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And it begins Monday morning. Welcome, friend. Preston and Steve radio program, we're all ready to go. Let's get started and see how we're going to fare with the weather. As you can see, it starts off pretty gray. It's going to stay gray all day long. That rain we had this morning is a little taste of it for the most part. Not really calling for anything substantial, but a sprinkle here and there. I have about 72 degrees tomorrow. Some thunderstorms expected.

High 80 degrees, but then we switch and we're going to start getting warm. Wednesday, sunny high 86. Thursday, sunny high 91 degrees. So we get another taste of full-on summer very, very soon. And now, Kristen and Steve's News Update.

Today is Monday, June 9th. Good morning. We'll start with this. California National Guard troops were deployed to the streets of Los Angeles to help quell a third day of protest over President Trump's immigration enforcement. The state's governor, Gavin Newsom, has called the president's actions unlawful. Police were making more arrests.

with at least 10 yesterday and 29 on Saturday night. National Guard troops gathered federal government buildings, guarded federal government buildings, as police and protesters clashed in separate demonstrations over federal immigration rates. The police declared several rallies to be unlawful assemblies, accusing some protesters of throwing concrete, projectiles, bottles, and other items.

Video images showed several self-driving cars from Waymo were set ablaze on a downtown street last night and police officers on horseback attempted to control the crowds. Demonstrators shouted, shame on you, at police and some appeared to throw objects. One group blocked the 101 freeway, a major downtown thoroughfare. Groups of protesters, many carrying Mexican flags and signs, denouncing U.S. immigration authorities,

gathered in spots around the city. Governor Newsom said he requested the administration to withdraw its order to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles County, calling it unlawful. 300 members of the California National Guard have been deployed to three spots in the Los Angeles area.

Witnesses said they watched in fear as people jumped from the second floor of a burning home in the Cobbs Creep section of West Philadelphia. The flames broke out around 930 yesterday morning on the 600 block of Walton Avenue and was under control by about 10. Officials with the Philadelphia Fire Department said that two people were taken to nearby hospitals for their injuries. One neighbor, Angela Wallace, told reporters, I saw three people jump out of the window. Once they got out, the flames started shooting out real bad.

Wallace explained that she called 911 and rushed across the street to make sure that her friends were okay after watching them fall and land on a parked car. One woman whose family member lives in the row home next door, Jasmine Mitchell, said that she was on a video call with her aunt when she saw the flames. And she told reporters, I don't know what we're going to do. We grew up in that house. That house has always been in our family. It's so sad.

She also said that she is thankful that her loved ones and the neighbors made it out alive, but that two families are now without a place to call home. Officials have not yet revealed how severe the victim's injuries may be.

Jay Wright has maintained all along that he was done coaching, and it seems he will not be the next New York Knicks coach. The former Villanova coach talked with Knicks president Leon Rose about the team's head coaching job and informed Rose that he plans to remain retired.

According to the New York Post, regular conversations led to Rose understanding that Wright isn't interested in returning to the sideline. Wright was an obvious choice and a name to watch when the Knicks unexpectedly fired their head coach, Tom Thibodeau, last week after he led the Knicks to their first conference finals appearance since 2000. The Knicks have three players, Jalen Brunson, Mikhail Sikorsky,

My Cal. My Cal, thank you. Bridges and Josh Hart, who played at Nova and reunited with their former coach, would have made for a really good story. But Wright is maintained since he has announced his retirement following Villanova's 2022 Final Four run, and he was done with coaching. I respect that. In February, Wright told the Enquirer,

I do know in my mind, I do not think I'll coach again. And I'm so sure about it. Wright, who is 63, remains a special assistant to the Villanova president and has his TV gig with CBS as well. In sports this morning. Balls back for Yomi. Balls back for Yomi. Who the f*** is that?

All right, Nick, what's going on this morning? Well, the Phillies lost again. What the f*** is this? Yesterday, they fought the Pirates 2-1 in Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon. The Pirates completed a three-game sweep and sent the Phillies to their fifth loss in a row and the ninth in their last ten games. During this five-game losing streak, they've scored only one run in four out of the five games, and they've lost by a score of 2-1 three separate times. What the f***?

is that? They're back home tonight. They're going to open up a series against the Chicago Cubs. Zach Wheeler is expected to get his first start since he was on paternity leave and the first pitch is set for 645. In game two of the NBA Finals, the Thunder bounced back from a game one loss, beating the Indiana Pacers 123-107 last night in Oklahoma City.

Shai Gilgis-Alexander scored 34 points. Alex Caruso added 20 off the bench. And the Thunder tied the finals at one game apiece. Jalen Williams scored 19 points. Aaron Wiggins had 18. And Chet Holmgren finished with 15 for the Thunder. It was the franchise's first win in the finals since the opener of the 2012 series against the Miami Heat. Game 3 is on Wednesday night in Indianapolis.

The Stanley Cup Finals continue tonight with Game 3 in South Florida. The Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers are tied in one game apiece. After both of the first two games went to overtime, the puck will drop at 8 o'clock. And the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning, sports. All right, thanks very much, Nick. And we welcome you to Monday, like I said, at the top. And in for a full week of stuff, guys. We have a new Word of the Week prize. We're going to give away a pair of VIP tickets for the Barefoot Country Music Festival. Yeah!

starring Jelly Roll and many more. Curtis, if you're a friend at Primo Hoagie. So we, by the way, they're going to be giving away barefoot tickets for the next two weeks on their Instagram account. So check out Primo Hoagie's if you are interested.

A country fan, you can do that. All right, we have a few other things that are taking place this week. We have an announcement in the 7 o'clock hour, about an hour from right now. We have a little reveal that we think you will find somewhat entertaining. And you might be able to get some free stuff out of this, too. So be with us for that. And on the heels.

of the Phils, and they're an amazing run right now. We're having Ricky Petalico stop by this morning. So, Rick, obviously you know from our sister station, 97.5 The Fanatic, has a new show called Unfiltered with Ricky Bowe and Bill Calarulo. And so, we'll check in with Rick. We haven't had him in here in a little bit. It's probably...

I don't know, probably around Super Bowl time. Yes. He's probably all partied out considering the story to tell. But yeah, we'll talk baseball with him and get his thoughts on this little slump. He doesn't hold back. Up until this, they've been playing great. So we'll see. I do enjoy angry Rick Petalico quite a bit, though. You see him a lot and you hear him a lot. And so I'm interested to hear his take.

And also joining us today at around 9 o'clock, Steve-O is checking in. He is going to be at Helium Comedy Club next week, but he's going to do a quick check-in now. And I think he should join us back in studio probably. Yeah, I love that. Next week as well. I love this model where you kind of do a tease interview and then you come into the studio. And Steve-O is a long-time fan.

front of the show, so it'll be fun to catch up with him and see how things have been going on. But other than that, we're all set for a Monday business as usual. But this announcement we have coming up, I think you're really going to like, so we're going to get to that in about an hour from now. We'll take a quick break, come back in a second, we'll do the stupid question and the entertainment report, so stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Marissa. Stupid question time, and we are going to give away, let's see, we got a pair of tickets, MMR Rocks, Gary Clark Jr. July 3rd at Parks Casino X Sight Center. That guy's a great performer. Oh, Gary Clark.

Gary! One of his biggest fans. Here's the question that I have for you. Ford produced the Model T in 1913 and it only came out in one color. What color was that?

All right. And Ford introduced Model T in only what color? Oh, no, I'm sorry. It says after 1913. Okay. So let's see if you know the answer to that. All right. Ford produced the Model T in only what color after 1913? And the number here is 610-660-9333. So give us a call right now. We'll see if you know the answer to that.

Today is the night day of June. Just said that a moment ago. We'll mention some birthdays while we're waiting for that call to come in. It's Johnny Depp's birthday today. For 15 straight minutes, I've been watching you putting your big, fat, f***ing fingers into your disgusting mouth, which is filled with God knows what kind of f***ing area. And then you take the same big, fat, f***ing filthy fingers and you stuff them back into the bowl that is there.

For public consumption. What the f*** are you thinking, John? Well, I wasn't thinking, Jimmy. Steve, this is a pretty bold statement. That could be my favorite Johnny Depp role, man. I'm not going to argue. He's so good. He disappears in that. It's Black Mass, if you've never seen it before. It's the Whitey Bulger story. Loosely, somewhat. I mean, it's based on him. They take some liberties, but... It's about 80% accurate. He is...

so good. And he's the most intimidating I've ever seen him in that role. So he is a phenomenal actor in that he can immerse himself. My other favorite would be Ed Wood, in which he is the

polar opposite of Whitey Bulger. But you're right, Preston. I mean, when you sit there as a viewer and you become uncomfortable and start squirming because he's so intense. Yeah. And there's something about that receding hairline and those contacts that they gave him. He just chews it up. I mean, it's amazing. Yep. He should have won the Oscar. 62 years old today. It's also Michael J. Fox's birthday. We just got news he's joining... What series is he joining?

Oh, yeah, we just saw that. And I don't remember Steve. He was in Curb, right? No, he's got him having a brain fart. I don't know. Ted Lasso. Not Ted Lasso, Shrinking. Shrinking. That's it. Because Harrison Ford's character has Parkinson's. That's correct. They meet up because of that.

So Michael J. Fox turns 64 years old today. Not that long ago, I told you my youngest and I are going through a series of movies to knock off a list as one of the greatest movies of all time. And we went and watched Back to the Future, beginning to end.

And it's still great. It's still wonderful. Do you ever see the outtakes of him with Christopher Lloyd where they're saying completely inappropriate things? No. And they're just laughing because they're obviously in period piece clothing. But if you ever get a chance, take a look because they're clearly such good friends and they have such a good rapport. By the way, okay, so I know obviously you have to suspend disbelief from movies, but my one...

little issue I have with Back to the Future is. What do you think it is? No, no, no. I know things like this. It's like, this is completely bizarre, but I'm going to micro-pig something. I'm just curious if anybody else has the same thing. The clock tower. Yeah. When it strikes, whatever time that is. It's an analog old clock. Right.

There are 60 seconds in which that lightning strike could have happened. Right. And it could have... But it happens the moment the first bell chimes. Boom, it hits. And a lightning strike is instantaneous. Yeah. Right. And so, you know... I also... Yes. I hear you. Yeah. So, they didn't have to strike that hook to the wire at the exact moment. What they could have done is...

had a cable attached. You know what I mean? And then that way they would always be attached to it. Right. You know what I mean? If it was long enough. The cable had to be very, very long. That scene with the cable and like the three or four times that it's not, you know, the tree falls on it. That's awesome. I love it. I love just one thing after another. But anyhow, that's my little beef. Sha-la-la-la.

Happy 64th, Michael J. Fox. Natalie Portman.

Has her birthday today. She turns 44 years old. I think she did a good job in that trilogy. I think, you know, for all of her stuff, especially in the second one, she was very athletic. And that arena fight was pretty cool. Yeah. Yes. It's not so cool. In Thor. Yeah. God of Thunder. Love and Thunder. Yeah. Horrible. Horrible. But leading up to that, she was good in the other films. So she turns 44 years old today.

Actress Gloria Rubin, who was on ER for a stretch. She is 61 years old today. Here's the thing I didn't know this. In 2000, she stepped away from her acting career and explored singing. And she actually joined Tina Turner on tour as one of her backup singers. What? Yeah. And she has since released several albums. So, wow. She's very talented in that regard. 61 years old today.

From the band Muse, it is Matthew Bellamy's birthday today. He and Kate Hudson have a child named Bing together. Bing! Yep.

She turns, or I'm sorry, he turns 47 years old today. I was just saying this to my wife, but the one Muse song that, I think the first one that propelled him, I forget what the title is. Uprising? That's probably it, yeah. I remember thinking, oh, I'm going to be into this band for the long haul.

And I really haven't. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't really fallen into a whole lot of them, but they've got a huge, huge fan base. Uprising came a little bit later on. So if you're talking anything like earlier, it might have been something like this song. I'm trying to think of what else. Like, uh... Bing. Bing. Bing. Bing.

Never mind. But Uprising was like a couple of albums in. Sure. That's the one that first made me go, all right, I really like the music these guys are putting out. He's 47 today. It is, he's had some issues. Wes Scantlin. Oh, man. Puddle of mud. Puddle of mud.

Turns 53. He's a 53-year-old man. Yeah. And he's still getting in trouble. He's getting into, like, fistfights with neighbors and stuff. And it's like, come on. Dude. So if you're, and I assume it's booze that is probably his big issue. And for some people, you know, you just can't get a handle on it.

But he turns 53 years old today. Film writer and producer Aaron Sorkin turns a year older today. Had him in the studio. One of my favorite interviews because when it comes to his screenplay and screenwriting capabilities, it's pretty amazing. And I love the script for Jobs that he did, the Steve Jobs movie. Terrific. And obviously all the other stuff. A Few Good Men and West Wing. I mean, we sat there and talked to him about, you know,

You can't handle the truth. Right, right. He wrote that. And he explained the process. Amazing. I watched The Social Network not that long ago, and it really holds up. And the interesting thing to me about watching The Social Network 15 years after the movie came out and 20-some-odd years after Facebook was invented is that the applications to social media are still really relevant. If you get a chance, it's on one of the streaming platforms. Highly recommend. And then one last.

And then one last birthday, legendary sportscaster Dick Vitale turns a year older. Recently had a big time cancer scare and ended up going through treatment and it worked out for him. He's 86 years old today.

Man, talk about a guy who had his own style. I was in. Everyone knows. Amazing, yeah. So happy 86th birthday to him. All right, we'll see if somebody knows the answer to the question. Ford produced the Model T in only what color after 1913? And let me see who got through first. I believe we are going to go to Brian. So let's check in with him. Hi, Brian. You're on the air, buddy. Hey.

Hey, how's everybody doing? Pretty solid for a Monday. Do you happen to know what color the Model T was only in after 1913?

I was going to say hot pink, but I believe it's black. Let's go with black. Good call, buddy. All right. Hold on a moment. And we are going to give you a pair of tickets to Zim MMR Rocks Gary Clark Jr. That's on July 3rd at Parks Casino Excite Center. Tickets for all upcoming events at parkscasino.com. And he must be 21 or older. You know, there's a first Ford to offer GPS as well. Uh,

A goat punching sock. I didn't know that. A what? A goat punching sock. Oh, that's what a GPS was back then. 1913. If this goat was in your way, you'd put the sock over your hand and punch it. All right, so at the box office this weekend, Lilo and Stitch won once again and pulled in $32.5 million. The live action remake from Disney had

has passed $770 million around the world so far and is believed to be on track to be the first $1 billion release this year. I might be incorrect, but is it the first movie to have three weeks at number one this year? Don't know. Very well could be. The John Wick spin-off film starring Ana de Armas, Ballerina, debuted in second place with a take of $25 million. Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning landed in third place this time around with a haul of 15 mil. And we're only got the top five worldwide.

were Karate Kid Legends in fourth and Final Destination Bloodlines in fifth. No Life of Chuck in there, huh? So, Casey, it only opened in 16 theaters this last weekend. So that's why I didn't get a chance to see it. It will open more widely coming up this weekend. So I was going to try and get out and see it. But yeah, definitely this coming week I'm going to see it.

Jared Leto has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. On Saturday, Air Mail published a story following interviews with nine women who claimed that the 53-year-old actor and musician behaved inappropriately toward them, some while they were underage. Do you like having your background? And women allege a long-standing pattern of such behavior.

An anonymous woman told the outlet it's been an open secret for a long time. Among the allegations, Vlado is accused of asking sexual questions to a 16-year-old girl, walking out of a room nude in front of a 17-year-old girl and exposing himself and pleasuring himself before putting an 18-year-old's hand on him.

In a statement to Air Mail, a representative for the 30 Seconds of Mars band member expressly denied all allegations. A representative for Letter to Not Immediately Respond to People magazine's request for comment. Among the allegations featured in the report, Laura LaRue, a model who was 16 in 2008, recalled meeting Leto at an event.

animal rights benefit that year and connecting with him over email before he invited her to his studio. She visited his studio in April of 2009 and recalled him allegedly flirting with her while there. Representative for Leto said that their communications contained nothing sexually inappropriate and that LaRue later applied to workers and Mr. Leto's personal assistant further underscoring the absence of

of anything inappropriate in any of their interactions. LaRue, however, denied that she ever applied for a position. She also alleged that Leto walked out of a room nude. She said, like it was normal on one occasion when she was 17. She said, I thought maybe this is just what adult men do.

One woman claimed that she was 16 years old in 2008 when Leto approached her at Earth Cafe in Los Angeles and got her number and days later called her home in the middle of the night. And she said it was the weirdest, grossest voice, adding that she didn't know if he was on drugs.

for the actor said he has not had a drink or used drugs in over 35 years. Now, the woman alleged that after she turned down an invitation to attend a party, Leto would continue to call her in the early mornings over the span of three weeks. And after conversation, she claimed and

The conversation turned sexual. He'd ask things like, have you ever had a boyfriend and have you ever sucked a, you know? Yeah, yeah, a hot dog. Yeah, a hot dog. So she said he changed his voice, the way that he talked, it scares me. Do you like pudding?

