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Hello, Preston. Hello, Casey. How do you feel, Kathy? Hello, Marissa.

How do you say hello to the listeners? How do you say hello? Hello, Steve. Hello, everybody. WMMR Philadelphia. I think you're sleeping. Housekeeping, you want towels? Towels need sleeping. Housekeeping, you want me for pillow? Please go away. Let me sleep for the love of God.

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. KC Boy. They all can't starve it. Kathy Romano. I'm going to destroy

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 WML. Man.

And it's time to begin. Friday has indeed arrived right on your face. Good morning and welcome to it. We're going to dive into the weather forecast first and foremost, as we always do. High of 43 today. We are going to have the breeze kicking in a little bit, so it's going to make it feel even cooler later on this afternoon. Tomorrow, interesting day.

I have about 34 degrees in the afternoon. We're going to start to get some snow showers. That is going to turn over to a icy mix overnight going into Sunday morning. It will be clearing up later on on Sunday, on game day. Partly cloudy, high of about 41 is what we were expecting. But it's going to cause some overnight issues lingering into the morning the next day into Sunday. Hello. Hello.

Preston and Steve's News Update with Kathy Romano. My day is Friday. It is February 7th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, a SEPTA train carrying roughly 350 people went up in flames on Thursday night in Delaware County. It happened at 6 o'clock in the evening near the Crumlin Station in Ridley Park.

The six-car train was traveling from Philadelphia to Wilmington when it caught fire. According to SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Bush, as the train was being evacuated, passengers learned that the first car was on fire. Fire started in an area underneath the train and then engulfed the train in flames. It's not known what started the fire. Passengers say smoke was reported several minutes after leaving Philadelphia and the smell filled the train. Some passengers say due to the odor, the train stopped and passengers were advised to move to the back before they made a final stop.

SEPTA is investigating and reviewing the steps taken. No injuries were reported. The visuals on this were so amazing that it was uncovered around the world. They were showing, you know. Yeah, the picture of it is like. Because it's insane. I saw it. I was like, oh, my God, what happened? I know. And I thought, plane crash? No. Train thing. But fortunately, nobody heard. Yeah, yeah. That is absolutely a bullet dodged.

So SEPTA is investigating the service was halted for several hours before it resumed just after 11 o'clock in the evening. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Crews in Nome, Alaska are conducting search and rescue operations after a Bering Air caravan with 10 people aboard reportedly went missing according to local authorities.

Alaska State Troopers were contacted around 4 o'clock local time that the flight, which was traveling from Unakleet to Nome, was overdue to land and had gone missing, according to the statement from the Alaska Department of Public Safety. There were nine passengers and a pilot on board. The Nome Volunteer Fire Department said in a Facebook post that it was conducting an active ground search, but that due to the weather and visibility...

Its crews were unable to search by air. A C-130 Coast Guard plane was planning to scope the area, and the Air Force was planning to provide flight support, but the plane has not yet been located. So I was hearing about this. Apparently, for pilots, that particular airspace is very tricky for all sorts of reasons. And a lot of pilots dread it, but the people who do fly and flight routinely are at a commodity. So, you know, they get paid well. Terrible.

With just a few days left before the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs and the upcoming Super Bowl 59, officials from a variety of agencies across the city gathered to detail how Philadelphia is getting ready for the big game. On Thursday, officials detailed parking restrictions, possible road closures,

on mass transit and other plans that will be in place on Sunday. Mayor Sherelle Parker says her hope is that everyone celebrates responsibly. She pushed for any fans who plan to drink alcohol to be responsible and asked those who plan to celebrate when the Eagles win to not push or shove to ensure no one gets hurt.

And she also told fans not to climb light poles or anything. After the birds won the NFC championship, a Temple student died after falling from a light pole at 15th and Market Streets in Center City. The mayor says that's the city's golden rule. Just don't climb anything. In sports this morning. Woo!

What the f*** is that? The Flyers lost to the Washington Capitals 4-3 last night in South Philly. What the f*** is this? Alex Ovechkin scored his 879th career goal to move within 16 of breaking Wayne Gretzky's record, and the Caps came back with two goals in the third to get the win. Matt Beymichkov.

scored two goals, and Tyson Forrester had one for the Flyers who dropped their fifth straight game. They're at home again tomorrow night with a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. The Sixers are in Detroit tonight with a game against the Pistons, and tip-off is at 7.30. And as the Eagles prepare for Sunday's big game, two players received honors yesterday. Saquon Barkley ran away with the Associated Press NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award.

After rushing for 2,005 yards, eighth best in NFL history in his first season with the Eagles. Barkley sat out Philadelphia's final regular season game when he was 101 yards away from breaking Eric Dickerson's single season record. But he has 442 rushing yards and five touchdowns in the playoffs. Barkley needs 30 yards rushing in the Super Bowl to set the all-time single season record, including the playoffs.

Nice. Nice.

for Jared Allen, Sterling Sharp, and Antonio Gates. The enshrinement ceremony will be held in August in Canton, Ohio later this year. And that's what I have for you this morning. All right, thank you very much, Kathy. We welcome you to Friday morning. Real quick, we got a phone call. This is Santa Rick who wanted to check in with us. He is at the airport as we speak. Hi, Santa Rick. How you doing?

Oh, yes.

Yeah, and I'm flying down with Philly Sports Trips. Nice. And actually, I'm just approaching the city now, but we're going to be leaving early this morning to go out to New Orleans. So we're going to see those birds rock the place. All right, man. And you're in good hands. Our buddy Vince at Philly Sports Trips and Company are going to take real good care of you. Have you traveled with them before?

I know Vince real well, but I've never traveled with him. I've been to plenty of their tailgates and stuff, and he is a really cool dude. Yeah, it's a whole other level. He does like to walk around in his underwear, so it's tough to travel with him. But otherwise, they take care of everything for you, bud. Yeah, and I'm wearing the whole suit into the game like I always do at the lake. I'm always in the suit at the lake, and so it's a lot of fun. So we'll be able to spot you, Santa, at the Super Bowl at some point or another. We'll keep an eye out for you, all right?

Okay, go birds. Go birds, buddy. All right, there you go. People are, you know, getting on their way if they're heading out. Did you guys see the photo I sent to you guys last night? We have a listener named Phil who he's down in New Orleans now. Yes. He wants to see BirdBot down there, but he had a picture taken with two of the people from Cobra Kai. Yes, I saw that. I didn't see it, no. No, I sent it to the group text. It's the guy who plays Hawk and then...

The hot young lady. I didn't recognize who those people were. I said who they were in the group text. I thought I did. No, you think you just sent the picture. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Tori. That's the character's name. That's crazy. Oh, and Hawk has long hair now. Wow. Okay. That's really awesome. So he ran into them. Yeah. In New Orleans. That is awesome, man. Nice. All right.

So anyhow, besides that, we have a lot going on today. First of all, we're going to check in with 6ABC in just a few minutes. We're going to say hi to Matt and Tam. We'll go live with them. We are going to continue our pep rally concert series. Don McCloskey will be here this morning. And like the majority of his band is coming in too. This went from a little thing to a full, robust band. And you know what? That works. Yeah, so Hannah and Sarah, the backup vocalists, which he has to have with him most definitely. And then you got Tom on bass and Ross playing guitar. And Matt is playing.

playing drums, so they're going to come in and do their version of the Eagles fight song and maybe another tune or two. And for the second day in a row, Preston, we will have an accordion in the studio. Oh my God. That's starting to become a trend here, isn't it? We will also, we're scheduled to check in with Bert Kreischer this morning who is in New Orleans. He's got a party going on at around 9 a.m. We supposedly, we'll see if we can get him on. I mean, it's...

Out of control in New Orleans. It's a roll of the dice. In New Orleans, come on. We also have Oscar Budajan, who is the play-by-play for the Spanish broadcast of the Eagles games. And we love Oscar. He's going to check in from New Orleans as well, as will Andrew Salchunas from the Fanatic. So we spoke to him yesterday. We'll do it again today. And we'll just...

bring as much vibe as we can. And obviously we got to get some kind of BirdBot update. Yes. So we'll do that a little bit later on this morning too. We'll see how listener Helen is doing with BirdBot. And then musically speaking, it's all Anthem Rock today, man. Anthem Rock. I love it. All right. We're going to take a break. We'll be back in a second. The Entertainment Report and the Stupid Questioner, what we will get to first. Nothing before Momentum. Oh, and by the way,

Our morning eats catered by Casey Boyd and a few other things. Kathy has been catered by Acme this morning. Yes, as have I. And we will also have a bunch of other stuff. Duncan is dropping off, so we're going to be enjoying this this morning. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

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All right. We're going to ask a stupid question and we're going to give away a four packet tickets for the Philadelphia home and garden show, which is the 21st through the 23rd at the expo center at Oaks. Uh,

And thank you to Craig Legans for the Black History Month questions. We're celebrating this month on the President's Eve show with these questions each day. And we got to do an NFL and Eagles related question. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So the longest pass play in Eagles history is 99 yards. It was set in 1985. Ron Jaworski, to whom?

215-263-WMMR. Who made that catch? Let's see if you know the answer to that. Longest pass play in Eagles history, 99 yards, set in 1985. Ron Jaworski to whom? 215-263-WMMR. Call if you know the answer. We're going to go through some birthdays. We will most likely break in the middle of these birthdays to chat with Matt and Tam at 6 ABC in just a second as we get ready to go live.

But birthdays today on the seventh day of February, including a person we had here in our very studio, Eddie Izzard. Oh, he was great. Yeah. Tremendous. I believe he goes by Susie now. Does he? I'm not 100% sure if that's officially like the name change, but I think he'll do either or. I always love that name, by the way. I named my cat Susie. Susie. Yeah, I have a picture of Susie right here.

Does your cat run as many marathons as Eddie does or Susie? No, Susie was an indoor cat. Okay. All right. So a lot of great movies. Obviously, wonderful stand-up comedian, but Mystery Man, great in that movie. I like... He's the villain slash good guy in my super... Your ex-girlfriend. Your ex-girlfriend. I liked him too. I think that's a fun movie. Yep. He turns 63 years old today. It's also Ashton Kutcher's birthday. Ashton turns...

47 years old. There's been a bit of a low-profile situation with him. Yeah. I guess there was a little bit of blowback with, you know, with the... Danny Masterson? Yeah, yeah. Maybe so. I don't quite get that, but... Well, the blowback is because people had his back without really knowing the details. What had happened, yeah. Because they were his friend. Right. And when details were...

you know, unveiled to everybody, they're like, oh, jeez. They backed off. Yeah, yeah. They didn't know. Ashen 47 today. Tina Majorino. Now, in Napoleon Dynamite, she plays... Sorry, wrong button. Okay, that's okay. No.

Nothing ever falls into my hands

All right, we got about two minutes till we go on 6ABC this morning. So we have a few more birthdays to mention. It's James Spader's birthday today. He is fantastic. Yeah, he is. I've just been watching the, yeah, that's right. Ultron was just on last night. Yeah, he's the voice of Ultron. Yeah, and his character, is it Danny California in The Office? Yes. Robert. Danny California's the Red Hot Chili Peppers song. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, Nick.

Just hilarious. The funny thing about that, Steve, is that he kind of was viewed as a replacement to Michael Scott, to Steve Carell, which is too big of shoes to fill. But if you just took Robert California's character on its own, fantastic and so damn hilarious. Of course, iconic roles in Less Than Zero and Pretty in Pink. He is 65 today. We have a couple musical birthdays. Limp Bizkit guitarist.

Wes Borland turns the big 5-0 today. So he's, in that band, he's looked at as being the talented one, right? Yeah, I think so. I think he's a good guitar player. And he always wore those black collars.

contacts. Yeah. Like the whole eyeball looked black. Right. Which was kind of freaky looking. Those things are irritating. Yeah. You mean to wear or look at? Both. Okay. You wore it. I did. For Halloween one time, right? Yeah. I don't think I could do that. For a while, but after about two hours, you want to rip your eyes out. Well, you guys aren't used to wearing contacts. If they're actually light contacts. No, these were full eye. They cover the whole, like the front

Yeah, that's what a contact is. Really? Yeah. I always thought it was smaller. No. Wow. It covers like the color. Okay. That's... Iris? No, this like covers the whites. Oh, the white? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, which is... Hello. So he is 50 years old today. It's Garth Brooks' birthday today. Garth Brooks turns 63 years old. One of the most successful country artists of all time. Is he Trisha Yearwood?

Is that who he's married to? I believe so. I don't know. Probably, yeah. I was like, Garth, his voice is very, very twangy. But he's also a big rock fan, and I always dug that about him. Huge Van Halen fan. Yeah, and Kiss. And Kiss, yeah. So happy 63rd birthday to Garth Brooks. It's also David Bryan of Bon Jovi's birthday. There you go.

We have 10 seconds. David plays keyboard for Bon Jovi. Let's go to 6 ABC now. Kind of going off and he's like, stop it, stop it. I needed a mirror for this. He's freaking out. But anyway, he'll figure it out. Okay. What do you do with two eagles? Hopefully by Sunday. All right.

Well, let's keep the Eagles hype going with Preston and Steve at WMMR. Good morning, guys. Last week you told us that you redeployed the bird bot trying to get it back to New Orleans. I was following it on social media. Apparently he's hanging out with Tennessee honeys. Please confirm that the bird bot is still alive.

BirdBot is definitely still alive. And this is BirdBot 2.0. BirdBot 1 is behind me. That's the one that went to Minneapolis almost seven years ago. But yeah, the last I saw, the last video I saw, BirdBot was in a Buc-ee's convenience store slash truck stop. Yeah. Meeting with other fans who may be headed to New Orleans. Yeah.

But he has... Oh, is that Helen in the background? Yeah, Helen in the background. So listener Helen, who has the perfect Philly accent, has got BirdBot as we speak. But he's been to the Lincoln Financial Field, the Rocky Statue, Cape May. I mean, all over the Delaware Valley. So it's been a great journey so far. All right. Hopefully he'll be celebrating a Super Bowl win before you know it. Guys, what do you think of Kevin Hart and the Millions on Live Eagles?

Are we talking about a bet? No, he bought two eagles just to have eagles. Oh, I didn't see this. Why? He bought two actual birds to have... Is that legal? You can go to the Elmwood Park Zoo and see them there if you want to.

Let me ask you guys, is the purpose to barbecue them after the victory? No, he's been drinking tequila while he's handling them. So, you know, who knows what's going to happen. Yeah, no, they're magnificent. We had one in the studio. It was terrific. The one from Elmwood Park Zoo, one of them. And they're amazing. I don't know about actually purchasing them, though. No, no.

I mean, they make great pets. They're very good with infant babies. Yes, and the amount of diseases they'll fling at your loved ones is amazing. All right, guys, before we say goodbye, we want to hear score predictions. Oh, man. There's actually... Do you want to... Well, so here's... We have this, and we haven't touched on that at all, but Casey had a sort of a daydream...

and he has not a prediction, but a premonition that happened. We have it in this envelope, and we're going to open it, obviously, on Monday to see if he's in the ballpark or dead on. We'll have to see. But we haven't done any projections. I mean, listen, I think it's going to be a close game. That's all that I know. I'm not good at telling you how many touchdowns or field goals are going to be scored, but

I think the Eagles are going to squeak it out. I think it's going to be a close game. It'll be close. We'll win. Joe Buck, of all people, is predicting an Eagles victory. So go figure. I know. I think it comes down to a field goal in our direction. I can see that. I think, yeah, I agree. It's going to be tight, but I think there's going to be a victory. Yep. All right.

Bottom line, the bird bot lives. Yes! Go birds! We'll see you guys. All right, so there they go. I did not hear that Kevin Hart story. They are not bald eagles. I don't know what kind of eagles they are. They look like some kind of exotic African eagles or something, but...

I think it was one of the ones that, I forget her name, from the Elmwood Park Zoo. I think she was talking about these when she was in here. Okay, yeah. And, well, if you have the money to buy eagles. I guess so. And technically, we're not the Philadelphia Bald Eagles. That's right. It's the Philadelphia Eagles. That's right.

Damn straight. All right, fair enough. So a couple other quick birthdays, and then we will get an answer to today's stupid question. Emo Phillips, comedian, very interesting, strange guy. He's been here before. It was pretty wild because he was in here, he did his thing, and the second the interview ended, he disappeared. He just took off. 69 years old today. It's also Chris Rock's birthday. Chris is celebrating a big one. He is 60 years old today. That's wild. I didn't know...

He was older than me. I thought... Because you remember when he burst on the scene, he was 19 years old. Yeah. So when I... He was an Eddie Murphy protege. When I was in the comedy clubs and I was, you know, working as a comedian, he was the kid. He was... Everyone thought he was... I thought that as well, Preston, because he was like the younger hanger-on to Eddie Murphy. Yeah. And so...

Yeah, I'm surprised to learn he's almost 70. And he's a damn good actor. I mean, let's not forget Pookie in New Jack City. He was good as Pookie. New Jack City's a good movie. Casey, he's in season four or five of Fargo, and he plays this mafia head, and he's fantastic in that. It's a period piece, maybe like the 1940s or 50s or whatever, but he's great in Fargo. Nick, I forgot the name of it, but it was one of the...

It was a quasi-saw movie. Okay. And he played a detective in it, and he was really good. All right. And then last birthday is Robert Smigel, Triumph the Insult comic dog. He turned 65 today. SNL, Conan, worked with Judd Apatow. The guy is a dynamo. One of the great comedic writers. All right, let's see if you know the answer to this. Longest pass play in Eagles history, 99 yards, set in 1985.

Ron Jaworski to who? We will go to Eric. Hey, Eric, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. How you doing? Go birds. Go birds. Eric. Who caught that pass? Mike Quick. Mike Quick did it. Mike Quick. Wide receiver. Thought the name was a joke, but I made him all believe it. All right. Go up, guys, all around. He's got the ball when he hits the ground. All right.

Eric is a winner and we're going to set him up with a four-packet tickets for the Philadelphia Home and Garden Show, February 21st through 23rd at the Expo Center at Oaks. Tickets at phillyhomeandgarden.com and discount tickets. You can use the promo code Casey, by the way.

All right, so some entertainment stories. Let's get right into that. Lady Gaga, and we'll start with stuff that surrounds the Super Bowl. Gaga. Lady Gaga and Tom Brady and other celebrities were spotted filming what is apparently a special Super Bowl 59 tribute honoring victims of recent tragedies. A video from Bourbon Street showed Brady in an LAFD shirt.

alongside first responders and sports stars. Michael Strahan reportedly referenced the New Orleans terror attack, a North Carolina hurricane, and Los Angeles wildfires in the video. And Lady Gaga performs live with a full band as Brady Strahan and Terry Bradshaw enjoy the show as well. Sports figures like Roger Goodell, Jerry Jones, Howie Long, and more also appear. That is expected to broadcast during the Super Bowl. I don't know if it'll be as a spot.

or maybe leading into the halftime show or something like that. Yeah, yeah. It looks pretty cool just so a quick snippet of it. Yep.

