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Our guest today is Jordan Hefner and , again , former guest of the roundtable that we had for the second annual Matthews Football Preview with former guest and roundtable contributor Drew McLaughlin . Jordan , welcome to the show man .
What's happening , Fiddy ? How are you ?
I'm great man . I'm glad to be talking to you . How's everything your way ?
Oh , pretty good , Pretty good , can't complain .
Great , Great . So , Jordan , I know we talked a little bit about your coaching background on the Matthews Football Roundtable , but let's kind of tell everybody where are you from originally ?
um , and you know where did you go to high school at ? Uh , I'm from kinsman , ohio . Uh , up until seventh grade I went to badger , um , they didn't have a football program , um , I was actually on the very first peewee program they ever had , um .
And then , after seventh grade , when you couldn't play anymore , obviously , uh , I transferred and I went to Matthews , um graduated from Matthews too . So , yeah , Okay .
So what was it like growing up at a place you know in Kinsman , and going to Badger that didn't have a , uh , a football team for the high school ? Is that a little bit different as a you know , as a school and a culture , not having football ? Yeah , yeah , it's really weird . Was that a little bit different as a school and a culture ?
not having football . Yeah , yeah , it's really weird . So you would think like I've had all these friends that I grew up with from , you know , preschool , kindergarten , all the way up until seventh grade . But I really didn't have that . I really had to make new friends when I left and went to Matthews .
But another thing too , like with friends so a lot of my friends that I had , they all played football , so they all went to different schools , whether it was , you know , I had two of my friends went to Kennedy . Uh , one of my friends went to Garfield , bunch of them went to Brookfield , one went to PV .
Like everybody just scattered , it was a little , it was a little weird . Um , you know , you definitely see a difference in the community , like in vienna , you know , you can definitely tell it's friday night during football season in vienna and you know , kinsman , it's kind of just another day sure do you .
I always wonder that too , being , uh , being so close to kinsman growing up across the border in pa . Do you know why they never had football ? Was it just because the lack of the size of the school , or was there a reason behind it ? Do you have any idea ?
I have no idea . I know they made a very , very , very big push . The guys that started the Peewee program who all have football backgrounds , they made a really big push . They were calling special board meetings for it and it just never came together . I don't know , they just don't want it . I don't know .
Interesting . Yeah , I know there's a lot , of a lot of schools on that border of Ohio with Pennsylvania that that don't have football and you kind of wonder you know what is the school atmosphere like ? Because you don't have . You know Friday nights there's not the marching band opportunities in that sense , or you know cheerleading for football games .
I think it's definitely different , but I guess if you grow up not having it , you don't know any different either .
You know , and I think as we go forward here into 2024 , 2025 , as we see small districts shrinking and potentially combining , maybe we'll see some of these potential mergers , uh , with with these schools and then maybe adding football to add to the dynamic of the high school . So time will tell on that . So you go to matthews and you are now a student there .
Um , can you kind of talk about what it was like being at such a small school though that that had football , and know what were you involved in with sports or extracurriculars and just kind of your time , your time at Matthews ?
So for for it being a small school , I really didn't know the difference . I honestly thought , you know , I was going to Matthews . They had football , so it was a bigger school because Badger obviously didn't have it . It was a bigger school because Badger obviously didn't have it .
I came in in the summer , going into my eighth grade year , and with all the middle school guys playing football , I had Coach Mazey and Coach Feil were my coaches . You know , Coach Mazey's still around . We actually had a 40-minute phone conversation yesterday . But Coach Feil , he passed about two years ago . Uh , great guy , great guy , he actually he was .
He's one of those guys that he always , he always kept you locked in um middle school . I didn't play basketball in middle school , no , I wasn't able to . And then all I , actually all I did when I was in eighth grade , I just played football , waited , I lifted my butt off for my freshman year okay .
So then you , you get to high school and then you're part of the . The high school team and some of our former guests are well connected with matthews , whether that's you , mclaughlin , or coach matt polta , um mike palumbo , they're all people that have worked and work worked previously and work at Matthews .
