Fast Five Shorts | An LA Raiders Latch Hook Lightning Round

It was your birthday last weekend.

Happy birthday.

If you could have the power to have your family do something else besides sing Happy Birthday in honor of your birthday, what would it be?

Oh, man.

And as you know, I was sick as a dog on my birthday weekend, and I'm still sick.

And took me about three headlines to get into the podcast to get my brain working, too, for those that stuck with us this long.

So my, my, my birthday wish would be that they could get rid of this cold that's plagued me for, like, the last two months.

It just keeps coming and keeps coming back.

And so that, that's, that's, that's, that's my answer to that question.

Okay.

I was hoping, like, you'd have them, like, give you a massage or, like, do something else that doesn't involve loud singing, but.

Okay.

Getting rid of a cold, I suppose, is.

This is relevant right now?

Yeah, it is.

Yeah.

I'd say maybe give me an hour to read in peace.

I think that would be a nice thing, too.

You know, that.

That's a hard thing to come by in my household.

But.

All right, question number two.

Lester Holt is also stepping down.

More sad news this week.

And as anchor of the NBC Nightly News, as a former news reporter yourself, who is your favorite national, national news anchor of all time?

And, oh, there was a lot of people that I had to pull from here that were very close.

Diane Sawyer, Peter Jennings, I liked a lot.

But then, you know what is weird?

I was like, I better fact check these people and see if they have gotten into trouble recently.

Because I feel like there's so many that you're like, ooh, I liked their work.

All of their work.

Right.

But I have to pick Katie Couric because I always thought she did a really good job on a human level talking to people.

And I got to meet her once in an elevator when I worked at NBC in New York.

And it was, she was very pleasant.

So she was, she, she made, she made the.

The full 360 view of a good, good integrity.

Integrity laden journalist and a nice person.

So are, Are you taller or shorter than Ms.

Couric?

I'm curious.

I'm taller.

I.

Are you hopefully still am, but I don't know.

It was a long time ago.

Yes, but I'm saying I'm probably shrinking as well, so who knows at this point in time?

Lots of hunching over at a computer.

Okay, Chris, question number three.

Joann Fabrics, as we mentioned, is about to be sold, and all stores will be.

What was the last thing that you purchased at Joanne Fabrics.

Wow.

This.

I had to go way back for this one, and.

And I was wondering.

I do.

I do remember it like it was yesterday.

I think I was like, 6 years old.

My father, God rest his soul, took me in there and we bought a little hook rug.

Like a little rug?

Oh, yeah.

You know those things.

Yes, yes.

Like a little 8 by 10 hook rug.

And it was of the Los Angeles Raiders, who ended.

Ended up becoming my.

My favorite team.

And they actually happened to be in the super bowl that year.

And so I loved.

I loved.

I loved the NFL, and I.

I stopped loving the Raiders, thankfully, because I, you know, lots of reasons, but, yeah, that was the memory I had.

What about the hook art?

Do you still love that?

Like, could you pick up hook art in your retirement or something?

No.

Oh, I could.

I could pick it up.

Yeah.

But I don't.

I don't still have it.

Yeah, I could.

I could pick it up.

Yeah.

I could hook a rug with the best of a man, I bet.

All right.

That this the last one.

Boy Meets World will Friedel says Ben Savage still won't speak to costars amid.

Amid their estrangement.

I am curious.

And of the two Savages, Fred or Ben, with whom does your heart remember most fond?

Or does who do you remember most fondly?

And that's what I'm trying to say.

Oh, it has to be Kevin.

Fred.

Fred, without a doubt.

Like, Wonder Years.

Oh, he was just.

That was one of my favorite shows of all time.

So Fred.

Fred wins.

My Fred, not Ben.

Okay, so were you a Boy meets Boy Meets World girl at all?

Like, I.

Oh, yeah.

Topanga loved her.

She was great.

You were.

We watched Boy Meets World, but.

But no, it does not compare to Fred Savage in the Wonder Years Little Monsters.

I mean, every.

I loved Fred Savage.

He was like Princess Bride icon.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about Princess Br.

Yeah, yeah.

He was in everything, and he was so good.

You went to college with him, didn't you?

I.

Yeah, I went to college with both of them, technically.

They both went to.

They both went to Stanford.

They got the two for one Stanford discount.

They did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, yeah, let's just say.

Yeah, I never.

I never actually saw.

I never actually.

I think.

I think Ben came in, like, as I was leaving.

Like, he might have been a freshman when.

Right as I left.

But.

But, yeah, Thread.

Fred was a year ahead of me.

And, yeah, he was a.

He was an interesting dude, and let's just leave it at that.

Interesting guy.

Don't ruin it.

For me.

I just want to keep him as Kevin from the Wonder years.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah, he played.

He played on the reputation, for sure.