September 22, 2025 • 49 mins
Our annual All Things Fall episode kicks off with our panel of guests representing greater Northeast Ohio while Mike represents Central Ohio in Columbus. This panel of contributors breaks down their opinions of last falls exceptionally warm weather and how nice a warm fall can be. They dive into deep discussions about pumpkin spice, corn fields, and their thoughts on family pictures in the fall!
Make sure you get your notebooks out as the guests break it down on the best fall locations to check out and visit. Are you a fan of cold or warm apple cider? This brings a lively debate from our panelists as well.
Whether you are a die hard lover of fall or someone who just cherishes cool mornings and autumn leaves, this show is one you want to check out and be sure not to miss!
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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 have a great guest for aguest.
I have a panel of guests for ustoday and it is becoming an
annual episode for us and I'msuper pumped to talk about it.
But it is the all things fallshow.
(00:20):
We're going to be talking aboutall things in my favorite
season of fall.
I love the weather andeverything like that.
But I'm going to let my panelof guests introduce themselves,
so I need your name.
Do you wear glasses and what isyour favorite flavor of yogurt?
And, Tony, we're going to startwith you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
My name is Tony.
I do not actually wear glasses,I'm just kidding.
I do wear glasses.
And my favorite yogurt flavoryou got to go with the classic
strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, wendy, let's go to you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, I'm Wendy, I do not wear glasses and my favorite
yogurt is the Chobani ZeroSugar Vanilla.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That was very specific and I like it.
Tj, let's go to you next.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hey, this is TJ.
I do not wear glasses but myvision has been going at
nighttime so I have somenighttime contacts, so I think
glasses are in the near future.
I guess my favorite yogurt isstrawberry banana Anything but
plain gotcha, and it'severybody's favorite.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
manager of the show fitty so everybody knows me, I'm
fitty, um, I don't wear glasses, but I'm to the age that I have
to turn the radio down to seewhere I'm going before I pull in
somewhere.
Um, so I'm to that age so Iguess I don't think that counts
as glasses, but I'm I'm donethat, old now.
Um, my favorite flavor actuallyum, I kind of got into this is
(01:51):
getting plain vanilla yogurt,putting some, um, blueberries in
there and then some granola andmixing it around and making it
a parfait.
So I guess vanilla yogurt, butwith the sides.
If I'm not doing the sides andI'm probably just doing a good
banana yogurt flavor as my jam.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I got you.
Obviously, everyone knows me,mike Bono.
I wear clear glasses to make itnot as noticeable on my face
because I used to wear contactsand I don't anymore because I
keep getting these nasty styeson my eye when I wear contacts.
So glasses are in that futurefor me now and getting to that
age, and yogurt I don't reallyeat yogurt that much anymore,
(02:33):
but when I did, it was thestrawberry banana that I would
go with.
Yeah, anything but plain for meon that fact.
But we're not here to talkabout yogurts, we're here to
talk about all things fall.
And, wendy, we're going tostart with you being our
resident realtor here.
For most people, last fall wasin 2024, was exceptionally warm
(02:56):
until almost Thanksgiving.
Do you think fall has days inthe 70s and low 80s, or what is
your feeling on?
Like a warmer fall?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Typically for here.
We usually don't get them.
We don't.
When we do, we are throwingparties like crazy, Because I
mean most of our Halloweensaround.
You know that time in theOctober time, it's in the 40s,
the 50s, it's rainy, we'rewearing jackets, we're wearing
(03:30):
rain gear, we're cold, we'rewearing boots.
So last year was awesome, butit's not usual like that for us
in our October months,unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I got you DJ.
What about you?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, I'm a big warm weather guy, so anytime we can
have warm weather, deep intooctober even you know it's
wishful thinking but intonovember I love being outside,
so that warmer weather is just ablessing.
Everybody's smiling um, youknow, watching football outside
on the porch, things like that.
So warm weather in the fall,I'm all for it.
All right, biddy what about you?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, you know, like I've lived in a lot of different
places and I lived inPennsylvania and worked in West
Virginia and been in SouthernOhio.
So like last fall was kind ofwhat I was used to in some other
places that we're all living inCleveland, but it was really
warm until like Thanksgiving.
I'm sure the panel remembers itwas 80 degrees on Halloween
last year.
It was in the 80s, high 80sthrough.
(04:33):
You know, september and Octoberhad very few bad days and
November was even really warmtoo.
So I'm a fan of it.
I'm just not a fan of whathappens with the lake when it's
that warm that long because thelake can't freeze and then we
get like the hellacious snow andwinter that we had up here was
exceptionally terrible.
So like being in cleveland, I'msure everybody would agree you
(04:57):
have to pick, like do you wantthe cold fall and the mild
winter or do you want theexceptionally warm fall and the
terrible winter?
You know for me I'd still takethe warm, super warm fall and
the terrible winter.
But you know it's kind of hardto to say what's right and
what's wrong in that sense.
But the warm, the warmer it is,the longer it is, the better it
is I got you and tony.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I gotta say as much as I kind of miss the 60s and
70s, I am not objected to warmfall nights okay, uh, I'm going
to be the only one on this paneland I am such a 50 to 70 degree
slut.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's unreal, like I absolutely love that temperature
of weather.
I'm one of those people thatcannot be cool enough.
I am always hot as it is.
So when you get me into like 50to 70 degrees, and I'm loving
every minute of it, I love thewarm weather.
Don't get me wrong, I lovesummer, uh, but this summer has
been exceptionally warm, uh, forme, um, like, even right now.
(06:00):
I mean, it was in the 80s todayhere and I'm sweating sitting
in my house when my AC set at 66degrees.
So, like, that's where I'm at.
So, yeah, give me the 50 to 70degrees and I'm happy, happy as
a lamb.
That could be.
Tony, I want to stay with youon this.
(06:21):
One Little bit could be, Iguess, controversial, I don't
want to say, but it is.
But warm or cold apple cider,what do you prefer?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I do not think that is a controversial thing at all.
I like cold apple cider.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
There's so many pumpkin spice people, apple
cider gets a little risky forpeople that like it.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh, I like cold apple cider, Honestly cold apple
cider fan.
All right, Fetty.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I'm cold apple cider too.
I'm a hot coffee fan, but I'm acold apple cider fan all the
way.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Gotcha TJ.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Damn, what is wrong with you people?
Warm apple cider, a littlewhiskey come on now.
We need a.
We need, we need, we need to,we need to clean some things up,
y'all, come on now.
We gotta get that.
Well, we gotta pour it in, putit in the microwave, get that
thing a little steaming.
Oh, that's fall there so.
(07:20):
But now I do need a coolersummer night, or I need a cool
fall night, and that goesperfect with that warm apple
cider.
So I can't be doing it on an80-degree day, but if I had
preferred or I had to choose,it's definitely warm.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Okay, wendy, what about you?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Definitely warm.
The hotter the better yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'm warm and I will mix some fireball whiskey and
then get that cinnamon in theretoo as well, like a caramel
apple type of deal going on.
That's phenomenal.
Right, there is what that is.
You got to get creativesometimes, wendy, what's your
(08:05):
favorite fall go-to place?
Uh, to visit, uh, in the fallpatterson fruit farm you said
patterson's fruit farm yep,patterson fruit farm.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm sure bitty's been there by now.
Um, it's over in chesterland.
It is the thing to do, um it's.
You can go out there to theorchards.
You can pick your own apples.
Um, you can pick out your ownpumpkins.
There's little playground area,there's little crafts for kids,
so total enjoyment foreverybody, small, older.
(08:37):
Um, they have fresh donuts.
They have, which are absolutelyamazing.
I can't eat them, eat them, butI I hear they're good.
I have an allergy to wheat.
Um, but they have fresh donuts.
They have fresh cider, warm orcold, and they have like a
little gift shop with chocolates, all kinds of things that they
(09:00):
sell, and from other localfarmers in the area too.
They bring in their produce,their honey, things like that,
and they sell it for them theretoo.
It's like the best little thingto do okay, tj what about you.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
So the first one that everybody goes to is
patterson's.
It's a phenomenal place,especially for kids.
Um, just so many activities to.
But I'm a big haunted house guy.
I love going to haunted houses,so, um, I'll send a plug.
I got um in Berea.
It's about 15 minutes away fromwhere I'm at uh, joe Boo evil
events in on Berea campground umin the fall.
(09:38):
Uh, one of the best experiencesfor haunted houses it's, um
they took over for the sevenfloors of hell and they put
their experience on thedifferent houses, so there's uh
multiple different houses there.
Um, a great, great time you gowith a couple of your buddies
and things like that, and yeah,that's a great haunted house
experience with great specialeffects.
So I'm a big haunted house guyduring the fall can't, can't
(10:00):
complain about that pretty.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
um, I'm a big Patterson's person too.
You know Wendy kind of hiteverything on the head there.
But I also really do likeMapleside Farms in Strongsville,
which is a lot of fun.
It's a different vibe thanPatterson's.
You know, there's a corn mazeand they have like vino all the
way, so it's a wine tour throughthe corn maze.
There's a lot of cool stuff forkids.
You can go up to their shop andbuy apples and some other stuff
(10:25):
.
They usually have differentfood vendors there.
