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Speaker 3: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 1: He is away today. He'll be with me over the weekend.
Speaker 3: He's scheduled to join me over the weekend anyway, he
Speaker 3: will be producing this podcast. But you've got me here
Speaker 3: on this seventh day of February, the friday before Super
Speaker 3: Bowl Sunday, and we have coming up in a few
Speaker 3: minutes one of the great characters around the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: who you may or may not know. If you've looked
Speaker 3: at the description of this podcast, you know who's going
Speaker 3: to be on, but almost Andy Reid. I'm going to
Speaker 3: tell you more about him coming up in a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes. But it is National Bubblegum Day today, so
Speaker 3: celebrate appropriately. February seventh National Bubblegum Day. I don't know
Speaker 3: how popular bubble gum is these days. I do love
Speaker 3: the fact that bubble gum has been around now for
Speaker 3: almost one hundred and twenty years. I think he's started
Speaker 3: to watch it's been less than one hundred years. The
Speaker 3: original bubble gum concept, the first attempt didn't actually work.
Speaker 3: And I was reading about this because I'm a total loser.
Speaker 3: And back in nineteen oh six, guy named Frank Fleer.
Speaker 3: If you collect sports cards, you might remember Fleer trading cards.
Speaker 3: But Frank Fleer was the guy that decided to invent
Speaker 3: the world's for bubblegum in nineteen oh six. But it
Speaker 3: turned out that the recipe for the bubble gum wasn't
Speaker 3: that good. It's a little too sticky, and so it
Speaker 3: didn't work. It was called blibber Blubber, Blibber Blubber bliber Blubber.
Speaker 3: That was the name of the original bubblegum. So that
Speaker 3: was nineteen oh six. It wasn't until nineteen twenty eight,
Speaker 3: So ninety seven years ago. A guy named Walter Deamer
Speaker 3: Walter deamerd I. E. M. Er, who was an underling
Speaker 3: working for the Fleer corporation. Remember Frank Fleer, So this
Speaker 3: guy was working for the Fleer Corporation and he was
Speaker 3: able to create the first marketable version of bubblegum that
Speaker 3: the world had ever seen. So nineteen twenty eight it
Speaker 3: was branded double Bubble, which is still around.
Speaker 1: To this day.
Speaker 3: And the part of the story which is pretty funny
Speaker 3: to me, and it reminds me a lot of the
Speaker 3: donut thing, the donut box story that we'd like to
Speaker 3: share on this podcast from time to time, where the
Speaker 3: reason that baked goods often come in pink boxes and
Speaker 3: people perceive that for delicious baked goods is because the
Speaker 3: people behind the donut revolution in America, we're trying to
Speaker 3: save a couple of bucks, and so they bought the
Speaker 3: pink boxes, which were actually misdiye. They were supposed to
Speaker 3: be red boxes and the dye came back pink, and
Speaker 3: so they were cheaper.
Speaker 1: They made those boxes out of that.
Speaker 3: And I'm paraphrasing, but that became synonymous with baked goods,
Speaker 3: with donuts and all that. I bring that up because
Speaker 3: double Bubble bubble gum when it was created by this guy,
Speaker 3: Walter Walter Deemer, he used pink dye in the bubble gum.
Speaker 3: The reason that he used pink dye is because that's
Speaker 3: all that he had access to. If he had had
Speaker 3: blue or green or yellow or whatever other color, any
Speaker 3: other color in the rainbow, bubble gum would be synonymous
Speaker 3: with that. But to this day, almost all bubble gum
Speaker 3: is perceid.
Speaker 1: It's pink. Now.
Speaker 3: I know there's some other colors of bubble gum, but
Speaker 3: for the most part, when you think bubble gum, you
Speaker 3: think pink, right, you do?
Speaker 1: The color is synonymous now.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, it is also National Fetichini Alfredo Day today. My
Speaker 3: favorite go to pasta when I'm at a nice Italian restaurant.
Speaker 3: I love Fetichini Alfredo. It's wonderful. It's hard to f
Speaker 3: up Fetichini Alfredo. And since it is National Alfredo Day,
Speaker 3: I looked it.
Speaker 1: Up and went back in the archives and.
