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A clean screen or closed captions—where do you land? We kick things off with a spirited, funny take on subtitles before rolling right into a worldwide listener shoutout and a marble-race ritual that decides who opens the show. From there we ride the 95 theme everywhere it goes: Richard Dent anchoring the ’85 Bears, Chris Jones talking his talk, a roll call of seven-time legends, and a playful detour into Lightning McQueen’s Piston Cup lore. We even dust off Windows 95 nostalgia and share where to click around those retro desktops and games online.
The centerpiece is delicious: our Thanksgiving pie bracket. Apple and pumpkin battle through the field for a final that felt like a wrestling call—pumpkin claims the crown 55–45. That win sparks real plans and practical hosting tips: how to transport pies, ideal chilling windows, and why an Amish peanut butter cream pie might be the sleeper hit on your dessert table. We map our holiday plates in detail—stovetop stuffing over in-bird, sweet potato casserole with a brown sugar crunch, deviled eggs as a first-grab, and a hot sauce strategy that rescues dry turkey and lifts leftovers.
We also spotlight a timely civic good: a Food For Fines program that turns non-perishables into municipal fine credits and clears overdue library fees. It’s a reminder that community matters as much as the menu. We wrap with gratitude, a nod to our executive producers Jared Alman and Joel and Audrey Tatrow, and a clear invite to help us keep growing this Trout Stream family.
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You are just watching some generalized television at night, right? Nothing serious. You're not watching the Super Bowl or nothing. How do you feel about closed captioning? No, that's a tough one, Harry. I know it is. I know you're getting older. It has nothing to do with hearing. It has everything to do with children. Children are not there? And they're not talking in a weird British accent. Turn them closed captions off. I am distracted. I'm so confused on who's talking in a British accent. Uh, have you watched Peaky Blinders? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Great British Baking show? Uh The Great British Bake Off. Yeah, I've seen office. Love it. Yeah, sometimes I need subtitles for them. Okay, but you're not an everyday subtitler. No. Anges. And it makes me it makes me mad. We pay for the whole screen. Right. We we we pay to use the whole thing. Use the whole thing, and not with letters, with high quality pictures. No, it makes sense. It's like I paid for eight cylinders in my truck. I'm gonna use all eight. The speedometer goes up to 120. I'm gonna use all 120. I paid for it. Don't cut me up. There's a range in there I want to hit. Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Trout stream. I am Harry Troutman, and with me as always, a guy who can cut a pie perfectly into eight pieces every time. It's a miracle. My co-host.
SPEAKER_02:I am Paul Troutman.
SPEAKER_01:So pick up a poll, cast a line, and join us on the stream. We hand out golden trouts for good. We hand out eels for bad. We are going to crown the winner of the best Thanksgiving pie as voted and nominated by the fans. Mm-hmm. And of course, much, much more. Paul, listeners, new and old, welcome to the trout stream. Welcome to 95. To that, I say, what's up, dude? 95. I mean, it's a weird thing. You own like 95, 95 is the average amount Americans accidentally spend every year on forgotten subscriptions. Did you know that? I did not know that. Yeah. Also, 95 is officially, unofficially the tempo of 95 beats per minute in the song Ice Ice Baby. Boom. 95 are coming at you. When I say 95, what's the first thing you think of? American. The 95th element. I was thinking Windows 95. The classic. Oh, that is a classic. Yep, Windows 95. As always, I gotta give a shout out. I want to hear it. To some previous listeners. We have Ronert Park, California. Ra Ronert? R-O-H-N-E-R-T. Ronert? R-O-H-N-E-N. Ronert. Boston Mass. Always love to see that one. Thoroughfare, New Jersey, Cheswick, Pennsylvania, and new. And joining the Trout Stream for the very first time. Villainous? Well, it looks like villainous. I'm not gonna try. Lithuania has joined the trout stream. Whoa, the Balkans are in Lithuania. We had Estonia. We had Estonia for a long time. Unfortunately, I I have to chuck here, but I think I have not seen our Estonian friend in quite some time. Uh, it makes me sad. We loved him, but we get it. I'm pretty sure. Off top of my head here, Harry. Just thinking. The Baltic states are Estonia, Lithuania, and I'm fairly certain we've hit the third one. Latvia.
SPEAKER_02:I think we may have hit all of the Baltic.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, look at us. We just, you know, no one, no one wins like the trout stream here. Yeah, what up? Uh, there's other podcasts out there that have two brothers that try to be like us. They just get paid a lot more. They are less handsome than we are. They do have way better sponsors. They do, right. And they probably don't have to drink out of their evening drinks out of koozies that have dirt and dust on them. They've had in their toolbox for 15 years. They probably don't even have toolboxes. They probably I don't think Travis has a toolbox. Jason, maybe. I don't think Travis. Man, see, that's why we need to film them pointing out. Do you think Travis or Jason has that? No, I wanna I just I want to see Travis handed an adjustable wrench. Yeah. Yeah, I want Travis to change the tire. Not not change tire. I want to tell Travis I need a 916 ratchet uh socket on a three-inch extension, all three inch drive. Oh boom, figure it out. I I want to see them change a fuel pump on a 90 F-150. Oh man, with our dad standing there just yelling at them. And the question better be which tank?
