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#87 - THE FLYING ZEBRA
What happens when a zebra escapes in Tennessee, millions of honeybees spill onto a highway, and a bear decides to relax in someone's hot tub? These wild stories and more take center stage in episode 87 of The Trout Stream podcast, where hosts Paul and Harry navigate the strange landscape of viral hoaxes, NASCAR rivalries, and the ultimate barbecue side dish showdown.
The episode begins when the hosts dive into their recurring segment on athletes who've worn the number 87, featuring NFL star Travis Kelce, hockey legend Sidney Crosby, and Philadelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek.
The barbecue side dish bracket continues to heat up with passionate debates about whether corn on the cob deserves its victory over pigs in a blanket, why baked beans triumphed against fruit salad, and the surprising advancement of chips and salsa over macaroni salad. Each matchup reveals not just food preferences but regional cooking traditions that listeners clearly feel strongly about.
Perhaps most entertaining is "Paul's Weird News" segment, featuring three bizarre animal tales—culminating with Florida residents using donuts to lure a bear from their hot tub. The episode concludes with a hilarious discussion about which actors would be the absolute worst choices to play James Bond, with Gilbert Gottfried and Pee-wee Herman topping their list of catastrophic casting ideas.
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Speaker 2:This week has been a tough week for many of us. We lost two great legends, the first being Ozzy Osbourne and the second being one of the greatest entertainers of all time, hulk Hogan. You will both be missed. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Trout Stream. Paul Cogan, wear 87, hand out our golden trouts and eels of the week, continue our favorite barbecue side dish bracket and, of course, much, much more. Paul listeners, everyone welcome. Welcome to 87. Seven. If we were going to be the Roman numeral, we'd be. I'll talk my head here. Let me think about it. Lxxxvii. I can't wait till Super Bowl. 87. 87. I was just thinking that. I was like how are they? They're going to have to start like, using numbers, numbers.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Numbers yeah, arabic numbers. I don't know what are numbers called? What are the numbers we use every day? Arabic Arabic numbers? Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, also, you and I are just like 87. The radioactive metal, francium, except for we were not discovered in France. No, we were actually discovered in a small town in Pennsylvania, yeah Also, yeah, we use Arabic numbers. I saw a very funny poll several years ago it was like a Twitter poll or something that. Back when it was called Twitter, it was like would you sign a petition or should we stop teaching aromatic numbers in school? And like all the Americans were like, yeah, stop it. That's the numbers we use.
Speaker 2:Quite possibly one of the coolest facts about the number 87. Did you know that is the sum of the squares of the first prime numbers? One squared plus two squared plus three squared plus five squared equals 87. 87. Apparently, oh, yeah, come to the trout stream for no learning. Yeah, you're right, I don't know how that works, but as a fact I found I was like the first four prime numbers, first four primes. That should be. We continue.
Speaker 2:I want to give a huge shout out to a couple of listeners from episode 86. We got Coastal Oklahoma, ooh, okay, milwaukee, wisconsin, hello, okay, milwaukee, wisconsin. Hello Wisconsin, just like our buddies out there in the land down under. Hello Wisconsin and St Louis, missouri. I'm going to do three. We had three. I mean, there's a bunch, there's a lot of small places in there which I love, but if I said Motuck, maryland, no one's going to know where that's at. Yeah, who knew? I don't. I'm going to look it up after the show this weekend, this past weekend, whatever you want to call it, had a small little surprise barbecue for Sabrina for her upcoming birthday, me and her best friend. We've been working this for almost two months now. Low key, nothing major, but we pulled it off.
Speaker 2:That was great, cooked way too much food for the amount of people that showed up. And here it is, six days, five days later, I'm still eating leftovers. So love it. Do you have any deviled eggs? No, you don't do eggs in your house. We don't do eggs in our house. Oh, but it'd make a lot of macaroni salad, yeah, and salsa and ribs. How were the ribs? Perfect, two thumbs up, two thumbs way up.
Speaker 2:I got some pretty good acknowledgement of my rib cooking ability. Nothing better than acknowledgement, buddy. No, no, that was like a public service announcement 2000. Going out to the world of like these are good ribs over here. Oh I, I'm scared to cook ribs. I just don't want to waste them. You know what I mean? I got you. It took me a little bit, but the key to cooking good ribs is you can't be too under the influence while cooking them. Okay, just enough libation to be free. That's it, okay, yeah, yeah, it was one of Sabrina's friends. Kim gave me the blessing, gave me the huge thumbs up. Thanks, kim.
Speaker 2:We didn't do much. Man, ange has been battling a bug, ah, and it was just a tiny little bug. So she's been pretty tired and so we have not done much. Man, I'm going to be honest. I always feel like you're doing something crazy and exciting and I'm like I cut my grass. I survived, I watched how it's made. I miss those days. I just wanted to watch how it's made. It is kind of crazy that we are opposites sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't stop and I don't go. Yeah, we don't stop here. I stop for about six hours in the middle of the night. It's so nice. That's not even a constant six. Yeah yeah, sometimes the slow down goes. Hey, remember me, do you want to join me over here Moving on to 87, athletes to wear 87.