Speaker 3: The original Alfredo dish actually goes back to they estimate
Speaker 3: in Italy the fifteenth century, but it was known by
Speaker 3: a different name. And the person that is credited as
Speaker 3: the true inventor of the modern day dish.
Speaker 1: Of Fenatrini Alfreno.
Speaker 3: Is Alfredo d Lilio Alfredo di Lilio.
Speaker 1: This guy ran a.
Speaker 3: Restaurant, well, his family ran a restaurant, so he was
Speaker 3: a restauranteur in Italy. And the legend, I don't know
Speaker 3: whether this is bull crap or whether this is true,
Speaker 3: but the legend I'll just repeat it anyway. So this
Speaker 3: guy was trying to get his wife to eat after
Speaker 3: giving birth to their child in their first child night.
Speaker 3: It was like nineteen early nineteen hundred, nineteen eight, I
Speaker 3: believe was the year, and so his wife didn't want to eat,
Speaker 3: so he was getting annoyed, and he created a recipe
Speaker 3: that included all the delicious things that we love from
Speaker 3: fetcini Alfredo, the noodles, the cheese, the butter, and put
Speaker 3: it all together and teta abrika dabro wonderful. So fetcini
Speaker 3: Alfredo was his wife loved it right, and it was
Speaker 3: so good that Alfredo Delilio added it to the menu.
Speaker 1: And his mom's restaurant.
Speaker 3: Pizza Rosa was the name of the restaurant, and they
Speaker 3: sold more feticini than pizza. Became amazing. People like wow,
Speaker 3: and so that was deemed the birthplace of fetichini.
Speaker 1: Alfred Is. That's a fun fact, right, that is a
Speaker 1: fun fact.
Speaker 3: In nineteen fourteen, Alfredo Delilio opened up his own restaurant
Speaker 3: just called Alfredo, and then he opened up another one
Speaker 3: with his son in nineteen fifty. But in nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: seven he opened up a restaurant in America, and that
Speaker 3: is where things went next level for the Feticini Alfredo.
Speaker 3: So it kind of began in the fifteenth century, but
Speaker 3: for our purposes, the modern version of Feticini Alfredo that
Speaker 3: came to us more recently. More recently, I say more recently,
Speaker 3: still been one hundred, one hundred plus years we've had
Speaker 3: Alfredo in our world. So today is Friday. It is
Speaker 3: Super Bowl Friday, coming up on TV today. Now it's
Speaker 3: already aired last night on Thursday. There was some of this.
Speaker 3: But Benny versus the Penny, the Super Bowl edition, it
Speaker 3: is proptastic.
Speaker 1: We've got all the props.
Speaker 3: I will dust off Benny's crystal ball and predict the
Speaker 3: greatest possible endings that would break the Internet and be
Speaker 3: wonderful for sports radio and sports media conversation.
Speaker 1: But we'll have tons of props. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun show.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go back and forth over all the big
Speaker 3: props in the game and cannot wait, can not wait
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 1: So that'll be coming up today.
Speaker 3: If you haven't seen Benny Versus the Penny, it's also
Speaker 3: on Peacock Me and Looney Tunes breaking it all down
Speaker 3: for you. I say scientifically, but I don't know how
Speaker 3: scientifically it is. So that'll be coming up for you
Speaker 3: all weekend long. And this is not our last episode.
