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#69 - TINY SPOON BIG WIN!
Ever wondered why eating dessert with a tiny spoon makes it taste so much better? On this episode, we bring you the perfect blend of light-hearted banter and sports excitement—starting with the simple joys of tiny utensils and an official shoutout to our listeners from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Spokane, Washington. Catch up on Paul’s workbench triumph and Harry’s adventurous camping trip to Caledonia State Park. Our sports segment shines a spotlight on the best athletes to wear the number 69, featuring standout performances from Landon Dickerson of the Philadelphia Eagles and Francisco Morales from the Philadelphia Phillies.
From the gridiron to the racetrack, we journey through nostalgic NFL draft memories and an amusing tale of WWE champion Brock Lesnar's brush with the Minnesota Vikings. We critique the recent NASCAR race at Bristol, where Kyle Larson's dominant yet uneventful performance left us yearning for more excitement. Listen in as we analyze our championship pick'ems and reflect on the rollercoaster of our recent sports picks, mixing in some laughs along the way.
Ever had a dining experience so good it restored your faith in humanity? We share a heartfelt story about an exceptional waiter that will resonate with anyone who's ever worked in customer service. Tackling society's biggest pet peeves, we humorously debate whether slow left lane drivers or distracted drivers deserve the ultimate ire. Wrapping up, we explore the serendipitous journey of a $4 million scratch-off ticket winner, and passionately debate the 2024 Toy Hall of Fame finalists, from the timeless joy of balloons to the strategic fun of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Join us for an episode packed with humor, nostalgia, and lively discussion!
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you know what I realized? What's that? That if you eat your dessert with like a little tiny spoon, it feels so much more fancy. You feel like you're highfalutin, high class, high class. That's what I'm saying. I ate some really fancy yogurt with a little tiny spoon and I was like king of the castle. King of the castle, I just I felt very, very fancy. Was it by fancy yogurt? Do you mean it was the Jamie Lee Curtis yogurt, and by little spoon? It was the spoon that might come with it. It was not Activia, it was Truvalu. I'm not going to try because I don't know off the top of my head, but it's really good, tasted more like a dessert and it was keto friendly. Nice, very friendly, very key, very key.
Speaker 1:Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Trout Stream. I am Harry Troutman and with me, as always, is my co-host, I am Paul Troutman. On episode 69, we will talk about our favorite athletes to wear 69, hand out our golden trouts and eels of the week, continue our biggest pet peeve bracket and, of course, much, much more. Paul listeners, welcome to 69. We made it Like sitting at the bingo hall. Harry, you got one more number they got to call out before you get that blackout and you win the jackpot. And what's the number we're going to call? Oh, 69. We made it, folks, we made it.
Speaker 1:I want to give a quick shout out to our listeners from Grand Rapids, michigan, and Spokane, washington, thank you. Thank you very much and welcome to the stream. Welcome to the stream, buddy. How you doing, man? We are living our best out here, just living life, living the dream man. I get it. It's wonderful. What's something fun you did recently? I cleaned my work bench off recently, so that was pretty fun to me. I'm not going to lie to you, that was aside from hanging out with the family and the kids and stuff. Like for me, clean my work bench off. We have two very, totally different ideas of fun. No, we do. Yeah, I have three kids, so my workbench is getting neglected, harry. No, I understand.
Speaker 1:Ange and I went camping. We took the camper over to Caledonia State Park in PA Caledonia, just outside of Gettysburg, fayetteville, if you will. Beautiful, beautiful place, gettysburg. I heard there used to be a big party there one time there was. Listen, we weren't that close to Gettysburg, it's just, people know Gettysburg more than Fayetteville, pennsylvania. Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, beautiful park, bucky's level clean bathrooms I know what I'm saying right now at a state park, son of a gun. All right, let's go Bucky's level clean, all right, I mean that's. That's way more fancier than me cleaning my workbench off. But a great time, great time to have a drive with a camper wasn't bad. I enjoyed it. Yeah, it sounds like it was a fun trip. It was, and let's see.
Speaker 1:Last week we were at bristol bristol, tennessee. We will talk more about the race because we are in the playoffs, but all that needs to be known is you beat me, so you go first for athletes to wear 69. So we didn't air our picks right. You know, we didn't make our last show sheet. I picked the one only, denny Hamlin. He just so happened to edge out Joey Logano, so I'll go first. 69, harry. This is a very influential number. You would think this would be high regards. There are some places, like our high school, that ban this number. I wish that would have been a better list, I think, funnier list than some of these players. Let's start with the Philadelphia Eagles, the midnight green and Black Starting left guard from the University of Alabama, landon Dickerson Pre-show.
Speaker 1:We were talking, obviously. Landon came into both of our heads and I said, buddy, by all means, use two or two peas in a pod. Yeah, you have Landon came into both of our heads and I said, buddy, by all means, use two or two peas in a pod. Yeah, you have Landon all day. I think what I like about Landon is he's a hard-nosed football player, offensive lineman. But when he signed his big contract, they were like what are you going to do with all the money? He goes, buy me a new riding mower. And sure enough, he went and bought himself a new riding mower. Now, granted, it was not a riding mower that you and I have now. He's a little bigger than us, so he has, like this monstrous zero turn and his yard is chef's kiss, amazing, it's beautiful, it's a work of art. Yeah, cause after he got the riding mower, like it made the news, you know, like local Philly news and stuff like oh, he actually did get a riding mower. And look at his yard like, yeah, man, like you know local Philly news and stuff like oh, he actually did get a riding mower. And look at his yard Like, yeah, man, he's got the plaid crisscross cuts. Oh man.
Speaker 1:Well, let's move from the Eagles, let's go to our favorite baseball team Getting ready for Red October Philadelphia Phillies. The one and only Francisco Morales. Many of you might not have ever heard him Well, because he only played in 2022, and he's the only Philadelphia Philly ever to wear number 69. That's a shock, it is, but also I feel like 69 would flourish in Philadelphia. I think it would probably be like one of the best numbers. Me and Philly would be like a bow tie. Right, you know I am number 16. I was like a bow tie you're wearing. I don't know, just take that to church, but he's the only Philly ever. So we're getting into an era here where, like we're going to hit numbers, where one player has ever worn for the Phillies Moving, has ever worn for the Phillies Moving.
Speaker 1:On to my next baseball player relief pitcher and a pitching coach in Major League Baseball with the Yankees, the Orioles and Dodgers, 12-year career from 1990 to 2002. The one and only Alan Bernard Mills Great, it was good, good pitcher. I mean, he had a 4.12 ERA, 456 strikeouts, played on a bunch of teams. It's a good pitcher. Number 69 and our last two Harry, let's go. I think it's the first time in a very long time we've been able to use fictional characters for jersey numbers, which is going to be fun. Let's go to football center, number 69.
