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Housekeeping, you want towels? No towels. Need sleepy. Sleeping, you want mint foam pillow? Please go away, let me sleep for the love... You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR with Preston Elliott. You will listen to every damn word I have to say! And Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets lost. Casey Boy. Lay off me, I'm starving. Kathy Romano. I'm with you!

Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMN. Morning, dear friend, and wake on up, because we got a lot going on. Today is a, what is today, Tuesday? Yes! In all its Tuesday glory.

The weather for today, we continue with the temps like we had yesterday. Maybe just a tad bit cooler and a little bit breezier. High of about 47. We'll see mostly sunny skies, though. Tomorrow, cold, clouding, high of 35, and that's it. Then we threw this up and down thing. 41 for the high on Thursday, possibly some rain. 46 on Friday, and then

Cold again on Saturday. We may even get a little bit of snow. The high only about 32 degrees. Let's take a look at traffic. Kath, what's up this morning, please? 95 southbound. We have volume building between Cotman and Bridge. Some light volume building on the Schuylkill. We do still have the closure in northeast Philadelphia, Cotman Avenue, both directions between the boulevard and Busselton Avenue.

In New Jersey, 295, 42, and 55, they're still clear. Bridges look good in mass transit on time this morning. This traffic report brought to you by Staples Stores. Your local Staples Stores have hot deals and super low prices throughout the store. On everything for your business, save even more with the easy rewards program at Staples. And that's your traffic on 93.3 WMMR.

And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano. Today is Tuesday. It's February 4th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, a woman has gone missing after the plane crash in northeast Philadelphia. Her sister told 6 ABC News yesterday.

The plane crash created a massive explosion and left a large crater on Cotman Avenue. Susan Lee Steps says she knows that her 47-year-old sister, Sarah, was visiting her boyfriend in northeast Philadelphia on the night of the medical jet crash. So when Suzanne heard news about the incident, she called her sister right away. When I called her phone, the sister says it went straight to voicemail. She always answers my calls.

so then she called the boyfriend she said sarah's boyfriend was worried because sarah had recently left the house to go get a bite to eat in the area where the plane went down no one has heard or seen from sarah's steps since that night on monday during a news conference with federal state and local authorities officials confirmed the number of people injured stands at 24 four of whom are still in the hospital the number of fatalities remains at seven six people on the plane and one person on the ground but mayor sherelle parker emphasized

emphasizes those numbers are subject to change as the investigation continues. Parker said, as much as we want to say these are the absolute numbers of lives that have been lost, we are going to allow our experts, our partners at the local, state, and federal levels to continue to do their work. In the meantime, Suzanne said despite the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is still hopeful that Sarah will come home.

The number of people that's known to be injured in the Northeast Philadelphia plane crash is at 24. Mayor Cheryl Parker announced yesterday. Parker said officials are being very careful when talking about the number of injuries and fatalities. She noted that the city is working with the forensics department and other partners as the investigation continues. Officials including Mayor Parker and Governor Josh Shapiro toured the crash scene on Monday. The scene is still very active.

Parker also announced the location for the town hall meeting for residents impacted by the crash. It will be held on Wednesday, February 5th at 7 p.m. at the Solomon Salas Cohen Elementary School located on Horrocks Street. Parker said there will be information regarding medical and behavioral health support. If you need immediate support, you can contact the Lifeline at 988 or visit dbhids.org.

Meanwhile, the investigation continues into what caused Friday evening's crash. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said a number of factors will be looked into. The FAA and the NTSB will look at whether. Was there a medical concern? Was there technical or mechanical issues on the airplane, he said. Duffy noted that a preliminary report from the NTSB is expected in 30 days. A Temple University student.

has been charged in connection with the alleged impersonation of ICE officers on the North Philadelphia campus. University police responded to Temple's Johnson and Hardwick Residence Hall in the 2000 block of North Street around 9.30 on Saturday evening after a security guard said two male suspects identified themselves as police and ICE agents.

According to the university, two people acted as ICE impersonators while a third individual recorded them. They were denied access to the residence. It's unclear what their plans were had they gotten inside. Philadelphia police say 22-year-old Aiden Steigelman allegedly entered the premises and spoke with the two suspects before all three left together. The trio was able to leave the area in a Jaguar SUV before police arrived at the scene. Then 15 minutes later, Temple Police responded to insomnia cookies in the 1300 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue.

after another report of three suspects, three suspicious males claiming to be police and ICE agents. They reportedly also do killer Christopher Walken impressions. I know. You know this was like, they're trying to do some, I mean, I don't know, but I'm assuming maybe some sort of stunt because they had somebody filming them. Yeah, yeah. It's gone terribly wrong. Terribly wrong.

The effect of people getting video for their social, for their video accounts is just wonderful. Oh, by the way, they're impersonating an officer. Yeah. That's not, that ain't a little thing. You can't do that. That's not playing around, making a little video for your Insta. Oh, but they've done, you know, and you've reported on it. They've done crazy stuff like that. Of course. Impersonating TSA agents. Yep. And all that sort of stuff. And they think, well...

There's a law that has to pertain to YouTube that allows me to do this. Yeah, totally. No, there isn't. It's parody. It's fine. The YouTube law. Yeah. Aren't I covered under the YouTube law? We're not saying this is it, but it kind of looks like it. It kind of looks like it, I know. Two of those suspects left the area in a light-colored SUV. Steigelman was arrested. The YouTube law. I would like to submit a writ of YouTube-ist corpus. Your Honor, my client has 10,000 followers. Oh.

He can impersonate an ICE agent. Yes, he can take it up to the federal level. Oh, my God. All right, so this kid was arrested at 10 o'clock on Saturday evening in the 1700 block of North 12th Street. Police towed away the Jaguar SUV. Temple says the cycleman is on interim suspension. On Monday, police released a picture of a male being called a person of interest in the case.

Officials later said the individual was identified, though he and a third suspect are still being sought. Police said the men were wearing black shirts with police on the front and ice on the back. Oh, my God. So T-shirts made up? Yeah. The investigation is active and ongoing. In sports this morning.

All sacks for the Jokers. All sacks for the Jokers. What the f*** is that? The Flyers play the Utah Hockey Club tonight in Salt Lake City. The Flyers have lost five of their last six games and have been shut out in three games in a row. Tonight's puck will drop at 9 o'clock. The Sixers, who have lost two games in a row after winning four straight, are at home tonight. We'll host the Dallas Mavericks. Tip-off is at 7 o'clock.

Super Bowl 59 kicked off Monday with opening night at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. All players and coaches were made available throughout the evening with select going to risers for media availability. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurt said the loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl two years ago lit a fire.

fire in him and that he is focused on finishing the job this time around. Travis Kelsey was asked if girlfriend Taylor Swift and her dad, who is a longtime Eagles fan, will be rooting for the Eagles. Kelsey responded by saying Taylor is all for the Chiefs this time around and that he thinks her father will also be wearing red. And that's what I have for you this morning. All right. Thank you very much, Kathy.

Why? You're from why I'm missing. Why are you wearing red? His son's in the Super Bowl. That's what Kelsey said. I mean, that's what Kelsey said. We don't know. We'll see. No, no, no. His son. I thought you were saying Taylor Swift's father. Taylor Swift's father. I'm sorry. Okay. Yeah, they're not married yet. There's, you know. Well, yeah, but Travis is probably helping out with the bills case. Yeah, yeah. No, okay. Good point. It's a bigger picture. Yeah, yeah.

All right. We hope you're ready for a full day today because we've got a lot going on. We're looking forward to this. We are going to begin this morning with a very special Tattoos Day taking place. And this is not...

We're not texting in to win tattoos today. We have already solicited for people to come live, and it is Bleed for the Birds Tuesday today, as we have our friends from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing stopping in to actually create the artwork on human canvas in our studio.

Acme Lounge this morning. So we have nine separate winners that are coming by here this morning to receive their Eagles tattoos live on the air. I love this because originally we had hoped to do something akin to a human sacrifice and this is the closest we can get. There's blood involved. Yeah. So, you know, that's as far as we can take it as the long haul.

will allow, you know. Like being a fake ICE agent. But we've got, in the 7 o'clock hour, we have Heather and Paula and Heather stopping by this morning. A couple of Heathers. Heather, Paula, and Heather. That's a Paula sandwich. The other 8 o'clock hour, Steve and Jen and Kyle

And then the 9 o'clock hour, Sean and Bethany and Randall, they are all getting their Eagles tattoos. So thank you to Floating World Tattoo and Piercing on South Street, 1729 South Street. To be specific, if you want to see their artwork, you can go to at Floating World Tattoos or go to floatingworldtattoos.com. Search on social media at Floating World Tattoos. And prayers up to Don Mother F and Juan from Floating World Tattoos. He was supposed to be here with us today, but his dog was sick.

Oh, bummer. And honestly, like $8,000 later, you know. Oh, my God. Dog's out of the vet. Dog's doing better. Glad to hear that. Sorry about the dog. But we love Don Juan. So, you know, he was supposed to be with us this morning, but game time decision last night. So that's going to start early. And then in the 7 o'clock hour, we are continuing our pep rally concert series as we have friends come by and perform the Eagles fight song. This morning, we have in our studio the entire band snacked.

Yes. We'll be here. So that's the whole crew. It's going to get loud. I love it. So they're going to pop in and not only play the Eagles fight song, they're going to bring some other tunes to play for a little musical event that we'll have early this morning on the program. Then in the nine o'clock hour, we will have in our studio, Noah,

the bald eagle. Yes. Noah is one of the eagles that flies at the link. And we are going to have Al Zone, the Elmwood Park Zoo executive director and CEO. Oh, I love that. And also Laura Soder, the assistant director of education and the eagle team lead.

All here in our studio this morning. I love those things. Should be pretty cool. Yeah, they're amazing animals. And then, if that wasn't enough, around 10 a.m., continuing our pep rally concert series, we'll get a live performance of the Eagles Fight song from...

Lizzie Hale of HaleStore. That's pretty amazing. We're doing absolutely everything we can to give us good luck, and I think Lizzie Hale is a wonderful addition. Yep, so she will be joining us. Oh, and we have food. Nifty 50s is coming by today, so you're going to eat on top of that. We'll do some giveaways in conjunction with their appearance here. And we have to track BirdBot. BirdBot's been all over. He had a busy day yesterday, so we will find out what the latest is on BirdBot. And also, attempting to...

Have BirdBot start to make his trek to New Orleans by tomorrow. So if you are going to be driving to New Orleans on Wednesday, that's when we'd like to have it happen, if possible, reach out to us. And maybe we can massage those who have...

Bird Bot and urge them to get him to you at a certain time. It is ultimately in the people's hands, but we can kind of guide if possible. So if you know someone who is driving to the Super Bowl starting on Wednesday, we want to know about that. Reach out to us, please. The goal is to allow Bird Bot some time to tour New Orleans to take in some of the sights and sounds. And also while we are still on the air here on Friday. I mean, if Bird Bot gets down there on Friday...

Yeah, he'll have the weekend to tour around, but we would like to cover some of that on there as well. So that's why we're aiming for heading down on Wednesday, getting there by Thursday, checking in with us, having Thursday and Friday to do the town, do all those New Orleans things, all those big easy things, and soak it up before the game on Sunday. So we got a lot to get to. On top of that, the regulars are taking place. We got some stuff to give away. We'll come back with a stupid question in the entertainment report. So hang out. We'll be back in just a moment.

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Thanks, Kath, for doing the pep rally concert series today. We're going to have live music in our studio in the 7 o'clock hour. Less than an hour from now, Snack Time will be here performing. Later on this morning, Lizzy Hale is going to be singing the Eagles Fight song. We are also going to have Noah the Bald Eagle joining us, who you may have seen at the link before. And we're also going to be administering...

Tattoos today, live. It's Tattoo Day taking place. It's bleed for the birds. And we have Floating World Tattoo and Piercing and our tattoo recipients, their canvas arriving today. I don't know what more we can do. And then BirdBot is out and about. BirdBot on top of all that.

We're going to do an update on BirdBot at some point this morning and urge those who are driving to New Orleans to maybe grab BirdBot by tomorrow and get them on the road and get this party in full mode.

So we have a lot to get to. I'm going to ask a stupid question. We're going to give away a four-pack of tickets for the Philadelphia Home and Garden Show, which is coming up on the 21st through the 23rd at the Expo Center in Oaks. And we are doing Black History Month questions. And I thought this one was interesting. Obviously, our friend Craig Legans gave me this list of great questions. And there are a few questions.

Comic book and superhero related questions. Of course. Which you would expect, of course. So here we go. This is one. Finish the Black Panther line from Infinity War. Okay, you have to finish the line. I'm going to read you most of this. Here we go. And I'll do my best to chalk up. Evacuate the city. Engage all defenses. And give this man a...

You finish it. 215-263-WMMR. All right. Finish the Black Panther line from Infinity War. Evacuate the city, engage all defenses, and get this man a what? Call now if you know the answer. We'll mention some birthdays waiting for that call to come through. Today is the fourth day of February, and we will begin with actress Gabrielle Anwar. And if you remember the scene from Scent of a Woman where he dances the tango. Yes. Pacino does. Yes.

And that is with her. And took her back to Oregon. Beautiful young lady in the restaurant. Back home to Oregon. That he comes over and takes her back home to Oregon. Right. She's also in the show Burn Notice and has been on that for years. There's like over 100 episodes. Right. She's done a lot of work. It's just nothing that...

Nothing explosive. Yeah. Nothing really worth a life. Well, I don't know about that. But she's 50. Really, pretty much a waste of time as far as careers go. No, but Scent of a Woman would be her most, I think would be her most famous, right? Well, Burn Notice has had like, I don't know, like 110.

110 seasons? 20 episodes or something like that. So that's pretty successful. Yeah, I guess so. TV run, so. It ain't no silk stocking. Happy 55th to her. And then you have actor Patrick Bergen. If you've seen the movie Sleeping with the Enemy, he's the abusive husband. Oh.

against Julia Roberts. He's a good scumbag. Man, you just hate that guy in that movie. So good job on his part. Good scumbag. He is 74 years old today. Rob Corddry turns a year older. He's great. Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine, a bunch of stuff. I just watched them back to back because they were being shown back to back. And the arc of the Hot Tub journey is actually pretty cool. It is actually sort of a

a pretty solid multiverse story. Do you know I've never seen it? Really? Is it worth it? So the first one is really a tribute to 80s, early 90s, crazy comedies, you know, in that realm. And it's a loving tribute. And you get to see John Cusack seemingly enjoying life, which you don't seem to get a lot these days. So yeah, check it out. Are you going to find it a great movie? No. But it's fun. Rob Corddry is 54 today. Ah, the great Alice Cooper turns a year older.

He is 77 years old today and still, I mean, bringing it. Absolutely. Very, very popular. He sells out. Yep. And you remember Preston. He was like that guy.

What is it with that guy? Yeah, oh my God. It's demonic. When I was a kid and Alice Cooper would pop up on, say, the Midnight Special or something like that, I was scared of him. I was afraid of him. That was the whole idea. He had the snakes. He would behead mannequins on stage. He had the makeup on his face and everything. Did you see the documentary when they were putting together, he and his manager were putting together that persona? Yeah.

For us to really, and this was their mindset, to really make an impact, parents had to dislike him. Yeah. And that's what happened. And it's so tame. It is. When you look back at it. It's ridiculous. It is so tame. But at the time, he was just terrifying. So happy 77th birthday to Alice Cooper. Actress and singer Natalie Imbruglia. It gives me pleasure.

Australia. And yeah, she was a soap opera star in Australia and then had a huge breakout hit with this song. And she turns 50 years old today, so it's a big birthday for her. She used to be married to the...

Daniel Johns from Silverchair. That is correct. Lead singer from the band. So happy 50th to Natalie Imbruglia. Let me see. The last birthday I have. A couple more. It is Oscar de la Hoya's birthday. The golden boy. Interesting facts about him. He won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics shortly after he graduated from high school. He defeated 17 world champions and has won 10 world titles in six different weight classes.

And here's the interesting part about him. He has generated more money than any other boxer in the history of the sport. Wow. Estimated roughly over $700 million pay-per-view income. The most lucrative of all time. That's what it says. I thought Floyd Mayweather was the money leader. That's what I would have thought.

apparently. Yeah. Well, he had golden boy. Is that what it was? It's true. Yeah. Entertainment. Well, and he marketed himself. Well, yep. And then the last birthday, it's Lawrence Taylor's birthday, LT and, uh, NFL hall of famer. Hey, you can't deny. I know he's one of the all time greats. Well, you know, I hate him especially because there was a moment in his career where, uh,

It looked like he was going to leave the Giants. Right. And there was the hope that he was going to come to the Eagles. And it was all a ruse. And I remember the press conference. And I'll hate him forever for that. Okay. He remains loyal to cocaine. No, no kidding. But his legend... Listen, I love to see him pop up in cameos. He's in one or two Sandler movies, is he not? Yeah, he's in Waterboy. Yeah, but he's one of those guys that is so hated because...

He was so good. You know what I mean? Yeah. There are worse things to be hated for. All I know is when I played Tecmo Super Bowl, I would pick the Giants most of the time simply because I had LT. And he could just sack every single play.

There you go. A little throwback for those of you who played Tecmo Super Bowl. All right. He is 66 today. Let's see if we can get an answer to the stupid question this morning. Finish this line from Black Panther. Evacuate the city, engage all defenses, and get this man a what? We will go to Frank for the answer. Yo, Frank, morning, bud. Hey, Chuck Nuts. Hey. All right. What's up, Chuck Nuts? All right. Evacuate the city, engage all defenses, and get this man a? A shield. Shield, yes. That's correct. Woo!