Now can you kind of talk about your relationship with those people and what that was like as a student to now being an adult and being back at Matthews as a football coach ?
Yeah , I think Palumbo was really , really good coach . It was actually a kind of a heartbreaker for me , uh after my junior year when I you know when he left , but I understand he uh had kids , he's building a family , all that , um .
And coach polta you know , I've been around coach polta since my freshman year , with a little bit of break after I graduated , but you know , that guy teaches me new things every day , um , you know , drew was there my freshman year too . I think that was his second year coaching uh ever , and he was actually uh one of my linebacker coaches .
So it's really cool now that I have but I'm on a staff with coach bolta , andrew , and you know coach maizey too , like I talked about before , he's there on and off . But you know Coach Mazey too , like I talked about before , he's there on and off , but you know , right now he's really focused on being a parent .
His son , zach , who was a tailback and outside linebacker for us last year , he's playing at Teal College now . So he's really having a good time watching this kid finally play as a parent other than as a coach .
Yeah , absolutely . There's definitely a different dynamic when you're a dad um versus versus dad being being a fan and , and especially when you can be a proud dad watching your child . Um , you know , play any type of college sports , because there's very few people that go on to the d3 , d2 , d1 , one , double , a juco naia levels and play .
Can you kind of talk about , too , your time at Matthews under Coach Palumbo ? You know the success that you guys had and I believe Coach Protopapa would have been there your senior year , I know . You know , when I was coaching , whether it was in Pennsylvania or Ohio , we were always intermixed with Matthews .
We had some great relationships with them , whether it was passing scrimmages or or the , you know , preseason scrimmages , junior high games , things like that . Can you kind of talk about your uh , you know your four years there in a nutshell and what your guys were able to accomplish ?
yeah , uh , I remember when you're at uh Lakeview , your first year that was my senior year we came there for a seven on seven . It was us Lakeview , uh , camel and barrel was there yep , yep , that's correct yeah , because I thought we were so good because we scored on ferrell like three times and then that I don't know what happened .
I think they ended up winning . I think they were runner up in the state state championship game that year . They were pretty good yeah , they were .
They were really good and that you know that was a a great passing um scrimmage . The two years that I was there we uh , we did four of them at home but that first year we were kind of pressed on time but I really enjoyed um that passenger . I thought that was some great competition between the four of us .
Oh yeah , and I know that was something coach protopapa really uh , really enjoyed the relationship that we had at lakeview PA with Matthews being so close .
That's weird , because he's not a passing guy at all . He won't throw the ball . I remember he used to say three things can happen when you can throw the ball , and two of them are bad . Why would you do it ?
For sure . But I always enjoyed Coach Protopapa and Coach Palumbo and coaching against Drew and Coach Mostello as well . Coach polto always had a good relationship coaching against those guys for you know 10 years plus off and on . But um , you know you guys had some success there with with coach palumbo and you know coach protopapa .
Can you kind of talk about some ? of the maybe major wins that you remember and , uh , you know what it was like . I believe you went to the playoffs a couple of times too . Can you kind of talk about that ?
Yeah , my sophomore year . Uh , we made it to the playoffs first time in like 10 years , I think . Uh , we went up to Norwalk , st Paul , that was . Uh , that was a rough night . Uh , I'm gonna be honest , I don't really remember too much about that game .
It took a lot of hits , you know , and at that time so actually my sophomore year I was ineligible for the regular season .
Um , there was kind of a mix up with , uh , a class schedule that we had , so at the end of the year I only had four and a half credits , cause I only had like five classes at the end of the year and one of them was only a half credit .
Um , so I got to play in the playoff game , which was awesome , and , uh , I was on like every special teams played a little bit of receiver , um , but I was on kickoff , so much and I got hit every time and it was like I was like man , I waited all year for this . And then my , uh , and we actually won the league that year .
We did win the league that year , my junior year , I believe . It went eight and two go down to Toronto first , first week of the playoffs , I believe at halftime it was still a really tight game . I think it was like he was like 14-8 . We were down 14-8 and then it just kind of , you know , he just took off from there .
