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Ever wondered how a simple bracket challenge could ignite the holiday spirit and spark laughter all around? That's exactly what happened when we tackled the ultimate Thanksgiving Side Dish Showdown, We shared our personal favorites, laughed over holiday nostalgia, and even debated the merits of deviled eggs versus cheesy hash browns. Throw in some tales of a cheese heist and record-breaking M&M sorting for a dash of humor, and you’ve got an episode that’s as delightful as a Thanksgiving feast.
Our journey didn’t stop at the dining table. Celebrating Joey Logano's NASCAR championship win, we dissected the final race in Phoenix with a mix of friendly rivalry and insightful analysis. From predicting race outcomes to toasting Logano's golden trout moment, we relived the thrill of competition. We even took a lighthearted detour into celebrity ages, sharing a few laughs over some surprising numbers along the way. It’s not just about racing—it's about the camaraderie and those unexpected jabs that make our discussions vibrant and relatable.
Sharing a glimpse into our personal lives, Paul recounted his four-day birthday weekend filled with deer stands and a surprise couple's massage, while Harry enjoyed a laid-back time with friends and classic video games. Whether it’s swapping stories of family adventures or contemplating the peculiarities of washing machine hoses, we’ve got something for everyone. So, tune in for an episode filled with fun debates, heartfelt moments, and the simple joys that bring us all together.
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Hello friends and welcome 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 74, we will discuss our favorite athletes to wear 74, hand out our golden trouts and eels of the week, continue America's favorite Thanksgiving side dish bracket and, of course, much, much more. Paul listeners, welcome to 74. 74. What a good number. What a great number, dude. I think it's a good number. What a great number, dude. I think it's a pretty number. Yeah, 74 is a good looking number.
Speaker 1:As always, I want to give a quick shout out To our listener in Jacksonville, florida, and Cape Swirl, florida, sticking with Florida this week, I'm with Florida, clearly. Yeah, right, yeah, I have no idea where that. Oh, flork Cleary, right? Yeah, I have no idea where that is. Oh, that's right, it's a. It's a town just South of Georgia, but just North of Key West, somewhere on the Florida peninsula. Yeah, somewhere somewhere in that region. Yeah, okay. And then Jacksonville, of course, is the fluff nutter himself. Kevin. Kevin, we appreciate you, buddy.
Speaker 1:How was your wait hold on? Happy birthday, dude. No, thanks, buddy, your birthday was the 13th. We are recording this on the 15th. How was it? Birthday was fantastically perfect. It started Friday.
Speaker 1:I had a four-day weekend. So Sabrina told me to get out of the house every morning by 4 am to go out to a deer stand for three days in a row to see a whole bunch of squirrels and at least two cardinals every day. The bird, not the religious figure or athlete. So that was nice. No deer Reagan went with me Saturday. She got up early, didn't complain once, didn't scare anything away, and it was a really good time. She took a good little like 45-minute nap yeah, that's fair. And at one point I could see her head nodding like she was pe, and it was a really good time. She took a good little like 45 minute nap in the stand yeah, that's fair. And at one point I could see her head nodding like she was pecking corn and I said close your eyes, it's okay, I'm not against it, you're allowed to, you're not the one with the rifle in hand. And then at one point I thought she was trying to call in some animals, but she was just sawing logs. I said that a girl, but she enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:And then Monday Sabrina hooked us up, I'm telling you like it was a whole week long thing. I'm used to like you and I know we're used to dinner. That's it All, right, bye. Monday she set us up with a couple's massage and I was like I don't know, this lady's gonna get off easy Because I am stress-free, tension-free, I don't hold on to anything. Well, apparently, harry, I had Two knots the size of baseballs In my shoulder blade area and she started working on them and I literally had 911 Freed out in my phone for attempted manslaughter. Yeah, I thought she was trying to 911 freed out in my phone for attempted manslaughter. I thought she was trying to rip organs out of my shoulder blades. It turns out your muscles are not supposed to make knots that big or at all.
Speaker 1:You have kids, like it's understandable. Yeah, I mean Sabrina and I both have full-time jobs. Yeah, three kids. Yeah, wide range of age. Toe host to. I mean Sabrina and I both have full-time jobs. Yeah, three kids. Yeah, wide range of age.
Speaker 1:Toe host to extremely popular successfully podcast. It was a little bit there. A little bit it could be my posture, could be my posture. I'm literally feeling my own posture as I talk to you and I'm like this is horrendous right now. How I'm sitting, you can see, I'll tell the listeners. I just adjusted into my chair to lean back, a little bit like shoulders back. It's like watching Princess Diaries, like how they're telling her to sit and I just wait for what's her name. Sound of Music Julie Andrews. I feel like Julie Andrews is like literally sitting here telling me shoulders back. Relax, this is your proper form, but by the end of the episode I'm going to be hovering over my laptop Like a hermit or something.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that was Monday. And then Wednesday Cake and ice cream Dinner, wing stop Sabrina Wayne got wing stop for all of us. It was very good, highly recommend it. Never had Wingstop, dude, you know it's good. I dabbled with it in Vegas but we had B-Dubs. B-dubs had seniority out there. But here, I mean, there's several wing stops. Whatever direction I want to go, they're here North, south, east, west, really Not east. That's it. Columbus Eastage. I know that's my weekend.
Speaker 1:What did you do for my birthday weekend? For yourself, your birthday weekend For yourself, your birthday weekend. We had some friends over. We had the charcuterie, like I mentioned in our previous episode. Yes, played some Black Ops.
Speaker 1:1. All right, pat. Good one, that's a good one, it's a great one. It's so fun. It's the original Nuketown and you, just it's so fun. Yeah, I miss that.
Speaker 1:The girls did some crafts, they painted some welcome mats. Uh, we played with the kids and, yeah, that was it. Someday we just had an us day. That's good, man, I'm. I'm very proud the fact that last episode we talked about what are you doing this weekend and you followed up with it with exactly what you said, not even mad. Well, it wasn't so much enough.
Speaker 1:Today I got to apologize. It was I had a migraine. Yeah, you know what That'll happen. That was not free planned, that was not scheduled. No, I was supposed to go to Melissa's for dinner and I was like, wait a minute. No, I had a migraine. Yeah, and she had won the day before. Weird Twin telepathy. Yes, we'll get into NASCAR later. All that matters right now is that I beat you in pick-ems, correct. What I'm scared about is the points, because I did not win the race, but I did beat you in pick-ems. So I'll go first and we'll go over points later.