Speaker 1:Varsity Blues, billy Bob I just want to call him Billy Bob Thornton, oh yeah, yeah, billy Bob, or Billy Ray, anyway, a dude from Varsity Blues who got recruited for that job or for that character because he was walking around the mall and overall, as being a goof and like the producing director, was like we want that guy, like that is our guy. And then my last pick, harry. I know I got a lot. I got a lot. I had to cut a lot out. Fictional character wish it was real.
Speaker 1:From the movie Goon Doug Glatt, the old Goon. That's a great movie. That is a great movie. I know you said you've only seen it once. I've seen a movie several times, enough times. I wanted to see the sequel and then regretted it. So I watched the original again. You tried to erase it from your mind with the original. I did. I did Mark, mark, I get it.
Speaker 1:I mean, the whole premise of that movie is ridiculous anyway, because he starts trash-trying a hockey player. Hockey player, jumps the glass, it beats the crap out of the guy and they're like do you know how to ice skate? Do you want to be our enforcer now, like what? Maybe one day that'll happen to me, who knows? You do go to mud bug games. I do go to a lot of mud bugs games, but they're like 17, 18, 19 year old kids, so I probably shouldn't fight them. You can fight the 18 year olds, I can. Yeah, just grip them up. How old are you? What age are you? 17. Get out of here, punk. Get back on the ice. I'm going to take over. I got two actually, I know I normally only do one. I have Jared Allen Absolute freak, absolute freak, absolute freak. Love him.
Speaker 1:And then, ooh, I want to say my number two favorite lineman of all time, john Runyon. John, ooh, john Runyon is the guy that introduced me to Lyman and why they are important On the streets. He's tomb of the boom, like he's going to light you up. Here's some fun facts about John Runyon. He was a US representative for New Jersey. That's right Now what he's doing. Now he's the vice president of policy and rules administration, which is hilarious, because I recently saw a clip of him diving headfirst like a torpedo at an opposing player. Oh, I remember that game. Yes, very much so. John Runyon was a no BS kind of guy, no, and he wasn't afraid to throw you around. And now he's in charge of policy and rules Hilarious. Hilarious Because the human torpedo video used to be shown before the season of players, of plays you're not allowed to do. And so now the guy who had multiple plays of what not to do is in charge of rules and policy. Yeah, this is what you don't do, guys. And his son plays. He does, doesn't he play? For Last time I saw him he was what? On Green Bay. Yeah, last time I saw him, he was Green Bay, so I don't know where he's at now.
Speaker 1:I got another 69. That just came into my mind NFL. I just saw you light up. So this is like a genuine. This is a genuine one. It just popped in. You're saying like watching a little film. Number 69, minnesota Vikings purple WWE champion Brock Lesnar. Dang, I am mad. I did not think of that, it just popped in my brain. I'm not mad. I am a WWE fan and I should have known that. Yeah, the boy just pop fried my brain and nailed it. Scary. Yeah, I got a handful of draft picks here. Harry, I'm gonna go with newest to oldest. Like I typically do, couple in the NFL quick, fast, in a hurry. Four big names, three potential Hall of Famers out of it. 2017 Cooper Cup Our receiver from the Rams how about this one? 2015 Tyler Lockett he's the one that is Not a Hall of Famer, backup quarterback Everywhere he goes.
Speaker 1:2013 Tyron Honeybadger Matthew, he's bouncing around A little bit. Great, great safety In 2003,. This was rough to admit. Hall of Famer, one of the top five they ever do, and, I think, very underappreciated. Jason Witten he's one of the reasons why I didn't like playing the Cowboys. I mean more so because they were the Cowboys, but it was always Jason Witten. He always had a big play or a turn of event plays Playing the Eagles that really like hurt us. Yeah, it was always Jason Witten, it was always Witten and it was always Jason Witten. Why option? Yeah, it was always. His route was always Jason Whitten. Why option? Yeah, it was always. His route was always why option? And then, harry, I do have one for baseball. Ooh, let's go back to 2004.
Speaker 1:Chicago White Sox are on the board Number 69 overall. They selected Ray Liotta, the actor Ray Leota. No, I think it's coincidentally same name, but that was hilarious. I was going through him like who was drafted in baseball. You know what I mean Ray Leota, ray Leota, yeah, I know, the guy didn't really have much of a career because he didn't have a link. Yeah, you know, I thought if it was the actor he would have had a link. Yeah, you know it's not good when you're looking up stats and all that and the guy's name is just black and it's just no link, no hyperlink, no link to nowhere. Yeah, it's a. He'll click his name and it's like good day, good sir, mike, continue on.
Speaker 1:Nascar. 69 is great looking number. You can do a lot with it. Oh my gosh, it's one of my favorite numbers used on video games because it's just so clean, so clean 103 races, zero wins, zero, 60. I'm trying to think was there a pink and blue car? Zero, see, see, I'm trying to think Was there a pink and blue car or am I getting that? I might be getting that mixed up with a different number.
Speaker 1:We were at Bristol last week. We were. I was supposed to go to that race. Unfortunately, things happened out of my control, nothing to do with me. I stood my ground. I stood with a friend and I said if you ain't going, I'm not going. We didn't go.
Speaker 1:We watched it on TV and it was one of the most boring races of the season. Such a shame. Is it a shame or was it a win? No, bust, you're right. Kyle Larson led 462 laps out of 500. What is there to watch? I mean, yeah, there was position battles all night and playoff spots on the line and I get that, but at the end of the day, I mean he's got 462 laps out of 500.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was reading something that said there's 8 lead changes and I'm like where? Where? Yeah, well, within the first 30 laps. Well, within the first 30 laps, somewhere in the first 30 laps. I mean, at that point he had like a three, four second lead at Bristol, which is a half a mile, by the way. Yeah, bristol for those who don't know, very short track. So good for him being a Kyle Larson fan. That is awesome, huge fan. Also a very boring race, terribly boring race. People that think it was a good race are the diehard Kyle Larson fans or something. Not that I want to see people crash or anything, but I want to see excitement when I'm watching Ty Gibbs fight Daniel Suarez trying to. You know their last two in the bubble for the playoffs. And Gibbs can't get around Suarez, I don't, can't pass him to save his life. But yet here comes Kyle Larson, by the way, lapping everybody and just dices in and out. You're like man something illegal with his car. But he was just, he had the right setup.
Speaker 1:I play NASCAR, nascar Heat 20. Whatever the last NASCAR Heat was, I haven't. I play on Expert. I haven't, I play on an expert. I don't lead that many laps. No, that's a video game. No, I put it on easy. Of course, all 500. Right, I'm a lap bear. Buddy Twice, that's what I'm saying, dude, it's just so wild Doesn't make for great entertainment. High quality win, high quality race, I get it.