There's kind of a track meet for toronto . From there they just kind of went with it . Um , my senior year with coach protopapa , uh , we went , I think think we went six and four or five and five , I can't remember but we had to beat Newberry week 10 to make the playoffs and it was . You know , you think of Newberry .
You know it doesn't matter pretty much who you are . That's a lock Like . You're winning that game . They're notorious for being horrible . Are . That's a lock . You're winning that game . They're notorious for being horrible . We go in and I think six of our starters got ejected . Just a bunch of head cases we had . And uh , yeah , we lost .
But I think I think we lost by three . Yeah , I think they beat us by three . So it didn't make the playoffs my senior year but you know what ?
You got to experience it twice and back then it was the eight team playoff , not the 16 team .
I hate , I hate what it is now . It's so dumb . I hate what it is now . It's so dumb , I hate it .
Right . It's a sense of pride when you could have made it into the Make it . Make it 10 teams , 10 teams . Make it top two seeds , get a bye . Yeah , I'm with you on , I'm with you on that one . So you finished up your your high school career and then you go to the military . Can you kind of talk about when you were finishing up your senior year ?
You know , ultimately , what were you wanting to do ? Military ? Can you kind of talk about when you were finishing up your senior year ? You know , ultimately , what were you wanting to do , why you chose the military and kind of your time in the military ?
so through my senior year we had a guy that coached at matthews . He coached basketball , he coached track um . He was a pennsy National Guard recruiter and me and him were really close . And he asked me one time he's like hey , you ever thought about the guards ? Nah , I don't want to do nothing like that . He's like oh , okay , left me alone . Great dude .
And then one day this Navy guy , navy recruiter , came into the school and he was talking , talking , talking . He wouldn't leave me alone and he was like oh , I'll fill out this . This form , you know . That says you know , I talked to you . So it looks good , I can give it to my bosses , whatever . So I fill it out , put my phone number on there .
I'm stupid , now I know . So that guy called me and texted me like three times a day man , join the navy . Hey , join the navy . I don't want to do that . So finally I got a hold of this guy from the army national guard that I knew . I said , hey , you know how do I get this guy to leave me alone ?
He's like well , I'll get a hold of him , tell him to leave you alone , I'll tell him you're working with me . And then , uh , there's actually a couple days after that I was like , what's the National Guard like ? And then it just went from there .
Very interesting . So you know how long were you , were you in the National Guard ? Are you still in the National Guard , kind of , what was your specialty ? Going into that ? We've had a lot of people who have served on here . Mike and I are proud to support our military .
I had four , have will have and had four veterans in my family , three serving global , global conflicts . So always support our troops . So can you kind of talk about you , know what exactly you you did with your specialty inside the , uh , the national guard ?
yeah , so I'm actually still in . Um , I got , I'm on year seven , so I got four years left , uh , and then after these four years , I'm done .
I , you know , it's kind of to the point where I mean , I'm sure you get coaches on here and they talk about it too where there's nothing left to do so and there , and there's nowhere you can , you can't climb the ladder anymore , so it's just time to go . So , uh , in the next four years , that'll be it for me .
There's really not going to be anywhere else for me to go up , so it's time to go . Um , I got in in 2017 , uh went to Fort Sill , oklahoma , for basic training in AIT . Um , and those of you that don't know , uh , fort Sill , oklahoma , for basic training in AIT .
And those of you that don't know , fort Sill is the home of the field artillery , so I am still a field artillery Right now . My job is I am a section chief , so I have my own gun and I pretty much supervise my guys during fire missions . I like it a lot . It uh , you know , it's definitely a break from regular life .
And also , too , um , I don't think I'd like it a lot if I did it full time , it'd just be a drag , I feel like . So that's why I stayed in . Um , I was actually going to get out after my first contract , after my first six years , because , uh , I was kind of a go-getter .
Um , I was actually going to get out after my first contract , after my first six years , because , uh , I was kind of a go-getter when I was younger . When I first got in , I was like , all right , I need to go to all these schools , get promoted , get sergeant , and then you know , we'll go from there .
