taught these guys. And then all of a sudden he's like, well, I'm going to record some of my own stuff. And yeah, he's phenomenal. I was watching some videos this morning of

Some songs that my band used to play of his just to revisit that stuff. And it's just fantastic. So I'm looking forward to talking to him. So that would be around 930 or so. And the Polar Plunge with the Special Olympics is coming up this weekend, right, Nick? It's on Saturday. Saturday at the ballpark. And so our friends at the Special Olympics who are going to benefit from the Polar Plunge.

are going to drop off some goodies for us today, and that means we're going to share them with you, so we have a sort of meet-and-eat taking place, and we'll be giving away some Wawa gift cards in conjunction with the Polar Plunge this weekend at Citizens Bank Park. And we have an announcement concerning...

The Super Bowl. Big. Yes. Big. We are going to get to that in a little bit. I'm not sure exactly what time, but I want to work out the details. But yes, we are going to share some info about something that we're excited about. Do you have the feeling it just might be bigger than the Super Bowl? You never know in this day and age of viral campaigns and things that happen, Steve. It's possible. It could surpass.

The Super Bowl, for all we know. Probably not, but pretty big. Game grandeur. Yes. We'll find out. So we'll make an announcement at some point this morning. All right, we're going to take a quick break. Come back in a second. And the Entertainment Report and Stupid Question are up next. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kaz. So we're going to give away for the stupid question pair tickets to see comedian Dusty Slay, who is doing the night shift tour on Saturday, 7 o'clock at the Miller Theater in Center City. And the question I have I got from listener Sean Ward. He emailed me and he lives in Marlton. And his question is, who is here in Philadelphia Roosevelt Boulevard named after? Interesting. 215263. WMMR need to know specifically who is here in Philadelphia.

Who Roosevelt Boulevard is named after here in Philadelphia. 215-263-WMMR. Call if you know the answer. Got a bunch of birthdays. And Casey, I keep failing to bring in some musical birthdays. I'll hand that sheet over to you so you can get ready for it. But here's one. It's Alan Alda's birthday today. We would hear the MASH theme, but I dropped the ball. It's all right, man. You're juggling a lot. There's a big game coming up. There is. Alan Alda is 89 years old. We spoke to him several years ago. He's great.

Great conversation with him. Great guy. And he told us a story of his mother being schizophrenic. Isn't it crazy? And what he went through as being a child of someone who has that mental condition and how difficult that was, as you can imagine. Well, he himself right now, is it Parkinson's he has? I'm not sure. Yeah, he's got something that's debilitating. I've seen him interviewed recently, and he's still doing pretty well.

In the movie The Aviator, he is terrific because he's the nemesis. But he's terrific. Yep. So happy 89th birthday to the great Alan Alda. Barbie Benton's birthday is today. God, did I have a crush on Barbie Benton. Gorgeous. He's gorgeous.

Hugh Hefner's girlfriend. Yeah. You were a fan as well, huh? Yeah, late 70s, early 80s. Just beautiful. Just a gorgeous body and face, obviously. But yeah, she was a stunner. She turns 75 years old today.

We have actor Will Poulter. He joined us at the Camp Out for Hunger one year. Yes. And you know him, everything from The Revenant to The Maze Runner to We're the Millers and The Bear as well, who he's great in. He's terrific in The Bear. One of my favorite episodes of The Bear is basically just a two-person episode. And he's terrific. Yep. So he turns 32 years old today.

Ariel Winter from Modern Family Fame. Yes. Is 27 years old. You know, she's done a ton of DC voice acting. Oh, okay. Yeah, she plays, like, she'll play Harley Quinn in some stuff. She'll play a multitude of characters. She's actually really good. All right. So happy 27th to her. Actor Elijah Wood, you know, from the Lord of the Rings films, obviously. Yes, yes.

I'm very aware of this. Yes. I enjoyed my time with the little master. Yep. So, Frodo Baggins. And he's also in the faculty. He's in the faculty. He's also in the show Yellow Jackets that I keep telling you guys about. And he shows up, I believe, in the late...

Second season? I've forgotten how many seasons are, but anyhow, he's really good at it. We also have, turning a year older today, ah, we got some boy band birthdays. Here we go. A couple of them. All right, Nick Carter.

Up the Backstreet Boys. This turns 45 years old. There'll always be a guilty pleasure song. Yeah. Listen, there are a bunch of these songs that if they come on, I'm on board. I'm singing along with them. Are you dancing, though? That's the question. I am not dancing. Except for...

The right stuff from New Kids on the Block. Because I know that little dance move. What about Bye Bye Bye? Yeah, you got to do the hand thing. Bye Bye Bye. Bye Bye. Speaking of those guys, NSYNC's Joey Fatone. You believe we don't have any NSYNC? What? I can't find it anywhere. You believe that?

In fact, many people thought your bobblehead, the bobblehead version of you, looked a bit like Joey Fatone. Yeah, yeah. Totally. Absolutely. And then Joey went on to be like an unofficial member of the Impractical Jokers. Yes. And he's good. And he is. And you know who he's great in? He's my Big Fat Greek Wedding. He's funny. He's awesome. So he turns 48 years old today. The great Sarah McLachlan. I will.

I love this song. We always play this song. There are so many other great songs she has. Building a Mystery. I have a bunch of songs that I have from Sarah McLachlan that pop up from time to time. Stunning voice. Just amazing. The second I hear her voice, I know I'm going to see a...

Two-minute commercial of spamming dogs. And I can't take it. I figure I do enough animal charity that I'm okay. Within my rights to do it away for a minute. I mean, it is a nice song, but it does bring thoughts of that. So the only thing that I can ever think of, because we made a picture...

And this was the song that we used, but we had a friend in high school who passed away. Oh, with death. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, she was on the cheerleading team with us. And they, like, all of her really good friends, like, played this song out in front of her locker. And, like, so that's all I think of as death. Sure, makes sense.

She is one of those singers that I love their voice, but I can't watch them sing. There are people like her. Distracting. Jessica Simpson. No, because listen, some people, they need to contort their faces in order to hit certain notes or just to make sound. And it's just, for me, it's so cringy just to watch them sing. Better heard, not seen. Yeah. What's a song I love that's...

I'm trying to look at it. Anyway, she's got a bunch of tunes that are... In the Arms of the Angel? No, it's not that. No, it's... I would hold you down, kiss you so hard. I'll take your breath away. And after that, wipe away the tears. I don't know that one. Just close your eyes. No, I'm not doing it any justice with the melody there. I know it's on your... It's a great tune. Yeah.

She's 57 today. Just don't look at her face. Yeah. According to Casey. Rick Ross, who is the... Beautiful. No. Producer. Yeah. He's made a gazillion dollars. Not hurting for cash. He turns 49 years old. He's got two rotisserie Showtime... What? Two? Yeah, two of them. Nobody has two of those things. Constantly two chickens rotating. Wow. Frank Daramont, who brought us...

The Walking Dead. He's the creator of The Walking Dead. And what else? He wrote Shawshank Redemption. Well, he was a screenwriter for Shawshank Redemption and The Great Mile and The Mist. Yeah. And all that stuff. So, yeah, he's amazing. He turned 66 today, but...

Man, did he strike gold with The Walking Dead. He did. He did. I remember that first. That's one of those things where you know when a series hits in your life, Preston, and you can't stop thinking about it, and you're talking, and you're busting at the seams to find someone else who's seen it. Oh, yeah. That was Walking Dead. Yeah, I agree.

Mo Rocca, the TV personality, is 56 today. Where is he working now? We got him in trouble, or close to trouble. We invited him to be part of our Fat Tuesday broadcast from Club Escape. They showed up, and they got there, and they didn't come in. He was promoting Axe Body Spray. I know. It was the perfect fit. We haven't been since. He's been there.

He's been in studios since then. Really? Oh, yeah. He sat right here because we talked to him about it. And he was like, yeah, his bosses were like, we don't know if we want to send him into a strip club. I don't think it was Moe's decision. At 7 in the morning. Yeah. All right. And the last birthday, our good friend and video god, Nick Murphy. Yes. Turns a year older today. Now of Disney. Yes. And YouTube fame. You can watch his show called Continue? Yes.

uh and the gang there so happy birthday murph we love you buddy all right let's see if someone knows the answer to this question which u.s president is roosevelt boulevard named after 215 263 wmmr we will go to sean to get the answer hey sean uh you clicked on the wrong thing uh sean's on line six you went to line five thank you case all right now we have sean hey sean

Good morning at Presbyterian. Good morning to say yo, Sean. All right, so Roosevelt Boulevard is named after whom? Theodore Roosevelt. Yes, Theodore Roosevelt. Hang on a second, Sean. It is officially known as Theodore Roosevelt Boulevard. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Boulevard.

And we're going to set you up with a pair of tickets to see Dusty Slay, the night shift tour, this Saturday, 7 p.m. at the Miller Theater in Center City. Tickets are on sale now via EnsembleArtsPhilly.org. Do you know it was also part of the first road across America? No. Roosevelt Boulevard is part of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, which ran 3,389 miles from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park on the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco. That's pretty wild. Wow. Yeah. Interesting. All right.

We are going to start with the Justin Baldani, Blake Lively thing. The war of words continues.

They have been filing suits against each other and Lively recently asked the courts to stop Baldani's lawyer from releasing things to the public, which could sway a jury if things go to trial. Baldani's lawyer, Brian Friedman, says that the public website he recently put out shares unedited text messages and video to disprove Blake's sexual harassment claims.

He said, we will not cherry pick and we will not doctor text messages. Meanwhile, Baldani has released an old, roughly seven-minute-long voice note that he allegedly sent to Blake Lively where he apologized to her following a meeting where they were... I apologize to anyone who's been offended by my fictional creations. Chris Agon...

The philosopher of evil and the skull sealer. I would submit there's a cabal in Hollywood that is all in some way tied to Chris Agon. By the way, I got an email from a guy named John Foster and he said, hey, is it possible that the Flyers' Nick Sealer's nickname is Skull?

Yes! Skull sealers. Pretty good idea. He got in trouble last night, too. What'd he do? According to some people, not according to our head coach, John Tortorella, a dirty hit. It looked like a clean hit to me, but Steve, he might have to apologize eventually. Yeah, he hit him with the skull sealers! Wham! I love it. Ka-chaka! Boom, boom, ka-cha-ka! Boom, boom, ka-cha-ka! Pierre was there.

Right in the front row. Right on the glass. Banging on the glass. Boom, boom, kachaka. Who is that lunatic? That's what he was yelling while he was banging on the glass. Watch this real quick, Preston. I want to get your opinion on it. Looks like a totally clean hit. Shoulder to face. Let me see. I'm a pro at this now. Yeah, but it looks like he just kind of... Boom, boom, kachaka. I don't know, man. When you go... Doesn't leave his feet.

I don't know. Are you allowed to hit him in the face with your shoulder? Or does it need to be shoulder to shoulder? Honestly, I think that that guy's face hit Nick Seeler's shoulder. That's what it looks like. Yep. It doesn't look like he was ramming him. He might have been bracing for the collision. The collision, yeah. It looks like he could have knocked him out, though, man. That would have hit the button. Kachaka. So, anyhow, back to Baldani. Justin Baldani, he shared that he is a flawed man. He's a flawed man. And that he agreed...

He agreed her proposed rewrites of certain scenes were good, saying that they were really good and it's going to make this movie sing like you said. That's in the text messages. Oh, baby. Yeah, baby. I still don't know. And believe it or not, when we were tailgating on Sunday, this topic came up. Baldani? The whole... Blake Lively? Yeah. At the football tailgate? Because we don't...

Who's the plaintiff? Like, you know what I mean? Who? I don't even know. Luke Lively would technically be the plaintiff. Well, to start off. And then there were so many lawsuits. And then there's counter lawsuits. Back and forth. Yeah, okay. That it's just all jumbled now. Except for grabs. All right. Yep.

Maybe they'll both be sitting with the same lawyer. So O.J. Simpson's estate is now involved in a legal dispute with his son, Justin Simpson. Attorney Malcolm Laverne, who is the special administrator of Simpson's estate, alleges that Justin used his company called Primary Holdings LLC to purchase O.J.'s house while he was still living there in 2022, supposedly to protect it from creditors.

creditor claims. Lawsuit states Justin has refused to vacate the property against OJ's will, indicating it was not intended to be separate from the estate. Laverne alleges that Justin claims that because his company owns the house, the house belongs to him.

Laverne also claims that O.J. made the house payments himself and that Justin moved in after O.J.'s death in 2024. Justin Simpson has not yet responded to the lawsuit. This is why this probate court and all of this law that pertains to this and after you die and reckoning a will is so complex.

because so much of this stuff can go so many different ways. Yeah, I'm working with my dad right now on his will and trying to set it up as a trust so that we can avoid probate. Oh my God, it'd be a godsend. Yeah, so that's just fun. My dad took...

time to make sure that everything was absolutely where it needed to be and my stepmom really helped put everything through, but I look at people going through things that last for years. Yeah. It's just horrible. Yep. Yep. So Brody Jenner is opening up about his relationship with his dad, Caitlyn Jenner. That's my little boy. And how they are in a much better space now. We are. We're in a space just outside of Optimus Prime. Oh,

It's off the Bontari Nebula. He said... It's very calm. It has those sort of celestial columns you sometimes see. Oh, those are beautiful. They're glorious. And with my little boy, who's now a little boy. He's now a full-grown man.

So he said... He can fit in a full photon tube. Brody said that we talk all the time. Right. It takes about an hour. I'll ask a question. It's the distance of space. You can't fight it. Yeah. And so he added that he warned Caitlyn about an episode of, quote, Special Forces World's Toughest Test that aired, saying, hey, Dad, just so you know, there's this stuff. And

And the Hills alum also spilled his feelings of abandonment after Caitlyn split from his mom, Linda Thompson, and moved on with Kris Jenner. So, yeah, Jody was on that, Brody, Jody, Brody, Brody, Brody Jenner was on that show, The Hills. Okay, and so there's stuff that came out on there while on reality shows you usually confess and do all this stuff. Yes, quote unquote. So Caitlyn was supportive of Brody.

Brody's comments being broadcasted responding, look, I've done all these types of shows. Bro. I know how these things work, but you're doing great. On the show, Brody reflected on his childhood, sharing that Caitlyn, formerly Bruce, wasn't around much after marrying Kris Jenner and starting a new family.

And I thought this was nice. Brody also revealed that Caitlin recently gave him a real sincere apology for not being present, saying that it meant a lot to him. Yeah, it was nice to hear that. Because in general, I like all the parties involved. And I always like to see a family heal. Yeah, absolutely. Even if it's across the vastness of space. Yeah, love still can span those distances. Absolutely. Yep. If we learn nothing from Lost in Space...

Please take this with you. Love transcends all.

Even outside the Montari Nebula. Can you fire? Can you shoot something from your spaceship? Absolutely. What planet would you like destroyed? I would like Alderaan. Yes, Alderaan. Those whiny bastards. There it goes. I love it. It's like a thousand or a couple. How many people have done Alderaan? Millions. Millions. Cried out. All at once. Agony is extinguished. Millions of oysters. Millions of oysters. That's what I heard when I was a kid.

Oh, it's the millions of voices? I was like, why is it my God? Millions of voices?

We just killed millions of oysters. Dude, I bet you. I mean... Probably. Probably. Somebody put Shiloh on the Muzak system. For a long, long time, I was like, why did they even bring up the oysters? It's as if millions of oysters cried out all at once. Next time you hear the audio, hear me out. There is a scene in Star Wars, A New Hope, and look up a million voices, okay? And see if that comes up. It's as if a million prawns screamed out.

So we'll move on while we wait for that audio. But less than two weeks after announcing they'd split Bachelor stars Rachel Kirkconnell and Matt James are rumored to be back together. What in the holy hell? But Rachel herself has come out to refute those reports. Instagram gossip account DoMoi posted an anonymous tip.

On Sunday, stating that Kirk Connell was spotted out with about with James, just left my apartment, he said, in Kips Bay and walked past Matt James and Rachel Kirk Connell. That's the post. And Kirk Connell got wind of the post and flatly denied it and said, hmm, wasn't me, LOL, she wrote. So I don't know what that means. By the way, I was actually watching, Rochelle and I were watching The Bachelor last night. Really? Because I guess...

It was the first episode because it was the cavalcade of girls coming out of the limos last night. So I sat and I took in about part of, I don't know, maybe three quarters of it and then I'd had enough of just the introduction of these ladies. What was your takeaway? Because they make a big thing about... Some hot women. Yeah, of course. That was pretty much my bottom line takeaway is a bunch of hot girls. Right. But...

I mean, you know, it's the same thing. Listen, and they come out with their presentation, and they're supposed to be the ones who are coming up with this. I saw a clip where one apparently had a llama or something. I don't know. One girl came out with...

with chalk, with like hand chalk. Yeah. And it was almost like baby powder and she was throwing it up in the air. Is that a, this guy was a former NBA player. Yeah, so LeBron James does that before every game. He gets the chalk and he throws it up into the air. Oh, see, I don't know that. All right, so we were lost. Yeah. I had no idea what was going on with that. So yeah, they do these little things to get their, catch their attention. Like a genie bottle.

It's annoying. That's what it's about. Merced has the audio. This is as if a million oysters...

all cried out at once in Star Wars. Here we go. I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out. Yes! I hear it! As if millions of oysters suddenly cried out. I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. He sort of slurs. I fear something terrible has happened. Did you say oysters?