SPEAKER_02:Because there better only one answer to that one.
SPEAKER_01:Cuz there was two, buddy. There was a front and a back. And we know which pump was going bad. Do you know which one it was? I had both of mine go at the same time when I got to Texas. Really? It wasn't my pump, it was my fuel gauge that went out on the back. Oh yeah, my fuel gauge never worked in that truck. Nah. We had the same generation of truck. My fuel gauge never worked. That's literally why I had to make sure both tanks work. Because once I got that, just flip it over, and it's like, all right, well, yeah. Better go put gas. There's no worse feeling when you're running the back tank that has the gauge doesn't work, and you're like, please, did I put gas in the front tank? Well, please tell me I got gas in the front tank. It's a worse. You just flip over, you're like, and you feel like a fighter pilot, you're like switching a tank too. Click. Tank would be up to you. Switch to the front, and it's just not going yet. And it's like doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. And you're on the highway and you're sputtering down real quick. And then finally, uh, it was like hitting a nut a nitro boost. I got I'm gonna say this for later. I got a little uh story about you and I and the exact exact thing happening. Okay, we'll save it for packing up the truck. Let's uh let's get this episode rolling, dude. I'm in, man. Episode 95. It's gonna be a fun one. Like I said, Windows 95, right off the bat. Um we decided, you decided, actually. Little for wishing. How would we go first? We did some marble racing. Not personally, we pulled up a video on YouTube. I beat Paul. I did not win, however. And that's what we'll do. We'll continue to find these little quick marble races. Yeah. Uh, and if you win, you go first. And if you win, win. Meaning not just beat the other person. It's a guaranteed start the next week. I'm in, dude. I am in. Let's have some fun with this. I'd like that idea. I like that idea. Yeah. I love it. That's that just gave me chills, man. You know what we that's what we gotta do. We gotta somehow incorporate those when we start doing video podcasts, be like, all right, who goes first? And everybody watched it for we'll just cut it to like the last. That'd be cool though. Oh, I'm in. Or we can just I can grab two marbles and be like, all right, which one's gonna hit the wall first, Harry? And I'm not throw yours. That's something we could also not. You can get an Xbox so we can play NASCAR and see who can beat each other. You know what I mean? Yeah, let's go to Bristol. Oh, yeah, Bristol 10 laps. No one else, mean you. No, no field. I won the marble race. I get to go first. I beat you. I didn't win the race. I beat you. Right, just like NASCAR championship. You ain't gotta win the last race, you gotta beat everybody else. Just gotta the other three guys. You know, NASCAR and uh NASCAR championship and running from a bear. Don't come in last.
SPEAKER_02:Just don't come in last. I only have one. He is a seven-time champion in the field of racing.
SPEAKER_01:So you have Mario Andretti. Right. Obviously. That's a name everyone knows. Everybody knows Andretti. You have Ka Kaya. You have the King, Richard Petty. Right. He's a king. Obviously, he's he's a king. He's a king because he has seven championships, right? Right. Yeah, and you got Mario and the King. You have Dale and Hart Sr. Oh, senior, of course. Rais three. Raised hell, praise Dale. Also a seven-time cup winner. Seven time. Let's not forget about Jimmy Johnson. Another seven-time cup winner. Oh, wow. You don't forget about Jimmy. Five in a row. Five in a row. Never to be seen again. Oh, not gonna be seen again. And there's one more seven-time cup champion. It is the piston cup. And it is Lightning McQueen. That is a great cup to have. Cause cuw. Man, as diehard piston cup uh followers as we are. Yes. I mean, I want to give out a huge shout out to Jackson Storm, who just won the 2025 Cup.
SPEAKER_02:Good job, too.
