February 7, 2025 • 27 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! Ben talks: Super Bowl 59 & interviews the infamous "Almost Andy Reid!"
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He is away today. He'll be with me over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He's scheduled to join me over the weekend anyway, he
will be producing this podcast. But you've got me here
on this seventh day of February, the friday before Super
Bowl Sunday, and we have coming up in a few
minutes one of the great characters around the Super Bowl,
who you may or may not know. If you've looked
(01:04):
at the description of this podcast, you know who's going
to be on, but almost Andy Reid. I'm going to
tell you more about him coming up in a couple
of minutes. But it is National Bubblegum Day today, so
celebrate appropriately. February seventh National Bubblegum Day. I don't know
how popular bubble gum is these days. I do love
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the fact that bubble gum has been around now for
almost one hundred and twenty years. I think he's started
to watch it's been less than one hundred years. The
original bubble gum concept, the first attempt didn't actually work.
And I was reading about this because I'm a total loser.
And back in nineteen oh six, guy named Frank Fleer.
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If you collect sports cards, you might remember Fleer trading cards.
But Frank Fleer was the guy that decided to invent
the world's for bubblegum in nineteen oh six. But it
turned out that the recipe for the bubble gum wasn't
that good. It's a little too sticky, and so it
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didn't work. It was called blibber Blubber, Blibber Blubber bliber Blubber.
That was the name of the original bubblegum. So that
was nineteen oh six. It wasn't until nineteen twenty eight,
So ninety seven years ago. A guy named Walter Deamer
Walter deamerd I. E. M. Er, who was an underling
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working for the Fleer corporation. Remember Frank Fleer, So this
guy was working for the Fleer Corporation and he was
able to create the first marketable version of bubblegum that
the world had ever seen. So nineteen twenty eight it
was branded double Bubble, which is still around.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
To this day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And the part of the story which is pretty funny
to me, and it reminds me a lot of the
donut thing, the donut box story that we'd like to
share on this podcast from time to time, where the
reason that baked goods often come in pink boxes and
people perceive that for delicious baked goods is because the
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people behind the donut revolution in America, we're trying to
save a couple of bucks, and so they bought the
pink boxes, which were actually misdiye. They were supposed to
be red boxes and the dye came back pink, and
so they were cheaper.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They made those boxes out of that.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And I'm paraphrasing, but that became synonymous with baked goods,
with donuts and all that. I bring that up because
double Bubble bubble gum when it was created by this guy,
Walter Walter Deemer, he used pink dye in the bubble gum.
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The reason that he used pink dye is because that's
all that he had access to. If he had had
blue or green or yellow or whatever other color, any
other color in the rainbow, bubble gum would be synonymous
with that. But to this day, almost all bubble gum
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is perceid.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's pink. Now.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I know there's some other colors of bubble gum, but
for the most part, when you think bubble gum, you
think pink, right, you do?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The color is synonymous now.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Meanwhile, it is also National Fetichini Alfredo Day today. My
favorite go to pasta when I'm at a nice Italian restaurant.
I love Fetichini Alfredo. It's wonderful. It's hard to f
up Fetichini Alfredo. And since it is National Alfredo Day,
I looked it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Up and went back in the archives and.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The original Alfredo dish actually goes back to they estimate
in Italy the fifteenth century, but it was known by
a different name. And the person that is credited as
the true inventor of the modern day dish.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Of Fenatrini Alfreno.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Is Alfredo d Lilio Alfredo di Lilio.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
This guy ran a.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Restaurant, well, his family ran a restaurant, so he was
a restauranteur in Italy. And the legend, I don't know
whether this is bull crap or whether this is true,
but the legend I'll just repeat it anyway. So this
guy was trying to get his wife to eat after
giving birth to their child in their first child night.
It was like nineteen early nineteen hundred, nineteen eight, I
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believe was the year, and so his wife didn't want to eat,
so he was getting annoyed, and he created a recipe
that included all the delicious things that we love from
fetcini Alfredo, the noodles, the cheese, the butter, and put
it all together and teta abrika dabro wonderful. So fetcini
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Alfredo was his wife loved it right, and it was
so good that Alfredo Delilio added it to the menu.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And his mom's restaurant.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Pizza Rosa was the name of the restaurant, and they
sold more feticini than pizza. Became amazing. People like wow,
and so that was deemed the birthplace of fetichini.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Alfred Is. That's a fun fact, right, that is a
fun fact.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
In nineteen fourteen, Alfredo Delilio opened up his own restaurant
just called Alfredo, and then he opened up another one
with his son in nineteen fifty. But in nineteen seventy
seven he opened up a restaurant in America, and that
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is where things went next level for the Feticini Alfredo.
So it kind of began in the fifteenth century, but
for our purposes, the modern version of Feticini Alfredo that
came to us more recently. More recently, I say more recently,
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still been one hundred, one hundred plus years we've had
Alfredo in our world. So today is Friday. It is
Super Bowl Friday, coming up on TV today. Now it's
already aired last night on Thursday. There was some of this.
But Benny versus the Penny, the Super Bowl edition, it
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is proptastic.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We've got all the props.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I will dust off Benny's crystal ball and predict the
greatest possible endings that would break the Internet and be
wonderful for sports radio and sports media conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But we'll have tons of props. It's gonna be a
fun show.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
We're gonna go back and forth over all the big
props in the game and cannot wait, can not wait
for that.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So that'll be coming up today.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
If you haven't seen Benny Versus the Penny, it's also
on Peacock Me and Looney Tunes breaking it all down
for you. I say scientifically, but I don't know how
scientifically it is. So that'll be coming up for you
all weekend long. And this is not our last episode.