Come on. They're an aphrodisiac, for Christ's sake. These oysters will not survive. Millions of voices. Millions of voices. Millions of voices. Millions of voices. Millions of voices. Millions of voices. We'll have to ask Ryan Airy about that. All right. Yeah.

Millions of oysters. Millions of oysters. You have to enunciate Alec Guinness. Thank you for that, Nick. One of the great actors of all time couldn't save people. Voices became oysters. Voices. And the clams. The many prawns and other things. All right, let's see what else I was going to mention. Amanda Bowie.

Bynes. Haven't mentioned that name in a little while. People are wondering if she is engaged. Rumors started flying after TMZ posted a picture of a huge ring on the former child actor's finger that in most cases might indicate a wedding was on the way. However, the outlet reports that a source close to Bynes insists it's just jewelry with no meaning attached to her wearing it on that finger. As for the...

As far as the public or the media knows, Bynes hasn't publicly dated anyone since splitting from her ex-fiance, Paul Michael, back in 2023. There was footage of her up with some celebrity or maybe it was an athlete. And she seemed to be out and about and she was interacting with this person and seemed to be pretty together. So I hope that bodes well for her. I hope so. State. But she's got real problems. Yeah, she does. Hopefully she's going to be all right.

All right, a couple more things I want to mention. Let's see here. Yeah, Jennifer Lopez got emotional at the Sundance Film Festival as her musical film, Kiss of the Spider Woman, earned a standing ovation at its premiere. Lopez talked about fulfilling her dream of starring in a musical inspired by childhood viewings of West Side Story, saying, I've been waiting for this moment my whole life.

And she credited director Bill Condon, known for musical movies like Chicago and Dreamgirls, sharing, this man made my dream come true. The film introduces actor Tanatia, who

Did you ever see the movie? No, with William Hurt and Raul Julia, I believe it was. I've seen clips of it. It's good. It looks really good. It's different, but it's good. Condom returned to Sundance for the first time since showing his 1998 film Gods and Monsters.

Another good one. That's a great movie, making the moment even more special for Lopez and the cast. I am surprised that she has never been in a musical before. Yeah. I mean, as strong as a musical career she has. She sang a lot, obviously, in Selena. It was a musical. Let's see. Christopher Nolan's, I got two more things here for you. Christopher Nolan's next movie is The Odyssey.

And he's honing in on how he'll deliver his version of the Greek epic. And it's come out that he's apparently looking to partly film the movie in Sicily and shoot some key scenes on the island of Favegnana. Ah, okay.

And that island is believed to have inspired at least parts of the original epic poem from Homer. Unsurprisingly for fans of Nolan, the director is apparently looking to use cutting edge IMAX film tech for the movie as well. And the star studded cast includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron.

God wants us to do it. Isn't Oh Brother, Where Art Thou loosely based on this? Yes, it is. The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus' decade-long journey home after the Trojan War where he has to deal with sirens, angry cyclops, and more. Yeah, Casey in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, like John Goodman is the cyclops. He was a

and then the sirens of the three girls that are singing, and they fall asleep while they're singing. Right. So, yeah. Okay. And then, what makes this a poem and not just a story? Oysters. No, I mean, is it written in prose? I've never read the original or clips of it, but I've always assumed that, yes, it was written in some sort of prose. We did in high school at least a bit of it. It was a handful. Yeah, it's got to be. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting.

epic. Yeah. There's a flat out, it's a definition of an epic. Yeah, it took forever for it to get written down. It was originally told orally and then it became, like, I guess a written poem. And he kept losing his laptop during the process. Oh, man. Yeah, because it was an early laptop. Yeah.

All right. So the long-awaited trailer for season three of The White Lotus is out now. The season will cover a week in the lives of guests and employees and others at the exclusive Thai resort. The cast includes and not limited to Leslie Bibb, Walton Goggins, Michelle Monaghan. She's been in a lot of stuff lately. Did they film it there? Uh,

It looks like it. I don't think you can fake this. Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Scott Glenn and more. The new season premieres February 16 on HBO. Thailand is one of those places I think I would like to visit. Oh, yeah? Those resorts look pretty spectacular. I just saw footage of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is way closer. I couldn't.

believe it. It just seemed like the Maldives. I was like, okay, that's a little bit closer. I can make it there. I think we can get to the clips now. So the Rookie drama series focuses on the experiences of Los Angeles Police Department and in recent events

First responders have had to fight the California fires. And in this clip, Eric Winter shares his praises. After being on a show for seven seasons, the amount of respect I've gained for first responders of all kinds. I mean, it's not just firefighters, them in particular as well for this situation. But the police officers, they were doing so much work as well, preventing looting, trying to help control the chaos during this time so the firefighters could do their job. You can really see the symbiotic relationship, how everybody has to come together for a system to do its job.

New episodes of The Rookie airs Tuesdays on ABC. By the way, the Rob Lowe show, the 9-1-1, whatever it is, I think that was the one that had the quote-unquote sort of Poseidon adventure. Yeah. I was watching the trailer or the commercial for the new episode coming up. It's an asteroid, Preston. Oh. Yeah, they respond to an asteroid. They respond to an asteroid. I will see how that works out. Next clip, here we go.

So Paradise is a new drama series that has characters moving through different timelines. And here, Julianne Nicholson describes the filming process for those scenes. We did block shooting. So we would do one, two, three, four, and so on. We'd do two at a time. And so to be able to do most of the stuff from the past in the beginning of our filming season was really helpful for all the insanity that comes.

Paradise premieres tonight on Hulu. Thank you, Mark Summers, for putting a little button on that. All right, and that is what I have in the Entertainment Report for you this morning. Hang on a second. We have an update on the Odyssey, if you would like. I have Mike, who is a high school teacher, wants to share some information on that real quick. Hey, Mike, good morning.

Good morning. How are you? Good. All right. What do you want to share about the Odyssey with it to clear up with us? Well, I am a high school social studies teacher. And a lot of times English or English language arts, they call it, you know, lines up with social studies. Now, in the ancient Greek, the Odyssey is inverse. It does rhyme. Now, of course,

the first thing when you translate something is the meaning. So that's kind of a two-step process. So depending on the translated version, whoever the publisher or the translator is, they will translate the meaning and then they will see if, you know, since there are

different ways and synonyms and things that you can use. See if you can still make it work in English with rhymes. So there are some versions in English, or I guess I assume other languages too, that rhyme and some that do not. So the original is prose and it's absolute original text, but different versions of it might not quite be that way. Yes. All right. Because, yeah. And also, you know, I got to say,

I am a transplant. From Ireland, it sounds like. Originally, yes. And then I did most of my growing up in Washington, D.C. area.

So you guys kind of pissed me off the other night, but then again, actually the fumbles kind of pissed me off. But I will say that despite the division rivalry, I don't want to see Patrick Mahomes get a three-peat. All right. Agreed. So go do your worst. All right. We'll put that to the crew. All right. Thanks, Mike. We appreciate the call, bud. Take care.

I will see you. Nice. All right. We do need to take a break because I think when we come back, we should make an announcement. Yes. And reveal some information about the very thing that Mike was referring to. Maybe just if there's someone in your family that you haven't spoken with in a while, perhaps you were fighting or whatever, you need to come together for this. Yeah. Get them on the phone and make sure you're listening.

All right, so we will come back with that information later on this morning. The amazing Joe Satriani will be checking in with us, as well as, as I said earlier, Ryan Airy from the Screen Crush crew on YouTube. We'll break and come back in a sec, so stay with us, please.

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We've got New Orleans to think about. We've got the Super Bowl. We've got a lot of stuff that's going on leading up to the big event. And we had a little chat session yesterday about what we would like to achieve over the next, well, less than two weeks now. And we came to the conclusion that something needs to happen. Something that happened back in 2018. And we all know what happened. We got the Lombardi Trophy in 2018. Yeah.

So we were discussing what's happened since then. And you remember a while back, we sent Casey and some friends to Phoenix or to Arizona. Yeah, Phoenix. That's right. And so to drive across the country and get set and to try to spread a good vibe between here and there and also do all kinds of...

superstitions along the way that would maybe ensure or help at least nudge things along for a victory. Right. It didn't work. It didn't work. The goal was to infuse it with as much Philadelphia spirit as possible. Yep. It fell on its face. But we did recall something that did work in 2018. Yeah.

So we thought maybe it would be a good idea to revive that idea. Dare I say, it's the reason everything worked in our favor. It's the reason. Not the Philly special. I mean, listen, I don't want to diminish. It was a good effort. But I think it lives and dies by this. All right. Give me a drum roll, Casey, if you would, please. All right.

Because we are excited to reintroduce something that we absolutely love doing and hopefully you as well. It is the triumphant return of Bird Bots. Bird Bots. Yeah!

So, we are going to do BirdBot 2.0 this time around. Now, for those of you who are new to our program, new to the area, or maybe were too young to remember what happened then. That's possible. We'll tell you exactly what did take place. So, there was a little thing called HitchBot.

It was an experiment that someone did. They put together this little miniature robot-looking thing, and they set it out on the highway, and they wanted to see if it could travel across the country. Well, it didn't make it past Philadelphia. Don't you know. Don't you know, adding to the reputation of Philadelphia. So it was a bad...

And we decided to change things around to do something that would show actually how resilient and caring this city is. And so we created BirdBot in conjunction with the Super Bowl. Well, yes. First, it was PopeBot because the Pope was visiting. And that was a success. And Preston, that led us to believe that this was the way to go. It was awesome. We were talking about this yesterday. And, you know, BirdBot has an Instagram handle.

And you forget about this stuff. I mean, it was like seven years ago. So going through the Instagram handle and looking and watching all of the stuff that BirdBot did over a two-week span and everywhere he went, it was awesome. And to press into your point about creating that, when we sent you out on the road, Casey, and tried to generate that goodwill, BirdBot created goodwill. Yep.

It went on a tour around Philadelphia and then went out to the Super Bowl. Well, the rest is history. That's what we're going to do. And we're making BirdBot 2.0. Our BirdBot robotics master, Greg Monahan, is working on him as we speak. So it's going to be a new and improved. And by the way, if you're watching on our YouTube stream right now, you will see BirdBot over my shoulder. He is right behind me. He still exists. We have had him in a case.

Lovingly wrapped in bubble wrap. Cared for. But this thing took a hell of a trip in 2018. And so we still have him. We've held on to him. He looks fantastic. All of the artwork is still on. All the people that signed it and put stickers on it are still there.

And so what we are going to do is create a new one. And starting this Friday, hopefully if we can get him together by Friday, we are going to hand him off to the public. And we'll tell you exactly how we're going to do it when we get closer. But BirdBot is going to circulate around Philadelphia for roughly a week or so. Yeah. And he's going to go to various locations wherever he ends up. It is up to the public completely to do that. And what

What we're going to do is have you put things on BirdBot that will take the trip all the way to New Orleans. And in fact, we are calling this BirdBot from Broad Street to Bourbon Street. That is the name of the mission.

So we'll hand him off somewhere on Broad Street, and we'll give you the details coming up on Friday. And then it's up to you. And he circulates around town. We'll follow him on social media. We'll have a tracker on him so we'll know exactly where he is at all times. Absolutely. Boxes of trackers. Boxes of trackers. And you guys can be a part of this. And we want you, if you can't go to the game, we want to somehow or another send a piece of you there by your signature, your sticker, whatever you want to add to BirdBot.

And then we will have a mission for him to be received in Bourbon Street. And hopefully we'll be wonderful so we can get him inside the stadium. I don't think that's going to happen, but we could. You know what, though? You never say never with Bird Bot, as we learned the first time around. If you remember, he ended up, he made it out there and then ended up in the trunk of a cop car.

And we got him sent back. But Preston, if you look at it, and if people can check it all, obviously all the pictures are up online. But the amount of signatures from local businesses, the messages of hope and the messages of victory, which played out. So we're going to, as you said, we're going to cast him forth on the public tide. He's going to float around the area. We want you to...

You know, pass him along different businesses, different people, different stories, all captured on this. A piece of this BirdBot will travel with BirdBot 2.0. You know what's funny is about BirdBot 1.0.

is behind him an actual plug comes out of the back of the BirdBot and we were asking people to plug him in and charge him so that the tracking device would say charge. We don't need that anymore. But we might for lights. I don't know. We'll have to see because BirdBot had lights on it.

Yeah. He had lights inside of his helmet, which, by the way, the helmet was made out of two clear salad bowls that were put together to cover his face. We have upgraded. And the great Greg Monahan, by the way, there will be, though it'll be safe, there will be a nuclear reactor element to the new bird box. Right, yes. Well, the energy, it's safe for nowadays. Subcontained, yeah, absolutely. The way they handle that. Don't you be afraid. But, yes.

The Design Master is hard at work. It's going to have things that are going to make it a lot more easy to locate. But again, we want you to be the ones that give it that Philly spirit and then send it with all of its BirdBot power to New Orleans. And BirdBot will be, you can, you will be able to send us pictures that will end up on the BirdBot Instagram page, which by the way is at

Bird Bot Philly, if you want to go and reminisce about it, because there's some great pictures on there. I'm looking at them right now. There are luminaries with Bird Bot and all sorts of people. Preston, at the point it starts to traverse the, well, not the country, but a part of the country as it is to New Orleans, that's where we're going to really rely on you to sort of set up this gauntlet to get him

Yeah, there were a group of people who, like, after Bird Bot toured through Philadelphia before leaving for Minneapolis in 2018, these people, like, really took great care of them and brought them to a whole bunch of different places, you know, made sure that they found Route 933. There was a picture. They found Brian Dawkins, right?

So you got Dawkins, one of the greatest eagles of all time, posing with BirdBot. It's great. I'm looking at a picture of it at Mainline Fertility. And they had put one of those medical hairnets on his helmet. Which, by the way, somebody added the helmet to BirdBot. BirdBot did not start off with a helmet. No. And somebody taped a hard hat to it.

Which it has remained permanently affixed on there. Can you reach and just read some of the things off there that are behind you, because it's just filled. I mean, all right, there's Pinocchio's case he is on there. Philadelphia Fire Department. There's the...

St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. There is, I mean, there's, God, there's so much stuff on here. Just people signing. This is Collingdale No. 1 Station 6, Quint 6. I don't know what that means. AmeriHealth Caritas. And then all the, these are just the stickers that I'm looking at. There was the Boulder Tap House.

Goals Fit, Making Fitness Fun. Here's Mainline Fertility, as I just mentioned. I see 6ABC. Burns Contracting Services, 6ABC. I mean, on and on and on. It's littered. And then there's signatures. I'm not even reading the signatures. Somebody hit wait. There was one that I really liked that somebody had taped on here. It was a business card. Yeah, it was Jennifer Smith, who is with...

is a programming assistant at Fleet Services Division at the Minneapolis Public Works. Yeah. So... Yeah. I love it. And everybody wrote messages of love on here. So we're going to do it again. Yeah.

We're going to do BirdBot 2.0. So Casey is respected as the superstition expert here and how one goes about ensuring a Super Bowl victory. And Casey, you are completely on board with this, right? You see the efficacy of this replicating exactly in a new and improved way what we did last time for the Super Bowl victory. Yeah. In fact, we sat around. We had this conversation yesterday and had multiple conversations. Listen.

The last time when I drove across the country to Phoenix with Jackie and Kyle and Anthony, I had so much fun. It was so great. I would love to do something like that.

But I can't because I know what ultimately the outcome was. The most important, you know, like Jalen Hurts likes to say, keep the main thing the main thing. Yeah. A win is the only thing I care about. That's all that matters. And, you know, we got to do anything and everything in our power to make sure that happens. You're a good man. Jennifer Smith, the woman who put her business card in there, she's the one in Minnesota that found him. Love it. And sent it back to us. Love it. Remember, he was like locked in the back of a car.

It was a cop car. For like two days. We just couldn't find him. He was just in an impound lot. Yes. Oh, and we're looking at a picture of Jen. That's great. She's on the BirdBot Instagram account, at BirdBotPhilly. Talk about brotherly love after we beat the Vikings. Yeah. She found him, gave him a kiss, packed him up, and sent him home. And then also, the boxes she put him in, made sure that there were air holes on it so that he wouldn't suffocate. Oh, and we have a sponsor, Philly Sports Show.

PhillySportsTrips.com is sponsoring BirdBot 2.0. Could there be any more perfect sponsor for this event, for this journey? If you want to get to the big game, PhillySportsTrips.com, they take care of every last detail. So BirdBot 2.0 is sponsored. So Friday, we'll send BirdBot out on the street. As we get a little bit closer, we'll find out how you can find them.

and take him in and add your piece of Philadelphia to him. Can you believe it's been seven years since we did? I mean, it's a blink of an eye, and it also seems like it's been 50 years. I feel good about this, and I feel good about the general population here about getting BirdBot 2.0, the exposure, the experience, the Philly feel. The positivity. The positivity, because I believe that's what BirdBot...

The original bird butt we're looking at right now is imbued with and we're going to send 2.0 out with the same energy. So Nick, seven years. That's what this January has felt like. Yeah, we're on week 482 of January 2025. And I, oh my gosh, it's still January. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

It's the 28th. We're close, bro. We're so close. We're very, very close. All right, so BirdBot is back. It's BirdBot 2.0. I want this to be his theme song, by the way. This will be BirdBot. And like I said, Friday, it's Broad Street to Bourbon Street. And he is going to be hitting the road, and we'll tell you how you can grab him and be a part of this whole event as we get ready for New Orleans. The other thing is, aside from BirdBot, we've got other stuff that's...

that we're going to be doing all week long next week. We're replicating a lot of what we did seven years ago because we're not throwing caution to the wind. We're using the science of superstition to make sure that this all works out the way we want it to. All right, so stay tuned for the information. All right, we need to do Totally Presbyterian.