Speaker 3: We have one episode left in season two of Benny
Speaker 3: Versus the Penny. That'll be next week, so we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens with the TV show. It's been a lot
Speaker 3: of fun to do with the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: and it seems to be gaining some traction, which is
Speaker 3: pretty cool. And you guys have been wonderful, my loyal
Speaker 3: foot Soldiers and the Malla Militia promoting the show, letting
Speaker 3: people know about the show, and we've gotten some good
Speaker 3: promotion by NBC. They've promoted the show during Celtic games
Speaker 3: and Warriors and Sixers games, and so it's really neat
Speaker 3: that they have promoted the show. I don't get much
Speaker 3: promotion at all for the overnight show, so it's nice
Speaker 3: when you get a little promotion. So it's good for that,
Speaker 3: but we definitely need you to spread the word, get
Speaker 3: people that have Peacock to watch Penny Versus the Penny
Speaker 3: this weekend and then the final episode next weekend. Now, meanwhile,
Speaker 3: we pivot, where do we pivot to? We pivot to
Speaker 3: the big game Soupper Bowl Sunday. Person we're going to
Speaker 3: have on here. He goes by the moniker almost Andy
Speaker 3: read And while you and I are taking part in audio,
Speaker 3: and I know this is more of a visual thing
Speaker 3: than an audio thing, but just imagine the twin, the
Speaker 3: doppelganger of Andy Reid from a different mother. This guy
Speaker 3: is such a dead ringer that some of the Chiefs
Speaker 3: players cannot tell whether this is Andy Reid or almost
Speaker 3: Andy Reid. So it's a fun story. I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: into it with him. But he he is a lives
Speaker 3: in the Kansas City area, and he's been doing this
Speaker 3: for about seven years. He's the number one preeminent Andy
Speaker 3: Reid impersonator. He's got the mannerisms down, he's got he
Speaker 3: looks just like him. If you're blind, trust me, it's
Speaker 3: the same exact guy. You can't tell the difference. And
Speaker 3: the fun part of this and I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get to it at some point here. He actually was
Speaker 3: a listener before he became Almost Andy Reid. He was
Speaker 3: an overnight listener. He listened to our overnight show in
Speaker 3: Kansas City. We have a mutual friend, Bob Fesco from
Speaker 3: Fesco in the morning, he does the morning show there,
Speaker 3: a very popular show in Kansas City. And so, without
Speaker 3: further ado, just again use your imagination.
Speaker 1: It's audio. It's theater of the mind.
Speaker 3: Super Bowl fifty nine is coming up on Sunday, and
Speaker 3: we now present, without further commercial interruption, at least for now,
Speaker 3: Almost Andy read So, I've wanted to have you on
Speaker 3: this show, my show, the podcast for a while, Almost
Speaker 3: Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: But let's start right now super Bowl week.
Speaker 3: As we said, everything's going on, parties all over the place.
Speaker 1: What has this week been like for you?
Speaker 3: As the pre eminent Andy Reid in personating, they're kind
Speaker 3: of walk us through what this week's been like.
Speaker 4: Lots of phone calls, lots of emails, lots of interviews,
Speaker 4: lots of appearances, and lots of plane travel.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so you're you're flying all over and you're
Speaker 3: going to be in New Orleans. You're not there right now,
Speaker 3: but tonight you're going to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you bet, man, I can't wait to get down
Speaker 4: there and dry some of that in New Orleans cuisine.
Speaker 3: Yes, the beignets, the Kingcake and all that. So is
Speaker 3: it true?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: I have met you a few times, I think the
Speaker 3: last three years. We've run into each other at the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl and I was in your town. You live
Speaker 3: in the Kansas City area. So is it true that
Speaker 3: one of my buddies, any mutual radio friend here, Andy
Speaker 3: almost Andy Ree was started by in some ways by
Speaker 3: Bob Fesco. Oh yeah, what role did Bob play? He
Speaker 3: does the morning show in Kansas City, no.
Speaker 5: Doubt about it.
Speaker 4: I got to tell you, when I first started doing this,
Speaker 4: I thought, well, hey man, I've been a lifelong cheese fan,
Speaker 4: but I'm going to go to this event out at
Speaker 4: Rally House, one of our clothing places here in town.
Speaker 4: And Bob and his buddy were there doing a radio show,
Speaker 4: and I show up as coach, and of course.
Speaker 5: Bob just he's got lots of energy.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you, I love Bob. He's one of my
Speaker 5: favorite radio personalities here in town. Of course, man.
Speaker 4: But you know, he did an impromptu interview with me,
Speaker 4: and that kind of was my first interview as almost
Speaker 4: and it was great. I had a great time. He
Speaker 4: asked a lot of great questions. And from that point on,
Speaker 4: I've been friends with Bob. Been out there. You know,
Speaker 4: we got some chicken fingers here in town. Yeah after
Speaker 4: you and yeah, you know so great. You know Bob's
Speaker 4: Bob's a big link here to the sports community, no
Speaker 4: doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. So now you did you always?
Speaker 3: I mean, you saw any read coaching the Eagles Stuf've
Speaker 3: had your Chiefs fan, But did you know I kind
Speaker 3: of looked like that guy?