Speaker 2:For our NASCAR pick-ems we were at Dover last weekend. I want to say, 80% of the race you were out in front of me and then towards the end there you got caught up in something that wasn't your fault, taken out of the race. What that put me ahead of you. We're going to Indy start thinking about your pick, but I'm going to go first with my favorite athlete to wear 87,. I gotta go With America's younger brother, travis Kelsey. Oh, okay, you cannot turn on the TV without seeing his face. You cannot go on social media without seeing him. And the birds just beat him in the last Super Bowl. Go birds, go birds. That man has learned how to market himself and he's doing it very well and he's a great tight end on the field.
Speaker 2:I mean it doesn't help when your best friend is Patrick Mahomes, who can do straight magic, except in the Super Bowl, when it's against Dubbers, dubbers. But yeah, travis, I got to give it to him. That's a solid 87. Top five 87s, sports wide. I see. You see your one, I got several, I got, I got a few here. I'll kick it back.
Speaker 2:Old school, 1981 nfc championship game. A few seconds left on the clock, joe montana steps back, slings it to the end. So who jumps up to make the quote? The catch? Dwight Clark. Oh, I don't know him of his career, I mean, that was all before we were born, but it's one of the most iconic catches and football history, without question. Yeah, so you got to bring up Dwight Clark. You're not going to not Speaking about great receiver hands made of the softest pillows in the world, doesn't drop the ball.
Speaker 2:Much Went from being paint manager number two to number one when our number 88's next week guaranteed, number 88's next week retired. His last name is also a name of a city in the state that he played for. The one, the only, reggie Wayne, indiana. Ho, ho. How often does that happen? You don't have a Kelsey, missouri or a Clark, california, no, but you got a Wayne, indiana. Reggie Wayne was always lights out, top notch. I mean, I remember when he'd miss a week or two or whatever for injuries, come right back 120 yards receiving and a touchdown, he'd look in the camera and say I'm back, think about coming back. Wish this guy would not come back. I wish this guy would just sit on the bench, not even smile, just sit there. Number 87 in the worst uniforms ever Black and yellow, worst hockey team name of all time.
Speaker 2:Sidney Crosby Penguins don't play hockey. Yeah right, we all know that. Come on, you know who plays hockey. A flying filly will play hockey. You're right, that's know that. Come on, you know who plays hockey. A flying Philly will play hockey. You're right, that's what a flyer is. Also, I think Philadelphia has like two of the worst names between Phillies and flyers. What is a Philly? A Philly is just a Philadelphian yeah, man, easy. And a flyer is a legit flying Philly. If you look at the logo flyer's logo it is the old Philly's P flying Cross the screen.
Speaker 2:Sidney Crosby, number 87. Respect him, don't like him. He's beat Philly. Philly has beat him. Beat him down. But also after 2010, when he had the golden goal against the United States in the Olympics. Just looking at him, it reminds me of Amityville. It's one of those. I cannot wait for him to retire and I will give him his flowers and I will give him what is owed, but as he is an active player, I hate your guts. Please go home. I mean, I'll give him flowers now I renamed my right hand flowers but it's okay, that was good. I probably would lose in a street fight to him, though he would pull out some hockey maneuvers. Oh yeah, yeah, but I'm going to get a lick in, he's not going to forget who we are Speaking of, not going to forget my last 87,.
Speaker 2:I will not forget this. The 2009 NFC Championship game filled up the Eagles versus the Arizona Cardinals in Arizona. I happen to be very fortunate enough to get some extra tickets, so I got to go get down there, sit down at a little restaurant I forget which one and I look over and there's a whole table of people wearing 87 Brent Selick jerseys and they're signed and I was like man, these people are wild wearing signed jerseys by number 87 Philadelphia Eagles. Turns out it was his entire family. So I had dinner and I see championship game or lunch really next to the family of one of my favorite 87s of all time. I've already slipped up said his name brent selick. Yeah, yeah, brent selick was our pre zach ertz in philly. I think. Selick opened the door for what zach ertz could do and he was philly man. He was philly through. Oh, yeah, yeah, still is. Uh, if you don't know what I mean when I say he's Philly, you won't understand it anyway. Yeah, you just got to live it. You have to rename your right-hand flowers and give it to Sidney Crosby. Yeah, yeah, that's a Philly thing. Right, it's just the way. I am.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure he's a realtor now. I mean, I'd buy a house with him within reason. Yeah, rent Selick Real Estate. He has 4.8 stars on Google. Oh, wow, we got to find out who did not give him a five. I will do my research, Mm. Hmm. No, someone gave him a four, a four Four. Yeah, dude, I don't know. You know who. I bet you, I know who it was. I, as soon as you said I bet I know where you're at. Go ahead, ken Kniff. It's Ken Kniff. He's a Cowboys fan. Yeah, I was going to say he was probably a Cowboys fan. Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 2:In the NBA, no players have worn the number 87. That's shocking, because 87 is a bad looking number. It's not a bad looking number, but I see your zero. I'm going to add a few digits to it, not eight, not seven. Go one after that. Nine. Nine players have worn number 87, the first one being in 2012. We're getting to the era where numbers didn't get used at all. Obviously, they had an 8 and 8 and a 7 back in the SoShop, but they never put them together Right. Slide on over to DraftPix NFL 2010. Wide receiver Eric Decker. I think he got drafted by the broncos and then signed with the jets. Decent receiver he was okay. But let's go back to 1982, number 87 overall draft pick, harry I need to go deep for this one. My guy steve burman, punter, drafted by the raiders. Is he the partner that just laid out that dude on when Oakland played on the baseball and football field and they had the dirt there?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It was at second base and this dude just laid out, the punt return Travels him. Yes, I think that was Steve. I mean Berman, bury him, that's what they should have called him. He's a bad dude. He was almost like a Pat McAfee before Pat McAfee. Yeah yeah, he didn't have to walk around and let everybody know he had swagger Because he looked at somebody across the field and, like the punt returner, said you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna kill you. And he tried. He tried the 87th Billboard Top 100 song, that's what Friends Are For. I'm going to kill you. And he tried. He tried the 87th Billboard Top 100 song, that's what Friends Are For, by Donnie and Friends, elton John, gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder. That's a jam right there.
