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#79 - WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Experience a powerful blend of love, loss, and laughter as we honor our grandfather’s memory while celebrating life’s unexpected joys. In this heartfelt episode, we share poignant reflections on family, navigating through our feelings of grief, and the importance of community support in tough times. We also delve into the recent excitement surrounding the Philadelphia Eagles and the Super Bowl, where passion and pride fill the air, showcasing the incredible bond sports can foster among fans.
As parents, we navigate the ups and downs of raising kids while sharing memorable moments, from paint spills to laughter in the aisles of Lowe’s. Raising our children amidst such chaos offers golden opportunities for learning, growth, and connection.
Humor and heartfelt stories dance together as we recount our favorite plays from the game and discuss the unforgettable moments that have marked our journey as lifelong Eagles fans. Tune in to hear our thoughts on the profound impact of shared experiences, the power of community, and the everlasting moments that define our families.
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Normally our absences are for vacations, family time or just because we need a break. Recently, the trout stream has lost someone close to them. Our grandfather, thomas Bowden, has passed away. We thank everyone that reached out with love and support. We'll take a brief moment of silence. Breaking ball destroyed oh Castellanos clubs into the bullpen. Pop always had a good sense of humor and, just so you know, he would have laughed at that. We'll miss you, pop. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Trout Stream.
Speaker 1:I am Harry Troutman, and with me, as always, is my co-host. I am Paul Troutman, and with me, as always, is my co-host. I am Paul Troutman.
Speaker 1: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. Paul is 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 unique shoplifting punishment?
Speaker 1:In Michigan, we hand out awards for the great, the heartwarming and 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. No-transcript. Welcome to the Trout Strain 79. Everybody, welcome to the party. We will talk about it in depth later.
Speaker 1:We talked about it before the show. This is our first episode. We are recording this episode almost a month after 78. There has been a gap. There has been a lot going on. You heard our moment of silence to start this episode off. Paul's had personal development. I've had personal development. I'm trying to grow a mustache. Pauls is still as great as ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was one big takeaway and we are not going to start the show with it, but we are sure as anything going to end with it. Your Super Bowl 59 champions are none other than the Philadelphia Eagles. Go, birds, go, and I mean this. Go Birds Go, and I mean this second part Birds. Hmm, we talked about it pre-show. We could talk about it for six hours. We're not going to do that. My intro to talking about the one-hour game would be six hours. We are going to pack up the truck with that and we're going to do our normal stuff here to start the show with. That being said, paul, it's been a month. It's been a while bud anything fun and exciting going on in that past month. That past month I got to give a shout out to my valentines, right, because we didn't record valentines day. I was going to save that as my golden trout. But I'm going give a shout out to my Valentines, right, because we didn't record for Valentine's Day. I was going to save that as my golden trout, but I'm going to get it out of the way early. Valentine's Day was Friday.
Speaker 1:I had off work, spoiled off Andy's, your dog. Andy's a dog, I don't have another. Kid, yeah, and spoiled for the five baby. I trimmed my mustache twice last month. Kid, yeah, I can spoil for the five baby. I uh threw my mustache twice last month.
Speaker 1:I needed Sabrina's help on the last time because I apparently did it lopsided. Nice, yeah, yeah, she had something wrong with my face and I was like what do you mean? She goes, your mustache is off. And I was like, well, she comes up. You know, paul, do you smell burnt toast at all? Can you smile? Yeah, she comes up. You know, paul, do you smell burnt toast at all? Can you smile? Hey, yeah, hold your arm straight out. What else have I done? Dress the girls up in a lot of Eagles clothes, which we'll save that for later. I could not. No, I did get this. Oh man Repainting the girls' bathroom. Harry, I'm going to make this quick and fun Painted it green, no coincidence.
Speaker 1:So I took Olivia to Lowe's with me. I said hey, girls, let's go get a sample, because we couldn't decide between two shades of green. No, we want it, let's go get a sample of paints. Some whites will redo the cabinets in there as well. Some knobs You've got to buy a couple of knobs to test it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we skipped nap and she was a little fussy and she really wanted one of those big suckers, or some people call them lollipops or taffies, right, the big ones that we used to get in school for like a dollar. And I was like no, no, not right now. It's nap time, you haven't eaten lunch yet, so you're not getting candy. So I pick her up and she's a little mad at me, right as any, and she's a little mad at me, right as any three-and-a-half-year-old would be. And as she swung her foot she happened to hit the bag that had the paint in it and the bag rips open and my sample seven-and-a-half-ounce things of paint hit the floor in loads and explode everywhere.
Speaker 1:At that moment, libby and I just looked at each other. I'm not mad, right, I don't get mad. I just sat there and looked at her and I started laughing. And she gets upset and I'm like what are you upset about? Like it's life. And she's standing there looking at me. I'm looking at my pants, I'm looking at her trying to laugh. You know, while I am laughing, an associate comes over who really kind, cleans up Olivia's boots. He's like I'm just standing there, I got paint all Because then I realized I'm an adult and I'm like, oh, I'm supposed to help me. So they called the janitor over and what he put on this paint, harry, I can only describe as the puke powder from elementary school. It didn't smell as bad. Oh, that's good. So Olivia and I have left our mark in the self-checkout aisle of our local Loast. That's awesome. Yeah, overall, minus, you know, flying back home for two days.
Speaker 1:It was a good time off. I mean, you know what? I could go into every detail of the last month, harry, I'll be honest, I don't remember. Angie and I went out to a barbecue is our thing. It was at our wedding. So there was a barbecue place near us phenomenal. Angie and I went out to barbecue is our thing. It was at our wedding. So there was a barbecue place near us, phenomenal, 10 minutes down the road. Never had it Okay. So we went, we tried it, like I said, delicious.
Speaker 1:Other than that, seeing you for all the wrong reasons, you know what I mean it sucked. It was nice to see you, of course, in person and not just through a screen. But other than that man, I got nothing. I, I got nothing. I honestly have truly have nothing worth talking about. Now. There's two things that will bring up. One is you and I played Madden together for the first time since 64 and N64, I would say since N64 days, because we didn't have a Madden after that. Marshall Falk was on the cover of the last Madden. You and I sat down and played next to each other with Alright. So that was fun. You know, figuring out the controls and stuff. It's a bit of a different game. Yeah, there's a football game between that event and today, but realistically, harry, let's really talk about the mandate.
Speaker 1:We went on in two separate states, essentially at the same time. So a new Captain America movie came out. I am a huge Sam Wilson Captain America guy Big fan. Well, they had this really cool popcorn bucket, which popcorn buckets are now a thing, they're really blowing up, but it was captain america's shield. You flip it over. It has a collapsible basket on the other side, you know, you fill it with popcorn. I really wanted this juice. It's uh, it's going to go on my wall behind me and I thought it was really nice. So I bought about four opening day ticket.
Speaker 1:Movies come out. Technically, opening day is Friday, but they show them Thursday night. So I got a Thursday night ticket and I went to go get my bucket, by the way, secured. Also got a cool cup. We're not going to talk about the price of it. It's a little crazy. I'm not going to lie, but this was my birthday treat to myself, no-transcript.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not going to go watch Barbie on the big screen or Paw Patrol by myself. No, sometimes I don't even want to watch those as much as a guy who doesn't have kids loves Paw Patrol. I'm just saying it's a great show. Yeah, I'm entertaining. Chase is always on the case, he is.
Speaker 1:So I told Andrew. I said, hey, I'm going to go see a movie by myself. And that's exactly what I did. Yeah, and it was glorious, the movie. I don't know if you want my professional movie-watching opinion. It was just another superhero movie, that's all. It wasn't nothing to write home about. No need to rush out to the theater and see it. I'm going to be honest, wait until it comes out on Disney+. It's definitely like start something. Yeah, that's all it is. It's just an arc in the story.
Speaker 1:I loved it, I loved, I loved the me time. I love the popcorn. I didn't love the cherry Coke. We'll get into that later. We'll get into that. Yeah, it's Neil. But then come to find out. Here's the kicker about all this. You then go see the movie Same night. Same night, almost the same time. I think I was like an hour after you. Yeah, because you were just finishing up the movie when I got home. Ish, yeah, but you know I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Now, what did you get? Did you get the popcorn? Uh, I got just a regular medium popcorn and the large cherry Coke. But once again, we'll jump in that later. But I also, so we went on the night, valentine's Day Eve, did it? I brought Sabrina about it. You know that you were going and she was do you want to go? And I was like I'm not really into it Like I'm. I'm so far behind. Yeah, I said, just go, tickets were.