Speaker 1:I only have 174, and it's not an offensive lineman, it's a defensive lineman, because it stood out that he wore 74 on the defensive line, and that's when he played with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dominicans too. That was a wild time. It was a wild time, and I will say this, even when he was on the Eagles one of the dirtiest players in the NFL, oh, no, hands down, without a doubt. I'm not even going to argue with that. Yeah, he was on Detroit and I'm thinking it fit Detroit as well, because they're very blue-collar. Yes, right, and then he bounced around a little bit. But he comes to Philly and I was like man, if there's another city that he could play on, yep, he'd fit in. Well, yeah, if Memphis had a team, yeah, 100%, he'd play for the Memphis. Yeah, 100%, he'd play for the Memphis. Yeah, grizzlies on the football Gridiron, yeah, I couldn't think of a good Memphis. Grizzlies is all you got Grizzlies. Yeah, play for the Memphis Barbecues Whoa, whoa, whoa. Now, I'm just thinking about cornbread casserole, but we'll talk more about that later in the bracket. Who you got for 74? Well, just thinking about cornbread casserole, but we'll talk more about that later in the brackets. Who you got for 74? Well, you know what I'm going to mix it up here. I had my order in my mind. But you said 74 on defense is weird. It's odd. I got this thinking. One of my 74s also played defensive line for 15 years in the NFL. 14 of those years were Pro Bowls Playing for the Rams back when they were in the city of Los Angeles prior to St Louis. The only year he wasn't a Pro Bowler was his last year of his career, played on the gridiron and then went on to the silver screen.
Speaker 1:Merlin Olsen. Merlin, he was a typecast for hey, I need a big man. Merlin, he was a typecast for hey, I need a big man. He was scary on the football field and he played scary characters from some of the clips I've seen Big, big, big, big, big man, big in Hollywood yeah, that was scary. Merlin was in Little House on the Prairie. He was in Little House on the Prairie for a little bit. No way, mm-hmm. There's certain people that will be on certain shows and movies that you don't realize it. So Merlin Olsen being on Little House on the Prairie. But then you got Merle. Haggard was in a Sesame Street Big Bird movie back in 1985. It was on, I forget when, several years ago, reagan was watching.
Speaker 1:I was like why does that dude driving the truck look familiar and it was a prominent role and I was like IMDB. Why do I know that face? Like, oh, it's mid-80s, merle Haggard. Yep, I know that face.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go from the defense side of the ball. I'm going to the offensive side. I'm going with utility offensive lineman currently playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, number 74, fred Johnson, utility guy, to where he. Lane Johnson went down on the right tackle. He fills in for him for a game. Jordan Mailata goes on the IR, ir for a few weeks on left tackle and Fred's like alright and he goes to the left side. Fans love him, players love him, locker room loves him. I think he's just phenomenal. And my last 74. Jersey, number 74. Backbone of the 1980s Boston Celtics. I can't stand the Celtics. They're from Boston and it's a Boston Philly thing.
Speaker 1:The only player to ever wear 74 At all In a regulation game Robert Parrish. Now his buckshot double zero is retired by Boston. I don't know when he wore 74, but I had to dig into this one deep and for a while, because he was the only one to ever wear 74. So in the 50 years of the NBA, every team has you know what, 12 guys. Yes, 30 teams in the NBA 12 times 30,. Do some quick math in public. That's, you know, 360 players Through the rotations. Now, times that by you know 50 years. How many players and not a single one were 74, with the exception of Robert Parrish. That's wild to me. That is very interesting. But talking about wild Harry, let's go to draft picks here, because I have four of them. Let's go oldest to newest 2001,. Before he was senior, it was just Steve Smith.
Speaker 1:Carolina Panthers 74 overall selection. I think that was a good deal. That was a good pick, great deal. Another good pick. As much as I can't stand, I can't admit. I can't stand admitting this.
Speaker 1:2005 New York football Giants selected Justin Tuck. I always respected and don't hate me for this, I always respected the Giants, up until recently, their defensive line picks oh, absolutely, jason Pierre-Paul. Jason Pierre-Paul Always respected them. They always knew how to pick defensive linemen. They did. I mean, they had straight hand for years. Straight hand, yeah, I thought that went without saying. But yeah, straight hand, no, no, I was supposed to get it Like when you have straight hand as like your cornerstone and like that's what you got to live up to. Yeah, you're only going to elevate and they're getting other players out there and it's solid.
Speaker 1:Let's move to 2008. Graduate Penn State University. Graduate Strathaven High School. From the greatest county in the country, doko, doko, doko. Three-time Delaware County Football Player of the Year. I'm pretty sure it was 01, 02, 03. Or, nope, 02, 03, 04. It was all off the top of my noggin, harry. He graduated a year after I did. Player of the Year for fullback and linebacker, dressed 74 overall in 2008 to the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1:Dan Conner, that's a guy that I literally followed Sunday when the paper came out, or Saturday, you're reading about Friday Night Football or, you know, saturday football back home and like, oh man, what did Dan Conner do today? What did he do this week? How many touchdowns did he get? How many people did he run over? I did get to meet him.
Speaker 1:Go against him once for a track and field meet. I was more on the field side, not the track side. The only time I really got on the track was when I was going to do shot put. That's it Always forget. You did track, dude. Yeah, because old Chuck defensive line defensive coach Mr Woolery was like hey, man, you want to play defense, you need to do some extra stuff. I'm the field coach. He didn't really coach us. Okay. He showed us really coach us. Okay, he showed us some moves of how to actually throw a shot put Right, but he even wasn't even my shot put coach. It was Mr Kane. That's wild. You also got swindled. Oh, I got swindled hard Because I had to go against Dan Conner, who was my junior year, was his sophomore year, and he looked like Thad from Blue Mountain State at like 15. And I was like, yeah, strathaven, they allow them to use their locker, their weight room and actually have plans. Got it.
Speaker 1:And then, moving on, 2009, san Francisco 49ers, number 74 overall draft pick Glenn Coffey. My hat goes out to Glenn Coffey. He was a medium Running back. I'm not going to say mediocre, he was medium. He had his little Two, three good years and then he decided to join the United States military. Gotta love it. The dude went from having big paychecks playing professional football, could have just sat at home, but then he joined the military and I thought that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1:A couple more things to wrap up 74 here. Bad news, buddy, bad news and I'm sorry. Okay, the 74 car and NASCAR has raced a grand total of 469 times. Okay, the 74 car and NASCAR has raced a grand total of 469 times. Okay, okay, zero wins. Oh, come on, man, we were doing so good, so hot, with the winds there, but it's, it's come to an end. Yeah, we've had a street there. I mean what? Four or five in a row? I liked it. Four or five in a row, I liked it. Four or five in a row. That was four. Bsl yeah, 70. We started with 70, 71, 72, 73. Man, okay, all right.
Speaker 1:And then a fan requested that we keep doing celebrities that are whatever episode old. Okay, I love this episode old. Okay, this is a list. Dude, I'm in. Stevie Wonder, All right. Bill Murray no. Martin Short, jay Leno, really Okay. Dr Phil Okay, I didn't know Dr Phil was that old? Me neither.