SPEAKER_01:For the third time. You can't Lightning McQueen. Come on, man. Yeah. I mean, Lightning McQueen has seven championships in a 10-year span. Yeah. Got six championships in a seven year, so there's only one year where he didn't win. Like, ah, come on, man. Well, that's when he got tested uh accused of the performance enhancers. And obviously the test came out. It was all negative. There was no boost. There was no boost found in the car. No boost. Yeah, he got penalized for a couple races, tried to fight it. NASCAR said, you know what? We'll give you your fine money back, but your points loss is a point loss, and there's nothing we're going to do about that. We're not happy with the piston cup, but you know what? It is what it is. I honestly think it's bigger than that. I think I think it was a chip Holloway thing that year. They wanted Chip to win, and you can't prove it otherwise. You can't. And then, you know, in 2008, Winford, Bradford, Rutherford, RPM racing. It should have been another Cachow year, but should have. I digress. I'm going to dive dive in here, Harry. I'm going to jump in. Right. Jump into the pool. Shallow end feet first. I have two. We're going to go uh new to old. New one is a, I believe, a three-time Super Bowl champion. Played with one team. Number 95 is defensive lineman, Chris Jones, Kansas City Chiefs. Chris Jones. He's a talker. He is a talker. I like him. I think I like his tenacity and his trash talking. And uh in the Super Bowl when the Eagles beat them. Well, you say which time? It really was 57 and 59. Anyway, he tried doing the tush-push-stop going sideways. I respected the hustle. Yeah, that's uh but also get out of here. That's a bold strategy to just put your open ribs in front of offensive linemen's helmets. Yes. It didn't work, and he got taken out of the game where he was pretty pretty muffed up for the rest of the game. So I'm not saying the two things are correlated, but and then my next 95, Harry. You know, you can't have just one. Sometimes you need two. You don't say 85 Bears without mentioning this guy's name. There are certain players on that defense that you know you go away without saying. Mike Singletary absolutely has to be brought up. Ron Rivera has to be brought up. Number 95, the sack master himself, Richard Dent. Dude was a stud. Like, obviously, they won the Super Bowl the same year I was born, so I wasn't even alive for it. Right. Yeah. But as a history guy and sports fan, and like obviously all Chicago has for them when it comes to the Bears is 85. So obviously everybody's got to do their research. Mike Singletary, scary. Ron Rivera, scary. You can list off almost the entire defense and make them scary, but Richard Dent, I think, was probably the strongest one of that entire defense. That's saying a lot. Mm-hmm. And then you took my other one. Uh, honorary mention. Actually, you didn't take it, you brought it up earlier. I just gotta bring it back. Windows 95. Uh, there's a couple websites online you can find that you can run uh Windows 95 and all the icons and all that stuff if you really miss it that much. Really? Yeah, I'll find it and uh I'll put it on the trout stream. Yeah, so you can get that in the run Jeffelion. But you run all your current stuff?
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like 11 or whatever, 47 or no, no, it's just like it's all the old stuff. You can do all the old games and it's just like a fake desktop that you can mess around with. Yeah. But it's a website, so like no harm, no foul, you know? Like the downhill skiing game? Dude. That I've been looking for for forever. Dude, there used to be. I was a big Line Racer guy. Oh, Line Racer was good. The sled? Yes. And we found a hack one time with government computers that we found games like Spider Solitaire. So when we're 12 hours during exercises sitting at the computers, I'm like, hey, what do you got going over and over there? And like, don't ask questions. Show me the navigation. And then obviously, multiple of us got on there and the government found out and closed it. Yeah. But but I'm gonna jump into draft picks right now, Harry. I'm feeling frisky, feeling live. Uh, only reason I'm jumping in is because I got one. This is a big one. This is a large one, this is a tall draft pick. This is a tall drink of water 2010. The Nyland Saints selected from 95 overall. Jimmy Graham.
SPEAKER_02:Ooh, love that. Possibly steal that round. Yeah. That's my 95s.
SPEAKER_01:Buddy, we got we got something weird here that happens occasionally when everything lines up. When the stars line up. The Titans come back, like in Hercules. Garth Brooks The Hits. Great album. Was the number one album in 1995. Rightfully so. I remember. Here's where the stars aligned. It's also the 95th highest-selling album in the US. Nah, there's no other. There is no other album on our list that this happened to. Like 75 stars in a lineup for this one. Yeah, dude. This is one of those weird goosebumpy things that we do we get when we record. It's something weird like that. Yeah. It's like they bought 10 million copies in 95 and stopped to move it to Oh my gosh. Well, you know who bought 10 million of them? Women. Billy Jean is the 95th highest song on the Billboard Top 100 by Michael Jackson. First off, disrespect. Should be higher. I feel Billy Jean is top 25 song. Billy Jean is not my lover. You're right. Also, can we go on a little sidebar with that song for a second? Side away. Christmas party. Oh 2011? 