WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Almost Andy Reid! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something Special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.680 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.040 In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.479 Mahler and Danny g Radio. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.720 He is away today. He'll be with me over the weekend. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.000 He's scheduled to join me over the weekend anyway, he 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.600 will be producing this podcast. But you've got me here 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:53.320 on this seventh day of February, the friday before Super 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.720 Bowl Sunday, and we have coming up in a few 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:01.600 minutes one of the great characters around the Super Bowl, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.120 who you may or may not know. If you've looked 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.240 at the description of this podcast, you know who's going 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.680 to be on, but almost Andy Reid. I'm going to 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.679 tell you more about him coming up in a couple 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.000 of minutes. But it is National Bubblegum Day today, so 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:22.400 celebrate appropriately. February seventh National Bubblegum Day. I don't know 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.319 how popular bubble gum is these days. I do love 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.720 the fact that bubble gum has been around now for 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.120 almost one hundred and twenty years. I think he's started 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.520 to watch it's been less than one hundred years. The 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:40.880 original bubble gum concept, the first attempt didn't actually work. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.640 And I was reading about this because I'm a total loser. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.440 And back in nineteen oh six, guy named Frank Fleer. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.720 If you collect sports cards, you might remember Fleer trading cards. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.480 But Frank Fleer was the guy that decided to invent 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:04.240 the world's for bubblegum in nineteen oh six. But it 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.400 turned out that the recipe for the bubble gum wasn't 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.120 that good. It's a little too sticky, and so it 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:18.560 didn't work. It was called blibber Blubber, Blibber Blubber bliber Blubber. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.800 That was the name of the original bubblegum. So that 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.960 was nineteen oh six. It wasn't until nineteen twenty eight, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.800 So ninety seven years ago. A guy named Walter Deamer 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:35.440 Walter deamerd I. E. M. Er, who was an underling 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.680 working for the Fleer corporation. Remember Frank Fleer, So this 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.240 guy was working for the Fleer Corporation and he was 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:49.720 able to create the first marketable version of bubblegum that 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.720 the world had ever seen. So nineteen twenty eight it 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:58.520 was branded double Bubble, which is still around. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:58.720 To this day. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.480 And the part of the story which is pretty funny 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.160 to me, and it reminds me a lot of the 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.280 donut thing, the donut box story that we'd like to 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.000 share on this podcast from time to time, where the 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.320 reason that baked goods often come in pink boxes and 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:18.160 people perceive that for delicious baked goods is because the 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.799 people behind the donut revolution in America, we're trying to 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.840 save a couple of bucks, and so they bought the 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.720 pink boxes, which were actually misdiye. They were supposed to 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:35.040 be red boxes and the dye came back pink, and 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.400 so they were cheaper. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.360 They made those boxes out of that. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:44.280 And I'm paraphrasing, but that became synonymous with baked goods, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.080 with donuts and all that. I bring that up because 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.200 double Bubble bubble gum when it was created by this guy, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:58.160 Walter Walter Deemer, he used pink dye in the bubble gum. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.200 The reason that he used pink dye is because that's 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.280 all that he had access to. If he had had 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.760 blue or green or yellow or whatever other color, any 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.880 other color in the rainbow, bubble gum would be synonymous 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.679 with that. But to this day, almost all bubble gum 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:21.880 is perceid. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.120 It's pink. Now. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.000 I know there's some other colors of bubble gum, but 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.760 for the most part, when you think bubble gum, you 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.279 think pink, right, you do? 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.800 The color is synonymous now. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:38.039 Meanwhile, it is also National Fetichini Alfredo Day today. My 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.960 favorite go to pasta when I'm at a nice Italian restaurant. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.120 I love Fetichini Alfredo. It's wonderful. It's hard to f 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:52.400 up Fetichini Alfredo. And since it is National Alfredo Day, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:54.360 I looked it. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.799 Up and went back in the archives and. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:03.680 The original Alfredo dish actually goes back to they estimate 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:09.880 in Italy the fifteenth century, but it was known by 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.120 a different name. And the person that is credited as 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.279 the true inventor of the modern day dish. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.160 Of Fenatrini Alfreno. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:27.160 Is Alfredo d Lilio Alfredo di Lilio. