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You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. With Preston Elliott. I'm just getting warmed up. And Steve Morrison. And it absolutely will not stop, ever. Plus, Hazy Boy. When you hear the most annoying sound in the world. Nick McElwain. That last one goes out to Nick. And Marissa Magnata. Care to join me for a glass of breakfast wine? No.

And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. And we begin. We have arrived and are ready to start a Tuesday morning together. Come on board, friend. Let's take a look at the weather forecast as we get started.

A bit of rain last night, right? Well, there's potential for some more thunderstorms happening through today. Later on this afternoon, expecting high of about 89 degrees. And that rain will be off and on. We'll see when and where that happens. Just check your local forecast. Tomorrow morning, some rain expected again with a high of about 85 degrees. And then Thursday, we return to mostly sunny skies and the high near 90 or so.

And now, Kristen and Steve's news update. All right, today is Tuesday, July 1st. Good morning. Philadelphia's largest blue-collar union is going on strike today, potentially disrupting essential city services like trash collection. According to city officials, there is a contingency plan ready. Last night, AFSCME District Council 33 walked out of contract talks saying the city's offer was insufficient to justify continuing negotiations.

Disagreements are over wages and work rules, with the city offering 7% over three years and the union seeking nearly 20% over the same stretch of time. During a rally at City Hall, union president Greg Boulware criticized the actions of city leaders, specifically Mayor Sherelle Parker, holding up a list of various pay increases that have been implemented during the administration. At the rally, Boulware said...

The workers who provide all the comforts for people don't have any comforts of their own. We've got people that work and repair the water mains and can't afford their water bill. We've got people that repair the runways at the airport and can't afford a plane ticket.

The union represents 9,000 city employees, including sanitation workers, city maintenance staff, 911 dispatchers, and school crossing guards. If an agreement isn't reached, it would be the first time that the union has walked out in almost 40 years with a strike that lasted 20 days, resulting in trash piling up on city streets.

A Norristown man was driving recklessly, speeding, and under the influence of marijuana when he caused a two-vehicle crash that killed the driver of the second vehicle and severely injured his wife and two young children who were passengers. Alan T. Cole was arraigned on charges of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence of a controlled substance.

Homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault by vehicle and several other charges in connection with the June 1st crash that occurred at DeKalb and Basin streets in Norristown. The crash, which happened at about 10.30 in the morning, killed Mahila Mandiram Chiku of Norristown, the driver of the second vehicle, and severely injured his wife, Remya, who was in the front passenger seat, and their two young children, who were eight and nine.

and five months old and were secured in child safety seats. The force of the impact pushed Chico's vehicle into a pole before coming to rest 110 feet away from the point of impact. The

Detectives obtained video surveillance footage from the cameras in the area, which showed Cole's BMW traveling at a high rate of speed northbound onto Kalb Street, where the speed limit is 25 miles an hour. And in the moments leading up to the crash, an analysis determined that Cole was traveling 95 miles per hour or 70 miles per hour

We were just talking about this as a family a few days ago. It always seems like the people that are the a-holes are the ones that survived the crash. They walk away. Yeah. And, uh...

And then they have to live with that for the rest of their lives as well. Well, I was looking at the video of this crash site and these vehicles were blasted. Yeah. So, yeah, no doubt he was going that fast. All right.

All right, and then finally, the WNBA announced that Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia will be getting expansion franchises in the coming years. And the new team in Cleveland will begin play in 2028, Detroit following in 2029. Philly will be in 2030.

The league said in a statement that the addition of the three teams marks a significant milestone in the WNBA's commitment to growing the game, increasing opportunities for players, and bringing professional women's basketball to new and passionate fan bases in more cities.

The three new teams will bring the total number of WNBA franchises to 18 by the time the franchise in Philadelphia joins. Two other new teams in Portland and Toronto will begin playing in 2026. The team in our city will be owned by the same leadership group which runs the Sixers and will likely be playing in the new arena in South Philly, which is supposed to open in 2031.

The WNBA is in its 29th season and has seen impressive growth over the last three years. According to market research, the current 13 franchises that make up the league increased in value by an average of 180% over the last year, which is more than double the previous year.

biggest year-over-year gain for a major sports league. It would have been really great to have a franchise two years ago and getting, you know, Caitlin Clark in the draft or whatever. Sure, yeah, of course. Another interesting opportunity. I will be interested to see who that, because we'll get the number one pick. That's usually what happens, right? Like when they have a brand-new franchise, they get the brand-new franchise first pick in the draft. It'll be interesting to see who the top player in the country will be in five years. At that point, exactly. All right, speaking of all that,

Sports This Morning. All right, Nick, what's going on this morning? The Phillies won again. They beat the San Diego Padres 4-0 last night at the ballpark. They did!

Zach Wheeler struck out 10 in eight strong innings. Nick Castellanos had a solo home run. And the Phils won in Bryce Harper's return to the lineup. Harper was hit by a pitch on the left foot, walked and lined into a double play in his first game since June 5. He returned from a month out of the lineup because Bryce...

wrist inflammation, and he started at first base and batted third in the lineup. Wheeler, who threw six-hit ball and did not walk a batter, improved to 8-3. He allowed a total of two on runs and five starts during the entire month of June, and in the process, he lowered his ERA to .227. The series continues tonight. Christopher Sanchez will get the start, and the first pitch is scheduled for 6.35.

In other baseball news, Boston Wright Sox right fielder Willier Abreu had a two-home run night, but it was the odd combination of the two home runs. They made it the first time that it's happened in the majors in nearly 67 years. In the bottom of the fifth, Abreu hit an inside-the-park home run, and then in the bottom of the eighth, Abreu hit a grand slam into the Red Sox bullpen. Abreu became the sixth Major League Baseball player to hit an inside-the-park home run.

home run and a grand slam in the same game it's the first time it's been done since roger maris accomplished the feat in august of 1958 the union lost to columbus crew 1-0 on sunday ending the club's unbeaten streak of 11 games they're still the top team in the eastern conference with 12 wins and 40 points this weekend the union will travel to tennessee to face nashville sc the match on saturday july 5 will begin at 8 30 and the eagles are still the super bowl champs

And that's what I have for you in sports this morning. All right, thank you very much, Nick. So we are happy to be back with you. We have a short tenure this week. Obviously, we were off yesterday and we're off Friday because it's the 4th. So our Word of the Week prize is only going to be three letters this week. Should be pretty easy for you to keep track of. We'll get that at the end of the program and we're going to give away a $250 gift card to Nebraska Brazilian Steakhouse and the Iron Abbey. And they have...

Cool event coming up. It is the Iron Abbey Barbecue and Brews Bash. And this is going to be on July 4th. And you can get there and eat barbecue paired with 10 different draft beers or house wine for just $29.95 per person. So it's in conjunction with that. We will give that away on Thursday, which will be our last day this week. So today is Tuesday as well. So we've got up and running a chance for you to win a Preston and Steve Show themed tattoo. Yep, after all these years, we're still...

Tatting people up. It's unbelievable. And we would love for you to join the collective. And it's simple. You just go to the contest page at WMMR.com and you can enter for your chance to win. By the end of the program, we will give away a $350 gift certificate for Floating World Tattoo and Piercing. They're at 1729 South Street in Philadelphia. If you want to check them out, you can also go to Instagram.

And check them out, Floating World Tattoos, or visit floatingworldtattoos.com. We got some big friggin' deal stuff to announce a little bit later on this morning. And we're going to hang out and we're going to get into work mode and give some stuff away and do that type of thing. Absolutely. So hang tight. We'll take a quick break. Come back in a second. The Entertainment Report is indeed on the way. We'll tee up a stupid question. Give something to you if you get the answer correctly. Stay put. We'll be right back.

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He says, hey, you guys rock. And he says, Bill and Dan listen to you every morning. And we have a tally up on the whiteboard of who is winning, meaning the stupid question. So I guess they listen at work. He said, love it. Makes the day go by a little smoother. Stupid question of the day is this. Oh, and then he writes. I don't quite understand what he wrote after that. All right.

He wrote, coming from a refrigeration degree, that's me, damn,

Oh, and he suggested a stupid question. I will ask that at another time. Okay. But I will hang on to that. But I love the fact that these guys have their own competition going on. I love that. And they keep a tally at work of who gets the stupid questions correct or not. Let's see if they can get this one right. And we're going to give away as a prize a pair of tickets to see an advanced screening of Superman and IMAX July 7th at AMC Neshaminy. And that'll be a 7 o'clock showing. So the question is...

What kind of a name is Poon? What kind of a name is Poon? 610-660-9333. Let's see if you know the answer to that. What kind of a name is Poon? 610-660-9333. I'll mention some birthdays, today being the first day of July. And Pamela Anderson, have a look.

To celebrate her birthday on the first day of July, she turns 58 years old today. She is in the new Naked Gun movie with Liam Neeson. Usually when I see photos of her now, I have a hard time recognizing her because she goes almost virtually without makeup on. Or is so light that you can't really tell. I saw pictures. They were doing an article about her and all the stuff that's been happening. And the career's been flourishing, actually. But when she first appeared on Baywatch...

She was not really overly done up or surgically enhanced.

She was stunning. But, you know, this is the way, the course of her life. Yep. She turns 58 today. Dan Aykroyd is a year older today. Yeah, Dan Aykroyd turns 73 years old today. I watch his show that he does. I think it's on the History Channel, which is about strange things and oddities and UFO stuff and right in his wheelhouse. And he's a great host. I have several Blues Brothers songs.

On a variety of mixes of mine. Oh, yeah. She caught the Katie and some stuff straight from that. That's from Briefcase Full Blues, which is a live album. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it? Didn't Ackroyd introduce Belushi to all this music? Yeah. And then I think, or no, you know what?

Steve, I've forgotten. It's surprising, whatever it is, because Adroid's got this encyclopedic knowledge. But one of them inspired the other to really dive deep, and then they both fell into that hole. And then they created one of the greatest blues bands ever.

ever to back them up. But that album, there's some great songs on there, Briefcase, Full of Blues, Rubber Biscuit, and obviously Soul Man's on there. I was looking up Rubber Biscuit, but I put in Rubber Chicken. That's probably why we didn't have the great blues song, Rubber Chicken. Yeah.

It's a weird song. We had it on the Vox Pro at some point, Case, because we had him on and I asked him about it and he explained the origin of the song. I've heard Jackie Bam Bam play it on You Call It Friday Night. Shut up. It's a great tune. I love it. Wow. Uh...

And from the soundtrack of the movie, too, it's just wonderful tunes on there. So Dan turned 73 today. It is Jamie Farr's birthday today. Wow. Clinger. Yeah, for MASH. He is 91 years old today. It's amazing. If you want a laugh, he appears in the movie Blackboard Jungle, which is one of the first juvenile delinquent movies about kids in school. Yeah. And he's playing a little hood.

I loved his Mars Bars commercials that he used to do because he talked about big, juicy nuts. It used to crack me and my buddy Keith up all the time when we would see that. I used to love the Klinger thing, though, because he was obviously trying to get out of the service, but he began to embrace the lifestyle. Yes. And he'd be getting the catalogs sent to him. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at this. Yeah. He had a real style and eye for fashion after he was wearing dresses long enough.

Actor Alan Ruck turned a year older. Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He impacted my life directly by informing me about the current garage door that I have. Yeah, that's right. I remember we had him on. He was talking about that. And we talked about this last week, but he's going to play the patriarch in the Hershey biopic about Milton Hershey. Yeah. He's going to play Henry Hershey, who is Milton's father.

And he was so great in Succession. I know Nick and I both watch it. Casey, did you watch all of Succession? He's an idiot. I like Conheads. He runs for office and his name is, is it Connor? Connor, yeah, because the people who supported him were called Conheads. Conheads. Yeah. I love it. So he turns 69 years old.

Liv Tyler is also in the cover. Yeah, she turns 48 years old. Lord of the Rings, obviously, was a huge breakout for her, but she's a solid actress. She's a tremendous actress, and if you want to see, there are YouTube videos of times when she was being interviewed along with Kevin Smith at various events.

He gets her to do her dialect and language from Lord of the Rings. Oh, my God. And she remembers some of the dialogue and he freaks out. He loves it. She did that so well. Yeah, she did. Delivering that language. Yeah, she belongs in this. Yep. Where so? Hulk. Hulk. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Captain America, the last one she showed up. So happy...

48th birthday to Liv Tyler. It's also Missy, Misdemeanor Elliott's birthday today. And she turns 54 years old. I remember these, like the video for this song, her music videos had this real pop look. Very, very bright, vibrant, and kind of almost like a

strobe type effect in the way that she moved in them. So this is my really caught my eye. Music. This is your what? Pube trimming music. Pube trimming music. Yeah, it just feels right. All right. Missy Elliott is 54 today. And the last birthday I saw, and it's a milestone birthday, the lead singer of Blondie, Debbie Harry. And Debbie Harry is 80 years old. That's a mind blower. That does blow my mind.

She did some acting and she was good. She was sort of the evil witch type character in Tales from the Dark Side. Yeah. And did a couple other things as well. Yep. And groundbreaking in the world of music. So happy 80th birthday to the amazing Debbie Harry. And she was also almost the victim of a serial killer. That's right. Ted Bundy. Yeah, she had written in a book that she had realized in hindsight that a guy that picked her up in a VW LeBron

Was trying to get her to go somewhere. She didn't want to. She got out and she realized like years later, it's like, oh, my God, that was the dude. Yeah. Freaking Ted Bundy. It was Ted Bundy. The most notorious serial killers ever. Two women warned her in particular. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Ron, he's got a gun. Yeah. All right. Let's see if we can get an answer to the stupid question. What kind of a name is Poon?

And we're going to go to Kevin, see if he knows the answer to that. Hey, Kevin, good morning. Hey, what's up? How are you guys doing? Good. All right, Kevin, what kind of a name is Poon? That would be a Comanche Indian. Yeah, Comanche Indian. Hang on. Thank you, Casey. Play that one more time. Yeah.

That's obviously from Fletch. All right, you got it right. We are going to give you a pair of tickets to see an advanced screening Superman in IMAX July 7th at AMC Nishamani, 24, 7 p.m. Director James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC Universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor, and heart. Superman only in theaters, and you'll find that on July 11th. Well...

Jeffrey Bezos and Lauren Sanchez had a huge, multi-million dollar, celeb-filled wedding in Venice, Italy. Jeffrey Bezos.

And it was a wedding filled with billionaires like Oprah, actors like Orlando Bloom, and famous faces like Kim Kardashian. While the attendees share their congrats to the newly married couple, the wedding itself drew criticism from the citizens of Venice. They weren't so happy. And from celebs as well. Yeah, they weren't so happy. And they were actually setting off bonfires. Did you see that? No, but I mean, why are they not happy? He's...

I think because everything was taken over, like it became pandemonium was their take. Okay. I don't understand how it could be pandemonium if, listen, there's only a certain amount of rooms in that city that are available. So it's not like...

Well, you have the paparazzi coming in. You have all the media coming in. You have all the people coming in to cover it. I think that was their issue. Yeah, so there are people that live there. There's this giant onslaught of all these people coming in and they're taking over and they just saw it as kind of overstepping a little bit. I think there's also some resentment for anyone ever being able to buy an entire city for a few days and spending however much money.

However much money he had. Yeah, my point really is like if he didn't buy it, then somebody else is going to buy it. You know what I mean? So somebody was going to be there. Somebody was going to be renting the houses and the villas. It's different when a bunch of people do it versus one person. At once in the enormity of this, this focus, everything was focused on this event. It is a tourism town, certainly. But this was a little bit more focused.

A lot more focused. Like I said, some celebs had a thing or two to say. Rosie O'Donnell said, it turned my stomach seeing all these billionaires gathering in the gross excess of it all, the show of it. She said, is Oprah friends with Jeff Bezos? Really? How is that possible? He treats his employees with disdain. Charlize Theron also recently joked that the people who got invited to the wedding suck.

Olivia Munn took the high road, though, praising Bezos' ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, for donating over $19 billion to over 1,600 charitable organizations so far, commenting that it was truly incredible on Instagram posts.

She had previously called out the all-female space flight that Sanchez went on with Bezos' company Blue Origin as a gluttonous. But she changed her tune to talk about his ex-wife and how great she is. I'll tell you what. You know how you know this thing is huge? Like you go to the gossip sites like TMZ, you know, or any of them. Just Jared, all the ones that get a lot of traction online. You had to go there.

30 pages in before you got anything that wasn't related to this event. Yeah. I mean, it was that many stories about this thing. Wow.

