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#78 - JUST HERE FOR THE BEAVER NUGGS
Ever been curious about how a quirky national holiday can make a birthday truly unforgettable? Join us on this vibrant journey as we kick off the new year with the Trout Stream! As devoted Philly sports fans, Harry and Paul Troutman bring you a fun mix of sports, personal stories, and lots of laughs. From Harry's birthday antics to his questionable fashion choices, listeners will enjoy our family-friendly banter. Get ready for our unique segments like the Golden Trout awards and Eels of the Week, and don't miss the fan-voted brackets that always spark lively debates.
Relive unforgettable moments with us, like the last high school football game we ever played, complete with an inspiring pep talk from Eagles defensive tackle Hollis Thomas. We'll also shift gears to the world of NASCAR, where we recount the thrill of Martin Truex Jr.'s 2017 championship victory. Alongside these nostalgic tales, we explore fascinating coincidences in presidential birthdays and celebrate a community's heartwarming teddy bear toss. And who could resist imagining the endless joys of affordable eats at Mercedes-Benz Stadium?
Laugh along as we compare Midwest road etiquette to Atlanta's chaotic traffic and share the slight letdown of a Buc-ee's visit minus the beaver nuggets. Our amusing chat continues with chicken noodle soup-flavored hard candy and strawberry cream savers—you won't believe how flavors can surprise! Plus, hear about our friend Jared's adventures with the National Archives' cursive transcription project. Rounding off the episode, we dive into our cherished morning coffee rituals, discussing our travel mugs and the art of creamer. Join us for a light-hearted, nostalgic ride that promises an exciting year ahead on the Trout Stream!
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Hello, friends and welcome to the Trout Stream. I am Harry Troutman and with me, as always, is my co-host. Hi, I'm Paul Troutman. Here at the Trout Stream we like to talk about sports, life and everything in between. Sports, I mean, that's pretty easy. Paul and I grew up and still are, big Philly sports fans. Go birds the life. Paul's a father of three Beautiful girls. I am a father of three black cats. The in-between Well, there's stuff in between there. How about a new hard flavored candy that tastes like chicken noodle soup?
Speaker 1:We hand out awards for the great, the heartwarming, the feel good, called the golden trout, and while we're feeling good sometimes things are a little nasty For those we hand out the eels of the week. On our socials, we run brackets. The results are 100% fan voted. Of course, paul and I will put in our opinions, but at the end of the day, it's your vote that matters. We also have great segments like funny state laws that still exist today, pwn, paul's Weird News and, of course, packing Up the Truck. Packing Up the Truck might be my favorite segment. We cut it loose. No script, no talk, just us bandering back and forth.
Speaker 1:Ladies, gentlemen, lovers and friends, welcome to the Trout Stream. Welcome everybody. It is our first official full episode of 2025. 2025, it's going to be a good year, harry. It is going to be the year of the trout Paul and I. We've gotten some new technology. That's exciting. It's always exciting for us. New tech is always great. You notice the change in the intro. We have a lot more in the pipeline and as everything changes, everything is still going to stay the same. We are still going to be the trout stream that you know and love. We are still family friendly. We are still a family friendly show.
Speaker 1:You're safe to listen with your kids in the car. Nothing inappropriate, absolutely. Uh, I like, uh, a podcast. I don't even want to bring up the title, not because I don't want to give them the recognition. It's just uh, it's a. It could be a rough topic for children, so I I don't want to talk about it, but uh, yeah, yeah, I can't listen to that show with the kids in the car, but with us you can. That's the point of the show. Yeah, we're gonna talk about things you want to hear. Yeah, really, really, what we want is your kids to yell. We want to listen to Uncle Harry on the ride to school and guess what they want to listen to? The Trash Room. Yeah, we're not sitting here talking about Bluey and all that. No, we might talk about Bluey, you're not going to lie, right? Yeah, but we're going to talk about things that interest us. Keep it as PG as we can.
Speaker 1:Now, harry, you said this is the first time official episode of the year 2025. Numbered episode. Ladies and gentlemen, not only is it the first official episode, today is, as we record, on January 23rd 2025, harry's birthday. So, happy birthday, harry. And I got to do some thinking here. Bud, you know I'm big on national holidays. Yeah, I brought it up at your wedding, you did. I'm going to bring it up right now. If today is not your day, I don't know what day it is. Okay, perfect, I love it. I'm excited. The first one is this is unscripted. We did not discuss this. No, I'm so excited right now.
Speaker 1:National Handwriting Day. We know your handwriting is atrocious, atrocious. They had me test it as a child. It was so bad. Yeah, hilarious. That's why today's your day.
Speaker 1:National Pie Day. We both love pie. Do love pie? Uh-huh, how about this one? Clashing Clothes Day? You know, because Harry's really good at matching. I'm not good at matching With his green shirt and blue hat right now. Oh, I didn't even notice, oh, you're. Oh, I just threw. Oh, that's See, that's not fair, is that fair? I just threw a hat on. I literally was going to dog you for the Clash and Close day, regardless of what you were wearing, and I just noticed it right now. Yeah, regardless of what you were wearing, and it just I just noticed it right now. Yeah, no, it's ugly. Yeah, international sticky toffee pudding day. It sounds like something I may have enjoyed at least once in my life. Yeah, uh, I'm going to skip this one here.
Speaker 1:National King day, cause, harry, we, you need to be treated like a King. Uh, this one here gets I don't know what National Report Pharmaceutical Fraud Day. So congratulations, harry. It's very serious. I'm a rule follower. Yeah, you are a rule follower. I'm telling you right now, harry, they knew it was your day. They knew today is your birthday. It is National Measure your Feet Day Size 16-4E. Buddy, I got letters in there. They knew it was your day. Like I just scrolled right. You know what national holidays say boom, measure your feet. This is Harry's day. Yeah, once you start throwing letters in, yeah, capes that match. So, harry, not only is it national measure of feet day, since it is your birthday, since, uh, we don't have a NASCAR, pick them right side.
Speaker 1:Who goes first? As the older brother, I'm going to allow you this one time to go ahead of me in line because it's your birthday. I mean, I was going first anyway, but I appreciate the gesture. There's no other reason, except for it's your birthday. Like normally, I would trip you on your way, in front of me in the line. Whether we're going to Sizzler, you know right, we're going to salad bar. Yeah, today I will not be tripping you. Hands and feet are back. I will not be tripping you. Hands and feet are back. Yeah, I don't trust it. Honestly. We're mid 30s, we still don't trust each other walking by, but Like, I'm afraid to start actually Like talking about my pick here and you're just Going to be like alright, that's enough from Harry. There's five days of the year. We have to be nice to each other.
Speaker 1:Birthdays is one of them. Floor is yours. Yeah, that reminds me. I'm just kidding. I appreciate the birthday. Shout out, listen. Stop saying listen, I only have one. I tend to keep it simple. I thought I would have more. I only have one, Martin Truex Jr, in the 78. Front row motorsports winning the championship and all. Yeah, that's a. That's a good one. That is a very, very good one.