Speaker 1: Like I had.
Speaker 4: No clue, absolutely no clue, and I had a beard
Speaker 4: and a goatee all of my life. For some reason,
Speaker 4: I needed to go to an event. I shaved off
Speaker 4: the beard, left the mustache just for fun. I don't know,
Speaker 4: I was gonna shave it off, but then I noticed, Hey,
Speaker 4: I look a little bit like Andy Raid.
Speaker 5: That's interesting.
Speaker 4: And so I went to an event dressed like coach
Speaker 4: and boy, people loved it, and so that kind of
Speaker 4: got me inspired right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so how many how many years did it happen?
Speaker 1: Like right away? When Andy got there how many how.
Speaker 3: Many years you've been doing and Andy's been coaching the
Speaker 3: Chiefs for a while now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I just did it for fun back in
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen. But hey, we were stuck at home for
Speaker 4: a pandemic and I didn't know anything about social media.
Speaker 4: So I said to my kids, Hey, kids, why don't
Speaker 4: you help me out. Let's get a TikTok page and
Speaker 4: helped me do some videos. And that's where it all started,
Speaker 4: was at that point. And then, of course I've always
Speaker 4: attended games since the mid eighties, and you know, I
Speaker 4: just started going as coach and I'd walked through the
Speaker 4: parking lot. I loved meeting fans from other their teams,
Speaker 4: you know, saying hi, good luck, I'll give him a
Speaker 4: little bit of encouragement, and you know, yeah, and it
Speaker 4: was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I have to tell this story. So I
Speaker 3: think this was was it last year? The Super Bowl
Speaker 3: in Vegas? Yeah, So we hung out with you a
Speaker 3: little bit at Radio Row the great almost Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: You were a rock star. Everyone loved you.
Speaker 3: And then we left and we went to this one.
Speaker 3: It was my favorite Italian restaurant in Vegas. It's a
Speaker 3: little like speak easy place. Yes, we're sitting down there
Speaker 3: and eating some fetichini alfredo, and out of the peripheral vision,
Speaker 3: I see I see this guy walk in wearing a
Speaker 3: Chiefs gear and a hat, and there's this murmur in
Speaker 3: the restaurant and uh, and I'm like, everyone's all buzzing,
Speaker 3: you know, people getting up from their women are getting
Speaker 3: up to take photos with this person. And it's you.
Speaker 3: You you walked in. We happened to eat at the
Speaker 3: same restaurant in Vegas. And when you walked in there,
Speaker 3: like the whole restaurant kind of stopped for a few
Speaker 3: minutes because everyone was coming over and gravitating you.
Speaker 1: How what was that?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: I got when you're when you walk in, you're you know,
Speaker 3: you're almost Andy Reid, and everyone and wants to need you.
Speaker 5: Well, it was kind of a dark atmosphere in there.
Speaker 4: But that's kind of an everyday occurrence with me, you know,
Speaker 4: since my name around down and pictures and commercials and
Speaker 4: things that I've done.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm kind of used to it.
Speaker 4: But it was a lot of fun, a lot of
Speaker 4: great food, and of course at the Super Bowl, it's
Speaker 4: all elevated a little bit, because you know, our brains
Speaker 4: see what our eyes don't see, and so so people
Speaker 4: will sometimes get starstruck and fill in all the places
Speaker 4: on my face that aren't really coach and all. You know,
Speaker 4: I have a hard time sometimes even convincing them that.
Speaker 5: I'm not here.
Speaker 3: No, I know, because it was the funniest thing. I
Speaker 3: was telling my wife, say you were wearing I mean
Speaker 3: you look, you have the same clothes that Andy Reid wears.
Speaker 3: You have, I mean you even have like the headset,
Speaker 3: you have everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, you are. You've nailed it.
Speaker 3: This is one of the great impersonations. I give you
Speaker 3: full credit. I mean you've done everything. You look like him,
Speaker 3: but then you've gone above and beyond. But it's it's
Speaker 3: fascinat in me that when I was I'll give you
Speaker 3: the restaurant as an example, because you know, I was
Speaker 3: eating great Italian food and it is. It was a
Speaker 3: dark restaurant, you know, not a lot of lighting. But
Speaker 3: people seem to think that Andy Reid showed up in
Speaker 3: full uniform to eat pasta.
