The Trout Stream
The Trout Stream
CHI-TOWN MEMORIES AND MIDNIGHT GREEN DREAMS
Ever wondered what makes a city like Chicago truly iconic? Join us as Paul recounts his exhilarating adventures through the Windy City, from architectural boat tours to the awe-inspiring sights at Wrigley Field and Millennium Park. Meanwhile, Harry shares his latest home project where Ang and Harry transformed their bedroom with a splash of Philadelphia Eagles' midnight green paint, despite the not-so-fun task of rolling on those coats. Alongside these stories, we continue the Pet Peeves bracket where we debate everyday annoyances like the infamous shopping cart abandons and drivers who ignore the zipper technique during lane merges.
Celebrate the spirit of sports and humanity with us in this episode. We honor Merrill Reese's induction into the Hall of Fame and reminisce about legendary broadcasters who have shaped our sports memories. Listen to the inspiring story of UConn's Dan Hurley, who chose loyalty over lucrative offers to stay true to his team. We also share a heartwarming tale from a Chinese restaurant in Chicago, where the act of giving leftover food to the homeless epitomizes the kindness deserving of our "golden trout" awards.
Take a nostalgic trip back to childhood summer days filled with unstructured fun and community warmth. Reminisce with us about neighborhood pickup games, from stickball to alley baseball, and the amusing, sometimes painful, mishaps that came with them. We also dive into evolving food trends and preferences, touching on everything from Body Armor's coconut water blend to the culinary delights of Chicago’s deep-dish pizzas. Whether you're tuning in for the fun stories, the heated debates, or the engaging memories, this episode promises to bring a smile and perhaps a few chuckles.
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Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of the trout stream. I am Harry Troutman and with me, as always, is my cohost. Hi, I'm Paul Troutman. So pick up a pole, cast a line and join us on the stream today on episode. Wait a minute, dude, it's another summer special. So how summer specials work?
Speaker 1:Paul and I both take our vacations around the same time. We both get a little busy in the month of June or August. This year was June. So this isn't a normal episode. It's going to be a fun one. It's going to be loose. We're not going to talk numbers, we're not going to talk drafts, we're not going to talk NASCAR. We're going to have some fun and we're going to have a great time doing it. I'm pumped, wait.
Speaker 1:So we haven't recorded in a couple weeks now it's been a while. It's been a little, as the kids say, been a hot minute. It's been a minute. You've been off doing crazy adventures. We have been, I've been doing crazy home projects. You have, and I've seen and I've been witnessing from afar. So, briefly, we could make a whole show on your trips, right, absolutely, we can make a whole show of last week. We could. So give us the highlights, give us some rundown. What do you? What did you have going on? Let's see.
Speaker 1:Reagan came into town a couple weeks ago, unfortunately her trips coming to an end here very soon. Last week we were in Chicago, so one big benefit is Sabrina has a conference every year in a different city. Last year was San Fran, this year was Chicago. We make it a family trip Real quick, before we continue. Ang does the same thing Boston one year, florida another, and that's that's what we started doing too. Yeah, it was. So we went to chicago. We've been playing this for about a year, actually. We've known it was chicago for over a year. We've been planning, made it a family trip, so invited her sisters and their families with us as well, stayed at a nice hotel in downtown Chicago and explored the city. Did an architectural tour on the boat down the Chicago River, went to Wrigley Field Just different museums and a lot of stuff for kids Explored the city. As a matter of fact, we were. Reagan took a picture with the bleachers for the Chicago street race for NASCAR, and we were on the roads that the cars will be racing. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's just the low lights, that's just barely scratching the surface, and Chicago is definitely one of those cities where there's a lot to do, a lot to see, a lot of fun to be at. Yeah, there was. We were talking about going back because we didn't even, like I said, we barely covered a lot of the big stuff there. We went to see the bean right, the chrome bean everybody takes picture with in Millennium Park. It is currently behind barricades because they're doing construction around there. Oh man, yeah, it was boring. I know I've been doing some trips right, I'm having my quote fun here. So you did a little something over there at your house this last week.
Speaker 1:So Ange and I have decided to redo our bedroom in the house. We have three. And she comes to me and this is the only thing I'll really talk about, because it's the only awesome thing but she comes to me and she goes oh, I really like this color and I'm the type of person, but it's where I sleep. I don't really not that I don't care. I want you to be happy, pick the color. As long as it's where I sleep, I don't really not that I don't care. I want you to be happy, pick the color, as long as it's not like hot pink or something weird, I'm okay with it. Yes, so she goes. Oh, I really like this green. What do you think? It is a carbon copy of the Philadelphia Eagles midnight green and I said absolutely, let's do it. I wouldn't tell her for the first hot minute. I did not tell her why I was all about it. It got to me. I was like babe, that's midnight green, that's the Philadelphia Eagles green. Yeah, so it's not an exact. The one we found in store wasn't an exact match, maybe a little more blue to it, but I still love it. Yeah, man, it's still a good color.
Speaker 1:One thing I can say, though I hate painting. I'm not good at it. Yeah, it's not my most fun thing to do. You would think painting would be easy. It's not. Yeah, you know what it is. You see every flaw. You did 100. I think that's the part that gets to me the most is like, especially because obviously we kept like the ceiling white and like anytime I just barely touch this right there staring at you in the face. We even taped and everything that's boring. No one wants to hear about that. Nobody wants to hear about the taping, which I do, but we'll talk offline about that. So last summer special, we kept it generic, kept some fun loose stories, didn't really talk about anything. This summer special, however, we need to talk about a current segment that is happening because we didn't record, but because the demand has been so high for it. We continued our bracket. We didn't stop, can't stop, won't stop. We did not stop the bracket Again. The numbers have been incredible. The turnout has been incredible On all platforms, so we're actually going to dive right in.
Speaker 1:We're going to jump in here first, we're going to dive right into our biggest Pet peeves bracket. Alright, folks, here's what we're going to do. Since there was two separate weeks of matchups four and four we're going to go with the first matchup. We set up those four, and then we're going to go to the next one, so we're going to go around the horn twice. Unlike Monopoly Board, we're going to go past go. Let's go with the oldest bracket we had set up originally, starting in the Tabasco region. Those that are loyal listeners know that's the top left region. We have people leaving dirty dishes in the sink versus people who stand in the way to talk while in stores. Harry, this is a dead giveaway. I should have saved this one for last, but this is actually one of the biggest blowouts of this matchup 88% of the people cannot major pet peeve of when people stand in the way to talk while in the stores.
Speaker 1:And I do not disagree between that and their dishes, wholeheartedly agree with two completely opposite things. But yeah, if we're in the store and I'm trying to go down the aisle, come on, get out of the way. A lot of these people who are pet peeves also can earn an EO of the week. Moving on to our next one, here from the bottom right region, the Tapatio region, it's people that give shot glasses as souvenirs when they come back from vacation, versus people waving others on at a four-way stop. So I don't understand the wave on thing Because, in my experience anyway, I want to say what 70% of the drivers out there need direction. They do. I'm a very violent waver. Right, I'll be honest here. I don't do the very nice. Hey, come over here. I just like almost like point, like direct traffic but like knife hand them.