Speaker 1:Martin Truex, I respect him. I even liked him for a bit. Yeah, could not stand him in the later years. Could not stand him when he went to Joe Gibbs. Yeah, I think because, like, when you go to Joe Gibbs, it's a whole it. Yeah, I think, because when you go to Joe Gibbs, it's a whole change of who you are. It really does feel like that Denny Hamlin has that same vibe. Yeah, my thing is, I feel like with Martin Truex it's I'm a veteran, respect me, but Martin's also a quiet cat who's not going to say much, and so I think that's what makes him a little different. Completely agree. But when he does speak it's like, yeah, the arrogance is a little too high for me. Yeah, I get it. That's it, man. That's all I got. Now.
Speaker 1:This is where I jump in Harry 78. I've got a few 78s that are going to probably take you back a little bit. Let's go with number 78. Buffalo Bills jersey number 78. The stat sheet has him number one in sacks. Bruce Smith, old school Bruce Smith and Reggie White were the ones that battled. Okay, for years Bruce Smith was 80s, 90s, maybe early 2000s, maybe I don't know when he retired.
Speaker 1:My next one here offensive lineman right, we got defensive lineman. Now we got offensive lineman. Cincinnati Bengals Hall of Famer, anthony Munoz. There was a stud interior lineman, what you want. Picture perfect. If I would have known then what I know now, playing high school football, I would have studied Anthony Munoz and perfected his craft.
Speaker 1:Speaking about perfecting their craft number 78 for three teams We'll do newest to oldest Baltimore Ravens, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the first team that he ever suited up for, the Philadelphia Eagles. Number 78, the Army Ranger, alejandro Villanueva Terrifying. You know what's scary is he was recruited Like he wasn't drafted and all that stuff he was recruited to play for't drafted and all that stuff. He was recruited to play for the Eagles as a defensive end, defensive end, defensive lineman, like 6'8", 300 pounds, terrifying. And they were like Philly cut him, which I like the guy, but Philly cut him. I was like that sucks, right. The Army Ranger. I'm watching him shank somebody in the middle of the game, but then he drives a couple hours to the other side of the state and they're like what if you protected the quarterback instead of trying to kill the quarterback? And he was like well, hang on a second. I think I got that. It is to serve and protect. Yeah, serve and protect. He did his job. He got in trouble sometimes, but overall, great guy. My last one here, harry, it's 278s in one.
Speaker 1:The last time I ever suited up to play a game of football, thanksgiving Day 2002. All right, senior year of high school we played a rival Thanksgiving Day. Right, senior year of high school, we played a rival Thanksgiving Day every single year. Also, by the way that blows people's mind, especially down here in the South the Turkey Bowl. Yeah, we play on Thanksgiving Day and they're like well, playoffs start. I'm like we sucked, we never made the playoffs. Yeah Right, playoffs, playoffs. There was one year we were worried Sun Valley was going to make the playoffs and we weren't going to be able to play them on Thanksgiving. But then they lost, so we were able to play them Home game. My last time ever playing was home, home field, against a rival.
Speaker 1:I was starting right tackle, they started, left tackle. His dad had a limo business and so, as we're in the locker room, you know, coach, go over final plays and you know last minute stuff. Here comes a man. Now I stand at six foot. I swore this guy was like five, eight, good, and he couldn't get through the doorway. Oh, okay, and he comes in there and he's like which one of y'all were 78? And my good buddy at the time, adam Chandler, who was like six,4", stands up and goes. That's me. And he goes. Huh, do you know who I am? You know all of us are looking at him like yeah, we think so.
Speaker 1:It was Hollis Thomas. Eagles defensive tackle had to get picked up that day and the limo driver was the guy on our team's dad and he's like, hey, man, do you mind coming to give my sons, like you know, team little pep talk, yada, yada, yada. So Hollis Thomas came in, gave us a little pep talk, stood in the doorway and then left. I never knew that. One of the most surreal moments ever.
Speaker 1:It was like yeah, I don't want to really talk about the day, cause the last time we played we got blown out 34, nothing and it was pretty terrible and I had to go against a guy who was like 6'8", 330, and I was 6'0" and I tried doing everything dirty I could to protect my quarterback and it's like a middle schooler trying to defend me right now. Yeah, it's not going to work. But yeah, hollis Thomas came to our school and then my buddy, my good friend, adam Chandler, also wore 78. So shout out to Adam. I tagged him on the page, see if he replies to it, but that's it. It's the only number I got for 78. No draft picks. No draft picks stood out whatsoever across all major sports. We're running into that rut. Yeah, we're hitting that little low point there.
Speaker 1:So not only is it my birthday, I played football for two years. My number was 78. I do not like talking about my football career. It was not good. I didn't realize the name of the game was to hit people. I didn't like hitting people.
Speaker 1:I wanted to bring it up because what are the odds that we are doing 78 on your birthday? I'm not proud of my football career at all. I was not good. I know that. I mean I sucked too, but I started, but I still sucked. The only thing I really well, I also had, like my last major concussion, and the docs were like you probably shouldn't play sports, buddy. Yeah, that's probably right. Yeah, yeah, do you like solid food. You should probably ease up, but, uh, you're going to have a slow ride if you keep playing again. But I remember and I was a bigger kid but I wasn't tall. I got tall after high school and when I walked through the line and I was above average, but I wasn't tall. And I look up at this guy and he is he's a grown man across from me, yeah, and I'm like great Survival in six kick in at that point than a pillow. He was so soft, yeah, when they're and I was so relieved when they're bigger than you, you gotta fight for your right and I I came off the line and I hit him and he just hit his butt and I was like, oh, thank god, this is gonna be an easy game for me. Thank you.
Speaker 1:Jumping back to NASCAR, the 78 car raced 787 times, so that's a little 7-8, 7-8-7. Don't like that, that's weird. Okay, 22 wins and, as I mentioned earlier, furniture Girl racing. Martin Turek Jr won the championship in 2017 with eight wins, a lot of sevens, and eight in that sentence. There, buddy, yeah. 2017 with eight wins, a lot of sevens at eight in that sentence. There, buddy, yeah. Dude, that was pretty wild. Seven, eight, 787 races, 2017, and he won with eight wins. He had eight wins. I remember that year. It was a very dominant year, but obviously, the way NASCAR playoffs are, that is the first year. 17 was the first year they had stage racing. Oh, if I remember right, it might be the first stage racing. I know it was announced at 17. So I don't remember if it was announced at 17, starting at 18 or whatever. But Martin, driving for Furniture Row, who, let's be honest, was one of the underfunded teams.