Speaker 1:I went that night, made sure the kids were in bed, but what I also did was it was cool here, like cold, chilly, so I went and got their flowers and I let them in my truck, went to the movie and then brought all the flowers home. Well, while buying flowers, I bought like two bags of gummy worms and put them in my hoodie pouch. Ooh, and so I had gummy worms while watching Captain America. It was a good offset from destroying my mouth with salty popcorn. I will say this I was the only person there that I saw with a shield bucket, which made me feel like an absolute nerd. By the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I buy the bucket and the cup because there's a you know, it's actually a pretty, pretty cool cup too. And then the guy hands me this stuff and then he goes all right, you know, it's actually a pretty cool cup too. And then the guy hands me this stuff and then he goes all right, you're free to go. And I was like it's a popcorn bucket, where is my popcorn? And he goes oh, you want popcorn. And I was like, yeah, yeah, I thought popcorn came in it. Actually he goes oh, we don't actually put the popcorn in it, we don't want it to get all dirty and messy. And I was like, oh, thanks, that's very considerate. And then he goes so you still want popcorn? I was like, yes, I still want the popcorn. Dude, yeah, I want equivalent amount of popcorn, but in a paper bag. So he did give me the popcorn and then he tried to hand me a cup and I'm like you just handed me a cup. Why do cup? And I'm like you just handed me a cup. Why do I need a paper cup if you just handed me a cup? Oh, because people don't use those. They're collector's items, you know, unused. I'm not selling it. Oh, this is my stuff, I bought it. But all in all, it was awesome that we did that. I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 1:I told Andrew I think about once a quarter. You know, fiscal quarter. I might go do that. Oh, fiscal quarter, good use of the word there, harry. Yeah, I mean, I don't need to do it every month or anything like that, nothing crazy. But just, you know, every couple months, go out on a go out on a me date.
Speaker 1:You know we end the show about mental health, and that's my thing is, sometimes I just need to be alone in a movie theater eating popcorn. What I love about a movie theater and I know the prices are high and all this stuff, and it's not for everyone, unfortunately, anymore it forces you to do nothing but watch a movie. No phone, no distraction, no, nothing. Just sit here and watch this movie. That's all you have to do for the next two and a half three hours. There's something in that that I just absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I played on my phone during the last movie, during Captain America, yeah, yeah, see, I'm not surprised. It's not your full cup of tea, you know. No, like I enjoyed it, but it was just like I was so lost because I haven't watched anything leading up to it, any series, and I figured out most of it by the end. Definitely should watch the miniseries. Yeah, I'm going to now that I have the. You know the end. Now I gotta watch the beginning. Road is so dry and scratchy.
Speaker 1:Alright, you ready for this part, harry? Yes, ready for me to jump in, as much as our listeners would love listening to us reminisce about the last almost month since we recorded, which was your birthday. So you're almost one month old now. Let's jump into what they really want to hear. Harry, and that's our favorite number 79s.
Speaker 1:Now, folks, as you may know, nascar season is back. We had Daytona 500 last weekend and Harry and I made our picks on the side. If you want to see our text of our picks to prove that we're telling the truth, shout us out and we will. I'm not ashamed to show that to you. Harry won with 21 car. I won with the 34 car car. We'll go more in depth about that later. I won, I get to go first. This is nice.
Speaker 1:I've been waiting since the end of the NASCAR season which feels like eternity, but it's been like three months very short off season to go first number 79, harry, I have to scratch my brain, rack my brain. I got to go with all-star first baseman, original White Sox, now currently with the Houston Astros, jose Abreu. Pretty good first baseman number 79. I actually got to see him live in person in Oakland when it was White Sox versus the A's buddy of mine good White Sox fan, the A's Buddy of mine, good White Sox fan. Shout out Zach and we sat behind home plate. Got to see Jose Abreu Really good game.
Speaker 1:My next one, not a household name, harry wasn't even familiar with this one. First name Trevor, last name Keegan. He is the current backup guard for the Super Bowl champions, philadelphia Eagles. That's how to bring it up. To just say that last part, I know for a fact no NBA players have won 79. Interesting. Don't ask me how I know that. I just do. Yeah, whatever traits.
Speaker 1:And then one, todd Harriman's. He played on the Eagles 05 to Big Todd in the Middle. Big Todd in the Middle, I mean Todd man. He left too soon. He did leave too soon. I like Todd. I'm a huge Todd Harriman's fan. Like if we could ever get him one. Right, he's a cool Todd Todd Harriman's fan. His name is Todd. Right, he's a cool Todd.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when we drop this episode and I go on all of our social media, especially Instagram and X slash Twitter, I tag everybody who we talk about in the episode, like every number. I try and find them Ooh, putting the work in dude and tag them because it's like hey, man, I got to give you your props for your number. We've mentioned you. I want you to be there. I might message him. You should. 100%, I'm gonna reach out.
Speaker 1:We retire, I don't know, maybe guest star on our show, who knows, playing a little gals, I saw your fact there. You know, close my mind. Nobody in the NBA has born 79. Did you know? Only 21 players in MLB history have born 79? Oh, and the weird part is like, looking back on all of history, it's a 12-year range, from 2012 to 2014. It's the only time 79 has been born. So MLB started in like 1880, I don't know 15. Abe Blank was only dead for Abe Blank was dead for 20 years and they're like well, let's play a game. Nobody's more than 79 wild. But Harry, everybody's favorite part here NFL draft picks number 79 overall. Let's go newest to oldest, because this is a fun one and I've got two very important ones, five.
Speaker 1:We talked about Todd Harriman, eagles offensive lineman. How about this name? Evan Mathis. Evan Mathis and Todd Harriman were on that Eagles offensive line at the same time. I love it when that that were. Those were the days when things work out for the show.
Speaker 1:Oh, don't worry, harry, yeah, this episode is going to be wild off the rails because how about 1999? New York football giants number 79 overall selection. You may have heard his name he wants to bite people's kneecaps off Dan Campbell? No way Head coach of Detroit Lions was taken, I guess, technically 26 years ago now, number 79 overall as a tight end. Now look at him, number one seed in the playoffs gets eliminated in the video round. What are you going to do? What are you going to do?
Speaker 1:The 79th highest grossing movie is not Secret Life of Pets, it is Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Oh man, here we go. We mentioned that one before and because of other movies, I bet you, harry, captain America, the new one, red Hulk, is going to surpass these and, like episode 80, is going to be Secret Life of Pets. Secret Life of Pets, it's so fun. I don't know why it's so fun and amusing to me, but it is the number one album from 1979, pink Floyd, the Wall yeah, it's a great album.
Speaker 1:Now let's go over to some celebrities who are 79. Let's start off with Henry Winkler, diane Keaton, diane Keaton, bette Midler, neil Young, bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band and the Silver. Brian Doyle Murray he's one of those actors where you know his face Bald guy mustache. John Lithgow, ellen Marin what was she in?
Speaker 1:What wasn't she in? Well, you know she was in the movie Red with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. She was in the Queen, john Malkovich, yes and the Freeman. She was in the Queen, john Malkovich, yes and the Queen. And she was also in one of my favorite movies, national Treasure 2, the Book of Secrets. She was Nicolas Cage's mom. Yes, yes, that's what it was. Couldn't think of that.
Speaker 1:Then we got, hey, goldie Hawn. Goldie is 79. I think her and Kurt Russell are my favorite love story of all time. Love him, hate him, been sick man. Okay, priscilla Presley, steve Martin and it has happened again, baby, it's happened again where we go over famous people's age between episodes. Mind you, this one's a little longer, but it still happened again. On episode 78, we had this person because they were 78. And now on episode 79, they're on here again because they turned 79. Happy birthday. They won the only Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1:Dolly, oh, dollywood. If there's someone who should get props, it's always Dolly. You always get props to Dolly. I can go on forever about Dolly. My children get the free Dolly books every. Oh, do they? That's awesome? Absolutely they do, and we read them on forever about dolly. My children get the free dolly books every. Oh, that's awesome, absolutely they do, and we read them. They got a new one yesterday and it got rid to them tonight. Even better, it gets added to the repertoire and they fall in love with those books until the books fall apart.