All right, here's the follow-up. We told you that Martin Kove was accused of biting one of his Cobra Kai co-stars at a fan convention last weekend. They actually later apologized. No charges were filed, but it seemed that this is not his first time under this kind of scrutiny. Deadline reported that Kove's behavior on the final season of Cobra Kai allegedly led to an investigation by Sony Pictures Television. An on-set extra reportedly filed a sexual harassment complaint against Kove in April of 2024. Aw.

The accusations allegedly did not involve any physical contact. But the young actor said they felt uncomfortable around Cove. According to the report, Cove was never formally asked to leave the set but was encouraged to apologize to the individual. He's probably just being a creepy old man. You know what I mean? I apologize.

Further details surround the incident have not been released. In a statement, Cove responded to the report of questionable onset behavior. Do you think that's a valid legal defense if you go up against, if you say, I'm just a creepy old man? Maybe. Cove responded to the report of questionable onset behavior, saying this is so bizarre, and it was in April of last year, uh,

If there was something to confess, I would be the first to say it. Sony did ask me about the alleged incident and I was completely transparent. It wasn't true then. It isn't true now. That's what he had said about that. So but yeah, somebody, you know, he's I can see it. I can see it. You can only go on instinct and I could see stuff like this happening. And it is bizarre to bite someone's arm. Yeah. Tone it back a little bit, bud.

All right, so our buddy Rob McElhenney has filed to legally change his name. He wants to change it to Rob Mac after concerns that he's doing business with those he's doing business with in other regions of the world won't be able to pronounce his name. He filed documents in Los Angeles to officially make the change despite going to buy Mac during business negotiations for multiple weeks prior.

His company, More Better Productions, which was behind Welcome to Wrexham, has been investing in teams in South America where he's concerned that there will be struggles with his multi-syllabic name. McElhinney explained, saying, as our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I'm just going to go by Rob Mac. I can see that. I mean, you know that it's now Arnold Schwartz. Ha, ha, ha.

I find it strange that this deep into his career that he is going to change it. I don't think it will affect him negatively, but, I mean, that's a bit of a leap when you've built...

years and years and years on, you know, creating this name and this success story. It's always Sonny, Mythic Quest, Wrexham, all of these things that he has. But, you know, at this point, too, I guess he thinks moving forward and expanding, he wants to make it a little bit more accessible. Or maybe in the long run, he just...

thinks this sounds cooler. I feel his pain. I mean, I have a similar pronounced last name and McElwain is difficult to pronounce and it's more difficult around the world, you know? So like, I don't blame him for wanting to do it. I am a little surprised it's taken this long. But at one point I considered changing my last name for radio purposes to just Nick Mack or McWane or something along those lines because that many syllables becomes difficult for people. Ach-mel. Ach-mel. Ach-mel. Ach-mel.

He admitted that he had been concerned that altering his name would be disrespectful to his ancestry. However, he discovered that some of his relatives had already altered the spelling of their surname across generations to make it easier to spell and pronounce.

When celebrating his birthday, close family members revealed that they were okay with editing the name's spelling. Caitlyn has said, however, that their two sons were a little less enthused about it. She said the kids are really not happy about it because they have that last name. And so do I. Legally, she said, despite keeping Olsen as her on-screen moniker. But yeah, Rob's changed his name to Rob.

Sorry, I know we're going to talk about this later, but that is, yeah, those are all the ramifications of that. Who is, you know, it's...

when you walk into a place or there's a reservation and it's under Rob Mack or, you know, do people, oh, I don't know what this guy is. You know, there's something to having a celebrity name too. Oh yeah. Well, listen, I, I, I don't use my last name and I've, I've said that for many years. And like just when we were in Hershey, I'm like, all right, what name are they going to have for me when I get here? Happens every single time. I have to, I have to juggle a couple of different names and every now and then you got to jump through a couple of some hoops and,

you know, get somebody to verify this is indeed you. And it's kind of a pain in the ass. Well, when you first met me, I was Steve Mellencamp. That's right. Yeah. And you changed it. And then I changed it. I'm glad you did. Yeah. Morrison's better. Well, it was Cougar, then Morrison. Khloe Kardashian opened up about her cosmetic procedures in response to a viral Instagram post from plastic surgeon, Dr. Johnny Betteridge, who speculated on the work that she'd had done.

While she called the guesses a great compliment, she clarified that many were incorrect. And then she listed her actual procedures. She said, I've been very open in the past about what I have done. She confirmed a nose job by Dr. Raj Kanadia, laser hair removal, Botox,

Sculptra injections after tumor removal and soft wave laser treatments. And she also admitted having filler in the past, but said that it's been years since her last treatment. So to the untrained cosmetic surgeon, I pressed and you look at these split screen here up on the studio TV. Yeah.

it looks like a lot more took place. Yeah. I mean, that is a complete transformation. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's way different. But she also said that she credited her changing appearance to lifestyle changes too, including losing 80 pounds. Yeah. And using collagen threads...

facials, peptides, and vitamins. And a head transplant. She emphasized that she prefers non-surgical methods first, sharing in 2025, there are many other things that we can do before surgery, but when it's time, I know some great doctors. So you can see she's had her nose thinned. She's had her jawline contoured. What is that latest thing that they're doing where they, with the jawline, where they've

The contouring, the procedure that's all the rage. Marissa, you know? I think it's called the buccal removal. That's it. The fat. The buccal removal. You get the buccal out of your fat face. Something like that. Yeah. Imagine having to be constantly concerned about your appearance. I mean, like, listen to all that that's been done and all these various...

little minutiae around your face alone. How liberating is it that we years ago could just say, forget it. Nothing's going to fix this and move on. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't matter. This is as good as it's going to get.

Sorry, hon. Yeah. Yeah. You got stuck. You lost. All right. So what else do I have here for you? All right. It's been known for months, apparently, but nothing is official until it's Instagram official. And the Paul Mescal-Gracy Abrams relationship has now reached that level.

It was Gracie that pulled the trigger, posting a short video clip of her astride Mezcal's shoulders singing during Olivia Rodrigo's set at Glastonbury. Yes. She also posted a clip of Mezcal and his, quote, normal people co-star Daisy Edgar Jones singing along during her own set. Mezcal and Abrams have been rumored to be dating for almost a year now and often show up in each other's socials, but this is the first time...

that the Instagram has featured them together. They were next spotted at the Sebastian Bach concert, Preston. It's amazing. He was in the second gladiator, yes? Yeah. Is that who that was? Yeah. I don't even know who the guy is. Here I am. I know I know that name, but I think I'm like, when I hear that, I think of Pedro Pascal. Right. Yeah. But he is the, Pedro Pascal is the villain to the good guy gladiator,

Miss Kyle. Okay. All right. Apparently it is over for Love is Blind star Chelsea Blackwell and now former boyfriend Tim Teeter. Nothing is over! Nothing is over! It's over. No! It's over, John. Nothing is over! Oh, wow. Love is eternal. Love is eternal? Love is eternal. Why do you laugh? You don't believe it?

Coming back from Vietnam telling me that love's not eternal? Spinning on me? Calling me romantic? I don't need that. The reality star posted the news on her TikTok over the weekend. TikTok? That's what a clock makes. I got to calm down.

It was in a short, quote, get ready with me clip. What? I don't know what that means. It's not a quote, get... What? It's just the get ready with me. It's a trend on social media. Oh, yes, where they're going through their morning ritual. Well, yeah, and it's kind of like... It's like the video of Khloe Kardashian putting on a new head. Yeah, exactly. Like, what, getting ready to go out or something? Yeah. Doing your makeup? Whether it be going out for, like, a night out or just a regular, like, work day or whatever. Yeah, it starts with makeup. It usually starts with them...

And, like, they're underpants. Hey, Rambo could do this. This is me. Yeah, you do. Waking up early. I wake up in a jail. I was just walking through town, and they put me in jail. And this is me beating up a guy in a jail. And now I'm in the woods killing the people that are coming after me.

And now I'm putting on camouflage, and I'm covering over the white parts of my face because it's dark and I don't want to be seen. And this is me jumping off a cliff and falling through the trees since I'm not surviving. There is a scene, if you remember, where he's getting ready. They were going to process him, and they have to shave him, if you remember. Yeah, right. So there's that part. And this is me getting the bulk of fat removed from my cheeks. Yeah.

This is me being showered with a fire hose. Billy clubbed. That's right. They quote unquote needed to de-louse. All right. It's me put my foot up David Cruz's ass. All right. So, yeah, anyhow, she was doing the get ready with me clip. And she said, how the absolute hell do you find your spark again after walking away from the man you were going to marry?

The couple debuted their romance eight months ago. This is back, once again, this is from Love is Blind. Yeah. That's a show your wife watches, right? Yeah, it's one of those. So I don't know how up to date she is. She hasn't been watching it in a while, though. I got to do one of these. This is me getting ready. It's the most boring ritual.

All right. Very happy to see this over the weekend. Both Nick and Casey sent me the trailer. Ryan Gosling plays a reluctant astronaut or astro not as he tries to explain in the trailer. Tasked with trying to save the entire planet in the upcoming sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary. Okay. This book is fantastic. I've read it twice. The guy who wrote The Martian, right? Andy Weir who wrote The Martian and the

the science, the math, all the things, joined in with the great storytelling and great humor as well. Believe it or not, I know that we rip on the fact that The Martian was entered as a comedy, but there's a lot of funny moments in the book and the movie and the same thing in Project Hail Mary. It's the same type of tone, but it is, the book is so smart. It is so well written. No, I love The Martian and I'm very much looking forward to this. Let me ask you something, if I may. Yeah. Um,

Um, there is a reveal about, well, watch the trailer that I thought should not be in the trailer. I was curious if they were going to leave it in there too. Uh, but it is such a huge part of the story. But you know what I'm saying, right? Yeah. They had to allude to it. I thought they were going to stop right before they got to it. Right. And they show it.

But I think that's just to get people excited to go see it maybe. I mean, how did Rambo get there? I know you. The different Stallone characters. Close. The different Stallone character that he plays off of. I mean, it's like halfway through the book that that character shows up. So it's not...

That much of a surprise? You know, it's a fairly significant part of the book. Yeah. Here's something that was really cool. Our friend Perry Hsiao, a local artist, did those concert posters, did our concert poster for the Camp Out Unplugged. Yep. At one point, Ryan Gosling's character is wearing a T-shirt and

Perry Schultz designed that t-shirt for a band. Yeah, he says, you know, there's a guy, I guess a musician named Hermanos Gutierrez. He designed the shirt for their single Blood, Milk, Moon, and he's wearing it.

Do you like the selection of Ryan Gosling as the lead? I think he's, I think he's, he's that perfect kind of guy, at least from what I understand this character is supposed to be. I listened to the book twice as well. Uh, and again, I'm like, you know, here I am listening to somebody else narrate it or whatever. Uh,

So, yeah, for him to be Rylan Grace, great. There's a woman that was cast. I, in my mind, she was always a brunette, like dark-haired. And in this movie, she's got light hair, like strawberry blonde hair. Yeah, that didn't really throw me off too much. But I think Ryan Gosling, Steve, because the character, even though he's kind of...

In the book, he's an average Joe. Right. He doesn't look like Ryan Gosling. Like Ryan Gosling. Well, they got to do that. He is a little aloof, and Ryan can play that way. Yeah. So I think it's going to serve the character well. Cool. We'll see. But Gosling plays a teacher who's recruited against his will to head into space in a last-ditch effort to save humanity. The movie hits theaters March 20th of next year. So I'm excited about that.

Vin Diesel is teasing an epic comeback, and it may be on the way for the Fast and Furious franchise. On Saturday night, Diesel and his co-stars Tyrese Gibson and Cody Walker were at Fuel Fest, a car enthusiast event in Pomona, California. During his appearance, Diesel told fans that they might expect or what they might expect from the next episode.

Fast and Furious film. He said, the studio said to me, Vin, can we please have the finale of Fast and Furious in April of 2027? I said, under three conditions. First is to bring the franchise back to LA. The second thing was to return to the car culture, to the street racing. And the third thing was reuniting Dom and Brian O'Connor. And it's the last time

that thing that had fans' pulses racing because Brian O'Connor character was famously played by Paul Walker. That's right. How do you bring him back? You know, CGI? I don't know. Well, they...

AI, whatever it is. They could have his brother, who looks remarkably like him, play him. In fact, he did serve as sort of a body double when they CGI'd his face onto him. It wasn't that much of a leap. Right. So any plans on how they're going to do that? No, no. This is what he's asked. Well, family. This is what he asked them for. Family. I don't know if... Family. I don't know if... Family. He'll... Family. Get what he wants. Family. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. I think they're making the smart move by ratcheting it back a bit. I mean, it is outlandishly going into space, submarines. I mean, all this crap. I mean, there's just no... At a certain point, you've gone too far. Yeah. Take it back to the street culture. Dude. Give it the F1 treatment. Give it the Maverick treatment. Right. You know...

They should take it up a few notches. They need to put it together with Jurassic Park. Just get as ridiculous as possible. Family of dinosaurs. Basically meet the Croods. That's a legit rumor, by the way. Shut up. There's going to be three franchises that combine. Jurassic, Park, and...

Fast and Furious and Transformers. They're all under the Universal Comcast umbrella. What's going on here? Throw some Navi in there. Honestly. You know? Oh, man, you're blue and you're a dinosaur and you're the Croods. Yeah.

All right, well, we shall see. The Devil Wears Prada 2 is now in production. And even better news is they are bringing the band back together. Filming is now underway for the long-awaited sequel. And Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are all on board. I love this. And I love the angle that they're taking. The Anna Wintour character is basically...

Dalton from Roadhouse. And I think that is such a cool departure. Yes. Until it's time not to be nice. Never be nice.

Joining the Corps is Academy Award winner Kenneth Branagh, who will play the husband of Sir Streep's Miranda Priestly. Me-ho. Yeah, me. Damn it. Hey, me-ho. Sam Elliott. I always wear them clothes.

Doesn't anything, everything you have has sleeves. The 2006 original was a box office winner, scoring $125 million domestically and over $326 million worldwide. I love the movie. Though in the movie, she gets separated. It's a big part of the movie. She gets divorced. Yeah. During the movie. Well, and the guy mentions, like, she had been through a few divorces. Right, right. So she's just moved on to another guy, I guess.

The movie is slated to hit theaters next May 1st. All right. And then, let me see if I've got time for one more. Yeah, so Netflix is expanding its live streaming ambitions by partnering with NASA to bring NASA Plus programming to the platform later this year. I think this is a great idea. And their first project out of the gate is Tiger King in space, which I think could be awesome. Super.

So this marks the first time that Netflix will carry a live feed from an outside programmer in the U.S. Previously, its live content was limited to in-house or exclusive events primarily focused on sports. NASA Plus offers free content on NASA's site and YouTube and recently struck a similar deal with Amazon Prime Video.

The collaboration aligns with NASA's goal of reaching a wide audience, as outlined in its founding Space Act. So they're going to have launches and live feeds from the ISS, and they're going to have spacewalks and stuff like that? Yeah, that's pretty cool. Additional details about the NASA Plus rollout on Netflix will be announced closer to launch. All right, let's play some clips for you.

The crime series Countdown sees Nathan Blythe creating a task force of special agents to prevent a murderer from causing more pain to people in Los Angeles near Eric Dane.

Details why the series isn't like most procedurals. Procedurals can get a little bit formulaic. This show is a different kind of procedural where it actually takes time to take a breath every now and again so that we can examine the characters, see how they interplay between them and the others, sort of understand the dynamics that, you know, watch these guys behave. Yeah!

The next episode of Countdown airs tomorrow, and that's on Amazon Prime. All right, next clip.

Smoke details Dave's mission to weaken the efforts of two arsonists who will stop at nothing to light their whole town on fire. In this clip, Taron Egerton shares the intense feeling that he had when stepping into his role. David Bowie said that famously. You should just feel deep enough in the pool that your feet can't quite touch the water. I may be misquoting him, but he said something to that effect. And I think it's really true. And I...

I absolutely felt that way with this. I felt worse than that. I felt like there was no bottom to the pool. It just felt like such a mammoth challenge. The first two episodes of Smoke are streaming now. You can see that on Apple TV Plus, by the way. I saw the trailer, yeah, for that. It looked pretty interesting. Have you watched it at all, Case? No. No, no, nothing about it. I'm not shocked that I haven't. It looks a lot like Backdraft.

All right, that's the entertainment report for today, friends. The first day of July, mind you. We're in July already. What in the hell? It is just zipped right by. The summer, we're like halfway through the summer. What I like about this particular summer is that it's rolled out in the right way. It's been very comfortable up to now, and we're getting...