Totally Presbo. Hi, Presbo. Hey, what's up, Geddy? Let's see. I will start with... I saw a couple of cool things. There was one in particular I wanted to get to because, yes, the list of the best...

celebrity of the decade. Of the decade! Has come out, which is pretty wild because we're only at 2025 and they're only calling this for the decade. Best dressed celebrity. I'm fairly tied into this because I'm a bit of a...

All right. Who would you... I've got 10 people on this list, so clearly we're shooting for number one, but who do you think of the current visible people who are out there in the public a lot? Male and female or just one at the top of the... Male and female and... No, it's one person, but there are males and females on the list. They don't separate them by gender. All right.

Who would you say is somebody who's done it upright as far as fashion goes? Well, there's like different... So I wouldn't put the Kardashians on this list because they're the ones that are trying to set the trend. So they're going over the top. They're doing things that the general public are going to look at and go, what the hell are they doing? So I bet you they're not on this list. It's Taylor Swift. It's got to be Taylor Swift. I haven't looked at your list. Okay. Anybody else? You make a good point. Yeah. But I was thinking some... For some reason, I was thinking...

Not only that, but look at Travis Kelsey of last year or so. Sorry, go ahead. No, no, no. That's all I'm saying. Not only does she dress very, very smartly, but like...

His game has stepped up quite a bit just by being in her sphere. All right. So you might be right because if we're not going the Kardashian route where they're setting trends, she's a good like everyday, you know, she wears stuff that's attainable for other people. And she does always, you know, look good. She looks stylish. She's always dressed nice. Yeah. What about Jennifer Lopez? Ooh.

But she's that like, she'll step out onto the red carpet and be like, boom. Not that she doesn't look good walking down the street. You're talking about practical out and about.

well, not practical, but just like, I feel like whenever somebody's talking about Jennifer Lopez, they're talking about her on the red carpet wearing, you know, a plunging neckline or something like that. I'm thinking outside the box here. I have one, Preston. Okay. John Goodman. John Goodman. Nick, you're a fashion maven. Who do you think? I'm thinking like Lily Collins. Lily Collins. All right. Emily in Paris. Emily in Paris. Taylor Swift. Yay!

Number one. The best dressed celebrity of the decade. This is, who came up with this? Super Dry. Super Dry. A new study by Super Dry has crowned them. And the clothing brand looked at average monthly Google searches in the U.S. between December 2021 and November 2024 to see which stars had the most searches for terms like fashion, outfits, and style. And Taylor won by a landslide with more than 83,000.

A thousand average monthly searches for her style. She certainly has set the benchmark for looks. Okay, so, but I bet you that's more so like people attending her concert because everybody dresses up to go to her show. So they want to wear that, you know, like the fringe and the sequence and the glittery and all that kind of stuff. So maybe it's more of her on it.

on-stage appearance than it is just on the street. Maybe so. The other ones that fall into this list, number two is Harry Styles. Oh, sure, yeah. He's very well-known for his... Yeah, that's right. Which would also be on stage. Yeah. But then you have number three, Zendaya. She is not on stage. She is an actress, obviously. But she is very stylish. At all the events, she looks...

She's done up wonderfully. Can I guess for him? Yeah. Mitch McConnell? Not Mitch McConnell. He looks nice. I just threw on whatever. I wear this when I don't care how I look.

I mean, guys actually have it way easier. You just threw something on with a collar and you're like, oh my God, Lee looks so nice today. You know, like that's it. You know, it's funny when people talk about their various looks. I literally have one look when I'm going out. One. I subscribe to the, you know, Albert Einstein school of just have the same outfit. Yeah. You know, slightly different. Yeah. My two looks are a t-shirt or quarter zip. Yeah.

There you go. It's all you need. T-shirt is work. Quarter zip is if you're getting dressed up and wearing your, what do you call them? Fancy jeans? My fancy jeans? No, my fashion jeans. Fashion jeans. You're going to meet in jeans. No, I have fashion jeans and I have fancy sweatpants. All right. Wait, are your fancy sweatpants the Adidas? Yeah. They're fancy sweatpants, Kathy. They are fancy.

Is Billie Eilish on the list? She is. She's number five. Right before her is Kanye West. By the way, I'm writing down Fancy Sweatpants. That's a good name. That's a good band name. Fancy Sweatpants. So Eilish has, she's re-envisioned herself. She used to be very baggy. She's a little bit more glam going on now. Number six is Lady Gaga. She's always been out there fashion-wise. She's reeled it in quite a bit. Rihanna is seventh.

Ariana Grande. So here are your onstage. Yes. And to your theory, Kathy. Number nine is Meghan Markle. She is a snappy dresser. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. And number 10 is Sabrina Carpenter, another pop maven out there. Yes. She's a cute town gal. That's right. She probably went to Q Mart. I got it. Yeah.

These deer should be an alligator in Q Mart. Saw it there one time. One of my songs is about that. I didn't know that. Espresso is about the alligator in Q Town. I got a great candy store there, guys, where you'll find all of your favorite old candies, like bottle caps and stuff like that. Okay. So I thought I would mention that. Let's move on to another story. Totally Presbyterian. All right. I could have thrown this one in City Beat, but I'm going to throw this because this is some good news. Camden...

Camden, New Jersey is becoming a safer city. And it's no accident, apparently. Crime rates have hit a 50-year low. Wow, really? In the notoriously tough city. I'll tell you what, I still don't feel safe driving through there. Yeah, listen, it's got a ways to go. But...

Although local law enforcement agencies say it's not a home run yet, they are crediting creative alternative outreach programs with reducing crime in Camden. Starting last year, the Camden County Police Department's community outreach team partnered with an internal social services unit. Together, they dedicated themselves to reaching at-risk youths, residents suffering from substance use disorders and others suffering from mental health crises to connect

them with available resources in order to increase the quality of life in the city and reduce petty crime and improve job opportunities. What that program involves is putting everyone into a car, driving them out to the woods and saying...

According to data released by the Camden County Police Department earlier this month, violent crime is down by 50%. That's not too shabby. Since 2012, while nonviolent crime is down 46% in the same period. And accounting for fluctuations in population over the last 12 years, the per capita crime rate has still been almost halved. So some of the credit for the success officials say can be attributed to what is called the Village Initiative Initiative.

launched within the city that includes a social services office within the police departments, as well as the Arrive Together program established by the Attorney General's office that places licensed social workers with police officers on mental distress calls. So they're heading in the right direction. I'd like to hear that. That's good news. And these outreach programs where they can actually get out and really try to help the people that are stuck in this situation

cycle loop feedback loop and and get them onto something better is so important so well it's insane to do the same stuff over and over again and not expect the you know you got to try something yep so i thought i would uh pass that good news along to you guys all right where else totally candid uh now no it's not uh so this is pretty cool a um

Wait, what was this? This might be a different story. Totally confused. No, I don't want to do that. Did I mention... I think I mentioned this to you guys before. Stick...

stick nation stick nation a worldwide movement that thrives on irreverent fantastical and wholesome descriptions of sticks and the people who rank them you did bring this up i did mention this because i think we've talked about finding a good walking stick and there's a good an instagram account that's associated yeah and on tiktok it's known as uh stick talk yes well because and it's true uh guys will dude i

I flew home from the Grand Canyon with a stick that I found. When you find a good stick, if you're out hiking and you find a good stick. I don't remember what day. It might have been like day three or four where it was essentially just driftwood. Yeah. But the way it looked, I was like, this is a great walking stick. It's really, really good. And so I took it and I made sure that it was like secured on the boat. Yeah. And I flew home with it.

This is something that starts in childhood, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember a period of time where the floor of my backseat was covered with sticks and rocks. When he was little, he'd find a good stick wherever we were and he'd be like, Mom, can I bring this? I'm like, yeah, sure. That and a good rock. Even right now, if I find a good... Oh, look at that. That's a hell of a stick. A good stick not only has to be kind of like the way...

Gandalf has, you know, one that you can walk with, almost like a crozier or whatever. Gives you a sense of purpose. Yes, but also it needs to be able, in my humble opinion, you need to be able to use it as a spear on occasion. It has to have the balance to be able to be thrown like a javelin or a spear. Also for the casting of spells. That too, yes.

I guess in your mind, that stick is going to be a defensive weapon. Yeah, it's going to be your magical wand. Yeah. But when you find it almost completely, it's almost like it's already pre polished and treated. It's like it's a thing of beauty. I remember on the Christian that trail by the devil's hole. Yeah, I found a hell of a stick. And you can also use it as a divining rod. Absolutely. Yeah. Kathy, this is how much guys like sticks.

As I'm walking through the airport, because in order to ship the stick home, it was going to cost like a couple hundred bucks. I'm like, all right, well, let me just see if I can walk onto the plane with it, right? I'm walking through the airport with this stick in my hand. Were you acting like it was a cane? I was acting like it was a walking stick, right? The only thing that the TSA guy said to me is like, man, you need to get a little rubber thing on the bottom of that. Isn't that great? That's the tip. He's...

Do you still have it? Yes. Okay. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to get on my flight. Sure, old timer. Here's your cane. So with this group that looks at these sticks and the account, by the way, it has nearly 3 million followers on Instagram.

But they also have fun names. So the sticks are said to have mystical powers and the puns are plentiful. Like there's one called the Loch Ness Monster found in the banks of Loch Ness in Scotland. Nice, absolutely. And one poster said, it's of course useful to fight your enemies because it's quite light and sturdy. He's talking about his moss-covered stick in Latvia.

before he added that it boasts its own ecosystem populated by tiny little people who actually live there and do work nine to five. I love that. Kathy? Oh, no, I was waiting for you to finish. I wanted to finish the story and then I have some more. Oh, this is at the end of the story. Okay, so this whole thing started, when did they begin this?

It's been around for a little while now. But, yeah, Hogg and Juggler are their names that started this whole thing. Those are their last names, by the way. Boone, Hogg, and Logan Juggler. Do you know what this, Elsa, where you feel this as well? When you do the Ollivanders at Universal. Yeah. And you pick your, I have three Harry Potter wands. I'm like, there's something, you know Preston. Yeah. Yeah.

How long did you play with that wand when you got it? Oh, yeah, totally. By the way, their community is called Stickheads. Stickheads. I love that. Is there chicks with sticks or no? There's got to be chicks with sticks. So anyhow, if you want to check this out, if you're a stick fanatic, you want to take a look at their Instagram account and on Stick Talk.

but I don't know what their Instagram official stick nation official stick reviews. Yeah. All right. Yeah. 2.9 million followers. So I thought I would pass that along. Yes. Kathy. Well, Casey was talking about traveling home with the stick. Uh, once we were in Montauk and we leave sometimes at night because, uh, you know, the traffic and all of that, uh, and J Jace was very little and he, there was a giant moth on, uh, one of the light, the outdoor lights. And he was like, and he, I had just gotten him, uh,

like a little bug box where you can collect bugs and put, you know, and add, you know, vents and all that. Sure. So he's like, can I take it? Can I take it home? So, okay. So we put it in the bug box. It traveled four hours home from Montauk, New York to Conchahokan. We opened the door of the car. The box falls out, opens, and the moth takes off. And I was just like, like I had to drive.

to drive home. Where the hell am I? And the thing was giant. You could hear it like flying around in the box. Yes. It was like, and you know, of course you get home in the middle of the night. Now he's crying. It's like four in the morning. You let him live.

Now you're a contra-Hockenmoth. Man, I'm looking to see if I have a picture of my stick. It's so good. Can you send me stick pics? I'm going to send... I thought maybe I had a picture of the stick when I first got it. But also in the Grand Canyon when I was in Havasu, I found the best rock. It was like...

a perfect ball. You take it? Oh, yeah. It's in my house. That's illegal? Best rock ever. I know you don't care, but sometimes people give... I don't care either, but you're not really supposed to take anything ever out of a national park. Really? Yeah, yeah. Some people give you a hard time for it. I know in Hawaii, you can't take the lava rocks home or your family dies. Everybody's going to explode. It's bad luck. So, you're looking for your stick and your rock? Yeah.

I don't have them. I mean, I have them. Excuse me, do you provide any service that could help me locate my stick and rock? Could you maybe do... It was a special trip, right? Well, yeah. So the rock came from my first trip through the Grand Canyon. The stick came on the second trip through the Grand Canyon. You could do like a long shadow box and put it in there and the rock and the stick together and hang it on the wall. Okay.

So you're in possession of them right now. You didn't lose them. No, no, no. I couldn't believe it. When you're in Havasu and it's just this oasis in the middle of the desert and I just saw this rock. I'm like, that looks like a perfect round ball. And so I picked it up out of the water. And you're talking about

I don't know, millions of years of like erosion and all that. Smoothed it out and made that shape. It's pretty cool. What's crazy is... I shall call you Rocky. The rock has changed over the years because it's dried out. You know what I mean? It was in that water forever and ever and ever. We'll be together forever. Yeah.

I brought back a jawbone I found in Wyoming. Oh, really? Yeah. A jaw from... From some kind of animal. A living man. Yeah. Might have been an elk or something like that. Okay. It's cool. Held on to that. It's like that Georgia O'Keeffe kind of stuff where, you know, all that prairie. Yeah. It's cool. All right. Let's do one more thing and...

Totally Presbo. We'll wrap up Totally Presbo. So there's a thing at the Wells Fargo Center that is called Gritty's Chaos Factory. Oh, yeah. That has opened up. I think it opened up yesterday. Yes. First day? Big debut, yeah. And it's a first-of-its-kind retail experience inside the Wells Fargo Center. The marquee item they came up with is a stuffed animal called the Itty Bitty Gritty.

And as you can imagine, it's a miniature Gritty doll. Ashlyn Sullivan from NBC Sports Philadelphia, she was interviewing Gritty last night during the Flyers game. And kudos to Ashlyn because she did a fantastic job at keeping it together. But Gritty piled, I don't know, 14 dozen stuffed animals on top of Ashlyn during the course of the interview. And she kept going. Yeah, she did a great job. Gritty is, he's really turned into...

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yep. He's just fantastic. Every bit about him. The Flyers said in a statement, grittizens of all ages will have a chance to build their own gritty with options from six different iconic costumes worn by the mascot in addition to three different color jerseys and interchangeable belly buttons. Yeah. Besides the build of bitty gritty plushies, fans can also buy chaotic t-shirts, apparel, and novelties according to the team.

And if the real Gritty is there, you can expect his real-life security guard to be tagging along as well because now he has security with him at all times. Yeah, well, during the game last night, Cooper DeGene from the Eagles and Sidney Brown, that's his last name, right, Case? Yeah. Yeah, they were both there as well. And Big Dom was escorting Sidney Brown and Cooper DeGene. But Sidney and Cooper, they're going to the Super Bowl, and they were hanging out with Gritty, and they looked like little kids hanging next to this giant stuffed animal. It was amazing.

adorable. He was showing these guys his belly button and stuff. It was really funny. When was this picture, Nick? This was six days ago. I love it. Gritty's flying a trans flag and says love is love. That's really cool of him to do that. So I definitely want to get

one of these mini itty bitty gritties and stop by the gritty chaos factory as that just opened up. Hang on. We're going to go back one real quick because, uh, gears has a call about sticks and this is a good idea. Hi gears. You're on the air. Good morning, bud. Hey guys, you guys rock. Thank you, my man. What's up?

Yeah, so I live in this neighborhood in Ivyland, and we have this really cool neighborhood with a gazebo in the middle, and we have this big Christmas tree out there. So, like, I like the Christmas tree. My neighbor, he does up the gazebo. And then we had another neighbor build a little free library. And then you guys were talking about sticks. Just yesterday, I'm grabbing my kids from the bus stop and walking back home.

And we've got an Ivyland stick exchange. That's great. Oh, my God. I like it. How does it operate? Yeah, so it's just got a couple of prongs. And you've got your different, you've got your larger size sticks at the top. And then you've got your smaller ones at the bottom.

So you grab a stick if you're a kid and you play with it. Or if you walk in your dog, we got a lot of dogs in the neighborhood. You grab the stick and you give it to your dog and, you know, you throw it around in little Ivyland green out there. And so it's a little honor system. You drop off, you take a stick, you leave a stick.

Yeah, just like the pennies at the... I love that. So are there specific sticks for dogs to chew on and ones... I mean, I assume you have different varieties. Correct? Or is it all universal one stick?

No, it's all different kinds. All right. A bunch of trees that line this area. And, you know, there's a lot of branches that just fall everywhere. So, you know, the kids are always walking around with sticks and people got their dogs out there. I love it. Thank you. We appreciate it. Gears start a stick exchange in your neighborhood today. You remember the stick is, is in officially, I think it was one of the first inductees into the toy hall of fame. That's right. Yep. Most definitely. All right. Uh,

Well, that is all we have time for in Totally Presbo. So we will wrap it up. Thanks, Kenny. Totally Presbo. Bye, Presbo. And if you missed it at the top of this segment, we made an announcement. I'm going to reiterate this. In preparation for the Super Bowl, we are bringing back...

BirdBot! Yeah! BirdBot is back. It's BirdBot 2.0. We are aiming for this Friday to send him out on the road in Philadelphia to circulate in our city for a week or so before hitting the road for New Orleans and then make it its way around there. It's called From Broad Street to Bourbon Street.

