The Trout Stream
The Trout Stream
2025 SUMMER BONUS EPISODE!
Summer calls for cold drinks, hot grills, and the triumphant return of The Trout Stream! After what Harry calls "complete system failure" during our last recording attempt, we're finally back with our Summer Special 2025 - and we've packed it with all the best ingredients for a perfect episode.
Paul takes us on a journey through San Antonio where his family's work trip turned vacation included surprising discoveries at SeaWorld (it's not just dolphin shows!) and practical parking advice that might save you some serious cash. Meanwhile, Harry checks in from 1,300 miles away as we reconnect through our podcast therapy session.
The highlight of this episode is the launch of our highly anticipated Favorite Barbecue Side Dish Bracket - a tournament idea we've apparently had since 1992! Our 16-team bracket features classic matchups like pasta salad versus grilled peaches, loaded baked potato against Fritos with nacho cheese, and perhaps the most lopsided contest in bracket history: deviled eggs crushing Italian wedding soup in what Paul calls "a complete shutout." The passionate debates about side dishes reveal our deep connection to summer cooking traditions and showcase why this bracket means so much to us.
Between bracket discussions, we hand out our signature Golden Trouts to deserving recipients including Kyle Schwarber for his All-Star game heroics, Joey Chestnut's hot dog eating contest triumph, and share our frustrations with everything from complicated hotel laundry systems to the childhood entrepreneur who tried to raise his lawn-mowing price from $20 to $75 overnight.
As we wrap up with stories about family fishing trips (featuring a deckhand tagged by a catfish) and upcoming summer plans, this episode perfectly captures the essence of summer - full of laughter, food, outdoor adventures, and the occasional antifreeze mishap.
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that is the official sound of summer and this is the official summer of 2025 bonus episode. My name is harry troutman and with me, as always, is my co-host, the one, the only Mr Cool Guy himself. I am Paul Troutman. Pick up a poll, cast a line and join us on this beautiful summer's eve, summer's night, summer's day, whenever you decide to listen. It could be in December, but just think of palm trees and white sand and baby blue water. Buddy, welcome to the summer, special Welcome to the trout stream. It is good to be here. I always like to say it is good to be back. It feels like we're at home. Ben Jones, to sit behind his mic, to share the screen with you, to crack open the official sound of summer. It's good.
Speaker 1:We have some explaining to do. We said it was the year of the trout. We probably should Correct that to. Our new years might be starting In August.
Speaker 1:The way things have been going lately For us. We said it's the year of the trout, we did not say what year. So we, last week, we sat down to record and we had complete system failure. Bro, I've never seen failure like that before in my life. Uh, even even if we have a rough recording, a little behind the scenes. Even if we have a recover, even if we have a tough recording session because everything's not smooth, we still, in the night, laugh and joke and carrying on. We did not last Thursday. We both left angry and frustrated and upset and I have worked my butt off to try and find this stuff. We came together, put our minds right and we think we are good to go. Yeah, one of us punched a baby doll pretty hard in the face last week. I just went to bed, yeah. Yeah, that baby doll hurt my hand. It's good to be back. You've been on journeys, my friend. Oh, yeah, and we're going to get to that With this summer special. Last year and the year before that it was just sitting here talking, chilling. We're going to throw in some normal segments. This week we are going to hand out golden trouts, eels of the week, and we have to start our new bracket, which we will cover later.
Speaker 1:I don't want to give any spoilers out this early in the show. We're not going to cover NASCAR, we're not going to do draft picks. We're not going to do any of that crazy stuff. So let's get started.
Speaker 1:Buddy, how have you been? The listeners missed you. I've missed you. This is therapy for us, right? This is, you know we're 1300 miles away and this is as mic talking to you on the screen, finding what recording platform we're going to use, bringing our Playmate Igloo cooler into your spare room that you're trying to convert into a playroom and office.
Speaker 1:This is the life Since we recorded episode 86, and it feels like it's been forever ago. It does. I know the listeners are itching for this one. We've been busy. We have been Especially you Since we recorded episode 86,. It's been a while.
Speaker 1:I know the listeners are curious where we're at. We stay active on socials, I get it, but since then we went to San Antonio for about a week. Sabrina had a work conference there, and so I don't count that as a vacation, because I was in zone coverage. Two kids with one dad, two on one like a free safety out there while Sabrina goes to her conference, and sometimes it went a little late because maybe she just wanted to stay away from the kids. That's a complete lie. Anytime she could get away, she came up to the room or where we were at. That's a complete lie. Anytime she could get away, she came up to the room or where we were at. We stayed. I think it was like a block, maybe two city blocks from the Alamo.
Speaker 1:Never realized that the Alamo was in San Antonio. Yeah, I never forgot about the Alamo. No, never forget the Alamo. Never forget the Alamo. I just forgot where it was located. Yeah, I, I've seen it twice in my life now. The first time was November of 2003. Rather, graduated basic training, because basic training for Air Force is in San Antonio. So mom, dad came to my graduation. We got to go explore San Antonio. They did. I slept in the backseat of their car the whole time. Mom's Malibu, like. I sat down In that thing and it was only like the second vehicle, third vehicle ride I had in six weeks, cause we had to take a bus at one point in basic and back and I woke up and we're at a restaurant After we ate. I sat down, I wake up, we're somewhere else. And all of a sudden I wake up, we're somewhere else and I wake up. We're like right, the Alamo. And I'm like okay. So this time we walked.
Speaker 1:I took girls on a walk one day, found some parks. Don't want to give a golden trout award here because we didn't utilize it. So I can't give an award for this. But at one point in San Antonio, right by our hotel, was these waiting pools for kids, only like one foot deep. They're like built in like next to the sidewalk little playground area and I'm like man, that's a great idea. But we were already heading back, for it was me and the two girls heading back to nap time and I don't do swimming, even if it is only a foot in zone coverage not a fan. I think that's best. Yeah. Splash pad yes, swimming or any type of that zone coverage Not a fan. No, I think that's best. Yeah. Splashpad yes, swimming or any type of that Zone coverage is out. Dude, I can go in detail of San Antonio.
