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Ever wondered why the number 73 holds such charm? We uncover its magic by connecting it to sports legends, pop culture icons, and even our own podcast milestone. Picture Gru and the Minions swapped for laughter and candy, as we recount our Halloween adventures with our kids, and the challenges of trick-or-treating in sidewalk-less neighborhoods—earning this week's "eel of the week" title. Plus, we share the fun of workplace dress-up policies, proving that a farmer on vacation is the best way to keep the Halloween spirit alive all year round.
Switching lanes, we rev up our engines for a thrilling ride through sports history, analyzing NFL draft gems and NASCAR's 73 car legacy. A sprinkle of Hollywood nostalgia finds us discussing Michael Keaton's unforgettable Batman alongside the sizzling drama of NASCAR controversies. We even give a nod to our favorite sandwich shops and celebrate the excitement of a new Jersey Mike's opening nearby—a perfect blend of sports, nostalgia, and culinary delights to tickle your taste buds.
Finally, get ready to feast on our Thanksgiving side dish showdown! From baked mac and cheese to the great stuffing debate, we savor every delicious detail and share our own family traditions. We'll take you through personal food favorites, holiday preparation mishaps, and the timeless debate over regional variations like cornbread dressing versus classic stuffing. With our warmest shout-outs to Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, we weave together our love for family, food, and fun in a way that's sure to leave you hungry for more.
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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 co-host, I am Paul Troutman. So pick up a pole, cast a line and join us on the stream. On episode 73, we discuss our favorite athletes to wear. 73, hand out our golden trouts and eels of the week, continue our favorite Thanksgiving side dish bracket and, of course, much, much more. Paul friends, this is 73. Just like it's the year 2001,. We're Barry Bonds setting a single season record. 73. Feels good, as always.
Speaker 1:I want to give a shout out to our previous listeners, one from Drexel Hill, pennsylvania, and one from Wheat, pennsylvania. Oh, big PA week. Big PA week, buddy, how have you been? We took the week off. By taking a week off, I forgot to put out the episode, so that's on me. We were supposed to have a fishing after work special, of course, to fill in those blank spaces and, buddy, I forgot it was thursday this morning. Yeah, we can work it out, but it's all right like it's thursday. It's been been pretty fun. We've had some events between the last time you and I sat face, face to recordface to record, and now A lot of things going on, a little trick-or-treating action we'll get to later. So from me to you, how has your time been? The time has been great. I love spending time with the kids hanging out, not recording. Last week I bought back some time. I was able to get back to the girls and just hang out.
Speaker 1:So every year you guys do a theme. Every year we do a theme. Yes, sir, what was this year's Halloween theme? The theme this year was Gru and the Minions. Tonight we steal them now. Yeah the heck, I should have dressed to bring up as the moon. Buddy, you dropped the ball there. I did drop the ball. She was going to be Lucy, the new wife, but last minute she decided to play a mom herding cats. That's fair. Yeah, and I was one of the cats. Buddy, you're supposed to be one of the herders. Well, yeah, I mean I was Gru. I actually had a kid come up to me. He goes oh, you're Gru. And I was like yeah, you look just like him. I was like I take that as an insult, thanks, kid, thank you. I mean I just put black jeans on a black jacket and I bought the scarf. You have to buy the scarf. Yeah, the scarf was a legit scarf.
Speaker 1:The girls wore their costumes for about a minute for us to take initial pictures, and then that was it. I did love the picture of Piper. She was wearing the goggles. Olivia was trying to rip them off for the picture and Piper, just you said she ripped them right off after the picture. But the picture is my favorite because she just sits there with her passy and just accepts it. Yeah, she knows what's going on. She's like a little Lady Madonna sometimes when it comes to that stuff. Like whatever, just get my picture done, let's move on. Meanwhile Olivia was yelling help, I need somebody.
Speaker 1:How was the haul? How was the candy haul? Decent, okay, decent, okay, decent. And the price of candy has gone up, yes, drastically, and so I'll get into it a little bit of golden trout later a little sneak peek. There were some winners, there were some losers. We did medium. Okay, that was good. Now did you guys hit out candy this year? So we did medium. Okay, that was good. Now, did you guys hit out candy this year? So we did not.
Speaker 1:We're actually on the outskirts of like the centerized neighborhood and our street. If you come down our street it's like us and like three or four houses, but so if you go one way it's all the houses and then if you go our way it's only like four houses. So no one comes our way. The only people we, the only people we really get, are the ones going into town from the three or four houses up the street. Okay, and I'm not. I'm not going to go buy a big bag of candy for four kids. No, no, yeah, like we don't even trick or treat in our neighborhood. It's so spread out, but like we go with with her best friend, her kid and stuff in her neighborhood which is pretty good, which don't even growing, I got into an eel for trick or treating there. I'll just jump into my first eel of the week.
Speaker 1:Harry, is there's no sidewalks? Nope, a lot of people in the South and then these neighborhoods don't have. Is there's no sidewalks? No, a lot of people in the South and these neighborhoods don't have sidewalks, because sidewalks makes it urbanized. No, sidewalks gives it a country feel. I understand. I don't agree with it per se, but I understand it Right. So, like the one street we went down, penny Lane, there was a lot of people just in the street walking. I mean we had to drive out of there, right? So we're trying to go down the street. Everybody's in the street walking and I'm like just get to the sidewalk. And Sabrina's like there is no sidewalk. What kind of madness is this? Yeah, that's not fun. We can work it out if you guys just go to the side and just let me drive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were allowed to dress up at work, respectfully, of course, and as the one day a year I can wear my overalls at work. So I wore my bibbies and you, reagan, olivia and Piper all wore overalls. That's a good day. Except I wore a Hawaiian shirt because I was a farmer on vacation. That's a perfect costume. It's just really nice like light, breathable linen Hawaiian shirt I have. Yeah, and I was like I never get to wear this bad boy. Today's the day Halloween's gotta be so great for you guys. Well, the problem was is I wanted to be. I wanted to go out, right, yeah, and I wanted to be the front half and I wanted Ange to be the back half of a yellow submarine, and she said no, so That'd be an epic costume. It would be, but I also was in the office.