And maybe you'll get your hands on BirdBot and send some of your Philly love to New Orleans to get ready for the game. It only works with you participating. And we are rebuilding BirdBot. Our head engineer, Greg Monahan, is, as we speak, tinkering and getting everything together. It's going to be technologically advanced. It's going to have a new, sharper look to it. And

And then it's going to hit the road. And the reason being is last time we did it was 2018. And we know what happened then. Absolutely. Bottom line. Do you want to win? Yeah, that's the question. And if you do, then you participate with BirdBot 2.0. And you'll get to add your own personal touch to BirdBot 2.0. So we'll get you the details. And it is sponsored by...

by Philly Sports Trips. Yeah! Which we love, so thank you for sponsoring that Philly Sports Trips. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second, and bizarre foul stories are on the way. Later on this morning, Joe Satriani. Stay with us. It's MMR's Local Shots, Artist of the Month. From right here in Philadelphia, it's 314. But I ain't my truck heater. Well, I'm heater. I'm not heater.

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Thanks, Kath. We just announced we're doing BirdBot 2.0 for the Super Bowl this year. We're heading him out. We're setting him out on the road starting on Friday. It's going to be up to you to circulate him around Philly for a few days and then hit the road and actually somebody, anybody road tripping him down to New Orleans.

And his fate will be in your hands. Yes. He'll be floating along on public goodwill. Yep, so we'll start that on Friday. We'll get you more as we update. And we have other things planned in preparation for the birds and that stuff coming up next week. But we'll announce that shortly. Before we get to the beat file, I'm going to pass along an email I got. It's a sad one. This is from Pat Davey who emailed me. He said, I don't know if a shout out is the right thing.

or not, but if you could help in any way, I'm not asking for money or anything, even if it could help, but I just lost my father, Joseph Davey. He has family in the listening area that I don't have ways to contact. And if there's any way that you could possibly say his passing on the air, it would mean everything to me. And I know I could do an obituary, but I think that more people listen to you guys in the area than read the paper.

So if not, I understand completely, no matter what. I love the show. You guys rock. And then he writes, P.S. Dad, if you're somehow hearing this, I got mom. Don't worry. We love you and we will always miss you. I know I'm getting choked up. What a predicament, though, to try to get the word out and not know what to do. Yeah. So that's Pat Davey and his father passed. And yeah, he doesn't. Joseph Davey was his name. So I wanted to pass that along.

Do you want a chart? I mean, he kind of asked for one, so sure. We'll put that one in there, too. All right. We can get to the Bizarre File. Here we go. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. Bizarre.

All right, we will begin with a story out of Lincoln, Nebraska. A man learned his fate on Friday for flinging fish inside a DMV office. In a DMV office? That's where you don't fling fish in a DMV office. Joseph Schrader was sentenced to a year in jail for misdemeanor criminal mischief. He also got 90 days for disturbing the peace. So on May 17th, Schrader went into the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles. It was that office's first...

first day in operation. Where you going with that fish, buddy? Court documents say Schrader was very agitated and then he threw a bag of fish and carrots as he left. Carrots? You gotta have your vegetables. Found food on the floor, walls and ceiling of the brand new office. Oh, man. And they said the building smelled heavily of fish, according to an affidavit, as did Schrader when police found him. He told officers...

The DMV didn't issue him an ID. And then he said something fishy was going on here. So he decided to throw it around. What are the carrots for? There's nothing that aligns with that. So they could see what he had done. The mess caused $3,305 in damage. At first, the damage was estimated at nine grand. So Schrader was initially facing the possibility of a felony charge. But they walked that back a little bit.

A Florida attorney attacked the father of a girl who cut in front of him in a buffet line at a wedding. Somebody was hungry. According to the Palm Beach County Jail records, Mark Rohrer is accused of one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. During a wedding reception...

Oh, man. Oh, man.

Rohrer denied the allegation saying the event was just a dry party. I don't know what that has anything to do with anything. Yeah, what does that mean? There's no booze there, I guess. You can still be a lunatic at a dry party. Exactly. Law and crime described a melee breaking loose after the assault that involved a large number of guests.

Rohrer admitted to making first contact by pushing the victim. Listen, I really like prime rib. Oh, and you should see this guy. He likes prime rib a lot. Yeah. He's a big fella. I'd rather like to have some prime rib, please. Rohrer was booked into jail and released after paying a $1,000 bond. Oh, Jesus. This guy has no neck. I know. Or he's all neck. He's all neck.

Money can buy lots of things, but it can't buy eternal youth and immortality. Billionaire CEO Brian Johnson has become notorious because of the steps that he has taken and the money he's poured in to defy aging. I'm watching his documentary on this guy right now. He's even gone as far as infusing his son's blood into his own that would stave off the aging process, which it has not.

And now Johnson has revealed that he's been monitoring erection data from his 19-year-old son to see how his boner quality compares to that of his son. So I remember my dad running his experiments on my erections. And I felt uncomfortable. Yeah, it didn't bring you two closer together? No, no, no. Okay. When he put me up on that stand in public and then had the laser pointer, that's when I felt most violated. At last report, Johnson's son, Johnson, has...

Two minutes more staying power than his own. And that's not creepy at all, is it? No, no, it's absolutely, yeah. Remember that episode of Leave it to Beaver? Yeah, right. So you're watching the documentary? Yeah, so Chuck had recommended, I think it's Never Die. I forget what it's called, but it's on Netflix. And so, I mean, the dude just kind of looks bizarre. He does. He looks almost like Jeremy Levin.

in the Watchmen, Preston. I feel like he's turning into like an android. Right. He's got that android feel to him. But all the stuff that he's doing, he is apparently the perfect test subject because he's...

He's doing it all to the T. Right. Like, from the time he gets up in the morning to the time he goes to bed at night. But the dad is not really showing anything that beneficial to what he's doing other than just living a healthy lifestyle, right? Well, they're saying that he's...

Reversing the aging process. Through his son's boners? That's impossible. So we'll see. Reversing. He's actually getting younger. He's Benjamin Button. We're all going to die. In Texas, Port Arthur Police and Child Protective Services are both investigating a 25-year-old man because of a viral TikTok video. The man is accused of using a baby to brush the snow off a car earlier this week.

During the winter storm that swept through southeast Texas, police now believe this constitutes child endangerment. Let me ask you this, Casey, because I did not watch the video. I read the story, though. With the baby, is the baby in a snowsuit? Yes. And it's okay. So, Police Chief Tim, see, but the thing is, it's in Texas.

And they're confused by snow. And they don't understand. Oh, I'm sorry. This isn't the one that I watched. What did you say? I saw something similar. And it was a bigger kid. By bigger, I mean he's probably like three years old, maybe. This is a baby. Yeah, this is a three-month-old. Okay. Okay.

The baby is in a snowsuit and he's kind of, it's almost like, it would be like pushing your kid through the snow, to be honest. So anyhow, police chief Tim Driso said that they aren't releasing the man's name, but the chief expects an arrest warrant to be issued next week. Police say the shocking recording of a video taken from TikTok shows a 25-year-old man using a baby to remove the snow from his Hyundai Elantra. Are they going to investigate the dad who's inspecting his son's boners?

He said we confirmed that it was a three-month-old baby. No, because that kid's 19. Oh, okay. Drizzo says police were tipped off about the video and showed up the same day to question the man and check on the baby. He said he had two other females with him at the time. We suspect one of them was the mom. They checked on the baby. The baby was just fine. Investigators are still looking into the man's criminal history.

But he's expected to be charged with child endangerment. I think you saw the one I saw because the child was bigger. He was bigger and he was in a full on snowsuit. And seemed to be giggling. Yeah, this one, I'm actually having an issue with it. He's tossing him around a bit much. Yeah, a little too hard, I think. It's not the fact that the snow, but he's kind of pushing him around a little bit. And then you don't see the other clip. He actually uses the baby as a lug wrench to remove a tire. Wow.

And then one last story. A Cocoa Beach Elementary school principal and teacher this week. Wait. Cocoa Beach Elementary school principal and teacher this week after police busted. It's not written correctly.

A house party attended by more than 100 juveniles. I think they've been arrested. Many of whom had been drinking. Officers responded to the home on Sunday and observed the large crowd, many of whom were wearing matching t-shirts. According to police, alcohol was available in coolers at the home, which is owned by Roosevelt Elementary School principal Elizabeth Hill Brodigan. Well, she's a cool principal.

Police said while officers were investigating the party, a juvenile was located on the front lawn experiencing an alcohol-related medical event. The juvenile was so heavily intoxicated that the fire rescue had to treat them. I'm assuming that means they were puking on the front yard. Yes.

Hill Brodigan was, while that was happening, she was seen by officers in the driveway of her home turning off the outside lights and entering her residence, causing the officers to have to use auxiliary lighting on the vehicles to treat the child. In addition, a traffic stop was conducted near the home, resulting in a DUI of a juvenile driver. And an intoxicated woman identified as Carly Anderson approached officers and said she was a teacher and had been at the party.

And so they arrested her as well. Would you occasionally throughout your schooling attend your principal's rave parties? Not attend the principal's rave parties.

I did get high with one of my teachers one time. Really? Were you a student with this teacher at that time? I was a student, but I wasn't one of his students. Oh. And, yeah. Was that school policy? You could only get high with students who were not in your class? I think that was it. Where were you? Uh,

We were in a car with other people, a bunch of people, and he was one of them. So you're not going to go after him about hanging out with teachers like you do me? No, no. He wasn't dating that teacher. So he was originally a middle school teacher for me. Right. And then this was by the time I was in high school, and I was hanging out with some guys who had graduated from high school, and they knew him.

And we were at someone's house or whatever, and he was there, and then we ended up getting in the car and smoking a joint. He was younger, I assume, correct? Yeah. Well, I mean, not young, young, but he had a kid at that point. Okay.

That's pretty wild. Different time. It was a different time, Kath. Without question. John Brazier wrote a song about a guy that taught at my high school. That's right. And it's about a similar story because the guys from Mount Joy used to smoke herb with this guy. Wow. It's a whole other story for another time, but it's about smoking weed with your teacher. We had an English teacher. Everyone knew it was a pothead. He smelled like Mr. Long, an English teacher. Did he smoke with the kids, though? No.

My guess is probably, yeah. Maybe, right? I mean, because he had a parlance with, you know, there was sort of this casual pot language being thrown around the classroom. And this was at a time, you know, this is what I'm going back, 1887. It was actually still legal. Right, right, right. Yeah. He smoked it in corn cob pipes back then. All right.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. In case you missed the announcement, we have the triumphant return of BirdBot. It's going to be BirdBot 2.0. Yes. And we've got BirdBot 1 sitting behind me. If you're watching our YouTube stream online,

You can take a look at BirdBot in all his glory. He's a moment in time encapsulated. He's frozen in time, really. He absolutely is. 2018, when we had a championship. And that time, yes. I mean, all of those things we want to replicate, but we also want to evolve. Hence, BirdBot 2.0. But we need the same sort of push forward.

And the same sort of love invested into Bird Bar 2.0 to get it on its route to New Orleans. Yep, so it's going from Broad Street to Bourbon Street, New Orleans. And we want you to be a part of it. And you'll be able to pass it around town at...

Whatever you would like to BirdBot, as long as it doesn't weigh him down in an unfortunate way. But he's going to have new tech. And we're getting the actual creation of BirdBot 2.0 is happening as we speak. So he's starting to come together. You mentioned the YouTube stream. And I encountered some people over the weekend who did not know that we stream every day for free on YouTube. And so I think it's an important message to reiterate every now and then. The channel is just Preston Steve Podcast.

Preston Steve WMMR. But we're there every day for free. And you can watch the whole thing. What an idiot I am. You waved to the cameras, but I turned around like, who's behind us? Oh, you just waved to the cameras. Because I'm a moron. No, it's all good. Cameras for our YouTube stream. And since we've revived BirdBot, I'm going to revive a little segment we haven't done in a long, long, long time. All right. We are going to take a crack at Super Bowl.

Stack-O-Topics! Stack-O-Topics! You got a cover sheet? I have a cover sheet. Did you see that? Stack-O-Topics. Stack-O-Topics! Alright, so...

From time to time, I will write down, I don't know, an idea of something to talk about on the air. Not sure whether it's really worth an entire segment or not, but something that I think is somewhat intriguing, and I have them in a stack. Well, they just sit there unused, and they need a home. Yep. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to fan them out like a deck of cards. Kathy? Kathy's going to pick one. Okay. And then she will read it. Let me shuffle these up. Yeah. And you read it, and then we will take a shot at diving in a lot of these

rely on you to call in and to contribute in this stack of topics. Preston, can I add one? There's something that I wanted to bring up a little while ago and I'm like, you know what? This actually would fit perfectly in stack of topics. Let me shuffle that. I'll shuffle that one into the fold. Oh man, I can't. You can't shuffle paper apparently like you can. Just give it to me. I just gotta look. What are you looking at? Come on, man. I just gotta look. Alright. Alright.

You wanted to look? No, I just got a look from you when I said that. She's pulling, she's reaching into the deck. What in the hell? She pulled them all out of my hand. They're not like cards, unfortunately. She's got a weak hold. Bitch! Bitch! Do you have a favorite piece of furniture in your house? I swear to God, that's what I just put in there. Are you kidding me?

What in the F? I'm like, I don't remember writing that down. I'm going to take a second one because I'm not sure that's going to have legs, but I have a second one just in case. Okay, well, we will draw again as these fill out. All right, do you have a favorite piece of furniture in the house? So we're going to start with you, Casey, because obviously this was your contribution. This was my thing. And so, you know, we're currently have been shopping around for...

Because your mama told you. Because my mama told me better shop around and, you know, looking for different like sectional sofas for my back room. And that's where I spent most of my time. And I don't want I would love to have a sectional back there. But if we were to do that, we would have to get rid of the table that's in that room. And I was like, I love this table. And then I was like, I think this might actually be my favorite piece of furniture in my house.

And so I can't... So wait a second. It's odd that you would... I think your favorite piece of furniture would be something that you were comfortable in. Yeah, sitting in it. Not a table. I love this table. We found it. Do you sit on the table? I feel like it's a restored piece of furniture. I got it at the store on Main Street in Manion. It's blue, but it's kind of like a...

Not like whitewashed, but like sanded down. Distressed. Distressed, thank you. And it's a perfect square table. On one side of the square are drawers. And then on the other side of the square is like a... Hogshead. Not a hogshead, but it's a storage area where you can put blankets and board games and stuff in there. And you love it. And it is a...

hefty, heavy piece of furniture. And I love it. And I think, and I was thinking about it. I was like, I think this is my favorite piece of furniture in the entire house. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it has to be like a couch or somewhere where you would be comfortable. Your mind is. Yeah. Or something like that. I don't know that I have a favorite piece of furniture, but I definitely have like a favorite area and thing. So my favorite thing in my house is the woodwork on my wall. Yeah.

Okay. In my entryway. So it's a different topic. It's decorative. Do you sit down on the woodwork on your wall? So there are, there are little, no, but like there's, there's little footstools and I'll pull those out and take them into the office and I can sit in the office with my feet up on the footstool, have a margarita and wait and look at the woodwork on the wall. So you admire the, what are you doing? So that would be, I think that would, do you have a favorite part of the house perhaps?

What about piece of furniture though, Kathy? I can't let you off the hook on this one. I mean, that's what I... I bet you it's going to be something you sit on. I mean, I love my new couch. It's very comfortable, but I wouldn't be like... When I saw that, it didn't come into my head immediately. Or my bed. My mattress is really comfortable. Yeah, but you know what? I was thinking the same thing, Kathy. I think at points in my life, maybe when I was younger, there was a piece of furniture that I was like, that is my favorite piece of furniture.

Whatever. I can't think of anything right now. That is my favorite piece of furniture in the house. I wish I had a bigger, more comfortable chair. I have a few chairs in the house that are okay. I was walking around the upstairs yesterday. You don't have a favorite. Well, I do. But Casey, I was walking around upstairs yesterday and I was like, I don't have any great places to sit upstairs. To your point, Steve, I think more often than not, and I appreciate your love for that table, but I think more often than not, it would be a place to sit. However, there is a couch.

in one of our extra rooms. Come on. Kathy's showing her wall. Sorry, Nick. Sorry. She's all over Nick's story by showing pictures of her wall that she sits pretty nice. I mean, come on. That's nice. It's a nice accent wall. I like that. It's all right. It's pretty. Nick! I mean, like, if that's your thing. So, Kathy, when are they planning on completing that?

Shut up. But I have a couch and we have a little side extra room. And that couch, when you're married to an artist, artists often expand their items into other people's rooms. And so that couch has been taken over by a lot of art supplies currently. And I can't sit on it, which bums me out. So here's a good example of a great piece of furniture. My friends at Chapman's have this custom-made table. It's in their kitchen, but it's a dining table.

And on it, they got to tell the artist what they wanted on. This stuff is painted and carved into it. And there's all kinds of little vignettes and little sayings. That's pretty cool. I wish I had a picture of it. It's super colorful. It's phrases that are from their family. It's got their names and all kinds of different things.

One of Rochelle's quotes made it on there, which was, life is too short to drink the house wine, which they put on there. And I thought that was kind of a nice thing to do. So your favorite piece of furniture is in your friend's house. It's in my friend's house. Yeah. It's probably a lot more impactful than Kathy's cheesy wall thing. Oh, my God. What isn't? Oh, so Steve, yours is the couch? Yeah. So where I feel, where I really feel coziest, and then obviously my bed. But everyone's going to say the bed. But we have a particularly nice smaller couch.

that has, it does have a sort of recliner capability built into it. I like to sink down into furniture. I don't, you know, and that's my thing. I like higher armrests. And so that would be it for me. I like, you know what we have, which is really cool? In the parlor, we have a classic parlor,

There's these two big round chairs, Preston, where you can and they swivel around. You've been in the house and you've seen them. I don't remember them, sorry. But they're big, round, gray chairs. They were covered by tons of cat protective sheets. It's probably why you didn't see them. But you can just curl up and they are massive, comfortable chairs. Very unique. We're going to go to some calls. I will go to, let's go to Mike first. Hey, Mike, good morning.