It's Ben Oaks. Steam bath. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Well, we're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back in just a moment, and we'll keep this forward momentum going on a Tuesday. Hey, welcome to the Preston and Steve podcast, which is brought to you by Acme Markets. Hungry and in a hurry? Acme's flash grocery delivery or pickup gets you fresh groceries in 30 minutes or less. Acme, fresh foods, local flavors, and the official grocery partner of the Preston and Steve show. Thanks for listening to our podcast, and thanks to Steve and Singer for being the

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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. Hi, thank you very much, Marissa. So, we were talking earlier in the entertainment report that Rob McElhenney is changing his last name. He's already filed legally to have it done. Changed it to Rob McElhenney.

And he says the reason being is because the pronunciation is too difficult for... Especially in some foreign countries. And he is doing more investing in...

You know, the world of professional football, meaning soccer. Yeah. And all sorts of franchises. And yeah, all kinds of business ventures. And, you know, he's just afraid that it's too difficult to pronounce. And so he's changing it. And he's already got a character called Max. So it kind of is an easy segue for him.

But it's the idea of going through and legally changing your name. It's a big decision. It is. And he took into consideration the heritage and the rest of the family and what the story was. There's also an aspect of spelling the name properly. And if you're dealing with, like, I know, Nick, you. I've gotten so many different spellings, so many different pronunciations.

My whole life, and my dad warned me and my brothers when we were growing up, and my son gets it too. It's just... It's not that hard, but when you read it, it's hard. And people just... They just flub it all the time. I get McWilliams, McLuhan, McElwain, McElwain. One time I got...

McAleen. Mr. McAleen. Have you ever had a document or something that was submitted to you that where, I mean, where literally the spelling would have to be correct and it was incorrect? I mean, probably. You know what I get a lot, Steve, is that my last name is spelled M-C-I-L.

And when you capitalize I-L in some fonts, it can look like M-C-L-L. That was the big thing for me. That's why you're in my context as Nick McWhattheF. Yeah, and you can probably change that now. But M-C-I-L or M-C-L-L, you know, if I'm flying or if, Preston, earlier you mentioned like hotel reservations or something along those lines, like that can get screwed up because I'm obviously on my credit cards and on my ID. It's M-C-I-L.

Yeah, it looks odd when I've seen it in some fonts. Right. The spelling of your name. So we wanted to open up the phones and see if anyone listening has...

Change your name before and for what reason and how difficult was that and has it changed anything for you? 610-660-9333 is the number. Has it gotten easier? And also, who, you know, McElhenney doesn't seem that hard for me to pronounce and looking at it, but there are some people that live...

with names that are, you know, the bane of their existence. Just because never, ever, ever do people ever get it right. And maybe it bothers you or you get used to it. Or for some people, it probably drives them crazy their entire life. Other people, it's just like, yeah, whatever. Yeah, it is what it is. Rochelle, as far as first names go, she gets Rachel all the time. Yeah. And when people say Rachel, we just go, yeah. Yeah.

You know, if it's for a reservation or something like that, it's not worth taking the time to explain that you got the name wrong. So it's what's crazy about that, because Rachel, Michelle, like Andrea, Andrea, you know, like those are all fairly simple. I have a friend who his you know, he's he is of Indian descent and his name has so many syllables.

But once I heard it, I was able to say it like that. What is it? Well, it's Ashok Parameswaran. Ashok Parameswaran. Yes, but I've talked to him about it and about like the Indian language. It just seems like it's almost lyrical.

Do you know what I mean? Right. That's why it was so easy to say. Like sing-songy. Yes. Like, safe flight repair. Safe flight replace. Yeah. Casey, do Akbar's last name. Gabaj B. Amila. Right. Yeah. Which you... How about Giannis? But Antetokounmpo. It took me a long time to do that one. Same. But, like, yeah. So sometimes those really, really difficult names become very easy to say. And actually...

Fun to say. Yeah, no, you're right. That's fun to say. It's like San Francisco. Yeah, that is fun to say. Francisco, that's fun to say. But most people, especially like in, they're not going to take the time to do that and learn it. And it can be, when you, so you don't use your actual language.

Yeah, I have a stage name. The decision was made in the beginning. Why? Oh, I didn't like the rhyming nature of my first and last name. Right. It seemed kind of bouncy when you said it, and I just wanted something that had a little more bite to it. So, yeah, that's the only reason. And protection of my little bit of anonymity. A little bit of anonymity, yeah. As well, but now I don't care. Yeah.

Yeah. And so the only time it'll become an issue, you mentioned this, is if you're getting paid like for an appearance or something and they put the wrong name on. Yeah. Or if you are going to pick up, you know, passes for an event or something like that. Right. And you go to, you know, Will Call or.

parking or whatever it happens to be and you tell them and they're like I give them one name and they're like no it's not on here I'm like well try this name and then I'm like throwing out names left and right Andrea why do they even believe me it's Andrea not Preston it's pronounced Andrea oh we have it right here hang on I'm going to go to Kyle who changed his name legally Kyle you are on the air good morning bud hey what's up guys how are you good man alright so what was the reason behind changing your name

Yeah, so not the best father figure. Okay. Okay. So you're a Kyle Jr.? Listen, no, I know somebody who specifically changed his name. He was named after his father. It was his first name, not a different scenario than you. But he was named after his father and had a complete falling out and changed his

his first name and this i already knew this guy as one name and then had to get used to him as the second name took a little bit of practice but after a while it was no problem at all but you wanted to change your surname your last name you wanted to lose all affiliation okay exactly yeah there is a whole thing with uh child support and all that while i was down in college about a

going through the process because I was getting about to get married and I was about to have my daughter and rather than give that whole you know give her my dead last name I guess you'd call it um give her all that I figured let's try and get it done early and it was a process man you gotta it's a lot to go through and I would imagine there was a whole issue with

I know I said I would imagine I would think that with everything that's involved with the way you are verified and your last name being such a prominent part of that from beginning to end. How long did the process take? Beginning to end, I think it was like right around two, three months by the time everything was all said and done, because you have to file in the newspaper and there needs to be court hearings and stuff at least.

You know, the process where I was at. And they need to make sure, like, you don't have creditors who are, like, you're just trying to dip out on debts and all that. Oh, okay. And you have to publish it in the newspaper. And then you still need to contact Social Security. So for, like, the next few years, my taxes were still under my old last name. It's a funny thing, though, to find...

I could see where the newspaper in days of your would have been your best bet with getting the word out. But there, you know, a lot of people just don't read the newspaper anymore. So, so, but that's still a thing. They still make you post it in the newspaper. Yeah. Yeah. You need to send in a clipping and the receipt essentially that you've done it and you need to do that twice. One,

once when you're starting the process and then once after it's been ruled and complete. You know, it's funny because I know a number of, a couple of people, at least two or three people who changed their last name because of a very similar reason. The parent was, the father was...

whatever abuse or whatever, and did not want to forward that name and carry it on. And so I assume that whether it be your first or last name, is the first name quicker? I assume it would be because there's less legal issue with that. Or maybe I'm wrong. So I think it's the same process either way. Now, if you get married or something along those lines, or when you have your child, you can give them any name you want. But...

that association, I guess, when you're doing it for your own name without any kind of reason, it's this big lengthy process. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. I wonder if people have done... Oh, sorry. Thanks, Kyle. Appreciate it, man. Go ahead, Case. I wonder if people have changed their last names to save the family name. And the reason I say that is my wife and her sister, they're the last of that line. Right. And so, I mean, would I be upset if, you know...

My son decided to change his last name to save that other name. That'd be kind of cool. I knew a guy that changed his name to Jerry Callow. Yeah. But they mistake it for Jerry Gallo, who's a whole other guy. And he even died. I mean, how confusing is that? Yeah. Yeah.

No, but that's a good question, Casey, to carry on a family name. Like I'm entering the last of the line for my family. Yeah. And yeah, I wonder. That's a unique scenario. Let me go to, I have other people calling in that have difficult last names or ones that they want to change for whatever reason. We're going to go to Timmy next. Timmy, good morning. Good morning. Hey, what's up, Timmy?

Nothing. So I mentioned about my grandfather, Polish, Leszczynski, spelled L-E-S-Z-C-Z-Y-N-S-K-I. Isn't that like the Smith of the Polish name? Don't they call that like the Smith of Poland? Leszczynski, probably. Yeah, but the nuns couldn't spell it.

Oof.

She couldn't prove who she was. Oh, yeah. Oh, that sucks. Two different spellings. Yeah. You know, if you stop and think about it, I mean, years ago at Ellis Island, as depicted in The Godfather 2, he's Vito Antolini, but the guy can't pronounce it, so he just gives him his name, his last name, Corleone, the town he comes from. Yeah, they also anglicized a lot of names back in the day like that. So hang on, Timmy, so your mom had to go through this process

to prove, to get her benefits that she was entitled to. How long and how difficult of a process was that? She had to get, like, her father's original name, proof of the changing, you know, and she's got, like, four siblings. The brothers, I'm sure they went through the same thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so they had to do all this stuff to prove it. Dude, that would be a nightmare. I'm mostly listening right now. Yeah, I mean, stop and think about it. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Just basic, like, when you go to the DMV. Look, I was about to wait six hours to get my real license. Imagine you're doing this. Yeah. It's insane. Yeah.

All right, Tim, thanks for the call. Real quick, real quick. Yeah. Real quick. So my father's last name, Zicola, Z-O-C-C-O-L-A. I can't say what it means in Italian. So look it up on Google. Zipola. I'm sure he got the name coming into Ellis Island, but it's one of the worst words you can say. Hold on. Spell that again. You can say it. Zebra.

Oh, it means slut. Zocola. Z-O-C-C-O-L-A.

Yeah. They say that like, uh, what it really means is yeah. Like the C word. Okay. I love it. All right. All right. Thanks man. I appreciate it. Those are my last name. I should have gone with that for my, uh, my air name, Preston slut. Yeah. Preston C word. Preston whore. Hey, you got the C word with you. So, uh, Chuck D'Amico's name was, uh, initially supposed to be D'Amico. Uh,

And then they took the apostrophe out when his grandfather came over. But he is Chuck, right? Charles? Well, he's Charles. Okay. The Polish names, I always have a very difficult time seeing them written out. Anything in Welsh, forget about it, you know? Yeah. By the way, I was wrong because the Polish Smith is Wisniewski. Yeah.

Not what that other guy said. Because I have a friend who's last name, he's like, yeah, it's like basically like Smith and Poland. He said Lyszynski? Yeah, he said Lyszynski. Right, okay. And what do you say is the... Wisniewski. Okay. Is, I don't know, that's what my friend said. According to your friend. Yeah, yeah. All right, so he's just saying it's a fairly common name. All right, we're going to go to John next. Hey, John, morning. Hey, morning. How you guys doing? Good, what's up, buddy?

Yeah, now my last name is Bleminger. I mean, it got changed to Ellis Island, so it's spelled B as in boy, L-I, M as in Mary, E-G-G-E-R. Okay. Blumegger. Blumegger. And I am the last of my line. Like, I'm not, like, the last male in my, like, if you Google that last name, I'm the only one, anyone's related to me.

You know, so you're saying you're going to have a kid now. Oh, so you're saying you're absolutely the last of the line when you go. That's it.

That's it. I'm the last male that's able to have kids. Yeah, and not only do you have to have a kid if you want to carry on the name, a male kid. Now, women can have men marry on and keep that name. But yeah, it's a similar situation with me. But have you... I'm like, we got to keep trying. With the last name, have you ever considered changing it or do people mispronounce it all the time?

I've gotten everything from Bloomberg, Hardware. I've gotten everything under this song. So I just tell people my name is John Blim. John Blim. There you go. Yeah. So to the point of keeping it concise, pronounceable, that I can see. So Rob Mack makes sense from McElhenney. It's the same issue. We're going to go to Jessica. She changed her name 20 years ago. Hi, Jessica. Good morning.

Good morning. How are you guys? Great. What's up, Jessica? So I changed my name like 22 years ago and they give you a official form with a raised deal and you have to send it away. Like your new passport, they send it back, you have to send it away. Or you had to back in the day. So some sort of new like social security card and it is being held together at the moment by HOPE.

I don't know how I'm going to try and get a new one. I've been trying and it's a whole legalese and lots and lots of paperwork. So I'm getting married and I'm deciding instead of trying to get a new name change for him, I'm just going to change my name again. You're just going to change your name again when you get married? Yep, I didn't want to, but it's easier. Can I ask why you wanted to change your name in the first place 22 years ago?

Uh, yeah. Um, I, it was, I got made fun of a lot for my last name, but now I have a great last name that has a lot of really cool, like, you know, uh, nicknames to it. So can we find out what you went from and to, if you don't mind sharing?

I'll tell you, I went to Hoffman, which means like people call me like Hasselhoffman and Hoffinator. You were Hasselhoffed? That's better. Wow. So, so yes. Oh my God. That's how bad the old one was.

Yeah, I thought you were going to say something like Hitler, and I'm like, it's Hasselhoff. Wow, okay. Yeah, and I can see that. Did you say you are getting married or that when you do get married? Okay, so what name will you be taking on?

Mitchell, which is great because everything is kind of a Mitch. So I can give me a Mitch. Okay. All right. All right. Cool. Mitch with an M. Mitch with an M, I promise. Okay. No, no. I got you. If you're talking about going back, your Social Security card is kind of the every...

That's it. Your Social Security card is supposed to be and your passport, obviously, and birth certificate. But Social Security card is the one they say never to lose. And getting that changed, I'm sure, is a Herculean chore. It's got to be. So we're talking about Rob McElhenney has changed his name to Rob Mac, and he's done it because of the pronunciation issue. So

We're taking calls on changing your name, weird last names, and Sadie is on her third last name. Wow. Hi, Sadie. You're on the air. Good morning. Rock and roll. Rock and roll, baby. All right. What's up with you, Sadie?

So my mom was a single mom with me until she met my dad. So I started off with one name, and I'm not going to give all of my last names, but I started as an M for my last name. And then my dad adopted me at 10. So then I went to A, you know, for my last initial. And then 16 years ago, this October, I got married. And I was like, you know what?

I might as well change my name again. So now I'm the end of the alphabet. I'm W. But because I had all those game changes, when I was 16, well, actually, technically 15 in 10 months, and got my driver's license for the first time, we had to prove all kinds of stuff at the DMV.

So are you like one of these people that we see at the DMV that literally has like a full file of paperwork?

Yeah. Wow. Wow.

Mine has two G's in it, so my whole life people either call me Saddy or they spell it wrong. Saddy. No, you don't want to get stuck with that. Wait, so since you changed your last name, did you ever consider just changing the spelling of your first name? No, because I'm a very eclectic, unique... Oh, we just keep losing the signal. She's very eclectic and unique, so I guess she just likes the... Go ahead, now we can hear you.

I'm so sorry. I am driving through LSD, a.k.a. Lower Slower Delaware. So if you haven't seen LSD sticker, it's Lower Slower Delaware. I'm on my way home. Well, not home. I'm on my way to work. Up.

Up in Bayer, Delaware. I'm coming all the way down from Lincoln, Delaware right now. All right. Well, thank you for listening while you travel. So you want to keep the spelling of your name because you're a unique individual?

Well, yeah, I love the spelling of my first name. There's very rarely any Sadies, and there's even more rare Sadies with you. Okay, excellent. All right, well, thank you, Sadie. We appreciate that, or you'll always be Sadie to us. Next, we have RJ. Yo, RJ, good morning. Hey, morning, guys. You guys rock. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. So you had to change your name?

So I did change my name for work, not legally. I didn't really go through all the hoops and stuff. But my last name is Budenkevich, and I worked in a call center. And I had so many people ask me, hey, what did you just say? So for work, I changed it to R.J. Brown when I was on the phone. I'm sorry. Could you do me a favor and just repeat your name again? It was Budenkevich?

Budenkabage. Yeah, that was really good. Oh, and then... First time, there you go. I tried. And then brown, was that a godsend when you shifted to that? Oh, my God, yeah. And I know how to spell it really quick. So, you know, it all worked out. What's the origin of Budenkabage?

Uh, Polish. There you go. I've been told my whole life. A lot of people say German or ask if it's German, but, uh, no, Polish. Okay. They say it's the Polish Lufczynski. All right. Thanks, RJ. Uh, let's see. We have next, uh, Evan. Hi, Evan. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning to see you, Evan. All right. You had the opposite here. Uh, a name got changed to something more difficult, right?

Yeah, so when we got married, my wife went from something extremely straightforward to she's going to have to correct somebody every single time they see it. There's no way to pronounce it correctly. It's not a long name, but it's spelled B-U-C-H-A. But it's pronounced Boo-ha. Boo-ha. Boo-ha. Boo-ya.