Now, speaking of all things surrounding football, Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend, he's 72, mind you. They're in love, though. Jordan Hudson, they're so in love. Rocking some rings on the red carpet for the 14th annual NFL Honors, which was Thursday night. They were wearing Super Bowl rings, like all of his Super Bowl rings. The hardware didn't stop them from getting roasted by Snoop Dogg, though. So Belichick wore four rings on his right hand.

And he was on the red carpet with her and she had one of the Super Bowl rings on her left hand. The couple which boasts a 48 year age difference. 48 has been together since 2022. Oh my God, they've been together for like multiple years. Yeah, yeah. More than 10% of her life. Marissa! Marissa!

Do we have the Snoop Dogg clip that Steve sent over this morning? Yeah, okay. I don't think it's been sent over yet. So, yeah, their relationship became public in June. The two have since been more open about it, and they made their first red carpet appearance together in December at the Museum Gala in New York. So the pictures from this thing, he's got this ill-fitting jacket on. He's got a comb forward. Yeah.

And she looks like she walked off the cover of one of the hottest Maxim magazines ever. Yeah, exactly. She is wearing, Kathy, did you see what she's wearing? I guess. She looks gorgeous. Yeah, she's an amazing body. I mean, she's showing her entire torso. She's essentially wearing a bikini top is what it's like. I mean, could you imagine hopping in bed with that thing? I just, I can't. Bill Belichick is so hot. But, like, look at her. I know, I know. And she is, like, what? What?

What? How do you do that? How does that, how do you enjoy that approaching you in the dark when you are, you're, she's a Ferrari. I mean, look at the suits, that button, right? He's got the comb forward with that bizarre tuft of hair. A classic Cadillac. Yeah. A big, he's a, you know, 65 coupe, saggy, nutty, like a Packard or something like that. Listen, I'm,

I'm up there. I would never impose this on anything that looks like that. And even look at his, like, comb over. Like you said, the jacket is, like, you know, it's kind of not really fitting great. The comb over is bad. He's got one stray hair, and she is...

Perfect from top to bottom. He is stunning. You guys are being so cynical in the face of true love. I can't, honestly. I'm embracing every second of this. What I'm more amazed is how does that friggin' Super Bowl ring fit on her finger? They had to put something in there to keep it. Oh, for sure. Yeah. For sure. All right, so I think we have the clip. Here's Snoop Dogg when he was kind of roasting them. It is an honor to be hosting this because I've been a football fan for a long, long time. I mean, I remember back when the Cowboys was good.

I remember back when the Chiefs was bad. And I remember... I think he forgot his line. What was it?

Bill Belichick's girlfriend wasn't even born yet. Yeah. And then they pan the camera over to them and she's kind of like, what? And then they smile and, you know. She was shocked at that? Not, not. Apparently people think there's an age difference. I didn't think she was angry by it. No, she chuckled. She knows what's going on. You're so old.

You're right. He's old and he smells. And it's a mixture of semen and pee. Oh, my God. Dude, and you know he smells. You know he smells. He smells so bad. There is an elderly smell. It's just what happens. That happens. It's a dumb diaper smell. But bad. Because they put some sort of perfume or something to kill the piss smell. It's worse than that. Oh, I vomit every time he comes to me.

Oh my God. And she's like laughing. His photo looks like a boomerang. Oh God. See, like, oh my God. Wait, and her laugh is like, oh my God. Every time we're lying in bed together, I lose the remote control and the foals have escrowed him. Oh, ew.

Ew. You know, Kat, I spent some time in the men's locker room and I see balls like that, that old. You know what I mean? And they're like... Dude, listen. Just in general, male genitalia is not... It's not pretty. It's not pretty, but when you add age... At best, it's a charcuterie board. Yeah, when you add age to it, it just gets grosser looking. Case, so that. Yeah. This girl, again, stunning. I don't...

Make fun all we want. He wins. He wins. And I'm happy for the guy. He wins. I know, but I'm thinking about her. It's great that he wins. She does too. Really? She has to sleep with that. I get that there's money involved. But two months ago, nobody knew who she was. And now everybody does. And she can build a career off of this. She's an aspiring model. She can do whatever she wants. Do you remember when you were a kid and

you would have to take some really nasty taking medicine. Yes. Nasty tasting medicine. You would hold your nose and you would just do it because you were, and there you go. She just closes her eyes. In this case, the medicine smells like piss. So my cousin is dating, is in a situation like this. 48 years? About. Really? Wow. Okay. And she is gorgeous and he is an old man. And,

You talked to her about it? Let me ask you, Kathy. So, all right, could this be like a parlay event? So she's now been thrust into a higher, higher level. Now, she's stunning, but there are a lot of stunning women on earth. Does this help her in future generations?

relationship endeavors if she is a quasi gold digger or whatever whatever the hell she's doing is this a a power move so dating him i don't think it's here's what i think because so and this is what i was gonna say i think once that you you put yourself there that's where you stay not really not all of the time but i think typically then they move on to maybe not as old but but

you're always going to date somebody that's, you know, that's not age appropriate for you. They say that... Or at least for a long time. Her private parts are blue from the blue emu. Oh, my God. So he's 72, she's 24. Maybe she's thinking, look, 20 years at best. I mean, that's like a best case scenario. She'll be 44 and

and still able to do whatever she wants to for a long, long time. I don't know, man. Your 20s are a lot of fun, right? And so you don't want to piss those years away. Well, and it's the same situation with my cousin. We were at a wedding together, and she was all over the place on the dance floor getting drinks. And he was like, I got to sit down. He's probably like, I got to go to bed. I sat with him and talked to him. Is he a nice guy? Yeah, he's a nice guy. He's just...

you know, 70 something. Think about all the acts that she gets now. Like all of the things that she gets to do because she's dating this guy. Casey, I remember vividly when the Patriots won for the first time back in 2002, she was not yet one year old.

Oh my God. Is that amazing? Is that frigging amazing? And he, Bill Palachuk at that time, uh, you know, on the first of his many Super Bowls, legendary coaching career, he was 50 and he was not yet one. Just met, just met my future wife at the maternity ward. Dude, that's a grandchild. A grandchild. What do they talk about? They talk about, uh, what toys she wants to play. Yes. They both love soup. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Anyhow. All right, moving on. Enough. Uh,

Despite her name being brought up in Blake Lively and Justin Baldani's legal battle, multiple sources have told Us Weekly that Taylor Swift has no involvement in the creative process of It Ends With Us. Taylor's always been Blake's friend, but Taylor doesn't have any involvement in the case. According to a source, she wasn't part of the movie.

While Lively did get permission from the pop star to use her song My Tears Ricochet in the film's trailer, the source added that Taylor never even saw the film or a single scene from it until the movie was in theater. She is not relevant to the case. The word is she's sort of pissed about being dragged into this.

Uh, and is sort of mad at Blake Lively for that. Baldani's legal team has suggested Swift could be brought to court to testify, but the insider insists, uh, dragging Taylor into it unnecessarily, um, and misrepresents what really happened. So, uh,

The lawsuit filed by Lively in December accuses Baldani of sexual harassment, work misconduct and all that stuff. He has since filed countersuits. Swift's name was dragged into the fight when Baldani revealed text messages and a voice note mentioning meeting a tailor while having a discussion with Lively about script changes. So it sounds like he's the one that dragged Swift into this. Yeah. Yeah. No, they definitely did.

So I don't know why she would be upset with Blake. But Tat allegedly stopped by Blake's house as Justin was about to leave a meeting they had there. So the step-off for that was that she likened herself to Khaleesi in Game of Thrones' Blake Lively. Really? Okay. When she was supposedly threatening him, saying she has her dragons. Right.

And so she was alluding to Ryan Reynolds. And Taylor Swift being the dragons. Right. And so that was part of the deal.

Selena Gomez and Jennifer Anderson are bringing their star power by mixing friendship and business. The two stars teamed up to co-host a Galentine's Day event in Los Angeles, celebrating women and their beauty brands, Rare Beauty and Lola V. Gomez said, I've known Jen for over a decade now. She's somebody I've always looked up to. She's always been there for me. She announced Rare Beauty's upcoming soft podcast.

matte bouncy blush. The hell is that? Soft pinch. That's probably like the name of the color. Okay. Oh, yeah. It's the companion to cheese curl orange. So apparently they're good buds and they're doing well. Everybody's happy. Kathy Ramona's jewelry in that party. I mean, I don't know what's happening. We were in talks, but...

Get a little Selena Gomez love. All right. So Will Forte, friend of the show, isn't holding back when it comes to Warner Brothers' decision to shelve the Coyote vs. Acme movie so they'd get a $30 million tax write-off. He said, it makes my blood boil. He even thanked the interviewer for bringing it up. He said, because I like talking about the movie because I don't want people to forget what Warner Brothers did to it.

The SNL alum, who played a lawyer for Looney Tunes legend Wile E. Coyote, also shared his hope that maybe somehow we get to see it at some point. I hope people do. I was really proud of it, he said. It was originally set to release in 2023 and was pulled from Warner Brothers' schedule and replaced with Barbie, which...

obviously was a pretty good move there. The studio later announced that it had no plans to ever release the $70 million live action slash animation hybrid starring John Cena and Lana Condor as well. So there's one of them that's completely thrown in the drawer. What about the Batgirl, Batwoman, whatever it was? That was a $94 million

movie and they had Michael Keaton and they had Brendan Fraser and they had all these people in it and it's on the shelf and it's never to be seen. You know, the classic story goes back to Fantastic Four when they made this entire movie

Years ago, just to retain the rights to the characters. They never let in on the cast. Really? They never let in on the production crew. One or two people knew, but they went through all the machinations. And the movie exists. It was never released. Wow.

What I don't understand about the financials behind something like Coyote vs. Acme or even that Batgirl movie, Steve, is it cost them that much to make it. Why is it still financially viable for them to never air it? They could find an audience somewhere, make some of the money back, and maybe there's a cult classic aspect to it or whatever. The idea is, though, it's a guaranteed insurance payment where that is a bit of a gamble. So you get the insurance money by never showing it? By never showing it. Once you show it, you lose the right to that insurance. Wow.

The entire Marvel Universe, in the entire universe, one property has struggled every time it's made into a movie, and that's the Fantastic Four. So as the MCU sets to try again to adapt these superheroes to the big screen, the viewership numbers for the trailer for the Fantastic Four first steps in the first 24 hours have to be encouraging. On day one, the trailer scored 202 million views, making it one of the most popular trailers for Marvel in recent years, trailing over

only the one for Deadpool and Wolverine. I really liked it. I mean, this is one... Listen, I was never...

super critical of the other version with Chris Evans and Jessica Alba. Yeah, Alba. But they're okay. But this looks like that they're really going for it. Going back to the original comic, it's a period piece. They have that retro look. Everything is... My interest is piqued. There's a cool futuristic retro vibe that has... It's...

piqued my interest in a big way as opposed to what we've seen. We haven't seen really any franchises try to do that yet. I mean, you had Captain America, which went back to a legitimate look at history as far as the aesthetics go. This has got that kind of future retro, what

they thought the future would look like. Right. Even in the ship, the spaceship, the launch is... Looks awesome. Yeah, it looks right out of the 50s. Our buddy Michael Giacchino is doing the score for it, which is really cool. And then Preston, you know who plays Johnny Storm? It's this guy Joseph Quinn. That's Eddie from Stranger Things.

Get out of here! I watched the trailer. I had no idea that was him. Good for him. Eddie Munson is Johnny Storm in the next Fantastic Four movie. Phenomenal. I love it. And Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic, which, by the way, he's the only one they don't show any of his powers in that trailer. No stretchy, because I think a lot of times that can be problematic. But the one thing I would do, and it's just an aesthetic call, he shouldn't have a mustache. But that's quibbling. Okay. Okay.

Let's see. One other quick thing, and then we'll get to movies opening this weekend. Saturday Night Live pulling out all the stops for its 50th anniversary special. Star-studded lineup, as you would imagine. Frequent hosts like the Five Timers Club members Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Scarlett Johansson, Martin Short, and Woody Harrelson are among those confirmed for the three-hour primetime event airing on February 16th on NBC. A new video announcement confirms Adam Driver, Ayo Edeberry, Bad Bunny, Dave Chappelle,

John Mulaney, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Paul McCartney, Pedro Pascal, Peyton Manning, Quinta Brunson, Robert De Niro, Sabrina Carpenter. They will all be joining the show as well. More guests are expected to be announced leading up to the comedy extravaganza. And the live special will celebrate five decades of iconic sketches and performances.

capping off a wave of SNL-themed programming across NBC and Peacock, including a live concert featuring musical acts from throughout the years hosted by 30 Rock staple Jimmy Fallon. So that thing sounds like a juggernaut. Did you see the movie Saturday Night? No.

Okay, which is the first broadcast, but they don't know how anything's going to go. Compare that to this three-hour, everybody in entertainment getting together to celebrate 50 years of the show. And I still have to see the musical performance documentary as well. People are raving about that. All right, movies are opening this weekend. Let's do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.

All right, so we got Heart Eyes. It's a horror film starring Olivia Holt, Mason Gooding, and Devon Sawa. Or Devin Sawa. Devin Sawa, yeah. For the past several years, the Heart Eyes killer has wreaked havoc on Valentine's Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine's Day, no couple is safe. It's an hour and 37 minutes long. It's rated R. It's in a wide theater release. And Rotten Tomatoes score clocks in at 85%. Not bad. And then...

Love Hurts also opens. It's an action comedy starring Kihei Kwan, also Ariana DeBose and Sean Astin. Marvin Gable, a realtor, is working in Milwaukee suburbs where for sale signs are blooming. Gable receives a crimson envelope from Rose, a former partner in crime that he had left for dead. She's not happy. And now Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen.

filled with double crosses and open houses turned into deadly war zones. It's rated R, wide theater release, Rotten Tomatoes score is 21%. So that's not good. But you be the judge. All right, now we're ready for clips. Joanna Garcia Swisher, head...

has starred as single mom Maddie Townsend since the beginning of Sweet Magnolias. But here she describes the new perspective she gained when directing season four. I was able to be a part of watching these people that I admire so deeply and I love their characters so much. I feel so protective of them, in love with them for all their quirks and eccentricities and the beauty of all of them.

Shut up, Debbie. The new season of Sweet Magnolias is now streaming on Netflix. Here's our next one. The Z-Suite, a boutique...

New York City ad agency faces a generational clash between C-suite executive and Gen Z employees. And here, Lauren Graham explains, playing into the stereotype of being a tough head executive. I just didn't want her to be mean. I didn't want her to be like, you know, sometimes, because this is an archetype of a kind, you know, the sort of like,

a tough, older boss. So, you know, we talked about that and tried to find those moments where she's softer. You suck my d***.

And shut the f*** up, huh? The Z-Suite is now streaming on Netflix, if you want to see that. You know, Preston, she's talking about her eagerness to return. I know you're a big Gilmore Girls fan. Oh, my God. So they're really working on getting that reboot done with the original cast. I'm holding out hope. Yeah, man. We'll see. We'll see. All right. And... Go, Bert. That's... Go, Bert.

That's our entertainment report this morning. Speaking of birds, we got a lot happening in regards to that, obviously. We're going to continue our pep rally concert series. Don McCloskey, one of our favorites, is coming by today. He and the majority of his band will be here. They're going to play the Eagles Fight Song. Yes. Maybe we'll get something else from them as well. So that's in the 8 o'clock hour. Birdie Boy, our friend Bert Kreischer, is in New Orleans. And he's hobnobbing with all the big celebrities.

We reached out to him yesterday. He said, yeah, I'll check in this morning. But New Orleans. We'll see. We're planning on 9 a.m. That's 8 a.m. for Bert in New Orleans. And maybe we'll get him. Maybe we won't. We'll see. How many hours ago was this interchange? This exchange? Uh,

It was about, I don't know, 18 hours ago or something like that. Something like that. In bird time, that's a decade. Yeah, we have his number. We also have his wife's number. So worst case scenario, we can give her a call. We also have a Spanish language broadcast play-by-play man, Oscar Buttigieg, joining us. And he is in New Orleans. We're going to talk to several people in New Orleans.

We are also going to have Andrew Seltunis from 97.5 The Fanatic. We spoke to him yesterday at Radio Row. We'll check in with him, see how things are going as well.

And hopefully we'll hear about BirdBot at some point. Listener Helen has been doing a great job taking BirdBot all the way to New Orleans. They're going to spend the day going around there. And listen, we've said that it's up to you to do what you want to with BirdBot. We encourage people to hand BirdBot off and let them go from person to person. Helen does have a direct connection to some celebs and some events that are going on there. So she's going to try to get

those in with uh those people and get some pictures and video uh to post and then she's going to hand bird bot off because he's still got the whole weekend yeah and that's really part of the deal there's a lot to see out there and we've had a number of offers yeah uh from from different people that include helicopter rides and uh coast guard vessels yeah we got coast guard and uh and the marine corps and mike and alex won her mike and alex absolutely uh uh

And don't we have, there's a whole bunch of offers. Oh, the Primo Hoagies. The Primo Hoagies. So there's a Primo Hoagies in New Orleans. And apparently, it says if you've got BirdBot and you're the first to take a picture of it at their location on Oak Street in New Orleans.

which is apparently not too far from the stadium, and you post it and tag Primo's on Instagram, you get free hoagies for a year from Primo Hoagies. So this is a Primo-sized hoagie once a week for an entire year. How awesome is that? I mean, that's a astonishing impression. That's a good idea. Eight minutes ago, Burr Bot was traveling over Lake Pontchartrain. Oh, perfect. On that stretch of road. Okay, yeah. Yeah, that legendary bridge.

All right, so we'll see how this all plays out today. We do not know, so we'll be in this together. We're going to take a break. We'll come back in a second with all these things that we have planned throughout the course of the morning. It's a Friday. If we're going to do connoisseur, we're going to do it next. We have to. And we'll have some stuff to give away with that. And Casey has brought in two of his world favorites.

famous recipes to share with us. Wow. This is a wonderful tailgate and game day party fair that we will be having as well as our friends from Acme and Duncan have dropped off some goodies for us. So we're having our own little Super Bowl dive in and eat session. So we're going to take a break and we'll be back in a moment. Stay with us.