That was the first time I thought, oh my God, that's not just in movies. The woman's mother said she overheard a phone call and could confirm her story. Another woman who claims that she was underage when she began texting Leto alleged that the actor would ask her uncomfortable questions during visits to his home. And then during one visit when she was 18, he suddenly pulled his penis out and started pleasuring himself. Then he walked over, grabbed my hand and put it on him. He leaned in and said, quote, I want you to spit on it.

So that is just straight up, that would be straight up sexual assault. Yeah. That would be. And the other thing, there was some lawyer on TMZ was talking about, if he's seeking out, I want a 16-year-old, I want a 15-year-old.

You could walk into a room with a woman who's a model and not be aware she's underage. Those are a gray area. When you're grabbing someone's hand and putting it on your crotch, that's sexual assault. Yep. So elsewhere in the report, one woman alleged that she was definitely not the youngest person there while attending one of Lotto's parties at home in the 2000 when she was 18. She was also alleged that the focus of the party appeared to be getting girls to skinny dip.

But a representative for Leto said that there was never any recruiting complaints or impropriety. Nightlife promoter Brent Bolthouse, who organized multiple parties at Leto's home, told the outlet that he never saw anyone skinny dipping. So we'll see where these allegations end up going and if there are going to be any charges or anything like that that are brought against him.

On a lighter note, David Beckham is reportedly set to receive a knighthood. Wow. In King Charles' upcoming birthday honors list, recognizing his soccer legacy and contributions to British society. Why doesn't that come officially with a full suit of armor? And the title would make his wife, Victoria Beckham, Lady Beckham. Oh.

Lady Beckham. Beckham was first nominated for knighthood in 2011 and received the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Alongside his soccer achievements, he's been active in charity work, served as a UNICEF ambassador since 2005, was a key figure in the 2012 Olympics. Lady Sporty Spice. In 2024, became an ambassador for the King's Foundation. Recently, he appeared with King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Chelsea Flower Show. Lady Spice.

Ginger Spice. As well. So, yeah, he's a knight. So what's his guesstimated wealth? He's got to be one of the wealthiest from all of his years. He was always probably like a billion. That's his accountant.

He's got oodles of money. That's the British pound. When you reach a lot, you get an oodle. Nick pulled up something, but I never believe these. It says David Beckham's wealth is estimated to be around $600 million. I bet you it's more. It probably is more. Taylor Swift.

Speaking of rich people, surprised fans who were wedding guests in Knoxville, Tennessee, by showing up with her boyfriend, Travis Kelsey. The two definitely took the opportunity to revel in the fun atmosphere. A video by a TikTok user showed Swift and Kelsey dancing together while settling down at the reception. That would have to be pretty wild. I mean, I'm sure the anticipation would be like that. At my wedding, Preston, in the room, the receptionist,

room that was next to ours, Robert Hedges, who played Epstein. His uncle was in that room. That's amazing. It wasn't as exciting. The wedding itself was for Kelsey's cousin, Tanner Corum, who married Samantha Peck.

Fans may remember that Peck was previously seen with Swift when she shared a photo with Popstar back in 2023. Taylor and Travis were spotted in Palm Beach, Florida earlier this week on a loved-up dinner date. So they're just having a blast. I read a couple of things. There's an article about celebrity interactions and in the moments when they're not really, they're on the paparazzi around.

And there were a couple of stories about Taylor Swift that were really nice. Like, really. I believe it. People coming up and, you know, I think those are the moments for what it's worth where you can really judge how someone is. Yep, I agree. All right, the Tony Awards were yesterday. Wicked star Cynthia Erivo and Tony winner herself for The Color Purple had hosted.

And I've got a few of the winners to pass along to you. Maybe Happy Ending, a love story about two robots, won the best musical. While Purpose, a sharp family drama about a civil rights icon, earned best play. Nicole Scherzinger took home best leading actress in a musical for Sunset Boulevard, emotionally telling the gathering of Broadway's best and brightest, you all have made me feel like I belong and I have come home as a hero.

It's pretty wah, man, because she was like, what, a pussycat doll? Pussycat doll. Apparently, she is just crushed as it. I mean, clearly she's won. Crushed as it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sarah Snook won Best Leading Actress in a play for playing 26 roles in The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Your girl. And Cole Escola won Best Leading Actor in a play for playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh Mary, which could be Oh Gary, right? Oh Gary. We have a clip that would go perfect with that. Oh Mary.

So I normally would have watched at least a bit of them, but I was sitting at a vet's office. But I was surprised to learn how many big productions I'm completely unaware of. They were reeling off a number of things like...

Is that even a show? The one sounds like that movie Heart Beeps. You know, the robots falling in love. Right. And so all these things sound pretty cool, though. Brendan Jacobs Jenkins became only the third playwright to win Tony's in consecutive years for Appropriate and Unwanted.

last time for purpose at this year's ceremony. And Kara Young made history as the first black performer to win back-to-back Tonys for purpose this year and Pearly victorious last time. The ceremony also honored the 10th anniversary of Hamilton. I believe we might have a clip of that, Casey. With Lin-Manuel Miranda and the original cast performing and host Cynthia Erivo commenting on how the show changed not just Broadway, but how Americans view their own history. So here's a clip of some of that. I'm a good scholar.

to King's College. I probably shouldn't have polished. I got a hobby. Heard, dropped knowledge. Yeah, I'm fast, patiently waiting. A passionately smashing every expectation, every action to nag the creation. I'm not pleased with sorrow. For the first time, I'll get past tomorrow. And I am not throwing my shot. I am not throwing my shot. And you are just like my country. I'm young, smart, and I'm free, and I'm not

Such a great show. Yeah, live energy when you go and see a show, even if you're sitting in a super tiny Broadway seat. When they come out on stage, whatever show it is, and they're putting on that production, it's going to get you. Yeah, it's impressive.

Hey, congratulations to Tom Hiddleston and fiancé Zoe Ashton. They are expecting their second child together. Ashton wrote the news in an interview with Vogue over the weekend, debuting her baby bump on Saturday night on the red carpet for the South by Southwest London premiere of Hiddleston's The Life of Chuck.

Hiddleston and Ashton have been engaged since 2022. They share a child born that same year. So congrats to those guys. I think you'd have to name them all after Marvel characters, right? Yeah. Ooh. Where would you start? Well, the first would be Loki, and the second would be Hulk. Yeah. All right. This is my daughter, Hulk. Told you last year that actress Eliza Dushku...

Had left acting to pursue another calling. She has become a therapist specializing in psychedelic assisted therapy while working towards earning a master's degree in counseling and clinical mental health and mission accomplished. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer stars announced that she is

graduating from Lesley University, earning an advanced degree in clinical mental health counseling. That's pretty cool. Yep. She wrote on Instagram on Friday, graduating with my master's degree feels like more than an achievement. It feels like a deep calling realized.

True growth, energy, and passion manifested. She stepped away from acting altogether in 2017 to pursue her new career. On that show, Dollhouse, in particular, apparently she was kind of mentally brutalized by Joss Whedon, is the word. And so she had... And a lot of other people commiserated with her. They said she wasn't just like...

making stuff up, that it was really like a bad environment. And so she dealt with a lot of, I guess, abuse. And to turn it around this way is pretty cool. Good for her. That's awesome. Hey, actress Jenny Garth is starring in her first ever underwear campaign at 53 years old. I saw the pics. Yeah, she looks great. Looks great. On June 5th, the Beverly Hills 90210 star took to Instagram to share photos from the third love photo shoot and reflect on her own confidence.

She wrote in the caption, I never thought I'd be doing my first underwear shoot at 53, but here we are. And I've never felt more confident or comfortable in my own skin. And she said her line is the skid mark line. No. She went on to explain that she was proud to be taking part in the campaign, not just because it's a first for me, but because it's with a brand that genuinely supports women through every phase of life, including menopause. So this is menopause focused.

Garth has previously opened up about her own menopause journey, referring to menopause as a massive cyclone that comes into your life and just goes all and does all kinds of destruction. Should I forget that there's so much happening inside me causing so many changes and that, of course, and I'm not always going to feel or be able to perform how I'd like to or expect to.

I have to remind myself to give myself some grace. I'm doing the best I can, and that makes me feel a little better. She's another one that I think looks better than she's ever looked, you know, as wears her age well. And to that point, Preston, menopause and all that stuff, we get, we skirt so much. Oh, yeah. As guys. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that is, we have a friend who is going through menopause right now, and the...

The temperature shifts. The hot flashes. Like, breaking into sweating. It's just insane. Everything that comes along with that. So, Garth's campaign with Third Love introduces the brand's TempSync line designed for people going through menopause symptoms. As Garth explains in a recent post, it's the world's first temperature-regulating collection of bras and underwear. Wow. I have a question about menopause. For women who have gone through hysterectomies, does that mean...

They won't ever go through stop after that. Yeah, well, that's my understanding. I know a few people in their 30s had to have all of that stuff taken out. Does that mean that they will no longer... They always say, I've always heard that if that is removed, that you will not...

experience menopause of course i'm pre-law so i would not go by me well nick pulled up an article it says yes menopause can occur after a hysterectomy ah uh but whether it happens immediately or eventually depends on whether your ovaries are removed during the procedure there we go if they are removed which is called an uh oophorectomy menopause occurs immediately as your body stops producing estrogen so there you go interesting yeah

All right. Let me see. Oh, yeah. I definitely wanted to pass this one along. I thought this was pretty cool to see over the weekend. John Candy, I Like Me, a documentary from director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds, will open the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival set for September 4th.

Candy, of course, was a Toronto-born comedian. Rose to fame on Canada's sketch comedy show SCTV. Went on to star in films like Spaceballs, Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, National Lampoon's Vacation, Little Shop of Horrors. Unexpectedly died of a heart attack at the age of 43 in 1994. The movie presents an unvarnished look...

At the Funny Man's Life on and off camera, featuring home videos and Canada interviews with his family, friends, and collaborators. According to the logline, it said, it's the story of a son, husband, father, friend, and professional driven to bring joy to audiences and loved ones while battling personal ghosts and Hollywood pressures. If you want to see something that is wonderfully touching and gives you a great picture of what John Candy was, Catherine O'Hara's eulogy.

for John Candy is so beautiful. Really? So touching. And she talks about all the things he did quietly. Like he would go in, like stop by a restaurant and hang out at the bar and people start to notice him. If it was a slow night, he would hang out.

for better business for the place. And she would say, he'll give you a tip that you might confuse with a weak salary. He was just this kind of guy who did these things because he was legitimately a good person. Amazon MGM is back in the film and that will debut on Prime Video in the fall. So definitely looking forward to seeing that. Did you see the Pee Wee Herman thing? No, not yet. That's really good too. Yeah, that's what I heard.

All right, so in order to set audiences old and new up for the long-awaited sequel to This Is Spinal Tap, the original film will be making a brief return to the big screen. The remastered and remixed 4K restoration of the 1984 mockumentary returns to theaters July 5th to the 6th.

The premise for the sequel involves the band reuniting after 15 years for one final show, sparked by an old Spinal Tap song going viral on social media. Spinal Tap 2, The End Continues, hits theaters on September 12th. So I really hope...

That is as good as we want it to be. Yeah. It's a tall order, but. We'll always have the first. And I remember from the first few seconds in Spinal Tap when they're sitting there for that interview with Marty Berge, right? That's the director's name, I believe. Carl Reiner. Rob Reiner. Rob Reiner. Sorry. Thanks. But the exchanges are so funny and they're so dry and it sets the tone for the movie so well. It's just great.

All right, and then one last story. Friday is about to get even freakier. Disney just dropped a full trailer for Freakier Friday, and this one reveals more about where the OG mom and daughter duo are now. Anna, reprised by Lindsay Lohan, is marrying hot single dad Manny Jacinto, whose posh daughter, played by Sophia Hammond's

Totally clashes with Anna's own daughter played by Julia Butters. Cue the magic body swap chaos, but this time it's double switches despite their differences. The teens trapped in Loewen and Jamie Curtis' bodies hatch a plan to cancel the wedding by reuniting Lindsay with her first love. And thankfully that means Chad Michael Murray is back as Jake.

Freakier Friday will hit theaters August 8th. I thought their version, I thought it was great. I enjoyed it a lot. Their chemistry was great. And I got to say, I don't know what the hell Lindsay Lohan's doing, but she went through one of that over filler phase and now she looks fantastic. She looks great. I agree. Yeah. So hopefully this is a good springboard for her. All right. And we got some clips.

So Kevin Costner's The West explores the multi-layered portrait that makes up the American frontier from literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and battles for both land and freedom. Here, he talks about the importance of American history. I wish we would have a giant shift in education where...

history dominated more than math. Because the people that are really good at math, they're going to search out math anyway because that's who they are. They're just built that way. But everybody can understand where they come from. New episode of Kevin Costner's The West airs tonight and that's on the History Channel. Here's our next clip.

Saturday night, George Clooney made Broadway history by becoming the first show to simulcast a performance on network TV. And here he talks about performing Good Night and Good Luck live on CNN. It was nerve-wracking because we just came up with a concept three weeks ago. So we had to put it together really quickly. And it's fun. It's exciting. We are...

feeling was theater tickets for our show were fairly expensive and it was prohibited for a lot of people to see it and we gave away a couple thousand tickets for kids to come see it and we thought well why don't we just let other people see it too and it's a limited run so you can do that i mean you can't you can't do that with hamilton we've been we've been on disney plus for a few years now

Good night and good luck. Wrapped in the Broadway run yesterday before the Tonys. What were tickets going? I know that, what was it? What was Denzel's? Oh, yeah. It was like a thousand bucks. Yeah. I mean, Jesus Christ. Yep. That is a whole lot for one show.

Better throw in a snack. All right, and that is what I have for your entertainment report this morning. We got some stuff coming up. Steve-O is going to be joining us later this morning. Our buddy Ricky Batalico is stopping by as well. But when we return from this short break, we have an announcement to make, something that has not happened in quite a few years. Yeah. That we're quite excited about. We are very excited. And you can win something. We'll be back in a moment to tell you about it. Stay with us. Hello.

Your new friend in the battle against FOMO. The free MMR app. All the news, videos, and photos that rock. All in your pocket whenever you want it. Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Was that a graduation party this weekend? Obviously, a bunch of those are happening as we speak. In fact, we have graduation tonight. I'm looking at the rain. I'm not too happy about it so far, but I think things are going to be clearing up.

later on this evening. But I found myself, like I said, at a party where you don't really know too many people. And that can be

It can be fun, but it can also be awkward or uncomfortable if you don't know people, you don't know what to talk about. I didn't have an issue. It was actually a great time and chatted with the people that I was hanging out with. But I saw this article that touches on that. The awkward interaction? Yeah, just how to bring up something that people will actually engage in conversation about.

Listen, for many people, this is almost like an impossible thing. It stops people from going out. It stops people from socializing because it's such a critical thing. Yeah, and you know what? And we're going to dive into this in a moment, but I realize we should probably make our announcement first. Are you sure?

I completely forgot about it. You didn't know how to bring that up to me. You did not know. And this speaks to what you were saying. I'm doing the diamond in this full-on setup of this conversation we're going to have. I'm like, wait, I forgot something. I don't know how to tell Steve. And I was teasing the fact that we were going to do it at about this time. Should we do that now? I say yeah. It's too big to keep. Put a pin in that setup. We'll come back to it in a moment. This...

It's pretty badass. We are returning to a location that we have not done a live broadcast from in quite a while. And we are excited to announce that the Preston and Steve show on Friday, June 26th, will be broadcasting live from Hershey Park. And we are going to be giving away...

500 tickets for you to join the party. There we go. Yes. So here's what you got to do. You got to listen all week long. Listen to win a family four pack of tickets. It includes early admission to watch the broadcast and free parking as well. So you can get in before anybody else at the park. And here's what you can do. You can click events at WMMR.com. We have the complete details and another chance to win the online entry deadline for

Excuse me to enter is on Sunday the 22nd. So right before we head out that way. So just one correction. You said Friday. It's Thursday. Yeah. I don't know why it says Friday, June 26th. Yeah. It says Friday, June 26th on there. Yeah. That ain't that ain't cool. Let's make sure that Thursday. It is definitely the 26th. This is really incorrectly. So I'm sorry. It's a Thursday that we will be broadcasting live Thursday, June 22nd.