Hang on, Frank. We got you a four-pack of tickets for the Philadelphia Home and Garden Show, February 21st through the 23rd, Expo Center in Oaks, and tickets at phillyhomeandgarden.com for discount tickets. You can use promo code Casey, by the way. So we'll start with celebrity news about Megan Fox keeping a low profile as she prepares to welcome her first child with her ex-fiance, Machine Gun Kelly. That's got to be comfortable.

A source recently told people that Fox is done with MGK now and they don't, quote, have much contact. But the singer fought back the rumors with his own post on Instagram writing, how can sources say when the sources haven't said anything?

And Fox's ex-husband, Brian Austin Green, seemingly called out MGK in a deleted Instagram story, writing, bro, bro, be honest for once in your life. And Green also shared back in December or shaded him back in December, telling TMZ that, quote, the rapper needed to grow up. He said, like Megan's pregnant.

He's right. I'm just quoting. He's right. Fox and Kelly reportedly split over Thanksgiving after she found material on his phone that was upset.

It was upsetting. He was cheating on her. And they have three sons, Noah, Bodie, and Journey. Bro. We'll see what's next, bro. Justin Baldani. Yep, that's a broken record for a little while here. Has made good on his promise to put out a website that would contain at least, according to him, evidence that supports his allegations against Blake Lively. The website, which is called thelawsuitinfo.com,

Includes a 224-page amended complaint PDF and a 168-page PDF timeline of relevant events. So, Preston, last night I subjected myself to a lawyer's breakdown of this whole thing from beginning to current. I'm sorry for you. I know. But I'm saying it remained a mystery. It was like, you know, the Rosetta Stone. I'm trying to figure out what exactly it's all about.

The lawyer says that ultimately Baldoni has a strong case against Blake Lively. That legally he has the stronger footing and the preponderance of evidence. There's already like a thing on Netflix about this? Is that what you were referring to by any chance? No, this is a YouTube guy who is his whole thing is he is...

All right. He's a lawyer who addresses all, you know, stuff in the news, pop culture, all that stuff. And then he'll take legal movies. Right. And then address whether they're accurate or not. Much like there's a two-part docuseries on the Taylor Swift Scooter Braun thing, there is now, and I think it was on Netflix. I was like, oh. On this? Yeah. Wow. I'm not anywhere near this. That was quick. Yep.

The amended complaint includes details like Baldani's team claiming the metadata from the New York Times article posted in December about his alleged harassment and smear campaign shows the newspaper colluded with Lively and Ryan Reynolds for months. The timeline, meanwhile, contains things like emails, text messages, and more going as far back as January 2019 when Baldani emailed novelist Colleen Hoover about It Ends With Us into a film.

And Lively and Baldani, of course, are engaged in this escalating legal battle that ain't going anywhere anytime soon. So you both liked the movie, right? Yeah, I thought me and Kathy saw it. So the word is that the movie is a, believe it or not, is, I don't know if you read the book, Kathy, is a little bit lighter than the subject matter. The book is a little darker. A little darker, yeah. Right, so...

I think I heard, I didn't read the book, but I did hear the same thing. But that's typically what happens. Not that it's lighter, but it's sometimes, the movies are a little bit different. And it was Baldani, apparently, who secured the rights to the book like six, seven years ago. He's been working this all that time. Well, and they do, like if you, when you watch the movie, like we said, you see a different perspective and things. But the first half, like their connection, their chemistry on screen is great. There you go. Yeah.

One of the dominoes expected to fall over the legal battle is a film that Baldani has been developing for some time. Us Weekly reports that live-action Pac-Man film is one of the three jobs Baldani and his company, Wayfarer Studios, may no longer produce due to their ongoing legal issues. The Pac-Man film has been in the works since 2022. No word on what the other two projects are. One thing that was pointed out in this lawyer's video is that when Nice Pool...

who's supposed to be Justin Baldoni, they're suggesting, gets killed. He gets killed by Lady Deadpool. Blake Lively's voice. Apparently she wasn't in the outfit. And it's in front of a florist's shop. And that's the big thing. Blake Lively's clothing line and everything is all floral based. Oh, okay. And in the movie, she runs a florist shop. Right, yeah.

Who knows? Who knows? This random lawyer on YouTube says it looks pretty good for her. You know, and I saw that guy. And he like, he dives into it. Like he reads everything about it. He does different cases. Don't worry. In five minutes, another lawyer will say that it's her case. Completely her case. Yep.

All right. So congrats. I got lots of baby news. All right. So I'm going to zip through these. Congratulations to Milo Ventimiglia and his wife, Jara Mariano. They welcomed their first child. It's been up and down in the last couple months or so. They lost their home in the Palisades and the wildfires, as well as a new house that they had under construction.

Two weeks later, they were welcoming their new baby. So at least they have that. That's a plus. Then Lily Collins and her husband, Charlie McDowell, are proud parents. They welcomed a daughter via surrogate. They jointly posted the good news on Instagram on Friday saying, welcome to the center of our world,

Tove Jane McDowell. T-O-V-E. I don't know how you would pronounce that. Hebrew name, isn't it? Yes, I believe it is. Words will never express our endless gratitude, they said. And then, congratulations to Josh Peck and his wife, Paige O'Brien. I like Josh Peck. They are expecting their third child together.

He posted the happy news on his Instagram yesterday, captioning a pic of the couple with, I finally get a minivan number three. So they are already parents to six-year-old Max and two-year-old Shy. This is a weird little story here. An actor I'm not familiar with, Casey Diedrich.

best known for playing Chad DiMera on Days of Our Lives from 2019 to 2013, was hauled in by police for an alleged domestic violence incident. Oh, he was the one, he was the guy, the hot guy that played the boyfriend in what was the show about the blind girl and they became drug dealers.

The Madman Girl and it became Drug Deal. In the dark? In the dark, yes. Oh my gosh, yes, he played a very sexy character on that show. He's a good looking guy. That's a shame. Well, so according to People Magazine, he was taken into custody Sunday following an alleged assault of his girlfriend in their Nashville home. He was charged with domestic assault and interference with an emergency call and was released from the sheriff's office early yesterday after he posted a $2,500 bond. So we'll see if more comes of that.

There have been a crapload of domestic violence stories you've had recently. Yeah. All right, so how about this? The Grammys the other night, Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Sensori, were on the red carpet. And the question is, what was he saying to her to get her to drop her fur coat? Remember, Kathy, you said you saw him like... You can take it off now. No sad bro. So...

According to professional lip reader, Nicola Hickling. I love these people, by the way. So she said that Kanye told her to quote, and this is what she read on his lips, start making a scene. And he followed that with make a scene,

I'll say it'll make so much sense. And then after she shook her head to both statements, West then allegedly said, drop it behind you and then turn. I got you. And then she believes that he said or that that Sensori said, all right, let's go. After the viral moment, they two got in a car and then they took off.

So that's supposedly, according to this lip reader, what he said to her. So they had it worked out. They knew what they were going to do. I like seeing some of these lip readers do their thing. There was somebody doing, it was Emma Stone at an award show. And once you hear what they say, the person is saying, it seems so easy. But I can't do it. Oh, no way. Yeah. When I see people without audio and they're listening to me, I'm like...

How do you do that? Some people are really good at it. There's a great sports YouTube account called Jom Boy Media, J-O-M-B-O-Y. And he breaks down, especially if a batter gets brushed back or whatever. And I think he's ostensibly a Phillies fan. I think he's really a Yankees fan, but he appreciates the Phils. And he breaks down lip readings, especially when Bryce Harper gets pissed. Yeah. Castellanos gets fired up. It's really good. So, Steve, he'll slow it down. Right. Yeah.

F you. No, no. F you. But once you see him saying it, you're like, oh, that's exactly what he's saying. Yeah, it's pretty clear. So Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are having some issues in the UK. You may remember the couple moved to the upscale area of Cotswold a few months back.

Purchasing a beautiful home for $18 million with plans to add on to it. Lady DeGeneres. And it's those very plans that are causing a problem. The expansion of their property has the locals believing that the move increases flood risk.

and possibly endangers nearby Roman ruins. So they want to put in a free-range guerrilla facility. Though the neighbors have raised some concerns, a spokesperson for the West Oxfordshire District Council says that the ruins are a good 200 yards away from being at risk.

In addition, they said the word was completed to a high standard. But either way, not a good way to introduce yourself into the neighborhood. Coming in here with your Hollywood attitude, he won't stand for it. So apparently they're making a few waves.

It seems that Tom Brady is moving on from Gisele Bundchen in at least one way. The NFL legend is reportedly looking to sell his home in the exclusive Indian Creek area of Miami. Wrong place. No, we're not in England anymore.

Sources say he doesn't want to leave the Miami area. He's just looking to unload the mansion that he and Bunchen had built together in 2020. Okay. Kathy, do you think Tom Brady's a good-looking guy? Oh, no. I can't stand his face. He's got a resting, holding in a fart face.

He just does. Every time I... He looks like... Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. I know exactly what you're saying. Listen, when they roasted him, his face was so still. Yeah. The Botox has calmed down. He's not a bad looking... No, he's obviously... I don't know. And he's... Listen, he's nine levels ahead of me on the evolutionary scale, but that... His face just has...

His resting face looks pained, fart suppressing. It's a resting, annoying face. A mild discomfort, right? Yes. On his face all the time. And I don't know if we're causing that discomfort in general. If humanity in general is causing that discomfort.

So it's going to cost you a pretty penny if you want to buy this. The land purchased alone cost the couple $17 million. And then they built a mansion on top of that land. And according to Zillow, the five-bedroom, five-bathroom, 5,700-square-foot house...

It was assessed at $28.6 million. 5,700 square feet is not that big. No, it's not. I mean, as far as mansions go. Your house is 11,000 square feet. $28.6 million. Man, oh, man. So, Casey, how do you think he's doing? He's not bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, has there been a market improvement with his sports?

I think he's settling in nicely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he's settling in nicely. He's a little robotic. Yes, because he is a robot. In his delivery. But somebody like Tony Romo, who overanalyzes and overtalks, he's not that. But he's the greatest quarterback of all time. You want his insight. Nick, do you feel the same? Yeah, I've really come around on Tom Brady as an analyst anyway. And there used to be like...

I can't stand Tom Brady games. But he's doing the Super Bowl, right? Yes, he is. I'm fine with it. And Kevin Burkhardt is a play-by-play case? Yeah. And Gary Busey. I don't think Gary Busey is going to be there. But Burkhardt and Tom Brady, actually, he might be there. I don't know. I shouldn't speak out of turn about Gary Busey because I don't keep a track of his whereabouts. You never know. There he is. Offsides, I heard it. He's commenting on that. Brady and...

Work hard. All right. Speaking of the Super Bowl, Olivia Culpo is working overtime on Super Bowl Sunday while hosting the live pre-show to be red carpet at the Super Bowl. So they do.

I don't want this. Has there been a red carpet? We don't need this. This is the worst thing since cancer. As the Super Bowl, as if they ever... I mean, listen, there are parts of this that are like that. It's not, you know, it's not all just the game. There's a whole party. I know that. Have you ever heard of a red carpet ceremony for the Super Bowl? A red carpet is as you are entering into the event...

That's what the red carpet thing is. So who's being red carpeted here? The players? There's a dick ton of celebrities. I know that. Is it necessary? We don't need to do this. The red carpet events are usually for the people that are directly involved in the event itself. The potential winners. The recipients. Right. Are the ones. So are we going to have the players? Not the players. Stupid. Not the players. Stupid!

Yes. They just need content. It has happened before. Okay. Oh, it has. All right. Well, then I stand corrected. I'll be watching the puppy bowl. People will watch, man. That's why they keep doing it. Listen, I know. Yeah. And there's also, I mean, listen, there are, you know, there's a huge faction of people who don't care about what's going to happen on the field that only care that Bradley Cooper is going to be there. Who you're wearing. Yeah.

Yeah, and you get, I mean, like evening gowns to the red carpet event? No, it's some fashionable football attire is what I'll call it. Man, I remember when Taylor Swift started dating Travis Kelsey last year, they'd watch her walk through the backstage area of the Chiefs and every single time the comments would be about what she was wearing. And so that's why these people tune into this quickly.

This crap. And Olivia Colpo, I guess, Casey, she's married to Christian McCaffrey. Okay. She's a model, is she not? Probably. But she's an actress. She has a link to the NFL. Her husband's a running back. She'll be seen after the game is over in her guest role on Rescue High Surf.

Oh, my God, that show? Which is airing after the Super Bowl on Fox. And the show follows the lives of lifeguards who protect and patrol the North Shore waters of Oahu in Hawaii. Think of Baywatch, but less well-written. This is part of Fox's intense Super Bowl coverage.

which includes live 4K streaming of the game on Tubi for the first time. Her pre-show will cover celebrity fashion and culture behind America's biggest sports event. Go ahead. Sorry, it looks like it's parties hosted by Sports Illustrated, fanatics, companies like that, and they're having red carpets. So one of the big things is what show is placed immediately after the Super Bowl. It's a show they want to goose immediately.

Sure. And unless I'm incorrect, and Nick, perhaps you can look this up, it's Rob Lowe's game show, The Floor.

Which is, have you guys seen this show? That's what's coming on immediately after? That's what it looks like. I'm like, wow, okay. You would be amazed at the number of sporting events where there is a red carpet show. The Blackhawks, the Chicago Blackhawks season opener last year, that had a red carpet show. The prelude to the 2024 Olympic Games, NFL on the red carpet. All-star red carpet game for Major League Baseball. It's one after another. University of Nebraska for their football team, they had one. Wow.

We need more red carpets. The Super Bowl ring ceremony, which that would kind of make sense. Because now they're not playing. They're just in, you know. They have all that carpet that they...

Just sitting there. I thought the Derby's got one. Case, I always forget. What do you call it? Fancy jeans? Fashion jeans. They're in their fashion jeans. Do you know what? Yeah. Hey, cardboard classic red carpet beforehand. Absolutely. Aren't we all dressed in our best snow outfits? Yes, we're going to be dressed in our best snow outfits. But actually, as the sleds come in, it kind of is like a red carpet because the judges are looking prior to them getting up to the top. Who are you wearing? Yeah.

All right, we'll see. Nick, I'm bringing this up for you because you're the one who's watching Severance on the show here. So obviously it's this trippy workplace sci-fi drama. And in the series, there is a self-help book called The UUR. Yeah, yeah, Rickon wrote it, yeah. So that plays a central role. And now fans of the series can actually download their own copy of the manual. That's hilarious. Eight chapters of the book have been released digitally via Apple Books.

And so you can get that, Nick. And I guess they've actually written out the text for it. The actor that plays him is a guy named Michael Chernus. And he's really funny. You probably have seen him in a few different things over the years. But yeah, he is an outie. He's on the outside. And so he's not severed at any point. I don't want too much revealed in case I do decide to visit this. But are we basically dealing with all of... I don't know if you've seen The Substance, but...

Two personalities within one body? Or is it... What is the conceit? Adam Scott goes to work every day. And when he comes home from work, he has no connection to his work self. There's his innie and his outtie. So he goes in this elevator when he gets to work and his brain is completely disconnected when he goes down the elevator to his work self. And then he leaves work, he goes home, and his home self is completely disconnected. There's no conscious reality at all. But he's essentially...

two people with two sets of experiences. He's the same person, but when he is at work, he doesn't know who he is outside of work. His memory of those two lives are completely separate. One doesn't engage with the other. And I would say that season two thus far is better than season one. Where it left off in season one, I really liked where they're taking season two. Is this almost a commentary on our work slash? That's exactly what it is. It's work-life balance and you shouldn't invest all of your time and energy at work.

And do they make the case that there's not enough red carpet events? That's like episode four, I think. All right. We're ready for clips here, folks. Common Side Effects is an animated series where two former lab mates unravel a conspiracy involving Big Pharma and the government. And in this clip, show creator Steve Healy explains the pressing issues...

that the show touches on. We were talking a lot about like wellness and health and how it is, you know, we spend so much money on this stuff and yet people are sick all the time and a lot of people are chronically addicted to weird drugs, legal and illegal and what is that about and who's profiting from it? Common side effects is now streaming on Max. Here's our next clip.

In the thriller Flight Risk, not everyone aboard is who they appear to be. And Mark Wahlberg hasn't played a true antagonist since 1996's Fear. And in this clip, he talks about being his...

about being his newest bad guy. Here we go. They don't come around that often, but it's such a fun role and it's so unexpected because people think, okay, if these three people are on the plane, Mark Wahlberg's there, he's the vibe, he's going to save the day, he's going to land the plane. To have all that fun happen as soon as that hat comes off in the big reveal with such a wild character is a lot of fun.

Flight risk is in theaters today. Has anyone seen this movie, by the way? No. In all the clips I've seen of the movie, and he actually shaved his head. Yeah. They didn't do a good job hiding his obviously...

healthy hairline. So it looks as if he's simply a dude who decided to shave his head that way. Okay. Not a convincing male pattern baldness up there? In the actual movie, I've just seen clips, but you can see the full line. Okay.

All right, well, that's what I got in the entertainment report for you this morning. We have a busy day today. If you're just tuning in, we're excited about this. What are we laughing at? Sorry, they saw the picture of the hairline. Oh, okay. See what I'm saying? His healthy hairline. It's true. All right, so we have a lot going on today. We are going to have a series of people coming by to bleed for the birds this morning, and this is our special Tattoos Day today. So we have nine listeners that are going to be arriving, and some of them are already here. I can see them. Hey, guys, how you doing? Excellent.

