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#94 - Sixers, Pies, And A Perfect Weekend
A cheesesteak run, a throwback Sixers night, and a garage TV that serves up American Gladiators from season one—some weekends write themselves. We packed ours with brother time, bad puns, and the kind of sports stories that stick: jersey number 94 legends, draft-pick rabbit holes, and a NASCAR finale where a late caution flips the whole outcome. Respect to Denny. Applause for Larson. The line between luck and preparation has never felt thinner.
What surprised us most? A pie bracket that turned into our most active poll ever. Apple takes down pecan in a surge of votes. Pumpkin cruises past the field. Now the final is set: pumpkin vs apple. It’s not just dessert; it’s identity, memory, and region. One gets Cool Whip, one gets ice cream, both are worthy champions. Cast a vote, pick a side, then make peace over a second slice.
We also pull in the odd and delightful: a German museum tour that roasts guests on purpose and sells out, a cross-border European chair theft ring that steals 1,100 seats, and a “lion” on the loose in Ireland that turns out to be a Newfoundland named Mouse with a very convincing haircut. It all circles back to a simple idea—things aren’t always what they seem, which is why curiosity is the best seat in the house.
Come for the Sixers and NASCAR talk, stay for the pie showdown, the jersey 94 roll call, and the shoutouts from York to Helsinki. If you laughed, learned, or picked a pie, tap follow, share with a friend, and drop a review. Five stars help more people find the stream—and yes, we read the one-stars too. Which pie gets your vote?
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For those who may have seen, Paul and I recently went to our first Sixers game. It was a lot of fun. We did a whole episode of Fishing After Work special about it. May or may not be released. We don't know. That's how Fishing After Work episodes work. But Paul, I realized something. I see we get there early. We stopped and got some cheesesteaks. Quick synopsis. We went to Skinny Joe. We've got some cheesesteaks. Sat in the parking lot. We ate them. We were running them with time the doors open. So we asked uh I seen a guy with a name badge on, a lanyard, and I was like, oh, he's got to be important. Or at least have access to the building. And I go, hey man, time the doors open. And he goes, Well, I'm media. I can get in whenever. But I see people in there when I'm in there. And I'm going in right now. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. So it must be the 90 minutes like we thought. It wasn't 90, it wasn't 90 minutes. It was an hour before tip-off. So we stood there for a minute. But he said something. He goes, Yeah, well, you know, you guys don't like us. And then I realized he lied to us. So now I don't like you. I was like, because I defended. I was like, ah, nah, we don't hate you. You know what I mean? Because he goes, ah, you Philly sports fans, you hate the media. And I was like, ah, I don't hate you. Not me. I'm different. And then you lied to my face about when the doors open. And congratulations, Gerald. I now hate you. We got your face, we got your name. Man. Left. I don't know, Gerald. You liar. You know why. You know why, Gerald. It has nothing to do with sports. It's who you are as a person. We'll remember that. Say that again. We'll remember that. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Trout Stream. I am Harry Troutman, and with me, the grandest birthday boy of them all. I am Paul Troutman. So pick up a bowl, cast a line, and join us on the stream. Today on episode on episode 94, we will discuss our favorite athletes to wear 94, hand out our golden trouts and eels of the week. Continue our favorite Thanksgiving pie bracket, and of course, much, much more. Paul, listeners, everyone, welcome to 93. Welcome to the Trout Stream. Welcome to 94. Marty, happy birthday. It is officially your birthday. It is. Huge golden trail going out there. Everybody, I'm throwing it out early before we jump in everything. It goes out to Sabrina, goes out to Harry for this past weekend, this trip. Goes out to Ange. Uh coordinating everything behind the scenes, setting me up. Sabrina, getting a hold of people I work with, make sure that we had nothing big planned on the schedule. Make sure I could have the time off. That episode, you know, we got some fishing at the works coming out later. But uh I'll give the you guys get the Pat McFey golf clap. Thank you very much. You guys are the real dogs. I kind of want to go into our weekend, but not hardcore into our weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, before, whoa, whoa, dude. You're just jumping right, you're diving in. I'm diving right in because it's it's a good day. You're you're diving in, but we have to give shout outs, dude. Mm-hmm. We gotta give a shout out to York, Pennsylvania. York, fun fact. York Peppermint Patty came from York, Pennsylvania. You know it. And what about the one, the only Helsinki in Finland? In Finland. Add Finland to the mat, dude. We're Scandinavian? We are. Man, did you know that their navy has barcodes on sides of their ship? Yeah, so when they come into port, they can Scandinavian. This is what broke me. This is what this is This is my 13th. Paul, tell everyone about our weekend. Because it was our weekend. That's the best part. For once, it was not what did you do, what did I do? It's what did we do? What did we do? Uh I like we used to say quick flash in a hurry. We need to get on Chat GPT and be like, hey, give me some uh different words. I can't even tell you what a synonym, thank you. Right? I couldn't even think of the word that we were looking for. I flew up from Shreeport to Philly Friday night, got delayed a little bit. Get in, see Harry's beautiful face, uh, drive-through. It didn't even slow down. He honked three times, had Rocky uh soundtrack playing in the background, and he just said, jump in, which I drove, jumped in his passenger door head first. Don't recommend it. First stop. Our first stop to get this weekend journey going was probably one of the greatest places known to man. Wawa. You have to. Yeah, yeah. Harry needed gas. I needed fuel for my body because we had an hour-long drive, and I wore shorts. I