It's finally time, Philadelphia. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Or an eagle. Preston and Steve bring you the return of BirdBot. Listen to the gang weekday mornings for updates on BirdBot 2.0's journey all the way from Broad Street to Bourbon Street.com.

and the big game. Follow BirdBotPhilly on social media for more and keep an eye out for our fine feathered friend. Brought to you by phillysportstrips.com from 93.3 WMMR. Oh, and go birds! WMMR. Thank you very much, Kath. Bert Kreischer is scheduled to join us later on this morning. Our good friend Don McCloskey and his band coming into the studio for our Pep Rally concert series. Spanish language broadcast

play-by-play man Oscar Boudigian joining us from New Orleans. Andrew Salchunas from the sister station The Fanatic joining us from New Orleans. Oh, it's an action-packed day. Somewhere we're squeezing BirdBot in there as well to see how he is doing. What else could we possibly do? The connoisseur.

It's time for the Super Bowl edition of the God of Surgery. Yeah, I said Super Bowl. That is correct. You can say Super Bowl. Yeah. You can definitely say it. All right, so, yeah, in fact, there's going to be several Super Bowl...

Flavored stories throughout this. And we have a special theme for our movie clips that we'll be playing too, which is pretty awesome. So we're going to start with, yes, the sports geek researched each state's favorite Super Bowl snacks. This is stuff that comes out every year. Yes. And I have a couple of Super Bowl snack-related stories to put together. So Pennsylvania's favorite Super Bowl snacks...

are listed from 10 to 1. I'll start at number 10. All right. We'll move along. Number 10. Number 10 is mozzarella sticks. And I've also got snacks and then dips. Okay. They're two different categories. So we won't belabor every one of these, but mozzarella sticks, I am a fan. I know you guys, they have fallen out of favor with you. Yeah, I've soured on those. The only mozzarella sticks that I will still get are the ones at, oh, jeez,

County lockup? No, no. It's a chain restaurant. There's one in King of Prussia. There's one in Philadelphia right across the street from the Marriott.

Magianos? What is it? Magianos. Magianos. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I'll take potent potables for 20. All right, number nine is ice cream. What? What? What? What? No one's having ice cream. Who's having ice cream? Yeah, I don't get it. Mel doesn't get it either. Number eight is chips and dips. Yeah, of course. So they put that into an overarching category. Like I said, there's a whole separate dip category. We'll get to that in a moment. Chips with dips. Number seven is pretzels.

Number six, chicken wings. You would think they'd be number one, right? But apparently in Pennsylvania, according to their research, chicken wings is number six. Number five, hot dogs. What?

Number four, cookies. What? I know. It doesn't make much sense. Number three, pizza. Okay. I can see that. There's an Instagram, people that I follow, like food Instagram people called the Samboners. And they did like their list and they didn't even have pizza on their list. They had tomato pie on their list. Okay, tomato pie. I can see. So I tend to think when I think of Super Bowl foods, I tend to think savory. Okay.

I don't think sweet. I don't think cookies. All right. And then number two on this list are fries. What?

What? I know. Fries are something you serve hot. Yeah. And usually at the Super Bowl party, things are sitting out in like a platter. Yeah. I mean, we're thinking at a house, though, I guess if you are at some sort of party at a restaurant. Help yourself to the big bowl of fries. Serving up fries. Right? Yeah. There's a couple of obvious things that are not on this right now. Number one in Pennsylvania as far as the Snoop Bowl snacks. This is according to the Sports Geek. Meatballs are number one. No.

I like meatballs at a party, usually. I don't think Super Bowl. I don't think Super Bowl. I think you think wings. Yeah, wings. Yeah, or hoagies. Hoagies. Hoagie slices. Chips and dips should be higher. All right, so speaking of dips, these are the top dips in Pennsylvania, and they only have five. No, there's ten of them. All right. Number

Number 10 is queso, which, by the way, Casey brought his world-famous queso this morning. We're going to sample that in a moment, and I have my review because I had your beef sandwich. Okay. We have to use your name and queso in the description of... Casey Queso. Casey Queso. It's Casey Queso. Seamus and I were talking about this last night because he loves it, and he was like, okay, yeah, it needs to be K-C or Queso, but... You've got to workshop this. C-A-S-E dash...

And then the question was, how do we spell the O? I like Casey Kaso. Yeah. Casey Kaso. I think that's got a ring to it. Yeah. You've got to put world famous in there, though. World famous Casey Kaso. All right. Then it would be world famous Casey Kaso. All right. Okay. Number nine is bean dip. Bean dip is one of those things I never think of, but it's actually really good. It's good, yeah. So give me the nuance here. A lot of times I will... Chili...

Is chili? No, that's different. Bean dip is mainly refried beans. Oh, okay. And usually you'd like some cheese. I do like chili dip. And a sauce of sorts on it. Number eight is spinach artichoke dip. Number seven, French onion dip. Okay, yeah. Number six, salsa. I can't believe queso is low on that list. I feel like that needs to be up there. Number five is guacamole. Yep.

That's a dip, huh? Number four is ranch dressing. I guess it's a dip. Yeah, that's an angry one.

Number three, hummus. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Because it's healthy. Dude, you ever looked at the calories of hummus? No. It's on the roof. I'm having it with carrots pressed in. It's healthy. Number two is pizza dip. Okay. All right. That's good. And number one is buffalo chicken dip. That scored a perfect 100 on their scale. What's the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea? Well, I can tell you.

I've never had a garbanzo bean on my chest. So surprising, hoagie dip's not on there. Hoagie dip is, have you guys ever had a hoagie dip? I love hoagie dip. There's a grocery store in Harleysville that makes a great, great hoagie dip. Do you know what's missing from that dip list, though? The buffalo chicken dip. No, no, that was number one.

How did I miss that? I blacked out. It got 100%. You understand that I'm on this side of the console with a very intoxicating Kathy Romano. You were thinking about the chickpea joke. Yeah. Thank you, Nick. I can cancel my Alzheimer's appointment. Taco dip is very, very high up on my list. It's so good and it's so easy to make. Oh, you make it?

Yeah, I make it. Oh, yeah, no. No. It's so easy. I'm sorry, Kathy. It's so easy to buy. Yeah. You know, just go into the garden and pick it. Yeah.

Our favorite is seven layer dip. I don't know if you guys have ever had that. What is in a classic seven layer dip? It's been so long since I've made it. I don't remember. Why didn't you make it for us today? I don't know. It's the famous dip that I made when Rochelle and I went to Cecily Tynan's Y2K New Year's Eve party that was black tie and we didn't know it was black tie. Is it in the same universe as a taco bean dip?

Not quite. Well, I guess so, yeah. Because there's refried beans in it, right? Guacamole, sour cream, cheddar cheese, black olives, diced tomatoes, green onion, and cilantro. That's a taco dip. What's the difference between that and taco dip? My taco dip does not have bean mix in it. Or guacamole. So my taco dip really is just sour cream,

Cheese, black olives, tomatoes. These are all planets in the same solar system. I think you could also throw in if you wanted to some meat, some turkey meat or taco meat. Raw meat. Raw meat. Any kind of meat. Raw chicken, definitely. So speaking of human flesh, of Super Bowl in New Orleans, the number one Super Bowl dish in Louisiana is crawfish etouffee.

That's right. Rich seafood stew. I can't do crawfish. I just can't do it, man. Really? Yeah. Why not? I don't know. I've tried it. Do you like lobsters? I do. I don't know. I feel like because you're eating their faces and stuff. Oh, you mean when you suck the juice out of the head and everything? I don't do that. No, that's kind of gnarly, but yeah.

So anyhow, those are the tops in Pennsylvania. Are there any faces that you do like eating by any chance? Cow. Cow face. I don't know. Yeah, I'm trying to think. We generally don't eat face, right? You can eat the cheek off of a cow. That's a really tender piece of meat. And then you can, like a bluefin tuna, you can eat the cheek right off of that. How about Scrapple? I'm sure a lot of that comes from the head. That's mostly face. What about kittens? I won't eat a kitten face. Never again, at least.

Hold on, wait. Yes. Because I was actually confused by a comment that you guys made that hummus is not healthy. So I had to look it up because I always took it as healthy. Well, I'm not saying it's not healthy, but it's just more caloric than you might think it is. Not really, though. It's 80 calories for 15 servings per container, which would be, well, two tablespoons. So I guess that's a little high. Yeah, two tablespoons, 80.

80 calories. That's a fair amount. The benefit of the chickpeas and all that stuff. There's fiber. It's beneficial. It's better than eating whipped cream. It looks like it's a little high in sodium. It's probably the healthiest of all of these options, Kath. If you're comparing Thomas to a seven-layer dip, you're probably doing better.

Alright, let's... There's a call on the line I don't understand. It's a long lost cousin. What is Sam Borners? Oh, Sam Boners. I mentioned their list of... Oh, I misread that. Carl is one of the Sam Boners. Hi, Carl. Good morning. Carl! Good to see you! You're one of these guys that Casey follows on Instagram?

I'm an ancillary part of it, but Mick's going to be pumped when he hears that he was on the radio or his spot was mentioned on the radio. So, yeah, we just goof around and do food reviews. And I just wanted to thank you guys for the kind of shout-out there. Appreciate you, Casey Boyd.

Our pleasure. Actually, you included something in your list that I think is a nice. So chicken cutlets, you have at number six. I think chicken cutlets, chicken fingers, chicken nuggets for a Super Bowl food. I think that that should be on the list. I like number 10. It's just bourbon. Straight up bourbon. That's a good one. But I'll add one. I don't know if it's on that list or not. I haven't.

I haven't really looked at it yet because I've been traveling, but roast pork Italian sandwiches with like the little club rolls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate it, Carl. Thanks for checking in, bud.

Thanks, guys. All right, later. Carl, good to see you. I will give my official review of Casey. How do you name your sandwich, your beef sandwich? My world-famous Italian beef sandwiches. And by the way, can we make some for... I cut the club rolls in half, so I want Steve and Kathy and Nick to say those as well. Marissa, thank you. Marissa's going to serve that up. One, two.

I wholeheartedly approve, 100%. Thank you. It's fantastic. It's very tender, very flavorful. It's right on the edge of too spicy. Right on the edge. Right on the edge. I was telling Casey, it doesn't cross the line. It walks up to the line and stands on it. It's like Johnny Cash. Which is about...

Perfect. So the only thing I think that would add to it, and I'm sure you allow this for people, is a little slice of provolone. I agree. I just didn't do the provolone, or actually a Cooper Sharp is actually really good as well. Yes, creamier. It was actually a conscious decision to not bring cheese into the mix today because I wanted you to get it.

In its raw form. That's the difference between you and us. Kathy spent a whole bunch of time letting Acme bring in food and I'm spending a whole bunch of time letting Duncan bring in food and you skimped on the provolone. I appreciate you guys doing that for us. And I appreciate you. But also, Kathy, I know that you said that spice hits you a little bit different. Anything with a mild heat to it is going to put my mouth on fire.

I would appreciate if you just try a little bite. Yeah, no, I'll try a little bite. By the way, thank you, yes, to Acme. They're bringing in our goodies from Kathy. And you can save 5% if you wear your Eagles apparel all weekend when you shop in store. And they have hot wings that are $12 for two pounds this weekend. What did I bring today?

I don't know yet. Oh, you brought a roast beef hoagie tray. You brought a cookie cake. I sure did. Oh, a hot wings bucket. A hot wings bucket as well. Yep. And they have, by the way, the cookie is one of those giant cookies. And it's Jason and Travis. It's got the two names and it has the greater than symbol like you remember from Algebra. Oh, yes. And it's Jason is greater than Travis. Oh, terrific. So, wait. So, the symbol eats Jason, right? Yeah. The symbol eats Jason. Yes, exactly. Oh, okay.

And that because there was a little bit of a misstep earlier this week. I don't know if you guys saw this on social media where there was basically a Travis Kelsey's girlfriend. Anyway, if you follow it on social media, you'll see the hubbub. But I want to say that all of my ingredients were purchased at Acme yesterday. There was a little nod. I'm looking confused. Loving things to the Chiefs.

at Acme and they got a lot of blowback here in a good nature way. And so Acme did the correction and the cake you see that we have here, the cookie cake now has the symbol that are in all of the Acmes. Okay. So it's just a correction on a little cookie float. While we're doing the connoisseur, real quick, our buddy Cast Iron Kyle is on the line and he wants to give us a little recipe for Super Bowl. Hi, Kyle. Morning, bud.

Yo, what up, Nut Bowls? Yo, man. Yes. Yeah, so what's up? You wanted to share a recipe, Kyle. That was all I wanted to say. No, you just wanted to say what up, Nut Bowls.

And you cut it up with current jelly, put it on the crock pot on low, and it'll be the first thing going at any party you go to. And I don't know why. Kielbasa and what? We kind of, I didn't hear you there. Oh, sorry. Current jam, like current jelly, because it's like super sweet and tart. Okay. Put it in the crock pot on low. Let that, let that jam cook down and that kielbasa cook up. I don't know what it is. It's a phenomenon. My mom used to make it when we were in a bind for a Super Bowl party or any kind of party. You can use it at any party, not just Super Bowls. All right. It's just so good. Oh,

I love it. Love it. All right. Thanks, Kyle. Appreciate it, brother. See ya. Follow Cast Iron underscore Kyle on Instagram. He's got great recipes on there. Do you think when he says it'll be the first thing gone, that's because everyone's throwing it out? Yeah. You know, we used to, our go-to like party little favor that my mom would make food-wise was, is really, really simple. You know, little smokies?

They're little sausages And barbecue sauce, little smokies Crock pot, done And they're easy, they're actually really good Do you know what's a basic one for me? Just chips and onion dip

Yeah. I friggin' love chicken onion dip. All right. Let's play a clip from a movie that has to do with food and see if we can identify it. We have prizes for you if you get it correct. 215-263-WMMR is our number. Here is the first movie clip we're playing for the connoisseur today. You've got a good-looking football team. Maybe good enough to add another national championship trophy to the old case downstairs. That's kind of like my old man told me one time, Len, the only thing better than a...

Crawfish dinner is fire crawfish dinner. All right, 215-263-WMMR. Call if you know what movie that's from. Order up. I teased that I was going to be mentioning this story. So last year, Taylor Swift watched the Chiefs beat the Niners in a Super Bowl suite, and it cost her $2.5 million, okay, for the suite, for the game. Okay.

Naturally, these Lux digs include a Lux menu on par with that price tag. So some of the things that she had was lobster and steak quesadillas, a shrimp cocktail tower, king crab, fried rice, and Wagyu tenderloin. So just for clarity, this catering is included in that $2 million price tag. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So repeated, she's going to be there for a repeated appearance. That's the word.

And so what's going to be on the concessions menu for her hospitality this time around? So the hospitality group Sodexo Live has teamed up with Caesars Superdome to create this year's menu offering. So here's what Taylor's $2 million suite, by the way. $2 million. She's down a half million. Wow, she saved. She did a lot of the cooking herself. Yep, so $2 million suite.

It will include equally extravagant selections like sushi and sandwich platters, seafood towers, and tomahawk steaks with the Super Bowl 59 logo branded into the bone.

National Executive Chef Carmen Cayo called the beef a great photo op and a delicious meal. Now, that's not to say the regular meal available throughout the Superdome isn't impressive in its own right. Cayo, or Zecalo, and Sodexo Live worked through several tastings to ensure, they said, at every tier of service there is a fun, authentically New Orleans menu offering that meets the moment for the fans.

Even regular attendees will have their pick of Louisiana grub. So there are three different po'boys, alligator, sausage on French bread.

seafood nachos, a lobster caragay sandwich, which is, I think that's how you pronounce it. It's a panko-coated, butterflied lobster tail drizzled with lemon pepper sauce, butter sauce, I'm sorry, butter lettuce, tomato, and remoulade sauce on a brioche bun. That sounds delightful. Let me ask you, how much does this $2 million, how many people, I know this is all after the fact and ridiculous to ask anyway, but how many people would this spread feed?

Don't know. Okay. I don't know how many people she has in her suite. I would imagine somewhere in the realm of...

10 to 12. Yeah. And that's $2 million. Yeah. Miles Teller will not be one of them. No, yeah, yeah. He's going to another street. You know, Preston, you were talking about Taylor Swift and I just looked it up. The over under on her showing up on television during the game is only 6.5. Oh, really? I would put it much higher than that. Oh, my God, yes. Yeah. They're not going to focus, though, on her this time around. You don't think so? No, I don't think so at all. So you're going to take the under on 6.5? I think so.

I think they'll show her, but they weren't over the top with her at any of the other games. Do you want a little friendly bet between you and me? Yes. All right. I'll take the over. What do I get if I win? Okay, wait. Over what? Foot job. They will show her at least six and a half times. At least six and a half times. If they show her seven or more times, I win. If they show her six or fewer times, you win. All right. Okay. I'll go. I'll take that bet. Yeah. All right. What's the wager? I don't know. Okay. Okay.

Handjob. No. Ew, that's disgusting. No, Nick to you. Yeah. Nick is to give you one. When does it start? Is this like from kickoff on? Yeah, kickoff. From kickoff until the end of the game. Yeah. I'm thinking along Kathy's lines. I think that there's been a blowback to the overshowing of Taylor Swift, and I think that they're going to try to keep that mitigated. I will buy you your favorite bottle of wine. Okay. And you buy me my favorite bottle of wine. Okay. There you go. Deal. Yeah.

All right. Minus Cristal. With a straw. Minus Cristal. Okay. So they will also have Gemalaya and Cajun beef brisket sandwiches as well as stadium classics like hot dogs, pretzels, nachos that will also be on the menu. I mean, popcorn? Yeah, probably. If Swift chooses to sway from her go-to vodka cranberry,

The cocktail menu has a loaded spicy Bloody Mary garnished with olives, pepperoncini, spicy green beans, celery, cheese, bacon, and spicy okra. Plus, there's a Black Magic cocktail with lime juice, jalapeno syrup, and mango puree garnished with a dehydrated lime meal and Black Magic Cajun seasoning. I mean, that's... These are...

great drinks, great food, not typically what you see at football stadiums. Right. I also, like, I find it funny because, you know, going back to the food part of it all, like, you figure all the people in this suite are, like, not eating, you know what I mean? Like, I feel like all that food... They're all on Ozempic. Like, well, they eat smart, right? Right. Like, so...

I feel like all that food is going to go to waste. Nobody's going to be eating that. Well, who knows? I don't know. I'm sure they indulge as well at Super Bowl. And it's more for the presentation to say, look what the spread I put out for you. Yeah, of course. I'm Taylor Swift. Two million dollars. I mean, it's...

Maybe I've spent half that at a Super Bowl party. Yeah. All right, let's see if somebody knows what movie this clip is from. You've got a good-looking football team. Maybe good enough to have another national championship trophy to the old case downstairs. That's kind of like my old man told me one time, Len. The only thing better than a crawfish dinner is five crawfish dinner. All right, let's go to Chad. Hey, Chad, good morning. Hey, what's going on, my man? All right, buddy, we're looking for that movie. What is it? What?