Speaker 1:You know, like old movies, like where they're slapping somebody with just solid hand, just directing traffic that way. There is only one intersection I do that at, and that's Chelsea road and Concord. Yep, oh man, one intersection I do that at, and that's Chelsea Road and Concord. Yep, oh man, that intersection. People just lock that. That's just an odd intersection as well, true, but I just can't stand. When I'm sitting there, especially in my neighborhood, you're like, would you just go already? What are you doing? Maybe you should go back to driver's ed, but with that 80 to 20, 80% are you doing? Maybe you should go back to driver's ed, but with that 80 to 20, 80% of our listeners voted for people waving others on at a four-way stop. Let's move to the top right region or Frank's Red Hot, where we have people who don't understand the concept of personal space, personal bubble versus loud chewers or people that chew with their mouth open. I combine those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's fair so just loud, or chewing with mouth open 65 to 35. And this is a tough one because both of them get out of my personal space, yeah, and chew with your mouth closed. My comeback now is for anybody like they're chewing their mouth open, I ask them how their meal is and I, whatever the response, I'm like, yeah, it sounds good, and sometimes it doesn't really settle in, like people don't realize. Oh, 65 to 35, loud, sugars, mouth open. Moving on, that one was closer than I thought. That one was very close. Now this one here is also very close. From the bottom left, the Texas Yeet we have. Humming while eating versus group text. That's another one I'm struggling with Group text. Why do people not like group text? I enjoy group texts. I think they don't like group texts when they are not involved in the conversation. Like you step away from your phone for a minute and two people are having a conversation that could be held on the side, right, okay, this is where I'm at Humming while eating Sometimes if I'm eating.
Speaker 1:If I'm at a concert and I'm eating a hoagie man, I might hum along to the music, but if I'm at a delicatessen, while I eat my sandwich, and the guy next to me starts humming, I'm going to be very annoyed. Yeah, but 65 to 35. Group text is moving on. Wow, right, and that closes out that bracket. Let's go to our most recent one. Harry, let's do it. Are you ready for this one? Let's go to the top left, the Tabasco region. This is a close one, harry. It is the inconsistency of X-Files episodes Going against people who are always late. Our buddy Mark submitted the X-Files one. Yeah, not surprised, not surprised at all and with very close matchup of 96 to 4%. Four, four, four percent More than one.
Speaker 1:More than one. That's my favorite part. More than one that's my favorite part. More than one person alright, okay, so people who are always like is moving on to the next round? Yeah, I, I hate people. I literally keep a tally at work and I'll never do anything with this information, but I keep a tally at work of like how many people are late every day and just my blood boils, yeah what are you doing?
Speaker 1:what are you doing? I hate being late like I'm. Treat everything like the movies and you want to see the trailers. I hate being late. Treat everything like the movies and you want to see the trailers. It's that simple, that simple. And even though we went and saw the movies for Olivia's birthday the other day, we were still running late for that one. But also, it's Okay. Young kids is a little different, yeah, a little different. That's almost a free pass for our young listeners.
Speaker 1:The X files was a an old TV show from the nineties. That was, I don't know about, like aliens and stuff like that. Like X files, like files that you're not going to hear about on a national level. Yeah, I don't. I've never even seen an episode. Mulder and Scully is all I know. That's it, yep. Moving on to our next one from the top right, the Frank's Red Hot people who don't use turn signals going again Meetings. That should have been an email. This one's tough. This is also tough because, like we need you live down here and lose that long enough, turn signals become an option. Gotta pay extra.
Speaker 1:And then yeah, you gotta pay a little extra for those Like I haven't gotten to the point, harry, where I have come up to a red light to people and I want to get out of my truck, reach in their window to see if their turn signals actually work. Yeah, I do. The old man. My response is well, I guess it's your road. Yeah, do what you want. Yeah, and 72% of the listeners are with us. People who don't use their turn signals will be moving on. That was a tough matchup, for could have been an email, but at the end of the day, I think that's the right so far. This is what I like. Everything that's moved on has a right to move on. Alright, let's move on to the next matchup. Coming from the bottom left, the Texas Pete, or as they call it on the street, harry, texas, yeet.
Speaker 1:We have people who don't RSVP versus hearing someone else's headphones. Don't RSVP to an event I'm having, and then you show up. Yeah, it's going to make me mad. I got married in September and there was a couple RSVPs that we didn't get back. No word, no, nothing. The last thing we wanted was for people to just show up. Yeah, because you gotta plan accordingly for that kind of stuff. Yeah, now, final matchup this week, the closest matchup of the, the closest matchup of the week. We have people not returning their cars to the corral in the parking lot, going against those that don't understand and follow the zipper technique while driving so real quick. What is the zipper technique? The?
Speaker 1:zipper technique for those who don't understand right, some people don't listen. As you're going down the road and you see a sign up ahead. It says five miles ahead, right lane close. Four miles ahead, right lane close. As you go, it's a one-for-one. If I'm in the left lane, I'm not going to box you out out of the right lane. You let one person go in front of you, yes, and then you go and then the guy behind you lets the next guy go.
Speaker 1:This is the reason why there's so many traffic jams when you get to construction sites or you're going from two lanes to one lane, because everybody wants to be selfish and not help their fellow man. And this is where road rage comes from. This is where people get mad. Listen, if you just say if you zipper right, you can't zip your pants with just one side. I've tried, it does not work. It does not work. Trust me, I've broken many a zippers trying to do that and then just going up against people not returning their carts to the corral this one, harry, is 61 to 39. And I don't agree with it. Not returning cards to Corral wins I'd call that an upset. I would call that an upset because I think if some people didn't understand other places might call it something else, but the zipper Merging, merging, really.
Speaker 1:It's just merging Like how can you merge better? But I used to be a firm believer of if you don't return your cart to the corral, there should be a felony. That's excessive. But okay, yeah, that was going to be. One of my staples when I ran for President of the United States was if you do not return your cart to the corral, you're going to prison. Now you have places like Aldi where you got to put a quarter in to unlock the shopping cart and then you have to take it back, hook it, clip it to the next one and you get your quarter back and I think it's great. Until having kids and you realize when I go to a grocery store or Walmart, we get a little soapbox here One, I'm not going to put my kids in the car and then walk away. They'll return their car. Nah.
Speaker 1:Nah, if Sabrina's with me, sure, like you are in the car with the kids, I'll go return it. But if it's just me and one or two of the girls, like if I gotta stop after work, the exception is on base, like on base, I'm fine, right. But if I'm at Walmart downtown or right outside the gate, no, I will leave the car right there next to my spot. Don't care, and honestly, that's fair. Yeah, don't at me, I'll be a little sus, don't care. No cap, all right, harry, next week Polls are coming out ASAP, right, no cap, they'll be coming out from the top left. Our top Tabasco region will be dragging your feet when you walk going up head to head with people who can't say please and thank you, that's going to be a tough one.