Hey, show the body it works. Sorry, man. What's up with your favorite piece of furniture in the house? All right, I'm going to go quick. It's a long story, but anyway. Lost my dad. I moved. I sold my house. Put everything in storage to help my mom. We had to clear out my childhood home. Currently, I'm in a new house. Anyway, my kitchen table is my father's drafting table. He's an architectural draftsman. Wow. Solid oak, cast iron fittings.

Absolutely drop dead beautiful. It had a vinyl pad adhered to it from day one. And it took me, I don't know, a good solid three weeks with

chemicals to strip the heat off of it. Anyway, sanded it. It's beautiful. My father spent 50 years drawing on that. Wow. Well, there you go. Then I can understand if you're talking about something that has that sort of nostalgic, heartfelt, sentimental aspect. And then, yes, that would beat my couch. Yeah. So, I mean, but this is probably a piece of furniture that you would...

essentially design the rest of the room around. And that's kind of what I'm going for here with this particular table. Yeah, you could do that. You could easily do that. Make other things blue. Let me go to Christian. Hi, Christian. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Hey, Casey, I'll give you a second here, but I have a sister.

Oh, I'm sorry. Hey, Christian, do you have a sister, Christian? How did we miss that? Oh, that's the best. All right, Christian, your favorite piece of furniture in the house.

All right, so it's a weird piece of furniture. It's called the Frito, like a chip. It's shaped like a Frito chip, all right? Okay. It's got to be 30-plus years old. It was my wife's parents, and we used to fight over who got to sit in it around Christmas time. Is it? Yes.

Now, you guys all have sleep number beds, right? Yes. It's like, you know the zero-G setting where your feet are up and your back's up, where you're basically floating? Yes. It's like that. Okay. It's set up just like that. It's so old. It's now at my wife's brother's house. So it's not even mine, but I still think about it every day. Wow. What material is it made of, Christian? Because it sounds like it would be like some kind of fiberglass or something like that to have that shape. No. No.

Press, it's like a couch. It's like a wood frame with upholstery all around it. It's permanently in the Frito shape and it can fit two people. That sounds really cool. Nice. Unique. I mean, it's a little stinky these days, but you know, it's fine. All right. Do you guys, does anybody mention if, hey, if you die, I get that chair? Is that kind of the way it is in the house? Well, Press, both my wife's parents had passed away and her brother got it. Oh. So all we have to do is wait for him to die.

Or, yeah, that's fair. You got to plan for the future. Like Nick said earlier, we're all going to die someday. Somebody gets a Frito chair. A stinky Frito chair. All right. Thank you, Christian. Tell your sister we said hi. Hey, Steve, this might be an odd question, but whatever happened to your Batman bed?

My understanding, it was the Ronald McDonald House. Oh, okay. Because the guy that made that is this guy named Mark, and he runs a place called Green Gate Woodworks. I commissioned him to make it. Oh, he's amazing. He's incredible, and I commissioned him to make a table, and my wife found this old piece of marble, and basically, he took the piece of marble, and he crafted and carved...

wood legs for underneath it. It's stuff that, like carpentry, that's been on my skills ever. And so it's a really nice table that we have in the house. I wish I had that type of skill, to be able to do anything like carpentry-wise, because it's impressive. It's funny you mention that, because Joe Manganiello, who we had on the show yesterday, he's a big Dungeons & Dragons fan, and somebody sent me a video of him. Apparently...

The company behind Dungeons and Dragons had a... They took a piece of a huge tree that they... The irregular shape, polished it up, and put...

somehow the game board into this tremendous table. That's awesome. So it's just an incredibly impressive piece of furniture. Couple more quick calls and we're going to switch our topic because we're doing stacco topics. I'll go to Will. Hi, Will. You're on the air, bud. Hi, Grandma. Hi, Grandma. Hey, so the topic is your favorite piece of furniture in your house.

Yeah, so I'm actually, I collect antique books, antique and vintage books. Yes. So obviously my favorite is my bookshelf. But it's not actually a bookshelf. It's a hut. It's an old antique hut that I got from my uncle who was cleaning out his garage and throwing things away. And I was like, wait, don't throw that away because it fits perfectly in my garage.

little space that I have. Uh-huh. So I just took this old hutch and cut. Yeah. No, that's great. So I'm in a predicament. I don't have the hutch. I have the Starsky, but I don't. Right. You need the hutch. I need the hutch to complete the set. No, the, yeah. So, yeah, the bookshelves and book cabinets and bookcases are, I like that look. Yeah.

I just don't like to read. All right. Thank you, Will. Appreciate it. All right. One more quick call and then we're switching topics. I'm going to go to Sarah, who is next up. Hey, Sarah. Good morning. Morning, guys. Sorry to bother you at work. That's all right, Sarah. So your favorite piece of furniture in the house? So I got myself, this was like 10 years ago. It's an actual vintage 1950s, like chrome and enamel.

Dining table set, all four chairs, red carpet.

like red vinyl sparkly. Yes. I saw this thing for sale and it was at an antique store and I borrowed my mom's truck, drove like two hours out to the middle of nowhere to this little antique store and hauled this thing home. It is probably my prize. It's in beautiful condition. You would never know how old it is. How long have you had it?

I probably had it about 10 years. I remember, Sarah, I remember having a kitchen table with chairs, very much like what you're describing when I was a little kid. That was the kitchen table that I was raised on, you know, basically for the first part of where to have cereal and all of our meals and stuff like that. It had a classic Americana look.

Yep. My mom had one similar. So when I told her about it, she's like, let's go get it. That's cool. Nice. Good for you. I will keep that thing until I die. Nice. All right. Thanks, Sarah. The second you die, someone's going to just throw it out. Appreciate it. No, there are people that are like, I'm keeping that forever. Yes. And then other people are like, you're going to give me that when you die. Don't you have that big cabinet that you're afraid of? Yeah.

I wasn't afraid of that. That was a chair. Okay, yeah. That we had that kind of looked like a throne. It looked like an evil queen's throne. And as a kid, it scared me. I thought there were like invisible monsters that lived in that thing. But no, the armoire that my dad, I think, has finally come around to and realized. Yeah, we were talking, like I said, some estate planning. And I think he's like understands that I don't want it. I don't have enough room for it. It's gigantic.

And so I think he gets it now. Good, good. Probably repurpose it. You know, there's a lot of people out there who would really love to take that. But real quick, Kathy, because you kind of redid your kitchen downstairs and all that sort of stuff. Was there any piece of furniture that remained or did everything go? No. The wagon wheel coffee table. You know what's funny, Case? I kept a wine rack that I...

but it's in the basement. I have not been able to incorporate it back into the house. Okay. And then I kept a little table, like an end table. I think it was from HomeGoods. Oh. It did not match because it was dark. I spray painted it gold and now it matches and I have it just in the corner in the powder room. All right. Stack-o-topics. Stack-o-topics. Dig into the stack. Okay. We're staying in the house. Find us another one. We are. We're staying in the house. Did you pick a random one? Uh,

It was my second option. I'm going with it. I like it. Don't tell me what to do. What's in your freezer? Oh,

All right, what's in your freezer? Meaning, what's in your freezer that shouldn't be in your freezer or has been in your freezer for a ridiculous amount of time? You don't know why or there's a stupid reason why it's there and still in your freezer. 215-263-WMMR. Listen, it's not that long, but the giant block of ice cream that I got from you at Camp Out for Hunger. It's still in there. Yeah, I got to throw it out. It's...

It's huge. It's insane. It's like 12 gallons of ice cream. And I had several bowls in December. It was really good then, but it's still there. It's time for it to go. And people who have like those giant freezers, you know, either in their garage, their basement, something like,

It's the downstairs chest freezer or whatever. I feel like that just collects. You don't ever see anything in there. Because once it gets to the bottom, you're not going down there. You don't go down and pop the lid on. What's in here? That's why we got rid of ours. Rochelle thought it would be a good idea to have a freezer. We kept it in the basement. We'll get meat and put it in there. You forgot about it, right? Forgot about it. Yeah.

And it's stuff that's at the bottom and no. But I do have one example and I've shared this on the air before. There were two things that come to mind in my family that we kept in the freezer forever. One of them was my own fault. So I used to go fishing at a pond with a

with a friend of mine. And one day I caught, are you guys familiar with a fish called a crappie? Yeah. In the South, they call them a crappie, believe it or not. So it's smaller than a bass, but looks kind of similar to it. Has a kind of a wider, a larger dorsal fin. Anyway, it's a very cool looking fish and it's a good sport fish and a good eating fish as well. So I caught a crappie one time in this pond and the thing was huge. Wow.

It was probably 14 inches long. And for a crappie, that's really, really big. Like my dad was blown away that I caught this thing. And the idea was, we're going to mount it. Okay? So we throw it in the freezer. Okay.

And it stayed in there for like eight years. Oh, my God. And just, you know, it wasn't even covered or anything. It was just a frozen fish covered in ice, and it stayed in there forever. And then the other one was another thing we were going to get mounted. My dad was a hunter, and he shot a wood duck.

And wood ducks are beautiful. They have these really gorgeous markings on them. And that thing stayed in the freezer for a long ass time. Do you know what you could have done? You simply could have mounted the freezer. Yeah, probably. Because both things were in it, yeah. But they were both supposed to be mounted at some point. Oh, wow. I don't have any other explanation for this other than I can just say my son. But in our freezer in the garage, Preston, you're a...

You're a Jeep driver. You know about the ducking, right? Yes. People leave little small toy ducks on Jeeps. Yeah, I got about a half a dozen ducks in my freezer for no reason. Okay. But there are little rubber ducks. Have people left those for you? No. So my son had a whole bunch of them. Oh, I thought it was because...

Because people left them at the gate. Yeah, they were just collecting them. And of course, the obvious place to put them is the freezer. No, I mean, I have my ducks all lined up on my dashboard. All your ducks in a row. Literally. And my son had a whole bunch of ducks. And they ended up in my freezer. And I never took them out. And they're just sitting there in the door of my freezer. All right, we got good calls coming in. I'm going to go to Bob first of all. Hey, Bob, good morning. Good morning. Good morning to see you, Bob. All right, what's been in your freezer or weird and in your freezer?

I have a collection of hockey pucks in my freezer. Hockey pucks because they go bad if they melt. Yeah, you never know. And you got to keep them. Why do you, what? Why store them in the freezer? They freeze hockey pucks, don't they? Years ago when I was young, I loved the Flyers. It's big into hockey. Every time I go to a game, I buy a puck. And I'm like, where am I going to put all these pucks? And I have an upright freezer.

So I got the little shelves on the side. So I started accumulating them up there, and now I'm up to 30 pucks. 30 pucks. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, Nick. Maybe you'd know this. Don't they, before game play, aren't the pucks frozen? Yeah, well, for the same reasons that this guy does it. They keep them frozen.

That's what I tell my nieces and nephews, my little niece and nephews. In case the Flyers ever need some pucks, they can call them and I'll run them down. Oh, my God. Call Bob. They've got your number written down in red next to a phone in the locker room. Oh, my God. All right, Bob, that's a great story. Thanks, man. Appreciate it, bud. Take care. All right, let me go to Joe. Hi, Joe. Good morning. You got me. Yeah, bud. You're on the air. Cool. So...

My son played ice hockey, and they went to Lake Flaccid for a tournament, and I was fortunate enough to be able to play on the ice with some other fathers. We got the 80 gold medal winning rink. Oh, okay. Yeah, so I'm a goalie, so we played a game, and it's time to get off the ice, and I stopped, dumped my water bottle, and scraped up a bunch of shavings from the ice.

And I still have it in my freezer today. We played up there 30 years after they won the gold medal. I stole, not stole, I took the savings and all the other fathers that were playing were like, what the hell are you doing? So this day, whenever I see him in a bar somewhere or a hockey game or whatever, hey man, you still got that ice? I still have it in my freezer. And how long have you had it in your freezer?

I've had it in there for at least 10 years. Okay. And it's important to keep it frozen for you. Well, you know, it's hallowed ice. No, it is. You could also let it melt and be water and have it sitting out on display and make a nice little base for it or something like that so people could actually appreciate and enjoy that.

Well, honestly, my wife wouldn't allow me to leave it out anymore. Keep that in the goddamn freezer. You put that ice in the freezer. Honestly, what the plan was, was to bring it home. I was playing with basically beer league hockey. Right. I was going to bring it home and sprinkle it on the ice that we played on. Ah, okay.

But I'm such a weirdo. Like I said, I'm a goalie that I decided that I wanted to keep it for myself. It meant something to you. It's down in my beer fridge in my basement. Okay, I got it. I like that. Thanks, bud. It's in a place that you never look at. All right, let me go to... Let's go to Todd next. Todd, you are on the air, sir. Good morning to see you. Good morning, Todd. What's up, bud? So I had this...

He went on a hunting trip in Montana and I had a buddy who missed his deer. Mike Ward from Hatboro. He hit the deer but shot its leg off.

So the deer ran a little further. Run this by me again. He hit the deer and then shot its leg off? That's the shot he hit it with. Oh, okay, okay. He didn't miss it. He missed the spot that he was supposed to hit, shot the deer. I got it, okay. He didn't really miss. He did shoot its leg off. Oh, my God, he shot its leg off. So, you know, he has a history of doing...

uh you know not quite hitting exactly where he's supposed to so we ended up we were going to save a leg not that leg but another leg and we got one from one of the other deer and put it in my freezer

The intent was to make a shooting stick out, take it to the taxidermist, and they were going to put it so the foot was up with its, like, its toes were open so he could rest. Oh, my God. So that he could actually make a good shot in the future. But we haven't gotten around to doing it. And how long ago has that been?

It's got to be five years. It's been sitting in your freezer for five years. Yeah, I'm moving it around, moving my other deer meat, all this other stuff. Dude, you could make it, do a Christmas story deer lamp. Oh, it's the deer leg. I love it. I love it. Thank you, Todd. Appreciate that, man. But get that done. Do that. Make this conversation right here the impetus to actually follow through on that.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. All right. Shut the leg up, Todd. All right. What were you going to say? No, I was just going to say, Josh, on line three, I know a bunch of people who have this in their freezer. We'll go to them. Hi, Josh. You're on the air. Good morning, bud. Yeah.

All right, Josh, what's been in your freezer for a long time? Well, the crazy thing is we have a buttload of breast milk that my wife insists that we have to keep. And my son still feeds, but he doesn't drink out of a bottle. But she always lives on the what if. What if we needed breast milk? And I'm like, it's been in here for two years. You dated everything. We don't need it. It's taking up so much room. Two-year-old breast milk. How much are we talking again?

Oh, it's at least we have 16 one-gallon freezer bags. What? Oh, my God. And you know what, though? Even frozen breast milk, you're only supposed to keep it in your freezer for a certain amount of time. I think you're over that time. Yeah, look up. At two years. Josh, look that up and show that to her. If it's past due, maybe that'll...

she did find this one place where they actually buy breast milk to feed people. I'm like, well, sell it. 16 gallons of breast milk? That's an entire freezer. Exactly. It's in our chest freezer.

What is your wife, a dairy cow? Oh, my God. Wow. All right. Thank you, Josh. Jesus. Look up the info. Get rid of that stuff. Yeah. It says breast milk can be stored at zero degrees Fahrenheit or colder for up to 12 months. That's it. He's passed it. I have two friends who overproduce breast milk or did overproduce breast milk after they had their child. My cousin had one of those giant freezers that we're talking about in the garage, and it was fantastic.

filled with breast milk and she just saying i didn't realize that much milk could could be generated by a human well and she didn't know you know prior to so she just kept pumping and then she's like we'll never use any of this and she did she donated it um i think to like hospitals or however you do that but she donated a lot of it unfortunately we got to wrap this up but i'm going to read uh who the callers are and what they have and also the text messages real quick we have um

Rob bought a freezer from an estate sale and he found $2,000 in it. That's awesome. Troy has two dead crows in his freezer for five years. His wife kept them. Ben has a screech owl waiting to get it stuffed. Very illegal to have it, it says. Sean has 10 pounds of eggplant patties. He worked for a food distributor at one point. Katie, our friend, the horse later, says her mom's bird who died, saved it through the winter until the ground was soft to be buried.

Matt has his daughter's placenta, saving it to make pills for menopause. Lawrence has a dead red-shoulder hawk in his freezer. And Michelle, this is kind of sweet. She has two oranges and biscotti that she bought for her dad in the hospital before he passed away. That's a sweet story. On the text messages, Mikey Birds says, as a kid, we had sheep's eyeball in our fridge for way too long.

And then another one says they have an owl in their freezer as well. A lot of avian population in the freezer. That's where you put the birds. All right. Well, anyhow, I'm glad that we got to do this again. That was a good one. Stack-O-Topics. We'll do it again sometime. But thank you for your calls and your contributions. We're going to take a quick break because our guests begin when we return. We're going to talk to Ryan Airy of Screen Crush and also Joe Satriani will be joining us.

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Our next guest is going to be in town at City Winery on Sunday for an event. And you can come out and see it if you're a fan of Screen Crush. You're going to love seeing our friend Ryan Airy. Hey, Ryan, good morning to you. Hey, guys. How are you? Can you hear me okay? Yeah, we hear you just fine, man. So you take this on the road from time to time, right?