Speaker 1:I didn't get home until late and, yeah, there was a bunch of kids walking around and I was like, hey, make sure the porch porch lights off, because last year we leave our porch light on 24, 7. Yeah, there's no street light near our house. It's our little, our little thing to the community is we will leave the light on so you can see. Last year we got terminals and buddy, I mean this little dude was like three years old knocked on the door and I forgot it was like it years old knocked on the door and I forgot it was. I like it was to the point like we were so deep in a movie I forgot it was even Halloween and I get a knock. I'm like who's knocking at my door? Yeah, and I wouldn't open this this little dude. And he goes trick or treat and I said no, no, no, no. He was like do you want a can of soup? He said so I can Like grumpy old men, there's a coaster that is stapler. But dude, yeah, I dude, I broke my own, I broke my own heart and I was like, babe, we forgot to turn off the porch light, but then we turned it off. Yeah, I mean, cause this year at noon I was like turn off the porch light A hundred percent, like you don't want to give away your Eleanor Rigby mug that you got, like that's going to be your next gift.
Speaker 1:Sunday we were at Martinsville. You went with I went with a 24 William Byron, william Byron, and I said Not that in half you can make the 12, except I didn't say that, you said that because you already picked Blaney. Yeah, you said hey, man, you should go Blaney this week. I said hey, I trust you. Not only did I go with Blaney, blaney won the race he did. There was a little bit of controversy we will get into that more, but I go first this week for Pickhams, for our favorite athletes to wear 73. So because I won the race, I go first this week. 173, that pops out.
Speaker 1:Joe Thomas played 11 seasons with the Browns and that's when the Browns were not good. Joe Thomas was a beast there. He said get. And that's when the Browns were not good. Joe Thomas was a beast, dude. He said get back, you're not getting near my quarterback. It's one of those. He's a great player, but the fact that he never left the Browns yeah, dude Says a lot to him. Like he never so bad and different. He missed a snap until he blew out his bicep, like that's absolutely wild to me, absolutely wild. Then he lost a bunch of weight. He looks great now. Yeah, he looks Actually really great, not even mad, like impressive, great, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then another 73 coming out of Chester Pennsylvania, the one, the only. Paul Troutman Jr. Oh yeah, you wore 73 in high school. I did. I totally forgot about that. So, fun fact, I went to wear 73 when I played After you and there was no 73. Therefore I was 78. I think they retired my number. I'm just kidding, they didn't retire my numbers Actually, no, I was 78 Because that was the largest jersey they had. I mean, it makes sense. I wanted 73 but I had to be 78. So was Adam Chandler. We'll get to that later. We got 5 episodes for that one. We got 5 Buddy. That's all I got. Let's see I got, let's see, I got three. First off, since we went one Delco, we'll go with another one, the one and the only Hall of Famer. Joe Klecko 73, new York Jets. Moving on to the next one, you took Joe Thomas, offensive tackle. I'm going to take offensive guard.
Speaker 1:In the 1990s played for the Dallas Cowboys. You went up against, you had to go against him. It was a hard day's night for you. Right, he was going to rock your world. He also has one of the funniest would be touchdowns in the Super Bowl, which wound of being punched out by a Buffalo's Bill player and into a touchback. Larry Allen, great offensive guard I hated him so much because he was so good man. I still remember watching the videos of him run down the sideline about ready to score a touchdown, holding that football like it was a loaf of bread, like a ticket to ride. Here you go, bud, I'm holding my ticket, let me get this touchdown and then, boom, fumbled it. And then, harry, my last one. I'm going to mix it up here.
Speaker 1:Let's go with the National Hockey League with Elaine Cote. Who is that? Who's Mr Cote, Harry? Oh, he's only the first NHL player ever to win number 73 for a team that no longer exists the Quebec Nordics. Really, I didn't even know. The Quebec Nordics were a team. Yeah, they were a team. They moved to Denver. The Nordics moved to Denver in 95, became the Colorado Avalanche, and then they won the Stanley Cup shortly after that. The more you know.
Speaker 1:Let's jump into draft picks, harry. I got two with them. Nfl, like we always do, start to notice the oldest 2013 NC State long neck, mike Glennon. He's the modern day. Gus Farratt, like just permanent backup, and then 2008. Oh, oatman Poi is my favorite all-time backup. Gus Farratt's my favorite because he's the only guy who, like when he gets into a game, threw a touchdown and then head-butted the goal post and gave himself a concussion. Okay, yeah, that's pretty funny. Not many people remember Gus Farratt. I just really think he has a funny name.
Speaker 1:And in 2008, kansas City Chiefs selected Jamal Charles 73 overall Steel. For what he was, that's a steal. Dolan. Yeah, this we're in the third round with 78. Or 73, harry, I said 78. I meant 73. Where are you? I'm thinking in the future, because you know what else is interesting about 73, harry.
Speaker 1:Golden State Warriors have the best NBA record of all time, with 73 wins in the regular season. They won't be wild, right? That's a good number. Also, one of our favorite sports here international curling. Did you know that each side has exactly 73 minutes to complete all of their throws? What's up with that number? That is a very oddly specific number. Now we're in 13 minutes. Mm-hmm, that's weird. Wait, who came up with that? Not me, not me and Harry. Finally, speaking of 73,. How about? The Bears beat the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the 1940 NFL Championship game the largest score ever in an NFL game? Yeah, no team has scored 10 touchdowns in a field goal in a single game and they blew them out in a championship game. Zero, bro, I like what we're doing here with the ages.