Speaker 1:That's right there. A heavyweight bout Coming from the top right region of Frank's Red Hot is pronouncing the L in salmon. Oh, big one of mine. Verse no at alls or one uppers, that's another one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know a guyalls or one-uppers.
Speaker 1:That's another one. That is another. Yeah, I know a guy. Yeah, I know a guy Coming from the bottom left there, texas Pete region. It's going to be people who watch videos on their phone in public spaces without headphones, going against, being rude or not tipping servers. We've seen something similar to this, but I voted that they're different. Right one was customer service, this one is your server. And then come from the bottom right region, which is the tapatio talking speakerphone in public against heavy breathing while eating. There's a lot of hearing other people either eating or on their phone. Yeah, let's bring the real world into this real quick. You were chewing gum as we were doing our pre-show and I was like, buddy, you got to spit that out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, great matchups coming up, dude, great matchups. And then so, with that, like now that we were slimming some down, these are long worded entries. Yeah, like we said before, it's not like a cereal or a dad or a favorite captain. So I'm going to be posting a bracket once we get to the sweet 16. Yeah, just to make it more visually appealing. It's tough, right now it is. I'm looking forward to the next matchups.
Speaker 1:Like we said previously, with the bracket and with this being our summertime special, we're going to completely glance over eels. We have some, we don't want to give them out. We're going to take the episode, turn it around, make it happy, make it exciting, because no one wants to talk about pet peeves anymore. No one wants their skin to boil, no one wants their blood to boil. So, buddy, I think it's time we do two things. I like two things. First things. First is we are going to move right on to our golden trout. Absolutely it's time. And the second thing we are going to do is introduce, for the first time on the trout stream, our special guests. Ms Reagan Troutman, welcome to the show. Hello, in case you couldn't tell by Paul's no cap, and it's bussin, ray has joined us. We're trying to beat the show hello, in case you couldn't tell, by Paul's no cap. And it's bussin, ray has joined us. We're trying to be cool and speak the lingo. I think the best thing is as many eels as we could have handed out. We could have doubled the golden trout hands down. I got one, you got one, ray's got one. I say we flip a three sided coin, see who goes first down. I got one, you got one, ray's got one. I say we flip a three-sided coin and see who goes first. You know what I object. I'm going to go first. The reason I brought up my bedroom was to bring up the golden trout, right the color. Oh yeah, all right, because I'm going to be frank, it's about damn time it is.
Speaker 1:Anyone who knows the Philadelphia Eagles knows the name Merrill Reese. He is the radio announcer for the Philadelphia Eagles, has been for the past 120 years. Yes, he is going to Canton, he is going into the Hall of Fame. Oh man, I thought you said he was making a road trip to canton this summer summer special. You had me hanging there, harry, he's going to canton where he will live on forever. Congratulations, mel reese. That well deserved.
Speaker 1:He is not just eagles commentator, he does like nfl films. And there was something else I was watching and he started talking it's like back in the day with Harry Callas. Harry Callas used to do NFL films, so like you hear Harry Callas, who used to be the Phillies commentator, doing other stuff. But Merrill Reese I've heard his voice in other places before and I'm like what year is this and where am I, merrill? What are you doing, buddy? Because I just woke up and like weird dream I always have is like what if I wake up tomorrow and it's the summer of 1998? Oh, but anyway, we'll save that for our conspiracy theory show. It's going to be a fun one. One thing I love about Merrill is he loves the birds as much as we do. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Which, when you're getting paid, it's easy to love something, but you can tell he just genuinely loves the birds. It's a passion. He wears a gold chain with an eagle on it, yeah. Every day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so awesome, but again, big congrats. Coming full circle with the paint in the bedroom. There's a reason. I brought it up and now Merrill. So that's it. That's my golden trout. So now we have a six foot Paul going against five foot Reagan. These two can duke it out for the next golden trout. I'm going to ask Ray one question Do you know who Merrill Reese is?
Speaker 2:Guide to do something with.
Speaker 1:She said the wrong answer. Close enough. I'll jump in here, right, because Ray has a perfect golden trout and I just want to throw this one in here because mine's kind of funny. Okay, dan Hurley many of you who don't know him is the University connecticut uconn men's basketball head coach, the old head ball coach over there, two in a row national champion right, one last year, one this year. He's going for a three-peat. The los angeles lakers of la reached out to old dan and said we had ball coach, we like your style, we like what you're doing over there in UConn, what you've done for that program. How, about six years, $70 million deal? Uconn coached one of the greatest franchises, historic, iconic franchises in NBA history and Dan said thank you for the opportunity. I'm saying a UConn.
Speaker 1:So there's two folds for this one. One it goes out to loyalty. Yes, because a lot of coaches that you flash money at them may have bounced. There's a few who won't and I can name them right now. I got Dan Hurley, I'll go J Coach K, who's the guy at UNC who went against Coach K, recently retired Bobby Knight. There's a handful who would not have Right and I didn't know where Coach Hurley was and he said, nah, my loyalty lies with the Huskies.
Speaker 1:I want that third. Okay, so next year, if it's not Villanova, I want you to go get the three peak. Yeah, let's be honest here. How can you root against that? I'm not going to root against that, like you can win the Big East over Villanova, because Villanova's trashed since Jerry left. But yeah, I'm a Coach Hurley fan now, not a UConn fan. Exactly, and again, just to be clear, it's not the fact that he turned down the Lakers, it's the fact that he stood with UConn, and that's where I'm going with that. He stood with UConn. That's what gets my golden trout. And then it gave the Lakers an opportunity to hire JJ Redick, who has only coached a volunteer fourth-grade basketball team at a camp at the time.
Speaker 1:That's a weird pick for me. I think that it was Flash.
Speaker 1:After the embarrassment of you don't want to sign with the Lakers. Now we need to make a splash. Now we're going to make a splash. I get what they're doing and it was pretty quick, like on how fast Hurley turned it down to JJ Redick is now the head coach. Yeah, and I wanna see how JJ and LeBron mash up. Yeah, jj played for the Sixers for a good bit. Yeah, he's a fiery, passionate guy, definitely a JJ fan. But let's see how it goes, because we all know who runs the Lakers. Yeah, she's the owner. I didn't know. You gotta watch the HBO show Showtime with the Lakers. Is that the one? The old looking show With John C Reilly? Yeah, you gotta watch the HBO show Showtime with the Lakers. Is that the one, the old-looking show? Yeah With John C Reilly yeah.
Speaker 1:But they canceled it after season two. No Spoiler alert Anyway. I'm not gonna watch it? No, I wouldn't. So that only leaves the last woman standing Rae, let's hear your golden trout.