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:29.480 This guy ran a. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.040 Restaurant, well, his family ran a restaurant, so he was 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.400 a restauranteur in Italy. And the legend, I don't know 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.640 whether this is bull crap or whether this is true, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.719 but the legend I'll just repeat it anyway. So this 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.480 guy was trying to get his wife to eat after 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.640 giving birth to their child in their first child night. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.800 It was like nineteen early nineteen hundred, nineteen eight, I 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.799 believe was the year, and so his wife didn't want to eat, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.680 so he was getting annoyed, and he created a recipe 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:04.120 that included all the delicious things that we love from 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:10.800 fetcini Alfredo, the noodles, the cheese, the butter, and put 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:16.800 it all together and teta abrika dabro wonderful. So fetcini 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.719 Alfredo was his wife loved it right, and it was 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:26.400 so good that Alfredo Delilio added it to the menu. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.480 And his mom's restaurant. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.920 Pizza Rosa was the name of the restaurant, and they 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.520 sold more feticini than pizza. Became amazing. People like wow, 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.760 and so that was deemed the birthplace of fetichini. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.359 Alfred Is. That's a fun fact, right, that is a 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:44.960 fun fact. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:51.239 In nineteen fourteen, Alfredo Delilio opened up his own restaurant 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.080 just called Alfredo, and then he opened up another one 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.120 with his son in nineteen fifty. But in nineteen seventy 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:06.000 seven he opened up a restaurant in America, and that 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:12.120 is where things went next level for the Feticini Alfredo. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.080 So it kind of began in the fifteenth century, but 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:22.760 for our purposes, the modern version of Feticini Alfredo that 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.920 came to us more recently. More recently, I say more recently, 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.560 still been one hundred, one hundred plus years we've had 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.360 Alfredo in our world. So today is Friday. It is 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:40.800 Super Bowl Friday, coming up on TV today. Now it's 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.680 already aired last night on Thursday. There was some of this. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:50.920 But Benny versus the Penny, the Super Bowl edition, it 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.040 is proptastic. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.760 We've got all the props. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:08:00.280 I will dust off Benny's crystal ball and predict the 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:05.640 greatest possible endings that would break the Internet and be 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:11.320 wonderful for sports radio and sports media conversation. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.520 But we'll have tons of props. It's gonna be a 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:14.239 fun show. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.400 We're gonna go back and forth over all the big 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:23.080 props in the game and cannot wait, can not wait 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.200 for that. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.360 So that'll be coming up today. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.200 If you haven't seen Benny Versus the Penny, it's also 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.920 on Peacock Me and Looney Tunes breaking it all down 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.800 for you. I say scientifically, but I don't know how 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.360 scientifically it is. So that'll be coming up for you 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.320 all weekend long. And this is not our last episode. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:46.360 We have one episode left in season two of Benny 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.840 Versus the Penny. That'll be next week, so we'll see 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.160 what happens with the TV show. It's been a lot 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:55.800 of fun to do with the last couple of years, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.520 and it seems to be gaining some traction, which is 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.199 pretty cool. And you guys have been wonderful, my loyal 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.439 foot Soldiers and the Malla Militia promoting the show, letting 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.080 people know about the show, and we've gotten some good 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:15.240 promotion by NBC. They've promoted the show during Celtic games 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.640 and Warriors and Sixers games, and so it's really neat 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.080 that they have promoted the show. I don't get much 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.559 promotion at all for the overnight show, so it's nice 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.160 when you get a little promotion. So it's good for that, 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.800 but we definitely need you to spread the word, get 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.120 people that have Peacock to watch Penny Versus the Penny 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:39.079 this weekend and then the final episode next weekend. Now, meanwhile, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.640 we pivot, where do we pivot to? We pivot to 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:49.520 the big game Soupper Bowl Sunday. Person we're going to 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.640 have on here. He goes by the moniker almost Andy 0:09:53.880 --> 0:10:00.720 read And while you and I are taking part in audio, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.640 and I know this is more of a visual thing 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.360 than an audio thing, but just imagine the twin, the 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.960 doppelganger of Andy Reid from a different mother. This guy 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.840 is such a dead ringer that some of the Chiefs 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.400 players cannot tell whether this is Andy Reid or almost 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.400 Andy Reid. So it's a fun story. I'm gonna get 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.560 