I think it's the second largestslide in the world.
There down that hill you get tosee the piglets race.
It's just a really cool thingto take the tractor ride.
I'm a big fan of Patterson's,but since Wendy went with with
that, I'll go with maplesidefarms I got you all right, tony.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
well, since everybody said patterson fruit farm, I
mean I gotta throw my hat in thering as well.
Patterson fruit farm is thatplace.
I mean it's worth it to getdonuts, you get pumpkin, you get
all kind of good stuff.
One place that I'd actuallylike to throw in the ring, I
would like to throw in thisplace in Middlefield.
(11:11):
It's called the Amish CountryMarket.
That's the place out inMiddlefield.
I remember my senior year ofhigh school.
We went to Amish Country Reallygreat experience.
I think that's the name of thatplace, but I know that they had
candy and pumpkins and stuff.
So I'll have to go at thatplace in Millfield if you guys
(11:33):
ever get a chance to go.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That's a great one.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, I haven't been to any of those.
I'm not going to lie to youguys here.
I'm the only one on this panelright now that doesn't live near
the Cleveland area.
It's about a two-hour drive forme, which isn't bad, but for me
it's more the nostalgia fromwhen I was younger, kind of like
(11:56):
TJ there there was a greatlittle haunted house at one of
the parks back in West Virginia,at Brook Hills Park.
They always do their hauntedhouse there every year.
They have hay rides, they haveeverything that you could think
of there too as well.
It's not just the haunted house, they even have the golf course
lit up in Halloween theme andfall theme there.
(12:19):
It's pretty cool to see.
I haven't been there in years,but it's just one of those
places that I remember going toas a kid and all through high
school and everything like that.
It's just a great little placethat nobody's really ever heard
of unless you've been to WestVirginia and in that northern
panhandle type of region to knowwhere exactly it's at, because
(12:43):
it's one of those places if youblink, you miss it.
And it's awesome to to go thereand to just and just see, and a
lot of my friends worked therethrough high school too as well.
So it made it a lot moreenjoyable, I guess, for me, uh,
knowing that a bunch of myfriends were running that place
there too as well.
So it's, it's just one of thoseones for me it's the nostalgia
(13:04):
of it and it's it's.
It's back home in West Virginiawhere I can't wait to get back
to.
West Virginia Falls are I don'tcare what anybody says the best.
The hills and the trees and theleaves changing and everything
like that.
I will fight that till my lastbreath.
If anybody wants to, by allmeans come at me on that one.
(13:24):
I will fight you till the day Idie on that one.
West Virginia Falls areabsolutely the best falls Period
.
End of discussion on that onefor me.
But, tony, what's your favoriteapple-flavored fall treat?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, I gotta say you gotta go up to New England for
a fall.
If you want some real foliage,Go up to New Angled.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I don't know if I could go to New England.
I don't know if I can.
Actually, as somebody who grewup in West Virginia, that close
to Pittsburgh, and knowing therivalries with that, I just
don't think I could go up to NewEngland.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Respect, respect.
As far as flavors goes, this isgoing to shock some people
Apple pie.
But here's the funny thing Iactually have allergies to
apples, but I can eat apple pie.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
I'm gonna need I'm gonna needmore on that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Tony, you can't just drop something okay, I can, I
can drop some.
Well, sometimes I can eat someapples and my throat gets all
funny and stuff.
But you put a piece of applepie in my in my face.
I can eat it, no problems atall.
I'm guessing it's the same withcherries as well.
Some cherries it's bad, nobueno.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But cherry pie, my favorite dessert I'm at a loss
on that one, that's that is socrazy that I have ever been
cherished through that too.
But you put it in a pie and itdelicious and you're fine, like
that's the weirdest I mean, isit?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I gotta ask the question is it?
Is it like canned apple?
Yes, pie filling that, yes.
So it's not like chopping upreal apples, putting it in the
pie, baking it and then you caneat.
So it's not like chopping upreal apples, putting it in the
pie, baking it and then you caneat it.
It's canned.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, and if it was made a certain way, like for
instance, if you cooked applesin a certain way, I could eat it
that way.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So something in the, something in the processing
between the raw to cooked, yes,and that's the same with peaches
, Like I can eat peach cobblerpeaches.
There must be like a chemicalrelease or something.
Oh wow, that is crazy.
Okay, we'll talk offline.
(15:54):
Sorry, all right, you're fine,I'm so intrigued by this.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I'm so intrigued by this.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I might cancel the rest of these, these questions
that I have here because I needto know, like this allergy now,
because now my mind is going tobe spinning the rest of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I've heard of this, that certain people cannot eat
the raw form of something.
However, once it's been cookeddown or processed in some way,
they're able to eat it.
I think it's so crazy becausethere's just this push to get to
the most natural form, raw formof food in our society right
(16:32):
now.
And here you are on the otherend of the spectrum and I got
more before I have.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I take up all the time but I'm actually allergic
to fish.
But I can eat shrimp, crab legs, oysters.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Everybody can eat shrimp and crab legs, I mean
come on, now, you can't go wrongwith that, even if?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I ever grow an allergy to shrimp and crab legs,
I will die a happy man.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
There's no way, I'm not getting that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's just I need.
Okay, we, tony, I gotta knowmore about this.
But, bitty, what apple treats?
Do you have any allergies thatwe need to know about now, since
we're just on allergies?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
no, I just got some, uh, medical allergies to
medicine.
Um, nothing with food, I don't.
I don't know about, let meknock on wood here, but um,
probably my favorite flavoredapple tree.
I really do like apple-flavoreddonuts.
That's my jam right there,apple-flavored donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You can't go wrong with that at all, tj, what about
you?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I assume Apple Jacks is off the table.
I'll allow it.
I'm not above that.
I'll say, I mean, honestly, Ijust an apple man, just a normal
.
Give me an apple, slice them up.
You can throw an apple inanything.
So I'm not.
I mean, I'm not.
I don't get too fancy with it,man.
(17:52):
Apple cider I still like theapple cider and all the things
you can do with that, but Idon't need to get too fancy.
Give me an apple a day.
Keeps the doctor away or youknow, just not having to pay
into health insurance.
But yeah, either way, I'll keepit going.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Wendy, what about you ?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I was going to say apple pie, dutch apple pie, but
since that was already said, I'mgoing to go with apple fritter,
because that's a close secondoh yeah, I need those those
aren't all.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Those are great.
Give me a good caramel applethough.
You know what I mean.
You can't go wrong with a goodcaramel apple, especially in the
fall that would be for me, butit sucks.
I can't not because of Tony'sreasons.
I can't eat apples like normalpeople like I have to cut them
up.
At a very young age I had andthis is going back again.
(18:51):
I'm going to hear a lot of theWest Virginia jokes but I
actually have two fake teeth inthe front of my mouth so I can't
bite into anything like that.
It will rip them completely outof my mouth.
So I have to, like a child, cutmy apples up, want to eat an
apple so that I can actuallyhave it.
(19:13):
I can't just bite into it andyeah, it's been since I was a um
, since I was junior high, likeI had to have them and it's it's
a bridge.
That's literally next to my twofront teeth and I can't.
I can't bite into apples.
I love apples and, but Ihaven't actually eaten one in
(19:34):
forever because I feel like achild bringing out that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, bring out the thing my apples up to have to
eat them.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's just a pride thing for me.
At 36 years old, I got to cutmy apples up, the same way I do
for my baby, nieces and nephews.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's okay, we're not judging.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I judge myself six ways from Sunday, wendy.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't, Iwouldn't blame you guys if you
did at all.
Um, but okay, wendy, what's themost overrated thing about?
Fall for you?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Okay, pumpkin spice, anything.
Pumpkin spice anything.
I mean it's everywhere.
It's in room sprays, it's inplugins, it's in car fresheners,
it's in food seasoning, ineverything.
(20:35):
It's literally everything.
It's in cold foam.
You can buy pumpkin spiceanything, even clothing, coffee
mugs.
It's everywhere.
It's like a thing, and I'm soover it.
I don't even like it.
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But, tj, I'll give you my thoughts here in a minute
, because I have a big rantabout that.
But, tj, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
That was the first one that came to my mind.
Pumpkin spice, I'm telling you.
And I sat there trying to thinkof like, okay, let me try the
drink.
I'm like you know, you know,there's nothing that intrigued
me about it, there's nothingthat hooked me about it.
But I'm telling you I don't.
I just I'm not a fan of coldnights.
(21:21):
So I mean, I mean I'm good withwearing a sweatshirt, but
overrated is when it gets coldat night.
Um, you know, under that 50degrees, because you know, if
you all week, then we can gooutside with the campfire and
everything.
I'm like I still would ratherbe outside in a short sleeve
shirt or just like a light, alight three quarter sleeve shirt
.
So rather be outside in a shortsleeve shirt or just like a
(21:41):
light, a light three-quartersleeve shirt.
So I don't like the cold nights, um, but yeah, pumpkin slice is
probably.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Pumpkin spice, probably number one.
You need to invest in flannels,then I'm just gonna tell you
that you don't need.
It's so much better.
Uh, fitty.