2012? Okay. Somewhere in that time frame. I'm overseas. And I got a boss. Kaz. We're sitting there right at this hotel. We ran out like the ball roomary for our squadron holiday party. And we got eight beers hidden underneath our table. Of course. Because we're, you know, we're mature adults and we're actually we're cheap. It's cheaper to bring around. But my boss looks at us and said, do not request Billy Jeans by Michael Jackson at all from the DJ. Don't do it. And we're like, okay. So he walks away and we're like, obviously you're not gonna not. So we go up there, and like three of us are racing. We tell DJ, hey, in two songs, we want Billy Jeans by Michael Jackson. Right? Because you don't want to make it seem obvious, like we went out there. Oh yeah, it can't be next. We don't do next in two songs. So that with there when we get done, we we laugh like little schoolgirls, grab our drinks, get back in the back, stand there. You know, you beep up on the dance floor a little bit, and all of a sudden Billy Jean comes on. We all look over at Kaz, like, what is he gonna do? Uh-huh. Kaz then comes into that dance floor, he goes, I told you guys don't do this, pushes us out of his way, clears the dance floor, and the dude had a dance routine to that song. No way. He's in slacks, a button-up shirt, and a sport coat blazer. Mind you, I'm in a uh an ugly Christmas sweater that is just a mounted, a shoulder mount of a deer head with aviators on. Hilarious. Hilarious. Caz went very formal, and he's doing like these spin pivot moves, and next thing you know, sport coat is over his shoulder. He's doing this stuff, and he does a full-on split into like a backflip thing. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, I've had this routine for like 20 years. I do it once a year. It's every Christmas party. I'm like, oh my. So whenever I see Billy Jr. hear it, I think I'm I can envision my buddy Kaz doing a split, backflip, dancing. I do not have a split or a backflip, obviously. I do have a whole dance routine to another song that I will not tell. Ah, I'm in. I have buried it deep, deep down. Everyone knows it, who knows me. Um, and I prefer to never do it again. Yeah. Hakuna Matata. I would have stayed buried for quite some time. We've all been there. The 95th highest grossing movie of all time is Guardians of the Galaxy, volume three, dude. I didn't know they made a third one. Yeah, yeah. I uh I'll be honest. Marvel got a little overwhelming for me, and I fell behind, and I have not seen the third one. After Endgame, I have not seen any of them except for the most recent Captain America, where Red Hulk was played by Harrison Ford. Ooh, good pickup. Same. Yeah. Yeah, we saw it the same night. Yeah. Different cities. The mandate. We did. We just said, all right, go in the movie. I'll talk to you about it later. Are you ready for some celebrities who are 95 years old? Harry, I am more ready than I am for Thanksgiving pie. Uh, let's start off with Lois Smith. You won't know her. She's in the minority report. Robert Wagner. I know this man as Tony Denozo's father. Yes. He was also number two in the Austin Powers movie. Yes. Which I think is even more funny. That is funny. Robert Wagner is 95. He is 95. He looks great. That made him like. Wait, how long ago was Austin Powers? I guess it was old. Like 2000s, right? Yeah, maybe. So it was at least 25 years ago. Wow. He was old. He was actually old then. He looked great then. Yes. And even in NCIS, I mean he's he shuffled a bit. Uh Warren Buffett. Warren's 95? Yeah. He's 95. Man, I watched him punch somebody before. That was awesome. Uh and Clint Eastwood is also 95. Wow. That's what I said. All of them have different levels of awesomeness. I think that's one of the reasons why I like this so much is like, again, it's just a it seems like a random group of people that you would never put together. Like, what do these people have in common? Oh, they're all 95. Right. Yeah, Clint Eastwood has a ridge named after him and uh California. Does he really? I mean, any Back to the Future 3 fan would tell you that. But also it's Clint Eastwood, so. Alright, celebrities, we lost at 95. We have John Glenn. John Glenn was 95? 95. Now, I'm pretty sure it's Jos Auckland. J-O-S-S, but I'm pretty sure it's Jos. He was Hans in the Mighty Ducks. That's it. Porn went out for Hans. You know what, Harry? You said Hans. There's only two Hans ever. You have Hans from Mighty Duck. Skate sharpener of all time. All time. R.I.P. And then you got Hans Gruber, who's from the greatest Christmas movie of all time. And I knew Hans Gruber was not 95, so I started crying. Pope Benedict the 14th. Oh, the 14th. Good one. The 14th. Yeah, I like him. Gene Hackman. Nelson Mandela. What are you cutting me deep for? And then, weirdly enough, to wrap it all in, Stan Lee. Stan Lee was 95? Stan Lee was, and we just got done talking about Marvel. I didn't even know. The stars have aligned again. They're 95th. Oh my gosh. The 95th highest-selling movie of all time, which we almost left out of the show, right? Let's fill them in, Paul. Let's fill in. Because I moved on too quick to celebrities that are 95. I was so excited that I almost forgot about Gardens of the Galaxy. And I said, no, I don't want to forget that because it's part of, honestly, it's part of our TikTok. So it's not just sports guys. It's it's all these guys wearing 95. And then a random movie poster. And people go, why the random movie poster? They investigate. It's honestly something to get us to get you to look at our stuff, right? Really, it's all I like. We almost intentionally left it out this episode. And I said, no, I don't want to do that. We got to bring it in. We got to do it for the social media aspect. And then here, Stan Lee. The Stan Lee died at 95. And here's my favorite part. You and I share a lot of stuff throughout the week and like weeks out projecting our episodes. Like, oh, here's this, here's that. Legitimate. When it comes to celebrities, you pull it up as we're recording. I never, there's one thing I will always do is I will never look ahead because I like the general excitement I get from it. Yeah. And then the the soul crushingness that I get when I see celebrities that have passed at an age, uh, and being the bear of bad news to you, even though they are been long gone, just be like, you know, stay late. Uh so yeah, I don't look ahead with that. No, it's awesome. And I think that's like it's one of the how do I say this? I don't look forward to it, but it's an exciting part of the show for me, is like we've already mourned these people, most of them. Yeah. And also to find out how old that like the fact that Buzz Aldrin and Clint Eastwood are the same age and both have been to space, Buzz Aldrin for real, and then you know, Clint Eastwood