Speaker 2:So while we were in Chicago, we went to this Chinese restaurant the night before we had left and there was this family who was sitting next to us and we had ordered way too much food. And as we were leaving they said, hey, are you guys going to take the food home? And we were like no, we fly out the next day and we can't take it home. They were like, okay, can we give it to the homeless? And so that's what my golden trout is going to just people giving out to the homeless, taking our food that we weren't using and re-gifting it to somebody who actually needs it.
Speaker 1:That is the epitome of a golden trail. Yeah, first we thought Ray and I discussed, we thought it was going to possibly be the way the conversation started. We thought it was going to be an eel Because it was a family group of friends.
Speaker 2:It was a good, large group of people and they had said, hey, are you guys going to take that home? And it sounded like a nasty kind of yeah, and so we were worried that it was going to go wrong and we were going to make it a deal, but then we realized that they were giving it to homeless. So that's how I made it my job.
Speaker 1:So when we ordered, we didn't realize it was family style. Oh, we ordered, we didn't realize it was family style. Oh and so, like, middle of the table is like a glass lazy susan, all there's eight of us sitting around the table yeah nine of us. Nine of us and nine of us sitting around the table, and so, as the drinks came, we're all laughing. Here's lazy susan. All right, everybody get your napkin. And. And then the food came out. You think it's like a normal restaurant where? Okay, what did you get? Orange chicken.
Speaker 2:Orange chicken, and then we got General Tso.
Speaker 1:So everybody picked their own chicken. What are you thinking is going to be your meal?
Speaker 2:I'm thinking like pan 10 plates including rice dumplings, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:We even got beef and broccoli for our two girls to split, and then two boys split beef and broccoli Wow, so you had two family-sized beef and broccolis. We had two family beef and broccolis for a four, three, two and one and a half, me and my mom, 18 months, yeah, so we, uh we, unbeknownst to us. The waitress could have said something yeah, that's. Uh, we're out of towners. That was the catchphrase of the trip, like whenever we look lost or do anything wrong. But out of towners, we're out of towners.
Speaker 2:Season of amazing race and these and this these women but out of towners, we're out of towners. It was a season of amazing race and these women would say out of towners to everybody. It was funny.
Speaker 1:So we ran with it and it was actually funny. So we look like out of towners with all this food left on the table. We're like hey, and they were like hey, we'll box that up and we'll take it to the homeless shelter. Right, cool man, thanks, appreciate that. Thank you, which we did. It was really nice then. That was awesome.
Speaker 2:Because we had to get. It was really cool and they didn't. They looked like they were at a party and they. I didn't get that general feeling. Right.
Speaker 2:That kind of generosity and for that it was just like feeling right kind of generosity, and for that to be just like, oh wow, that's really cool. Anybody can do that. It's just an easy accomplishment that you can do box up what you don't have, what you're not eating, take it to a shelter, find somebody who needs it, that kind of thing. Or you can like, yeah, find somebody who needs it. It's just easier and it's way better.
Speaker 1:It's not hard to have a golden trout moment every day, oh, absolutely. Yeah. There was plenty, like I said, in Chicago. Chicago gets a bad rap. Nah, there was some riffraff. Of course, they were still in the distance.
Speaker 2:Or like on a bus, they fell asleep with the people, but that was on the distance. Or like on a bus with people, but they sat in the back. They didn't disturb us. We were fine.
Speaker 1:It wasn't bad, like Chicago, I would go back voluntarily. Oh, wow yeah.
Speaker 2:It was a lot of fun. We weren't able to get a lot that we wanted to get done, but we did get some checks off the checklist and that was probably really fun. It's definitely another place that I would go for another family vacation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wouldn't think Chicago would be that fun, but apparently it is. Yeah, like it was one of those when we found out about it. Wrigley Field, that's all I know. Yeah, yeah, there's all I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:There's a beach there, Harry. Yeah, I saw your pictures. That was completely Multiple beaches In Chicago. In Chicago it's nice it's right there on Lake Michigan and as you're walking, if you look out.
Speaker 2:It doesn't seem like a lake, it seems like it's part of the ocean.
Speaker 1:If we go to observation deck, like 93 stories up you're like I still can't see the other side of the lake. If only they named them appropriately, like Amazing Lake or Big Lake or Huge Instead of Huron, it'd be like Huge, huge. Michigan would be massive Instead of Superior. Just name it.
Speaker 2:Superior.
Speaker 1:Superior, no, superior's the only one that has the right name. Yeah, yeah, it's better because it's in the eerie part of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Well, I guess it's the other ones. Yeah. And then Ontario, just name it Canada. It would be fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot better than Among Us. That's the only thing I can think of. I can think of it. Outrageous, outrage, I'm thinking outrageous, outrageously large. Oh, there you go, yeah. Two part name.
Speaker 1:Two part name. But yeah, lake Michigan is huge. Actually, the dirtiest part of Chicago that we saw was the beach, really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a lot of like just little scrap trash.
Speaker 1:It was some scrap, but who? Knows if it was left at the beach or came from the lake.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But it has to be. Went to the ohio beach. That was probably top three beaches I've ever been to in my life.
Speaker 2:Wow, and that's coming from you, coming from me, world traveler sand water a little chilly, but everything not a cold lake, but it was nice it was a cold lake but it was nice, yeah, once you got in and it was also fun to just run around splash water with the little kids, build little sand towers, roll around in the sand. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you get used to the water. When people start splashing your back, yeah, that normally happens very quickly.
Speaker 2:With ice water, especially with me, yeah.
Speaker 1:Ray.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:We're going to move on past Golden Trouts here. Yeah, when do you go back to school?
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:We don't want the exact date, just.
Speaker 2:They said beginning of August date. They said beginning of August.
Speaker 2:They were going for first Thursday, but then they moved it. So I'm happy, because that would have been August 1st and I did not want to go August 1st, so I'm pretty sure that they're moving it to the second Thursday. They like doing Thursday and Friday before school starts so that we have an extra minute during passing period. We get to know our school, our teachers, our classmates, this, that and the other, and then we start a whole week and then just keep moving on until fall break and then we just yeah, school's weird now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then like fall, yeah, school's weird now yeah, and then, like fall break, school's starting sooner. You get a fall break, you get winter-slash-Christmas break. Mm-hmm. Spring break, and then she goes until the week before Memorial Day. Okay, yeah, the week before Memorial Day. Wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, meanwhile we grew up, we're like even still, we get three months of summer and I get like almost two.
Speaker 1:You get gypped on a summer break.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't know. I think I'd rather take more breaks during the year.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Break it up. Yeah, state testing we get one to two days off and then we get released um early of this saturday and thursday, um, just because like a de-stress thing yeah, no, that's awesome quote, unquote, relaxation kind of thing, so that we're not too crazy.
Speaker 1:What do you typically look forward to the most during summer break?
Speaker 2:Probably coming here, yeah, or I don't know. Like fun trips, Probably. I like hanging out with friends. I like going to amusement parks.
Speaker 1:Are you in or out on roller coasters?
