An Easter Roundtable: Traditions, Treats, and Childhood Nostalgia

When the cozy traditions of Easter weave into conversations, you know it's bound to be a roundtable to remember. Stepping in for Mike Bono, I'm Fiddy, and I was thrilled to host an Easter Roundtable with a dynamic mix of past guests who lit up the discussion with their personal memories and traditions. From the pressures of childhood church speeches to the adaptation of celebrations amidst loss, our panel—JJ Phillips, Brandon Wiley, Chris Marsco, Shannon Stewart, Jason Bickel, and Rusty Bliss—brought the tapestry of their lives to the table, offering insights on everything from favorite holiday foods to how Easter ranks among other festive days in their hearts.

Who knew that Easter could spark such a heartfelt debate on the best candies and springtime flicks? This episode is a treasure trove of nostalgia and laughter, peppered with tales of festive pancakes, adult-themed egg hunts, and even the mischievous expansion of Peeps in the microwave. As we reminisced about past Easters, our panel highlighted the nuances of celebrating in various climates and the joy found in simple seasonal activities like coaching flag football. And you won't want to miss the spirited banter over which Easter treat reigns supreme, or the passion that ignites when deciding whether "The Sandlot" or "The Goonies" is the ultimate childhood movie.

Wrapping up with an enticing movie debate, it's clear that the Easter holiday holds a special place in our lives, whether we’re reflecting on poignant family gatherings, embracing new traditions, or just enjoying the onset of spring. Big thanks to JJ, Brandon, Jason, Chris, Rusty, and Shannon for joining us, and to you, our listeners, for tuning in. As this episode comes to a close, we hope you're leaving with a smile and perhaps a new perspective on how to celebrate this Easter, whether you're a Reese's egg enthusiast or gearing up for your own version of a Dyngus Day festivity. Happy Easter, everyone!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:18

Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is your special guest host Fitty, as I'm filling in for Mike Bono today, he is actually out at a comedy show, so I'm going to be bringing to you a brand-new episode our very first one ever of an Easter roundtable talking all things Easter. We've done every other holiday, so it's time to do Easter. Before we get into the show, make sure you guys peep all the sponsors in the pre-roll and the post-roll, all small business owners. They're all great supporters of the show. Please support them and support Ride Home Rants, the podcast.

Speaker 1: 2:51

Without further ado, we bring you the very first annual 2024 Easter Roundtable. I have a bunch of great guests who have been on one other time, up to five or six other times. Some of them have been on together. Some of them are just meeting each other for the first time, so we have a great panel here. They're going to give you a lot of insight to their backgrounds with Easter and all things Easter related. Without further ado, I'm going to let the guests take it away. They're going to introduce themselves, tell you about themselves and where they're from. Jj, let's start with you.

Speaker 2: 3:19

Hey, I'm JJ Phillips from Austin town, ohio, quality inspector, actually company joy working out eating food and just and just basically just hanging out with Dylan being an old guy.

Speaker 1: 3:36

That's all right. We all, we all get old one day. So, brandon, let's go to you next.

Speaker 3: 3:42

Yes, sir, I'm Brandon Wiley. I'm out of ERAPA. I'm a licensed mental health therapist. I've worked at the Department of Veteran Affairs for the past seven years, but my main passion is my business, opened Eyes, which I'm the executive director of, and we do consultant-based work and program delivery and implementation on leadership, development and diversity, equity and inclusion okay, chris marsco, you're next hey, I'm chris marsco.

Speaker 4: 4:13

I'm from uh, courtland, ohio, originally, now reside in warren. I'm an intervention specialist uh currently at lordstown high school. I have a resource room and this will also be my 10th season upcoming as a football coach. Got my start as a college level coach at youngstown state under bo pelini, and then I've also spent time at niles mckinley and uh, most recently matthews high school, and this year I'll be at Mineral Ridge.

Speaker 5: 4:47

OK, shannon, you're next. Hi, I'm Shannon Stewart. I'm a licensed mental health therapist for the federal government as well. I work for the Department of Veterans Affairs. I'm also the co-founder of Open Eyes, which is the organization that Brandon had mentioned, and I'm just a really good time. I'm looking forward to this conversation today. Love to laugh, so I've been looking forward to hanging out with you guys tonight and having a good conversation.

Speaker 6: 5:12

Jason. Hi, my name is Jason Bickle. I currently live in Wycliffe. I'm a plant manager at a manufacturing company. We make steel snowplow blades. Also, we're just joined by my brother's nonprofit organization called PGG. We raise money for football programs and I'm also a recruiter for APR and football coach. I'm back north again. Defensive coordinator. Have a good year, okay.

Speaker 1: 5:41

You going to be south this year?