They're in the Acme Lounge, and we are going to have tattoo artists from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing ink them up with Eagles Green today to get ready for the game this weekend. How about that? I feel very confident about every one of these steps we're taking to ensure a Super Bowl victory. And just to make these fans the biggest fans in the world as well. Absolutely. So thank you to Floating World Tattoo and Piercing for being a part of that. We're going to meet our...

and everybody in a little while. We have the band Snack Time stopping by here in the next few minutes. They're going to be performing part of our pep rally concert series. So they're going to play their version of the Eagles fight song. And the only way Snack Time can do it. Yeah. Might get another tune from those guys as well. We also have Noah, the bald Eagle from Elmwood Park Zoo. Uh, we actually have the, uh,

the CEO of the zoo stopping by, uh, Al Zome will be here and the assistant director and the Eagle team lead, Laura Soder will be bringing this magnificent animal into our studio. Uh, that'll bring more great vibes. And then if we couldn't get more, uh,

Our pep rally concert series continues. None other than Lizzy Hale is going to be checking in with us this morning, and she's going to sing the Eagles fight song as well. So we know how cool she is. We love her dearly. The fact that she's doing this is just that much more amazing. And Nifty 50s is stopping by too, so we'll see if we can get some giveaways for you guys on top of all that. So we'll take a break. We'll come back in a second. All of it unraveling live on your radio. We'll be right back.

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For sled specs, ticket info, and all things cardboard classic, just head to WMMR.com. 93.3 WMMR. Everything that rocks. All right. Thank you very much, Kathy. Uh, getting ready for the game this weekend. There's something we're slapping together. We call it the pep rally concert series. And, uh, we had a really cool performance of the Eagles fight song, uh, yesterday from our friend G love is we were checking in with him, uh,

We had Kate Flannery started off last week. Unofficially, right? We're going to continue that throughout the next couple of days. Later on this morning, Lizzy Hale is going to be checking in from Hailstorm, and she's going to be performing it as well. But in the meantime, we had to reconfigure the studio just a tiny bit to accommodate these next guys that are in here.

Kathy and Nick have moved to the other side. If you're a regular viewer on our YouTube stream, it looks a little bit different because we are excited to welcome into our studio to perform for us this morning one of the hottest bands in Philadelphia. You may have seen them as the house band for They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelsey. Gang, snack time is in our studio. Yay!

So we've got Michael, Austin, Larry, Eric, and Sam. Step on up to the microphone right here because we're going to want to talk to you. Good to see you this morning, buddy. How are you feeling this morning? I'm good, man. How are you? You're good.

I was telling you guys earlier, your voice is just waking up in the morning really early, so it's a little triggering, but it's okay. This is back when you were a student? Yep, at University of the Arts. And were you studying music, I assume? Yes, I was. Okay, real quick for snack time, you guys started to hit around 2020. Yep. How long were you together before then, before this started to come together? Or was that it? Zero. Zero? We basically all called each other August of 2020.

And then just took off running and haven't stopped since. Wow. The momentum is amazing. Obviously, you're currently the house band. Can you give us any insight on a season two? We're hoping for it. Okay. That's what I got. Yeah, yeah. Okay, that's fine. But you guys are really awesome. It was really awesome to be a part of it. Oh, of course, yeah. You guys, you can bet.

when there's a really cool thing going on in Philly and there needs to be a musical component to it, you're a part of that. So that's got to feel pretty awesome. Yeah, we're really proud to be synonymous with Philly and as we've

Back in the day when you'd be able to see us four times a week, it was awesome. Now we're kind of on tour. We're doing a little bit less, but we're still so... We have so much gratitude to be synonymous with Philadelphia because we have so much love for this city. Yeah. So whose eyes and ears did you guys get in front of in order to really propel this forward? Because didn't you just play like Eric Andre's birthday party? We were actually in the Illuminati. In the Illuminati. I detected a secret handshake. We always talk about this. It's critical mass, you know.

We used to play in the park with, you know, now we're like really much more of a stage thing. But back in the day, we play in the park and I'm pretty sure people from the Sixers have heard us there. We got our first big break with Philadelphia, sorry, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

Um, we, you know, it's like people saw us in the park, but now it's like even weddings, the wedding, we played a friend's wedding and the producer from NFL films happened to be there as well. Wow. That was like, yeah, that's the thing. Get out, get seen. And that's how this stuff happens. You have a genuine love of what you do. But I mean, you know, you get a, so the way you are now firmly entrenched, I mean, this is lifelong career simply associated with this, you know, and, uh,

I know the NFL is a little startup, so if it takes off, then there could be... We'll see what happens. Yeah, we'll see. And then you guys are doing the halftime show at the Sixers game tonight, which I would say probably my second favorite act next to the guy who stacks chairs on top of one another. My favorite's the dog and then the chair guy, then us. Then you.

For those who don't know and haven't seen Snack Time, Sam kind of stands out in the band because he plays a sousaphone. You might call it a tuba, but it's a sousaphone. It's a marching version of a tuba. It's with a really big bell that comes up high. Tell us about this particular instrument you're holding. It looks old. It looks kind of beat up. Does this go way back? This instrument is about 100 years old. It was actually made probably in Philadelphia. I played trombone my whole life. I went to grad school for trombone and then

I met Mike, who's a hundred times better at trombone player than me. So I said, we got to call Mike to play trombone. No one wants to play this freaking thing. So yeah, it's something that I picked up through late college, grad school. And yeah, it's kind of a passed down instrument from homie to homie. Like it started in New Orleans. I don't know where. I traced it three generations ago from New Orleans to...

to a friend, Ray Mason, to a friend, Steve Duffy, which made its way to me. So do you guys not have a bass player? Are you indeed the bass player? I play, so typically I play through like effects pedals, but I'm also, I've started to add bass,

to the live performance as well. So it's a little bit of this, a little bit of bass, sometimes some key bass. Okay. Yeah, so... But yeah, all the bass you're hearing on all the records at the moment is this through, like, effects pedals. It's amazing. That's awesome. And you recently released your EP. Yep, this is dance music. This is dance music, which is very cool. So...

was this stuff that you, did you create the music after making the decision to do the EP or was this all stuff you had collected and we've got a role now? So basically, um, where our first, uh,

grouping of songs, our first live record. That was all sort of music we sort of created in the streets for the most part. These were all songs. This was our first attempt to be songwriters. So we sat down and we got together at each other's houses. We got together and jammed and they turned out this way and we're really proud of them. It's really set us off to be even more

Right. He set us up to be writing even more songs now. So we love it. We caught the bug for it. That's interesting because you go from arranging songs for your unique instrumentation of cover songs to writing songs. That's a whole different creative process. And you guys have to synergize on a different level like that. Was it easy for you? You know what? I will say that it did feel easy. All right. It felt really easy. I mean, not to say that we're prolific or good even, but...

Well, if you're happy with your own stuff. We're happy. We're happy. That's cool. It's been really cool. Like, we all work together. And I know me and Mike will get together, you know, a couple times a month and just sit down and get to my house and we'll, like, write songs. It's really fun. It's...

It's been a really interesting development to all of our lives where I never thought I'd be a songwriter. I'm sure I could speak for everybody else in the band. Anybody else go to University of the Arts? Nope. Nope, just you? Just me. Just the solo guy left over. And one last question, then we want to get your original song that you're going to play this morning. So we'll get the Eagles fight song in a little bit.

Did a woman kiss you on the head or is that a tattoo? So quickly. Okay. We were at Red Rocks opening up for Portula Man. Ah, yeah. Or whatever. Yeah, sure. A little venue called Red Rocks. Yeah, yeah. And they were doing tattoos down in the green room and I was chilling and then like I was in line. We're drinking beers. We're hanging. Yeah.

We loaded out. The band is chilling in the van. And they're like, hey, dude, where you at? I'm like, I'm in line for a tattoo. So I actually made them wait like two and a half hours. And no one was really happy with me. But I did wake up in the morning and buy everyone breakfast. Okay. Okay. I got this tattoo underground at Red Rocks. Underground at Red Rocks. And it was...

My girlfriend was not there, so this is Google Lips. Google Lips. I love it. Real quick, I don't know if you're still... That's a song title, by the way. Google Lips. If you're still friends with Portugal the Man or not, but if you are, tell them that I said that Woodstock is a perfect album. It is absolutely, from start to finish, perfect. We have had such an amazing time. On tour, we've basically been in the band. We're emceeing the show. We're supplementing with horns and guitars and drums. Wow.

John and the squad have really given us so much ability to really feel as if we can impart ourselves on his music. And it's amazing. We've learned like probably what, four records at this point from them. So we could be a Portula Man cover band at this point. No, you know, anyone who sees you and from all the time that we've known you and seen you, you guys are at

At least from our outside perspective, fueled by just a genuine love of what you do. And so I think that's infectious. I think that's why you're exponentially, the popularity is increasing so much. So never lose that. We just try to show the love that we receive. Yeah. So we want to have you guys step up and play a song for you. We've got Austin, Larry, Eric, Michael, Ben, and Sam.

And what's the name of the song we're going to be playing? The song is called Together. We released it back last year, and we just re-released it with a mutual friend who's also from the area, Devin Gilfillian. It's called Together featuring Devin Gilfillian. This is the version just featuring Snack Time. It's on all streaming services right now. All right. And maybe WMMR. Maybe. We'll see about that. All right. Michael's going to handle the vocals on this. When you guys are ready, let's go. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Snack Time on MMR.

One, two, three. Some days we go through the fire.

And some nights are cold and dark. But when you feel that your good has expired, the music is a good place to start. So if you came to party, we'll show you how. Come as you are so we can all get down.

We got to unite. Good vibrations make you feel all right. If a ship is stuck in the ocean and there's no light to show you the way, just listen up. I'll be your guide. And I'll

Drop all that baggage, leave it all on the ground and floor. So when you came to party, we'll show you how. Come as you are so we can all get down. The world is so divided, we got to unite. Your vibrations make you feel alright.

Good morning. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you.

There you go.

Yeah.

What a great sound. Snack time on 93.3 WMMR. That is from their original EP called This Is Dance Music. That's on the EP, right, Sam? Yes, it is. And we have a new version that just dropped. So you can check out both of them. How appropriate that the Eagles are playing in New Orleans for the Super Bowl this year. I mean, that is such... I can see you guys marching down Bourbon Street playing that song. Well, we don't do as much marching as we used to. But we're going to be all over New Orleans this week. We're playing...

Lots of cool stuff. It's going to be really cool. So if you see us, if you're a Philly fan and you see us in New Orleans, come say hey. Have you ever been down for like Jazz Fest or anything like that before? We actually played with Portugal the Man the day before Mardi Gras. That's pretty wild. I love New Orleans. I went there two weeks, sorry, two months after that and was over, over consumed everything you could. So I left New Orleans after three days and I was like, I can't go back. Sam, what's it like traveling with a sousaphone, man? So easy, actually. Really? It's like,

It's a carry-on, right? How come they've never perfected the collapsible sousaphone? So I have a road case for it, but no, it's a pain in the ass. It always looks at me like I have a weapon. Yeah, we have a thing called a media pass. Shout out to American Airlines, where this is just considered a regular bag. This is media pass. This is not a carry-on, though, right? No, no, no. Go to sleep.

What are you guys doing in New Orleans? We have a bunch of cool stuff. We're doing a cool thing with Philly Sports Trips. We're doing a party for Brian Nadal from Laps on a Hammer. We have something with ESPN. We have a handful of things, but we're going to have fun here on our team. So you're not marching anymore because you're going to be driven around in Rolls Royces. Exactly. Who are you hoping to run into? You see down there, anybody like you got stars in your eyes about running into anybody famous?

Emeril. Emeril Lagasse. Yeah. Wow. No, it's going to be awesome. It's going to be awesome. Dude, why not? Yeah. I'm assuming there's going to be a plethora of athletes and people down there. We're just excited to be in the mix. Like I said, like...

Being ingrained in Philadelphia's culture is so important to us. Just to be another part of the Philadelphia extension to New Orleans, it feels like the battery of it all. All right, so nobody wants to put the cart before the horse, but if we come back happy from New Orleans, you guys got to be in the parade, I would think. I have a vacation booked in Mexico City, which I booked, so we'll see what happens. But I...

We'll see. Yeah. Mexico City will still be there. I mean, don't you see these guys on the back of a truck? I think there's going to have to be some sort. We're going to have to make sure the authorities step in and keep them here. Yeah. Maybe Saquon can pay for my flight to Mexico City.

If people want to reach out to you, for whatever reason, if they want to come see you, if they want to hire you, whatever it is, what is the best way to contact Snack Time? You can send us a message over on Instagram. That's S-N-A-C-K-T-I-M-E, Snack Time. We're on TikTok.

we're uh our email is snacktimephilly at gmail.com and our website is snacktimephilly.com and uh streaming on uh everything so you want to get music from snack time it's easy to find yeah exactly oh that's awesome man all right well listen we are calling this the pep rally concert series uh we wanted to get the fight song from you guys as we are asking all of our musical guests this week uh to do so you guys ready fired up let's

All right, let's do this, man. This is Snack Time with our Pep Rally concert series. ♪♪

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That's how you do it right there, people. That's what we're looking for. You put your own little flavor on it. Is a version of that available anywhere?

Maybe they win. We'll see what happens. Because that's damn good. When are you guys heading out? When are you flying out? Friday morning. Friday morning. All right. Well, we wish you guys all the luck. You're going to represent the city wonderfully. Hopefully, maybe BirdBot will end up in their orbit. Yes. We're going to work on getting BirdBot to you guys and see if we can get a picture with SnackTime. Excellent. All right. Well, thank you so much, Ben and Michael, Eric, Larry, and Austin and Sam from SnackTime. You guys rock.

We love you. It's part of the Preston and Steve pep rally concert series. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back in just a moment. So stay with us, please. Yeah, we want to go for a ride in the car. Our tail is so wagging right now.

Take us along with the MMR app. It's Apple CarPlay and Android compatible, which means we get to sit in the dashboard screen. We'll even send you notifications if you want. Download it and try it now. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Okay, bad news, good news. Yeah. To pass along. Bad news, Lizzie Hale is not going to be on the show today. Good.

Good news. She's going to be on the show tomorrow. Yes. Yes. We have to postpone and move to tomorrow for our pep rally concert series. So we will have her on the program tomorrow morning singing the Eagles fight song. We have a few other people throughout the course of the week that are going to be doing that, too. I'm very satisfied with the concert series, I have to say. Oh, most definitely. Yes. Yeah. We're just getting started. Quickly, before we do the bizarre file, I had a couple of shout outs. I'm a little backed up. Of course.

Of course. That's the only way you can generate them. This is from Michael Ego. He says, hey, President, my dad's a huge fan, listens every day, and always calls to tell me to plug my business. I own a restaurant in Northern Liberties, but wanted to see if it would be at all possible to...

for a birthday shout out. The big man turns 53 this year. His birthday is February 2nd. His name is Gary Thrash and he's from Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania. Again, huge fan and this would make his day. Thank you in advance. Either way, all the best from Michael. So here's a shout out. And he didn't mention the name of his restaurant. So you know what? Go to a restaurant in Northern Liberties today. Oh my gosh, so he reached out and never put the restaurant? He never put the name of the restaurant. We have to

find out what it is. He's a managing partner at YDE Concepts LLC. So call them up and ask if any of their employees are associated with restaurants. Okay. And we'll see if we can straighten that out. Another one says, good morning, gang. My name is Autumn and you guys gave me the best birthday present last year with a shout out from my favorite morning program ever.

You guys are some of the kindest, most generous group of people I've ever met. And if you could sound off a nice juicy shout out, not only for me, but also for you guys, it would make my birthday just that much better. It's on February 4th, but whenever you get a chance. So that is from Autumn Banks. So here's a shout out for you, Autumn. Excuse me. Name of the restaurant was Yanaga Capo Izikaya. Oh.

Oh, really? And that is at 637 North 3rd Street in Philly. How'd you know that, Marissa? Magic. Magic. I mean, this is a food scene in Philadelphia. Yep. Yep. All right. And then last one, and then we'll do the B-file. It says, good morning. I want to send a shout out to my boyfriend, Jeff Surrett.

on his birthday february 4th i don't know if that's the jeff surratt i know or not is this spelled uh geoff um or jeff it is spelled geoff yeah same guy it's gotta be uh she says i'm so lucky to have him in my life he is my favorite person makes me laugh listens to my long-winded stories and is so thoughtful uh happy birthday and have a wonderful safe golf trip yeah it's gotta be jeff wait a

Have a birthday and have a wonderful, safe golf trip. So Darlene Richards, she sends that. There is the shout-out for you. All right, we can now do the B5. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre Final.

Brought to you by Primo Hoagies. Make the big game primo with a catering tray from Primo Hoagies. You can plan ahead and place your orders online or on the new Primo Hoagies app. It's not just a hoagie, it's a primo. So this is a messed up story and a cautionary tale as well. A man had both of his legs amputated after burning himself on a skillet during a camping trip.

What the f***? His name is Max Armstrong, 40 years old, was camping with his friends in Kiowa, Colorado in December, and he burned his thumb on a skillet while cooking pasta for their dinner. He didn't think anything of it, but as the days went on, his left leg started to swell up, his toenails began turning purple, and he was in pain. What? He would not...

You probably would not make that mental leap from a skillet accident to your legs ballooning up. Yeah, after six days, Max was driven to Parker, Colorado. Once he got into the emergency room, his eyes started rolling back in his head. Doctors quickly confirmed that strep

A bacteria had gotten into his burn and that quickly developed into sepsis, which can be life threatening if not treated properly. This is why they recommend you never go outside. He was placed into an induced coma for six days. And during that time, he was transported to Denver as they had better facilities. When he woke up from the coma, December 13th, Max says that his feet were

Wow. Wow.

Terrific. Terrific.

The burn on my thumb had become pretty ugly and it turned black and looked like it was eating away my thumb. Did you specify how high the amputation was on both legs? It didn't say in this story, no. It just said both his legs, so I don't know if it was to the knee or further up. I mean, that's something you would, I would, oh, I'd burn myself and move on. I wouldn't think, you know, oh, I'm going to lose my legs. He will now rely on a wheelchair for the rest of his life and has been learning tricep and shoulder exercises to help him with mobility. Wow.