left Northwest Louisiana and it was like in the 70s, right? Cargo shorts, long t-shirt weather. I said, I'm comfortable. I step outside the airport and it was like low 40s. So, of course, we stopped in uh at like 11:30 at night. I'm getting a cup of coffee, and Harry's like, you know, we only got an hour ride, and I still pass out that night. Friday morning we get up, these two beautiful majestic beasts hop in Harry's hot rod, and we go to a little place. Harry, you're gonna love this part. I got more to add to this. Okay. We go to one of the, arguably one of the greatest places on earth, one of the happiest places on earth. We didn't go to Disney, we went to Shady Maple Schmorgersboard. Now, I know you're asking yourself right now. Go ahead, if you have a passenger in your car, have them pop up their phone right now and look up Shady Maple, as it sounds, smorgasboard. You don't have to know how to spell it, just start spelling it, it'll pick it up.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:The world's greatest smorgasboard, which is basically a buffet. It's like we have a football. Yeah. Uh we had Amish breakfast. I make a delicious breakfast at home for my kids. The waffles at this place, I've never had a Belgian waffle this amazing. I don't know what magic they had. They had cream chip beef, which I put on top of the waffle. If you don't know what cream chip beef is, you're really missing out on life. Uh, and I think it's fair to say, Harry, my next statement here. Uh the only buffet I've ever seen Scrapple. Possibly, yeah. And I'm here for it. I was very much there for it, yes. Yeah. Uh we actually didn't overindulge much. We talked a big game. We did. We did talk a big game. I talked a huge game. I got two plates. I think that was it. Yeah. I mean, I got two. No, hold on. I got two plates. Right. We put down on those plates because we paid for it. Right. Yeah. They're not going to scam us. Don't get me wrong. After we filled up our bellies, we went down into the basement where there's no cell reception, which sounds scary when you hear about a basement with no cell reception, but the size of this basement was bigger than four of my houses. Yeah, it's it's massive. This place this place is massive. It's like a walk. It's like a Walmart downstairs. So you have like kids' toys, you have Amish dolls, which Amish doll is just a regular doll with no face. Once again, it sounds creepy when you describe it. Yeah, yeah. We checked that out Friday morning. You and I just hung out Saturday. Well, hold on. Let's go back to the store real quick, right? Yeah, I'm I'm in. I don't know if you were aware, but it's really weird to eat an abundant amount of food. Excessive, even. And then walk around for an hour. Mm-hmm. Uh, I was sweating profusely by the end of it. Oh, yeah. Well, the basement had the heat on. It was hot in there. Yeah, I don't know what it is about like they raised their prices of every single thing in there, and then they raised the heat. So they bring you in with a cheap mortgage board, but raise the prices on uh everything in the basement. Uh uh, you were not wrong. But one thing I did notice was the layout of that place is like every time I would be like, eh, all right, I don't think I want to go further anymore. There's something that piqued my interest right around the corner. I'm like, Right. All right, well, now I want to go see what that is. All right, I guess we'll go peek peek around. What is that? There's a clearance section.
SPEAKER_01:Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Never ended. Then you see a bin of all multicolor different rocks, and you're like, my kids will really like all these rocks. Then I was like, all of a sudden, I really like all these rocks. So then our adventures then led us to a lows to where we picked up a TV mount for Harry's new TV in his garage. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Not new. Free. New to Harry's free television. So with our two minds together to tape measure, we mounted that thing on the wall. I hooked up to Roku, and I'm gonna tell you right now, we were looking for a channel. This is gonna be Comedy Central, bros. We were looking for a dirt track channel. There's a channel out there on Roku, one of those TV stations. It's dirt racing and it's tractor pools, and that's really what we wanted to watch. We wanted to sit in a garage, have some cold drinks, watch some dirt racing of any sort, or really tractor pools. Like we YouTube tractor pools at first. But then, and Harry stumbled upon the greatest television station on Roku. Nope, uh, we felt real proud because it was American Gladiators. The original. But also, the time at which Harry put it on, I don't know if you caught on to this, was the beginning. Yes. It felt like the Roku knew, like, boom, we're going to the first year. We started in the first year, and we binge watched it for days. Uh, not every detail. Saturday, we hung out with everybody else, a little pseudo birthday party uh at our sister's house, had some really good East Coast pizza. Sunday, we chilled. Then we went downtown Philly, got uh some Skinny Joey's cheesesteaks, the new hotspot, went to the Sixers game. Uh, then Monday went to the airport early. Government shut down, everything's backed up. I got to the airport early. It doesn't sound like much, but we had a fun time just hanging out and doing a lot. We recorded several episodes. We did in the near future. The goal was to get 94 done, but we have like three or four fishing after works that we recorded that we were just having too much fun. We just didn't want to stop it. It was almost like we woke up one day, hit record, put the mics on, and just went until it was lunchtime or a bathroom break. That was it. It was it was a lot of fun. I'm still tired from it. I'm gonna be honest. I'm still I'm too old for that. It's not like we were up like hardcore partying. Like the one night. No, one night we went to bed at like 3 a.m. We're like, wow, you guys are up partying hardcore. We were watching American Gladiator, and what was the game we were playing? Wreckfest. Wreckfest. One player game taking turns. That's it, man. One person's wreckfesting, the other one is American Gladiator, and we're we're putting nickel bets down who we think is going to win each event.