Speaker 1:The black car yes, it seemed like off-red numbers. It seemed like they used a I don't know if everyone knows what a cricket machine is a vinyl cutting machine that you can use in your house. That's what it seemed like they used for their NASCAR Right, and like seven dudes with paint rollers for the black. It did not look great to smooth it out, but like it was. If you look, if you think back, it was an iconic championship paint scheme. You know you got Dale Senior in the black Good Ranch car. You got Dale Jarrett in the blue quality assurance car. You know the blue 88. Is that what it was? Insurance Assurance? It wasn't insurance, it was like quality care or something like that. Something Right. You got the Wood Brothers red and white car. You know pure filter or whoever.
Speaker 1:That's 78 Furniture Row because multiple people have driven that car. Mm-hmm Right, kurt Bush kind of got a restart to his career driving that car. Bj McLeod currently drives it Like he owns the 78 car now with his racing. So it still looks like the F row car I want to say furniture row might sponsor him. They don't own it, but like they throw some money at it, like just keep the car the exact same. So it's a very I want to say air quotes iconic is when. I wish we were. You know video recording so you can see my air quotes of iconic car because it doesn't really change much. Right, they had martin truix jr with his best year ever wheeling that car around. He was almost like Paul Revere. You know those eight wins he was leading the way, letting them know. You know one by land, two by sea. He, he's putting up three lanterns because he's going three by hot rod.
Speaker 1:Here we go. Give me that W, the number one album from 1978, saturday Night Fever by the Bee Gees Staying alive, great album. Well, the Bee Gees when they came out with that in the 78, was that like the new style of music that was kind of around for a little bit, right, I guess? Yeah, I mean, that's a little bit before my time, buddy, I'm not too sure. Yeah, buddy, I'm not too sure where it falls. I mean, can you imagine like a DJ sitting there when that album comes out and be like hold it now, hit it, and it just starts playing? Here's a fun one. Our standings got messed up. They're not our standings, they are IMBD standings. We just bring it to your attention, boom, we bring it up.
Speaker 1:We've mentioned this movie before. Oh, okay, as the 78th highest grossing movie. Oh, okay, as the 78th highest grossing movie. I'm sorry it was a previous highest grossing movie but it's fallen because obviously, movies come out all the time. We're going to see it again and I hope, as this show progresses in life, we don't keep seeing it, because I've never seen it. Oh man, but the Secret Life of Pets is the 78th highest grossing movie of all time and I know for a fact you and Regan have seen it. You've never seen this movie. Yeah, I know, it's Kevin Hart and all that. Maybe I mean, obviously I have friends with kids, maybe I've caught bits and pieces of it. Yeah, maybe I'll watch it tonight. You know I'm off work tomorrow. We all in uh, that's how I'll end my birthday is with the secret life of pets. Yeah, lewis ck plays the main, uh, voice main character for the first one only.
Speaker 1:Okay, go back a few episodes. We've we've covered this. I doubt that's why it's so bad. It's not even a good movie, like I'm saying it's not a good movie. What I'm saying is it's nothing to talk about. It's not like if Rocky would have dropped from like 65 to 78, I'd be like Alright, guys.
Speaker 1:So now let's review the 5th round Of that fight. Who had the upper hand? Was the posse in effect at that point? Well, it's like I said in the intro dude. It's like you said in the intro dude. It's like you know, we're a family-friendly show, but we're not going to talk about this and here we are talking about the secret life of pets. Right, sports life, everything in between. This is an in-between.
Speaker 1:We got celebrities that are 78 years old. I'm going to start off strong with Cher. Do you believe in love? Love after love after have. Steven Spielberg, tim Curry, ed O'Neill, sally Fields is 78. Wow, she looks great. Recently retired. Pat Sajak, tommy Lee Jones Okay, danny Glover.
Speaker 1:Eugene Levy I didn't know he was that old, I did not realize he was that old. Peach of Cheech and Chong Okay, daryl Hall of Hall Oates, hmm, me. Joe Green oh yeah, we just talked about him not too long ago. Jack Hanna Okay, and the last one is Blake Clark. He plays the coach from the Waterboy, a personal favorite of mine. Oh my God, oh man, the coach from the water boy, personal favorite of mine.
Speaker 1:Oh man, let's go over the four that I skipped, because you brought up some interesting facts. Yes, we have former President George W Bush, oh, yeah, good one. We have President Donald Trump and we have former President Bill Clinton. And then we have future President Sylvester Stallone. Oh, four great minds. Uh, this, harry, here's a little trivia for you. Lay it on me.
Speaker 1:Two of them had the exact same birthday. I'll I'll not even quiz you on that one, right, because there's a lot of odds there. Can you put them in birthday order? Oh, oh, okay, don't even look, you can't even look, I'm going to go. Bush, stallone, clinton, trump oh, literally, you got to move one. You got to move one name and you would have got it. Trump is first, really June. July 6th is W and Stallone. They share the same birthday. July 6th, two days after Independence Day, august 19th is Bill Clinton. Within 66 days, you have three presidents and a two-time heavyweight champion of the world their birthdays.
Speaker 1:I don't like that. And you got to think about it. Bill Clinton was elected in 92. Like we're not being in politics, I'm just talking about numbers here. Yeah, just straight numbers here.
Speaker 1:Clinton first was elected in 92. Yeah, and he's the youngest. He looks the oldest. Yeah, he looks the oldest. So a guy who's like a month and 12 days whatever the math is 13 days older, you're younger, you're older than him goes from 2000 to 08. And then the oldest one gets elected in 16. And then again in 24.
Speaker 1:Right, so it's like, by looking at them now, you would think they're like from the movie three ninjas Right, you just separated an age. But really they're like the, the source that. You're, right, you just separate an age. But really they're like the Schwarzenegger Danny DeVito movie twins, but they're called triplets and they're within like 66 days of each other. It's just so crazy. Yeah, I've got sour cream that can last longer than you know. Those are a part of age. Yeah, I don't like that. That's just the simulation we live in. Yeah, huh, but it is what it is. It glitched out right there. We're keeping it fun, we're keeping it lighthearted. Let's keep going to the golden trout. Oh okay, all right, all right, okay, I'm in.
Speaker 1:I know we mentioned this last year and we're going to mention it every year that it happens, because I think it's phenomenal In the past couple of years. They break records, they break records, they break their records. Well, now they finally broke the world record. Hershey, not too far from us. We've talked about it on the show. You've got Chocolate World. You have the theme park, you have the candy. It smells like chocolate when you get there.
Speaker 1:They have a minor league hockey team, the Hershey Bears, and every year they have a teddy bear game when fans can throw teddy bears onto the ice after the first goal. And this year they broke the world record with 102,343 teddy bears, stuffed animals, thrown on the ice. That is a lot. That is a lot of donated teddy bears. Yeah, I mean, you know people are walking in there with those big, clear, giant trash bags of them, so you can't go to a minor league hockey game without having a clear bag. Right, you got to. I mean, you've got these dudes that are going in there, random schmoes like you and I going, it's time to get ill and they probably got like a hundred of them themselves.
