Don Berman of Channel 19 News was bemoaning the lack of guts that today's TV field reporters display. Why, when Don was a young reporter he saw the FBI blow up a casino that reportedly had a bomb in it and Don was as close as two blocks away; behind a police barricade, yes, but still he could have been hit with debris like a shard of a glass "slicing right through my head!" Obamacare, Syria and the "filibuster" of Ted Cruze were the topic in a debate between Vernon Dozier and Jack Armstong. Dozier thought it was very wrong of Armstrong to assume that the Iranian Ayatollah speaking before the UN was actually a Tea Party guy in costume..

Tonight Dr. Ron Tarner attempted to explain the significance of an archeological discovery...a 2 million year old skull possibly belonging to a hominid closely related to the human being... Bud however found the term 'homo" real funny and Tarner was distracted by the fact he couldn't get a bus or taxi to stop for him. He chalked that up to his standing there with a black colleague, Dr. Steve Peabody. When Peabody walks off to catch his own taxi, it turns out Don's the one that they weren't stopping for... Vernon Dozier, Curt Queedy and Guy Barton discussed and debated the Saturday Night Massacre, an event that took place 40 years ago on this date in which two members of the Justice department quit rather than carry out what they thought was an illegal order given them by President Nixon. Dozier thought the Congress' intrusion on the President was just like Malcom McDowell and his gang invading the writers home in "Clockwork Orange" with their big noses, derby hats and storm trooper boots.

Jeff Dowdder, a part time professor of mechanical physics and base jumper, talked with Phil about the guys that base jumped from the top of the new Freedom Tower in NYC back in September and who have just now been arrested for it. Dowdder said the freedom you feel with the wind flowing up your pant leg is what its all about. General Shaw countered by saying heaven help the man who is coming down in a parachute "feeling all free and breezy and he doesn't notice a baby in a bassinet sucking on a bottle and looking in wonder at the world around him and this lover lands on top of the kid with a sickening squish sound!" Vernon Dozier thinks the Chinese have got some pair on them demanding all kinds of info from the Malaysians. Dozier sent two buddies of his who are down there on construction jobs into the press conference to ask the question "'Scuse me, 'scuse me. When are you bowl haircuts going to climb off everyone's back." Mavis Leonard reported on the Oscar Pistorius trial, telling Phil she's been so unnerved by it she's had nightmares about a guy with two Slinky's for legs chasing her. She also sang a blues song about the Slinky called "Slinky on my trail." Episode 84 from The World of Phil Hendrie podcast.

Phil struggles with trying to talk to country disc jockey Gene Gebel about his newly published autobiography "I've Been Shot 63 Times" because one of those times was in the face and Gene has some nerve damage there. Later, Vernon Dozier introduces his father, Unger Dozier, who talks to the panel about his love of the Dallas Cowboys.