And yeah, we're excited. We did a number of live broadcasts at Hershey Park over the years and always had a great time. Well, it's become the stuff of show legend that people call up and jokingly ask for Hershey Park tickets. That's right. Because it's something that was so coveted. To be able to open up the park early, invite so many people, and just enjoy it.

was just fantastic. And we're so happy to revisit it. Yeah, they've got 15 coasters. It makes up the largest collection in the Northeast. And get ready for the all-new Twizzlers Twisted Gravity. It is the world's tallest coaster.

screaming swing. Ain't no way in hell I'm going on that thing. I saw it. I saw it. I'd have to work up a lot of courage to do that one. Dude, I will puke all over the place. Any kind of swing ride? Yeah. Well, if it spins, I'm not in on it. But we're looking at a video of it. Actually, that looks like a lot of fun. Yeah, no, we're doing that. We are totally doing that. Might do that. So they've got rides for any taste whatsoever. I love...

love this park it is one of my absolute favorite parks to go to i i agree it's the tertiary itself the town uh you know the whole feeling the cleanliness the uh it's just everything about it is terrific so uh yeah we're excited to be returning and return this way with so many listeners with us yeah when do we start doing giveaways we start we're doing right now you can yeah how many give away

What do you think? We're doing four packs, right? Well, hang on a second. The topic of conversation, do we want people to call in for the next topic of conversation? Sure, yeah. Let's not do any giveaways right now. I will do it at the end. Giveaways at the end of this break. All right, fair enough. So we'll get to that in a little bit. So listen up for your chance to win. You can go to the website as well for your opportunity to grab some tickets. But we are broadcasting live Thursday, June 26th.

at Hershey Park. Not sure what area the park will be in as of yet, but we'll get those details down the road. But we're giving away 500 pairs of tickets or 500 tickets, and we will have them in four packs, and you can get in early to the park. And by the way, there's also, I don't know if you mentioned this, but there's also going to be a reduced price for admission as well for that day. It doesn't say that on here, Steve, so I would hold off. I'll pay for it. Okay, I'll hold off until

Until we find out for sure. Marissa is waving, yes. I can confirm that on the website, Steve, there is a link for discounted

Tickets. That you can purchase. There you go. Fair enough. We nailed this announcement. I'm saying. Every T crossed, every I dotted, surgically imparted, usable, valid information. I want her seat. I apologize. It's bad leadership. I started off that incorrectly. No, no. I take all of that. You were solid. I didn't even notice anything. I take responsibilities. Never notice a thing. We just got the date wrong and the giveaway wrong. But otherwise, everything's fine. All right.

All right, anyway, back to the topic of conversation. Yes, I can help you out here. All right, I'll rewind. Thank you. So I was at a graduation party. Oh, were you? No. But no, it's about... We were talking about getting conversations started that other people, groups of people can join in on. Yeah, it's funny, Preston. I was telling you yesterday, I was at a graduation party. Shout out to Grace Nelson and the whole Nelson crew. I was there. I hang out with Grace all the time. Well, it's funny because Mrs. Nelson was like, hey, listen...

I just want to let you know that all of my friends are on Nelson Listening Watch during the morning show just to hear if you say our name. And then I had a perfect opportunity to say their name today. So there you go to the Nelsons. But at one point, I was kind of bopping around because I didn't dig this conversation. And I didn't dig that conversation. I don't like talking to you. I'm moving along. No, no, no. Believe it or not, I have a hard time sometimes.

with small talk in those settings. I find that hard to believe from you. If I can get in... You always have a Wetzel's pretzels observation in the queue.

No, no, no, no. Believe me, I am awkward all the time. Well, listen, I'll do the same thing. If I'm in a group setting and I find myself around a group of people who are having a conversation and I'm not vibing with it, I will do the Homer Simpson fade into the shrubs thing. Absolutely. And then move on and find somewhere else that I can actually contribute or that I have a legitimate interest in. No, I know what you're saying. I think what happens is at a certain level, if you're getting nothing back, I...

I can go and talk to anyone and engage in a conversation with anyone. At a certain point, though, it's clear it's reached its end. And a lot of times if you're not getting something back from someone, that's a problem. But there are people I know, people that I know in my life who are just nervous, completely nervous in a situation, have no shot at instigating a conversation and just feel so awkward. And it's just...

It's stultifying to be in that situation. I was at a 50th birthday party just a month and a half ago, and it was the same thing because I went without a home base, right? So I went by myself, and I knew people there, but I didn't have a home base. And I had a really, really hard time. I had one really decent conversation. Were you like Pee Wee and the Hells? Kind of, but I had one really decent conversation. And then the conversation was going so well and going on for so long that I started to feel...

Like I was stealing him away from other people and other conversations. So then I just abruptly ended it. You're a butterfly. Because I was like, oh, weird. And then somebody headbutted a guy in the band. And then the party was over. Oh, that was that party? Okay. But see, that gives you something to talk about. It does. Yeah.

So what you're saying is always pay someone to headbutt someone at a party. And everyone will have something to talk about. I had already left at this point, so I didn't see the headbutt. Here's a perfect question that I think could get a conversation started. What shows are you streaming? Hey, man, is anybody here watching Friends and Family on...

Yeah. Okay, so that's definitely a good one. Yeah. I agree with you, Kay. So that would fall under what this person, she is a conflict resolution facilitator. Her name is Priya Parker, and she calls these things magical questions. Oh, magical questions. Yes. Like, what was the biggest lie you ever told your wife? No. No.

No, it's a magical question. She says it's a question that everyone in your group is interested in answering and hearing the answer to. You know what? These things in this situation will serve you. And also for people on dates who don't know how to have a sort of an open door question. Because a lot of times people will talk about themselves. When really, when we've had our mixers, ask questions.

Ask the person you're talking to about themselves. Interview them a little bit. Casey, when you do pose that question to people you don't know about streaming shows, if you start to talk about the one that you really like and they're like, no, yeah, we didn't really like that. It's a little bit of a disappointment. It is. It is. Then you're an idiot. You're so stupid. You're a moron.

You don't get it? Have you no soul? I mean, sometimes... In fact, I did this yesterday at the graduation party. Ted Lasso? You didn't get it? I was an observer of a conversation because I was like, I wonder how people talk. You know what I mean? Like, it can be a really awkward thing and you're in this party and... Just ask them, how do you talk? Well, no, but I want to...

At one point, the conversation, we're talking about somebody's vacation. Oh, I see. Then the conversation hit this lull. And then I'm sitting there because I wasn't directly involved in the conversation. I'm like, how are they going to pull themselves out of this? What you're trying to avoid is that the lull point, which is often where things are asked or comments are made that are the ones that you regret. Yeah.

So that you're in the lull moment. I guess I need to say something. What part of you smells the worst? That would be the one. I guess my ass. I guess it's my ass. I mean, if I have to answer that question. Replace that dip over there.

But we've all had moments where it's felt as if we've said that, as if we've asked something as dumb as that. Or you've misheard someone. But I think, I would say this, Preston, do you think it'd be valid to say that what you're

You know, everyone feels it. Everyone, even accomplished communicators, such as all of us on the show here, quote unquote. It'll happen now and then. So if you want to contribute, let us know what is a surefire, okay, this will get people talking, question that you will throw out if you need to get involved.

engaged. Feel free to call 610-660-9333 is the number. Yeah, I told you guys when we were in Italy, we did this parent player. We were there for rugby, so we did this parent player dinner. And so it was parents with kids that weren't their own. You swapped. Yeah, we swapped. You guys are swapping on this trip. We swapped kids, but

I totally forgot which are my kids. One of the kids at the table took the helm here and started asking questions and said, hey, what's your favorite live event that you've ever been to? Oh, okay. So it could have even been a concert or a sporting event. That's a magical question.

Is it really? Yeah. So, yeah, magical. So she says a magical question is a question everyone in your group is interested in answering and hearing answers to. Like I said, she likes asking them in group settings. Okay. Yes, it makes sense. Because they have the power to cut through small talk and reveal people's personalities. And people don't need to agree or have the same tastes or experiences to answer. I also think that if people are begrudgingly holding out, if you're in a group...

It's fun to kind of let people know what your favorite show is. So you might just dive in. Even people who are reticent to start conversing with a stranger that way. Right. You've given them something to talk about. Yeah. Parker, who actually authored a book in 2020 called The Art of Gathering, How We Meet and Why It Matters, explains how to develop your own magical questions. So...

What are the qualities of a magical question? She said that they help people feel like not just a blob, but a group of individuals, and they help you know something about somebody. I always... So for a person, for me, a lot of times, where'd you come from today? Yeah. So...

And you can start the generics. What was traffic like? Do you work there? So you can start building those questions based on point of origin. Where did you come from today? Oh, I'd never live in that hellhole. Oh, wow, you're from a really terrible part of town, huh? Oh, that's a stupid job. Things like that. Then you progress to which part of you smells the worst. That would be my ass, I guess. I'm going to check on that damn...

So she says one of her favorite magical questions to ask is, what was the first concert you went to and who took you? Who is your daddy and what does he do? She said, I often ask this in team meetings or large town halls. That's a great one. Your first concert, you know? Yeah. And what was your first concert? And who took you? Well, my first, when I...

Technically, it was Beatlemania. Yes. My mom took me there. That's more of a stage show than a concert. But other than that, it was probably Rush. Okay. Signals tour. And for me, you know what it is. I think I've mentioned it many times. I don't remember. The band America. Yeah. America. Yeah, the Westbury Music Fair. In the round, baby. I don't remember who I went with to that Rush show, though. Do you remember who you went with to the America show? It was a date.

Oh, really? Wow, so your first concert ever was a date? Yeah, yeah. Interesting. I was seven. She was 31. Wow. Let me see here. All right, so we got some people calling in with their suggestions, and we'll take those, and I'll go in and out of this conversation. But our buddy, Castile, Castile. You did it again. Iron Kyle is joining us. Yo, Kyle.

This is getting ridiculous. I'm sorry, dude. I'll get it right one of these days. All right. So what's a magic question you like to use? I think I'm not peeing. That's a fish tank. Let me move. Okay. All right. I always ask people, what's the best meal you had last year? And that spurs into like a two-hour conversation with like anybody because...

They'll say, we had this, and then this person will say, we had that at Disney World two years ago, and it turns into this big thing. And I think if you talk about food, it's such a universal conversation. I mean, it's really cool, and it helps people learn, like, hey, maybe when we go to this place, we will try this or we will try that. So I think, you know, talking about food is a very, very easy... I stay away from politics, religion, all that stuff, obviously. Hey, have you ever had an abortion? No.

I think... Let me ask you this, Kyle. So you're talking about that question in a group of people. Would you ask that question if you were just one-on-one with someone? Depends how well I know them. Right. Then you could ask that... You could refine it and say...

I'm looking for a good Italian restaurant. Do you have any in the area or something? You refine it a little bit. Then those sort of broad survey questions, especially to one person. Do you know what I'm saying? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Because if the person responds with something that vegan or vegetarian, then I immediately have to go to question two that I'm not prepared for.

So if it's one-on-one, it's tough. Okay. All right. I like that, Kyle. I like the food angle. Thanks. Appreciate it, man. It's the way the connoisseur resonates with everyone. Right. Everyone eats. By the way, I like the idea of, hey, show of hands, who here has either had or paid for an abortion? Because you want to include the guys in on it. I don't want any of this backroom stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Legitimate. Legitimate. Not in the back of a van. I mean, you know who you are.

That's horrible. Yeah. What was your favorite meal last year, Preston? You know what? Quickly, I was trying to think of that as Kyle was saying that. It is hard to say. You know what? Probably, oh man, and I forgot the name of the restaurant, Casey. And Nick, you would know this. It's in Cape May. They serve like a Cajun cuisine. Oh, yeah. It's numbers. It's like, it's the address of it. 69. 69.

No, that's a good meal, though. Everyone gets what they want. It's like $1.13 or something like that. Really good. That was a fun one. Is that right on the main drag there? Yeah. Like near Lucky Bones or...

Yeah, yeah, but down further. 69 across the street from Boner. It's actually not too far from like the Acme and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So good Cajun food? Yeah. Ooh. Yeah, not like crazy over the top, super spicy Cajun food. Right. I like black gold. But how about you? Favorite meal last year? You know what, man?

I don't know. Okay. Now, if you were to dead end in that conversation, Preston, if you had asked Casey that and he says, I don't know, would you have a follow-up question? I think I do, no. Or I'm done with you. I think it was the meal that we had for Carter's 21st birthday. It was last summer, right? No, he's 22 now. All right. Or wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Was it?

Was that last year? I thought that was last summer we all went to. We had a giant seafood. That was pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that was at Hard Rock Hotel Casino. Yeah. That was awesome. I think so. You would say, I don't know. Well, what's your favorite cuisine? Yeah. So what places do you frequent? Yeah. All right. Yeah. All right. 410 Bank Street. 410 Bank Street. That's the name of the restaurant. All right. So that was my favorite meal last year. Yeah, it was really good. Really, really good. I'm sorry to jump in here. Sure. But when you were eating...

Years ago when you were dating and you were approaching a girl that you liked or whatever, did you have a particular series of questions that you would launch with? No, I didn't have a good game. You wouldn't use the what party you smell bad? No, but now I would. Hey, Press, do you think because of what you do for a living, you're a master of ceremonies, that in these settings that...

I don't want to say necessarily that either A, you take it upon yourself to pose these questions or B, other people look towards you to do this sort of stuff. No, the only time that I will try to turn into that, into kind of leading where we're going to go, which is kind of what I do here, is if there is an obvious difference

break and it's weird and uncomfortable, I will kind of take host mode. Or they're presenting a prize. That too. But someone's going to walk away with a new refrigerator and we're going to have Preston conduct the conversation. I'm your guy. It's very different on air versus in a conversation like you were at at a party, Casey. What we do for a living is not a normal conversation.

You know what I always, and that's true, I would say on air we're 10% more of what we would normally be. I'm just saying the dynamic between us in this room and the dynamic we have with our listeners is very different than all of us have when we're out and about having conversations with regular folk. Yeah, I can see that. I find that a lot of times if I'm

with a group, I'm expected to be the funny guy. And I'll do that. If it means the crowd will be happy. But a lot of times I'm just kind of observing. Just enjoying. Enjoying hearing other people talk about their things and what they like. I enjoy that as well. I like to observe as well. And a lot of that leads to how can we talk about this on the air? Honestly, I'm looking for talkers. Yeah.

So the magical questions can also be a jumping off point for other types of conversations. So let's say that you ask, what's a gift that you got that you deeply loved? That is a question that leads to other deeper questions. For example, what's a good gift? What creates meaning? Is it specificity? Is it empathy? What does it mean to be a generous person?

So one thing you want to do is not saying you're being superficial, but you wouldn't lead with something like what has left you the most unfulfilled. Right. You know. No. So, you know, it's going to be something. Right. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Hang on. We have some other calls coming in. I'm going to go to Cindy with a conversation starter as well. Hi, Cindy. Good morning. Hi. Good morning, Cindy. So what do you like to bring up in scenarios like this?

I will ask people what makes them nostalgic. What makes them nostalgic? I love that. Yeah, yeah, because it kind of transcends age, you know, barriers like financial barriers. We were talking about it over the weekend with my sister-in-law, and she was talking about SpaghettiOs. She used to eat them all the time at her grandmother's house, which are gross. But if she would even see a can of those or have a mouthful of those, she would just be...

right back into that kitchen where she felt warm and secure and love. And yes. Do you lead with an example when you ask that question? Yes. And that's what I was going to say. So it's easier, I think, too, if you say like, oh, like, so when I was growing up, my grandparents would stop early in the morning on the weekend and they coast for cigarette smokers. And when I would smell the smell of cigarettes,

I knew they were there and I was so excited. It's such a weird tie to smoking. But most of all, I remember the cigarettes. My buddy Steve used to love the smell of a Zippo lighter because it smelled like he said it reminded him of his grandmother. Yeah. So he would just sit there because I used to have a Zippo lighter. He would just hold it up to his nose and sip it. Ah, grandma. Yes.

Yeah, that makes sense. I think that's a great question. I like that. But Steve, you're right. You have to lead in with, hey, man, I saw this the other day and it was an ad for SpaghettiOs. God, I used to love those as a kid. Is there anything that brings back memories like that as far as food goes? Yeah, if you lead into it that way, that's a good way to get things started. I like it. Thank you, Cindy. Appreciate it. What line, Casey? I'll go to Kate. All right, let's get her on next. Hi, Kate, you are on the air. Good morning. Hey, bitches. Hey, what? What's up, Kate?

Good morning, everybody. So, I've got to give a little backstory real quick. My friend's mom is known to love Kevin Bacon. That is for her everything. Okay. A fan came out to Phoenixville. There's a picture of her and her daughter had gone. There's a picture of she is right next to Kevin Bacon on that stage. So, we asked

everybody who is your Kevin Bacon? Who's your celebrity crush? And then we compare their answers to their significant other and see if there's any similarity. Ooh. Yeah, no, I love that. I love that because, you know, I don't think that's too volatile. You know, I think that's totally everyone has, most people have sort of like what they call their hall pass, you know, and their crush. Who's your crush?

Uh, mine's David Beckham. David Beckham. It's his birthday. Yes. Or no, no, it's not his birthday. He's becoming a knight. Yes. That's what we were talking about. With your knight, you get a new birthday. I always like this one better. What's your weirdest crush? Like, David Beckham. Weirdest crush? Yeah. Like, you can look at David Beckham and you're like, okay, handsome, athletic guy. But is there a guy out there who maybe isn't your classically handsome dude that you're like, yeah, I crush on that guy.