Well , I got sergeant within my first two years , for two and a half years and and I said I told myself I'm like okay , if I don't have E6 by the time I hit my six years , I'm done . Well , like two months before it was ready for me to either get out or reenlist , I see my name on the promotion list for E6 and I'm like gosh , why stay ?
So I stayed .
Gotcha . Yeah , we've had on some , some guests who have been a former Navy personnel and Air Force as well . One graduated from the Naval Academy and got into coaching . Another one was in the Navy and then he was cross-trained with the Army and became a sniper . He actually lives out of the country now .
Another one was in the Air Force and then he has since retired medically and then he is a full time coach and then , you know , with my family . They served proudly in Vietnam and World War Two in Korea , across the , the Army and the , the Air Force so , and the Navy . So you know definitely had a lot of connections with the , with the military there .
I know it's sometimes can be a hard road to go down for people , but I know there's a lot of great military there . I know it's sometimes going to be a hard road to go down for people , but I know there's a lot of great rewards there . It's a great way to see the country , see the world . You know , get your education paid for .
You know , have opportunities to learn a trade or you know some type of different , get some different certifications and go out into the world after that . So you know some type of different , get some different certifications and go out into the world after that . So you know Jordan .
On behalf of everybody at Ride Home Rants , thank you for your service to our country .
Oh , I appreciate it . You know , you say you could go in and learn a trade and I tell people that all the time and like I kind of kick myself in the butt , I'm like man , I wish I would have did that . You , I'm like man , I wish I would have did that . You know , I'm just . I'm just a big dumb guy that likes to blow shit up .
That's uh , that's basically what my job is .
You know , when I was , when I was coaching , um , one guy that worked for Rydell , uh , who would come collect the equipment at the end of the season , when we were chatting one time and he actually went to the , the army , and he was , um , learn how to become a chef . He became a , he became a chef in there .
He , he earned his culinary uh like degree , if you want to say . He did that for 25 years and then , um , you know , retired and then moved on into to ride dell . But I know there's a lot of different things you can learn in there .
I always tell people too , when they're looking at potentially , the military and I'm like you know what , you can go in there and have a great career , because on every military base or every unit or whatever , they still need everyday people .
They still need carpenters , they still need plumbers , they still need mechanics , they still need welders , they need garbage men , they need cooks . You know you don't have to go in there and become a navy seal or a ranger or whatever it may be .
You can go in there and actually have a really great life , um , you know , be in the medical field , whatever you know it may be . So you know jordan , then you know you . You do this , this national guard thing . You're still in it for a few more years , but you still need a full-time job . So what do you ?
What are you doing now and what have you done since graduation ?
well , I'll start from after I came home from basic training , iot , so I started working at uh superior beverage . It was a uh , I don't know if you're familiar with them , it's a beer distributing company , and that was so .
I was driving from kinsman to Columbiana every day at like four o'clock in the morning and uh , running around with somebody getting done and you know they're going home , uh , after that I got sick of the drive .
So my brother he was actually working at uh , the gas company in town he was like , hey , come out , you know , uh , I'll get you a decent money , work here , okay , cool . So it started working there . Um , and then , from previous football injury , I uh had a shoulder surgery .
That set me off work for a while and then he ended up leaving that company after like 10 years and going to another gas company . So I was like I don't like this stuff , anyways , I'm out of here . From there I worked at TCI in Leavittsburg , the state prison . I worked there for a while and then I asked management there .
I said , hey , I'd like to go to the police academy , could I get switched to midnight shifts ? And they said no . So I walked into the sheriff's office and talked to the major in the jail and he basically hired me on the spot . I told him my plan . I said I want to go to the police academy .
Will you guys let me work here and do that at the same time ? He said , absolutely . So that's what I did . I worked in the jail while going through the police academy . Got out of the police academy I worked at Goshen Township in Mahoning County . That's another .
It was a quick find for me after , because I mean , you know you don't want to sit around after you get a certification and not use it . So I hurried up , got a job there . That was another about an hour drive from my house to work every day . So I kind of wasn't really making any money because of the drive and the pay there was not great .