He said they give you physical rehabilitation three times a day, and there's a lot of tricep work and shoulder exercises. So, wow, that's messed up. A zoo in China is under scrutiny after allegedly dying two dogs, black and orange, so they look like tigers. Did you see the pictures? I did. I mean, not even remotely convincing. According to, and I think it was more of a joke. Oh, was it? They were trying to pass it off as a tiger.

So the shih tzu that they were trying to convince you was an elephant, that didn't pass either. There's a little background to this. According to the video footage, chow chows are enclosed in wooden pens and painted bright orange with black stripes. The animals at the Quin Bay Forest Animal Kingdom barely resemble a fierce feline.

The zoo later confessed to local media outlets that the animals were dyed as a gimmick. Okay. But assured that they were not a health risk to the dogs. It was a native chow chow dyed into a tiger dog, not a tiger, the zoo had explained. And last year, the same zoo reportedly dyed dogs, and we saw this.

They dyed their fur to mimic that of pandas. Oh, this was the same place. Yeah. And even shaping their fluff to look like the bamboo-eating bears. When asked why, the zoo had responded, there are no panda bears at the zoo, and we wanted to do this as a result. Yes, of course. You just build whatever animal you want. They faced some backlash, and the representative explained that people also dye their hair and that the natural dye is used on the dogs if they have long fur. And we hot-glued a hose to its face to make it look like an elephant.

The Xiaomui Zoo, also in China, painted dogs to look like pandas as well last year, and that prompted visitors to demand refunds. I think that zoo actually tried to make you think that they were pandas.

Amy and Brad Hamer were on cloud nine after finding out that they'd soon be welcoming a daughter until the cloud nearly choked them to death. And here's the story on that. Amy said, this is your sign to not do a dry ice gender reveal inside of your home. Yeah. She's a fashion influencer and an expecting mom from the UK. So the clip...

which scared up a staggering 5.2 million views. Featured the ecstatic sweetheart sparking a smoke bomb before a room full of giddy loved ones. But it was dry ice. Once ignited the... Or it says here, ignited. I don't know. The colorless vapor turns either pink, indicating a girl, or blue, signaling a boy. But after the puff went pink for the happy...

things went out of control. So you can hear the girls yelling, oh no, in the video. The fumes expanded and it flooded the room, leaving the guests and the pregnant guests of honor coughing and gasping for air.

And of course, there's been a ton of different things that have happened at gender reveals. I think these things are, they've gotten way out of hand. A daddy-to-be in Brazil recently came close to meeting his maker when a billowing blue fireball briefly swallowed him up during a gender reveal gone wrong. Fortunately, the father was only singed by the explosion.

And suffered only minor burns. Wasn't one of the biggest fires in California history was started by a gender reveal party? It might have been the guy with the Tannerite. The Tannerite, yeah. All right, and then one last story and then we'll wrap it up. A car on the side of the road is a normal sight. A crash car, a little more unusual. But when there's a blow-up sex doll in the front seat of the abandoned car, it's a little more unusual. It's my girlfriend. The doll.

was posed behind the wheel of the vehicle and looking out the front driver's side window. Police in Swindon in the UK said they hoped the extra attention the new driver was getting the car would encourage the owner to come claim it, but no luck so far. The blow-up sex doll was removed by the police and presumably impounded. So still on no word whose that was.

And that is what we have in the Bizarre File at the moment for you, friends. So we still have a lot going on in the program. In a little while, 9 o'clock hour, we are going to meet Noah the Bald Eagle. Yes. He's one of the eagles they have on display when you go to the Eagles game every year.

at the link. And they're from the Elmwood, he is from the Elmwood Park Zoo and we have some other representatives coming along as well. Want to take a break, come back in a moment, we'll see what's going on with our tattoos that are in the Acme Lounge as we speak. Thank you to Floating World Tattoo and Piercing for Bleed for the Birds as our fans are getting their tattoos as we speak. So we'll check in with them, see if we can get a read on BirdBot and a few other things too. So we'll be back in just a moment. Make sure you stay with us. BirdDoc

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Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo.

Emailing in, texting in, signing up all last week to be recipients of Eagles tattoos. And we have Floating World Tattoo and Piercing here. So Casey has grabbed a remote microphone, is headed into the Acme Lounge as we speak. Can you hear me out there, Casey? I can hear you loud and clear, brother. All right. And it looks like we have a room full of people there. And we have, did they bring the tables and everything in with them?

Oh, yeah. I mean, these guys, this isn't their first rodeo. I think this might be their second rodeo. Nice. Yeah, they know what's going on. And by the way, guys, now can we get a little bit of... That's got to be!

Eagles! That's what we want to hear. I love it. So are people actively getting tattoos right now, Case? Yeah, in fact, we just had, I think, our first person who is finished, and actually she was the first person here. This is our listener, Heather, if you want to say hello. Hello. Hello.

Where's Heather from, by the way? Sicklerville, New Jersey. Oh, you can hear me. Great. All right, Heather. So Casey is, as we speak, we're streaming this. We have Casey on video. We can see this. Where on your body, Heather, are you getting your tattoo? On the rib area. Oh, wow.

How sensitive is that? I've heard that can be a bit, you know, spicy. It was a little painful, probably more than my other ones. Okay. How many more do you have? I have three others. Okay. Are they all sports related or mostly pornography? Um...

A little bit of both. Okay. Nice. All right. Describe the tattoo, Casey, if you could, for our audience. Listen, it is just a simple Go Birds in Kelly Green in the Go Birds font. And Iza is our tattoo artist. Iza, I said it right? Okay. So she's the one who administered the tattoo. Nice. And it looks, is it all done, Iza? It is.

done. Oh my God. Great work, man. It looks nice and clean. Yes. You look at something like that, you'd think it'd take far longer to get it done and they just turned it around that quickly. It's amazing. How long did it take you to knock out that tattoo, you think?

What time is it? It is 8.20. They got started about an hour ago? Yeah, so maybe 40 minutes or 30 minutes. Not bad. Not bad. All right. Excellent. All right. Well, Case, anybody else getting one? Yeah. I don't hear the awesome noise. Listen, I'm going to put the microphone up to this tattoo needle. I'm standing next to it and I can't even hear it. Okay, go ahead.

Wow, that's quiet. This guy, this is Nate Rose. You got a silencer on that thing or what's going on? I do, yes. Yes, the James Bond. But the one that Iza was using was noisy that I heard earlier. No, it was. So I guess that was Iza's tattoo. And then who was our other tattoo? Amy. Casey, have her fire that thing up just so we can hear what it sounds like. Yeah, do you mind firing up your needle real quick? Just shoot it into the air. Oh, she just unplugged it. Yeah. Yeah.

We chose the absolute wrong time to come in today. Didn't we do that? I'm like, Casey, the sound is awesome. We got to get a wireless. We got to get a mic in there. I want everybody listening to be able to hear what's going on in there. And it's dead silent. Wait, is there another one plugged in? Yeah, yeah. Amy's going to tell you. There you go. Amy. Amy. There it is. There you go. I love that sound.

Nice. Amy's got a noisy one. It is funny because Casey's literally 12 feet away. So Amy, who are you tattooing? Who did you just finish, by the way? Okay, so we just did Paula. And so here's Paula. She also got a Go Birds tattoo. It's got a couple of more flourishes on it. It's got some wings on either side of the word go and Go Birds. But here's Paula. Paula, where are you from?

Norberth. Norberth. Oh, right around the corner. Yeah. Paula, is this your first tattoo? No, this is number six. Number six. Excellent. Any Eagles or Philly sports tattoos yet? No, first one. All right. Well, I like to hear that. And the back of the arm, the back of the bicep, the tricep area, was that painful or pretty good? I felt it, but my arm was asleep, so. I haven't felt anything. My arm is dead, so it's okay. Okay.

And then the person who's getting tattooed right now with the silencer, this is also, we had two Heathers and a Paula that were getting tattooed. So this is Heather. Heather, where are you from? Mount Laurel. Okay, so Mount Laurel, New Jersey. We've got a lot of Jersey listeners. And then Nate is doing, this is a, it's like the love statue, but where the O is in love, there's the Eagles, the new Eagles logo. Oh, wow. That's cool. That looks cool.

I love that. What made you decide on that one, Heather? I really like the design. Okay, fair enough. Is this your first? No. Do you have six as well?

Four. Four. Okay. She looked up and she's like, one, two, three, four. Yeah, four. Okay. Honestly, the only people who really have like one tattoo are the people who just got their first tattoo. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, you get addicted, I guess, right? Paula seems a little quiet. Does that change on game day, Paul? Yeah, Heather, does that change on game day? Yes. Yes.

I'm screaming at the TV. Okay. You save it up for then, apparently. Boiling apart. All right. If something happens when you turn a microphone or put a microphone in front of people's faces. They shut up. It happens. She's also getting tattoos. So can you describe the sensation? I know that when I get tattoos, for some reason, I get chills all over my body. Has anything similar happened to you? I'm a little sweaty, actually. You look sweaty. Okay.

Casey, can you towel her off real quick? What's that? Towel her off. Towel her off. Yeah, if you would. Like an operating room nurse. Well, I'm loving that this is underway. And we're going to get nine people all together. So there's a waiting room. There we go. We're toweling her off now.

And as with any top flight tattoo situation, they're always catered by nifty 50s. Of course. Of course. Nothing better. Absolutely. And, you know, listen, I think we should come back out here because, you know, like we came out here literally as two people had just gotten finished their tattoos. Yeah. The only needle going on right now, like we said, has the silencer going on. So I think we should come back out when we when we get, you know, our next people on the table. We'll do that case. Come on back into the studio. We'll see you in a half hour. We'll come back out there and meet with everybody.

buddy, again. All right, one of the things that we need to do, we need to talk a little bird body. Bird body, bird body, yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you've been following BirdBot's travels on Instagram, then you've seen him bop all around the Delaware Valley. I am very happy with the journeys, the sub journeys and every weird place he's ended up in. Really, really cool. Yep. Now, the goal, the ultimate goal is to get BirdBot

To New Orleans, to the Super Bowl, and then swing back around and make it back home alive in at least one or two pieces. But so far, he's resilient and holding up very, very well. But here's what we need to do. We did have someone who checked in yesterday who's planning on driving to New Orleans, leaving at 4 a.m. on Thursday. And that's not bad.

We would really prefer if someone was headed down on Wednesday, so therefore we can kind of follow BirdBot for a couple of days while we're still on the air here because obviously we only work until Friday. So with the Wednesday departure at the right time, we could conceivably get some BirdBot real-time coverage.

audio right at some location and have him make the rounds on friday morning show as well yeah we definitely are going to have him pop up on uh fox 29 that's part of the goal where mike and alex are there now and we'll talk with those guys live tomorrow morning uh but we're hoping that someone will reach out to us who is headed down to new orleans on wednesday so we're kind of throwing this out there now i can't and i'll say this many many times

that it is not ultimately up to us. It is up to you, the people who have BirdBot. We put it out into the wild, and what happens is what happens. But we can influence, hopefully, a little bit, and kind of run a...

an honor system that maybe you will do what we suggest. We don't really know if you will or not. But for the most part, people have. To get the word out, we'd like to see if anybody is heading down on Wednesday who'd be willing to take BirdBot. So if you are, reach out to us.

Go on the Instagram page, DM the people that have BirdBot at the moment, or go on the Facebook group for BirdBot as well. It really works best if he can depart tomorrow. He's been in a fixed location this morning, Preston, only makes sense because a lot of times he'll end up, he'll, you know, bunk at someone's place. He's now in Center City proper.

And so he's, I won't give the exact street address, but he's remained motionless for a while. Marissa had a list of all the places he was to yesterday and last night. So he has been traveling. Yeah, I was happy to see that Shades of Grey actually did end up getting their hands on it. They did too.

I commented on their post. I'm like, he made it! Because they put out the word that they would offer up a free tent job on someone's car if they brought BirdBot. I don't know if anybody took him up on that or not. But yeah, we have video and pictures of him at Fifty Shades. And we saw him. He was at the Rocky show.

A statue. And just all over the place. And that's exactly what we want. But if you're holding on to him, please let him go. If he loves you, he'll come back. He will come back. But this is a community project. And if you're hanging on to him, you're making it not a community project. And what we really are looking for, again, is a departure tomorrow for Burr Bott, at least in that amount of time, to get him in New Orleans.

By the way, the amount of transplants outside of the fact that people are traveling down there, obviously, for the Super Bowl, the amount of people who have moved down there, live in that general area, is amazing. A lot of Philadelphia and Eagles love down there. And remember, I got a couple of messages from guys in the military, in the Marine Corps, and in the Coast Guard that are willing to take Bird Bot on a helicopter ride, get him on a ship. If we could get an aerial and sea...

a bit of footage for BirdBot. That would be tremendous. Yep. He made it by, apparently he made it to the Philadelphia Community College yesterday. The Rocky statue. BirdBot checked in with Pierre at some point yesterday. He was at City Fitness in Fishtown with Sarah and checked in

Ah, with Sarah Parker, who was in for Bam Bam this week. So he's making the rounds, and we just need to get him to New Orleans. That's the next big part, by the way. Speaking of the game and everything this weekend, I did see an article, and this is according to Yelp Reviews, the best and worst NFL stadiums list.

Now it's got the top five and the bottom five. That's the only part of the list that I actually have. This is always a big point of conversation for sports fans. What are the criteria to make it a best? So USA Today and Yelp came out with a list and it's based on Yelp reviews from fans

While some stadiums have many more reviews than others, it's the actual rating number, not how many of them the stadium gets that apparently counts for this particular list. So it's not necessarily like prices of food and stuff like that? It's kind of like a general review. Like an overall...

Rating, I think. Rating the actual overall facility itself. Yeah, so I have been to the Link. I was at Buffalo Stadium, which is really, really old, but man, did it have a lot of charm to it. They're getting a new one, I think, aren't they? They're getting a brand new stadium, and they're keeping it outdoors because they want to keep the tradition, I guess. I get it, but I also don't get it because, I mean, you know...

Winter starts August 1st in Buffalo. But I went to a football game in Phoenix where the Cardinals play. I went to a Cardinals-Texans game. It's...

I had never been in a structure that large, right? So you look at it from the outside. You're like, okay, that's a football stadium. And then you go in. You're like, holy moly. Yeah. This is amazing. And I'll tell you, it was a really great experience. And there was a lot of great vantage points to see the game and everything. What was also awesome about it was that parking was free. I think parking, somehow they include with the price of the ticket. What?

In Buffalo? No, no, no. Where was this? No, but Buffalo's got a different parking situation. You can park on the field. No, this is in Phoenix. So I went out to Phoenix for a concert. First of all, the Akchik Pavilion, parking was free there. And then when we went to the football game on Sunday. Free parking. Free parking at the football game as well. Okay, how much does it cost at the link? 45, well, we park at FDR, 45 bucks. But not at FDR, like right there. Marissa, you would know. How much does it cost? Oh, it's $90. $90! $90!

If you have an RV, it is $90 and $45 with a car. $45. Still $45. I know, but Jesus Christ. That's a steal. But at Buffalo, listen, they have parking at Buffalo, but we parked in somebody's backyard. It'd be cheaper to park in Buffalo to go to the link. Orchard Park, it's weird because it's

just kind of like in the middle of these farmland neighborhoods. It's not like what we're used to seeing. And when we got there, people just opened up their back and side yards and so we parked up against this tree and made love to their daughter. That's what Green Bay is like. Apparently that neighborhood around has just become like all tailgate houses.

So you just park on people's lawns and they open up their houses and sell tickets to tailgate within the houses there. Oh, okay. Okay. So they can make money off of it. Oh, I see. Everyone makes money off it. Okay. Yeah. It's like when golf tournaments come to town. Exactly. Yeah. People will rent out their driveways and stuff like that. Actually, it's kind of smart. Yeah. Case, I really want you to get to SoFi. I was lucky enough to go there last year. It is magnificent. In fact, I really want to see a concert there.

It's kind of like MSG where you can walk on the corridors and still see the game and still see what's happening. I like that. Without blocking the people behind you, just the way they build it in the angles. Marissa, I heard that SoFi was an incredible place, but that the people that live in and around SoFi or live nearby, they can't stand it because it's driven up the cost of housing. The people in that area, whenever a game is there, and I think they had the Super Bowl there two or three years ago, it's...

It's impossible to get in and out. Sure. Impossible. I believe it. But there is a sizzler. Okay. A sizzler. It's a sizzler. Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget, there's a sizzler outside. I was hoping to get there this past season because the Eagles played against the Rams, but it was either the weekend before or the weekend of Thanksgiving. Either way, the way where it landed on the counter, like, God damn it. Was sizzler where the people were fighting over the steak here? Was it Golden Corral? Golden Corral.

That was Golden Corral. It was like a mess. Sizzler's a step up. Okay. Nick, I'm a little surprised by that because it's in the same parking lot as the Forum. Yeah. So it's not like it's new. The Forum's been there for a long time, though. And SoFi can seat, what, 80 or 90,000 people. And so, yeah, it's become really difficult for the people in that area when there's a home game. I hate to break into this conversation, ladies and gents, but we've got a BirdBot update. Yeah.

I want to make sure we go to the phone lines now on our Xfinity mobile guest line. We have the current owner, because it's only temporary, I guess best friend for the time being of BirdBot. We have Sarah on the line. Hey, Sarah, good morning. Good morning. Hey, so we're doing great, so you've got BirdBot. Tell us where you picked him up.

My friend actually dropped him off with me yesterday. And the last minute phone call. Hey, Sarah, do you want to verbat? And I took him and we I took him to the gym last night because I work at City Fitness part time as a trainer. And.