What about you though?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
you know what, what I find probably most overrated
about fall and this goes intolike a whole optics thing and I
could have a whole show on thisbut like everybody's like
smiling and super happy and like, oh, I'm at the pumpkin patch
Let me post this on social media, cause I have the coolest life
ever and I'm in that place.
Like you give the optics thatyour life is perfect and no
(22:13):
one's life is perfect, right,but you get this perception of
that and then it's not true butit becomes reality.
So, like, my pet peeve aboutlike what's probably most
overrated about fall is peopleposting all these pictures like
family pictures in the corn orfamily pictures in the pumpkin
with my dog and my life'sperfect and look, we all match
and our dog's perfect and myhouse is perfect, and that's
(22:36):
probably what drives me the mostnuts about fall.
Just be a genuine self.
No one really cares about yourpicture in the fall in front of
the cornfield.
Um, just, nobody really cares.
Just be you and just enjoy itand just just be quiet about it,
like that's.
That's my rant on that for theday, but I can go into a whole
spiel about that, about opticsand perception versus reality
and social media and things likethat.
(22:57):
So that's it.
No one cares about yourpictures in front of the pumpkin
patch.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I now have two things .
I need to go on, but I want toget to Tony first.
Tony, overrated for fall.
What about you?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
The Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
They're only overrated in the summertime,
when we have hope.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, I'm a New Orleans Saints fan.
We got our own issues.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You got to deal with the Buccaneers.
That's your issue.
Twice a year, all right.
So Wendy brought it up first.
I'm going to get into that.
Pumpkin spice is the devil.
I absolutely hate pumpkin spiceand it's because it's.
(23:46):
It's everywhere.
September hits and even beforeSeptember my boss was coming
into work and she had like alittle bit more pep in her step
one day and I was like you're ina good mood for 8 am, like
you're never in this good of amood for 8 am, and she was like,
oh, they brought back pumpkinspice at uh Starbucks already
and it's on my way in, so I gotmy pumpkin spice.
I was like, see, now we'regonna have a bad day here today,
(24:08):
so excited that pumpkin spiceis out in August and that's just
not okay with me.
Um, and yeah, I this is this ismy wife's favorite saying, but
it doesn't blow my skirt up, youknow what I mean like it's it's
not doing it for me like it's.
It's not that great it's.
You know I'm not a big fan ofpumpkin flavored anything really
(24:34):
.
Um, so like pumpkin spice andlike it.
It bugs me sometimes to evenclean out pumpkins when we're
carving pumpkins with my niece,like we do every year.
Um, and so I don't like that atall.
Um, so I'm not gonna drink oreat anything pumpkin spice.
But yeah, the the fad thateveryone is and it's such a
(24:58):
basic white girl drink too aswell too, like, we'll go there
too.
We're already down this road.
It's such like it's just yousee them, and it's going to go
tie me right into Fitty's rantthat I'm going to go on here in
a second too as well about thefake people on the internet and
the not living your life.
(25:18):
But it's such a basic.
I got my pumpkin spice andwe're in the pumpkin patch and
now we're all going to takepictures together.
No, it's just no Like, yeah, Ijust people like that post all
those pictures and stuff.
Like Finney was saying, it'sjust, it's just, y'all started,
(25:39):
y'all triggered me.
I, I'm gonna say those twocomments and I didn't think we
were to get to here, but we'rehere now and this is the room
we're gonna live in for anotherminute or two, uh, but yeah,
like I see all the peopleposting and it's already
starting that, uh, it's just ohwell, we're out here in this
cornfield and everybody hastheir matching flannels on, and
(26:01):
even the dog has a flannelbandana around it and we're
taking a picture together and itjust looks all great and it's
like I know you, your life is acrapshoot.
Why are we acting like it's notright now, like let's just call
a spade a spade, and let's justcall a spade a spade, and let's
just just not act like we're soperfect.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
We're not.
Well.
Do you think about it the thing?
Think about the process Right.
Every group picture that I'veever taken has always taken
twice as long as it ever needsto take and there's so much
detail that goes into it thatdoesn't need to be had.
It's a miserable experience.
No, no group picture has everbeen like oh my gosh, that was
great.
One one shot.
No, especially if you'regetting dressed up with your
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family, it's never just one anddone you know what I can't wait
for?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
my sister does this every freaking year, uh, with my
nephews and my niece, and justshe has to have everybody has to
match and they have to take thepicture, and it's, I guess
she's.
I hope she hears this episodebecause I, like I cannot wait
for her response because Iabsolutely I I've told her once
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before like this was recentlytoo, because she posted the
picture and like things weregoing on and we're not going to
get into that, but it's justlike.
It's like your life's notperfect.
I get it, like nobody's is, butlike just stop.
I could see the hate in mynephew's face, like mom made me
dress up the same and take thissame picture every year and I
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hate it and I and I can't standit.
And I told her um, that is likethis is, this is the worst
thing I said.
I told her, if I could dislikea picture on instagram, if there
was a dislike button oninstagram, I would.
I would be repeatedly.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Your own family.
I love my sister to death.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Let's not get this twisted.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I love my sister to death.
She does the family pictures.
It drives me up a freaking wall.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's hilarious, mike.
You gotta bring this up in oneof your sets.
You gotta bring this up in oneof your sets, you don't think
this is coming up on stage sets.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You gotta do someone.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
You don't think this is coming up on stage, man, I
swear it's like a sitcom.
I see these people dressed upand all this, just like, oh my
god, just take your picture andgo somewhere, please.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Let the rest of us enjoy this.
And then they're in the waythey're all in the way.
You're like move, take yourpicture off, and then they're in
the way, they're all in the wayyou're like move like this
picture.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I need my hot chocolate galloway I'll take
that to my grave too.
Hot chocolate is better thananything I like it with milk,
though and you gotta, you gottahave the marshmallows.
You're just a sociopath.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
We'll talk about that there with milk, though you got
to have the marshmallows If youdon't have the marshmallows.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're just a sociopath.
We'll talk about that there.
I got way off track with thatbecause that just set me down a
rabbit hole.
We're going to stick with thepumpkin theme, apparently, for
these ones here.
These last couple of questionshere.
I think I know where everyoneis.
But, tony, we'll start with you.
(29:20):
Pumpkin flavored coffee fanhell, no, yeah, I think I know
the answer to this one, fannynot a fan of it like I.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I only really like like pumpkin seeds and pumpkin
pie.
I don't really like pumpkin.
Donuts are okay, but I'm not I.
I don't like really flavoredcoffee, except the white
chocolate mocha from starbucks.
That's about it gotcha tj yeah,I mean pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
It's such a dominant flavor it just takes over.
So no, I mean, I'm okay pumpkinpie, I'm cool with pumpkin pie,
uh, but pumpkin flavored coffee, I'm gonna pass on it every
time I got you.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Wendy.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Nope, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You mentioned that at the start of the rant.
That just seems a bit terrible.
It's been a part of fiveminutes that I just it's okay,
you got it out.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Hey, let it all out.
Mike, Just write home the rant.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, Wendy, what are your thoughts on pumpkin seeds?
Are they overrated orunderrated?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Pumpkin seeds.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Seeds yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Oh, I do like pumpkin seeds.
I feel like they're underrated.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Okay, tj, completely underrated.
I mean, you get so many of thembut they're just a pain in the
ass to get them out of thepumpkin.
For me, I always get it outwhen we're carving, mom always
put it in the ass to get themout of the pumpkin.
For me, I was always getting itout when we were carving, mom
always put it in the oven anddude all night.
You just were munching onpumpkin seeds every time you
walked by.
But completely underrated.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Okay, fetty, you kind of already mentioned it there.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Yeah, I love pumpkin seeds.
I think to me they're betterthan sunflower seeds and they're
not as much work.
You can just eat the wholepumpkin seed itself instead of
trying to break them open andtry to eat a sunflower seed.
So yeah, I'm a huge pumpkinseed fan.
I don't do the whole baconthing, though, like TJ brought
up.
I just get them out of thepackage and pop them in and eat
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them.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I got you Tony.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I have no comment because I don't like pumpkin
seeds.
All right, no comment.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I'll take that one.
I don't really eat them.
I will eat them.
Lately we've been actuallytrying to grow our own pumpkins
because we're tired of buyingthem for every year.
Okay, my sister and niece comedown for our annual pumpkin
carving that we do every year.
So we've been just taking theseeds and dumping them in our
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garden and hoping to God we getsomething.
We've gotten one pumpkin everyyear, so I mean it.
It always is just like a littlesmall one that goes to my niece
.
That's easy for her to carve.
But we try every year just tohave our own pumpkin so that
we're not buying them every year.
(32:01):
But we're getting there withthat and we're going to round
out the show, tony, with thisone.
Do you decorate for fall and ifso, what do you normally put
out for decorations?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I decorate nothing, I put nothing out.
That just sounded hateful.
Like I decorate nothing, I putnothing out.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
That just sounded hateful.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Like I decorate nothing, I'm a Saints fan.
I just deal with this.
I'm a Saints fan who's goingthrough it right now.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
You blame the Saints for fall.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Everything about fall Betty.
What about you?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I mean when I was, you know, single, I never really
decorated for fall.