I would say that I kind of fell into that, like, what was it, the rat boy trend? So the Jeremy Allen White, you know what I mean? Yeah, the rat boy. Yeah, rat face. No, no, no. That's completely acceptable. My wife...

Had a massive crush on Dwight Yoakam. I know one. For me, I've told you, Katherine Hahn. Yeah. Not a classic, you know, gorgeous, leading model woman type. I just find her. I like her attitude. There's a sexiness about her. She's frisky. She just wants to ball you up and put her in a vagina. That's what it is. God, I love that scene in Step Brothers. She does a lot about you.

Yeah. All right. No, I love that. Thank you, Kate. I like that. Well done, Kate. That's a great idea. How about any of you guys? I'll tell you right off the bat. The non-typical? Octavia Spencer, man. I think she is the cutest.

You've said this before. I can't say I disagree. She seems fun. Yeah. She seems, would you call her sexy? I think she's sexy. I do. And in the movie, Spirited, I know you weren't a huge fan of that. No, I didn't like it. I loved her in that movie. So when you're talking about something like that, you're opening yourself up to, but if everyone is doing it, then it's kind of a level playing field. But you have to expect a, oh.

Oh, man, really? Wow. And that's why, because I think, you know, like Ana de Armas, that's an easy answer. You know what I mean? I know. Oh, my God, that's outlandish. Yeah. No, it's an interesting nuance of taking that. Hang on a second. We're going to go next to, we're talking about magical questions that will start conversation. We're going to Ari. Ari, you're on the air, bud. Hey, guys. Gazooks. Gazooks. What's up, man?

Hey, yeah, so this is not a good business, Icebreaker, but if you're in a small social setting, you ask them, when's the last time you guys had sex? All right, when is the last time you had sex? That's pretty good. Maybe refine it. When was the last time you had butt sex?

Because he gives so many... Yeah, he leaves it. No. God, these people are so off-guard. They're like, oh, wow, what? Well, see, I like the last time thing because I remember one time I was in a party setting and we were throwing out these questions and mine was, all right, tell us about when you lost your virginity. Yes. And then I was like, well...

That's not always a pleasant experience for everyone. Some people have a traumatic experience. Nor is the last time you had sex. Maybe. Yeah. I don't know. Unless it's butt sex. Yeah. Or it was with Octavia Spencer. Yeah. Yeah. Was I pitching or catching in that? Can you tell me? I don't remember. I know I was on the infield. But Ari, you've had memorable conversations by bringing that up.

Yeah, yeah. I'd say it, and then I'd say, you know, mine was like a week ago, and then usually one person's like, yeah, it's been a little bit, and then it starts rolling into, like, it just breaks that ice, right? And it does...

All right, guys, I was wondering, because I wonder if the sex thing might be a little bit of a minefield. But you're having good luck with it, then it works. Yeah, depending on the setting. All right, thanks, Ari. Appreciate it, man. You wouldn't ask that in line at a wake. Let's go next to Josh. Hey, Josh, morning, bud. Morning, guys. Shout out to YouTube. YouTube! What's going on, man?

Um, so at least once a day, uh, my, one of my conversations start with, so I heard on the Preston Steve show this morning. Um, but, uh, one of the good things for like party icebreakers is, uh,

The Tattoo Tuesday. Talking about tattoos, but, you know, I was one of the ones to be lucky enough to get it in studio. So, you know, it's a good story and kind of an opener for tattoo stories. That's a great idea. That is a great one because, I mean, listen, the more and more I, you know, look around and take a good look at people, almost everybody has ink. I mean, almost everybody has got large ink.

large ink, shoulders, arms, wherever, very visible places. And it's pretty wild. And I see people with kids. And most recently, I was thinking about man,

20, 30 years ago, never would have seen that. And it was still considered a little bit taboo. So people don't mind sharing stories about their ink and why they got it. They like it. There's a story behind it and they like telling where they got it, how they got it, why they got it in the first place. And so there's usually a connection between the ink and what...

why it ended up on their body in the first place. Or their desire to get it or they would not get it. On a tangent here, on a side note, Chris Daughtry posted a video of him working out. And of course he's in ridiculously wonderful shape. But he has the full black sleeves. And sort of like a

Black Panther, like, like arrows and line. I mean, it's, it's, it's cool. Okay. Uh, the black sleeves thing to me is, is, is wild, but it sort of eliminates, it, it sort of eliminates any, I don't know if you're like a, if you're really in great shape and he is in terrific shape, but it, it sort of mutes the shadows that will show how your work is coming. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Cause I was telling you about the shadows that I have in my house. Uh,

Yeah, so I know exactly what you're talking about. But I mean, isn't that cool? He has those sharp points coming down from his shoulders down towards his pecs. It's a commitment, all right. I mean, this looks like old school, you know, island type of tattooing where they would do these really big dark patches all over themselves. It's pretty wild. I could never, ever tattoo that.

ever do that that's i have a my little pony on my taint okay yeah we've all got our own little thing i got a monkey yes i totally forgot how did i forget that uh but uh reading from this article because we have to take a break in a moment um we uh there are more magical questions that you can ask here are some suggestions like what's a gift someone gave you that offended you ah that's interesting have you ever been offended by a gift i'm not that i don't think i ever have no i have

I don't want to talk about it. I tell you guys off air. I know what it is, actually. What is one rule you had growing up that looking back now you think was totally unnecessary or even a little funny?

Here's another one. What are three gifts you would give aliens on behalf of humanity? See, then you start to get into these. Right, right. Those are harder because you actually have to think about that. But, I mean, something that you have at the ready. We all know, you know, like going back to the restaurant or the food or this milestones in someone's life you can bring up. Yeah. You know, but these aren't bad. Here's a dumb one. When was the last time you used glitter? Yeah. What? What?

What? Okay, and then how about this one? When was the last time you blew up a balloon with your own mouth? When was the last time you used Flex Seal? Yeah. Ooh, doggy. And then here's another one. What is a favorite building in your community? What's your favorite building? When did it become so?

How many doors do you like in your building? Well, do you have a favorite building in Center City? Anybody? My favorite building overall. In the Philly skyline? No, it's in the New York skyline. It's the Chrysler building. Me too. Of all time? Absolutely. Wow. I love it. You love me, buddy. I love how chrome and shiny it is and the...

What's the architecture type? Art Deco. Yeah, it's Deco, which I prefer, which is really cool. So it was a Jeopardy question last week, and they put the picture up, and they thought it was the Empire State Building. I said, you dumb... It's the Christ building. I'll probably go with City Hall. I just... I love...

Ben just kind of peeking out atop the city. I love that, yeah. In Philly? You love who on the top of the building? I mean, William Penn. I said Ben, but I meant William Penn. Thank you very much for catching that. Well, his middle name was William Ben. Yeah. William Ben Penn. William Ben Penn. Yeah. William Ben Lincoln Penn. If I have a favorite Philly building or not. All right, now you make me think. I like the Mellon building because it's got that pyramid on the top. Yeah, I think that might be my fave, too. Do you know what's cool? The...

The Masonic Temple that we went into. Well, that was the interior. Yeah. If you're talking about the outer look. Yeah.

I do love the USP look of the Comcast building. Yeah. You like that? I do. You know what I think it looks like? What? I think it looks like a pack of cigarettes that somebody popped one cigarette out of. Like, here, you want to smoke? Uh-huh. You know what I mean? Listen, I love Liberty One. I do. Liberty One's great. Yeah, Liberty One, it just symbolizes, you know, a change to our city because for the longest time you couldn't go higher than William Penn.

Yeah. Marissa, how about you? You're the city dweller. Actually, I'm on board with Keith. Yeah. City Hall, just because as soon as you see it, it just screams Philadelphia. It screams you're going to be in traffic for an hour. I love cresting over different parts of the suburbs and heading towards the city and seeing different areas of the skyline. When you're looking afar, you're like, wow, you can see it out there. And then I like Liberty One, mostly because MMR's tower is there. So the radio station is...

Broadcasting from there. I think we have a really nice looking skyline. We do. We really do. As you come in from different areas, you'll look over and that's a fine looking skyline. Coming across the Walt Whitman. Yeah. I really like that view. So back in the early 90s when Liberty One was being constructed, that was for me living in the burbs.

You could actually see the city from the science wing of my high school. Is that wild? It was the third floor. You looked out the window. You're like, oh, my God, there's a city. And now when you drive down Westchester Pike in the morning, you can see the city skyline. A couple spots in Harleysville you can actually see it. Stop. Really? Preston, when I used to come down from New York and we were working on Y100, you come across the Commodore Berry Bridge.

Boom. You can see way off in the distance. Yep. Years ago, there was a Jeopardy question and they said, what city is the skyline from? And it was Philadelphia and I didn't recognize it. And it was because the photo was taken from behind the art museum looking into the sea. And it's just like... Down the parkway. The way Rocky saw it initially. Oh,

But yeah, kind of like from Kelly Drive. Oh, okay. So with the art museum in the foreground and then the city in the background, I almost didn't recognize it. Well, I didn't recognize it. I got the question wrong. And so since then, I've always admired our skyline from different angles. I tell you what, you go back to the original Rocky, the first movie, and when they swing around and they show up from the top of the stairs, you look at the city, you're like, what?

Whoa. Where is Philadelphia? Where is Philly? Because they were still adhering to that restriction. Couldn't be taller than Billy Penn's head.

And it's so cool to see it that way. But now, yes, I think we have a beautiful looking city. The first five minutes of the movie Philadelphia, same thing when you watch it. And it doesn't seem like it's that long ago, but it's so different, the city. All right. Listen, I want to thank those who are still on hold with other magical questions. I will mention these real quick. So this was Deal or Dale. It says, do you sit or stand when wiping? Yeah.

It's a good one with guys. He says it works at the barbershop. Yeah. Ryan says this question. Do you have vacations coming up? That is a great one. That's a great one. Yeah, you're taking a vacation. And then Jim wanted to say, did you grow up in Philly? Favorite Philadelphia thing?

And that's another good local one too. So yeah, these are, listen, you can, and I have done this before. I've actually gone on and found, you know, basic conversation starters. Yeah. Especially when my kids, when I was starting to hit that point where I'm like, I need more to talk to these guys about. What are some things that can help just get a real conversation started? So you can find sources like that online that are just kind of get your foot in the door. Which parents do you love the most? And if you do have,

moments where you're a little bit awkward in social settings just because you run out of things to do, a good thing to do is on your phone, like on a notes app or something like that, just jot down a list of conversation starters and you can pull out of your pocket and it's a go-to at any point in time that you might need it. And remember, even the best of them, even the most skilled at conversation, everyone has their moments where they're like, I don't know what to do here. Yeah.

All right. At the top of this particular segment, we made an announcement. We, the Preston and Steve Show, are returning to Hershey Park.

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I think it's like an hour and a half before the parking is open. Yeah, you're going to get the run of the place. We'll find out about what rides they will have open at that time of the day. But nonetheless, we're going to be broadcasting live. It's going to be a damn good time. So let's get you on board and go to WMMR.com and click on events. We have the complete details and another chance to win tickets there as well. So we're happy to be back at Hershey Park Thursday, June 26th for a live broadcast. We'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Ricky Bowe is hanging out in our Acme Lounge. We're going to get him in here in just a moment. Got a new show on our sister station.

Oh, the Phil's just had a tough little run there for a moment. Yeah, but he's all smiles. He's thrilled with what's going on. Yeah, we'll talk to him in a few. And then later on this morning, our buddy Steve-O is going to be joining us. So let's get to the B-File. WMMR presents Kristen and Steve's Bizarre File. All right, brought to you by Pro Team Collision. If you find yourself in an accident, trust the pros. Pro Team Collision, your trusted auto body repair shop located in King of Prussia. You can go to proteincollision.com.

Collision.com. All right, I'm going to leave with a story that I saw. Actually, this morning, several people received medical treatment after a skydiving plane with 20 passengers on board and crew crashed in Coffey County, Tennessee, about 60 miles south of Nashville. Dude, and everybody is fine. Which is amazing. That very rarely happens. Three people, there were injuries. Three people were airlifted to the hospital for medical treatment. One person, serious injuries, transported by ground.

Other than minor injuries that were treated by first responders at the scene, nobody died in this crash. They were headed into the Tullahoma Regional Airport. No one on the ground was injured either. Highway Patrol video shows damage to the plane's tail, which appeared to have broken off.

along with other parts of the aircraft. I mean, like it's in pieces on the ground. Yellow caution tape was seen in the video, which was blocking off the area as a plane came to rest while officials investigate the scene. So the FAA is investigating the crash. But that's rare when you see something like this.

And nobody was killed in that. You know, I'm looking at the fuselage, and if you were to take the wings and the tail and the engines off, if you could put that on wheels, you could just drive the people. You could. Yeah. If they had something like that, like a bus. Real quick, speaking of skydiving, and I didn't even know that this existed, and you guys obviously know what wingsuits are. Yes. But I saw these people were doing, literally, they were flying on like a magic carpet ride. They would base jump with a...

rug and see how far they could win. So those things exist. Yeah.

I mean, essentially they're falling. Yeah. But you're not saying give like wingsuits to everyone in the plane, right? No, no, no, no. So is it a type of a carpet? It is an actual carpet that they are on. And then they are using that as a sort of wingsuit. That's pretty awesome. We're looking at a video of it. But if you were to lose... It's insane, but it's cool. They have a parachute too. Right. But if you were to lose the carpet, is that they're still the wingsuit or is that they're one and the same? They're not wearing a wingsuit. I don't think.

Anyway, I've got bizarre file stories to share with you. The TSA is expressing frustrations with travelers who are not providing proper real ID to fly. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the TSA made it known that a Costco membership card is not...

acceptable identification. Wait a second. That's how I got my gun. So they wrote, we love hot dogs and rotisserie chickens as much as the next person, but please stop telling people that their Costco card counts as a real ID because it obviously does not.

So, Preston, I was applying to the Secret Service and they asked for my Costco card. So, listen, maybe it is starting to spread on social media that you can use it and people bought. I don't know. Maybe that's what it is. But starting on this past May 7th, most adults catching a flight to the U.S. are now required to present either a passport or an upgraded identification card that meets the federal real ID standards. Just head down to the DMV. You're out in six hours.

In most cases, real IDs are designated with a white star and a yellow circle. And they've been around for years at the DMV. But people who didn't get one by May 7th can still apply. But don't use your Costco card as your ID. How would you even assume that? An unwelcome visitor made its way into a local retirement community this week. But the visitor wasn't a person. It was actually a black bear. Steve, it went inside of the retirement home. The black bear. This is going to be easy picking. Rock and roll.

Don't worry about renewing your medication, Grandma. It ends tonight. So the bear broke into St. Andrew's Village after 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Charlene Elliott was one of the lead certified nursing assistants working. She said, I was sitting there at a nurse's station and I heard a big crash. I thought it was one of the aides that fell. And I got up and I saw it was a bear coming down the hall towards me. Pictures show how the black bear got in. There are visible claw marks on a windowsill. And in another picture, shattered glass.

glass from a broken window as you said going through my mind was get that thing out of here the bear is inside st andrews village for about 15 minutes and was running through the hallways he said i told them to shut all the doors get all the doors shut the bear even went into some residential rooms getting nose to nose with one of them in bed elliot recalled telling residents please don't move don't touch him because he could have mauled you arthur is that you

So she said one resident wanted to feed it a sandwich. And she was like, well, go ahead and give it my sandwich. And I'm like, no, we can't do that. It's a bear. But employees did use food, Rice Krispie treats, to be exact, to lure the bear out of the building. Never get me. Chubby bear.

Elliot said that they also used a walker to hit the bear and move it towards the door. That's a ballsy move. Yeah. The Pennsylvania Game Commission set up a trap using donuts and other pastries and were able to catch the bear on Thursday morning.

The Game Commission said that it's rare for bears to enter buildings, but it can happen. It's a rare bear. They said to make sure that no food waste and garbage outside of your home is there so that a bear can get into it and make sure that you regularly clean your grill as well because they will go after that. That's a good point. All right, here's a pretty wild story. A couple in Virginia say that a Starbucks worker refused to help them during a medical emergency because they did not wait in line.

Kevin Key is in stage four kidney failure. He and his wife, Melissa, were at an entertainment district in Richmond, Virginia, and they're there for a comedy show. But suddenly, Kevin Key began having a scary medical episode. She said he was sweating and he said, I don't feel well. And he started leaning over and then he started vomiting. His wife has seen him go through one of these episodes before and knew that the only thing that would help him at that moment was ice water. She said it was frantic.