Speaker 1:Yes, without question, and just dumping them on there, because it's like a full state, not a full NHL stadium, but it's a full stadium. It's big, yeah, yeah, it's not your high school rink. No, no, no, no, it's a minor league, but it's not like the I'll call them out right now the El Paso Rhinos. It's not their stadium or their rink. Yeah, yeah, we've all Hers is. There's one side of the ice, so, like you have, like the player's bench Really On the penalty box side is like where the bleachers are. Oh, so you don't even sit near the players. No, no, no, you sit on the other side, like the players then have the wall behind them. And at the time when I was there it's been a while, harry Last time I was there, the bar area was plywood and two by fours. Oh, I love that. That's my kind of hockey. I had a great time.
Speaker 1:What I'm saying is the Hershey Bears is a step up from the El Paso Rhinos. Yeah, yeah, I don't like that. I can't trip at the enemy. Yeah, no, the enemy Jeez. The opposing team, the enemy Harry's over there rhyming and stealing and yelling at him. Meanwhile it's like a 19-year-old kid going what? I'm sorry, bud, I'm trying my best over here, I'm trying the enemy Jeez man Harry, this is where I'm going to jump in here.
Speaker 1:You and I have discussed this before, with all the events we've gone to, whether it's concerts, sporting events, fairs Right, who doesn't love a good funnel cake? I guess they're getting pretty ridiculous. But not for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, where the college national championship game was held. They are continuing its quote fan-first concession prices, fan-first concession prices. What does that mean? I don't know what. Yeah, someone spent like $100 on some dogs and drinks. No says aye, it's like a hundred bucks on some dogs and drinks. No says aye, it's $2 for a soda. It was $2 for a pretzel. Right, there is where they get me. Harry, I'd order 50 pretzels, cause you don't spend a hundred bucks on concessions. Like, if you go into the game thinking you're spending a hundred dollars on concessions, yeah, yeah, that a hundred dollars is $2 a piece. I'm going to walk up to the counter and be like give me 50 of them and be like, excuse me, sir, we only I said 50 pretzels.
Speaker 1:Popcorn is $2. A hot dog is $3. Now, that's a little high for me. I'm a dollar dog guy. Yeah, I'm still not the biggest fan of a $3 dog, but, understandable, I get it. National championship French fries are $3. Burger is five, all right. So Abe Lincoln will get you a cheeseburger. But if you got two Abe Lincolns, you can get a cheeseburger and a draft beer. Yeah, that's the way it should be. I'm sorry, that's the way it should be so for $25, you could have got one of everything I just said. You get a burger, a beer, a french fry, a hot dog, a popcorn, a pretzel and a soda for $25. Bravo.
Speaker 1:I took our nephew Charlie to an Eagles game years ago. Yeah, go birds. And I spent like $25, $30 on some crab fries. Yeah, now, mind you, he was little. We went to a Dolphins game because I thought it was going to be a little more chill, right, and it was. It was great, it was a great time.
Speaker 1:But my man ate a whole bucket of crab fries. Yeah, I should have just taken the $30, crumpled it up and thrown it away, right, I mean, he loved it. Actually it was hilarious because he goes, uncle Harry, my mouth hurts and I was like, yeah, they're a little spicy. And then I look down and there is no crab fries left. My man ate a bucket, a bucket of ate a bucket, a bucket of them, a bucket of them. Man, those crab fries, you know what we call them on the street. She's crafty. You know what I'm saying. It's going to hurt you later. Yeah, I was not happy. Again, that was $30.
Speaker 1:It was the time it was a great story, you know, I got a great story out of it and all that, but I was still mad to spend $30 on French fries. No, I get that. I absolutely understand that. So the fanfare pricing way to go Atlanta, yeah, Good for you. Round of applause Now.
Speaker 1:If only your drivers could do better. Not every city, not every state, has good drivers, harry. I better. Not every city, not every state, has good drivers, harry. I'm going to throw out another golden trout here. Beginning of the year I got an influx of them. Shipment just came in. I have them.
Speaker 1:This one goes out to Minnesota. So recently I was up there for an event, an occasion Anyway. I had to get a rental car Flew into Minneapolis, st Paul, the LMSP get a car super foggy. When I said foggy, I couldn't see a couple cars ahead of me. It was pretty bad Now, the amount of snow, ice they get up there, the amount of salt and sand they got to put on the roads I'm driving, harry, I could have fell asleep how smooth it was. I didn't believe that I was actually driving on a road, coming from old Louisiana, where you get a DUI if you drive in a straight line, right, because the cops can sit behind you and be like what is it? He must, must've been drinking a little bit If he not avoid all these potholes. That's, that's fair, right. So I get the Minnesota and just smooth.
Speaker 1:And the drivers are courteous, like you at the Midwest nice, but they know the rules of the lane of like hey, I'm going to stay in the left lane. And now I was following and I would do right, I'll get in the left lane, pass somebody, I'll get back in the right lane, pass a semi, stay in the right lane. And there was a car behind me and I was like man, what are they doing? So I get over in the right lane, let them pass. They maintain their speed. They're doing 71. I'm doing 71.2. They maintained their speed because they saw I was coming up to a semi again and they slipped me over in front of them, like they know how to drive.
Speaker 1:It is that is so beautiful, as you say, chef kiss, amazing. Really. I'm that kind of driver. I'm paying attention down the road. I mean, that's one thing that our father, when he taught us driving is you don't look at the end of your hood? Is you don't look at the end of your hood, you look down the road. And that's one thing I'm great at. And I'm great at seeing that slow truck up there and I'm great at all. Right, buddy, you might want to get over. You know what I mean. That's something I say a lot. Actually, yeah, is you might want to get over? Buddy, I'm going to slide over. As great as your experience was, I want you to take that and do a 180. Okay, and that's how bad.
Speaker 1:Atlanta is Cool. Everyone is running 85 miles an hour. The roads are bumpy. You couldn't drive more than two miles without seeing a broke down car on the side of the road. Really, yeah, no one uses turn signals. You know how everyone jokes like ah, jersey don't use turn signals, yeah. Or BMWs, don't use Atlanta. I don't use turn signal yeah. Or BMWs don't use Atlanta. I don't think they work. I think a solar flare hit Atlanta perfectly and just knocked out every turn signal. That makes sense. Yeah, I heard about that. That was on the news.
Speaker 1:My thing is, I was also in a rental, but I had Illinois plates. I'm not going to drive like a madman without estate tax, right? Sorry, that puts a bullseye on you. Nope, that's smart. Speed limit's 70. I'm running 76 and I'm getting my doors blown off by someone who's not even using turn signals. And the amount of people who didn't even have their headlights on at night. It was like a weird twilight zone. Yeah, like guys, there are laws. I don't know. I don't know if you guys are aware, are those laws around here? That's my yield, dude. I have to give it to Atlanta drivers. No, that makes sense. Now there is an upside, because when I was in Atlanta driving to Tampa Bay, on our way down to Tampa Bay we passed a Buc-ee's and I said on the way back, we're stopping, right. Right, you're not going to know.