Speaker 1:So where do we stand points-wise for our championship pick'ems? At the three playoff races, we've only picked for two. We picked for atlanta and we skipped walkins glenn picking because we realized we just wanted to enjoy that race and it's a road course. And then we went bristol. We, each three races into the playoffs, each have one win. Uh, harry, right now you're leading. You have 45 playoff points and I have been whopping 92. Oh, we had not great. I have back-to-back 46 point races. What hurt you was Joey Logano wrecking and getting you nine, nine. Thanks, joey Logano. You bear Bear Great reference.
Speaker 1:So you go first for Kansas. Who you going with? This one's very simple to me. I think of the fall Kansas race. I think of one number that has won three fall races in a row. Three separate drivers, with Kurt Busch, bubba Wallace and then Tyler Reddick. I'm going with he's back, ladies and gentlemen In the 4-5. Tyler Reddick, I'm going with he's back, ladies and gentlemen in the 4-5.
Speaker 1:Tyler Reddick, last week I texted you and I said look, buddy, we got to make our picks. I said you go first. I typed out who I wanted. I did not hit send. I was waiting for you because I tend to be aggressive in the playoffs. It never works out for me, but I'm going to continue to be aggressive in the playoffs. Now I have to be 50, some points down.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go Denny Hamlin, the one, one double bird. I had Denny hyped out ready to go. So when you send whoever I thought you were going to go with, I thought you were going to be logical. You went aggressive, you went Denny Hamlin and I literally took a, took a screenshot, saying like hey, I had Denny ready to go. I asked and typed Denny, yeah, you need to heat up, man, you gotta take off your cool and just, hopefully this is a good pick for you. I need a good reset. Hopefully there's a prototype for what you have coming up. The rest of the playoffs it's going to be war. So that's enough nascar.
Speaker 1:I am going to move right on to golden shrouds, because they are somewhat similar for my first golden trout here the nhra, the national hot rod association, the NHRA, the National Hot Rod Association. There are a lot more women drivers in the NHRA than there are in NASCAR. For those who do not know, they are pushing and I don't know if it's official yet, but they are pushing for when a, if a woman becomes pregnant, a driver can step in, take her points, take her position and continue the season and then, if she can come back in time, she can pick up right where the other driver left off. They don't lose points, they don't lose their position and I think all around it's a great thing, it is phenomenal. Hats off to NHRA.
Speaker 1:I mean, this should be a no-brainer, you would think right, because their off-season is what? Two months, not long. So I got to what? Not have a family because I got to be out here racing for 10 months. Yeah, that's the one thing I don't. I don't like and and HRAs there there. The reasoning behind it may not be good, because it may be I don't want to diminish this but it is for one particular person and that's fine because of it, because if it's okay for one particular person, it becomes okay for everyone. They're admitting that like hey, no, this will be the going forward, this will be it, and I'm okay with that. I feel like that's a win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause she stepped away and we're talking about Tony Stewart, his wife. She stepped out of her NHRA RA ride, gave it to him so he could race, so they could have a kid. Yeah, I mean, again, that's a little bit of a favoritism, but again it works out in favor for everyone. It works out. I mean, now women don't have to decide do I want to go race a dragster or have a family? Because I can't do both. You can do both Now you can. I'm not going to now, I'm not going to win a championship for it. Right Now you can and possibility is there. I mean that's a great one, dude. I got one here.
Speaker 1:It goes out to my boy, helio Ramos, from the San Francisco Giants. Good friend, good friend of mine, not from the San Francisco Giants, good friend, good friend of mine Not really. I never met the guy, but he became Harry, first time ever in the history of Giants baseball stadium, the first right-handed batter to hit a home run into the McCovey Cove. I mean, the stadium's been over 20 years, 25 years. He's the first one, the first right-hander, to go oppo Into McCovey Cove. Yeah, that would be oppo, wouldn't it? It helps if you know You're left from your right. Sometimes, yeah, I get it, because, like when you go oppo, like you, you clear the wall, but that's Most of the time.
Speaker 1:That's all you're doing Right, you're not blasting it, you're not. You're not blasting it, you're not setting it into the coat. You might go mid-seeding about 10 rows up. You very rarely go into the second deck Right and it's on the bay, sitting on the dock of the bay, so the wind might be coming in. I mean, that was a good shot then. I don't know how far it was, but you have to man his roses. No, I'm going to give him a golden trout. Well then, there we go. So this one's coming out to you, but hopefully San Francisco be. His postage stamps are going to be a lot. But, and our third one man, we thought about this one a lot. Yeah, it's a tough one, I don't get choked up. And our third one man, we thought about this one a lot. Yeah, it's a tough one, I don't get choked up with here often.
Speaker 1:But this goes out to the Philadelphia Flyers organization and their head coach, john Tortorella, because he invited Guy Goudreau to practice. And those are like oh, who's Guy Goudreau and Harry? And those are like oh, who's Guy Goudreau and Harry? And I have been following this from the minute it happened. You probably heard it on the news Two brothers, johnny and Matthew, were hit by a drunk driver while they were riding their bicycles the day before their sister's wedding.
Speaker 1:They were only in South Jersey, philly area for their sister's wedding and you've read about it. But what I think is great is like Matthew was a hockey player in the NHL and John Tortorella found out that you know his family was from the Philly area in South Jersey, so invited his dad, guy, to the practice facility, gave him flyers gear, coaching flyers gear, had him skate around. I saw an interview with Tort and he said the guy's a coach. I extended the invite out to him. He was reluctant and he said you know, whenever you're ready, I'm not, I didn't push him nothing. And then he accepted the invite. And one thing, one thing coach tort kept saying is he's a coach, he's a coach, he's a coach, he needs to be out here, he needs to be coaching. And he was. Yeah, and I hope they. You know, tortor rally said you know he'll come, he's, and I hope he makes a habit of going back. Me too, man, because it's rough. I feel bad for the guy, his whole family, I feel terrible for the whole NHL family.
Speaker 1:A freak accident like that. I mean you haven't seen anything like this since the early 80s when the Flyers lost their goalie. So I mean then I can think of yeah, I mean it just so happened that you know the Goudreau family is from the Philly area, so, but I don't care which team it was for, I don't care, it could have been for the Dallas Stars if the kid was a Dallas kid. You know, I was like but NHL coaches reaching out and be like hey, man, you're a coach, come, come skate man. Yeah, yeah, we didn't we. We talked about bringing up the accident and I was like, nah, I don't, everyone's going to see it, let's not be a bummer.
Speaker 1:But now, now something positive has come out of it and not. Now something positive has come out of it and not I don't even want to say positive, but something good, something good man. It's positive because it brings light to him. Right, some people have some people go to church on Sundays. Right, the ice ring is his church, yeah. So bring him out, just knowing it's where he's got to be. You know, let him reset that mind a little bit and just, really just get that feel, that love below and move on.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to try and fancy segue out of that, I'm going to give it the respect it deserves. Party, let's move on to our biggest hit. He's rocking it. Boom, we've made it, harry. We are in the final four.