Speaker 1: It was. It's fascinating to me.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: It's a It's an interesting phenomenon because the same thing
Speaker 4: happens to me at the games. If if I leave
Speaker 4: at the same time, folks are going to get, you know,
Speaker 4: food or something at the stadium and they always ask, coach,
Speaker 4: what are you doing? And I said, you gotta go,
Speaker 4: you gotta go.
Speaker 3: You're going to get some popcorn or something and you're
Speaker 3: going to have a bathroom.
Speaker 1: And they're right, yeah, aren't there bathrooms for you? Coach?
Speaker 1: That is great? That is that is wonderful.
Speaker 3: So you started in twenty eighteen, you've been doing this
Speaker 3: now it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: And I know you've told me in the past.
Speaker 3: One I've talked to you at the Super Bowl, stuff
Speaker 3: that you've met Andy Reid, You've done stuff, kind of
Speaker 3: business stuff with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: What is his What was his reaction?
Speaker 3: I mean, how's he embraced the fact that you are
Speaker 3: almost exactly his twin from a different book.
Speaker 4: Well, I think he has a good time with it.
Speaker 4: And of course I've always tried to keep really true
Speaker 4: to his character and his goodness, because when you do
Speaker 4: meet coach, he's like your best friend. He'll sit there
Speaker 4: and chat with you. And the first thing he said
Speaker 4: to me is are you going to sing? For us,
Speaker 4: which showed me that he's a study of everybody that
Speaker 4: he meets because I sing opera professionally on the side.
Speaker 4: And so we've had a great relationship since I've done
Speaker 4: three commercials with him now and just been a great
Speaker 4: time every every opportunity I get.
Speaker 1: To meet him, that's great. And yeah, how is this now?
Speaker 3: You did tell me you perform in the arts there
Speaker 3: in Kansas City, So but you have to be in
Speaker 3: you have to look like Andy Reid. Do they care
Speaker 3: when you're performing that you kind of look like the
Speaker 3: chiefs coach when.
Speaker 4: You're Yeah, well, I've always worried about that they were
Speaker 4: going to ask me to shave my muskas, but you know,
Speaker 4: they used me on their social media, you know, to
Speaker 4: promote some of their operas, so they've been pretty good
Speaker 4: with it and accepting of the mustache, and so yes,
Speaker 4: of course, when I'm on stage sometimes you can probably
Speaker 4: tell from the audience, what's Andy Reid sing an opera for?
Speaker 1: What that is? Aliston, what about some of the guys.
Speaker 3: Have you met any of the I'm sure you've met
Speaker 3: some of the players doing these commercials and whatnot, And yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Pretty funny story that I just came across today when
Speaker 4: another station somebody had interviewed several of the Chiefs players
Speaker 4: down at the New Orleans super Dome or wherever they're
Speaker 4: having things. And so anyhow, they gave them pictures of
Speaker 4: me and coach and they were kind of asking them,
Speaker 4: is this coach or is this is a fake coach?
Speaker 4: And so Carl Loftus and one of the other young players,
Speaker 4: they they got confused with if I was coach or if.
Speaker 5: He was gone.
Speaker 3: So I want to run this by it. And we're
Speaker 3: hanging out with almost Andy Reid and we'll post some
Speaker 3: photos on So I know this is audio only, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna post some photos and stuff. You'll be able
Speaker 3: to see see him if you if you don't know,
Speaker 3: he looks exactly Andy Reid. But I had this idea
Speaker 3: we shouldn't make a movie, right, I'm gonna write a
Speaker 3: script here, like you know, if Andy gets like you know,
Speaker 3: he gets ill or something like that, he is like
Speaker 3: an upset stomach. He can't coach the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 3: they don't want to tell anyone, and they hire you.
Speaker 3: They bring you in and you walk up and down
Speaker 3: the sidelines as Andy Reid and nobody notices like I
Speaker 3: think I'm pretty sure that if you if that. You know,
Speaker 3: I know it's a movie, you know it's a script.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I bet you we could pull that off.
Speaker 3: Like you look so much like him, you could do it.