Speaker 1:It makes sense. I mean, he was gray when he first started showing up on Oprah. Yeah, so I mean, because I don't know if everyone knows, that's where he's originally from and that was like 20 years ago. Yeah, so I guess 74 does make sense. Yeah, he's not even a doctor anymore. Nah, liar, what a liar. He has some things he's got to work out. Break, break.
Speaker 1:Are we going into NASCAR now? Yes, okay, and then the way we'll segue from NASCAR on is we'll give Joey Logano the golden trout for winning the championship. Perfect, so I forgot we didn't do that. And I mean we do it for every champion. Yeah, yeah, as much as we don't like it, this is the truth. Oh, dude, I know we had the last race of the NASCAR season at Phoenix. I thought it was always later in the day, but maybe I'm just thinking of when it was at Homestead. You probably think, because it was at Homestead because of the time change and then, with it being on the East Coast, I think the last race of the season for the championship should be under the lights. I'm sorry, I think that's a oh no, I think. Give it. Give it like a short track Friday, saturday night, feel Exactly. We had a winner, not who I thought, but maybe we all thought, maybe we all knew. Yeah, we did Remember.
Speaker 1:A couple of weeks ago, the 48 got disqualified, losing his spot in the playoffs. Yep, therefore, the 22 of Joey Logano, who is next in line, gets bumped into the playoffs. I call Joey winning at Vegas. You said whoever wins at Vegas is going to win the championship. I mean, this is how good we are. Is that we're bouncing off each other constantly, constantly being accurate. I'm going to toot my own horn and say, yeah, we're good. I call Joey winning at Vegas. Like I said, you said whoever wins at Vegas is going to win the championship. It's been shown time and time again and who wins at Phoenix takes the championship home. Joey Logano, congratulations. We'll talk more about Joey later. All I care about I didn't win.
Speaker 1:I went with the closer, ryan Blaney, who came in second. Yep, he tried closing. He was really tracking him down there at the end. If there was a couple more laps left in the race, I think Blaney would have won it. I think Blaney would have won it. The timing just wasn't perfect there.
Speaker 1:Here was my issue. I thought you said my head wants 22,. My heart wants 45. I'm going with the 22. Joey Logano, I thought I lost. I thought you won. Oh, no, strike that, reverse it. You said my head wants 22,. My heart wants 45. I'm taking the four five. Right, jordan, I'm bringing back the four five. You went 45. 45 came in sixth. He ran sixth all day Between me and you and all our listeners. I don't think he had a better car than sixth. No, and held on to sixth place, which be proud of, sixth place to finish a NASCAR Heck, yeah, yeah, I came in second, you did. I did not get to guarantee win. I'm up like 72 on our pick'ems. But where were the points last week? Where did we lead off Through 35 races going into the championship matchup, harry, I was sitting at 229 points.
Speaker 1:You're 216 points. Me going with Redick at six plays the whole time. It was tough, right, and Blaney doing Blaney things. If Blaney would have won, hands down, I'm not even going to check numbers, right. I went Blaney finishing second.
Speaker 1:Harry, I keep track of it on my phone through the Excel product on my phone and I update the numbers like I do post-race, you know, probably Mondays, when everything's confirmed. I didn't believe it. It was so close that I didn't believe it. So I went to the desktop Excel product and I dual monitored it and I deleted the Excel product. I cleaned all the numbers up with points and I went through and manually entered everything again and then used a calculator to confirm Post-Phoenix 36 races.
Speaker 1:This is the playoffs. I am sitting at 260 points to your 251 points. Does that include my bonus, 10 points? That's why my pause. That's where my hesitation was, harry. That was because I gave you Ryan Blaney for Martinsville. I said take Ryan Blaney from Martinsville, you got 10 free bonus points for winning. So when you add that in there, you have 261 points to my 260. You would have probably you would have had more points if I wouldn't have. We wouldn't have agreed on your penalty with picking Joey Logano twice. Yes, but I gave you two extra points, and that's what. No, the reason I'm okay with that is because you are the record keeper. Yes, I entrust you to go. Hey, this is who I'm going with and I, I entrust you to go. Hey, this is what I'm going with and I entrust you to go. No, you picked him already. Right, you're the statistician here. I'm happy to win. I'm happy to win races.
Speaker 1:Who won the regular season race? Count me me. Oh, you did, you did, you won. You swept regular season and postseason, I think.
Speaker 1:Regular season. No, we didn't. We tie. Yeah, we each had 13 wins in the regular season, but you had three straight up wins. That's what helped me. Yeah, and then you had beat me by seven points. So you beat me really by 37 points. No, everything was tied. You beat me.
Speaker 1:Your three wins set you over because I was ahead of you by six points and I said each was worth two, but really they're worth 10. That's what sets you up. So you won regular season points, post-season wins, post-season points. Congratulations to you. But I want to give you credit 7-2 is no joke for me. That's awesome, that's great, that's landslide. And to beat you by two points, that's how great you are at pick'ems.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have a strategy. You always have a strategy. I go with the gut Right. I mean, I pay attention. Obviously I'm not going to pick JJ Yaley to win a race. Let's be honest here.
Speaker 1:Corey LaJoy to short track. I'm not going to pick JJ Yaley to win a race. Let's be honest here. Corey Lejoy to short track. I'm not going to do it, not doing it, not doing it.
Speaker 1:But I'm very proud of us this season. Like us, not just the us. No, this was a phenomenal season. This is a really good one. Like, we each got penalties for picking one driver twice. And then I mean I did win the All-Star race. You did win the All-Star race. You do have that over me, yeah. So I just need to win that next year and nothing else. I'll be happy.
Speaker 1:Maybe I will pick Corey LaGioia to short track just to give you a win. Yeah, you probably should. Corey LaJoy at a short track just to give you a win. Yeah, you probably should. But listen, I'm going to lead us right into the Golden Trouts. We give it to every champion. Joey Logano, congratulations. We will, we'll get to it. I'm not the biggest rush To send you a Golden Trout, because I don't like the feeling of what happened. I don't like the feeling of him being back in the playoffs after he was eliminated, but I will send him a golden trout for sure. Oh, 100%, he's earned it. Not a fan of how he earned it, but he earned it Right. I don't like the here. You go try again, bud, and then you win the championship.
Speaker 1:Just doesn't feel as satisfactory of dominating and for someone who finished an average of 17th the entire season to win the championship is why I both hate and love NASCAR. Yeah, cause, uh, was it? Matt crafted in 19? Won the truck series championship without winning a single race, right? Because it's similar point strategy. I mean, let's break this down to our own pickums. You know what I mean. Seven to two. When I beat you by, I won seven pick'ems over you, five pick'ems over you Five more over me and I only beat you by one point. Mm-hmm, it keeps it competitive. It keeps everyone on edge. You don't have to win every race to be good in NASCAR, no, you don't. But Joey Logano's the best this season. Yeah, in 2014,.