Speaker 2:I know that jam, that's a jam and I don't know if I've ever heard it. The 87th highest grossing movie, the Hunger Games, catching Fire. I do enjoy the Hunger Games movie. Oh, the Hunger Games, catching Fire. I do enjoy the Hunger Games. And the number one album from 1987, u2, the Joshua Tree. Let's have some fun, buddy. Let's go over celebrities who are 87 years old. Let's have some fun. That beat is sick. We have Tommy Chong from Cheech and Chong. Alright, tommy's 87?. Tommy's 87. Terrence Stamp he's one of these guys that I didn't know. That was his name. Yes, I know who he is, but he plays a lot of bad guys.
Speaker 2:Judy Blume, children's author. Jane Fonda Wait a second, judy's still alive. Judy Blume yeah, I thought she was like way long ago, no. And then you have Dustin Hoffman, sir Anthony Hopkins oh, anthony Hopkins, sir, 87. Now here's the celebrities that we lost at 87. This list is much longer. I'll only do the top 10. We have Helenen keller. Dr seuss, what'd you, what'd you have at helen keller man? Oh, I laughed at you. Stop 10, uh, mother theresa coco chanel, larry king I always forget larry passed. Larry passed, I see, I thought I just saw an interview of him recently, or with him. It's just a mortal dude, it's. Uh well, you know what it is. He has the he had at the end there he had the same build as a ventriloquist puppet, so that's that's what they just been using. So Larry's been 87 for, like I don't know, 25 years. Essentially, yeah, yeah, okay, okay. Little Richard, margaret Thatcher and, to end the list, george Segal.
Speaker 1:He was the grandfather. That's a good one.
Speaker 2:He was the grandfather in the Goldbergs. That is a sad one. That is a sad one. Yes, sir, that's why I respectfully ended on that. This has been a rough week for us. It has Losing Ozzy, losing the Hulkster. Last week we were at Dover. I would guess we would call Dover our home track. Right, I am willing. I actually told Sabrina we need to watch Dover because it's my home track. It is called the Monster Mile. It is concrete, it is cool. It's such a cool track. It is actually the first track I went to. Nascar track Same. It's like a rite of passage. It is they have Miles the Monster. It's like the largest monster sculpture on the East Coast or something crazy like that. All around good time, all around good tracks. It's hard in NASCAR, in the NASCAR game. It's not the easiest of tracks to drive and I can't imagine actually driving it as much better. That's one thing. The announcers kept saying. It's a top track, it's a monster, yeah it looks like it's a mile long too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe Almost Close. They called a red flag with 14 to go. I thought that was stupid, Um, and they waited about an hour rain and then dry, and all that with 14 laps to go. So I I didn't agree with that. There's a a couple of conspiracy theories out there. I will acknowledge that. But yeah, uh, not a fan. Uh, yeah, you know why they went back to green flag after waiting for an hour. It was so william byron could wreck out and finish behind brad k. That is my whole conspiracy theory. They knew our picks before the episode even aired. They knew our picks like they're in our brains and they're like guess what we're gonna do?
Speaker 1:we're gonna mess with them, boys, we just throw straight to a wall and be like all right, and brad be like guess what we're going to do.
Speaker 2:We're going to mess with them, boys. And Willie B just drove straight to a wall. Be like all right. And Brad, be like you know what? I need? A top 15 finish this year. Oh man, I thought Brad was actually going to do good. Yeah, me too. Just wasn't Willie B's day.
Speaker 2:We're moving on to Indy. I go first, but before that let's go over points where we stand all that. Well, I got a doozy for you here 19 races in Races and you're up 10-9. We, literally we are volleying back and forth on wins, one to one to one to one, and then you got four in a row. Then I got three regular. I got the all-star race and then you got three in a row. We skipped Michigan because we both were on vacation that week, and then I got four in a row to kind of even it out. Then Brad K beat you.