Speaker 5: That'd be great.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I study his mannerisms and everything, and not in a
Speaker 4: way where I'm going to have some type of paper
Speaker 4: said to me to stay three hundred feet away from him.
Speaker 4: But I do watch tell he watch his gate and everything,
Speaker 4: and so I've done a pretty good job.
Speaker 5: Of copying a lot of that.
Speaker 4: And of course I'm a big guy, so I wear
Speaker 4: Tommy Bahamas all the time, always have. So that's just
Speaker 4: a natural thing for us big guys to do because.
Speaker 5: They're comfortable exactly.
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm a big guy. I love the Tommy Bahama stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm all about it. And as far as the commercials
Speaker 3: that you've done, are we going to see you in
Speaker 3: the Super Bowls and there see you out?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say keep your eye on the pregame show.
Speaker 4: You might just see something happening. We'll see nice.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: And so when you're doing these commercials like what's that's
Speaker 3: a long day, I would think, right, even though the
Speaker 3: commercials thirty or sixty seconds.
Speaker 1: You're there like, you know, hours an hour. They kind
Speaker 1: of walk us through what that's like, and yeah.
Speaker 5: It's amazing, you know.
Speaker 4: Coach said one time, you know, I'm a chubby guy
Speaker 4: with endless amounts of energy, and it's absolutely true. We
Speaker 4: go to these shifts and you could be there from
Speaker 4: seven am till ten pm at night, and this is
Speaker 4: two or three days in a row, and uh the
Speaker 4: uh gun. At the first time I went to the shoot,
Speaker 4: they actually thought I was Andy and they were taking
Speaker 4: me up to his trailer and I was like, all right, man,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be living in style, and then they figured.
Speaker 5: Out wasn't him. Uh, but yeah, those are long days.
Speaker 4: In fact, the commercial that he did where they had
Speaker 4: a cheeseburger involved, they actually had a cheeseburger artist there
Speaker 4: on set and this person was sitting out with a
Speaker 4: jeweler's glass trimming the cheeseburgers and she probably made I
Speaker 4: don't know, a hundred cheeseburgers that day.
Speaker 5: Andy said that he's he ate sixty that day.
Speaker 4: But then I believe it because she just kept making
Speaker 4: them look exactly the same and building them the same
Speaker 4: way and sending them on in Wow.
Speaker 1: That's uh.
Speaker 3: And did you did you end up having to eat
Speaker 3: any that day or were you? Were you free of
Speaker 3: the cheeseburgers that day?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, you know I've done that with him, and I
Speaker 4: did a candy bar commercial with him and I didn't
Speaker 4: get to eat any of it.
Speaker 6: A man, Come on, you're a big guy too, you right, yeah,
Speaker 6: come on? Now, all right, So you're gonna be in
Speaker 6: New Orleans this weekend, and uh, you're you have a
Speaker 6: battle plan here for the for the trip to New
Speaker 6: Orleans like any the games obviously not till Sunday, but you'll,
Speaker 6: I think tonight, this being Friday tonight, and then I mean,
Speaker 6: the parties are gonna be off the hook.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be, You're gonna be They're gonna be dragging
Speaker 1: you everywhere. Oh yeah, and you read right, you're prepared
Speaker 1: for the Yeah.
Speaker 4: In fact, you won't believe this, but I'm going to
Speaker 4: be there with the Taylor Swift look alike and we're
Speaker 4: going to be doing the super Bowl up right.
Speaker 1: That's great?
Speaker 3: And uh And as we've we've seen from human activity
Speaker 3: here almost and there will be people convinced that before
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, Andy Reid and Taylor Swift are out
Speaker 3: hanging out at some restaurant in New Orleans.
Speaker 5: That's right. Who knows, I might beat Travis to the proposal.
Speaker 5: You know, we never know.
Speaker 3: Now that would now, that would break TMZ, that the interweb.
Speaker 3: That would definitely read the interweb.
Speaker 4: But I don't think my wife would like that very much.
Speaker 4: Probably probably not going to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably probably not a probably not a good What about?
Speaker 1: What about? What about Andy's family?
Speaker 3: You met Andy? Have you met any of his like,
Speaker 3: you know, relatives or anything. What do they think of you?
Speaker 5: I haven't.