Speaker 1:I did not know that SeaWorld had a water park and an amusement park. Yeah, yeah, okay. I was under the assumption that SeaWorld was an interactive water zoo. So you say, hey, do you want to go to SeaWorld? I'm thinking, cool man, let's go to SeaWorld, I'm going to see Shamu, I'll see a couple of dolphins, maybe a whale you know another whale or something like that. Penguins, you know things from the sea, maybe high five, one of the flippers, and we walk out. So I did zero research. You know Sabrina did. I drove, man, my poor truck got a lot of miles put on the last few weeks, so I drove and we get to SeaWorld. We went one day for water park, then the next day for actual SeaWorld. Great time, spent way too much money than we needed to, but it was. We were there for Olivia's birthday as well. Like well, san Antonio is for Sabrina's work. It coincidentally happened to be Olivia's birthday. While we were there, we used some of our perks and our deals and our steals and we went to SeaWorld. That sounds like a great time, dude, it was a great time.
Speaker 1:And now, listeners, please listen, turn your volume up. If and now, listeners, please listen, turn your volume up. If you plan on going to SeaWorld in San Antonio, listen, they offer VIP parking. Pay for it. Don't pay for the top of the line. There's one that's like the top one is $75. Don't pay that one. Go. The next one down is about $60. Pay that. There's zero difference between the two, really. Yeah, we found out Because we went back two days in a row, so we tested it out the first day.
Speaker 1:We got ultimate VIP, which it said first, two row parking. For me it's not the walk in, it's the walk out with these kids. Yeah, I got to imagine that's tough. I had a stroller, but two kids, one stroller does not equate. And so Sabrina and I, you know, we're going to have bags when I'm leaving. I want to get to the truck and leave. It's not like when we were kids going to Clementine Park where mom and dad parked in the back, and so now, when you're done in the park, you still have a three mile hike to your car and it's covered parking.
Speaker 1:Renaissance fare for me, that was always the one I hated the most. Yeah, no, I got you. You're exhausted all day and now you got to walk to your car. No, but so we go back the next day for the regular dry sea world. We'll call it that. I didn't know it had amusement parks, the animal side yeah, I'm blown away by that. First off, why are there no animals in the water park side? No idea. But we paid for the step down VIP parking and we had just as good parking. Yeah, that's a win. Maybe like one row back, but there was nobody checking which VIP level I was. But it's in San Antonio, which is like the devil's armpit Hot, it was hot there.
Speaker 1:There was one day where I looked at the girls and I was like we're going to stay in this hotel room today. The three of us had sun coloring on us, not sunburned, but we were just melted hot. Yeah, oh, that's the worst. Yeah, I was exhausted Wednesday. I was exhausted thinking about Thursday because it was so hot out.
Speaker 1:I was 15 when I went to SeaWorld and I don't remember much. I do remember I was so excited to see a killer whale from Free Willy. I love that movie as a kid. Oh great movie, and I remember it's horrible. But I remember I saw the whale and then I was immediately sad. Oh, great movie, and I remember it's horrible, but I remember I saw the whale and then I was immediately sad. I can see that I was immediately sad. I was like this is horrendous, but all in all it was a great time. Seaworld is a very great time. Ten out of ten. I'd do it again, without question. Just get rid of the killer whales and we'll all be happy.
Speaker 1:Normally, like I said, this is going to be A somewhat normal episode, somewhat bonus episode. We're not just going to, we're not following the rules. Essentially, is all this bonus episode is? I give a shout out to. You know Previous locations and you know we have a grand bag of Stateside and overseas. But someone from Germany is Is powering through our show. Proud of them, proud of them. We see you, we're acknowledging you and we thank you. I hope they keep it up. I hope they listen to this and be like hey, that's me. Or they say that's good and they keep listening that is good. Or it's the Germans from Beer Fest that are trying to challenge us to a contest. Ooh, that is.
Speaker 1:It's a lot harder when I'm looking at statistics and all that from the show Stateside. It's hard to put together locations because it's sporadic and it just all blended together. But when someone powers through it in another country, it's so obvious, it's obvious. So, through it in another country, it's so obvious, it's obvious. Whoever's in Germany listening, reach out to us on our social medias. Gladly, get in touch with us. We might have something for you. Our producers behind the scenes are working on some stuff. You might be the first to get it. I think the first act we have to do is we have to talk about the new bracket. Oh yeah, that new bracket. It smells good. It smells good, feels good.
Speaker 1:Now, like we said at the top of the show, this is this summer special. Some people think summer, some people think the beach, but not everyone can make it to the beach. But you know where you can make it to your backyard? Oh, where you can go out to the old Weber yeah, now, whether you're a charcoal guy, or propane and propane accessories, oh yeah, you can light that barbecue up. Light it up. You can have hamburgers or cheeseburgers, depending on if you like dairy or not. You can have some hot dogs you can't go wrong with a hot dog. You can get some chicken Sausage Ribs, chicken sausage ribs. Or, if you're patient and you know what you're doing, you can make those delicious ball-off-the-bone ribs.
Speaker 1:Now, I know what you're saying, harry. This isn't a food podcast. What are you talking about? And to that I kick it over to you, paul what is this new bracket? Ladies and gentlemen, it is your favorite barbecue side dish bracket.
Speaker 1:We have talked about this one, I think our entire lives Like. This is one of those few brackets. We've got plans for future ones, but this is the one that speaks to Harry and I, that we've talked about for a long time. I want to be invited to the barbecue, and I enjoy being the GM, the grill master. Harry, it's time for your favorite barbecue side dish bracket. This is a bracket idea you and I've had since probably 1992. We love side dishes, we love barbecue, we love the grill. We've talked about this one before. There's other brackets coming up here in the near future once this one's done. That we've discussed from the beginning, when the trial stream was in its infancy stage, before it could even walk or crawl, but this one here is near and dear to our hearts. That's why we're doing it right now.
Speaker 1:We have 16 team matchups going in here and, harry, I don't know if I turn my nose up at any one of them this is going to be good. Right, as you said, I enjoy a good barbecue. Invite me. As you said, I enjoy a good barbecue. Invite me over. You want to invite me to the barbecue? I'm at the barbecue. But just so you know, I'm the GM, I am the grill master.
Speaker 1:Right, as you said, it doesn't matter if you're charcoal or if you're propane or you're a pellet smoker and you want to cheat? That's fine. I'm a charcoal guy myself, because I'm cheap and my grill cost me 150 bucks. There's a true answer. Hold on, before we continue, pellet smoker over here. Okay, I know my grill was not cheap and it connects to my phone and it's completely crazy. You're right, go on, I'm just cheap. I have no reason to be jealous or envious. If I I wanted to, I probably could go Get one. I just I enjoy A charcoal grill. I used to be propane guy, I used to be Hank Hill. Okay, let's be honest, I was probably Boom hour, but I used to Enjoy propane.