But my wife really likes todecorate, so we have our
decorations and we'll get somepumpkins from Patterson's, which
are really cool, and they havelike the mini pumpkins and like
the little squashes and stufflike that, so we'll get those
and put them around the house.
But I mean I think like thecool thing about decorating for
fall is like you can have it upthrough Halloween if you choose,
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and you can really have it upto Thanksgiving.
So it's not like decorationsthat you like put up and have to
take down like in three or fourweeks.
It's something you can reallykind of have the whole year.
And I think it's cool whenpeople have wreaths and
different things like that, youknow, out there.
I think it adds a niceaesthetic to homes.
Maybe they make some kind ofpop and those flowers are
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changing and trees are changingand, you know, leaves are on the
ground.
So, yeah, I mean we likedecorating for fall.
It's a pretty good time.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Okay, dj, I'm actually if me and Tony agree on
this one don't like decorating.
I don't particularly payattention to decorations.
I don't know why people needthe approval of other people
looking at their decorations.
So this is my wife all the way,and just random things go up
when I'm out of the house andI'm like oh, where'd that come
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from?
And so you know, I'm big on,I'm not big on.
But I am called upon to takedown the decorations, which
makes me even more irritated.
But no, I'm not, I'm big on,I'm not big on.
But I am called upon to takedown the decorations, which
makes me even more irritated.
But no, I'm not, I'm not.
I don't have a need to decorate.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I got you.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Well before Wendy goes on.
So but TJ, what does your wifeput out for decorations?
Just like, did you put apumpkin?
Yeah, we have the pumpkins.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
We have the things on the window, like the window
stickers.
She'll have her own littleinflatable.
We have a little flag in frontof our house that we change for
each thing.
Um, yeah, no, there's, there'sdecorations out there.
There's, they're, they're outthere.
It's just, I mean, it's notoutrageous, it's not like we're
spending thousands of dollars inelectric bills, but, um, it
sits there and she likes to gothrough the seasons and
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different things that happen.
So she has a little bit, alittle bit of everything for
everything.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Um, but yeah, I mean, I think, but most of the
decorations inside the house arewhat really drastically change,
like she'll bring out thedifferent pillows, she'll bring
out the different, um, like, uh,like, tablecloths and things
like that isn't it always funny,though, like when, when you are
like in a relationship and youdo decorate, like, it's always
like, oh, let's decorate on thisreally beautiful day, and it's
(34:59):
like, hey, let's take thedecorations down on, like the
coldest just the worst daythat's ever happened ever.
And then it's muddy andsomething breaks and you're out
there with like a shovel or ahammer vacuum stops working,
like so much the thing.
When you take it down, you know, and it's always just bad
weather.
But it's like when you putstuff up it's usually always
great and's like happy.
(35:19):
And then you take it down andthen, yeah, you just flip out
because you're angry.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Well, I'm just sitting there waiting for, okay.
Which one of this is my fault?
Again, it's something aroundhere.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I'm trying to figure out what it is.
You two are speaking fromexperience.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Wendy, do you decorate?
We'll get your opinion, beingthe only female on the panel
here for this one All right.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So I will say this I'm usually not a decorator.
I like to be very, very minimaland I'm in this very big
clearing phase of my life whereI'm just getting rid of summer
stuff.
So for many years I have chosennot to decorate.
However, this year, this pastwinter, I went and got a
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Christmas tree and someChristmas decorations and then
this year I've already decoratedtwice inside the house and I
put a wreath on the door so thatthat counts for something.
So it's very small, like littlebit of stuff here and there.
More of a color base, some moreof like amber and gold of stuff
(36:24):
here and there, more of a colorbase, so more of like amber and
gold, um, uh, colored bases andthings like that is.
And decorations that I pulledout, um, that kind of, are all
on led candles and things likethat.
So simple, not like characterpumpkins and you know, happy
halloween stuff.
No, that I can't, I can't, Ican't do any of that.
So I just need kind of simple,very minimal and I'm happy just
(36:47):
playing.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, so, bono, around the corner from our house
, our neighbor down the streethas like a 50, maybe 75, I don't
know, I'll say 50 foot skeletonin his front yard, giant
skeleton.
It keeps out year round and heactually decorates it for all
the different holidays, so likeit's a giant skeleton.
But it was like decorated forchristmas giant skeleton,
(37:10):
decorated for easter giantskeleton, decorated for fall,
decorated for halloween.
And I'm like, oh my, that'sinsane, you know I'm like, is it
that hard to take down becauseit's been up for a year and
you've decorated every holidaythat we've had, including, like
the fourth of july, to like athat's a good, like a happy
fourth of july giant skeleton,I'm like it has.
(37:32):
Well, 10 goes with the fourthof july theme.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I don't know, it has to, it has to be, it has to be
that hard to take down, becauseI've seen a couple myself too
that are year-round up in areas.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I have a co-worker.
She's obsessed with Halloweenand she's already started her
decorating for Halloween and shehas this big 12-foot skeleton
riding a skeleton horse that sheput up that she's going to be
pictures of, that she hasdressed like the Grim Reaper and
she was just telling me the howhard it was to get that up.
(38:06):
And so, 50 foot yeah, if I'mputting up a 50 foot skeleton,
that son of a bitch is stayingup here.
You know, as soon as he's up, heis like he's part of the house
now, Like I'm not taking himdown.
So we're going to make the bestof it.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
And he's like wide too, Like it's not like a skinny
skeleton, it's like.
You know I have to get apicture and send it to you guys
when I ride past the house again, but it's quite eventful, so my
man is ready for Halloween 24-7.
Looks like Jack Skeleton outthere, or whatever that
character is.
Nightmare on.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
So if you're like, but you know, if you just want
to ruin somebody's day, do younot take like a paintball gun
and like shoot the head so thatthey have to go clean the head?
Like just ruin everybody's day,Brilliant.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
That's such a good idea.
There's day oh brilliant.
That's brilliant.
That's such a good idea.
There's so many people thatlisten to this show over that
area.
I cannot wait I'm gonna needpictures of the paintballs that
are gonna do on this guy's housenow I do not own a paintball
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game.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Wait, wait, wait.
Do they post family photos onFacebook too?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
They post family photos as well around the
skeleton.
This guy's done.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Because then you might be triggered.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
I have no idea on that one.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
They just take family photos around the skeleton now
the skeleton's dressed the sameway.
Dressed as the skeleton.
Now, the skeletons dressed thesame way.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Dressed as the skeleton but you have to take
them like 100 feet away if theytake it from like 100 feet away,
so you can see the wholeskeleton get a drone shot of
them, oh my god, that's funnyanyways, uh, I, uh, my wife uh,
decorates for fall.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Uh, she doesn't decorate for halloween, uh, but
she decorates for fall.
She doesn't decorate forHalloween, but she decorates for
fall.
And she leaves it up throughThanksgiving, has all of her
leaves, her pumpkins, herwreaths that she puts up every
year.
And I don't hate it.
I hate, like TJ, the taking itdown is the is the hardest part.
(40:19):
But when those decorations comedown, this is where I shine,
because I'm like clark griswoldand I love decorating for
christmas and I know all out forchristmas and I can't wait for
that.
So it's like when fall comesdown, christmas gets to go up.
Uh, only problem is, um, Idon't like heights.
(40:41):
So getting up on my roof to toput the lights up has been like
the biggest chore.
But now that my son's older,it's like, all right, dude,
you're up on the roof now I'llcatch you if you fall.
But like that's just wherewe're at, I'm not getting up on
the roof, I'm getting old, andso so is that a november first
thing?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Is that, like Thanksgiving's, done.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
My wife wants to put Christmas up like November 1st.
Nope, no, this has been thebiggest fight we've had ever and
I've told her.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
December 1.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, I'll give her Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Yeah, I'll give her Black Friday.
Give her Black Friday.
Oh, I won't even do that.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
But my whole thought process is we've got to kill the
bird before the fat man needsto come out.
I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
It's its own thing.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
You've got to give it its respect.
It's one of my favoriteholidays, mainly because it's
around football and food.
It's the three F's Familyfootball and food.
It's the three Fs familyfootball and food.
My three favorite Fs that youcould have.
But every year the Christmastree comes out Earlier and
earlier.
(41:52):
She was walking behind me.
I thought I was going to getyelled at here for this part of
the Christmas tree.
I thought that was coming downmy way part of the christmas
tree.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
I thought that was coming down my way, uh, but you
gotta think about it too whenyou're decorating for christmas.
What would hurt worse?
You falling off the roof?
Are you trying to catch, likeyour 230 pound sun falling off
the roof?
I'll take the ladder.
Might be pretty painful with alot of weight bearing down on
you, like that I'll tell youthis.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Uh, my man has been living in the gym and he's under
200 pounds right now.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
We're, we're, we're doing good um won't be as
painful if you have to catch himfalling through.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
so what you were talking about, yes, would have
been when he was, you know, uhat that.
But yeah, that would definitelywould not be fun.
He's pretty agile for a biggerguy, so I'll give him that.
But he's not afraid of heightsat all, like the old man is here
.
I just don't like heights atall.
But yeah, we got way off trackat the end of this here, but we
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talked about Christmas and thefall show, but that is actually
going to do it for this week.