Speaker 1:Ryan Newman made it to the Final Four without winning a single race and I was hoping for him to finish second in the final race of the year and but be the first one in the top four. It would have been hilarious to me. I got a golden trail. I'm going to stick with the sports theme here, harry. This one goes out. This one goes out to my man. Just like Dan Conner won Delco Player of the Year for football, high school sports, this guy won it Player of the Year for Delco for basketball. I knew at least it was 0-2-0-3 or 0-1-0-2, somewhere in that time frame Around.
Speaker 1:The same time Dan Conner was getting acknowledged, st Joe's Not big name Took St Joe's deep into the NCAA bracket. A school that is not well known outside the Philly area Turned deep into the NCAA 2004 bracket All around the league went to Orlando A lot of time in Orlando, never made it to Philly. I wish he would have been a Sixer, because I think that would have been a great storybook ending Born and raised right next door to us in Chester, pennsylvania. The one, the only Jameer Nelson, is being inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. I mean Golden Trout for sure. Yes, he's the one that actually got me into college basketball. Yeah, I can see that. And then go to the St Joe's on top of that. Yeah, right, I was a St Joe's fan in 04. And that's it Really. Just the years that Jameer was there were the years I was fans.
Speaker 1:Like this is the guy that, like you, quietly watched in high school because he's from the same county, same area, literally the town over. But he didn't go to Chester High. He went, I think he went to Cardinal O'Hara because it was more of a prep school and better competition. That's it, man. I really got just one big golden trap this week, and I mean that's a big one, because to get into Sports Hall of Fame, to any Hall of Fame, is a big deal, but really getting into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame, that's saying something. Yeah, that's no small feat, dude. No, absolutely no small feat at all.
Speaker 1:Just like the winners of this round of America's favorite Thanksgiving side dish bracket. Paul, let's hear it. Okay, man, now what we're going to do reduce same thing, like we do every time we start biggest, the smallest and the percentage. I will say, uh, the difference in voting. Some of them were close, harry. And once you hear these numbers, you're going to be like, wait, what? I do want to give a quick shout out Uh, this was a great turnout this round. I do want to say thank you. No, this was one of our best turnouts ever and I'm super proud to be co-host to this bracket. So, our first matchup, harry, let's go with the widest margin of victory.
Speaker 1:I like carbs, everybody likes carbs. Right, carbs are good. We have mashed potatoes going head-to-head with cornbread dressing. I know we talked about it before. Cornbread dressing is just different. Never had. It Sounds amazing. Sabrina has a very good recipe from her mom. It was handed down generations to generations. I think it spans back at least seven generations In the SEC country of the United States. I don't know if it was that far, but it's really good. I thoroughly enjoy it.
Speaker 1:And then mashed potatoes, which I recently heard it referred to as the Irish guacamole. I agree, so I will therefore only be referencing it as that From now on. Heard it referred to as the Irish guacamole. I agree, so, uh, I will therefore only be referencing it as that now on. Uh, because we've done the 23 and me, yes, we are, uh, I think, your exact numbers, but I think I'm like 50% Irish in UK, but really Irish it's. It's heavy on the Irish, yeah, yeah, really Irish, it's heavy on the Irish, yeah. So maybe that's why I liked my whiskey and potatoes so much. I don't know. I just told my wife I'd live on potatoes if I was allowed. I mean, yeah, they're so versatile, but you can make the Irish guacamole with it. Listen, we love it. Fans love it. Cornbread dressing is a good staple, but 80% of our listeners went with the Irish guacamole. Moving on, listen, I will say this about this and I don't want our Southern listeners to find it disrespectful, but it is a very Southern thing. Like I said, I've never had it up north Right For one, for two.
Speaker 1:While mashed potatoes are an anytime side dish, when you think of a traditional Thanksgiving plate like, close your eyes, think of a Thanksgiving plate. Mashed potatoes are there. They're usually right next to a fluffing under sandwich. Easy, Kevin, yeah, the mashed potatoes are there. Easy, kevin. Yeah, the fish and potatoes are there. That's tough to beat. All right, now close your eyes and I'm going to give you two more options here. Let's go to our next matchup from the top right region. We're going to call this from the fork, because this is one that's going to be shoveling the food in your face.
Speaker 1:We have stuffing going heads up against baked mac and cheese, the good mac and cheese. The good mac and cheese, the mac and cheese only made a couple times a year. Three times a year, right, you got Thanksgiving, christmas, easter and Easter, if you're lucky, right? So you either got to wait six months or up to 11 months at Thanksgiving to get it again, and then, god forbid, mom only makes it for Thanksgiving. Then it's an annual thing.
Speaker 1:Nah, you got to be careful, but stuffing stuffing seems like it's just a Thanksgiving thing. Unless you're those folks that make stovetop, it does only seem like a Thanksgiving thing. You can have it any time, right? Literally, I could go make it right now. There's been times where I've had stuffing for dinner when I was single. Yeah, and I just wanted stuffing. You can have it any time, but really, again, I'm going to stick with my. Close your eyes. Think of a Thanksgiving plate. Stuffing's there. Stuffing is there, I'm not against it. 61 to 39. Stuffing is moving on. Yeah, 61 to 39. Stuffing is moving on. Yeah, not heartbroken, because I do love the baked mac and cheese. Not surprised either. Not at all. Not surprised at all. Now let's move on to the next matchup.
Speaker 1:Harry, the bottom right region. You own your cargo shorts, bottom right pocket, where you have your Ziploc bags to shove all of your to-go, all that extra food, right in your pocket. Nobody dislikes one-pocket food. Everybody loves it. We have two heavenly items going up. We got deviled eggs going against cheesy hash brown potatoes.
Speaker 1:I think I said it last week, I'll say it this week I've never had hash brown week. I'll say this week I've never had hash brown casserole at dinnertime. It sounds amazing. Sign me up, signed, sealed, delivered. I just said I'll live on potatoes and that's a type of potato. Sign me up. But I don't think I've ever had them at Thanksgiving. I don't know if I've ever had them at Thanksgiving. I probably had them up north. I spent one Thanksgiving with Chance and Rowan up there. That was a great Thanksgiving because we had two Thanksgivings. But during those two Thanksgivings I want to say somebody had some kind of cheesy potato, something or another. There was a lot of food. There was a lot of food a couple days.