Got into probation for a little bit . Um , while I was working in probation I started working part-time in Kinsman and uh , new chief took over . Uh , chief Thad Stevenson , great guy , um . And then at one point he said , hey , I'm looking for a full-time guy and I said , well , I , I'm interested if you want . I said I don't need the health benefits .
You know I'll do it . And he hired me full time and now I'm there . I've been there since March , full time .
That's awesome , that is definitely awesome . We always like to say everybody has a unique story to tell and everybody has a unique background , right Of like , who were you before and what were you then and now , who are you now ? So you know , that's definitely awesome . And I think you know you have a very dynamic background , right ?
You're you're still serving in the national guard , you're a police officer , you have experience in probation , you have experience as a corrections officer . I think something like that , you know , definitely can make you make you a better officer , right , because not only are you just looking from the police side , well , you know the correction side .
You know what people sometimes get in for . You know the the issues people go through in jail , whether it's mental health or substance abuse or whatever it may be .
You've seen , you know what it can be when you're on probation and I think you know you've been in some very high level stress situations that I think becoming an officer , in my opinion , you're better equipped with to handle because you've seen the different realms .
You just haven't seen law enforcement , you've seen military , you've seen probation , you've seen corrections . So you know . Kudos to you for doing all that and again , thank you for you know , keeping , keeping everyone safe . So I always like to say , though , you know , police officers always have a different type of job depending on where you're at .
So , like you know , kinsman is a rural area . It's a small area , right ? So it's not like you're in a big , big city . So , um , I'm sure you've dealt with some some country things that most city officers wouldn't deal with . So you have you ever had to chase , like a cow down or a wild horse or something that got out of the , got out of their pens ?
a horse . I had a . I used to have it like once a week same guy . His horse would get out and that that horse was like it was . It was like it was part .
It was the part of town where there's a bunch of houses squished together and this guy had a horse like on a leash in his backyard and it kept getting off and I had to chase it around and oh God , I hated that . And now I told him . I said hey , I said if you're you know , next time I have to come back here , I'm charging you for animals at large .
He's like oh , you can't do that yeah Want to bet , let's do it .
Right . I think , you know after two , three times . You know you're doing it to try to literally help someone out . You know to protect the citizens , protect the horse . You know protect everyone and serve the community . But eventually you kind of got to give the hint and know that you know that's probably six times too many . You know in that case .
So I'd like to say you know , sometimes the country officers have very interesting stories because you know you pretty much work alone . You're dealing with a lot of things in the country , whether it's fallen trees , blocking a road you know someone's ? power goes out , it's pitch black . You know you . You you have to deal with chasing animals around and uh things .
You know things like that . So you know people may be prowling on someone's farm and not you know . Not knowing , so , um , I'm sure you have .
You have quite a few funny stories out there during your time oh yeah , everybody thinks it's just , you know , a lot of times they think it's a little old kinsman . And you know , I'm actually in the process now , um , training a guy fresh out of the academy . Um , he's gonna work for us part-time , um , and he was like , this is the other day .
He's only been with me for like four days and he was like , oh my gosh , I I didn't think there was this much to do out here .
I'm like , yeah , there's , there's stuff to find , there's stuff to do out here , but you know , it's it's it's kind of tough out there too , because it was just a part-time apartment for so long and that community is so , um , everybody's together . It's a really tight community um that you know , it's like the wild , wild west out there .
You know something will happen and they're not calling the police , they're trying to handle it on their own until they can't , because they know , like before we had anybody full time um , they're going to call the sheriff's office . It's going to take 45 minutes for somebody to get there , so why even call ?
sure , sure , no , and I know , definitely , there's always , you know , there's always issues , um , in in every community , no matter what's the best community in the world or the worst community in the world , everyone has issues and , again , it's just depending on the area and the issues that you , uh that you you've dealt with .