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SPEAKER_00:I lost track of nickels. And we were shooting your uh your plastic BB gun into a styrofoam block. That was one of the best weekends you and I have had in a very long time. Yeah. It was much needed, you know. We uh you got all your your stuff going on. Yeah. And and Ange and I with the baby, I mean, I think we just really needed our stuff. I think we both really needed a weekend to uh, you know, be 15 again and just stay up late and play video games and watch American Gladiator. The only difference now is we can drive and legally have drinks. Yeah, yeah. Now it's just legal. Yeah, now it's just normal. Like, all right. We're not trying to hide anything. Just out in the open. Hey, what's up? I want to say congratulations. I believe you are our NASCAR champion. Ooh, yes. Um, I talked to you out of Kyle Larson, the NASC, the newest NASCAR champion. I do apologize for that. You went with Denny Hamlin. It doesn't matter. You beat me. You are the champion. Congratulations. Round of applause. The crowd goes wild. Um, is this your first championship? This is my first championship. All right, buddy. The field, the you know what? Take your take your 15 seconds and go. I would like to thank my brain for sometimes getting it right. And a regular season wasn't great, but like a good champion when the playoffs come, you really put it on. So here's my brain. Uh, and also this is to Harry for I don't know. I don't want to say make bad picks. I don't want to say making bad picks. We both made bad picks. All right, your 15 seconds is up. Your 15 seconds is up. Thank you. Thank you. Anyway, you go first. We'll talk more NASCAR later. Cheers, everybody. We're getting into the prime time here. We got some numbers. You know who ish, we're gonna go with uh this one here. I'm gonna go uh current player. Feel bad for the guy, plays for the Nyland Saints. Wearing the black and gold beast on that defensive front for Cam Jordan. Phenomenal, phenomenal defensive lineman, interior lineman, defensive end. You can maneuver him wherever you want. He signs with Philly tomorrow. I'm a happy guy, not even mad. Signs with Dallas, I'm angry. Speaking about signing with Dallas, number 94 from Dallas Cowboys. This is a guy with mad respect for, spent years in Dallas, went to Denver, and I believe he won a championship in Denver with Peyton. I might be off on the timeline here. Beware when he was on the edge, because it's DeMarcus Ware. Hated him when he was a cowboy, hate him when he was active, right? And hate is like a strong word, right? A player hate. It's not a human hate, a player hate because he was just a beast right there for the Cowboys. Speaking about beast, is it getting hot in here? Philadelphia Eagles, number 94. I think maybe top definitely top five sack celebrations of all time. When this man gets a sack, top five. Okay, go on. When this man gets a sack, he just wipes his brow and flicks his wrist. And at first time you're like, man, why is he who is this? What is he doing? And you realize it's none other than Josh Sweat. Like, just gets a the first time I watched it, I'm like, what are you doing? Josh Sweat. Woo! Uh in my last one. This guy's a clown. He was there uh when our number favorite number six two, Jason Kelsey, met his future wife. He has been around. He's part of uh, I believe Garage Beers. I know he's been at least one of their commercials. Wholeheartedly wholesome dude. I really wish we would have been able to get in contact with him to be on this episode. I really want him on future episodes because he's a nice guy, because he seems like a fantastic guy, phenomenal teammate, loved him on the field, loved him off the field, really loved him on the field. Bo Allen. A mural in Philly, I'm pretty sure. Don't quote me. Yeah. He's uh if you get a mural in Philly, you don't need to buy a drink ever again. And he's one of the 10 guys, right? Eagles of all time that don't need to. Agreed. That's it. I've only had four. Over to you. I'm gonna bring someone back. And I'm gonna bring him back again, just like the Eagles did. And that's why he wore number 94 this time. Jason Babman. Boom, boom, Jason Babman for the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh man, I forgot he was two timer. Yeah, he's a two-timer. Yeah, he is a two-timer. That dude's just a stud. You know what? I might just he might be his 94, might be again this week for our socials. Yeah, I uh it's just funny. Two times, two weeks. Gotta love it, dude. It's only happened a few times for us. Back-to-back weeks. I lost track. I think it's great. We're also in that weird stint where uh NBA players have not worn this jersey. Only three players in NBA history. And currently, and currently Armel Terror with the LA Lakers. Oh. I would wear 90s. I'd wear 90s with the Lakers. I think that would pop. That would really pop with the Lakers. It would. Like a 94? Oof. Yeah, I mean, there's certain numbers I would wear with the Lakers. I'd wear an 88 with the Lakers, I'll be honest with you. Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah. But you had three players in the NBA. I had 10 in MLB. First one, I believe was like 2012 time frame. But most currently, this year, 2025, with the Chicago White Sox. Yandres Gomez. I mean, pretty, pretty studly. He was uh wound up being a Yankee. Oh, I think he was White Sox and Yankees this year. Did he wear it both times? He wore it both times, both teams. So maybe that's his number, right? Maybe this year he was born.
SPEAKER_01:A lot of guys will do that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You know, guys I grew up with, they're 80s, so if they're a receiver, whatever year they were born is what jersey wore. Yeah, I forgot. Yeah, it's weird thinking about nope. 94, 97, nah. Ready for this move, Brandy? Let's move from Jersey numbers to draft picks, Harry. I've got a few this year or this year, right? Or this year. You've had a few this year, buddy. I've had a few this year. I'm gonna add a few more to episode 94. 94th overall selection NFL. Let's go newest to oldest because we like to mix it up. 94 overall, 2025. Slash draft. The Cleveland Browns select future QB1 Dylan Gabriel. I mean, Tangley, he was a QB1 in the NFL. He made it a little lefty out of Oregon. And let's go one year later in 2024. 94 overall selection. Coincidentally, the Philadelphia Eagles select Jalex Hunt. Ooh. Also is I give him a top 10 of sack celebrations. His last name is Hunt, so when he gets a sack, he does the bow and arrow. Ooh. Right. Love that. Because it flows. Like not everybody can pull the bow and arrow. No, that's a move. Right. Jeremiah Trotter could do the axe because he was the axe man. Right. Like the only other one authorized to do it is his son, Junior. Facts. Boom. Right. So there's certain things. If your last name is Hunt, you can do the bow and arrow. Your last name is Sweat, you can wipe the sweat off your brow. It makes sense. And then I got a last one here, Harry. It's not too often I dig this deep, but MLB, number 96 overall selection. Jesus Lazardo. He's a top eight finalist for the 2025 NL Cy Young Award winner. I think he went up like sixth or so. Saying top eight to be modest here. Number 44 for the Philadelphia Phillies this year. Also, Jesus Lazardo has the oddest superstition. Everything needs to end in a four or an eight, or a combination of those two. Hence why his jersey number is 44. Because 4-4 equals 8. He will step onto the field when he's pitching. When the game clock up in the corner, the time countdown they have, if those three numbers add up to four or eight. That's exhausting. Yeah. And I think it might have been the games, one of the games Sabrina and I went to when we did back-to-back in Houston. I believe he was a pitcher for one of those games, if I remember right. And I was watching this stuff, like, I mean, he really doing it. That's that is what he does. That's him. Good for him. So once again, two claps. Jesus Cesardo. Props, buddy. NASCAR 94, 531 races, zero wins, buddy. Zero. Wow. Which is so crazy because Bill Elliott drove the 94 car for 185 races. I was in goodwill. I saw six McDonald's 94 Bill Elliott McDonald's themed cups. Glass. Fine crystal.