February 12, 2025 • 54 mins
Imagine being related to a famous comedian, having a run-in with a baseball legend, and moving from the bustling streets of Baltimore to the Midwest charm of Ohio. That's just a taste of our conversation with Cole Schneider from Case Western Reserve University. His stories about cultural shifts, jazz jams, and sports fanaticism are as entertaining as they are relatable. Cole's unique journey is a vivid tapestry of experiences that offer a fresh perspective on embracing change and growth.
We also navigate the unpredictable world of stand-up comedy, where the crowd can be your best friend and your biggest challenge. With tales of recent sold-out shows and heckler hijinks, including a surprise appearance by my wife, we consider the impact of social media on live performances. The art of quick wit is explored as we transform disruptions into unforgettable comedic moments, making the unpredictable an essential part of the showbiz thrill.
Finally, we engage in a spirited debate over the future of NFL quarterbacks like Tom Brady, Eli Manning, and Philip Rivers, drawing comparisons with today's stars like Josh Allen. We also touch on the fast-paced excitement of hockey and lacrosse, and wrap things up with our fast-paced "Fast Fiddy 5" segment, plus Cole shares his candid insights and motivational advice, reminding us all of the value of personal growth and education. Whether you're a sports enthusiast, comedy lover, or simply after some good laughs and insights, this episode has something for everyone.
The episode explores the intersection of comedy and life, highlighting personal anecdotes from host Mike Bono and guest Cole Schneider. They share stories of celebrity encounters, the balancing act of passion between sports and music, and the thrill of stand
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is, as always, your host,mike Bono.
I had a great guest for ustoday.
He comes to us all the way fromCase Western Reserve University
up in Cleveland Ohio.
He is in the management of theadministration.
(00:20):
We're going to get into all ofthat there and what he actually
does, but Cole Schneider joinsthe show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Cole, thanks, for joining, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm excited, yeah, so before we get into your
background and everything, is ittrue, you once met Rob
Schneider, the famous comedianand actor.
We're just going to get thisout the way early.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So apparently he's a cousin of mine, um, they're like
a distant cousin, uh.
But I met him at full sail whenI was working there in the
emissions department.
He was shooting his show.
I can't remember what it wascalled, but it was like this
would have been probably 10years ago.
So he was shooting his show atthe time, um, and he was not the
friendliest guy in the world,but he was.
It was fine.
I don't blame him.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know, he probably had a million people trying to
meet him yeah, it's always weirdwhen you see somebody like
that's that famous out and youknow that you get that quick
little intro to them and likethat's just kind of your basis
for them.
Um, like, oh yeah, back incollege the Pittsburgh Steelers
(01:26):
would always do a charitybasketball game at Bethany
College and I met Charlie Batchand I had always been a fan of
Charlie Batch.
I thought he was a prettydecent quarterback.
They were signing autographs athalftime for everybody and I
was like third or fourth in lineup to meet him and I heard him
turn to somebody and go, can wehurry this up?
I have places to be?
(01:47):
And it's just like wow, you'rehere for charity, what a dick,
like I mean like.
And to this day I'm just likeyeah, you know what?
Charlie batch, he's just a jerk.
I don't, I don't like himanymore.
Like and it that was the onlyinteraction I had with him was
just hearing that from likethree or four people away.
And yeah, to this day I'm justlike yeah, you don't want to
(02:08):
make Charlie batch, he's, he's ajerk.
Like I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I've met.
It's funny, I met Tommy Lasorda, a famous manager for the
Dodgers.
Yeah, I think he might'vemanaged some other teams, but
I'm not completely sure.
But he, we were at this likecharity baseball game and Joe
Walsh was there, strangelyenough, the guitar player from
the Eagles.
It was like the summer campthing, uh.
But we met both of them andTommy was sorta, uh, I asked him
(02:36):
to sign my baseball and uh, helooks at the baseball.
It's got a bunch of signatureson it from a bunch of old
Dodgers players.
And he just looks at me and hegoes where the fuck am I
supposed to sign this?
And he just throws the ball atme.
He doesn't sign it.
Later I went back and got himto sign it.
He did end up signing it, butit was just like the weirdest
interaction I've ever had with ahuman being.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, that's probably not the best first impression,
but that's still funny to tellso so I I always have to fact
check johnny anytime he sends meanything.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So you're originally from maryland, is that correct?
Yeah, for baltimore, maryland,uh well, a suburb of baltimore,
uh, but that general area it'skind of like cleveland.
Everybody says they're fromcleveland, even they're from,
even though they're notnecessarily from like willoughby
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, so I mean, yeah , take us through a little bit
of that.
You know where you're from andeverything like that, you know
and what it was like growing upthere.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Maryland's great.
You know people there are, whothey are a lot of government
employees, things like that.
My dad's originally fromupstate New York, my mom's from
Northern Virginia and they metin the middle kind of.
So I was born there, actuallyin a town called Salisbury,
which is on the eastern shore ofMaryland.
So if you think of Maryland itkind of looks like a weird claw.
(03:56):
I was on the ocean side of thebay Gotcha, yeah, and then I
grew up on the western westernshore, um, lived there, born and
raised, ended up moving down toflorida, um, and then now I'm
here all right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, so it sounds like you've you've moved around
a good bit.
Um, I don't know why anybodywould leave florida for ohio, uh
, but you know that's to be seen, especially with the winners
we've had and how cold it's beenthis past winter.
But you also played sports andwere involved in music growing
up.
So how did you balance both ofthose endeavors?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
My father forced me.
I mean, the thing is he's amusician.
I grew up loving baseball,loving football as well, played
both and then also did jazzthroughout high school jazz band
.
But that was what really stuckwith me the football thing.
My coach didn't necessarilylove me very much and my
(04:59):
baseball coach loved me, but Iwas not very good at baseball,
so it was kind of a funny thing.
I was better at football but mycoach, for some reason,
baseball.
So it was kind of a funny thing.
I was better at football but mycoach for some reason, just
absolutely hated me throughoutthe whole entire time.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And what are those?
In high school, I mean, Iwasn't like the best player in
the world.
I was a decent receiver and mycoach just did not like me
because I spoke my mind and likejust did not, just, absolutely
did not like me, and I gotkicked out like just did not,
just, absolutely did not like me.
And I got kicked out of a lotof practices.
And you know, it took till mysenior year of me just getting
(05:31):
just absolutely pummeled onscout team.
And then he was like yeah,we'll put you on like kickoff as
a senior and it's just likewhatever, I'm starting somewhere
.
I don't even care at this pointin time.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's so interesting know.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I mean, and I don't know.
I mean, I, I was listening, Iknow you probably saw me turn
around.
I don't know if you just heardthe cat fight.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That just literally happened oh, is that what that
was?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
any time.
I'd go to record my animalslike let's see how we can get
into the show, and they justdecide to fight or come up and
just absolutely just be as loudas humanly possible.
It never fails, amazing.
Yeah, I was just like what thehell is it?
Oh, okay, it's just my catsbeing assholes is what it is.
(06:20):
Yeah, so when you said your dadforced you into sports or force
you into the music, part of ituh, both, yeah, I mean he wanted
me active.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Uh, he didn't want me to get in trouble, I, when I
was growing up.
So I lived in Maryland for acouple years, or Florida for a
couple years when I was, uh, myparents are divorced, so my mom
lives in Florida, my dad livesin Maryland still the case, um,
so I lived in Maryland for acouple years years, or Florida
for a couple of years when I waslike third or fourth grade, and
then by fifth grade I wasgetting in a bunch of trouble.
So my mom sent me back up northto live with my dad and my dad
(06:54):
took it upon himself tobasically make sure I'd never
gotten in any trouble.
It didn't work, but he wasgoing to those ages.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's just like, yeah, I'm going to do what I'm going
to do, yeah, so I definitely getthat so fast forward.
You know you, you graduate fromhigh school, you go off to
college and I believe he choseJohn Hopkins university to
attend.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, I went to the Peabody Institute for music
performance so I did jazz there,didn't finish at the time,
which you don't really, I meanhonestly, with a music degree.
It's one of those things whereI mean I could have finished and
I could have, you know, workedsomewhere, but it wasn't really
going to be worth it for themoney.
(07:39):
Plus, it was during the housingcrisis.
So my mother was kind of goingthrough some stuff down in
Florida and needed some help, soI kind of just high-tailed it
down.
You know got out of there yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean I get it.
I mean I have a bachelor'sdegree that I am absolutely 100%
not using in any way, shape orform.
You know I have a day job andI'm a stand-up comedian.
So, like I don't know why youwould need a bachelor's degree
to be a stand-up comedian, I'llbe my degree's in communications
.
So I guess you could say youknow You're utilizing it
(08:15):
somewhat.
I'm using a little bit of it,but not to what I thought I was
going to do, because it was insports, broadcasting and
journalism.
Not even close to using any ofthat, except for, you know, we
talk a little bit of sports onthe podcast, but that's about it
.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
How do you like stand-up?
I've always been terrified ofdoing something like stand-up
because it's so individualized.
How do you like doing it?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I love it.
At first, you know, I hadcrippling stage fright.
Um would have to show up toshows like hours beforehand
because most of them, whenyou're starting out, are in bars
, and get a lot of liquidcourage in me to get up on stage
.
Um, now I look forward to it.
You know, 13 years in doingcomedy, you know I look forward
(09:04):
to getting on stage and it'sjust a rush when you can make a
room full of people laugh andknow that you were the reason
for that.
That interaction is probably alot like music.
When you get that applause atthe end of it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I mean, I play guitar , I mean, but it's nothing to
the level of, like, performingum, it's all yeah, you know, I
always have a lot of respect forcomedians and I have friends
that are comedians, but it'snothing to the level of like
performing, it's all.
Yeah, you know, I always have alot of respect for comedians
and I have friends that arecomedians and they've always
kind of said the same thing.
It's kind of like that mutual.
Hey, we're both puttingourselves out there.
It's just a different, adifferent scope of entertainment
, but it really is just.
(09:39):
It's that high that we'rechasing that fun of like getting
in front of people and and thenactually enjoying your craft,
whatever it is that you're doing, it's, it's a beautiful thing.
I totally understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I had a an absolutely sold out show a
couple of weeks ago.
I mean, by the time this airs,I mean it'll probably be close
to a month ago, but still, youknow it was.
It was the first show of 2025that I had and absolutely
standing room only at this place, and the crowd was great.
(10:11):
Obviously, there's there'sthose hecklers that you're going
to get no matter where you go,and I look forward to those,
like I can't wait for somebodyto heckle me, Oddly enough in
this show one of the hecklerswas my wife for somebody to
heckle me.