Yeah, we started doing a tour. You know, on Screen Crush, it's a YouTube channel, so we do movies and TV breakdowns of everything geeky and nerdy. And then last year, we did one show in February. We're like, this is kind of fun. So we decided to take it on the road. So we did three shows last year, eight this year, and now we're in the final stretch. And I have a special announcement about the show. I'll tell you guys what we do at the show, but I got a special announcement.

saying it for the first time here, in Philly, Philly only, Doug will actually be in attendance. Our little dog Doug, the mascot of the channel. The actual living dog. You want to see the actual living dog and not a puppet. He doesn't travel well, so he's only coming to City Winery in Philadelphia on Sunday, February 2nd.

And then he's like, James Brown, we're going to throw the cloak on him. He's going to go back to the dog. Because you do have, there is puppetry involved in this presentation. But it'll be good to know that you'll have the actual living entity himself in attendance. So that's cool. Yeah. As somebody who respects puppeteers, I wouldn't call what I do puppetry. It's taking a sock and going like that. Listen, as long as you got your hand up something, it's a puppet. Yeah.

uh so so but the show like my wife uh this is gonna be cool because i know people uh you you the fan base loyal fan base uh also they want to interact and you do a lot of that so you you have a uh you know q a and all that stuff going on as well and uh so so who would you describe as the classic general benchmark attendee to a screencrush event

I mean, if you're listening to this and you know Screen Crush, you know who you are. They're the Marvel and Star Wars. I'll tell you the thing you can always tell a Screen Crush fan is like we do this meet and greet like before and after. It's the fashion show of nerd shirts. That's my favorite thing. It really is. Like it's like a runway of neckbeards. It's so cool to see when everybody comes and brings. We get couples who were like matching things together. I guess I've been shown.

Been showing a lot of dog photos at this point, too. It's a great, I love doing the tour so much. Ryan, of nerd culture, of people who dive deep into the canon of these specific corners of sci-fi and stuff like that, could you rank the ultimate nerd fans? Is it Star Wars? Is it Star Trek? Who do you think really pushes the envelope and takes it to levels that others don't?

Now, I want to preface this by saying there are levels of nerddom that I personally, like anime, that I never touched. So I'm hardly an all-encompassing expert. Okay. In my experience, those Star Trek fans will come for you. That's what I do. Marvel fans are a lot more casual. Because, you know, the movies change, continuity change. They're more like movie fans. Star Wars fans can be lethal. Nobody hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans. Right.

But Star Trek fans, man, these guys have memorized how the engines work. Like, as if they're real engines. Whereas in Star Wars, we understand that doesn't exist. You know, space magic and stuff, you know? But yeah, I would say those are the,

those are my people who, and yeah, I'm a massive Star Trek fan too. I'm one of you. Yes. And it's clear. You get it. You're the, the DNA runs through you as well. So, right. I really appreciate, uh, the star Wars in Marvel videos because I am a star Wars nerd and a Marvel nerd. And I turned to you guys to help me understand some of the stuff, the plot points I don't quite get, but I'm also really psyched to see you guys do shows. Um,

that aren't in that realm. The two that come to mind are Severance and Silo. I love both of those shows and I didn't know any of the background on Silo and it is based on a book. What makes you decide, because there are so many shows to choose from outside of, you know, Marvel World or Star Wars World. Why Severance? Why Silo?

You know, we get this question at the live shows a lot during the Q&A. I think almost every live show somebody's asked this question because it's tough. Like right now we're covering Severance. We wanted to cover Silo. We didn't just because there was a lot going on with the holidays and, you know, just, you know, a major consideration is will it get views? But then sometimes we'll cover something just because we love it. You know, it's like that old adage, one for them, one for us. Yeah, yeah.

Not that we don't love Marvel and Star Wars, but it's different. Like, you get to dive, like, Severance is an amazing show. In fact, everything Apple TV puts out is amazing. I wish they'd pay me to say that. That's basically what we go on. Do we like the show? And do we think that other people are interested in hearing what we have to say about it? The other thing to remember is,

You don't get views right away on stuff, but a year later, people are going to revisit that show and they're still going to find us. That's also factored into it as well. It's funny how that works. You do learn that. Obviously, you guys have been at this game for a while, but that content that sits out there suddenly becomes something that people are seeking out and revisiting, even though initially you may not have gotten the response you wanted. I wanted to ask you, and maybe this will put you in even worse stead with some of the Star Trek fanatics. Speaking of Star Trek, Section 31, you have a piece on the site about

This Section 31 movie, which is kind of, I haven't read a good review about this thing. This is a Star Trek property. And, you know, and it goes to this Alex Kurtzman, the showrunner, Kurtzman, who's been

holding i guess the the reins over the over uh the the property for a while and i just don't i think they've lost an understanding of what star trek is what do you think the core problem is strange new worlds out of the gate started out to be such a reflection of the first original star trek series and i was so psyched and then it caved in on itself what are they not getting ryan

I love both seasons of Strange New Worlds. This Kurtzman-verse, I guess we can call it. Kurtzman was involved in the J.J. Abrams movies, so they all kind of imitate the look of those. They're meant to be modernized and bring in new Trek fans. I was never a massive fan of Star Trek Discovery, just because for me it was too much. The Klingons looked weird. Once I realized that the lead actress who plays Michael Burnham whispers every line, I had a really hard time not hearing that.

By the way, Lower Decks is amazing, and I think Strange New Worlds. So it's not like I'm saying everything they've done. Picard season three is the best thing to come out of this. Agreed. And I really think Paramount missed the boat when they didn't just hire Terry to do a new Star Trek show. But Terry Metallus, the showrunner of the show, he did a great job.

But regarding Section 31, we were thinking about covering it, and then it got all these bad reviews, and our normal Star Trek guy said, Section 31, if you don't know, Star Trek takes place in a utopia. It's years in the future where we've solved all of our problems and we're exploring space.

Section 31 was introduced in Deep Space Nine as this kind of a Star Trek – a Starfleet secret police. But what always makes Section 31 interesting is the balance that you see Section 31 agents interact with Federation people and Starfleet personnel who are more optimistic. So you have this push and pull. From what I understand, the Section 31 movie, which they originally developed as a show, but then Michelle Yeoh won an Oscar.

That kind of doesn't have that. And it's full in on the trying to be dark Star Trek, which doesn't work. Yeah. Star Trek's not meant to be dark. That's what they've cashed in. Okay. We have Captain America Brave New World coming out. Yeah. And so this has certainly been a tumultuous trajectory for this movie. They reshot a lot of it and then they chopped out about a half hour of what they apparently reshot. So where do we stand? Do we have any reason whatsoever to be intrigued, exhilarated, hopeful? No.

Marvel fans are at this point the most cautiously pessimistic group of people in the world. You know what I mean? Like everything that comes out at the live shows, right? I always ask the audience, are you excited about Brave New World? And every time I'm like, you know, for one thing, people know it's going to be on streaming in a couple of weeks. So why bother seeing it in theaters? This is a movie that two years ago would have been an event. Right. But I think just a string of bad movies or secret invasion, other things like that.

Look, guys, I'll be honest. When you go back through these past couple years of Marvel, there's way more good than bad. I think we just got used to every single thing being a home run, like with Pixar back in the day, right?

I personally, even though there's not a lot of fan enthusiasm, the whole reshoot thing doesn't bother me. To me, that's a good thing. That shows that they're making adjustments. They're listening to audience feedback. And they've been doing that for years. It's a bad system. You should go in with like a really great script like they're doing over at DC before you film. But the fact that they're willing to make adjustments in the strike may have worked out for them in that way.

Which is another reason the movie's been delayed so much. So I'm optimistic because, look, man, Harrison Ford and the Hulk and, you know, political intrigue. And they're finally going to address the giant statue sticking out of the ocean. I'm excited about it. You think about fixing the formula a little bit for Marvel. And maybe, you know, what my mind gravitated to was, well, you look at Deadpool and Wolverine. Huge success. Great movie. Excellent. Maybe they take that kind of tone for other Marvel properties. But then I go back. Wait a minute.

Thor Love and Thunder they tried to go comedic with that and it did not quite match horrible I have no idea and you gotta leave it to Kevin Feige because obviously he's got a track record of what the magical solution might be to draw us all back in and get us as excited as we used to get when those movies were opening up you know

Well, I think it all depends on it. It all goes back to character, which has traditionally been what Marvel puts first. So you brought two good examples, right? Deadpool and Wolverine. Deadpool's a funny character. The first scene in the first movie, he establishes that he's a funny guy. So it's natural for that movie to have a comedic tone. I actually didn't love Deadpool and Wolverine as much as everybody else. I thought it leaned way too hard in the nostalgia, and I didn't really understand why Deadpool went to go join the Avengers. But the whole point was just to get these two guys together on screen. But, you know, one and one.

We loved it. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. But it's a fun movie. I'm not, you know, I'm not going to criticize anybody who had a good time. But when it comes to Thor Love and Thunder, if you look at the characters in that, like if you go back to the source material in the comics or the God Butcher is a brutal killer. Right. Right.

The storyline where Jane has cancer and the hammer is killing her, it's all from one of the best, best Marvel runs of all time. Jason Aaron did 100 issues on Thor. None of that made it in the movie. Instead, it's like Taika Waititi improv stuff that just filled time. It fell off because it wasn't true to the characters. So, okay, we have you here. We're going to pick your brain. James Gunn, Superman, the –

the new movie. I love the trailer. I'm intrigued. All these properties, and I think you probably agree with this, Ryan, on some... All of this stuff is always up for interpretation. What have you got? Let's see what you got. Take a swing at it. And, you know, I think it...

In an overly caustic, reactionary world where everyone wants to jump all over stuff, it did pretty well, that trailer. There's one now that's a little wonky because of apparently some CGI. What's your take on what you're hearing about guns run at the D.C. properties, the Superman movie and the Batman movie and subsequent films? I'll tell you the great thing that James Gunn has said so far. Like they announced, okay, here's our theme of our show.

our phase or chapter chapter and they announced different projects they want to do but he also said we are not going to green light something and this is here listen to this marvel we're not going to green light something before there's a script that is ready most marvel things they start shooting before there's a script because it's a machine that's got to keep going so superman james gunn wrote the script i'm sure he's very happy with it the wonky cgi you're talking about wasn't really a cgi shot it was uh

The kind of camera lens they use just kind of like distorts your face and makes it look bigger like that, right? When you're flying closer. Point is, the second Project Greenlit for the DCU was a Supergirl movie. It's not what they intended to greenlight next, but the script was ready. The next Project Greenlit is the one I'm most excited for. It's a Clayface movie by Mike Flanagan, the genius who did House of Usher and Midnight Mass on Netflix.

They greenlit it because the script is ready. The fact we're getting a Clayface movie before a Batman movie is not a bad thing because, frankly, do we need another Batman movie right now? A little breathing room might work for that, you know, as excited as I am for Brave and the Bold.

So he's putting script first, which I think is great script over everything. Agreed. That's really cool. Just to bring it back to Marvel real quick, if you don't mind. I love antihero movies, which is why I'm excited about Thunderbolts. I think it looks really cool. And the assembly of all of these characters where you're not necessarily rooting for them, but you might like them. What are your thoughts on Thunderbolts and where that might take the Marvel, the MCU? Yeah.

Weird. I think the Marvel movies this year, because hopefully this is Marvel's comeback year, right? I think they're coming out in reverse order of enthusiasm where people aren't really jazzed for Brave New World. A lot of people are pumped about the Thunderbolts and everybody's really looking forward to Fantastic Four. Everybody at the live show that I talk to when we do our Q&As or even during the breakdown portions and stuff like that, they're always asking like they're pumped for Thunderbolts.

I think it goes back to not necessarily because there's a bunch of John Walker fans out there, but because, dang it, it's Marvel and we want to see team ups. Where have the team ups been? Where have the Avengers been? Where are those cool moments where we see people from different properties cross over together? You know, all due respect and love to Wong. Seeing Wong pop up in a million things wasn't enough. I want to see all these heroes together in one spot.

Yeah, that's why I think there's a lot of excitement behind it. Well, also, having the chance to go through the other films, even Captain America, the original Captain America film, is just really, really solid. The characters, the moments, everything, even though it was part of this building collective, the parts were parsed out the right way, but each story stood on its own and had emotional import. And then we reached that point. Again,

Like the Eternals. We talk about often on the show about how it was just ripped apart. It isn't that bad. It's pretty decent. It's got its moments. And so you're always encouraging. What we don't want is just a steady stream, as you said at the beginning of this conversation, eh.

Okay, we want, as Preston said, that rock star, new movie coming to town. What am I going to wear? What shirt am I going to wear? Me and my friends are going to wear it so we can all find each other in the crowd. Sorry, guys, but you created that with us, and now we're holding you to that. That's kind of, I think, the vibe.

You know, I think with movie critics and the Eternals especially, I think that Marvel Studios has become like the Kansas City Chiefs. Everybody's going to bring their highest expectations and their A-game to everything they do. So Marvel can make a movie that's like the Eternals where it's like, well,

I see what they were going for. It has good parts. You think about later, it's kind of messy in places. But then critics are going to tear it apart because they're all sick of Marble. In my opinion, I think that's a good part of it. Not every critic, but... So by default, then, are the Philadelphia Eagles the DC of this scenario? Hey, man, I'm rooting for the Phillies hard in this. And it's not just because I'm a Bengals fan and not because I'm talking to a Philly station, but because...

I love Philly. That's the thing. I've been so excited to come to Philly. This sounds like I'm doing claptor, but I'm really not. I love Philadelphia, man. Every time I go to the city, I rooted for the Eagles last time they were in. And like I said before, we're pumped to do the show. The show's kind of evolved,

over the time to like the first thing we did was like a little presentation a lot of q a now it's got a story and there's like intrigue and dream sequence it's all the stuff that we just wouldn't do on the youtube channel exclusive breakdowns that we're really pumped to bring to you guys i was watching a video uh it's a nice little youtube in fact it's on your channel people want to get a little teaser of what's going on uh not listen other people seem to just show up just to hear you guys drop f-bombs and stuff so uh so that's uh that's a cool element okay

Can you tease a little bit of the subject matter or are you holding on to that for the show on Sunday at City of the Wonderland? No, I'll talk about it. It changes every show. Like, honestly, like we'll go out of every show and just, I'll be like, well, let's try this next time. We're going to do two things different in this next show. Now, normally what I'll do is...

We do an exclusive breakdown about the like Christopher Reeve Superman movies, small stuff we wouldn't really do on the channel, but it's a lot of fun in real life. I point out some movie mistakes in that again, stuff I don't normally do in YouTube videos. And then there's a fun little like dream sequence with James Gunn where I pitch the DC project that I want to be in charge of and why I go off on a rant about streaming services and stuff.

Now we're going to add in a thing that I really should write and make the slides for. I want to actually show everybody how we make these videos because that's another question we get during the Q&A. So we're going to show you behind the scenes. And again, I would never put this on YouTube because, you know, I don't want to. It's like how Mr. Rogers wanted Big Bird to come on, but he refused to take off the mask. You know, right. We really want to see that show how the sausage is made. But in a live show, I will show you that. Oh.

And then, honestly, it's just the fan interactions, guys. I mean, I know I keep saying it, but it's the best part. Like, I get people coming up to me and saying, you know, you got me through COVID and all these incredible, like, I hear the best stories from people about just, like, what it means to have this interaction through YouTube, and we get to do that in person. That's great. All right, well, tickets are available. You can get them just, you know, go to the City Winery website here in Philly, or you can go to screencrush.com, and you can grab your ticket. So this is on

Sunday, what time does the show start? I don't have that info. Eight o'clock. Okay. And if you want, it's X1 Entertainment's running this. If you search like X1 Screen Crush, I don't know if we have a link on screencrush.com. We should really do that. It might be nice. Nice. Yeah.

Make it easy on the people. All right. Well, Ryan, have a great time when you get here. It's always great to catch up with you. And I'm sure we'll talk to you soon. All right, man. You guys rock. See you soon, Philly. Appreciate it. Ryan Airy from Screen Crush. Anything like I'm watching Dune Prophecy, I go to Screen Crush to explain all of the stuff I didn't understand. It's what they do on YouTube. That minutiae they hunted out and they explain it.

All right, we have another guest who's ready to go. I'm excited to talk to this person because I've been talking about this person for ages. Well before we were inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, there was a time where I was a fledgling broadcaster. Well, I was a broadcast student. And in 1989, we actually have a clip of me in the fake radio studio where I was learning my craft and

And this is one of the breaks that I recorded. Here it is. The only rock in St. Louis, KGN 89.1. Up on deck right now, we've got some hot new stuff from a guy named Joe Satriani. This cat really knows how to play guitar. Watch out for him. He's getting some really fantastic commercial success from his all-instrumental album, which you don't see much of.

and I see some very big things from him in the future. So what do you say we roll it? This is The Crush of Love on KGN. Do you know how hard that is for me to listen to? Oh, my God. That is so hard for me to listen to. You're doing a DJ affect a little bit. Yeah, I was talking like this. Can we give you points for your correct prognostication? I did, right? I got it right. So...

Ladies and gentlemen, he's on to talk about the new album, the G3 Reunion Live, with not only him, but Steve Vai and Eric Johnson. Please welcome an amazing musician, Mr. Joe Satriani. Morning, Joe. Good morning. That was great.