Speaker 1:For the quickness, let's go. If I want to make some burgers, hot dogs or something, boom, it's in. Now the charcoal, love it. I kind of want a two-in-one, but I want to customize it because when the two-in-ones, the grills get smaller and I want a full size. I digress, harry, it is time.
Speaker 1:We have four quadrants, 16 teams and let's start. All right, you got a hot dog, a hamburger, ribs and chicken are out there. Which one's the first one you're grabbing? Honestly, hot dog, hot dog. That's a good choice. Actually, hot dog is a solid choice. Hot dog region, the top right region.
Speaker 1:We have pasta salad going up against grilled peaches and ice cream. Okay, I'm not going to lie to you, that sounds very good. I've never had grilled peaches Me neither. I'm intrigued, I'm very intrigued. Is it grilled slices or grilled halves? Obviously it's not going to be a grilled whole peach, right? What temperature setting are we putting it on? Am I putting my meat down first? So is it getting some leftover barbecue sauce? But pasta salad there's really one pasta salad out there.
Speaker 1:Yes, and that's why, with 78% of the votes, the pasta salad is moving on. I mean, peaches and ice cream still didn't go down without a swing. No, what I'm saying is what the kids say on the street is grilled peaches and ice cream probably slaps. Yes, agreed, Right, it probably stomps the yard, but that's a dessert, not a side dish. Yeah, yeah, right. So when I'm getting that Dixie plate ready and I got my protein on there, I'm not putting ice cream next to my hot dog. My ice cream and grilled peaches is not going with the protein. No, not at all. But all due respect, pasta salad's moving on. Next time we see pasta salad, it'll be going up against the winner of chips and salsa verse macaroni salad.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of salads in this bracket, if you catch my drift. Yeah, a lot of Midwest salads. Stick to your rib salads. We wonder why these boys that play for university. Iowa and Nebraska are huge. Yeah, uh, they eat their salads. Yeah, they have something called a snicker salad. So that sounds good.
Speaker 1:Speaking about sounding good, let's move to the burger region, the top left region, where we have loaded baked potato going up head to head with, not Fritos and nacho cheese. Move to the top left region, but here on the streets, on the stream, we refer to that as the burger region we have loaded baked potato going heads up one-on-one against Fritos and nacho cheese. That's a tough one, because I don't really consider either one that big of a barbecue staple. Right, I feel like these are two 32, you know, 16 ranked teams going against each other. This was two big upsets. If this was a 64 NCAA bracket, right, sweet 16. We got St Mary's going against St Pete of Los Obispo. This is a tough one.
Speaker 1:Once again, not discrediting either, but at a barbecue you got to treat a good barbecue. Now, if I had 16 side dishes at the barbecue, I'm not grabbing either one of these and my first go-to, but a load of baked potato. It's pretty self-explanatory. You can put whatever you want on it, but the Fritos and nacho cheese is where I'm confused. Do I have a side dish of nacho cheese that I get to dip my Fritos in? Or do I have a ladle with nacho cheese sitting in a crock pot on three extension cords that Aunt Deb brought over to put on Uncle Steve's table? You know, close enough to the big patio.
Speaker 1:But my problem is I don't really consider a loaded baked potato barbecue. No, potato barbecue. No, because down here you can get the baked potato and I'll throw the brisket or the pulled pork. You know they'll throw the barbecue meat inside of it, yeah, but then becomes the meal. That's like saying that the hamburger bun is a side dish. Yeah, but obviously you and I don't vote, and that's why 88% of the votes went with loaded baked potato. Yeah, I'd rather have a loaded baked potato than nacho cheese. I'm not a big fan of nacho cheese. Ah Well, it's weird because it's not yours.
Speaker 1:Next time we see a loaded baked potato, it'll be going up against the winner Of corn on the cob versus pigs in a blanket. That right there, ladies and gentlemen, what that is. Somehow, in this round, my randomizercom that I've used has set us up with two 16-ranked teams going against each other. I guess two number two seeds going against each other? I don't know. It should strengthen weak, strengthen weak. Strong and weak it should have. But the randomizercom did not. You know what Huge respect to the randomizer. You know what I mean. It doesn't follow by rules, it does not. It sees you as you are and it just accepts you and puts you up against anyone. Right, as Jesus and Kurt Cobain said, come as you are. And here we are corn on the cobbers, pigs in a blanket.
Speaker 1:Next week, harry, I, if I voted, I don't know where I'd go. I don't know either, but now I know where we're going next. I like my protein. I like grilled chicken, because that's what I have for supper tonight. I don't write region. We have bacon, macaroni and cheese going up against grilled asparagus. Here's the doozy, harry. This was the closest matchup of the week.
Speaker 1:I love asparagus, I love asparagus. I love asparagus, asparagus, asparagus. Hang on a minute Go. I love asparagus, any way it comes. I even love asparagus from a can. Oh, like your peaches, yes. So this one is really, really tough for me, because what's a barbecue without mac and cheese? Oh, right, it's a barbecue without bacon, mac and cheese? Right, it's something baconized. I am in for bacon, mac and cheese. I'm curious as to the process of it because you know I pride myself on being the chef at my house and that's no disrespect to anybody in my household. I thoroughly enjoy the cooking aspect of it, so I try and find different ways of getting bacon in there. But bacon, mac and cheese, boy, that sounds delish. But you're right, grilled asparagus.
Speaker 1:Wintertime, when I'm not grilling, I will do my asparagus in the oven, coat it with some olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika and, if you're feeling a little frisky, always garlic powder and onion powder. Throw some cumin on there In the oven, 400 degrees, eight minutes. Pull it out, shake the thing up, turn it around 108 degrees, throw it back in for eight minutes. You're welcome Now. With that said, I'm so glad we don't vote. I'm very glad you and I do not vote on these brackets, because I think we could sway it a certain way, right? That's why we agreed on day one of brackets we will never vote 59 to 41. The only time we vote is if it is a deadlock 50, 50 and harry is the one voting. 59 to 41.
Speaker 1:Bacon, mac and cheese is moving on. That tells you how good grilled asparagus is. Is coastal carolina way back in the day when they, when they made it to the big dance. Yes, I'm proud of you. Grilled asparagus, yeah, that's, you made the sweet 16. Love it.
Speaker 1:But now, and Harry, next time, we see bacon, mac and cheese besides on our plate and we going up against the winner of fruit salad versus baked beans next week. Both, both are huge barbecue staple. Both are huge, both are great. We got some heavy hitters coming up. Oh, oh, do we ever? Because, speaking about heavy hitters, you've had your burger, you had your dog, you had your chicken and now it's time for that finger licking barbecue Fall off the bone ribs. The bottom left region is a doozy. This is a good matchup.