into it with him. But he he is a lives 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.400 in the Kansas City area, and he's been doing this 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.200 for about seven years. He's the number one preeminent Andy 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:36.320 Reid impersonator. He's got the mannerisms down, he's got he 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.320 looks just like him. If you're blind, trust me, it's 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.840 the same exact guy. You can't tell the difference. And 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.880 the fun part of this and I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.240 get to it at some point here. He actually was 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.720 a listener before he became Almost Andy Reid. He was 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.920 an overnight listener. He listened to our overnight show in 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.440 Kansas City. We have a mutual friend, Bob Fesco from 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.440 Fesco in the morning, he does the morning show there, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.319 a very popular show in Kansas City. And so, without 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.839 further ado, just again use your imagination. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.440 It's audio. It's theater of the mind. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.160 Super Bowl fifty nine is coming up on Sunday, and 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.160 we now present, without further commercial interruption, at least for now, 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.679 Almost Andy read So, I've wanted to have you on 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.360 this show, my show, the podcast for a while, Almost 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:30.319 Andy Reid. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.440 But let's start right now super Bowl week. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.280 As we said, everything's going on, parties all over the place. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.160 What has this week been like for you? 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.839 As the pre eminent Andy Reid in personating, they're kind 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.280 of walk us through what this week's been like. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.920 Lots of phone calls, lots of emails, lots of interviews, 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.760 lots of appearances, and lots of plane travel. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.040 Yeah yeah, so you're you're flying all over and you're 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.200 going to be in New Orleans. You're not there right now, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:00.199 but tonight you're going to. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.480 Yeah, you bet, man, I can't wait to get down 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.480 there and dry some of that in New Orleans cuisine. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:12.120 Yes, the beignets, the Kingcake and all that. So is 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:12.760 it true? 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:12.920 Now? 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.480 I have met you a few times, I think the 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.199 last three years. We've run into each other at the 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.800 Super Bowl and I was in your town. You live 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.760 in the Kansas City area. So is it true that 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.840 one of my buddies, any mutual radio friend here, Andy 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.680 almost Andy Ree was started by in some ways by 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.560 Bob Fesco. Oh yeah, what role did Bob play? He 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.400 does the morning show in Kansas City, no. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:39.959 Doubt about it. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.719 I got to tell you, when I first started doing this, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.000 I thought, well, hey man, I've been a lifelong cheese fan, 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.160 but I'm going to go to this event out at 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.520 Rally House, one of our clothing places here in town. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.120 And Bob and his buddy were there doing a radio show, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.439 and I show up as coach, and of course. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.520 Bob just he's got lots of energy. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:00.840 Man. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:02.440 I'll tell you, I love Bob. He's one of my 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.640 favorite radio personalities here in town. Of course, man. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.120 But you know, he did an impromptu interview with me, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.199 and that kind of was my first interview as almost 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.720 and it was great. I had a great time. He 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.440 asked a lot of great questions. And from that point on, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.760 I've been friends with Bob. Been out there. You know, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.720 we got some chicken fingers here in town. Yeah after 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.680 you and yeah, you know so great. You know Bob's 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.520 Bob's a big link here to the sports community, no 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:37.199 doubt about it. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.720 Absolutely. So now you did you always? 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.600 I mean, you saw any read coaching the Eagles Stuf've 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.600 had your Chiefs fan, But did you know I kind 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.480 of looked like that guy? 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.080 Like I had. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.280 No clue, absolutely no clue, and I had a beard 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.680 and a goatee all of my life. For some reason, 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.200 I needed to go to an event. I shaved off 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.800 the beard, left the mustache just for fun. I don't know, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.040 I was gonna shave it off, but then I noticed, Hey, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.040 I look a little bit like Andy Raid. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:04.040 That's interesting. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.200 And so I went to an event dressed like coach 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.280 and boy, people loved it, and so that kind of 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.640 got me inspired right there. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.880 Yeah, so how many how many years did it happen? 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.480 Like right away? When Andy got there how many how. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.280 Many years you've been doing and Andy's been coaching the 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:20.280 Chiefs for a while now. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.880 Yeah, No, I just did it for fun back in 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.080 twenty eighteen. But hey, we were stuck at home for 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.000 a pandemic and I didn't know anything about social media. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.440 So I said to my kids, Hey, kids, why don't 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.080 you help me out. Let's get a TikTok page and 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.920 helped me do some videos. And that's where it all started, 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.320 was at that point. And then, of course I've always 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.680 attended games since the mid eighties, and you know, I 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.920 just started going as coach and I'd walked through the 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.560 parking lot. I loved meeting fans from other their teams, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.880 you know, saying hi, good luck, I'll give him a 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.560 little bit of encouragement, and you know, yeah, and it 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:58.840 was a lot of fun, a lot of fun. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:14:59.280 Yeah. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.880 Yeah, So I have to tell this story. So I 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.640 think this was was it last year? The Super Bowl 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.440 in Vegas? Yeah, So we hung out with you a 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.960 little bit at Radio Row the great almost Andy Reid. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.400 You were a rock star. Everyone loved you. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.560 And then we left and we went to this one. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.120 It was my favorite Italian restaurant in Vegas. It's a 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.520 little like speak easy place. Yes, we're sitting down there 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:26.720 and eating some fetichini alfredo, and out of the peripheral vision, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.120 I see I see this guy walk in wearing a 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.880 Chiefs gear and a hat, and there's this murmur in 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.400 the restaurant and uh, and I'm like, everyone's all buzzing, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.400 you know, people getting up from their women are getting 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.520 up to take photos with this person. And it's you. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.800 You you walked in. We happened to eat at the 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.480 same restaurant in Vegas. And when you walked in there, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.560 like the whole restaurant kind of stopped for a few 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.520 minutes because everyone was coming over and gravitating you. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:55.600 How what was that? 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:55.920 Like? 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.280 I got when you're when you walk in, you're you know, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.320 you're almost Andy Reid, and everyone and wants to need you. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.000 Well, it was kind of a dark atmosphere in there. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.000 But that's kind of an everyday occurrence with me, you know, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:12.000 since my name around down and pictures and commercials and 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.520 things that I've done. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.480 But yeah, I'm kind of used to it. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.280 But it was a lot of fun, a lot of 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.280 great food, and of course at the Super Bowl, it's 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.400 all elevated a little bit, because you know, our brains 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.880 see what our eyes don't see, and so so people 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.080 will sometimes get starstruck and fill in all the places 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.560 on my face that aren't really coach and all. You know, 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.760 I have a hard time sometimes even convincing them that. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:37.720 I'm not here. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.360 No, I know, because it was the funniest thing. I 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.760 was telling my wife, say you were wearing I mean 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.480 you look, you have the same clothes that Andy Reid wears. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.200 You have, I mean you even have like the headset, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:50.040 you have everything. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.360 I mean, you are. You've nailed it. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.840 This is one of the great impersonations. I give you 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.280 full credit. I mean you've done everything. You look like him, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.400 but then you've gone above and beyond. But it's it's 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.000 fascinat in me that when I was I'll give you 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:03.720 the restaurant as an example, because you know, I was 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.159 eating great Italian food and it is. It was a 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.600 dark restaurant, you know, not a lot of lighting. But 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.320 people seem to think that Andy Reid showed up in 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.480 full uniform to eat pasta. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.480 It was. It's fascinating to me. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:17.800 It is. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.360 It's a It's an interesting phenomenon because the same thing 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.080 happens to me at the games. If if I leave 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.439 at the same time, folks are going to get, you know, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.639 food or something at the stadium and they always ask, coach, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.359 what are you doing? And I said, you gotta go, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:32.080 you gotta go. 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.440 You're going to get some popcorn or something and you're 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:39.280 going to have a bathroom. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.080 And they're right, yeah, aren't there bathrooms for you? Coach? 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.560 That is great? That is that is wonderful. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.600 So you started in twenty eighteen, you've been doing this 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:49.720 now it's twenty twenty five. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.440 And I know you've told me in the past. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.280 One I've talked to you at the Super Bowl, stuff 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.520 that you've met Andy Reid, You've done stuff, kind of 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.160 business stuff with Andy Reid. 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.080 What is his What was his reaction? 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.800 I mean, how's he embraced the fact that you are 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.040 almost exactly his twin from a different book. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.720 Well, I think he has a good time with it. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.680 And of course I've always tried to keep really true 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.760 to his character and his goodness, because when you do 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.800 meet coach, he's like your best friend. He'll sit there 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.000 and chat with you. And the first thing he said 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.120 to me is are you going to sing? For us, 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.760 which showed me that he's a study of everybody that 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.240 he meets because I sing opera professionally on the side. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.040 And so we've had a great relationship since I've done 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.520 three commercials with him now and just been a great 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.600 time every every opportunity I get. 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.720 To meet him, that's great. And yeah, how is this now? 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.840 You did tell me you perform in the arts there 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.879 in Kansas City, So but you have to be in 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.840 you have to look like Andy Reid. Do they care 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.480 when you're performing that you kind of look like the 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:55.639 chiefs coach when. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.199 You're Yeah, well, I've always worried about that they were 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.280 going to ask me to shave my muskas, but you know, 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.040 they used me on their social media, you know, to 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.040 promote some of their operas, so they've been pretty good 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:11.000 with it and accepting of the mustache, and so yes, 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:16.120 of course, when I'm on stage sometimes you can probably 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.919 tell from the audience, what's Andy Reid sing an opera for? 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.919 What that is? Aliston, what about some of the guys. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.639 Have you met any of the I'm sure you've met 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.840 some of the players doing these commercials and whatnot, And yeah, exactly. 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.160 Pretty funny story that I just came across today when 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.040 another station somebody had interviewed several of the Chiefs players 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:42.480 down at the New Orleans super Dome or wherever they're 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:46.280 having things. And so anyhow, they gave them pictures of 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.440 me and coach and they were kind of asking them, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.680 is this coach or is this is a fake coach? 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:55.720 And so Carl Loftus and one of the other young players, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.400 they they got confused with if I was coach or if. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:19:59.960 He was gone. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:03.960 So I want to run this by it. And we're 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.840 hanging out with almost Andy Reid and we'll post some 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:08.639 photos on So I know this is audio only, but 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:10.400 I'm gonna post some photos and stuff. You'll be able 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.760 to see see him if you if you don't know, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.520 he looks exactly Andy Reid. But I had this idea 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.320 we shouldn't make a movie, right, I'm gonna write a 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.560 script here, like you know, if Andy gets like you know, 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.159 he gets ill or something like that, he is like 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.399 an upset stomach. He can't coach the Super Bowl, and 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.960 they don't want to tell anyone, and they hire you. 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.160 They bring you in and you walk up and down 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.080 the sidelines as Andy Reid and nobody notices like I 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.760 think I'm pretty sure that if you if that. You know, 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.280 I know it's a movie, you know it's a script. 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.680 But yeah, I bet you we could pull that off. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:44.880 Like you look so much like him, you could do it. 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:46.320 That'd be great. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:46.560 You know. 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.359 I study his mannerisms and everything, and not in a 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.320 way where I'm going to have some type of paper 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.560 said to me to stay three hundred feet away from him. 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.320 But I do watch tell he watch his gate and everything, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.160 and so I've done a pretty good job. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.159 Of copying a lot of that. 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.040 And of course I'm a big guy, so I wear 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.760 Tommy Bahamas all the time, always have. So that's just 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.200 a natural thing for us big guys to do because. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:13.520 They're comfortable exactly. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.240 Listen, I'm a big guy. I love the Tommy Bahama stuff. 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.959 I'm all about it. And as far as the commercials 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.240 that you've done, are we going to see you in 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.080 the Super Bowls and there see you out? 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.480 Yeah, I'd say keep your eye on the pregame show. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.760 You might just see something happening. We'll see nice. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:31.160 Nice. 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:36.040 And so when you're doing these commercials like what's that's 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.600