Speaker 1:73, we got Sting. Listen, sting is a great artist, mm-hmm. I don't know why when I think of Sting, I think of the B movie. When he's on stand, when he's on trial, they bring Sting in and they go. Have you ever been stung, mr Sting? I don't know why that scene always pops in my head when I think of Sting.
Speaker 1:Bill Collins, bill Collins, another 73. Michael Keaton Dude, just yesterday I was talking about Michael Keaton. I can't believe that he's 73. I can't believe it. And he just did Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, wild, and he's the greatest Batman ever. Here's your entry list for who are the greatest Batman ever. Ever, hands down, he is Batman. Here's your entry list for who are the best Batman of all time. Let's rank them. Michael Keaton, hello, goodbye list, get out of here. Yeah, I'll agree with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, moving on to the NASCAR, the 73 car has been in 180 races and two wins. So we're continuing the winning numbers here in NASCAR. 73 is not a bad number. No, it's not a bad number. Two wins, two poles, nine top fives. Here's a stat for you, buddy. You ready? Yes, now again 188 races.
Speaker 1:Guess how many DNFs did not finish this? 188 races? How many DNFs? I'm going to go with eight 101. So you hold on to those two wins 73. You hold on to them tight. Yeah, I'm just saying, buddy, you're over under on finishing the race is not great, not great at all. Dude, you're gonna lose, you're gonna wreck out more than you're gonna win, yeah, so, like I said, we were at Martinsville. There was buddy, there was some something. There's fines and penalties. There was buddy, there was some, some something. There's fines and penalties, and a lot came out of Martinsville.
Speaker 1:Let's start off with some suspensions. Christopher Bell, the number 20 car, decides to do the hail melon, as it's referred to, yes, which is when you're at a very short track. You just mash the accelerator, ride the wall, pass anyone you can. That is illegal. Nascar has deemed that illegal. Rip it and rip it, dude, it's not safe. It is not safe, it's awesome, it's great to watch. Not safe, it's not safe at all. And then you had Team Chevy really coming in clutch blocking for William Byron. They got penalized, yeah. And then you had Bubba Wallace slow down so Bell could pass him to get the one point he needed to make it into the playoffs, but he ended up doing the illegal move anyway. The 23 car got in trouble, Spotter and crew chief, everybody suspended.
Speaker 1:I understand having your brands back, but when you're trying to manipulate a race like that multiple drivers, multiple teams trying to manipulate a race I'm sorry, that's not fun, that's not fun at all. You know, when you work with your manufacturing team, when you're drafting at these super speedways good strategy, all right, I'll, you know. Hey, pass down the Toyota line, we're all fitting on lap 143. Yeah, I'm all for it. Fords are going at 140, we'll go at 143 because I do think toyota somehow get better gas in nascar too, just like real life, yeah. But to hold up drivers and to not race properly because there is a way to do it, I think that totally ruins the sport. It's an eel. It's not nice. No, not good at all. And that's all I got to say about that. I mean, I'll tell you how not nice it is is the fact that three drivers had their crew chief, spotter and somebody else in their team suspended for the weekend. Yes, so that should tell you everything you need. Spodder and somebody else on their team Suspended for the weekend? Yes, so that should tell you everything you need to know.
Speaker 1:It is the final Race of the season, buddy. We are down to the final fork. It is the last race of the season. I can't wait. We have Ryan Blaney, joey Logano, tyler Reddick and William Byron.
Speaker 1:I go first, you do. I'm struggling Because we made a rule For the championship, for the final, and before I pick You'll go over where the standings and all that. So I'm really struggling here Because we can pick Any one of the four. Yeah, our previous picks. That all washes out. It all comes down to this. So where do we stand? Points, wise, points, wise. Harry, you're sitting at 216 points to my 229 points. Now, do those 216 include my win? They do not include your 10 bonus points. So technically, you're at 226 to 229. You're technically behind by 3 points right now, 3 points, and I pick first. You do. The problem is I have my head who says Joey, right, I have my head that says Laney never quits. My heart says Tyler Reddick Yep, he got me the win last week. I'm going to continue to go with the closer, ryan Blaney.
Speaker 1:The season of NASCAR between the regular NASCAR and our pick'ems has been a long and winding road, coming down to the final race of the season, and I thought I was going to snake you. I thought I had this one in the bag. I thought I had my guy the 12. I'm not a Ford guy, the 12. I'm not a Ford fan, right, I'm a Blaney fan.
Speaker 1:I have written down, harry, every time I do the little chart I do H, p, underline, line down the middle like a pros, cons list. I put our numbers down Whenever you go first, I write my options. It kind of looks like a math equation. I have 12 over blank right now. I got to solve for blank, so I have to cross out the 12. I'm going my gut. I've already lost the wins. I'm not going to beat you in wins. You're not going to beat me in wins. I'm just going for points, points, win, championships.
Speaker 1:Dude, hold on Before you give your answer. This is why we love NASCAR. This is why I say this is what I want to drive home to people. I have more wins than you. I'm behind in points. I'm losing. Yeah, you've won more tracks, but all that to say he brought back the four or five.
Speaker 1:Give me Tyler Reddick. You misled me. You misled me in 4-5. Give me Tyler Reddick. You misled me. You misled me in pre-show. No, I literally changed my mind. All right, as you were talking. I didn't even come to my mind. I did pre-show debate between Joey Logano and the 45th. But then I was like, wait, no, well, he's faster at Phoenix, blaney or Redick. I want Michael Jordan to win a NASCAR championship. I want the Monster Energy sponsorship to be on the NASCAR championship winning car, and NASCAR diecast will not replicate it because of the Coke agreement, of the Coke agreement.
Speaker 1:Listen for the Pickhams, for the Pickhams. I'm going with Blaney Of my heart. I want that 4-5 to win. So bad, I know. So here's the thing. Maybe Blaney gets me 50 points, comes in second, yeah. And then Redick wins and he only gets 30 points, right, or somehow he gets 50 with that, yeah, right, yeah. But but for me, to you, good luck on the championship and let's just see who wins. Let's see who wins. Buddy, we got to keep it rolling because we have a lot of bracket to cover. We do.