Speaker 1:Now you mentioned bob seger and silver Bullet Band 79. Harry, when I tell you, things line up in our episodes, things line up and I don't get it. The universe is looking at us, people are smiling at us. I don't know. The number 79 highest selling album in the United States was Bob Seger's greatest hits. How does this happen? Listen, folks, I wish we could make some of these things up. It just works out this way. These are facts you can look up right now. Yeah, 100%, go look this up. I dare you to challenge us with these facts. How is Bob Seger? 79 and his greatest hits is the 79th highest selling album in the United States History. And I know at least one of those albums is at mom's house. Yeah, one of those albums is on my phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, uh, I took my laptop home. I was transitioning from base to base or something like that. I had my laptop and I sat down with mom's CD collection and I shoved every CD of hers and downloaded to my laptop. Such a great move to include Bob Seger's greatest hits. A spoiler alert I finally plugged it back into the Wi-Fi when I moved and lost everything. Alright, well, that'll do it. Yeah, I had like 65 days worth of music and I was like right on, man, and I have no more.
Speaker 1:We are going to shift gears right back into NASCAR. I'm in Good reference, I don't know how good, because the NASCAR Car 79 476 races Not a bad amount of races. No, zero wins Not good. Three top fives Well, you know, three out of 476, you know, know, they say it's like one in a million. I'm no mathematician here. Those are not good odds. Not good odds, man. We could talk about coincidences all day long, but it is time to talk a little NASCAR.
Speaker 1:The first race is back. The Daytona 500, the Super Bowl of NASCAR. I really enjoy them starting off with a big race, not just like a nice opening weekend or whatever every other sport does. Nope, we are going to have a party and it is going to be the first race and we are going to throw, have a party and it is going to be the first race and we are going to blast off. We're going to 190 miles an hour. We're going to do 190 miles an hour with three inches between the car to the left of you, the car to the right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you.
Speaker 1:With you, I went 21. 21 was a good pick for me. I'm not going to lie, 21's a hard pick later in the season Because the Wood Brothers Super Speedway the under guys tend to do really good. The less popular, the less powerful teams seem to do okay at Daytona, for whatever rhyme or reason. Yeah, they do good there. And as much as I want to pick a guy that's going to win a race, it's also I need a guy that I know can win also down the stretch.
Speaker 1:I went with 21st, the 21 car you went with. I went with the 34 car, todd Gilliland, no longer Michael McDowell, but he'd go over the results. Roll me away because Harry, one of us, finished 27th. One of us finished 37th, 95 laps down compared to two laps down due to. I just get caught up in a wreck early on. But unfortunately Harry finished 37th and I finished 27th. So for the first race, first points race of the season, I edged out Harry. Really good race. I like the race from beginning to end.
Speaker 1:Beginning 11 laps, rain, delay. Ow, let's do caution. For 11 laps, rain delay, eight hours. It took eight hours to race 200 miles. 11 laps, rain delay. Let's do caution. For 11 laps, rain delay, Eight hours. It took eight hours to race 200 miles. That is the downside of having the 500 in Florida in February.
Speaker 1:Folks, if you're ever in a drought, just build a NASCAR track. You have rain, it never fails. If you need rain on a Sunday, build a NASCAR track. William Byron, back-to-back 24 and 25. A lot of dumb wrecks, a lot of people pushing too hard and but it's still the same track, still the same. Uh yeah, when they were on the backstreet, when they were on there, we were driving against the wind. The wind was really strong. They were driving against it. But you know, here you go. Day 7500 is running late, it's under the lights and it's cinematic, harry, the way that race ended for William Byron, very cinematic, like Hollywood nights, just boom, but a good win by him.
Speaker 1:I don't understand why the 500 isn't Saturday night, I think so there's nothing on, there's no competition that we get to the Super Bowl. No, the Super Bowl's over. You've already had the duels, you've had qualifying, you've had the duels. Why not move it to a 5 o'clock Saturday race. We call it France Brothers. You know what they're going to be like a rock and not budge on that one you won this past week. Not only did you get to go first on our 79s, you also go first on the Pickhams.
Speaker 1:Who do you got this week? I'm going with a certain guy who had my favorite fire suit from the Daytona 500. I've sent it to you, harry. Oh yeah, you probably don't remember his name but I do. I did number seven, spire Chili's machine. Justin Haley, that's a great pick. His fire suit looked like jeans and like a pearl snap shirt and he was wearing a cowboy hat on the side. But your fire suit's one giant onesie, yeah, but it looks like a one giant onesie. Yeah, but it looks like technology and like what a world we live in.
Speaker 1:I know I say this like every episode about something. I am going to find that picture and I will share it to our page. But I'm taking the number seven, spire Chevy Chili, ooh, for the win. Hotlanta, I'm going to pull another one out of my hat. I know I should. I only got one point last week and I should really buckle down. Probably that makes sense. But after what this man went through, add to 500.
Speaker 1:I have to pick him, you have to. I am Priest, the number 60 car. You had to say less, harry. You had to say less, harry. You had to say less because I was this close Dude, I was really hoping you were not going to pick him this week. He was my backup driver this week.
Speaker 1:So, real quick, ryan Priest got airborne First off. This is like his third time getting airborne at Daytona. Cars not just NASCAR, but cars in general are ground vehicles. They belong on the ground. I don't know if you're aware they're not supposed to be anywhere else, but on the ground. My man's front end got up and it looked like he was doing a wheelie down the backstretch for about a quarter mile and then the wind got up under him even more and, yeah, he got airborne. So I and you know perfectly fine, everything's fine. We wouldn't be laughing if it was serious. I know some people here Daytona and they they get a little frozen, but everyone was serious. I know some people here Daytona and they get a little frozen, but everyone was fine. Everyone walked away from all accidents at the 500, so we can laugh about it. But yes, the 60 car literally went flying.
Speaker 1:I'm not a Ford fan, maybe just because of the household we grew up in. I enjoy the RFK drivers. That's Roush Fenway-Keselowski, not to be confused with any other RFKs, but drivers that's Roush Fenway-Keselowski, not to be confused with any other RFKs, but Ryan Priest driving that 60 car. Something about their home numbers are clean. Bad luck, brian. Right, everybody knows a bad luck. Brian Priest is doing well for him. He's actually in a really fast car, finally in his career, and Christopher Bell's leading. He hits the outside wall.
Speaker 1:I'm not trying to bore our fans, but listen to this. Like he's eight rows back, he's in a safe zone and all of a sudden this dude just boop. It's like he's seeking missile to his front end. Push him in another car and he's doing literally a wheelie. Like you can YouTube this, tiktok it, facebook it find it. He's doing a wheelie and his car turns ever so slightly and it was really windy. I wasn't joking earlier when I said they were going against the wind, like it was really windy. And just boop car went airborne. How much so, Harry? He gets so airborne that his official Twitter profile picture is his face superimposed in an astronaut outfit. Yes, I literally sealed his pick in for me this week. It's that picture, that's same. I was like, yep, all right, you got it buddy. Yes, but you know I will.
Speaker 1:I will give a golden trout to NASCAR for keeping drivers safe Again. Going airborne in a vehicle, all jokes aside, is not good, and the fact that everyone is able to walk away and be okay is definitely Golden Trail worthy. It's something NASCAR works hard on and I will as much as NASCAR themselves make me mad. I'm really proud and it really is worthy of a Golden Trail to keep the driver safe and, at the end of the day, make sure we can laugh at a guy who literally was going 200 miles an hour and flying through the air. Yeah, I gotta give it to Ryan Parise. So I'm gonna give him my golden trout for his honesty, because they interviewed him at their car, the infield care center, which at ERN, bob Denny Breaker going to the care center. They pulled him out and they said hey, mickey, you want to go through it? And he looked at him, looked at the camera and was like it got really quiet, which is, you know, the scary thing about it is that car got really quiet. Yeah, and he's like. All I thought about was my daughter. And then I'm on my wheels and he goes NASCAR needs to do something to fix this, and so it's like NASCAR has done a lot for safety. I think he's bad luck, brian, but I give him the golden trout for not just wanting to drive next week After so many times he's like, all right, let's do it again. But he's honest about it and I'm a Brian Preece fan. I've been a Brian Preece fan for a while. I don't buy NASCAR swag anymore, nothing like that. But like Brian Preece is top five, top three driver for me.