Speaker 2:In absolutely.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:My friends and I are going to some as soon as I get back to.
Speaker 1:Arizona. Oh, that's going to be a blast yeah.
Speaker 2:I get to sleep one night in my bed, and then I drive out to California. Oh, wow. Yeah, I'm driving to Huntington. What?
Speaker 1:kind of car do you drive? That's what I was saying. Yeah, she's got her own car, all right, paul, what was your favorite thing about summer break as a kid? Yeah, I'm not talking high school when, like, we worked summer jobs or something like that when you were a kid. Well, when we were young kids, it had to be sports, like riding our bikes everywhere, crashing our bikes everywhere, going places. We probably shouldn't have gone on our bikes and then just playing sports in the field behind the house. Yeah, that's very fair. Yeah, Maybe.
Speaker 1:I don't remember the elementary school used to have a camp, oh cool, right next to the school. It wasn't at the school, it was 7th Street Field, okay, and I remember everybody would play. Right next to school, wasn't at school, it was 7th street field, okay. And I remember everybody would play. It wasn't deck hockey, it was like paddle hockey. We didn't have pucks, we used bottle caps that you found like man, we're gonna sound really poor here. You find like bottle caps, yeah, so your Gatorade cap, or like an old Pepsi cap, and then you play four square. And that's when the janitor gave everybody like an old Pepsi cap and then he played four square. And that's when the janitor gave everybody, like we discussed this previously, but the janitor one day was cleaning out the basement of the elementary school and he had a dozen irons, like seven, eight, nine irons, but multiple of each.
Speaker 2:Not a dozen.
Speaker 1:No, he had 12 clubs ranging from sizes 7, 8, and 9. And a handful of golf balls. Like hey, here you go. A bunch of riffraff kids were like cool, Well, I have accidentally broken a window with a golf club. I thought I killed Frankie with a golf ball one time Because we were just goofing off and he said something. I went to hit it and it was like the only time I've ever hit a line drive with a seven iron. Oh, he's seeking missile right to his back and I was like, oh God, I killed him. Oh, no, he's still alive. I think one thing I really, especially going into the eighth grade, I remember that summer I think Spike TV was still a thing and it was the old.
Speaker 2:Like MTV.
Speaker 1:It was the old American Gladiator. Oh, all day long we would American Gliator oh all day long we would American gladiator. It's only one of the greatest shows ever made. I know we're watching later. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm watching, you're watching, I'm watching them together.
Speaker 1:Then, yeah, mom would always leave us a note of things to do. And then I realized I ran out of time when American Gladiator Stopped playing. I was like, uh, oh, gotta get my chores done. Mom's gonna be home soon. And your chore list was in the back of an envelope Every time. I don't know if we had real scrap paper.
Speaker 2:Was it at least on the fridge that you could see?
Speaker 1:No, it was on the dining room table, always on the dining room table, no it was on the dining room table Always on the dining room table. Yeah, so you had to look Same spot. Yeah, you had to look. Yeah, I remember when the TV was good. Never, really Always, get a slice and a Coke from. We were talking about this Like a slice of pizza was a dollar. Yeah, coke, always get a slice and a Coke. We were talking about this A slice of pizza was a dollar, coke was 50 cents or a quarter and a can.
Speaker 1:I wish I were economy.
Speaker 2:Always go to the Quaker store getting some random snacks Going to Wawa.
Speaker 1:I see Wawa was over the bridge. We weren't allowed. We weren't allowed to go over the bridge that way. No, it was a Quaker. I didn't go to the paper store until later in life. Yeah, we'd go to the paper store because it had a weird smell. I remember that. Yeah, there used to be the comic book store right next to the paper store store Genies. Oh my God, I haven't thought of that name in forever. Yeah, man, what the hell? Billy's not there anymore. No, oh, neither is the hardware store. That's hardware, so that's your grass, now yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you had the pharmacy which would bag up candies and sell them at a quarter a pop. Yeah.
Speaker 2:What kind of candy they were talking about Butterscotch.
Speaker 1:Fruity Tooties, sour Patch Kids Now and Laters. Cool. Yeah, they would break them down. Now that I think about it, we were probably getting robbed from the pharmacy. Yeah, we were.
Speaker 2:One Sour Patch Kid now a dollar apiece.
Speaker 1:That's how jealous I am. Once our patch kid, now dollar a piece. I remember when Hershey's cookies and cream came out, the candy born, and I was so excited because I had A couple dollars. And I went to the Quaker this is mid summer, dude, in August, and I reach up to go grab it Off the shelf and I Naturally squeeze it to pick it and it just melted. Melted in your hand. I was like aw man, I really wanted that. I can still smell the Quaker Mart.
Speaker 2:Yes, I can't, because I don't know what it was like, because I'm too, you know, oh man.
Speaker 1:You missed it at a good time. So the Quaker Mart was like a little corner store. It was on the corner, because there was something between the Quaker Mart and the corner, but it's no longer there.
Speaker 2:Like the one that's by the park that Charlie and I walked to.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I only ever remember that being an open space. Yeah, that's what I mean, same here. I only remember that ever being an open space. Right, I don't know what was there. It'd be a perfect spot for a Christmas tree every year. I think they have started putting one there. Yeah, I think they have. That's why I said it. I think somebody posted a picture, yeah it's a three-foot a giant square footage of area and they put a three-foot tree up, eh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to do, yeah, we what you're going to do, but I think it's the Freon that leaks in the back. It's something.
Speaker 1:From those fridges and it leaked into the linoleum and it's like make sure it's Freon, because I went to the gas station by me. If you remember, we leave my development right across the street. It's the only gas station in town that sells live crickets. Why would you want live crickets? Brass side, and it has the same smell as the Quaker Mart. I hate it. Going to the back of the Quaker Mart, yeah, I just like staying up front. Creep me out back there. There's probably this smell, yeah, but in the back is where you find the Crystal Pepsi or the Jolt Crystal Pepsi.
Speaker 2:It was actually a. Thing.
Speaker 1:It was real, yeah, 97?.
Speaker 2:It was a thing, it was real yeah, 97-ish, 96, 97.
Speaker 1:I remember.
Speaker 2:I saw many videos about that and I'm like there's no way.
Speaker 1:It's a real thing and it came in glass bottles. Yeah, it came back for a little bit too. It made a resurgence but I didn't really get into it because I didn't want to ruin the essence of the mid-90s. It made me sick. Yeah, the new one, no the old one. Oh yeah, that's about when you were about five, so it made me about ten. The only thing I remember is that thing tore up my stomach. Yeah, I did not feel great after drinking it. I did not feel refreshed.
Speaker 1:The lack of caramel coloring, that's all it is. Yeah, I did not feel great after drinking it. I did not feel refreshed, the lack of caramel coloring, and that's all it is. Yeah, harry, let's go back to summertime, when we were a little bit older though You're middle school, I might have been early high school.