Speaker 1:Now we're going to dive right in to golden trouts. Get them out of the way. Big bamboo, yeah, quick, fast, in a hurry Ready. I told you I'd bring it up. I'm got to go to the house that gave out full-size candy bars for Halloween. But not just that, the full-size candy bars. They had the bowl on their front step, like in their front area Porch light on kids. Walk up. It said take one, we are also trick-or-treating. So not only did they give out full-size candy bars and it was a variety, it wasn't just one, it was like a full variety but they were also trick-or-treating. That's awesome. I thought that was really cool. That is super dope.
Speaker 1:Eagles played Jacksonville on Sunday. They won. It was ugly, should have been a complete blowout. I might touch on that. I don't know. I'm in a good mood. Listen, I do want to. I do want to give my golden trout to not the Philadelphia Eagles, oh, you might be surprised, I'm going to give it to the New York football giants. Hmm, Thank you personally. Here is your golden trout. They've got Neal's, they've gotten plenty of eels. Now I'm going to give him a golden trout for letting Saquon Barkley walk.
Speaker 1:Listen, man, he hurdled, everyone's seen it. It's not, you don't even have to like football, and you've seen it. He hurdled a guy backwards, backwards, backwards. You can't even do that in Madden. No, think about that. You can't even do that in a game, in a video game, right? I didn't think you could do it in person. He did at Saquon. You know.
Speaker 1:The best part about that, the whole thing was he was a Kelly Green. Hell, oh, dude, dude, don't even get me started. So till the end of time they're gonna show Saquon's highlight of him hurtling a guy backwards in Kelly Green. Just make it happen. Come on, jeffrey Lurie, make it happen. Dude, kelly Green, full time. Do you see how much Kelly Green is in that stadium? Yes, we want it. Yes, we need it. Stadium yes, we want it. Yes, we need it. Did you know?
Speaker 1:Saquon barkley's jersey sales are in the top 10 twice for the nfl? One regular one, kelly green. His kelly green jersey outsells all the other players. That's wild. They say that is wild to think about. Yeah Right, you can't buy me love, but I love the Kelly green. Oh geez, love, so much I actually.
Speaker 1:I found a guy. He sells jerseys and, uh, you know they're, they're, they're knockoff, I'm going to call them what they are. Yeah, and he has. Yeah, I'm a big guy, he has them in my size, but the numbers are normal numbers, so it's just how it is. I was like, oh, that stinks. Yeah, I was like you know what I mean? Because they're cheap, because they're knockoffs, whatever. And then he's like you know, I got big and tall sizes. And then he's like you know, I got big and tall sizes.
Speaker 1:And then I was scrolling through the pictures and I swiped over and I saw one of the big jerseys and, dude, when I it was like dinner plate size numbers, like there's no, there's no making them bigger. So it looks more proportionate. Nah, it's the same numbers, you, on the small jersey as it is on the big and tall jerseys. Just give me a black one, dude. I just want a black one. It don't work like that, buddy. Just give me a big number one.
Speaker 1:I don't care what font it is, no name. Actually, that wouldn't be a bad jersey, just like a one or something with birds and the name. Simple, with the nameplate. That's actually fire, mm-hmm, but the name plate, that's actually fire. But yeah, you're saying like something like big dog. So hold on, man, before we continue.
Speaker 1:So I'm wearing my biddies, right, yeah, and I. I just ordered them. They were my size, I ordered them, I'm wearing them. Then my buddy at work comes up to me. He goes man, you think they would've called them something else and I was like overalls. He goes do you ever read the tag Big Smiths? I'm like like no, they wouldn't call it like Smitty's, it could be Smith. He looks like dang dude, you have a cold eye right now.
Speaker 1:Generic name there is Smith. Give me a size. Big, big Smith. All right, yes, and it was just like the little tag in the front. It was on the, it was on, it was cursed. It was on the buttons, the little hooks, the latches, the, the, the buttons on the side Big Smith. And I'm just like guys, they're just sitting there going hey, man, we need a name. Okay, smith, big. Alright, where are we going to put this? Get back, we're going to put it everywhere, everywhere. So normally we do once four matchups. This week we have eight. So we got to get to it, we got to get started. Buddy, it is time to announce the first eight matchups and winners of your favorite Thanksgiving side dish. Look, man, there's eight matchups, 16 teams total in this thing, so every player is getting talked about, discussed.
Speaker 1:This episode, episode 73. Let's start with the first four matchups. Harry, starting from the top right region, we have the Pickle Wheels, the Midwest Sushi Roll, going head-to-head with baked mac and cheese. This is a toss-up for me, right.
Speaker 1:Growing up, I did not like mom's baked mac and cheese at first because I wasn't a fan of melted cheese. I don't know what it was. That's weird, weird thing, weird cousin. Weird on you. Yeah, cousin, before you were born we used to hang out all the time. I didn't eat the cheese in my pizza, she did not eat the dough. So I remember trading. Yeah, but 82 to 18. Baked mac and cheese knocks out the Midwest sushi roll. Now I had to research what a pickle wheel was. It looks mighty delicious, yeah, yeah, we had a lot of questions, concerns on yeah, courtney was really concerned about what that was and I went and Googled it and then I just shared the recipe. So it might be something that I I might divulge into that later.
Speaker 1:Moving on to our next matchup, harry, let's go with the bottom right. We did top race with bottom right region, where we have cranberry sauce going up against the deviled eggs. Both are staples of Thanksgiving. I know where I'm going. My heart, my soul, my eyes and my brain are all going the same direction. Deviled eggs take this one 63%.