Oddly enough, in this show oneof the hecklers was my wife, so
she chose to heckle her husband.
So you know, but it's fun.
(10:32):
I mean I love the interaction.
Oh, I did is because I didn'tget to the 100% punchline of the
joke in the time that shewanted me to, because it was one
that she was involved in.
So it was a story aboutsomething we both did and it was
.
I mean, it was about how webasically cock blocked our
(10:53):
neighbor for lack of a betterterm but yeah, she had her
boyfriend coming over.
We didn't know.
It was real late at night.
My son was out because a coupleof his friends were messing
with our house and just doingnormal teenager things.
He said he was just going tocatch them and do this.
(11:14):
So we go out after my son calls.
I was like, hey, this is creepydude Walking around and looking
in mary's window, like I don'tknow, like I don't know what to
do.
We're like, well, you staythere where you're at.
And yeah, by the time I couldget off my couch and get to,
like my little sun porch, towhere I could see my neighbor's
(11:37):
house which was like 10 feetfrom my couch for me to get
there I don't have that big of ahouse.
Like my wife had alreadygrabbed her nine millimeter and
was out the back door.
Oh god, like and like she momvoiced them a little bit too.
When she saw him she was like,yeah, no, go, go.
And he just about face andwalked up the street and so we
(12:01):
knock on her door and just toher know, hey, there was a
creepy dude.
Like she's a single mom livingby herself.
She's probably around our age,in her mid-30s, and so she
answers the door in just a toweland she's like, oh, yeah, that
was my friend.
He was like, oh, sorry, no, hewas wearing all black and he was
(12:22):
just kind of like creepingaround your house.
She forgot, she locked thedoors and that was the only
reason he couldn't get into thehouse.
But yeah, I didn't get to theknocking on the door part and,
like my wife just finished thejoke, I was like I was getting
there.
So yeah, I mean we looked goodas a unit my family, I'll say
(12:43):
that because we had a down pat,the whole stakeout situation.
But yeah, so I mean it's justpeople always like.
A lot of comedians like don'twant hecklers at their shows.
I am like 100% hoping somebodyheckles me at my shows and it's
(13:03):
because I have a microphone.
Have a microphone, you'reeveryone's in proximity to a
speaker, so I'm gonna ruin yournight if you're gonna yell
something out to me.
I got the stigma as being theangry white comic because I go
on these long-felled rants in mystories and storyteller
comedian.
That just it, yeah.
(13:23):
So I mean like I'll ruin yournight.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm telling you like everybody in like, but it's just
, it's so much fun to be onstage in a long yeah, somebody's
gonna for to be heckled is likesuch a scary thing for me,
because I've no, I'm not quickwith that sort of thing like to
to get back at someone forsaying you know what I mean?
Like I'm just, I don't havethat bone in me, so it's.
(13:47):
It's always impressive wheneverI see somebody that's super
quick with it and they can hitthem with something.
It's just like nice and and youknow, of course, like F that
guy for for doing it or whoeverlike it's so shitty to to call
out while somebody is performing, right, but I guess you know I
was.
I was listening to an interviewrecently about, uh, I think it
(14:08):
was from Stavi, the, the standup, oh yeah, and he was talking
about how.
They were talking about how, um, this new crowd work phenomenon
that's happening with, likeInstagram reels and things, has
kind of made audiences moreruckus and I thought that was
kind of interesting and theywere like is that good for
comedy or is that bad for comedy?
And I don't know.
(14:29):
What do you think about that asa comedian?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's a double-edged sword For me.
Like I said, it's less jokes Ihave to write because I am very
quick-witted.
Basically, everyone has thosethoughts like when you're out in
public and somebody like sayssomething and like your first
response to seeing that, likeout in public and you don't, and
you don't say it, like that'sthe thing.
(14:56):
And when you're on stage, youget to say it, like you get to,
yeah, to tell that personexactly what you feel, and a lot
of people get a laugh out ofthat.
But, like you said, if you wereup there, you would not like to
be heckled and you wouldn't beable to quickly snap back at
them.
So it's a double-edged swordbecause it works for me, because
(15:18):
I know certain rooms that I'mgoing to work, like, okay, this
is going to be a rowdy room, Iprobably don't need to have a
lot of jokes prepared, becausepeople are going to yell out and
then the entirety of my show isgoing to be me trashing this
person and I cannot wait.
(15:38):
So, yeah, like I said, I likeit, I look forward to it.
I warn people at the start ofevery one of my shows, like if
you're thinking about heckling,go ahead, I like it.
I'm just letting you know I'mgoing to hurt your feelings and
everyone else will get a laughexcept for you.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So it's actually kind of a good deterrent to do that
right off the bat.
You know, right off rip just tobe like, hey, just so you know,
if you come at me I'm going todestroy you.
It probably prevents a lot ofpeople from doing it.
They're like, eh, maybe thenext guy I'll get, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the like I said the last show, like
even one of the one of theother hecklers, like she bought
my wife and I a drink after andwe're like I am so sorry.
Like my husband told me, like Iremember, like no, no, no, no,
trust me, I've had way worsethan what you've said.
So, like you don't have, likeyou're fine, you didn't have to
do this, I appreciate it, butyeah, so I mean, I've had people
(16:48):
come up to me and she even said, like I don't know, I see it
all the time on social media,like I just thought that's what
comedians like that was.
Like you found the right one todo that to um, anybody else I
might not want to uh, go thathard at because you you came,
you came pretty hard, but I cameback a lot harder, so you made
one like hecklers are neverclever like in music.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's always like free bird or you know, something
like that.
Um, so I'm assuming it's thesame.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's like you suck, you know, or something like that
yeah, like you can imagine it'snever any good one of one of
her heckles was like oh, youwere funny till you weren't.
It's like oh, how original.
No one's ever fucking said thatAlso what the hell does that
even mean?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, and that's pretty much what I was like.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's not even good English.
How drunk are you right now?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Like why?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
don't you just go have another drink and you just
enjoy your night there,sweetheart, because you don't
want to keep coming at me?
I'm telling you right now.
So interesting, yeah, but, likeI said, you've traveled a lot
for work here.
So what are some of the variouspositions that you've had after
(17:59):
graduating, college andeverything like that?
You know you've traveled, likeI said, for the very.
You know it's prettyinteresting.
It's pretty interesting, I mean, for me.
You know I'm a comedian, so I'mon the road a good bit.
Um so, but what's that like foryou and your travels and your
experiences?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, I mean, I like living in different places.
I think traveling and kind ofseeing different areas is
important.
If you get stuck in one place,that's just kind of sad, right.
So I always feel like youshould travel, you should see
different things in your life.
Maryland is so expensivenowadays.
(18:37):
When I was a kid it was muchmore reasonable to live there.
Now you have to be so rich tobe able to live in some of the
areas that we're living in.
And then down in Florida, youmade a joke about not wanting to
live there.
Let me tell you, dude, thesummers are brutal.
They talk about the winters uphere in Cleveland and how gnarly
(19:00):
they can be, but it's almostthe opposite with Florida and
summers are completelyunbearable.
At least here I can put onlayers, you know.
But when I was down in Florida Ifound this college through a
buddy of mine, a musician buddy.
It was called Full SailUniversity and it's like a
entertainment arts universitykind of.
They do like production thingslike that, and it was kind of.
(19:23):
You know, I could talk aboutthings that I love.
You know, I love music, I lovemovies, I love, you know, video
games.
So it really had all of thosethings.
It was kind of an easy job totake, but I started out doing
like receptionist work,essentially Like I worked at the
main building front desk wherethey do the tours and everything
(19:44):
.
So I did that for about a yearuntil I got moved over into
working with students on campusto get them into admissions,
which it's a for-profit school,so it's very sales-like.
So there were quotasessentially.
Even though you can't really dothat in education, they still
found a sneaky way of doing it.
(20:05):
So I did that.
And then I went into online.
Full Sail has a huge onlineschool.
I think they have like 40,000people online or something.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
That's all I've really seen for Full Sail is
they're online Like that's.
I've heard of full sale andit's only mainly been like their
online portion.
They actually have a campus,correct.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
They do actually have a campus and it's a cool.
The thing is like, really, ifyou're going to go, you got to
go to the campus because it'syou know you're going to live in
Orlando, which is great if youwant to do that.
But then like they have better,they have great equipment there
.
Like you know, they spendmillions of dollars on this
stuff and you know, maybethere's 2000 students, something
(20:51):
like that, actually on thecampus.
But it also you could kind oflook at it as a marketing tool
for them, right, like they canput that online and say, look at
this beautiful school, butyou're going to be online using
a Mac that we give you.
You know what I mean?
Like it's just not.
It's kind of selling this, thisvision, that isn't there for an
online student.
So I didn't really love that jobvery much.
(21:12):
I started.
I loved it at first, but when Igot into the online world, it
really kind of sucked the joyout of you know, working with
students and kind of helpingthem realize their dreams.
So I left there.
Then I worked for a collegethat was online called Rocky
Mountain College of Art andDesign and I was working with,
like students that were doinginterior design, which you can
(21:36):
definitely do online, like youdon't need to, because that's
everything's going to be in aCAD program or something along
those lines.
Uh, and then my girlfriend andI moved up here.
My girlfriend at the time, uh,moved up here and because her
family lives in Solon, um yeah,and then we broke up.
But I love it up here.
(21:56):
Uh, you know, I've got buddiesthat I played music with still
do that live up here and I lovemy job.
I actually like Case Western alot.
It's a really good university.
So I've kind of just stuck itout up here and it's been
totally worth it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, I mean you mentioned it.
I know the summers in Floridacan get brutal.
Oh, they are.
My aunt lives down in Naples,florida, okay.
So I mean she used to come upfor Thanksgiving and Christmas.
She does not anymore becauseshe just doesn't like the cold.
But I still remember I mean oneyear for whatever reason like
(22:33):
the beginning of August.
It was probably the last familyvacation that we all took.
We went down to Orlando augustand not the best idea.
Like it was brutal down there.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It is, and it rains every afternoon.
Yeah, just like kind of rough.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
It was like that like 10, 20 minute, like absolute
downpour, that it was just sunnyand beautiful again.
Yep, um so same, yeah it.
It was just the most bipolar.
Like you think Ohio is bipolarweather.
Like no Florida takes the cake,I mean, given it doesn't get
like negative 2 to like 70 inone day like it does here, but
(23:13):
like, yeah, you get those freakquick storms, thunderstorms, and
then it's just like, oh, likeit never happened, just sunny
and beautiful.