We have one episode left in season two of Benny
Versus the Penny. That'll be next week, so we'll see
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what happens with the TV show. It's been a lot
of fun to do with the last couple of years,
and it seems to be gaining some traction, which is
pretty cool. And you guys have been wonderful, my loyal
foot Soldiers and the Malla Militia promoting the show, letting
people know about the show, and we've gotten some good
promotion by NBC. They've promoted the show during Celtic games
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and Warriors and Sixers games, and so it's really neat
that they have promoted the show. I don't get much
promotion at all for the overnight show, so it's nice
when you get a little promotion. So it's good for that,
but we definitely need you to spread the word, get
people that have Peacock to watch Penny Versus the Penny
this weekend and then the final episode next weekend. Now, meanwhile,
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we pivot, where do we pivot to? We pivot to
the big game Soupper Bowl Sunday. Person we're going to
have on here. He goes by the moniker almost Andy
read And while you and I are taking part in audio,
(10:01):
and I know this is more of a visual thing
than an audio thing, but just imagine the twin, the
doppelganger of Andy Reid from a different mother. This guy
is such a dead ringer that some of the Chiefs
players cannot tell whether this is Andy Reid or almost
Andy Reid. So it's a fun story. I'm gonna get
(10:23):
into it with him. But he he is a lives
in the Kansas City area, and he's been doing this
for about seven years. He's the number one preeminent Andy
Reid impersonator. He's got the mannerisms down, he's got he
looks just like him. If you're blind, trust me, it's
the same exact guy. You can't tell the difference. And
the fun part of this and I'm gonna I'm gonna
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get to it at some point here. He actually was
a listener before he became Almost Andy Reid. He was
an overnight listener. He listened to our overnight show in
Kansas City. We have a mutual friend, Bob Fesco from
Fesco in the morning, he does the morning show there,
a very popular show in Kansas City. And so, without
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further ado, just again use your imagination.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's audio. It's theater of the mind.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Super Bowl fifty nine is coming up on Sunday, and
we now present, without further commercial interruption, at least for now,
Almost Andy read So, I've wanted to have you on
this show, my show, the podcast for a while, Almost
Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But let's start right now super Bowl week.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
As we said, everything's going on, parties all over the place.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
What has this week been like for you?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
As the pre eminent Andy Reid in personating, they're kind
of walk us through what this week's been like.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Lots of phone calls, lots of emails, lots of interviews,
lots of appearances, and lots of plane travel.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah yeah, so you're you're flying all over and you're
going to be in New Orleans. You're not there right now,
but tonight you're going to.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, you bet, man, I can't wait to get down
there and dry some of that in New Orleans cuisine.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yes, the beignets, the Kingcake and all that. So is
it true?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I have met you a few times, I think the
last three years. We've run into each other at the
Super Bowl and I was in your town. You live
in the Kansas City area. So is it true that
one of my buddies, any mutual radio friend here, Andy
almost Andy Ree was started by in some ways by
Bob Fesco. Oh yeah, what role did Bob play? He
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does the morning show in Kansas City, no.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I got to tell you, when I first started doing this,
I thought, well, hey man, I've been a lifelong cheese fan,
but I'm going to go to this event out at
Rally House, one of our clothing places here in town.
And Bob and his buddy were there doing a radio show,
and I show up as coach, and of course.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Bob just he's got lots of energy.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I'll tell you, I love Bob. He's one of my
favorite radio personalities here in town. Of course, man.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
But you know, he did an impromptu interview with me,
and that kind of was my first interview as almost
and it was great. I had a great time. He
asked a lot of great questions. And from that point on,
I've been friends with Bob. Been out there. You know,
we got some chicken fingers here in town. Yeah after
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you and yeah, you know so great. You know Bob's
Bob's a big link here to the sports community, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Absolutely. So now you did you always?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I mean, you saw any read coaching the Eagles Stuf've
had your Chiefs fan, But did you know I kind
of looked like that guy?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Like I had.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
No clue, absolutely no clue, and I had a beard
and a goatee all of my life. For some reason,
I needed to go to an event. I shaved off
the beard, left the mustache just for fun. I don't know,
I was gonna shave it off, but then I noticed, Hey,
I look a little bit like Andy Raid.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And so I went to an event dressed like coach
and boy, people loved it, and so that kind of
got me inspired right there.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, so how many how many years did it happen?
Like right away? When Andy got there how many how.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Many years you've been doing and Andy's been coaching the
Chiefs for a while now.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, No, I just did it for fun back in
twenty eighteen. But hey, we were stuck at home for
a pandemic and I didn't know anything about social media.
So I said to my kids, Hey, kids, why don't
you help me out. Let's get a TikTok page and
helped me do some videos. And that's where it all started,
was at that point. And then, of course I've always
attended games since the mid eighties, and you know, I
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just started going as coach and I'd walked through the
parking lot. I loved meeting fans from other their teams,
you know, saying hi, good luck, I'll give him a
little bit of encouragement, and you know, yeah, and it
was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, So I have to tell this story. So I
think this was was it last year? The Super Bowl
in Vegas? Yeah, So we hung out with you a
little bit at Radio Row the great almost Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You were a rock star. Everyone loved you.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And then we left and we went to this one.