and Cowboys, Space Cowboys or something with Tommy Lee Jones. I gotta watch that. I don't believe I've ever watched it all the way through. So I was like, what is going on here? But it's like if Clint Eastwood's in a movie, you're gonna watch it, except for like I am terrible at watching movies. I'll just watch the same one 17 times, like Gran Torino. Mm-hmm. Love that movie. The 95 car in NASCAR, 526 races, zero wins. Oh. That's impressive almost. It is actually. Michael McDowell, I didn't know he was in the 95, by the way. 100 races, one top five. Matt D'AMBo, 36 races. Christopher Bell, 36 races. Daryl Waltrip, 36 races. You know what I'm thinking of? I'm thinking of the 97 car. That's in two episodes. That's what I'm thinking of. That's why. The 95 actually didn't become popular until a little bit later. And now, question, NASCAR-related question. Do you think Lightning McQueen has ruined the 95? Ruined it? No. Do you think anyone's going to be 95? Yeah, I mean, Matty D was the 95 after that. Before DeBedadetto, it was Christopher Bell for an entire season, obviously 36 races. Michael McDowell was before him for at least, was that three seasons? And then uh, but Waltrip was in a 95 car back in the 70s. This is all the top of my head, right? Probably like 74 time frame before he really blew up. No, I don't believe he I don't believe he ruined it. I'm just saying it's one of those tough things. You know what I mean? No, you don't want to talk about tough. I got a right hand here that says Leighton McQueen is the best 95 of all time, but does not mean somebody can't race in it. I got two players that have worn 95 in NBA history, one on four teams. So that means it was his number. Yeah. And that is DeAndre Bembry. Oh, Bembri. I remember when he was with the, I think he was with the Kings for a bit. And then another one he wore for four teams from uh 2020 to 2024. Juan Toscano Anderson. Question hyphenated. I gotta look at his Golden State Warriors jersey because I don't remember if he was just Anderson or if he had the full hyphenated name. So it went from like left rib cage all the way wrapped around to his right rib cage. Yes. And it it sounds like an Italian dish. Oh, Toscano Anderson. I mean, it sounds pretty good. You know what else sounds better, Harry? Take your two players, times that by two, times it by itself, that equals out to four. Four players have worn number 95 in MLP history. I'm not going to cover all four because we don't have time to cover four names. I got two for you. How about the first one? Takahio Nomura in the 2000. That is staying in this episode, buddy. This is that's staying. From the 2002 Milwaukee Brewers, and then the most recent, Oswaldo Cabrera played for the 2025 Yankees. So once again, baseball started in the 1880s, like 20 years after the Civil War. The American Civil War. We have baseball. And now we got guys like 23 years ago wearing number 95. I still don't know if they were able to print two numbers, like sew two numbers on the back of a jersey for a long time. I wonder, I wonder, I mean, the top teams like like the Yankees, right? Even in even back then, right? They were a top team. I wonder how many like lower end teams had to like these dudes had to sew their own jerseys or have their wife sew their numbers on and stuff. I bet you make their uniforms back in the day. I mean, they were made of wool. Yeah, question. Uh, when you say lower end team, first team becomes a mind go. Baltimore Orioles for some weird reason. Wow, the Orioles is a good one. For some reason, Cleveland came to mind for me. And and it was Baltimore Orioles, and then immediately the Pittsburgh Pirates. And honestly, the Pittsburgh Pirates are my should be my number one answer, but I've always looked at the Orioles as like the little brother to us. I don't know why. To Philly. Merrick play them. Baltimore, Barmer, Barnum. Baltimore in general. I've always felt like they were a lesser city to Philly. Yeah. 100%. Like New York's number one. Philly. Baltimore. And then DC. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right there on the east side. And then when we go globally, Philly's number one. But you're right. As you come down, like you started New York, and as like Washington came down further south, it just got slightly worse, except for like New York doesn't have their own cream cheese. Yeah. Uh we had you in the first half. Not gonna lie. Now the brakes are off, the wheels are off. We have some PW end. We have the winner of America's favorite Thanksgiving pie, Paul. Ladies and gentlemen, happy Thanksgiving. It's good to see you. It is good to see you. I hope we are part of your Thanksgiving weekend, whether it is on the way to the in-laws, whether it's stuffing the turkey with us on the shme shma machine. We will not say her name. We know better. We're good people. We try to be anyway. No, we really try to be. Uh Thanksgiving is one of the top three or four holidays of the year. Absolutely. I will say this. I will say this. I'm in. I feel like it officially starts deviled egg season, and I'm here for it. First off, sir. When does deviled egg season end? It doesn't, but it starts now. Oh, do you think it ends at Easter and picks up at Thanksgiving? Is it a six-month season? Well, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it went pretty far in this summer's barbecue side dish bracket. It did, which we'll recap later this year. I guess the thing that that people are really tuning into and want to find out is about this pie bracket. Oh, that's it. You know what I'm going to start doing, Harry? Is like when we record, I'm going to start deleting. I'd leave all the old brackets out there, right? So everybody go back. You can vote on them 17 months later, it doesn't matter. Uh the bracket ahead. Been closed. I should start deleting them. Can you delete or close brackets? I don't know if I can close them. I don't know how to close them. We'll put it out to our social media team. They'll get on it. Yeah, we got people out there. For this one, Harry. Who is getting the golden pie 10? Coming from the left side. We have apple pie. Coming from the