And then it's just like, oh,like it never happened, just
sunny, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And then it's just even more humid, like after that
rain so, oh, it's disgustingman, there's a songwriter named
david dondero and he he says youcan cut the humidity with a
knife, and I think that that'skind of the perfect, perfect way
to put it.
Um, he's 100 correct.
I mean it is, if you ever takea plane down and you're getting
(23:42):
off of a plane and you hit thattunnel, that initial tunnel
coming off the plane immediately, it's just like a warm hug.
Yeah, you just walk into it.
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, we always would fly down when we went down
there and, like you said, youget off and you're just like, oh
thick, yeah it's rough, yep, um, but I've always I mean, I'm
always, I'm a warm-bloodedperson, like I can never be cool
enough as it is.
Um, and I've, I've always saidI'd rather be cold than hot,
(24:17):
because I could always put morelayers on.
I can only take so much off andthen you're just, you're just
out of options at that point intime.
So I get that to a point.
But as I get older, I start tohate the snow more and more.
So I also get like thesnowbirds after they retire to
go down South for the for thewinter.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So, yeah, yeah, I, I understand that for sure um,
this is the worst winter I'vehad so far.
Like, uh, I moved here in 22,um, so it's been pretty easy
sailing for the most part.
This is really the first yearwhere it's like, oh, this kind
of sucks, yeah, but right nowit's beautiful.
It's beautiful again.
You know, we're well 40 degrees, but not that bird bird, almost
(25:02):
february in ohio.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Not too bad, I'll take.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'll take 40 stuff yeah, exactly so you're located
in cleveland or where you know.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
No, no, I am in a little town called philo ohio.
Philo, ohio.
It's about an hour east ofColumbus.
So, yeah, I'm more central Ohiowhere I'm at right now, but I
was originally born and raisedin West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh nice, my buddy's from Point Pleasant.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Oh, okay, that's one place in West Virginia that I
just have not visited yet and Iwant to.
It's Point Pleasant, mainlybecause my wife and I were into
that I just have not visited yetand I want to.
Uh, is point pleasant?
Um, mainly because my wife andI were into like these ghost
hunting shows and that the mothman.
I've always wanted to go and seethat uh museum and everything
like that and just be there uhfor that, to experience that Um.
(25:55):
But yeah, we're.
We're big into the paranormalUh.
My wife doesn't like hauntedhouses or scary movies, but we
will watch a paranormal showevery night when we're eating
dinner, and it's just become ourdinner shows.
Now we're running out onDiscovery Plus, so if anybody
(26:21):
from there is listening, like,update your paranormal stuff a
little faster like we're runningout we are running out of shows
.
Um, we were awesome.
We were big into the ghostadventures.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Like we loved that show and my buddy loves that
show too, still watches it andthey just haven't come out with
new episodes.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And we're just like, all right, you're way past when
the new season should have beenout.
Like we're just, we want new.
We've watched all of themThousands of times.
We could only rewatch them somany times before.
We're like saying what's goingto happen before it happens,
like we've seen it that manytimes.
It's funny because she didn'tlike any of that stuff before
(27:01):
she met me.
Um, okay, like she doesn't likebeing scared which I don't
understand those people like I'mbeing scared and so but I, I
always loved watching that stuffand I I'm into that stuff a
little bit, so she kind ofstarted to get into it too as
well.
So I've been hearing nojudgment.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, no, no judgment .
Do you believe in?
Do you believe in this stuff?
Or is it more just like pro,like wrestling right when it's,
you know, you know it's fake,but it's still entertaining?
Or do you believe in likeextraterrestrial life, you know?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
whatever it might be, do you believe in it?
I don't believe in theextraterrestrials, but I do
believe there is a spiritualworld.
Um, I've had experiences towhere it's just stuff that I
can't explain and I don't wantto say it's paranormal, but I
it's.
It's more the you can't explainit.
Sure, like that's whatintrigues me.
Like okay, how?
Okay, how did that happen?
(27:58):
Like, if I can debunk something, I will debunk the hell out of
it.
And like, no dude, this is whythat happened.
But there's been stuff that hashappened in the house we're
currently living in, and so it'sto the point.
Well, I mean, I don't know howyou explain that Like our front
door literally just slammed shut, and it's a pretty heavy door,
(28:21):
and it just slammed shut onenight and we were the only two
here.
Like our dog was sitting there.
Like we have 110 pound Husky.
Like she didn't grow up, justlike throw the door shut herself
, like just running into it,being being a dumb Husky, like,
but, and it was like, okay, sowasn't.
One of the animals are 15 yearolds, not here.
What the hell did that happenLike, and it's just stuff like
(28:43):
that.
So, yeah, I believe in thatstuff, but like the, the aliens
with, like the extraterrestrialstuff.
I don't, I don't believe inthat.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, I've never had any like anything happened to me
like that.
I think probably, like in thatthought process, it might be
that some people are moresusceptible to these sort of
things, like you know, like apsychic right or somebody like
that is in touch with thosethings.
Maybe I'm just like I have likeghost blockers or something
where it just totally blocks.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I think you just came up with a new show like just
people that just don't, but justghost blockers, like nothing
happens to them, but people wantit to happen to them.
It could be paranormal comedy.
We'll write that down and ifanybody takes that, this is
timestamped, just so you know.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
We'll make hundreds.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, we will make tens of dollars on that.
That's right exactly.
But you're also a big sportsguy.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yes, yeah, so who are some of your favorite teams.
So I'm a weird sports fan.
So my dad's from upstate NewYork, so he grew up a Giants fan
and a Knicks fan and a Syracuseorange fan.
So I'm very much a New York fanfor the most part, except for
baseball.
I grew up an Orioles fan.
I even have my cup today.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I saw the Orioles cup .
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So it's one of those things where I could watch
baseball games on a regularbasis, because I lived in
Maryland.
Football is more of a nationalsport anyways.
You don't have to live there towatch it, and the Knicks were
amazing throughout the 90s.
So Patrick Ewing is a god in myeyes, so I've always just been
a Knicks fan growing up.
It's been hard being a Knicksfan for a long time, but right
(30:27):
now it's nice being a Knicks fanagain.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I grew up in West Virginia.
There's no pro sports teams.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Pittsburgh.
I grew up an hour outside ofPittsburgh is where.
Okay, so I root for all thePittsburgh teams but, oddly
enough, football I'm a Tampa BayBuccaneer fan.
Interesting.
And it was mainly because whenI was young they still had those
creamsicle orange jerseys and Isaw those and I was like those
are sweet.
And I was like maybe four orfive before they changed and
(31:01):
I've just stuck with thembecause I liked their jerseys at
the time.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Those 90s teams were crazy With All-Star Brad Johnson
.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, brad Johnson was the quarterback, joe
Jerevicius, keyshawn Johnson,warren Sapp, like all those.
Derrick Brooks, john Lynch,crazy teams, like I loved all
those guys.
Oh, rondé Barber, yeah, yeah,great players.
Just had so many great playerson that team so it was a little
(31:34):
easier rooting for them whenthey were doing well like that.
But, like for a while thereit's just like damn, I'm a
Buccaneers fan Like it's just,it's like but you know and then.
But like everyone got on me likeoh, so now you're a Tom Brady
fan.
When he went there I was like Istill don't like Tom Brady.
I hope he gets a Super Bowl,but I still don't like him.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And I don't really hate tom brady that much because
he never beat the giants in thesuper bowl, so I I'm always
just kind of in that world oflike.
Now, whatever he was, yeah,he's the go put.
He couldn't be eli manning forsome reason, so that worked out
superman even has kryptonite.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So you know that that was eli manning.
Just happened to be for be TomBrady's script for some reason,
because Eli Manning is trash,I'm sorry.
He's not trash, he's not but Idon't think coming from the
Manning family.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He might go to the Hall of Fame in his first ballot
.
A lot of people are reallyupset about that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I don't think he's a first ballot.
I think he gets in because ofthe Super Bowls and beating Tom
Brady.
I think he deserves to get infor that, but I don't think
first ballot it's not a Hall ofGo ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm sorry, I was just going to say it's yeah, go
ahead.
Well, I was just going to sayit's yeah, go ahead.
Well, I was just going to sayit's not a hall of statistics,
right, it's a hall of fame.
So it's like you know, he'sstill top 10 in a lot of
categories all time.
For quarterbacks, is he thegreatest quarterback of all time
?
Does he have an MVP?
Does he have anything like that?
No, but it's not a hall ofstatistics, so it's not
(33:18):
necessarily that necessary for aguy like him.
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
No, you're fine.
I was just going to say whenyou've got guys like Hines Ward
they are on their fourth orfifth try to get into the Hall
of Fame and definitely deservesto be in the Hall of Fame 100%.
You've got guys like him thatstill haven't made it and then
they're talking like oh, elimanning, first ballot.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
It's like I think we, if it's up there, let's give
heinz the bump before eli um butyou know rivers, or eli,
manning, uh, for see, because Ialways think of like that class,
right, because rothlisberger,rivers and Manning, we're all in
that, that class, it's like you.
You put Roethlisberger and Ithink, right, yeah, even though
(34:05):
he's hated by a lot of people,but I think you put
Roethlisberger and Eli and thenI don't know if Phillip Rivers
gets in.
I don't think he's there.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Phillip is going to be a coin flip, I think.
I think there's some peoplethat want to see him in there,
yeah, and then there's peoplethat I mean he's definitely not
a first ballot, I mean obviously, I mean he's gonna, it's gonna
be way down the line and he'llget in for for something maybe,
but I I don't know, might belike a final ballot guy.
Yeah kind of like all right,this is his last shot.
(34:43):
Do we give him the nod Becausehe was a good quarterback.
He wasn't a great quarterback,but he wasn't a terrible
quarterback.
I think he just got.
He's a regular seasonquarterback.
I think he just got the raw endof the stick with the Eli
Manning trade, Because EliManning could have been a
charger like and should havebeen a charger.
(35:06):
He forced his way.
He forced his way to New York.
Yeah, Thankfully for you, youbeing a New York man, but that's
, yeah, that's like.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
It's not like Rivers didn't have some great players,
though I mean tomlinson he hadwhat was the tight ends name?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
great uh, tony gonzalez was there.
No, no um he played basketball.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Gosh, what is that guy's name?
It's gonna drive me crazy.
But um, yeah, like some, somegreat players on that team, uh,
that you know he probably shouldhave done a little bit more
with In the playoffs.