It was my favorite Italian restaurant in Vegas. It's a
little like speak easy place. Yes, we're sitting down there
and eating some fetichini alfredo, and out of the peripheral vision,
I see I see this guy walk in wearing a
Chiefs gear and a hat, and there's this murmur in
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the restaurant and uh, and I'm like, everyone's all buzzing,
you know, people getting up from their women are getting
up to take photos with this person. And it's you.
You you walked in. We happened to eat at the
same restaurant in Vegas. And when you walked in there,
like the whole restaurant kind of stopped for a few
minutes because everyone was coming over and gravitating you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
How what was that?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I got when you're when you walk in, you're you know,
you're almost Andy Reid, and everyone and wants to need you.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Well, it was kind of a dark atmosphere in there.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
But that's kind of an everyday occurrence with me, you know,
since my name around down and pictures and commercials and
things that I've done.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
But yeah, I'm kind of used to it.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
But it was a lot of fun, a lot of
great food, and of course at the Super Bowl, it's
all elevated a little bit, because you know, our brains
see what our eyes don't see, and so so people
will sometimes get starstruck and fill in all the places
on my face that aren't really coach and all. You know,
I have a hard time sometimes even convincing them that.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm not here.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
No, I know, because it was the funniest thing. I
was telling my wife, say you were wearing I mean
you look, you have the same clothes that Andy Reid wears.
You have, I mean you even have like the headset,
you have everything.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I mean, you are. You've nailed it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
This is one of the great impersonations. I give you
full credit. I mean you've done everything. You look like him,
but then you've gone above and beyond. But it's it's
fascinat in me that when I was I'll give you
the restaurant as an example, because you know, I was
eating great Italian food and it is. It was a
dark restaurant, you know, not a lot of lighting. But
people seem to think that Andy Reid showed up in
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full uniform to eat pasta.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was. It's fascinating to me.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It is.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
It's a It's an interesting phenomenon because the same thing
happens to me at the games. If if I leave
at the same time, folks are going to get, you know,
food or something at the stadium and they always ask, coach,
what are you doing? And I said, you gotta go,
you gotta go.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You're going to get some popcorn or something and you're
going to have a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And they're right, yeah, aren't there bathrooms for you? Coach?
That is great? That is that is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
So you started in twenty eighteen, you've been doing this
now it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And I know you've told me in the past.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
One I've talked to you at the Super Bowl, stuff
that you've met Andy Reid, You've done stuff, kind of
business stuff with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
What is his What was his reaction?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I mean, how's he embraced the fact that you are
almost exactly his twin from a different book.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Well, I think he has a good time with it.
And of course I've always tried to keep really true
to his character and his goodness, because when you do
meet coach, he's like your best friend. He'll sit there
and chat with you. And the first thing he said
to me is are you going to sing? For us,
which showed me that he's a study of everybody that
he meets because I sing opera professionally on the side.
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And so we've had a great relationship since I've done
three commercials with him now and just been a great
time every every opportunity I get.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
To meet him, that's great. And yeah, how is this now?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You did tell me you perform in the arts there
in Kansas City, So but you have to be in
you have to look like Andy Reid. Do they care
when you're performing that you kind of look like the
chiefs coach when.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You're Yeah, well, I've always worried about that they were
going to ask me to shave my muskas, but you know,
they used me on their social media, you know, to
promote some of their operas, so they've been pretty good
with it and accepting of the mustache, and so yes,
of course, when I'm on stage sometimes you can probably
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tell from the audience, what's Andy Reid sing an opera for?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What that is? Aliston, what about some of the guys.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Have you met any of the I'm sure you've met
some of the players doing these commercials and whatnot, And yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Pretty funny story that I just came across today when
another station somebody had interviewed several of the Chiefs players
down at the New Orleans super Dome or wherever they're
having things. And so anyhow, they gave them pictures of
me and coach and they were kind of asking them,
is this coach or is this is a fake coach?
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And so Carl Loftus and one of the other young players,
they they got confused with if I was coach or if.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
He was gone.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So I want to run this by it. And we're
hanging out with almost Andy Reid and we'll post some
photos on So I know this is audio only, but
I'm gonna post some photos and stuff. You'll be able
to see see him if you if you don't know,
he looks exactly Andy Reid. But I had this idea
we shouldn't make a movie, right, I'm gonna write a
script here, like you know, if Andy gets like you know,
he gets ill or something like that, he is like
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an upset stomach. He can't coach the Super Bowl, and
they don't want to tell anyone, and they hire you.
They bring you in and you walk up and down
the sidelines as Andy Reid and nobody notices like I
think I'm pretty sure that if you if that. You know,
I know it's a movie, you know it's a script.
But yeah, I bet you we could pull that off.
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Like you look so much like him, you could do it.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
That'd be great.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I study his mannerisms and everything, and not in a
way where I'm going to have some type of paper
said to me to stay three hundred feet away from him.
But I do watch tell he watch his gate and everything,
and so I've done a pretty good job.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Of copying a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And of course I'm a big guy, so I wear
Tommy Bahamas all the time, always have. So that's just
a natural thing for us big guys to do because.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
They're comfortable exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Listen, I'm a big guy. I love the Tommy Bahama stuff.
I'm all about it. And as far as the commercials
that you've done, are we going to see you in
the Super Bowls and there see you out?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, I'd say keep your eye on the pregame show.