Speaker 2:Looking at points, I am sitting. I am currently sitting at 502 points. Well earned, well deserved points. Take those same numbers, move them around. Harry, you're sitting at 520. Up by 18. Any bonus points yet this year? And then let's review bonus points. We get bonus points if somebody the driver you pick actually wins the race. We didn't record a lot of this stuff here, you know, because you know back and forth, back and forth, but I waited, I held off Beginning of the year. I wanted this pick the way life worked out. Chicago Street Race SVG Shane Van Ginsberg and I picked him up and he got the win. So I have 10 bonus points coming to me at the end of the season.
Speaker 1:This is just something fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is where it gets spicy buddy. Yeah, this is where it gets spicy buddy. Yeah, I hope we do next year's plan what I sent you. I think that will be really fun too. But this year is I mean, what are the odds? You know what I mean? 10 and 9. 18 points, 8 points, it's just insane. Yeah, it's always right there, same as last year and year before. Coincidentally, we were just there. But as they say, that's the spice that meets the bowl. What are you going to do? What I'm going to do this week is you got to go with a Penske car. I've already used two of the three up. That leaves me with Austin Sindrick driving the number two car owned by Mr Penske who, um, he owns the track. So, yeah, huge conspiracy theory on this side as well, because I think Harry is literally looking at my piece of paper. I had one number written down three times.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. So I see your two. I'm going to write it down again and I'm going to take the other penske car I had available of joey logano. I feel like this is one of those things that you, uh, I should. Oh, oh no. So your original pick was the two. I put both down Cause I didn't look at your side yet and I was like I don't know where you're going. In case you went one of those two, I was going to line through and take the other one. Smart, oh, look at us, dude, look at us. Oh, it's Bon Jovi. Cause we're living on a prayer. Well, we're halfway there. I got to get my golden trout out. I got to get it out now.
Speaker 2:Ange and I were at a doctor's office and just the amazing support that was there for other patients was absolutely amazing. It was beautiful. A young lady came in, said she hasn't eaten anything today and they swept her in the back and as I walked by the little break room I could see that she had a full plate of food and I just thought way to go above and beyond. That's amazing. Huge shout out Bravo. You might hand deliver that one, because I have one. I'm going to hand deliver very soon.
Speaker 2:As I go revisit this establishment, sabrina finally hooked it up for me and I say finally because, like I've been trying to get something taken care of and life has been getting in the way. So on Sunday she made me appointment to get a pedicure. Most places are not open on Sundays, especially down south, but Broadmoor Nails and Spa. So if you're in the Bossier Shreveport area, go to Broadmoor Nails and Spa. So if you're in the Bossier Shreveport area, go to Broadmoor Nails and Spa. It was amazing good time. Yeah, oh man, I never realized. I always forget how bad my feet hurt until after I get a pedicure and you're like it doesn't have to hurt when I walk my feet don't have to hurt life doesn't have to be this way, like some of the things they were doing to my feet.
Speaker 2:Don't have to hurt life doesn't have to be this way, like some of the things they were doing to my feet were a criminal, yeah, yeah, uh. Even the lady said oh, look at it at one point took care of my toenails. The one lady was actually uh kind of giggling because I had some remaining toenail polish when I got a pedicure last time. When Reagan got to pick my nail polish, I don't care, but they did it like this wax thing on my feet. Man, it was wild.
Speaker 1:I walked out of there.
Speaker 2:I just have this fear my feet won't fit in the tub. I got it, but, yeah, there's plenty of room, all right. But also the massage chair. Go on, yeah, the sweet massage chair. Go on. Yeah, it's a sweet massage chair where, like they adjust it to, where, like, my feet are at the right angle, going into the tub, getting a good massage on my back.
Speaker 2:But I haven't told you the best part they had and I did a little waiting area sitting on the couch waiting for my turn. They had a bowl of Tootsie Rolls what? Yeah, that's so random it took everything out of me to stop at two. I don't know if I could have dude, it was tough, luckily, as I was reaching for more, like you're up. And I was like, yeah, you're right, I should probably stop eating all of these. Yeah, they saw how quick you were going to cost them money in Tootsie Rolls. They were like, oh, is it my drug ballad? Like that is my thing. Like, give me Tootsie Rolls. Yeah, I'll eat all Tootsie Rolls and Twizzlers Game over.
Speaker 2:I'm a simple man. I don't like Twizzlers. I thoroughly enjoy Twizzlers. No, you're wrong, that is two steps above wax. Okay, okay, there's Red Vines, but okay, cool, I don't think I've ever had a red vine. I mean, we grew up in Twizzler country. We did. I just, you know it's funny because, like on TV shows, when you see red vines, I often thought it was like, because you couldn't say Twizzler, so it was like some cheap. It's like the show knockoff, yeah, yeah. And then like I found out there, no, they're real candy. No, they're real thing. You can get them in like a big old tub. No, I'm good they don't stick together like Twizzlers do. How I don't have more of a chalky taste. Oh, so here's what it is. It's a Twizzler that is somehow worse. Yes, sign me up, I'm in. You know who else was in? All of our social media followers? Because the polls this week were on fire. Polls this week run fire for what, harry? Oh, I'll answer that one for you favorite barbecue side dish. Now, I've already mentioned a few.