Speaker 1:Listen, I can't stand cranberry sauce. I think it is not good. I do not like it. I don't think tart belongs on the dinner plate. I enjoy cranberry sauce when it is in my Capriati's Bobby sandwich, right the Thanksgiving on a roll. I enjoy that with a lot of these side dishes that we will be discussing today, with some Turkey. And throw the cranberry sauce in there, cause you get the tang with the savory Right when you're mixing it together like that. Absolutely, yeah, stick it to the bottom.
Speaker 1:Harry's got a bottom left region where we have the Hawaiian sweet rolls going head to head with corn casserole. Harry, carb versus carb, both are delicious. One I eat with my hand, the other one I eat with my other hand Simultaneously. This one was tough, but 81% went with Hawaiian sweet rolls. Listen, man, I had corn casserole for the first time at my own wedding. Yeah, and I am in love. Yes, I think it's one of the greatest side dishes ever and I'm sad to see it go. This is the first heartbreak for me. It is the first heartbreak for me as well. Corn casserole is amazing. My lovely bride has a great recipe for it and she does very well. Oh yeah, share that if she's uh willing to. I know some people are weird about the recipes. They're theirs and I I understand that and respect it. Share that one for me. We speed them recipes. Let's jump into that one a little bit later. Hold on to that word, but we got to finish this bracket. Harry from the top left region, this one here is really the ballad of Johnny Yoko.
Speaker 1:This is cornbread dressing going up against sardines. Sardines is probably the most unique entry we have. Mark, I am interested in how your Thanksgiving goes. Unfortunately, this one did not get a lot of active participation because of the landslide. I think it was just pretty obvious. It was 92 to 8% sardines. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:Cornbread dressing is moving on. Now. Here's the thing. Did you see who voted for sardines? Yeah, chance and Rowan both voted for sardines. I think we need to get them on the phone. I think we need to call them up right now and be like you're picking sardines over cornbread dressing every time you have some explaining to do. Yeah, I need an answer here. I would put it in a group chat, but I know how Chance feels about group chats. Yeah, 100%, we know Chance does not like group chats. So therefore we're just going to reach each other in one-on-one. Yeah, both at the same top, we'll go there. That's it from that week's matchup, harry. Let's move on to the next week's matchup.
Speaker 1:Once again, we're going to the bottom right region, right that cargo pocket down there in the bottom right where you keep your Ziploc bags for Thanksgiving, so your leftovers can go in there. We have cheesy hash brown potatoes going head-to-head with cranberry orange relish. Now, I'm not going to lie to you, that cranberry orange relish has me a little curious. Yeah, right, is that a little sweet? Do I put that on my Hawaiian sweet roll? Here's the thing. These are two things I've never had at Thanksgiving. Cheating hash browns, I mean for breakfast, sure, yeah, thanksgiving, you got my attention. Yeah, at first you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention. 94% of our listeners went with cheesy hash brown potatoes. Wow, the trash stream might be bringing in new traditions to Thanksgiving. I hope so, because next time we see cheesy hash brown potatoes they'll be going head to head, mano a mano in the bottom right region against deviled eggs. All right, well, the cheesy hash browns had a good run. They had a great run.
Speaker 1:If you give me the option, harry, eight days of the week I'm taking deviled eggs. Every day is like buffet style Mm-hmm, I will grab a deviled egg directly into my mouth and then put two more on my plate and eat the deviled egg as I'm burying my plate. No, 100%, I. We talked about recipes. Mom used to make deviled eggs, mm. And like I never wanted to leave the house with that plate, like the plate was supposed to stay at the house, done, yes.
Speaker 1:Did you know that people have deviled egg platters? Yeah, like platters made for deviled eggs? Yeah, wild right. Yeah, no, not just a platter with aluminum foil on top. And you can't smush at all. It always ended up smushed, or you trip on the sidewalk and dump it and you're like they're still salvageable. Yeah, they had been there.
Speaker 1:But right region, let's go up to the top right region where we have once again I mentioned that leftover sandwich both options going to sandwich. We have stuffing going against Coleslaw. This is tough. I don't okay. Personal reference here. I don't okay. Personal reference here.
Speaker 1:I don't like stuffing from inside the turkey. Okay, I think it's gross, freaks me out. Don't like it, all right, I did it, understand it, respect it. And I only like certain types of it. Costs a lot.
Speaker 1:Creamy, like creamy mayonnaise, like deli style. Deli style. Okay, I mean, everybody knows I said eight days a week I'm taking deviled eggs, but I can't have deviled eggs in my house. I can, but you gotta be careful. But also coleslaw. Coleslaw has got a heavy mayo mix base to it so we had to mix them with vegan mayo. Didn't know that was a thing, it was all right. But there's nothing beats that.
Speaker 1:Deli coleslaw, Don's coleslaw, oh man, you know, that's where my head went every time. Right, yeah, and I'm sitting here thinking I'm like I haven't had Don's in years. You say Don's or you say deli, I think Don's. Yeah, mm-hmm, oh man, I wonder if I won't have time tomorrow. But when I'm back in Delco, dude, yeah, get one for me and just enjoy it. But enough of that. 81 to 19%.
Speaker 1:Harry Stuffing is moving on. Okay, I mean, come on. Yeah, over coleslaw, I get it. But next time we see stuffing carb versus carb, it is stuffing going against baked mac and cheese. Ooh, that's a matchup, that's a heavyweight bout, yeah, heavy carb bout.
Speaker 1:All right, driving across the street here to the top left region, harry, we have the matchup of mashed potatoes going heads up with fluff and nutter sandwiches. I mean, that's a huge staple at Thanksgiving for side dish. Some people might call that one an entree, but for me that's a side dish. Who suggested a fluff and nutter sandwich? That one was submitted anonymously to me in a private message, but unfortunately they preferred not to have their name out there. Right, right For you. It doesn't matter for them because with 87% of the votes, mashed potatoes is moving on. So, yeah, kevin, down in Florida. I'm sorry, buddy, but fluff, but fluff. Another sandwiches are not moving on. I mean anonymous, yeah, yes, yeah, kevin's anonymous, sorry, buddy, anonymous, anonymous.