You might just see something happening. We'll see nice.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And so when you're doing these commercials like what's that's
a long day, I would think, right, even though the
commercials thirty or sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You're there like, you know, hours an hour. They kind
of walk us through what that's like, and yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It's amazing, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Coach said one time, you know, I'm a chubby guy
with endless amounts of energy, and it's absolutely true. We
go to these shifts and you could be there from
seven am till ten pm at night, and this is
two or three days in a row, and uh the
uh gun. At the first time I went to the shoot,
they actually thought I was Andy and they were taking
me up to his trailer and I was like, all right, man,
(22:07):
I'm going to be living in style, and then they figured.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Out wasn't him. Uh, but yeah, those are long days.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
In fact, the commercial that he did where they had
a cheeseburger involved, they actually had a cheeseburger artist there
on set and this person was sitting out with a
jeweler's glass trimming the cheeseburgers and she probably made I
don't know, a hundred cheeseburgers that day.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Andy said that he's he ate sixty that day.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
But then I believe it because she just kept making
them look exactly the same and building them the same
way and sending them on in Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That's uh.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And did you did you end up having to eat
any that day or were you? Were you free of
the cheeseburgers that day?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
No, you know I've done that with him, and I
did a candy bar commercial with him and I didn't
get to eat any of it.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
A man, Come on, you're a big guy too, you right, yeah,
come on? Now, all right, So you're gonna be in
New Orleans this weekend, and uh, you're you have a
battle plan here for the for the trip to New
Orleans like any the games obviously not till Sunday, but you'll,
I think tonight, this being Friday tonight, and then I mean,
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the parties are gonna be off the hook.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You're gonna be, You're gonna be They're gonna be dragging
you everywhere. Oh yeah, and you read right, you're prepared
for the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
In fact, you won't believe this, but I'm going to
be there with the Taylor Swift look alike and we're
going to be doing the super Bowl up right.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
And uh And as we've we've seen from human activity
here almost and there will be people convinced that before
the Super Bowl, Andy Reid and Taylor Swift are out
hanging out at some restaurant in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
That's right. Who knows, I might beat Travis to the proposal.
You know, we never know.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Now that would now, that would break TMZ, that the interweb.
That would definitely read the interweb.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
But I don't think my wife would like that very much.
Probably probably not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, probably probably not a probably not a good What about?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
What about? What about Andy's family?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You met Andy? Have you met any of his like,
you know, relatives or anything. What do they think of you?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I haven't.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But and he told me that oftentimes he'll get texts
from them saying they saw him out someplace and it
was actually me.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
He says.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It happens all the time that his friends and family
will text him and say they saw him somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh that is that is outstanding.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That is that is great and so uh and now
you I did want to mention before I, uh, you know,
we get me in this here.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You did you.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Are a sports radio guy right back before you became
almost Andy Reid, and you did you said, I don't
know if you're just being nice, but you used to listen.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You worked late or earlier? Oh yeah, for the overnight show.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Oh no, I used to get to get to work
at three o'clock in the morning, and your show. I
listened to it every single evening, and then another one
would come.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
On after it. It was so much entertainment. I absolutely
loved it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm so glad they were, like, you know, it was
one of those jobs where I could wear headphones, and
so that's where I got to know you at for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Nice. Well, I appreciate you listening as the best.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
When Bob when I when I met you, and Bob
had mentioned you, and I've been on Bob Show for
a while. I've known Bob for a long time, Bob
Fesco and yeah, I was like, oh, he's a listen.
I was like, wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I mean, it was neat.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
It was nice for my my because I saw when
you were walking around and Radio Row is a very
odd place. I know you've been there a lot now
and there's a lot going on. There's a lot of
gas bags and blowhards walking around and most of them,
you know, most of these radio guys and podcast people,
they think they're better than everything. But when you walk in,
it's like everyone's I gotta get this I gotta get
(25:45):
this guy.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And so it was, Yeah, it was pretty neat to see.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And so you've you've done it right, right, You've made
a few bucks, and I know this is a side
hustle for you.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But yeah, well, right, the last couple of years, I've
been blessed.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
There's no doubt about that. And I went all to
the soon to be greatest coach in all of NFL history,
I think one day.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, well, when he goes in the in the Hall
of Fame, they should have you and him that you
could be side by side.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
On the podium.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, that'd be great, top toppleganger for sure. Well thanks
for doing I know people if they want you, you're
on cameo, right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
People can get a hold. Yeah, yes, How can people
reach you?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
If you're a big Chiefs fan, maybe you're not familiar
with the almost Andy Reider. Maybe they've seen you on
commercials and they're like, hey, wait, I can get this
guy to do a cameo or something.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
How can they How can they find you?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
So they can just go to cameo dot com forward
slash Almost Andy Reid And of course during this time
of the year. I'm one of the top people on
cameo this time in August. So also I do a
great job with fantasy football. So if you want to
book me in August, maybe I'll tell you what. I'll
do a great job for you.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
All right. And if you're in Kansas City, you perform.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You're a singer, so as you said, so you're right,
you might run into Almost Andy Reid on stage. You
go out for a nice night out, see the you
know the show, and you'll be saying, well, thank you,
enjoying New Orleans this weekend. I'll look for you on
the pregame show, the commercial and.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And keep doing what you're doing. You're you're amazing. You
look just like him, so ibelievable.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Mom's down there, so I'm sure we'll have good chatt
and we'll we'll will send you a picture.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Okay, outstanding? Thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
There.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
It is Almost Andy Reid hanging out with us here
on the fifth Hour pod.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Got a murder.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I gotta go
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
He is away today. He'll be with me over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He's scheduled to join me over the weekend anyway, he
will be producing this podcast. But you've got me here
on this seventh day of February, the friday before Super
Bowl Sunday, and we have coming up in a few
minutes one of the great characters around the Super Bowl,
who you may or may not know. If you've looked
(01:04):
at the description of this podcast, you know who's going
to be on, but almost Andy Reid. I'm going to
tell you more about him coming up in a couple
of minutes. But it is National Bubblegum Day today, so
celebrate appropriately. February seventh National Bubblegum Day. I don't know
how popular bubble gum is these days. I do love
(01:25):
the fact that bubble gum has been around now for
almost one hundred and twenty years. I think he's started
to watch it's been less than one hundred years. The
original bubble gum concept, the first attempt didn't actually work.