Speaker 1:We talked about Buc-ee's enough on this show. If you don't know what Buc-ee's is, look it up. It's amazing they are so successful. They advertise around my house on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and there is one for hundreds of miles. Do you know how bold it is to advertise for a product or a service in an area you don't service, especially in an area where you got Wawa and Sheetz battling? You are right there at the imaginary, the invisible line, the line of demarcation is right where you're at and then Bucky just goes. What's up? Man, it's literally like two kids walking by and a professional boxer walking by and be like hey guys, you wanna do this, like what? So we go to Bucky's.
Speaker 1:Mmhmm, I go in for three things a hat, a new travel mug and be for nuggets. Oh, dan, are you? I get my new hat. Fire, fire hat, I get my new travel mug. I go with the special white, with the red top, not the red, not the classic red. I had the classic red. I loved it. I said it's time for a change. I went with the white. I mean, you're not going to not Again. Love it Zero, not a single bag of beaver nuggets. Slow and low, that is the tempo.
Speaker 1:But why is there no beaver nuggets? Every shelf that had the beaver nuggets, the OG beaver nuggets. Now they did have some as I like to nuggets. The OG beaver nuggets. Now they did have some as I like to call them artisanal, ah Yep, from vanilla, cinnamon and some jalapeno flavor. I'm not sure there might've been a third other one, I don't care, but every shelf that had the OG beaver nuggets completely empty.
Speaker 1:I don't know if someone bought them out. I don't know if someone bought them out. I don't know if they missed a shipment. I don't know what's going on, but I was very upset that I did not get beaver nuggets. Yeah, that's pretty wild. I was going to buy like two bags and bring one home with me. Yeah, I mean, you have to at that point. There's no buckies near me. No, there's no beaver nuggets. So I hate to do it. As much as I've given Golden Trout Awards out to Buc-ee's, you're getting an eel for that one. Harry, your eel makes sense, right? It's probably the most thoughtful personal eel you've given. I got to give an eel out to this brass monkey over here who won't announce his name.
Speaker 1:The 2025 Major League Baseball MLB Hall of Fame HOF voting just came out and was announced. Three members haveB Hall of Fame HOF Voting just came out and it was announced, three members have made the Hall of Fame. Now, in order to make the Hall of Fame, you have to have all the ballots and you need 75% of the votes or higher to make it in. Three players two pitchers, one outfielder. Start at the bottom Billy Wagner made it in, who has some short two years with the Phillies, and then above him was CeCe Sabathia with Cleveland Guardians, now formerly known as the Cleveland Indians, and then he played with the Yanks. He was the starting pitcher for game one and I want to say game five, and the 2009 World Series, where Chase Utley rung his bell a couple times. Anyway, regardless, good for them.
Speaker 1:The number one with 99.7% of the votes, ichiro Suzuki, made it into the Hall of Fame. No brainer, right, that's not where my yield comes in. My yield's coming in now, like I'm happy for those three. That's not where my ill comes in. My ill's coming in now, like I'm happy for those three. My ill goes out to the one person who voted, who filled a ballot out and did not put Ichiro's name down. It's not even putting a name down. They literally hand you a checkbox, like here's the 20 guys who are eligible. Put a check in five boxes. They didn't pick Ichiro. I want to know who this clown picked. There's no excuse. There is zero excuse. I don't understand it. So I looked it up Just for curiosity's sake.
Speaker 1:The highest rated you know who's made it to the Hall of Fame Ken Griffey Jr. Four people didn't vote for him. Okay, that seems political. You know what I mean. He's a little edgy Backwards hat. It's King of the Junior. I get it. Number one I get it. Derek Jeter One vote short of unanimous. But Mariano Rivera is unanimous, jeter being one short. I don't know if I like it. Maybe his stats weren't the absolute best, but what he did for baseball he deserves 100%. Don't get me started on stats. Like okay, dude can hit defensively, not number one, I'll get to that later. You had Nolan Ryan. That was like five or six votes short. The dude threw seven no-hitters in his career and he wasn't unanimous. Number one Like, wasn't unanimous. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1:Ichiro who in his short career, with his 10th at bat, when he got a hit, harry, his career batting average did not go below 300 ever again. They gave him the number 51. He called randy johnson and said I will not bring dishonor to this number. Dishonor this. The word he used was dishonor. Who used that word in major league baseball? And, like a dude, is an icon. The first Japanese-born player in the US Hall of Fame Got it, but whoever did not vote for him? Oh, by the way, we're not the only ones who are upset about this.
Speaker 1:Ichiro Suzuki has invited the one person who didn't vote for him to dinner at his house. Yeah, do you accept? The answer is yes, you have to, because if you want to be brazen enough to not vote for him, stick to your guns. Stick to those guns. I want you to look me in the face and tell me why. Right? And then you know what we're going to do. You and I are going to car ride. We're going to go to Cooperstown and we're going to point from here, and it's outside Brooklyn, we'll stop for gas.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm in New York city, somewhere like Brooklyn. So, from here to there, no sleep, harry. No sleep till Brooklyn. Stay up, and I'm going to let you know exactly how I feel about you in multiple languages.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a big kicker I. It doesn't make sense to me. You know. There, it doesn't make sense to me. You know, there there are guys that I'll happily debate. You know what I mean. Right, don't, don't deserve it or do deserve it. That's the fun of the baseball hall of fame, I feel.
Speaker 1:But I I mentioned the, the, the word earlier. I'm going to stick to that word. It's political, it's BS, it's, it's not good, it's nasty, it's a meal, 100%. It's the Hall of Fame, not the Hall of Pretty Good. Yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:And when I think of Ichiro, he's more than pretty good. He's more than pretty good. I didn't dislike him when he came out in 2001. Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season yeah, mind you, he was in his 20s and is not a typical rookie because he came from Japan. Regardless, okay. And If you include the Japanese professional league stats and the US stats, he has more hits than Pete Rose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in a short period of time. How can you not respect that? Yeah, doesn't make sense to me. That's why we're giving it a kneel. Yeah, all right, dude, let's lower the blood pressure here a little bit. Are you ready?
Speaker 1:It is time for America's favorite segment, pwn polls. We're news. Here is your host, paul. Hey, harry, thanks for the shout out out here on the streets. Boy, do I have some stories for you, some we've been waiting for for quite some time.
Speaker 1:No, we've all picked up some books, right, you know, and I still know in the middle of our job, if we've just decided to kick back and read, I sure thought about it. Sometimes you do need to read, like if you're just having one of those days, whether it's for work, work material, or you see a little motivation, a little kick in the pants, as they like to say. Well, we got to give it to our shout-out, to our guy number 11, aj Brown, for the Philadelphia Eagles. The television broadcast happened to catch him doing something which they thought was unheard of, never done before. But it turns out he's been doing it all season, sitting on a cellulite and reading a book called Inner Excellence. He has passages highlighted and underlined for internal motivation to help him understand right, because he had one reception for 10 yards that game and he's a thousand yard receiver. So feed him the ball and so it would help him from being a prima donna or really just trying to be a ball hog and understand that there's a team around him. He reads this book called inner excellence.