Speaker 1:Final four means there's four teams left Two from the left, two from the right. Left side strong side let's go with the biggest win versus the tightest win, harry, these are both very close, so I need you to do me a favor. Call it a year heads or tails, tails, it's heads. I'll go first. Left side there's no coin. Whatever Harry was going to say. I was going to say the opposite of it.
Speaker 1:Left side we have treating customer service poorly, going head to head with distracted drivers. So what is a bigger pet peeve? A jerk to your waiter or waitress, or somebody who's texting while driving? 58 to 42. Someone blows my mind. 58, 42. Distracted drivers, 5842 distracted drivers. Listen, that makes me worry about a society. When you're more, your pet peeve is a distracted driver over people being not nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let me tell you a little story about a possible golden trout I could have had from supper last night and spree and I were sitting there talking long days just say, hey, you just want to go grab dinner tonight. Matter of fact, I do. We go to hit his little joint called rotolo's right around the corner. We've been there a couple times. Every time we go to the same waiter we sat down last night. Same waiter comes up. When you get your bill you know it says server's name. The name said Superman. That's dope. This dude was amazing.
Speaker 1:Everybody knows I hit it hard and heavy the egg allergy. We sat down and said hey, bud, this is what we got. We have egg allergy here. What can you do for us? She really wants spaghetti and meatballs. He went to the back, he asked all the questions, he did that and the other gave us a solution.
Speaker 1:The meal went on. I've never done this in my life, but the guy was like, hey, man, thanks for coming by, and I was like, no man, thank you. I need to thank you for everything you've done, cause literally one of the best, the absolute best server I've ever had in my life and I've been there multiple times and I usually get him. So to see people treat the customer service employees, that crap, man, it irritates me, man, it irritates me. However, however, if I witness somebody treating a waiter poorly, my life is not in danger. That's, it's fair. That's honestly fair. I get it. So, just, you know, distracted drivers.
Speaker 1:Moving on, now let's move to the right side, harry, where we have slow left lane drivers going head to head with no-dolls and one-uppers. You ever met a no-doll or a one-upper? One-upper? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, gary, it was way worse. You know what, buddy? No, I'm just saying on the show. I'm just saying on the show Every Damn Time, every time, and I pray they're out. I don't know the results, but I pray they're out, so I don't have to hear that. Oh, I've been saying it Any more. Help me around Anytime. We say it 54 to 46.
Speaker 1:Slow left lane drivers is moving on. Good, it's over, it's finally over. Yeah, slow left lane drivers really, really get under my skin. What gets under my skin is the rules of the road. There are set rules and just follow the rules and there won't be accidents. I mean, obviously, accidents will happen. That's why they're called accidents, right, right, they're not called on purposes. You know, blown tires, whatever Freak things happen. Yeah, but a lot of stuff, a lot of injury, a lot of accidents will go down if you just follow the rules, man. Yeah, but a lot of stuff, a lot of injury, a lot of accidents will go down if you just follow the rules. Man. Yeah, get out of left lane.
Speaker 1:I understand why we have this final matchup. Yeah, it's for once. It's our first bracket where everything is completely logical. It all makes sense, right? Don't get me started about why Godfather 2 is eliminated in the second round of the best movie sequel bracket Three brackets ago, because that made no sense to me. But this one Well, not to mention the 69th highest rated movie of all time, direct 2, was eliminated.
Speaker 1:It shouldn't have been eliminated. That should have went on to the final four. It should have been Direct 2 against Godfather 2. 69 highest selling movie of all time. I love when life comes full circle, gotta love it. You know what, harry? I'm a believer that this bracket is going to be good, which is also this I love this conversation right now because, as the 69th highest selling single, I'm a believer by the monkeys. When, in the history of our show has the Billboard top 100, great songs of all time and the highest grossing movie of all time have something ever merged everything? Everything comes back to Shrek everything. We are in Shrek topia, probably. Shrekception, shrek ception. Oh man, I got a green ogre in my brain right now.
Speaker 1:So for the final matchup, we have distracted drivers going heads up, mano y mano against slow left lane drivers. Cool, it's going to be a dogfight. It's going to be a great match. It's probably going to be a car wreck. Let's hope not. Let's hope not. That's all I'm saying. It Right? I mean, they're called accidents, harry, because you managed to call your boss.
Speaker 1:But hey, man, I'm going to be a little late. I'm not coming in today. Why? I had it on purpose. I had it on purpose. There's some days I want to have it on purpose, so I, and the guy in front of me is slow and he finally gets out of my way and goes to the right. I'm like man, the way you move makes me so happy. You just get over there. Good day, good sir, I will see you later. I had it on purpose, it's. I mean, you have young ones. Could you just imagine I had it on purpose why we were going to start calling that a dunce cap.
Speaker 1:Listen, let's just do where I say it. I say it every week. But we are flowing and we are doing great. And I'm going to shout out my eels because, listen, there's a football game on we record on Thursdays, most nights, most weeks. Yeah, hoorah, back in the NFL season. And we have officially Thursday night football. That's true. And tonight, oh my gosh, listen, we got a couple of listeners in Dallas. I'm sorry, we have the Cowboys versus the Giants. They're in our division. We can't stand either one of them. But you know what? I can't stand how many gambling ads there are. Oh my gosh, it's every other commercial. It's so annoying.
Speaker 1:Caesars DraftKings, betmgm, betmgm. It's so bad, it's literally so bad. I don't bet. I tried it a couple times.
Speaker 1:I'm too much of a loyalist to the Eagles 100%. I can't bet and I don't want to bet with the birds. And then I lose, and then I lose my bet. And then I look the Eagles lose and I'm pissed off and I don't want to really bet against the Eagles. Right, and you don't want to bet against the Eagles, you want them really to win. But then, like they win, you're like, yay, I lost money. And then, like tonight, tonight's an easy, easy pick. You know what I mean? Who's going to win? The money line probably isn't there, obviously. I mean the Cowboys have won. What? The last 13 out of 14, whatever the case is Something like that. Yeah, what? Put my money on another NFL team. They're not my team, I don't care, I don't care.
Speaker 1:I was reading. It was some ridiculous. Like billions of dollars this year or this season have been lost in parlays and pick-homes. People have lost. This entire country of bettors has lost billions of dollars. Why, I guess these bet MGMs and casinos and DraftKings, caesarsbet, stratospherebet, us onlinecom, denny's gambling site Like you can be at IHOP and start picking parlays now. You can now bet with your pancakes, like it's Waffle House, and be like yeah, sound like the all-star special and the Cowboys to cover the spread against the Giants tonight.
Speaker 1:Look, I think it's a conspiracy theory. I think it's a conspiracy theory. I think it's a conspiracy. It's weird. It's getting weird to this point. I mean there's something deeper. It's just money, dude. It's just straight money being drained out of everyone's bank accounts. It's America's pastime. Your blood pressure should go up. Don't get me wrong. Dallas just scored. I'm a little ticked off about it. I don't want to be so upset that I just lost $100. Why, why? Yeah, no, but also, it's not America's pastime, so it might be getting there soon.