And we, sorry, it's a little loud out here. Let me go back in. And we, yeah, I took him to the gym. He took pictures with my classes, like in my classes. Oh, he was in one of your classes? Got a little work in. He went to my classes. Nice. Yep. Excellent. What kind of class do you teach?

I teach strength training. Strength training? Okay. Yep. Yeah. And then the second class that I teach is like a circuit class. So he did both with me and took lots of pictures. And yeah, I have proof that he's getting swole for the Super Bowl. Oh, getting swole for the Super Bowl. All right. So what's the plan with BirdBot now?

I have to hand him off this morning. He is going back to my friend and I'm going to an undisclosed location. I'm not supposed to say. Wait, you're sending it back to your friend who already had him?

Because he's doing a handoff to somebody else. He's going to do a handoff. Okay. So I'd like to throw this out there that BirdBot, I think, should only be held on to for maybe a couple hours at most. And then you hand it off. We want him to keep moving. Keep moving, keep moving, move him around as much as possible. So I know that you've already done the overnight thing with him and you're going to hand him off. So we're looking forward to his next friends. And also, not only hand him off to friends. Think of it like this.

When you're at a game and the Eagles score a touchdown, of course you high-five your friends that you're with. But you also high-five the people around you that you don't know. And so think of this as like a high-five. You're not just high-fiving the people that you know. You're not just handing off bird bots to the people that you know. I got it. No, and we know you got it because...

He is not going to somebody I know. I just want you guys to know that. Okay, all right. He's literally just passing because I can't, I have to work. So he's taking it so that he can get it to the next person. So Sarah, as you know, we're trying to get it in the hands of somebody who can get him out on the road heading towards New Orleans by tomorrow because that's the plan. So we would...

Again, as Preston said at the beginning of all this, we only have so much sway over where he ends up. So if you can help with the collective and again on the social media sites, you can connect and DM with everyone else. Pull your talents together and let's get him on the road. All right.

Yeah, absolutely. All right. And he worked out. I love that. Yeah. All right, Sarah. He did. Thank you. Thank you for being a BirdBot escort. We appreciate that. Absolutely. All right. Take care of yourself. All right. That's your BirdBot update for now. Although, we do want to see if someone can reach out to us and let us know if they are going to.

Be heading out on the road to New Orleans by tomorrow. That'd be great if we can send him along. We'll do what we can. Yeah. He's going tomorrow. Yeah, that's what we want to find out. Our next guest, who we're going to have on in a little while, just arrived into the studio. So we're excited about this. I'll tell you about that in a moment. But if you hear us being a little distracted, something just got moved into the studio. Very impressive. Back to the story, though, that I mentioned earlier, the best and worst NFL stadiums, according to Yelp reviews. And we have the top five. Now, I...

Man, I haven't been... The only professional stadiums that I've been to for football are, you know, the Link, the Vet, Bush Stadium in St. Louis, and I think that's it. I've been to college stadiums, but I've never spent time in professional football stadiums. You went to the Meadowlands? No. Yeah, so the only other ones that I've been to aren't around anymore, so the old Meadowlands, not the MetLife Stadium, and then I was at the old...

49er Stadium. Was that Candlestick Park? Yeah. I thought you went to New England one year. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Went to Foxborough. Sorry, I forgot about that one. I'll keep track of your stuff. I appreciate that. But that was, again, that wasn't an Eagles game. You were assaulted in San Francisco, right? I was assaulted in San Francisco, but I went to a New England...

Broncos game. And it was when Peyton Manning was playing. So I got to see Peyton Manning play against Tom Brady, which was really cool. That's out in the middle of nowhere too, right? Like it's nowhere near Boston, Foxborough. It is. Yeah, we took a train up there. But like it's in the middle of nowhere. But then there's this whole town center around it. And I loved it. Like, you know, they had like, you know, shopping and dining and all that stuff. These kind of things. Do you...

So do any of you have a desire to hit multiple stadiums around the country? And some people want to hit all of them. Well, I'd love to get to all the baseball stadiums because I find that baseball stadiums are a little more unique than football stadiums. But that's just personal preference. I want to get to Lambeau. I'd love to see where the Green Bay Packers play because that's like the historic one left in the league. For me, it would be visit every Sizzler.

Yeah, sure. Nick, I agree with you, but I think there's another historic one, and that's Soldier Field. So for me, Lambeau and Soldier Field are the two that I would love to get to. In fact, they're like...

There are plans to just redo Soldier Field. And I love that idea. I thought they just redid Soldier Field. And they want to redo it again. That's crazy for a city to just like... I know, right? Spend something like $450 million. Spend millions of dollars on a facility and then just get rid of it. It just seems insane. What kind of crazy city would do that? So...

Here are the top five stadiums in the NFL. Number five is Lumen Field, where the Seahawks play. Oh, yeah. I've been there. And by the way, these names virtually mean nothing anymore. Other than Lambeau Field and Soldier Field and Bush Stadium, which has always been Bush Stadium. Well, they don't play football there anymore, but I mean... The Gorilla Tape Stadium. There are very few that are...

you know the old name the old guard i saw the seahawks play the eagles in 2002 at lumen field i don't think that it's always been called lumen field but it doesn't really matter um we had seats right near the time when chuck domico and then a couple other people that used to work here uh it was a great weekend we saw two pearl jam shows and an eagles um game at uh the seahawks field eagles fans in seattle um weren't nearly as well behaved as seahawks fans were oh okay seahawks forever

I got you. Hang on. All right. Thank you, Casey. If you don't mind, I'd like to see you at the Seahawk party. Oh, wait. It's not turned up. Hit it again. Seahorses forever. All right. Number four on the list is in Powerfield at Mile High. So that's Denver, the Broncos stadium.

Number three is Acresure Stadium. The Steelers play there. It's an enema. It used to be. Actually, Bain blew it up in Dark Knight Rises. Oh, sure. I remember that. Yes, I remember vividly. It was part of my plans for New World Order. Could you imagine the Fleet Enema Stadium? How wonderful that was. By the way, if you do have discomfort when it comes to defecating, please check into my new type of enema.

It used to be called the Fleet Center in Boston. Yes, it did. Big points for you. Where

Where the Celtics play. Was that Fleet Enemas? I think it was Fleet Bank, but everybody called it the Enema Center. That was the Massengate Center. There was a Fleet Bank, and they just called it the Enema Center. Okay, that makes sense. All right, then we have number two on the list is Lucas Oil Stadium. Oh, yeah, that's Indianapolis. Yep, that's where the Colts play. And the number one NFL stadium, according to... Dribble. Okay. Wrong button.

The number one NFL stadium, according to Yelp, is Lambeau Field. Wow. Green Bay Packers. I wonder, have they ever updated it? I mean, it's legendary. They had to have improved it over the years. They put in some super boxes and stuff, so there's some luxury places where you can spend a little bit of money, get VIP treatment or whatever, but I believe the Packers and the stadium are still owned by the people of Green Bay. They are. They are. Right.

And they will never lose. Stadiums that are committed to the outdoor, you know. Yeah. I get it in one way, but I don't in another way. You think they'll still be sitting on, like, you know, benches and stuff? Right, yeah. It just feels that way.

So the bottom, the five worst stadiums. The Gary Lauer Memorial Stadium. In the NFL, let's see, the fifth worst is MetLife Stadium. Wow. That's like brand new. And players hate it. No kidding. Do they specify why they hate it? Injuries. Injuries. Okay.

The turf apparently sucks. But you know what, Casey? I've heard people in the press also don't like it. Pat Gallin from CBS3, he can't stand it. There's a lot of people that just spent so much money. I think it cost a billion dollars or whatever, and they just did not do it well. Oh, my gosh. Just spending all that money and people being like, this is terrible. Yeah. Number four on this list is Hard Rock Stadium. The Dolphins play. It's in Miami. Wait, hang on. Wasn't that another stadium that they just refurbished? Was it Joe Robbie? Joe Robbie, right? Okay. Joe Mama. Joe Mama.

According to this list, number three is SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Wow. As the worst. As the worst. Wow. Marissa was just raving about it. I've heard nothing but accolades about it. Yeah. Yeah. Marissa was going on about how awesome it is. They sold a ton of enemas out of that place. What I kind of like about that is apparently when you walk in...

You know, you're up high. Yeah. And then you got to like walk down to your seats or something like that. I don't know. I don't know. As in it kind of sinks down into the ground maybe? Yeah. That's interesting. It's like a big hair. So that's number three. Number two on the list is Levi's Stadium. Another brand new one. 49ers.

In San Francisco. Yeah, it got a 2.7 average rating. I heard people don't like that in part because it's like an hour away from San Francisco. The candlestick used to be, you know, here it is on the bay. Right. And then when they built a new baseball stadium, they built it pretty close to candlestick. So that's where the Giants play. But when they built this one, it's down in Santa Clara. And that's not at all close to downtown San Francisco or anywhere in the Bay Area for that matter. The bottom list, apparently most of these places are very far from Sizzlers. And that's why they get it.

But when we went and saw the games, we were staying at Fisherman's Wharf, which is, you know, basically it's right on the water. And I feel like it took us an hour, 45 minutes to an hour, and that might have been because of traffic to get to that stadium. Hang on a second before we get the worst one. I'm going to go to Kevin, who actually owns stock in the Packers. Hi, Kevin, you're on the air. Morning, bud. Hey, how you doing, Preston? Good, man. What's going on?

A long-time listener. I'm listening from Tennessee right now. Oh, excellent. You're listening from Tennessee and you own stock in Lambeau? Yes. My dad grew up in Wisconsin, so I had family that lived 26 miles from Lambeau Field. And every time the Packers sell stock...

That's when they are doing updates to the stadium. Okay, so they sell stock when they're doing updates. How much, can you reveal how much stock you own? I have four shares, and they were 300 and some odd dollars a piece, and that was in 2020. Okay, all right. That's interesting. And Kevin, do you, in order to buy the stock, do you have to reside in Wisconsin? No.

No. Okay. I thought you did. I thought for some reason you did as well. As long as you're a Packers fan and a member of their fan club, they send you emails and everything. And actually, once a year, I get a letter from them that I can go to a stockholders meeting at Lambeau Field every year. That's pretty interesting. Do they consult you before they bring on new players?

No. That'd be great, wouldn't it? We got to talk to Kevin. Kevin, yeah, we're bringing on a new QB. We wanted your input. Actually, I don't know if you guys will remember me, but before COVID, I was the one that had the Lorenzo's pizza eating contest with Nick. Wait, refresh my memory, Kevin. Who won?

Nick, you want Nick? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. I don't feel so bad we've had hippos lose to Nick. Interesting. Kevin, that's pretty cool to claim ownership to the team. You've got to be pretty proud of that. I think it's even more cool that he participated in a peach eating contest with Nick. Very impressive.

Yeah, I used to live up there and come to the camp out every year. Awesome. Well, listen, bud, we appreciate you continuing to listen in Tennessee, and thanks for checking in, all right?

All right. Thanks, Preston. All right. Take care, bud. Oh, thank you. And I did always think that part of the deal with the with the area was that you were you were people who lived in the area were the only ones who could be eligible to own stock because that was part of the deal they made with the residents. I had mentioned one of the stadiums, a hard rock stadium in Miami is listed as one of the worst. And so Tammy is on the phone. She's been there before. Hi, Tammy. You're on the air. Good morning. Hi. Good morning. Hey, what's up, Tammy?

Oh, not much. I'm calling from Boyertown. Thank you. We're Bills fans. We were at a Bills Dolphins game and the one game was so, so hot. I had to leave. I went up to the common area to cool off. The amount of people that had left the game, the seats were so hot that the one guy, I kid you not, had third degree burns on his back.

He had third-degree burns from the seat? Yes. Was this a game in September, or was it... I believe it was October. Okay. October? We've been to several. We're Bills fans, so we've been to several in September and several in October. Okay.

Talk about an extreme going from a Buffalo game to a Miami game to the Gregory Burns. Right? It's like a complete opposite. So you're from Buffalo? No, actually, we're from Boyertown. It's like 30 miles outside of Philadelphia. They both begin with a B. All right, Casey's making a face. Why are you a fan of the Bills?

Well, my family had a cabin up close to the New York State line in Couders, I mean, Shingle House. And my husband and my son are Bills. Their name is William. And just something that my husband picked up.

Wait a minute. Were they named Bill and then became fans, or were they already fans because they were named Bill? When my husband was growing up, he was a Raiders fan. And then I guess when they moved, he just went with the Bills. That's weird, though, because it says here on the call screen that your daughter's name is Green Bay Packers. So do you guys root for other countries in the Olympics as well? Actually, we do.

We do. We root for Jamaica because we love Jamaica. Wow. The bobsled team. Hey, they like who they like. It's not necessarily because you're born to it, you know? Absolutely. Not in Casey's world. Interesting. Casey's world. Thanks, Tammy. Appreciate it. Wait a minute. So, I just, and I'm not busting on you. I know. At all. But if you're born in an area, you should be holding to...

the teams that represent them. I mean, that's kind of how I feel. Okay. Yeah. I get it. Both of my brothers are huge Eagles fans, but growing up, they were not. They picked the teams whose colors they liked or somebody, you know, a player that played on there. I mean, my brother, Jim, was a 49ers fan my entire childhood. So I moved around a little as a kid. You did. You did too, Steve. And so when I, we lived in South Carolina for a short time. There was no, there were no professional sports teams.

that we had to root for. So we had to adopt from somewhere else. And by default, because TBS was doing satellite, they were the first people to broadcast satellite. Technically a superstation. And so I started watching the Braves game. So I became a Braves fan. And then I just...

liked the Steelers because they were dominating when I was a kid. At that time, I was a Steelers fan. Listen, I'm a fan of sports and I've become fans of players. Jerry Rice, of course. You know what I mean? For me, it was like you can't root for teams within your own division whatsoever. Listen, I like

the Packers. I love professional football, right? So there are other teams and other players that I really do love. I also, I do make concessions on certain occasions, like my friend Todd is from the D.C. area, so he's a Commanders fan, and his son as a result is a Commanders fan. I get that, like one generation removed. After that,

Knock it off. But also, Preston, I know what you're saying. Like what you like, like who you like, but I don't have to like that as a result. Yes, I agree. I agree 100%. Chase is going to a Super Bowl party and their one friend moved from St. Louis. And so the kid's like, I don't know if I want to go to the party, the Super Bowl party. They need someone to beat up. Yeah.

James is like, don't worry about it. You'll be okay. There's no football team in St. Louis, so he'll be all right. By the way, the worst stadium, according to this, according to Yelp, we didn't get number one, Northwest Stadium, the Commanders. I hear that all the time. Got a 2.4. It's...

new-ish, right? How are all these new places dumped? It was built by a world-class 10-bell douchebag. Dan Snyder was among the worst owners in sports. Fortunately, he's not there anymore. But Steve, I think a lot of that... He wanted to add seats and just...

cram as many people in it. And I'll make a comparison because Jerry Jones is an awful person too, but Jerry Jones built a really nice stadium in Dallas because he wanted his fans to be comfortable. Dan Snyder built a crap hole in D.C. and it's still awful. We're watching a video of a sewage pipe that burst during one of the games and it's just pouring down on fans. And they

It's just like, what the hell is going on? Was Snyder, was he the one that sabotaged the owner's box? Yeah.

It was one thing after another with this guy. Allegations of racism, sexism. There's a lot of stuff over the years. He's fortunately no longer the owner. Real quick, I have a question before we take a break, which we're going to in just a moment. Do we want to go back out? Casey, give me Tattoos Day here if you don't mind. If you missed it, we have a special Tattoos Day that's taking place. It's called Bleed for the Birds.

And we have Eagles fans that are in our Acme Lounge as we speak who are getting tattoos from Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. So I'm going to give Casey a microphone. He's going to go out there and check on everybody and see how they are doing. Just to check, Casey, because last time we had a couple of people that were done with tattoos. Are they still actively getting inked right now? Yes, as we speak and as we listen, you can hear the ink.

Actually, I'm sitting here with Iza right now, and she's got a silencer on hers, so I'm going to skip Iza and head over to Amy. And Amy is tattooing the back of this gentleman's calf. You can hear it? Yeah. And so the gentleman, what is your name? Kyle. Kyle, where are you from, bro? Redding.

All right, so we got a Redding guy. We got Berks County. Kyle, what kind of design did you go with? Can you describe it? The classic Eagles logo. Oh, perfect. Can we get a shot of that camera person? If you're streaming this online, you can see this at your gads. Oh, that's gorgeous. It's the classic logo. That's really cool. And these artists, these guys at Floating World are fantastic. Their lines are really, really clean. So that's going to be sharp when that's done. Awesome.

I'm loving it. So, are there any other... Anybody getting a tattoo for the first time today, Casey? I kind of doubt it. Oh, this is Kyle's first tattoo. No way. Oh, my gosh. How does it feel so far, Kyle? It's not bad. All right. Nice. And what made you decide to go ahead? Had you been thinking about it for a while, about getting a tattoo? I have. And then I finally threw the trigger and put in this. And I'm like, wow, first one for free for Eagles. Let's go. Yeah. So, Kyle, you're...

The woman next to you is nodding. Is that your wife or girlfriend? I'm a wife. Okay. And has she known about this, you know, potential inking for a while? Yeah. Okay. Earlier this week. Earlier this week. Long time. Long time to process it. Who else we got, Case? So we got a gentleman right here getting the newer updated Eagles logo tattoo. What is your name? Steve. Steve. You should get into the world of restaurant tattooing.

A barbecue. Yeah, like barbecue. Just the way you look. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, it's our good friend Steve Wilson who is here this morning. Oh, my God. Steve, I was blown away to see you here, man. It's the first time coming here without bringing food. Yeah.