$3 a pop, and I let him go. I walked away. I know. I know. Could you imagine Thanksgiving and like uh pull out the fine China? It's the 94 Bill Elliott McDonald's glass cups. Come on. Come on, man. That's you're not gonna not, dude. That red car with those perfect golden arches on the hood. The 9-4. It was celebrating McDonald's being open late, so it had the moon on it. It was the Midnight McDonald's paint scheme. Yes. You know what? Yes. Put it here now, folks. McDonald's Midnight theme paint scheme is going to be on our socials whenever he leaves this episode. Has to be. And Sterling Marlin drove it for 59 races. Man, that's almost two years. That is almost two years. That's like seven years between those two hot rotters and not a single win. Which brings us, circles us back. If you pay attention, you know we always have a scheme. That brings us back to NASCAR. I cannot talk about the championship race because I was in Virginia getting maternity photos at the same location we got our wedding photos done. So it was really nice to bring that all together. I know that's cheesy. No, that's that's super awesome. That is, I I told you when you told me how cool that was. Yeah, it was uh it was you know, same spots, same background, all that. Just know the difference between a wedding and a maternity. I just touched an angel's stomach a lot more, really. That's all it was. Uh yeah. So anyway, I didn't get to watch the race. And I also didn't have a service because I was in a national park. Oh, makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah. Because they block cell phones at national parks. And so you can enjoy them. Her other podcast, Tinfoils After Dark. Tune in later. All part of the Hook Brothers production umbrella. So, did you get to watch any of it? I watched a good part of that race. Obviously, it's Sunday. I was doing some stuff with the house of the kids and the family. I watched that race. And I watched Denny Hamlin dominating. And I'm going, you know what? If Denny wins a championship, I'm not mad, right? Uh almost 20 years of doing it. He has won just about everything. In my wholehearted, humble opinion, Denny Hamlin is a NASCAR Hall of Famer. This man can walk away from driving, and that's it. Without winning a championship, he'd be in. Also, I picked him. That's why I picked him, because I thought it was his year. You have people who have luck, you have guys who have bad luck, and then you have guys who are Denny Hamlin. Kyle Larson blew a tire, avoids the wall, saves it. Right behind him, like two laps later, Chase Briscoe blows a tire, scrapes the wall, but nothing major. Boom, they both pit. They both go lap a lap down. Later on the race, caution comes out, they cycle through the front. At one point, the four championship drivers are in the front. And you're like, how is this possible when these two were just a lap down? But it's just how you know the race works out. Moving on, Denny is in the lead. Four laps ago by 2.8 seconds. He has a 2.8 second lead. And it's him and William Byron in front. At this point, Larson and Briscoe are in the back, and I'm like, all right, Denny. I literally looked at Sabrina. Like she has zero interest in this race. She doesn't know what's on the line, but we talked about it. I said, Denny's gonna win the championship, but if something's gonna happen, it needs to happen this lap. Because if they wait one more lap, the white flag comes out, race silver. One lap before that, it's not quite overtime. You know, so you know Limbaugh's like, if something happens, it needs to happen now. And the number 24, William Byr, he blows a tire. But he hits the wall hard and caution comes out. And so the leaders pit, right? You gotta, you gotta pit. The championship drivers are pitting. Denny's crew goes with four tires, getting the most grip he can. Kyle Larson comes down, his crew gives him two tires. Larson comes out in like sixth, Denny comes out 11th, and that's all she wrote. Larson pushed his way up, I think top three, top four. And Denny was trying to get there, but just could not get around drivers. Larson didn't need to win the race. He just had to finish in front of the other three guys, and that's how it was. Mad respect to Kyle Larson, two-time NASCAR cup champion. Good job. Uh, even after the race, he said, you know, before the race and after the race, he said there's nobody in this garage who works harder, more deserving, than Denny Hamlin. And even before the race, he said, I will not be mad if Denny Hamlin wins the championship, as long as he doesn't put me in the fence again, which to me I thought was hilarious. On this podcast, we have talked smack about Denny Hamlin. That's just for the love of the game. Nothing but love and respect. No, I love it. Yeah, uh, I like his career. He's just not my favorite driver, and I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know. You know, there's people back in- I think it's I even think it's it might even be his team. You know what I mean? It could be, right? Because he's now with progressive. I got geico, so obviously I can't cheer pretending because I got geico insurance. I was talking about I was talking about Joe Gibbs. Like it's hard to cheer for Joe Gibbs. No, I know that. Joe Gibbs and Hendris kind of feel like competition. Wait a minute. Is it because Coach Gibbs used to coach for Washington? I mean, that's that maybe that's it. I don't know what it is. There's something there. Something there. You know, it it I'm trying to think of of like the greatest sports matchups, the greatest rivalries. Celtics Lakers. Celtics Lakers, Yankees, Red Sox? Yankees, Red Sox. You know, it's it's almost like you look at Gibbs and Hendricks as like Yankees Red Sox. You know what I mean? Absolutely. No, you're right. It's having rivalries like that in any level sports is like the circle of life. It keeps everything going, keeps everything cyclical. Well, that's what I'm saying. Maybe we're more Hendrix people at heart than we realize, and that's why we don't like fancying we're wearing bow ties. Because Chevy emblem is a bow tie. Man, that one took way too long for me to figure out. I thought maybe you were. You were. So anyway, we'll figure out to figure out a new way to figure out who goes first moving forward. Right. We'll probably shake dice for it. Oh, I do like throwing dice. Mm-hmm. The 94th highest-selling album in the United States is Garth Brooks. The