Speaker 1:But all these betting sites and all this stuff, plus, like all the celebrities endorsing it, and everybody with the ad reads and my favorite part is, like, if you listen to any other show which I don't know why, you listen to anybody but us you know we're watching TV shows and something it's always like hey bet MGM. You know, first, $5 bet, $10, $1,000 cash bet and we'll cover it up. If you have a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLERS now, like when you have to add that ad in there of like, call Gamblers Anonymous, there's a problem. What I meant was America's past. It's supposed to be easy going to get your heart rate going a little bit.
Speaker 1:Listen, buddy, I mean, when it comes to sponsorship, I don't know if we would ever take a gambling sponsorship. I don't know if we would, and I don't want to seem high and mighty and listen. If you gamble and you do it right and you're not like betting your house, have fun. Do your thing, absolutely Do your thing. I hope that eight leg $2 parlay that pays six grand hits and, and you know, you're set. I hope, I pray, I hope you get that. I mean, I really hope that the Bengals cover the spread this week and so do the Browns. They give you. You know they turn $10 into a grand. Take your kid to Disney. Stop throwing it in my face. I almost let it out. Stop throwing it in my face. Yeah, I'm tired of seeing the ads. Yeah, give me 20 people without ads.
Speaker 1:How many professional athletes have been in trouble for gambling? And now it's everywhere. Calvin Ridley had to sit a year because he bet. How many other NFL players have been sitting for a year because of betting? But yet one of your big sponsors is a gambling site? Makes no sense. None, that's like a beer company sponsoring a high school football game but also telling the players you can't drink, yeah, don't drink. That's terrible. Even in the NFL you can't be a spokesperson for beer. No, they show the stadium. Stadium, there's 27,000 advertisements for it. That's it, I'm done. I got one EO. It's going to be quick, fast, in a hurry.
Speaker 1:This goes out to fans that announced their team's record before the clock hit zero. I can add to that Coaches celebrate before the clock hits zero. Absolutely, by week two, monday Night Football Philadelphia Eagles against the Atlanta Falcons. I knew that game wasn't over. No, I knew for a fact the game wasn't over. And on social media, a lot of Eagles fans I know, and friends of mine were at the time, like oh, 2-0. Birds are 2-0. Eagles are celebrating Like the game's not over yet. And guess what, the game wasn't over.
Speaker 1:I was at Melissa's house when the Eagles won the Super Bowl and everyone started getting excited and I was like Tom Brady gets the ball back. Guys. What do you know? Everyone know Big no-no. If the birds are in the big game this year, I'm watching it alone. Yeah, nobody's around me. Well, this also depends on how the regular season goes, because when they had the new game and I rocked Piper down for a nap. I did it in the I don't know it was Sunday night football, friday night game against Green Bay. I was rocking her to sleep in the recliner.
Speaker 1:Eagles won Week two. I wasn't holding her. They lost Week three. I started holding her. They got the lead.
Speaker 1:Well, we know what we have to do. Whenever there's an Eagles game, piper's going to be napping has to. When do they be here? I don't care where we're at, like my chair's going with me Just in the middle of the ball. They got the 1 o'clock game against Tampa Bay. At Tampa Bay they do no Noon Central. That sounds like a noon nap to me. It does. I'm excited, paul. I think everyone's ready. I'm ready. I know you're ready. I see you're itching, you're itching, you're ready.
Speaker 1:It is time for America's Favorite Segment. It is time for PWN Paul's Weird News. Here is your host, paul. Hey, thanks for that. I'm out here on the street. I hey, thanks for that. And out here on the streets, harry, I got a couple of good ones for you.
Speaker 1:Now you got some friends right. We all have friends, we all go. You know what does? Every friend have A birthday and all friends have birthdays? I hope so. If not, I would check them out and they're probably an alien. But how about this Massachusetts man went out to buy his friend a birthday gift and he got something more. This isn't crazy. This isn't deep, this isn't scary. Old Robert I'm going to leave his name out. His first name is Robert, even though it's online and everybody can find it From New Bedford, massachusetts, went out to buy his friend a birthday gift. When he's out shopping for his birthday gift, he stopped by a place called Jay's Wine and Spirits. Now I kind of want Robert as a friend because he'd be stopping by Wine and Spirits to get a birthday gift. Hopefully he's getting more spirits and less wine. I'm just kidding. I don't think anything. It could be Judd wine. Carlo Rossi, huge fan.
Speaker 1:The rapper bought himself a $10 lottery ticket $400 million, one of those Monopoly double scratch-off tickets. You know what I mean. You know it. We've all had it. Listen, if you were, if you haven't used a scratch-off ticket yet, you ain't living. Scratch-off ticket yet you ain't living, I ain't living. I'm $10, a little rich for my blood. I'll tell you how much right now. How about $5 max? Yeah, I'm a $2 to $5 fan, because $1 ain't worth it. But $2 to $5 is where it's at. Sometimes you get your money back and if you're lucky enough, man, I'll tell you the story at the end of this one.
Speaker 1:But Robert was going to give his friend a gift, spent $10 on a $4 million. The Monopoly doubler. He pulls out his lucky quarter, scratches off. By the way, the smallest denomination you can use, two uses a scratch off. That's trust. Ring law won $4 million. Right there, who uses a scratch-off? True, that's trust-free money. $1,400,000. Right there. Weird news. Because he's going to buy his friend a birthday gift, buys himself a little treat, $10 scratch-off and turns $10 into $4,000,000.
Speaker 1:$4,000,000. Yep, and he said hey, robert, what are you going to do with that money? He said it's going to go towards home renovations and helping people. I love it. I mean, if I won a $4 million scratch-off, what are you going to do with the money? Yep, I'm walking out the door. Yeah, see, ya. Yeah, I'm going to go help somebody. I've also changed my name to somebody. Man, where'm going to go help somebody? I've also changed my name to somebody. Man, where did you get that deer? This year I paid somebody Somebody's me. You know what I mean you wouldn't see me for a month. Nah, $4 million.
Speaker 1:$4 million is not enough for me to quit my job, stop everything I'm doing, mm-mm. But it's enough for me to stockpile and go buy something. You wouldn't know if I won the lottery, but there'd be signs Probably a new pair of jeans. For me it would be shoes I didn't buy at Ross, dressed for less. Yes, that makes sense. For me it would probably be an actual pre-built hunting bond. Ooh, there you go, you know what I mean. So I don't have to build one that's insulated and sealed off from insects. But then again, you'll never see that because I'm not going to tell you where I'm putting it. I mean same cost my shoes you're blind. Yeah, fax, three grand each, because for your shoes they got a slower three cows for it. So but, robert, congratulations on your four million dollars and hopefully your friend is very happy with whatever gift you decided to get them.