Speaker 2:I got so excited about my barbecue this weekend that I went ahead and made some and I was like, what is the crowd gonna want? The wasn't that big. I was like a handful of people at the house, so like the crowd was me and I'm pretty biased. So you should have done a study and made some side dishes on the bracket and see which ones actually moved. Actually, coincidentally, I made a matchup, like one of our matchups I made here, and I'll get into that in a minute here. Ok, ok, let's go with the biggest, harry, the biggest gap. Yeah, I don't want to say landslide, because it wasn't a landslide, this was from the top left region, the burger region. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:What is a staple at every barbecue? What do you got to have? Burgers, corn on the con versus pigs in a blanket. Both, like we talked last week, both solid, number two picks, both four words, both great. You know what goes good with burgers on the grill, harry, some people can cook, not everybody's good at it Chicken, we never got the results to corn on the cob or pigs in a blanket. Yeah, I know, it was pretty in the way I just like mess with our listeners. Sometimes it kind of, you know, when you're driving and you think your CD skipped, but then you realize you don't have a CD anymore. Well, you got me and I'm your co-host, buddy. Yeah, yeah, we're right here. 63 to 37.
Speaker 2:Corn on the cob is moving on. I'm so happy about that. Pigs in a blanket to me has protein. To me that's just their mini hot dogs. Corner on the cob is a summertime thing. Pigs in a blanket is a fall winter thing. Yeah, I agree. Right, because I could. Are an inside event thing. Yes, they're an inside event. Yep, right now I get it. You know somebody's going to argue with us. Well, my, my aunt Deb, my uncle Stan, have a ginormous enclosed patio. We open the screens on like fine, do whatever you want. Yeah, stan's house, live your life. Our thinking you can have corner on the cob inside. Yeah, of course we've done it, but we've done it. Uh, but it's good outside. It's good inside. Pigs and blanket inside cold weather. Yeah, I 100 agree with that. All right. Now, moving on to the chicken region, harry, where you can have that inside, outside, upside down on your roof or in your basement for those up in the northern part of the country.
Speaker 2:I don't know if we have two complete opposite like I. I'm looking at the recipe. It's fruit salad versus baked beans. Oh man, they are two polar opposites. Do you want dessert or do you want a side? Yes, beans have a protein in it. Yes, you can add some stuff to it.
Speaker 2:Gabby's mom made these baked beans the other week that I haven't stopped thinking about. I don't know if she took like Bush's baked beans and doctored them up or whatever, but like, pretty sure, there's like ground beef diced up, bell peppers and onions in there, some other stuff, dude, it was really good. They were offering me like hey man, do you want some more of this elk burger? And I was like no, gabby's mom's baked beans on the stove, get out of here. But you know what I mean. Like I don't know, harry, if I'm outside, if I'm relaxing under the sun, uh, fruit salad might sound good. Yeah right, some something refreshing in there.
Speaker 2:But baked beans sometimes always just hit the spot. You know it's really good. Those like when you get your plate together and you got your chicken on there or your hamburger of that bun you put the baked beans in there. Sometimes that baked bean juice gets to the bun. Oh, that's delicious. That's free flavoring, that's free flavoring. Jimmy John's gives out free smells. Baked bean juice on your bun, free flavoring. Now I got a break to you. 57 to 43% Baked beans are moving on. Oh to 43% Baked beans are moving on.
Speaker 2:Oh, they're a barbecue staple, they're a barbecue staple, barbecue staple. And it went back and forth quite a while, and I watched all these polls very intently. Next time we see baked beans, though, it's going against the other B. Please, two of you cannot be together. Bacon mac and cheese going against baked beans. Hot dang cheese going against baked beans Hot dang, hot dang, hot. Diggity Another big staple. Harry, you've got it, I got it, everybody's got them. Ribs Not everybody can cook them. Everybody, or most people, can eat them.
Speaker 2:Potato salad versus watermelon that's a brawl that is delicious versus refreshing. A good watermelon is tough to beat, but also some good mustard-based potato salad. No, ew, the yellow potato salad. Nah, give me white. Oh, man, I mean, I get it, but I like a good. If I'm at a barbecue, let's go back to it. Back to it, harry. Outside barbecue, I'll take mustard based. Yeah, it does seem safer outside. It seems safer outside. Yeah, throw some yellow potato salad on your burger. Man, talk about free flavors here at Trout Stream stream. We're all about free flavors now I'm thinking about potato salad. Like what happens if you mix a yellow and a white potato salad? Uh, you think it'd be like. Uh, is it like the atlantic and the pacific ocean? Like they would never merge yeah, where is?
Speaker 2:it where the amazon dumps into the atlantic, or something like that. Yeah, you just see the line. You see the line, mm, no matter how hard you try and mix that thing, you're going to see a line. But you know what? Look at that line, keep looking at that line. 55, 45.