The water boy. Yeah. It's the water boy. Hang on a second. Here's what we have for you. You got a pair of tickets. It's MMR rocks, blues traveler, gin blossoms, plus special guest spin doctors. And it's going to be on Saturday, July 19th at Ovation Hall and Ocean Casino Resort. And tickets go on sale for that show today at 10 a.m. at the ocean ac.com. All right, we're going to get our next clip. And by the way, these are all New Orleans cuisine, uh,

Thank you to Marissa for putting all this together. Here's our next one. What movie is this from? I don't know.

I can walk, too. Kind of hard to hear that over the music. Yes, it's the mix. It's okay. But let's see if you know the name. 215-263-WMMR. What movie is that from? Order up. Preston, do you want quick reviews of the sandwich? Oh, sure. Kathy, did you have a little? I took a little. Very tiny nibble, but very competitive, Casey. Right? Very competitive. Thank you. Thank you. Nice little kick to it. Not too much. I enjoyed it. And honestly, Casey, you don't need cheese on there. It's really damn good. In fact, it would be an insult.

Well, I mean, listen, people love cheese. I love cheese myself. I've met these people. And usually, like, when I eat these sandwiches, I have more than one. So one usually has cheese, and then another one doesn't have cheese. Okay. All right. If the Super Bowl heads to overtime this year, everyone in the U.S. wins, at least when it comes to free wings. For the seventh straight year, Buffalo Wild Wings is putting delicious steaks on the line. They're promising six free wings online.

all customers if the game goes into overtime. The deal can be redeemed on February 24th from 2 to 5 p.m. There's a very specific window for dine-in or in-person takeout, so you might want to start hoping for a nail-biter if you want to get some free wings. Statistically, how many...

Super Bowl games have gone into overtime? Good question. Do not know that answer. Wait, I'm sorry. Two. Two Super Bowls have gone into overtime. Super Bowl 51 in 2017 and last year's in 2024. All right. And another Wings story.

So, according to a recent report from the National Chicken Council, Americans are set to devour a staggering 1.47 billion wings while watching the birds battle it out up to up 20 million from last year.

That is enough to circle the earth three times or dish out more than four wings to every single person in the country. Has NASA ever planned something like that? I don't know. Whether you like them spicy, saucy, or smothered in ranch, wings are the undisputed MVP of Super Bowl snacks. I've heard, and I'm not sure that this is scientifically accurate at this point, but they are checking that the rings of Saturn are made of chicken wings. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.

Well, we may want to check. This is from the National Chicken Council, and they probably have those stats. All right, let's see if you know what movie this is from. All right, we will see if Tom knows what movie that is from. Yo, Tom, good morning, bud.

Hey, Thug Brown, Guatemala nipples. Getting sucked on by all sorts of pimples. All right. Tom, what movie is that from? Chef. Yeah, Chef. Tell me what. Wingy. Great movie. You got it right. Here's what we have for you. All right, Tommy, you won a pair of tickets to MMR Rocks, Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, plus special guest Spin Doctors on Saturday, July 19th at Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets go on sale for that show this morning at 10 a.m. at The Ovation.

OceanAC.com. By the way, to your point about the music being louder, that is indicative of the way movies are mixed these days. A lot of times, that's why you have speakers and TV systems that work to put the dialogue more towards the front because the movies are mixed that way. And sometimes, that's why you, a lot of times, you'll watch with a

you know, subtitle something. All right, well, let's see if this one has music in it. We have another movie clip and it has to do with food, specifically New Orleans based. Here we go. Woo! Hey, thanks a lot, man. Thank you so much. You're serving it. It's up in there. You got to get some collard greens and some yams and red beans and rice. Somebody is right. This ain't no party. Oh, this ain't no party.

Y'all got to get y'all some peach cobbler up in the air. 215-263-WMMR. Call if you know. Order up. All right, we're going to sway from the Super Bowl for just a moment.

America's largest breakfast chain has implemented a surcharge on eggs amid the ongoing bird flu crisis. Waffle House, the Georgia-based restaurant chain with more than 2,000 locations across 25 states, announced on Monday that it has implemented a 50-cent per egg surcharge across all of its menus. You kind of figured this was going to happen. But why not with chicken wings?

Okay, so the majority, now what I've read, Casey, the vast majority of the birds that are being affected by the flu are the egg-laying chickens. Okay, okay. So therein lies your answer. What are you, stupid? So the breakfast giant known for its affordable meals described the price increase as a temporary targeted surcharge as executives made rather than increasing prices across the board. Okay.

And it said, quality, fresh, cracked, grade A, large eggs. Goddamn right. Will remain a key ingredient in many of our customers' favorite meals. Consumers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions. Waffle House said of the nationwide egg shortage that we are

continuously monitoring egg prices and will adjust or remove the surcharge as market conditions allow. Would you just do any Waffle House? I try to go every time I'm in Florida. All right. Yes. Yep. So whenever I visit my mom and sister, I will hit up Waffle House. The eggs though, the prices have skyrocketed and they're in short supply. Like a lot of places have signs up that say, you know, we're trying to work with other suppliers, but-

Or a short supply. More than 145 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds have already been slaughtered since the current outbreak began. In Casey, the vast majority of them being egg-laying chickens. Adding to the stress on the markets are cage-free egg laws, which could cause supply disruptions and price increases. Organic and cage-free eggs are already more expensive than other varieties. But new laws in 10 states set minimum space for chickens or cage-free requirements for egg-laying hens.

The cost of a dozen eggs has now more than doubled since summer of 2023 and hit a near record high of $4.15 in December last year. Are you an eggs every week kind of guy? I eat an egg almost every day. All right. Yeah, with my salad that I bring to lunch or for lunch every day, I have a boiled egg in there. All right. Yep.

So while this fell short of the $4.82 record set two years ago, the Agriculture Department predicts prices are going to climb another 20% this year. It's cray-cray. So we'll see how long that stays at Waffle House. All right, let's see if you know what this is from. Woo! Hey, thanks a lot, man. Thank you so much. You're serving it. It's up in there. You got to get some collard greens and some yams and red beans and rice. Somebody is right. This ain't no pop. Oh, this is...

Y'all got to get Yosef Pete Cobb up in here! All right, let me go to Sketchy on the phone. Yo, Sketchy, morning. Yoo-hoo!

Sketchy, what movie is that from? Nutty Professor. That's correct. Hang on, buddy. Here's what we have for you. Sketchy, you won a pair of tickets to MMR Rock's Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, plus special guest Spin Doctors, Saturday, July 19th, the day before Nick's 50th birthday, at Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets go on sale for that show today at 10 a.m. at theoceanac.com. All right, next clip. Here we go. Let's cook something else. I already bought all that.

bought all this stuff and it's in the freezes beautifully section of my cookbook i want to take something that freezes beautifully then we'll make red beans and racks all right 215-263-WMMR is the number call now and we are going to set you up if you can name that particular movie all right order up

We have a special guest correspondent on the connoisseur this morning. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you from the Delicious City podcast, Miss Marissa Magneto. Yay!

Long commute to cut in here this morning. And Marissa and her crew recently put on an event where they celebrated Philadelphia restaurants, and it's called the Tasty Awards. Yeah. And this is the first event you guys have held, and it went wonderfully from what I understand. Preston, it was amazing. It was wonderful. I didn't know when we created it. We thought, you know, we're just creating an award show. People are going to smile, say thank you, send, you know, a representative up. No, like people were...

this was really special. It meant a lot to a lot of people in the industry. What I learned was a lot of other cities do this. There's one down south. There's one in Connecticut. So now Philadelphia has one because you're saying again, exactly. And it's when we were talking about it, when you announced that they were going on, we were kind of stunned to realize Philly for all of its food cred didn't have one of these award shows. There is, of

Of course, like Philly Mag Best Of list and the Inquirer, like tons of publications do one, but not an award show like this. Right. Where it's voted on by your peers. We had like a secret panel of judges that went to all the restaurants to pick their favorites. We didn't even know. We had a locked, sealed envelope. So it was a surprise to all of us. Did you guys coin the name? The Tasties?

Sure, yeah, Trey Park. The application's in there. I don't know. It's a great name. And when you come up with an award show, you're like, what are we going to name it? And you guys came up with a terrific one. Hey, thank you. All right, well, can you run down the list of winners? I would love to. Okay. All right, so I'm reading from the Delicious City Podcast website. We have, sorry, I'm going to go in the end. Craft Cocktail Excellence was Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Okay.

Excellence in Hospitality was Vernick. Next level neighborhood spot was Royal Tavern. Standout Baker or Pastry Chef was Chris DePazia from, I think he is from...

I don't want to get it wrong, so I'm not going to say which one it's from. Breakout Chef is Melissa McGrath from a place that I've told you guys about called Sweet Amalia's. It's right off 55 on the way to the shore. Highly, highly recommend checking that out. Icon Award, which is one of my favorites. We picked restaurants that have just been around for a really long time. And the winner there was Zahav. Best new restaurant is Iliada.

And Chef of the Year, this was really special. It was named in honor of Chef Jim Burke, who passed away a couple years ago from cancer. And he touched a lot of people within the community. It turns out that 25 years ago, he worked with the winner, Dionisio Jimenez of Cantina La Martinez. Oh, that's right. So it was really special. Jim's daughter is like six or seven or eight, and she was like on her tippy toes announcing the name. So it was really sweet. And Restaurant of the Year was Kalia.

which is in Fishtown, a really, really delicious Thai place. I recommend you all try out. Who got dishwasher of the year? Okay, so those were in the People's Choice. We had Best Pop-Up or Supper Club was Habibi Supper Club. KC, Best Emotional Support Sandwich, Farina DeVita for the Bronco Cutlet.

Yeah, and so the owner of Farina DeVita, Jason Oaktay, his son and my son went from kindergarten and played basketball together. So I've known those guys for a long time. That's so great, man. So excited for those guys. Best late night spot went to Messina Social Club in South Philly. Most crave-worthy pizza is char.

And best dishwasher, dish wizard, we call it, went to, I'm so sorry, I don't want to say he's not wrong. He went to the dishwasher from Provenance, which is a new restaurant in Head House Square. And guys, the moment was unbelievable. Stan,

standing ovation. Everybody in the room. Everybody appreciates a good dishwasher. Dishwasher. Everyone talks about how important that person is to making the night run. And I think with, you know, kind of all the crap that's happening in the world right now and around, it was really, really special. So you're looking at a video right now. It's on my Instagram page and there's a moment where everybody stands up and it was congratulating him. So it was really, really special for everybody. That's excellent. Hey, by the way, Nick, can you pull up the pastry chef name?

Is it up high? Up top. Keep going, keep going. Right there, that gentleman. Chris DiPiazza? Yeah, it doesn't say what...

Oh, it doesn't. Okay, sorry. My bad. I'll look it up. All right, cool. So, big success. You guys are, and you raised some money for charity as well? We did. Proceeds went to MANA. So Sue Docherty from MANA was there and the MANA crew was there. And we collected money from them, portion of the proceeds. And like Tito's had a little puppy bar. So they had puppies from Morris Animal Refuge there. That's excellent. And it was really fun. Chris's with Mighty Bread.

So that's it. Mighty bread. Guys, it was so great. I don't know how we'll make it bigger next year. You're going to have to now. Do it the same way. Can't be boring. Success. Keep it a success. Thank you guys for the moment. Congratulations to everybody. Those are great restaurants. If you're looking for a place to go, check out the list. Excellent. Thank you, Marissa Magnano. Yay!

Special correspondent on the connoisseur today. All right, we're going to see if somebody knows what movie this clip is from. So let's cook something else. I already bought all this stuff, and it's in the freezes beautifully section of my cookbook. I want to take something that freezes beautifully. And we'll make red beans and rice. All right, we will go to Christine to see if we can get the answer. Hi, Christine. Good morning. Good morning. All right, Christine, name that movie.

That is Steel Magnolias. That's correct. All right, you win. Hang on, Christine. Here's what we have for you. We got another pair of tickets as MMR Rock's Blues Traveler Gin Blossoms plus special guests, spin doctors, Saturday, July 19th at Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets are on sale today at 10 a.m. at theoceanac.com. All right, we're going to do one more, and I have a quick story, Kay, so we'll move along quickly on this. What movie is this clip from? Terminal time.

You came to my place. I made dinner for you. Did you not like the jambalaya? It was the worst s*** I've ever tasted in my life. Why do you think I've been throwing up every week? All right, 215-263-WMMR. Call if you know. Next story as our order is up, and this is a quickie.

So there is a debate as to where a new bottle of ketchup goes in the fridge or in the cupboard. This goes back and forth all the time. Can I make a guess right now where we stand? Sure. Cupboard.

So there's been disruption and division in households up and down all over. Fridge purists will point out the fact that several bottles come with the label saying keep refrigerated and argue that a cooler temperature will help the sauce stay fresh longer. Meanwhile, cupboard supporters will argue to the end of the earth about how restaurants

keep ketchup at room temperature, and that the sauce contains high levels of preservatives anyway, meaning that it is unlikely to spoil regardless of storing conditions. So, do you keep it in the fridge or the cupboard? So, they called in the big guns in this story, the people at Heinz, in order to settle the debate once and for all. Well, they would know. Heinz...

Representative Olivia Lennon said there was only ever one correct answer, and we're happy to share with Heinz tomato ketchup lovers that our ketchup has to be in the refrigerator. Ah. Acknowledging that a good deal of the nation prefers their ketchup on the milder side, she said, although we're aware many Heinz tomato ketchup fans have been storing their ketchup in the cupboard, we do recommend refrigeration after opening. Yeah. It becomes lethal.

This is the best way to maintain the delicious tangy taste of our Heinz tomato ketchup that you all know and love. So this would explain the sticker on the label. It says, for best results, refrigerate after opening, which means that ketchup is good to go in the cupboard until you throw it on some food and then you throw it into the fridge. So we keep ours in the fridge, but yeah, I went to restaurants where we just left it out now at a restaurant.

At a restaurant, the ketchup has a higher turnover. It's used a lot more often. It's not going to sit out probably as long as it does at your house. Damn it, you're right. Our ketchup is in the fridge. But there are some things that my family, we had never refrigerated for whatever reason, and we apparently were supposed to. But like my family growing up, we never refrigerated like A1 steak sauce. You're supposed to refrigerate that. Yeah. But we didn't. What about raw chicken? We refrigerated it. Okay. I mean, my cousins actually leave the butter out on the...

You can do that. Yeah, you can do that as well. It doesn't really require refrigeration. And I think eggs. Bread is always one that pops up. As well. Yeah. I would never not leave eggs in the refrigerator. Me too. Yeah. All right. Anyhow, let's see if you can identify the movie. Remember that time you came to my place? I made dinner for you? Did you not like the jambalaya?

It was the worst s*** adaptation of my life. Why do you think I've been throwing up every week? All right, we'll go to Antonio to see if we can get an answer. Antonio, good morning. Hey, bitches. Hey, what? All right, what movie is that from, brother?

That would be any given Sunday. That is correct. Yep. And we got a prize for you, bud. Here we go. All right. For you, Antonio. Antonio Margarito. We have a pair of tickets. It's MMR Rocks, Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, and Spin Doctors, Saturday, July 19th at Ovation Hall in Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets are on sale for that show today at 10 a.m. at theoceanac.com. All right. Thank you very much, Casey. And that will wrap up.

the connoisseur segment for today, friends. Good news, guys. Casey Kaso is ready to eat. World famous. World famous Casey Kaso. Thank you, Casey. And we have even more good news. BirdBot has made it to Fox 29. Yeah!

We are watching right now as we speak on Fox. We have video of Helen with Mike and Alex at their broadcast area in New Orleans. And they brought Bird Bot along with them. Was that place Crazy Cats or something like that? Crazy Cats. Thank you. It's like a strip club. Yep. So they are, they got, one of the missions has been achieved.

And now we're going to see where else BirdBot ends up in New Orleans. So we have... Oh, my God. You should see the crowd is cheering as BirdBot is being brought into the bar. They're treating him like a full-on celebrity. Royalty, yes. I love it. He still looks good. He does look good. He's held up really, really well. I mean, he's...

He's littered with stickers and signatures, but he is not beat up at all. No, no. This is the best. I love it. Oh, my gosh. We did it. Look at Mike next to you, Bird Bot. And can you see if Bird Bot's cup is still attached to his... I saw it in a picture from earlier today, but did you see it, Casey? Yeah, on the left wing. Oh, that's great. He can do some shots. And I love that Helen is on camera. She's loving it. Oh, no. Adam!

Go birds. Go birds. All right. All right, well, listen, we have to take a break. We have a lot on our plate today, not just real food that Casey brought and our friends from Acme and Duncan, but we have...

Don McCloskey and his band stopping by to perform in just a moment or two. Bert Kreischer is checking in from New Orleans, or he's supposed to. And we will also have a Spanish-language broadcaster, Oscar Buttigieg, who is live in New Orleans, and Andrew Salchunas from our sister station, The Fanatic, as they are in New Orleans. So we have a lot happening. We're going to take a quick break. Come back in a second with the B-Files. Stay with us.

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Brought to you by Pro Team Collision. If you find yourself in an accident, trust the pros of Pro Team Collision, your trusted auto body repair shop located in King of Prussia. Go to ProteamCollision.com. So a man has been blasted by angry parents after he was filmed doing something very unusual in a children's

swimming pool. Oh, no. This is in New Zealand. In the bizarre footage circulated online, the man is seen bending over and scrubbing himself with soap in a shallow pool while kids play together just a few feet away. And then, to the horror of onlookers, he begins...

cleansing his ass in full view of everyone else. More than a million people have now seen the clip after it was being shared on Facebook this week. So he's full-blown bathing in a swimming pool. Yeah, and he takes time to reach up into the crack of his ass and clean it out with soap and water. This is why public pools know.

So many of them branded his behavior around children disgusting. In the video, believed to be filmed in New Zealand, a man behind the camera is heard saying, what the? Wait, he's got soap. And he goes, bro, it's not a bath. And he begins grabbing his ass. He then says, oi, he's washing his effing ass. It is bongo. And a woman then says, oh, stop it, before the other man watching says, kids, get out of the pool.

Since going viral, the clip has drawn thousands of comments from locals and people further afield, including some who claimed his actions could make others ill. Of course! But some leapt to the man's defense, and a woman wrote, what's wrong? I mean...