And I was reading about this because I'm a total loser.
And back in nineteen oh six, guy named Frank Fleer.
(01:50):
If you collect sports cards, you might remember Fleer trading cards.
But Frank Fleer was the guy that decided to invent
the world's for bubblegum in nineteen oh six. But it
turned out that the recipe for the bubble gum wasn't
that good. It's a little too sticky, and so it
(02:13):
didn't work. It was called blibber Blubber, Blibber Blubber bliber Blubber.
That was the name of the original bubblegum. So that
was nineteen oh six. It wasn't until nineteen twenty eight,
So ninety seven years ago. A guy named Walter Deamer
Walter deamerd I. E. M. Er, who was an underling
(02:36):
working for the Fleer corporation. Remember Frank Fleer, So this
guy was working for the Fleer Corporation and he was
able to create the first marketable version of bubblegum that
the world had ever seen. So nineteen twenty eight it
was branded double Bubble, which is still around.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
To this day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And the part of the story which is pretty funny
to me, and it reminds me a lot of the
donut thing, the donut box story that we'd like to
share on this podcast from time to time, where the
reason that baked goods often come in pink boxes and
people perceive that for delicious baked goods is because the
(03:19):
people behind the donut revolution in America, we're trying to
save a couple of bucks, and so they bought the
pink boxes, which were actually misdiye. They were supposed to
be red boxes and the dye came back pink, and
so they were cheaper.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
They made those boxes out of that.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And I'm paraphrasing, but that became synonymous with baked goods,
with donuts and all that. I bring that up because
double Bubble bubble gum when it was created by this guy,
Walter Walter Deemer, he used pink dye in the bubble gum.
(03:59):
The reason that he used pink dye is because that's
all that he had access to. If he had had
blue or green or yellow or whatever other color, any
other color in the rainbow, bubble gum would be synonymous
with that. But to this day, almost all bubble gum
(04:20):
is perceid.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's pink. Now.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I know there's some other colors of bubble gum, but
for the most part, when you think bubble gum, you
think pink, right, you do?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The color is synonymous now.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Meanwhile, it is also National Fetichini Alfredo Day today. My
favorite go to pasta when I'm at a nice Italian restaurant.
I love Fetichini Alfredo. It's wonderful. It's hard to f
up Fetichini Alfredo. And since it is National Alfredo Day,
I looked it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Up and went back in the archives and.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The original Alfredo dish actually goes back to they estimate
in Italy the fifteenth century, but it was known by
a different name. And the person that is credited as
the true inventor of the modern day dish.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Of Fenatrini Alfreno.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Is Alfredo d Lilio Alfredo di Lilio.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
This guy ran a.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Restaurant, well, his family ran a restaurant, so he was
a restauranteur in Italy. And the legend, I don't know
whether this is bull crap or whether this is true,
but the legend I'll just repeat it anyway. So this
guy was trying to get his wife to eat after
giving birth to their child in their first child night.
It was like nineteen early nineteen hundred, nineteen eight, I
(05:51):
believe was the year, and so his wife didn't want to eat,
so he was getting annoyed, and he created a recipe
that included all the delicious things that we love from
fetcini Alfredo, the noodles, the cheese, the butter, and put
it all together and teta abrika dabro wonderful. So fetcini
(06:16):
Alfredo was his wife loved it right, and it was
so good that Alfredo Delilio added it to the menu.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And his mom's restaurant.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Pizza Rosa was the name of the restaurant, and they
sold more feticini than pizza. Became amazing. People like wow,
and so that was deemed the birthplace of fetichini.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Alfred Is. That's a fun fact, right, that is a
fun fact.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
In nineteen fourteen, Alfredo Delilio opened up his own restaurant
just called Alfredo, and then he opened up another one
with his son in nineteen fifty. But in nineteen seventy
seven he opened up a restaurant in America, and that
(07:06):
is where things went next level for the Feticini Alfredo.
So it kind of began in the fifteenth century, but
for our purposes, the modern version of Feticini Alfredo that
came to us more recently. More recently, I say more recently,
(07:26):
still been one hundred, one hundred plus years we've had
Alfredo in our world. So today is Friday. It is
Super Bowl Friday, coming up on TV today. Now it's
already aired last night on Thursday. There was some of this.
But Benny versus the Penny, the Super Bowl edition, it
(07:51):
is proptastic.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We've got all the props.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I will dust off Benny's crystal ball and predict the
greatest possible endings that would break the Internet and be
wonderful for sports radio and sports media conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But we'll have tons of props. It's gonna be a
fun show.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
We're gonna go back and forth over all the big
props in the game and cannot wait, can not wait
for that.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
So that'll be coming up today.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
If you haven't seen Benny Versus the Penny, it's also
on Peacock Me and Looney Tunes breaking it all down
for you. I say scientifically, but I don't know how
scientifically it is. So that'll be coming up for you
all weekend long. And this is not our last episode.