Speaker 1:No, harry, it wouldn't be Golden Trout season, it wouldn't be the season of giving without this one here. Harry, this is the biggest golden trout we had. I had one custom made by Tiffany Company, except for silver, this one is golden and it goes out to the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl 59. Again, we will talk about it in depth later. Oh, no, yes, I had to get that out there. I know we said we weren't going to bring it up. You're not going to not bring it up. Oh, this is the golden trout segment. They are getting a golden trout. It's like at Thanksgiving there's deviled eggs on the table and there's two left. You're not going to not elbow your granny to go get it. Yes, I'm sorry. Right, 100%, facts. Same thing. If you could give a smaller golden trout during that game, who would you give it? To who? You took the words right out of my mouth Got an interception on his birthday at the Super Bowl, or a touchdown, or a touchdown For a touchdown.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I don't want to sell it short. Don't sell that short. A pick six at the Super Bowl on his birthday, on his 22nd birthday, which was the first interception by an Eagle in Super Bowl history Off of Patrick Mahomes A patty. When at the Combine he was interviewed and they were like okay, you want to play quarterback? What quarterback do you want to pick it off from? He goes, of course, patrick Mahomes, because he's the best in the game right now and he lived to it. Like our good friend Jalen Hurst says, it's already been written and it was already written for Mr Cooper Dijon. That's enough about the birds for now I'm going to move on to my golden trout. Triple H is going into the WWE Hall of Fame. It's all about the game and how you play it.
Speaker 1:I'm a huge wrestling fan. That is awesome. Now this is huge news because Triple H Is such an iconic wrestler. Yes, when you and I got back into wrestling oh, you got into wrestling. I got back into wrestling Late 90s right, dx was there, triple H was there. I remember Triple H when he was 100 hertz, humbly, you know, doing all this weird stuff. And he transitioned over to now just being Triple H. Yeah, dude, you hated that guy for so long. Such a good heel. And he transitioned over to now just being Triple H. Yeah, dude, you hated that guy for so long. Such a good heel. There are clips going around of the commentator, jr Jim Ross, just bashing Triple H, and I'll find it, I'll send it to you, dude, and it's just hilarious. Jr hated him, but he didn't because he was just, you know, the bad guy.
Speaker 1:But that's our childhood and one of the reasons I wanted to bring it up during the Golden Trout segment is like that's a good childhood memory. You know what I mean Wrestling for everyone. Everyone watched wrestling growing up too. Oh, yeah, dude, and one of the reasons I got back into it, my grandfather Pop really, really loved wrestling and he lost USA Network where Raw was on. So I got back into it so I could fill him in and I'm so glad I did that and it's awesome. And yeah, triple H dude, our childhood is our great childhood is getting older. Yeah, it's wild to see man, because Shawn Michaels and Undertaker surprised Triple H. This is big Triple H.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think sports-wise who he would be John Elway, yeah, I mean, I don't know, john Elway's, his first old name that came to mind. I would safely put oh, it's tough, because there's two guys that could be compared to Tom Brady, and one of them is John Cena, obviously, and one of them is John Cena, obviously, and the other is Triple H. Everyone knows, I think John Cena and the Brady thing would go hand in hand. Peyton Manning I'd put Triple H at Peyton Manning. Yes, perfect, perfect one. You know, everyone knows who he is, all that stuff. Yeah, I'm confident with that. Yeah, I have Stone Cold with Bill Romanowski, so it works out perfectly. Triple H is Peyton Manning, everybody.
Speaker 1:It wouldn't be Golden Trout in middle of February if we didn't give out very special Golden Trouts that are on their way, multiple. These Golden Trouts are Rose Gold Trouts. These are special. These golden trouts are rose gold trouts. These are special. Special every year, more special this year out to our ladies who we asked formally to be our valentines with the rose golden trout award. We did.
Speaker 1:It was a phenomenal valentine's day. The Rose Golden Trout Award. We did. It was a phenomenal Valentine's Day, harry. We made heart-shaped homemade pizzas, tortillas, cheese and even our pepperonis were cut into heart-shaped cookie cutters. We went all out. That's work, dude. It was work and it was so great. And then I had so much leftover tortillas that I used them and made smaller hearts and I had like leftover cheese and like the bits of pepperoni. And then I just made heart-shaped nachos with tortillas, like twice-triple-baked nachos, turned tortillas into tortilla chips, then put cheese and the pepperoni. You know all the scraps on there. Four of my five Valentines loved it.
Speaker 1:Andy was not allowed to eat it because there was pepperoni and I don't want her eating it. Wait, dogs probably shouldn't have pepperoni. No, they can. But you know she's in a kennel now and I don't want. No, I'm not trying to smell her farts all night. Good call, yeah, man, like I said at the beginning of the show, I mean Angie and I.
Speaker 1:We went out. We got nice barbecue, really nice barbecue. Shout out to Stampede. I wish we had enough Rose Gold Trout Awards to give out to more. But I realized I've only got five valentines. I don't need any more. I don't want any more. I mean, I have one, right. I mean, I have one Right. That's it. We ordered six awards. Andy's probably going to Shoo up on hers in the kennel later, somehow, I don't know how she's going to get it. Ladies and gentlemen, has been Released. We talked about it as the year of the Trout. The year of the trout means we are Back, we are ready for action.
Speaker 1:It is time To get your fingers ready to vote in a new fan voted bracket. We've stood over this for a while. We've been trying to think of a name for this bracket. How do we get this one? What do we want it to be called? And we have stumbled upon, we have drum rolled into your favorite bad guy. You've cheered All right, we were going to go with villain, but not your favorite bad guy. You've cheered Ooh, right, we were going to go with villain, but not everybody's a villain, right? Huh, tony Soprano is not a villain, no, but he's a bad guy. He's a bad guy that I have cheered for Like. As soon as I posted this thing, I commented Tony Soprano because he's like my favorite bad guy of all time. So next episode we should, by next episode we should have a bracket, whether that be a 16, a 32, or somewhere in between.
Speaker 1:There have been a lot of bad guys I've cheered for. I have cheered for myself a lot. Let's give you some examples here of Ray Liotta and Goodfellas. Right, take a look at this guy Walter White, dexter, morgan from Dexter, like I think that, right, there is a killer, one Speaking of killer, how about this one, harry, the shark from Jaws. That's not my choice, that's a choice. I don't know if I'd cheer for the shark, but some people did. So let's get all those notes in.
Speaker 1:It's a little dicey, I'm not going to lie to you. Oh, I just thought about the. I got to find out his name. But the guy from the Hills have Eyes Paris Hilton, good one, you know what I mean? We all cheered when Paris Hilton took a pole to the chest. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great moment. Yeah, fantastic, see, boom, things like that. It could be the Joker from the Dark Knight, yeah, yeah, well, I was sitting here thinking I was like I wonder if anyone's going to put Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger. You know what I mean. Right If Right. If anybody puts Iceland's head coach from Mighty Ducks To Get out of here, you are banned. I will kick you out of the show Just to accept you back in, to kick you out again, like some people voted for. You know, cheer for Apollo Creed. I didn't. No one I know did no. I have heard rumblings.
Speaker 1:So, being a look out on all of our socials, as we like to say, socials, facebook is where I will be posting a lot of the stuff for the bracket. But really look out for TikTok because TikTok is. We're learning folks. The world is on lookout because the trust stream is learning how to use TikTok. We are evolving. We have one video up there. Will we have another? Because the trustee was learning how to use TikTok. We are evolving. We have one video up there. Will we have another? The goal is to get one a day. We're going to see what we can do to do that. I have a selfie stick that turns into a tripod. I could probably do videos. Hey, what's up? I'll tell you some weird news every day. That's it about the bracket, harry.
Speaker 1:It was about bad guys. Bad guys. You cheer for right, some bad guys are cool, some bad guys are just terrible. Right, and those terrible guys, they can just be nasty, they can be stinky, they can be slimy. Harry, they will qualify for eels of the week.
Speaker 1:Moving on, I want to hear your eel of the week. I am so sick and tired of the week. I am so sick and tired of the cold. Yeah, I'm tired of being cold. I'm tired of snow. I had to drive home tonight in the snow. I'm tired of it, I'm over it. So, mother Nature, respectfully, I don't want to upset you, you, but please, 45 degrees is all I'm asking, dude. Yeah, mother nature, turn the page. Yeah, this is praying. It's over, dude, it's just, it's just over.
Speaker 1:The other thing I will say is it's uh, I've noticed everyone's happy around me because of the birds. Eels have. Eels have not been, not been seen so much. Everyone's friendly at Wawa or Duncan. Everything's great Birds want everyone's happy. I just, I haven't seen too many eels. I'm going to be honest. You haven't seen eels there, but I've seen eels.
