It isn’t often you get to meet your heroes. And, if you do, sometimes the circumstances stink, like Muhammad Ali pounding the shit out of a young, impressionable George Foreman in Kinshasa so many years ago. But, once in a rare instance, when the Almighty pauses to shotgun another cosmically large tallboy which he intends to urinate on you moments later, you can sneak a big one in the win column. And, this past Friday, co-host Pete Maybe and I were able to do just that by spending some time in the studio with Ron Bennington and his daughter Gail Bennington of Sirius-XM’s Bennington.

Ron is the most talented broadcaster I have ever heard, and I listen to talk radio like I’m deep on the spectrum. No one has stronger fundamentals or a quicker wit, and anyone who knows anything about radio would agree with me on this. Gail is clearly her father’s child, and I really can’t sing her praises enough. Both of them were delightful on and off-air, and, once more, thank you to them and their producer Chris Stanley for making this all possible. My fist hasn’t left the raised John Bender position since meeting them all (driving has been a nightmare).

We also get into where LeBron James bringing a title home to the rust belt Eraserhead-nightmarescape that is Cleveland ranks in the all-time sports achievement pantheon and why the death of a certain Game of Thrones villain given the show’s history of breaking our heart managed to hit the spot just right. Please like and share and sing the hosannas of this latest Papa’s Basement. I’m super proud of it.

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