hits, the 94th Billboard Top 100 songs. Shania Twain, you're still the one? Wow. You're still the one. That's a hot jam. The 94th highest-grossing movie, Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, part two. Phenomenal movie. Part two. You say that a lot. Every time that movie comes up, you you always like, hey man, make sure you. I still haven't seen it. I'm sorry. I'll get to it, but I promise one day. A few years ago, right? It was Sabrina's birthday month. We watched all of uh all of her movies. She asked me politely, made me watch all the Twilight movies with her. Uh really loved the last one. And not the typical joke, like, oh, because it was over. It was like five movies built up to like those last 30 minutes of that movie, and I was like, You got me. You got me here. You have to muscle through the first one, has a really cool pickup truck, which I loved. And there's certain you gotta get through it. If you just know at the end of it, the last movie, the last 30 minutes is cinematic, classic. It's his ultimate cinema. Okay. Wow, that's that's a lot. Yes, I'm not there is zero sarcasm coming from me. No, I can see how ambiguous you are. Serious. Anyway. Now, celebrities who are 94. The first one I want to start with, I'm gonna say this man's name, and you're gonna have no idea who he is. But he's very important to me. He is Armin Muller Stahl. And he is He's the guy. Have you ever seen the movie Angels and Demons? Yes. He is the priest that is leading leading the conclave to elect a new Pope. Glasses? Yes. I just love them. Yes. It's not that it's not that exciting. You gotta read the book, it's even better. Well, the thing is, is like that's one of my comfort movies. I will put that on when I just like want to watch something, but I don't want to watch something. Yeah, Angels and Demons, absolutely. I'll just show you phenomenal. It's a great movie. Yeah. All right, moving on. We got not a lot, buddy. I'm uh I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest with you. We're we're starting to oof. Starting to get a little thin. Yeah, Dan Rather. Dan Rather's 94. Rupert Murdoch. Is he a good or bad guy? Maybe Murdoch. Rupert really has thrown me off. It says he's an entrepreneur. Don King. Don King is still around. Barbara Eden. I dream a genie. Okay. Barb. Robert Duvall's still alive. Man, I love meeting some Robert Duvall. Well, he should do a movie with this next cat. How about William Shatner? The Shatner and Duval are the same age. The same age. William Shatner had a billion-dollar idea. And it was a billion-dollar idea because it would cost a billion dollars. He wanted to run a pipeline from the northwest down to California, mostly Los Angeles. Do you know what would be in this pipeline? Fresh trout fish to go fishing. He said, why not take water where there's an abundance and bring it down to where there's none? And no one would back him. I mean, that's not a bad idea. But also, Robert Duvall and Shatner are the same age. So you're telling me Tom from The Godfather. Yes. When The Godfather came out in the 70s, and I'm pretty sure Star Trek was out in the 70s. Yes. My goodness. Alright. Time for the sad. It is people we lost at 94. Les Paul. He made some good some instruments, I heard. Vin Scully. Vin Scully. The sportscaster. Yes, I know. Took me a second. Nancy Regan. Bless her heart. Hold on. Nancy Regan? Mm-hmm. James Karen. Wait, Jay. James Kane? Karen. James Karen. He is a movie actor. Michael Constantine. What was he in? He was definitely in a mob movie. Or several. Sounds like the name like that. Michael Constantine. You know what? He was in my big fat Greek wedding. He was one of the dads. Oh, I don't know that then. No. Bob Newhart. Oh, Bobby. I love Bob Newhart. Did you see him in Big Bang Theory? Yes. Bob Newhart's comedy is some of my favorite. It's that dry, quick-witted comedy. Yeah. It's so it's almost uncomfortable how funny it is. And then you have George H.W. Bush. Oh, the old H dub. Also. Old H dub. We need to go back a little bit here to Michael Constantine. Yes. Because uh, bless your heart, H. Dub. Constantine, Michael, born and passed in the same city. It's a block on Monopoly. Reading, Pennsylvania. Really? Yes, sir. The Google machine rarely lies to me. Oh, okay. That's like how. And uh, yep, that's what it said. First thing. That's like 15 minutes for me. Yeah, yeah. Kuda Matana. You know what I mean? Like. Yeah, no worries. No worries. Especially for the rest of his days. Do you have any golden trouts? Alright, ready? Pass it me for golden trout, and let's I got it. I think uh you're Chuck Fulvum. You already gave one out in the intro. Ooh, yeah, I did. We're gonna move quick on to golden trouts here, buddy. What do you have? I got one very important one. Somehow I want this to happen to me and Harry. Will it ever happen? I don't know. David Beckham. Yes. A soccer phenom who has movies like Bendit Like Beckham, has played on plethora of soccer clubs or football clubs around the globe. He is a heartthrob to many, a tattoo artist's dream, has recently been knighted by King Charles. So now we can no longer say, oh, that's David Beckham. We legally have to say that is Sir David Beckham. This is golden trout out to you. You've got all these other awards. You've won the golden foot or the handballer of the year, or you've been knighted. But Sir David Beckham, you now have a golden trout to hang on your shelf. This one's for you. Yeah, for uh the king gave it to him for sports and charitable work. So not only was he a great athlete, but he was a good human. Question when King Charles was Prince Charles, and he was he a huge soccer hooligan? And he goes, Man, I just can't wait to be king so I can knight David Beckham. I wonder if it was like it was one of those moves like you know, now that I'm king and you're my homie, well, do you want to be my homie? Right. I'll I'll buy your hominess. Like, because I've always said when I become president of the United States, I was gonna pardon Pete Rose immediately. Right. Uh, but it's already been done. Now I gotta plan on something else for when I become president of the United States. That's literally my only golden trout this week. Besides these guys. Can you get over there? Yeah, I was seeing where we're going. Let's go. I mean, we can go to uh the bracket. Let's do let me let me let me give about uh let me give out my eel real quick. Yeah, man. Do you have an eel or no? No, not really. Good, because that's perfect. Alright, you ready? Mm-hmm. Ready? We are we try to be positive, right? Always positive. I don't have a golden trout. I have an eel. Go on. We were very excited for the Sixers game due to the fact that it was throwback night. They're wearing their black jerseys. Mm-hmm. Flashback to 2001 season where we at least made the NBA finals. We didn't win, but we at least got there. Hey, we beat the Lakers that year, and their only loss in the postseason was game one of the finals against Sixers. I was told there was someone who was going to be there. And he was not there. And I was very upset. So Philadelphia 76ers, this eel actually goes to you. Where was hip-hop? Hip-hop? Hip-hop should have been there. Hip-hop was our mascot before Franklin the dog. He was a rabbit. He he was like white and then he got a little gray. He used to do aerial