I , I know , um , the other day we were traveling for work and we were in a very rural , rural area and we , uh we just came across , uh , a town we were cutting through and , uh , the the lights route and it it looked like , you know , their part-time officers were there , uh , directing people through the few traffic lights that they had , because the sheriffs
probably weren't going to go do that , so they had to get the , you know , the part-time officers to go direct traffic , not that there was a lot of traffic but you still got to have somebody present . Oh yeah , yeah . So you also you know balance coaching , um , this is your third year with being a police officer and also the national guard .
So can you kind of talk about , um , and it's going to kind of hang back to the summer show , but just how you got into coaching . And then you know , besides being at Matthews , uh , your first year at Kennedy and getting to um , getting to experience coaching there .
So you kind of talk about how you got into coaching and then what that experience has been like .
So when I was working at the jail , um , I worked with a guy his name is mike bassalon . He , uh , was taking over as the um coach for the little mustangs , the pb program . And he asked me he says I can't find any guys to help me , I can't . Well , I'm like I'll come help you . So I go there , start helping him in the summer .
And , uh , you know , we start my first two games . You know we're not winning anything , but it is what it is . At that level it's not about winning , it's about getting these kids better , right ? So , uh , I'm working in the jail and then this new guy gets hired into the jail and I become friends with a guy .
His name is Chuck R and , uh , he's like hey , man , I hear you coach football . I coach over at Kennedy Catholic . I'm the defensive coordinator . He says we need another guy . He says I need another set of eyes . I'm like , well , let me talk to Mike , I'll see what he thinks . And he said , dude , if you have that opportunity , just go do it .
So I start coaching at Kennedy . It was rough , it was really rough , like , I think , the first game we had 12 guys total . Our punter was playing receiver and he was not that guy .
So I finished out the year there , um , and then I heard that coach Bourne was leaving Matthews and I instantly thought I'm like , oh , I really hope Coach Polk is going to put in for this job because I feel like he's a shoe-in for it . He gets the job . He hires me on the staff . I volunteered last year .
Last year I helped Drew out with the offense a little bit and then I helped Coach Mars go out with the staff . I volunteered last year . Last year I helped Drew out with the offense a little bit and helped Coach Mars go out with the defense , and now this year I have a contract .
I'm basically I mean , I'm doing a little bit on the defensive side , but basically I'm Drew's eyes in the booth saying , hey , we can run this , we can't run this .
Sure , and that's great . You know experience for getting that , especially seeing it from the booth , because seeing it from the booth is a different type of uh , vision of the game . But that's , that's definitely awesome .
So , jordan , I guess from here you kind of talked about where you're going to go and retire per se with the national guard here in a few years you know , where do you see your career going , potentially with coaching , law enforcement or just future ambitions ? Where do you see yourself going down the road here ?
Actually I was told not to talk about it yet , but I actually did get offered a coaching job yesterday at the semi-pro level , which doesn't mean I'm getting away from high school football at all . I am going to take it . I can't reveal too too much about it yet . Sure , no problem , I can tell you it is with the hunting Valley federals .
They are under a completely new staff or they're going to be new . Everything like it's not going to be played in like downtown Youngstown anymore . Everything will be at Austintown pitch .
That's all I can say about that right now . Okay , well , no , that's , that's . That's definitely awesome . Well , congratulations on that . Thanks , you know you get a chance to to go make a difference in some adult slides too , with coaching .
So actually , uh , last spring , um , chuck , chuck , my buddy , chuck Arn . He was a head coach of the WPA Wildcats . I don't know if you know a whole lot about semi-pro football , if you've ever heard of Wildcats pretty big deal , ton of national championships . They closed shop in 2019 and then started the team back up last year .
And he asked me he says , hey , you want to come coach ? I said sure , so I started going and you know it's drive to pittsburgh every sunday .
It's rough drive , um , and then I started noticing less and less guys showing up and the attitudes are really bad and I was like you , you know what , uh , for a two hour drive , I'm not doing this , you know and , uh , it just wasn't worth it .
So , uh , yeah , he , uh , he's actually going to be the Chuck is actually going to be the GM , the new GM of the Mahoney Valley Federals . Um , for high school side , I mean , I don't have any reason to leave Matthews right now . I mean I see what Coach Pulte is building and he's building something very special and I really want to be a part of that .