Speaker 1:How many games of stickball did we play? How many games of basketball were played in the alleyways? Then you had what? Alley baseball. Oh, we had the baseball in the alley. Right, I was telling you about this we were talking about a while ago, we're talking about pickup basketball, and I was like Harry and I used to dominate the neighborhood because Harry was the youngest and I was the oldest. The kids in our few blocks and everybody else was between us and age and there was probably oh anywhere any given day 8 to 10 of us kids out there and so we would play, and the rules back in the day were you had to make up a foul line, like the court depth was about to make up a foul line. The court depth was about to a real foul line, but as wide as the entire alleyway.
Speaker 1:There's really no out of bounds that way. There's no out of bounds with ways, but somehow we made it like two houses down, and so Harry and I had a rule Okay, neither one, we both, cannot be captains. Only one of us can be a captain. So it used to be everybody takes a free throw. First two to make it are automatically captains. And if Harry or I ever made it, so if Harry made his first, I intentionally missed, I'm not going to make it, because then, whoever the captain was, we would pick the other one and be like I'll take first pick, you get pick. You get first ball. Harry would pick me and we look at everybody else. But we want any best. Just two of us against all of you. There's times we'll be going against five or six kids.
Speaker 2:just the two of us would you win or would you, we would win?
Speaker 1:because legit like this is 100 true story. It was the grownesses who that, like the other garage, had a slope. It was such a place to play basketball. But Frankie, tony and all those guys wouldn't set the hoop to eight foot, always, always wouldn't set the eight foot so they could like it's easier to play on, they can almost dunk it. And Harry would take the ball out to the three-point line and Kobe, everybody would just flood to the three-point line and Kobe, everybody would just flood to him. We got it. And I'm just saying at the net, and Harry would just throw the ball at the hoop and there I am, like shacked, I'll loop.
Speaker 2:Like that.
Speaker 1:And then make it, take it, and that's all he would do on repeat, or they would all start guarding me. And then here comes Harry with his jump shot. Uncle Harry, harry had a jump shot. I did.
Speaker 1:I mean, I haven't shot a basketball in years, but I know, and then we got a hoop we did I don't remember where it has. A damn good question. Yeah, I know it is. Where did that hoop come from? Mm-hmm, Once again this weird story, because everywhere in our neighborhood has hoops right. Talking to somebody, I was like, yeah, we went up with a hoop and I don't know where it came from.
Speaker 2:Did y'all keep it in the alleyway by your driveway?
Speaker 1:By the garage. Yeah, we would set it up out there, but when we were done it would go back into the backyard. Yeah, I had to carry that thing back and forth. Yeah, we wheeled in and out, put the cinder blocks from between the garages on it. We knew the exact number of cinder blocks, the exact way they had to be, and I don't remember where we got that hoop from. We didn't get it from the ladders when they moved, did we? No, we wouldn't have pulled it around that far Because they were still there when we had the hoop.
Speaker 2:Like just about to move there.
Speaker 1:That's a good question. I'm sitting here thinking Uncle, Uncle John. When he moved into his house now he it was an older gentleman's house and it was a decent hoop. When we got it I have no idea where it came from. I do know I put a metal chain on it though a metal net. That was satisfying. That is very satisfying, especially when it's nothing but net.
Speaker 2:And then, if we weren't playing basketball, we were playing stickball oh, I remember you telling me about this that me, charlie, melissa and Rebecca tried doing something like this, and I remember hitting Charlie. Somewhere I shouldn't have. Yeah, somewhere I shouldn't have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sounds about right. We got a bat from the Lakers. I don't know what his relationship was to them, but he broke a bat playing A wood bat playing baseball. He broke it clean like straight down the middle and then we scrounged up some tennis balls and that became our stickball. And those were fun times, always two and two. It was always you and I against those two. I remember we played football on Washington. It was always two and two. It was always you and I against those two yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I remember we played football on the Washington side. I think that's right where. I'm going, I know where you're going. And I'm not going to say which one, but one of the brothers. That wasn't us Like a cartoon.
Speaker 2:So no, it wasn't us. We played with another set of brothers. A cartoon, so no.
Speaker 1:No it wasn't, it wasn't us. We played with another set of brothers no, I promise you, trust me and like a cartoon, the one brother was running with his arm straight out in front of him and he goes. Man, oh, I can. The noise it made. His arms went perfectly like he's over the shoulder, going to catch perfectly through a telephone pole. He never touches it. And then he just turns at the last second, full sprint, face first into a telephone pole. Crack, crack Picks his glasses up. Oh yeah, they're mangled. Yeah, they were always mangled, though these glasses were always broken. He straightens them out and he just goes back. He was so mad, he just walked right in. Oh, that was great. Even as a kid I was like, oh, it has gonna hurt later, yeah. But then we noticed right after that we never paid attention to the telephone pole. It's literally right in front of my mom and pop's house the one to the left of the garage no, outside in the front yard right there that the pole was bent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it had a bend, coincidentally, where our neighbor went headfirst into it.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Face first, face first. Um yeah, there was always Summertime back home as a kid, like before. We had jobs was fun. It was so much fun.
Speaker 2:I want to get a job after the next birthday. Why. Because I don't. There's this, my friend can help. There's a thing that I can get at a hotel and I can make $30 in a day, which isn't bad.
Speaker 1:What do you be doing?
Speaker 2:Helping with front, front deck. Helping with keys, like making sure that people are in their rooms, just like around the little hotel thing, making sure that the carts are stocked for people to take and clean.
Speaker 1:Refill like little containers if needed first oh, so like go for tasks, go for job everybody needs a gopher job to start off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah just that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what a gopher job is. No, yeah, go for this, go for that. I need you to go for this. I need this wrench, I need this towel, I need this. Whatever, that's a gopher job. I'm just going to restock no, you're going to be a gopher you just don't know it yet.
Speaker 1:You just don't know it yet no, I'm teaching you, I'm teaching you. Yes, I'm giving you the warning now. They're never going to say it's a gopher job. No, that's not how they're going to advertise it. They're going to call it not at all.
Speaker 2:Executive assistant oh, what I'm doing yeah, executive assistant to hotel activities.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was an advertisement for a job recently. It was like who wants to be the executive assistant or administrator for this chief? And I was like, nah, nah nah.
Speaker 1:I don't want to learn how another man takes his coffee every morning. No, I'm good Cause I forget how I drink Sometimes I forget my coffee is still hot. I'm good Because I forget how I drink Sometimes I forget my coffee's still hot. And I'm sitting in my desk looking like Brick Tamler. I just burnt my tongue Getting my cold work done Again. Yep, Third time today. These are sweet vacuum sealed cups. So last week I put milk. I am an old man in the term of I like powdered creamer. Oh, coffee made powdered creamer. Yes.