Feud. Feud. He is the best. All right. And yeah, so you've wanted this for a while, right, Steve? Oh, absolutely. My wife won a tattoo. My brother won a tattoo. And when I got the email, I was ecstatic. Hey, and it's so great. It's so fitting that you actually make barbecue because you are what we call a prize pig.

That's good. Wilson's secret sauce, by the way. Do not miss out on those. All right, Casey, are they the only ones that are getting done right now? Yeah, so it looks like we are. Well, this young lady right here is about to get, she's got the stencil on her arm as well. She's doing the love statue and she's about to go down on the table. Not on me. About to go down on the table. What is your name? Praise that better.

So we got Jen. Jen, where are you from? She's about to take it from behind. Wait, go ahead, Steve. I'm sorry, Steve. No problem. Go ahead. So Jen looks partially undressed there, Casey. She is... Well, she is exposing her arm because...

She is getting a tattoo on her upper arm so she thought it would be a wise idea to wear a long-sleeve shirt. Do we have a t-shirt? We have a t-shirt. I was getting it before I came. Okay. We have a t-shirt around here. Let's get her a t-shirt. Yeah, we'll get you a t-shirt so you don't have to expose yourself to a thousand people here. Yeah. And

And which one is she getting, Case? The love statue? Yeah, the love statue with the Eagles logo, the newer updated Eagles logo in the O of love. Jen, where are you from, by the way? I'm from Oxford, but originally Delco. Oh, she's a Delco gal. Love it. All these tattoos look so good, Case. I mean, the...

Obviously, they had their selection, couldn't do endless designs, but the designs they came loaded with are terrific. Yeah, and listen, I want to thank everybody. I want Troy and Don Juan and Floating World Tattoos, and I want to thank Nate and Iza and Amy for coming here and donating their time. I hope that Troy is paying them out of their pocket because we're not.

All right. 1729 South Street is where you're going to find Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. You can check them out at floatingworldtattoos.com and also on Instagram at floatingworldtattoos. Yes, Case. And then also, you know, we will link to all of their, you know, Nate and Amy's Instagram handles. I was just touring their Instagrams this morning, and man, do they do great work and all different kinds of work. So...

Oh, you know what? And here you go. We're going to give you a T-shirt, and this is from a Delco T-shirt company, Primitive T-shirts, a.k.a. Delco Johnsky. So there you go. You don't have to bury your breasts for everybody. Who's that stripper in the green room? For a Delco gal. All right. Very good. Well, Ted, Tuesday will continue in our show.

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All right, thank you very much, Kath. This is so cool. This next guest has actually been in our studio for a little while because he had to acclimate to our atmosphere at the moment. So we are happy to bring into our studio this morning a couple of humans and one very cool guest. We want to welcome from the Elmwood Park Zoo...

The executive director and CEO, Mr. Al Zone, who is here. The assistant director of education and the Eagle team lead, Laura Soder. And Eagle aficionado, I just made up that title, Elisa Tyler-Ritchie. Guys, thanks for coming in. Absolutely. We're like hesitant to clap or make any real loud noises because we have...

the apex predator of the sky here in our studio this morning. And that is Noah the Eagle. And Al, so Noah goes to the Eagles games, the home games, right? Yes, he does. He goes to every home game. He goes to camp. Our amazing Eagle team takes him to every day of camp. So he checks in when the players check in and he's...

He's there till the end. Wow. So he's the epitome of a good luck charm for the team. Absolutely. Absolutely. He was there for the Super Bowl. Well, he wasn't at the Super Bowl. But he was... Color commentary. Yeah, he's been involved with the Eagles now for over 10 years. Had to have been pretty popular at the pep rally the other day too, right? The pep rally was insane. It was awesome having Noah, Reggie, and B-Dawg in the...

Reggie is the other eagle? Yeah, Reggie's our other eagle. We rotate them down at the link. Okay. Oh, wow. Noah flipped those wings out for a moment there. So, Elisa, what is your job with Noah? Yeah, so along with Laura, I'm another assistant director of education. We help to run our education team, and I'm a member of the eagle team. And so myself and a few others, we are...

Wow.

And depending on the opposing team depends on sometimes their attitude and how well behaved the people are. But this past year, they've been pretty good. Have you ever had people from the opposing team cast aspersions at the Eagles? It's usually at the human Eagles. Not so much our Eagle. Usually everyone's pretty respectful. I mean, yeah, it's so impressive. And if you've never been to the Elmwood Park,

It's amazing. And the eagles, they're usually right at the beginning of if you walk down the steps, you walk into the zoo facility, and the display is great. These were both injured, correct? Both birds were injured. And so I remember going a couple years ago with my wife and taking pictures with this very eagle. So it's so cool. Yeah, thanks. We think so too. I have a question about, well, maybe not...

Noah, because he's only got the one eye. But if Noah's looking at me, which way, or if Reggie's looking at me...

Which way is his face, is his beak facing? Do you know what I mean? Because their eyes are on either sides of their head. That's a good question. Eagles have about 10 times better vision than people. If they were on a top of a 10-story building, they could see an ant on the ground. They can also see, movies are made up of frames. They can see between the frames. So they have spectacular vision. So they can see the frameless...

Yeah, that's astonishing. Do they look forward? Maybe I'm still not comprehending. Do they look forward? They look forward as an apex predator. Predators usually look forward and the preys look to the side. Yeah, but they'll turn their heads in order to see. Noah has an unfortunate...

a tick because of the injury that he sustained when he was young. What was that injury? Well, that's what I was going to ask. Is that that head movement that he's doing, the slow movement? Yeah. So if you guys are watching live, he has a permanent head tilt. Unfortunately, he sustained a fall about 80 feet when he was only eight weeks old. Oh. Landed on the ground. So he has some neurologic damage as well as damage to that left eye. And then a few years ago, we found that it was causing him pain and discomfort. So we had it removed. So he's...

Always intently looking, whether it's on purpose or not. I've so many questions about this animal in particular and eagles in general. So the thing about birds is when you... And I owned birds as pets when I was a kid.

When you hold them, they are way lighter than they appear to be because they have to be able to fly. Their bones are hollow and so on. These things look gigantic. They look like they would weigh a lot. How much does an adult eagle weigh in at? It's my favorite question. I want you guys to tell me what you think he weighs. Because he looks like he's going to weigh, you know, like 10 pounds. But I know it's got to be lighter than that. You're so smart. That's just my guess. So I'd say if I were to put a number on it,

Six pounds. Man, you hit the nail on the head. So these guys are, he weighs about eight pounds. Reggie's a little bit lighter. So stop and think about that. So I have cats that weigh, you know, 14, that are large. But the physical strength, the way they're constructed and their ability, an eagle of this size could lift a fairly large animal up into the air, correct? Yeah, about a five pound cat.

fish. They have 10 times the gripping strength in their feet as an adult male's fist. So when he fell, he was only 8 weeks old, you said? That's correct. And at what age did they start falling out of the nest in order to learn how to fly? Well, it was clearly a little bit too early for him. We were told that the

Father was flying down to feed him until hikers found him and rescued him and brought him to a rescue center. If an eagle is born in captivity, do they learn how to fly like normal? That's a good question. It really depends. And then eagles are still protected under U.S. Fish and Wildlife, even though they...

wonderfully came off of the endangered species list in 2007. They're still heavily protected. The only reason that we have eagles at Elmwood Park Zoo is because they are unable to be released back into the wild, either due to imprint or injury. And all of ours have sustained injuries. So they're living out their best lives at Elmwood.

Not that long ago, we were talking about, you know, eagles and osprey and a few other birds of prey that have been taken off, that were taken off the endangered list and have continued to thrive, which is wonderful. In both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, we were talking about. But I was reading about one of the interesting techniques that was used and had never heard of this before in that they were early on when they were trying to repopulate, they would remove the eggs from nesting birds and

And then they would replace them with artificial ones. And they would still think that they were incubating these. And you guys, the people whose job it is to take care of these animals, would take these eggs and incubate them. By the way, we know these are fake. It makes them feel good. They're earning a check. That's crazy. So they can really be fooled by that. Yeah.

Yeah, and it depends on the individual as well. But the whole reason, the number one reason why eagles almost ran into extinction was due to human interference with the use of DDT. And it made the eggshells soft, which made the offspring not viable. So the purpose of the fake eggs is at some point, all of you guys hope to be able to run and point a finger at them and go, ha ha. Is that the big thing? Yeah. So...

So how did they, because the turnaround was actually, it had been something that had been going on for so long and it seemed to actually happen in an accelerated rate. What helped with the full turnaround? The elimination of the use of DD. It was the pesticides. It was really the issue. It was banned. Okay, wow. It's not banned everywhere in the world, but it certainly is in the U.S. And the conservation efforts put by different government agencies or...

Zoos, you know? In the wild, so obviously, you know, nature is at once sublimely beautiful and brutal. What would be coming after a bald eagle in the predatory chain? Humans. Just humans? Just humans. Nothing? They fear no other... Unless they're injured. Okay, wow. I have an interesting little bit of trivia for you guys. Do you know when...

The bald eagle was designated America's national bird officially by law. A few weeks ago. Yeah, recently. Yeah, it was just last month. Yeah. What? There was an oversight. And Joe Biden signed this last month and it passed, you know, completely, 100%. But it was apparently an oversight because it was on the national seal and people just kind of assumed it's the national bird. It wasn't until last month. Wow. Briefly, it was a seal. That was the national seal. An actual seal. Yeah.

I had no idea. No, yes, it's wonderful that it went that long without being completely codified. Now, I don't know if you guys have been to the Elmwood Park Zoo recently, but Al, you guys did a lot of work. It looks a lot different when you show up. Are the eagles in that same spot? Yeah, no, so the eagles aren't right in front, Steve, like you remembered. The last time I was there, all the stuff you were planning just sounded...

Super exciting. So where are they now? We just opened up our brand new welcome center really to educate people on why zoos matter. You actually get to look into our vet hospital, watch us do procedures. You can look into our commissary, watch us prepare all the food for the animals. We also have three safe exhibits in there, Blackfooted Ferret, a turtle exhibit, and Golden Lion Tamarins.

Great gift shop, coffee shop. But then you walk into the zoo. Eagles are currently where our Jaguar exhibits are. Not together. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But in their own area. Oh, my God. But in their own area. And like you heard, though, the eagles would still defend themselves. Yeah, yeah. But we are building a new exhibit for the eagles across our creek, which we're about to expand to. So there was all that land that had been purchased. And so that's all being developed. And so what will be the increase in...

in size when everything is fully up and running of the Elmwood Park. Yeah, so inside our current gates, we're 16 acres, but we're going to expand into a new 22 acres of exhibits. It's going to be great. I have a question about the eagles and their moods because they always look pissed off. Do they have a playful side to them?

Um, it's not the adjective I would use. I would say that they are fierce and determined and they're very good at what they do. Noah and Reggie are very different. Noah is a seasoned veteran, just celebrated his 10th season being the official live mascot for the Philadelphia Eagles. Reggie's a little bit newer. Um,

I would say that Laura and Rebecca, two members of the team, are a little bit more like Reggie. I'm sorry, more like Noah, where they're just more composed and together. And Reggie's just got a little bit more spunk and attitude and change and sometimes chaotic good like myself. Is Reggie younger than Noah? He is. So he's kind of the heir apparent when Noah goes to the great...

Bird beyond the sky. Speaking of that, President Maynard, jump in. What is the life expectancy of a bogeyman? Yeah, so if they're nice and healthy, they can live well until their 30s, if not 40s. And how old is Noah? Noah will be 24 this year. Wow. And doesn't anybody find it ironic that Kathy is the one who booked the birds? Kathy hates birds. She's doing great. I mean, she doesn't have a fear of them. She just thinks they're stupid. Oh.

I don't have a nice comment. Let me defend myself for a second. Not eagles or colorful birdies, but they were talking about going bird watching. Sorry, I can't get behind that. It's okay, we can do it for you. That was just little and brown. She doesn't like little brown birds. Sparrows she could grind up in a wood chipper. Some birds have value.

I want to know what outside of the bald eagle, what other eagles do you guys like? You know, there are golden eagles in the United States. What other eagles do you guys like talking about or even have at the Elmwood Park Zoo? Sure. Yeah. So we have two golden eagles on exhibit that are housed with our exhibit bald eagles. Noah and Reggie live behind the scenes since they are part of our ambassador collection and have a high profile job being an official live mascot.

along with the rest of our ambassador animals that we use for programming. How big are golden eagles compared to bald eagles? Bigger. Bigger. How much bigger?

It's a great question. Okay. But they're not as cool looking. I'm sorry, man. Bald eagle is just... And then another foot wingspan, probably bigger. So Noah's wingspan is about seven feet. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the bald moniker actually has to do with the white, the color of the feathers, right? Yeah, that's correct. Because I've never seen one with a toupee. And they're actually brown when they're younger.

Brown heads and they actually look like baby golden eagles. So they're difficult to tell apart. So Noah's wingspan is how far? Seven feet. Seven feet. All right. So I have a large wingspan. So my arms from tip to tip, six feet, six inches. So can you fly? Yeah.

But no, compared... I'm standing here. Do you see how far apart my arms are? His wings go out farther than that. That's crazy. Well, it was a concern on whether or not I was actually going to be able to handle him. You guys can all see me. I'm a relatively short human. My arm span is...

much shorter than Laura's arm span. So it was, they stand like football players. They have a very wide stance and a far reach with their face. So we have to make sure that we're nice and safe and have been able to handle him, which is great. Preston. Yeah. Wingspan. He's down to four or five pounds. I know you're dieting. Is that your goal? I'm working on it.

We're going to have four or five pounds. You can go to eight pounds. He's eight pounds, so you're good. In our area, when you see them flying, a lot of people often will mistake a turkey vulture for a bald eagle. I love going to this place called Hawk Mountain where you can see birds of prey flying and migrating. Give our listeners some pointers as to how to pick out a bald eagle as opposed to a turkey vulture or another bird of prey. Awesome question. Yes. Turkey vultures and black vultures and bald eagles now are...

can be seen pretty prevalently around the area, around the Schuylkill where there's water. You can distinctly see that white head and that white tail in the sky. And then you have the arches of the wings to look for if they are shaped in more of a V shape or if they're more flat to tell the difference.

In the sky, it's hard to see if the sun's out if you can see that red head of a turkey vulture or a black vulture. But a black vulture, they have almost white fingertips, it looks like, on the ends of their wings, and that's a good indication. Quick question. Watching footage of bald eagles hunt fish...

when they go down into the water from an aerial attack, they go like down. I mean, it seems like almost above their beak level and then bounce back up. I assume their bodies just naturally have developed to be water resistant in some way, right? I mean, what are they...

What is it? Is there sort of an oil or... There we go. You're nodding. Yep, that's exactly it. So they'll have glands where they put, you know, or they'll have naturally oily feathers, not anywhere near as much as, let's say, waterfowl. But these guys have been known to swim like humans.

with their wings instead of their feet. If they capture a prey item that is too big for them to carry in flight, they will move their wings and swim. Wow. And come into shore so that they can eat that prey. Wow. Okay. Now, bald eagles, and I may be wrong about this, but they seem to be, in the reproductive world, the porn stars of the birds. Yeah. Because they do it in a very interesting, flashy, visual way. Can you tell us a little bit about how they bang? Okay.

So the mating ritual of a bald eagle is pretty intricate. They go to a ramada. They fly high to the sky. They grasp talons. They spiral downward while copulating. And then before they hit the ground, they release talons. And that has a particular name, does it not? That there's a specific name? Wow, I wish I knew what that was. How high up do they usually, I mean...

Do they usually go to the same altitude? No. So that's a really good question. Vultures are going to be much higher oftentimes than a bald eagle. Bald eagles can fly pretty high. I don't know the exact. If I was doing that, I'd need about three feet. But they have to fly decently high to start said ritual. Do any other birds of prey mate like that?

That's a good question. I'm uncertain, but many, many, many bird species have very particular mating rituals. Courting is a very particular and common practice. Do the elephants mate like that? Not that I'm aware of, but I could be. Quick question about condors. So condors are the largest of the birds in North America, correct? Yeah, the California condor, I believe, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, the California conch. Are there any in captivity? San Diego has some. Okay. Hey, Al, question for you. Steve had mentioned elephants. What are the largest animals you guys have at Elmwood Park? We got giraffe, bison. Our elk are pretty large. And can you still do the feeding, the giraffes and all that stuff? You can. We have a nice behind-the-scenes right now because of the temperature. Even though today is beautiful, it's a little too cold for them at times.

So you can go behind the scenes in our giraffe barn. By the way, your rig for feeding the giraffe, I think, is just the best. Yeah, it's great. Because you get a great angle and everything. Wait, is it still where you go up, you kind of walk upstairs to feed them? Yep. Okay, I don't know why. We're actually building a new deck. One time I went, I had to feed them from down below, and the woman that was with me was like, they slobber so much, you have to be careful. I was like, oh, I don't know if I...

That would be Gerald. Gerald the giraffe? Yeah, we got one giraffe that slobbers. You know him by name. That's what they were warning me of. The bison, last time I was there, I thought I only saw one. Do you still only have one? Yeah, we only have one bison and one elk. Because of the bridge that's coming in, we're getting ready to expand, so we're not adding more bison or elk to those exhibits until that gets in.

Okay, because I kind of thought he looked lonely. Like, doesn't he need a friend? Our staff does a great job of keeping him enriched. He loves the public when they're there. All right, okay. Have any of you guys done the ropes course or zip lines there? No, I never did it. They're fantastic. I know. I really want to do it. Jace is, like, old enough and can handle that stuff now. And that's expanding, too, right? On the other side of the creek. We're actually going to shut it down for a little bit as we do the expansion. All right. Okay, yeah. And we went.

oh my god like eight nine years ago it's been a long time since I've done the the course but it was impressive and we've done a few of those before I was at the zoo once and Jace was was smaller Jace is my son um and I was like I really want to try this I could hear a woman up above she goes they didn't tell me it was this hard she goes I want to get down I was like okay we might not be

By the way, we've said it, and I know Kathy will agree with me on this. For some reason, the Elmwood Park ice cream is so freaking good. I know. Is it still there? Of course. What is it? Of course it's still there. What's the name of it? The brand. So it's our local, it used to be Petrucci's years ago. It's now done through Tosco's. Whatever it is, it's damn good. And then they have the brew bar.