That's all the fall questions Ihave for this week's episode of
the Ride Home Rants podcast.
I want to thank all of myguests Wendy, tony, tj and Fitty
for joining.
I love everything about falland the weather and everything
like that, so it's good to getand talk about it here on this
platform and everything likethat.
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But, as always, if you enjoyedthe show, 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'all next week.
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is, as always, your host,Mike Bono.
I have a great guest for aguest.
I have a panel of guests for ustoday and it is becoming an
annual episode for us and I'msuper pumped to talk about it.
But it is the all things fallshow.
(00:20):
We're going to be talking aboutall things in my favorite
season of fall.
I love the weather andeverything like that.
But I'm going to let my panelof guests introduce themselves,
so I need your name.
Do you wear glasses and what isyour favorite flavor of yogurt?
And, Tony, we're going to startwith you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
My name is Tony.
I do not actually wear glasses,I'm just kidding.
I do wear glasses.
And my favorite yogurt flavoryou got to go with the classic
strawberry.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, wendy, let's go to you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, I'm Wendy, I do not wear glasses and my favorite
yogurt is the Chobani ZeroSugar Vanilla.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That was very specific and I like it.
Tj, let's go to you next.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hey, this is TJ.
I do not wear glasses but myvision has been going at
nighttime so I have somenighttime contacts, so I think
glasses are in the near future.
I guess my favorite yogurt isstrawberry banana Anything but
plain gotcha, and it'severybody's favorite.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
manager of the show fitty so everybody knows me, I'm
fitty, um, I don't wear glasses, but I'm to the age that I have
to turn the radio down to seewhere I'm going before I pull in
somewhere.
Um, so I'm to that age so Iguess I don't think that counts
as glasses, but I'm I'm donethat, old now.
Um, my favorite flavor actuallyum, I kind of got into this is
(01:51):
getting plain vanilla yogurt,putting some, um, blueberries in
there and then some granola andmixing it around and making it
a parfait.
So I guess vanilla yogurt, butwith the sides.
If I'm not doing the sides andI'm probably just doing a good
banana yogurt flavor as my jam.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I got you.
Obviously, everyone knows me,mike Bono.
I wear clear glasses to make itnot as noticeable on my face
because I used to wear contactsand I don't anymore because I
keep getting these nasty styeson my eye when I wear contacts.
So glasses are in that futurefor me now and getting to that
age, and yogurt I don't reallyeat yogurt that much anymore,
(02:33):
but when I did, it was thestrawberry banana that I would
go with.
Yeah, anything but plain for meon that fact.
But we're not here to talkabout yogurts, we're here to
talk about all things fall.
And, wendy, we're going tostart with you being our
resident realtor here.
For most people, last fall wasin 2024, was exceptionally warm
(02:56):
until almost Thanksgiving.
Do you think fall has days inthe 70s and low 80s, or what is
your feeling on?
Like a warmer fall?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Typically for here.
We usually don't get them.
We don't.
When we do, we are throwingparties like crazy, Because I
mean most of our Halloweensaround.
You know that time in theOctober time, it's in the 40s,
the 50s, it's rainy, we'rewearing jackets, we're wearing
(03:30):
rain gear, we're cold, we'rewearing boots.
So last year was awesome, butit's not usual like that for us
in our October months,unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I got you DJ.
What about you?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, I'm a big warm weather guy, so anytime we can
have warm weather, deep intooctober even you know it's
wishful thinking but intonovember I love being outside,
so that warmer weather is just ablessing.
Everybody's smiling um, youknow, watching football outside
on the porch, things like that.
So warm weather in the fall,I'm all for it.
All right, biddy what about you?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, you know, like I've lived in a lot of different
places and I lived inPennsylvania and worked in West
Virginia and been in SouthernOhio.
So like last fall was kind ofwhat I was used to in some other
places that we're all living inCleveland, but it was really
warm until like Thanksgiving.
I'm sure the panel remembers itwas 80 degrees on Halloween
last year.
It was in the 80s, high 80sthrough.
(04:33):
You know, september and Octoberhad very few bad days and
November was even really warmtoo.
So I'm a fan of it.
I'm just not a fan of whathappens with the lake when it's
that warm that long because thelake can't freeze and then we
get like the hellacious snow andwinter that we had up here was
exceptionally terrible.
So like being in cleveland, I'msure everybody would agree you
(04:57):
have to pick, like do you wantthe cold fall and the mild
winter or do you want theexceptionally warm fall and the
terrible winter?
You know for me I'd still takethe warm, super warm fall and
the terrible winter.
But you know it's kind of hardto to say what's right and
what's wrong in that sense.
But the warm, the warmer it is,the longer it is, the better it
is I got you and tony.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I gotta say as much as I kind of miss the 60s and
70s, I am not objected to warmfall nights okay, uh, I'm going
to be the only one on this paneland I am such a 50 to 70 degree
slut.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's unreal, like I absolutely love that temperature
of weather.
I'm one of those people thatcannot be cool enough.
I am always hot as it is.
So when you get me into like 50to 70 degrees, and I'm loving
every minute of it, I love thewarm weather.
Don't get me wrong, I lovesummer, uh, but this summer has
been exceptionally warm, uh, forme, um, like, even right now.
(06:00):
I mean, it was in the 80s todayhere and I'm sweating sitting
in my house when my AC set at 66degrees.
So, like, that's where I'm at.
So, yeah, give me the 50 to 70degrees and I'm happy, happy as
a lamb.
That could be.
Tony, I want to stay with youon this.
(06:21):
One Little bit could be, Iguess, controversial, I don't
want to say, but it is.
But warm or cold apple cider,what do you prefer?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I do not think that is a controversial thing at all.
I like cold apple cider.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
There's so many pumpkin spice people, apple
cider gets a little risky forpeople that like it.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh, I like cold apple cider, Honestly cold apple
cider fan.
All right, Fetty.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I'm cold apple cider too.
I'm a hot coffee fan, but I'm acold apple cider fan all the
way.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Gotcha TJ.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Damn, what is wrong with you people?
Warm apple cider, a littlewhiskey come on now.
We need a.
We need, we need, we need to,we need to clean some things up,
y'all, come on now.
We gotta get that.
Well, we gotta pour it in, putit in the microwave, get that
thing a little steaming.
Oh, that's fall there so.
(07:20):
But now I do need a coolersummer night, or I need a cool
fall night, and that goesperfect with that warm apple
cider.
So I can't be doing it on an80-degree day, but if I had
preferred or I had to choose,it's definitely warm.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Okay, wendy, what about you?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Definitely warm.
The hotter the better yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'm warm and I will mix some fireball whiskey and
then get that cinnamon in theretoo as well, like a caramel
apple type of deal going on.
That's phenomenal.
Right, there is what that is.
You got to get creativesometimes, wendy, what's your
(08:05):
favorite fall go-to place?
Uh, to visit, uh, in the fallpatterson fruit farm you said
patterson's fruit farm yep,patterson fruit farm.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm sure bitty's been there by now.
Um, it's over in chesterland.
It is the thing to do, um it's.
You can go out there to theorchards.
You can pick your own apples.
Um, you can pick out your ownpumpkins.
There's little playground area,there's little crafts for kids,
so total enjoyment foreverybody, small, older.
(08:37):
Um, they have fresh donuts.
They have, which are absolutelyamazing.
I can't eat them, eat them, butI I hear they're good.
I have an allergy to wheat.
Um, but they have fresh donuts.
They have fresh cider, warm orcold, and they have like a
little gift shop with chocolates, all kinds of things that they
(09:00):
sell, and from other localfarmers in the area too.
They bring in their produce,their honey, things like that,
and they sell it for them theretoo.
It's like the best little thingto do okay, tj what about you.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
So the first one that everybody goes to is
patterson's.
It's a phenomenal place,especially for kids.
Um, just so many activities to.
But I'm a big haunted house guy.
I love going to haunted houses,so, um, I'll send a plug.
I got um in Berea.
It's about 15 minutes away fromwhere I'm at uh, joe Boo evil
events in on Berea campground umin the fall.
(09:38):
Uh, one of the best experiencesfor haunted houses it's, um
they took over for the sevenfloors of hell and they put
their experience on thedifferent houses, so there's uh
multiple different houses there.
Um, a great, great time you gowith a couple of your buddies
and things like that, and yeah,that's a great haunted house
experience with great specialeffects.
So I'm a big haunted house guyduring the fall can't, can't
(10:00):
complain about that pretty.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
um, I'm a big Patterson's person too.
You know Wendy kind of hiteverything on the head there.
But I also really do likeMapleside Farms in Strongsville,
which is a lot of fun.
It's a different vibe thanPatterson's.
You know, there's a corn mazeand they have like vino all the
way, so it's a wine tour throughthe corn maze.
There's a lot of cool stuff forkids.
You can go up to their shop andbuy apples and some other stuff
(10:25):
.
They usually have differentfood vendors there.
I think it's the second largestslide in the world.
There down that hill you get tosee the piglets race.
It's just a really cool thingto take the tractor ride.
I'm a big fan of Patterson's,but since Wendy went with with
that, I'll go with maplesidefarms I got you all right, tony.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
well, since everybody said patterson fruit farm, I
mean I gotta throw my hat in thering as well.