Speaker 1:I've been following this guy for weeks. I've been following him for a very long time. I cannot stand him. Espn personality commentator, nick Wright. Well, I got to tell you right now, nick, you should change your last name legally to Nick Wrong, because you picked the Green Bay Packers in the wildcard weekend, you picked the LA Rams in the divisional round, you picked the Washington Commanders in the NFC Championship game and you picked the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. You could not be more wrong. Jalen Hurts-Bashey constantly is getting annoying. They trolled him the Monday after the Super Bowl with balloons and they brought musicians and stuff in just to mess with him because he's a diehard Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1:He has the Patrick Mahomes pyramid of quarterbacks. It's not his pyramid of quarterbacks. He changed it to the Patrick Mahomes pyramid and Mahomes never comes off the top. He had Jalen Hurts. It's a six-ring, six-tier pyramid or something like that. He's had Jalen Hurts in number five Starting the playoffs. He had Jalen Hurts as the worst quarterback in the playoffs. Then each round they go on. He's like, ah, he's the worst quarterback in the playoffs. I would take Jane Danvers over him. I would take this guy over him, I would take this guy over him. It doesn't matter. The AFC can have in their divisional round between three quarterbacks. They've got five MVP awards. Guess what? None of them won a Super Bowl this year On the NFC side, you can have Jalen Hurts going against a rookie, which.
Speaker 1:Jalen Hurts is 26 and has been to two Super Bowls. He's won one. He should have won two Going against Jaden Daniels in the NFC Championship game, who was 24 in his first year, which is really mind-blowing to me. Dude's rookie year. He's 24. Jalen Hurts has been in the league for five years and he's 26. That is what it is. But Nick Wright could not be more wrong.
Speaker 1:Tired of the bashing, tired of hearing his voice, get a haircut, go see a barber about your face. I'm done with you and rant Now. Harry, I got to jump back in here. Oh, I got another eel, but this one is less over the top. This is more of a. Let's hit the ropes and just dance around a little bit. Have some fun.
Speaker 1:This goes out to the University of Illinois. They're willing to accept this. They have already admitted to accepting this before we've even announced it. I don't know if you've seen it Terrence Shannon Jr, who is a rookie with the Minnesota Timberwolves this year. University of Illini had decided to retire his number zero from their school up in the Rafters at the halftime. So he's on the court at halftime and they're like hey man, here's your banner, we're gonna lift it up, harry, when they pulled, they pulled the banner to the rafters, son of a gun. They connected the banner to the cable that take it up to the rafters upside down. Why is there even an option to hook it from the bottom? Why is there an option? Most of the times it seems like the top is square and the bottom V's down. Right, maybe that's why they V down. So you're like, oh, which way is up? No, they'll know there's, they're all square.
Speaker 1:But here's my thing to Terrence Played it cool, man, played it absolutely cool. He got shirts made with picture of the banner upside down, you know, and it's like when life's got you upside down, just flip it over, or something like that. And the word upside down is upside down, Mocking it. And the school, like the athletic director, has taken 100% blame, going hey man, it's all on me, it's my fault, it's upside down. So Illinois has been cool about this. And even Terrence Shannon's like, yeah, man, it happens. Like I'm not mad, like he laughed as soon as it happened, like he laughed about it, because you're not going to not laugh, they should just leave it upside down at this point, right? So he got shirts made with everything upside down, one side and the other, and now it's going to a charity. I forget the name of the charity, but like, yeah, it's so good, it's a fundraiser t-shirt.
Speaker 1:I don't even like University of Illinois, I don't know Terrence Shannon, but depending on the price, I might buy a shirt, just because this is comical. That's so great. I mean, it's worth the eel. But it's a light eel Like this is going to be an eel with a bow on it. Like, not one for Nick Wright, where I'm going to send him the nastiest eel. You know what? We'll send him a bottle of eel sauce. You know what I mean For their sushi. You know what I mean? Like, hey, here you go, I'll send him some unagi. That was the last eel. Hey, we got a lot of eels. We've been gone for a while. This is a joint venture.
Speaker 1:I don't know what it is about going to see a movie in the theater. There's two things I get every time. One is a popcorn and the other is cherry Coke. If I drink soda, it's going to be Diet Coke. On a normal basis, when I go to a movie theater, I get cherry Coke, and I also know that about you. It's some kind of thing we had growing up. I don't know why, but the cherry Coke I got the cherry Coke just tastes better at the theater. It does right, because regular Coke and Sprite tastes better at McDonald's.
Speaker 1:Cherry Coke and a large cup in a movie theater just what did the kids say? Harry, it slaps, it slaps. I was just getting ready to say it it's off the chain. All right, he's up. Yeah, I don't know who's chained, but but my eel doesn't go out to Cherry Coke, it goes out to the Shreveport Water man, their fountain. The water they get for their fountain drinks. I think it's just dirt. No, dude, because you know when you're walking to the movie theater.
Speaker 1:I got popcorn. I got a medium bag in one hand. I got my large cherry Coke in the other. I'm bebopping and you know you're licking the popcorn out of the bag because it's really good. What do you do that a couple times? Find your movie theater, I need a drink. You take that big swig of cherry Coke and you can taste the dirt water. That's the worst. You know what that is. That's dirty lines, buddy. No, no, that's Shreveport. It's just how their water tastes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was very upset because, like I said, I got my Captain America shield popcorn bucket and then I got my cup and then I got a regular popcorn, not in the popcorn bucket, and I'm trying to carry all this stuff and I just look ridiculous and I get my cup and it was a Coke Freestyle machine. Oh my gosh, which is good, I like it, I like Coke Freestyle machines, I think they're awesome. But I wanted that true movie theater classic cherry Coke, right, and I did not get it and therefore, little deal. It's just me complaining. I don't want to even want to give it a kneel. You know what I mean, because it was free refills and you don't really see that in movie theaters. So, like, I want to be nice about it but like, at least have your soda fountain selection and have it be cherry cooked, please and thank you. You want to give them a little tsk tsk. Not quite a deal, just a tsk tsk. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:I will also complain about overflowing popcorn, because I am a nice person and I was a busboy and I know what it's like to clean up after people and I never want someone to have to clean up after me. No, the popcorn that falls out and drops when you're walking to the theater, I feel not great. I don't think you need to have overflowing popcorn, but at the price you definitely want to make sure that bag's full. Oh, 100%. Like my bag would be full and I better have like a small handful extra on top for me on my walk, because I've got that thing tucked in Like I'm a running back running for the Heisman, just so I can grab a few pieces of my tongue as I'm walking Right to my theater.
Speaker 1:What number am I? Four? I was down the end of the hallway. Do you do extra oil or no? I don't do butter Me neither. Now that I'm older I realized that's what hurts my stomach. I've tried before, but not a big fan. In my last deal of the week, canada just won the four country thing in hockey and now we are too bad. I'm going to send every eel I got to Canada. Let's do it. We are not going to dwell on that loss any longer.
Speaker 1:It is time for America's favorite segment, pwn Polls. Weird news here is your host, paul. Hey, harry, thanks for that shout-out out here on the streets Now you know there's been a rash of shoplifting in some establishments around the greater country of the United States and really around the world. But in Michigan, a judge is putting a sponge in the hands of shoplifters, ordering them to wash cars in a Walmart parking lot when spring arrives. This is awesome, harry. This is awesome, harry. This is awesome. So the judge hopes that the unusual form of community service will discourage people from stealing from Walmart. Now, I don't know if you've ever seen it, but that was about a year, two years ago now.
Speaker 1:Me and I went to Walmart and there was a lady who had two ladies with shopping carts, and one had like a vacuum cleaner and some other appliances and the other lady had like two TVs and they're rushing to their car out in the parking lot and Brent goes. They must really want to get home. And I was like, yeah, they probably just want to get up on out of here. They got somewhere to be Not thinking. Here comes security chasing after them. Oh no, I was like I'm doing my own business here, yeah.
Speaker 1:So Judge Clothier has announced that if you were caught shoplifting from Walmart in this region of Michigan, you have to wash cars in the Walmart parking lot In the spring, obviously, when it warms up. You don't want to do it now because that's really People might lose fingers out there. I'm pretty sure that's a salt of some kind. Your friend Frostbite shows up and you look like the old shop teacher that got his hand too close to the table. Saw you don't want that.
