Casting continues for...well, we can't say, but that means it's time for another "Best Of" for today's podcast. Phil will be back tomorrow for the Saturday BSP-Only show! Mavis Leonard kicked off the show to comment on the NFL domestic abuse scandals as she was being driven to the funeral of her late pinochle partner Ella Saban. She also was bugging her driver to "pull it up" at a McDonald's so she could get a quarter pounder with cheese. Ted Bell also got in on the discussion. But the segment went all wrong when Margaret went through the phone on Ted and knocked his "buck tooth bridge" out of his mouth. Then The gang talked about Scottish independence with Father James McQuarters as Father Staley, in the background, was nodding off. Dr. Jim Sadler joined the fray with his views on Ebola while he was also vaccinating school children at a local mall. The entire thing was interrupted by some 7 year olds that broke into a candy store and made off with the cash register. Don Berman returned to the show to heap accolades on one Kevin Conroy, the longtime animation voice of Batman, for volunteering to cook for the firefighters and rescuers at Ground Zero during 9/11...Don hung up on Phil at one point and Phil couldn't get him back on for awhile because no one in the channel 19 newsroom had ever heard of him... And David G. Hall called from the Bosell family pond where a gunfight breaks out between Steve and, allegedly, a group of "travelers," or traveling squirrels. Closing today was Dr. Ron Tarner discussing America's return to manned spaceflight, by bemoaning what he thinks is America's target: Venus. He wanted to go to Mars because he'd written a musical about it titled, "A Martian, Though I May Be." Episode 266 from The World of Phil Hendrie podcast.

Elections results were reviewed by Don Micksa at the University of Washington, who was briefly sidetracked by the tight black skirt on a female anchor at ESPN. General Shaw and Margaret Grey also weighed in... Ted Bell and Chef Carl Chodillia had issues with Phil saying Chris Christie shanked Obama in the back with his opinion that there was no leadership in the White House. Phil said Christie "took a knife from a block of cheese and another knife from a slab of bacon and sunk them both in Obama's back." Also Steve Bosell called to express his hurt at hearing Phil talk about two other ESPN anchors, Chris McHendry and Britt McHenry,and how they are possibly related to him...making them optimum sex slaves... Episode 244 from The World of Phil Hendrie podcast.

The panel discussed California's drought with the building of a desalination plant being what everyone thought was a good solution. Except Bud didn't know what one was. Art Griego talked about the MLB championship series' coming up and the relative importance of the cities involved. Ted Bell got lost in a discussion of, yet again, the slogan "We want to put our meat in your mouth..." Get ready world for The World of Phil Hendrie live and onstage...next stop, the Ontario Improv in Ontario, CA on Oct 29th....tickets on sale now! Episode 224 from The World of Phil Hendrie podcast.