Speaker 1:Here we have deviled eggs going heads up Mono a mono, putting those gloves on Tying them tight. Going heads up Mono e mono, putting those gloves on Tying them tight. Make sure the referee signs that tape with Italian wedding soup. Okay, well, I've never had soup at a barbecue. You know what I was going to say? My favorite thing about our fan voted brackets. It's also 100% fan submitted brackets. This isn't us.
Speaker 1:We did not submit this. We put it through the algorithm. It made it into the bracket, slightly edged out floor shrimp, but it made it into the top 16. What do you think? Uh, there's no way. They didn't even get it. But was it a shutout? It had to be a shutout. Harry, this is doc. Holiday 2010 postseason game against the Cincinnati Reds. This was a no hitter. This was a complete game. This was a 100 to 0. I save this for the very end, just for the pure cinematic feeling of deviled eggs is moving on. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:Deviled eggs, probably a big number one seed oh, deviled eggs is a number one seed. Oh, deviled eggs is a number one seed yeah, I have it as a number one seed. And I'll tell you my other number one seeds after this, because next week deviled eggs is going up against the winner of potato salad versus watermelon. I have five number one seeds Deviled eggs, macaroni salad Okay, potato salad yes. Baked beans. Watermelon Okay. I'm not the biggest fan of macaroni salad. There's some I like. Oh man, I love it so much. Any potato salad in the world oh, potato salad all day. But there's some macaroni salad. I'm just not. I don't like celery, so if the celery is too big, it kind of ruins it the whole thing. Oh, I'm with it, I'm with it.
Speaker 1:What do you think the most amount of deviled eggs you ate. That one meal was, honestly, truthfully, honestly, probably closer to eight. You know, like, hey, it's only because we ran out like if you left me unattended with 20 or more deviled eggs in a room, I'm gonna tell you. I'm apologize when you come back. Without a doubt, I'm sorry for what you'll find out. Don't ask questions, just don't look at your trace.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's seven weekends ago. Yeah, because because there was a lot of them, so like it wasn't a big deal, but I grabbed one and ate it while I was making my plate 100%, that's the rules. And then I put two more on my plate and then by then I was done eating the first one, so I popped another one in my mouth and that's four. Off the bread dude, dude, boom, boom, boom. Don't even think about it.
Speaker 1:No, there is nothing better. Thanksgiving or barbecue or whatever, but like buffet style family dinners, yes, and you're just munching on a deviled egg while you make your plate. Oh, my, that is. I feel like that is one of the most greatest feelings in the world. You know, if I would have, we would build a bracket for great feelings of life. That is one of them. The bracket would be underrated. Feelings of life? That is one of them. Bracket would be underrated. Feelings of life, boom, underrated. Yes, as you're going through the family buffet line, popping that deviled egg in, why are you putting two on your plate and you're just savoring that? Bad boy, I want some deviled eggs right now. I'm so hungry that we have to move on Real quick.
Speaker 1:You remember the time we were going I think it was Pop's house in Chester. We were young. I had two trays of deviled eggs and you and I are horsing around and you check me into the fence and I dropped a tray of deviled eggs. You probably don't remember. I know they were me and Alice and all of our cousins. And I start crying. I must have been, I don't know, 10 or 11. So that made you five, six-ish, and I remember crying and mom was like it's going to be okay. And I'm not crying that, I'm afraid I'm going to get hit or yelled at or scolded. I just dumped half of our deviled eggs on the ground and I was devastated Because even at that age I knew the importance of deviled eggs. Oh, it's okay, it happens. No, it's the stash, it's gone, we lost it all. Ah, the sound of summer.
Speaker 1:I'm excited for this bracket. I think it's going to be good. I want to know what the people say more than anything. Right, because if I'm having a barbecue like this weekend at the house, I wish we had this bracket done so I can be like how much corn on the cob do I need compared to Fritos and nacho cheese? Yeah, but thank you to everyone who submitted ideas. Thank you everyone who votes.
Speaker 1:Continue to keep voting. We love it. We appreciate it. Let's just keep this train rolling. Don't stop. Get it, get it. Let we love it. We appreciate it. Let's just keep this train rolling, don't stop. Get it, get it. Let's keep the silver bullet running. Let's hand out some trouts, not just any trouts, the golden ones, the best ones, the golden trouts of the week. I got one. Oh, let me hear it. I want to hear it. Kyle Schwarber, not the Philadelphia Phillies. Go Phils, go Phils.
Speaker 1:We just had the all-star break and they decided to implement a new rule where it would be a swing off if the game ended in a tie, because you can't have a tie. Oh, so great. You got three chances to hit a home run and there was three guys per AL, three guys per NL, three or four doesn't matter, but the fact is you got three chances, three swings to hit home run. Dallas Warbur, all three. It's named All-Star MVP. Such a great day for the Phils. You know I boycotted the game a little bit.
Speaker 1:Go on, because the amount of Phillies that were just left off the table. Well, I know, like Zach Wheeler said, I want to just take a break. Well, no, I know old Zach did. He was last year. He was given the opportunity to start, I think it was, and he's like I would prefer to stay home with my family. But also, I forgot about this dude's backstory of MLB and like, like, where he has been in the league a lot longer than I remember because of injuries and stuff. You know he played with the Mets, gross, uh. And then this year they offered him the same deal. They're like hey, you were the front runner for a prestigious pitching award, I'm not going to jinx it right now. Starting job is yours for the all-star game.
Speaker 1:And once again, I thought this was the year Because he's retiring. He already announced he's retiring at the end of 27. He's like no, I'm good, I'm going to spend time with my family. So I kind of want to give the golf clap. Yes, a Golden Trout Award to you for doing that, zach Wheeler, and I know you listen to us, harry, I'm going to dub it on with you. Yeah, but you're right, that hit off was amazing, that's yes. And he hit bombs. Alcast made a song about him once. Hey, yeah, bombs over Baghdad. Oh Well, because he was dropping them. He was, and they were in Atlanta. So, moving on, I was so excited about Kyle Schwarber. I had another golden trout lined up to go tie in perfectly with the bracket. It don't matter.
Speaker 1:We're going back to food. We're going back to hot dogs. We're talking about the 2025 Nathan's hot dog eating contest winner. Welcome back, golden trout. Golden Trout recipient eating 70 and a half hot dogs. Joey Chestnut, my man, welcome back to the stage. You know what? You know what gave me chills? His introduction Into the contest this year.