Speaker 1:Well, before he was highlighted, that book was sitting at 523 497th on amazon's bestseller list. Overnight that book went to number one. Oh, overnight, harry, like. They even interviewed the author, murphy. They said, hey, but what do you think he's like? I was not expecting that. You know, it's a real gift. I looked at Amazon last night and it got number one. So that was a huge surprise. Obviously your book is number one. That's a huge surprise. He was expecting in like the 8 to 9 thousand range, like to jump up right because it's AJ Brown, one of the best receivers in the game in the playoffs, reading your book on the sideline. He was picked in round 9,000.
Speaker 1:My favorite part is the amount of reviews that this book has from people that don't even own it. It's so great, it's like nothing negative. This book has to be amazing if AJ Brown is reading this on the sideline. Aj Brown is my icon. I want to be like him when I grow up. And it's comments like that about the book, like this book has to be that great.
Speaker 1:All right, let's move on from sitting on the sideline reading self-help. And you know what? Sometimes you do need self-help when you're not feeling well. Mm-hmm, you know what they say. There's some books about it. Sometimes you need it for the soul. Sometimes you need it for illness.
Speaker 1:A little chicken noodle soup, harry, does the body good. It does the body good. I like chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side. I like chicken noodle soup when I'm not feeling well or when I'm feeling great. I think chicken noodle soup is the soup equivalent of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. That's good. That's actually amazing, dude. Wow, I'm blown away.
Speaker 1:But now imagine this. This is why we're in the weird news segment. So Progresso, right, the big blue can. They're infamous. It's the Campbell's soup competitor, progresso, who uses apparently all fresh ingredients I don't know, I haven't tried it yet A lot of sodium content, I bet. Well, they're like hey, how else can we get people to enjoy our soup flavors without just eating our soups? So recently the company announced they're launching what's called soup drops and chicken noodle soup flavor hard candy drop that resemble cough drop. So can you imagine? Here it is.
Speaker 1:As some may know, by the time this comes out, you'll probably know flu is running rampant in my home right now. I feel like George Washington at the Battle of Valley Forge. Three of the five units have been overtaken by the enemy, the enemy being the flu. And here I am, as George, standing on top of the hill saying hold your ground. I may need to go to the store and find these, because chicken noodles soup makes you feel better and I have a cough, two birds, one stone. Let's get you some Progresso chicken noodles. It's called Dude, can you it? My, my thing is, could you imagine, like walking into someone and like, hey, my throat's a little scratchy. Like, oh, here you go and you think it's a cough drop. Right, you're like, oh, thank you, dude, I really appreciate that. I really need that right now. And you throw it in your mouth and you start tasting chicken noodle soup. I'll spit that thing on the ground. I'm spitting it out, I'm testing myself for a stroke. I'm going to ask what is wrong with that person. Yes, how and why do you have this? What is this? What happened here? Like I have, I'm a huge fan of fishermen, friends, cough drops the strongest cough drop I can get.
Speaker 1:I buy it on amazon and I buy it by the pack that you have at a convenience store counter. I buy the big box, harry, and like anybody at work who they have a sniffles or a little sore throat, I throw them a bag here, enjoy, I give them a fair warning though. Here, try one first. I'm like the little dealer, right, I got the sample bag here. Like, hey, hey, you want to try a little cough drop? Here you try one. Wow, it's really good, I feel better. Do you want to hold back? I don't know if you can do that with these cough drops.
Speaker 1:Chicken noodle soup, flavor cough drop Like what are we doing here? It's too much. It's weird. Like I found the delicacy the other day at the store. I sent Harry the picture. Our fans did not get the picture. Yet I found the delicacy from the late 90s, early 2000s the strawberry cream savers. Mmm Solid, if I get a chicken noodle soup like a cream saver, you know hard candy, okay, right, I'm going to know. But if I need a cough drop and you hand me one of those, you're going to need a cough drop because your throat is going to be sore. You're catching hands. You're not catching a cold, you're not getting a cough drop, you're getting a knuckle sandwich right to the throat. Yeah, yeah, you're catching hands. I think you're going to try and poison me Like what you know. It's just like a lost art, you know. Moving on to my third one Harry Third PWN story.
Speaker 1:Can you read cursive? Right? That is the first statement of an article I was reading. It said can you read cursive? And I was like, well, yeah, I'm a grown man, I can read cursive. You know what else can read cursive? Girls, cause they have really nice handwriting. I don't know, I assumed, uh, but apparently it's a superpower.
Speaker 1:The Archives is looking for Harry. The National Archives, not mom and pop library down the street here. The National Archives in the District of Columbia, washington, is looking for people who can read cursive. That's not good. Yeah, yeah. National Archives would like a word with you. Well, not just one word. Maybe a million, more than 200 years worth of US documents need transcribing what and the vast majority are from the Revolutionary War era are handwritten in cursive, requiring people who know the flowing loop form of penmanship Straight from USA. Today, they are looking for people who can read cursive, transcribe it, submit it. Our mom would be great at that. She would be phenomenal at this. Now, here's the thing. It's a volunteer thing you're not getting paid for. Our mom would not want to do that. No, I don't want to volunteer for this. You're going to pay our mom for her time, right, but it might have worked.
Speaker 1:The old J-Dog, he's the one that actually brought this up to me, so credit out to you, jared Salute. He asked me if I read this article and I was like I don't know what you're talking about. He goes do I have some PWN for you? So then to further in-depth his research. He volunteered, he signed up for it. No, no way. Yeah, he's like I'm going to go home, me and my wife hang out. I don't got anything else to do. I'm going to clean some guns. Let me figure this out. He's like I mean, what else am I going to do? I'm going home, me and my wife eat dinner, watch TV, go to bed.
Speaker 1:And so it was like revolutionary war documents that are in cursive and he's just reading it on his computer screen and typing out what it says. So that's putting in the current text. Uh, and it was. He sounds like a private from the old arm, you know continental army to his family, like how cool is that? That is awesome. Like if I had time, I I would do this. But I mean notes from Charles Mason of the infamous Mason-Dixon line, to immigration documents for the 1890s, to Japanese evacuation records, to the 1950 census. Like I'm talking when America was founded, until the 1950s. They need people to decipher what is said Now sometimes.
Speaker 1:The other issue is not just the cursive, harry. I mean I know we joke about just the cursive, but it's also like smudges and faded. A lot of things have faded over time. Yeah, wear and tear of a 200-year-old letter. Speaking of wear and tear, harry man, I love how you brought certain words up. When you think of wear and tear, when I say mountain lion, it may turn school into lockdown, you're like, oh, a mountain lion is going to wear and tear some people out. Yeah, I don't want to fight a mountain lion. Yeah, I don't want to fight a mountain lion.