Patterson fruit farm is thatplace.
I mean it's worth it to getdonuts, you get pumpkin, you get
all kind of good stuff.
One place that I'd actuallylike to throw in the ring, I
would like to throw in thisplace in Middlefield.
(11:11):
It's called the Amish CountryMarket.
That's the place out inMiddlefield.
I remember my senior year ofhigh school.
We went to Amish Country Reallygreat experience.
I think that's the name of thatplace, but I know that they had
candy and pumpkins and stuff.
So I'll have to go at thatplace in Millfield if you guys
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ever get a chance to go.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That's a great one.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, I haven't been to any of those.
I'm not going to lie to youguys here.
I'm the only one on this panelright now that doesn't live near
the Cleveland area.
It's about a two-hour drive forme, which isn't bad, but for me
it's more the nostalgia fromwhen I was younger, kind of like
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TJ there there was a greatlittle haunted house at one of
the parks back in West Virginia,at Brook Hills Park.
They always do their hauntedhouse there every year.
They have hay rides, they haveeverything that you could think
of there too as well.
It's not just the haunted house, they even have the golf course
lit up in Halloween theme andfall theme there.
(12:19):
It's pretty cool to see.
I haven't been there in years,but it's just one of those
places that I remember going toas a kid and all through high
school and everything like that.
It's just a great little placethat nobody's really ever heard
of unless you've been to WestVirginia and in that northern
panhandle type of region to knowwhere exactly it's at, because
(12:43):
it's one of those places if youblink, you miss it.
And it's awesome to to go thereand to just and just see, and a
lot of my friends worked therethrough high school too as well.
So it made it a lot moreenjoyable, I guess, for me, uh,
knowing that a bunch of myfriends were running that place
there too as well.
So it's, it's just one of thoseones for me it's the nostalgia
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of it and it's it's.
It's back home in West Virginiawhere I can't wait to get back
to.
West Virginia Falls are I don'tcare what anybody says the best.
The hills and the trees and theleaves changing and everything
like that.
I will fight that till my lastbreath.
If anybody wants to, by allmeans come at me on that one.
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I will fight you till the day Idie on that one.
West Virginia Falls areabsolutely the best falls Period
.
End of discussion on that onefor me.
But, tony, what's your favoriteapple-flavored fall treat?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, I gotta say you gotta go up to New England for
a fall.
If you want some real foliage,Go up to New Angled.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I don't know if I could go to New England.
I don't know if I can.
Actually, as somebody who grewup in West Virginia, that close
to Pittsburgh, and knowing therivalries with that, I just
don't think I could go up to NewEngland.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Respect, respect.
As far as flavors goes, this isgoing to shock some people
Apple pie.
But here's the funny thing Iactually have allergies to
apples, but I can eat apple pie.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
I'm gonna need I'm gonna needmore on that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Tony, you can't just drop something okay, I can, I
can drop some.
Well, sometimes I can eat someapples and my throat gets all
funny and stuff.
But you put a piece of applepie in my in my face.
I can eat it, no problems atall.
I'm guessing it's the same withcherries as well.
Some cherries it's bad, nobueno.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But cherry pie, my favorite dessert I'm at a loss
on that one, that's that is socrazy that I have ever been
cherished through that too.
But you put it in a pie and itdelicious and you're fine, like
that's the weirdest I mean, isit?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I gotta ask the question is it?
Is it like canned apple?
Yes, pie filling that, yes.
So it's not like chopping upreal apples, putting it in the
pie, baking it and then you caneat.
So it's not like chopping upreal apples, putting it in the
pie, baking it and then you caneat it.
It's canned.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, and if it was made a certain way, like for
instance, if you cooked applesin a certain way, I could eat it
that way.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So something in the, something in the processing
between the raw to cooked, yes,and that's the same with peaches
, Like I can eat peach cobblerpeaches.
There must be like a chemicalrelease or something.
Oh wow, that is crazy.
Okay, we'll talk offline.
(15:54):
Sorry, all right, you're fine,I'm so intrigued by this.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I'm so intrigued by this.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I might cancel the rest of these, these questions
that I have here because I needto know, like this allergy now,
because now my mind is going tobe spinning the rest of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I've heard of this, that certain people cannot eat
the raw form of something.
However, once it's been cookeddown or processed in some way,
they're able to eat it.
I think it's so crazy becausethere's just this push to get to
the most natural form, raw formof food in our society right
(16:32):
now.
And here you are on the otherend of the spectrum and I got
more before I have.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I take up all the time but I'm actually allergic
to fish.
But I can eat shrimp, crab legs, oysters.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Everybody can eat shrimp and crab legs, I mean
come on, now, you can't go wrongwith that, even if?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I ever grow an allergy to shrimp and crab legs,
I will die a happy man.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
There's no way, I'm not getting that.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
That's just I need.
Okay, we, tony, I gotta knowmore about this.
But, bitty, what apple treats?
Do you have any allergies thatwe need to know about now, since
we're just on allergies?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
no, I just got some, uh, medical allergies to
medicine.
Um, nothing with food, I don't.
I don't know about, let meknock on wood here, but um,
probably my favorite flavoredapple tree.
I really do like apple-flavoreddonuts.
That's my jam right there,apple-flavored donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You can't go wrong with that at all, tj, what about
you?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I assume Apple Jacks is off the table.
I'll allow it.
I'm not above that.
I'll say, I mean, honestly, Ijust an apple man, just a normal
.
Give me an apple, slice them up.
You can throw an apple inanything.
So I'm not.
I mean, I'm not.
I don't get too fancy with it,man.
(17:52):
Apple cider I still like theapple cider and all the things
you can do with that, but Idon't need to get too fancy.
Give me an apple a day.
Keeps the doctor away or youknow, just not having to pay
into health insurance.
But yeah, either way, I'll keepit going.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Wendy, what about you ?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I was going to say apple pie, dutch apple pie, but
since that was already said, I'mgoing to go with apple fritter,
because that's a close secondoh yeah, I need those those
aren't all.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Those are great.
Give me a good caramel applethough.
You know what I mean.
You can't go wrong with a goodcaramel apple, especially in the
fall that would be for me, butit sucks.
I can't not because of Tony'sreasons.
I can't eat apples like normalpeople like I have to cut them
up.
At a very young age I had andthis is going back again.
(18:51):
I'm going to hear a lot of theWest Virginia jokes but I
actually have two fake teeth inthe front of my mouth so I can't
bite into anything like that.
It will rip them completely outof my mouth.
So I have to, like a child, cutmy apples up, want to eat an
apple so that I can actuallyhave it.
(19:13):
I can't just bite into it andyeah, it's been since I was a um
, since I was junior high, likeI had to have them and it's it's
a bridge.
That's literally next to my twofront teeth and I can't.
I can't bite into apples.
I love apples and, but Ihaven't actually eaten one in
(19:34):
forever because I feel like achild bringing out that.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, bring out the thing my apples up to have to
eat them.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's just a pride thing for me.
At 36 years old, I got to cutmy apples up, the same way I do
for my baby, nieces and nephews.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's okay, we're not judging.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I judge myself six ways from Sunday, wendy.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't, Iwouldn't blame you guys if you
did at all.
Um, but okay, wendy, what's themost overrated thing about?
Fall for you?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Okay, pumpkin spice, anything.
Pumpkin spice anything.
I mean it's everywhere.
It's in room sprays, it's inplugins, it's in car fresheners,
it's in food seasoning, ineverything.
(20:35):
It's literally everything.
It's in cold foam.
You can buy pumpkin spiceanything, even clothing, coffee
mugs.
It's everywhere.
It's like a thing, and I'm soover it.
I don't even like it.
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But, tj, I'll give you my thoughts here in a minute
, because I have a big rantabout that.
But, tj, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
That was the first one that came to my mind.
Pumpkin spice, I'm telling you.
And I sat there trying to thinkof like, okay, let me try the
drink.
I'm like you know, you know,there's nothing that intrigued
me about it, there's nothingthat hooked me about it.
But I'm telling you I don't.
I just I'm not a fan of coldnights.
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So I mean, I mean I'm good withwearing a sweatshirt, but
overrated is when it gets coldat night.
Um, you know, under that 50degrees, because you know, if
you all week, then we can gooutside with the campfire and
everything.
I'm like I still would ratherbe outside in a short sleeve
shirt or just like a light, alight three quarter sleeve shirt
.
So rather be outside in a shortsleeve shirt or just like a
(21:41):
light, a light three-quartersleeve shirt.
So I don't like the cold nights, um, but yeah, pumpkin slice is
probably.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Pumpkin spice, probably number one.
You need to invest in flannels,then I'm just gonna tell you
that you don't need.
It's so much better.
Uh, fitty.
What about you though?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
you know what, what I find probably most overrated
about fall and this goes intolike a whole optics thing and I
could have a whole show on thisbut like everybody's like
smiling and super happy and like, oh, I'm at the pumpkin patch
Let me post this on social media, cause I have the coolest life
ever and I'm in that place.
Like you give the optics thatyour life is perfect and no
(22:13):
one's life is perfect, right,but you get this perception of
that and then it's not true butit becomes reality.