Speaker 1:Did you do the scratch room before or after the birthday gift was given? Before he went to the truck and was like all right, let me see what's going on here. I think he went to the truck and just scratched in the truck. He got to, he got to. It seems to me the most appropriate thing. Now what do you do? If you're the friend and you get a $7 bottle of wine, he's won $4 million. Robert only had a crisp 20 on him, so he got a $8 jug Carla Rossi and a $10 scratcher. It came out to a total of $19.94 and he Turned that six cents into $4 million, you know what. And he turned that six cents into four million, a million. You know what? I wouldn't be mad. I would just pour a second glass for old Robert and say Try again. I don't know, invite me somewhere.
Speaker 1:You know I used to work with a guy I know. We were talking about the gambling side earlier. Now we're talking about scratch house. I used to work with a guy I know. We were talking about the gambling site earlier. Now we're talking about scratch house. I used to work with this guy when I was in California. I'd pick him up when we'd go to work together. He lived a half mile from me, never out of my way. It added maybe four minutes, five minutes to my commute, but this dude loved scratch house tickets.
Speaker 1:So we stop at the same gas station every time we work what we call mid-ships. I want to say, which everyone else would call a third shift. I give him a ride. Stop by the gas station, get our energy, drinks, coffees, whatever it is, you know 10, 11 o'clock at night. But this dude loved his scratch-offs and loved them, was scared of cops, loved scratch-offs. Very weird, should have been a red flag. For me it's about as red as the flag, yeah. So after a while I didn't realize what he was doing. He was like oh, by the way, I owe you some cash for giving me a ride. I said, man, you're fine, you're not out of my way. We worked the same shift. You know this N30. No, no, no, jump over this house one day. Oh hey, by the way, all those scratchers in your glove box, you can go cash those in. I was like, okay, I didn't realize what he was putting in my glove box Because, like you know, a couple nights I had to get gas and stuff like that before work. Because whatever you win, you win. And, dude, when I say there goes a stack like probably 20 scratch-offs, this dude would buy a couple a night. Oh, several a night he would buy. He complained about not having money and I'm pretty sure I got like 50 bucks out of all his scratchers and I was like, yes, I'd like cash please. So that was really nice.
Speaker 1:My very first scratch-off, I won $10. Oh, wow, what you quit after that, right? No, should be. My only scratch-off I've ever played was $10. Now I won $110 and $156, I think one time I don't play that much I won 250 British pounds on a pool tab. Pool tabs are different. Yeah, I was on a deployment, had a couple bucks. I was trying to get rid of my pounds I had at this terminal and I was like, whatever, man, I'll play some pool tabs. I put one pound in. I won 250, and I was like you've got to be kidding me, that's what you do. I cashed it in and then the place I went to I had to do money exchange. Ah, pound zero. You probably lost some money there. Oh yeah, because somebody was like oh, this is $10. I'm like I don't know. Well, here's $10. They're. Yep, we'll take 10 pounds. Turns out I should have gotten double what I paid for. That's a little Hate to see it Straight bust.
Speaker 1:Been enough about scratch-offs. You know, harry, when you win some money, where are you going to go? Most people are going to go shopping. Well, if you live in Bedford Ohio, you've probably heard this story. Everybody loves Target. Every girl loves Target. I have not met a woman in this world, a female from the age of Piper at 21 months, to a lady down the street from me that looks like she's 104. They all love Target, or some might call it Target. But how about in Bedford Ohio, where an 8-year-old? They all love Target, of course, some might call it Target. But how about in Bedford Ohio, where an eight-year-old took her family's SUV by herself and drove miles to Target? Obviously, the girl's name is not released, but eight-years-old drove a 2020 Nissan Rogue.
Speaker 1:Her and the Nissan Rogue were reported missing 9 am on a Sunday morning, 9 am Sunday. Imagine waking up 9 am. Well, I'm probably up at the Rogue, all right. 9 am I'm on my second cup of coffee Minimal second cup and my cups of coffee are about 20 ounces each. Our eight-year-old's missing and so is our Nissan Rogue.
Speaker 1:Let's say maybe they went Rogue, got a police launch investigation, but at the launch of the investigation, they learned that a small child has been spotted driving a vehicle on a nearby road. Bro, if somebody calls you, be like there's a small child driving a car on a nearby road. Bro, if somebody calls you be like there's a small child driving a car. Why did multiple people need to call about that? I think it should be one phone call. There's a small child driving a large vehicle on the main road. You know what? As a matter of fact, I'll be right there.
Speaker 1:I got a patrolman who's ready, but eventually the SUV was found in the parking lot of Target, which is nearly 13 miles from her home. 13 miles from her home, that's impressive, that is very impressive. Like, 13 miles from my house is pretty far. I mean, 13 miles is far from anybody's house. I don't want anybody commenting on that one. What I mean is it's like it's a home.
Speaker 1:So obviously the car's there, the cop's like where is she? They go inside the store. They find her inside the store shopping, just shopping. And then she told the cops hey, by the way, I hid a mailbox while I was driving, but nothing else, just a mailbox, but nobody. You know authorities didn't really say oh, why'd you go? She didn't tell them, she just said I just want to go. But she was too young to be charged criminally.
Speaker 1:So, like Monday, you know, when everything came out, they didn't know if, like, any charges were going to be filed, but like an eight year old, who knows where Target is, can drive a car which is astounding that like she can steer her steering wheel and touch the pedals like I don't know what she was doing maybe a little little rascal's action there. Maybe she had a partner in crime that she wasn't ratting out, which I really think is the case. I think she had a partner not ratting him out. Maybe she picked up her friend and was like, hey, let's go target. I think logically, she was just like mashing the gas and then jumping back up to see, yeah, that makes more sense. That's a great story. That's all I got for PWN this week. Back to you, studio T.
Speaker 1:We are coming back to the studio, but this is not the end of PWN. Buddy, I got a story for you. Oh hello, we are about to get a mini moon Nice Troy Headed towards Earth. Okay, I wasn't sure which moon we were going with. It's going to join our orbit here. I think Sunday officially, 29th officially, joins our orbit, something we should be worried about. It's going to hang around and then it's going to leave. I just think it's pretty weird that we're going to have a new mini-moon. I think it's pretty wild. I don't know if it's weird, but it's definitely wild. Harry's Wild News. Harry's Wild News HWN.
Speaker 1:We'll work on the title, but I'm just saying we might have a new segment. Now, listen, we're going to pack up the truck and normally when we pack up the truck we talk about one or two, three random topics, but not this episode. Nope, this episode we have one topic and that is the 2024 finalists for the Toy Hall of Fame. Wow, we got a lot going on this one. Okay, I'm going to going on in this one. Okay, I'm going to run down the finalists. Are you ready? I'm ready for it. Apples to apples, good game, balloons, balloons, just Just Balloons. No kidding, first ballot. That's exactly why we need packing up the truck for just this. You ready?