It always seemed like he wasinjured or he just didn't play
well.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
He was made of glass.
I'll give him that.
He always found a way to behurt.
I guess I don't want to say hefound a way, but it just always.
I think that's going to be alot of the case with like now.
Like Josh Allen, you know he'sa great quarterback, regular
(36:06):
season he can be Patrick Mahomesand um and the AFC championship
, where they always end upmeeting just can't get it done.
And I think that when his timecomes, when he retires, that's
going to be a deciding factor.
I think for a lot of peopleLike all right, you did great in
the regular season, but whathappened when it was one game
(36:28):
before the Super Bowl and youjust couldn't get it done?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It's a sad thing that it's also for the bills,
because you know they had theirrun back in the nineties with,
uh, was it Jim Jim Kelly?
Right, yeah, the quarterback.
Um, and so is he the new JimKelly for the bill.
Like that would just be so sadif they'd never win anything and
they have this great team.
You know it's not like they'vemade it to the Super Bowl like
(36:53):
they did in those days, but it'sjust because the Chiefs are
just that good.
I don't know, it's just crazyhow good they are.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
They're becoming the new Patriots.
I liked them at first.
I'm happy to see them doingwell, winning the Super Bowl.
I was just like can we getsomebody else to play in the
Super Bowl other than PatrickMahomes?
Seriously, that's where I'm atIn the playoffs.
(37:25):
I root for, obviously, my team.
I root for Pittsburgh ifthey're in there, tampa if
they're in there, and thenwhoever is playing, the Chiefs.
That's been for the past two orthree years now it's like, okay
, those are the teams I'mrooting for this year.
I hate to say it because I'mnot a Philadelphia sports fan at
all.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
No, way, dude, don't you dare say it.
Don't say it.
You can't root for the Eagles,dude.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I can't root for Mahomes.
That's where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I like Jalen Hurts dude, I can't root for Mahomes.
That's where I'm at.
I like Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I like Jalen Hurts as a quarterback.
I liked him in college.
I'd like to see him win one.
That hurts to even thinkAnything.
Philadelphia I can't.
It's one of those.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
If there's any Eagles fans out there, don't worry,
you're a great team this year's.
Any eagles fans out there?
Don't worry, like you guys are,you're a great team this year.
Uh, good luck to you.
I don't mean it.
I don't mean it like that, it'sjust as a giants fan.
I've never been a big, bigeagles fan, that's for sure.
It's been uh, pretty hard toever be okay with the eagles,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
That's like you know anybody that you know.
It's like carolina the falcons,or um, saints, saints, yeah.
I could not think of that.
I don't know why I couldn'tthink of the saints, for
whatever reason, like I can'troot for them as a buccaneers
fan like, or like anybody likethat.
So I get that to a point.
You know being you know agiants fan yourself, yeah, yeah,
(38:49):
um, but a one sport I don't.
I don't know a lot and a lot ofpeople don't follow it Hockey.
Do you follow hockey at all?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I like going to hockey games Down in Florida.
They actually have in Orlando.
There's a hockey team, I thinkit's an AHL team, but they're
called the Orlando Solar Bears.
So they were a lot of fun towatch and Florida hockey is very
interesting.
I went to a Tampa Bay Lightninggame back when they were really
solar bears, uh.
So there they were a lot of funto watch and Florida hockey is
very interesting.
Like, I went to a Tampa Baylightning game back when they
were like really, really good,um, so I've always enjoyed going
(39:22):
and went to capitals games as akid, uh, but I just it's hard
to watch on TV because I don'tthink it's a very good TV sport.
Um, the puck moves so quicklyand it's really hard to just pay
attention to what's happening.
A lot of people complain aboutthe fights.
I think the fights are great.
I think it's funny, absolutely,yeah, like that.
I keep that.
I don't understand why peoplesay get rid of that.
(39:44):
I think that's such a.
It's almost charming in a wayfor the sport.
But yeah, I just I can't.
I can't watch it on TV and alsoI didn't really grow up a fan
of any of the teams.
So I think if I had that, umthat loyalty from when I was a
kid.
It would be different, but Ijust don't have that that
loyalty to anybody.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
See, I, I grew up a huge hockey fan.
Um, okay, I love the penguins,penguins, penguins, um, crosby,
crosby, malkin, uh, lemieux,latang, like all those guys.
Um, and it helps that you know,my wife's a huge hockey fan.
She's an even bigger penguinsfan, um, like, she knows more
(40:26):
about hockey and the penguinsthan I do.
Um, and I know a good bit, andI know a good bit, yeah that's
awesome.
So it's just something, but itis tough to follow on TV.
I'll give you that I stillwatch it on TV when I can, but
it's a sport that doesn't get alot of credit.
(40:48):
I think people don't give itthe chance because it's so hard
to follow, because the game isso fast.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And the puck moves quick and it's hard to follow
and it's even faster than itused to be, like I feel.
Like nowadays, I mean, thecameras are like this, you know,
going back and forth, theseguys are moving so quick.
So, yeah, I think if they justfigured it and again, I'm an
idiot, I don't know anything,but like you know, I just I
anything but like you know, Ijust I think if they could
figure out a way to have betterproduction for it and you could
(41:18):
really like see it better.
I just don't know how you dothat um, they tried this.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I mean, it was back in either the late 90s, early
2000s, where they put like thisblue hue around the puck and it
kind of had like a trail thingbut it like distracted a lot of
people and then the cameraswouldn't be able to.
I don't know if it was justbecause the year that they tried
to do it, when it was the late90s, early 2000s, they even
(41:42):
tried it to where if a playertook a slap shot it turned red
the faster the puck went.
It brought a little bit of anaspect to it, but it was hard.
I think it was harder to followthat.
I don't know why, but it likeit just kinda.
I I, yeah, like I said, I don'tknow if it was just when they
tried it and they probably coulddo a lot better with it now
(42:04):
being 2025, but that was onething they tried and it was just
it.
It took, it took away from thegame, I think.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
And all the action.
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Well, I mean, and I'm a weirdlike, I actually like watching
lacrosse.
As weird as that is, um.
You know, growing up I've neverwatched lacrosse game.
I know, isn't that funny.
I know, um, because my, mydad's a Syracuse orange fan.
The orange are really known forlacrosse, so I grew up watching
(42:38):
lacrosse games all the time,and in Maryland it's really
popular as well.
So you could always just say,okay, he's a lacrosse fan, he
doesn't know what the hell he'stalking about.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I understand the sport enough to follow it if I
were to watch a game.
But I just can't.
I watched a couple of buddiesof mine because Bethany College
had started a lacrosse programmy junior or senior year and I
was working for the radiostation at the time and we were
(43:09):
trying to plan out to be able toannounce a game on the radio.
We just when that time of theplan out to be able to announce
the game on the radio and wejust when that time of the year
when they took all of the cableout of the press box for the
internet and the phone lines tobe able to remote there.
(43:30):
So we just couldn't do it.
It was just something thatBethany did and they never had
any sports and teams that playedthat time of year.
It was just okay.
Well, we just can't make ithappen.
I studied up a lot becausethey're like all right, mike, we
want you to announce it.
I was like I know nothing oflacrosse.
(43:54):
I studied harder than I studiedfor most exams in college.
I was like I know nothing oflacrosse, so I studied harder
than I studied for most exams incollege.
I'll be honest For this.
I need to know.
I don't want to sound like anidiot on the radio and I need to
know what I'm talking about.
And it never happened.
So I know enough to follow it,but I've never actually seen a
(44:14):
game.
But we are running down nearthe end of the episode here.
I do want to get this segmentin.
It is the fun way we like toend the show and it is the fast.
55.
Okay, it is five randomquestions from the wonderful
manager of the podcast, johnny50, falcone.
These are kind of rapid fire,but.
(44:34):
Manager of the podcast JohnnyFitty, falcone, these are kind
of rapid fire, but you canelaborate if you need to and if
you know the mind of Johnny,like these have nothing to do
with what we've been talkingabout for the entire day of the
show.
So if you're ready, cole, wecan.
I'm ready, man, all right, ohGod, would you rather be a what
(44:59):
is A mog, half man, half dog, orhave the superpower to be
invisible?
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I'm not going to elaborate.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
A mog.
Okay, I'm fine with that.
All right, I'm telling youright now, I got these today, so
I haven't had a chance to prepthese.
This is great, you just keepgoing.
I would say okay.
So he's going hard on you.
I'm just letting you know thatnow.
Okay, question number two whowins in a fight?
(45:31):
1,000 frogs versus 100 ducks?
Speaker 2 (45:36):
God, he already asked me this question actually,
which is really funny, and Isaid frogs, and I'm sticking
with it.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Okay, I think he was testing you on that one.
I don't know if he's tested youon that before Question number
three who's the funnier comicand actor, adam Sandler or Kevin
Hart?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Oh man, I don't like either of them all that much.
I'd go Sandler over Hart,though, Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
I'm with that one.
Question, number four if youcould attend one of these iconic
parades, which would you pick?
The Macy's Day Parade forThanksgiving, or the Parade of
Roses for the Rose Bowl on NewYear's Day.
Rose Bowl, that would you pickthe Macy's day parade for
Thanksgiving or the parade?
Speaker 2 (46:17):
of roses for the Rose bowl on new year's day.
Rose bowl, that would beawesome.
And if, do I get to go to thegame after?
Because that's the realquestion is, if I do, that's
sick.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
I mean that's absolutely a hundred percent.
I would.
I would pick that one.
Last question here.
One word to describe Joe Roganis oh God, one word.
One word, meathead, why I'm allright with that.
(46:52):
I'm telling you right now, cole, he has been taking it light on
people when we've done thissegment.
He went a lot harder on youwith these questions than most
people have gotten, so, but thatwas the Fast 55 put me on the
(47:13):
spot with Rogan, and as easyknows the spot with Rogan, and
as easy knows I hate Joe.
Rogan, I gotcha.
But Cole, I do give every guestthis opportunity at the end of
every show.
If there's anything you want toget out there, whether it's
just a good message, or ifanything for Case Western or
anything like that, I'm going togive you about a minute and the
(47:34):
floor is yours.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah, I mean, one thing I always say is, if you're
looking to college I know wedidn't get a chance to talk
about this that much but if youare looking into getting into
colleges, do it.
It doesn't matter where you go,it's important just to make
sure that you're growing as aperson, you're building your
education.
And if college is that, know.
And if, uh, if college is thatdirection, go for it.
(47:57):
Man, uh, you know that's thebiggest thing.
So, um, I don't really have awhole lot of other stuff that
would be.