Speaker 1:Now it makes me mad because I have an entry for a Thanksgiving side dish that I wish I would have put in there. Go on, olympia, buddy, we don't curse on this show. Oh, dude, it's like Filipino egg rolls is the best way to explain it. So Rohan's family makes them all the time, pretty much any time I'm in town there's an event, and so her mom makes lumpia, which is like deep fried egg roll type thing. She always puts them on a plate and Chance and I are standing there. We're like you know, two dogs waiting for you to drop food. She puts them on a plate. She goes all right, boys, there's the first ones, be careful.
Speaker 1:They just came out of the fryer and were like okay, crunch, and you're like you're making the faces running around looking for a drink. I literally just said it came out of the fryer. What are they stuffed with? Like cabbage and carrots and some kind of meat. Yeah, some kind of meat. It's so delicious I wish I would have put it on there.
Speaker 1:But deviled eggs versus cheesy hash brown potatoes. Harry, sorry, we got off on a tangent 67-43. This one came down to a wire. This is our third of four matchups, so I should give you a heads up for next round. Deviled eggs is moving on. I think deviled eggs might be a number one contender. Oh, absolutely, they are the Muhammad Ali of side dishes. Right, you can't get enough. You float like a butterfly, sting like a bee with those things. Next time we see deviled eggs, which will be next week in our next matchup, in the final four, we're going to be going heads up against stuffing. I have no idea. Also, it's kind of weird to like speak deviled eggs versus stuffing. It's hard to really get that to flow. Yeah, commentator voice here. But you know what else flows, harry. This is the next one.
Speaker 1:From the bottom left region where you keep your kankoozie, we have green bean casserole going heads up with Hawaiian sweet rolls. I don't know if I said it last week, maybe I have, but we were not. We were a green bean Almadine family. A hundred percent, we were. We were not a green bean casserole family. No, didn't happen until much later on in life. Right, delicious, it's really good. It is good.
Speaker 1:I make green bean almondine from scratch. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, that's what I've been making the last few years. Well, the meat market closed down so we can't get it there anymore. Yeah, meat store's gone so it's like, all right, I guess somebody's going to make it. Also, I don't think I can get it from the meat store and come back in time. Dude, that's tough. Yeah, I'm not going to travel that far. They probably really wouldn't make it either. Probably eat it cold.
Speaker 1:But Hawaiian sweet rolls I would treat like a deviled egg, how we talk about. If it's buffet style at somebody's house, you've got a giant island. The Ironman's start going like one deviled egg on the plate, two in the mouth, or vice versa. However you're feeling, I'm that way with Hawaiian sweet rolls. I hate to say this but again, I didn't have Hawaiian sweet rolls until later on in life. Right same here.
Speaker 1:But we had really good bakeries near us growing up so we got really good side rolls. Whenever we had a get-together, pop would always bring over the Buno Brothers rolls and we'd be like all right, man, what else do we need In the brown paper bag? Like we Hawaiian sweet roll, like what is that? Like I literally put my nose up to it Was I in Texas for training, I think, like for Thanksgiving, my first Thanksgiving in the military was in Texas for training, I think, like for Thanksgiving, my first Thanksgiving the military was in Texas and I want to say they had that and I was like what is this? You don't have good rolls. I think that was my first big culture shock.
Speaker 1:But 52 to 48 green bean casseroles. Moving on, harry, I did not see this. You can have Hawaiian sweet rolls anytime. Green bean casserole again. I mean, you can have anything at any time, I get it.
Speaker 1:But that's a big holiday meal. Yeah, the big three, right, it's one of those things you only make during the big three. Yes, which also I think funny how we're labeling holidays as a big three. There's three big ones for meals. Yeah, I'm not having green bean casserole during the 4th of July. You know that's the first holiday I thought about. Can we add the big four? Can we make it four? You know, flag Day. I'm not like, oh, it's Flag Day. Mom's going to make her famous green bean casserole. I mean, if it's good, if it's famous, it's good for a reason. But next time we see green bean casserole we're going heads up against the Irish guacamole, mashed potatoes. That's going to be a dogfight. That's Final Four. Harry, we got one match. You know Well, really, three matchups left till we crown a winner.
Speaker 1:I did not have green bean casserole going this far, I had sweet potato casserole knocking them out. Oh, in the first round, I think your heart played into that pick, my heart played into that a lot. And then for it to be in the Final Four, mind blown, going against mashed potatoes, really that is four solid sides. Yeah, I mean turkey and those four sides. That's a great meal and that's how I know this bracket is shaping up phenomenally. It's because turkey goes for bang, america is picking great. I mean, I just hope our international listeners, like our new ones in Africa and hopefully we get Antarctica here soon but like, hopefully we are immersing them, like we are the American culture example for them, so they know what Thanksgiving is. I'm really excited for that.
Speaker 1:This weekend before, most likely before this episode drops, I'm going to have the polls out for the final four because I'm excited and I want to get listener activation going. We're going to work something out here because we need to know your favorite Thanksgiving side dish. So be on the lookout for that. Side dishes is good, right? Everybody likes the main course. Everybody likes the side dish. You be on the lookout for that. Side dishes is good, right? Everybody likes the main course. Everybody likes the side dish.
Speaker 1:You know what people don't like, harry Eels? I was going to say stubbing their toes. No, you're right, you know what they hate. Just a little bit less than stubbing their toe, stubbing their other toe, yeah, you're right. Anyway, it's time for the stinky, slimy eels of the week, harry, and I've got one, and I'm going to go on a tangent here. I'm going to go on a little rant. I brought my soapbox with me. I'm going to set it down right here. I'm going to stand on it, I think taking that on a little trip, harry, to about four or five years ago.
Speaker 1:I'm living in this house by myself, enjoying life with a queen-size bed. Sabrina moves in. We eventually get married, get a king-size bed. We upgraded, so king-size bed me, the king-size sheets and blankets. My old washing machine was not meant for king size sheets and blankets, so I started ripping some of our stuff because I had the center agitator. So we go down to Lowe's, we get a thing and we're like, yep, give me a new washing machine. No agitator, just a big drum made by a certain brand, harry.
Speaker 1:I've had this washing machine three or four years and it decides to go off balance on me. And three or four years and decides to go off balance on me, and first time is on me. I loaded it improperly seven times in a row. Now, right, yeah, if me and his washing machine are the dad from the Christmas story in his furnace. Oh, so it's embarrassing, dude. To the point where, like, I want to just pick this thing up and throw it out the window. But the window is not big enough. I've leveled it, I've checked my levels, I've re-leveled it, I've zeroed it out and re-leveled again, and it still goes off balance when we have laundry in it. So I told Sabrina, I was like no, I'm going to do one, just water. So I told Sabrina, I was like no, I'm going to do one, just water.
Speaker 1:So I think the girls ate oatmeal for breakfast Sunday. Oatmeal over their pajamas, that's it. A three-year-old's nightgown, a two-year-old's pajamas, that's the only thing in my washing machine. Let it run, and it's three quarters of the way my front door, trying to beat it down. We looked at each other and said after our massage is Monday, we're going to lose and we bought a new washing machine.