Speaker 1:Use your own adventure game books. Which? Rl Stine? Actually, one of the first RL Stine books I read I didn't realize was a choose your own. Like I thought all his stuff was. Choose your own adventure, oh, wow, okay, my Little Pony, ooh, bronies, huh, okay. Face Tent, god Face. These are final. There's like Face Tent. Face Tent should have been finalists. Like Face Tent. Face Tent should have been in there already. All right, all right. One more thought Okimon Trading Card Game oh yeah, yeah, they've earned their way in there. Remote Controlled Vehicles I feel like that should have been a first ballot Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1:Hey man, a game called Sequence. Hey man, a game called Sequence? Oh man, this is. This is a little tough. Yeah, I've never played. I don't even know if I've ever seen it. I've seen it in stores, that's all I know. I don't.
Speaker 1:Stick Horse it's a stick horse, sometimes referred to as a hobby horse. Horse is a pretend horse head mounted on a straight stick Trampoline, you tell me, a trampoline? Okay, transformers, more than meets the eye. Or the power to my house, more than meets the eye. Okay, because both are toys, you know. And last but not least, a personal favorite For you and I Hedge trucks. Hedge trucks, I'm going to roll, not even listening To anything else. Okay, so let's talk. Let's talk First off. Apples to apples. I've only ever played One time in my life and I did not enjoy it. I don't like word games. We're just going to scroll down the list.
Speaker 1:Balloon Balloon should be on there Like it's a decoration, but it's also like. I think maybe it's on there because Bluey brought it back to life, a little keepy-uppy, keepy-uppy which is now a board game, by the way. Okay, sure, it actually looks like it's a balloon on an anchor and you've got to knock it up and it can't fall and it spins around as you hit it. It actually looks really fun. It would look fun with some adult apple juice.
Speaker 1:I look at the five to eight-year-old games and go, if I was enjoying a beverage, how much fun would this be? And when you think about it that way, they all look really fun. No, every single one of them look really fun. Every night we record. So, yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. If I was just drinking water per chance, I'd play around or two. It's happy. But I have a few lattes, some bush lattes. I could play that game for probably hours.
Speaker 1:You're not going to, not Even by other 30-year-old friends, listen, okay, so a balloon. You and I I mean in all seriousness, you and I have had amazing fun with the balloon we have Like it. And I I mean in all seriousness, you and I have had amazing fun with the balloon we have Like it's just, it's a safe in the house toy. It is. It's not going to damage decorations. The balloon won't. We will. Let's go with the balloon. No, me and you diving for it onto the hardwood and then bouncing up and punching mom ceramic dove. Going for the balloon, that'll break the dove, that will, but the balloon won't. But the balloon won't.
Speaker 1:Here's my first issue. Here's the one where I don't know. Again, it's personal preference for apples to apples. I get it. Some people probably love it. I'm not the biggest fan.
Speaker 1:Choose your own adventure game book. It's not a toy, no, it's a book. It's a book, right, games don't get into the Library of Congress, books don't. It is the National. So here's where I'm being too finicky, because it is the National Museum of Play, okay, but this is the Toy Hall of Fame. So while I believe adventure books should be in there, adventure books should be acknowledged, yeah, I don't think they should go in the toy hall of fame, not in the hall of fame, not in the toy hall of fame. Right, tony romo was a good quarterback for dallas cowboys, not a hall of famer. Thank you my Listen.
Speaker 1:Generation after generation enjoy my Little Pony. Has it gotten weird? I'm not going to say that. Right, there's a lot of bronies out there. I'm not going to say that no, who am I? But again, there's been a million little girls who love my Little Pony, right, and wasn't it like I remember coming out in like the 80s? Or I remember coming out in like the 80s, or I hear about it coming out in the 80s, but it fell off and I want to say like mid-2000s it came back Skyrocketing. The fact that you know this information is a little concerning. I have three daughters. Well, you know, transformers is on this list, robots in disguise. We might have a Brony in disguise.
Speaker 1:No man, I just I sat through a Reagan and watched this stuff before. Actually, here I'm looking at the official list 2003,. They had a resurgence. Yeah, I mean, I told you, not resurgence, reintroduced, oh, reintroduced, I thought they were just juicing up and came back stronger. They took some HGH and got back on the field. That's what I thought. I thought it was like 0-9, but okay, phase 10.
Speaker 1:Is a card game a toy? It's a game. It's a game. But is it a toy? Again, belongs in the, in the national museum of play, right, it's not a toy. That's my struggle right now. Okay, okay, all right. Every time I got it camping, we play phase 10, right, love it, it's a great game. Just the two of us we laugh. We have a great time. She normally kicks my butt.
Speaker 1:Again, pokemon, I mean, come on, I don't even want to talk about Pokemon. Everyone knows it's still, to this day, one of the biggest card games. But it is a card game, not a toy. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm going to beg to differ with you here. Go on, do you get the cops called on you for a card game? Stealing a card game? Or stealing a toy? Stealing a toy, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Oh, so therefore, pokemon is a toy, because we've had the cops called on us for allegedly stealing somebody's Pokemon binder when we were growing up. I don't remember that Over on Green Street, did we steal it? No, he left it behind. Oh, and they called the cops saying we stole it. Yeah, wow, that's really messed up Right.
Speaker 1:And the same kid that accused us stealing his bicycle Cause we put it in our garage so nobody would steal it. Hey, yeah, that's great, and they're like that sounds like. It's like. Yeah, it's in our garage. Why is it in there? He left it in the yard. We didn't put it away. We were taught what your bikes are wet. Yeah, no bikes in the yard. He left his bike in the yard. We put it in the garage. We put it in the garage. Some kid left his binder of like 1600 Pokemon cards. We're like, I mean, I'm pretty sure we were going to try and steal it at one point, like, hey, these are ours. I don't know what happened to yours, but again, not a toy, you're right. Remote control cars how are they not in already, bro, they should have been number one.
Speaker 1:I got to look at who's already in the Hall of Fame. Right, and that's, that's one thing. Well, maybe the 1776 hoop and stick, apparently, if we're just now introducing balloons. Right, is Peyton Manning in the hall of fame? So, like we're waiting to get Eli and Tony Romo in. Yeah, is Peyton hanging out with those two as well, buddy? So I've only been reading off of one list, right, is Peyton hanging out with those two as well, buddy? So I've only been reading off of one list, right?
Speaker 1:So I went and I found what's in there and a couple of these, right off the bat, make sense. Right, the top, the spinning top. Oh, the spinning top Makes sense. Yep, got Nerf toys, get it. Makes sense. Amazing Light, bright, serves to be in there. Here's the one that I'm a little confused on in 2021.
Speaker 1:Sand oh Wait, I can't understand Sand. Sand got in before motor car. Sand got in before remote control car. It got in before Balloon. It got in before balloon. Okay, I guess I should get in before balloons, but like before Transformers.