My biggest thing is just makesure that if you have a goal in
mind or something that you wantto go after, whether it's
college or whatever go after it.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Why not?
Oh right, yeah, I always likeit when people just have a good
message like that at the end ofthe show.
I'm all for helping peoplepromote anything they got going
on, but when it's just a goodmessage like that, I really
appreciate it.
I really think it's a good wayto end the show, especially
after the past 55.
But that is actually going todo it for this week's episode of
(48:32):
the Ride Home Rants podcast.
I want to thank my guest, coleSchneider, for joining this show
.
It was a lot of fun to get tosit and talk with you.
Really do appreciate you comingon.
As always, if you enjoyed theshow, be a friend, tell a friend
.
If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just
because you didn't.
That's going to do it for meand I will see y'.
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is, as always, your host,mike Bono.
I had a great guest for ustoday.
He comes to us all the way fromCase Western Reserve University
up in Cleveland Ohio.
He is in the management of theadministration.
(00:20):
We're going to get into all ofthat there and what he actually
does, but Cole Schneider joinsthe show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Cole, thanks, for joining, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm excited, yeah, so before we get into your
background and everything, is ittrue, you once met Rob
Schneider, the famous comedianand actor.
We're just going to get thisout the way early.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So apparently he's a cousin of mine, um, they're like
a distant cousin, uh.
But I met him at full sail whenI was working there in the
emissions department.
He was shooting his show.
I can't remember what it wascalled, but it was like this
would have been probably 10years ago.
So he was shooting his show atthe time, um, and he was not the
friendliest guy in the world,but he was.
It was fine.
I don't blame him.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know, he probably had a million people trying to
meet him yeah, it's always weirdwhen you see somebody like
that's that famous out and youknow that you get that quick
little intro to them and likethat's just kind of your basis
for them.
Um, like, oh yeah, back incollege the Pittsburgh Steelers
(01:26):
would always do a charitybasketball game at Bethany
College and I met Charlie Batchand I had always been a fan of
Charlie Batch.
I thought he was a prettydecent quarterback.
They were signing autographs athalftime for everybody and I
was like third or fourth in lineup to meet him and I heard him
turn to somebody and go, can wehurry this up?
I have places to be?
(01:47):
And it's just like wow, you'rehere for charity, what a dick,
like I mean like.
And to this day I'm just likeyeah, you know what?
Charlie batch, he's just a jerk.
I don't, I don't like himanymore.
Like and it that was the onlyinteraction I had with him was
just hearing that from likethree or four people away.
And yeah, to this day I'm justlike yeah, you don't want to
(02:08):
make Charlie batch, he's, he's ajerk.
Like I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I've met.
It's funny, I met Tommy Lasorda, a famous manager for the
Dodgers.
Yeah, I think he might'vemanaged some other teams, but
I'm not completely sure.
But he, we were at this likecharity baseball game and Joe
Walsh was there, strangelyenough, the guitar player from
the Eagles.
It was like the summer campthing, uh.
But we met both of them andTommy was sorta, uh, I asked him
(02:36):
to sign my baseball and uh, helooks at the baseball.
It's got a bunch of signatureson it from a bunch of old
Dodgers players.
And he just looks at me and hegoes where the fuck am I
supposed to sign this?
And he just throws the ball atme.
He doesn't sign it.
Later I went back and got himto sign it.
He did end up signing it, butit was just like the weirdest
interaction I've ever had with ahuman being.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, that's probably not the best first impression,
but that's still funny to tellso so I I always have to fact
check johnny anytime he sends meanything.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So you're originally from maryland, is that correct?
Yeah, for baltimore, maryland,uh well, a suburb of baltimore,
uh, but that general area it'skind of like cleveland.
Everybody says they're fromcleveland, even they're from,
even though they're notnecessarily from like willoughby
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, so I mean, yeah , take us through a little bit
of that.
You know where you're from andeverything like that, you know
and what it was like growing upthere.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Maryland's great.
You know people there are, whothey are a lot of government
employees, things like that.
My dad's originally fromupstate New York, my mom's from
Northern Virginia and they metin the middle kind of.
So I was born there, actuallyin a town called Salisbury,
which is on the eastern shore ofMaryland.
So if you think of Maryland itkind of looks like a weird claw.
(03:56):
I was on the ocean side of thebay Gotcha, yeah, and then I
grew up on the western westernshore, um, lived there, born and
raised, ended up moving down toflorida, um, and then now I'm
here all right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, so it sounds like you've you've moved around
a good bit.
Um, I don't know why anybodywould leave florida for ohio, uh
, but you know that's to be seen, especially with the winners
we've had and how cold it's beenthis past winter.
But you also played sports andwere involved in music growing
up.
So how did you balance both ofthose endeavors?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
My father forced me.
I mean, the thing is he's amusician.
I grew up loving baseball,loving football as well, played
both and then also did jazzthroughout high school jazz band
.
But that was what really stuckwith me the football thing.
My coach didn't necessarilylove me very much and my
(04:59):
baseball coach loved me, but Iwas not very good at baseball,
so it was kind of a funny thing.
I was better at football but mycoach, for some reason,
baseball.
So it was kind of a funny thing.
I was better at football but mycoach for some reason, just
absolutely hated me throughoutthe whole entire time.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And what are those?
In high school, I mean, Iwasn't like the best player in
the world.
I was a decent receiver and mycoach just did not like me
because I spoke my mind and likejust did not, just, absolutely
did not like me, and I gotkicked out like just did not,
just, absolutely did not like me.
And I got kicked out of a lotof practices.
And you know, it took till mysenior year of me just getting
(05:31):
just absolutely pummeled onscout team.
And then he was like yeah,we'll put you on like kickoff as
a senior and it's just likewhatever, I'm starting somewhere
.
I don't even care at this pointin time.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's so interesting know.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, I mean, and I don't know.
I mean, I, I was listening, Iknow you probably saw me turn
around.
I don't know if you just heardthe cat fight.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That just literally happened oh, is that what that
was?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
any time.
I'd go to record my animalslike let's see how we can get
into the show, and they justdecide to fight or come up and
just absolutely just be as loudas humanly possible.
It never fails, amazing.
Yeah, I was just like what thehell is it?
Oh, okay, it's just my catsbeing assholes is what it is.
(06:20):
Yeah, so when you said your dadforced you into sports or force
you into the music, part of ituh, both, yeah, I mean he wanted
me active.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Uh, he didn't want me to get in trouble, I, when I
was growing up.
So I lived in Maryland for acouple years, or Florida for a
couple years when I was, uh, myparents are divorced, so my mom
lives in Florida, my dad livesin Maryland still the case, um,
so I lived in Maryland for acouple years years, or Florida
for a couple of years when I waslike third or fourth grade, and
then by fifth grade I wasgetting in a bunch of trouble.
So my mom sent me back up northto live with my dad and my dad
(06:54):
took it upon himself tobasically make sure I'd never
gotten in any trouble.
It didn't work, but he wasgoing to those ages.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's just like, yeah, I'm going to do what I'm going
to do, yeah, so I definitely getthat so fast forward.
You know you, you graduate fromhigh school, you go off to
college and I believe he choseJohn Hopkins university to
attend.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, I went to the Peabody Institute for music
performance so I did jazz there,didn't finish at the time,
which you don't really, I meanhonestly, with a music degree.
It's one of those things whereI mean I could have finished and
I could have, you know, workedsomewhere, but it wasn't really
going to be worth it for themoney.
(07:39):
Plus, it was during the housingcrisis.
So my mother was kind of goingthrough some stuff down in
Florida and needed some help, soI kind of just high-tailed it
down.
You know got out of there yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean I get it.
I mean I have a bachelor'sdegree that I am absolutely 100%
not using in any way, shape orform.
You know I have a day job andI'm a stand-up comedian.
So, like I don't know why youwould need a bachelor's degree
to be a stand-up comedian, I'llbe my degree's in communications
.
So I guess you could say youknow You're utilizing it
(08:15):
somewhat.
I'm using a little bit of it,but not to what I thought I was
going to do, because it was insports, broadcasting and
journalism.
Not even close to using any ofthat, except for, you know, we
talk a little bit of sports onthe podcast, but that's about it
.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
How do you like stand-up?
I've always been terrified ofdoing something like stand-up
because it's so individualized.
How do you like doing it?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I love it.
At first, you know, I hadcrippling stage fright.
Um would have to show up toshows like hours beforehand
because most of them, whenyou're starting out, are in bars
, and get a lot of liquidcourage in me to get up on stage
.
Um, now I look forward to it.
You know, 13 years in doingcomedy, you know I look forward
(09:04):
to getting on stage and it'sjust a rush when you can make a
room full of people laugh andknow that you were the reason
for that.
That interaction is probably alot like music.
When you get that applause atthe end of it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I mean, I play guitar , I mean, but it's nothing to
the level of, like, performingum, it's all yeah, you know, I
always have a lot of respect forcomedians and I have friends
that are comedians, but it'snothing to the level of like
performing, it's all.
Yeah, you know, I always have alot of respect for comedians
and I have friends that arecomedians and they've always
kind of said the same thing.
It's kind of like that mutual.
Hey, we're both puttingourselves out there.
It's just a different, adifferent scope of entertainment
, but it really is just.
(09:39):
It's that high that we'rechasing that fun of like getting
in front of people and and thenactually enjoying your craft,
whatever it is that you're doing, it's, it's a beautiful thing.
I totally understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I had a an absolutely sold out show a
couple of weeks ago.
I mean, by the time this airs,I mean it'll probably be close
to a month ago, but still, youknow it was.
It was the first show of 2025that I had and absolutely
standing room only at this place, and the crowd was great.
(10:11):
Obviously, there's there'sthose hecklers that you're going
to get no matter where you go,and I look forward to those,
like I can't wait for somebodyto heckle me, Oddly enough in
this show one of the hecklerswas my wife for somebody to
heckle me.
Oddly enough, in this show oneof the hecklers was my wife, so
she chose to heckle her husband.
So you know, but it's fun.
(10:32):
I mean I love the interaction.
Oh, I did is because I didn'tget to the 100% punchline of the
joke in the time that shewanted me to, because it was one
that she was involved in.
So it was a story aboutsomething we both did and it was
.
I mean, it was about how webasically cock blocked our
(10:53):
neighbor for lack of a betterterm but yeah, she had her
boyfriend coming over.
We didn't know.
It was real late at night.
My son was out because a coupleof his friends were messing
with our house and just doingnormal teenager things.
He said he was just going tocatch them and do this.