right side, we have pumpkin pie. You and I knew this at 16 teams, what it was going to come down to. There were some potential upsets, pumpkin pie having to go all the way through. It had to meet peach pie. In a final four, it had to meet apple strusel. And then you look at apple pie. It had to meet chocolate pie, I believe. It had a it had so many other matchups in there. And it's apple pie's final matchup was against pecan. Pecan. And that right there, I did not expect that one. We both expected pecan pie to move on. Absolutely. The pea, the pea pie versus the pea pie, which that sounds really weird, but pecan and pumpkin going against each other. But no, it's Apple. And out to the, you know, we still gotta bring up that guy who said you just put a random fruit and pie. Guess what? A random fruit and pie are in the finals. So jokes on him. Joke's really on him, isn't it? Mm-hmm. You know, sometimes we like to quote the Dixie Chicks. Sometimes we like to quote Stevie Nicks. Sometimes we just like to mention natural phenomena like a landslide when it comes to matchups. But I'm gonna go back circa 1998, 1999, uh, to our good buddy Jim Ross. And this, Harry, was a slobbernocker.
SPEAKER_02:It was a slobbernocker! It was a slobbernocker.
SPEAKER_01:Waiting to use that term for a very long time.
SPEAKER_02:My God, he's broken in half.
SPEAKER_01:This, Harry, is the closest final matchup we've ever had. Percentage-wise, close, hands down, bar none. This is taking me everything I have not to scream like Jim Ross right now. Continue. I'm in. No, no holds barred, no toe holds. Uh, which also that's a thing, no toe holds. So you can't hold them by the toe. Like, that'd make me mad. You touch my toes, I'm fighting you. Unless you do, you're, I'm getting a pedicure. 55 to 45. This is on paper. This is what I thought this match would be, so go on. Yep. Uh, the pie that you have to eat at least one slice of a pumpkin pie. Let's go. Thank God. Right. Did we think anything differently?
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_01:I didn't anyway. Secretly, we only ran this bracket, so you we had 15 other ideas of what kind of pies to make for our Thanksgiving. Yeah, yeah, it was nothing but a setup. Thanks, guys. I probably will try and make an apple or a pumpkin pie this year. I had one request from my household since my house knows I love cooking. They have requested a pumpkin pie. Ooh. And we are doing pie night this year again. Heck yeah. I am also making for the first time, I haven't tried it yet. I'm not even going to test it. I'm just going to uh whip it together. So as you're listening to this, possibly heading to your own pie night. Possibly heading to your parents' house or your in-law's house or your parent-in-law, whoever's house you're going to, maybe that cool aunt. Maybe you have a cool Uncle John that you're going to go visit. I am making an Amish peanut butter pie. Hello. Yeah. Talk to me. I am bringing the Pennsylvania Amish down to old Louisiana for our pie night. Now, for those new to the show, new to the trout stream, my wife's family several years ago, we couldn't decide at Thanksgiving you want two to three pies max. Because if you go too much, it's too broad. If you go too few, there's not enough pie. So we decided, hey, what are we going to do? So we the day before, so Wednesday night, we all get together and we have pie diet. Every family is responsible for two pies. Uh this year I'm making the Amish peanut butter pie, and I have yet to decide what the other one's going to be. What exactly is an Amish peanut butter pie? Let me tell you, Harry. Okay. An Amish peanut butter cream pie consists it's a cup of creamy peanut butter, a cup of powdered sugar, eight ounces of cream cheese, one cup of regular sugar is those that we call it granulated, two cups of heavy cream, some vanilla extract, and like a cup of cold milk. And he needs like some instant vanilla pudding. And you kind of just mix all that together in different like stages. Okay. Yeah, so it's just gonna be, and then you chill it, so it's not gonna be a hot pie. I don't believe I bake it. I hope I don't bake that. No, it's a weird pie. It's a cold pie. It's one of those that you chill. So I'll probably chill in the fridge like overnight. I'll put it in the freezer for maybe two hours before we go to her parents' house. Because they live like 40 minutes away. Right. So that way they're when I pull it out, we get to their house, it's just perfect slicing temperature. Oh. Yeah, uh, three years ago I made Shepherd's Pie, right? So we can have something to eat at dinner. You know, for dinner, an actual thing. I love shepherd's pie. This year, her sister is making one of her sisters making chicken pot pie, and we are also bringing another pie that's very near and dear and special to our heart. It's uh pizza. Hey, our 23Me updated. We have like 0.3% Italian in us now, so right. Hey, it's in our blood. Yeah. This tomato sauce running through the veins. Oh man, that's so exciting. Yeah, we're going to uh normal Thanksgiving tradition. Going to Katie and Steve's and hanging off with them with the kids. Yeah, we uh we're doing pie night at her mom's house with her family and Thanksgiving. Uh we were invited over to Sabrina's best friend's house. All the kids are gonna hang out, big festivities. It's kind of like an actual occasion-ish Thanksgiving. So more to follow. I will be a reporter on the streets there, letting you know what's going on. Uh yeah, you should get a microphone. Record some clips. I should. Yes. I'm really good at news anchoring. I wonder at if at Occasion Thanksgiving they serve anything weird. No, I gotta call a Gabby now. You know, like they have the turduccin. What if they like somehow infuse an alligator with it? Dude, I looked it up before, yes. But also, like, yeah, do it right. I'm not gonna feed my alligator a turkey and then try and roast it. Yeah, do it, you gotta do it the proper way. I really do want a gator turduccin or at least a gator tur. A gaitor? Yeah, I realized that a gator and a turkey, so it would be like a gaiter turk or a gay gait curk? We gotta be careful