What's the brew pub there? Zoo Brew. Zoo Brew. Yeah, we have our own beer through Von C as well. It's great. So what's the plan for Noah and Reggie on Super Bowl Day? You guys do anything special? We're going to celebrate. So we had the big pep rally. Yep. We had Bird Bot there, which was awesome. Yes. A little over 3,000 people came out to the zoo. It was great. How did Bird Bot behave himself? Was he good? He was great. He was great. Yeah. And then we're going to celebrate just like everybody else. Excellent. We're ready. All right. We're ready. It's a lot of beer, I guess. Nice.

And then if there's a parade that happens, will the birds be involved in that, you think? We get a lot of calls. We actually got a call to go to the Super Bowl. It's just a little too much to transport. I'll bet. They can fly themselves, can't they? Right? Yeah.

That'll be up to the team. How the hell am I going to get it? Well, wait. Now, what about the eagle that actually flies over the crowd at the games? Is he going to the Super Bowl? No, but he's not our eagle. That's a contracted eagle out of Tennessee through the American Eagle Foundation. They're great, but that's not ours. So if the eagles were not playing in the Super Bowl...

They would fly the bird during the national anthem. But because that bird flies at our games, they're kind of looking at it as... Favoritism. Yeah, that makes sense. I just talked to their head of marketing about it the other day. And so they're not looking to fly it. Does that eagle stay at the Elmwood Park Zoo when it comes to the eagle? No, in Tennessee. They bring it in just to fly it and they bring it back. And it leaves right away? It leaves right away. Oh.

All right, so leading up to the game this weekend and this week, if people want to come and see Noah and Reggie, they can come by the Elmwood Park Zoo? You have to schedule an appointment for that. Okay. Because they work so hard and they have excruciating schedules, they are off exhibit. They're not on exhibit. They stay behind the scenes because they're worked.

like all of our other education animals. Okay. But yeah, you can go to our website. There's different experiences to book that kind of stuff. The last time I went, my wife and I had an appointment and you learn a lot. You guys are always so informative because as you can see right here with this segment, we have a billion questions and you guys are always very helpful. Yep.

All right, well, we're so glad you guys could bring him by this morning. And I think it just adds more to the excitement here. It does. Oh, and besides, these are veterans of the games. And everybody who's getting a tattoo done right now is going to be able to come in and get a picture taken with Noah. So we're going to do that during the commercial break. We'll have everybody kind of file in and get a photo because he's a bit of a ham. The camera loves him. He is beautiful. He's gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous.

All right, well, thank you guys for being here, and we appreciate it. And to get all information on the Elmwood Park Zoo, what's the best way to do that? Go to the website, elmwoodparkzoo.org. That sounds easy to me. All right, thank you very much to Al and Laura and Alisa for being here from the Elmwood Park Zoo this morning as we're getting ready for the eagles flying high in New Orleans.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. WMMR. Thanks, Kev. You know, it's funny, Casey. I pointed this out before Noah, the eagle, came in here. Our friends from Elmwood Park Zoo brought him this gigantic case that houses him and brought him in and let him kind of acclimate. They have this little sliding door that would open almost like a speakeasy. Like, you look through it and go, yeah, it's me. And they open it up slowly to let him get use of the area. I thought...

the balloons might freak him out a little bit. So we have the balloons that were done by Balloons by Victoria. Kathy's cousin, Vicky, did this amazing, huge display, which you can see in the background here. And I thought maybe that might freak him out a bit, but he was totally cool. Wouldn't it be cool if every morning prior to news, we wheel in that black thing and Kathy's in there? Oh my God, that would be great. And we slowly open the door up so we can just see her eyes. You have to wait until I'm in a good mood.

mood to let me out. I thought it was funny though because before the break started, we had him here and we were all like whispering. Yes. Okay, don't want it to disturb the bird. Meanwhile, guys, he goes to Eagles games. Yeah, right. I know. I was trying to think of that. Totally. Yeah, so that was really cool. And

And another exciting thing, and I haven't pointed this out much. It's been sitting here this whole time. One of the things I'm looking forward to next week is that we get to open up this envelope that Casey placed here. Yes. Casey's premonition of the game. It's a vision that came to you. This is not a prediction. This is a premonition. It's a premonition. Because I don't like to predict. I think I have bad luck with predictions, but I just had this number. You said you had a dream in Cousin B.

No. But I did have a dream. Listen, I've been having dreams about the Eagles for the last week and a half or so. And I had another dream last night. I don't want to say what the dream was. It doesn't really matter because it's just a dream. But like...

Yeah, these guys are in my conscious, my subconscious. Is it feeling good? Listen, this is the best team in football right now. Like, hands down. Do you know what I mean? But you have to play the game. You have to play the game. And, you know, like, I'm sorry, but we have the best team in the NFL right now. I respect where you're coming from also on this because you have taken...

And you've caught crap for it for trying to take a metered approach throughout the season. And if you're here at this point now and you're saying this psychologically, I think, you know, I trust you. It bodes very well. I agree with everything you're saying. So here's what I want from you on Monday. Yeah.

win or lose, I don't want you to indicate one way or another what might be in this envelope. I want you to stay completely stone-faced about it because I have a feeling that this is a winning score in here because Casey never would have written down a losing score. He never would have written that down. I think that would go against everything. He would write red rum of his being. He'd write red rum, we'd have to look at it backwards.

But I'm assuming this is a win. And if they do win, I'm excited to see what this envelope holds. Have you heard the Rocky II comparisons? No. With the Eagles? So in 2004, the Eagles played the Patriots in the Super Bowl and they lost. And then a few years later, they played the Patriots in the Super Bowl and they won. Two years ago, the Eagles played the Chiefs in the Super Bowl and they lost. The theory goes that because of Rocky, because of the statue, because of Philadelphia, that this year...

when they play the Chiefs that they will win. This is the sequel. That was the one where Adrian was in a comma. Wait, that's a coma, Rock. You're reading that wrong, buddy. Because I thought with medicine, maybe she could be in a semi-comma. So that's an interesting analogy. I think Rocky 2. I love all the stuff. Not only is it Saquon Barkley's

birthday on Sunday, but it's also Cooper DeGene's birthday is on Sunday as well. And if you added their numbers, their jersey numbers together, it equals 59 and it is Super Bowl 59. By the way, I'm just going to refer to it as Licks from now on. I like that. I like it as Licks. Casey had sent us a text and was like, we should just call it Super Bowl Licks. L-I-X. Right.

Very cool. So quick question, Preston, and I don't know if anything has come in as far as because we've been putting out the clarion call for, you know. BirdBot? For people to offer, you know, and again, as you've pointed out very accurately, we can only try to massage BirdBot in the right direction of a trip down tomorrow to New Orleans. Have we heard anything? BirdBot.

I don't know. Marissa has been quite busy today and probably hasn't had a chance to surf all of the social media accounts to check on that. But, I mean, last check, we had somebody who was going to hang down at 4 a.m. on Thursday. And that will work, too. Yeah. Ideally, we'd like to get somebody on the move on Wednesday. But nothing yet, Marissa? Yeah, we're still having people that are leaving Thursday. A lot of people are loving Helen.

Helen's fault. Yeah. Okay. Oh, my God. Listen, I was thinking about that. Even though the timing's not right, Helen is such a perfect person to take care of BirdBot and follow through on BirdBot's mission. If we could get Boxer Crackers Carl. Oh, my God. On that RV. So their crew has a name. I think it's Three Babes and a Bill.

Three games and a bill. All right. Nice. I got an email from our friend who is the Atlantic County Commissioner, Amy Gatto. She used to be the mayor of Mays Landing. She's called into the show. Yeah. And she wanted a ruling, a superstition ruling from me. And I was just kind of messing with her. I just want to say this on air. Like, don't take anything I say with a grain of salt. But she said in 2018, she said- Don't take it with a grain of salt or do take it with a grain of salt? Do take it with a grain of salt. Okay. Yeah. Or don't. I don't know. I'm not good with words. Okay.

Don't put a monkey in my ranch. But in 2018, when the birds won, she was with her dad in a main cabin to watch the game. She went to Arizona in 2023 solo and they lost. Unfortunately, and we send our condolences to Amy and her whole family because her dad died unexpectedly.

last January. But she says that she's like, am I allowed? She asked me, am I allowed to go to the Super Bowl? She said, I already have a flight hotel and rental car booked and also have a cardboard cutout of her dad all ready to travel with her. But she's hesitating on pulling the trigger.

on a ticket because of what happened in 2023. You can go. Right? Yeah. Listen, and I take a completely different tact than you do, Casey, but we talked to Rob McElhenney the other day and he said, listen, what I do here and in my home has nothing to do with what actually happens on the field. Now, if you're in the stadium and you're cheering on and you're supporting, then...

definitely has an effect. He says he's heard it directly from his players at Wrexham. Professional sports, professional athletes that they do respond to that. So I think her there screaming her head off is going to do nothing but good. I say pull the trigger now because I just read that like Super Bowl ticket prices have gone down significantly over the last couple of days. So my

friend is actually headed out there and is still waiting. He said he's watching. They're dropping. And he said, as it gets closer, you know, because, I mean, it could be game day and, you know, somebody hasn't sold the ticket they want to sell. They'll drop it. Nick, our connection to Rob and his liquor. Yeah, Four Walls. Four Walls. I'm sorry. I had a brain fart there. And we have someone who's

who works within the company, the organization. Explain what that is because that's an option for people who are getting BirdBot down to New Orleans, correct? Yeah, so Ashley called into the show yesterday. Ashley Purdom is her name. And Ashley and our buddy Vince from Philly Sports Trips and Rob McElhenney, they're all getting to it. I love the fact that there are so many Philadelphia institutions that are making this a Philly party in New Orleans. But Four Walls, Philly Sports Trips, Rob McElhenney, some of the Sonny crew are going to be there.

And so I'm going to keep in touch with Ashley as the week goes on. I think she's actually going tomorrow, Steve. Okay. Vince. I talked to Vince last night. Vince was down in New Orleans getting stuff set up. He had to come back yesterday and then he's going back down tomorrow. So Vince is all over the place. That's him, yeah. And I believe Marissa...

is going to New Orleans on Friday. She hasn't bought a ticket yet either and it really does come down to price point for her as well. Or did she buy a ticket? She's got a look on her face. She's shaking her head. Speaking of New Orleans, Helen's on the phone. Let's go to listener Helen. Hi, Helen. Good morning. Good morning, guys.

Guys, good morning. Let's do this. So BirdBot got back into me and I'm telling you, I'm your girl. I am your girl. So Helen, you have a lot of fans and we really, there's a lot of favoring of you. The one thing, the one thing that could supersede you in this case is if someone steps forward who can go down or is going down tomorrow and that's only for

you know, purposes of the broadcast and so on and so forth, but you are clearly in the running in a big way. So I just rented, I upgraded to an Escalade so Bird Buck can have his own damn seat. We are

Hey!

Helen, I'm sorry to interrupt. Are you going to meet Jelly Roll since you know the producers and all that? Hell yes. We're going to be following everybody. You guys want to follow me. WFMZ television is following me. Yeah. We're doing everything that they want to do. Just to make sure, your time of departure is tomorrow.

4 a.m. Thursday. 4 a.m. Thursday. And rolling right through, we got four adults that are fine to drive, and we're on top. All right. With a projected arrival time of when in New Orleans? We're fine to drive. We're going to probably arrive at probably midnight. All right. Thursday night. Midnight, Thursday night. And then we could talk Friday morning. We could talk on Friday morning. Boy, that'd be a lot of moving around.

I don't know. I like Helen a lot. There's a lot to recommend, Helen. All right. So you are in the absolute lead, Helen. But again, that's all predicated on whoever has BirdBot. So please make sure that you're dialed in to the social media stuff. Everyone knows who you are now. I love it. So BirdBot got back to me and said, I'm definitely into running. They got back to me this morning again and said, I'm into running. Keep doing what I'm doing. Yeah.

We really want to do this. I mean, we're, you know, we're fun people. We're definitely Philadelphia Eagles followers, and we're more President Steve followers than anybody. No, we love you. That sounds awesome. We appreciate you getting in touch with us. Yes. Very, very cool. Well, I totally love you guys. I appreciate all your support. Hey. And I'm going to be all over this map if I'm taking that bird boat. Helen.

Helen, can you sing a little bit of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend for us? I'll sing anything you want me to sing. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. Yes! I can't. I have a rusty voice. All right, Helen. We love you. We'll talk to you soon, okay? I love you guys. Keep it just. All right, thank you very much. Here she goes. Helen.

Huge Bird's fan. She's got TV stations following her. And all she needs is one last little bit, and that is Bird Bot. Which, as she said, she upgraded to an Escalade. So he has his own damn seat. I love also that she's bringing down insomnia cookies and tasty cakes. Love it. It tastes like it's like you did with the hers stuff that you brought when you went down. Yep. All right. Well, we'll see what happens. Let's get to the Bizarre File. Here we go. Is that?

WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. All right, this morning is brought to you by Nifty 50s. Game day just got better with Nifty 50s. You can grab the limited time mint Oreo shake Kwan milkshake.

Or fuel your crew with a nugget, finger, or burger tray. Perfect for the big game. And you can taste the memories at Nifty 50s. Well, some massage parlors come up with unique ways to serve their clients. And now that list of new ideas includes setting the customer on fire. Wow. A viral

from a South Asian country. I'm not sure exactly where. It shows a massage parlor with three attendants around a client lying on a table with a towel over them. I saw this. One of the attendants, I mean, they put a liquid over them and then they light the entire person on fire.

And then another one turns off the light so you can really get the dramatic effect. All I wanted was a handjob. A few seconds later, one of the attendants covers the fire with a thick, wet towel, put the flames out. Chinese and Tibetan medicine includes fire dragon therapy, which is covering someone with an alcohol-soaked towel and setting it on fire to help normalize the body's temperature balance and alleviate pain in muscles and joints. This could be it. Yes. Yes.

But of course, you know, if they believe that setting you on fire reduces stress, you may want to consider that a bit of a hazard.

English YouTuber James Burton is a former toy designer and decided to put his skills to the test by redesigning the motorcycle. I saw this thing. It is so cool. Yeah? The finished product can move in almost any direction and is self-balancing. I saw this. This is so cool. He pulled it off by replacing the wheels with what are called walking globes, the official name of those big balls that you see clowns at the circus walking on. Yes.

So he went through a bunch of different prototypes and eventually led to the one. We're watching a video on our side right now of this. And eventually leads to the one, Casey, you're going to see it with the circus balls. It's not a modified motorbike. It is a new design that he used a 3D printer to bring to life. Nick, jump forward in the video a little bit. It's up on the screen here, Casey.

And it can move forward, backward, and to either side as well. Oh, my God. Take all of my money right now. How much fun does this thing look? Are you kidding me? Yeah.

Think about that. The design is not perfect since the clown balls aren't actually attached to the bike. Oh, my balls! If you ride it too fast, they come off, but they'll work on fixing it so that doesn't happen at a later point. But it's awesome, man, because you can literally go sideways and twist in circles and stuff. I wonder how you would...

I mean, let him figure it out. Secure it. You can't. You can't because then the ball wouldn't be able to move independently. The only way to secure it, I think, better is to maybe have it encompass the ball more. Yeah, I see what you're saying. A bigger ball bag. Yeah. Anyway.

A confrontation between two dogs on Fort Lauderdale Beach escalated into a shooting resulting in injuries to a woman and her dog. Who gave the dog a gun? Authorities stated that two dogs began fighting when one of the owners allegedly drew a firearm and shot the other dog. What?

The girlfriend of the injured dog's owner was also struck by the gunfire. Witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots during the altercation. A witness described seeing a woman walking with two dogs when another man approached with his dog leading to the confrontation. The witness noted that the man's dog appeared to be off-guard.

leash though police have not confirmed whether any of the dogs were leashed at the time emergency responders transported the injured woman to a hospital where officials indicated she is expected to recover the wounded dog was taken to a veterinary group in fort lauderdale and is reported to be in stable condition after surgery but for some reason the guy decided a gun was a pretty good idea for their issue

There was a man. Let's see. The charitable way to look at this is that this guy got confused about escape rooms and thought the point was to get in. Tulsa police say David Bell, a former maintenance worker for the escape room, had been harassing the owner since he was let go by the building owner a year ago. So he broke into the escape room.

When officers arrived, Bell allegedly threw glass objects at them and retreated inside. He was found hiding between floors on top of an elevator and then was arrested. I don't know if he was trying to steal anything or what. Last time he did it in an escape room was when? Good question. Oh, me? Yeah.

It's been a couple months. Okay, because you were on a tear for a while. Yeah, we're ready to go again. All right, two more quick stories. This April, it'll be man versus robot for real. The Beijing Economic Technical Development Area is going to be hosting a half marathon pitting human runners against humanoid robots.

On the human side, approximately 12,000 people are scheduled to run in the event against dozens of bipedal robots developed by major robotics companies. To participate, robots are required to be between one and a half feet and six feet tall and have the ability to run or at least walk on two legs. There's also prize money for the winning human or winning robot developer. Can the humans be one and a half feet as well? I don't know about that. All right. And then the last story. I love this idea.

In Malaysia, 28-year-old Shezali Suleiman has created a job for himself as a villain for hire. So on social media, his ads suggest his service is a way for clients to show off their masculinity and make a big impression on their partner or romantic crushes.