Speaker 1:Did you get to hear any of it? I didn't hear any of it. We're about to pause the show so you can listen to it. Okay, it is one of the greatest introductions Of anything you will hear. You would think it is Prizefighter, like the Night's Tale introduction. Yes, oh, yes, that is the perfect way to describe it, but better, better. Yes, it is insane. How good it was. Golly you're. You know what it's a summer special. It's a summer special. I don't know the poor man's name. I do apologize for being ignorant. That man gets a golden trout too. No, why not? We got plenty of them this week. We got a backlog of them. Let's bring them out.
Speaker 1:Speaking about bringing out the Golden Trounce, harry, I have two illustrious ones. I have two that are worthy of this. The first one it has to go out to the College Football Hall of Fame. I know we're a little behind because we've been trying to record for a while and this might have gone underneath some folks' radar. So in order for a college football coach to be in the College Football Hall of Fame, they need a 60% winning percentage or higher, or those that are analytical, .600 or higher. Our guy, mike Leach, rest in
Speaker 1:peace. The inventor of the air raid, the first person who openly admitted saying that he was looking for a little person on for the ones to pick up and throw them over the offensive line to gain extra yardage. The one who had the greatest question ever asked of him about the Pac-12 teams which mascot would win, and he went into full detail. I loved every second of Mike Leach. There is not one moment in my life I did not like him. You ask him any question and he would answer it honestly. There were times where it was around Halloween or they played on Halloween. Hey coach, what's your favorite kind of candy? And he'd be like I really enjoy gummy candy. When my kids bring gummy candy home, all bets are off. I'm taking all of it and checking that for any superstitious. I don't want chocolate, I don't want crunchy, I want anything. He would go in depth. His winning percentage, Harry,
Speaker 1:is .596. The man passed away never reached 60%, but College Football Hall of Fame has lowered their requirement to 59.5%, making Mike Leach Hall of Fame eligible. Out of applause. That to me. Yeah. Hall of Fames aren't just for the best of the. Out of applause that's definitely me. Yeah, hall of Fames are just for the best of the best. Yeah, they're not. They're not for the guy with the most home runs, or you know, he obviously belongs there, but not with the most winning as managers either. But someone who elevates the sport the way he did, the someone who makes the sport relevant and entertaining, uh, they belong in there. No matter I don't want to say no matter what their winning percentage was. Yeah, it shouldn't matter as much, that's for sure. You know, because Mahomes went to Texas Tech where Mike Leach had coached prior and his replacement, cliff Kingsbury, learned from Mike Leach. You know what I mean. So through attrition, mahomes has three Super Bowl rings because of Mike Leach's mindset. Yeah, it gets talked about all the time in the NFL is coaching trees. You know big, big Bill Belichick, andy Reid and Mike Leach has people with him that people don't realize. But, harry, my next Golden Trout Award this is the most recent one out of the ones we have talked about. We're giving out four and Harry
Speaker 1:this one. The only reason I would have paid to have ESPN was to watch the ESPYs, and I usually don't watch the ESPYs. Well, I have great news for you. Yes, it's on Hulu. Stop, but's on Hulu. Stop, but go on. Our guy from Pennsylvania Birds fan, shane Gillis, was the host of the ESPYs. Now I understand his style of comedy is not for everybody. No, do you know who his comedy is for? Harry, us, us. He didn't say one single joke I did not laugh at or I didn't get Right. Nothing went over our heads, not that we're, you know, not smart. Everything made us laugh because we understand it's comedy. Yes, not everything is meant to be serious, but my golden trout goes out to Shane Gillis Because bravo, sir, that the way he was dogging the Cowboys, like just subtly but then directly, have you seen and I don't know if our listeners have watched it have you seen the part where he's talking about the teams that are nominated for
Speaker 1:best team? Yeah, yeah, that's my favorite. Like the tush push video they did is funny, but like the best team. Yeah, yeah, I think it's my favorite. Like the Tush Push video they did is funny, but like the best team. Oh, yeah, yeah, women's UConn basketball. You know where they had to face a team professional football players who won two Super Bowls? Oh, no, it was Eagles Go Birds. I think it was probably one of the best hosts ever. It was. I hope he goes back Every team he announces you're just at the end to be like go birds, go birds. Oh, you know, dallas Cowboys are in this, just kidding. Only real teams are nominated for best team. Like they panned right to TO and TO starts laughing. Yeah, because it's funny, it's comedy, it's comedy. Was it
Speaker 1:the writers? The press dinner with the president, where everybody just roasts everybody and the president gets up there and roasts people. First off, remember this episode Summer Special 2025. When I run for president of the United States one day, I'm going to roast you regardless. I don't care, it does not have to be the press day, it's going to be any day of the week. You ask me something? I'll be like Steve. Did you really just ask me that, with a haircut like that, and you're going to wear that tie combo with those shoes? Get out of here. Either I'll be the best or the worst president. Who knows it's a roast? It's
Speaker 1:the ESPYs. His job is to roast all the athletes. Don't take offense to it. My, don't take offense to it. My eel is going to go out to all the players and all the people in attendance who took offense or didn't think he was hilarious. You're all wrong. You're all wrong. I hate to tell people they're wrong on their opinion, but your opinion is bad. Yeah, it's Shane Gillis. Get over it. Watch tires. Go live in the Philly area for about two years, you'll understand. Go move the Delco and be like okay, he ain't that bad, it's funny. It's all funny. You know what? I got an idea. If you think that's offensive, let's just hang out with some people we know in the shops and then we'll go for their heads. That would explode.