Wow. Yeah, I got a lot of that. I got a lot of from finding the emotion. Stuff like that. So, yeah, I mean, it took her probably like a month, month and a half to change everything.

And she's still running into issues. Like, she couldn't deposit money into our account the other day because she needed me to sign off because it had her maiden name on it still. Yeah, I've known couples where the wife just refused to take the daunting husband's name.

And that just became something that was, you know, that was difficult and didn't want to get stuck with that. So but in this case, that's a tough one because I would never pronounce that name the way you pronounced it.

I don't even correct anybody anymore. It's been 31 years, and I, whatever they say, I know who they're talking to. Yeah, exactly. I know who you mean. All right, thanks, Evan. I wonder if, so, you know, Rob McElhenney, changing his name to Rob Mac, and there was a comment from Caitlin Olson saying that, you know, the kids aren't happy about it. So I guess the whole family's names are...

will change? I don't know. Not necessarily, right? I mean, he's changing his name, but that wouldn't... Would that umbrella fall over the entire... No, I think that they would have to change their names willingly...

that just because he changes his name does not change her married name. No, no, no. I'm not saying it will automatically change their names. I'm wondering if they will... Yeah, I doubt it. If they will go through the process to do that, too. Yeah, I bet they won't. But I don't know. But, I mean, you know, Rob obviously has family in our area still and a brother and a sister, and I bet that they keep their last names. So I would think that just as far as the family goes, I don't know, but I would think as far as the family goes that they would probably all keep their last names as McElhinney. Yeah, and if he says he's doing it for...

business right expediency uh then he's fine that can continue with the short name and everyone else can exist with the the og i want to go to uh sam because sam it says here on my uh screen uh took his wife's name when they got married i'm curious as to why so let's go there hi sam you're on the air morning hey good morning hey good morning to see you man what's up

So my last name used to be Alsbaugh, A-L-S-B-A-U-G-H. Okay. Nobody could say it. Nobody could spell it. Yeah, I spent about 20 years of just saying, hi, my name's Sam and just spelling my name. Yep. So I took my wife's last name, which was Hamilton. Way more easier. And a great musical. Way more easy to spell.

Yeah. Presidential. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw I saw all this blah on Broadway. It sucked. So. So, Sam, let me let me ask you this in in this decision and change it. How long ago did you guys get married, by the way? 2015. OK, so, you know, 10 years ago and it's settled in long enough. Was it a weird transition for friends and people that you've known and family members?

A little bit weird for family members. Like my mom, she didn't really like it too much, but I was like, Hey man, I'm, I just, I'm tired of this last name. I got the last name from a guy I never met. Um, he, he like,

Like, last one, I was like two months old. So nothing I was really ever attached to. I kind of hated the fact that I always had to spell it and say it and all that other good stuff. Yeah, it made my life a little harder most of the time. So it was a pretty easy transition. It really shouldn't be seen as that much of a... And I guess some...

People hold importance in certain things more than others. But, I mean, really, somebody in a relationship is going to change their name, one person or the other. Usually that's going to happen. And somebody has to go through the change. And if the guy wants to change their name, I don't see it as a disrespect to the family or anything like that. I think when you are getting married, you should have the ability to pick a random cousin and make them change their names. All right. Just for the hell of it. Why not?

Just to throw a monkey wrench into it. Yeah, listen, you have a name of somebody that has no connection to you and you are having to spell this name that you don't want and you found somebody that you love and you'd prefer to adopt their name. It makes sense to me. And so life has been grand since you've been at Hamilton, correct?

Yeah, actually, it's been great, man. I don't have to ever spell my name or anything. Literally, people are like, wow, that's a great name. There you go. There you go. Sam Hamilton. Yes. Sam Ham. Sam Ham. Yeah, Sam Ham. Oh, that's perfect. So how difficult was it to go through the changing process?

It was actually quite easy. We did it when we get married. Literally just, you know, a couple documents, got the social security card. The hardest part was at the current job I'm at, it's one of the utility companies. They flagged me for having a different last name when I did the background check. Literally three to four months of 10 years of W-2s, I had to send them. I had to send them so many documents just to get through their background check. I was like, am I about to work for the FBI? Because

That's what I do. Yeah. Yeah. They get real testy about that. Yeah. All right. Sam Ham. Thanks, brother. Appreciate it. So my my Claire, my my Claire, my wife's name is Claire Mallon. That's her maiden name. And she got Morrison, which is not that big of a leap. Right. Not bad at all. Mallon. Mallon. M-A-L-L-O-N. Yeah. All right. Next is Amanda. Good morning, Amanda. Good morning.

Good morning. Hey, bitches. Hey, what? What's up, Amanda? Hey. So my maiden name, this is crazy people's last names time to shine. I'm so excited. So my last name was Eugestion. J-U-S as in Sam, Z as in zebra, C as in cat, Z as in Sam, S, Z as in zebra, Y, N as in Nancy. How many Zs? No, I forgot that right. How many Zs did you have in your last name?

Three. And how many vowels? One. Wow. Repeat the pronunciation because that's a mother effer of a name. Repeat it. Very proud of it. Use jition. Wow. Use jition. Wow. It sounds like an electrician's apprentice. Exactly. Like someone drunkenly slapped a keyboard. But do you love it or hate it?

A little bit of both. I was a little bittersweet to get rid of it because, you know, it is an identifier. People saw my name and went, what is that? And if you find any other used Jetson in this country, we are related. That is it. Like, there's no other names out here. But we were so excited. I forget how many years ago it was. We were watching a football game, and someone out in San Francisco, the 49ers, his last name was used Jetson. Yeah.

And we're looking like the Leonardo DiCaprio meme where they're just staring at the TV like, same name. By the way, Amanda, a great nickname for you would be Uzi. Oh, yeah. Did you get that one? Juice. What's the derivation of that name?

What is Ukrainian? Okay. We don't know the actual translation of it. Yeah. But as soon as this football player started becoming like really well known and, you know, his wife got friends with Taylor Swift, all of a sudden people started getting our name right because they were hearing it in the news and it was so similar. We're like, yes, finally we're starting to get something, something. It wasn't perfect, but it was something. And Amanda, you changed it, you said? Yeah.

I did. I felt bad, but I was like, you know what? My life is about to be so much easier. I felt bad. I danced out of the IRS office. Did you go with something more common? Way more common. It's Chamberlain. Everybody has the last name Chamberlain. I could not make an email address to save my life. Wow. There you go, Chamberlain. All right. So there have been pros and cons, but it was a bittersweet departure.

Exactly. All right. Well, that is definitely the most unique name I've heard so far. All right. Thank you. By far. Appreciate it. So my friend from college, her last name had no vowels in it whatsoever, not even a Y. Where did it even begin? Uh-huh. Yeah. It was K-R-C-H. That was her last name. Kirk? Kirk. Okay. K-R-C-H. And do you know what I have in here? I have no clue. Yeah. All right. Let me go. We have Tony. Tony, morning. You're on the air, bud.

Hey, good morning. How you doing, Preston? Great, man. All right. What's this last name story you want to tell us? All right. So real quick, my wife and I, we get married. We're young. I'm like 21. She's 20, 19. This is back in the day. Nobody told us you had to go to Social Security office to change her last name.

We go along throughout our life. She gets, you know, driver's license, passport, everything under our married name of Connor. This goes on and on and on until we get Obamacare. Now, I don't know if you recall about Obamacare. They link your Social Security number to your health care, to your taxes. So Obamacare comes in. We go to file our income taxes. And all of a sudden, they're telling me, hey,

You're committing fraud. You can't file your income taxes, and you've got to jump through all these hoops, or you have to file out separate names. Okay, fine. So, you know, after a minor heart attack, you know, we go ahead and we change the name on the income tax form. This goes on for years, and I'm continually asking my wife, Donna, you know, can you change your name? Can you change your name? Finally, about a year and a half ago, I get her. We go through the process.

And we have to go down to the Social Security office and we have to pull out these ancient documents. My my my marriage certificate looks like a piece of parchment that's about to fall apart. I have I have, you know, birth certificate, but we got a passport and a driver's license that doesn't match. And it's a whole thing. So we're fighting our way through this with this very kind civil servant. She was a nice lady. She finally we get all done. She's like, well, that's it.

I guess after 38 years, she finally decided you were a keeper. Yeah, yeah. Nice. But it was just an oversight by you guys from the beginning, right?

Yeah, yeah. You know, we were young. It was never a thing. We got through the state and the federal government to get a passport. Wow. Not a problem. Wow. Every bank, everything was always the same last name. But, you know, thanks to Obamacare, it all blew up. Wow. When you're young and in love, that's all you talk about is your Social Security card. That's all my job. Appreciate it, man. Wow. It can be a legal thing.

You know, batch of red tape that you have to go through when you're doing name changes. And, yeah, especially if you've had some hiccups along the way. But I thought it was kind of interesting. It's something I've never really had to think about or delve into. But Rob McElhenney changing his name legally to Rob Mac. He will be professionally and not just professionally but legally known as Rob Mac. And with all the success that he's already had under the McElhenney name. I'm surprised.

Yeah, but he thinks it's the way to go forward. So is it safe to say that he has been come to known as Rob Mack? He has been come to known as Rob Mack now, officially. All right, well, listen, thank you for the calls, and I appreciate those who are on hold that didn't get a chance to go to. We do have to take a break, though, so we're going to do that very thing now. When we come back, we'll get to the bizarre file, and I'm going to reveal the latest big friggin' deal for WMMR, which I think you'll appreciate. We'll be back in a moment. Stay right there. We'll be right back.

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29th, I guess this was sent to me on the 30th, was Robin, a.k.a. Little Wings, birthday. Can you please give her a big juicy shout out from all of us and to YouTube, of course, if deemed necessary, and says, love Julie Jules, I mean jerk off, I mean hand job. So here's a shout out. Yeah!

And that's for Robin or Little Wing's birthday. And then another one. Oh, this is from another YouTuber. It says, hey, I'd like to request a shout-out from my friend Joe, a.k.a. Common from the YouTube community. Without going into details, his life has been throwing lemons at him left and right. He works as a landscaper even in this wretched heat and bends over backwards for his family and friends. I figure the loudest, wettest, juiciest, Delco shout-out.

I would brighten his day and remind him that we are always here for each other. And that comes in from Shane Walsh. So here's a shout out for you. I'm sorry to hear he's gone through all that. Hang in there, Common. We appreciate the love, man. All right. And I do want to mention this before we dive into the Bizarre File. We have a new big frigging deal this week. And this is wonderful. You can get two single day wristbands for the price of one for...

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Here's a story from last week. I didn't get a chance to mention this. I'm sure you guys saw it, but if you didn't, I wanted to throw this into the bizarre file. A tornado came through Largo, Florida last Wednesday, damaging multiple homes. And doorbell camera caught something incredible as the storm passed through. The powerful winds lifted an L-shaped house, stood on its end, and then set it back down again. Stephanie Glenn. Tornado!

Tornado! Stephanie Glenn told ABC News that her 76-year-old mother was inside the home when it was thrown into the air. Oh, my God!

Stephanie said, I don't know how she survived. I didn't. She got thrown around and beat up pretty bad. What the hell? Largo is about 20 miles west of Tampa on Florida's Gulf Coast, and the National Weather Service had determined that it was caused by an EF1 tornado. But it's crazy to see this whole home come up off the ground and then lift back and set back down. It almost looked like a game of Tetris. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

A bison in Yellowstone National Park appeared to stumble into the scalding water of Grand Prismatic Spring, causing its death as tourists looked on during the park's busiest season. Yeah. The bison fell into the hot spring at Midway Geyser Basin near Old Faithful early on Saturday. It's not entirely clear.

Exactly how or why the animal ended up in the hot spring said Michael Poland, who is the scientist in charge at Yellowstone. Oh, dear God. Go back to the truck and get some barbecue sauce. But after having seen video of the accident, Poland said that it looked like the bison just got too close, stumbled further into the water, and thrashed around before it fell into an even hotter part of Grand Prismatic, causing its death. What an excruciating way to go. Yeah, he said the bison died fairly quickly, and he dispelled rumors that the spring's water is highly acidic, causing the animal to

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He said this bison carcass is basically sitting in a pool of nearly boiling water and that boiling water will eat away at the organic material, the tissues, and eventually there will be just some bone left over. It's not the most uncommon of occurrences. Often animals will walk along the edges of hot springs. They can fall in because the crust surrounding the pool is thin and can break with enough weight. At this point, would it be worth slicing up some potatoes and other stuff? Chuck a few things in there.

Season to taste. A horrifying moment aboard a Disney Cruise Line ship turned into an unbelievable rescue at sea after a child fell overboard and then her father jumped in after her. The incident occurred as the Disney Dream was returning to Fort Lauderdale from a four-night Bahamian sailing. The emergency code, and this is what they use, they call it Mr. M.O.B. They made an announcement over the ship's intercom that

which signals an urgent response. Mr. M.O.B., kids falling overboard. So M.O.B. stands for man overboard. Yeah. So Mr. M.O.B. is what they say. A spokesperson said the crew aboard the Disney Dream swiftly rescued two guests from the water.

And they said that we commend our crew members for their exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests to the ship within minutes. Social media posts from the cruisers described the rapid reaction of the crew members who launched life preservers and deployed a rescue float within minutes.

In a Facebook post, passenger Kevin Fertura said a girl fell overboard from the fourth deck and her dad went in after her. Thankfully, the DCL crew's rescue team was on it immediately and both were saved. So they were showing them and they were treading water for about 20 minutes because they had to get things into the water to get them. And as the momentum of the ship was moving along, they became little dots.

Wow. You know, so they were that far away, but they got them. It was amazing. Passengers confirmed the rescue took place while the Disney Dream was cruising between the Bahamas and Florida, with the child reportedly falling from the deck. And like many cruise, major cruise operators, Disney ships are equipped with overboard detection systems designed to alert the ship's crew immediately.

to such incidents in real time. Have any of you guys watched that documentary on Netflix right now, Trainwreck? I'm watching it. It's wild. It's not long. It's only like 55 minutes. Yeah. I started watching it late last night and I was like, I can't finish this. I didn't even remember this story, but a cruise ship just died in the water in the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah, I've seen the trailer for it and they sit there and their systems don't work. They don't have electricity and so there's just...

Piss and poop all over the place in this thing. That's why they never put that in the commercial. A man in Texas is facing charges after police say he tacked an ice cream truck driver Tuesday because he believed the driver was acting suspiciously around children. Michael Valdez was arrested after allegedly punching the ice cream truck driver multiple times, stealing his phone and threatening to shoot him.

Valdez reportedly told officers that he believed the driver was acting suspiciously around children, claiming he saw the man take phones from kids and give them his phone number.

The driver, however, told police the children were using their phones to pay for treats via Apple Pay and Cash App. Yeah, listen, I can understand the guy might have been a little suspicious, but yeah, we live in a different time. He also shared that he shares his number with customers so that they can call him to return to their neighborhood. After further investigation, police determined the ice cream truck operator had not engaged in any inappropriate or illegal behavior. Oh, I included a D-PICC.

Valdez, however, was charged with robbery and an awful possession of a firearm. Jesus, if I had had the number of my Mr. Softee driver, forget it. Yeah, well, now you can. Yeah, that's what they do sometimes.

And then finally, in Scotland, feral seagulls are edging closer to killing a human, it has been claimed. Are there domestic seagulls? In what is seen as the most alarming warning yet over the terrifying flying threats, a summit to deal with them is set to get off of the ground. Former Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross...

who previously called the debate on the issue, told Parliament humans risk being killed over the growing problem of kamikaze diving seagulls. This is a real problem, people. The seagulls are going to kill us all. The politician said the strength of the cross-party support in my debate should fall.

Be all the SNP government needed to finally act before we see someone killed due to being attacked by a gull. Sounds like things have gotten really bad. Adding fuel to the flames, Rachel Hamilton claimed aggressive seagulls had attacked seven children in just one month in I-Mouth last year. And then they took.

One of my French fries. She went on to highlight how one girl had gashes to her scalp and blood running down her face after a dive-bombing attack. It's like a Hitchcock movie. The MP added, aggressive seagull behavior continues to cause real concern amongst businesses, amongst tourists, amongst everybody that has anything to do with the harbor. And it's not just seasonal nuisance.

It's a serious growing health risk. It's a safety risk, particularly for children and elderly patients. Are you guys seeing an uptick in aggression on the Wildwood seagulls? No. No. I did have an incident. Just the Scottish cousins? No, I had an incident with seagulls on Saturday, though. The really, really big ones. Right. Uh.