We have one episode left in season two of Benny
Versus the Penny. That'll be next week, so we'll see
(08:50):
what happens with the TV show. It's been a lot
of fun to do with the last couple of years,
and it seems to be gaining some traction, which is
pretty cool. And you guys have been wonderful, my loyal
foot Soldiers and the Malla Militia promoting the show, letting
people know about the show, and we've gotten some good
promotion by NBC. They've promoted the show during Celtic games
(09:15):
and Warriors and Sixers games, and so it's really neat
that they have promoted the show. I don't get much
promotion at all for the overnight show, so it's nice
when you get a little promotion. So it's good for that,
but we definitely need you to spread the word, get
people that have Peacock to watch Penny Versus the Penny
this weekend and then the final episode next weekend. Now, meanwhile,
(09:39):
we pivot, where do we pivot to? We pivot to
the big game Soupper Bowl Sunday. Person we're going to
have on here. He goes by the moniker almost Andy
read And while you and I are taking part in audio,
(10:01):
and I know this is more of a visual thing
than an audio thing, but just imagine the twin, the
doppelganger of Andy Reid from a different mother. This guy
is such a dead ringer that some of the Chiefs
players cannot tell whether this is Andy Reid or almost
Andy Reid. So it's a fun story. I'm gonna get
(10:23):
into it with him. But he he is a lives
in the Kansas City area, and he's been doing this
for about seven years. He's the number one preeminent Andy
Reid impersonator. He's got the mannerisms down, he's got he
looks just like him. If you're blind, trust me, it's
the same exact guy. You can't tell the difference. And
the fun part of this and I'm gonna I'm gonna
(10:44):
get to it at some point here. He actually was
a listener before he became Almost Andy Reid. He was
an overnight listener. He listened to our overnight show in
Kansas City. We have a mutual friend, Bob Fesco from
Fesco in the morning, he does the morning show there,
a very popular show in Kansas City. And so, without
(11:05):
further ado, just again use your imagination.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's audio. It's theater of the mind.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Super Bowl fifty nine is coming up on Sunday, and
we now present, without further commercial interruption, at least for now,
Almost Andy read So, I've wanted to have you on
this show, my show, the podcast for a while, Almost
Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But let's start right now super Bowl week.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
As we said, everything's going on, parties all over the place.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
What has this week been like for you?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
As the pre eminent Andy Reid in personating, they're kind
of walk us through what this week's been like.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Lots of phone calls, lots of emails, lots of interviews,
lots of appearances, and lots of plane travel.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah yeah, so you're you're flying all over and you're
going to be in New Orleans. You're not there right now,
but tonight you're going to.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, you bet, man, I can't wait to get down
there and dry some of that in New Orleans cuisine.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yes, the beignets, the Kingcake and all that. So is
it true?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I have met you a few times, I think the
last three years. We've run into each other at the
Super Bowl and I was in your town. You live
in the Kansas City area. So is it true that
one of my buddies, any mutual radio friend here, Andy
almost Andy Ree was started by in some ways by
Bob Fesco. Oh yeah, what role did Bob play? He
(12:36):
does the morning show in Kansas City, no.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I got to tell you, when I first started doing this,
I thought, well, hey man, I've been a lifelong cheese fan,
but I'm going to go to this event out at
Rally House, one of our clothing places here in town.
And Bob and his buddy were there doing a radio show,
and I show up as coach, and of course.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Bob just he's got lots of energy.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I'll tell you, I love Bob. He's one of my
favorite radio personalities here in town. Of course, man.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
But you know, he did an impromptu interview with me,
and that kind of was my first interview as almost
and it was great. I had a great time. He
asked a lot of great questions. And from that point on,
I've been friends with Bob. Been out there. You know,
we got some chicken fingers here in town. Yeah after
(13:28):
you and yeah, you know so great. You know Bob's
Bob's a big link here to the sports community, no
doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Absolutely. So now you did you always?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I mean, you saw any read coaching the Eagles Stuf've
had your Chiefs fan, But did you know I kind
of looked like that guy?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Like I had.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
No clue, absolutely no clue, and I had a beard
and a goatee all of my life. For some reason,
I needed to go to an event. I shaved off
the beard, left the mustache just for fun. I don't know,
I was gonna shave it off, but then I noticed, Hey,
I look a little bit like Andy Raid.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
And so I went to an event dressed like coach
and boy, people loved it, and so that kind of
got me inspired right there.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, so how many how many years did it happen?
Like right away? When Andy got there how many how.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Many years you've been doing and Andy's been coaching the
Chiefs for a while now.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, No, I just did it for fun back in
twenty eighteen. But hey, we were stuck at home for
a pandemic and I didn't know anything about social media.
So I said to my kids, Hey, kids, why don't
you help me out. Let's get a TikTok page and
helped me do some videos. And that's where it all started,
was at that point. And then, of course I've always
attended games since the mid eighties, and you know, I
(14:45):
just started going as coach and I'd walked through the
parking lot. I loved meeting fans from other their teams,
you know, saying hi, good luck, I'll give him a
little bit of encouragement, and you know, yeah, and it
was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, So I have to tell this story. So I
think this was was it last year? The Super Bowl
in Vegas? Yeah, So we hung out with you a
little bit at Radio Row the great almost Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You were a rock star. Everyone loved you.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And then we left and we went to this one.