Speaker 1:Love it. Yes, I'm making my coffee the other day and my mind's somewhere else, and I put milk in it for some reason and to my big old first sip and I was like I should know how I like my coffee, you should know how you like your coffee. It wasn't the best cup either. I'll tell you that. Sugar free french vanilla from great value, just coffee made original. I am a huge coffee made original powder. I am a huge fan. I don't know what it is. Sabrina has exposed me to the liquid creamer. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Game changer Changes up a little bit. I was doing that for a while, yeah, I was, but I go with the darkest coffee that Green Mountain makes Dark Magic and powder creamer. It's essentially sludge. Yeah, I didn't want to say that out loud, but yeah, the best part of waking up, harry, is one realizing you're alive. Two Folgers in your cup.
Speaker 2:Realizing you're alive.
Speaker 1:Not that anyone cares, but my Ange doesn't drink coffee. Okay, she just starts her day. How is that possible?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I got a buddy at work. He just started listening to the shows. Hopefully he hears this. He also just goes, or he gets a chocolate milk If he needs that he can pick me up.
Speaker 2:That's what I ran on yesterday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, chocolate milk and bird's eye. Yeah, I'm not too mad at that one, but yeah anyway. So I needed a new Keurig machine, and she's a savage when it comes to this stuff she found Keurig was doing a time. At the time it was a Keurig machine with a frother built onto it for 50 bucks, If you signed up for a year of automated delivery of K-Cups.
Speaker 1:Right, okay, the K-Cups are the same price they are in the store and you don't pay for shipping. So where did we lose on that deal at all? You didn't lose, no, we just got one of the best Keurigs. At the time. Steel wasn't even plastic, stainless steel, oh man, even better. I'm like 50 bucks. As long as we agreed to a year contract, I was like, okay, yeah, it's not like we had to pay for a year's worth of k-cups either. No, like you gotta pay as it comes yeah it's like you ready for your next delivery?
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure, no, I'm not. Although there was a point where we had four boxes of packs of four, yeah, k cups and I was like, ooh, and then we realized we can pause it. No, that's good. If not, you just cancel it and hold on to them. Couldn't cancel? That was a kicker. Well, after the year? Oh yeah, that's what. After your commitment is done, you just hold on to them, like I do with my razor blades. With my Razor blades.
Speaker 2:Stop that, that is not.
Speaker 1:This one here the other day started talking in what she thinks is an Australian accent and I was like Australian. It's like. I'm like. I'm like country bumpkin trying to say alien. It's so funny because we've had listeners in Australia, right, but like our episode 64 had someone from Sydney, like legit Sydney, and they're going to tune in to this episode and just be not impressed. I hope it's the Hello Wisconsin guys. Oh yes, we listen to their show. They listen to our show.
Speaker 2:Go for it.
Speaker 1:Buddy, this isn't a normal episode. There's no PWN, but there is going to be a packing up segment. You know what I've noticed? What was that? I do not like sweet things anymore, like overly sweet, losing that sweet tooth. Huh, dr Pepper came out with a strawberries and cream. Yes, I was all about that. Yes, I took three sips and I'm like, oh, this is too sweet. Yeah, I'm glad I only bought a bottle, not the whole 12-er.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Also Rita's has Kool-Aid-flavored water ice Stop. It does taste like Kool-Aid. But it's also so sweet. Oh, I bet. Do you think they put the whole two cups of sugar in there? They put four. Oh. Wow, yeah, it was good. I did get a sample. I'm a custard guy throwing through. Absolutely, but I was like, while I was there, I was like, can I try the Kool-Aid? Yeah, why not? Let me little dabble with it. Oh dude, so sweet. Ray, are you a salty or sweet person?
Speaker 2:Depends on the day. Honestly, today I was craving this morning. I just wanted chocolate. That's all I wanted. But I can't have milk chocolate. I hate milk chocolate. I like dark chocolate. That is my go-to. I don't think I've ever heard anyone under the age of 25 say they have milk chocolate. I hate milk chocolate. I like dark chocolate. That is my go-to.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've ever heard anyone under the age of 25 say they like dark chocolate. Yeah, oh. I'm sorry, pinky in the ear, I don't like your peasant milk chocolate. It must be the Hershey's Special Reserve, dark, yeah, that's good. How's your little cucumber sandwiches with your fancy tea? And?
Speaker 2:yeah, it is very good your dark chocolate.
Speaker 1:I have learned to appreciate dark chocolate. So, yeah, oh, I love dark chocolate.
Speaker 2:Don't be wrong, I was looking for some like salty crackers and all I could find was like some spicy ones and I was like, oh, those sound good. They did not have the thought like I wanted it to.
Speaker 1:I'm realizing, like getting older, like I enjoy sweets. I do, but not overly sweet things. We had the Dr Pepper coconut, the new one, oh okay, we each grabbed the bottle of it and I think I got. I'm a big diet or zero sugar person.
Speaker 2:Zero sugar, which was perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got zero sugar and it was not good.
Speaker 2:Straight up coconut, or like tanning lotion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it tastes like it was a coconut scented tanning lotion that we were Like, oh cool, Thanks, Ed. See, I'm already on the fence about coconut as it is. Yeah, I love coconut.
Speaker 2:I like coconut. Like I'll drink like the fence about coconut as it is. Yeah, I love coconut. I like coconut. Like I'll drink like half of a coconut juice I'll usually split it with somebody but like I won't drink it all because I feel like sometimes it'll be too rich or sometimes I just don't want it and it doesn't taste good. But like natural coconut good, artificial, not my favorite.
Speaker 1:Let me jump in here real quick. Harry, At the age of 12, did you ever drink coconut water or coconut juice?
Speaker 2:At Hawaii, as you see the person carving it open.
Speaker 1:So here's the thing Things I didn't realize until much later in life existed. Coconut water, yes. Avocados, avocado, avocadoes, avocadoos.
Speaker 2:Avocadoos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't know any of that stuff. Body armor, the hydration drink, body armor made by Coca-Cola that has 10% coconut water. Oh, and to me, I can taste it right away. Really. Yeah, I can't stand it.
Speaker 2:I taste the prime, not the body armor.
Speaker 1:Oh, really Okay.
Speaker 2:Because there's a lemon-lime one Doesn't really taste like any other lemon-lime hydration drink because it's supposed to be hydration and electrolytes, almost like Gatorade, but it just tastes like coconut with a little bit of lime, like artificial like you just squeezed a little bit of like of an artificial tube of flavoring and bottled up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like the LaCroix. I was thinking, lacroix, I'm trying to think when I had coconut water for the first time, and I'm pretty sure in 30s, yeah, like I've never had 100%, all natural, plain coconut water.
Speaker 2:It's always been in something. It's really good.
Speaker 1:I saw it at the store and it was like for cheap, and I was like cool, I don't know if you ever had aloe water. You shut your mouth. I had aloe water. You shut your mouth. I love aloe water.
Speaker 2:We got some at the store and it was delicious.