They were trying to get into a trash bag, and I wasn't having that. Nuh-uh. Mm-mm. So the latest over the gulls comes after the people of Moray and Scotland were dive-bombed by the birds. In one case, an elderly woman broke her leg during a gull swoop. But other ministers are urging that Brits need to hug a gull. Member of Parliament Jim Farrelly said...

A summit on tackling the scourge of demented seagulls should not demonize the pests. So there have been issues. If you give them a little hug, they're actually very gentle lovers. And that is what I have in the bizarre file for you for now. All right, let us take a break. We'll be back in just a moment. If you haven't heard, we have our Word of the Week prize. There's only three letters this week.

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Uh, we take a Schuylkill expressway, uh, eastbound and then get off at the Belmont exit, uh, to make our way up to where the radio station is in Ballot Kenwood. And so when you get off the exit, there is a, uh, a train tracks that go over. You, you actually drive underneath them. As I got over the exit, I see lights flashing and I'm like, okay, something's going on over here. I thought maybe some light flooding or something like that, but no, a tree was, was, uh,

I don't know what happened to it. I don't know if it was the wind. It didn't seem crazy windy last night. But I guess part of the storm was having gusts of winds or maybe lightning struck or whatever. But anyway, this huge tree came down, completely blocked it off. It was blocking me. I couldn't even see through the...

underpass at all. Wow. I think it was massive. So those storms, I didn't know they were going to get as crazy as they did last night. It wasn't as severe as the week before when we had like part of the building came off here in Bella. But

I don't know about you guys, but we had some house-shaking thunder last night. Same. What we're doing as we progress with these storms, things have been weakened already. So I was hiking the old Bellsville Road, that trail there. The amount of trees...

huge trees that have been coming down. Everything is weakened. The ground is weakened. Trees have been weakened because of the storms we've had up to now. So, Preston, I don't doubt that that probably came down. The wind kicked up a bit. It wasn't like that time where we had the power failure a week or two ago. I'm losing track of them now. There's such a conga line of crap going on. But, yeah, man, it's tough out there. Well, with that and with these storms, I saw this article that was talking about the number of people that have been struck by lightning so far this year. Yeah.

And it's pretty wild, man. It's been happening a lot. At least four people were struck by lightning over 24 hours from June, on June 19th and 20th.

15-year-old boy survived being struck by lightning in Central Park. Told you about that. That was on June 19th. The following day, three men experienced jolts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. A 29-year-old Colorado man standing in the ocean in ankle-deep water was critically injured after a lightning strike. A bystander and lifeguards immediately started life-saving measures.

But the victim was unresponsive and he was taken to the hospital later that afternoon, about eight miles inland. Two men on Venetian Bay Golf Course were jolted with lightning struck nearby, but neither of them were taken to the hospital. Do you freak out? Apparently, we are at the peak of lightning season across the U.S. No doubt. Do you freak out when you're on? I mean, I freak out, but you're out on a golf course. You're the tallest thing around. Oh, I have. Yeah. There have been times where I'm like, we need to leave now. Yeah. Like right now. We got you to go. Let's get out of here. But...

A couple of last week, remember when the real... I think it was a week and a half, two weeks ago, whatever. But even when those really bad storms came through, I wasn't getting freaked out. I wanted to finish...

playing around and go home it's like caddy shit i'm like we got two holes yeah best round of my life uh but we kept going but after we got in like i told you three minutes later all hell broke loose yeah last night the uh thunder kept me up quite a bit it was so loud and it was uh it felt like it was right outside the house so i i kept waking up because it was just seemed like the um the storm was really close i don't normally get freaked out by lightning i like it i like seeing it i you know i've flown over it and you know i like seeing what's on the ocean or whatever but

But last night, for the first time that I can remember, I was standing at the window watching the storms roll through, and I thought for a moment, what would happen if a lightning strike happened right outside this window? Like, what I guess... Yeah.

Right? Would the glass shatter? Would it get thrown out? Would it kill me instantly? And is there any warning? Is there any way to see that it might be coming? You can feel it. Well, there are four different ways. There are four different types of lightning strikes. I'm going to get to that in a moment. But first, I wanted to ask you guys...

What you think the, what activity contributes to more lightning depths than any other? If you were to guess, what would you say that it is? I would say swimming. Swimming, okay. Camping. All right. I'm trying to think. That would be, all right, so you guys gave a couple of good ones. The most common, the most common activity.

Give me a second here. Bear with me here. What would be the one that would be the most common where you...

Okay, like camping. I'm going to go with Casey out in the woods. It's fishing. Fishing? Oh, because you're the highest thing on the... Fishing contributes to more lightning deaths than any other activity. It's led to two lightning deaths so far this year. Goddamn fish. I think I had the list here, but I didn't print it up in this particular article. But golf, I believe, is...

Or maybe fifth or somewhere in that range. But it contributes to about 3% of lightning deaths since 2006. All right. So that's in human beings. Like what kind of animals are being killed during a lightning strike? I got to assume otters. Well, I mean, do fish die if a lightning strikes? If an electrical shock goes through the water? Right. Yeah, it would kill. I would say this, though. In both cases, you're talking about a golf course or you're talking about you're out of the water. Yeah.

You're the highest thing. Yeah. So you're going to be the thing that's going to attract the lightning. And I've been out on the water a number of times during lightning storms. And Nick, it is really cool to see it. It is amazing. Yeah. So according to this article, if you're going to be outside, it's important to remain alert for changing weather conditions. Now, here is...

What I found interesting, how do people get struck by lightning? There are four ways. There is the direct strike. The person becomes a part of the main discharge channel, usually when outside in an open area. There's something called the side flash. Lightning strikes a tall object and part of the current jumps from the object to the victim. Yes. For example, when a person is struck while standing under a tree. Yeah. And then there is ground current.

Lightning enters the body at the point closest to the strike, travels through the body, and leaves at the contact point farthest away from the initial strike. And that apparently causes the most deaths and injuries is the ground strike. And then there's one called conduction.

And this is the cause of most indoor lightning deaths and injuries. Lightning travels through wires and other metal surfaces as well. We've heard, and I don't know exactly how this would transpire, but you're in the shower. Lightning strikes the house. Would the lightning be conducted, the electricity conducted through the water? I don't know. And possibly... I was always told to not shower. To not shower, yeah. Yeah, I'm not very clear on exactly how...

operates and what it, what it, you know, I, I know of, you know, things that are grounded and insulated and the absolute basics like that. But I don't know the natural, you know, uh,

instincts of electricity and where it wants to go. So I have an elevated platform on my roof where I will break dance in my C-3PO costume. When I know a storm is coming, I just think it's probably best to go down to a lower floor. The oddest thing I find about that is how with your joints not being able to bemberry for her, how can you break dance? That's the goal. Okay. That's what I'm going with. I'm trying to break this cycle, Preston.

Nick brought this up and said it was a factoid that says, yes, water can conduct electricity, but its ability to do so depends on the type of water. Pure water distilled or deionized is a poor conductor, while tap water and salt water are much better conductors due to the presence of dissolved ions in them. So there was a footage of a lightning hit on a building that had a bar in it.

The lightning conducted down pipes on the side of the bar, jumped to the bar rail, ran down the rail and shot into the wall. But I mean, that's pretty wild. If people had been at that bar by the bar, the bar was closed. Yeah. You'd be looking at some tragic situations. Yeah. Lightning is the closest.

I've ever been to a strike was... And I only know this because of the sound of it because we were inside, but we were in Maine on a lake and a storm came through, so we're just hanging out inside playing cards, whatever. And we heard...

what sounded not like a lightning strike. It sounded like an explosion. Yeah. It was just bang. And I mean, so there's no thunder. This is where the sound starts that creates the thunder. And as it's, you know, thunder is bouncing off of all kinds of things. That's why it sounds rumbly like it does. But I mean, that scared the

the hell out of us. I've never heard anything like that. You'll crap yourself. There's footage of a tree. Relatively new footage from a ring doorbell camera and the person, the tree is on the front yard. It gets hit by lightning and it explodes. It explodes into kindling wood. So if you were in that house at that point, you would have heard what you talked about. An immediate explosion. Hey, what time did that storm come rolling through last night that kept you guys up? Like two o'clock.

Well, yeah, it started around then, but... Oh, you mean 2 a.m.? Yeah. Oh, because we had an afternoon one come by. Yeah. And then a little break, and then another one. It just kept going off and on all day for me yesterday, but... But last night? Because I don't recall... Overnight? I don't know. I just... It was... I kept waking up because I heard rumbling throughout the night. Like, it was going on for a while. So I was saying to you guys before we came on this morning that my dog, Kizzy, is...

She's gotten better with fireworks and so on and so forth. Excuse me. And thunder. But last night was loud enough to make her get nervous again. Yeah. And that's a bitch. My dog growing up, he hated thunder and lightning, obviously, but then fireworks as well. And he would instinctively...

Go to the bathtub. And that's like whenever a storm came rolling through, that's where he was. It's funny you should mention that because Casey goes down to we have a bathroom in our mudroom. The shower stall is right there and she kind of moves up against that. I don't know what that's about, but yeah. I have no idea if this is a joke or if it's legitimate. It doesn't matter. We'll still report it. To answer Casey's question, somebody texted and said...

Giraffes are the most common animals struck by lightning. I don't know if it's a joke or not. No, it's accurate. Giraffes are more susceptible to lightning strikes than many other animals because of their height. You remember that classic bit from, maybe you don't remember it, Barney Five talking about animals in the wild. And he's talking about, you know, giraffes running around getting hit by lightning.

Well, he's trying. Opie has found this pack of dogs that he's worried about them. He goes, oh, dogs look out for each other outside in a storm. They know what to do. Giraffes now. Giraffes get hit by lightning all the time. Here's another stupid giraffe.

Another side fact to animals that have four legs are more susceptible to lightning strikes just because they have four legs on the ground and not two legs on the ground. Yeah, more contact. Exactly, yeah. Giraffes are just losing on every level. Yeah, more lightning can be conducted through the soil after a lightning strike. Somebody also texted and said this. There were, in the old days, of copper pipes.

It was a bad idea to be in the bathroom during a thunderstorm. Less so now? Most of it's PVC piping. So maybe that's changed a little bit. I do not know. Well, that's my C-3PO costume is PVC now. Oh, it's smart. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

It's not as shiny and as cool. No, I know, but it's safer when I'm breakdancing in a lightning storm. Wow. Somebody said, hey, my grandma almost got struck by lightning. We were on a family trip trying to get her into a van, and we heard and saw it and pulled her in right before it hit.

Pushed her in front of the lightning bolt. The story we still tell. That's from Mary from Huckesson. So we did have an afternoon lightning storm pass through yesterday, Preston, and I went running out because the wind started to kick up to close the umbrellas outside. Right. And there was a close hit. And, you know, you think, okay...

You know, yes, lightning, I know what to do. I'll go inside. I'll be fine. But for a nanosecond, I'm like, I better speed this up. Yep. This text also says, and I think, Nick, they want you to know about this. Did you ever hear about that kid that made a baseball bat out of a tree that was struck by lightning? Yeah. His name was Roy Hobbs. Yeah. Turned out to be the greatest baseball player hitting a lot of home runs with that baseball bat. That was a natural. This bat sucks. Wonder boy. Wonder boy. I always strike out. What's with the lightning strike? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So it was pretty intense. Like I stepped, Rochelle was watching TV in another room. I'm like, I come walking. I'm like, did you feel the house literally shake from that?

I'm literally turning into like Rad Dad right now because every single time a rainstorm comes through, I'm like, oh, thank God. The reservoir is going to be so full. I have been so worried about that reservoir. The reservoir. But this spring's been really wet. It's been down? It's been good. It's been good. The spring wasn't as good. We'll have good crops this year. But like the last month or so has been really good. I mean, obviously, you know, not for...

outdoor activities and stuff like that. But I'm telling you, the reservoir, you could see the reservoir floor. I was like, this is getting bad. There's going to be water war, guys. Water war? I'm more worried about lack of water

You already have. You've worked out a dystopian future in which you're purchasing water. It's going to be like Dune. He's going to be saving his tears. Your growing concerns crack me up. The stuff that you get. I love it. Get a still suit. A what? A still suit from Dune. It's the thing that's sticking to the nose. It collects all your pee and feces. You can be very cavalier about the reservoir then. Um...

I forgot what I was going to say. You were going to go to a caller. No, no, there was something else I was going to say. Was it about water wars? No, it wasn't. The new show coming to TLC?

You guys don't think that that's a possibility? Oh, yeah. I am just as obsessed. Not just as. I am also fascinated by the Springton Lake Reservoir and the water levels. I've driven past them my entire life. And when it's low, it scares me. Yeah. It has for a long time. I've never seen it this low. Yeah. I'm an idiot. Steve, when you would go down Gradyville Road, that's the other section. The other section of the reservoir, it was barren. I mean, like, you could just walk through.

In the lake bed. That's how dry it was. Is that where all your drinking water comes from? That's where most of it comes from, I believe. It's where his toothbrushing water comes from. Oh, okay. I just wasn't aware that, you know...

If we run out of the reservoir, then we're going to be fighting each other for water. We'll be killing each other. Every man for himself. Hey, well, watch what happened on the poop cruise. Right. On Netflix. We can learn something from the poop cruise. I remember what I was going to say. Actually, Steve, you mentioned something about the crops. When it was starting to rain, I'm like, oh, God, I'm going to have to water our garden. Thank God. Let me go to Eric, who has a lightning story. Eric, you're on the air. Good morning. You guys rock. Thank you for the love, brother. What's up?

So back in 1990, I was in basic training in Sports Tax in South Carolina, and we were doing grenade training. Now we use dummy grenades, which if they went off in your hand, they'd probably hurt you. I don't know if they'd kill you or not, but they would definitely hurt you. So we're waiting our turn. We're sitting on an obstacle course, and we're sitting on wooden bleachers, and not 50 feet away...

They stacked all the rest of the extra practice grenades for everybody, and then there was like a wooden framed almost roof with like a metal type of sheet over it to stop, I guess, water or whatever. So anyway, we're sitting there. We are not feet away, and lightning strikes the top of this roof. Wow. And I've never heard a sound before.

Great.

That is exactly what it sounds like. It's as if sound designers were standing there with a microphone. So the lightning hit the corrugated metal on the roof of this hut. Did it set off any of the dummy grenades? That is a miracle. Not a grenade went off, not a flame.

Nothing. I mean, like maybe the roof might have gotten like a sting where the lighting hit it. I don't know. But there was no fire, nothing. Like it was just out of nowhere. It wasn't like we knew this storm was coming. This storm just came in out of nowhere, and they cleared the obstacle course immediately. Yeah, absolutely. Well, that's good advice, too, for storing your dummy grenades is keep them in a hot outside place.

It was one of the scariest things I've ever seen in her. You know, it's weird, and we talk about the lateral lightning, Preston, where you'll be, and there have been instances of it. Someone was killed a couple years ago on a beach, sunny day, but there was a lightning storm like... Miles away. Yeah, and they got hit by lightning. I'm going to go back to the Xfinity mobile request line. I have Joe, who is checking in with us. Joe, morning, man.

Yeah, Carson Daly's a tool. Yes. After all these years. I actually have some Carson Daly news coming up in Music News later this morning. All right, what's up, man? What's your story? Yeah, so last year we had a lightning strike our pool to about 15 feet behind our house. Wow. It was a pub ground pool. It was...

instantaneous, just like that last caller called in about. The lightning hits, the thunder and the lightning is at the exact same time we heard the whoosh, we heard the smack of the water and then it blew out three lights in our house. The whole house got instantly brighter for about two seconds, a couple bulbs shattered, our back window and our back porch shattered, and my neighbor's kitchen window shattered.

That's pretty amazing. So do you have the kind, is the yard, was the pool the tallest thing in your yard? Yes. Okay. It's an above ground pool, so four feet tall. So four feet is not extraordinarily high, but so that proximity, that close to your house, blew out all those windows. Was your electrical system in your house effed up?

Yeah, three light bulbs actually shattered, literally shattered. Wow. We heard the pop. And then my neighbor's kitchen window and my back porch window also shattered. So that's the sound. It's got to be the impact of the percussion of the explosion shattering the glass. Because I don't think it's electricity that would have done that, correct? No.

Not sure because the lights went brighter. For like a split moment, the lights went brighter. And then it popped. A couple bulbs popped. I think the windows might have been from the thunder, but not necessarily the light bulbs. No, that's wild, man. It could have been a lot worse. Thanks, Joe. Appreciate it. How often do houses...