Speaker 4: But and he told me that oftentimes he'll get texts
Speaker 4: from them saying they saw him out someplace and it
Speaker 4: was actually me.
Speaker 5: He says.
Speaker 4: It happens all the time that his friends and family
Speaker 4: will text him and say they saw him somewhere.
Speaker 1: Oh that is that is outstanding.
Speaker 3: That is that is great and so uh and now
Speaker 3: you I did want to mention before I, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: we get me in this here.
Speaker 1: You did you.
Speaker 3: Are a sports radio guy right back before you became
Speaker 3: almost Andy Reid, and you did you said, I don't
Speaker 3: know if you're just being nice, but you used to listen.
Speaker 1: You worked late or earlier? Oh yeah, for the overnight show.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I used to get to get to work
Speaker 4: at three o'clock in the morning, and your show. I
Speaker 4: listened to it every single evening, and then another one
Speaker 4: would come.
Speaker 5: On after it. It was so much entertainment. I absolutely
Speaker 5: loved it.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad they were, like, you know, it was
Speaker 4: one of those jobs where I could wear headphones, and
Speaker 4: so that's where I got to know you at for sure.
Speaker 1: Nice. Well, I appreciate you listening as the best.
Speaker 3: When Bob when I when I met you, and Bob
Speaker 3: had mentioned you, and I've been on Bob Show for
Speaker 3: a while. I've known Bob for a long time, Bob
Speaker 3: Fesco and yeah, I was like, oh, he's a listen.
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was neat.
Speaker 3: It was nice for my my because I saw when
Speaker 3: you were walking around and Radio Row is a very
Speaker 3: odd place. I know you've been there a lot now
Speaker 3: and there's a lot going on. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: gas bags and blowhards walking around and most of them,
Speaker 3: you know, most of these radio guys and podcast people,
Speaker 3: they think they're better than everything. But when you walk in,
Speaker 3: it's like everyone's I gotta get this I gotta get
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 1: And so it was, Yeah, it was pretty neat to see.
Speaker 3: And so you've you've done it right, right, You've made
Speaker 3: a few bucks, and I know this is a side
Speaker 3: hustle for you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well, right, the last couple of years, I've
Speaker 1: been blessed.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about that. And I went all to
Speaker 4: the soon to be greatest coach in all of NFL history,
Speaker 4: I think one day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, when he goes in the in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame, they should have you and him that you
Speaker 3: could be side by side.
Speaker 1: On the podium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be great, top toppleganger for sure. Well thanks
Speaker 3: for doing I know people if they want you, you're
Speaker 3: on cameo, right.
Speaker 1: People can get a hold. Yeah, yes, How can people
Speaker 1: reach you?
Speaker 3: If you're a big Chiefs fan, maybe you're not familiar
Speaker 3: with the almost Andy Reider. Maybe they've seen you on
Speaker 3: commercials and they're like, hey, wait, I can get this
Speaker 3: guy to do a cameo or something.
Speaker 1: How can they How can they find you?
Speaker 4: So they can just go to cameo dot com forward
Speaker 4: slash Almost Andy Reid And of course during this time
Speaker 4: of the year. I'm one of the top people on
Speaker 4: cameo this time in August. So also I do a
Speaker 4: great job with fantasy football. So if you want to
Speaker 4: book me in August, maybe I'll tell you what. I'll
Speaker 4: do a great job for you.
Speaker 1: All right. And if you're in Kansas City, you perform.
Speaker 3: You're a singer, so as you said, so you're right,
Speaker 3: you might run into Almost Andy Reid on stage. You
Speaker 3: go out for a nice night out, see the you
Speaker 3: know the show, and you'll be saying, well, thank you,
Speaker 3: enjoying New Orleans this weekend. I'll look for you on
Speaker 3: the pregame show, the commercial and.
Speaker 1: And keep doing what you're doing. You're you're amazing. You
Speaker 1: look just like him, so ibelievable.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 4: Mom's down there, so I'm sure we'll have good chatt
Speaker 4: and we'll we'll will send you a picture.
Speaker 1: Okay, outstanding? Thank you.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 3: It is Almost Andy Reid hanging out with us here
Speaker 3: on the fifth Hour pod.
Speaker 1: Got a murder.
Speaker 5: I gotta go