So, like, my pet peeve aboutlike what's probably most
overrated about fall is peopleposting all these pictures like
family pictures in the corn orfamily pictures in the pumpkin
with my dog and my life'sperfect and look, we all match
and our dog's perfect and myhouse is perfect, and that's
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probably what drives me the mostnuts about fall.
Just be a genuine self.
No one really cares about yourpicture in the fall in front of
the cornfield.
Um, just, nobody really cares.
Just be you and just enjoy itand just just be quiet about it,
like that's.
That's my rant on that for theday, but I can go into a whole
spiel about that, about opticsand perception versus reality
and social media and things likethat.
(22:57):
So that's it.
No one cares about yourpictures in front of the pumpkin
patch.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I now have two things .
I need to go on, but I want toget to Tony first.
Tony, overrated for fall.
What about you?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
The Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
They're only overrated in the summertime,
when we have hope.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, I'm a New Orleans Saints fan.
We got our own issues.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You got to deal with the Buccaneers.
That's your issue.
Twice a year, all right.
So Wendy brought it up first.
I'm going to get into that.
Pumpkin spice is the devil.
I absolutely hate pumpkin spiceand it's because it's.
(23:46):
It's everywhere.
September hits and even beforeSeptember my boss was coming
into work and she had like alittle bit more pep in her step
one day and I was like you're ina good mood for 8 am, like
you're never in this good of amood for 8 am, and she was like,
oh, they brought back pumpkinspice at uh Starbucks already
and it's on my way in, so I gotmy pumpkin spice.
I was like, see, now we'regonna have a bad day here today,
(24:08):
so excited that pumpkin spiceis out in August and that's just
not okay with me.
Um, and yeah, I this is this ismy wife's favorite saying, but
it doesn't blow my skirt up, youknow what I mean like it's it's
not doing it for me like it's.
It's not that great it's.
You know I'm not a big fan ofpumpkin flavored anything really
(24:34):
.
Um, so like pumpkin spice andlike it.
It bugs me sometimes to evenclean out pumpkins when we're
carving pumpkins with my niece,like we do every year.
Um, and so I don't like that atall.
Um, so I'm not gonna drink oreat anything pumpkin spice.
But yeah, the the fad thateveryone is and it's such a
(24:58):
basic white girl drink too aswell too, like, we'll go there
too.
We're already down this road.
It's such like it's just yousee them, and it's going to go
tie me right into Fitty's rantthat I'm going to go on here in
a second too as well about thefake people on the internet and
the not living your life.
(25:18):
But it's such a basic.
I got my pumpkin spice andwe're in the pumpkin patch and
now we're all going to takepictures together.
No, it's just no Like, yeah, Ijust people like that post all
those pictures and stuff.
Like Finney was saying, it'sjust, it's just, y'all started,
(25:39):
y'all triggered me.
I, I'm gonna say those twocomments and I didn't think we
were to get to here, but we'rehere now and this is the room
we're gonna live in for anotherminute or two, uh, but yeah,
like I see all the peopleposting and it's already
starting that, uh, it's just ohwell, we're out here in this
cornfield and everybody hastheir matching flannels on, and
(26:01):
even the dog has a flannelbandana around it and we're
taking a picture together and itjust looks all great and it's
like I know you, your life is acrapshoot.
Why are we acting like it's notright now, like let's just call
a spade a spade, and let's justcall a spade a spade, and let's
just just not act like we're soperfect.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
We're not.
Well.
Do you think about it the thing?
Think about the process Right.
Every group picture that I'veever taken has always taken
twice as long as it ever needsto take and there's so much
detail that goes into it thatdoesn't need to be had.
It's a miserable experience.
No, no group picture has everbeen like oh my gosh, that was
great.
One one shot.
No, especially if you'regetting dressed up with your
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family, it's never just one anddone you know what I can't wait
for?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
my sister does this every freaking year, uh, with my
nephews and my niece, and justshe has to have everybody has to
match and they have to take thepicture, and it's, I guess
she's.
I hope she hears this episodebecause I, like I cannot wait
for her response because Iabsolutely I I've told her once
(27:12):
before like this was recentlytoo, because she posted the
picture and like things weregoing on and we're not going to
get into that, but it's justlike.
It's like your life's notperfect.
I get it, like nobody's is, butlike just stop.
I could see the hate in mynephew's face, like mom made me
dress up the same and take thissame picture every year and I
(27:37):
hate it and I and I can't standit.
And I told her um, that is likethis is, this is the worst
thing I said.
I told her, if I could dislikea picture on instagram, if there
was a dislike button oninstagram, I would.
I would be repeatedly.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Your own family.
I love my sister to death.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Let's not get this twisted.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I love my sister to death.
She does the family pictures.
It drives me up a freaking wall.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's hilarious, mike.
You gotta bring this up in oneof your sets.
You gotta bring this up in oneof your sets, you don't think
this is coming up on stage sets.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
You gotta do someone.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
You don't think this is coming up on stage, man, I
swear it's like a sitcom.
I see these people dressed upand all this, just like, oh my
god, just take your picture andgo somewhere, please.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Let the rest of us enjoy this.
And then they're in the waythey're all in the way.
You're like move, take yourpicture off, and then they're in
the way, they're all in the wayyou're like move like this
picture.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I need my hot chocolate galloway I'll take
that to my grave too.
Hot chocolate is better thananything I like it with milk,
though and you gotta, you gottahave the marshmallows.
You're just a sociopath.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
We'll talk about that there with milk, though you got
to have the marshmallows If youdon't have the marshmallows.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're just a sociopath.
We'll talk about that there.
I got way off track with thatbecause that just set me down a
rabbit hole.
We're going to stick with thepumpkin theme, apparently, for
these ones here.
These last couple of questionshere.
I think I know where everyoneis.
But, tony, we'll start with you.
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Pumpkin flavored coffee fanhell, no, yeah, I think I know
the answer to this one, fannynot a fan of it like I.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I only really like like pumpkin seeds and pumpkin
pie.
I don't really like pumpkin.
Donuts are okay, but I'm not I.
I don't like really flavoredcoffee, except the white
chocolate mocha from starbucks.
That's about it gotcha tj yeah,I mean pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
It's such a dominant flavor it just takes over.
So no, I mean, I'm okay pumpkinpie, I'm cool with pumpkin pie,
uh, but pumpkin flavored coffee, I'm gonna pass on it every
time I got you.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Wendy.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Nope, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You mentioned that at the start of the rant.
That just seems a bit terrible.
It's been a part of fiveminutes that I just it's okay,
you got it out.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Hey, let it all out.
Mike, Just write home the rant.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, Wendy, what are your thoughts on pumpkin seeds?
Are they overrated orunderrated?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Pumpkin seeds.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Seeds yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Oh, I do like pumpkin seeds.
I feel like they're underrated.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Okay, tj, completely underrated.
I mean, you get so many of thembut they're just a pain in the
ass to get them out of thepumpkin.
For me, I always get it outwhen we're carving, mom always
put it in the ass to get themout of the pumpkin.
For me, I was always getting itout when we were carving, mom
always put it in the oven anddude all night.
You just were munching onpumpkin seeds every time you
walked by.
But completely underrated.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Okay, fetty, you kind of already mentioned it there.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Yeah, I love pumpkin seeds.
I think to me they're betterthan sunflower seeds and they're
not as much work.
You can just eat the wholepumpkin seed itself instead of
trying to break them open andtry to eat a sunflower seed.
So yeah, I'm a huge pumpkinseed fan.
I don't do the whole baconthing, though, like TJ brought
up.
I just get them out of thepackage and pop them in and eat
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them.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I got you Tony.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I have no comment because I don't like pumpkin
seeds.
All right, no comment.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I'll take that one.
I don't really eat them.
I will eat them.
Lately we've been actuallytrying to grow our own pumpkins
because we're tired of buyingthem for every year.
Okay, my sister and niece comedown for our annual pumpkin
carving that we do every year.
So we've been just taking theseeds and dumping them in our
(31:41):
garden and hoping to God we getsomething.
We've gotten one pumpkin everyyear, so I mean it.
It always is just like a littlesmall one that goes to my niece
.
That's easy for her to carve.
But we try every year just tohave our own pumpkin so that
we're not buying them every year.
(32:01):
But we're getting there withthat and we're going to round
out the show, tony, with thisone.
Do you decorate for fall and ifso, what do you normally put
out for decorations?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I decorate nothing, I put nothing out.
That just sounded hateful.
Like I decorate nothing, I putnothing out.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
That just sounded hateful.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Like I decorate nothing, I'm a Saints fan.
I just deal with this.
I'm a Saints fan who's goingthrough it right now.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
You blame the Saints for fall.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Everything about fall Betty.
What about you?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I mean when I was, you know, single, I never really
decorated for fall.
But my wife really likes todecorate, so we have our
decorations and we'll get somepumpkins from Patterson's, which
are really cool, and they havelike the mini pumpkins and like
the little squashes and stufflike that, so we'll get those
and put them around the house.
But I mean I think like thecool thing about decorating for
fall is like you can have it upthrough Halloween if you choose,
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and you can really have it upto Thanksgiving.
So it's not like decorationsthat you like put up and have to
take down like in three or fourweeks.