Get struck? Get struck. That's a good question. I mean, we have lightning rods and we hope for the best. That's what I was looking for. How do you harness lightning energy for electricity? If you had like a clock tower, for example. Right. Something like that. Or perhaps if you had sewn a bunch of body parts together and were looking to reanimate. It says a single lightning strike contains a significant amount of energy, enough to power a large number of homes. 1.21 gigawatts, actually. Yeah.

Did you know men are much more likely to get struck than females? Is it because they're dumber? Because of our penises. No, we're just much stupider. We put ourselves outside the dumb situation. Hey, why are you dressed as C-3PO by that platform? Leave me alone!

I'm breakdancing. Woman. I can do it. Shut up, woman. Preston says I can't do it because the joints are stiff. I'll show him. Yeah, men are four times more likely than women to get struck by lightning. Is that because we're...

Excuse me. Because of our penises. No, taller? They don't say in this quick facts thing. They don't say? No. Nick, if you are laying down in an open field without trees and you have an erection, that will be the highest thing, right? Yes. True. However, you are discounting boobs. Boobs.

You might. Well, it depends. I know, yeah. Well, it also depends on the dude. Yeah. I think a lot of variables there. Ron Jeremy? Well, yeah. He's a pig. Yeah, he is. In fact, his stomach would be protruding more than his penis would be. But Peter North...

than the blast zone would be. Yeah, oh my God. What's all this white stuff on the trees? By the way, do you want some tips on where you can shelter if you're caught outside during a lightning storm? Yes, yes. You want to choose the closest large enclosed space with plumbing and electrical wiring.

And dynamite. I don't know, but that's what it says. That seems to run contrary to what we've been hearing. Don't shelter in unprotected open buildings such as metal sheds, picnic pavilions, baseball dugouts, and porches. Don't do it in a metal shed. All right. Yeah. What are all these dummy hand grenades doing here? If shelter isn't available, keep moving to search for a safe place. Don't lie down or crouch on the ground. Avoid trees, light poles,

metal fences, and bleachers. Okay, so I knew that. In fact, there was a situation where a bleacher was hit during a sporting event. This was years ago on Long Island, and a couple people died. And also, a fully enclosed car or truck can be an option of last resort. But...

Don't touch the steering wheel, radio, or ignition. Can you take the cigarette lighter and hold it to your tongue? Yeah. Okay. Sure. I know what it's going to do for you. So you don't touch anything. We've heard conflicting reports on whether there is enough insulation in

In the tires of a car. Yeah, it's not the tires. It's the metal frame of the car. The metal frame of the car. Yeah, because a lightning strike, if it is so powerful, Steve, it'll go right through. This is what I read anyway. The tire is not going to really provide any protection for you. The thin rubber layer of a tire is not nearly enough insulation. However, the metal frame of the car would provide some. Would conduct and diffuse, right? Yeah, away from you, away from your body. Yeah.

Hang on, our buddy Tucker is on the line, so let's go to him. Hey, Tucker, good morning. Gadzooks. Gadzooks, what's up, bud? In my previous life, when I could see, I was a construction foreman. Huh. And I watched my buddy get struck by lightning leaning up against a concrete truck. Whoa, okay. He was leaning up against a concrete truck. The truck got hit by lightning. And what was his... The truck got hit by lightning, and I...

We were getting ready to pour a tie beam, and I was actually standing between the truck and the pump, the cement pump, where most of it arced. And I moved away like just seconds ahead before that. All right. And what was the end result? What happened? It knocked him on the ground. Everyone took off. I ran back, and I helped him up. And he said that his whole body was tingling.

He actually got up and helped us pour. And then the next day he had blisters all up and down his arms and legs. Dude, he dodged a massive bullet. No pun intended. I mean, that's the fact that he had that. He was that close and he just had a couple, a little bit of scarring.

That's pretty amazing. Yeah, yeah, and he was actually fine. I don't know how fine he was before he got struck. Maybe lightning's not such a bad thing then, Preston. Hey, Tucker, before we let you go, I saw a post over the weekend about the greatest movie that blind people have, quote-unquote, seen. And it was an interesting survey. And the number one overall answer was Casino because the way that it sounds is really cool. The dialogue's incredible. Do you have a favorite movie that you've seen as a blind person, quote-unquote, seen?

I don't think I do. I do movies with audio description. Nothing that sticks out because I'm blind. I like movies like anybody else. Quick question, Tucker. So you mentioned before you were blind. Did you have full eyesight? And what was it again? I had 20-20. And what robbed you of your eyesight? What was the condition?

Retinitis pigmentosa. Okay. The retina on the back of the eye is losing its pigment. And you're not, are you fully, fully blind? Can you see at all? I can tell, my right eye can tell it's darker light now, but that's it. Okay. The left eye is completely gone. All right. Wow. Well, you're a friend of the show and you're still working as a masseuse?

Yes. All right. Excellent. All right, Tucker, great to hear from you as always. Appreciate it, bud. All right, we'll see you soon. All right, let me go to another friend. Craig Lugans is joining us. Hey, Craig, you're on the air. Good morning, bud.

Good morning. Are we still talking about difficult last names? We have since moved on, sir. Okay. July 1st, 1994. I'm Thunderstorm, just like we had last night. It was after 11 o'clock and I was watching Letterman Night Thunder hit.

really close to me. I'm at the corner of 22nd and Spruce and boom. And the building shook, car alarms went off. I looked out the window. I didn't see anything. I said, but that lightning hit something.

but I'm looking and don't see anything. So I go to bed, 5.45 a.m. My friend Marianne calls me. He said, I'm like, God, Craig, are you okay? I said, yeah, I'm fine. Why? He said, there's a fire at 22nd and Spruce. And I look up, my entire apartment is orange. It's glowing orange. And I go to the window, I open it up, and the church across the street, the roof, the roof, the roof was on fire. Stop.

Yeah, and the whole thing was engulfed in flames, and the roof fell in on the church, and the heat just drove me back. There's a grace – a Trinity church at 22nd and Spruce and destroyed – the whole roof collapsed.

into the church, but the pews were untouched. But it all came from a single lightning strike. One lightning strike hit it, set the whole roof on fire on the church, and obviously you have a lot of things on top of a church. Yeah, I'm curious about if steeples get hit often. You would imagine, right? Yeah, but I didn't see anything. The thing, I heard it, it

It shook the foundation of everything. But I looked out, and I didn't see a thing. And it wasn't until five hours later that the whole thing went up like a tinderbox. You know, you make me think, Craig, in talking about that and about the steeples and so on and so forth, the Roxborough antennas that stick up, how often do they get hit by lightning? You're talking things that are close to 1,000 feet tall. Right, and they're basically huge lightning rods. Yeah.

I don't know. Find that out, Craig. Casey, I want to ask you, who's Roy C. Sullivan? Can you tell the people who Roy C. Sullivan is? Yeah, didn't he get struck by lightning like four times or something like that?

40 times? Seven times. Seven times. Seven times. Yeah. Holds the Guinness Book of World Records. I remember that day. He was a park ranger. You always saw a picture of his hat with a big burn mark in the middle of it. He got hit by lightning so many times that he's dead. Right. But there was a guy in that one documentary that got struck 66 times. You remember him? They do say people, there are people who are biologically...

They're genetically predisposed to attracting and getting hit by lightning. There is something biochemically within their bodies that make them, doesn't mean that they're going to walk out and suddenly just out of the blue get hit by lightning, but statistically they're more likely to get hit. So typically we see an increase in lightning fatalities from late June through August.

So we are right in the middle. Right in the pocket. In the height of lightning. And they're calling for more scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. So keep that in mind. What are we doing here? I don't know. We got to go to, we got to get, take shelter. Keep,

Keep that in mind. And hoard the water because we're going to have water wars. But I was not aware of the variety of different ways you can get struck and also the activities. I need to find the list of the activities. Nick, real quick, I would like to find that out. Because I told you fishing is number one. Right. Golf ranks in the top there. But, yeah, it's top activities that lightning strikes or however you want to phrase that. Okay.

Because I found it kind of unique. The risk is higher of getting hit by lightning if you're doing these activities. Oh, I remember what it was. The other one was a big one is being at the beach. Yes. Is another big getting struck by lightning. And you hear sometimes of people in a clear blue sky getting struck on the beach usually. Wherever you are the tallest and also you have those, you have the umbrellas. Fishing and camping, as you said, Casey, that was your guess earlier, four.

Farming is another big one. Again, you're out in a field. Yeah. And boating, which would go along with fishing. And as I said, golf is another one, too. A lot of people will attach their boats to the top of their tractors, farmers. It's just the worst of all possible scenarios.

Construction is another one. And yard work as well. How often do the high multi-level cranes, the multi-floor cranes get hit by lightning? Well, we've talked about that. And to get out of one of those and descend can take a half hour.

I just learned today that I had been spelling lightning wrong, so that's good. I'm glad we had this conversation. How do you spell it? Well, I spell it the right way now, but I think I added an E and N. Lightning. Lightning. Yeah. Lightning. That's not uncommon. Yeah. Yeah.

That's what you do to your teeth, right? Lightening. That's whitening, I guess. Well, if you're going to lighten something up, that's a word. Yeah, lighten. I'm lightening up with some lightning. Yes. I illuminated this with lightning. And it's thunder. I am Thor, the god of thunder.

Look out for my lightning bolts. Yes. All right, well, anyhow, if you're out, be careful when the storms are making you. Grease lightning. Oh, grease lightning. Grease lightning. It's also a pregnancy term. It is? Yeah, lightning. A drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis. Grease the lightning. Having a baby.

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Now back with more of the Preston and Steve show podcast. So, uh, we had a long weekend this weekend. Marissa had an extra long weekend and she was off on Friday and, and Monday. Uh, but that was for a reason. You had a really cool trip that you took. Yeah, I did. And it is a pain in the butt to get to Salt Lake city. Um,

I saw the video. Your flight was canceled. Besides that, besides the storms on Thursday night canceled my flight, Matt invited me out to the 30th anniversary of the X Games. Wow. Which was out in Salt Lake City. But I learned that from Philly, there's only a couple flights a day. Salt Lake City? Yes. Very surprising, right? Yeah, totally. So if I wanted to get there for the festivities and time, Thursday night was the best time to leave. So explain for people who may be unaware.

Matt's association with the X Games. Yeah, so my husband, Matt, Lyndon Muth, Matt Linde, people might know him as, was an in-line vert competitor athlete from like 1995 until 2007 or 8 is when I figured they...

Inline exited the X Games. Right, right. And so he was winter snowboarding vert and summer inline for 20 years of his life. And quite good, obviously, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got a trick named after him. He was doing double backflips, which is like one of the things that I was realizing. First off, he sent me a text like, you know, maybe this was two weeks ago. And he's like, hey...

They started an alumni association, so the X Games hadn't been great at keeping the old athletes and bringing them into the games. We're used to watching football and baseball, and they always have the old guys in. Look, we've always seen the Tony Hawks and the Andy McDonalds, but there's such a huge pool of athletes out there. They just started an alumni association this year, and so they were bringing everyone back. We were talking, and he's like, I'd love for you to meet my friends, and all of my friends are going to be there once

spot. That's a great idea. That's how this all came together. It's so cool because they were showing I guess this is what I was watching on ESPN. They had coverage of the competition because they were doing

competition as well correct it was all weekend long between abc espn roku and such like that yeah and i was there i was literally right there like on the ramp on the hills like as it was happening i kind of had this like rock star weekend hanging out with all these guys so we would i would you know meet all his friends like uh he's really good friends with this guy named chad keggy who uh is a bmx guy and um

We're sitting there talking and then suddenly somebody comes over and is like, Chad, we need you for TV. And then we turn over and like, there he is doing commentating right there. And he was pointing at all these really cool things like how the baseline for the athletes that are competing right now was these guys' hardest trick 20 years ago. Like when they were born. Is he blown away? Like, you know, I watch some of these things. I'm like, how is that even physically possible? It looks like gravity defying.

Casey, it finally hit me when there's this 10-year-old vert skateboarder named Emma. Emma did a run that had three 900s. Now, do you guys remember watching Tony Hawk in 1999 pull off one 900? And there's Tony Hawk on the side just like there's 900 and there's something else. There's tail whip up.

Another 900. And it's just like, wow. Like Chad said on TV, like these guys are doing tricks that you can't even do in the video games yet. Do you think, because we talk about this, this used to be a main part of our, you know, when we were Y100 and so on and so forth early on. And this is part of culture. Tony Hawk and all the games and Fairmans and Bam and, you know, all of this stuff, all the X games figured prominently in our culture. Literally everybody that Matt introduced me to, he was like, hey, Travis Bastana. Yeah.

Yeah, you were on her show recently, you know, in Philly. And everyone's like, yeah, of course, President Steve. Yeah, Philly. Like, association's there. Do you think that's coming back at all? Do you think to what it was? Or is this its level for here on in? So there's actually some big changes coming to the X Games. They're going to turn it into a league.

So they're going to have kind of like a league sport that is going to be skateboarding and BMX and something else. And they're kind of going to have teams. So they're going to try to change the way that you associate because...

So another athlete was explaining it. Like, you don't kind of go into the X Games and go, wow, like Japan won a whole bunch of awards. Right. It's kind of an individual sport, but everybody's friends. You don't know what to attach to. So you're attaching to the individuals, and it makes it harder to get that enthusiasm. Exactly. So if you don't know the individual off the bat, you're kind of just going in blindly to watching it. I bet that would work. Yeah, I mean, there's...

There's a lot of sports that are that way. Golf and boxing and tennis and individual sports and so on. It's that kind of realm, but they're working on making it a team sport. Yeah, it's launching next summer. They kind of rolled it out. So the CEO right now, he just started. It's Jeremy Bloom. If you guys remember him, he was an eagle for a season. He was a punt returner. His sister is Molly Bloom from Molly's Game.

Oh, yeah. That Aaron Sorkin movie and that crazy story. So he's kind of coming in and bringing this new, you know, image to the X Games and kind of tying together the older and the younger. Like when I went to the merch booth, I was like, wow, none of this merch is for me. It's definitely for younger people. But then walking around the fairgrounds, you see like all of these old

older like dad when i say older my age dads like with their like two and three year olds and you know young kids i literally watched this kid walk in early on friday morning and it was just like a little woodward setup where you know it was just like a little mini ramp and this kid's face with watching somebody skate for the first time in person was just the sweetest moment ever i don't do you recall press because it was i we always enjoyed watching it it was always

Yeah, we went. That was cool.

They were here and you're covering it. That's when Matt did his first double backflip on skates. He did it here in Philly, his hometown, which is really cool. And then, but like listening to it with those guys, like they're professionals. They're like, you know, they're doing, we're watching like BMX best trick. And I'm like, oh,

look, he flipped over and they're like, double, triple, whatever. Oh, he looked at, oh, he over spun or all this. And they could just see that that quickly. They could count how many rotations and everything. Has Matt ever been approached to do color commentary? He did for a

season when he was hurt he had broken something and he couldn't um participate so they pulled him into the booth okay yeah but there's also like the guys that have been doing it for all these years we met his friend uh jimmy coleman is one of the guys and salima masa kala i can't say his name his last name but he's been doing it for years too so like they have the crew of people that do it as well it's great it's awesome nice but so cool i mean like you know

we're just standing there and like, there's Tony Hawk and like, there's Travis Pastrana and I'm just kind of like, wow, and they're just Matt's friends and like, it's such a different atmosphere too. Like, there was a moment when I was kind of in this media, I had a media pass, you know, because I'm media. Yeah. And Tony Hawk is like in this pen and I was like, oh, I'm going to go up and talk to him now and get him on the show, all this stuff. And as I'm about to talk to him, he just like, huh,

And just like jumps over the gate. And then I noticed like that's such an X Games thing, which is like we're not used to in professional sports. Like if something is blocked off, you don't go there. But in this atmosphere, you just you can go anywhere you want. Standing there in another little pen during the BMX best trick. And this guy, R. Willie, who's one of like the big guys now, he was doing his first triple backflip.

And Travis Pastrana just got off a plane, landed, and there was another guy who was like super nervous. And there's Travis just jumps over the gate to go like hype this guy up in the background. So it's just like this cool vibe where it's just kind of like you can go anywhere, but you can't. It was cool. Had you ever been to Salt Lake before or Utah? Never. What did you think of that? Uh.