Thank you, man. That was it, Joe. That was in 1989. I was playing in a band at the time. I'm a drummer. And we played Crush of Love and Always Me, Always With You, One Big Rush. I'm actually nervous talking to you right now. But yeah, I go way back with you, man. So it's great to see that you were still...

entertaining people like this in this fashion and people still love to come out and see you play. Oh, I'm so grateful, you know, for this unbelievable career. And I've got to say, if it wasn't for guys like you playing the records, I mean, there'd be nothing for me to do. So thank you. Joe, you're giving me credit? Oh, man.

It does my heart good. Hey, one of the things, Joe, people may not know because I had mentioned Steve Viner, Johnson. The three of you together are amazing. Can you explain a little bit about your history with both those guys? Because you and Steve go way, way, way, way, way, way, way back.

Yes, yes. I've known Steve since he was 12 years old. We grew up in the same town on Long Island, went to the same public high school, and I started teaching him guitar when he was 12. He was a beginner guitar player. And ever since then, we just, you know, joined at the hip. We became just beyond teacher and student. We became best friends, and we sort of joined forces to try to, you know, change the world with our guitars.

And so we've been playing with each other on and off ever since. I met Eric when I was out on the Flying in the Blue Dream tour in 1990, and we did a lot of touring together that year, even jamming on stage. So we have a history as well that goes pretty far back, you know, last century.

It's pretty amazing that we were all still up for getting together and celebrating that original G3 tour that started in 96. Joe, it's an interesting dynamic. My brother took guitar and still plays. He went into law enforcement, but he loves the guitar. And Preston, I guess you can speak to this as well.

Your music teachers, there's something about, obviously anyone who teaches you and good teachers are wonderful to encounter throughout your life, but there seems to be a bond, and this seems like your experience with Steve Joe, is that there's something that transcends the normal, there's some connection. You're opening up this musical avenue to this student, and it seems to be a bond that seems a little bit more substantive. Do you know what I'm saying?

Well, there certainly is. I mean, it's difficult to put into words, you know, because we've known each other for so long. There's a lot of it. The communication is sort of unspoken, but it's there. That's what I think allows us to sort of walk on stage after not seeing each other for a year, plugging our guitars and just start playing. We kind of always pick up where we left off. And this...

past few months, you know, we've been writing and recording an album together, and it's been just fantastic. It's that very same thing where we're

We seem to be connected in this very deep way, and we can write the craziest stuff and understand where the other guy wants to go with something, and it just makes it so much fun. And the result is always, you know, just really great music. Joe, going back to, you know, being a teacher for Steve Vai, do you remember a certain moment where...

When the student becomes the master. Yes. You know, it was a very interesting thing to be a teenage guitar teacher, you know, because I started playing guitar when I was 14. By 15, I was teaching kids from the local high school, even a couple of teachers. And I got that lesson that every musician needs.

have to learn really quickly, which is there are going to be people who are born every second and they're going to have more talent maybe in every department or in certain areas of musicianship that you're trying to achieve. And Steve was one of them because I saw this little 12-year-old kid sitting across from me and I thought, wow, I'm just starting out. I've been playing a year, year and a half and there's this 12-year-old and I know I can see it right in front of me. He's going to be

Wow. Wow.

I mean, I was getting that. We both were actually from our high school music teacher, a guy named Bill Westcott, who was a Juilliard graduate, just a phenomenal musician. And why he wound up at Car Place High School, I don't know. It's a whole other story. But...

He was selfless and he gave us, you know, university level education. And he must have instilled in you an incredible ethic as far as practicing goes. And that's one thing that I want to ask about as well, because I was talking to our producer here, Casey, not that long ago about, you know, elite musicians and how, yes, they have natural ability and there's no question about it. But along with that comes an

an extensive amount of spending time with your instrument and working on your craft. I recently read Alex Van Halen's autobiography, and he's talking about how Eddie was just...

welded to his guitar when he wasn't ripping it apart and putting it back together. He was playing it. And I mean, eight to 10 hours at a time in his bedroom by himself. And so the people, you can have natural talent, but it just doesn't all fall into your lap. You guys work really, really hard to get to where you are, correct?

Yeah, it's a lot of practicing, a lot of repetition, self-evaluation. Like every minute, you just got to, you know, figure out like, you know, how do I suck and how do I finish that? You know, how do I fix it? You know, it takes so much work. It helps if you've got even a tenth of what Eddie Van Halen had.

Of course. But that work, you know, Kenny Aronoff will tell you, repetition of the basics is so important and of the songs that you're going to be performing for audiences who've spent some hard-earned money to come see you play. You better be prepared. So, yeah, there's a lot of practicing that never ends. It's a level of expertise and you've got to stay on it. I wanted to ask you, you're the best-selling...

rock guitarist, instrumental of all time. I believe that's the case. Correct me if I'm wrong. And yet, you know, so with that, it was surprising to learn that you've got and kind of deal with a bit of stage fright, you know, now and then. And it sort of helped create your...

You prefer to be in a collaboration and not the main person. Have you thought about that over the years and how it helped shape, sort of guided you to exactly where you needed to be, where it really wasn't a detriment, it was sort of an asset? Does that make sense?

it's a funny thing, you know, it's not, um, it's sort of like just based on the fact that my basic nature is not to be, you know, in a room with thousands of people and to be an extrovert. And so I picked the wrong gig, you know. But, uh,

but I love sharing music, so it's a bit of a weird conflict. You know, so before I go out, I keep thinking, I really shouldn't be doing this. I'm not cut out for this. And then as soon as I step on stage, I kind of become somebody else. And, um...

My son actually made that a part of the film about Shockwave Supernova, which was this sort of character that this artist built up to deal with that very same kind of stage fright. And then eventually that character took over. And it had to be summarily identified and dismantled and put out to pasture for the artist to survive.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. And so, yeah, the film was called Beyond the Supernova. It streams out there. You guys can find it. But it's a funny thing because it's an energy. You know, performers, it's an interesting talent that people have, and it doesn't necessarily connect with being a people person or people who's, you know, good in small groups or public speaking or something like that. Right.

I once asked Sammy, like, because, you know, he knew I wore glasses, and we were talking about that whole story, how it started up. And he said to me something that really made me laugh. He said, Joe, you don't know how embarrassing it is to sing in front of people. He goes, I got to wear these glasses, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can see that. All right.

Well, listen, we're excited for the new album. It really is. It's something special when the three of you get together. So G3 Reunion Live is available on January 31st. So thanks for checking in with Joe, and we'll see you when you come through Philly someday, okay? Thank you. Thanks for talking to me, guys. You got it, man. Take care. Joe Santriani. This is The Crush of Love on KGN. That's this song right here.

He's something else. He is amazing. And he's going to be touring with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, and Kenny Aronoff. They're doing the Best of All Worlds at Van Halen residency April 30th through May 17th at MGM. So, level of nervousness, Joe Satriani, Carmine Apice, right, was... Yeah.

I was nervous with Carmine more so because his book, his instruction book called Realistic Rock was where I learned how to play drums. That was it. And he was such a sweetheart. He was a great guy. He was so nice. He was opening up because I brought him my original book. And I'm like, look, you know, and I'm showing him the notes that my teacher made. And he's going, oh, yeah, he had you doing this. And he's going, oh, look at that. Oh, you can play that. And...

It was really, really cool. That is great. I was a little nervous with that, but Joe's awesome. We should put together a bucket list because on the top of my list of interviews that I want to get on this show for you specifically, Preston, is Carter Bulford of the Matthews Band. And musicians like that that are just virtuosos, I would love to chat with more of them. And Steve, same with you. I'd love to...

Get a bucket list of just of the musicians that we want to chat with, you know? Yeah, because it's, listen, it's all fascinating. A lot of people go for the obvious. So who's the front man? Who's this? Who's that? Oh, the actor. No, it's cool to talk to the director too. It's cool to talk to the composer. Even the person who edited, you know, talk to the person who edited the movie Jaws or Goodfellas. You know, there's stories there that I find interesting.

fascinating. After watching his cover of Blackbird, I think Corey Feldman is at the top. Did you see that recently? Literally, it's making the rounds on social media. Casey, if we can grab the audio. You thought you heard it done right by the Beatles? Dude. You are wrong. There's also one going around of him playing guitar solo and it's just...

Really? Honestly, if you want to replicate that solo, hold a blender up to the guitar strings. I mean, I know that Corey's had some success in his life, but he's not had enough success where there are nothing but yes people surrounding him going, oh, that's great. Oh, my God. Keep doing it. Somebody has got to come up and say, dude, you're not a good guitar player.

You're not a good singer. Do you know what, though? I think we can. I came to this conclusion when we talked to him last time.

He is happy. He seems happy. He went through a lot. People come out, whether they're coming out for whatever reason, whether they get as many viral moments as they can, that's fine. If he's in a good place, that's cool. But again, I think you're just, you know, you're talking to a tree if you think it's going to change anything. You're not. Listen, artists create art. Yeah. I was thinking it would be, you know, you see him on stage. Oh, that's.

That's cute. He really, you know, he thinks he's doing a good job. No, it's not. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing for me. Isn't that the worst to say to someone? Dude, you are embarrassing yourself. I'm sorry, but you're embarrassing yourself. And you're embarrassing me. And me.

I have no skin in this game and I'm embarrassed. Why are you doing this to me? I'm just sitting on my couch right now and I'm embarrassed. I'm looking at my favorite blue table and you're making me embarrassed. Seriously, embarrassment by proxy is not a good definition. Jinks. Preston and Steve, I sent you guys this thing over the weekend. I don't know if you saw it on Instagram, but I freaking love this. It's from the early 70s and that...

I'll just read it to you. It says, in the 70s, Italian singer Adriano Celitano released a song with made-up lyrics. Oh, yeah, I've seen it. Okay, you have. He's pretending to be... He's speaking to what...

People who don't speak English, what is English sounds like? Right. Yeah. So it meant to sound like American English. And it just proved that Italians loved an English song. And it was a huge hit. So I'm listening to it. And sure enough, it sounds like he's saying English American words. It would be like us. I don't speak French going, ah, j'entends comme un jeune des barons. Okay. Yeah.

You know what to do, right? Yeah, yeah. Or, et abon, so men again. You know, it's... It's all the stereotypical things. Yeah. So they can... There are shapes of sounds that are indicative of dialects, and that's what the guy was doing. It was so catchy. It's interesting. It's a catchy tune. Yeah, you need... All you need is a good melody. I want to hear it, in case for some reason I don't remember seeing it. Oh, man. It's weird. Yeah. Because the guy is... He's...

he's memorized whatever this made up language is that, that he is, um, you know, pawning off as, as English. And it's like, yeah, you hear the way, like this guy sounds more like rock and roll. It's like, you know, uh,

Barge right back. It's a two-foot guy. Yeah, yeah. Made up words. It's like you can actually find videos as well of people speaking that are from foreign countries that don't speak our language that are pretending to speak English. And it's nothing. It's gibberish. But it sounds like it. Do you have the audio? Yeah, I have it. It's right here. Yeah, all right.

I heard Baby in there. Yeah, yeah. One more line. You might hear that and think, listen, God, we love Pearl Jam and love Eddie Manor, but how many of those songs are unintelligible? Yellow Ledbetter.

There are so many great videos on Instagram making fun of just that song alone and the Anna Falan one that came out not that long ago. It was people's actual LinkedIn profiles. Those are great. They're so freaking hilarious. Or, this is how we do it. How we do it? I love how we do it. Or, it's as if a million oysters cry. Oh my God.

Perfect example. Millions of oysters. Millions of oysters. We should have played that for Ryan. Damn it. Oh, and I was thinking of another one. I can't remember, but anyway, I love that stuff. Ah, hell, you know what I'm talking about. Millions of oysters. Millions of oysters. Why? Why?

Why are you so concerned with the oysters? That's why it made zero sense to me. Master Jedi. How long do you think you held on to that for? Well into my teens, maybe in the early 20s. The oysters walk in single file to hide their numbers. Why is Obi-Wan so concerned about oysters? Hang on. Millions of voices. Hang on. Sarah has an interesting comment. We've got to take a break here in a second, though. Hi, Sarah. Good morning.

Hi, good morning, guys. Hey, what's up, Sarah? Preston, you might already know this, but back when the Beatles wrote My Michelle, John and I believe Paul, too, used to go to parties and pretend they knew French. Like sit in the corner, like play on the guitar, throw out words that sounded like French just to pick up girls. Oh. So to English-speaking girls, they would pretend to be speaking French. Yeah.

Just to get them... It's a romantic language. I was not aware of that. That's interesting, Sarah. Thanks. I've always kind of... Yeah, that led them to write the song, My Michelle. Right, which has legit French in it. You always assume because of proximity, you would pick up

A lot of Brits speak some level of French. Maybe I'm incorrect on that. Well, anyhow, we should probably take a break. Let's give away another $50 gift card. Our friend said...

Anyway, our friends at the Special Olympics in conjunction with the Polar Plunge and Wawa have given us some $50 gift cards. We'll take caller number 18 to 15263 WMMR. And for over 10 years, they've been huge supporters of

of Special Olympics Philadelphia. They've given nearly $3 million towards sports training and competition, health screenings and leadership programming to more than 15,000 Special Olympics athletes around the state. So, gotta love it. You can get signed up and join Nick for the Polar Plunge

on Saturday at Citizens Bank Park. And you can register at phillyplunge.org. Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, Preston. I just got this information from our friends at the Special Olympics. Right now, if you register to donate at phillyplunge.org, you can actually enter to win a signed Saquon Barkley Eagles jersey and a $250 Wawa gift card. So all you have to do is go to the website and register. It's phillyplunge.org. And the swimming and the plunge is this weekend, Saturday, down at the ballpark. Excellent. All right, we're going to take a break. We'll come back in a second with the B-File. Don't forget, we have Tat-Tuesday. Text the word TAT-TOO to 39333.

Back in a moment. MMRBQ 2025. Saturday, May 10th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Somebody check my brain. Alice in Chains. Three Days Grace. The dead of all I have become. With both Matt Walsh and Adam Gontier. I'm sorry.

Mammoth WVH. Dorothy. Plus, Dead Poets Society. Philadelphia Hard Rockers, Octane. Return to Dust.

Plus local shots opener Fat Mess. And of course, the President Steve side stage with live band karaoke featuring Side Arms. It's always an all-day party, so don't miss out. Buy your tickets now at Ticketmaster.com. From 93.3 WMMR, everything that rocks.

No, there's a lot of focus, obviously, on the Super Bowl coming up. But let's not take our eye off the ball for Cardboard Classic. Yes. And we just want you to be aware of all the details of that. You can go to PrestonAndSteve.com and find the information there. But that is fantastic.

February 28th. So we are exactly one month away from today. The event at montage mountain. Let's just see if February takes as long as January did. So, uh, we've got everything you need to know about the building materials, about the prizes, about, uh, signups, uh, even, uh,

guides on how to help you learn to build a wonderful creation. Um, and like I said, you can go to presidency.com or WMMR.com slash cardboard classic and get all the information there. And don't forget that there is a huge party right after it, the world's largest eighties party and features the M eighties, a tribute to MTV. And the next day is mountain fest. Actually the whole weekend is mountain fest, but, uh,

Tonic and Better Than Ezra are playing on Saturday. They're going to be doing pond skimming, fireworks, and your lift ticket is your concert ticket. So VIP tickets are on sale as well. Get the information and come and join us for that. Let's get into the Bizarre Five. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Five.

All right, we're going to start with a base jumper. And she said she's feeling grateful after rescuers managed to extract her from the face of...

of a Squamish British Columbia mountain after her parachute was caught on Wednesday. Oh, man. Yeah, Alenka Mali was attempting to do a base jump at the Stawamas Chief Mountain, whose peak soars 700 meters above the ground. Wow. But Mali said that her parachute got caught on a rock or a tree on the cliff face, and rescuers say she was still 200 meters above

off the ground. So, you know, geez. Yeah. What is that? 600 feet roughly. It was pretty much, she said, like waiting for that final impact that was going to either kill me or break all my bones until I came to a complete stop.

She was then left dangling precariously for hours as emergency responders searched the rescue. I can see my house! Made plans to help extricate her. Mike Tisk, who was on the rescue, said that they initially intended to use a helicopter to rescue her. He said the problem we encountered was...

We were worried about the downwash that the helicopter creates. Yeah. That it was going to inflate her parachute and cause her to dislodge from her position. Thanks, guys! He said, so this, although this would have been significantly quicker option, it wasn't going to be safe. More than 30 rescuers were involved in the operation. One of them eventually had to be lowered down using ropes to extricate her off of the cliff.

Despite her fall and hours-long wait for the rescue, she was mostly uninjured and said that she is grateful for her rescuers for an efficient rescue and plans to get back to base jumping soon. See, my idea would have been to bore a hole through the other side of the mountain and open up a tunnel right next to her on her side of the mountain. I probably didn't even think of that.

In Michigan, a cadet disarmed a five-year-old who had a loaded handgun while serving a subpoena on Saturday. The Battle Creek Police Department said a cadet was serving a subpoena Saturday when a five-year-old answered the door with a kitchen knife. The cadet called an officer for backup and asked the child to have an adult come to the door. When the child returned, they were armed with a loaded handgun, which the cadet removed. And when officers arrived...

Two men and a woman were found inside the home. They were taken into custody for questioning due to the handgun and deplorable conditions of the home. Five children who range in age from eight to six months were turned over to Child Protective Services. One of the children was taken to the hospital due to health concerns. And they go into detail. It was a horrible living condition. Like a hell house? Yeah, it was...

Oh. Terrible parents. The police department said the code compliance condemned the home and it's pursuing weapon and neglect charges through the prosecutor's office and the case remains under investigation. You were, your kids were younger. You'd take the clip out before you handed the gun over to them, right? Sure, sure, yeah. I'd leave one in the pipe just so they'd have some fun, but, you know, you don't want them shooting everybody. No, no, no.