Isn't it normal to shower and wash with soap, etc. after a swim anyway? It's okay for kids with stink ass to swim in a chlorinated pool, but not okay for a man to clean himself after a swim. Who's really the yucky one? No, it's not. The person who wrote that. The ones who bring their kids here unknowing what happened.

in those waters or the one who uses soap in a pool with chemicals that'll kill germs anyway. Listen, here's the difference. You can stand on the edge of the pool and piss into it or you can get in the pool and piss into it. And where no one knows. Yeah. Jury selection took place in the federal trial of an IRS agent accused of accidentally shooting and killing a fellow agent

in 2023. And while this is a tragic story, there's one interesting line that makes it slightly humorous that I want to mention. All right. So, more than 60 jurors were whittled down to 14 on Wednesday as the fate of Larry Brown rests in their hands. Now, Brown faces an involuntary manslaughter charge.

after reportedly shot Patrick Bauer in the torso during training at a federal gun range at Phoenix Prison in August of 2023. Now, here's the interesting part. Bauer died in the hospital, and according to court records, his last words were...

Larry's an effing idiot. And he's right. That's what he said. Put that on his tombstone. Court records say Brown repeated, I'm a use of force instructor. I should have known better multiple times. Prosecutors alleged that this was negligence, but the defense calls it a tragic accident. They argue Bauer would likely still be alive if first responders had gotten there faster. And if there was an emergency action plan at the gun range.

Now six women and eight men will decide if Brown is guilty based on what's presented in court. Oh, man. In Florida, a motorcyclist was killed Tuesday afternoon in a bizarre wrong-way hit-and-run crash on I-295. And what's crazy is it ended with the wrong-way driver escaping on the back of a semi-truck. Whoa.

Like he did like a movie type of thing where he jumped on the back and got away. So troopers are still on the hunt for the wrong way driver who they say caused a three vehicle pileup that killed a 66 year old man. The man with short dreadlocks stole a dark green 2001 Chevrolet pickup truck and drove the wrong way on I-295 northbound. He hit a motorcycle and the 66 year old rider was thrown off. The motorcycle was then hit by a sedan that had been driving behind the motorcyclist. The impact was...

with the motorcycle sent the car veering into the right shoulder guardrail. It then ricocheted and spun back onto the highway where it hit the motorcyclist on the ground and then it killed him. The motorcyclist died on the scene.

The man and woman in the car suffered minor injuries. They were wearing their seatbelts. Troopers said after the pileup, the driver of the stolen pickup tried and failed to steal another vehicle. Then he ran from the scene and was last seen riding on the outside of a semi that had driven through the area. So he was driving through the area. It slows down. He jumps on and takes off. Exactly. The semi was later pulled over, but the man was no longer on it. Yeah, I'm still here.

and they are still looking for him. They said the man might have injuries that look like he was in a crash or a fight, so they're telling people to look out for him. All right, then we will do one more story, and we will wrap it up. Let's go with this one. A New York judge has resigned because of what he did and what he said to try to get out of jury duty.

This is like... This is a judge. This is a judge. Yeah. Richard T. Snyder has been on the bench for a decade in upstate New York and actually said in court, I know everybody that comes in front of me and I know they are guilty. They are guilty.

They would not be in front of me, he said. Okay. Yeah. The judge in charge of... You don't get this, do you? ...of jury selection reported Snyder to state officials. Snyder tried to backpedal with the state, but still said the defendants did something wrong. Everyone is guilty. And now he's resigning. And everyone should be in prison. And agreed to never serve as a judge again. Snyder, who's not a lawyer, he was elected to the position.

And I wash my ass in public pools. And that is where we will end the bizarre fight. I didn't know that you didn't, I thought you always had to be a lawyer. To be a judge. Yeah. Yeah. No, you do. But then you still have to be elected.

This guy is not a lawyer, and he was elected to be a judge. Maybe it's different in that state, Kath. I don't know. Yeah, it says Snyder, who is not a lawyer, was elected to the position. Okay. What about Judge Reinhold? Research that and be like, he's not an actual judge. That's just his name. Oh. I'm sorry to blow your mind. Oh, my God. I am sorry to blow your mind. I thought, what an accomplished actor from a man from the law. Yeah. My two cousins were judges, and they were lawyers first, but they were also both elected to their positions. That's why I thought that. My bad. All right.

Well, we need to take a break. It's already 823. We have several guests that are scheduled to join us, one of them being an entire group, Don McCloskey and his band. Oh, yeah. You're going to get some good music. They're in the Acme Lounge right now, and they're enjoying some Acme food as well. Did you see the spread that Acme brought? I have not yet seen it. It's phenomenal. Yes.

They brought all these fantastic sandwiches and dips, and we are good to go. And our friends from Dunkin' dropped off some stuff. We have Casey's world-famous beef, Italian beef. Yep. And his world-famous queso as well. Terrific. Phenomenal. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a second, and we'll start chatting with peeps and get some music as well. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Hey, real quick, before we welcome our next guest, there's a couple of shout outs I want to do that I'd forgotten to get to earlier. I got this from Karen Sterkenberg, and she said, our Atlanta Delphia household has a huge weekend coming up. Originally born and raised in Philly, moved to Atlanta area about eight years ago for career purposes. Our daughter Lacey is a diehard Eagles fan since she could talk and a President Steve show fan since she was in middle school. And she's been a swimmer since she was three months old, started competing at

Besides her love for the Eagles, she's a badass swimmer. She's headed to Georgia High School States this weekend. She said Lacey met y'all when she was in middle school at the Hershey Park outing when we won tickets two years in a row. I missed that live broadcast. She said it would absolutely make her day if you took a minute to wish her luck.

The finals are on Saturday where top swimmers compete for the podium. And then, of course, Super Bowl Sunday. Let's make it a winning weekend for Lacey and the Eagles. She'll be swimming on scholarship at the University of Utah next year. So this is the last year she'll be hearing Preston and Steve in our kitchen where we stream live every morning from, and I kid you not,

Georgia. Yeah. That's the name of it. That's about right. C-U-M-M-I-N-G. Cumming, Georgia and Forsyth. Very happy people there. Uh, so she says from, uh, with love from Atlantidelfia. Here's a shout out. Go Lacey. And go birds. All right. And here's another one that said, I'm going to get to that one later on. Uh,

This one is interesting. It says, hey guys, this is from a guy named Doug Chapman. He says, I live in Lucerne, Switzerland. And I have a work conference in southern Italy on Sunday. It's that Sunday through Wednesday. And I was super bummed out that I would have to watch the Super Bowl in the middle of the night in a hotel lobby on my laptop. And on Wednesday, my boss saw me looking at

BirdBot 2.0's Instagram. Yeah. I was showing her all the pictures and the excitement, and she realized how bummed I was to miss out on all the fun, and then she said...

You should skip the conference and go to Philadelphia. I will cover for you. How cool is that? So I bought a ticket and I'm now flying to Philly to watch the game with friends and family. I am stoked and have BirdBot 2.0 to thank for that. Is there anything that fake bird can't do? Doug says a shout out for my boss. I don't want to give any names, but we can simply call her best boss ever. So here's a shout out.

For Doug in Switzerland's boss. I thought that was pretty damn cool. That's where the collider is, is it not? No, no, no. Lucerne is a town in the Swiss Alps. The collider is closer to Geneva. I've been to Lucerne. That's the only reason I know that is I went there and I got super high on hash. Really?

So you can trust me. And you saw a collider anyway. There's Lucerne pepper jack cheese in the queso dip, by the way. Is there a collider in it? There's not. It all comes together. Hey, we are excited to extend our pep rally concert series one more time this morning with some of our favorite people who came out in...

en masse to be here for this event. That shows commitment and that means a clear victory for the Suns. Last time we saw them was at Camp Out Unplugged at Victory Beer Hall. Phenomenal. We had that show. It was excellent. We had the Hooters here yesterday. They were at that as well. Ladies and gentlemen, Don McCloskey and his band!

Billy's own. What's up, man? What's going on, guys? How are you? Wonderful. How you doing? Good. Good to be back. Great to have you here this morning. Dude, we're psyched. I've been watching all week. Saw G Love. Yeah. Saw the Hooters. Yeah. Saw Snack Time. It's been great. Lizzie Hale. Lizzie Hale. Yeah. It was great. And you are a diehard Eagles fan. I'm a diehard Eagles fan. Yeah. It's even mentioned in Son of it All. You mentioned Sixers and Eagles. Sixers and Eagles. Yeah. Yeah. Randall Cunningham. That was like, you know, I was like...

A kid in Bristol watching Randall Cunningham and the gangrene. Is he your god? I mean, of many godlike figures. Yeah, he was the god. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, for sure. And the first, like, modern quarterback. Yeah, no doubt. It was great. So what are you doing for the game? What are the plans?

Oh, I'm watching at home. Just at home? Just at home. You having a party or friends are coming over? Yeah, make cheesesteaks. I make the cheesesteaks. You do? Tony Luke style. Yeah, just like Tony Luke. And yeah, I make my cheesesteaks. We watch the game and birds win. Is there any in-house generated music while everything's going on? You know what? I'm off. I'm off on Sunday. I'm like zoned in. Yeah, I'm like, yeah. Okay.

We talked to your buddy Rob McElhenney last week. Obviously, Rob is fired up if you spoke to him lately. I haven't talked to him about it. I mean, we are on a bird's like text hood. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So the last he said he was going to try to be down there. I didn't. We didn't. Nick, did you ever follow up? Yeah. So the crew. Four walls. Four walls is going down. Yeah. And Vince from Philly Sports Trips and Four Walls and Rob McElhenney, they're all getting together. And I believe Kelsey is going to be a part of that. And.

Quinta Brunson. Yeah, Quinta Brunson. They're going to the game together. And Kaitlin Olsen's going as well. So yeah, St. Joe's Prep doing proud at the Super Bowl once again. And he was there in 2018 when they won. That is true. That's some good luck. It is very good luck. And a lot of stuff that was of that win has fallen into place. Also with BirdBot being 2.0 being successful. Oh, it was BirdBot? The year BirdBot won, which took us to the Super Bowl and gave us a victory. And is this based on HitchBot?

Yes. Yes, exactly. So we initially, when Hitchpot came through and was destroyed, the next big thing that happened in the city was the Pope visited, so we did Pope Bot. And then when the Eagles made it to the Super Bowl, we have to do Bird Bot. From the ashes of Hitchpot rises the mighty Bird Bot. Yeah. It's very much like the Phoenix rising. It was a brutal murder for Hitchpot. It was. The head was never recovered. But we were able to show that cohesively we could pull this together as we did with Pope Bot. But Bird Bot,

1.0 behind you is, I mean, you're kind of looking at, think of the Arc de Triomphe. Yeah. It's like the Venus de Milo. Exactly. It's a work of art. Yeah, it's beautiful. So we're proud of him. He's going to make travels in New Orleans and hopefully make his way back. We'll see how that works out. But we've got some plans for people to meet up with him throughout the course of the weekend, which would be pretty awesome. I like it. Don't get him, BirdBot.

We invited you to come by and give us your version of the Eagles fight song. But we're going to do that after we get another performance first. And by the way, and I'm in no way disappointed whatsoever, I didn't know you were bringing the whole band with you. That's awesome. So we have obviously Hannah and Sarah.

Been in our studio many times, and we love having those guys here. We also have Tom, who's on bass. Hey-oh. And he brought a big stand-up acoustic bass, which is badass. Ross Belinois is on guitar back in our studio. Matt Scarano on drums. Hey-oh. By the way, I didn't mention Tom's last name. It's Spiker. Spiker. And then, the ever-popular, becoming, this is our second day in a row of having accordion in the studio, Adam Flicker. Yeah. Yes.

is going to be playing that instrument. So we'll get the fight song in a very unique kind of way in a moment, but we asked if you would play one of your songs, which, by the way, the song that we're going to hear, First in Flight, that is on the Chaos and the Beauty, your current album, right? It is.

Available on vinyl. Got to get it on vinyl. Okay. As it was intended to be listened to. All right. I love this song, by the way. I do, too. This is like one of my favorites, and I just love it when the harmonies come in for the first time. It slaps. It is so good. Did you say it slaps? Yeah. And why did you say it slaps? Because she said that my queso slaps. So... Queso slaps.

Hannah loves Casey's queso. Queso's a big hit. World famous Casey queso. And by the way, if you're making cheese steaks... I'm Casey queso. It's great on cheese steaks. Oh, nice. That's pretty solid. All right, first in flight. Yes, indeed. Ready to go. Ladies and gentlemen, Don McCloskey. Here we go. Two American boys Gonna conquer the dream Gonna turn the bicycle Into a flying machine

And against all odds, they believe that they will get a little closer to God. I don't kill devils. But when the winds come a-blowing and the skies turn black, there's no way of knowing if you're making it back. Do you succumb to the circumstance? Do you resign to your fate? Or do you find the strength within to take a leap of faith? No more, no more. Game crash if you're my knee. But I'm beginning to crawl.

Yeah, I'm standing on my feet. Whoa, I'm running to the light. I feel like jumping from the mountain. I feel like a person's life. And you're out there in a free fall. It's such a long way down. And the wind rushing by you. It'd be a thrilling sound. Will I hit the ground running? Will I make it right? It's been a long time coming, but I'm feeling signs of life. No more will I stumble. No more will I fall.

Game crash into my knees, but I'm beginning to crawl. Yep, standing on my own feet, while I'm running to the light. Feel like jumping from a mountain, like the first time. What kept me from sleeping, in the middle of the night? What kept me sleepwalking, in broad daylight? What kept me from sleeping?

The best in you. What kept me from saying everything I needed to. What kept me from sleeping in the middle of the night. What kept me from sleeping all day. What kept me from saying the best in you. What kept me from saying everything I needed to. You spoke straight from the heart. So how could I hide all these feelings I feel when I'm by your side. I stopped trying so hard.

And just let it ride. And now you got me back open with my arms wide open. It'll be all right. And no more will I stop. And no more will I fall. Game crashes through my knees. But I'm beginning to crawl. Yeah, I'm standing on my own feet. While I'm running through the light. Feel like jumping from a mountain. Feel like jumping from a mountain. And no more will I stop. And no more will I fall.

I'm standing on my own feet while I'm running to the light. Feel like jumping from a mountain. Feel like jumping from a mountain.

Nice. Don McCluskey and his band, First in Flight, a wonderful, awesome, feel-good song that you can find on the chaos and the beauty. You can find it. You can stream it. I know you want people to get it on vinyl, but a very quick way. Oh, you can definitely, yeah. Spotify, Apple Music, it's on. Get it on vinyl through Spotify, right? Yeah, that's right. By the way, the bird balloon is hitting Matt's head. I know. It was actually kind of beautiful. Kind of beautiful. First in Flight.

Perfect. It all works out. It all ties in together. And yeah, if you want to, you want to let the Don McCloskey songs that I have are all in my feel good playlist. Like my upbeat, like sitting on the beach. That's the type of... Dude blow. That's what I'm talking about. Let's go. Rocking an eight ball. Yeah.

Wholesome blow. You know what? Free range blow. I love it. So, do you guys have any... You don't have any gigs lined up in the near future right now, right? No, we do not. Actually, you want to know the one in Philadelphia coming up? Yes. Eagle View in Exton, PA. Oh.

August 26th. This is working out. It's a free show. Okay. And it's in the middle of like this commons. So everybody can just go, we'll make like a Woodstock situation. All right. Everybody listening, come. Somebody will have a baby. How was the, you did. Don't do the brown ass. You did Broken Goblet, right? We did. How was that? We just did that last week. It was amazing. It was great. That was the hometown show. Uh,

in Ben Salen, PA. And it was great. Everybody, yeah, we had a great time. By the way, Steve mentioned, joking about the blow, when you guys played at the MMRBQ on the Preston and Steve Show side stage, one of your band members was actively smoking a joint while they were playing. They literally had a blunt hanging out of their mouth while they were playing. He may or may not be playing an accordion right now. Maybe. That instrument lends itself to smoking weed. Absolutely, yeah.

All right, so... For the official fight song, this is more of a bit of a medley that's going to happen. Yes, it is. I believe. It's a cautionary tale. And a cautionary tale. I absolutely love that. So with more audio love getting ready for the game on Sunday, this will lead into the Eagles fight song. So you just want to start it up and let people figure this out? Yeah, this is for...

Like, as we all prepare this weekend, you know, and we're all getting psyched up, there are people in our area right now who are sad, and those people are Cowboys fans. Yeah. And no one knows why they exist in our area. Like, they shouldn't be from here. Yeah. So now is, like, a plea to all these people, like, finally, come on, like, let's get on board now. Okay. Okay. So this is called Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys fans. All right. Don McCloskey on MMR. Thank you.

If you're born in Texas, well then I suppose it makes sense to root for the home team. At least that deserves some respect. But if you're born in Delco, South Jersey or Bristol, oh man, then at best it's a crime and at worst it's a sin.

That the good Lord himself will find hard to forgive. So mama, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. They'll spend their whole lives walking around in a dream. Thinking that they're still America's team.

Don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. They'll drive around with weed and boys on their trucks. And at every stoplight they'll hear, Dallas sucks! You're born in Philly, you're born into a whole family. You're born into a whole family.

Come every September, we all walk around wearing green. So to see those lost souls at the Wawa in those blue and white rags. Ain't rebellious or cool or the good kind of bad. It'd be downright pathetic if it wasn't so sad.

Don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. They'll spend their whole lives walking around in a dream thinking that they're still America's team. Don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. They'll drive around with weed and boys on their trucks and at every stoplight

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. You'll have to pass down those old VHS decks so they can watch their Super Bowls on cassette. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

Just bring them up right and at night when they cry, you can sing them to sleep with this sweet lullaby. Eagles fly the road to victory. Fly, Eagles fly, score a touchdown, one, two, three. Everybody, like you mean it. Get on high and watch our Eagles fly.

Eagles fly the road to victory. E-G-S-E-S-E-O. Woo! Woo!

That's the spelling now. Complete with misspelling. Don McCloskey and his band doing it the only way they can do it. Immortalized on the balloon over there, too. If you look over there, the misspelling has become so iconic at this point. It's true. That is the spelling. That's official. People texting in and commenting on our YouTube page. Is there a request?

version of you guys doing that. On YouTube, there is a live version of us doing it at the Brooklyn Bowl last year. Oh, nice. I shared it with a

a friend of mine who is a Cowboys fan. Shout out to Uncle Mike. Shout out to Uncle Mike in Bristol. I love this recording. This might be a better quality recording so we can put this out there. Yeah, this is the one. God, that's such a great song. But it's true. It's true on every... I mean, listen, and as you say, it's not even you're being, you know...

Anti-establishment, it's that bad, good kind of bad. It's not. You're just, it's... We've always contended. What are we trying to do here? The point, if you're born there, if it's in your... We got it. Right. But why do you... The point of saying it's America's team and that the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are still... You know what it is? It's past. It's over.