Speaker 1:All that to say, my EO of the week this week, harry, goes out to Whirlpool, because we are not the only ones having issues. Whirlpool products are not what they used to be. Oh no, I have a Whirlpool. We have the same washing machine. I totally forgot about that. I was just thinking about that because I have the glass see-through lid and then our new Samsung has a glass see-through lid.
Speaker 1:Why do we have to see our laundry? I don't know, I like it, conspiracy theory. Why do we have to see our laundry? Because nobody steals it. That's fair, it's sold, makes sense. But Whirlpool even as we were buying I'm not going to say the associates' names from Lowe's or Lowe's store number they were telling us hey, man, I want to go to Whirlpool. Because the three of them that were standing there also said the same thing. They had Whirlpool before and they've gone to different brands and we went with the Samsung.
Speaker 1:The hardest debate was was we wanted the black one or the white one? But our old one was white and the washing machine was white, or dryer's white, but they're like, but the black one will be that your house in a day White one takes two weeks. And I said everyone's going to be here quicker. Does it matter? Not really, I'm not displaying it, that's what I'm saying. Like, do you want to come into my laundry room and look at it and judge me? I don't care.
Speaker 1:Now, this was much bigger than we anticipated, but I like it. Did you get the hose? Talk from Lowe's? Yeah, but they, I don't think they were prepared for me. Yeah, cause I go in there and I know what I want. Like, really, I didn't know which washing machine I wanted because we were just window shopping. But we found one we liked and like get it.
Speaker 1:Now I go to the guy and he's like all right, so if you buy new hoses, we will install it for free. And I just looked at him. I was like I mean I'm gonna buy hoses regardless if you saw it for free. Or I just looked at him. I was like I mean I'm gonna buy hoses regardless if you sell it for free or not. He's like but if you buy the hoses, we saw it for free. And I'm like yes, no, no, I'm well aware I want new hoses. And even you know, sabrina was like I'll let you handle this. I'm like if I'm getting a new watch machine, I get new hoses. Yeah, at all times.
Speaker 1:Smart, yeah, I mean, let this be all of you, homeowners or renters or anybody who has a washing machine in their residence you should change your hoses every five years or so. It's not a scam. No, when I moved into my house I interested in a load of laundry, put it on hot. Nothing came out. Hmm, so I go in, I turn on the hot nozzle, notice a little drip, got a pair of pliers on to tighten it down and it sheared off where the hose and the connector are. Change your hoses. It's not supposed to do that. Yeah, their answer was just like wash everything with cold. Yeah, I get it Enough. But yeah, washing machine hoses not a scam, no, I mean I had to take my old one out Because they were like oh, you got to pay 50 bucks for them to take it and I was like I was putting my curb and the scrappers that go around at two in the morning and pick it up It'd be fine.
Speaker 1:I had to disconnect the hoses. I had to get my channel locks. Just take it off of the machine, Not hard, which that's a scam as well, folks. Second eel, the $50 charge to get rid of your washing machine for them to take it. I said no, I'm not paying that I would disconnect it. My laundry room butts up to my garage, so it's not like I'm going far, it was just a tight turn. You've seen it, harry. I disconnected and I was like I'm just going to put it in my garage by the door and then I realized it was too late. It was like 10 o'clock at night. This is what I remember. I had to disconnect my washing machine. I was gonna come in home the next day and just put it on the curb. I'm not trying to walk and wash the machine down the driveway. 10, 30, 10, 10, 30 at night. Somebody's gonna call the cops on me, sabrina's home for the delivery and they're like where's your old one?
Speaker 1:And she was like what do you want? Behind the garage? And he's like I will take it. She's like no, we didn't pay the fee. And he's like I low scams you. I drop one off, I take one back. I don't care what they're doing with it. He can sell it, scrap it, use it, doesn't matter to me. But the fact that he took it. Bone drought right there saved me a lot of effort. Yeah, see that we didn't have any of that. It was much like you.
Speaker 1:I went in. We went in and I was like, yeah, I need new hoses. And then they gave me this spiel of you know, free delivery with the purchase of hoses. And it was one of those like I don't think you understand. I need hoses, period. It's not about the deal or whatever it is you're trying to upsell me. I need hoses. Yeah, I'm not trying to get a deal out of this. I literally had a hose break on me, mm-hmm. I mean, the hoses are like 36, 40 bucks now. Yeah, did you go? Braided steel or rubber Steel? Yeah, smart, mm-hmm. Sometimes I ask you questions to make sure I did the right thing years ago. No, I didn't. It's the one that they they offered me. And I was like, yeah, because they had the rubber ones. And then they had the braided steel and I was like, man, braided steel. I guess that's just makes more sense to me.
Speaker 1:I mean, you and I are professionals at moving washing machines. We've done it a lot in our lives. For some reason, we have gone through a lot of washing machines in our time. Well, a lot of washing machines in our time. Well, we were, we were, I mean, we were a family of six, yeah, and there was always seven or eight there too, yeah, there's always extras there and, uh, that's harder than a washing machine.
Speaker 1:A washing machine did not breathe, it won't, I mean, pretty sure, still do. There's two dryers, yeah, yeah, so we had one washer and two dryers. But, yeah, yeah, so we had one washer and two dryers. But I don't know if you remember the rubber hose One time that you know we cranked on there, we get it going and all of a sudden the rubber hose bubbled, like we put pressure to it and after a few loads, like the side blew out, but it didn't pop. It's like made a big bubble. I say big bubble like size of a quarter, still a bubble on the rubber hose and we're like, hmm, and so after a while we changed it. I mean, you know, it held in there for another day or two. Yeah, it held for a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but my washer and dryer, they make weird noises. They're out of warranty now. I don't, I'm not a fan, and they're both Whirlpool. Yeah, I want to get one of those all-in-ones. The Samsung, the new washer-dryer combo in one machine, the double stack? No, the new ones, they wash and dry in one machine. What are they talking about?
Speaker 1:I don't think you as a family, I don't think it'd be good enough for you guys, not at all, not at all, not at all. But for Ange and I, a load a day, yeah, yeah For you, perfect for us. Nah, don't like. Or I got seven of them.
Speaker 1:I would have to separate my clothes and not buy like colors and whites and things like that. It's what gets hung up and what can go back into what can go into a dryer. Oh so, I didn't think about that. I don't know. I don't think we hang anything up. I think everything goes in the dryer for us. Yeah, like sabrina has her work, stuff that gets hung up and reagan's school t-shirts get hung up and stuff like that, like, or certain gymnastics or dance outfits for everybody. You got to be picky. I mean, I, I wear button downs and flannels and jeans every day, so I'm good. No, just so you know, 99 of my clothes go back into the dryer. Yeah, I didn't think about that. Yeah, I didn't think about that, that being a fault with that machine. Yep, hot doodly-doo buddy.