Speaker 1:An elementary school in the state of Washington recently went viral for an unforgettable wildlife scare. On a normal Tuesday morning, reports of a mountain lion near the school led the officials to impose an immediate lockdown to protect students. Right, you hear elementary school. So elementary school is K through average five, right? Right? So that's small children. Right, that's five to nine-year-olds, 10-year-olds. Get them babies safe. Right, you got a mountain lion running out in the loose. They're not defending themselves. Lock that place down. And as a parent rightfully so, I agree. As a non-parent, I rightfully agree. Right, and like the diverse landscapes of that state make it a natural home to mountain lions. Right, like people think of Washington it's not just Seattle, like it's very beautiful east of Seattle as well, and it kind of stops raining the further east you go, washington can almost be two states. Oh yeah, absolutely Rightfully so.
Speaker 1:The school took no chance. Oh, there's a mountain lion coming. Here's where it gets the weird news, harry. You know, a mountain lion outside of school is not weird news. That's called the nature channel. Here's where it gets school here news. It wasn't a mountain lion, oh, it was just a really fat tabby cat eating a rat. You stop it right now. A really fat tabby cat just chomping on a rat and somebody called it a mountain lion. How fat is your tabby that everybody thinks it's a mountain lion? Now, good for the school.
Speaker 1:This has nothing to do with the school, nothing to do with the officials there. No, I'm proud of the school. I'd rather laugh about it than cry about it, buddy. I'd rather you guys shut the school down and like, hey, we're giving reports of a mountain lion. Who's the first person? I want to know who the person is that went out there and went, oh, you know the first person, jim Teacher. Oh yeah, jim Teacher was like I'll go look, jim Teacher. Or the Athletic Director yeah, oh, the Athletic Director Right, who's like the pseudo third substitute in life? He's a third substitute in life. Hey, jim, you're the Athletic Director from elementary school. Why don't you For an elementary school? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Or Larry the janitor, yo, clint, hey, larry, you got some of that puke dust you gonna. You know what I mean. Maybe that'll scare the mountain lion away. Maybe the smell will. That's a big cat, you know what I mean, the ginormous cat. And I'll send you our. So, just so our listeners know, I intentionally don't send harry my pwn stories until after we talk about him and then he gets to read them after that because I don't let him know beforehand.
Speaker 1:But the comments on social media are astounding, obviously fromief. I can't believe that happened to. How could this overweight cat catch a rat? Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, I mean, it's a big boy. But here's my favorite. You know, obviously you got favorite parts, yes, and those about it is.
Speaker 1:One parent shared that the kids found the incident hilarious, so it's like that's great, you know. And there's another one going. I remember something like this happened to me when I was in school, where they said there was a pack of wolves outside, so I was locked down. It turns out it was just a single golden retriever running around like, hey Jesus, like we've heard the boy who cried wolf, but like I don't know, we got the kid who called mountain lion yet but yeah, yeah. So with that, be safe out there for them. Fat cats eating rats. And that's it for me out here on the streets.
Speaker 1:Harry, back to you in Studio T, I've seen some big cats, but not like mountain lion cats. No, no, I've seen some big cats. You know what I mean. So our packing up the truck segment sometimes. So again, to be clear, our show is never scripted. It is what's that word? Outlined, outlined. I was like I don't know what word you're going with. Authentic. Our show is never scripted. There's no script for us. No, it is outlined. We're going to hit these points Boom, boom, boom. Say what, say whatever it is we want to say about it. Move on, packing up the truck.
Speaker 1:Sometimes we have ideas not weird enough for the news. It's not a trout or an eel, but I want to talk about it? Right, I want to talk about it with you. Sometimes we have ideas and sometimes like, oh, what are we going to talk about? And then we always do our little pre-show. And this is. You were telling me how you make your coffee. You're just your morning coffee. So I stopped you mid sentence and I said, buddy, this will be our packing up the truck segment. We went a little long this episode.
Speaker 1:This is a little quick five minute, jabby, as the truck's warming up because it's cold here. Oh yeah, let's see. Tuesday morning my truck read two, not one. Two. Two. Okay, so second place. Good work, dude.
Speaker 1:And then I know you're dealing with the cold. What is it right now for you? Tuesday morning, I know for a fact, it was 15, and now I don't mind it, but for down here, that's a lot. Right now it is 35, which is we're having a heat wave. Oh good, it's dropping down to like 26 tonight. So you need that nice warm cup of coffee in the morning to wake you up, get you going, absolutely. I need that every single day. So go ahead and explain to me how you make your coffee. I'm not talking about, like, the Saturday morning specialty. No, no, no, because we are going to talk about that Just your morning going to work.
Speaker 1:This is the biggest travel mug that I've had. Now, for eight years, seven years, seven years, I've had the same travel mug. Now, mind you, the paint is peeled off. It has a sweet Trout Streams sticker on there. Now I get it, I get my creamer, which is the. We didn't go this far, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything. It is the Walmart brand sugar-free French vanilla liquid creamer. Do you think Walmart brand tastes better than coffee make? Or is it a price point? More bang for my buck, okay, yeah, no, that's completely fair, way, more bang for my buck. And honestly, when you get the sugar-free French vanilla, they taste the same, okay, see, that was my other question. I think the Walmart one's a little lighter, okay, okay, I think the Walmart one's a little lighter, okay, by not as heavy the viscosity's lighter, not as heavy of as a cream, okay, right, so Go on, I take my mug.
Speaker 1:It's clean. How I wash my mug, harry, is after I finish drinking my coffee, my third cup. I'll fill it with water and then I'll drink it out of there. Mug's clean Coffee water and then I'll drink it out of there. Mugs clean. Oh, coffee water. Yeah, another bold strategy here. Cotton, let's see how this plays out. Go ahead. So that's how I wash my mugs. So my mug's clean.
Speaker 1:I put my creamer in first. Liquid creamer I put it in first for our listeners so they can listen. Listen, put your creamer in first so you can measure how much you put in there. And then I go over to my coffee pot, which is set to go off at 6 am every day. Grab that carafe from Mr Coffee. We're good friends. I call him Mr, very formal. Fill my cup up, that's it as I'm pouring the hot coffee into my mug. Stirs up the creamer. Zero need for me to stir anything. I put the lid on. I kiss my wife goodbye. Grab my kids, throw them in the truck. I put the lid on. I kiss my wife goodbye. Grab my kids, throw them in the truck. Whiskey, thattle.
Speaker 1:Question though what coffee do you use? Best part of waking up is Folgers in my cup. I go Folgers, black silk oh, I'm a classic, regular or regular roast. Have you had black silk? No, cannot have. Do you like a darker, bolder coffee? No, alright. Well, never mind, don't get black silk, I'll try it. It puts hair on your chest. I don't need more. It's not mud. It's not mud, it's not disgusting, it's a good, good, deep coffee flavor.