I was crying at that point. She immediately saw a nearby Starbucks in the entertainment district, ran inside the coffee shop. Despite the long line, she explained to the customers that her husband was having a medical emergency and needed water. She said everyone waiting in line was sympathetic to her situation and allowed her to go straight to the drink pickup counter. But she didn't expect the barista's response. She said, I pointed back because you could see Kevin. I was like, that's my husband right there. He's in stage four kidney failure. I just need water fast for him. And the employee looked at me and was like,

You need to get in line. Oh, my God. And then I repeated what I said. I'm like, but my husband, he's in kidney failure. We need ice water quickly. And he looked at me again and was like, you need to get in line. Wow, man. That's cold. Kevin couldn't believe Starbucks would allow his wife to quickly, wouldn't allow him to get her quickly a cup of water. Now, if he's having a cardiac issue, I can give him a latte. Okay.

A situation that should have taken less than probably 10 seconds to get water turned into a nightmare instantly. He said, I could have possibly blacked out. I could have had a more dramatic impact on my body. My kidneys could have possibly shut down. So Capital One Cafe, located directly opposite Starbucks.

was the saving grace of the day. After being turned away at Starbucks, Melissa said she went into Capital One Cafe. The employee quickly acted and got her the ice water. That's pretty wild, man. She said, I walked in and Emma, the employee, was standing there. I told her the same thing. She acted fast. And Kevin got to meet Emma weeks later and thanked her for being a caring human being. Sam Jeffries with Starbucks Media Relations said, we've been in touch with this customer over the past few weeks to listen, apologize, and make this right. We hope to welcome them back to a store of their choice to give them

the Starbucks experience that they should expect. You mean like not dying? Oh, they gave her a gift card, by the way, but Melissa says that's worth $10. They should take accountability because they did not. But the good news, though, Kevin finally found a kidney match in his sister-in-law and he is set to undergo a kidney transplant in July. There you go. Good story ending. And there you go. That's what I have in

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Marissa. Our next guest is starting a new show today, actually, on our sister station, 97.5 The Fanatic. And it is called Unfiltered. I like that. Unfiltered with Ricky Bowe and Bill...

Please welcome Rick Battalico. What's up, guys? Good to see you, man. What's going on? You're looking kind of fit and trim. I haven't seen you in a little bit. I lost a ton of weight in just over two months. Nice. I had a funny story about it, though. I thought I had an ear infection. It was over two months ago. It was still cold out. And you're wearing jackets and hoodies and this and that and work boots. I go to the walk-in.

Go to the walk-in. She checks my ear. They got to put your weight up. I'm not thinking that I'm sitting here with about eight pounds of...

of like clothes on, not even thinking about it. And then she shows, you know, you get on the scale, you look at the weight. I was like, oh crap, I got, this has got to stop. And right down that day, I just started eating a lot better. Casey was asking me, what did you do? I said, not a lot. He just, I mean like literally cut down on bad foods. Right. Like ice cream. You're not eating a gallon of ice cream every night? I would. I would.

Let me put it this way. I was a lush with that. If you give me a gallon, if you put an ice cream container in me. You'd wake up with a pint next year. No, it would be gone. It would be gone well before that and thinking about running to the store to get another one. I got my act together the first year, Ricky, and I ended up losing about 28 pounds or so. And Chuck D'Amico, our program director, his wife, I saw her the other day. She's like, okay, what did you do? And I'm like, diet and exercise. And she looks at me and she just goes, oh.

I was, oh, man. I do like a ton of walking now. And it's funny because I didn't think anything of it. And I was told by a nutritionist, why are you running? You're just beating up your joints. Why not just walk? I said, because I don't feel it.

This is a dumbass question, but when you're a professional athlete, is it easy to stay in shape? Because you have to work every day to do your job. You mean when you're playing? Yeah. When you're playing, it's easy. Right, that's what I mean. I mean, because you get, like, I was in the stadium by 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

So for a 7 o'clock game, I would do, right when I get there, I'd get warmed up, get stretched, go and do my cardio right there. And then whatever weightlifting day I was on, I would do that. And then when that stops, I assume that's pretty easy. You don't want to do it anymore. So you can probably put on the weight pretty easily. Well, yeah, I think you get to a point where you're like, oh, all right, I've had enough. I mean, I worked out every day for 20 years. I think I'm done with this. Also, when you set the foundation,

like long-term, like bodybuilders or people who just do... They'll do the... You build the foundation and then people would be surprised to see...

Just kind of basic serviceable exercises that they're doing. They're not curling cars. And you can sort of maintain that way. And you're right about the walking. The walking, if you do like a decent walk, you're going to burn. You're going to have the same sort of caloric impact as you would if you were running. And it's better for your body. It's better for your body. I mean, to me, it's kind of...

it's my time of day now to just kind of relax. It's weird. I will just zone out. Do you wave to the neighbors? I get a lot. I get a lot of that because I'll walk through areas that are populated and it's like, oh, aren't you? Aren't you? Come on. You get to a point where you're like, yes, I am. What do you need? That's why you walk to those areas. Listen, I want to ask you something, Ricky, because Casey said something the other day and then

with you coming on to talk about the new show and everything. I thought this would be a nice conversation to have. But he had said something the other day along the lines of, so Ricky's going to come on. He's like, you know what I realized the other day is Rick Batalico is a friend of mine. And this guy is a professional baseball player, a guy that I used to watch. This is somebody that I paid money to go watch him play. That's your own fault. Yeah.

You're not getting a refund. It made me think of this. So there's a great scene in Bull Durham where Crash is talking about being in the show. And I'm going to play this clip real quick. So here we go. I was in the show for 21 days once. 21 greatest days of my life. You know you never hand in your luggage in the show? Somebody else carries your bags? That's great. You get white balls for batting practice. Ballparks are like cathedrals.

The hotels all have room service. Women all have long legs and brains. They're really hot, huh? Yeah, and so are the pitchers. So, you know, so I wanted to ask you as a professional baseball player and that grandeur of being in the elite of the world. Is it as cool as we, your standard athletes,

everyday people think it is. Yes. Okay. It really, I mean, you're staying in four or five star hotels every single night, wherever you go. Your flights are just you and the team. And it's...

I mean, it's a little different, I guess, because you're flying a lot late at night. Yeah. You're getting in late to places. I will say this much. It is always first class. I know nowadays it's even more so. Right. Yeah. You know, we didn't have our own chefs back then. Everything was kind of catered in to the clubhouses. Now, really, I'm not going to lie to you that the Citizens Bank Park...

Their visiting clubhouse has the best cheesesteaks in Philadelphia. Yeah, we were reading an article about the big secret about that. It's unbelievable. The best cheesesteaks in Philadelphia are there. Yep. And nowadays, they get tomahawk steaks for dinner and you name it. They had one up in the press box the other day. They gave it to Tom and Ruben when they were up there. But I happened to be there, so I walked in there. I wanted some steak. So I walked in there. Tom's like, just take it, take it. And I'm like, no.

Unbelievable. So, I mean, because it's an interesting dichotomy because you guys are being pampered and treated well, but you're probably also working harder than you ever have in your life as far as the sport is concerned. And now with people that are there to train you, but I mean, you've got to, you have to put in...

The sweat and the, you've got to earn that. You have to. Well, I wasn't like a high pick either. So I was one of those guys who had to earn it from day one. Day one, I literally became a prospect on day one. I was lucky enough because my thought process was I'm looking at these guys on my own team and they suck. Like pitching wise, I'm like,

Wait a minute. This guy's starting the game and I'm sitting in the bullpen saying to myself, how did I not get drafted? So I get in the game and I could see the coach is like,

holy cow, who is this guy? And the first guy I faced was Demetri Young, who back then was the number one pick of the Cardinals. Three pitches struck him out. Next guy behind him was also a number one pick, three pitches. So the first two batters I faced were number one picks, and I struck them out on three pitches each. So I went from literally a beer league guy to...

Oh, man, get this guy a jacket, make sure he keeps his arm warm. It was pretty unbelievable how quickly you could make a jump. Because you're in it to the level Preston was talking about. And obviously so much of what you're doing is based on your physicality and staying in prime shape. Are you able to appreciate it or is it always a product of retrospect that allows you to appreciate what you had?

Did I appreciate playing? Yes. Did I appreciate being in the big leagues all the time? No. Because, I mean, it sounds interesting. I love being there and you love playing it. My job was a little different than enjoyable all the time.

I mean, being a closer... As a closer? Being a closer, there was always pressure. There was always people breathing down your neck. You always had to talk to the press. Not like today. I mean, they take a lot of pressure off of these guys for not having to talk to the press anymore. And I think every day was like... I could go 10 in a row in saves. You get that one blown save and you knew the weight of the team was on you, the weight of the city was on you. And to me, I took it hard. So it was...

And like going to city to city, it's funny. People say, well, you've been to all these cities. You know, I didn't see enough of them. I didn't take the time to enjoy what I was doing, and that bothers me. Okay, so as a player who had to answer for your actions on the field, and now as a commentator, do you find yourself to be more critical of pitchers, of fielders, of batters, or of management?

in general. Just players in general? Players in general. Because I don't think they take responsibility a lot of them sometimes this year. There are guys. Bryce Harper, responsibility guy. Nick Castellanos, responsibility guy. There are guys that do it, but then there's guys that'll go out there and have a terrible week, and you'll never hear from them. Right. I mean, I think I was asking more specifically about the pitchers because...

I mean, I know pitching better than I do hitting. Right. I mean, I'm not going to lie to you, but I also... But when you watch a guy walk a dude on four straight pitches and you're like, dude, just put it over the plate. Well, I don't like their thought process anymore because it'll be a six-run game and these guys are throwing breaking balls in a hole at bat where there's...

where you're up six runs. Why? You're so worried about your ERA or your statistics. That's the problem. Ricky, I've been to five games this season and my record is one in four, so I apologize. Yeah, I sure am. The last game that I went to was probably the worst Phillies game I can remember in my life. It was the Lozada game where it was 17-1 and they ended up losing 17-7 and then he came out in his next start, he crapped the bed again. This guy has been a stud for us all season and then the last two starts...

Completely different pitcher. Any idea what the hell's going on with this guy? Here's the issue. They're saying he's tipping his pitches. You know who I blame for that? The Phillies coaching staff. Yeah? And all these people that they bring in. Because where are the eyes? Where are the eyes? Where's Caleb Cotham saying, ooh, I see something he's doing? You know why they make that up or say that is so there's an excuse built in. Right. Just in case he starts to... He's going to be fine.

I think it's one of those things where he's hit a rut and mentally when you get in those ruts, you start thinking bad things are going to happen. And I mean, I'm sure we've all been there. We've all thought that way. And then things snowball on you and you can't stop it. In his last start, I got a text from my brother Adam and he, this is a no context text.

And he just wrote, what is wrong with Jesus? And I thought it was a set up. I thought it was a joke. I was like, what's the punch on you? No, no. What's wrong with Jesus? Completely misunderstood the intent of that question. So you were crucified. In all honesty, I think it's simple. I think he's throwing the ball down the middle of the plate. Really? I think it's that easy. And that's what makes this in general interesting.

so frustrating you know the sport especially in baseball we go through that roller coaster i see nick and casey having cerebral hemorrhages and then in in the throes of joy back and forth it's what the sport does to you yeah so i want to ask this with unfiltered and what you're doing and the the approach do you uh is there sort of a high concept to how you want to mount

Because you've been a veteran at this for a while. What do you want to bring new to this show? I think the biggest thing we bring is it's unfiltered is a word. I think it's more explains who I am. Okay. And I think there's going to be more of that and not just in baseball. I think it's going to be in all different sports. And Bill's like the one who's always so dedicated to his notepad. Yeah.

I mean, you've all heard of the Ray Dittinger thing with his yellow notepad. Bill's the exact same way. Yeah, he's got his little legal pad. Oh, he will have his legal pad. He will have his notes. And Bill could get a little wild, too. I think the show's going to be a little bit more crazy than any other show I've been on, which to me is...

It's right up my alley. At any point, do you ever, to Casey's earlier question about who you're harder on, do you take a running inventory of rants and or responses and say maybe it's time to direct this to somebody else? Or are you literally off the cuff in the moment? I'm just going for it. I'm very off the cuff. Okay. I mean, on TV, I don't even...

I have no script. Yeah. So it's kind of like... And it's funny because I was talking to Michael Barkin yesterday. I did a breakdown for... I forgot who it even was because we do so many of them. But I was up at the board. I didn't know what I was going to say. Yeah. I'm up there for four minutes. I don't know. I didn't know what I was going to say. I just started and it keeps going. You got to have confidence in yourself and confidence in your knowledge of the game. Yeah. And I think it just has...

you just go up there kind of be yourself if you're if you can't be yourself you'll never do anything well i think in life yeah that's true well to uh to steve's point two weeks ago um this philly's team was going to win the world series in my brain and then uh they had won i think 11 or 12 and now they've lost nine of the last ten don't fall off of that i well i won't but um here's what i was going to say i love watching post game when you're angry which is lately a lot

And three of the last five games, they've lost 2-1. So those are close games. They could have won any of those games. But the offense has just disappeared. And I know Harper is a part of that because he's been hurt. He's been out of the lineup a bunch. And it is a long season, as the cliche goes. But what's going on with the offense?

Well, they are one in six without, well, one in seven now without Harper, which is pretty sad considering. I mean, consider this. They have Nick Castellanos making what? 25 million. Trey Turner making 30 million. JT's making over 20 million. Schwarber's making over 20 million. Uh,

that should be enough. Do you see what I'm saying? And it's odd because Castellanos and Turner have both come out and said, we're not the same team without Harper. Well, no kidding, number one. But why can't you guys pick up that slack? You should be able to. That bothers me because other teams do not have four and five guys that

that should be making differences in a baseball game. It just seems like when one is off, they're all off. And when one is on, they're all on. Like, it's just one. Now, listen, let's not take anything away from Skeens. He's good. I wasn't mad. You can't be mad about Sunday's game. You can't be because that's the best pitcher in baseball right now. Right. And then also, you know, the guy who is a gold glove caliber second baseman is the one who...

You know, allowed that run to come in in the eighth inning or whatever. But, you know, and that's not normal. Yeah. Stott's falling apart. Yeah. I don't know what it is. It's a mental game. Why did you just laugh? I mean, you don't know. But it's a mental game. It's like with golf. You know, like even the best golfers, you know, like. Yeah, you get into a spot where everything's good. That's the same thing with Luzardo. I was just asked about Luzardo. It's the same thing. He's got himself into a bad position and he can't get out of it. Did you ever get the yips?

Golf, yes. Baseball, no. I did have one time that I was out on the mountain. There were a bunch of guys getting that Bill Blass thing where they couldn't throw the ball to home plate.

Or Steve Blass. Couldn't throw the ball to the home plate. And I remember going three balls, no strikes one night. And I'm like, my mind starts going, you can't throw a strike anymore. And I'm like, uh-oh. Next pitch, I threw a strike. So I was all right after. How do you get yourself out of it? I mean, since obviously you haven't had to deal with it a lot. But how did you keep yourself...

Was it just massive amounts of discipline that kept you focused? Or were you able to take a more cavalier, it will happen? I think you take it, it will happen. But back then, I was on, wow, what? 12 one-year contracts. I never got a multi-year deal in the big leagues. 12 one-year contracts. That's wild. I got injured at the wrong time twice. Sounds like our early days of radio. Having good years, boom, injury. And then my elbow...

Here was the biggest thing that I had to go through. I had elbow surgery and the Phillies were trying to trade me at the time. So I was back within a month and I wasn't ready. I was throwing 85 miles an hour and they had me in the big leagues. So I'm sitting out there getting my head crushed. I mean destroyed. And I didn't know what to do. You couldn't speak up for yourself and go, guys, I'm not ready. I told them. And they were trying to pitch me every fourth or fifth day. It was that bad. And

All of a sudden, it was just odd. I was so depressed. You're getting your butt whooped and you don't know what to do. We're in Florida. And every five or six days, I would go to the bullpen. They'd bring out a radar gun. And I was just getting to the point where it would be like 87. Nope, not yet. And then one day, I woke up in Florida, got to the stadium, and I knew something. Something just felt freer in my elbow. Got in the bullpen. First pitch was 97 or 98. And they're like, all right.

All right, you're closing tonight. That was it. I threw one pitch in the bullpen. So something physically felt different to you? I was injured. I mean, you got to understand, when I came back from my wrist all the way up to my, because I had three quarter-sized bone spurs chipped out of my elbow. Jesus. And so from, literally from like your bicep all the way down, it was black. Man.

It was bruised. It was black. It was swollen. And the swelling didn't go down because I continued to throw. And it's the only time I ever blamed somebody for something. That led to me having shoulder problems. Because I was... Throwing while you were still injured? I started throwing two days after surgery. Oh. No, they wouldn't allow that these days, would they? No. Well, um...

Jake Arrieta, a few years back, when he missed four months of the season, he had the same thing. Okay. And they sat him down for a year. Yeah, yeah. Did that shave years off of your career, do you think? Probably. Okay. Probably shaved money, a lot of money off my career. Right. Because, I mean, you go from being a guy that's thrown 97, 98 to 91, 92. Hmm.