Speaker 1:So he hopes the unusual form of community service discourages people from stealing from Walmart and really just rewards the shoppers. Because if you keep stealing from Walmart or anywhere you keep stealing, price has to go up. People need to make their money. But if there's theft you have a clean car. If there's no theft, you're saving money. And now you're paying for a car wash down the way. Or do you really care those cars? Do they have to wash? Customers at Walmart? Right, so you and I could be traveling through town. But I really want some Milo sweet tea or whatever. I really use one of those lemon pies that are 84 cents now from Walmart. Let's pull in here and boom, somebody's washing your car, which really weirds me out, because people try and do that all the time, like no, don't touch my truck. Yeah, yeah, I'm not tipping you, but here's a thing he started ordering.
Speaker 1:Quote walmart wash sentences this week for misdemeanor shopping, shoplifting in a town, like 50 miles north of detroit. I can't get this out. It's so funny. He believes 75 to 100 people eventually will be ordered to wash cars at weekend events at a location in March and April. Like he thinks 75 to 100 people are going to get caught shoplifting and be like here's your community service project, grab that sponge. Here's some soap and a hose Good luck. I think you should take it a step farther and put out a donation bucket for charity. Good luck. I think you should take it a step farther and put out a donation bucket for charity.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, I'm in. What would you rather do? Pay a fine or wash a car? Pay the fine, yeah, I mean. So, yeah, 100%, what's my fine, right? Not that I'm going to go rob Walmart anytime soon, no, no, I'm just saying but like Voice came down, yeah, but like, yeah, washing random cars, I don't know man, because nobody is anybody expecting my work. No, yeah, I'm a hose man. I'll just spray that car down with some soap, spray it with some water and be like I cleaned it. I have more questions than answers Like, yeah, are you going to have to? Like have someone watch them wash the cars? Yeah, probably they start washing cars with sandpaper, then that makes round two of PWN updates. Are you ready, harry?
Speaker 1:Now let's go from community service to online ordering. Man, we go from shoplifting Walmart to being robbed blind from online. Now, have you ever ordered anything online, harry? And it's not exactly what you thought it would be. No, I tend to do a lot of research and look at pictures and reviews and make sure everything's right. Yeah, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1:I ordered a cowboy hat from TikTok shop. Good, it took over a month to get here, because then I found out it came from China to Taiwan, to Fiji, to, I think, the Marshall Islands, bikini Bottom, canada, dallas, atlanta, new Orleans. It went back up to Minnesota and then down to me. So it took a while and I got really excited and as soon as I saw the box in the front step I went hmm, that's not what I ordered and it was the flimsiest hat I've ever seen in my life. No, but Harry, at least I had a hat. Yeah, right, at least we're not Sylvester Franklin of Savannah Georgia who ordered a drill online and instead of receiving the drill, he received the picture of a drill. Oh, no, no. So, poor Sylvester, order the drill, right, you know you gotta go online, you gotta order some stuff. Yeah, I need this, let's go.
Speaker 1:And my favorite part of the article is it's at the center of a quote alleged scam. There, ain't nothing alleged about it, right? If somebody mails you a broken drill, that's alleged. Yes, hey, it could have worked before I left my house or before I left the plant. If I order a drill and you send me a picture, ain't nothing alleged about that? That's a scam. Yeah, allegedly, I'm going to punch you in the nose. Yeah, not alleged. I want my money back. I'm allegedly looking at assault charges.
Speaker 1:He was talking to the local news In detail About he was trying to buy a drill and a pressure washer and have it sent to his home. That was back in, you know, a couple months ago. It has taken a while for it to come out. Oh, mr Franklin's been trying to hold it back. He said he ordered it through AliExpress. Oh, ultimately spending around $40 on the would-be drill. So $40 on a drill and $22 on a pressure washer that right there, mr Franklin, should let you know what's a red flag. Mr Franklin, $40 on a drill is going to get you the Walmart brand. What are they called? Porta Cable yeah, they used them. Yeah, now, $40 for a blackened decker drill not bad. A pressure washer for $22? I'm sorry, bud, you know what you call a $22 pressure washer, a straw good one, or, in his case, a screw, because they sent him a screw instead of the pressure washer and for the drill he never got the physical item. He's got a picture. Oh, I'm throwing hands. And Mr Franklin, poor, poor old gentleman.
Speaker 1:He's quoted as saying this is not good, this is really bad. All this is bad. I could have told you that. And he says don't scam nobody. I just don't like to get scammed. I don't think anybody in this world enjoys being scammed.
Speaker 1:I don't wake up going. You know what I want today? I want to be scammed. I only enjoy being scammed on February 30th. No, that makes sense. Yeah yeah, scam me all you on February 30th. No, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, scam me all you want February 30th. Any other day of the year, I'm out. No, ain't happening.
Speaker 1:I like when the iPhones tell you scam caller, because they go hello, and I try to talk to somebody. I answer Angie's spam calls and they go hi, we're looking for Angela. And I go does this sound like Angela to you and then they go ah, I think we have the wrong number. I'm like you're darn right, you do. And then they hang up. So let this be a warning out to you folks Be careful what you order online from non-reputable sources.
Speaker 1:If you find a pressure washer for $22, it's probably not a pressure washer and it's going to be a scourge, a singular scourge. But that's it for me. Out here on the streets, back to you with Studio T man Ang and I have a golden rule like nothing under 50 reviews from Amazon. Oh yeah, and that's Amazon. I couldn't imagine that. You know aliexpress, I don't think more than anything to aliexpress, you know I don't. I don't mind what they're doing. You know what I mean direct manufacturer type stuff. I think that's. I think it's good you end up with some not so great quality stuff, some okay stuff, you know. But at the end of the day, you should have questioned yourself on a $22 pressure washer, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I've seen ads for like TikTok shop chainsaws and I was like, hmm, and it's like 80 bucks for a good 20 inch chainsaw. And I was like I don't know. I'm reading reviews. They seem like AI generate it, you know, computer-generated. And then I saw an ad for Teemu and I was like this guy running around a small front-end loader, like a stand-on front-end loader, it looks like a bush hog and I'm like that thing looks pretty cool. Let me watch this video and it's like, oh, it's on Teemu. And I was like I'm not why Teemu has dirt bikes. Yeah, am I curious? Do I want to spend a little bit of money to get a cool dirt bike? Yeah, because who doesn't want a cool dirt bike? Am I lucky to come in as a mini bike that our cousin Robert used to have that was parked behind the garage? I'm a grown man, let me get him this little pocket bike. Nah, it ain't happening.
Speaker 1:I did order a mouse off of TikTok shop and I'm excited for it to come in. Oh yeah, a computer mouse I don't have. I don't know. I use my work mouse for my personal laptop and I'm tired of changing the dongle out and all that stuff. So I was just like let me just buy them. I was thinking I need a mouse and then, of course, our phones being able to read our minds. I got an Adforum one and I was like I don't know, it makes the most sense. $10 is $10. You're not going to not. You know what I mean. Yeah, I've ordered some things off TikTok shop In the past and, yeah, it's not good stuff, no, but Everything's been pretty good.
Speaker 1:I ordered some pants Off there one time, not a fan, but it was Nothing wrong with the advertisement. They did it to purpose, wasn't a fan of them, you just didn't like them, didn't like them. I didn't get a picture of some pants. If you know what I mean, it is time to pack this truck up. Just didn't like them, didn't like them. I didn't get a picture of some pants. If you know what I mean, it is time to pack this truck up. Well, slap the old knee and get that heater going because it's cold out here.
Speaker 1:How about them birds? We end every episode with two words. They're pretty undefeated when we say those two words, that is, go, birds, birds. This has been a longer episode because we got a lot of backfill. We got a lot of catching up to do. Harry, I don't care, because the Eagles won the Super Bowl. What did you do for the Super Bowl? I know we talked about it slightly. I went to Melissa's our sister's, that's right. She made cheesesteaks. We talked about it slightly, but I went to Melissa's our sister's, that's right. She made cheesesteaks. Oh yeah, good choice, good cheesesteaks.