here, buddy. We might be slinging some some stuff we we are not trying to sling on this podcast. Uh, we love everyone. E L E. Everyone, love everyone. Anyway, I think it's time we move on to PWN, America's favorite segment, Paul's Weird News. And here is your host, Paul. Thanks for shouting out here on the streets, Harry. I am trying to I'm trying to dig a little deep here, right? You know, we're looking for it. It's Thanksgiving. This is a Thanksgiving special. The beans, greens, tomatoes, tomatoes, ham, lamb. You know what you didn't hear in that song. You didn't hear about canned good foods. You didn't hear about the na. There's a city program right now that's taking food donations to lower and eliminate things to better their community. And Oklahoma City is in holiday spirit, right? Oklahoma City. Those that don't know, is in the state of Oklahoma. I don't know if you knew that or not. Well, Kansas City isn't in Kansas. I'm looking out for people. I am looking out for our folks. Through its food for fines program, the city of Chicasha, Chick-Asha. Chick, like what turkeys have, then Osha. Their municipal court and library allows for food donations in exchange for lowering or eliminating fines for offenses like traffic violations and overdue books. Leading up to the Thanksgiving, those in the city of around 17,000 with violations or fines. I had to read this article multiple times. There are 17,000 fines and violations. Now, the town size is 17,000. And that town has violations or fines at the Chicasha Municipal Court can donate non-perishable food items to get their traffic or municipal fines lowered, which I think is pretty awesome. So each non-perishable food item donated will result in a$10 deduction of fines up to a maximum of$100 per person. So that's cool. Here's 10 cans of green beans that I just spent$1.25 each. You're going to take$100 off my fine. I would do that again. I might get in trouble again. And here's the thing, right? There's caveats to everything. You can't be, I can't bring it for you. You can't bring it for me. Items must be delivered to the municipal court by the individual who the ticket was issued to in order for the credit to be received. Mm-hmm. You better not have any warrants you don't know about. Right. And that's where they're really setting you up. But last year, 30 individuals gave donations through the municipal court, which led to$2,826.50 in fine credits. I don't know how you get 50 cents in fine credits when they're like$10 per item. Down 50 cents. Microsoft went down five points. You're right. But also don't let this stop you because after this program ends, the Jakasha Public Library starts up its food for fines drive in December, where any amount of food donated can be used to clear any amount of overdue library fines on your account. But also will not cover lost or damaged books. Question, man, how bad is their their overdue library books? You know, that makes me wonder like the Jakasha Public Library, how many books you have overdue? Now, are they going back to PWN uh like two episodes ago where the lady in Oregon, the grandma, rented a book of how to raise your child? It was like 80 years overdue. Not really 80, it was almost 80 years overdue. It was very close. How much? How many cans of green beans and whole potatoes would you have to donate? Oh, yeah. You know those really big ones? You know which ones I'm talking about. The big cans of potatoes? Yep. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, several boxes of those, probably. Oh, probably, yeah. At least 24. That's it for me out here on the streets. Back to you in Studio T. Or coming up on the holidays, obviously. It's weird to think about how this year has flown by. Grateful for the trout stream, grateful for you, grateful for the audience. So thankful this year. So very thankful. And I don't want to have a Thanksgiving episode without saying that at least. No, this has been a phenomenal year for us. Our show, you and I personally, our families. 2025 is even though it started off with a bad year, you know, everybody, oh, new year, bad, not great. We've had our ups, we've had our downs, and we've had a phenomenal time being there. One thing I will be thankful for, and one thing we will start doing is announcing some executive producers of the show. I want to do that now, but not the end of this episode. Moving forward, they will be done at the end. We have to recognize them because we're very thankful. We have three executive producers this week. First one is Jared Alman, huge, huge supporter, executive producer of the show. And our last two, a great couple, phenomenal couple. Anybody who knows them knows that they go above and beyond for everybody. That goes to Joel and Audrey Tatrow. The three of you, this goes out to you, right? The Pat McFee clap that we had for episode 94 when it came out. I want to continue Pat's legacy, being appreciative, but thank you to our executive producers. And look, if you want to have your name called out every show to be an executive producer, all we're asking, we're not asked for much. You support the show, you take care of us, we take care of you. Head to our socials, head to our trash room store, and that's all we ask. Thankful for how far we've come. We just need to go a little bit farther, and with people like that supporting us, it's so much easier. And that's why I am thankful. Now, the only question I have for Harry is Thanksgiving special. We're not jumping off the rails here. What? What's going to be on your plate on Thursday? Well, I think we've attacked deviled eggs enough on this show. I think people know how much we love deviled eggs, and I will be grabbing one in line. Eating one in line. Yeah. As I'm building a plate and then putting two more on my plate and eating one more as I go to sit down. Because every Thanksgiving I go to, you know, make a plate and go sit. Don't don't set it on the table. Right. It makes sense. So, you know, there's plenty of stand time and wait. And, you know, you gotta have some listen, I'm going stuffing, not in the bird stuffing. No. Oh. Okay. I will. Nope. Give me the instant stuffing.