Speaker 2:Potato Salad's moving on, got to, it's a staple. I mean watermelon's a staple too, but I remember more Potato salad than watermelon at barbecues. Yeah, you're right. Next time we see potato salad. Next, matchup is going up against everybody's favorite deviled eggs. Singing about deviled eggs this morning or today, I think about deviled eggs every day. Last matchup, you got burgers, you got ribs, you got chicken. What is the staple on a grill? Hot dogs. Let's go to the top right region Hot dogs, where we have chips and salsa going against macaroni salad.
Speaker 2:When I told you I made two items that were a heads up matchup, I made homemade salsa, my salsa, and I made my macaroni salad. Yes, I'm a connoisseur. Okay, I found a recipe for macaroni salad. I just used vegan mayo. It's fine. 54 to 46, harry.
Speaker 2:Now I love my salsa because I gotta make it the night before and let it ferment. My dream is my garden. Right now I'm growing just about everything but the celery for my salsa. My dream one day is to be able to go out to my garden, pick all the ingredients fresh, chop it up, make my salsa. That's all I want to do. The longer it sits, the hotter it gets, and I make a giant bowl of it. But I also make an even bigger bowl of macaroni salad, like that might be my dessert tonight. Some people go for ice cream or cake. I want macaroni salad for dessert. That's a choice. Roni salad for dessert? That's a choice. Yeah, but with this one here, 54 to 46% Chips and salsa is moving on.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know, I have no idea there will be riots in the street. Wow, that is an upset, dude, right, I don't know. The real Slim Shady might stand up and be like I'm out of here. I don't think chips and salsa even belong on this bracket. No, I should have put. You know, I could have had four shrimp instead of chips and salsa. But chips and salsa just go with everything, like hey man, my kid's third birthday chips and salsa. High school graduation chips and salsa. Bar mitzvah chips and salsa. We're having a barbecue because it's a Saturday. Chips and salsa. We're having a barbecue because it's a Saturday. Chips and salsa yeah, you're right, you do need a little snack.
Speaker 2:I lived off of my salsa for close to a year. I cooked with everything because I made so much of it. When I get, when Andrew and I go to Chili's, I always get chips and salsa because you can get one to go For free and then I eat it the next day. So next time you go to Chili's, get the chips and salsa. You can get a refill For free. Not sponsored should be. Should be Chili's. I'll let you boys.
Speaker 2:So next time we see chips and salsa, they'll be going against. Oh man, what the matchup could have been, harry. What the matchup could have been, hmm. So next time we see Chip Stolz, they'll be going against. Oh man, what the matchup could have been, harry. What the matchup could have been Pasta salad. We could have had pasta salad versus Mac salad.
Speaker 2:We have a party this weekend we got to go to and Angela's requested to make her pasta salad. Oh, okay, to make her pasta salad. Oh okay, like, I want to have a salad party, but you can't bring regular salad. Oh, okay, I like that. This might be my birthday request. It's got to be pasta, macaroni, potato, chicken, chicken salad. Oh man, egg salad sandwich. I have been craving an egg salad sandwich for so long. That's what I'm going to do, probably tomorrow. I'm going to look up who has an egg salad sandwich. You got to go, buddy, you deserve one. But that's it for the polls this week. Harry, for the bracket, be on the lookout because it's coming hot and heavy and fast. More matchups are coming your way. You know what else is coming your way, buddy.
Speaker 2:What do a zebra, a bear and millions of honeybees have in common? They're animals. They are all stories in this week's PWN Polls, weird News. Here is your host, paul. Hey, harry, thanks for the shout out out here on the streets. Boy, do we got a doozy for you? Now let's go over. We've been using our little TikTok, found a map, thought it was hilarious. We posted, didn't know the full story. We got a PWN story out of it, coming your way from Murfreesboro Tennessee. This is a wild one, harry. Where do zebras run wild in the world? In Africa and in Murfreesboro Tennessee.
Speaker 2:Because a runaway pet zebra was on the loose for more than a week Not a day, Not an hour a week in Tennessee, and this dude became an internet sensation. But after a week he was captured. Don't know how he got the name right, don't know if it was local lore, local legend, if the owners allegedly of Brantley Gilbert country singer named him. But Ed the Zebra was captured safely. Somebody found him in a pasture subdivision, running amok. But here's my favorite part how did they get Ed the Zebra from the pasture back to allegedly Brantley Gilbert's house right or farm or wherever it is? They had to airlift Ed.
Speaker 2:So now you got to go out there, you got to get him, calm him down somehow, I don't know. Do you whistle him or get up in here? I don't know how you call a zebra, I don't really. Maybe is there like an accent, like what you would talk to a horse, but with like a different accent because they're from different parts of the world. No, no, no, no, no. You play the intro song to the lion king and it naturally kneels down and that's uh, sylvania. Like here we go again no one bows to me one of these days, come on, marty.