Speaker 1:Edge made her famous buffalo chicken dip. I will put Ang's up against anyone's in the world, and I'm not saying that just because she's my wife, noted. I don't know what she does. It's the same ingredients that everyone uses no secret seasoning, no secret sauce. It's just a thousand percent better than any ones I've ever had and I like buffalo chicken dip. Yeah, I will challenge her to make it next time. I see you guys. Yes, and just so I can eat it. Yes, do it ask her to make double what she plans on making, just so I can eat it. Yes, do it Ask her to make double what she plans on making, just so there's leftovers. A fact Her mom actually makes it better. Yeah, I'll tell her that. Good, shout out, mama Gray. Okay, so good. Again, same ingredients. I don't know what it is. I think maybe it's the slightly more mature crock pot she uses. She's really got the flavor buildup. She's got a seasoned crock Dude.
Speaker 1:We could talk about this nonstop. Here's what happened. Bird's game we're dismantling the Chiefs IP. A little Levi's there. He's going to be two here soon. At one point we were doing laps around the house but we were holding hands and he took me on a walk, which I appreciated Thank you, sir. Really calmed my nerves During that was the Coup de Jeanne, pick six, and I would cheer and say, yeah, let's go and clap my hands, and then Levi would clap, thinking we're clapping for him.
Speaker 1:So that made the game really fun because we did score a lot of points and did a lot of good things to clap for and that was super adorable Because we would just go yay and clap and he thought it was for him, which was adorable. I did not leave my seat since the end of the second quarter till the end of the game. Do you want to know why? Because the Eagles were doing that good. They were doing that good and I said I can't move. I don't know why. That was the thing I picked.
Speaker 1:I wore Eagles gear tonight For the show. I'm wearing my birthday present for my wife, my Eagles hat that you'll see on TikTok later this week. I have this nice Kelly Green shirt. I wore that normally. I don't wear any Eagles merch for big games, intentionally. I don't want to, because I don't want to be the reason. No, yeah, they would legit know it was you. Just dismantle them. What did you do? So I was invited to multiple Super Bowl parties and I respectfully declined them. Yeah, yeah, uh. I even had one person from our church group going. Hey, I would like to invite you to our Superbowl party that we have every year. However, I know your team's in it, so I'm not going to invite you. Yes, I only said yes to Melissa's because she knows how I am. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, 100% Right, and it's our sister. It makes sense.
Speaker 1:I put the TV up in my garage with the digital antenna, the new bunny ears that's how I was going to watch the game. I was going to wear the exact same black T-shirt with the Eagles logo on it that I've worn for months now. It's been washed one time when they lost. Actually, it's been washed twice, because Sabrina washed it between the NFC Championship game and the Super Bowl and I told her not to do that and they lost. I was going to call her on the show and all of Philly would be after her, so, luckily for her, the Eagles won. Oh, she called one night. It was in a. Yeah, it was an amazing. Yeah, it was a. She said they made it in the hamper. I put it in my dresser. It was dirty because I don't care, it's a good luck charm.
Speaker 1:So I hung out with, you know, just the five of us here, and at one point Sabrina was recording me. I didn't know and I'm calling audibles for defense. I'm telling Jalen who's going to be open. As I get to the line, I'm yelling check, check. But also my mood with the kids was determined by the Eagles and it's sad, right, you know, because the Eagles were winning. I'm happy and so, uh, coop just ran his pick six in everybody's good. And then Olivia goes hey, dad, you want to get on the floor and play with us? I said anything in this world, I'm down. Dad, you want to get on the floor and play with us? I said anything in this world, I'm down for kids, like, let's get on the so what. And so I'm rolling around and actually Sabrina, uh, put a video out there, you know of it and Piper's there. And that's when Zach Bond picked off my homes and I picked her up and I started shaking. I was like I'm really glad you're not an infant anymore, we're past. You know, shaking baby. I wasn't shaking her that hard, but I was just excited and Piper's excited. You know when dad's excited, piper gets excited, olivia's excited, everybody's in their Eagles gear, reagan's high-fiving me. It was great. We will get that video up on our TikTok 100%. But here's Harry, I realize we live in a very great country.
Speaker 1:We did shopping. We made buffalo chicken dip. She calls it the chicken lip dip or buffalo lip, whatever she makes it Hers was really good. Gave her all the ingredients. Here's what you got to do. And then she doctored up her own way. We made the meatballs and the little Vienna sausages, or little mini wieners, and the barbecue sauce with the grape jelly. That's not going to work and I'm like girl you don't know. That's what I said the first time I had it. I was like that's weird. But what we did was we ordered wing stop at lunchtime. Big brain move, big brain move. We got to party four different flavors, whatever. It was like 40 wings at lunchtime, brought them home, put them in the fridge and then, right at kickoff, air fryer on Smart. I reheated them in the air fryer. So we did the little girls you know first with just barbecue sauce.
Speaker 1:So really like it was just five of us, we had enough finger foods and tailgate football food, yeah, to last me for like multiple days. Yeah, I just missed to make taco dip. I didn't touch it. I couldn't get up. No, I was, I was stuck. Stuck. See, I was opposite because I was standing up. I was up moving around, so I had it on the TV In the living room on the app and I had it in the garage on the antenna Just for my pacing. But when I say, harry, like we live in like the greatest country in the world, we went shopping for all of our food, you know, a day or two beforehand I forgot one important essential for the big game and that was beer. So I opened up the garage fridge and I realized there was only like five left and I was like I ain't gonna last me a whole game.
Speaker 1:Some people stress eat, stress, sleep. I'll stress drink some bush lights to the Eagles Super Bowl game. So I went on to one food I'm not going to say names one food delivery site, and they're like we can't just give you beer, you have to buy food. It's like fine, give me a bag of pork rinds. It's like, oh, we're sold out. Give me a bag of spicy pork rinds, we're sold out. Give me a bag of Funyuns, I don't care, give me a candy bar. Yeah, give me food. But then it's like. So I went to the other one where they eat and they're like, yeah, man, it's a $3 delivery fee. I'm like it's cheaper than the pork rinds that guy was trying to get me to buy and within it said 30 minutes. But really it's like 45, because they have multiple stops. But it was like 45 because they had multiple stops.
Speaker 1:But Daryl shows up to my house Like he's pulling up now. So I went outside to wait and even Daryl, who was my delivery driver, goes. Is this a great country to live in? Here's your beer Now. Mind you, they had to scan my ID, I had to sign some things and, you know, do the whole nine. But I'm like this is great, perfect timing, dude, great time. And then, when the game ended, I'm standing there. Also, sabrina got me a new beer koozie. It's rubber, like a football, really sturdy, and you can throw the koozie around like a football. That's so awesome. I loved it, multi-purpose.
Speaker 1:But obviously, when the game ended and I scanned the QR code for the Super Bowl gear, I looked at her and said what's my limit? And she goes. Well, as long as you can drive the girls to school tomorrow, I don't care how much you drink. And I was like, first of all, I love you. Secondly, I was talking about Super Bowl gear. So wait, let me do the math real quick. As long as I get this girl's school to school tomorrow, I don't have a limit. All right, cool, cool, I will take the team autograph football please. She said, uh, yeah. I was like, oh no, I was talking about Superbowl gear. And she would that's going to be. Look at me. And she goes you're not buying a ring.
Speaker 1:And I was like, because I have the knockoff ring from last Super Bowl, I will be buying the knockoff ring Once they design it. It's going to be out there on Facebook or something. $40, $50. Yes, I'm going to get the knockoff ring go in my collection. But when she saw my knockoff ring several years ago we first met, I was like, yeah, this is a legit Super Bowl ring. I bought it for $10,000. She got mad. She was like who buys that? I'm like I don't know. It says Nick Boles, mvp, on the side of it. Yeah, I'm a Howard Eagles fan. It fit one specific finger. That is the middle but dead center of my hand. It waited a while. I was like it waited a while. I was like it was 40 bucks on Facebook and I bought it. I also bought the 2008 Phillies World Series rank. Yeah, I mean, teeter will have it a week after they dropped, yeah, which I'm really excited for.
Speaker 1:What was your favorite play other than the pick six? To be honest with you, it was Zach Bonds. Ooh, okay. Okay, because Devontae Smith touched down deep from Jalen Hurts' beautiful AJ Brown touched down deep. It was beautiful. Yeah, mine is Devontae's deep dagger, but there's more to mine. But go ahead about the interception. It was the most beautiful interception I've seen. Yeah, because, like Koop was great, he cut the route off. He cut off a Hall of Fame receiver, took it to the house and even in his post-game interview. I'm like, hey, man, what did you think about scoring? And he goes when I touched the ball. Oh, you know he's in the Super Bowl. If it was regular season, he might not be picked. Not at all, not at all. Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:Zach Bond laid out While wearing Bill Bergey's charm underneath his shoulder pads. Stop, it Lays out and it was the most beautiful catch I'd seen. It was beautiful, I'm not going to lie, and that's the play that I was shaking my kids with pure excitement. I did know the run game was going to be tough against the Chiefs. I am upset Saquon didn't hit a home run, run Break one out. But the Devontae Smith touchdown I thought was beautiful, him being so close to home, because Devontae's from Louisiana yes, I think they were saying like an hour 45 minutes away from the stadium is where he got evil up. Yep, yeah, he was able to go to a hometown restaurant. I saw those clips, yes.