Speaker 1:Kevin, next time we see mashed potatoes, we'll be going heads up with cornbread dressing. Now listen, the cornbread dressing is new to me. It is cornbread stuffing, correct? Yeah, basically, yeah, okay, just so. It's dressing Down here is dressing Right, like in the south. It's dressing Up north. It's stuffing Up north.
Speaker 1:We put it in the bird. In the south it doesn't go near the bird. They don't put anything in it as they cook it. Wait, down south. You don't put anything in the bird. No, I've never seen anybody put anything in the bird, but my thought was you put stuffing in there Because it prevents it from drying out, right, 100%. So you make really good turkeys.
Speaker 1:I don't eat dry turkey, but one to dry out Without stuffing. I have to deep fry it, I guess. Yeah, fair, I want a deep fried one With stuffing in it. I don't think that's Going to work the way you think it is. No, not at all. It's probably going to Explode all over me and it'll be a house fire.
Speaker 1:Have you ever Fried a turkey yourself? Nope, me and Steve have. It is, he's an expert, he's really great at it. It's still terrifying. Yeah, no, I've seen no videos. Scary, I don't think I will. I don't mess with that. I will, however, be smoking a turkey. Oh, yeah, brine, a turkey, yeah, I told Sabrina I want to do that. One of these years Might be coming up soon, but I'm going to do charcoal and wood like legit. So I'm going to be up for like 22 hours After I burn one turkey.
Speaker 1:Now, harry, let's climb down the ladder to the bottom left region. This, as someone calls it, midwest battle. It's the matchup. This is mom recipe versus mom recipe. We have sweet tater casserole going against green bean casserole. And of all the matchups, harry, this is the closest Of the eight matchups we've had this evening. This is the closest, the tightest. This is the heavyweight bout 54 to 46. This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Some say all you need is love. All you really need is a good casserole in your life, and that'll fix just about anything. Some say all you need is love. All you really need is a good casserole in your life and that'll fix just about anything. Unfortunately, green bean casserole's moving on.
Speaker 1:It's tough for you and I, lovers of the sweet potato casserole, I want to say I feel fine, but I don't. I didn't have green bean casserole for like the majority of my life. Yeah, because we're a green bean Amadine family. We're an Amadine family. So when I ate green bean casserole I was pleasantly surprised. It is delicious, but I will not put it over. Personally, I will not put it over sweet bean casserole. I was pleasantly surprised. It is delicious, but I will not put it over. Personally, I will not put it over sweet potato casserole. No, they have not had the Troutman family recipe sweet potato casserole. That is just delish. Yes, sabrina made one two years ago or so, rivaled it. Ooh, yes, that's big talk, big big talk. Because everybody knows like I have tried different ways I made it. I will buy it.
Speaker 1:Something about the sweet potato casserole is like my favorite casserole. Really, it's just baked mashed sweet potatoes. Yeah, that's all it is. That's all itle. Really it's just baked mashed sweet potatoes. Yeah, that's all it is. That's all it is, dude. There's one year I had a big Christmas Eve party in my place in California so I smoked my sweet potatoes and then made like smoked sweet potato casserole. I don't recommend it. Yeah, to me it's supposed to be sweet. Well, potatoes hold a lot of the smoke and so I smoked all the potatoes and so like it felt like I was licking an ashtray. There was no relief. No, there was none.
Speaker 1:A green bean casserole is moving on. Next time we see green bean casserole, it'll be going up head to head, mano a mano. Hawaiian sweet rolls. That's going to be a good matchup. But it's okay. I mean Sweet potato casserole being knocked out this early. We can work it out and it'll be fine in the end. Right, it's better to get your heart broken early, it is. That's all the matchups, harry. That's all eight of them. We're down to our elite eight. We've already discussed our matchups, so be on the lookout For these four matchups, harry. That's all eight of them. We're down to our elite eight. We've already discussed our matchups, so be on the lookout for these four matchups coming out this week.
Speaker 1:Our goal is to get as much done by Thanksgiving as we can, so we need you to be active in voting. I'm going to put the polls out there on all of our social medias, but share it. Whoever wins our bracket we've said this every time we put one out Whoever, whatever side dish, wins the bracket. Whoever nominated that dish wins free TroutStream gear. It's that easy, that easy, buddy. We were heavy on the bracket. So it's time to move right on to eels.
Speaker 1:Eels of the week. You mentioned a couple. You said you were going to talk about some later. Later is now all right. So I gotta break this down.
Speaker 1:I told you my one deal about no sidewalks in the neighborhood irritating, irritating as can be. But one thing I don't like and we're a little spread out here, right, my neighborhood is kind of vast. Not everybody gives out candy in all these neighborhoods. I don't know if you've seen it up there, but down here it's driving kids house to house and then blocking the roads, ew. And so like I've seen some where it's like golf carts and you go, yeah, a little is fine, or like side-by-sides and stuff.
Speaker 1:The one year last year, because it's so spread out, like somebody had a truck with a trailer so all the kids were on the trailer, it's like kind of like a hayride and they were going house to house. That's actually really dope. It was pretty cool that way. It's like Mom's Ford Explorer. She opens the door and like six kids pile out and now they're just taking up the whole road and just like literally going house to house, not even like trying. The kids aren't even walking. Like to the neighbors, like they're getting in mom's suv, just go one house down like nah, man, listen, that's tough.
Speaker 1:I mean you can, you could say the safety thing, but and I don't want to discredit those who did drive around because they felt safer but how much of that is just pure laziness? Oh no. But also the thing is these are older kids oh, come on, it's not babies, because I wouldn't be doing that with my kids, because I'm not driving my car without them buckled in Right, looking at Christmas lights is the only time they're not buckled in, so, like no, no, thank you, let me walk around too. And I was. Oh man, it was hot Like it was 80 degrees on Halloween. Ew, that's not even Halloween. No, dude, we're still in the high 70s down here. Like I'm sweating right now as we're talking. Maybe it's just because it's me naturally. Yeah, no, it was older kids, like 10 and up. Yeah, that's not cool, man. Their legs weren't broken. Nope, you got any heels this week. I have one. It's stupid, but it just gets my blood boiling.