Speaker 1:So now that I'm reading to the what's actually in there, now this list doesn't seem as crazy, because it's blanket is also in there, blanket like it, which I mean, yeah, I get it. We, yeah, I've used a blanket as a toy. I've used blanket as a blanket. I mean, I guess I get it for the stuff you know baby dolls, obviously, obviously in there. There's a lot in there. Then there's also sand and blanket. So I get it. But going back to our list, rc cars should have been in there, but it's hard to compete with sand. I get it. I mean, I went back and looked at it.
Speaker 1:1998 was the inaugural year of this, so it's not a full-on Hall of Fame, it has been around forever. Barbie was in first ballot Hall of Fame in 1998. That makes sense. Teddy Bear number one draft pick 1998. How was RC car not in there In 1998.? I don't know that's tough. In 98?, by 1998, you and I have blown up at least four RC cars. We're almost 20 years in and RC car has not been inducted. Bro, 26 years in, I can't do math. No, I'm with you, though, like by the year 20, rc car should have been in. Yes, but here we are, six, six years past that and it's still not in.
Speaker 1:You know the remote control cars I bought in my life and have destroyed. Harry, chance and I one time, after a few of adult apple juices, asked somebody to drive us to Toys R Us so we can buy remote control cars. In our mid-twenties I have a Satoys RS and we even buy remote control cars in our mid-20s. I have a 164th Matchbox scale Corvette sitting on my desk. That is a remote control car at 33. Yeah, yeah. And then what Chance and I did was in a neighborhood we lived in the same neighborhood we had a demolition derby with remote control cars in the cul-de-sac.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me and my best friend Steve, we each got one. He got a red one, I got a yellow one. We didn't have batteries, though we didn't get batteries, so we never got to turn up. Yeah, he got a Ford, I got a Chevy and we just smashed into each other. It was hilarious. It's a great time. Yeah, once again, a lot of these toys sound better with some drinks Moving on.
Speaker 1:We got Sequence. It's a weird hard board game I've never played. I'm probably going to get heat for this. I'm good. Stick Horse, stick Horse or Hobby Horse. Yeah, olivia just got a Hobby Unicorn. Okay, I'll put that in the same. Right, but she's three and that's what I'm thinking. I've always seen it at like under five-year-olds love them. Yeah, five and under. Listen, have they gotten weird? Like my little pony? Yes, 100%. There's now adults who ride them and do hurdles and jumps and very athletic, and I don't want to just discredit them for their athletic ability. It's just a little weird. No, the horse doesn't really go. Nay, it's them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, trampoline, again, not a toy. Yeah, what's the definition of a toy? Somebody use that for enjoyment. No, because then my definition of a toy? Somebody use that for enjoyment? No, cause then my truck, my truck is a toy. I know it is. And so I was thinking like, hello man, we really need to get on YouTube or something and really record our shows, because I'm in the garage I'm pointing to my workbench for Harry going like there's my toys over there, it's a saw, right, well, that's tough, I don't know. I mean, what's the? I don't want to look up the textbook definition of toy but like, no, I'm not going to, because I'm not feeling that Sold at Toys R Us.
Speaker 1:Were trampolines sold at Toys R Us, I imagine Probably you know what. That is a good reference. Would this be sold at Toys R Us? All this stuff would be sold at Toys R Us. You're right, maybe I'd take it all back. Balloons would be sold, but under the party supplies Still sold there. It's still sold there, but under a caveat Trampoline, quite, possibly, quite possibly, small trampoline, yep, trampopoline, yeah, they used to be called jumpolines.
Speaker 1:And then Transformers, obviously not first round, hall of Fame, not first ballot, not second, but definitely deserve to be in. No, no, they've earned their stripes. Yeah, right, yeah, they deserve to be in there, but they're not a first batter, they're still a modern era player. Yes, but third, fourth round. And then, last but not least, hess Trucks yes, if you don't know what a Hess Truck is, how would you explain a Hess Truck to someone who doesn't know what a Hess Truck is? Well, I'll explain it very well.
Speaker 1:Hess truck A-T-S-S. The white truck with green trim represented from the Hess gas stations. This is the one gift that I looked forward to for the last 38 years of my existence. I look through the commercials every year. They've been around since 1964. That I looked up and I had to research. I wasn't sure of the year.
Speaker 1:They're a miniature version of semis, right. I mean, how many different ones do we have? We had the one. It was a semi with a flatbed pulling the space shuttle. That was the early 2000s, late 90s, early 2000s. We've had car haulers that had two race cars in them. You get fire trucks. In my attic I have several.
Speaker 1:I have not ever thrown away a Hess truck. You and I have probably lost more away a Hess truck. You and I have probably lost more money in Hess trucks than we've gotten from Santa yes Than anything. Because you know, especially back in the Northeast, hess gas stations is a big deal and people sell. If they're unopened, people will sell them. But you think about like a semi, no matter what he's hauling. We've had a gas tanker like dad used to drive back in the day. I think that's one that we cherish the most because that was the most one that represented our dad the most.
Speaker 1:Yes, we've had the motorcycles being transported on the truck, you know me. So it's being transported on the truck. You know what I mean. So it's, ooh, I forgot about that one. Yeah, google Hess trucks, h E S S trucks, uh, and those that work. I mean, I'll show them. I might just show them tomorrow even before this episode airs, right, because Hess trucks are the coolest thing in the world. As a matter of fact, harry, I subscribe to Hess trucks and I get their flyers and all their information for the new trucks every year. Several years ago, I bought Olivia a plush Hess train, oh, to which she still has. I turned the sound part off. If it has sound, it plays. She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes, that will get old very quickly, little toot toot action. But if you turn the sound off and it just lights, it kind of lights up.
Speaker 1:I will say this you know, without going on, our historic tangent, high quality, and I think that's one of the things I always liked about them. Yes, they weren't cheap. They weren't cheap. Price and quality not cheap. And you get free batteries you used to anyway, used to, I don't. Free batteries Used to anyway Used to. I don't have that anymore. But, yeah, always good, good quality.
Speaker 1:Speaking of good quality, I hope you guys really enjoyed this show. Listen, we got to mention the 69th highest selling album of all time goes to OutKast. Outcast speaker box. Slash the love below. Hey, yeah, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, listen, buddy, this was probably one. Hold on, let me. Let me just look at this.
Speaker 1:39 songs, 39 songs, 39 songs on that, and if you listen to this episode all the way through which we appreciate and hope you really do we could probably get around to mentioning 30 of them. In our normal conversation, 30 is a good number, I mean. I mean the first one on their album is called Intro and I'm pretty sure I threw Intro in there. I know I've thrown the word interlude somehow in this episode and I don't ever use that in my daily speak, ever. There are a couple songs that know where we try to be a PG show. We do our best, you know. So there are a couple that we could not. Nope, no, no, no, no there there. There's no way to twist it. There's. There's no way to twist it. There's. There's no way to twist it. We are not in a life in the day of Benjamin Andre, if you know what I mean. 31, 31, now you know with that.
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