They bought high. Yeah. They bought high in the 90s. Right. It was, yeah, with Emmitt Smith. Right. And it's just been tanking. Yeah. And if they just stuck with the Eagles, they would be celebrating with us this weekend. I know. I know. It's true. This is true. Hey, real quick. I'm going to deviate for just a moment because we've got an update.

Update on the line. Oh, yeah. We got a BirdBot update. All right, let's go to our friend and BirdBot correspondent who currently is holding on to him. In New Orleans, we've got Helen on the line. Hi, Helen. What's happening, guys? Good morning. Good morning. Hi, Helen. We saw you on Fox 29 this morning. How fun was that?

Oh, my God. It was so much fun. Mike and Alex were just so sweet to us. It's so surreal. We're having a blast. That's great. And the drive down, we loved seeing the video of you with BirdBot at Buc-ee's and talking to other teams fans. I know you saw a Giants fan. You saw a Cowboys fan. Have you guys been running into a lot of people who know what BirdBot is? Yes.

Are you kidding? I am not even kidding you to tell you this. I can't even stop crying. But I have so many people coming up and saying, are you Ellen? Can we get a picture with Bird Pot? Yeah, let's do it. So I'm here with Superfan and Jordan. Jordan's doing Superfan's makeup right now.

But he's about ready to go on live with Mike and Alex. But Mike and Alex says hi to you guys. Oh, that's great. So what's the day planned out? What are you guys doing?

So we're actually going to take Bird By. He's going on a tour of Bourbon Street. We're going to get down to Canal Street, check out some water scene. Nice. And try to get about 50,000 pictures. Yes, as many pictures as possible now. Oh, I'm not even kidding. Yes. Well, and we know that there is the concert coming up and you have an in with Jelly Roll and Chris Stapleton. What's the status of that? Do we know if anything's going to manifest?

So I'm actually just... Oh, sorry. They're doing that. I'm actually waiting for Matt Wolf to call me back. So the tickets for this concert tonight were all free. You had to sign up. Right. But my buddy Matt Wolf is...

promoter for a lot of bands and stuff. So he actually, I'm meeting him about 4 o'clock and hopefully he's handing me five tickets to go into Jelly Roll. Nice. Awesome. But we're going to be standing here with Bird Bot with Jelly Roll. I know exactly where he's going in. So, you know what I mean? Money shot is to get a picture or video of Bird Bot with Jelly Roll or Chris Tabor or anybody. I don't care, man. Anybody and everybody. That's what Bird Bot's all about. That is my plan. Does somebody call you back later or

Yeah, if you don't catch us on the air, you can always check in with Pierre or with Brent or Jackie or anybody throughout the day. Or Jackie's in this afternoon. He would love to hear from you. I would love Jackie. I love you guys. Thank you so much for making this happen. And I will definitely be in touch. All right. We love you, Helen. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Oh, my God.

Down to her core, Philly. She is the best. There could not be a better steward of a bird bot. Yeah, apparently when she was on with Mike and Alex on Fox Good Day, she got choked up and was crying. She's just so overwhelmed. We have audio of that. Yeah, you want to hear it? Yeah, let's play that. We missed this earlier. Hang on. Everybody's been so amazing. You seem emotional about this. I'm like, stop crying. Oh my God, are you crying? I'm... What if...

What is it that you're feeling? I'm feeling that I'm down here to win a Super Bowl. And that's what we're going to do. Yes. These are happy tears, right? Oh, man. Beside myself. Who's with your crew here? This is Denise. That's my boyfriend. Hi. The boyfriend. Say it again. Boyfriend. Boyfriend. Boyfriend.

Denise, this is Karen. She just drove up from Florida. Hi. Hi. Good morning. Go birds, baby. Thank you for your service of bringing BirdBot here. We appreciate you. Is there anything bad on the back? I have not. Anybody want to sign this? Yeah, anybody want to sign BirdBot? We'll get a line going. Where are you going to sign? Thank you. We're going to sign BirdBot. Anyone?

All right, the face is off limits, guys. Who wants next? I love that Helen Trump says, anywhere but the face. No, it's off limits. It's got to be down here.

I see people follow instructions. It's like a street fight. No face. No face. Oh, that's great, man. We could have not found a better ambassador. Yes. We just had to curate, but things worked. Curate, but things had to work out the way they did. It's perfect. Now that, obviously, he has that stuff on the roster.

Can we get Bird Bot into the Super Bowl proper? That's the question. Can we get them up into maybe the Four Walls gathering? I'd also like to see if we can get him by to see Rob and company with Four Walls and also who we're going to try to get on is Bert Kreischer. If we could get Bird Bot to meet up with him, that'd be great. Should we take a break, Cade? Come back and see if we can get Bert on? I'm texting Bert now. We've got a few other things to get to, but Don, thank you very much. Welcome back to Hashtag Guys.

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To the Big Easy, folks, and you know who's leading the charge. And we'll get him on now because he's got a busy morning. He does. Busy weekend, actually. Please welcome, there's only one like him, ladies and gentlemen, Bert Kreis. Yeah! Oh. Oh. I mean. Yeah. All right. Let's start right here, okay? Yes. I'm giving flowers to people that deserve flowers. Okay. The Kelseys.

might be the greatest humans that have ever lived. Wow. Wow. Okay. And I'm not saying that. I would say this on any radio station, but we are in Philly, and I'll tell you right now,

Man, Jason married a rock star. Yeah. The very first party we go to, look, Leanne and I are, I know I'm famous, but like we're a little bit outsiders. Yeah. And like famous people parties. The very first party, the hottest party the whole weekend is the garage beer party, right? New Heights party. It's, everyone's trying to get in. It's,

It's so packed on Thursday night or whatever it was, Wednesday night. It's so packed that no one can get in. And Leanne and I get an invite from Jason and Kylie, and then we go. Kylie comes up. This is how regular they are. It's filled with famous people. Kylie makes a beeline to Leanne and talks to Leanne for 45 minutes. Wow. 45 minutes. And just about mom stuff, about mom stuff, about, like, raising kids. It was...

I was a little floored. At one point, I was like, yo, you don't have to hang out with us drips. You can talk to us and play the play if you want. That vibe is so rare and unique. And the thing is, Bert, it's legit with them. They're not... It's legit. Okay, so here's where it gets even more legit. So I see Jason. You know, he's like...

swamp. Everyone's trying to get to him. And he says, hey man, I heard you're in a bench press contest with Bustle with the Boys. And I said, I am. And he goes, I'll be there. I live for this stuff. And I was like, okay. Now it's at 9 a.m. yesterday morning. He's partying all night. And dude, I've got this bet with Bustle with the Boys that I can bench 320 pounds. Jason Kelsey shows up at 9 a.m. with a coffee in hand, ready to cheer me on. Wow. Wow. That's amazing.

I'm telling you when I say this, like, salt of the earth, human beings, no fame, haven't changed, regular dudes. At the end, he got down and he's been 135, 51 times. 51 times. That's crazy. I mean, like, I'm blown. I'm really, my takeaway from this is like,

Jason Kelsey deserves everyone's love. That family is the coolest family I've ever met. You can't argue that. The usual naysayers set in, but even they can't get traction because, again, there's the authenticity there. There's only so long you could fake that. It has stood the test of time. They're the real deal. Dude, I'm telling you, man, I'm a ride or die for that family. They are legit.

I just know. But this weekend has been insane. Yeah. I mean, insane. Well, yeah, and you got to get going because you're running a 5K in a second. I need you to do me a solid, though, because I was going through your Instagram last night. I saw the pictures of you and Jason and Leanne and Kylie and everything. And so I sent a picture. I sent that picture to you and Jason. And I just said, I love that you guys are hanging together. And Jason responded. I need you to do me a solid and respond to that text so Jason knows that you and I are friends, okay? Okay.

Jason actually responded. I just need you to back it up so that he doesn't forget about me. Um, I also, that's how much better of a person Jason is than me. I don't respond to text. He responded to mine. Yeah, he did. He did. He did. Um,

Also, I got to thank you so much for the laugh because you posted a video of you cracking up at you doing the kickflip with Tony Hawk. And you didn't realize it that Tony actually lifted the board for you. You actually, I don't know how many hours you actually thought that you did an Ollie kickflip. And you were watching the video and you were just dying laughing. And your laugh is so infectious.

48 hours. 48 hours. I believed. I believed I did that. And I believed it. Dude, can I tell you what's really embarrassing? I called professional skateboarders and I sent them the video. Oh, God. I said, dude, I can do an Ollie, man. I Ollie now. I Ollie. And they knew it. One of them called Leanne and said, hey, do we tell him? And she said, no.

Don't tell him. It's better if he thinks he did it. He's so proud. Couple that with the fact that you now, I mean, I watched you and Tom do the interview with Schwarzenegger. And you guys, I mean, he even sent you a motivational video before the bench press contest. So, I mean, you guys are as thick as thieves at this point. He sent me, he sent me

on how to do it. Like he said, he sent me a warm-up and he's like, this is how you do it. It's start with the bar for eight, do 135 for 10, do 155, 175, 225, 255, and then hold the bar out. Hold it, load it up with 410 pounds and hold it for 10 minutes

for 10 seconds. Don't bench it. Just hold it at extension for 10 seconds. Let your body get shocked and to do it and then go for 225. He's the best. Arnold's the best. He said he was, I was getting texts from him after it going like, what happened? What happened? What happened?

During the interview, which was very, if you're doing any sort of weight training, very insightful. And obviously you've gotten into it as well and I do as well. It's something that, you know, his vast knowledge on biomechanics and stuff like that was very impressive.

Oh, he... When I took the bet, I think I was interviewing him, like, the next day. And I know Arnold. I've worked out with Arnold, and he's just the sweetest guy. He really is. I know his... Anyway, I know his family. He is just the sweetest guy. And he...

I told him about it, and he looked at me, and he said, where are we at now? And I said, there. And he goes, all right, you can do it, but this is what you have to do. And he just kind of broke the – you know, it's what he's passionate about. And it was so informational. And my trainer was like, hold on, we have a plan from Arnold Schwarzenegger. And I was like, oh, yeah. Insane. It is insane. Insane, yeah. So obviously you're getting in some physical activity because Casey had mentioned you're doing 5K. Is that Travis Barker's 5K today?

I'm hoping to meet a Kardashian. You need to meet a Kardashian. Yes. I mean, I think that's the full house. If I come here, I met Flavor Flav, I met Harry Connick Jr. If I walk away with meeting a Kardashian, I'm watching the game with Jameis Winston on Sunday. So, I'm set. Yeah. Bird, I don't want to

get too far ahead of anything but if things go well on sunday we we got to hang out with you uh seven years ago on the parkway do you think you might be able to make it back to philly i know the stars just kind of aligned you had to show the truck and whatever but it'd be really cool to hang out with you again next week if if things go the way that we want them to go

Oh, I could do that. I could definitely do that. I met Rob McElhinney. We were all in the same suite together. It was so fun. It was amazing. I mean, and again, we don't want to put cart before horse. We are encouraged by what we're seeing. But I mean, it's one of those things that, you know, I can see it. I can smell it. And having you and Rob there was just such a friggin blast. Yeah.

I'll just... This is what I'll do. I'll say to Leanne, hey, why don't we... You're supposed to do Kylie's podcast. Why don't we fly out to Philly? You do Kylie's podcast. I'll drink some garage beers, go in and do WMMR, and we'll grease up some poles. All right. Deal. Wait, speaking of podcasts, Burt, I love your podcast, and I realized the other day, it's making me love these celebrities that I never...

I never thought about just one instance, Dax Shepard. Like I would have never thought this guy is such a cool guy. Listen to that podcast and he's awesome.

Dude, you know that I talk trash about that dude. Yes, I know. I talk trash about him. And then I got hit me up and he was like, yo, I'm up for the podcast. And I was like, uh-oh. And the first thing he says is, yeah, you talk trash on me. And I was like, I did, but I didn't think you were going to hear it.

It's wild if you think about it for the years that we've known you and obviously you came in strong with the way you've built and the way you have been. The career trajectory that finds you here at the nexus of this, the sports and pop culture event of the year every year. Do you look back and are you slack-jawed when you realize what has happened in your life?

You know, I was overhearing someone saying, like they were talking about, you know, every Super Bowl there's like the Thursday night thing, the Friday night thing, the Saturday night thing. And they're like, you know, Chris Stapleton's, you know,

Thursday night, Friday night's the Shaq party. And then someone was like, Saturday's Burt's comedy thing. He does it every year. And this year he's got Nikki Glaser and Tony Hinchcliffe. Gillis is going to show up. Like they were like, and I was like, oh, wow. I was like, I was really like taken aback. And then my wife's like, I think it's because of Nikki, Shane and Tony, babe. Yeah.

Yeah, but you made that happen. Yeah, yeah, you did make that happen. Look, I do it every year. Every year I get the arena at a Super Bowl to put on a comedy show. I think comedy is one of the hottest tickets in town. And I bring my friends, and I'm telling you, I get texts from everyone. Like, I just leaked it, but, like, Gillis has been texting me because Gillis gets paid so much money to do a show. Like, you know, now Gillis sells out every arena he ever goes to. So I can't offer him.

a spot on my show because I can't afford it. So like, you know, like I, I, everyone else, I go, you know, Hey, let's just cut up the thing. Any agent in their right mind goes, Shane will just do his own arena. So like Shane, and I know like, I just can't, I can't, it's not fair for him. It's like why we don't offer Kevin Hart a guest spot on a show. Right. Do his own thing. And so,

the second I book it, Shane always texts. He's like, yo, I'm good for that show, right? Oh, that's awesome. It's so cool. He does it for free. Dude, he's... I can't tell you how much I love that guy. I mean, he's like, you know what? He's like Jason Kelsey. He's a regular human being who has not been changed at all. At all. I remember we were talking about one of my best friends. Who's...

Shane goes, why are you guys friends?

And I was like, I don't know, I love him. And he's like, you know he's totally different than you, right? That's like 100%. And everyone says that, but yeah, it was great. I love it. That's the question I want to hear. Bert, as Nick had said when you were here for the parade in 2018, not only did you meet Rob in our suite, but you met BirdBot, which is our...

little project that we have sending all over, that we had sent all over the place and then back up to Minneapolis and then back here in Philly and we had them at the parade. We have BirdBot 2.0 currently in New Orleans. We put it in the hands of the people. It has made its way to New Orleans. So we're hoping to have hands pass along and eventually find you at some point. So if somebody walks up with you with this weird looking eagle, you know, bird robot thing, you got to take a picture with it, all right?

Done. There's a dude, his face is painted. I mean, his face is painted for an Eagles game. And I have seen this guy at every party. I've seen him everywhere. That's Jamie. Yeah, that's our friend. Yeah. The guy is great. He's a great guy.

He was at Barstool. I see him on the street. I saw him at the Kelsey party. I see this guy everywhere. Yeah, super committed. And so he'll come out to the camp out for hunger. Yeah, he's a sports fan when he goes by.

God, yeah. This weekend's so fun. And, you know, Leanne's here, and she just is like, she's just so blown away. We're going to the Shaq party tonight. Wow, my God. Wow. Oh, yeah. And by the way, Shaq's like my guy. Like, I love Shaq. We were smoking weed with Pac-Man Jones yesterday. I mean, this is really crazy.

Un-freaking-real. All right, well, listen, we're really thrilled for you, man. We're thrilled for you, and we're stoked that you had a couple of minutes to spend with us, man. That was awesome. You didn't have to get up and do this, and we appreciate that. And by the way, just show of hands, who thinks I benched 320 pounds? I think you did. I think you did. I've been watching your progression. Depends. If you respond to my text to you and Jason Kelsey, I'll raise my hand.

Well, I'll post the video today, guys. All right, Bert. We love you, dude. You're in your element. Have a great time. We know you will. I love you guys. All right. Take care, buddy. All right. Let's hear it for Bert Kronstein.

The one and only who is in New Orleans. And we're not done there yet, folks. No. Now we are going to head down live via Zoom. But before we do, and we've had this gentleman in our studio on a number of occasions, I'm going to play a call he made. This is my favorite radio call of the playoffs thus far. This was the snow game, right? This was, yes. And this is him, and then I will introduce him. So here we go. Buckley se suelta. Buckley a la cincuenta. Adios.

San Juan, Philadelphia. San Juan, San Juan, Berkeley. Unstoppable to the house. And knockout punch, Ricky. And knockout punch to San Juan, Berkeley. Los Eagles go to the championship game.

Wow!

All right, let's go back to New Orleans and joining us, ladies and gentlemen, Oscar Buttigieg. Hey, guys. How you doing? How's everybody? We're great. How are you, man? Hey, I'm ready. I'm ready for Broad Street next week. Yes. Yes. I'm ready for Broad Street next week. You know what I got? Let me tell you what the Spaniards guys gave me yesterday. All right.

He's holding up a picture of Saquon, but it's like the sacred heart. It's the Jesus. It's the saint. Saint Saquon is going to take us to the promised land. Oh, that's fantastic. You're talking to us from the radio row set up they got there, right? Yes, yes, we are. I mean, yesterday there were like 5,000 people. You couldn't even move in this place.

They're all drunk at this point. So they're not here yet. Oh, phenomenal. When did you get down there, Oscar? I got here, believe it or not, last Sunday. Wow. And since then, it's been non-stop. I mean, when I tell you non-stop,

the first day kind of interviews with a bunch of people because what happens here is it's not just the Philly stations but it's also everybody around the world so I got people from Argentina from Mexico from Chile from the US Hispanic market everybody I'm doing the preview with Telemundo this is the third week I'm doing it in a row I mean it's just non-stop and it's all both in Philly and nationwide so it's

and they see me with my Eagles hat, and they just want to interview me. They want the Eagles' point of view. Oh, that's cool. Oscar, let me ask you. So when you get down there, obviously you have a producer, you have people working with you, but are there intermediaries with the NFL who help arrange schedules, who apprise you of what's going on? I mean, are you bombarded with opportunity, or how does it work? Yeah, there's a schedule, right? There's a schedule that the NFL...

One of the beauties of being here, and particularly with the team, is believe it or not, you can get closer to the players and the coaches better than you can in training camp and during the season. Really? I mean, yesterday what happens is they create kind of a dining area with round tables. The players sit there, and you can sit next to them and start asking them questions you never asked them in their life. And you can go, for example, yesterday I talked to Dallas Goddard. I talked to B.G.,

I talked to Lane Johnson. I mean, it's like, and I started doing kind of a live stream. I mean, doing all this, I was having so much fun. I mean, this was like Disneyland for me. And have you been to New Orleans before? Yeah, I have. I have in my work before. I've spent significant time here in New Orleans.