If you're just jumping in, Ricky Vitalico is here. New show on the Fanatic Unfiltered starts today, by the way, at 2 o'clock. So we're just checking in with him. So, Ricky, we do spring training every year, which is a lot of fun for us. And this year we got to have Jordan Romano on for the first time. We had Brandon Marsh and Garrett Stubbs. Marsh was off to a rough start. He's done a little bit better lately. Stubbs is playing Lehigh Valley. Romano, man, that guy, like a terrible, terrible start. And then he got into a groove for a bit and he was doing okay.

And then the last couple of outings, he's been crummy again. Now, you were a closer. You know what that mindset is. You think this guy gets it straightened out for the rest of the season? He's got to figure out his footing. And I know that sounds odd to say, but if you watch him pitch, he's falling all over the place. When he hits, he's falling to the right, falling to the left.

That's mechanics. That to me just says, you know what? Calm down. Just calm down. Take a deep breath. Take a step back, not a step forward all the time. Everything doesn't have to be in fast motion. You could literally kind of get into a groove where it's just, okay, here I am. Let's just keep throwing the ball to the mitt. Instead, it's like,

He thinks he's got to go harder every single pitch. And I think that's a mindset because of analytics. Analytics tells you if you're throwing 94 and you regularly throw 96, 97, there's a problem. We've heard, though, and we were down, we were talking to a bunch of people down at spring training. And a number of the, I guess, as they might be inclined to do, a lot of the veterans were saying that...

The analytics are fine, but they can also be a massive distraction. Do you agree with that? Yes, because I've talked to some of these guys and they say like every day they'll come down and give them numbers. I don't want to hear about numbers. You know, I mean, if I'm pitching, OK, I can understand that this guy doesn't hit well. Just tell me he doesn't hit changeups very well. He doesn't hit this very well. He doesn't hit this area very well.

Yeah, it's classic micromanagement. Yeah, it's almost too much. And that's why I brought up the thing about tipping pitches. Where is the guy in the Phillies dugout that is looking for this? Because I had a guy, Kevin Jordan, played with me way back when. He was a pinch hitter, kind of not an everyday player, but he played first base, played some infield positions. He

He was the greatest baseball mind I've ever played with. He would sit on the bench. He would steal the signs from their third base coach. He would get tips of what the pitcher was doing and give them to the hitters. They don't have anybody like that. Well, they should get someone like that. But you think that's a no-brainer. That's my whole point. Baseball has turned into such an analytical thing that they forgot about the eyesight is more important than anything else. Well, let me ask you because obviously you're...

main love is baseball, but you have to talk about other things. What of the others, of the remaining, all wonderful sports and our wonderful teams, which gets you the most

The most viscerally responsive. It's got to be football. Football. Football because you could pick out a lot of things in football. I mean, little things happen in football. Things happen on the sidelines in football. It's all over the place. Do you think it shares a lot of kinship with baseball in those dynamics? It does. I mean, when you think about it, it's an intriguing game in the sense that there's so many different things that you could do in a certain playoff.

play or a certain time of game. I just think there's a lot of people that could be picked on too. Am I right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you think about Sirianni. Oh, is he calling the plays again? What's going on here? You know, the offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator. There's always somebody that you can get after in football if something goes wrong because everybody passes the buck

in football. Well, you're going to have fun with Bill Calarullo because he loves that Nick Sirianni. Listen, I know that they just won the Super Bowl, but I'm not... He's grown on me a little bit. I believe in him as a head coach, but I don't believe in him as calling the play guy. So yeah, Bill's like, let him do whatever he wants type thing. I'm not like that.

We're going to have our disagreements on that show. Listen, man, I think Bill is a solid broadcaster, and I'll definitely be listening. Yeah, Bill, he's a good guy. I mean, incredible story. I mean, when you think about it, it came from a lawyer. Decided that, you know what, I want to follow a passion of mine. And ends up the afternoon drive guy. Rumor or true, he was on OJ's defense team.

I think he was dating one of Kardashian's kids at the time. All right. Well, the show starts today, too. You just going to hang out for the next five hours? Absolutely not. I got to go do a couple other things. I think I should probably shower so I don't smell like ass today. All right.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Marissa. Our next guest is joining us via Zoom, complete with a Hawaiian shirt and sleeping dog, which is a cool little combo. Manny's going to be in town for a string of shows next week, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Nice. All at Helium Comedy Club. There's going to be multiple shows except for that Sunday, which is actually Thursday's one show, Sunday's one show, but you can get tickets at HeliumComedy.com. Long time friend of the show, Mr. Steve O. Yeah.

Yeah, dude. What's going on, guys? Not much, brother. How you doing, man? You know, I'm out there doing the deal, man. Are you in your RV right now? I am. Love that. This is your broadcast RV?

One of them, yeah. Yeah. So listen, I was doing some math and the first tour I could see you going out on in the bio information was 2010. Was that when you first really started actively pursuing stand-up?

Correct. Okay. So 15 years at it, you have this podcast. There's potentially a whole audience base that's only familiar with you as Steve-O, the stand-up comedian and podcaster that may not be as aware of the jackass element. What is the mix of the audience that's coming to your shows these days? Wow. I'm pretty sure that...

And that people know me as Steve-O the idiot. You know, um, but yeah, the audience, I think that I'm effectively, uh,

God at all, man. Some days I feel like Matthew McConaughey, you know, when he says, I get older, they just stay the same age. And, you know, like, I also look out into the audience and I feel like it's a bunch of people that, like, we're all just,

just kind of getting old together, you know? - Yeah, no, you've cultivated a loyal fan base and people have been with you for the ride. But I mean, you've been, again, when you first started doing standup, you were like, you were fully committed and you talked about having to kind of establish that this wasn't just a passing interest. - Right. - Initially was there, I mean, you came in with your credits and your gravitas,

But to the veteran comedians, was there a little bit of having to prove yourself? For sure. Yeah, absolutely. And fortunately, comedy, much like all forms of entertainment, is very democratic. You know, so for those who bristled at it and...

Didn't love it. You know, like you said, I gave it hell. I really poured my heart into it. And it went well enough that I continue to make my rounds around the circuit 15 years in. And I've done nothing but get better. It's been great, man. Well, let me ask you, as your...

as a guy who had to try and perfect the craft of skateboarding or any sort of circus stuff, like something that doesn't necessarily just come naturally to people that you have to work on it over and over and over again. And with like literal, like bumps and bruises and broken bones, did that sort of, um, get your mindset right in, in tackling this new craft? Sure. Sure. I think that's a great metaphor for it. Um, and, uh,

Yeah, like anything you want to do, you're going to have to go through being bad at it. You know, that's how it works. But, you know, my journey with the comedy has been... It's been so just crazy because in the beginning I thought, oh man, this would be great. This is something that...

That is longevity, you know, like I can really get away from beating myself up. And as I did it, initially, my first special was just me and a microphone. Then as I put together the next show, it occurred to me, oh my God, the stories I'm telling happened on camera.

Like what if I edit the footage in after the fact? So it's a multimedia comedy special with footage illustrating the stories and that works great. And then when I put together the next show, I thought, oh man, the multimedia is so cool, but I don't want to live in the past anymore. And I want to bring footage on the road. So then I went about filming like the craziest crap ever and made a multimedia tour of

And that worked so well. Now I've done it again. And every show has been so much better than the one before. But...

It's also taken me right back to beating myself up. We knew it would end up there eventually. But yeah, it is a multimedia thing. And you kind of are the hybrid between stand-up and in the best way, a performance artist, because you're doing more that extends out past the stage. But in so doing, and as you're getting to tour around, and you have this wonderful experience

equipment that you bring in this mobile van for your podcast, Steve-O's Wild Ride. Let me ask you, is the fact that you can bring the studio to the people you're interviewing, has that been an asset? I assume if you can tell someone, we're going to park in front of your house, could you come out and do the show? It's got to be good, right?

For sure. That's the whole reason why I took that approach. You know, like everybody had a podcast and I thought, man, you know, like it's so annoying to me when someone says, uh, Hey, will you be on my podcast? Because everybody's got a podcast. You know that when you sit down, you're talking to nobody, you know, for the, for the most part. So I was like, man, now I'm going to be the guy saying, will you do my podcast? And, uh, the only way I could wrap my head around doing that would be, uh,

if I created a mobile studio that I could bring to the guests. That convenience factor was what made me willing to be that guy. It's brilliant. Speaking of multimedia and podcasts, I saw recently you on Eric Andre and

Um, and I really like him a lot and his podcast is terrific. And you as a guest is always great, but you shared a story using multimedia that I'd never heard before. And you don't have to repeat the whole thing if you don't want to, but the story about you and Wu Tang clan and flashing back to the video of you up on stage, uh, naked, uh, doing a backflip and then getting in trouble as a result was, was fascinating. Can you share some of that? Sure. Yeah, man. Um, I, uh,

was just a humongous fan of old dirty bastard. Um, there was a point when, um, uh,

When I was locked up in the LA County jail and, uh, the, um, protective custody and, um, the cops told me that, uh, that I was in ODB's regular cell and I felt this kinship to him. There's, there was a point when, uh, you know, when I was, uh, performing on, uh, at the same event as him. And I went over to, uh,

It was the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. I went over to the room that he was performing in.

And he had his pants down. He had, you know, like he had a big blunt of PCP. And he was like, I mean, it was just the craziest scene I'd ever. And I just thought this was this guy was so great. Then, of course, you know, he passed away. And I ended up becoming friendly with Method Man because we worked on a couple of things together.

And I was at this Rock the Bells festival where Wu-Tang was headlining. And I said to Method Man, "Man, I know you guys are gonna do an ODB tribute. I wanna pay tribute to ODB 'cause I was such a fan."

I said, to honor ODB, I'm going to get completely naked. I'm going to swing my garbage back and forth and catch it so I'm in a mangina position. And then with my mangina, I'm going to do a standing back flip.

It's called the double backpack flip. And at first, Method Man was like, dude, dude, amazing, go for it. And then later he came to me and he says, man, someone's going to beat you up if you do that. And I was like, ODP would love that. And, you know, we went ahead and I did it. And it didn't go over well with Raekwon, who grabbed me by the neck.

he grabbed me by the neck he said i didn't appreciate that you know that was disrespectful and odb's mom was there right yeah correct yeah he made me he made me apologize to odb's mom and uh and to everyone and uh you know for how gung-ho i was to be beaten up in before the show like in the moment like i i've never apologized faster

and that's well that's a hell of a story i i have to ask you because a lot of times stuff will pop up online you're not sure what it pertains to and things will be like seven years old or eight years old and this one has ended up in my algorithm it's you talking directly to bam on a video bam margera and and is that recent or is that a blast from the past

It's fairly recent. I'd say that was probably in the neighborhood of six months ago, maybe. Okay.

Yeah, you know, like, there's this wildly wealthy guy in Alabama who both Bam and I are friendly with. So while Bam and I have not been in communication, neither one of us is upset with the other. But...

But we're not in contact. So we've exchanged some pleasantries through this intermediary. And the guy called me up. He said, hey, we're going to have Bam on our podcast. Is there anything you want to tell him? And I was like, oh, dude, I made this video. I said, hey, Bam, I feel like I owe you an apology because I so aggressively tried to force sobriety on you.

Which I think is valid. I really tried so hard to... I brought him on tour and I was like, alright, you know, and

Sobriety doesn't really work that way. If you try to push it on people, you're more likely to push them away from it. And I should have known better, but I love him. I wanted to help him. I tried so hard, and I tried too hard. And so I felt that as far as acknowledging my side of the street, that was something that made sense to me.

to look at just my side of the street. And apparently it was very well received. Oh, good. Good. I mean, listen, as they say, baby steps is a classic saying, but I think eventually also just living, just remaining alive, getting older, appreciating things, appreciating certain aspects of life, I think are going to draw you two ineluctably together again, in whatever way that is. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, there's no bad blood between us at this point. Like, if I'm honest, I think that he is very afraid of, you know, like, true commitment to a life of sobriety and, you know, everything that comes with being in recovery. And I think that I am very representative of

of that lifestyle. And as such, like, Oh, I see. He loves me, but I represent kind of what he's afraid of. No, that's, that's very wise. Yeah. Yeah. So, so yeah, he, he loves me like crazy. He's just not quite ready to go all in. It makes me crazy because, uh, I just see that his life could be so fantastic, you know, like, um,

Yeah. We're all on our own timetables. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's absolutely true. Uh, one more quick question and then we're going to let you go. Steve, because I know you're actually going to be popping in next week when the shows come around, but I wanted to ask, I wanted to ask about your, uh, your second book, uh, and the title, a hard kick in the nuts, which I love, uh, which I learned from a lifetime of terrible decisions. What's the, uh, the forecast on that right now? Um, well,

Sorry, what do you mean by what's the forecast? Have you already released it or is it on the way? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, my apologies. Yeah, this has been released. It sounds like I've got an outdated bio. It does. I got a little outdated info, so sorry about that. Hey, not to worry, not to worry whatsoever. Yeah, I put out my first book in 2011, right?

And as I approached 10 years since its release, I thought, you know, man, so much has happened in the last 10 years. I got another book in me. I called up my literary agent. I said, I got another book. And what my agent said was,

sadly memoir part two is not a thing. That's as blunt as you can get. Right. And, uh, and, and she said that, um, in order to put out another book, what you have to do is have like some kind of an angle on it, some kind of a format, like a twist. And I, and I chewed on that for a second. And I said, Hmm, I said, uh, like, um,

you know, like my, in my comedy, I'm kind of joking about my experience with, uh, you know, with middle age. Like what if it was like a jackass guide to middle age? And she was like, Oh, I love that. So the, the hard kick in the nuts is, uh, kind of father time is the, the hard kick in the nuts, but it ended up, uh,

I felt that it would be alienating to talk about middle age since I do have an audience that just stays young as well. And so we changed it somewhat into a general book of wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of terrible decisions.

And it was just kind of tongue-in-cheek, you know, like Steve-O is writing a self-help book. And we made that kind of funny. But in, you know,

In part, and also, like, actually, you know, actually learned some stuff over the years. No, you clearly have. I think you are quite a fountain of dispensable wisdom about surviving, at least we can say that, and then thriving. I would also make a case for that as well. And we're thrilled you're coming to the area, man. We're thrilled you're coming back in. Yeah.

I appreciate that so much. You know, I wish I would have pushed back and just fought for memoir part two. You know, but it is what it is. And I'll tell you, man, I love you guys so much. And, you know, this format of live comedy that I've stumbled on is so genuinely interesting.

fun and wild because what I go about filming for these multimedia shows, I do not have the limitations of having to get insurance for stuff because I just do it without insurance. The stuff is crazy and then the feedback of what you've done when people have attended the show, they freaking love it. It's just as wonderfully correctly wrong as it's ever been. 100%.

There's no regard for laws. There's no insurance in place. Like, you know, the spirit of what I do is intact. But man, the limitations are not there. And I push it further than jackass. Wow. So it's like an extra naughty jackass movie meets a stand-up comedy show in a setting where you're watching something you can't see anywhere else. And yeah, man.

This is, it's exciting and it's fun. It's at Helium. June 19th to the 22nd. We'll make sure we get the word out. We'll see you guys there. Yeah, absolutely. Yep, so we'll get the word out and we'll see you when you're in town next week. I hear you're stopping by. So, heliumcomedy.com. For sure. I appreciate you guys so much. Thank you for everything. I love you. I love Philly. And I can't wait to see you guys. Love you, Steve-O. We'll check in with you in a bit, man. Steve-O, guys! Hey!

That's crazy. The guy's amazing. He really is. He's going over the top in this film. You know, when he says something, it's not hyperbole. No. Oh, my God, no. There are hours and hours of footage that will establish he delivers on what he promises. Yeah, you're right. He says things, and he's not being tongue-in-cheek about it. He's being literal that he gets away with some crazy stuff. But no insurance. No.

No regard for the law. It's all on him. I love it, man. Just stay alive because we want to have him around to keep enjoying these visits. Yep. Real quick, good news. My wife, she texted in and our graduation ceremony is indeed going to be outside tonight. Okay. That's what we were hoping for. It's a little more interesting in the outdoor environment. So this is my youngest graduating, so it'll be my last graduation.

sitting through the ceremony. Is it at the school proper? You think you'll cry? I don't know. Maybe I'll get choked up at some point. This is the last one. Will you blow a ram's horn at any point? I told President this last week because Ben was on Wednesday.

Excuse me, and one of the speakers made a point to say to the audience, if you're a parent and that you are a parent of an only child or this is your youngest, we would like for you to stand up. And I thought that was really nice for the speaker to acknowledge that. And so I did because, you know, Ben's my only child. But, you know, it hits a little differently when it's your last or your only. I was trying...

And I don't know if I did so convincingly or not the other day to dispense some fatherly wisdom. Oh, is that right? And just saying, hey, look, this is, you know, this part of your life is going to be over. Never feed bok choy to a hippopotamus. Really? No. No, it was...

It was just essentially that, man, this is just... Make note of this. Yeah. This is... You get a little while longer with school and college. And then I tried to do this nicely without saying...