(11:14):
So we go out after my son calls.
I was like, hey, this is creepydude Walking around and looking
in mary's window, like I don'tknow, like I don't know what to
do.
We're like, well, you staythere where you're at.
And yeah, by the time I couldget off my couch and get to,
like my little sun porch, towhere I could see my neighbor's
(11:37):
house which was like 10 feetfrom my couch for me to get
there I don't have that big of ahouse.
Like my wife had alreadygrabbed her nine millimeter and
was out the back door.
Oh god, like and like she momvoiced them a little bit too.
When she saw him she was like,yeah, no, go, go.
And he just about face andwalked up the street and so we
(12:01):
knock on her door and just toher know, hey, there was a
creepy dude.
Like she's a single mom livingby herself.
She's probably around our age,in her mid-30s, and so she
answers the door in just a toweland she's like, oh, yeah, that
was my friend.
He was like, oh, sorry, no, hewas wearing all black and he was
(12:22):
just kind of like creepingaround your house.
She forgot, she locked thedoors and that was the only
reason he couldn't get into thehouse.
But yeah, I didn't get to theknocking on the door part and,
like my wife just finished thejoke, I was like I was getting
there.
So yeah, I mean we looked goodas a unit my family, I'll say
(12:43):
that because we had a down pat,the whole stakeout situation.
But yeah, so I mean it's justpeople always like.
A lot of comedians like don'twant hecklers at their shows.
I am like 100% hoping somebodyheckles me at my shows and it's
(13:03):
because I have a microphone.
Have a microphone, you'reeveryone's in proximity to a
speaker, so I'm gonna ruin yournight if you're gonna yell
something out to me.
I got the stigma as being theangry white comic because I go
on these long-felled rants in mystories and storyteller
comedian.
That just it, yeah.
(13:23):
So I mean like I'll ruin yournight.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm telling you like everybody in like, but it's just
, it's so much fun to be onstage in a long yeah, somebody's
gonna for to be heckled is likesuch a scary thing for me,
because I've no, I'm not quickwith that sort of thing like to
to get back at someone forsaying you know what I mean?
Like I'm just, I don't havethat bone in me, so it's.
(13:47):
It's always impressive wheneverI see somebody that's super
quick with it and they can hitthem with something.
It's just like nice and and youknow, of course, like F that
guy for for doing it or whoeverlike it's so shitty to to call
out while somebody is performing, right, but I guess you know I
was.
I was listening to an interviewrecently about, uh, I think it
(14:08):
was from Stavi, the, the standup, oh yeah, and he was talking
about how.
They were talking about how, um, this new crowd work phenomenon
that's happening with, likeInstagram reels and things, has
kind of made audiences moreruckus and I thought that was
kind of interesting and theywere like is that good for
comedy or is that bad for comedy?
And I don't know.
(14:29):
What do you think about that asa comedian?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's a double-edged sword For me.
Like I said, it's less jokes Ihave to write because I am very
quick-witted.
Basically, everyone has thosethoughts like when you're out in
public and somebody like sayssomething and like your first
response to seeing that, likeout in public and you don't, and
you don't say it, like that'sthe thing.
(14:56):
And when you're on stage, youget to say it, like you get to,
yeah, to tell that personexactly what you feel, and a lot
of people get a laugh out ofthat.
But, like you said, if you wereup there, you would not like to
be heckled and you wouldn't beable to quickly snap back at
them.
So it's a double-edged swordbecause it works for me, because
(15:18):
I know certain rooms that I'mgoing to work, like, okay, this
is going to be a rowdy room, Iprobably don't need to have a
lot of jokes prepared, becausepeople are going to yell out and
then the entirety of my show isgoing to be me trashing this
person and I cannot wait.
(15:38):
So, yeah, like I said, I likeit, I look forward to it.
I warn people at the start ofevery one of my shows, like if
you're thinking about heckling,go ahead, I like it.
I'm just letting you know I'mgoing to hurt your feelings and
everyone else will get a laughexcept for you.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So it's actually kind of a good deterrent to do that
right off the bat.
You know, right off rip just tobe like, hey, just so you know,
if you come at me I'm going todestroy you.
It probably prevents a lot ofpeople from doing it.
They're like, eh, maybe thenext guy I'll get, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the like I said the last show, like
even one of the one of theother hecklers, like she bought
my wife and I a drink after andwe're like I am so sorry.
Like my husband told me, like Iremember, like no, no, no, no,
trust me, I've had way worsethan what you've said.
So, like you don't have, likeyou're fine, you didn't have to
do this, I appreciate it, butyeah, so I mean, I've had people
(16:48):
come up to me and she even said, like I don't know, I see it
all the time on social media,like I just thought that's what
comedians like that was.
Like you found the right one todo that to um, anybody else I
might not want to uh, go thathard at because you you came,
you came pretty hard, but I cameback a lot harder, so you made
one like hecklers are neverclever like in music.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's always like free bird or you know, something
like that.
Um, so I'm assuming it's thesame.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's like you suck, you know, or something like that
yeah, like you can imagine it'snever any good one of one of
her heckles was like oh, youwere funny till you weren't.
It's like oh, how original.
No one's ever fucking said thatAlso what the hell does that
even mean?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, and that's pretty much what I was like.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's not even good English.
How drunk are you right now?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Like why?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
don't you just go have another drink and you just
enjoy your night there,sweetheart, because you don't
want to keep coming at me?
I'm telling you right now.
So interesting, yeah, but, likeI said, you've traveled a lot
for work here.
So what are some of the variouspositions that you've had after
(17:59):
graduating, college andeverything like that?
You know you've traveled, likeI said, for the very.
You know it's prettyinteresting.
It's pretty interesting, I mean, for me.
You know I'm a comedian, so I'mon the road a good bit.
Um so, but what's that like foryou and your travels and your
experiences?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, I mean, I like living in different places.
I think traveling and kind ofseeing different areas is
important.
If you get stuck in one place,that's just kind of sad, right.
So I always feel like youshould travel, you should see
different things in your life.
Maryland is so expensivenowadays.
(18:37):
When I was a kid it was muchmore reasonable to live there.
Now you have to be so rich tobe able to live in some of the
areas that we're living in.
And then down in Florida, youmade a joke about not wanting to
live there.
Let me tell you, dude, thesummers are brutal.
They talk about the winters uphere in Cleveland and how gnarly
(19:00):
they can be, but it's almostthe opposite with Florida and
summers are completelyunbearable.
At least here I can put onlayers, you know.
But when I was down in Florida Ifound this college through a
buddy of mine, a musician buddy.
It was called Full SailUniversity and it's like a
entertainment arts universitykind of.
They do like production thingslike that, and it was kind of.
(19:23):
You know, I could talk aboutthings that I love.
You know, I love music, I lovemovies, I love, you know, video
games.
So it really had all of thosethings.
It was kind of an easy job totake, but I started out doing
like receptionist work,essentially Like I worked at the
main building front desk wherethey do the tours and everything
(19:44):
.
So I did that for about a yearuntil I got moved over into
working with students on campusto get them into admissions,
which it's a for-profit school,so it's very sales-like.
So there were quotasessentially.
Even though you can't really dothat in education, they still
found a sneaky way of doing it.
(20:05):
So I did that.
And then I went into online.
Full Sail has a huge onlineschool.
I think they have like 40,000people online or something.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
That's all I've really seen for Full Sail is
they're online Like that's.
I've heard of full sale andit's only mainly been like their
online portion.
They actually have a campus,correct.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
They do actually have a campus and it's a cool.
The thing is like, really, ifyou're going to go, you got to
go to the campus because it'syou know you're going to live in
Orlando, which is great if youwant to do that.
But then like they have better,they have great equipment there
.
Like you know, they spendmillions of dollars on this
stuff and you know, maybethere's 2000 students, something
(20:51):
like that, actually on thecampus.
But it also you could kind oflook at it as a marketing tool
for them, right, like they canput that online and say, look at
this beautiful school, butyou're going to be online using
a Mac that we give you.
You know what I mean?
Like it's just not.
It's kind of selling this, thisvision, that isn't there for an
online student.
So I didn't really love that jobvery much.
(21:12):
I started.
I loved it at first, but when Igot into the online world, it
really kind of sucked the joyout of you know, working with
students and kind of helpingthem realize their dreams.
So I left there.
Then I worked for a collegethat was online called Rocky
Mountain College of Art andDesign and I was working with,
like students that were doinginterior design, which you can
(21:36):
definitely do online, like youdon't need to, because that's
everything's going to be in aCAD program or something along
those lines.
Uh, and then my girlfriend andI moved up here.
My girlfriend at the time, uh,moved up here and because her
family lives in Solon, um yeah,and then we broke up.
But I love it up here.
(21:56):
Uh, you know, I've got buddiesthat I played music with still
do that live up here and I lovemy job.
I actually like Case Western alot.
It's a really good university.
So I've kind of just stuck itout up here and it's been
totally worth it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, I mean you mentioned it.
I know the summers in Floridacan get brutal.
Oh, they are.
My aunt lives down in Naples,florida, okay.
So I mean she used to come upfor Thanksgiving and Christmas.
She does not anymore becauseshe just doesn't like the cold.
But I still remember I mean oneyear for whatever reason like
(22:33):
the beginning of August.
It was probably the last familyvacation that we all took.
We went down to Orlando augustand not the best idea.
Like it was brutal down there.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It is, and it rains every afternoon.
Yeah, just like kind of rough.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
It was like that like 10, 20 minute, like absolute
downpour, that it was just sunnyand beautiful again.
Yep, um so same, yeah it.
It was just the most bipolar.
Like you think Ohio is bipolarweather.
Like no Florida takes the cake,I mean, given it doesn't get
like negative 2 to like 70 inone day like it does here, but
(23:13):
like, yeah, you get those freakquick storms, thunderstorms, and
then it's just like, oh, likeit never happened, just sunny
and beautiful.
And then it's just like, oh,like it never happened, just
sunny, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And then it's just even more humid, like after that
rain so, oh, it's disgustingman, there's a songwriter named
david dondero and he he says youcan cut the humidity with a
knife, and I think that that'skind of the perfect, perfect way
to put it.
Um, he's 100 correct.
I mean it is, if you ever takea plane down and you're getting
(23:42):
off of a plane and you hit thattunnel, that initial tunnel
coming off the plane immediately, it's just like a warm hug.
Yeah, you just walk into it.
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, we always would fly down when we went down
there and, like you said, youget off and you're just like, oh
thick, yeah it's rough, yep, um, but I've always I mean, I'm
always, I'm a warm-bloodedperson, like I can never be cool
enough as it is.