Speaker 1:I used to live in Westchester for a little bit. I live right next door to a Mexican grocery store. Yes, and the only thing they had to drink was either aloe water or glass bottle Coke. Yeah, and I wasn't really trying to drink Coke at the time, so I just got it for something a little sweet that wasn't just plain water. It's a little weird.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's weird, but like fruity, you wouldn't think that it would be fruity.
Speaker 1:It was weird to chew my drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I.
Speaker 1:I loved it. The first time I had it somewhere weird. I was somewhere weird too, and I had it and I I don't want her. Cool, I'm taking, I'm high, I'm dehydrated. I just want refreshment and I and I felt what was in and I I gagged and I have a iron stomach. Harry, there's not many things that make me rich.
Speaker 1:But whatever that was, and I almost spit it out and I was like, what is that? And like, oh, it's chunks of aloe. I'm like you could have told me. My buddy was like, hey, drink this. It was yeah. It could have told me, oh, yeah, my bad, hey, by the way, there's chunks of hey, just so you know. Yeah, it's thick. And I was like, yeah, didn't see that coming. But okay, no, it's great, because we went to aldi. We went grocery shopping the other day. Oh yeah, it was the exact brand that I had tried before was there and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna put this in the cart. Does anybody else want one? And sabrina and ray were like, no, no, I don't even know what that is. All right, guys. I saw the chunks at the bottom. I'm like, no, I don't like my.
Speaker 2:what that is? All right guys. I saw the chunks at the bottom. I'm like, nah, I don't like my drink with chunks in it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm getting more towards the saltier side, both personality and flavor preference. So we're in Chicago and Chicago is known for a few things Deep dish pizzas and Chicago dogs. Known for a few things Deep dish pizzas and Chicago dogs. Yes, I got both. I really want a Chicago dog. I've really become a hot dog guy.
Speaker 2:Do not get him started on how many stands we saw.
Speaker 1:Hot dogs yeah, how many hot dog stands, harry? If I say, hey, man, there's going to be some hot dog stands on the corners, what are you thinking of? Two or three? You're thinking about a cart, right? Yeah, maybe two carts.
Speaker 1:Hey get your dogs over here. Hey, in the park, all the kids lined up. You're like sweet, that's going to be a dog. Not a single one. Nope, a few times. Everybody's eating. I skip lunch, I don't worry about it, we're going to hit the hot dog vendor on the way home. There's no hot dog vendors. No, they're buildings. They're like, they're small little buildings.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like a little building, so the one by the beach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're leaving the pier where everybody ate lunch. I was like I'm not eating because I know where there's one at and we I did, and I made sure a point to eat there as we were walking to the beach. A city worker in his pickup truck is going on the sidewalk by this building for a hot dog stand and he just yells hey, hey, hold on a second, let me move my truck. So we're standing there, he moves as we go to walk away. He goes. Hey, by the way, the best Italian ice you'll ever have in your life is in this building.
Speaker 2:It's so good that I come back here to work and take some home, and I went.
Speaker 1:we didn't even get any I wanted no, but I didn't speak up because he also doesn't know what good water. I see, yeah, true.
Speaker 1:So I wanted to get somebody. Can I see your container Watch? Say like George, is what? Was it? The Rose one? I don't know what you're talking about. I actually met the lady that was named after Her name's, rose. Really, yeah, her dad started that company. That's great. And yeah, her it was. Whatever, it's Rose something, the name of the water ice. But anyway I don't know what you're talking about. You know why it makes more sense that there's no cards. Why it's the Windy City? Why is it called the Windy City?
Speaker 2:Because they were, because we went on this ghost and what was it?
Speaker 1:Ghost and gangster tour.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we went on this ghost and gangster tour in Chicago and this tour guide that we had. We were like, oh yeah, blah, blah, blah. We were talking about how. I said, oh yeah, and it's called I love how it's called the Windy City and he was like it actually isn't called the Windy City because it's windy, that's actually because people were trying to do I forget who he was saying tried to do a compromise. But they were people trying to do a compromise and they were talking so much that they couldn't get much done. So that's personally, not personally, but that's why they call it the windy city, because it's just so many people talking and talking yeah, chicago politicians.
Speaker 1:So wow, yeah, talking about the world's fair 18. I just learned it something. Yeah, you did the more yeah.
Speaker 2:Learned something from a 13 year old smarter than you.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're 12. Almost there, oh, you're 12. Oh, sick bird.
Speaker 2:Still smarter than you.
Speaker 1:Okay. So, fat Ray, you don't start school till the second week of August. I believe Heard it late June. What are you looking forward to most between now, when you start school?
Speaker 2:shopping. I have already added things to my cart for Amazon Um not a thing, we were kids.
Speaker 1:What? Um we went to Kmart go through Walmart.
Speaker 2:Find cute new lunchbox probably the one that I have now like a little purse, um and I don't know. Find some fingertip length short with no ribs or fringe in it, so that I don't get dress coded and have to wear these nasty basketball shorts that have holes in them, like the mini air holes in them, not see-through, but have like a little mesh and I do not like that because they just look baggy and they have my school's name on them, because you can wear them for gym too.
Speaker 2:It's like their gym shorts, and so you personalize and put your name in it. On it, and they put my school's name I'm not going to say it my school's name and on it so that they know hey, these were given to you. They need to be returned for other people who get just coded All right, Harry.
Speaker 1:So two months left of your summer, right, but you have a normal job. What are you looking forward to most this summer? Fishing camping. I think that's it Disconnecting. Yeah. Unplugging, unplugging, I think, is what I'm looking forward to the most. Yep, going to one of those great campsites that don't have cell service. Oh man, that's called the dream, when you're playing Uno and puzzles and Ya and Yahtzee, and it's really fun. Yeah, that's what I'm really looking forward to. Man, I'm happy for you. I'm really excited for you too. What about? You.
Speaker 1:Hanging out with everybody Playing with all the kids. Right yeah, we have Olivia's birthday party coming up.
Speaker 2:Party.
Speaker 1:And then so yeah, playing with the kids outside in the backyard and growing my garden. My pumpkin patch is growing.
Speaker 2:Your garden.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's my garden. I set it all up.
Speaker 2:It is our garden.
Speaker 1:I helped pick out the vegetables and the flowers, and now he's calling it his garden okay, I'm working on our garden, like the pumpkin patch that I've grown all on my own okay, I'm not here three-fourths of the time one accident, the pumpkin patch that is. I did have a pumpkin growing back there, harry, and it got to about baseball size and then something ate it.
Speaker 1:There's some teeth marks in it, and then something ate it there's some teeth marks in it, yeah, yeah, it's actually it's 1130, my time and PM, and I got to cover my garden. I got netting for it, so birds don't eat my little cherry tomatoes. I'm starting to get there, you go. How exciting, great episode. So this is fun Summer special. Be sure to follow us on Facebook at the Trout Stream, and on Instagram and Twitter at TroutStreamPod. Leave a rating, review and whatever streaming platform you listen to us from.
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Speaker 1:Perfect. Actually, I like that. I like that a lot. We'll be right back. We'll see you next time.