Speaker 1:Social media I mean, that could just be in the old self, but social media. I enjoy fishing and I'll watch a two-minute, three-minute video of this guy fighting what appears to be a monster fish. Right, yeah, oh yeah, I like those videos Putting up a good fight, putting up a good fight, and then, as soon as the fish gets to the water top of the water you're just about to see it video ends. You never see the fish, no, so I just watched this man reel for two minutes straight. Two minutes of my life is gone. Yeah, I'm going to start fast forwarding to the end then. And then there's no fish. You don't get to see the fish. That pisses me off so much. It's stupid, it's little but it's disgusting. It's a baby eel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wish there was a way we all could come together and just be like getting mad at this person at the same time for them to understand like, okay, maybe I will show you the fish, but it's just, it just gets me, it is man, it just gets me boiling. I don't know. Listen, buddy, we're going to skip PWN. Like I said, we went long in the bracket. Yeah, bracket was a little long, it was good, needed, it is good, very fun. I'm enjoying this bracket, as I do all of ours. I mean, you know I'm co-host of the show, I should say that. But I do enjoy our brackets and I am enjoying this one. You're literally obligated.
Speaker 1:I am really hungry right now. I really want a Bobby, a sandwich and capriotis. I just want a tub coleslaw from Don's. Oh, my gosh, dude, do you have capriotis down there? No, we do not. I literally mentioned it today to somebody at work said I wish we had a Capriati's here. Whenever we have guests at work and it's a luncheon and we bring in a cup, it's always Capriati's sandwiches. I mean it's a great idea. We got Jimmy John's Freaky Fast. We got Firehouse Subs Don't you dare say that name to me ever again. I know, I know I always forget about that. And then we have the number one fast food chain sandwich in the United States New Jersey Michaels. I do love Jersey Mike's. Jersey Mike's my favorite Listen, man, don't sleep on Subway though.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's no comparison between Jersey Mike's and Subway. I think Jersey Mike's is football fields ahead of Subway. I didn't know Subway was in the top five. I don't think Subway makes a bad sandwich Listen, it's not in my top five either. But it subway makes a bad thing. Listen, it's not my top five either, but it's not a bad sandwich. You know, buddy, let's just pack up. Okay, listen, subway is not my top five. So I don't even know if subway would be my top 10. But what I am saying is locally, if you're tired of the stuff around you, locally, subway is a good switch. I mean, I get it. I get what you're saying here.
Speaker 1:So when I moved down here in 18, jersey Mike's had like just closed, so I was pretty bummed. And then one opened on the north side of town a few months ago we went my opening week and everything. Then we've been twice, but it's also, like, I say, north side of town, it's like a half hour for me. Yeah, once you start using what Hold on, once you start using directions like Columbus, it's not around the corner. Well, I'm from the south part of the city, everybody knows that. So it's about 30, 40, depending on traffic, 30, 40 minutes from me. So it's a little inconvenient. But now they're opening one close to me. So RIP bank account, how many clicks away? Oh, it's probably going to be about six and a half clicks away.
Speaker 1:Is click an actual, like measurable? It's a kilometer? No way, yeah, click is just a slang term for kilometer. Hmm, I didn't say I didn't know that. Yeah, wow, look at that. Didn't know that. Yeah, wow, look at that.
Speaker 1:Jersey Mike's number one. And this is like chain, right, yeah, just chains. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Number two you got to throw Lispadas out, fill in gems. You know what I mean. You can't include them on this. No, 100%, I want to Pause For percent, like I want to like pause for people who don't know laspeda's filling gyms.
Speaker 1:I mean, these are classic hoagie places back home. Yeah, d costanza's the inventor of the italian hoagie yes, that's on my list when I get back. I don't think I've ever had d costanza's. I think one time was it good. Yeah, but it wasn't our norm, right, right, no. So here we are talking about fast or you know, chain places Like back home. You have your norm. Yeah, you don't break the money. But us growing up, though, is when Wawa was good Hoagies. Yes, when Wawa had the Amoroso rolls and like the good everything before touchscreens. Yes, yeah, and you get that Really Italian hoagie. Oh man, we talked about that Several episodes ago. There are still ladies Mad at us. But Jersey Mike's Is number one.
Speaker 1:Number two, a place we Shall not speak of. No, no, we can speak of it. Firehouse is good Firehouse. One day, I'll get that Meatball sub One day. Number three is Jimmy John's Never had. Number three is Jimmy John's Never had. Jimmy John's. Jimmy John's is really good.
Speaker 1:Now, what's very confusing Is the Jimmy John's sandwich place Versus the Jimmy John's hot dog shop. Yes, is that 322? Yes, 202? 202, 202, 202, yeah, route 202 in Pennsylvania. How many times We'd pass that place? Harry, quite a bit. Yeah, I'm probably thinking We'd pass it at least 10,000 times in our life. Easy, they had the train. They put the quarter in Train. You know display. The train went around the rim of the building.
Speaker 1:Great food and the place I fell in love with, the Orange Cream School Milkshake. Oh, solid choice Anywhere we go like we went to Andy's soft serve ice cream place and I mean we're going like six different tangents here. Sabrina has her set order, I go what's new, what's different? The orange cream school shake. I got that thing and I took the first sip. Boom.