It was my favorite Italian restaurant in Vegas. It's a
little like speak easy place. Yes, we're sitting down there
and eating some fetichini alfredo, and out of the peripheral vision,
I see I see this guy walk in wearing a
Chiefs gear and a hat, and there's this murmur in
(15:33):
the restaurant and uh, and I'm like, everyone's all buzzing,
you know, people getting up from their women are getting
up to take photos with this person. And it's you.
You you walked in. We happened to eat at the
same restaurant in Vegas. And when you walked in there,
like the whole restaurant kind of stopped for a few
minutes because everyone was coming over and gravitating you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
How what was that?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Like?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I got when you're when you walk in, you're you know,
you're almost Andy Reid, and everyone and wants to need you.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Well, it was kind of a dark atmosphere in there.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
But that's kind of an everyday occurrence with me, you know,
since my name around down and pictures and commercials and
things that I've done.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
But yeah, I'm kind of used to it.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
But it was a lot of fun, a lot of
great food, and of course at the Super Bowl, it's
all elevated a little bit, because you know, our brains
see what our eyes don't see, and so so people
will sometimes get starstruck and fill in all the places
on my face that aren't really coach and all. You know,
I have a hard time sometimes even convincing them that.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm not here.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
No, I know, because it was the funniest thing. I
was telling my wife, say you were wearing I mean
you look, you have the same clothes that Andy Reid wears.
You have, I mean you even have like the headset,
you have everything.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I mean, you are. You've nailed it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
This is one of the great impersonations. I give you
full credit. I mean you've done everything. You look like him,
but then you've gone above and beyond. But it's it's
fascinat in me that when I was I'll give you
the restaurant as an example, because you know, I was
eating great Italian food and it is. It was a
dark restaurant, you know, not a lot of lighting. But
people seem to think that Andy Reid showed up in
(17:12):
full uniform to eat pasta.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was. It's fascinating to me.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
It is.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
It's a It's an interesting phenomenon because the same thing
happens to me at the games. If if I leave
at the same time, folks are going to get, you know,
food or something at the stadium and they always ask, coach,
what are you doing? And I said, you gotta go,
you gotta go.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You're going to get some popcorn or something and you're
going to have a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And they're right, yeah, aren't there bathrooms for you? Coach?
That is great? That is that is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
So you started in twenty eighteen, you've been doing this
now it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And I know you've told me in the past.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
One I've talked to you at the Super Bowl, stuff
that you've met Andy Reid, You've done stuff, kind of
business stuff with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
What is his What was his reaction?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I mean, how's he embraced the fact that you are
almost exactly his twin from a different book.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Well, I think he has a good time with it.
And of course I've always tried to keep really true
to his character and his goodness, because when you do
meet coach, he's like your best friend. He'll sit there
and chat with you. And the first thing he said
to me is are you going to sing? For us,
which showed me that he's a study of everybody that
he meets because I sing opera professionally on the side.
(18:31):
And so we've had a great relationship since I've done
three commercials with him now and just been a great
time every every opportunity I get.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
To meet him, that's great. And yeah, how is this now?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You did tell me you perform in the arts there
in Kansas City, So but you have to be in
you have to look like Andy Reid. Do they care
when you're performing that you kind of look like the
chiefs coach when.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You're Yeah, well, I've always worried about that they were
going to ask me to shave my muskas, but you know,
they used me on their social media, you know, to
promote some of their operas, so they've been pretty good
with it and accepting of the mustache, and so yes,
of course, when I'm on stage sometimes you can probably
(19:16):
tell from the audience, what's Andy Reid sing an opera for?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What that is? Aliston, what about some of the guys.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Have you met any of the I'm sure you've met
some of the players doing these commercials and whatnot, And yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Pretty funny story that I just came across today when
another station somebody had interviewed several of the Chiefs players
down at the New Orleans super Dome or wherever they're
having things. And so anyhow, they gave them pictures of
me and coach and they were kind of asking them,
is this coach or is this is a fake coach?
(19:50):
And so Carl Loftus and one of the other young players,
they they got confused with if I was coach or if.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
He was gone.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
So I want to run this by it. And we're
hanging out with almost Andy Reid and we'll post some
photos on So I know this is audio only, but
I'm gonna post some photos and stuff. You'll be able
to see see him if you if you don't know,
he looks exactly Andy Reid. But I had this idea
we shouldn't make a movie, right, I'm gonna write a
script here, like you know, if Andy gets like you know,
he gets ill or something like that, he is like
(20:22):
an upset stomach. He can't coach the Super Bowl, and
they don't want to tell anyone, and they hire you.
They bring you in and you walk up and down
the sidelines as Andy Reid and nobody notices like I
think I'm pretty sure that if you if that. You know,
I know it's a movie, you know it's a script.
But yeah, I bet you we could pull that off.
(20:42):
Like you look so much like him, you could do it.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
That'd be great.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I study his mannerisms and everything, and not in a
way where I'm going to have some type of paper
said to me to stay three hundred feet away from him.
But I do watch tell he watch his gate and everything,
and so I've done a pretty good job.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Of copying a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And of course I'm a big guy, so I wear
Tommy Bahamas all the time, always have. So that's just
a natural thing for us big guys to do because.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
They're comfortable exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Listen, I'm a big guy. I love the Tommy Bahama stuff.
I'm all about it. And as far as the commercials
that you've done, are we going to see you in
the Super Bowls and there see you out?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, I'd say keep your eye on the pregame show.