It's a wonderful city. I mean, you cannot party. I mean, you can party very hard, so you need to cautious yourself along the way to be able to do your job. Yeah, you have a job to do as well. You were talking about the different countries that were represented and also...

You know, it's funny we find out about this global fan base for the Eagles. We're kind of amazed to find out that there's a huge fan base in Australia. So who's surprising you? What part of the country of the world is surprising you with their Eagles adoration?

Look, you need to understand something. There's 60 million fans in the U.S., NFL hardcore fans. There are 20 million in Mexico and there are 15 million in Brazil. So the Legion of Mexicans, I have what's up.

I mean, the thing has grown so much that, I mean, I cannot keep up with it. I mean, it's just basically we have fans all over the world and particularly from Mexico, from Brazil, from Argentina, Colombia. I mean, they cannot get enough of Eagles. And look, when you win, this is what happens. And everybody loves Saquon. I mean, everybody's riding the Saquon back wagon here, including myself.

Hey, Oscar, besides the Latin countries, have you seen any European or Asian or African countries as well? Yeah, Germany is huge. I mean, the NFL is huge in Germany. They're beginning to have games there. Spain is very, very excited. They're going to have their first NFL game at the Real Madrid Stadium, which is a huge deal there.

I mean, it's a country that continues to grow. So you can get an idea how big Mexico and Brazil are. There are 2.3 million fans in Spain. Wow. There's 20 million fans in Mexico. The opportunity... I was talking yesterday to the marketing...

I mean, the marketing to one of the top marketing guys at the Eagles. I said, look, Brazil is completely there to be taken. And there are 20, I mean, there's about 15 million fans in Brazil. So it's a huge opportunity. We were there. People were very excited. What happened is they bring a lot of the passion of soccer and football. They bring it into the game. And look, and Brazil is green. I mean, that's their uniform. They're still on green.

I mean, what else do you want? I mean, it's a complete, I mean, it would be a tremendous opportunity. So do you see, I mean, this sport becoming much more global, much more ecumenical, much more, you know, traveling around to different countries. I know they actually have been talking about going to Australia because apparently that's another thing. Obviously, the NFL is not going to fight something that's lucrative and they're going to go at it a whole hog. So how big can it get?

Look, in my previous life, when I worked at Coca-Cola, I worked very closely with David Stern and the offices. They had offices around the world. So they had an Asian office, a European office, a Latin American office. And I was working with all those offices in the expansion of the NBA. There was a

big, big partnership. We established a hundred year partnership between Coca-Cola and the NBA. And I started spending the game and we would provide access. For example, even a quick example in the Baltic region, we started putting the images of Colby, LeBron James. We doubled the volume of one of the brands of Coca-Cola. We doubled the volume because of the connection to the sports. And look, it's there. And the NFL is, is kind of following that pattern now. Yeah. And he's beginning to expand globally. There's a tremendous opportunity there. Hmm.

Nice. Oscar, are there any exclusive events that you're being invited to? Any parties or anything like that? I'm not in the Czech party tonight, so I've got to make some calls. I'll give you this. You'll like this. I was yesterday at the NFL owner's red carpet.

And Solovey Belichick shows up with cheerleaders from North Carolina, from UNC. I mean, what's going on here, guys? All right, Oscar, we were talking about that this morning. I mean, there's a 48-year age difference. She's stunning. She looks like she's his nurse. It is.

I assume you guys are all talking about that, right? Yeah, we were talking about that. That was one of the highlights of the overnight together. I mean, coming up with cheerleaders, I mean, it's amazing. I mean, it's simply amazing. The other exciting thing that I've done here, I was at the media party and...

They gave me an alligator, so I was carrying an alligator around the park. That's kind of about the wildest thing that I've done so far in this game. That's great. It's almost as if the game itself becomes secondary to everything else that's surrounding it. But I did want to ask you your opinion on the game, you know, without getting too into the weeds about it or whatever. Like...

The Eagles really are playing well. The way that they played against Washington a couple of weeks ago was fantastic. The snow game was great. They seem to be clicking on all cylinders at the exact right time. What are your thoughts, Oscar? I'm going to give you two things. First of all, this team is better than the team from two years ago for three main reasons. Number one, experience. Number two, second, Barkley. And number three, the defense. And I'm going to give you a stat that is going to blow your mind. So in artificial turf this year, the Eagles are 5-0.

and they have allowed only 11.6 points per game. Wow. And that includes when we went to the Rams. Remember those two runs by Barkley inside of SoFi Stadium over there in Los Angeles for over 70 yards? Get ready, guys. This is going to be fun this weekend. All right. All right. Very nice. All right. Look, my home is very, very special.

He has started in 132 games. He's only lost by more than seven points five times in 132 games. So what does that tell you? This is going to be a close game. And the most important thing that we have this year is

A couple years ago, we had Miles Sanders. We replaced Miles Sanders from Saquon Barkley. The ability of Saquon running one way and Jalen running the other, I don't see this team, the Chiefs, being able to stop them. That's what they're going to try to do, so it's going to be a matchup. They have very good linebackers, but I don't see them being able to stop a running game. The other guy that I'll tell you that is going to be a surprise...

Dallas got her. You're going to see he's going to have a huge game. The Chiefs have allowed the most yards to tight ends in all of football. So huge opportunity there for the Eagles to go get. Okay. And an important stat as well. How many times were Taylor Swift be shown on the broadcast?

Hey, I'm probably going to be very close to Taylor Swift. I'm going to go there and do something. I'm going to give you us. Hey, I'm going to give her this. I love it, man. Well, listen, Oscar, thanks for spending some time with us. We, we obviously love your energy. We love your spirit. Uh, we love what you're doing with the team. Uh,

And I'm glad you're having a great time so far. A couple more days to go. Ricky Ricardo and I are ready to bring it home. We'll be in Broad Street next week. Let's go do it. All right. Love it. We'll see you there. Thank you, Oscar. Have a great time. Go Birds! Go Birds! And Oscar Budahe.

Adios. Oh, my God. He is the best. His energy is just infectious. He's a guy who talked about his prior occupation. He's a guy who found a career a little bit later on. It's everything he ever wanted.

is so tangible. Like I've mentioned before, I take 7th grade Spanish now, so I was trying to see if I got anything in there. I got Saquon Barkley in the house and then something right here at Lincoln Financial Field. Was it in the house or to the house? I don't know. I think he's saying to the house. It's 7th grade. Give her a break. I heard goodbye. Adios. Goodbye. Saquon!

and in the house in the house saquon barkley in the house oh my god that is the best all right well we're not done yet no no no we still have more to go we're still having our super bowl party in the studio as well thank you again to acme markets for providing kathy's food contribution well i didn't

You brought It's freaking amazing what you did Cupcake platter, pretzel bite platter Roast beef sandwich tray A hot wing bucket and a special cookie cake Way to go My world famous cookie cake Cupcakes, bucket of wings Listen, no lie, they provided The food that I prepared I went to my Acme in Lawrence Park yesterday Got my chuck roast, got my Rotel Diced tomatoes, I got my Velveeta My Lucerne What happened to the

queso. Is it? It's there. It's slapping. Oh, I gotta try it. Yeah, didn't you hear? Yeah, Hannah from Don McCluskey said it was slaps. It's slaps. It's slaps. Yeah. And thanks to Duncan for dropping off Steve's contribution this morning, too. And you can get all kinds of great deals. Make it part of your game day tradition. Score free, medium, hot, or iced coffee at participating Greater Philadelphia area at Duncan's on Sunday, by the way, and Eagles fans run on Duncan's. So go, birds. This whole

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Maybe next time he's coming to town, we'll see if we can work something like that out. We're going to take a break. We're coming back. Bizarre Files stories on the way. And then later on, we're still going to talk more birds. Andrew Seltunis from The Fanatic will be joining us. Stay positive.

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Casey has something to say. Yeah, I have an issue. My mom has a flat tire and she's across the street from Roy Tweedy's on McDade Boulevard. I don't know how to help her out here. If anybody can help her, go help her change her tire. Yeah. Where is she again? Hold on. Yeah, so if you know where Roy Tweedy's is, that's on McDade Boulevard, right by McDade Bowl. Mom, are you in the...

He's on the phone with her right now. Are you going to put her on speakerphone? Yeah, put her on speakerphone. Mom, which parking lot are you in? I'm in the Popeye Fast Places. Okay. All right. So she's... She's in the Popeyes? You're Popeyes? Okay. So there's a Popeyes right by Roy Tweedy's. She is in a blue Nissan Altima, and she needs somebody to help her change her tire. I believe you probably have a spare tire in the trunk of your car most likely, right?

Well, it's always been there, and I never took it out of there. Okay. All right. Mom helps on the way. Yeah, mom helps on the way. We're going to put word out there. All right. All right.

Okay, we'll let Casey finish that call. She needs help, man. Yeah. I know. Okay, we can easily get something out of that. And by the way, she has a hand grenade in the car, so don't try anything. Don't try anything. Don't try anything. Steve, you had to deal with the same issue this morning. Yes. You did have a flat. A big hole in the middle. So, you know, as we go through the freeze and thaw. It's pothole season. Pothole season. Yeah. So, Germantown, middle of the street, about three-quarters of a mile from my house, make the left, hit that mother effer, and it was at an angle where I couldn't tell the depth of the hole. Yeah.

Tire goes flat immediately. On the way here? On the way here. So I go back and I was able to grab my wife's car. So yeah, so wonderful. And then, you know, it's one of those deals where I'm not sure. I don't think I...

have a spare. So I'm going to have to get it towed. I hate the fact that cars, a lot of cars don't come with spares now. Absolutely. Yeah. There's got to be a function. Like mine doesn't come with a spare either, but it comes with this insane thing that you attach to the tire. Listen, I did that with our van recently. It fills it up one time. It allows you to get to where you need to go and then you got to get rid of it. But the problem is at least with ours, I'm not going to go off on this. Now that thing is no longer usable anymore. Yeah.

And we can't get a new one from the car dealership. So now we're just effed. Just put a goddamn spare back in the cars. Or the... Donut. You have the run flats though, right? I have the run flats, but I'm still not a fan. I'd rather have a spare. Yeah. I'd rather put a spare tire on. All right, anyway. Anyway. What did you want, Kath? Oh, no. Hey. I was just waving to you. Oh, hi. You wanted to see... You reviewed Casey's food, but she brought in the food from Acme. We'll get to that later. All right.

I got an email before we do the bizarre file, and then we have another guest who's joining us. Real quick, I want to clear this up. I got this email from John Byrne, who says he is John the roller coaster dude in St. Petersburg. He works for Premier Rides. He's a senior engineer, ride projects and marketing. He creates roller coasters. Very cool. So he had a question. He said...

Can you guys share the full lyrics of the Bird Bot song? Because I have it stuck in my head and I can't quite make out the words. We're talking over it a lot when I play it. Yeah, it's true. Okay. It's to the tune of Flashlight. Great song from Parliament Funkadelic, P-Funk. And Kyle Mac did it, so I'm going to play it. All right. And everybody listen to the words, all right? Because obviously he's singing Bird Bot and then he's singing some stuff in between. So here we go. Bird Bot, Bird Bot, yeah.

Bird Dots.

I heard Bird Bot on his way to New Orleans. Then the next one is down to watch the game or something like that. And then Bird Bot's on his way. I'm a little vague on some of them. The first one, I think, was just him kind of scatting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Anyway, oh, real quick. We have a phone call. Hang on. I'm going to go to Tony. Hey, Tony, you're on the air. Morning, bud. Morning. Hey, what do you want to tell us, Tony?

Well, I'm on the way. Tell Casey I'm almost there. I'm going by Delco Steaks right now. All right. Perfect. Oh, wait, Casey, I turned your mic down. Go ahead. All right. So you're at the Frontier Saloon?

Well, yeah. Actually, I'm at Amos Land Road right now. Okay. All right. Excellent. Tell your mom, keep an eye out for Tony. Keep your eye out for Tony. Tony, you're the man. Black Nissan. Black Nissan Rogue. A black Nissan Rogue. All right. Thank you, brother. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Glad I could help. All right. See you later, brother. All right. There you go. That's so wonderful. Help on the way for Casey's mom. And then I can help out with Joe real quick. I have a quick, he has a question about a superstition. All right. Let me go to him real quick. Then we got to move along. Joe, you're on the air. Morning, bud.

Casey, I believe your word more than I do my psychiatrist's. All right. So you have a lucky red jersey, right? Yeah, I called you after they beat the Redskins and you told me to call you back. You need time to think. I've been thinking. I don't know what to do. Okay. So I have a question for you. Did you wear this red jersey all season long?

Not all season long. I wore it the last half of the season. Okay. You know, when they lost, I washed it. Obviously, they won. Actually, no, I lied. I'm sorry. Yes, I did wear it all season long. Okay, so that means you wore it when they played the Falcons. You wore it when they played against the Bucs. You wore it when they played the Commanders when they lost at the end of the season? No.

And I wash it after. It doesn't matter if you wore it during any of those games. It's clearly not a good luck jersey shirt when they're playing teams that have red in their uniforms. Casey has spoken. There you go. Please do us a favor and listen to what Casey said. So do not wear the shirt. Done and done. Done and done.

All right. Come up with something, Joe. You wanted to know. Yeah, yeah. There you go. All right, buddy. All right, Case, what are we doing? We're doing the B-file? Yeah. Oh, God. Don, Don. Why am I on the phone with my mom right now? God, Don, Don. Yeah, we got to do the bizarre file. Yeah. Okay, let's do the bizarre file. Now, WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. Bizarre.

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You can feel this man's pain. Merlin Hanbury Tennyson, the son of explorer Robin Hanbury Tennyson, says that his neighbors kidnapped his beavers Sigourney and Jean-Claude. Sigourney Beaver? And Jean-Claude Beaver. So Merlin was working his magic to reintroduce the animals back into the wild when they disappeared from his property. He found them on his neighbor's property, happily building dams.

He says the neighbors won't return them or let him retrieve them. What? Complaining to them that he's licensed by Natural England to recapture his beavers if they run off. The neighbors reported response. He said, sounds like a you problem. Man. Merling, that's tough talk. Publication, the Daily Star, a final quote that made whoever wrote it have a great day saying, so I am now a criminal with a beaver license, but no beavers.

Son of a bitch. First world problems. An accountant in Denver went on a midday shooting rampage, firing at two strangers with a pistol, one he allegedly shot in the neck and jaw, after getting into an argument with one of the victims over them sitting on the same park bench as him.

According to police, the 28-year-old certified public accountant told detectives he believed the individuals were somehow involved in a psyops. So this guy is insane and very tightly wound. And I hope he's in custody right now. Ryan Eagleson, a licensed CPA who touts himself online as a certified joy enthusiast. And small business owner with a deep passion to preach and teach the word of God.

was arrested Sunday for attempted first-degree murder after allegedly targeting two people in Denver's Washington Park. So why does a joy therapist not want people sitting on a park bench with him? Because they're the psyops? Yeah, that's it. The victim who was shot was found after Eagleson had randomly opened fire on him. He survived, as did the other individual, and that one tried sitting next to him.

Eagleson was involved in a verbal altercation with the first victim when the victim asked if he could sit on the same bench. During the altercation, he was observed by several witnesses spitting on the victim, pushing the victim in the chest. Oh, by the way, I'm insane. And eventually punching the victim in the lower back.

The victim then began to walk away while seated on his bicycle, at which time the defendant was observed by witnesses producing a firearm and firing one round at him. Witnesses reported seeing him walk up to the second victim approximately 30 seconds to a minute later. They observed him produce his firearm again with a single shot fired at him.

to the second victim from behind who was struck in the neck and jaw area. Yeah, could have easily killed this person. From there, he allegedly walked over to his Hyundai and fled the scene. He was apprehended later on with the cops using a pit maneuver. He claimed in interviews with police that he thought that the people attacked him, that he attacked were part of a psyops mission aimed at him. May I say, worst joy therapist ever. Yeah, so Eagleson told...

Oh, by the way, he apparently, he said they were part of a psyops mission aimed at him. The term is shorthand for psychological operations, which is something Eagleson reportedly talked about at length once during an appearance on a Christian podcast. The mark of the beast is here, he said, and it's really AI. He told that to Robert Thibodeau, the host of the Kingdom Crossroads podcast. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to eat your couch. Okay.

And shoot two people. Yeah, yeah. All right, and that's all we have time for. It's a quick Bizarre File because we have yet another guest that we are going to go to. We spoke to him yesterday. Had a great conversation with him. And we're going to go one more time and see how things are going.

In New Orleans since then, you know him from 97.5, the Fanatic Mornings. Andrew Salchunas is joining us once again via Zoom. Yo, bud, how you doing, man? What's going on? I'm going to try to make this one even better. I'm going to try to make this one even better. Wow. We're going to hold you to it. We're looking behind you. It looks like it's filling in a little bit. But compare the crowd in Radio Row to the past couple of days. Are people a little dinged up from partying in New Orleans? Yes.

Yeah, I would say compared to the last couple of days, it's dead here today. Last night was the big award ceremony, right, where they announced the MVP, an offensive player of the year, all the awards in the NFL. And so there's a big party that takes place there. We actually had a couple of former Eagles that were –

going to try to come on today. And they did say straight up, I won't name names, but they straight up said last night, we'll let you know how tonight goes. We have not heard from them yet. Yeah. Okay. So they're done. We heard it. Obviously, there was a lot of good news to come out of that with Saquon and the awards that were given were terrific, obviously. But we heard anyone who was anyone was there.

Yeah, I mean, everybody and they're all dressed up and they're not there. It's funny where right our hotel was right near where the party was. There was a velvet rope that they did not let me go past and a lot of other people go past. But it was really cool. I mean, everybody was just out and they just walk around, which is really cool. You think about athletes and how there's a lot of guys that, you know, maybe they've been entourage that kind of sticks around them and they kind of keep them comfortable or careful or whatever.

Here in New Orleans, they're just like, yeah, I'm one of you. I'm just walking around at a party. It was a lot of fun. Were the gasps tangible when Belichick shows up with his girlfriend? Look, she's gorgeous. She's beautiful. It's wild, the age difference. But, you know, it was funny when Snoop made the joke, Bill Belichick laughed. He was like, yeah, I do have a girlfriend. I still got it.

I thought it was sweet how his granddaughter dropped her off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They actually had like a school line where you could drop them off. What's going on today, Andrew? What are you doing after you're done working as far as getting out and just experiencing it all? As soon as I hang up with you, I'm going to the airport. Our flight's at noon. Oh, wow. Coming back immediately. Yeah. But you know what? I...