I just said, essentially, after that, you work for the rest of your life. You know what I mean? And I don't want to present that as doom and gloom, but it is just reality in that you will more than likely go to work and you will not stop working for the majority of your life. And I just want you to be ready and don't let this special time get away from you. You know what I mean? Yeah, but I don't think Caleb knows...

the occupation knows has a love for the occupation well hopefully that'll present itself as a job right right and so yeah yes so i think um that will be something wonderful but you try your best and i don't know if i ever i did take the the little wisdoms that my father gave me and carried throughout my life and there were a couple of them and then the thing that he always stressed

above all else, was take the time to find something you enjoy doing. Yeah, oh, without question. That's the advice that my dad gave me. But I also want them to be aware of, you know, like the group of friends, this crew. Oh, this moment, yeah. I want to say...

You don't feel it now, but very, very soon this hang that you guys have regularly is going to come to a close. And the opportunities that you will all be together again as a group are going to become less and less. And then eventually they're going to be never. I mean, I don't want to be, you know, it changes. Yeah, it does. But I mean, but but this this time, this is the way it feels in this group dynamic and the way you guys are. You see each other every day.

People are going to go their separate ways. And it's going to be rare when the group gets back together again. Think about the movies that have depicted this. Or that there's an incredible song by Nickelback called Photograph. What was on Joey's head? I had gotten more choked up last year when my daughter was graduating high school than with my son this year. So maybe I got it out of the way last year. Yeah.

Um, she also went from kindergarten all the way through the senior year of high school with like two of her best friends. Right. And so they were over, uh, you know, this is before graduation and I was just trying to give them like some decent, like words of encouragement and words of advice. I got a little bit choked up saying it because I am still friends. Yeah.

With the guys that I went to kindergarten with. I was just telling my wife how I envied that. I have not known the collection of friends that you have in my many years of life. And it's something that I think I have good friends, certainly. But not in the way that you do, Preston. You have to talk about the level of, you know, the show and the popularity of the show. And I don't mean to jump back in case, but about how...

moving around and being of transplants, you don't have that sort of thing that resonates with your hometown. Yeah. Yeah. So Casey and Nick and Marissa grew up here and, and, and they have, you know, we, we've become this show that's been together for a long, long time and we're well known in the city. And I was like, Steve and I don't have that dynamic. Our, our, our, our, the,

the people that we grew up with are not here and they don't know what we've done and how we are a part of the fabric of Philadelphia and the greater area. You guys, your friends that you grew up did see that happen. You're so not impressed by it at all. Well, no, listen, man. It's still pretty cool. Text chain from my buddies...

Last week, because I was being honored on Delco Day, and they sent this screen capture. And they were like, dude, Delco legend. And I love that. That's awesome. I'm not calling myself that. No, no, no. That's what they said. None of us ever would. But the point I was trying to make was with them. And my main focus in telling my daughter and her friends last year was like, you guys are still friends.

But now you have to work harder at it. You know what I mean? Right. You're not in the same building every single day. And so... And also, I'm not pointing out, because if you get and see a few texts that are coming in and say, I'm still friends with all the friends I grew up with. Sure. Absolutely. But I'm saying, you gathered every day at this time. Yeah.

saw each other every day. I'm like, that part of it is going to be going away. So just, I don't want this, this, these next couple of weeks because they will, you know, still get together over the summer. I don't want that. I want you to realize how special that is. Yeah. And not, and, and just, you know, take it in now. Agreed. If, if, if not go away, morph.

into something that's different. And by different, I mean it's going away. Well, I'm proud of my son because he's taking the time to spend time with his high school buddies this summer. He's making a deliberate effort to hang out with them as much as he possibly can because he's aware of that, which takes mindfulness and I'm impressed by it. But to your point as well, Preston, in high school and then if you decide to go to college, if college is your path,

you're living with those people. So not only are you going to class with all those people, you're in the same dorm on the same campus for sometimes seven years, but more likely four years. I feel like you worked here. But that's an experience you just don't get for the rest of your life until maybe retirement home.

When you're living with somebody and spending that much time with that amount of people, it's a really unique situation. Yeah, and you know what? I didn't have that. I didn't go to college. And so that's another thing that I pointed out. I didn't point this out to Caleb, but I was talking to Casey about it. I'm like, so then you move on. And if you do, if you go away to college and you meet this new group and you...

I think you can form an even stronger bond than the ones you made in high school. And if so, good for you. That's a really awesome thing to have happen. I mean, using the example like the Big Chill. Yeah. Those were college friends. Yeah. And they had a really, really, you know, tight bond.

They grew in different ways together. That was pretty cool. On a different way of telling it, Stand By Me, which is your favorite movie, the way he recounts at the end. Oh, yeah. How people move on. Yeah. And I remember when... And then finally, senior year of high school, when the classes were few and far between, and you were just kind of cleaning up business. I remember even at that time thinking, because I was really enjoying it, I should have done

I should have gotten more out of this. I really like this feeling now and now it's going away. There's a great line in Stand By Me. It's Richard Dreyfuss speaking as the author. He says that people come in and out of your lives like busboys in restaurants. Yeah, yeah. And it's like there are those things that happen. There are people that are significant in your world, but you can sift through friends and acquaintances and eventually they just kind of fade out. And I'll always remember Gary Lauer.

That was the original title. For every Ricky Botalico that ends up being a friend, you get a Gary Lauer as well. Gary Lauer is very loyal. The last line in that movie...

you never have friends like you did when you were in elementary school. Yeah. And then he's typing it, Dreyfus' character is typing it, and I believe he types the words, Jesus Christ, does anyone? Yeah. And I've seen an edited version of that where they quite literally blacked out on the screen the Jesus Christ portion of it, and then the audio, they cut that out too. So it just says, does anyone? Which gets the point across, but is it that offensive to write in Jesus Christ? It's a little more powerful. I don't know. But the...

The reason I was bringing that up, because I did see this article, you know, we have a graduation tonight, but this is completely different, but it has to do with graduating seniors.

And so the grad signs that you put up, have you seen those, Steve? Yes, I'm well aware. The school, the year, the name, stuff like that. I love them. Some of them can have a little more information. And apparently there are red flags with security experts and privacy advocates about those that I didn't even consider until I saw this article. We have one in front of our house right now. Does it say where he's going to college next year, by any chance? It says his phone number and social security number.

Because I always thought that the college thing was giving away a little too much information. Well, you would be right. Yeah. No one's at home right now. So don't come try to see him. So the name, age, school, photo, and even the college you're going to be going to is all information that can be used by scammers, identity thieves, or strangers with bad intentions. I'm so suspicious and cynical of that stuff. I did see a couple of signs saying,

recently present that seem to have a little bit too much information. Yeah, and also you never like to... But I can understand the pride and you're trying to show the world there's a happy medium, is there not? Yeah, I mean, you could not include the name and the social security number. Somebody here did something. You could put 2025 graduate or something like that and it would acknowledge it. But yeah, it says sticking that sign in your yard shows...

It reveals location. Your child lives at a specific address and the sign shows their photo or school name. It also broadcasts where they are every day.

The long-term digital footprint. It says, in addition to the yard signs, proud parents often share photos and details about their graduate on social media as well. So this is outside of the sign. Yes, that could be a problem. From there, all that information can be scrapped or misused, adding to the kid's digital footprint without their consent.

There's a family in my neighborhood and their graduating student is named Cole Before You Dig. And they have a sign out on their front lawn. Got a number there too. And it says also exposing patterns and predictability. Graduate signs that include school details can reveal family routines and even when the house may be empty during college drop-off.

But the experts say that there are safer alternatives. You can still celebrate your grad's accomplishment without compromising their privacy by not including personal information on the sign, decorating your front door or porch instead, or just putting up yard flags for a college student.

that do not include your kid's name. Have you done the lawn flag thing over the years or no? Lawn flag? I mean, lawn signs for graduation? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, listen, it's become a thing. Kind of normal. You know, it's kind of all over the place. During the lockdown, you'd go around the neighborhood and there'd be signs up and, you know,

Didn't get to do their full graduation stuff. But I still would go in and say hi, break in and say hi. So there was something that was tradition at my son's high school, and I've seen it with other high schools as well. I thought it was sort of exclusively a prep thing, but I knew that O'Hara was doing it, I think.

Harriton did it as well, but the boys all smoke cigars after graduation. Yeah, I heard you talking about that. Yeah, so I'm curious. Press, let me know after graduation tonight if cigars are a big thing as well. Yeah, I wonder where. I don't think you can smoke on school property. Oh, crap.

Okay, yeah, because I was just off. You were at the school. Yeah, and I was walking around because Ben graduated from Harriton, and the graduation ceremony was at the pavilion in Villanova, and I was walking around the pavilion outside afterwards, and there was a stank of cigar smoke throughout the area. It was just a lot of kids were doing it. A lot of parents were doing it. Parents brought them for their kids. My ex-wife sent me a picture of her and my son smoking a cigar. I was like, wow.

We've evolved. This is interesting. And I talked to Ben about it the next day. And he was like, yeah, not for me. I don't really care for it. It's funny because Seamus is smoking a cigar. He says, hey, Dad, it tastes great. I was like, oh, okay. And so I kind of had my hands full. And I took the cigar and I took a drag off of it.

and just instinctively inhaled it. Like a full drag of a cigar. So I went... My son made fun of me for days for that. It was hilarious. So as a non-smoker, that's verboten, right? Well, yeah. And it's way more harsh than any... Like a cigarette inhale or a joint inhale. Like a pipe you don't... You simply puff, right? Exactly. It goes in your mouth. You get the sensation. The nicotine still goes into your body through that. Even like...

Just half of a cigar or whatever, if I'm on a golf course or hanging out with buddies or something like that, that's too much. They're so freaking strong, Steve. And if you make the mistake of inhaling, you'll regret it immediately. And the stench just kind of lingers. So I will smoke a cigar from time to time, but very rarely will I do it early in the day. It's more of like a...

Oh, yeah. Dude, we were out at the Cardboard Classic. We were out on a mountainside on a cold, brisk day with a cold wind blowing. And someone in that huge crowd was smoking a cigar. And it was like they were smoking it in my mouth. Yep.

I was smoking a cigar on Casey's front porch this weekend. You were? It smelled great. I loved it. Yeah, it was nice. I enjoyed that. What is your brand of choice? Oliva, it's called the, oh, which one is it that I get? The Master Blend MB3. That's what I like. There's a place there. And I used to talk about this place. It was on, I think it's on Montgomery. It used to be in probably Narberth, maybe. CJ or SJ? Yeah, it had a big storefront.

Yes, and now they're on Rock Hill Road. It had the most unattractive cigar smoking scenarios you could possibly... Like an old woman with a cigar. Like missing teeth. Don't you want to appeal to a clientele? It was just the worst, but apparently it was a wonderful place. I like the smell of a pipe. The smell of a cigar just completely turns me off. I find it disgusting. I don't mind cigar, but the pipe is... Yeah, there's sweetness to it. Yummy. People don't smoke pipes anymore.

No. I do. When I'm solving a crime, I will put it in. I put on a particular hat and I have a magnifying glass. My neighbor across the street smoked pipes and he also whittled. He would whittle birds. He was a whittler. Wow. He whittled like living birds? No, no, no. Wood. Would he peel an apple with a knife? Not that I recall. Okay. All right. My grandfather used to do that.

For a while, I tried to. The whittle? It's hard. If you're going to carve something, you can just sit there and strip a stick just for fun. I'm telling you, man. He had everything. It looked photorealistic. Really good stuff. I wonder what he did with all that stuff.

Whittle, whittle, whittle. Whittle, whittle, whittle. Just sitting there whittling. Whittle, whittle, whittle. One day, just sitting there whittling. Yeah, I'll have to tell you about the cigar thing. I don't think that's going to happen. We're going to rip a few bongs afterwards. Yeah, yeah. That smells good, too. For our cigar. See, of all of those, between burning stuff, right? A cigarette burning. Tires. A pipe burning. Tires burning, okay. Crack. I've never smelled crack. Or pot burning. Pot burning?

I think of all of those, I think pot burning smells the worst. Let me throw another one in there. Cloves.

Yeah. Oh, that stuff? I don't mind a clove. Remember those? I haven't smelled it in so long. I'm not really sure that I remember what the scent was. Marissa? When we were in Cuba, that was a bunch of years ago, I smelled a clove. And I was like, oh, my God, I just want one right now. So we hunted down throughout the entire island trying to find it. And Cuba was very strange. Like, you could only buy things at certain times. And after days, hours of looking for it, we finally looked and we were like, oh, maybe somebody just...

Brought cloves from home. And it's not a Cuban thing. Wow. Oh, they smell so good. So you think weed smells the worst? Of those, yeah. I'm not saying it smells bad, but of my preferred. I rank pipes as the best smelling, then weed, then probably cigars, and then cigarette smoke. Yeah, I don't like cigarette smoke anymore. There was a time when I loved that smell, but I can't stand it. Ugh.

And the way it lingers and too will get into clothing and things like that. But I mean, smoking is way down in this country, is it not? Yeah. I think it's actually on the uptick. Oh, really? Because I know vaping is back on the uptick. Is this from your personal observation or did you read something? Well, you're not an investigative reporter. Casey Foster with his...

What were you going to say, Marissa? I'm sorry. She wanted to jump in. Oh, I was going to jump in. Casey and I exchanged a glance. So many red carpets, stars and celebrities are incorporating cigarettes into their outfits. I think it's having a moment. Yeah, if you look at them. Into their outfits? Yeah. Instead of buttons. As a prop.

Oh, as a prop. Is there like if you look at the Met Gala, a good majority of people had cigarettes in their hands. Yeah. Or they were folding them up in their in their sleeves. Yeah. Their Armani gowns. No, I'm kidding about that. That was a that was a thing back in the 50s. Yeah. James Dean look. But also vaping. I have been off of vapes for God, like two, maybe two and a half months now.

I feel so much better. Do you? Was it hard to kick the habit? No, I think ultimately it just got to the point where I just... And it wasn't even a lung thing.

It's just my overall body felt horrible. And I knew it was from the vapes. And so I just, I had it in my pocket and I just, listen, I'm not out of the freaking woods. I still chew tobacco, but I'm just, you know, addicted to nicotine. I have never chewed vapes, but I knew I'd had to go. And so the first day or two were a little bit difficult because the thing for vapes, the thing about vapes is you can do it anywhere. It doesn't smell. It doesn't linger. Actually, there's some pleasant. I think I smelled a...

Cotton candy, I guess. Yeah, they have scented ones like that, but I think what he's saying is it's not an obvious, oh my, who is smoking in here? Right, right, right. Yeah, it's definitely made things way easier. Yeah, we're looking at pictures of good-looking people smoking right now. And how much is it for a pack of smokes these days? It's over $10. Good God. So how many in a carton? How many packs in a carton? 20.

You're looking at 200 bucks? For a carton of cigarettes? For a carton of cigarettes? Sweet jumping. Jesus. Yep, that's a bit much. All right. Well, anyhow, we do need to take a quick break, but I just wanted to, I'll let you know about the cigar smoking thing. Yeah, yeah. Congrats to Caleb and everybody over at Satterton. Thank you, sir. All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. Bizarre File Stories. Yep, they're up next. Hang out.

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has been recovered after he fell, listen to this, 3,000 feet off of Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. Alex Chu of Seattle, Washington, was on the West Buttress climbing route on the Peters Glacier when he fell on Monday. The other two members of Chu's expedition reported that the unroped ski mountaineer

fell at a location known as Squirrel Point towards the Peters Glacier and exposed Rocky and is it Serac, Nick? Is that the correct term? Yeah, I think it's a crack in the ice. Okay, covered 3,000, it was a Serac covered 3,000 foot face.

So it was a cliffside or did he fall 3,000 feet cascading down the mountain? I'm not sure, Steve. Both are unpleasant. I would think that he, you know, it's so steep, not necessarily doing a 3,000 foot free fall, but I'm not really sure. Jesus. After witnessing the fall, the reporting party lowered over the edge as far as possible, but was unable to hear or see Chu anywhere.

Nick, by the way, a ski mountaineer, is that someone who walks up and skis down? Yeah, it is. Okay, all right, so that's what he was doing. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Due to high winds and snow, ground and air search was unable to access the accident site until the early morning hours of Wednesday morning after the 41-year-old body was recovered.

From the more than half mile fall, Rangers returned to Denali National Park and Preserve headquarters where his body was transferred to the state medical examiner. I'll stay down here and watch Mountaineer, which has proved to be much more safe. Yes. In 2010, an unroped French Mountaineer fell to his death near the same location towards Peters Glacier. Now, his body was never recovered. Man. So that happens from time to time. Yeah, yeah. There are currently an estimated 500 climbers on the mountain.

And the climbing season typically begins in early May and ends in early July. That mountain takes like a month to climb because it's so remote that it takes a really long time to get in. There's no roads or anything like that, so you have to hike all the way in. And then it's also one of those mountains where you have to go up and then come back down a little bit and then go back up again because you're acclimatizing the whole time. My goodness.