It was different than I expected. I kind of definitely rolled in with the preconceived notion of the like... Mormon culture. Mormon culture, a lot of drinking, no drinking. Right. But I did learn, talking to somebody who's from there, was that after the Olympics, a lot of that got pulled back. Like bars are open later. You don't have to pay a membership fee.

for you to go to a bar. They pulled back the, they used to not be able to show liquor in restaurants. Yeah, they had a thing called the Zion curtain. Yeah, they had to make all the drinks and have the booze all behind hidden, which is okay. Did you get a chance to meet Matt's other wives while you're inside? Right.

Did you have fun though? Oh my God, Steve. Literally, when we rolled in to get our credentials, the first person I see is Steve Van Doren, who's the guy who runs Vans now, the son of the creator. Just the nicest guy. Were you wearing Vans? No, Casey, I was wearing Adidas. Damn it. I know. But it was cool. And then we saw him later on. And he's just a dude that's just like filming

his athletes as he's going. What was the music like? Was it well represented with appropriate bands? I jokingly said to Matt that I think the CD that you guys played, skated to years ago was stuck in the player because it was a lot of like Offspring and Rancid and Metallica and things like that. So I think that they on site were doing a good job to balance the age gap.

And think because they're trying to build the audience. It's become a generational thing now. When it was in its early, when it's the time we became familiar with it, there were no veterans. Tony Hawk was, you know, revered, but he was still young. Now you're having generations that have participated. Well, so and then they had concerts on Friday and Saturday night. Friday night was Dead Mau. We didn't stay for that.

We did see one of the skaters, Elliot something, did a set which was kind of cool. We saw some of that. But Saturday night was Sublime with Jacob. And man is he so good. It's the original guys, Bud and I can't think of the other guy's name in the band. And then Jacob. And Jacob has a couple of other friends. But I mean,

First off, they started... We walk in as the first song is starting and it's Garden Grove. And I just like reverted back to being 15 years old and listening to Sublime Sublime. And he played all the hits, a couple of new songs. He has this beautiful energy. So if anybody has a chance to go see Sublime, I highly recommend it. That's cool. That's great. And then I do have to tell you guys, on Sunday night in like...

One of these surreal rock starry moments. We just end up in a hotel room. And it's just kind of like a bunch of buddies hanging out. And it's like, let's go over. So it's Chad and it's Travis and Travis's wife, Lindsay Pastrana. And this former BMX motocross girl, Jolene. And then a tattoo guy named Big Island Mike.

I don't know if you guys recall there was an episode of South Park a whole bunch of years ago where the kids went to Hawaii.

Well, Big Island Mike was represented in the South Park episode. And apparently he's been like part of X Games since the beginning. He was a BMX guy. He's been a judge all these years. He's tattooed like everybody from Lenny Kravitz to Britney Spears to Christina Aguilera, like all of these people. So there is everybody in the room, like literally like, hey, what do you guys want to get? I don't know. What do you guys want to get? And literally drawing tattoos in the moment and like getting them set on scene. On-premises tattoos. Wow. Get it out.

So Big Island Mike had a moment. Free. And I kind of was like, hey, you want to tattoo me? And he's like, yeah, come on over. And he's got Rancid Radio on. He's playing. And I was like, well, I'd love to get like a radio. Like I think it's kind of my life, you know. It's appropriate. And we're kind of going over a couple of things. And I was like, well, Tim Armstrong from Rancid, you know.

draws radios, he paints radios, and we pull it up, and he's like, yeah, let's do it. He's like, Tim would love this, because of course he's tattooed Tim Armstrong, too, on top of this. So here you go, guys. You guys want to see my new tattoo? Yeah, here it is. Chris is taking her shirt off.

Whoa. Wow. That's cool. It's a boombox. Damn, dude. Dude, that's great. So it's literally Tim Armstrong's painting boombox. Yeah. And yeah, it's on my arm forever. I'm sorry, Mom and Dad. It's nice. Yeah.

Goes off to join the circus and comes back with a tattoo. I know. There you go. So, listen, Rancid is another band figures prominently in your life. So, it's perfect. Sounds like a wonderful weekend. And what a cool opportunity. I was just like, I can't pass this up. It's really cool. Well, where's the Preston and Steve in that tattoo? I have a question about how you got to the places that you were going. Because it looked like you guys had bikes. Yes.

And so were those like rentals? Like how did that all work out? Matt had road tripped up from Denver and brought our bikes to Salt Lake City. Gotcha. Yeah. So we had our bikes and we just rode over. We were staying about a half a mile, a mile away from the fairgrounds. So we would ride our bikes there every day and back. And it just made it easier to get around, got around to the, on the course and all. I mean, it's, you know, it's exactly what you think about. Everybody has their like skateboards and their scooters and they're just rolling around the space. It's cool. It really is. But there was, I like,

Got into the athlete's lounge and they were playing the new Tony Hawk, which comes out in July. So they were like testing it out there and getting haircuts and getting tattoos and everything. It was just wild. It was really cool. Yeah. But the one thing I will say is what I learned from Matt. I said, I say this to everybody listening right now. If you have a friend that you haven't talked to in a while, text them right now. Just say hi. Because that was a lot of Matt catching up with people he hadn't seen in 20 years, hadn't talked to in a year or two years.

You realize how important it is. Yeah, and it's special. And you just, you pick up right where you were and just say hi. I'm going to text Tony Hawk right now. Yeah, go ahead. I have his assistance information. So I've been talking to her. So yeah, but some great people. Great, great, great experience. I'm so happy I went. And it was just really cool.

And cool videos and pictures on Marissa's Instagram that you can check out of people on bikes flying over doing triple backflips and all that stuff. It's crazy. And I know that Jolene gal. I saw her at the Nitro Circus. Oh, yeah. Exactly. She was amazing. Yeah. She's now a stunt person. Okay. I believe this. Why not? Yeah. She was telling us about a stunt. She was flying to go film. Her partner is crashing a 18-wheeler and called her up and was like, can you crash the car behind me? So, you know.

Let us know when that stunt comes out, whatever that movie is. Yeah, you know, same thing. Nice. Awesome. Well, it's cool that you guys had a good time. Thank you. I was like such a geek. I'm like, oh my God, I got to go home with an X Games athlete. Yeah, that's right. That's awesome.

And do dirty things with them. Good for you. All right. You can, like I said, you can check the pictures and videos, Marissa's Instagram account or Preston and Steve as well. And yeah, that's really special. It is great. Yeah. Tattoo video coming soon.

All right. I wanted to bring up, so we have a little bit of time to play with. All right. So I wanted to bring up something I told Steve last week. This may not go anywhere, but I'm very curious about it. I was intrigued by the concept. So I saw, I was watching a show. It was Friends and Neighbors. Yes. That you suggested. I've only watched one episode so far, Steve. It's a Jon Hamm show.

And I noticed something that I think that happens quite a bit in movies and shows, and I just think it's a bunch of malarkey. I think it's a bunch of garbage. I think it's made for movies and television, and I just can't see it ever really being the case. But I want people to prove me wrong if that is indeed. If there's any interest at all, you can text or you can call.

But there's a scene where John, it's not John Hammond, but another character goes into the boss's office and he's talking to them. And as he's talking to them, he goes over behind his desk and sitting up against the window is a bar. Right. And he pours a drink of whiskey and sits there at work drinking whiskey. Right. Now, you see this in countless movies, right?

Where the, and sometimes it's not even like the owner or anything like that. It's just like a high level management position person. Right. Has got a bar. Yeah. In their office. You want a drink here? I'm having it like Tony Stark does it. Yeah. There's a few different, you know, through the MCU scenes where they're actually pouring cocktails while in the office. And I just love.

I'm talking about now. I'm talking about in this day and age because these are current shows. Now, if you go back to Mad Men and stuff like that, sure. Probably way different. Perfect Strangers. In the late 60s and 70s. But I can't believe. Now, this is speaking. This is a person that's speaking. Who?

Who has liquor in their office right now? There's liquor in the studio right now. I've got bottles of booze in my desk, but we're a different kind of business. Right. I'm talking about executives who are in charge of other people. And it's always in some crystal. It's in a decanter. Yeah, okay. So they got really expensive stuff and they pour it into a decanter to make it look really cool. I bet you there are. I bet you if you're dealing like...

If you are in, for example, high-priced law firms or wherever there are big deals going down, I bet you that's something that occurs. But what are the ramifications of – Yeah. You're there with a client, whatever. You guys have a couple of cocktails or whatever. Right.

You find out that things went sour in this deal that you were putting together. Can't you say, well, he was drinking. Right. He was actually drinking while we were putting this deal together. Right. That's... I can't believe that HR lets that slide. He was drinking bourbon. For Christ's sake. So...

Cask proof. Yes. I don't know. For some reason, I believe that in some cases, and maybe that's because I'm so enamored of the, as a non-drinker, I'm so enamored of the concept of the, you know, pour your drink, you know, and let's talk about it. I mean, they're doing it in succession, are they not? Like, don't they all have to do it? Is that a constant as well? Yeah, yeah.

30 Rocket happens all the time. Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin's character, has a bar that looks really damn cool in his office in 30 Rockefeller Center. And I'm jealous of it. I just don't know how realistic it is. That's what I'm wondering. I just don't... I think it's cool and I think it's a nice aesthetic, but I just don't see it practically being real. If you have a bar in your office and you are perhaps a...

top tier attorney or somebody who's a deal maker or wheeler dealer that you have a bar that you use regularly right please let us know yeah 610-660-9333 you can text or call that number here's a text from somebody that says uh i am a mobile mechanic meaning i go to people's homes the amount of times i'm offered alcohol a day is insane 8 a.m sharp wanna wanna water or drink

Is it too early for a beer? All right, well, that's at someone's home. I can see that for sure. But here we go. Another one says, law and order shows that pouring a drink a lot, mostly after a case at the end of an episode. Right, right, which is kind of a standard trope. Here's another one that says, I had drinks at work in the past. I worked for a government organization that we won't talk about, and we had very little regulations. We always had scotch in our gym bags. Mm-hmm.

No ramifications. I'm talking about now. I'm talking about currently now. So we can say this, Preston, it's not exactly the same thing, but after a, during, when we're doing the show, after a successful...

We'll do a few lines. Yeah, just a couple. Sure. Yeah. I mean, you can be a little more discreet with that. Yeah. And this is also, this is different than having a bottle of booze in your work bag, in your briefcase or whatever. It's this. It's the tie gets loose and you say, can I pour you a bourbon? Absolutely. I'm going to drink some of the honey that Preston got me from KKB. They always have...

an ice bucket, too, that has, like, fresh ice in it. Yeah, sure. Yeah, but you're right, Casey. Would you like a hooker? It's always in a decanter, and, you know, it's during work hours, and... I just tend to think that I'm so removed from that level of success that I believe it happens. Yeah. You know, especially that it's... I would almost...

The way the movies and these kind of things, these TV shows indicate, it's part of the process. You know, to show that you've made it. Yeah. You know, I don't like what's the big law firm that the client inspector that advertises all the time. Right. You know, locally, they have those commercials. And I don't know when that when a big deal is settled or they they get a victory in court.

What comes out? Is it the bourbon or is it you who for everyone? The overall message is if you want to have success in life, baby, don't drink in the middle of the afternoon. Casey, I didn't watch Suits, but somebody says they were always drinking.

in the office on that show. Sounds about right. Another one says, my boss probably has one and an evil cat that he strokes while he is tracking and spying on all of us. No doubt. Blofeld. You know he had a mini bar. Hang on. I'm going to go to Ashley. Hi, Ashley. Good morning. Morning. Hey, guys. How are you? Good. What's up, Ashley?

So the engineering firm I worked at previously, the owners had an executive conference room that they had like a mini bar at and they used to drink. And when they would have clients come in for potential projects, they would drink. And even like some employees had like liquor sitting on their desk, like bottles of whiskey and stuff like that. Ashley, how recently was this?

Like, I just stopped working there a couple months ago. Okay, and so it's your understanding that as part of the thing, if they're having, you know, they're having a business meeting or whatever, they'll offer a drink. It's part of the process, correct? Yeah, just like in the middle of the day. It's not even like a nighttime thing. And sometimes they would, like, sit and drink, like, after, you know, closer to the end of the workday. See, we have a different dynamic here, Ashley. What we do is we offer the clients mini-melts. Oh, yeah.

Because we have a freezer full of that. But you're only allowed one. It's a limit. Only one. All right, thanks. Appreciate it, Ashley. Somebody says, our employee handbook says, you can drink alcohol as long as it does not impede on your job. Stop it.

I don't know. Well, you know when to cut off, right? I don't know if I believe that or not. Do you remember when those dot-coms were popping up all over the place and they had like... The huge explosion. Yes. But like the commissary was like, show up, eat whatever you want out of the commissary, play some ping pong while you're at it, maybe get your job done. You talk about the, you know, this is how I start my day, those videos, that current thing that's going on. Yeah. You remember all the... This is my day where I show up...

I avail myself of the free granola bar. Then I get a quick massage. Then it's off to the... And that actual work seems to take place between 11 and 1, and the rest of it is just perks. Here's a text that says, we have a full bar and a full beer fridge online.

Always stocked. Firm. Involved in large dollar sales transactions. There you go. I think that's how you sort of prime the pump or stroke the kitten or pet the monkey or whatever you call it. Preston, read this one. It says, my father-in-law has one in his office. It's three glass decanters with, I believe, bourbon or scotch in them. My mother-in-law...

Yachts for the rich and famous Chrissy Brinkley and Billy Joel when they were together. Princess Diana after the divorce. Wow. Wow. That's some heavy duty stuff.

Man, oh man. Would you like some fresca? Here's one that says, I went to Paul VI High School. The principal was Father Rock. He had a full bar in his office. Stop it. Would you like a juice box? When you've closed a multi-million dollar yacht rental, you don't know if I'm a juice box, right? You want a bourbon. I guess so. Hang on a second. I have Aaron. Hi, Aaron. Good morning.

Good morning. So my husband, he works for a real estate firm, and it's very common to have a full bar and various alcohol. And in the closure room, they'll have, after the deal is made final, they'll all celebrate with the client as well and have drinks afterwards. There you go. So it's very common to have two people.

to indulge afterwards after a big sale. Closing a deal. It does happen. And this could occur midday, right? Oh, absolutely. In fact, we bought a house ourselves and we got to indulge. So it definitely happens. There you go. How about that? Yeah. I had a feeling.

It does seem like it would just be like maybe that's a thing of the madman time, that it wouldn't be something that's going on now, but it clearly is. I have an anonymous caller on the line. Hi, anonymous. You're on the air. Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing? Great. What's up, my man? So I used to build medical equipment, and I went to this facility to do a repair on a piece of the equipment that I built.

And I'm sitting there, and it takes hours to test this equipment. We're going to be there half the night. And this guy walks up to me and goes, do you want a beer? And I look at him kind of funny, and I'm like, he goes, don't sweat it. I'm the guy in charge of this facility. Do you want a beer? I'm like, okay. He reaches in the fridge and pulls out a six-pack of Guinness and hands me a Guinness. And me and basically the CEO of the site,

Didn't have a couple beers and test the machine that I was working on. Hey, do you want some Ozempic or Sky Rizzy? Yeah, it's a pharmaceutical research company. If I said the name, you'd know who I was talking about. I'd prefer not to. And this guy comes up, he's like, you want a beer? I'm like, sure. And this equipment, were you working on, you know, was it fairly vital, the test that you were doing?

Yeah. Do you know what an autoclave is? It sounds familiar. No, I don't. You put dirty equipment in and you put non-sterile equipment in it and it comes out sterile. Okay. Yeah, so pretty important. Hospital gowns, surgical instruments. Yeah. When you're in pharmaceutical research, you're talking test tubes and Petri dishes and all kinds of...

Nifty stuff. I think that work is best done when you're hammered, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I got it fixed, and I got it up and running to test it. I got to go. Hours. Wow. All right. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate it. I had it set wrong.

It makes it less sanitary. Oh, it uses steam under pressure to kill harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and spores. Autoclave. Yeah. So are we missing the mark, Preston? Do we need like some dark wood in the office with decanters when we close a big live read deal? Custom glass. Yeah. There you go.

Yeah. Ice machine. When we have a successful Hershey broadcast. We'll throw a blender in there. Right, yeah. Start whipping up some frozen drinks. Yeah. The thing I find interesting, though, is it the chore of someone to come in and make sure that there's fresh ice throughout the day? Hey, guys. You guys want a drink? Yeah. What's up? What are you eating? A little Mai Tai. A little Mai Tai? Mr. Sticky, would you like a bourbon?

Nail being my time. Rochelle got me a new hat, and I love it. And it's white with gold lettering and, like, gold leaf around it. Like, it almost looks like an admiral's hat. Uh-huh. And it says Captain Cocktail on it. Yeah. Yeah.

