Live From ...

Wait, who's that woman on the right? No, it's not Evangeline Lilly, who plays Kate on Lost. This picture was taken at the wedding of West Chester MTV celeb Bam Magera and longtime sweetheart Missy Rothstein (left). His mom, April, is the other woman next to 'MMR's Preston Elliot. The lookalike? Missy's sister, Jessica.

The radio racket flies by fast no chance I can keep up by typing ... so I'll grab and pass along whatever bits I can ...

Idea today is to capture the sense of this wild, creative, popular morning show (bested only by KYW-AM, according to fall Arbitrons) ... and to talk about ABC's Lost, which resumed its run last night. Preston & Steve talk about Lost the morning after every show.

7:55 Steve growls out some dog-banter song ... party tonight at Bootleggers ... "full horniness level kicks in at 8:30, 9:30 says Steve ... they play a clip that even they censor "my hand on his massive ... and then this nasty stuff ... my husband make the decision he would ..."
NO, I DON'T THINK I CAN REPEAT THAT ...

Bizarre File: German man noticed bump in bar wasn't a nut but a human finger! ... In Peoria, motorist crossed the road to intentionally ram car of a man who was using a cell phone... Seattle: 82-year-old man uses metal cane to whack a guy who was dousing people with lighter fluid and lighting a match. Two women had flames but escaped injury. ... Giant penis design in grass shows up on Google Earth satellite footage. It was made by a couple of 11 year olds ...

Preston and Steve for Beginners. Who's who, a guide to their favorite noises / sound effects, and a couple of hotlines: The Love You, Hate You Line and the Converted Listener Line.

Their site also has lots of (and I mean this in a "good" way) degenerate video clips and pictures. Like:
Video for Losticil, the cure for "Lost" Discussion Deficiency Syndrome, and
a parody of an Action News opening parody.

Wednesday's show, according to the producer's notes, had two stars from "Lost," promoting last night's return show:

The guy who plays Charlie
"Dominic Monaghan on the phone. Having time off. Dominic talking about if LOST airing will change. Dominic talking about the show ending while it’s still hot. Has a great relationship with Evangeline. Loves playing the character Charlie."

The guy who plays John Locke.
"Terry O’Quinn on the phone. New season of Lost on tonight. Comes on the show b/c he is fond of Kathy. Loves the job but it is tiring. Wants the show to keep going on long as it a strong show. Loves watching the show with his family. Growing to love Hawaii more and more but you do need to get out once and an awhile. Going to send Preston this Hawaiian juice he loves."

You can hear them on the podcast of the show. Monaghan's in the middle, O'Quinn at the end.

Kathy reads the traffic, comic / cohost Steve leads a discussion of porn being found after you die. Need a buddy to sneak into your house and find and destroy the porn. Caller says after his dad died, he found his dad was a "a complete and total S&M freak." Another caller says they found a KKK outfit when his grandfather died.

More talk of finding stuff after people died. One guy retrieved his deceased friend's porn, and kept it. Of course! he said. A woman hid drug paraphernalia. Another found naked pictures of Mom and Dad. Woman says she made a friend promise to find a diary and sex toys and destroy them (after reading diary). "My memory's so bad I like to keep a record of it, so when my boyfriend f's up, I go, 'It's right here.' "

Last night's show was mostly about Juliet, played by Elizabeth Mitchell.

Preston TiVo's the show and watches it at 3 in the morning ... Rob McIlhenny was the guard? Nick: It was him! I know that guy! Casey: He was reading a Brief History of Time.

Episode: Preston: I thought it was really good ... he'd like to see more about what's going on with the islanders ... Kathy disagrees, really into her back story ... Juliet's sister apparently had cancer and was trying to get pregnant ... Steve: seems as if the Hanso organization is one that tried to recruit Juliet ... Casey: Desmond's girlfriend's father is behind this ... the girlfriend is still searching for him.

Woman: Is Ben really the father?
Nick (pictured at left): Ben's probably the adoptive / kidnapping father, not the real father.

Casey: what about those messages in the brainwashing scenes?

Chris: Yahtzee! I love you like a fat kid loves cake. What are the chances that she got Sun pregnant?
Steve: I think everybody but Hurley could be getting pregnant.

Emilio: Farfetched theory: What if Henry Gale is actually the mother? Remember Juliet's experiment with mice? Tumor could have been a side effect.

What do you want to know most? Black smoke, says Preston

Caller makes connections about "jacob's list" and number 108 being Ben's blood pressure (same number as countdown clock)

Steve: The bus ... how did they work that piece of magic?

Karis (sp): what about the "purple sky"? Steve: Prince?

Next week: More of the action ... Kate reaches the main island (that's her below with Sawyer)... some building explodes. ...

Sound effects are just a touch away on a monitor in the studio. This is just one screenful on Casey's monitor. By clicking tabs and opening other folders, he explained, he can pick from more than 500. Steve has another 500 or more on his computer. When you switch jobs, as happened when this crew got the ax by Y100, it can be days of work to download and reupload all of these collected files, Casey said.

Yikes, look at all those buttons and knobs and sliders on that console in front of Preston. You'd think the guy previously worked at NASA as he explains how these switches control feeds of all sorts, maybe a dozen or more possibilities, from this studio and the room next door. Phone calls, the mikes, CDs, commercials and more.

Preston's head goes down on the console. "I'm tired," he says, as the crew collects its stuff and gets ready to go. After all, he was up at 3:30 to watch his Comcast DVR of "Lost."

That's it. No longer Live From ... WMMR.