Speaker 1:Good night. Speaking about explosion, harry, I'm going to move into heels. I got a few heels I got to bring up here. My head exploded In between episodes. I've had two trips here. Yeah, you didn't even cover your second trip yet. I didn't cover my second trip yet, but still sticking with the first trip, we're in a nice hotel In
Speaker 1:San Antonio. I'm not going to give the name, but it was pretty regent, grand regent, actually, was it a grand? Anyway, we research places. Does it have laundry facility there? Can I do my own laundry, yes or no? Then it determines how much stuff my kids am I packing. Also tells me if I'm there for seven days. Do I need four Michael's t-shirts or do I need six? I guess seven, right, if I'm there for seven days, whatever, washer, dryer there, harry, they set us up in a hallway. The fifth floor is a laundry room. Fifth floor is an arcade. On the fifth floor is a laundry room, fifth floor is an arcade and fifth floor is pool access and the deck access, things like that. Our room is also now on the fifth floor, right directly across the hall you come at our door to our room. Way was set up. There's a hallway on the right side, laundry room on the left side arcade phenomenal. It on the left side
Speaker 1:arcade phenomenal. It took me an hour to try and start a load of laundry. An hour I had $10 roll of quarters going. Yep, let's do some laundry today. It doesn't take quarters and I was trying to figure out ways to pay. I'm scanning with the app. I'm trying to do this. I had to download an app, I had to create an account and I had to create an account and I had to scan and then upload my Venmo, paypal, apple Pay, something like that to this site to
Speaker 1:do laundry. What happened to the days of me going in there with my sweatpants, with a pocket full of quarters, sweating because the quarters are pulling my pants down a little bit as I'm walking down the hallway? No, I got to do everything with my phone. Now, the only positive was that it told me when the washer and or dryer eventually was done. Is that what the trade off? No, because when I go in there and I go do laundry and it says 60 minutes for this or whatever it is, 45 minutes for this wash cycle. I set a 45 minute timer on my watch or my phone. Yeah, someone's going to tell me. Anyway, I'm going to put it in the dryer. You put it in the dryer. I'm going to set an hour or 55 minute timer. The only slight positive was you can add time without going over there. But why am I going to add time before I go over there if I don't know if I need more time? True, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1:a fan. I was mumbling, grumbling. I sounded like the dude from Grumpy Old man, just oh it. Mumbling grumbling. I sounded like the dude from grumpy old man, just oh, it's only our grandfather when he was mad at us because we weren't cutting the grass right, I was just so mad. You know what else made me mad? I got another golden or eel of
Speaker 1:the week. Harry, why are there two different types of antifreeze? I at least two. There's probably more. Well, there's red and green, isn't there? All I know is the orange and green. You can't mix the two because it causes a chemical reaction and apparently your engine will
Speaker 1:seize up. So, coming back from our second vacation, which I drove a thousand miles on that. One give or take A thousand miles. I know it took me a second Moving on, I get home, we get right back on a Saturday I'll get more on that later. Start my truck up. On Sunday I had to run to the store and my truck made a weird squeak underneath the hood. So I'm like something doesn't sound right. Pop the hood. My water pump has now, like the bearings in it, just died. My water pump's kicking and I'm like man, you gotta be kidding me. So I shut down, went to the parts store, ordered one and I was like, oh, I got coolant at the house. I know I have it because I looked
Speaker 1:at it. So I come home, park my truck in the side yard in the grass grass is now dead pulled out the old water pump, slapped the new one in, bolted up, go to that coolant, and I was like, as I'm dumping, I went this is green. Well, let me look Right, let me stop here, because I put about a half gallon in. Can you mix the orange and green? Nope, you can't. It'll seize up your engine. So now I have to go back under my truck and drain the coolant that's in there, and then, luckily, I had a gallon of distilled water in there from. It's probably like a year and a half two years old from when the girls used it when Piper had a
Speaker 1:bottle last. So a year and a half ago, I just took that bad boy, put it in. There's no radiator caps anymore. First off, you got to fill up your reservoir. There's no radiator cap. So I had to fill the reservoir up and shake my truck, get all the bubbles out and then open up the valve at the bottom for it all to drain out. It was an ordeal. That didn't even
Speaker 1:happen. No. But then I run to my local parts store, whether it was the O or the Advance or somebody and I'm like do you need guys? All you need help is like no, I'm here from coolant, I know what I'm doing. I did not know what I was doing because I walked down the aisle and it's literally it said Asian cars, honda, ford, gm, european. That's what the labels on all the coolant said. So now we're regionalizing them. Yeah, I drive a Chevy, I drive a Silverado. So I was like okay, grab this
Speaker 1:GM one. So then I would look up and be like well, how much coolant does my truck take? And, of course the GM sites tell you by quarts. They don't tell you by gallons, because why would they? Four quarts in a gallon? Public education system? Oh, I know that it says nine quarts. So it's two full gallons and a quarter. You can't buy a quarter. You can't buy a quarter of a coolant, you gotta buy a whole gallon. So now I gotta go buy three gallons. How much was that a bottle? Uh, $17.99 pre -tax, because it was specific to GM. Hmm, love my truck, but, general motors, I am mailing you an eel and I'm not going to flat rate it, I'm not going to
Speaker 1:overnight it. It's going to take some time to get there. I work in logistics, buddy, I can have that thing in Taiwan Two weeks, take it time. I got a handout and an award. I don't want to call it an eel Because it was a child. Ah, been there, so I'll give it the dead
Speaker 1:minnow award. This kid rings my doorbell. Hey, I'd like to cut your grass. Him and his friend. I said sure, I'm not home right now, do it tomorrow. He says okay. I said whoa, how much? He goes. 20 bucks. I said that sounds like a deal. He goes, I don't have a weed whacker. And I said don't worry about it, I'll weed whack If, if you come to my house and ring my doorbell in the year of our Lord 2025, and you're a child and you want to do some work for me, I'm going to let you and I'm going to pay you Because it doesn't happen anymore. No, so, yeah, yeah, come back tomorrow. So it
Speaker 1:comes back. It comes back the next day and I'm like, hey, you ready to get to work? And he goes, well, the price has gone up. And I said, alright, it's understandable. 75. I said, what 75? And I was like, that's not what you said yesterday. And he goes uh, yeah, it's the cost of business.