tricks really before that was a thing, I think. Yeah, he was he was pretty gangster. Yeah, the uh the Denver Nuggets guy now gets like a lot of lot of cred for what he does, but I I really do think that it started with hip-hop. Yeah, hip-hop was the man. For at least the NBA. Yeah, I mean he threw it up. You know, maybe he uh maybe shouldn't have worn a do rag. That might not have been too appropriate now, now that we look back. But I mean Philadelphia at that time with AI, I mean, it was a wild, lawless time. And 2001. You know what? You know what? 2001 AI solved racism. He did. He solved racism in the city of Philadelphia. Yeah, we were all together. We we didn't care. We were just behind AI. I ran for uh vice president or second vice president, something like that, for my uh high school class around that time. I really had no idea what I was doing. I just somebody dared me, I did it. Yeah, you gave a speech from your whole class. This is before I had no problem public speaking. Really, then I didn't either. I opened it up, they handed me the mic, I got up at the podium, and I was like, what's up? Yeah, how about them Sixers? Because obviously class elections are during like, you know, like May time frame, and the Sixers are getting ready for a playoff run. How about them sixers? And everybody starts cheering. I was like, I got them. And then I can I should have stepped away from the mic right there, but then I continued on. That's why I lost. But yeah. At that point, man, everybody, how about them sixers? Loved it. But again, no hip hop. No hip-hop. I'm not even mad that they lost. We knew that was happening. We knew that was happening. Like, we knew that was happening. When they're like, oh, you guys ready for the game? Like, mm-hmm. Be prepared. We are going to a live Philly event at home. They're gonna lose. Yeah, they're gonna lose. Gravedigger's gonna lose one time a month that he's allotted to lose. Yeah, don't worry. But there are always winners and there are always losers, Paul. And the people want to know. The people need to know who are the winners and who are the losers on the fan to vote it favorite Thanksgiving pies brackets. Whoo we here, we got one for you. We're gonna go over the Elite Eight right now. The Elite Eight means there's eight matchups that have made it some Cinderella, some top seeds. You know what? Let's start in the top left region. Uncle Gary's drinking that grasshopper. He's getting a little wild over there. We have apple pie. First chocolate pie. I think there's a declear delineating factor here. Uh a lot of people didn't know they ever had one. I'm pretty sure everybody who's not allergic to apples has had apple pie. Nothing more American than apple pie. 75% of the votes go to apple pie. Apple pie is moving on to our final four. Apple pie is representing the Uncle Gary's grasshopper region. Congratulations to you. You have made the final four. You will forever be cemented as known as making the final four. So let's go from the top left to the bottom right. Give Uncle Gary his grasshopper. Now let's go give grandma her bourbon. Bottom right region tour. We have the lemon meringue versus pumpkin pie. Both are delicious. Uh both are kind of easy to make, I guess, if you have a pre-made crust. One is from uh, is a pumpkin a gourd? And like lemon is I love lemon. I don't know what it is. Recently, in the last few years, I've realized how much I love lemon desserts. Give me a lemon cookie, lemon pie, give me a lemon ball. I will make lemon bars and just eat the whole tray with a fork. Unfortunately, I can't sway our voters because pumpkin pie has taken this one 74 to 26. I am so sorry, dude. It's okay. Uh, it makes sense, right? This is a Thanksgiving pie, not a summertime pie. I think that's another thing we highlight. It's Thanksgiving pie. Yes, it is. There's a difference. Because it's his summertime pumpkin's out. All right. Now moving on down the road from the bottom right to go to the bottom left. Where your cousin Cheryl's handed out that champagne, and everybody's feeling it. Pecan pie versus strawberry pie. Once again, both refreshing. One's a little heavier, one's a little lighter. Strawberry pie is so good. We got a place down here. Strawn's. I bring it up all the time. Strawn's has great strawberry pie. This one, Harry, was 70 to 30. This was close, but not as close as we thought it was going to be. Thanksgiving. Everybody's going for give me a slice of that. Pecan pie. Moving on. Wow. Representing that bottom left region. Now, let's go to our closest one, Harry. Top right region. This is where Aunt Marie's got her martini a little dirty this time, right? We're in the third round here. She's got the shakes. We have cherry pie versus apple streusel. It's not normal apple pie, it's apple streusel. Right. There's a difference. Uh, I looked it up and there's apple streusel pie and apple streusel cake. We are obviously in the pie bracket. Cake bracket is probably gonna be next year.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Who knows us? And then cherry pie is very famous. It has a song by Warrant in the early 1990s. Love that song for some reason. If it ever comes on the radio, unsolicited, cranking it. I'll go to uh one of the stream platforms. I don't know. I just like that song. Uh but because of that, 68 to 32, Apple Streusel's moving on. Wow. Didn't see that coming. Did not see that coming. And you know what else nobody else has seen coming yet, Harry? So, Harry, that leads us to the Final Four matchup. We have pumpkin versus Apple Struusel, and then Apple versus Pecan. And it couldn't get better than this. It it does not get better than this. So let's go with no particular order. Let's go with the right side. Right. Left side, strong side, go with the right side. Pumpkin versus apple structured. Very conflicting. This was uh closer than I anticipated. 64 to 36, Harry. We had a solid turnout of this vote. Very good, above average over our polls. But pumpkin pie is moving on. Did not see that coming. Okay, I'm not gonna lie to you. I saw that coming. Pumpkin pie is moving on to the finals. I know everybody's curious. Like, what are we doing? Listen, we went over the Elite Eight. We're doing our final four because we had to announce our champion prior to Thanksgiving because Harry and I each have to make and eat whatever pie wins. I need to know, I need some advanced notice of which one I'm gonna make. Pumpkin pie is in the finals. And now, Harry, here's a drum roll from the left side, the strong side. We have apple pie versus pecan pie. This bracket, this one poll, this one vote right here, has gained the most votes we have ever received for any poll in the history of our show. Thanks, Anna. Thank you, Anna. We have been on air for three years. Not once have we crossed the 700 vote. And we have gone skyrocketing past that. 56 to 44. I have been following this poll for quite some time, Harry. Apple pie is moving on. I wholeheartedly honestly did not see that happening. For some reason, I saw pecan pie moving on. Really? That's where my thought was. Have you ever had had a Thanksgiving dinner without apple pie? Yeah. I've had more pecan pie at Thanksgiving than I have at Apple. What? Yeah. Not up here. See, not up there. That's what's awesome about these polls. It's it's fan voted. It's regional.