Speaker 2:They put this cloth sling around him and I saw videos and I used to see videos of people getting rescued by helicopters out like raging waters or stuff like that. But like no, here's Ed the zebra. Just like, hmm, this is pretty crazy. Never saw the world from this point of view before. Just oh, I mean, there was. The best part was there were several sightings throughout the week. Like everybody's like, making it a game of like. Instead of where's Waldo, it's where's Ed Bing. So I'm over here. Bing Would have been hilarious if there had been more than one, but that's not the weirdest news, harry. You hear about a zebra loose in Tennessee One month prior to Ed being loose, and I wish we would have had this. A month ago on PWN there was a runaway kangaroo that shut down a section of Alabama's interstates. I don't know what's going on with people and their animals, but folks, why are there so many exotic animals? Well, I don't think kangaroos are really exotic, they're just native to Australia.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Wasn't there a president who wanted to set kangaroos loose. Probably If I was willing to bet it'd loose. Probably If I was willing to bet it'd be Teddy Roosevelt. I think he's the only president that would ever try and fist fight a kangaroo too I would, but there's rules. It has to be like six weeks old. That, I think, would beat me up. Now, Harry, let's get on your little puddle jumper here, Same one they use to pick up Ed. Let's go from Tennessee up to the Pacific Northwest, to the state of Washington.
Speaker 2:The headline is hilarious Millions of honeybees abuzz after truck overturns in Washington state. I don't want to read the rest of this because I'm already getting like no, you know, I don't do bees, I don't do flying insects, Especially ones that can sting you. Commercial truck overturned on a Washington state highway and about 250 million honeybees escaped. I have so many questions, Go ahead. He had roughly 70,000 pounds of honeybee hives in the back of his truck and he rolled over around 4 am close to the Canadian border. So here he is in Washington State. I don't know if he was heading to Canada, Like he could have been. Like. Hmm, you know what goes good with Canadian bacon and poutine Honey. I got 70,000 pounds of active beehives in the back with 250 million honeybees. Let's go. Why did he have so many bees? I don't know why is he unhungry?
Speaker 2:The driver was uninjured after he rolled it. But like, here's my favorite part is they had an emergency call Beekeepers. Like I don't. Is there a phone number listing Like do you have to go to Yellow Pages and be like, look at the word beekeeper F4AM, look up beekeeper, call them. Which one? All of them. Sir there are a dozen in the area.
Speaker 2:I stutter the sheriff getting woken up. You woke me up for this. Over two dozen showed up to help. Good for them. Golden, worried to the beekeepers. But how weird is it like this truck just overturns?
Speaker 2:The plan is to allow the bees to return to their hives and find their queen bee in the next day or two. In the next day or two, you're telling me there's 250 million honeybees. I know honeybees aren't regular bees, but it's still got the word bee in it. They're going to find their queen or they're not. That's not something I'm willing to do. No, I don't want nothing to do with it. No, but Harry, you know what goes good with honey. Sometimes you want to put a little honey on donuts. I like a little honey glaze on some things you know, like cornbread or donuts. How about this one?
Speaker 2:Moving on, let's go from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic Southeast. Let's go to Florida, yeah, where a resident decided to look out his window hey, sweetheart, you want to hop in that hot tub? And she goes. Nope, it's already occupied. And he was like was it Randy, was it Marshall? Is Marshall Mathers in our hot tub right now? No, it was a bear in their hot tub.
Speaker 2:Of all things. A bear is in your hot tub and they're like, oh man, how are we going to get this bear out? How are we going to get this bear out? They lured a bear out of a hot tub with donuts. They just started tossing out donuts, saying hey, you know what, I like donuts. And everybody's like yeah, I like donuts. Obviously there's a joke in there for cops who somehow were luring somebody away from something with donuts. They lured this giant bear. I don't have a weight because they couldn't get him on a scale. I guess the bear descended right. He hops out of the hot tub, runs up a tree and descends back down said tree. All in pursuit. He got scared and in pursuit of hot dogs, donuts. But then authorities got him in a trap and now Paul the bear is safe and sound.
Speaker 2:I didn't know there were bears in Florida, dude, there's bears in every state. That's terrifying, yeah, except for you know, california has bears, but their state, the bears on their state flag is extinct. Yeah, pretty wild stuff. But that's it for me. Out here on the streets, back to you with Studio T, we are rocking, we are rolling.
Speaker 2:It is time to pack up this truck and tonight we got a question. It is your job to pick the most awful actor possible to play in the new James Bond movie. Who are you going with? As soon as I saw the question I don't know who proposed it, me or you as soon as the question was proposed, I saw the question. I don't know who proposed it, me or you as soon as the question was proposed, I saw it on one name, one name only Gilbert Godfrey. Yes, I love the man, respect the man, just not James Bond. Ask. I completely, completely agree with you.
Speaker 2:I said not Paul Rubens, no disrespect to Mr Rubens whatsoever, but Pee Wee Herman would be the worst 007. See, I don't know man. Do you not remember Pee Wee's Big Adventure? No, I did not. I thought Pee Wee Herman was the most annoying, obscene thing on television, and Missy loved Pee Wee Herman. You missed out? Yeah, I did not miss out. You know what I missed out on laurence fishburne yeah, I did. I was gonna say you missed out. On laurence young laurence fishburne. Oh man, I miss peewee herman's playhouse like as a kid. No, such a great show, annoying with the secret word, no, I couldn't stand it, dude. Yeah, man, you're bringing it way back. Yeah, so we put it out there.