Speaker 1:Prices change. This kid is maybe 12 years old, maybe 12 years old, alright, well then, you have a good day. He goes. What? Yeah? I was like have a good day. This kid is maybe 12 years old, maybe 12 years old, all right, well then you have a good day. Because what? Yeah, it's like have a good day. He goes. Well, I thought we agreed and I said, no, we agreed to 20 bucks. And, as a matter of fact, I have you on recorded, because it was through my ring camera, saying it was $20. Yeah, now, $20. Now, if you feel like the cost has gone up, we can negotiate. We can negotiate. Sure, don't come in here, don't come to my house and try that. You better check yourself before you get wrecked. So I said have a good day. And he said I don't understand. I said I don't want your services. Thank you, have a
Speaker 1:good day. So he starts walking away and I go hey, you want to try that conversation over again? And he's like hey, um, can I still cut your grass for $20? And I said no, but you can cut it for 30. Yeah, I was like see, we wouldn't negotiate it, you would've got more money anyway. Boom. So he lives around the corner, he gets his ride mower, he comes up, he drives it over to my house, which like nothing but respect for, even stopped at the stop sign, my man does three laps in my yard and he goes OK, am I done now? So my eel goes out. I don't want to give it to the kid, but I don't know who to give it to the kid, but I don't know who to give this
Speaker 1:to if. If your kid is going to go out and try to raise money, you got to make sure they have a good work ethic. Yeah, don't come to my house, pride your lawnmower around for funsies and then be like, okay, I want my money now, we're good, right, so no, I mean, I mean, I made them take a couple more laps. I was like, yeah, you are not good, miss some spots in the back there. Yeah, hey, oh, I paid him and moved on, but more laps. I was like you are not good, missed some spots in the back there. Yeah, I paid him and moved on, but I was like, I was like and I had to cut it the next day. It was so bad, it was terrible. Yeah, I was his first ever customer in life. Oh, I had to. So he really like 20 bucks and you're like man, I sold him on
Speaker 1:20 bucks. Yeah, 75, what I paid someone to cut my grass and it was 50 bucks, I mean, and they're licensed and insured and do this for a living. Yeah, I'm not paying a kid. You know, I had same thing. I had kids the other last summer or so they came by hey, can you let me cut your grass from 40? Or would you let me cut your grass for 40 bucks? Or let me cut your grass for like? They didn't ask like, hey, do you need grass cut? Like I'm in my garage doing stuff. I graduated they rolled up and I was like, hey, boys, can I do it for you? Because down here in the south you just don't roll up on somebody's house. No, and they're like can you let me cut your grass for $40? And I'm like, are you paying me $40 to cut my grass? Oh, no, you pay me, I'm not letting you cut my grass for $40. Like, do you have a business model here or what? But it's all about that. Hey, can I cut your grass? Yes, how much do you charge? It's all about that. Hey, can I cut your grass? Yes, how much do you charge? 40 bucks, I'll do front and back. If they said 40 bucks, front and back, I'm like when do you start? Yeah, you can use my stuff. I let
Speaker 1:them use. Another kid's used my lawnmower, my old lawnmower. At the end of my street there's a house. It was like abandoned. Somebody moved out and the grass got pretty tall and they're like hey, can we borrow your lawnmower? Like for what? Like this is really weird. Like the house down the street, the grass is
Speaker 1:really tall. I'm like, yeah, here's my lawnmower, go take it like, yeah, we're gonna try and get some money off of them. And so they knocked on door and somebody offered to pay them like 10 or 20 bucks for them to cut the grass. Which then I'm like, do I have a? Have a side hustle? Like, do I charge these kids 10%? And now, like, do I have these kids? I'm like, hey, start going knocking on all these doors $20 a person, use my lawnmower, I get 10%. So give me $2 a house. I'm like, is it worth it? Because then I'll buy like five lawnmowers, a bunch of kids out there mowing yards, and now I'm sitting here like
Speaker 1:a king. Pretty sure this is how drug lords start. Yeah, I'm careful, this is how crime starts. It is that's crime, because then you know, first it's cutting grass and then it's selling it and then it's just all downhill from there. Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying the cutting part. I also have an additional deal this
Speaker 1:week, harry. We've been gone for a hot minute. We are we're not trying to be negative, it's just we haven't recorded to like Get these out of the way, and this one really irritates me. Out of the three I've had, I think this one irritates me the most and I think I've hit that stage in life. Wobbly furniture annoys me. Oh, here we go. You've talked about this twice, not on the show, no, no, no, in conversation. That's how serious this is, because it's happened
Speaker 1:multiple times. So our last vacation, most recent one, we went to Destin. So we had a villa and with the villa there was four bar stools in there. So one of the first nights we sat down and I was like man, how cool would it be, I'm going to cook dinner on this peninsula. It wasn't an island, but it was a peninsula Right there by the sink, I'll lay everybody's place down, we'll all sit together. So all three Sabrina, two girls sit down to eat, and I sat down to my stool and it felt like I was on a boat. They set you up on the way. You gotta be kidding me. So I grabbed this stool and I'm like something's gotta be broken this thing for it to be this loose. So there, everybody's got their plates in front
Speaker 1:of them. I put this bad boy upside down and half the screws are loose. And then when I say loose, I mean they're sticking. No, and of course, their heck's head. I don't have animal wrenches on me, so you tighten them up with your finger as best you can. I tighten it up somewhat, but that became my stool because I don't trust my kids on it. Not that they're going to ruin it. I don't want the stool ruining them by knocking them off. Yeah, of course. And so now here I am. I hate this chair. But also there's a dining room table with six chairs and, of course, one of the girls is sitting at a chair and I see them just like. Looks like they're a hula dance. I'm like what are you doing? Grab the chair. And those screws
Speaker 1:were loose. For the amount of money that they want to charge for this place, you would think somebody comes in there with some hand tools and tightens it up. But then we go to a local establishment for dinner, lunch, and the table was worse. Like we sit down in a restaurant. We're there when they it's very popular, so like it opens at 11. You got to be there like 10 30, yeah, and we were in line at like 10 45 and we were maybe in the middle and, uh, we sit down and the table was so loose. It wasn't the legs, it wasn't like put the coaster or nappings underneath the legs, it was like the screws that went underneath
Speaker 1:of it. So there I am, that guy like trying to tighten, screws up while everybody's sitting there in the screen. He's like why are you so mad? Right now I'm like they're a wobbly table dude, this table is bad. I hate it. I don't know. Table dude, this table is bad. I hate it. I don't know. It's the worst thing in the world. Yeah, I want to bring a tool set with me wherever I go. Now I want to be that guy with a range finder like I want it on my hip. Let's go and start tightening everything up. Makes me so mad, it's,
Speaker 1:it's fair. I see anything loose in my house and I immediately tighten it up. I have a bedroom door, our bedroom door. I don't know what it is, but it catches. And so I've literally stood at this thing and I've just looked all around it and I open it and close it 20, 30 times and I can't seem to find out where it catches, right. Mm-hmm, I open it fast, you know, I close it fast. I close it slow Doesn't catch. The moment I go to bed for the night it catches. There's no marks on the door, there's no marks on the frame. I don't know what it's catching. It's not the rug, I don't know what it is, but it catches and then it like falls out of my hand. So I got to stop, cause you walk in, you close the door at the same time, right, you're in Boom, boom, and every time, oh dude, I get it, I get it, I get it it is officially the middle