Speaker 1:It is time for america's favorite segment. It is time for America's favorite segment. It is time for PWN Paul's Weird News. Here is your host, paul. Hey, harry, thanks for that shout-out.
Speaker 1:I'm not here on the streets with some PWN action man, do I got a doozy for you Now? You know everybody sits there when you get some candy right. Halloween just happened. You're going through your Halloween candy bag and you know, especially for us parents, like you're separating it. Pretty much all your Reese's stuff goes over here and your Hershey bars, mr Goodbar, goes in my pocket, tootsie Rolls go in my left pocket. But never have I tied myself in my sorting ability of candy.
Speaker 1:I'm like this Idaho man who took his color sorting skills to the test and he broke a world record by sorting peanut M&Ms Now, not just any bag of peanut M&Ms the 17.6 ounce bag, so one pound, 1.6 ounce Pound bag of peanut M&M's. The 17.6 ounce bag, so one pound, 1.6 ounce Pound bag of peanut M&M's. He sorted by color in 57.78 seconds, david Rush, good for you. He had the record previously at like a minute 14. But then his title was taken by someone who managed to go two seconds faster. I know they go by weight, not by number of M&Ms, but still, somebody beat his record by two seconds and he was determined to break it. But he didn't want to just break it. It was a minute and 12. He wanted to break under one minute and he successfully did that with a 57 and 12. He went to break under one minute and he successfully did that with a 57 second sorting.
Speaker 1:My question to you, harry, is like okay, so it's a 17.6 ounce bag. Do you think he buys the same bag or does he get multiple bags of this to practice his sorting? Didn't you just need one bag, buddy? Just shake it up, I guess. But you're going to know how many blues, browns, greens and yellows you got. Does that help? Does that determine it? No, because I think it's more time to count than it is to just blindly react. Okay, okay, I mean, maybe I would go with a 17-ounce bag and get a couple of like the individual bags from the gas station, toss those in every now and again. Oh man, what do? I? Got a story Real quick.
Speaker 1:Ant and I decided to have an at-home movie night. We did the Walmart delivery. Oh, good choice. I wanted peanut butter M&Ms, so I just scrolled till. I thought I found the share size and I just put add to cart, didn't look, didn't pay attention. I ordered the party size, which is like a two pound bag, okay for one person. It took me weeks to finish. I mean that sounds like a party.
Speaker 1:It was fun at first, yeah, but you get to a point where you're tired of peanut butter M&M's. There is a point it's day four. Oh, okay, I don't know what that point was. Day four I like peanut M&M's they're good. Can't get old Peanut butter, but sorting that many that quick, yeah, it's. I like peanut M&M's they're good. Can't get old Peanut butter, but sorting that many that quick, yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 1:I wonder how many kids he has that he has to sort them like that. Probably near kids. Okay, you like the green, you like the blue, you like the brown, you like the yellow? Done, we're good, right, everybody's at the square. Then he's going to count them off and make sure they have the even number. Do you remember doing that in school? No, that's how we learned about ratios With M&Ms. We got little fun-sized M&Ms and then we had to separate them by color and count and do all that. No, and then we had to give the M&Ms back. I'm just kidding, we got to eat them.
Speaker 1:I remember when blue M&M's got introduced to the bags. What year was that? That was late 90s. Because there was a pre-American idol, because it was like the first big Okay, let me phrase, I'm going to say this First big American vote. That's not political. That's the first big American vote. But it wasn't.
Speaker 1:There was a debate on what color the new color should be. Right, it was blue, purple or something else. I thought so. I thought the blue M&M came out later in life. Yeah, blue's the newest. There should be a purple M&M. Hey, why not? It's my favorite color. Yeah, purple rain, good choice. Yeah, there should be a purple one in there, but I remember blue when he got introduced. But now, harry, let's get on an airplane. Let's go from Idaho all the way over to the Great Break. Now, unfortunately, it's not as good of a story, as positive, as counting M&Ms or sorting them.
Speaker 1:United Kingdom thieves pulled off a massive heist worth more than 300,000 pounds, which comes out to about 360,000 euro, which comes out to roughly about like 350,000 US dollars Worth a missing merchandise. It's not just any merchandise, harry. A London specialist said, a con artist posing as a wholesale distributor for a major French retailer, made off with 22 metric tons. Harry, how many pounds is that? Three, 48,488 pounds of award-winning Cheddar. You know, they say Cheddar is better. It is better, of course, more than 300,000 pounds.
Speaker 1:Before the company realized it had been scammed Like bro, somebody took 22 metric tons First off. I love how that metric ton is an actual form of weight. Somebody took over 48,000 pounds of cheese before anybody realized it. They took nearly 1,000 wheels of cloth-wrapped cheese. Now that makes you think about this. 1,000 wheels of cloth-wrapped cheese. Now that makes you think about this. 1,000 wheels of cheese at 48,488 pounds. You're telling me that a wheel of cheese weighs roughly 484? Nope, that's a lie 48 pounds. I did a bad math there. A wheel of cheese is 400 pounds. 48 and a half pounds For a wheel of cheese. That's still a lot of weight for a wheel of cheese, of award winning cheddar. I mean, it's cloth wrapped, which says quality right there.
Speaker 1:Now, listen, I understand that cheese Is a big black market thing, but how do you move that much cheese? Listen, I understand that cheese is a big black market thing, but how do you move that much cheese? How do you move that cheese? Well, because he was a con artist and he probably had delivery trucks set up. If it's a good con artist, you've got good delivery trucks ready to go.
Speaker 1:I bet cheese is already sold. Cheese is sold and already gone, already paid for twice. You can't track it. Yeah, I mean they're in London. They probably went through the tunnel because he disguised himself as like French, I think yeah, for French retailers, so that way there he can hit the tube going underneath the English Channel gets to mainland Europe. He's probably in Prague right now partying. That's a lot of cheese, man, that's a lot of cheddar.
Speaker 1:But my favorite part, like I'm reading the stories, is detectives at Scotland Yard and international authorities are searching for the culprits. Scotland Yard is involved, harry, that's serious. That's how you know it's serious. I thought that was only in fictional books. Yeah, well, yeah, scotland Yard's a thing. Yeah, it's a real thing. But that's it for me. Out here on the streets, quick, fast, in a hurry, we're on our way to find a thousand wheels of cheese. Back to you, studio T, buddy, we're going to keep the weird news rolling here. It's Harry's weird news. Okay, little HWN, little HWN.