Speaker 1:And then come to find out that Nick Sirianni told Kellen Moore put the dagger in. Yeah, that's disgusting, dude, for a head coach to come up and be like put the dagger in In the third quarter, finish him in the third quarter. It's like the end of Mortal Kombat. Yeah, finish, okay. What do you want to do here? Finish him With the dagger. It was 24-0 at halftime and somebody Reagan was like oh, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like no, no, no, we're not talking. We don't predict the outcome because we replayed Patrick Mahomes. Still, jake Snake Elliott. The first time a kicker went five for five in a Super Bowl. You want to talk about being clutch? Jake Elliott been questionable at best.
Speaker 1:All season goes five for five in the Super Bowl, yeah, everything that could go right went right for us, except the run game. And what's so great about the super bowl win? And correct me if I'm wrong here. Everyone said and he was saquon is the missing piece, saquon is the missing piece. But they shut down saquon barkley. So what did we do? We beat them in other ways. So Saquon popped off all season. I mean over 2,000 yards, right, yeah, in the regular season Now has the most rushing yards, including postseason. All time, all time, which that should have been a deal. Is Saquon not getting the recognition for that?
Speaker 1:I thought that was an odd taste, but I guess at the same time you don't want to celebrate One man when it's supposed to be a team game. It's Super Bowl. I get it. Maybe a quick little blip At the bottom or something, as the announcers read it. Give him his props for that, but regardless, you know they didn't announce Travis Kelsey breaking Jerry Rice's All time reception record in the Super Bowl. They, regardless, you know they didn't announce travis kelsey breaking jerry rice's all-time reception record in the super bowl, didn't it? They did not. Yeah, so that's what I'm saying I it's not like they didn't know. You know what I mean. There was counters, there was trackers for all that stuff. Everybody knew this news take one needed 30 rushing yards and uh, travis needed three catches to beat jerry rice. But I guess that's one of the reasons. Like I said, the Super Bowl is a team sport. We're not here just to celebrate At this moment. We're not here to celebrate individual victories. That makes sense, because it's not Jalen Hurts or Saquon Barkley or Travis Kelsey versus the Eagles, versus the Chiefs, yeah, yeah, I don't think they'll celebrate it if it's a Super Bowl single game record or something.
Speaker 1:Parade was on Valentine's Day. Man, feel the love, feel the love. Favorite thing about the parade was the love hurts, yes, which is love. Comma hurts, jalen hurts, with Jordan rocking that. That is one thing I am very surprised at, and the NFL probably had a conversation with both Nike and Jordan. And Jalen, you will not wear two shoes.
Speaker 1:I really thought we were going to see him in two shoes. Me too, I thought we were going to see it. So we've seen him in the warm-ups. He was wearing the the quote unquote band Nikes, cause Jordan obviously got banned when he first started wearing Nikes, so he wore those and I really thought we were going to see him in two shoes. I'm really I'm kind of upset, but again it goes back. This is what makes the Superbowl so awesome Birds, not birds. You know what I mean. It could be, you know the Giants and Chargers, I don't care, but just how much of a team it really is. That's the thing that I love. This is a team win. Everybody playing together, everybody going 100% on the Eagle side of the ball. Zero blitzes. And they still got Mahomes six times. Like people don't forget things. Yeah, back to the parade.
Speaker 1:A couple things happened that I want to mention. Did you watch it correct? I watched a lot of clips of it. Yeah, okay, saquon just picked up a grown man and lifted him over the barrier. The ball boy, which was golden trout worthy again. This is why I said, hey, we're wait till the end of the show and talk about the birds, because if not, the whole episode would have been about it and we don't want to do that. But a grown man and then big Dom getting to speak at the podium this year. I thought that was pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Anything on Howie Roseman saying that he bleeds for the city, as he's literally bleeding from getting hit in the forehead with a can of beer. It's a dome dude. Did you see the clip of him actually getting hit? Oh, I did, brutal. I watched it a couple times. I still can't believe.
Speaker 1:Saquon Barkley is, you know, is still an Eagle. One two is now a Super Bowl champion. A year ago there was a picture of him, right? Well, no, currently there's a picture of him with the goggles, holding the Lombardi Eagle Super Bowl shirt. Like if you showed me this 11 months ago, I told you this is simulation. I would have said, yeah, it's AI generated. That's a dream, but it's AI generated. We talked about it before. When he got drafted, I was like man, it would be so awesome to see him in Midnight Green. That's the part that's just like Mind blown.
Speaker 1:My favorite part of the speeches because speeches are a big deal was AJ Brown coming out and saying you know, you can call me a diva, you can call me this, you can call me that All the stuff he got hit with this year. And then he said you know, but you're going to call me a world champ. And there was an explicit thrown in there that I'm not going to say we're a PG show. We all know it is one of the big ones there and I mean you're not going to. Not, he's a world champ. He's a world champ. You can say whatever you want, but at the end of the year, at the end of the day, he is a world champ. Yeah, there's a lot of people that a lot of people spoke. Lane Johnson spoke and that was from the heart. Yep, landon Dickerson, landon talking, but Lane Johnson, he brought up Nick Foles and Said Nick Foles told me one thing Speak softly and carry a big stick. Yeah, it's like that's. That's very fitting.
Speaker 1:Now, can I be completely honest here? Always Up until the Super Bowl, I didn't feel like this. In 2017, right, 2017 was a fever. When we got to the week before the Super Bowl, I did not care, like I was excited, sure, but I didn't care because it was like no, I know, that's where we belong this year. This isn't a question. There's no anxiety as a fan for me. We belong here Now.
Speaker 1:Did I think it was going to be a good game? Did I think it was going to be a close game? Yeah, I'm not going to disrespect the Kansas City Chiefs like that. First off, it's not even the Kansas City Chiefs. I'm not going to disrespect Andy Reid like that. No, I'm not going to. Nope, I am. And that's the same reason why, at halftime, when our nephew was like, oh, we're going to win, I said please don't say that Because again, that is Andy Reid. Yeah, and Andy Reid can hear that, he's got really good ears. But yeah, again it just felt like that's. I knew we were going to, I knew we deserved to be in the Super Bowl. I didn't know if we'd win, obviously, but yeah, it was so weird.
Speaker 1:Everyone's going crazy and, like you know, around in Delco especially, there was a lot of pop-up, you know, unauthentic merch being sold, right, you saw it. Yeah, I saw it. I mean I got to take a selfie with half the Eagles players at the airport, cardboard cutouts, but still, I'm like you know, I kind of got to take a selfie with them, but still it was just one of those like what is everyone going crazy for? Where do we need to be? What do you think we'll be back next year? The world is not ready for an Eagle dynasty, maybe, maybe they won't be the hero that we deserve, but they are the one we need right now. That's it. We need it.
Speaker 1:There's four key free agents. The bulk of the team is staying together. I think we're resigning three of the four free agents. You're going to let a defensive end go and you're going to resign probably Hassan Reddick for half the price that he was asked for last year, which made us trade him away. He's much better than Williams. You're keeping the team together. You're keeping a brown offensive court. You're an offensive coordinator that you let, who went to become the head coach of the New Orleans Saints. The guy coming up has been the past game coordinator for the last four years in Philly, so he's been with the team for a while. It's an internal hire, so you're not really going to change much.
Speaker 1:Vic Fangio has built a defense, the number one defense. Let's not undermine that part. So you go from number 30 to number one, the number one defense. I don't want to say guarantees in life, but we're going to make a strong run. Yeah, I don't want to sound like a too arrogant, right, but Come on, mm-hmm, it looks like a duck Walk Too arrogant, right. But Come on, mm-hmm, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. It's not a zebra, it's a bird. With that, be sure to follow us on Facebook at the Trout Stream, on Instagram and Twitter slash X at Trout Stream. Ha, this is where all of our bracket information is going to be dropped about your favorite bad guy you cheered for.
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