Um, and I've, I've always saidI'd rather be cold than hot,
(24:17):
because I could always put morelayers on.
I can only take so much off andthen you're just, you're just
out of options at that point intime.
So I get that to a point.
But as I get older, I start tohate the snow more and more.
So I also get like thesnowbirds after they retire to
go down South for the for thewinter.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
So, yeah, yeah, I, I understand that for sure um,
this is the worst winter I'vehad so far.
Like, uh, I moved here in 22,um, so it's been pretty easy
sailing for the most part.
This is really the first yearwhere it's like, oh, this kind
of sucks, yeah, but right nowit's beautiful.
It's beautiful again.
You know, we're well 40 degrees, but not that bird bird, almost
(25:02):
february in ohio.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Not too bad, I'll take.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'll take 40 stuff yeah, exactly so you're located
in cleveland or where you know.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
No, no, I am in a little town called philo ohio.
Philo, ohio.
It's about an hour east ofColumbus.
So, yeah, I'm more central Ohiowhere I'm at right now, but I
was originally born and raisedin West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh nice, my buddy's from Point Pleasant.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Oh, okay, that's one place in West Virginia that I
just have not visited yet and Iwant to.
It's Point Pleasant, mainlybecause my wife and I were into
that I just have not visited yetand I want to.
Uh, is point pleasant?
Um, mainly because my wife andI were into like these ghost
hunting shows and that the mothman.
I've always wanted to go and seethat uh museum and everything
like that and just be there uhfor that, to experience that Um.
(25:55):
But yeah, we're.
We're big into the paranormalUh.
My wife doesn't like hauntedhouses or scary movies, but we
will watch a paranormal showevery night when we're eating
dinner, and it's just become ourdinner shows.
Now we're running out onDiscovery Plus, so if anybody
(26:21):
from there is listening, like,update your paranormal stuff a
little faster like we're runningout we are running out of shows
.
Um, we were awesome.
We were big into the ghostadventures.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Like we loved that show and my buddy loves that
show too, still watches it andthey just haven't come out with
new episodes.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And we're just like, all right, you're way past when
the new season should have beenout.
Like we're just, we want new.
We've watched all of themThousands of times.
We could only rewatch them somany times before.
We're like saying what's goingto happen before it happens,
like we've seen it that manytimes.
It's funny because she didn'tlike any of that stuff before
(27:01):
she met me.
Um, okay, like she doesn't likebeing scared which I don't
understand those people like I'mbeing scared and so but I, I
always loved watching that stuffand I I'm into that stuff a
little bit, so she kind ofstarted to get into it too as
well.
So I've been hearing nojudgment.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, no, no judgment .
Do you believe in?
Do you believe in this stuff?
Or is it more just like pro,like wrestling right when it's,
you know, you know it's fake,but it's still entertaining?
Or do you believe in likeextraterrestrial life, you know?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
whatever it might be, do you believe in it?
I don't believe in theextraterrestrials, but I do
believe there is a spiritualworld.
Um, I've had experiences towhere it's just stuff that I
can't explain and I don't wantto say it's paranormal, but I
it's.
It's more the you can't explainit.
Sure, like that's whatintrigues me.
Like okay, how?
Okay, how did that happen?
(27:58):
Like, if I can debunk something, I will debunk the hell out of
it.
And like, no dude, this is whythat happened.
But there's been stuff that hashappened in the house we're
currently living in, and so it'sto the point.
Well, I mean, I don't know howyou explain that Like our front
door literally just slammed shut, and it's a pretty heavy door,
(28:21):
and it just slammed shut onenight and we were the only two
here.
Like our dog was sitting there.
Like we have 110 pound Husky.
Like she didn't grow up, justlike throw the door shut herself
, like just running into it,being being a dumb Husky, like,
but, and it was like, okay, sowasn't.
One of the animals are 15 yearolds, not here.
What the hell did that happenLike, and it's just stuff like
(28:43):
that.
So, yeah, I believe in thatstuff, but like the, the aliens
with, like the extraterrestrialstuff.
I don't, I don't believe inthat.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, I've never had any like anything happened to me
like that.
I think probably, like in thatthought process, it might be
that some people are moresusceptible to these sort of
things, like you know, like apsychic right or somebody like
that is in touch with thosethings.
Maybe I'm just like I have likeghost blockers or something
where it just totally blocks.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I think you just came up with a new show like just
people that just don't, but justghost blockers, like nothing
happens to them, but people wantit to happen to them.
It could be paranormal comedy.
We'll write that down and ifanybody takes that, this is
timestamped, just so you know.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
We'll make hundreds.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, we will make tens of dollars on that.
That's right exactly.
But you're also a big sportsguy.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yes, yeah, so who are some of your favorite teams.
So I'm a weird sports fan.
So my dad's from upstate NewYork, so he grew up a Giants fan
and a Knicks fan and a Syracuseorange fan.
So I'm very much a New York fanfor the most part, except for
baseball.
I grew up an Orioles fan.
I even have my cup today.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I saw the Orioles cup .
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So it's one of those things where I could watch
baseball games on a regularbasis, because I lived in
Maryland.
Football is more of a nationalsport anyways.
You don't have to live there towatch it, and the Knicks were
amazing throughout the 90s.
So Patrick Ewing is a god in myeyes, so I've always just been
a Knicks fan growing up.
It's been hard being a Knicksfan for a long time, but right
(30:27):
now it's nice being a Knicks fanagain.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I grew up in West Virginia.
There's no pro sports teams.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Pittsburgh.
I grew up an hour outside ofPittsburgh is where.
Okay, so I root for all thePittsburgh teams but, oddly
enough, football I'm a Tampa BayBuccaneer fan.
Interesting.
And it was mainly because whenI was young they still had those
creamsicle orange jerseys and Isaw those and I was like those
are sweet.
And I was like maybe four orfive before they changed and
(31:01):
I've just stuck with thembecause I liked their jerseys at
the time.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Those 90s teams were crazy With All-Star Brad Johnson
.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, brad Johnson was the quarterback, joe
Jerevicius, keyshawn Johnson,warren Sapp, like all those.
Derrick Brooks, john Lynch,crazy teams, like I loved all
those guys.
Oh, rondé Barber, yeah, yeah,great players.
Just had so many great playerson that team so it was a little
(31:34):
easier rooting for them whenthey were doing well like that.
But, like for a while thereit's just like damn, I'm a
Buccaneers fan Like it's just,it's like but you know and then.
But like everyone got on me likeoh, so now you're a Tom Brady
fan.
When he went there I was like Istill don't like Tom Brady.
I hope he gets a Super Bowl,but I still don't like him.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And I don't really hate tom brady that much because
he never beat the giants in thesuper bowl, so I I'm always
just kind of in that world oflike.
Now, whatever he was, yeah,he's the go put.
He couldn't be eli manning forsome reason, so that worked out
superman even has kryptonite.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So you know that that was eli manning.
Just happened to be for be TomBrady's script for some reason,
because Eli Manning is trash,I'm sorry.
He's not trash, he's not but Idon't think coming from the
Manning family.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He might go to the Hall of Fame in his first ballot
.
A lot of people are reallyupset about that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I don't think he's a first ballot.
I think he gets in because ofthe Super Bowls and beating Tom
Brady.
I think he deserves to get infor that, but I don't think
first ballot it's not a Hall ofGo ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm sorry, I was just going to say it's yeah, go
ahead.
Well, I was just going to sayit's yeah, go ahead.
Well, I was just going to sayit's not a hall of statistics,
right, it's a hall of fame.
So it's like you know, he'sstill top 10 in a lot of
categories all time.
For quarterbacks, is he thegreatest quarterback of all time
?
Does he have an MVP?
Does he have anything like that?
No, but it's not a hall ofstatistics, so it's not
(33:18):
necessarily that necessary for aguy like him.
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
No, you're fine.
I was just going to say whenyou've got guys like Hines Ward
they are on their fourth orfifth try to get into the Hall
of Fame and definitely deservesto be in the Hall of Fame 100%.
You've got guys like him thatstill haven't made it and then
they're talking like oh, elimanning, first ballot.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
It's like I think we, if it's up there, let's give
heinz the bump before eli um butyou know rivers, or eli,
manning, uh, for see, because Ialways think of like that class,
right, because rothlisberger,rivers and Manning, we're all in
that, that class, it's like you.
You put Roethlisberger and Ithink, right, yeah, even though
(34:05):
he's hated by a lot of people,but I think you put
Roethlisberger and Eli and thenI don't know if Phillip Rivers
gets in.
I don't think he's there.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Phillip is going to be a coin flip, I think.
I think there's some peoplethat want to see him in there,
yeah, and then there's peoplethat I mean he's definitely not
a first ballot, I mean obviously, I mean he's gonna, it's gonna
be way down the line and he'llget in for for something maybe,
but I I don't know, might belike a final ballot guy.
Yeah kind of like all right,this is his last shot.
(34:43):
Do we give him the nod Becausehe was a good quarterback.
He wasn't a great quarterback,but he wasn't a terrible
quarterback.
I think he just got.
He's a regular seasonquarterback.
I think he just got the raw endof the stick with the Eli
Manning trade, Because EliManning could have been a
charger like and should havebeen a charger.
(35:06):
He forced his way.
He forced his way to New York.
Yeah, Thankfully for you, youbeing a New York man, but that's
, yeah, that's like.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
It's not like Rivers didn't have some great players,
though I mean tomlinson he hadwhat was the tight ends name?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
great uh, tony gonzalez was there.
No, no um he played basketball.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Gosh, what is that guy's name?
It's gonna drive me crazy.
But um, yeah, like some, somegreat players on that team, uh,
that you know he probably shouldhave done a little bit more
with In the playoffs.
It always seemed like he wasinjured or he just didn't play
well.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
He was made of glass.
I'll give him that.
He always found a way to behurt.
I guess I don't want to say hefound a way, but it just always.
I think that's going to be alot of the case with like now.
Like Josh Allen, you know he'sa great quarterback, regular
(36:06):
season he can be Patrick Mahomesand um and the AFC championship
, where they always end upmeeting just can't get it done.
And I think that when his timecomes, when he retires, that's
going to be a deciding factor.
I think for a lot of peopleLike all right, you did great in
the regular season, but whathappened when it was one game
(36:28):
before the Super Bowl and youjust couldn't get it done?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It's a sad thing that it's also for the bills,
because you know they had theirrun back in the nineties with,
uh, was it Jim Jim Kelly?
Right, yeah, the quarterback.