A Vietnamese man recently went to the hospital with pain and swelling in his left eye. The 24-year-old told doctors the symptoms had been bothering him for around three weeks, but had recently gotten worse. He tried the hospital after the medicine of another medical facility had given him didn't help.

And there was a good reason that it didn't work. Doctors did a CAT scan on the man, and they found that there was a three-inch section of chopstick lodged in his eye socket. He had a chopstick lodged in his eye? Yeah. The patient told doctors he didn't remember how it happened, but he did remember a collision with a friend during a night of partying.

Doctors successfully removed the chopstick and his eyesight actually remains in good condition. Now he can no longer eat rice with his eye. Nope. A 10-year-old boy in China got into trouble with his dad for not doing his homework. The boy decided to do something about it. He reportedly stormed out of the house, went to a store and asked if he could use the phone. And then he called the police and told them that his dad had illegal poppy shells at his house. Oh my God. You little son of a bitch. You little scamp. Police.

Police came and sure enough found some poppy shells on the balcony of the home. You're a little monkey. They took the evidence and the dad to the station and so far there's been no word about what happened after that. But he took the upper hand. He knocked on his dad. He did. Absolutely. Let's see. On Saturday...

It was a driver in Wisconsin who was pulled over for a very good reason. He was driving the wrong way down Highway 29 and didn't seem to notice the lights or sirens behind him. He continued driving in the wrong lane and then pulled into a parking lot. He agreed to a breath test and registered .329 four times the legal limit.

He was arrested, of course, racking up his fifth DWI charge. Oh, my God. You're going the wrong way. And somehow it gets worse. He was on probation from a previous felony conviction when he was caught at the Times. There's all kinds out there.

All right, and then we will wrap with this one. A child went permanently blind due to an unhealthy diet. Oh, my God. An eight-year-old Malaysian boy went blind because he had the same diet since he was an infant. The child was said to have had a diet consisting only of chicken nuggets, sausages, and cookies.

Dr. Erna Nadia, a popular Malay doctor with a large following on social media, said as a mother, you can't always cook because we're busy. Pity for the parents of this student. It's not easy for them to accept. The boy's instructors became aware of the problem when he asked teacher, why can't I see anything? He was taken to a hospital where doctors diagnosed him with a severe vitamin A deficiency. Yes. And the condition affects 1% of Americans as well, to a lesser extent.

The publication reported that the child likely suffered from optic atrophy, which according to Cleveland Clinic is a condition that happens because of long-term damage to optic nerve fibers for many different causes, which can lead to irreversible issues with vision, including blindness. So permanently blind for this diet. Dr. Nadia urged parents to be aware of the symptoms of vitamin A deficiency, which include dry eyes, shadow or gray spots on the white of the eyes, difficulty seeing in the dark.

The inability to produce tears as well. And the best way to prevent vitamin A deficiency is to eat a healthy diet. A lot of times when they go into villages or, you know, where people are malnourished, the vitamin A is a critical part of making sure. Yes. Many people in developing countries don't get enough vitamin A with infants, children and people who are pregnant or breastfeeding most at risk. Although vitamin A deficiency is rare in the United States, it is the leading cause of blindness in children around the world per the clinic.

If I may play devil's advocate here, chicken nuggets are very good. And the Daily Mail first reported last year in October that a 12-year-old boy from Massachusetts went blind to similar circumstances. So, yes, got to eat vegetables. With your nuggets. Got to have your vitamin C as well and vitamin A and all that stuff. All right, and there you go. That is what we have.

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Just glancing out the window, it's kind of a...

Crappy looking day. I mean, it's getting more and more cloudy and the trees are moving around. So it's going to be a little blustery, even though we have kind of average temperatures today, high of about 43. So it's going to feel cold tomorrow. It's 52 and windy as well. Using the branches without leaves flailing about. Yeah. They're moving around. Yep. Kicking up a storm out there. Out there, whipping down the boardwalk.

So just a heads up on that. All right. Let's see if you've been paying attention to the show this morning. We are going to give away a prize. We have MMRBQ tickets. If you can tell me this. Wow. How many rotisserie chickens does Rick Ross have rotating at all times? It's amazing. It's his birthday today. Sure is. Producer. 215263WMMR. How many rotisserie chickens?

Does Rick Ross have rotating at all times? 215-263-WMMR. Call if you know the answer. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. We'll get some stories and we'll get a winner. Steve, what's going on this morning? Of course, TMZ reporting that brothers Trace Cyrus and Brayson Cyrus are warring over whether father Billy Ray Cyrus...

needs rehab. Trace says, you know, things are bad in a family when the normal one is the sister whose speaking voice sounds like wet diarrhea. Wow. Oh, my God. Lizzo, revealing she has hit her target weight for 2025. Ironically, her target weight was also 2025. Hey! The Avian Porn Awards were presented in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Apparently, Vegas had not seen that kind of unbridled, debaucherous sex before.

Since Friday night. All righty. Let's see if you know the answer to this question. Rick Ross, hip hop performer, excuse me, has how many rotisserie chickens rotating at all times? I will go to Vincent for an answer. Hey, Vincent, good morning.

Hey, good morning. Vincent. Oh my God, I didn't know we had that. One more time, please, if you wouldn't mind. Vincent. All right, Vincent, how many rotisserie chickens rotating at all times?

Two show timers, those three chickens. You got it! Hang on a second, bud. We're going to give you a pair of tickets for the MMRBQ Saturday May 10th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. And lawn ticket storage is $25. And the first half of the show, by the way, you can be, you know, in the...

What am I looking for? First half of the show is all general admission. Inside the pavilion. Thank you. You're welcome. You can get up close and you can watch any of the first four bands. Eight great bands, including Alice in Chains, Three Days Grace, plus Preston and Steve, Side Stage. And tickets are on sale now. All in the impro is available at WMMR.com. I'll get it together here. You got it fine. Quick question.

Did you ever have a rotisserie grill? Yeah. And did you like it? Loved it, yeah. It was actually, it was Carter's. He wanted that for Christmas one year and we got it for him. I thought you did. Yeah, we used it quite a bit. It was great. And the chickens turn out just like the rotisserie that you get at the grocery store. It's worth it. How long do you put it in there for?

I don't remember. It's been a while. But yeah, those things are great. Because I love a Tessery chicken. We tried cooking fish and stuff like this. They have a basket in there for it. But the fish, as it cooks, it shrinks. And then it slips around in the basket and would kind of like fall apart. So that was a no-go. That's bull crap. Yeah, it was terrible. But the chickens...

Spot on, Pipples. All right, music news. Now, Preston and Steve's music news on 93.3 WMMR. All right, we'll start with this. They sold out an arena tour in the U.S. last year and now Incubus...

Headed back out for another trip around North America in 2025. The Morning View and the Hits Tour with special guest Manchester Orchestra will once again see the band perform its album Morning View in its entirety and then other hits from the band. It's a 13-city tour. Starts on June 25th. They will be at the Hard Rock. Nice. At the Edis Theater on

That will be on the 27th of June. That band puts on a hell of a concert. They do. So tickets, pre-sales start today. General sale starts Friday at 10 a.m. So Incubus at the Hard Rock in A.C. on the 27th of June. Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, and Travis Barker are doing their part for the victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.

Blink-182 has announced a one-night-only benefit show at the Hollywood Palladium with 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales going to the Pasadena Humane Society, California Fire Department, LAFD Foundation, and ARC Firefighter Fund. Tickets are on sale now. They're using Ticketmaster's face value exchange tool to protect their prices set by Blink-182. I've not heard of that before. Neither have I. Ticketmaster's face value exchange tool.

face value exchange tool. I wonder how that works. Oh, hold on. Marissa's got a comment. I just dove into this yesterday because I saw it. So you can only do digital transfers and you can only sell for the same price you bought it for. I like that. So you can't boost the price. I think this is amazing. Right.

One last story. At the NAMM convention in Anaheim, California over the weekend, anthrax bassist Frank Bellow talked about his new signature Spectre Bass and

and said it's going to be seen by a lot of people. He said, we have a new Anthrax record. And it's been about eight years, so he just kind of announced the new record. That's very cavalier. That's the kind of thing Diphtheria would do. And he went on to say, I know, right? This bass will be shown anywhere we go. We're going to start touring. And he said the new album is supposed to come out September, October. So big touring plans. What's your level of Anthrax fans?

I don't know much. Yeah. But I know I love you. Yeah. No, I know a couple of songs, but I never really dove into Anthrax. By the time that type of metal started coming along, I was kind of phasing out of the heavier music. Yeah, that would be me too. For the time being. I appreciate it. I know they're good to their fans, and the Anthrax bell never rung for me. Yeah.

Yeah, Charlie Benanti, a great drummer, great musicians all the way around. But once you started getting into, you know, like Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax bands like that, I kind of started phasing out a little bit. I do know some of the material from some of those bands. It just wasn't speaking to me at the time. All right, and there you go. That's what I have in music news. We're going to break one last time when we return. Letter of the Day, Word of the Week prize and our Tattoos Day winner. We'll come back with that and find out what's coming up tomorrow, too. Stay put. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a place to listen to MMR online nationwide where you could sign up for an MMR insider newsletter so you never miss the important stuff on All Things Rock. Maybe see Preston and Steve Daily Rush videos. Look for upcoming shows on a comprehensive concert calendar. See when and where we'll be out and about. Pick up some MMR gear and like a whole lot more. Well, it turns out there's a website that does all that.

WMMR.com. And it's always available, like right now, on your computer or phone or whatever. And we even made a catchy little jingle so you remember it. Foo Fighters on 93.3 WMMR. One of the great music videos of all time for Big Me.

10.42 is that riff on the Mentos commercials. Yes. Which is excellent. We need old Mentos commercials to come back. Yeah. So cheesy. Oh, yeah. It was the best. So let me see what all we need to do as we are wrapping up the program today. I guess a good place to start would be our Tattoo's Day winner. Yes. People text in tattoo all morning long for a chance to win a $350 gift certificate from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. Yay!

We got a winner. It's Mike Dillon of Northeast Philadelphia. And yeah, Mike, you're going to get to head to 1729 South Street in Philadelphia and meet up with the amazing people at Floating World Tattoo and Piercing.

and get yourself a Preston and Steve show themed tattoo. If you would like to get an idea of what their artwork is like, you can go to at floatingworldtattoos on Instagram. You can go to floatingworldtattoos.com as well or stop by the shop and say hello to those guys. Today was a fun program. We talked to some cool people. Ryan Airy from Screen Crush. Yeah. He and everybody else involved will be performing on Sunday at the City Winery. And Ryan and company, they know their stuff.

about almost anything you can think of. Cool, geeky, nerdy, pop culture things. That's what they do. Great. So it was nice to have them on. And check out their YouTube channel. That's what they are, Screen Crush. Or you can go to screencrush.com as well. And then we have the amazing Joe Satriani on the program. Yay!

New album coming out. It's called G3 Reunion Live. Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, and Joe Satriani. Separate tracks from their various concerts available starting on the 31st. And then Joe's going to join Sammy Hagar for the Best of All Worlds 2025 Tour Vegas Residency. And that's April 30th, May 17th at MGM. Can we hear it one more time? The clip? Uh,

Of me? Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. This is in broadcasting school. The only rock in St. Louis, KGN 89.1. I made up that radio station. Oh, it wasn't a real radio station. I was wondering about that. Yeah. On deck right now, we've got some hot new stuff from a guy named Joe Satriani.

This cat really knows how to play guitar. Watch out for him. He's getting some really fantastic commercial success from his all-instrumental album, which you don't see much of. And I see some very big things from him in the future. So what do you say we roll it? This is The Crush of Love on KGN. There you go. I even hear a little...

Midwest twang. Sure. I hear a touch of an accent that I never heard. I've heard that clip a million times, but I heard it a little... Just a little bit. No, the most subtle. Yeah. And I like regionalisms. I like people's regionalisms, but...

I liked his reaction to it. Oh, that's great. I loved it. He was impressed. Yeah. He didn't play the second time he introduced you. I have it over here, the second clip when you introduced him. Hey, everybody. He thanked me for that for years.

But, you know, the conversation I also enjoyed was the, well, I don't know what the guy does with it, that he's coming to the city winery. He knows all the stuff about science fiction things. Yes, yeah, screen crush. And part of the conversation that I actually found a little annoying was that you guys couldn't get a word in edgewise with Kathy constantly butting in.

With all of these, I mean, she just wanted to know this detail, Spider-Man, this detail, Superman, this detail of Batman. Well, that's her thing. She wanted to know the hubcaps on the Batman.

Batmobile. Yeah. And, I mean, those guys know it. And, I mean, Kathy, could you, you know... I had a small phase. It depends on Jace's age. We're past it now. Yes. He's 13. She's been freed. She's liberate. Now she's into video games and PC gaming. Now she looks at her wall and drinks liquor. Margarita's watching her beautiful wall. Looking at my wall. Although I...

Just like Michael Myers from Halloween, looking at the wall, looking through the wall. I did share, Steve, I loved that you asked him about Star Trek Next Generation. What's it? Strange New Worlds. Strange New Worlds, season three. I think both you and I agree, it's one of the horrible collapses. Well, I loved how you said it caved in on itself, and he didn't agree with you, and I thought, I want to just take that guy aside and go...

What is the matter with you? It's the mythology of these Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel characters, Superman characters. Even if you have a slightly different arc to the story, you've got to keep the mythology going. But you don't have the mother effing cast of the original Enterprise doing Broadway numbers on the bridge.

You don't have it! No! No! Dear God, what are you doing over there? What is happening? Dude! Is he trying to break the studio? Yeah. He's upset. Get enough, please. I feel your pain, Pierre. Thank you. Okay. Peace and love. Peace and love. Peace and love. Mother effer.

Boom, boom, a-ga-chaka. That should be your T-shirt. You smiling. Peace and love, Mother Effer. Oh, that's a great idea. Yes. Flipping double bird. Yeah, peace in one hand. Peace and love. Oh, that'd be perfect. Peace in one hand and love in the other.

I love it. Take a piece of that love. All right. Why don't we get some letter love from you? You cool with that? All right. Yeah. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right. The Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter. A as in ass. All right. A as in ass.

And we're going to give away a four-pack of tickets to the Tasties Soiree. It is this Sunday, and the ceremony is sold out. But the tickets are still available for the more important part, maybe the party, featuring food and drinks from over 30 of Philly's best restaurants and spirit companies, plus immersive room experiences from Patron Tequila and Illegal Mezcal.

and Tito's Vodka Puppy Lounge. So the Tasty Soiree starts at 7. It's this Sunday, February 2nd. And you can visit Marissa's podcast website, DeliciousCityPodcast.com to get your tickets. This is Marissa and her co-host, Baby. This is top-tier stuff, though. If you're a little bit of a foodie, you've got to be at this event. Yep, yep, yep. So we'll give away those tickets on Friday.

Yes, Kathy. No, I was just going to say I was served for the second time mezcal by accident. And I took a sip and I said to the server, I was like, this has mezcal in it. And he was like, oh, he was like, no, it doesn't. And I was like, yes, it does.

It does. And so he took it back, and I saw the bartender put a straw in it and tasted it to see if I was right. And then I saw his face, and he's like, she's right. It's got that smoky flavor. It's different. I like it. What is up today, Pierre? When does the bottle bird go away? The bottle bird. When does he launch it? Bird bot. Yeah. Well, we're hoping on Friday. We have it on good authority that he should be created and fine-tuned biologically.

Thursday night and then Friday morning we're sending BirdBot 2.0 out on the streets from Broad Street to Bourbon Street. Now, is that that's the original one? Yes. I didn't think it was that intact.

Yeah, it is. I didn't think you saved it either. It was made very durable. Greg Monahan, our head engineer. We're currently working on 2.0. And as we speak, literally working on it as we speak. But this one, it was shipped back to us separated and bubble wrapped and then reconfigured back here. But that's the bird bot.

Every signature, every sticker, everything, the original one. Will it be this? Is he making an entirely new one? Same size, but new one. New tech. I think it's like Iron Man Mark II. You know what I mean? Mark I was good. Well, this is like Enterprise A. This is Mark Summers. Yeah, but this is going to be, the new one is going to have some nuclear components, but yeah, it'll be amazing. Excellent.

On the program today, I will have Cinderella. Tom Kiefer's birthday was over the weekend. I've been wanting to do a block for a while, so this is perfect. Jay Giles Band, a block of Weezer, and another pair of tickets for the Hooters' 45th anniversary tour, which we announced yesterday, coming to the Met on Saturday, May 17th, a week after the MMRBQ goes on sale this Friday. Well, that is faboo. Thank you, sir. You too. I want to thank our sponsors, Preston and Steve. You too.

Brought to you by Dunkin' Donuts and the President's Team Show. Runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets. Fresh foods, local flavors. And by Bet Parks Online Casino and Sportsbook. You bet, Bet Parks. Tomorrow on the program, we're doing some Wednesday things like checking in on Fox Good Day. We also have a secret text word prize we'll have. And...

we will have a bit that we did last year in conjunction with Valentine's Day approaching. It is called Steven and a Singer. So Steven Singer is going to be here.

But we will have an actual singer. Our good friend Kyle Mack will be in, and he is going to do a special vocal performance that might get you some prizes in conjunction with it all. It was fun the first time we did it, so I figured might as well do it again. Steven and a singer. So that's tomorrow morning. That's it. We're done. Rage on. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Bing!

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