That is my new favorite hat. I think you wear that at a high-priced law firm. You're going to get all the bits. The best clients. You must salute Captain Cocktail. That's right. Yes, I have a meeting with Captain Cocktail.

Yeah, the salute looks like this. Casey's holding a cup to your mouth, pantomiming, and then it comes up to a salute. Captain Cocktail. That's perfect. I love it. Reporting for duty. All right, well, interesting. I got to believe it's a little more rare than we think, but I guess it happens. I guess people, you know, will. I just think with a corporation that's got...

Where you have to, you got to mind your P's and Q's. Listen, yes. And you have to manage people. It's probably a little bit more scrutinized, but it's still happening. And if there's some indiscretions that take place and people can point to alcohol, that's only going to add fuel to the fire, I would think. I'll just quickly add on there is one movie trope that we know is accurate is that radiation gives you superpower.

We know that that will happen. Marissa? Did you guys see the story the Enquirer did last week about a lawyer that has a British pub?

Yes. It's like a little speakeasy that he built. I just pulled up the story. His name is Adam Barrist. He's located in media. He said he has like an office and then his office has a secret door. And behind the secret door is this little pub. And they kind of told this story about how one day there was a deposition happening. He opposing counsel, the meeting ended.

You know, they put a period on it. Then he invited everybody into the speakeasy. And from there, like the business kind of continued. And where they thought that this was going to go to court, they decided to settle. So it just kind of like it was like that post-conference meeting that happened there. Why not? And impressive in this place, they'll actually block your cowboy hat, which is great. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah, so you don't have to worry about that. Wow. It looks cool, though. I want to go drink in there. Yeah, no kidding. All right, well, anyhow, thank you for checking in, gang. We do appreciate it. Let's take a break. Come back in a moment, and I will regale you with stories of the strange, and we'll get into the bizarre file in just a moment. Stay there. Stay there.

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of beating another man with a plunger and pouring bleach on him and kidnapping his child.

19-year-old Charles Kaufman was charged with aggravated kidnapping, attempted second-degree murder, and tampering with evidence. Police said that Kaufman was allegedly asked by the child's mother to take an Uber to the home and pick up the three-year-old child. Once there, Kaufman said he got in a physical fight with the victim. He slammed the victim to the ground, struck him in the face multiple times with his fists,

struck him with a toilet plunger and stuffed the plunger into his mouth. Oh! Yeah. I guess it's one of those plungers. The report said that Kaufman then allegedly dragged the victim into the bathroom, stripped him naked, and poured bleach on his wounds.

That's like torture level. What's that about? Police found the victim while conducting a wellness check at around 4 a.m. on Sunday. Entry, according to the report, was forced into the residence and the victim was found in the bathroom naked and with serious head injuries. A three-year-old child and a Ford Expedition were both missing. The man was taken to a hospital where he suffered a subdural hematoma and other serious injuries.

That's brutal. Police said they then interviewed the mom of the child who said that she had never spoken to Kaufman or would allow him to take her child. Silverville police found the car soon after they had reported it missing with Kaufman, a woman and the child inside. The child was taken to a nearby hospital to be evaluated. Kaufman's being held in the county jail. How disturbing is that? He kidnapped the child? Yeah, it's very strange.

One four-legged visitor strolled into the Anchorage Fire Department maintenance shop, not looking for an oil change, but instead searching for her babies. According to mechanic Ryan Donahue, he said, I heard grunting and I got out of the rig and went behind it. And there is a mama moose inside of the maintenance shop. My babies. I can't find my babies.

Did you see the video? I did. The guy's like, there's a moose in here. And nobody responds at all. Yeah. Yeah, right. Why don't you forget the moose?

Don't forget the moose. I need to find my babies. He said she didn't seem upset, so I just got my phone out and I started filming. Now, Donahue said the moose was only inside the building for about 20 seconds after she realized her calves weren't with her. He was surprised to see the video that he took of her visit quickly generated tens of thousands of likes and shares on social media. He said, I'm from here. I see moose every single day.

He said, but they normally don't walk into your shop every day. It is kind of cool. So, yeah, just kind of strolled on in and didn't see your babies and walked on out. They're improbable animals because their bodies are so huge, but their legs are sort of spindly. Yep, they're biggies.

Police in Michigan used a beverage on a drone to lure a man out of a bank and shoot him dead during a multi-hour hostage standoff in the middle of a packed commercial district. Who wants a beer? The man, who is not being identified, took an employee of Mercantile Bank in Saginaw Township hostage on Friday.

The standoff resulted in a half mile stretch of State Street, which is the main business thoroughfare in the area, to get shut down for several hours. The man held the hostage, who was reportedly injured, for several hours as police negotiators attempted to reason with the suspect. During the tense negotiations, police used a drone to deliver a drink to the parched man and used the opportunity to end the standoff when he came out to retrieve it.

The spokesperson said that when he exposed himself, the trooper was able to take a shot. Spectators were hearing an explosion around 8.05 p.m. that night, prompting ambulances to rush to the scene. The freed hostage was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and has since been discharged in good condition. I'm looking for my babies. How did the moose get in here?

All right. And then how about this story? This is out of Norway. Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told that they had won life-changing sums of money in the country's Euro jackpot draw after an error by the state-owned gambling operator Norsk Tipping. Good.

Could there be anything worse? Obviously, there's many things that are worse, but that's just horrible. In a statement on Friday, Norst Tipping said several thousand customers were notified of incorrectly high prizes. The mistake has prompted the resignation of the company's chief executive. It was a mistake. The company received prize amounts from Germany in euros, which are then converted to Norwegian kroner.

And they said it is in this, it's during this conversion that a manual error had been made in the code that is entered into our game engine. The company said, and a statement, the amount had been multiplied by 100 instead of being divided by 100. Oh, man. Oh.

So the inflated sums were displayed on the company's website and mobile app on Friday but were later removed. Norse tipping confirmed no incorrect payouts were made. This is goddamn ridiculous. The error has triggered sharp criticism from customers, regulators, and Norwegian Minister of Culture. The company held an emergency meeting.

with the Ministry of Culture on Saturday, and the CEO, Tonj Sagtund, had announced that she would step down. So several Norwegians had begun celebrating before discovering the make. The mistake, one couple believed that they had won over $100,000 during a home renovation, while others said they planned to buy cars or take holidays before realizing the messages were incorrect. Another woman said it was a very fun minute,

She thought she'd won nearly $200,000, like $300,000 actually. Wow. But yeah, they had to take it back. It's a little deflating. I can't imagine. You think at that moment that you have gotten it and it turns out to be a bunch of garbage. All right, and there you go. That is what I have in the bizarre file for you this morning. When we return, we're going to see how closely you've been listening to our program. We'll have a lesson question. We'll get into the trash and music news as well. So that's coming up next. Stay with us.

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Their tour is called In the Open, and the show is Saturday, July 12th at the Tropicana Showroom, and that's in Atlantic City. And the question that I ask you is this. What costume does Steve like to wear when he's breakdancing during a lightning storm? All right, 610-660-9333. I keep thinking...

Fading up the wrong damn thing. I'm sorry. It's my fault. You have some wonky fader situation going on over there. What costume does Steve like to wear when he's breakdancing during a lightning storm? Let's see if you know the answer. That's 610-660-9333. And let's do the trash while you're calling in. The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR.

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Steve, what's going on this morning? Well, Rosie O'Donnell attacking Jeff Bezos saying he ditched his salt of the earth wife, ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott for, quote, fembot Lauren Sanchez. Scott, who received $38 billion in the divorce, responded to Rosie saying, I'm good.

So don't worry about it. Oh, my God. Cobra Kai star Alicia Hanna-Kim taking to Instagram to address an incident in which co-star Martin Kove bit her arm at a fan convention last week. In the video, Alicia says she just wants to get past the incident, but also raised suspicion that Kove might have eaten Pat Morita. Oh, my.

That's bad. And finally, Paul Simon had to cancel multiple shows in Philly this past weekend, citing intense back pain. Apparently, Simon suffered a horrendous muscle pull while filming a Nat Geo special called Could Paul Simon Beat Up a Gorilla?

All righty. We're going to try to find someone who knows the answer to this question, which is what costume does Steve like to wear when he's breakdancing during a lightning storm? And we've got Brendan that we're going to go to to try and get a winner here. Brendan, you're on the air. Good morning, bud. Good morning. All right. So what costume does Steve like to wear when he's breakdancing in a lightning storm? That would be C-3PO. Daddy's got it. One moment, my friend.

We'll gather your information and then we are going to give you a pair of tickets to see Young the Giant in the Open 2025 Tour. Saturday, July 12th. That's at the Tropicana Showroom in Atlanta City. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster. Come on now. Come on now. Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR. Yeah! Yeah!

Brought to you by Sequoia Outback. Celebrate freedom from your aging deck and get serious savings during Sequoia's 4th of July sale. Route 309 in Hatfield and online at decksupplies.com. Well, with Rod Stewart opting out of several concerts in the weeks leading up to his Glastonbury appearance.

Fans had to be wondering what kind of performance, if any at all, because he's been ill and he is 80 years old. But they would get from Sir Rod and they needn't have worried. After negotiating an extra 15 minutes for his headlining legend slot, Stewart brought his A-game and some friends along as well. Taking the stage with him at various times, fellow Faces fanmate Ronnie Wood said,

Simply Red singer. Nice. Mike Hucknall and Lulu as well. Stuart and Hucknall duetted on the classic If You Don't Know Me By Now. Lulu joined him for Hot Legs and Wood accompanied him on Stay With Me. Something about that guy really melts my butter. Yeah.

I watched a little video of it, and he's got good energy and everything. The voice is definitely 80 years old. Well, just the range. Yes. You know, the range falters out. There was another video footage, a bit of footage that I saw the other day. And so the Scorpions are celebrating their 60th year together. It's astonishing. Which is crazy. Yeah.

And Klaus Mein, the lead singer, there's a video of him on stage. It's not the same. It's just, dude, his jowls are huge. No. He can't hit the notes anymore. But, I mean, the guitarist, I've forgotten his name. It's not Shanker. But anyhow, was ripping and playing great guitar solos and everything. So there was still some energy left. But singers have a real hard time.

When they hit a certain age and, you know... Very few can keep it going. If you go in expecting that, then you're not going to be disappointed. But if you go in thinking you're going to see the old band, it's kind of a different story. So you're saying he might not melt your butter, but he will warm it up. He'll warm it up a little bit, yeah. Hold on. Matthias Jobs. Matthias Jobs. That's the guitarist's name. But he was still shredding, so... Did he do like, do you think I'm sexy? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, Rod Stewart. The clip I saw of him was singing Do You Think I'm Sexy? But now it's Do You Think I'm Continent? Yeah, it's a question we all have. No, the guy still has got... Didn't he and his son get in a brawl with somebody at a hotel? I don't know. Like about a year ago? Maybe. He's got a little rascal in him. He's better now that he does the standards. Yes. The classics. Right.

are more tailored to his style now. So, you know, pulling off like Stay With Me and stuff like that is a little bit harder. A little tougher, yeah. But Rod's great. I've seen him in concert. It's amazing. So it's cool that he's still going at 80. Three Days Grace just joined Spotify's Billions Club. Jeez. Their 2003 debut single, I Hate Everything About You, has now been streamed more than one billion times, making the Ontario Rockers only the second Canadian band to reach that mark. Yeah, we're against Spotify.

The group thanked fans, laughing that the breakup song is somehow in a lot of wedding and first dance picks. The classic hit tops a catalog that already boasts 19 number one rock radio singles. To cap the good news, the band confirmed its first album with returning original singer Adam Gontier. Titled Alienation, the record is due out on August 22nd through RCA.

So if you are a part of the MTV generation, you probably complained about how the channel no longer shows music videos. But beginning on September 1st, in the week leading up to the 2025 Video Music Awards, which will air on CBS September 7th, MTV will go back to doing what it once did best, airing videos selected throughout its 44-year history. In their press release, it said in the run-up to the Video Music Awards,

MTV will air an unprecedented week of 24-7 music videos across MTV2, MTV Live, and MTV Classic. Both classic and current in a revival of the brand's early DNA reimagined for today's audiences. Do you think despite shifting viewing habits, if they were to re-embrace...

running music videos from current artists, do you think they could generate any interest if they packaged it in a more contemporary way? Or has that shipped sale? Yeah, I think so. Would you do it? I mean, if I want to watch a music video from a band that's current that I like, I'd just go to YouTube. Yeah, you know, there used to be, though, impressive, we were talking about it, the passive sort of sitting there and being introduced to new stuff online.

Like, you're hunting down something you want to listen to, but just the notion of putting on MTV, just, oh, I like this band now. I like this. I didn't know about this. If that serves any purpose, or is it after the fact? Yeah, I think it's way after the fact. Son of a bitch. I wanted to be a VJ. Well, there are so many different ways that you can access bands, musicians, back when MTV was in its heyday, and even several...

into it or after it, there was still limited access on how you could actually see your favorite bands. Sure.

I'm saying, though, from a Whitman sampling point of view, though, you're not, you never heard of this band, but it comes up and you're going to now pay attention to them. That's probably less of an opportunity now. Well, I wouldn't, yeah, I wouldn't be even interested in just putting it on in the first place for that. So, but no less, they're actually going to, it says past NBA winners and legendary MTV personalities were returned to curate and spotlight MTV.

their seven favorite music videos of all time, offering fans an intimate glimpse into the music videos that shaped them. It would be wild if they could get Michael Jackson back. Oh, my God, that'd be crazy. Rawr!

There's no list of participating stars yet, but it's a safe bet that many of the stars who jump-started their careers on the channel, like Carson Daly, will make their return. I'd also say that the video lineup will include the hundreds of iconic videos that are synonymous with the channel, which helped introduce the public and everyone from Madonna to Nirvana to Britney Spears. Do you remember how big that TRL show was? It was huge.

And then one last thing, Steve touched on this, but Paul Simon canceled two shows this weekend due to chronic and intense back pain. I revealed the news with a statement on Instagram just hours before the shows were set to take place on Saturday at the Academy of Music in Philly. The release said Paul's been struggling with chronic and intense back pain. Today became unimaginable and demands immediate attention. Unfortunately, we have to cancel these shows at the time as we don't have the ability to reschedule them.

It's not all bad news for Fanzo, as they share that they are hopeful that Paul will be able to make the tour as well as look into returning to make up these dates. So fans should look for a refund coming from the original point of purchase. It's my understanding that at the last minute they were going to try to swap in Marilyn Manson, but it would have been a different audience. Maybe.

All right, and that's what I have in music news for you. We'll take a final break when we return, wrapping up the show and letter of the day for the Word of the Week prize. It's only three letters this week, so it's crucial that you get this first one. Stay with us. Hey, welcome to the Preston and Steve podcast, which is brought to you by Acme Markets.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. 233 WMN. It's 1034, Preston and Steve radio program. Coming to an end for the day. Thanks for hanging out with us. We definitely had an enjoyable time. No guest to speak of other than you and the many phone calls that we took. So we do appreciate that. I'll reiterate the one announcement that we made, which is the big friggin' deal.

It's going now through the 6th, and it is at the Funplex.

which is great. Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Wonderful place. You get two single-day wristbands for the price of one. And it's unlimited access to indoor and outdoor rides and the Splash Plex water park. Wow. One hour of bowling, $5 arcade card and all that stuff. You can get it exclusively while supplies last at WMMR.com slash deal. So make sure you take advantage of that before it is over and done with. Sarah Parker is back in our studio. Hi there, Sarah. Is it just

me or does this Tuesday feel like a Monday, guys? Yeah. Doesn't it? Yeah, definitely. Just making sure I'm not alone in that. Were you in yesterday too?

I was not. You were not. That's why it feels like Monday, then. Yeah. I'm all over the place this week. I'm in for Pierre Robert today. I'm in for Brent Porsche on Thursday. And I'm in for Jackie Bam Bam on Friday. And then back to my normal shift on Sunday afternoon. So, yeah, let's hang out all week. You're just bouncing all over the place. Yeah. Coffee helps. All good. All right. We need a letter for the letter of the day. Ready? Let's do it. Here you go. Kristen and Steve on 93.3 WMMR.

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Just for Piero Bear today. Just for today. Okay, because I knew you were working the other show, so I didn't know that you worked so much. I live here. I live in the Piero Bear studios. All right. What are you going to do with your time today? Workforce Blocks kick off at noon with Truly Everything That Rocks, Korn, Mammoth, and Blondie. And it's Double Shot Tuesday, so make sure you give us a call, text in, fill in those double shots for us. We'll have them all afternoon. Cool. Love it. All right. Thank you, Sarah. Good to see you.

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