Terrified parents were forced to watch helplessly on as their children were carried into the air and dropped several meters to the ground below a flying bouncy castle. Another one of these things. Two school students were carried 40 feet into the air after high winds caught the untethered inflatable during a fundraising day at a school in South Africa. Footage captured the moment that eyewitnesses screamed in terror. One shocked-looking attendant said,

Uh, was seen looking on and anxiously staring back at the camera as a child lost their grasp and plummeted in onto a group of parents forming human crash pad. Uh, the parents quickly, uh, their quick reaction saved the child, but she was left seriously injured and taken to the hospital alongside the second youngster who was also caught up in the group. Uh,

One was reportedly left with a fractured skull and the other with a broken arm. And it's not clear how many or if any other children were on board and managed to cling on to the side of the castle, which landed about 50 feet from where it took off. A witness said it was not a very windy day.

But it seemed this huge gust just came up from nowhere and it was said the bouncy castle had not been secured to the ground. So it can happen in an instant. You always tether those things. Yeah. Maybe they were...

Just ignorant to the amount of footage that you... Every season, you'll see one of those things blowing up into the air because they didn't tether them. Yeah, and they can go way up high if it's windy. So it's very, very dangerous. All right. Newly obtained video shows a DoorDash driver's attempt to deliver food to a customer at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last month not only breached perimeter security, but also failed to trigger an immediate response. And in surveillance video...

The delivery driver's red Hyundai Elantra is seen pulling up just behind and to the right of a United Airlines wide-body jet parked at Terminal 1. Wow. The vehicle stopped for approximately 20 seconds before pulling forward again and then stopping alongside the jet. Did anyone order a roast beef sandwich? Baggage handlers noticed the driver and approached. However, it took nearly 10 minutes for a March Chicago police vehicle to arrive.

It's unclear from the video whether police or airport security officers may have approached the scene sooner on foot. Can you order those food delivery services while you're on the tarmac? I would wish you could. The driver entered the restricted area through a security gate at the southeast corner of O'Hare, indicating that he traveled a significant distance from across the massive airfield without being stopped or raising alarm. No guard was clearly visible and he proceeded through the gate unnoticed.

following instructions from his GPS coordinates in an aim to deliver the meal, the driver told police. Police found the food order and DoorDash receipt in the driver's car and released him without issuing any citations. I was just delivering an order. The private security guard manning the perimeter checkpoint told police that she didn't immediately report the breach. The vehicle, she had said, had indeed driven through her post, or this spokesman said, to which she regarded as strange and unfamiliar...

She told officers, according to the reports, she then closed the gate but made no attempt to contact the operation center or notify her direct supervisor. That employee is no longer involved or employed by Lincoln Security and the airport credentials have been terminated. So they're trying to figure out exactly how this person ended up on the runway. Want to go on the tram, Max? Sure, come on in. Wow. All right, I'm going to do one more story in California.

Nine felony counts have been filed against a sheriff's detention lieutenant who allegedly drove drunk and was involved in two crashes in two hours. Patrick McNeil was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of DUI causing injury, hit and run, causing injury and misdemeanor resisting arrest. McNeil crashed twice,

All right.

and was later found at Laredo Jail where he was arrested after a short standoff. I just loved the first one so much I had to do it again. The district attorney's office conducted additional investigation to determine the full extent of injuries to parties in both collisions. Wow.

And after a couple hours, you think maybe dude would sober up a little bit? No. He was drinking still. I'm back to it. Guess not. All right. And there you go. That's what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. All right. We are going to take a quick break. We'll come back in a second. We'll get to lesson question, trash, music news, all that stuff. Stay right now.

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And we will be, for that particular day, having people head to Live Casino Hotel in Philadelphia, where we have had one of our locations for the past several years now, but taking place on Thursday. And so we'll check up and jack it through the morning, then Steve and I are going to go by and do our blood donations after the show is over on Thursday. And then Friday, we broadcast live from the Expo Center at Oaks.

And that is, you know, the whole show will be there and we'll be trying to break the world record for Munchkin Toss. Dunn at Hold. Yeah, Munchkin Toss. And Eric Simon has promised there's going to be a whole bunch of interesting little flourishes taking place during that broadcast and things around the facility. And Eric always delivers. You can still make a donation. You can still sign up to come by and donate your blood for the American Red Cross.

If you go to PrestonandSteve.com, you will see it's one of the main links right there. And you can get signed up and we would love to see you either Thursday or Friday. Whatever is most convenient for you. And we get some much needed blood into the hands of the Red Cross who can get it out to people who can literally have their lives saved by you. Yes. Taking maybe an hour out of your time to come by and be a part of this. So we hope that you're going to do that. It's one of these things we ask for you every year. If you can, we'd greatly appreciate it. And we'll have some stuff for you as well. We have...

The I Believe for President Steve t-shirt. It's the special one that was made by listener Kristen Kimball. And we're also going to set you up with a President Steve show tote bag from Window Nation. So like I said, all the information on the website. So go grab it and come and see us.

All right. It is lesson question time. We're going to give away a pair of tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series. Great American Gateway 400, Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. The question is, famously, Casey has a tattoo on his taint, but what kind of tattoos does Steve have on his taint?

All right, let's see if you know the answer to that. What kind of tattoo does Steve have on his taint? We were talking about people and their ink. And Steve noted that he has this particular character on his taint. And if you know the answer, 610-660-9333 is the number. Call right now while you're calling in. We'll do that. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash.

Brought to you by United Tire and Service. You can get ready for summer travel. Buy two tires and get $50 off an additional service. Don't drive alone, drive united. UnitedTire.com. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, Lizzo posting more sexy pictures showing off her weight loss on Instagram. The accomplished musician says she prefers being a flute to a tuba because there's more fingering. Oh, my God.

Megan Markle, spending a special day at Disneyland with husband Harry and their kids. The family purchased a special fast pass that has everyone else in the park chased out at gunpoint. Woo!

And finally, rapper-actor Bow Wow addressing comments online saying his recent weight gain is because of a movie role. However, many are claiming it's more likely because of dinner roles. All right, T, let's go to the phone and see if somebody knows what kind of tattoo Steve has on his taint. And it is EJ that we're going to check in with and see if he knows. EJ, good morning.

Good morning, guys. Gadzooks. Gadzooks. All right. So what kind of tattoos Steve have on his taint, please? My little pony. That's it. Yeah!

Well done, my man. Hang on. You just got yourself a pair of tickets for the NASCAR Cup Series Great American Gateway 400. That's on Sunday, June 22nd at Pocono Raceway. It is time to start your summer as NASCAR returns on June 20th through the 22nd. And it's the tricky triangle, Pocono. For more information and to get your tickets now, you can head to PoconoRaceway.com. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News.

93.3 WMMR. A couple stories passed along. Music students have been delighted by a surprise visit from Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney. Wow. The boss and his E Street band were in Liverpool over the weekend. They had a couple of gigs at Enfield Stadium. It was part of Bruce's Land of Hope and Dreams tour. The 75-year-old rock legend took time out

to visit the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts with the former Beatle, greeting and cheering crowds outside the entrance of the school, which Paul had co-founded. LIPA described the visit on Friday as a truly incredible day. Could you imagine? I mean, out of the blue, you have those guys there. It's pretty amazing. Yep. And fans from across... What the hell is he doing here? Fans... This is my...

This is my school. Fans from across the world descended on Liverpool for the show. Sorry, sorry. And Bruce brought Paul out on stage for an encore, too. I didn't catch specifically what songs they did. I just saw a blurb about it this weekend. But that would be pretty damn amazing. Go to the beach and you're wearing a thong. This is called a thong song. Okay, dude.

Bring out Paul McCartney, join me. You know, Bruce does like doing covers from time to time. I don't like that song. It's very stupid. You're a stupid man. Even suggesting that. All right, we'll do another one.

I wonder what it's like for a mega legend like Bruce Springsteen to spend some time with another mega legend. I mean, you know, Paul's as legendary as Bruce is. Paul is a little further up. You're nothing. I wipe my ass with Bruce Springsteen. When I take a big dump and it's a big mud pie back there, I just tear off a Bruce Springsteen and wipe my ass with it.

So I just want to put you in your place. When you go to the bathroom, do you say you're taking a boss? I do. It's Thunder Road back there. Little bumpy. No, but I just wonder what it's like for legends. If legends are still... If they have the...

If it's even in them to get nervous about meeting somebody, you know what I mean? They did the Can't Buy Me Love. And Bruce took a backseat to Paul singing, even though it was Bruce's show. And so they traded choruses. They went back and forth. But then you'd hear Bruce sing, and Bruce was deferring to Paul, which I thought was a classy move. I mean, I don't care what level you get to. You know that Bruce Springsteen was weaned on.

the music of the Beatles for quite a long period of his life. So if it has eluded him at this point in his life, I feel bad for him because, but I'm sure it hasn't. I'm sure he's every bit the fan that he's always been. Yeah, it's so cool. We're looking at video of it. Paul's looking at it. I really like his stuff. Paul's looking back at Max as he's jamming and they're all making eye contact. This is going from the Sopranos. For sure.

That's little Steven. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's... Hey, is this Silvio Dante? Is this Silvio Dante? Who's Big Pussy? Uh, speak...

Speaking of legends going out on stage, Olivia Rodrigo's headlining set at Governor's Ball featured her usual all-star theatrics. But she kicked things up a notch when Talking Heads frontman David Byrne made a surprise appearance. And they did a duet with Byrne in Down the House. Oh, that's awesome. And the video's great. They were wearing similar outfits. Byrne dressed in white with red overalls to match Rodrigo. Traded lines with her throughout the performance.

The two also mimicked Burns iconic stage moves. I prefer her outfit that he would. Yeah, she's wearing, you know, obviously something really skimpy and tight. She looks amazing. But it was very cool. I watched the video. It sounded great. They ended up running in place and she was bending her knees beside him. So they did this little choreographed thing, which was pretty damn cool. So I like that.

And then finally, if you're bummed that you can't make the trip to England for the final Black Sabbath performance and all the pageantry surrounding it, we've got some good news for you. It's been announced that the event will be live streamed worldwide. Back to the beginning, as the event has been titled, takes place July 5th in Birmingham, in the UK, of course, the birthplace of the band. The sold-out show will feature sets from Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Pantera,

uh, Hailstorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax, Mastodon, and an all-star cast of other musicians. So you say it'll be on LinkedIn? Nope. Uh, it will be, uh, it will, the stream will begin at 10 a.m., uh,

That's Eastern Time. All right. July 5th and will cost $29.99 with video on-demand replay access through July 7th. Live stream tickets can be purchased now at backtothebeginning.com. That's pretty well. So, yeah. You have a good enough stereo system and everything. You want to blow it on out? Yeah. Be fun. I remember something that was akin to that. Obviously, it wasn't streaming or paid for. The Live Aid. Yeah. When you spent the whole day...

Just watching it. It's pretty amazing. Very special. Yep. All right. And was this our sponsor? Yes, sir. Well, on the back end, I'm going to mention our music news sponsor brought to you by Primo Hoagie. Celebrate dads and grads with Primo Hoagie's catering trays. Make any event Primo with 10% off all catering every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until 615, meaning the 15th of June.

Must be a Primo Perks member. I was thinking time of day, not year. But anyhow. Watch this. And that is what I have for you. All right. We're going to take another break. Come back in a second. When we get back, we'll get our first letter for the Word of the Week prize. And yeah, we'll see what Pierre's got going on. Be back in just a moment. Stay with us. MMR rocks the 38th annual Bend to the Shore bike tour Sunday, July 20th.

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Great song, great band, Struts on 93.3 WMMR, could have been me. 10.32 a.m. on this Monday morning, June 9th as we are coming to a close of our show. And an enjoyable day because we got to make some cool announcements and we got to hang out with some people.

The cool announcement that we made in 7 o'clock hour was the fact that we, the President and Steve Show, are returning for a live broadcast at Hershey Park. It's been a long time. I'm curious as to when that last live broadcast was. It was a while back. Well, it sort of existed in perpetuity after it actually ended that go-round because everyone would always call up and joke about wanting Hershey Park tickets. That's right.

Such a coveted thing to win. Well, it's back. Yeah, we'll be giving away 500 tickets to join the party. You can go to PrestonAndSteve.com. We just kind of wet your whistle with today, but I want to get a... Before I just go throwing them out willy-nilly, I got to make sure I do them in the proper amounts every day so that we last up until it's time to do the broadcast. But it's a Thursday.

which is cool. I think in the past we did it on a Friday. Yes. I'm 100% sure. Well, you remember that night you went, you saw Rush. Yeah, for the final performance ever. Final performance in Philadelphia. And then Max, I think, was it Max who drove you? It was, yeah. Yeah. Our intern. So I drove, yeah, because normally we go, we spend the night before because...

Otherwise, you have to get up 2 o'clock in the morning and drive to Hershey. So, yeah, we stayed the night before and do live broadcast. But Rush was playing the very last show. It was the final. It was on their wrap-up tour. And so we went and watched the whole show. And then I'm like, I'll never be able to. I'm going to have to get a nap. There's no way I'm going to drive.

And then get back to the, you know, and have an hour and a half to sleep and then go to work. So Max drove me, which was really cool. But yeah, that was probably the last time we were there. I'm not 100% sure. Which was 2015. Right. Wow. I would think so. 10 years ago. 10 years, man. 10 years, man. No.

Ten years, man! Ten! Maybe that wasn't the last. I don't know. But we are headed back again. We'll be broadcasting live on Thursday, June 26th. You can go to PrestonSleep.com. There's a chance for you to win passes there, and we'll be giving away a bunch of them. So we're excited to get back there again. You get into the park early, and you get free parking and stuff like that. And there will be a discounted price that you can purchase tickets for this if you do not win them. Oh, and I've heard they have kettle corn, Preston. They do. They do.

I don't know. It's been a while since we've been there. I know. And things have changed. So we went there last year.

And the layout has changed quite a bit. I've heard dramatically, yeah. Yeah, it's awesome. Thanks also to Ricky Batellico. He's got a new show on our sister station, The Fanatics, called Unfiltered, with Ricky Bowe and Bill Calarulo. And we were talking Phil's and just his career and stuff. And Rick's one of our close friends, so it was great to have him by here this morning. And speaking of our close friends, Steve-O. Hey!

Of Jackass fame. And he told us he loved us on several occasions. And we loved him. We do. And he's actually going to be back next week because he's going to be promoting. And he'll be in our studio next week promoting his shows coming up at Helium next Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Saturday.

And it's this multimedia crazy slash stand-up show that he's doing at Helium. And he'll shoot. He shoots stuff specifically for the areas that he's coming into. So, yeah, it's the only way to see it. And it's pretty amazing. Yeah, heliumcomedy.com to get your tickets for that. So those are all the thank yous to mention today. Pierre Robert is here. Nice to see you again, sir. Good day. Good day. Did you have a good weekend? Yeah, very nice. Thank you. Awesome. Excellent. Did you make it by that party you texted me about this weekend? I did, and no one was there. Oh, wow.

Man, I'm sorry. Oh, man. Okay. Well, the party was there if you were there. Yeah, you're right. I just, I laid in the gutter and I got money. You know what's funny? It worked out. Pierre, I, you know, I did a couple of live broadcasts with Brent Porsche and people come up and ask where you are all the time. All the time, yeah. Yes, every single time. Is Pierre Robert here? Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

All right. Well, maybe. How many more of these broadcasts you guys have? Two more. We're off this week and then next week we'll be in Havertown at J.D. McGillicuddy's and then in Prospect Park at Marty McGee's. This is on Wednesday? On Thursday. Thursday. Yeah. Well, maybe one of these times I will make an appearance. All right. There you go. Nice. There you go. All right. Letter of the day, my man? Yes, please. All right. Here we go. Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

Now, the Daily Letter. All right, the President and Steve Show is brought to you today by The Letter. R as in rocket. Excellent. We will give away a pair of VIP tickets for the Barefoot Country Music Festival that is featuring Jelly Roll and many more. Courtesy of our friends Primo Hoagies, Primo will also be giving away Barefoot tickets for the next two weeks on their Instagram account. You can go to Primo Hoagies.com.

hoagies on Instagram. There you go for more chances to win. And it's not just a hoagie, it's a primo. So we'll give it away on Friday. What are you going to do today, sir? Well, we've got tickets for Cedar and Daughtry. Or some people say Seether.

But I prefer their new name, Seeter. S-E-E-T-E-R. Seether and Daughtry will be at the Hard Rock in Atlantic City in October. We got those. We got Green Day, Grateful Dead, and Muse for Matt Bellamy's birthday today. Nice. All right, thank you. Muse, bring it to America. Bring it to America. Bring it on.

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Of the Doobie Brothers. That's pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. Long time fan. I was listening to some Doobies over the weekend in preparation for this. What a talent. So it should be cool to talk to them. They have new music coming out. All right. So that is it. We are done. Rage on. Have yourself a great day and we'll see you tomorrow, friend. Bye-bye.