Speaker 1:There's a gentleman that scientists are currently studying. His name is Omar Odavi. When he goes near the ocean, sea life is attracted to him. Calmly, sharks and rays literally swim up and sit there at his feet. Huh, 10, 20 sharks, 10, 20 rays just sit there. What we're trying to figure out. If there's something in his blood, what's going on? He does have a few health concerns. His hands and feet are always cold. But yeah, the way sharks in sea life just naturally gravitate to this man, like he is the real life Aquaman, that's wild. That is very wild. They're testing his blood. It is very wild. They're testing this blood. It might be something. Obviously, sharks have higher senses than most sharks and rays. So, yeah, I thought that was weird.
Speaker 1:Dude, can you imagine, just like walking into the ocean and like ten sharks just like come up and sit with you, all right, so our data's exhaled after like a long shift, right, and they're sitting in the back going? I've been waiting for you to get here, man, we need to talk. He's like what? What? Like it's your turn over for work? You know you're working late. Like hey, man, I'm so glad you're here. Or that long lost buddy. Like you want to go sit and have a garage beer with him. Like man. I've been waiting for you to open that garage door. We need to talk, omar, come here. That's you, dude. Now do you think it's all animals Like? Have they tested it on land, or is it just Just?
Speaker 1:The article I saw was sharks and rays, but again they have a higher sense, their. But again they have a higher sense, their senses are heightened, being sharks and rays with, uh, magnetic fields, which is wild, wild. It's creepy. I don't like it. I wish I had that with deer Could be awesome, but I don't have any of that. Look that man. You and squirrels, buddy, you and squirrels squirrels.
Speaker 1:But that's it for HWN Harry's Weird News. Well, that's it for me, out here on the streets, the end of PWN. I'm going to send it back to you, harry, in the Studio. T. Marty, let's pack up the truck here. Let's get ready to call it a night. All right, man, I got to heat it up and I got the heater going right now. Listen, we have an update.
Speaker 1:A couple weeks ago we talked about the National Koei Hall of Fame. The this year's winners have been announced. Oh man, oh man, let's hear it. We had hedge trucks in there. Yes, we did. Trampolines Trampolines were in there. Balloons, okay. Party decorations are you ready for the winners? I'm ready. Pokemon cars did not win, really not yet not a first round. I guess they're too early, too young. Maybe I don't. I mean, if trampolines still not in there, true balloons aren't in there. Balloons sticks in there. Stick is in there. But it's announced the winners, shall we?
Speaker 1:We'll start with phase 10, the card game. Okay, I can see it. People, people who play phase 10, love phase 10. Yeah, me and my wife, we have a set of cards phase 10 cards we keep in our camper. They were her grandmother's. Like there's no blue in there. It was before blueprint was available, I guess. Oh, wow, yeah, they're old school, she loves phase 10. So people who play phase 10 love phase 10. No, they're old school, she loves Phase 10. So people who play Phase 10 love Phase 10. No, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:This next one I don't know if I feel like it belongs my Little Pony. I know we discussed it and you gave me grief because I knew so much about it. I don't know, because there was a gap of the 90s, if it belongs in there Yet, but also it has a cult-like following, so maybe Right. And then the final, which also has a cult-like following Come on Heshtrux. Come on, heshtrux Is Hes. No, I'm sorry, it's Transformers. I mean, they are more than BCI and it is a truck getting into the Toy Hall of Fame. So I'll allow it. I will allow it. However, I'm pretty sure Heshtrux has been around longer than all of them. It has been around longer than all of them. It has been. But again, it's the cult-like following for each one that really helped. It does help.
Speaker 1:I got a buddy and that was his thing when he was Transformers. He has some that are worth a couple hundred dollars. He has some that are worth a couple hundred dollars not for me. I tried to play with one one time and I got too frustrated, too much bending and folding and all that not for me, dude. He threw the raid a lot on sale and I got to do the toys and everything. Like there's some transformers. I'm like, oh, let me figure this one out. And it was like it doesn't go. And I told Sabrina you need to take over this one toy or it's broken, because I'm getting annoyed with it right now. Hey man, I just never like the first two. I don't.
Speaker 1:I didn't really follow who was your favorite? Who was your favorite Like Optimus Prime is the is the best. Yeah, well, he's the best. But who's your personal favorite? I like Optimus Prime. All right, I was a big Ironhide guy. He was the big GMC pickup. Yeah, yeah, he dies in like the second one. No, I'm going to say that, spoiler alert.
Speaker 1:I liked Althus prime because it turned into a semi. Yes, and you know our with our dad. Yeah, so I always thought that was super cool. Like I want to say, in the original cartoon he was like a Mack truck. Yeah, I think that. Yeah, I've always had this affiliation with Mack trucks. To this day, I see an old Mack truck and I'm like, look at that thing just rolling out there and if it's a cab over, get out of town, get out. Yeah, I always associated Optimus Prime with a Mack truck. You're right, there is something about him being a semi truck, like Bumblebee's the Corvette, right, right? Or he was a Volkswagen Beetle in some series or whatever. It is Camaro, optimus. Optimus Prime being a semi is bad ass, dude.
Speaker 1:Some of them are airplanes. I don't remember all their names, right? I remember as a kid watching the cartoon for a little bit Starstream, easy Airplane, sorry. Ah, it makes sense. But growing up, you know, before you were born, so late 80s, early, early 90s, so like 1990, watching it and then when the movies came out, I was kind of intrigued by him, with the Shia LaBeouf character, but it wasn't. I'm gonna drop everything, go see it.
Speaker 1:Like there's a new one coming out, the new Transformer movie. It's out coming out. It's new Transformer movie. It's out, coming out. It's like the prequel to all of it. Oh, the cartoon movie, yeah, optimus Prime, and what's his name? Bumblebee? No, bumblebee. And the bad guy. Who's the bad guy? Megatron, megatron, dude, how can I not remember names right now? Lordy, you're struggling. But I can tell you who had the rushing title from 1966 to 2004. But, yeah, it's like their prequel movie, because Keegan-Michael Key does the voice of Bowlby. You know what? Yeah, it could be a good movie.
Speaker 1:Congratulations, phase 10, my Little Pony Transformers. Make it to the Hall of Fame and no matter what level it is, it's great. So congratulations, hess Trucks. Keep your your hood up, keep your head up past trucks, you'll be in there.
Speaker 1:By the way, harry, I was up in the attic getting Christmas decorations down the other day. I started early. I see, the other day was like two weeks ago, literally the day after Halloween. So 1 November I was up in the attic getting stuff out. I'm going through bins like, oh, is this Christmas? Is this Christmas? I open another bin and it was my die cast NASCAR Air Force cars that Pop got me oh nice, a couple of those, but in said box was a few Hess trucks. And I have another box with a couple more Hess trucks and there's one that's just sitting out and I was like man, I really hope these get in the Hall of Fame so I can post pictures of these. I've been with you for a long time. I'm not a Fairweather fan. That's it for us here on 74.
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