With a look similar to a long-haired biker, the idea is that a man would pay Sulaimane for his services. Oh, man. And then he would meet the couple at a predetermined location and start picking on the partner. Then that gives the client the chance to intervene and pose as a hero or a knight in Shia's armor. It's brilliant. The one possible issue you...

pick the wrong guy. Right. As long as you've met ahead of time and he's aware. Send me a picture, please. It's a great idea. It is a great idea. The rate for service is, and this is Malaysia, so the money may be a little bit lower, $22 on a weekday and $33 on the weekend.

as well as travel costs. And that's what I have in your bizarre file. There was a girl that I was sweet on in high school. And I think the thing that won her over was that we ended up babysitting a bunch of my cousins on this particular Sunday. And I think she saw me interacting with the kids. Being very paternal? Dude, she kissed me that night. Really? I swear to God. In a special place or on your mouth? No, just on my mouth, which at that time was very special.

Still is. Yeah, it still is. But no, seriously, I pined after this girl for a good month and a half, two months, something like that. But I was such a puss. And you eventually ended up pitching some woo. Yeah. Woo pitcher. Yeah, woo pitcher. So, I mean, yeah. No, I think there's something to be said for that. And the old gallant defending someone's honor, paying to have a fake...

I love it. Altercation, death, a fake villain. Yes. I love it. All right. We have another break to take. Let's give away our final $50 gift card from Nifty 50s. We'll take caller number 12, 215-263-WMMR. Now, make sure that you download the Nifty 50s app today. You can order your Nifty 50s favorites with just a tap and bring the deliciousness of Nifty 50s straight to your door. So get on that. We'll come back in a second. A lesson question.

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Full talking heads on 93.3 WMMR. Once in a lifetime. It's 18 minutes after 10. Preston and Steve show. Our word of the week, prizes week. It's a full setup from our friends at the Piccadilly Inn. And it's a $500 big game package. You'll beat everybody. Everybody's going to be happy. You need those letters collected in order to make the word. We'll give it away on Friday. We'll get today's letter coming up a little bit. Not too far from now.

Let me see. You know what? Before we dive into lesson, question, trash, music, news, stuff like that, I think we need to send Casey back out to the Preston Steve Acme Lounge because we do have our special Tattoo Day taking place today. And this one we are calling Bleed for the Birds. And we have had a variety of people come through here and get tattooed up, tatted up.

With fresh Eagles ink from our friends at Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. How many cases out in the green room now or out in the Acme Lounge? How are we doing, Case? How many people left? We're down to our last three people. So we were tattooing nine people this morning. We were trying to do like, you know, three an hour. And we're down to our last three as we speak. All right, we're going to say hi to some people here. Yeah, so you know what? We have black listener Chris right here who's wearing...

Sean, sorry, my bad. He's wearing his old black list of t-shirt that we got. If you remember, it's purple with the black font. And so where are you from again? Plymouth Meeting. He's from Plymouth Meeting. I thought I recognized him earlier. I said hi when he came in to meet the bird.

What kind of design are you getting, Sean? Which one of those is it? The Eagles logo with his tongue out. With his tongue out? I don't think I saw that one. No, me neither. I'm looking at the flash sheets and everything. And well, let me go here. Heads up for a second, Sam. Let me just go to Iza. Did you do some flourishes on this or? Oh, no, this was Nate's design, actually. But it's sticking right here on my light.

But I love it. I mean, it looks like it has like maybe some sort of Japanese flourishes on it or, you know, like because I'm feeling like a dragon or something like that. Oh, yeah, I definitely see that. It's definitely American trad type of tattoo. But, you know, American what? Tradition. Trad. That's that's the way the cool kids say tradition. You know? Yeah.

Who's got time to use all of those syllables? Ishanel takes forever. All right. Who else we have in there, Kenny? Well, you know, let me go over because she was saying that that was Nate's design. So let me hop over here to Nate. Nate, so that's your personal design? It was. I wanted to draw something up a little.

A little out of the box, a little silly, a little fun, and really glad that he's getting that. It's nice. Casey, ask him. I did not think someone was going to get it, but here we are. Ask him what the most popular tattoo of today has been because everyone has had the opportunity to make their own selection.

Of today? Yeah. Probably the love sign. I just did two of those in a row, and now I'm doing a Go Birds. Okay. But actually, I've seen three Go Birds, and we'll come over to you in a second, but you're doing a Go Birds on this young lady. What is your name? My name's Beth. And Beth, where are you from? I am from Harleysville. Oh, hey, Beth. Hi.

Probably run into you from time to time. I work at a bar right up the road from your house. What bar? The Dutch. Oh, you work at the Dutch. Of course. Yes, I do. Nice. How long you been there? Uh,

Many, many years. I've lived in Skipback since 2016. Fantastic. All right. Well, we'll grab a beer and a burger later on or something. I got good stuff there. All right. Well, glad you're in for the tattoo. Who's this guy? All right. So what is your name, sir? And where are you from? My name is Randy from Bridgeton, New Jersey. All right. Randy from Bridgeton, New Jersey. And he is getting... So we have, I think, two of the...

The most unique tattoos of the morning. You're getting a swoop tattoo. Yeah, yeah. And do we know who, I'm asking the tattoo artist, who designed the swoop tattoo? That's Amy. So Amy, she designed this. Hi, how are you doing?

From what I understand, Amy, you have been the tattoo artist that has done a whole lot of the Preston and Steve show tattoos, right? Yeah, I love doing them. I love seeing what people come in with and how they're going to hide the P.S. from there. Because that's the key. They have to have P.N.S. or Preston and Steve somewhere in the tattoo. Yep. Some people hide it. Some people are a little more blatant about it. I love it. You do great work. Thank you. I appreciate that. No problem, man.

All right, Casey, I think we're doing solid. We have the rest of our tattoo recipients here in the studio with us right now. Yeah. So we're about ready to wrap up in case he's out in the Acme Lounge. But I'm loving this, man. It's perfect. We're getting as tried and true as you can get as fandom goes. So it's only Tuesday, and I feel that we have made as...

an effort to make everything turn out correctly as we possibly can and we're only adding more on. Yep. All right. Well, we're going to move on with business as usual. I got a lesson question. We are going to give away a $50 gift card for Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse in Northeast Philly and the question that I will ask is a restaurant related question.

Which... Sorry, I have the tattoo music still going. Which restaurant is one step up from Golden Corral? 215-263-WMMR. We mentioned that in the 8 o'clock hour. Which restaurant is one step up

from the Golden Corral. 215-263-WMMR. Let's see if you heard it. We'll do the trash while you call in. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, what you got for us today, Steve? Well, John Irwin...

better known as the voice of He-Man, has died at the age of 88. Sadly, Irwin had just begun work on a contemporary retelling of He-Man called They-Man. Hey! Rapper Finesse, two times, I know you're a huge fan, Preston, has a warrant out for his arrest after making terroristic threats against a woman outside a Texas smoke shop. He's a good kid who's just misunderstood, said his father, Finesse, one time. Oh, my God.

And finally, Amy Schumer revealing she stopped using Ozempic after losing 30 pounds because she had a, quote, horrible experience. Schumer says she had gone to her CVS to pick up the medicine and was jumped by a gang of diabetics.

Let us see if you happen to know the lesson question this morning. Which restaurant is one step up from the Golden Corral? We'll go to Jody, see if we can get a winner. Hey, Jody, morning. Good morning. All right, Jody, do you know which restaurant is one step up from the Golden Corral?

Is it Sizzler? Sizzler. That is correct. Hi, Jody. Hang on. Got yourself a $50 gift card for Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse in Northeast Philly, and you can order catering for the big game from Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse. Treat your friends. Phil Dovey's best authentic hickory smoked barbecue, and you can score big on game day with delicious smoked meats, homemade side dishes, sals and desserts. This is Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse.

Off the Cotman Avenue exit of 95. And you can order online at SweetLucies.com. And go birds. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR.

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A moment or two to go see them. But Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms are teaming up for a co-headlining tour this summer with Spin Doctors joining them on many of the dates. That's a pretty good bill. Is that right out of, you know, the 90s grunge scene or what? And those are the big shows that are those big collection shows are really taking off. Yeah, so Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, Spin Doctors 30-day tour.

It's a horn tour, essentially. It's kind of like that. Yeah, horns are going to love it. So, horn down. Oh, I'm sorry. Horizons of rock developing everywhere. So, they're going to be in Atlantic City at the Ocean Casino Resort on July 19th. That's a Saturday night. You could do that. I could make that happen. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, 10 a.m. local time.

Well, they may not have won more Grammys this time around, but the spring leg of the Black Keys tour is set and ready to go. The No Rain, No Flowers tour is going to kick off the spring round on May 23rd. Tickets will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

They're going to be playing the closest date I saw is the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. And that's on June 14th. They had to cancel a show here. They canceled the whole tour. Yeah, weren't they playing the Wells Fargo Center? Yes. And was it lack of ticketitis? You know what? They canceled the entire thing. So I don't know if it was just that.

All right. Or not, but they're certainly not playing the Wells Fargo Center. I mean, they're playing the Stone Pony. Oh, it was actually that so many people wanted to buy tickets. There's too many? They didn't want to disappoint them. Rather than make enemies. But they're a great band. They really are. They are. So, and by the way, bonus, the band says fans can expect a new album this year. All right, and then one last thing, and that's it. Short music news. But Steven Tyler...

May have had to retire from touring because of damage to his voice, but that didn't stop him from taking the stage with some friends to belt out classic hits at his Grammys watch party at the Hollywood Palladium on Sunday night. His grandmother throws a party. No, not his grandma. Oh. Grammys. It's the Gum Gums. The Gum Gums. Yeah, yeah. No, Tyler was joined by extreme guitarist Nuna Betancourt. Oh, wow. Mick Fleetwood, Laney Wilson, Chris Robinson. Yeah.

and Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton. So his voice didn't... I mean, they just stopped the tour dead in its tracks and he retired. So how is he doing this if the voice was that dramatically shot? The difference between playing a gig and touring. Yeah, I guess. Especially for a singer.

I mean, those guys, they really can tear it up if they do too many nights in a row. So I guess it's either try to do a super limited spread out tour or retire from it and then every now and then do a one-off show. That's my guess. So the event raised money for Stevens Janie's Fund, Nonprofit Foundation, and for Los Angeles Wildlife Relief Organization. And this was six songs, Steve.

Oh, okay. So it wasn't like a full-on rock show. All right, and that's what I have in music news. So we're going to take one more quick break. We'll come back in a moment, and we will await the arrival of one Mr. Pierre Robert, and we'll get the letter of the day, the word of the week prize, and turn it over to him. So we'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us. In MMR's early days, we used carrier pigeons for requests, but some people got mad at us.

So now we have the text line at 39333. It's faster, better, and there's less poop. So text us anytime at 39333. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Warning, one of my favorite moments of NMRBQ.

Last year. A lot of favorite moments at MMRBQ last year. And those were definitely one of them. Let's make more memories this year. Yes. May 10th. That's when the show is. WMMR.com for all the details. And you'll be able to share stories of all the things you said and did at that particular day and event. So, I'm hoping to be a part of it.

Today has been one hell of a day. I would like to thank a few people that made this broadcast what it was. I want to thank, first of all, the band Snack Time. They were great. We had all of them come by this morning. They played one of their original songs. They played the Eagles Fight song. That is part of the Pep Rally concert series that we're doing this week. Every day we're going to try to get a musical performance, one or two if we can.

friends and celebs that are going to belt out the Eagles fight song. So that was a good way to have that carry on today. Then I would like to thank our friends at the Elmwood Park Zoo this morning for bringing by Noah the Bald Eagle. So thank you to Al Zone who's the CEO and director. Laura Soder who is assistant director and education and Eagle team lead. And also thank you to Lisa Tyler Ritchie who is here.

I want to thank Nifty 50s for bringing by all the food that they brought. They came loaded for bear. Yeah, and I got to tell you, listen, I've been going to Nifty 50s since they opened. Oh, no. Look who's here. Ladies and gentlemen.

Sorry, but we were interrupted. We're in the company of greatness. I accept your nomination. And I shall be a great mayor. I have no effing idea what I'll do, but I can tell you this. I will be the best mayor that you've ever had. And our boys in...

Blue. Thank you. They almost part-headed. Yeah, they almost got it. And the people that stood up and gave a round of applause to Pierre Robert are tattoo recipients. This morning...

For Bleed for the Birds. And thank you very much to the wonderful people at Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. They are the guys that have been handling the Preston and Steve Tattoos Day for a number of years now. I mean, we have an army of people out there supporting Preston and Steve Tattoos. I want to thank Amy and Nate and Iza for being our tattoo artists this morning. And you can go to at Floating World Tattoos and see their artwork.

uh amy ferreira tattoos is her handle at instagram uh nate underscore rose underscore tattoo for nate and then either is iza dot t-a-t-t-z tats uh you can find them on instagram and all their work and they're at 1729 south street and uh so thanks guys for doing that and uh

bringing these uh these fans to another level yes and their love of the birds i think that's all the thank yous oh and by the way yes lizzie hale was supposed to perform today and i'll reiterate what we have coming up tomorrow but she's going to join us tomorrow excellent you know what's funny is that you know reading the email from uh her handlers like she wanted to do this right and uh they had the late practice last night and she's like i just i she wants to do it right so she's like can i have another day no she's really she's dialed in it's so cool to see that case yep

All right, so letter of the day, my man. Sure. All right, we'll do that, and then we'll see what you got going on. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right, and the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. R as in reality. All right, and we have this $500 big game package from Piccadilly Inn to feed 35 to 40 people this Sunday. And it comes with the wings, tails, mac and cheese, salad, all this stuff. Just tons of things. And you have to make the trip to the picc.

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It makes you feel good, doesn't it? It was lovely. Thank you. Thank you all. I'm sure you were put up to it by these people. Actually, it was Steve Wilson's idea. Yes. God bless you, Steve Wilson. You great, great man. You great, great man. You will put him in your administration once you become mayor. You'll be chief of vegetarian ribs.

Yes, yes. It's going to be... We're going to have some parties down there in City Hall. I'm going to paint City Hall like maybe half pink and half orange. And then with some green for the sports thing and then some blue. And I think it's going to lift off like a rocket ship. I want to hear that speech when you say, and of course it's green for the sports thing. Yeah.

What do you think about when they light them up here? Because this past weekend it was that brilliant green. And the lighting that they've installed looks fantastic. It really does. It's gotten better and better over the years. I mean, a couple... Well, when they won the thing to go to the thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I was down...

I'm just trying to be specific. I was down there, and I mean, the whole city is lit up. And again, whatever lights they're using really are marvelous. If they win the next thing to win the thing, do you think you're going to go back into the city to come with the thing? Yeah, I will go down to be near the thing if the thing happens. If I'm there and the thing doesn't happen, then I'll just keep drinking. But I have a number of taverns that are very near Broad Street. I did it when they won the thing last time.

And I was only two bars away from Broad Street. And I wound out there. I've never quite seen anything like it. Because you were, were you there when that happened? Not for the Eagles. You were there for the Phillies. Yeah, in 2008, I went to Broad Street. The first thing or the second thing? The thing in 2008 for the other thing with the other sport. Yeah, the other thing. Yeah, and the other guys. Yeah, there's this thing and that thing. Get it straight, okay? And so for that thing, that's when you said we did it. Right. Yes, and this thing. I did.

dulcet tones hurts my ears so bad so over modulated but last time when they did it I didn't have time to rehearse anyway I mean there were so many cool moments because people came out on the streets my favorite was these two guys that were wearing these old jerseys and they belonged to one of their fathers and one of their grandfathers who had both died and had never lived to see the eagles make the thing

So hopefully they'll make the thing and there'll be lots of things. I meant that they were wearing the jerseys, not that family members had died. Right, right, right. Yes, exactly. They didn't like the weekend at Bernie's. So we have on the show today, back on track, which is where I like to be. We have blocks of Alice Cooper. She laughs.

And a block. It's Alice's birthday today. It's Noodle's birthday from the offspring. Get a block of offspring on. And dropkick Murphy's. All right. We will be ready, sir. I want to thank our... Yeah. We had Mr. Bot people calling in yesterday. Oh, yes. We heard that you got contacted. I had a lot of fun with bot people. So I heard from the guy, Ryan. And then we had Sarah on, who was the next recipient. And then he was going to take the bot back to the...

hospital where they treated his girl for cancer and she's doing great so Mr. Bott has been making the rounds I don't know where he is but if you have him feel free to call in with me I can tell you where he is he's at the excuse me the Arthur Ashe Tennis I believe it's the Arthur Ashe Tennis Center if you're heading into Manionk it's on Ridge that large facility at least that's where he appears to be right now okay yeah Marissa just got pictures up in there oh excellent excellent that's where he is so he's doing a quick round of tennis yep

Why not? All right, so call in to Pierre if you have your hands on BirdBot at any point today. We want to hear the latest updates. I want to thank our sponsors. President Steve Schell is brought to you today by Dunkin', and the President Steve Schell runs on Dunkin'. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors, and brought to you by Worldwide Stereo, turning dens into super boxes since 1979. WorldwideStereo.com.

Tomorrow on the program weekend, or Wednesday, I'm sorry. So we will check in with Fox Good Day live in New Orleans. Yes. We'll do a secret text word. We will have, like I said, Lizzy Hale checking in to perform the Eagles fight song, part of our pep radio.

pep rally concert series. And as part of that as well, the Academy of Vocal Arts will be in our studio. These guys are great. They are opera singers. They're amazing. They've been here before and they will sing the Eagles fight song. We'll get them to sing some other things too as well. And we got a game we're going to play tomorrow. We got a bunch of things happening. So that is it. We are done. Ray John, have yourself a great day and we will see you later, gang. Thanks for being here.

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