8-26-25 Top 5 Things The Old Man In The Cracker Barrel Logo Said To Get Fired

And the Titans went past the Vikings 23 to 13.

So, I figure after watching the team, I don't know, struggle in pre-season, welcome back.

Friend of the show, Justin Ekstrom, host of the Purple Positivity podcast on the Beer Belly Sports Network.

You can get that wherever you get your podcast.

Good morning to you, Justin.

How

are we doing, Mr. Marshall?

Things ready?

We positive this morning or not?

I think we're positive, but I mean Vikings finishing the preseason, what one out of three, that was not great.

Obviously Kevin O'Connell does not care.

You knew his 53 man roster was set when exactly 53 guys were not in any clothing.

Like they just, they were just on the sideline.

Even in that second game, you're like, Oh,

Okay.

I guess he's seen enough.

What are we good at?

What do we need to work on as far as the Vikings go?

Well, we didn't get to see a whole lot of, out of JJ McCarthy.

So these first couple of weeks, I mean, before they go overseas, that's actually going to be his starting point.

I am kind of flabbergasted that we didn't get to see more of him.

We had a 12 play drive that resulted in three points.

That's all we saw of JJ McCarthy.

Another thing is the defense is relentless.

Brian Flores, he does not care about preseason.

Either he does not care who gets injured, who does not.

He is going to blitz all day.

Justin Ekstrom is the host of the purple positivity podcast available wherever you get your podcast on the beer belly sports network.

Justin will be joining us throughout the Viking season.

And if we go into the playoffs, maybe a little bit there as well.

Justin, any final thoughts as we get ready for regular season Vikings football?

i'm excited the fifty three man roster still has a few more moves to be made i think they're sitting at about sixty guys right now so with the car some when smooth uh... i think our quarterback rooms just set are we going to trade for mister feeling are we going to get that done what do we what do we think in for wide receiver so keeping keep your eyes peeled and here's open for that

justin working they find you on social media

uh... the main thing is

at the sports crib 21 because I'm the sports crib and my favorite number is 21 at the sports crib 21.

Thanks so much for being on and having a little purple positivity today.

Absolutely.

Start off the week grand, right?

Yeah.

KFMW Waterloo Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids

It's top five Tuesday on The Rock 108 Morning Show.

The show Tom Garland is with us.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Wasn't it last week that you said you're waiting for one of your film distributors to do something so you'd have something to promote here on this show?

Is that what you said?

Yeah, I've got something to promote now though.

I'm gonna headline here at...

A venue here in Cedar Rapids.

CSPS Hall, you are back once again doing stand-up comedy.

Yeah, I think it's technically, it's my fourth time there.

September 27th, that's a Saturday, Saturday.

September 27th, doing stand-up comedy.

Some very funny people opening for me too.

Janice Chapman is gonna host.

Oliver Schmidt, who you've had on the show.

Friend and show, yeah.

Yeah, he's gonna feature and yeah, I'll do a full headlining set at CSPS Hall.

want to get tickets, you just go on their website or down to their box office.

Make sure you swing

on by and tell them that you heard them on Rock108, especially for top five Tuesday.

Yeah.

Top five today, what you got?

Have you seen all the people are going nuts about the Cracker Barrel logo?

Yes.

I mean, it's really spun out of control online.

The whole controversy, I guess, if you haven't looked into it, Cracker Barrel changed their logo.

And really what they did was they took, there was an old man on there and they took the old man off the logo.

And to me, it's like, when I saw that old guy that they took off the logo, I'm like, he had to have done something.

He had to have said something.

Mr. Cracker, I'm supposed to believe that he just,

that he was wrongfully terminated.

I don't believe it, right?

I think the guy was probably a jerk, Brian.

You think so?

Yeah, I think he was probably a jerk.

Maybe a little racist, maybe a little homophobic, maybe a little sexist or something like that.

I don't know.

Before

you get into the top five, I actually just handed something to you that's from the Cracker Barrel site.

This is, I thought it was like something else.

No,

this is

our promise to you from Cracker Barrel in, if the last few days have shown us anything, it's how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel.

We're truly grateful for your heartfelt voices.

You've also shown us that we could have done a better job sharing who we are and who we will always

be.

Come see for yourself the country hospitality that makes Cracker Barrel feel like home.

Yep, yep.

Thank you for caring so much.

Come see for yourself.

Love Cracker Barrel.

I'm always trying to get away from home.

I

thought you'd find this to be fascinating.

The fact that they have an apology letter right there on their site.

It's not just an apology letter.

It's like a full page 300 word essay on how sorry they are about their old timer.

It says

yeah, you see that woman eating the green beans at the bottom who looks like her name might be Mary Yeah, you know like with two eyes or something like that.

Look at her.

Look at her go So your top five is about the

cracker barrel here today Yeah, it's about the guy the old man the old timer, right?

These are the top five things the old man in the cracker barrel logo said to get fired Number five.

I asked the hostess if she was legal

Her immigration not her age.

Oh, no.

I asked if I could put my barrel in her crack.

Oh, no.

At least I asked.

At least I asked.

Number four.

That's only number five.

That's just the first one.

At least I asked.

I love it.

Uh, you ready?

I think so.

I'm bracing for impact for number four, number four.

We don't accept Apple pay, but we still take Confederate currency.

Heck, I thought crypto was some kind of slur.

My

hundred only has Robert E. Lee on it.

That's cracker

E barrel

right

there.

Breathe, Brian.

You

gotta breathe right through

it.

These are the top five things the old man in the Cracker Barrel logo said to get fired.

Number three, back in my day, we didn't have a kid's menu.

We had child labor.

You better mash them

taters.

You won't see the light of day until you're done.

Did I get you?

Yeah, you got me.

Yeah.

It's the voice.

I feel like that's right.

You could say anything like that.

You want to come to Cracker Barrel?

This is why Larry the Cable Guy is rich and I know.

Top five things the old man in the Cracker Barrel logo said to get fired.

Number two, she asked for oat milk.

I said, honey, oats don't have titties.

She said, what is that gender neutral bathroom?

I said, that is the cornfield outside, sweetheart.

And number one and number one the number one thing the old man in the cracker barrel logo said to get fired number one You got to grab them by the biscuit got grabbed by the biscuit.

Yep.

Give him that gravy too.

Oh, no

Yeah, are you gonna do top five at your stand-up show at the CSPS?

I think I should yeah, I think I should actually I'm gonna do probably the whole hour as that guy there we go now.

Oh my gosh You want to see Thomas E. Garland standing up on the stage?

Can you imagine that like going into some like cute little arts theater and like expecting like an eclectic stand-up show and then just hearing

You dressed up as Colonel Sanders.

Yeah,

here he is.

I'm my name is Thomas Sanders and I have 11 herbs and spices and some jokes too.

I really got fired because I was dating Aunt Jemima and they just couldn't handle that.

Our promise to you is to make you laugh on top five Tuesday.

Love Cracker Barrel.

Love it.

Now I work at Perkins.

Remember that old country buffet?

Tom Garland will be with us for a few more minutes.

And right now it's a bench seven fold.

I need to take a

breath.