Absolutely , and Coach Pulte is a great guy and he's just a better man and an inspirational leader . So you know , having the conversations that we've had on here and seeing him at practice and the times I've been around the program and stuff , he's just always a blast to talk to and always very receptive from a uh , um , a coach's standpoint to take .
You know , maybe a couple ideas here and there from the retired coach that's given up .
So , um , jordan , before we let you go , though , we always do this interesting segment called the Fast 55 with our guests , where it's five random questions brought to you by myself in my mind , that I come up with on the fly , and usually , when Mike's doing the show , I send them . The day of the show he usually laughs reading them to the guests .
So if you're ready for your first Fast 55 , we can get going I'm ready .
I didn't get the fast 55 last time .
Yeah , no , I was upset okay , question number one the best bubble gum flavor is oh , very easy , watermelon strawberry .
Shout out to Coach Mazey Okay , watermelon strawberry .
Okay . Question number two If you had to pick the rest of your life to live in one of these two states , where are you picking ? Alaska or New ?
Mexico , alaska .
Okay , okay , okay . Question number three If you could personally own one of the next two things I'm going to say to you , let me know which one you want to own . Would you rather own a full-grown elephant or 100 red pandas ? I'm going to go with an elephant . I could probably make money off that somehow you can ride around town on your elephant .
Yeah , people , people do love red pandas . They're very cuddly . Look , yeah , some money off of them .
Where am I gonna put them . I could probably . I could probably squeeze an elephant up here , and I should do . I don't know where I'm gonna put a .
Uh , I don't know where I'm gonna put all those pandas all right number four what does your ideal hamburger have on it for toppings ? Pickles , well , cheese first pickles , lettuce onions , ketchup and mayo wow , you're really , you're really doing it up with like the supreme burger right there .
Yep , I'm pretty sure you just named the whopper from burger king , but we'll , we'll say okay . Question number five I think this is a hot topic . Uh , people I've I've always argued with on this . Um , so we'll see what you think . Tom hanks actor Is he a top 10 actor of all time and , if so , where do you have him ranked in the all-time actors ?
Yes , okay , so he is top 10 . Where do you think he ranks in the top 10 ?
I'm going to go four .
Okay , just out of curiosity , who would be in front of him ? You think ?
Oh man . Will Ferrell's got to be in there Will .
Ferrell Interesting , okay Will .
Ferrell Okay , him for one . I mean you have to throw Dwayne Johnson in there now . I mean he's in everything , so he kind of has to be in there . Okay , okay , I'm going to go . Leo for sure , okay , interesting , interesting . And then Chris Farley that's number one . Okay , that's number one , okay .
I would say I think Tom Hanks is probably top five , for sure . I would say in my opinion Al Pacino is in the top three , robert De Niro is in the top three and Marlon Brando , and then I think four and five are interchangeable , with tom hanks and denzel washington .
It's all about taste right , right .
And one thing I've said about tom hanks probably more different than those four actors is tom hanks has played such a plethora of roles , whether you're talking about big or forrest gump , the , the um , the um , oh , what was the other movie , sleepless in Seattle , to Captain Phillips , you know , to the toy story trilogy , you know , tom Hanks has truly transcended
time and roles , and even his road to perdition movie , um , I think he's , he's definitely very unique that he can play the funny guy , the tough guy , the captain , the voice actor . So I'm always curious about what people think about Tom Hanks , but that is actually your Fast 55 . So I think it was pretty interesting .
We'll see if Mike thought it was too easy for you or not .
Well , thanks , I appreciate that .
Jordan , before we get going , we always give our guests , about you know , one minute or 30 seconds , whatever they prefer . If there's anything you want to promote or just send out a good message , we'll let you do that now . So the floor is yours .
No , I'm good man . That was it . I think we covered pretty much everything we wanted to .
Okay , well , definitely Thank you for being on this week's episode of Ride Home Ransom . Thank you again for your service as a corrections officer , probation officer in your past , your military presently experience and then being a police officer . So thank you for keeping us safe across this great United States of ours .
I appreciate you .
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