Speaker 1:No, there was a point in time where I would go to the commissary or some, wherever I was, and if it was a can, it could have been a white can, could have been a yellow can, and along the head, where there's coffee on it, I was making a pot, using it to make a pot, and I realized in my mid twenties no, no, no, every, every coffee matters. Like. What kind of coffee do you want? They all differ. So before let me tell you why you're wrong, Completely wrong.
Speaker 1:I understand wanting to measure your creamer. That makes perfect sense and I will give you that. But at the same time, why don't you use the same logic with coffee first and then creamer on top? Because when you pour the coffee into the creamer, it's too hot still, but when you put the creamer on top it, you pour the coffee into the creamer, it's too hot still, but when you put the creamer on top, it cools it down. So you can take a little sippy sip and hit the road and get going.
Speaker 1:I don't want to make coffee and drink it in 15 minutes. I don't have time for that. I want my coffee now. No, and by adding by, by adding the creamer last, it cools it down, that top layer off enough to where you can have a sip. No, I get that, I used to. Uh, when it's in the dead heat of the summer, I will make my coffee the normal way. I would get one ice cube out of my freezer. Little bleep, I hit the ice cube button. Yeah, see, I don't have to worry about that. I get one ice cube, set it on top. So that way they're the first. Two millimeters are cold. That way, they're the first. Two millimeters are cold. Take a sip and I'm ready to rock and roll. I will drink hot coffee from january 1st to december 31st and every day in between. Me too. I don't know what happened. That was going to be my other thing.
Speaker 1:First off, I use powdered creamer like an old man. Don't know how or when that started. Love it, don't get me started. Love powder creamer. I also use sugar, but you know that's neither here nor there. Uh, you remind me of the BC boys. You like your sugar with a little coffee and cream. Yeah, I don't know how powdered cream started in my life. Uh, I started with your grandfather. Well, I know he enjoyed it, but I'm saying like I used to be a liquid creamer creamer guy too. I don't know what happened. I think they all got too rich for I get that.
Speaker 1:Like I used to have powder creamer, whether it was a coffee mate powder or, um, whatever brand I found I felt as though like dried dairy creamer was the same. Yeah, no, I only use coffee mate. Don't get me off brand. Uh, sabrina was really blown away when I came home, I think, with some like powder cream where she's like you, you actually like that stuff. And I was like I've been telling you for years I actually enjoy this. It's a different flavor. I love it With the black silk. It is a delicacy. Yeah, don't get me wrong, I enjoy the liquid creamer, but something about that powdered creamer in there Just slaps. Do you remember? So, like again, you grew up military, right? Yeah, you grew up in the military More of my life in than out, yeah, so my question to you is do you remember when you first started having coffee?
Speaker 1:Or did coffee kind of come into your life as like basic training and all that Like I need something to keep going? No. So when I got in oh three is when I joined oh five I want to say energy drinks were starting to come big. I still remember the first time I had a green monster. Oh, okay, I didn't sleep for a long time, yeah, and, like unintentional, I had no idea what I was doing. Oh, what is this? Energy drink drink? We're driving and my buddy's doing a road trip and I pretty much drove the whole way. I'm fine guys. Yeah, it was a five, six hour ride, ain't nothing. I don't know when, but I can't think of a time without coffee At home.
Speaker 1:When I was young, in my dorm room, I didn't have coffee. In my early dorm rooms, when I first moved off base, I didn't have a coffee pot, but there was a moment where I did and I think it was working like mid-shift or third shift in the wintertime Going. Now, my was Vegas, so it was like 40, 50 degrees at night, but for us it's a lot because it was just 120 a few months prior. So I bought a thermos, had a four-cup coffee pot and filling that bad boy up and it just stuck from there. I worked second shift and I was tired and I went into Wawa and I normally go to a bottle of water and I was like you know what, I'll get coffee too. And from that day on, I just drink coffee every day, all day, every day.
Speaker 1:I do like a little heavy cream on the weekend, though that's not an everyday thing. No, no, though that's not an everyday thing. No, no, no, can't be an everyday thing. The heavy whipping cream is good on the weekends, like that's nice little. I have a little bit left over from some biscuits I made today. So since I'm working from home tomorrow, I was going to say treat yourself tomorrow, on Friday, buddy. Oh yeah, I'm working from home tomorrow because I'm taking care of the battlefield of flu here. Don't worry, I've read up, I have I've read the book Art of War, so I'm ready to handle this. Good, well, actually, up here in the north it is attacking us as well. So Okay, and just down for the count. Yeah, we got to watch, we got to watch that flank. I had the hacksaw ready to take off and land. Yeah, makes sense. Now one thing is funny enough we talked about this.
Speaker 1:I went to the old shop at Class 6, the Exchange, whatever they want to call it, a little gas station on base. It changes names every few years and I went to get a cup of coffee. It was one of those days where, like I've already had one, I need another cup of coffee now. So I go in there and I grab my cup. I grab the 20 ounce cup and this is what I miss about wawa, like I would take wawa over any other coffee. That's a totally different debate. Harry, also, wawa has irish cream creamer liquid version. I, when I go into wawa, my eyes are only on the green label Irish cream boom. So I go to the shop.
Speaker 1:The other day, the other week I don't remember what day it was I grab my cup and I go over to the creamer thing and I think it was either half and half or French vanilla. So I go half and half. That's my standard one. If that's out, then I'll go French vanilla, put the creamer in the cup and this one guy looks at me and goes oh man, I never thought of that. I said all right, I'm not a social person in the morning, you're not Right. And also it's like I'm not a social person with. It's just weird Ranking all this stuff on base. That guy looks at me and goes never thought.
Speaker 1:Really curious that I put creamer in first and I went over to the coffee pot then put my coffee in. I look over and this dude's got like three stirring sticks stirring his coffee up, mind you, the whole time. This is weird. As I'm getting my coffee, I put the creamer in, got my coffee. He's sitting there stirring the whole time. I'm like, do you not want to go to work? But also because I'm a, hey, let's go Right. That's what I've known for a long time. So what process can I make easier for me? What process can be smoother? I get it, it's just not natural. No, I get it. You saying that, you know, with the putting hot coffee in there, it makes sense. But here's what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to change. You're not. And you know what, buddy, I hope you never change.
Speaker 1:The 78th highest selling album in the US is the Beastie Boys License to Ill. We've been sneaking the titles in here and there. I hope you caught on to that. Or now that we've said it, you go. Oh, yeah, yeah, I thought that, yeah, it makes sense. I thought, uh, fighting for your rights of party was kind of a weird line to say. But yeah, we have no sleep till brooklyn, even though cooperstown is in cooperstown. All right, uh, harry, I've been waiting for this. We, we each this this album right here. I've been waiting for it. That is the only cd that has been in my current truck ever. That's wild. The day cd player in my CD player in my truck. They bought my truck. It came out of my old truck CD player and went directly into this one. Really, yes, I don't know. That's a topic we'll have to discuss I don't know what In a future episode. Yeah, no rhyme or reason. Good luck, I don't know what. It is Alright With that.
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