It's something you can reallykind of have the whole year.
And I think it's cool whenpeople have wreaths and
different things like that, youknow, out there.
I think it adds a niceaesthetic to homes.
Maybe they make some kind ofpop and those flowers are
(33:24):
changing and trees are changingand, you know, leaves are on the
ground.
So, yeah, I mean we likedecorating for fall.
It's a pretty good time.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Okay, dj, I'm actually if me and Tony agree on
this one don't like decorating.
I don't particularly payattention to decorations.
I don't know why people needthe approval of other people
looking at their decorations.
So this is my wife all the way,and just random things go up
when I'm out of the house andI'm like oh, where'd that come
(33:52):
from?
And so you know, I'm big on,I'm not big on.
But I am called upon to takedown the decorations, which
makes me even more irritated.
But no, I'm not, I'm big on,I'm not big on.
But I am called upon to takedown the decorations, which
makes me even more irritated.
But no, I'm not, I'm not.
I don't have a need to decorate.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I got you.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Well before Wendy goes on.
So but TJ, what does your wifeput out for decorations?
Just like, did you put apumpkin?
Yeah, we have the pumpkins.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
We have the things on the window, like the window
stickers.
She'll have her own littleinflatable.
We have a little flag in frontof our house that we change for
each thing.
Um, yeah, no, there's, there'sdecorations out there.
There's, they're, they're outthere.
It's just, I mean, it's notoutrageous, it's not like we're
spending thousands of dollars inelectric bills, but, um, it
sits there and she likes to gothrough the seasons and
(34:35):
different things that happen.
So she has a little bit, alittle bit of everything for
everything.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Um, but yeah, I mean, I think, but most of the
decorations inside the house arewhat really drastically change,
like she'll bring out thedifferent pillows, she'll bring
out the different, um, like, uh,like, tablecloths and things
like that isn't it always funny,though, like when, when you are
like in a relationship and youdo decorate, like, it's always
like, oh, let's decorate on thisreally beautiful day, and it's
(34:59):
like, hey, let's take thedecorations down on, like the
coldest just the worst daythat's ever happened ever.
And then it's muddy andsomething breaks and you're out
there with like a shovel or ahammer vacuum stops working,
like so much the thing.
When you take it down, you know, and it's always just bad
weather.
But it's like when you putstuff up it's usually always
great and's like happy.
(35:19):
And then you take it down andthen, yeah, you just flip out
because you're angry.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Well, I'm just sitting there waiting for, okay.
Which one of this is my fault?
Again, it's something aroundhere.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I'm trying to figure out what it is.
You two are speaking fromexperience.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Wendy, do you decorate?
We'll get your opinion, beingthe only female on the panel
here for this one All right.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So I will say this I'm usually not a decorator.
I like to be very, very minimaland I'm in this very big
clearing phase of my life whereI'm just getting rid of summer
stuff.
So for many years I have chosennot to decorate.
However, this year, this pastwinter, I went and got a
(36:02):
Christmas tree and someChristmas decorations and then
this year I've already decoratedtwice inside the house and I
put a wreath on the door so thatthat counts for something.
So it's very small, like littlebit of stuff here and there.
More of a color base, some moreof like amber and gold of stuff
(36:24):
here and there, more of a colorbase, so more of like amber and
gold, um, uh, colored bases andthings like that is.
And decorations that I pulledout, um, that kind of, are all
on led candles and things likethat.
So simple, not like characterpumpkins and you know, happy
halloween stuff.
No, that I can't, I can't, Ican't do any of that.
So I just need kind of simple,very minimal and I'm happy just
(36:47):
playing.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, so, bono, around the corner from our house
, our neighbor down the streethas like a 50, maybe 75, I don't
know, I'll say 50 foot skeletonin his front yard, giant
skeleton.
It keeps out year round and heactually decorates it for all
the different holidays, so likeit's a giant skeleton.
But it was like decorated forchristmas giant skeleton,
(37:10):
decorated for easter giantskeleton, decorated for fall,
decorated for halloween.
And I'm like, oh my, that'sinsane, you know I'm like, is it
that hard to take down becauseit's been up for a year and
you've decorated every holidaythat we've had, including, like
the fourth of july, to like athat's a good, like a happy
fourth of july giant skeleton,I'm like it has.
(37:32):
Well, 10 goes with the fourthof july theme.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I don't know, it has to, it has to be, it has to be
that hard to take down, becauseI've seen a couple myself too
that are year-round up in areas.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I have a co-worker.
She's obsessed with Halloweenand she's already started her
decorating for Halloween and shehas this big 12-foot skeleton
riding a skeleton horse that sheput up that she's going to be
pictures of, that she hasdressed like the Grim Reaper and
she was just telling me the howhard it was to get that up.
(38:06):
And so, 50 foot yeah, if I'mputting up a 50 foot skeleton,
that son of a bitch is stayingup here.
You know, as soon as he's up, heis like he's part of the house
now, Like I'm not taking himdown.
So we're going to make the bestof it.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
And he's like wide too, Like it's not like a skinny
skeleton, it's like.
You know I have to get apicture and send it to you guys
when I ride past the house again, but it's quite eventful, so my
man is ready for Halloween 24-7.
Looks like Jack Skeleton outthere, or whatever that
character is.
Nightmare on.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
So if you're like, but you know, if you just want
to ruin somebody's day, do younot take like a paintball gun
and like shoot the head so thatthey have to go clean the head?
Like just ruin everybody's day,Brilliant.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
That's such a good idea.
There's day oh brilliant.
That's brilliant.
That's such a good idea.
There's so many people thatlisten to this show over that
area.
I cannot wait I'm gonna needpictures of the paintballs that
are gonna do on this guy's housenow I do not own a paintball
(39:19):
game.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Wait, wait, wait.
Do they post family photos onFacebook too?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
They post family photos as well around the
skeleton.
This guy's done.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Because then you might be triggered.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
I have no idea on that one.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
They just take family photos around the skeleton now
the skeleton's dressed the sameway.
Dressed as the skeleton.
Now, the skeletons dressed thesame way.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Dressed as the skeleton but you have to take
them like 100 feet away if theytake it from like 100 feet away,
so you can see the wholeskeleton get a drone shot of
them, oh my god, that's funnyanyways, uh, I, uh, my wife uh,
decorates for fall.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Uh, she doesn't decorate for halloween, uh, but
she decorates for fall.
She doesn't decorate forHalloween, but she decorates for
fall.
And she leaves it up throughThanksgiving, has all of her
leaves, her pumpkins, herwreaths that she puts up every
year.
And I don't hate it.
I hate, like TJ, the taking itdown is the is the hardest part.
(40:19):
But when those decorations comedown, this is where I shine,
because I'm like clark griswoldand I love decorating for
christmas and I know all out forchristmas and I can't wait for
that.
So it's like when fall comesdown, christmas gets to go up.
Uh, only problem is, um, Idon't like heights.
(40:41):
So getting up on my roof to toput the lights up has been like
the biggest chore.
But now that my son's older,it's like, all right, dude,
you're up on the roof now I'llcatch you if you fall.
But like that's just wherewe're at, I'm not getting up on
the roof, I'm getting old, andso so is that a november first
thing?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Is that, like Thanksgiving's, done.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
My wife wants to put Christmas up like November 1st.
Nope, no, this has been thebiggest fight we've had ever and
I've told her.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
December 1.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, I'll give her Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Yeah, I'll give her Black Friday.
Give her Black Friday.
Oh, I won't even do that.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
But my whole thought process is we've got to kill the
bird before the fat man needsto come out.
I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
It's its own thing.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
You've got to give it its respect.
It's one of my favoriteholidays, mainly because it's
around football and food.
It's the three F's Familyfootball and food.
It's the three Fs familyfootball and food.
My three favorite Fs that youcould have.
But every year the Christmastree comes out Earlier and
earlier.
(41:52):
She was walking behind me.
I thought I was going to getyelled at here for this part of
the Christmas tree.
I thought that was coming downmy way part of the christmas
tree.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
I thought that was coming down my way, uh, but you
gotta think about it too whenyou're decorating for christmas.
What would hurt worse?
You falling off the roof?
Are you trying to catch, likeyour 230 pound sun falling off
the roof?
I'll take the ladder.
Might be pretty painful with alot of weight bearing down on
you, like that I'll tell youthis.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Uh, my man has been living in the gym and he's under
200 pounds right now.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
We're, we're, we're doing good um won't be as
painful if you have to catch himfalling through.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
so what you were talking about, yes, would have
been when he was, you know, uhat that.
But yeah, that would definitelywould not be fun.
He's pretty agile for a biggerguy, so I'll give him that.
But he's not afraid of heightsat all, like the old man is here
.
I just don't like heights atall.
But yeah, we got way off trackat the end of this here, but we
(42:56):
talked about Christmas and thefall show, but that is actually
going to do it for this week.
That's all the fall questions Ihave for this week's episode of
the Ride Home Rants podcast.
I want to thank all of myguests Wendy, tony, tj and Fitty
for joining.
I love everything about falland the weather and everything
like that, so it's good to getand talk about it here on this
platform and everything likethat.
(43:17):
But, as always, if you enjoyedthe show, 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'all next week.
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