You might just see something happening. We'll see nice.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And so when you're doing these commercials like what's that's
a long day, I would think, right, even though the
commercials thirty or sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You're there like, you know, hours an hour. They kind
of walk us through what that's like, and yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It's amazing, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Coach said one time, you know, I'm a chubby guy
with endless amounts of energy, and it's absolutely true. We
go to these shifts and you could be there from
seven am till ten pm at night, and this is
two or three days in a row, and uh the
uh gun. At the first time I went to the shoot,
they actually thought I was Andy and they were taking
me up to his trailer and I was like, all right, man,
(22:07):
I'm going to be living in style, and then they figured.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Out wasn't him. Uh, but yeah, those are long days.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
In fact, the commercial that he did where they had
a cheeseburger involved, they actually had a cheeseburger artist there
on set and this person was sitting out with a
jeweler's glass trimming the cheeseburgers and she probably made I
don't know, a hundred cheeseburgers that day.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Andy said that he's he ate sixty that day.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
But then I believe it because she just kept making
them look exactly the same and building them the same
way and sending them on in Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That's uh.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And did you did you end up having to eat
any that day or were you? Were you free of
the cheeseburgers that day?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
No, you know I've done that with him, and I
did a candy bar commercial with him and I didn't
get to eat any of it.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
A man, Come on, you're a big guy too, you right, yeah,
come on? Now, all right, So you're gonna be in
New Orleans this weekend, and uh, you're you have a
battle plan here for the for the trip to New
Orleans like any the games obviously not till Sunday, but you'll,
I think tonight, this being Friday tonight, and then I mean,
(23:17):
the parties are gonna be off the hook.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
You're gonna be, You're gonna be They're gonna be dragging
you everywhere. Oh yeah, and you read right, you're prepared
for the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
In fact, you won't believe this, but I'm going to
be there with the Taylor Swift look alike and we're
going to be doing the super Bowl up right.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
And uh And as we've we've seen from human activity
here almost and there will be people convinced that before
the Super Bowl, Andy Reid and Taylor Swift are out
hanging out at some restaurant in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
That's right. Who knows, I might beat Travis to the proposal.
You know, we never know.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Now that would now, that would break TMZ, that the interweb.
That would definitely read the interweb.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
But I don't think my wife would like that very much.
Probably probably not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, probably probably not a probably not a good What about?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
What about? What about Andy's family?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You met Andy? Have you met any of his like,
you know, relatives or anything. What do they think of you?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I haven't.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But and he told me that oftentimes he'll get texts
from them saying they saw him out someplace and it
was actually me.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
He says.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It happens all the time that his friends and family
will text him and say they saw him somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh that is that is outstanding.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That is that is great and so uh and now
you I did want to mention before I, uh, you know,
we get me in this here.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You did you.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Are a sports radio guy right back before you became
almost Andy Reid, and you did you said, I don't
know if you're just being nice, but you used to listen.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You worked late or earlier? Oh yeah, for the overnight show.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Oh no, I used to get to get to work
at three o'clock in the morning, and your show. I
listened to it every single evening, and then another one
would come.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
On after it. It was so much entertainment. I absolutely
loved it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm so glad they were, like, you know, it was
one of those jobs where I could wear headphones, and
so that's where I got to know you at for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Nice. Well, I appreciate you listening as the best.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
When Bob when I when I met you, and Bob
had mentioned you, and I've been on Bob Show for
a while. I've known Bob for a long time, Bob
Fesco and yeah, I was like, oh, he's a listen.
I was like, wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I mean, it was neat.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
It was nice for my my because I saw when
you were walking around and Radio Row is a very
odd place. I know you've been there a lot now
and there's a lot going on. There's a lot of
gas bags and blowhards walking around and most of them,
you know, most of these radio guys and podcast people,
they think they're better than everything. But when you walk in,
it's like everyone's I gotta get this I gotta get
(25:45):
this guy.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And so it was, Yeah, it was pretty neat to see.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And so you've you've done it right, right, You've made
a few bucks, and I know this is a side
hustle for you.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But yeah, well, right, the last couple of years, I've
been blessed.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
There's no doubt about that. And I went all to
the soon to be greatest coach in all of NFL history,
I think one day.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, well, when he goes in the in the Hall
of Fame, they should have you and him that you
could be side by side.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
On the podium.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, that'd be great, top toppleganger for sure. Well thanks
for doing I know people if they want you, you're
on cameo, right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
People can get a hold. Yeah, yes, How can people
reach you?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
If you're a big Chiefs fan, maybe you're not familiar
with the almost Andy Reider. Maybe they've seen you on
commercials and they're like, hey, wait, I can get this
guy to do a cameo or something.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
How can they How can they find you?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
So they can just go to cameo dot com forward
slash Almost Andy Reid And of course during this time
of the year. I'm one of the top people on
cameo this time in August. So also I do a
great job with fantasy football. So if you want to
book me in August, maybe I'll tell you what. I'll
do a great job for you.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
All right. And if you're in Kansas City, you perform.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You're a singer, so as you said, so you're right,
you might run into Almost Andy Reid on stage. You
go out for a nice night out, see the you
know the show, and you'll be saying, well, thank you,
enjoying New Orleans this weekend. I'll look for you on
the pregame show, the commercial and.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And keep doing what you're doing. You're you're amazing. You
look just like him, so ibelievable.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Mom's down there, so I'm sure we'll have good chatt
and we'll we'll will send you a picture.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Okay, outstanding? Thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
There.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
It is Almost Andy Reid hanging out with us here
on the fifth Hour pod.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Got a murder.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I gotta go
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