SPEAKER_02:Stovetopper.
SPEAKER_01:Give me the stovetop right on right on the pan. Don't put it in the bird. That's gross. Okay. Not a fan. Alright. Mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn. Maybe coleslow if it's coleslow there. Never cranberries. I'm not ready for cranberries. I thought I was. I'm getting older. I just had decaf for decaf coffee the other night before bed. Somehow weirdly, extremely relaxing. Yes, it's delicious. One of the top 10 dessert experiences of my life. Yes. And it's instant decaf. It's not even good decaf coffee. No. It's literally powder. I don't want to go on this tangent. Maybe I'll save that for later. You have to save for next episode. But yes, I am I'm a very basic Thanksgiving person. Right. We're not fancy people. We differ though. Green bean casserole. I'm grabbing some of that. Gotta get that green bean casserole in there. Actually, I'm having a work Thanksgiving on Saturday. And uh one guy's bringing a smoked green bean casserole. No idea what that means. So I didn't know it was the thing, but I'm gonna try that. I'm making green bean casserole for Thanksgiving. Nice. So I'm very jazzed about that. I don't know what else I'm supposed to be making. I do know that on Saturday I'm making homemade mashed potatoes and some no-bake cookies to bring for everybody because no-baked cookies are where it's at. Thanksgiving plate is gonna look like the following, Harry. I'm making a sweet potato casserole, so it's gonna take up at least a quarter, if not a third, of my plate. I am making it, so I'm gonna make it like mom. I'm gonna put extra crunches on top, which is just brown sugar. I'm gonna make that amazing. I'm a ham guy over turkey. However, the older I get, the more I enjoy oven roasted turkey. And I may just bring some hot sauce in my back pocket. I couldn't get ham out of my head. I think that's why I was struggling with my plate. But go on. Yeah, I do like ham. Ham is my favorite. I have a good ham recipe. I was never asked to make the ham, and I will not make anything for somebody else's Thanksgiving that I was not asked. Yeah, that's weird. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not gonna, I'm not that guy be like, That's a weird end. I have a really good ham recipe. I'm not gonna tell anybody. You won't know. I'll tell you off air. Just know there's sprite. Did not see that coming. Deviled eggs if they have them, and I'm gonna bring my own hot sauce. Texas Pete. Actually, we're going to Gabby's house, and her husband made a bunch of hot sauce. Oh. And so I have a bottle of his hot sauce. So, you know what? I'm not even bringing my own hot sauce. I'd be like, yo, open up another case. I'll buy them off you. Very good hot sauce. Okay. Okay. I do plan on putting it on at least eight pounds, and I want to wear stretchy pants. Yes. And then Black Friday, I do like going Black Friday shopping because really I just use that time to like burn off all the energy. So like I can just like it's like a big mosh pit, really. Oh, I guess. And I like going Black Friday shopping to mosh pit to like really work out the shoulders and the elbows and like kind of sweat out everything because it's really hot down here still. It's like 80 degrees today. Ew. Yeah, well, I remember when we did that fall fest with you guys, I was having a heat stroke. Right. You know, and it was really cold two weeks ago, and I was excited. It was coming with my birthday, and I'm like, cool, I'm gonna have a cold birthday, and then it's 80 degrees and I'm sweaty. I'm sitting in my garage with my fan on right now. Oh no. In the studio. That's not very Thanksgiving like. It is not. Well, you know what is Thanksgiving like, Harry? Go on. Be sure to follow us on Facebook at the TroutStream and on Instagram, Twitter, slash X, TroutStream Pod and on TikTok, the old Tic Tac, as Harry says, at TroutStream Podcast. 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