Um, and so is he the new JimKelly for the bill.
Like that would just be so sadif they'd never win anything and
they have this great team.
You know it's not like they'vemade it to the Super Bowl like
(36:53):
they did in those days, but it'sjust because the Chiefs are
just that good.
I don't know, it's just crazyhow good they are.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
They're becoming the new Patriots.
I liked them at first.
I'm happy to see them doingwell, winning the Super Bowl.
I was just like can we getsomebody else to play in the
Super Bowl other than PatrickMahomes?
Seriously, that's where I'm atIn the playoffs.
(37:25):
I root for, obviously, my team.
I root for Pittsburgh ifthey're in there, tampa if
they're in there, and thenwhoever is playing, the Chiefs.
That's been for the past two orthree years now it's like, okay
, those are the teams I'mrooting for this year.
I hate to say it because I'mnot a Philadelphia sports fan at
all.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
No, way, dude, don't you dare say it.
Don't say it.
You can't root for the Eagles,dude.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I can't root for Mahomes.
That's where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I like Jalen Hurts dude, I can't root for Mahomes.
That's where I'm at.
I like Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I like Jalen Hurts as a quarterback.
I liked him in college.
I'd like to see him win one.
That hurts to even thinkAnything.
Philadelphia I can't.
It's one of those.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
If there's any Eagles fans out there, don't worry,
you're a great team this year's.
Any eagles fans out there?
Don't worry, like you guys are,you're a great team this year.
Uh, good luck to you.
I don't mean it.
I don't mean it like that, it'sjust as a giants fan.
I've never been a big, bigeagles fan, that's for sure.
It's been uh, pretty hard toever be okay with the eagles,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
That's like you know anybody that you know.
It's like carolina the falcons,or um, saints, saints, yeah.
I could not think of that.
I don't know why I couldn'tthink of the saints, for
whatever reason, like I can'troot for them as a buccaneers
fan like, or like anybody likethat.
So I get that to a point.
You know being you know agiants fan yourself, yeah, yeah,
(38:49):
um, but a one sport I don't.
I don't know a lot and a lot ofpeople don't follow it Hockey.
Do you follow hockey at all?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I like going to hockey games Down in Florida.
They actually have in Orlando.
There's a hockey team, I thinkit's an AHL team, but they're
called the Orlando Solar Bears.
So they were a lot of fun towatch and Florida hockey is very
interesting.
I went to a Tampa Bay Lightninggame back when they were really
solar bears, uh.
So there they were a lot of funto watch and Florida hockey is
very interesting.
Like, I went to a Tampa Baylightning game back when they
were like really, really good,um, so I've always enjoyed going
(39:22):
and went to capitals games as akid, uh, but I just it's hard
to watch on TV because I don'tthink it's a very good TV sport.
Um, the puck moves so quicklyand it's really hard to just pay
attention to what's happening.
A lot of people complain aboutthe fights.
I think the fights are great.
I think it's funny, absolutely,yeah, like that.
I keep that.
I don't understand why peoplesay get rid of that.
(39:44):
I think that's such a.
It's almost charming in a wayfor the sport.
But yeah, I just I can't.
I can't watch it on TV and alsoI didn't really grow up a fan
of any of the teams.
So I think if I had that, umthat loyalty from when I was a
kid.
It would be different, but Ijust don't have that that
loyalty to anybody.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
See, I, I grew up a huge hockey fan.
Um, okay, I love the penguins,penguins, penguins, um, crosby,
crosby, malkin, uh, lemieux,latang, like all those guys.
Um, and it helps that you know,my wife's a huge hockey fan.
She's an even bigger penguinsfan, um, like, she knows more
(40:26):
about hockey and the penguinsthan I do.
Um, and I know a good bit, andI know a good bit, yeah that's
awesome.
So it's just something, but itis tough to follow on TV.
I'll give you that I stillwatch it on TV when I can, but
it's a sport that doesn't get alot of credit.
(40:48):
I think people don't give itthe chance because it's so hard
to follow, because the game isso fast.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
And the puck moves quick and it's hard to follow
and it's even faster than itused to be, like I feel.
Like nowadays, I mean, thecameras are like this, you know,
going back and forth, theseguys are moving so quick.
So, yeah, I think if they justfigured it and again, I'm an
idiot, I don't know anything,but like you know, I just I
anything but like you know, Ijust I think if they could
figure out a way to have betterproduction for it and you could
(41:18):
really like see it better.
I just don't know how you dothat um, they tried this.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I mean, it was back in either the late 90s, early
2000s, where they put like thisblue hue around the puck and it
kind of had like a trail thingbut it like distracted a lot of
people and then the cameraswouldn't be able to.
I don't know if it was justbecause the year that they tried
to do it, when it was the late90s, early 2000s, they even
(41:42):
tried it to where if a playertook a slap shot it turned red
the faster the puck went.
It brought a little bit of anaspect to it, but it was hard.
I think it was harder to followthat.
I don't know why, but it likeit just kinda.
I I, yeah, like I said, I don'tknow if it was just when they
tried it and they probably coulddo a lot better with it now
(42:04):
being 2025, but that was onething they tried and it was just
it.
It took, it took away from thegame, I think.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
And all the action.
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Well, I mean, and I'm a weirdlike, I actually like watching
lacrosse.
As weird as that is, um.
You know, growing up I've neverwatched lacrosse game.
I know, isn't that funny.
I know, um, because my, mydad's a Syracuse orange fan.
The orange are really known forlacrosse, so I grew up watching
(42:38):
lacrosse games all the time,and in Maryland it's really
popular as well.
So you could always just say,okay, he's a lacrosse fan, he
doesn't know what the hell he'stalking about.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I understand the sport enough to follow it if I
were to watch a game.
But I just can't.
I watched a couple of buddiesof mine because Bethany College
had started a lacrosse programmy junior or senior year and I
was working for the radiostation at the time and we were
(43:09):
trying to plan out to be able toannounce a game on the radio.
We just when that time of theplan out to be able to announce
the game on the radio and wejust when that time of the year
when they took all of the cableout of the press box for the
internet and the phone lines tobe able to remote there.
(43:30):
So we just couldn't do it.
It was just something thatBethany did and they never had
any sports and teams that playedthat time of year.
It was just okay.
Well, we just can't make ithappen.
I studied up a lot becausethey're like all right, mike, we
want you to announce it.
I was like I know nothing oflacrosse.
(43:54):
I studied harder than I studiedfor most exams in college.
I was like I know nothing oflacrosse, so I studied harder
than I studied for most exams incollege.
I'll be honest For this.
I need to know.
I don't want to sound like anidiot on the radio and I need to
know what I'm talking about.
And it never happened.
So I know enough to follow it,but I've never actually seen a
(44:14):
game.
But we are running down nearthe end of the episode here.
I do want to get this segmentin.
It is the fun way we like toend the show and it is the fast.
55.
Okay, it is five randomquestions from the wonderful
manager of the podcast, johnny50, falcone.
These are kind of rapid fire,but.
(44:34):
Manager of the podcast JohnnyFitty, falcone, these are kind
of rapid fire, but you canelaborate if you need to and if
you know the mind of Johnny,like these have nothing to do
with what we've been talkingabout for the entire day of the
show.
So if you're ready, cole, wecan.
I'm ready, man, all right, ohGod, would you rather be a what
(44:59):
is A mog, half man, half dog, orhave the superpower to be
invisible?
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I'm not going to elaborate.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
A mog.
Okay, I'm fine with that.
All right, I'm telling youright now, I got these today, so
I haven't had a chance to prepthese.
This is great, you just keepgoing.
I would say okay.
So he's going hard on you.
I'm just letting you know thatnow.
Okay, question number two whowins in a fight?
(45:31):
1,000 frogs versus 100 ducks?
Speaker 2 (45:36):
God, he already asked me this question actually,
which is really funny, and Isaid frogs, and I'm sticking
with it.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Okay, I think he was testing you on that one.
I don't know if he's tested youon that before Question number
three who's the funnier comicand actor, adam Sandler or Kevin
Hart?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Oh man, I don't like either of them all that much.
I'd go Sandler over Hart,though, Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
I'm with that one.
Question, number four if youcould attend one of these iconic
parades, which would you pick?
The Macy's Day Parade forThanksgiving, or the Parade of
Roses for the Rose Bowl on NewYear's Day.
Rose Bowl, that would you pickthe Macy's day parade for
Thanksgiving or the parade?
Speaker 2 (46:17):
of roses for the Rose bowl on new year's day.
Rose bowl, that would beawesome.
And if, do I get to go to thegame after?
Because that's the realquestion is, if I do, that's
sick.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
I mean that's absolutely a hundred percent.
I would.
I would pick that one.
Last question here.
One word to describe Joe Roganis oh God, one word.
One word, meathead, why I'm allright with that.
(46:52):
I'm telling you right now, cole, he has been taking it light on
people when we've done thissegment.
He went a lot harder on youwith these questions than most
people have gotten, so, but thatwas the Fast 55 put me on the
(47:13):
spot with Rogan, and as easyknows the spot with Rogan, and
as easy knows I hate Joe.
Rogan, I gotcha.
But Cole, I do give every guestthis opportunity at the end of
every show.
If there's anything you want toget out there, whether it's
just a good message, or ifanything for Case Western or
anything like that, I'm going togive you about a minute and the
(47:34):
floor is yours.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah, I mean, one thing I always say is, if you're
looking to college I know wedidn't get a chance to talk
about this that much but if youare looking into getting into
colleges, do it.
It doesn't matter where you go,it's important just to make
sure that you're growing as aperson, you're building your
education.
And if college is that, know.
And if, uh, if college is thatdirection, go for it.
(47:57):
Man, uh, you know that's thebiggest thing.
So, um, I don't really have awhole lot of other stuff that
would be.
My biggest thing is just makesure that if you have a goal in
mind or something that you wantto go after, whether it's
college or whatever go after it.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Why not?
Oh right, yeah, I always likeit when people just have a good
message like that at the end ofthe show.
I'm all for helping peoplepromote anything they got going
on, but when it's just a goodmessage like that, I really
appreciate it.
I really think it's a good wayto end the show, especially
after the past 55.
But that is actually going todo it for this week's episode of
(48:32):
the Ride Home Rants podcast.
I want to thank my guest, coleSchneider, for joining this show
.
It was a lot of fun to get tosit and talk with you.
Really do appreciate you comingon.
As always, if you enjoyed theshow, be a friend, tell a friend
.
If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just
because you didn't.
That's going to do it for meand I will see y'.
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