Speaker 1:Jimmy John's hot dog hut, right, yeah, trying to think of other chain sandwich places to put above Subway right now. Yeah, I think I would do Jersey Mike's Firehouse. I never had Jimmy John's. Oh, this one I did want to tell you I do have a Jimmy John's bread cutting knife. Oh, there you go. Like, literally etched into the knife it says Jimmy Jones. So I cannot confirm my sources on how I received that, but is a officially and officially licensed bread knife from Jimmy Jones? Oh, you know who else? I forgot to put Capriati on the list. So Capriati is number two. Everybody shifts down one.
Speaker 1:And then, have you been to Potbelly yet? No, so Potbelly, where were we at? I forget where we were. We went to a Potbelly because we looked and like they had a vegan option. Yeah, so I think it was Arkansas last year. We're like, oh, heck, yeah, and we can get stuff for Libby. And then we went somewhere else in the country and there's another potbelly. Wait what? We thought it was a one-off place. Right, it's a chain. Pretty good. Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of it. Chicago, we went to one.
Speaker 1:I think I might put Quiznos over Subway. There's one two hours from me. Oh, I'll have to take the drive. Yeah, man, it's pretty good, it's different. I'm just trying to think of other ones, but, yeah, jersey Mike's and Capriotti's.
Speaker 1:Number one. Number two yeah, I can't disagree with Capriotis. I think we're just hungry. I think like, and for me, like what is the best sandwich in the world? I know what number one is For me. Two, three, four and five are tough to decide. My two, three, four and five are going to be peanut butter and jelly Italian hoagie cheesesteak Really that's it. And then, like ham and cheese on white with a little bit of mayo and mustard, throw the chips inside the bread, crush it down. That's two, three, four and five. Number one is the greatest sandwich of all time Ice cream.
Speaker 1:It is great, it is great, it is great, but I would not put it at my number one. That would not be my number one. Oh no, that's number one. Hands down. Hot turkey sandwich, gravy. Number five. Number four is Italian. Number two is cheesesteak, so number three would be ice cream, my number one favorite sandwich sandwich you could eat every day. Ham and cheese, ham and cheese, no mustard for me, though. Ah, I like a little Dijon, a little deli, a little deli mustard in there. I do like spicy brown now. No, I've always loved spicy brown. I know you have. That's what my friends used to call me. You are a day tripper. If I had friends that would call me that Buddy. This has been a fun episode, man. I mean, just think about these sandwiches. We could write stories. We'd be paperback writers just pumping these stories out about these great sandwiches.
Speaker 1:Any fun plans this weekend before we sign off? I'm off. I got a four-day weekend, so I'm hunting Saturday. Wait, how do you get a four-day weekend? So I'm hunting Saturday. Wait, how do you get a four-day? Because Monday's a federal holiday and then they like to give us four-day weekends, friday's off.
Speaker 1:I work for an industry where you only get the big five. What's holidays? Oh, veterans Day. You get a free dot at Duncan. I that? Oh, do I? Yes, so Sabrina and I are both off. All three girls are going to school. Yeah, when's the last time the planets aligned like that for you? No idea. So Sabrina's like you want to go hunting that morning. I said no, not on Veterans Day, because I know we got plans and stuff. So I'm going on Friday, she does, and so I'm going out hunting Friday and Reagan's going with me on Saturday hunting. Ooh, that'll be fun, for well, we'll see.
Speaker 1:I don't think she's a big fan of it, but she didn't have to let it be. I told her you can't really talk, you gotta read a book. No phone in the stand, no book. Why can't you bring a book? I told her to bring a book, no phone, I'm. What are you guys doing this weekend? We are doing crafts with our friends. A big charcuterie board and I should say the wives are doing crafts. Steve and I will be playing Call of Duty. I like it. Yeah, it's super fun. It was actually my idea for the charcuterie. So I'm not saying you know, I'm getting all fancy with it, but I haven't spelled it right. All she can do is love me do. That's all there is to do, that's all she can do.
Speaker 1:You know you're going to be in the woods this weekend and Ray's going to be like I just want to hold your hand. Yeah, she's going to be a little scared at 5 am, walking in the pitch black woods like hey, dad, what was that noise? I'm like I don't know. I'm scared too, so let's just keep running.
Speaker 1:I did see a funny TikTok the other day. I got a tangent here. It was a bunch of hunters sitting around like hey. So you're walking in the woods and you know, four or five o'clock in the morning, get to your stand, you get scared right and they're all like burly men. They're like, yeah, absolutely, it's pitch black, I'm in their environment and I'm just walking around with a headlamp on going all right, just hopefully I don't. You know, spook something. And then, once it would attack me, heck, yeah it. You know, spook something. And then, once it would attack me, heck, yeah, it's scary, it's gotta be terrifying. Dude. I went out to our property to hunt last weekend cause the winds were right and I was like let me just drop this pop up tent. And it got pretty dicey out there, especially when a snake came in my ground blind, yeah, I understand, like it was just pitch black and you're hearing everything. Yeah, no, thank you. Alright, buddy, it's time to wind her down. It's time to do our final steps here.
Speaker 1:Hey Jude and I say hey Jude because there's rhyme and reason the 73rd highest selling album of all times was the Beatles one, and hey Jude was the last song we needed to squeeze into this episode and we officially, for the very first time, got every single track in an episode, 27 songs and the last one we had was hey Jude, and I couldn't think of a better way. It's hard to slide into hey Jude, hey Jude. So why not just simply say it, dude, like I really trying to. Also the number three, the billboards top 100 songs, right? Number 73 is centerfold by the Jay Gellis band. Like my angel is a centerfold, right, that would have been awesome to quote.
Speaker 1:But getting 27 Beatles song titles, we got 26. We snuck in hey Jude, we threw at you as a freebie, dude, that's legit, probably the worst. That is awesome. I want to know how quick people can figure it out, right, I wonder, I wonder. That's one of those things Like, I wonder if anyone actually plays. I wonder if anyone actually plays along. You know, sometimes I don't care because I think it was like so much fun for us trying to sneak it in there and so, like future generations can hear us when we go into a time capsule.
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