SPEAKER_01:Because if you had me guessing, I would have been out.
SPEAKER_00:So our next poll, here it is. The championship round. Which one are we going to make? Pumpkin verse apple. Left versus right, north versus south. Not really. This isn't civil war. Yeah, he's up, dude. Yeah. We're already divided as a nation as it is. Brother, take a breath. Uh, we have a ground growing gourd versus a tree-growing fruit. This is gonna be a good battle. I'm in it. One gets a little dollop a cool whip, and the other one gets a little bit of ice cream. Ice cream in. Ice cream. Ice cream. Yeah, scream. Scream. That's all I got. Uh stay tuned. Poll's coming your way. I can't wait, dude. I will say I am glad that we don't have to make anything weird. Oh, that's true. You don't want to do that. Because PWN, Paul's Weird News. Here is your host, Paul Paul. Hey, Harry, thanks for that. Shout out out here in the streets. I got some for you this week. First up, let's get on a little airplane. Let's head over to Europe. And a bold twist on the typical museum tour. Visitors at the this is why I don't get paid to pronounce things. The twice-monthly quote Grumpy Guide tour is led by a character named Joseph Langolink. An altered ego. Right. Performed by another guy named Carl. Makes sense, Germany Carl. Who spends 70 minutes insulting, mocking, and hustling groups of guests through the gallery, all in the name of performance arts. His mission, you ask, is to shift the visitor museum power dynamic, provoke reflection on what art and tour really mean, which is big, right? You don't want just normal art tour. And to entertain by being unapologetically abrasive. I love it. There are restaurants uh around the country, around the United States, that do this specific thing, and I enjoy it. I think it's hilarious. Yes. Since its launch in May of 2025, so it's only been a few months old, Harry. Every single session has sold out, and bookings are stretching into next year. So people are planning next year's trips. They want to go see Joseph Langolink at this museum. The museum sees this as part of a broader effort to attract younger and more engaged audiences. It's equal parts critique, performance, social experiment, and clearly striking a chord. Like they are hitting something right here. I love it. I think that's very cool. I mean, I think you uh charge a couple more dollars for it. I mean, nothing too crazy, and that money just goes straight into something good. Right. Now, Harry, let's say I mean the museum itself is good, but I mean another step further. No, you're right. You're a little step further, a little bit extra here. But let's not even get on an airplane, let's just take a nice, nice train. You know, they got trains in Europe. Let's go to a little country called Spain. Because meanwhile, in Spain, law enforcement pulled up a rather rather unusual bust, which is a criminal group responsible for stealing over 1,100. What was that? Oh, yeah, yes, thanks for telling me. Restaurant chairs across several regions. 1,100 restaurant chairs were uh collected. Authorities say the group targeted outdoor seating, integral to many restaurant operations, especially in Europe, right? Everybody sits outside to eat, really, affecting scores of businesses that rely on those chairs to serve customers. The scale of the theft was significant. Hundreds, hundreds of establishments impacted with losses mounting. Hundreds of stores and restaurants had their chairs stolen. And at the reading article, the message is clear. Seemingly small or quirky crimes can add up to serious business disruption. I can't even speak right now. It's how angry I am. And the sting demonstrates a clever investigator focused on hospitality supply chain. They made a sting operation to collect 1,100 chairs because they realized that these guys were not only just stealing them, they were trying to sell them throughout Europe as like some kind of underground thing. I've heard of the black market, cheese, tide detergent, and I did not realize chairs was so high out there. I get annoyed when I go out to a public restaurant or anywhere in this country, especially airports, and somebody takes my chair that I was just in. Can you imagine having a restaurant and somebody takes hundreds of your chairs? Now, finally, Harry, we're gonna stay in Europe. And we're gonna travel north from Spain on a little airliner to a nice little island I like to call the Ireland. Because over in County Clare, Ireland, an animal sighting triggered panic and headlines. A lion was roaming the woods. A lion in Ireland was roaming the woods. And I was like, he's a king of the jungle. Let's get there. Because can you feel the love tonight? Lion roaming around. But it turned out to be a fearsome beast, was actually a friendly Newfoundland dog named Mouse. Of course, sporting a fresh haircut that made him look like a lion. Hilarious because like the Newfoundland was that orangey color, yellow of the lion, and his owner shaved him up to where a lion's mane was and spotted him. Like from a distance, I would have been like, nope. I'm running home as fast as I can because I need to change my pants now. So the local police, known as the the Gardeye, launched an investigation. And that's that they shared a humorous outcome. They're like, um it's not a lion on the loose, it's just mouse to Newfoundland. Everything's out here safe on the streets. I mean, real quick, before we go anywhere. On this one. You're you're the local cop in an Irish town. Mm-hmm. And you get a phone call that there's a lion in the woods. Right. What do you do? Well, you gotta go investigate. What's your first reaction? I'm gonna need a bigger boat. Right? Yeah. No, and everybody asks why these matter, why these stories matter. And just remember they remind us, not everything is as it seems, Harry. Right. You might think you're on a museum tour, but it's a performance. You might think you're witnessing a lion, but it's really just a haircut. But then again, you might think that your restaurant chairs are safe. But think again. That's it