Speaker 1:of July. What are you looking forward to for the rest of the summer? The rest of the summer? So around here, school starts mid mid-August. So, yeah, we don't really have much time. We've already taken our Her work trip, we've taken our family vacation and now it's just our chill time. Smart, guess. I guess this episode will be coming out after
Speaker 1:this weekend. So I am planning a surprise birthday party barbecue for Sabrina, her best friend, and I have been planning this for over a month now quite some time. So I'm pretty excited for that. Like, that's my big summer plans is. You know how women are? They celebrate their birthday month, and her birthday is at the end of the month. Of course, so is my wife's. The entire month of July is Sabrina's birthday month, and yet when it comes to my birthday, I'm on the 13th, so I get less than half a month. So really I get an hour. No, that's what I'm looking forward to. I'm just excited we get to celebrate. Her Got some gifts, I've ordered them. She is a phenomenal gift giver. Like it's July and she's already looking at Santa and gifts for everybody else. You know, six months down the road. I'm a birthday next week. I'll get something in a couple days, but not this year. Lean forward, I'm just excited. I've got pieces in place here to keep her out of the house for several hours and hopefully that all stays where it needs to be. Yeah, that's tough. That's really what I'm looking
Speaker 1:forward to. And just playing in the backyard with the kids. They're old enough now, at four and two and a half, to want to just. We were playing outside with a gift they got sprinkler, but it's like this alligator that has a jet stream up so you can put a plastic baseball on it and hit it with a bat. Oh, that's so fun. It is fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, except for, like, as I'm trying to set it up. Olivia was trying to contain her excitement and went to swing for a ball, but it wound up being Piper's face. Oh, no, as I'm trying to set up, it's just me out there once again in zone coverage. Sabrina's working inside. I'm in zone coverage and before I say, hey, don't swing that bat, just thud, mark McGuire's already in his backswing. Mcguire is already halfway through his swing and Piper's face is the ball and you're like, but once again, piper's probably the toughest kid I know, she laughing off. No, she got hit. I think I overreacted and I scooped because I saw where the region went by the eye. Luckily it was right above her eye Gave her an ice pack and for a minute she puts it on a different part of her face and she looks at it. She licks the ice pack and I'm like you can just go back outside If you're licking the ice pack and I'm like you can just go back outside If you're licking the ice pack, get out. But that's what I'm
Speaker 1:looking for. I want to hear about your summer plans. What are you most excited about Summer special, besides episode 87, finally trying to record that? What are you most excited about? Harry? I actually got to do some fishing. I got to do some catfishing, which is my favorite. Yeah, it was very hot. I didn't think I was going to catch much and that was the truth. Went to the campground and one of the kids got their pole in a knot. So I set my pole down and I'm working this knot and I'm getting it and I'm towards the end and my pole almost snaps in half. I mean it was a huge hit, huge hit, and I couldn't get to my pole fast enough. He spit it out. I was so sad. So my summer plans we're going to go to
Speaker 1:the campground. Ange loves it, she likes sitting outside reading books and I just want to go fishing. So that's it, man, I love it. I love it. We have some house projects coming up. More about that later. But yeah, yeah, for the most part, I think I think just relaxing because there is a storm coming. Yeah, for me. So Big storm coming. You know we To say
Speaker 1:about that. So last week we went to Destin, florida, for vacation. You mentioned fishing. We did a lot of things. We did a private boat tour with Captain Corey. I don't know If you're going to Destin. You want to see dolphins hit up. Captain Corey, a drift, a drift tours. Anyway, let me find him on social media. I'll tag him in our stuff. I don't care. Great guy Sped the boat up. It was just the four of us on his boat and we watched dolphins ride the waves behind us One of the coolest things I've ever seen in person. Why are dolphins so majestic? I don't know, man, dolphins are cool. Because you did your dolphin tour, ang, and I did a dolphin tour. It's one of the craziest things I've ever experienced. Yeah,
Speaker 1:loved it. One thing we did do, though, was I kind of want to give an EO out to this one, but we, sabrina, booked a fishing trip for the four of us to go on with the boat captain and a deckhand, and it was a good sized boat. It was for beginners and kids I'm neither one, but it was nice for me. It was not what we expected, zero what we expected, but I know we're fishing. I know there's catfish out there. So what do I do? I wear my shoes, socks and shoes on the boat. Everybody else in my family wears sandals, and even Sabrina's like why are you wearing shoes? I was like trust me, I
Speaker 1:wear shoes. The first fish they cast out and the girls are taking turns. Each one really went in. First fish of the day, olivia's first reel, since she's oldest reels in as a catfish About eight, nine inch catfish. The deck hand tries to get off the hook and he drops it in the boat and then the very next moment boom tags him in his I guess index toe, index finger toe wasn't his big toe and so this dude is done for the whole day. You just he's. He's hurting the whole rest and it's a three hour fishing trip. We're 30 minutes in getting to our spot but we pulled in probably about nine or ten fish was cool like fish on. I hold the pole. Meanwhile the captain, or deckhand, has the other end. I'm helping the girls reel it in Several catfish or rubymouth,
Speaker 1:a pinfish. Piper had the biggest fish of the day with a Spanish mackerel. As soon as they pulled in I yelled holy mackerel. They were like no, it's Spanish. I was like yeah, you're right. And the Sabrina just decided to backhand me. It
Speaker 1:was hilarious. But the Catherine, I don't know. I wouldn't do that one again. I would not fish with those guys again. I'm not even going to say who they were. I'm not going to give you any indication who they are, just know they get my eel. Ooh, all right, yeah, i's been insane For the both of us. But what's nice is my girls loved fishing so much that they asked dad to go fishing more and I'm like Say less, say, that's all you had to say yes, let's go. So you know what? Don't give him an eel. Don't end the show like that. Nah, you know what? Thank you for helping my daughters learn to love fishing. Yeah, thank you, sabrina, for booking a fishing trip for our girls that love fishing. Perfect, buddy. This has been a fun episode. We're at an hour and a half. With some editing, we'll get it under an hour. Yeah, that's our time's, the power of editing. That's it. That's all we
Speaker 1:got today. Uh, sometimes I wish our listeners could hear the unedited version of us and uh, the uh, not so much the bleeps and the bloops, but the uh stumbling on our own words, or hearing you say asparagus, asparagus. It took me six tries to get it out. I do love asparagus. I went to a restaurant and I'm not going to say their name. I just wanted. I wanted a man meal. You know what I mean. I didn't want anything dainty, I wanted a steak, I wanted potatoes and they had asparagus. So I got. I got the asparagus. The steak was a chew toy, potatoes were cold and the asparagus looked like lawn clippings on my plate. They were so good. Just flip the table. I was so mad dude,
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