Speaker 2:On TikTok, we actually got some good responses here. You already go through the list and I'm going to go through them whether I agree or not. And you came the very first one Samuel Jackson. Luckily, you came right in and was like no, he would be a perfect James Bond Because he would be Samuel Jackson being an awesome James Bond. I'm not going to give out this person's name, but they are wrong. You're way wrong.
Speaker 2:Now the very next one is amazing Whoopi Goldberg. Yeah, that would not be good, not be, she would not be a great James Bond. No, be good, not be that, she would not be a great james bond. No, she has a great birthday, but not great james bond. Whose birthday does she share? Mine, mine, yours? I was gonna say it's one of us. Yeah, yeah, it's me, me, whoopee. To which then someone replied bill goldberg. Bill goldberg would be a terrible james bond terrible. He would probably break somebody's ribs who was trying to help him. Well, they wouldn't be able to put him in the James Bond car and the Aston Martin, I don't know, right, I don't know if Aston Martin makes an SUV. Does Aston Martin make a pickup truck?
Speaker 2:Mr Bean, I think Mr Bean would be hilarious. I mean, mr Bean is 007. Right, he wouldn't do a two-hour movie, doesn't say a single word. But you know what he's doing. I have to give it to this person. Someone said Peter Dinklage, but it's key that no one acknowledges the height in all throughout the film. That would be epic. That is hilarious, actually. Yeah, great actor, that would be epic. That is hilarious, actually, yeah, great actor, great actor, it would be epic. Oh, no, that'd be so great.
Speaker 2:Jack black I don't agree with that. I think it's so hard to imagine a cleaned up Jack black, straight shaved hair done. Yeah, you're going shallow. How the jackal. Yeah days. And um, jack black now is more tenacious, d style, just living life to the fullest. It'd be nice, like, use that as like an undercover the whole time. Oh yeah, jack might be good. No, else wouldn't. Probably I don't know I'd probably go pay to see it, like Bobcat.
Speaker 2:Bobcat Goldwing, goldway how do you say his last name I'm talking about, right? Is he a social media guy, bobcat Goldthwait? No, bobcat has been in like movies. Oh man, he's been in so many movies. I mean, he was in the original Police Academy, he was in the movie Blow. He has a really distinctive voice. You've seen the Disney cartoon movie Hercules? Yeah, yeah, he voices one of like Hades' little minions. Oh, okay, but like that's almost like his real voice. Oh Jeez, dude, it's hilarious, but like that's almost like his real voice. Oh geez, yeah, dude, hilarious. Bobcat Goldthwait is awesome. Somebody comment Hulk Hogan? Except he said that would be sad. No one did.
Speaker 2:Will Ferrell Nah, either you love him or you hate him. Yeah, will Ferrell would be a terrible James Bond. Someone say Chris Pratt. I completely disagree. You just don't like Chris Pratt. Here's a great one. Jojo Siwa oh, no, terrible, be a terrible James Bond. Angel Reese, the WNBA star, I don't think she'd be a good James Bond. I don't think she's a good basketball player. Jared Leto no, I know people, I think I know people love him. I know they love his acting and all that I cannot stand Jared Leto. I love 30 Seconds to Mars, but I I'm one of those people that I can Listen to music, and how do I put this? Like I don't care what the band Is about. If it's a good song, I'm gonna listen to it, and I know you can get all.
Speaker 2:Well, you're supporting. That's not what I'm saying. If I like music, I like music. Period, end of story. Rage against the machine. Exactly, they have some crazy political views I don't agree with. Yeah, I'm just not going to do what you tell me. You know what I mean. But if your song comes on the radio, I'm going to turn it up. Jared Leto no, thank you, rosie O'Donnell, I don't think Rosie Would do well, I don't, unless.
Speaker 2:You know what I was thinking of the other day. You remember how she used to open her Talk show and she would take those Things and she'd like fling them into the crowd. Yes, what were those? No idea. I always wanted that. I didn't. I didn't care about Rosie or her TV show, I would just See. I didn't care about Rosie or her TV show, I would just see. I would just wait for her to fling that thing into the audience and I thought that was so cool. Right, I missed.
Speaker 2:I was talking to somebody the other day about her, uh, her show, and I'm like man, I miss that sometimes. You got Steve Buscemi, I think he'd in 007. There ain't no Rock Johnson. I'm just tired of seeing him. I love him, but I'm tired of seeing him. You know what I mean. It's like when you go on a vacation with friends and you're like, hey man, I love you to death. I need to go away from you. Yeah, you need to step away for a minute.
Speaker 2:And then someone last comment is Joe Biden. Joe Biden would not be a great 007. No, I mean, the list is extensive of who would not be a good James Bond. Like what is the most hilarious one? Yeah, joe Biden would be hilarious to me to be James Bond. You know, what I miss about Joe, honestly, is when, like, he put his sunglasses on and he went into cool Joe mode. I miss that. Like I was the raising his eyebrows and stuff. Yeah, I'm this cool guy, joe. I mean when him and Obama were leaving office. So was it 2016? He's like which one are better? And he had the same exact pair of Ray Bans asking Obama which which pair were better. He's like Joe, they're the same. He's like, all right, cool man. This episode flew dude it was a great time.
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