for me out here on the streets. Back to you in Studio T. You know, I imagine they were probably doing that chair heist for years, right? And then they just got greedy. Yeah, the first guy was going, all right, man. You you take two chairs. Two chairs per restaurant. Not even no, clear one restaurant, one restaurant. I wouldn't clear a restaurant. That's too obvious. If you take two chairs per restaurant early on, they're like, hey, Giuseppe, what'd you do with that chair? And he'd be like, I don't know. Right? But how are you gonna sell two chairs? But you gotta do two chairs at ten restaurants. Well, how do you know they're all gonna have the same chair? Who do you know the guy needs the same chair? You're gonna sell them back their own chairs? You could sell them back their own chairs. See, that's a genius move. No, it's not a genius move. How did you end up with our chairs? Our chairs are gone, and now here's a mystery man selling our exact chair back to us. No, if I'm in Spain, I'm selling them in Morocco. Got to cross the Mediterranean Sea, sell them. What? Some rock in Moroccan is gonna buy that chair. What if you go to the restaurant and bring your own chair? I just think you're gonna end up with a lot of chairs and nowhere to sell them. Yeah, but Europe is like the United States. Like, you don't need to show a passport crossing a country border. You just drive out there and hey man, who wants to buy a chair? Like, what if you go from Spain to like France and set up a side booth like they have here? Like, you want watermelon or oranges or crawfish or anything like that, be like, set up a roadside stand for chairs. Again, I don't think your business is gonna take it do the numbers you you think it's gonna do. Well, these chairs were free, so what's free plus one? One that's a profit. If you could sell one thing at a roadside stand, what would it be? All day. You're sitting out there, and I'll give you this. You ready? Every day's beautiful. You don't need a jacket or nothing, it's perfectly comfortable. A sharp pocket knife, you get to whittle all day. But what are you selling? Hot dogs. You think people will stop that much for hot dogs? Bro, you gotta say you gotta find the right spot. Think about that guy who stands on the side of the road in Jersey during the summer when everybody's going down to New Jersey shore and you're in you're in a gridlock.
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SPEAKER_00:You roll your windows down, but I'm gonna get some air, and you smell those hot dogs. How much selling that dog for?$1,$2,$5? I'm buying them. What do you sell? Ice cream sandwiches, you're right. Easy. I would eat my profits, but whatever. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We'd have fun. But this might have been one of our most professional episodes we've ever done. Yeah, it's gonna be minimal editing. It's really great. You managed to sneak in the number one album of 1994. Number one album in 94. I looked it up twice. The Lion King. The Lion King soundtrack. How many songs? Uh this one was six. This one was six. Now, because there's, you know, intros and outros and all this stuff, because they are symphonies. I'm not doing scores. No, you don't have to do scores, buddy. I am I am proud. I mean Akuna Matata was tough. What was the hardest one to hide? Can you feel the love tonight? Yeah, that was tough. Now, I have an interesting fact about 94 that I've been waiting for this very moment. Ooh, go on. The Lion King is exactly 94 minutes long. Mm-hmm. I wouldn't say it up at the beginning of the show, but also like I was trying to hide the Lion King soundtrack, so I didn't want that to, you know, sway anybody from trying to find it, the Easter eggs. Yeah, yeah. I don't like that. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I found that earlier and I was like, well, that's creepy. Yeah, I don't I don't I don't think I'm a fan of that knowledge. Yeah, made you uncomfortable, didn't it? It did. Sending a little little shivers down my spine, like we're right where we're supposed to be. Mm-hmm. Well, it's okay, Harry. Because on average, humans laugh 13 times a day. Meaning it only takes 94 laughs to make a whole week better. I thoroughly believe there was more than 94 laughs this episode from our listeners. So with that, follow us on Facebook at the TroutStream and on Instagram and X at TroutStreamPod, and most importantly, the new up and comer, the one who's hitting it home, the one where we are working our tails off or TikTok at Trout Stream Podcast. Leave a rating review on whatever stream platform you listen to us from. Listen, we got a one-star review recently. Oh, so dude, I'm so happy about it. We want five stars because it moves us up the chart. Right. Of course. We want five stars because it gives you exposure. The more five stars, the further the charter moves you, the further charter moves us, the more exposure we get, the more exposure we get, the better products you can get from us. We got a one star from somebody. We don't know what they thought of the quality of our show. Harry shared it to me. We were kind of both jazzed about it. I thought this was a podcast about fishing, not football. Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah. So you know it's real. You know all of our feedbacks are real. We have one five star or one one star. Everything else is five stars because people are genuine and honest. You listening right now, we know you. We are you. You are us. We know you're a genuine and honest person. Just whatever app platform this to us from, give us five stars. And then we don't ask for much. But here's something else for free. You can tell your friends, family, coworkers, enemies, Harry, who else? You can tell the greatest rapper from the early 90s to rap with Ninja Turtles. Vanilla Ice, about your new favorite podcast. Thanks for listening. Don't get your lines tangled. And if you need help, reach out. Guarantee someone will listen. Go birds. Go Birds. Thanks for listening to Trotch Shame. This has been a Hook Brothers production.