I did the New Orleans scene correctly last night, a little bit less than the night before. I loved it down here. It's a three night city. Yeah, I can't do, I can't do more of it. Like I had a lot of fun. Don't get me wrong. I have a three year old at home, so I was able to get away and live like a 30 year old again and not just a dad. I'm excited to be a dad again. I'm excited to go home and, you know, have a cup of tea at eight o'clock at night. It's time to go to

bed. Like, I don't want to stay up till 11 and say, oh, wait, I've got to get up in three hours and do this morning show. So I'm excited to come home. Yeah, I was telling my wife yesterday, I'm like, hey, we're checking in with all these people in New Orleans. I'm like, we really need to go down there for a week. I've been a couple of times. She's never been. I'm like, let's go down three

Three days, Top. Three days? Yeah. So I saw on our Uber ride, not this morning, but yesterday morning, there was a guy. He was still in his button-down shirt. Again, we're going over at 3. Our Uber was at 4.05 in the morning. That's what it was scheduled for. And he's just walking around stumbling. I'm like, geez, man. And he was...

a grown man. Yeah. Like he was, he looked like he was late thirties, early forties. This wasn't some 20 year old going, yeah, spring break, man. Like, no, this was a grown man. He has a family. This guy's probably in a business. He might be a CEO for all I know. New Orleans is a different place. Well, it is, it,

The onus is to let yourself go a little bit. It's a Vegas vibe as well. I mean, you're there when in Rome, when in New Orleans, you got to do something you're going to regret. Yeah, exactly. You know, I drank the grenade. I did the hurricane. I did everything they have here because, look, I'm a tourist. So I want to experience some of the flavor, which, by the way, their breweries down here are actually delicious. I don't remember any of the beers that I had, but they were really good. All right.

But, you know, I did all the local touristy stuff too. And yeah, you let loose a little bit. And there were a lot of people that were letting loose over this week. Hey, Andrew, you and John Kincaid, Ben Brock, as you've had a lot of guests come by, what's the vibe you're getting from? And listen, you guys are a Philly station. So I don't know if they're going to lean and say, yeah, the Eagles are going to win this. But what?

What's the vibe you're getting from the guests that you've been having stop by? They've been honest, and everybody is saying the same thing, and it's something that we've been saying for like two weeks. If you're going on paper, the Eagles are the better team, right? The Eagles are better –

pretty much across the board, but the Chiefs have Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. You can't discount that. There's a reason why the Chiefs are still the betting favorite, even though the Eagles are the better team. Every analyst that we have had on, it makes me sound smarter because they say the exact same thing. I could be a former quarterback in the NFL. We're saying the same thing. Kurt Warner was like, you'd be crazy if you think the Eagles are going to run away with this game. There's a lot of people that we talked to today that think maybe

Maybe the Eagles can win by 10 points, and then everybody just kind of looks at you and looks at you like you're ridiculous because they're saying, yeah, Patrick Holmes is – if he has the ball at the end of the game, the Chiefs will probably win. So it's going to come down the wire. Everybody's kind of saying the same thing, but a lot of people still have to lean toward the Eagles, which is awesome. All right. I mean –

Cautiously optimistic. So even more just relying on the talents of great superstars. We're talking about a chess game here as well. Strategy is just going to be massively important. I mean, Andy Reid's one of the greatest coaches of all time, right? So they could be down. Just think about the Super Bowl two years ago. He was on a 10-point lead. And they came right back. Think about all the times Andy Reid brought us to the Super Bowl. It was amazing. And won. Yeah, that one time. Yeah.

Well, listen, man, we appreciate you giving the flavor to us from there. And you're going to bring it on home. Chill out. Relax. Get ready for the game on Sunday. Should be solid. So I'm glad you guys are having a great time. Is it everything you hoped it would be?

Yeah, you know what? Everything that people told me about, like, all right, you're going to have probably too much fun. You're going to eat good food. All that actually happened. But I am, like I said, I'm ready to go home and I'm ready to be like a 50-year-old pop-pop again. I'm ready to just be dad. Yes. All right. Well, listen, Andrew, thanks a lot. Give John our best and we'll see you soon. All right, bud.

See you guys. Thanks. You got it. Andrew Seltz, you're a star from 97.5 The Fanatic, our sister station down the hall. All right. We can take another break and come back in a second, and we'll have our Lesson Question Trash and Music News on the way next. So stay with us. The Preston and Steve Show. Like the podcast? You'll also love it live. When you can call in. Weekdays from 6 a.m. to about 10.30 a.m. on the radio at 93.3 WMMR.

or stream the show live via MMR's mobile app. Stadium Classic on 93.3 WMMR. Bush and Machine Head. Some of Kathy's old lady rock.

He was talking about music off air, and that's what her son says. I don't like your old lady rock. Because he'll play music for me, and he's like, you don't know this song? I'm like, no, I don't. And then I'll put something on. He's like, I don't like your old lady rock. Old lady rock. Yeah, you'll see. Your time's coming, buddy. Damn right.

All right, we are going to give away a less question prize. We have a $50 gift card for Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse in Northeast Philadelphia. And the question that, I don't know what the question is. What is the question? Nick, do you have a question? I'm sorry. I printed them, but I might not have brought them in. I'm sorry, man. Gosh diggity dang it. That's okay. Oh, he's got to head outside and grab those. Grab a smoke. Not outside. He's not going. Yeah. He's got to go out of the studio. Yeah.

And, all right, he's got him. All right, so. Okay, Preston, I got him. I'm coming back in. That honestly happened, but.

I got distracted by Casey's queso sauce. And so, Casey, what I did was I took the little Acme pizza, I'm sorry, pretzel nuggets, which are shaped like little footballs, and I poured some of the cheese sauce on top of those. Yeah. It's good. I highly recommend. Okay. Anyway, sorry for not doing my job there. No, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, we're talking queso, dude. You're excused.

Question that we're posing this morning is the rings of Saturn are actually made out of which food? 215263 WMMY. That was uttered around 745 this morning. The rings of Saturn.

are actually made out of which food? 215-263-WMMR. If you know, call now. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, this morning is brought to you by Delco Trim Light. You can visit delcotrimlight.com to schedule an estimate on installation of the coolest permanent...

programmable holiday lighting system around. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, Khloe Kardashian says she believes her ex-husband, Lamar Odom, wants her back even though she reminds him of a dark time in his life. Odom concurs, saying it was a time he thought nothing of having sex with a gorilla. Elton John is seen bursting into a fit of rage during a new documentary about the recording of his upcoming album, Who Believes in Angels?,

The blow-up occurred after Elton and producer Andrew Watt got into a fight over why a million oysters cried out during the destruction of Alderaan. Oh, my God. And finally, Tori Spelling revealing she had a bucket list moment when she made out with Colin Farrell in 2005.

Spelling says he was so hot that she did not mind wearing that bucket. All right, we will see if you know the answer to the question. The rings of Saturn are actually made out of which food? We are going to go to Ross and try to get that answer. Ross, you're on the air. They're made out of wings. Wings! Chicken wings!

Well done, Ross. Hang on. We're going to give you a $50 gift card to Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse in Northeast Philly, and you can order catering for the big game from Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse and treat your friends to Philadelphia's best authentic hickory smoke barbecue. Score big on game day with delicious smoked meats, homemade side dishes, salads, and desserts, and you can visit Sweet Lucy's Smokehouse off the Cotman exit of 95. Order online at sweetlucys.com and go birds. No.

Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Yeah! All right. We're going to start with this unfortunate story that I mentioned earlier today. Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he can no longer walk as he heads toward his final live performance. The 76-year-old discussed what fans might be able to expect from his recently announced farewell show.

And he said, I've made it to 2025. I can't walk. But you know what I'm thinking over the holidays? For all my complaining, I'm still alive. And he said, I may be moaning that I can't walk, but I look down the road and there's people that didn't do half as much as me and didn't make it. So for context here.

completely immobile or has a great deal of difficulty walking? Don't know. Okay. I assume he's probably not walking around on his own much anymore. He's probably getting to a point where it's better off that he doesn't walk. That's my guess. Right, right. And he has...

Parkinson's, correct, yeah. So he announced his final live performance, which will take place at his hometown of Birmingham, England, on July 5th. The biggest headline is the inclusion of Black Sabbath, who will play their first show since February of 2017, and their first with the band's original lineup since 2005. Dubbed Back to the Beginning, the high-profile event will also include performances from Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, as well as the likes of Pantera, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Alice in Chains,

Hailstorm is going to be there. I wish we would have asked Lizzie about that the other day. And recent Grammy Award winners, Gorjira.

So Tom Morello will be the music director for Back to the Beginning. In a press release, he described the upcoming gig as the biggest and will to be the greatest heavy metal show ever. The event is also described as a charitable affair with profits going towards the likes of Cure Parkinson's, a UK charity working to end the disease which Ozzy was diagnosed with in 2019. His wife Sharon explained that the show...

was a chance for Ozzy to end a career which has been affected in recent years by numerous cancellations and health issues. She said, he's doing great. He's doing really well. He's so excited about all this, but about being with the guys again and all his friends. It's exciting for everyone. Ozzy didn't have a chance to say goodbye to his friends.

and to his fans, and he feels that there's been no full stop, and this is his full stop. Well, it's good he's able to get that. For years, though, I can remember going back 15 years, and I think, Nick, maybe you saw him. Ozzy pretty much just stood in place during the show. It was not like he was... He sounded okay, but he was hobbling around. And Steve, within a decade and a half, he's not been moving a whole lot.

Travis Barker will be running for a good cause today. The Blink-182 Drummer's Run Travis Run 5K is taking place in Audubon Park in New Orleans. Bert Kreischer, who we had on earlier this morning, is running in it. Money raised from the event will go towards relief for the L.A. wildfires. According to the press release,

It says Run Travis Run promises to be a funky, quick 5K run through the park with surprises along the way. There will also be an after party with a DJ, local food trucks, drinks, and more. And all proceeds will be donated to the LAFD Foundation and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition. And with any luck, Bert will meet a Kardashian. Yes.

All right, so we chatted briefly about this yesterday. The Black Keys have shed a little light on their North American tour cancellation last year, and they say it's management's fault. Drummer Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach said in an interview yesterday that it's not easy to talk about difficulties with management companies since everything's connected. Carney said, the essential thing that we learned here is

was how many management companies are directly connected to a company that runs every single aspect of promotion in this country. After last year's tour was canceled, the band departed ways with Full Stop Management, which is led by former chair of Live Nation, Irving Azoff. And Carney told Rolling Stone, I mean, we fired their ass. And he said, S happens. So it's still vague, but they're saying that management had a lot to do with that.

Record Store Day is coming. The annual event put on to bring together fans, artists, and independent record stores is happening on April 12th this year. It'll feature over 300 limited edition vinyl releases. Artists include Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Wu-Tang Clan, Rage Against the Machine, David Bowie, and more. And they all have something special ready for release.

Post Malone is also this year's Record Store Day ambassador. The whole energy, he said, in a record store is just super inspiring. I feel at home. It's really an unexplainable feeling to hit up a shop, dig through those crates, and just see what grabs your eye.

And also, speaking of Record Store Day, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 one-to-one benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden. They raised over $1.5 million for children with special needs. Now, these concerts were John's only full-length solo performances after the Beatles. And select songs are being released on Power to the People live at the one-to-one concert for Record Store Day this year. The limited edition vinyl produced by Sean Ono Lennon was...

featuring newly mixed and unreleased tracks including Well, Well, Well and Cold Turkey. Now Yoko's going to have an onstage stroke. Where's my explosion? I don't know. Wait a second. God damn it. I haven't used it in a while. I'm sorry, Case. Here we go. Here we go.

One to one, John and Yoko is coming out. It's a new documentary. The documentary explores the concerts and the couple's transformative relationship.

at time in the early 70s in New York. And the movie will have an IMAX release on April 11th before releasing in additional theaters. And the movie will also come to HBO and Max later this year. Power to the People, live at the one-to-one concert, comes out on Record Store Day, April 12th, by the way. Does the documentary include the portion where both John and Yoko opened up a tiger retreat? No.

We can only hope if they delve into that part of their world. Two more quick things. We have a super block party Saturday happening here on MMR. Super-sized blocks of everything that rocks and it's sponsored by Trinity Rehab, so that kicks off tomorrow. And I just want to point out for old-school radio fans here in Philadelphia that it was 28 years ago today that we lost a radio station that went by the name of WDRN.

a station where I met Steve Morrison. That's right, yes. Yep, and I only worked there for one year. And it was some of the most fun radio I've ever been a part of. It was a special place. At that point in time, DRE Philadelphia was far exceeding...

DRE in New York, which is where it all came from. Cause DRE in New York is kind of really dropped the ball, but DRE in Philadelphia was vibrant and really cool. And we had our concert on this, this night, 28 years ago, the, the bitter fest, uh, with, uh, G love and special sauce. And, uh,

Fun loving criminals, if you want to throw a band out there for you. G-Love band. Yeah. Gotta love the guy. Gotta love him. All right. And that is all I have in music news for you this morning. We're going to take a quick break. Come back in a second. And we will wrap up the whole show when we return. You know what I haven't said all day yet? No sad bro. No sad bro. We'll be right back.

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Gear up on 93.3 WMMR. It's everything that rocks. We've been playing music all morning long that can fill up a stadium and shake the place. And that's one that you always hear.

You'll hear that trumpet, that little horn thing in the beginning. Yeah, I never get tired of hearing that in that situation. Anthemic. It is just about 10.50 a.m. on this No Sad Bro Friday morning. And what a day we've had. What a week we've had. This has been so much fun.

The BirdBot Travels, which it's hard to believe just started. When did we start that? Friday? Last Friday? Yeah. So I picked it up from Chief Engineer Greg Monahan's house Thursday night, launched it last Friday, a week. And then you're right, Preston. In fact, what's weird is that like so many days this week felt like Friday. Yeah.

Yes. So it's, yeah, it's completely convoluted timeframe. Yep. So we have had a good time this morning. Thank you to our friends from 6ABC, Matt O'Donnell and Tamela, of course, for checking in, asking about BirdBot. Yes. BirdBot 2.0.

And, yeah, we had check-ins. Helen checked in, and she was all excited today. We want to thank also the amazing Don McCloskey and his band for coming by this morning and performing part of the Pep Rally concert series. They did their version of the Eagles fight song, and it was a medley. It went from Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys Fans.

into their version of the fight song, which was wonderful. And we also got an amazing song from Don's band called First in Flight. So I want to thank Don and Hannah and Sarah, Tom, Ross, and Matt for all coming by and performing. And then we got a call from our good friend Bert Kreischer. Bert's in New Orleans tearing it up as you would imagine. He's hobnobbing with the big, big celebrities. He didn't have to get up early and give us a call, and he did. And he's got... This is just the beginning of his...

whole escapade in New Orleans. That's exactly right. I mean, now it's the weekend. Yep. And then we had Oscar Budahain, the Spanish language broadcast play-by-play man extraordinaire. He is so much fun. His energy is just...

It's infectious, is what it is. It really is. You can't help but be in a great mood when you're around him. Exactly, Pierre. And then we had Andrew Salchunas from our sister station, the fanatic down the hall to talk sports and all. So they're wrapping things up and getting in a plane and heading back to Philly.

They catch it on noon, fly it out. Yeah, so they are on their way back. So I appreciate them taking the time out to check in with us. And Pierre Robert is indeed here getting ready for the weekend. And good day to you. Yeah, you had a great show. The music, the final countdown. I turned to Casey, is this what I think it is? He goes, yes, it is. It's very cool. We're doing those songs that when you're in a stadium, they usually play them on those big sound systems. People roar to that stuff. Yeah, most definitely. Perfect.

Shall we go ahead and get the letter of the day out of the way? I'm wearing my Pierre fake eagle shirt today. Oh, yes. Instead of the eagle, it's Pierre's head in the old eagle's green colors. And I don't know. I think Greg Monahan designed this one. Are they for sale anywhere? No. They're totally illegal. I don't think we ever sold them. We gave them away. Oh, I'd wear one of those. Yeah. Buy me one.

But I have one. Anyway, that's my nod to the sporting thing. Okay. There you go. Now for that letter. Okay. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. All right, the Preston and Steve show is brought to you today by the letter. N as in nonsense. All right, and we now are looking for caller number 7 at 215-263-WMMR to call in and give us that word that all those letters make. And we've got a very cool prize that I think you will enjoy on this end. So.

So we are going to now find out what Pierre's got going on in the program. What's up, man? We will have one more pair of tickets for the Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson next September and Dylan and Sheryl Crow and all the rest. A couple more bands that were on Super Bowls, Rolling Stones and Tom Petty and the Workforce Blocks and Alice in Chains.

Not only will they be at the MMRBQ, but pretty much their leader, Jerry Cantrell, will be at the Parks Casino tomorrow in Ben Salem with his solo band. And he's got a great new record. We're playing the song Vilified. And it's called I Want Blood. And he will be doing some really cool Alice in Chains songs and his own solo material at Parks tomorrow.

Excellent. All right. We will go to the phone. So we're looking for caller number seven, I believe. And they're still chatting with him right now. So they'll get him up in just a second. Ah, here we go. We have Mike, who is online. Hey, Mike. Good morning, buddy. Yo, Preston. All right. We need a word. What is it? Green.

Green Day in the morning. Absolutely correct. And I hope you have a little gathering that's coming up, buddy, because we're going to give you a $500 big game package from Pick a Lily and to feed 35 to 40 people for this Sunday. All right, brother. Awesome. Thank you so much.

Enjoy. Hang on. Go birds. All right. And we're going to set you up with 200 wings, 50 tails, full pan of mac and cheese, full pan of garden salad, 16 cheesesteak egg rolls. It comes with sriracha ketchup, a pint of their sauces, two quarts of blue cheese, two growlers of 1972 IPA as well. And you got to make a trip to the pick. Nobody does catering better. They have to go.

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has been brought to you today by Duncan and the President Steve Show runs on Duncan. Also brought to you by Acme Markets, fresh foods, local flavors, and by Trinity Rehab and locations all over. That's trinity-rehab.com. Next week on our program, let's see. Oh, we're going to have an actor. If you saw Jury Duty...

which is a great series that was put on a limited series with James Marsden and others. We have a guy named, is it Mecky? Is that how you say his name? I don't know if it's Mecky or Mackay. Maybe Mackay Leeper is his name. He's the one that we learned about soaking from in that show. Okay. All right. Also, actor Morris Chestnut will be joining us. That's not him. No.

He played Ricky in Boys in the Hood. But he will be joining us. I'm sure we have many other things we'll have to get to. Possibly a parade. Yes. So we will see about all of that. So that is it. We are done. Rage on. Have a great weekend. And go Birds! See you guys. Oh, my fellow.

Hey everybody, it's good to have you on the map.