Speaker 7: 5:43

coordinator have a good year. Okay, and you're gonna be south this year. I hope you do, because I don't.

Speaker 1: 5:48

I'm not a fan of south book leave it to rusty rusty, take it away not to hey, my name is rusty bliss.

Speaker 7: 5:56

I live here in willoughby. I am a uh airline pilot by trade and a travel softball and high school softball coach here in Willoughby. Father of three, they keep me very busy, even though they're all able to get out and do their own thing. But my family comes first and that's the thing that keeps me going, for sure.

Speaker 1: 6:20

Well, that's awesome. We have a lot of great guests here today Going to bring you a lot of different you know experiences with their Easter. You know some are parents, some are expecting parents, some are married, some aren't married, you know. So it's going to be a pretty unique background. Some are originally where they grew up, some are in new places. So a lot of different information we're going to get from everybody today. But, as always, again, I am Fiddy, the special guest host, manager of the Ride Home Rants podcast. So we're going to start with JJ and then go to Brandon, chris, shannon, jason and Rusty on the order of the questions. Okay, so number one where does Easter rank as your favorite holiday in the year? Now, there's a lot of holidays in the year, but where does easter rank in your personal favorites? Jj?

Speaker 2: 7:05

oh man, it's probably down towards the bottom. I'm not even gonna lie. I mean, easter brings back a lot of memories, just uh, trying to stay up all night the night before trying to memorize my easter speech because I couldn't read it from the paper, because my grandparents wouldn't let me. So I mean, if you messed it up, it was just so embarrassing because you're up there in front of the whole church trying to say it and it's just the worst thing ever.

Speaker 1: 7:32

So, yeah, down towards the bottom for me all right, brandon as he makes his grilled cheese sandwich. Brandon, where's the Easter rank for?

Speaker 3: 7:40

you man. Um, so I'd have to say like so, when I was, when I was like a practicing catholic and and I've not talked about this before, I don't really practice catholicism anymore, but when I was a practicing catholic it was. It's still up there for me just because I'm still rooted in catholic. I would say it's probably like 4th or 5th. I'm a Halloween, christmas, thanksgiving type of guy, first and foremost. So you know it probably comes like right after that. It's still an important thing. I appreciate the deeper meaning behind Easter and so, yeah, I'd rank it around there.

Speaker 1: 8:21

Okay, chris, where does Easter rank for you in your favorite holidays?

Speaker 4: 8:28

So I'm glad I had some time to think about this because I really do love Easter as a practicing Catholic. Still, you know it's a really big day in the Catholic calendar and I know there's always an excitement about Easter. As many times I've given up sweets, you know I wake up and start smashing Reese's a lot of the time. So that's always a special day and this is no slight to Easter. But I'd probably have to place it third. And it's just a calendar thing too. The weather is sometimes nice, sometimes not. But Thanksgiving I'd put one you got football, family and food, hard to beat that in my priority list. And then Christmas I'd say it's just a little bit over Easter because you got the hype. There's hype, there's songs, there's decorations, more build up. And then do love Easter, though Now that I'm not in college I'd say it's probably surpassed Halloween okay, shannon, how about you?

Speaker 1: 9:28

where does Easter rank on your favorite holiday list?

Speaker 5: 9:32

so for me I would honestly put Easter a little lower on the totem pole, primarily because I feel like when I was younger it used used to be so much fun, you know, going to church with my family, dying eggs, looking forward to getting a basket, doing the Easter egg hunt, things like that. But as I've gotten older I've kind of gotten away from those type of things. From the religious or spiritual side, I'm still a spiritual person but I pray and do those things every day. So certain holidays you know that are have that religious background to it kind of just go to the bottom for me for that reason. But I am an expecting parent, I'm about to have my first child and I feel like because of that I'm gonna get that childlike excitement back again to do like the easter egg hunts, diet eggs, create a basket, all types of things like that. So right now it's low, but if we do this podcast next year that might, might change.

Speaker 1: 10:22

Well, danny, congratulations on expecting your first child. I know a couple other of the guests just had their first child and a couple more or their fourth child, I should say, and a couple more expecting their second one. So everybody here is a parent and I know it's a little bit different of a meaning for everybody with that. So it's great. But congratulations to all of you who are going to be parents again or parents for the first time. So to the newly founded dad in the group for number four, jason, take it away on this question when does Easter rank as one of your favorite holidays?

Speaker 6: 10:58

Easter. I'm going to touch down a little bit. Easter is up there. Christmas is probably number one, but Easter might be two or three and it's really based on the excitement of the kids. If the kids are, if it's one, they get around. And you know, coloring Easter eggs and all the you know the Easter bunny and the whole thing, that that that kind of adds to the excitement. I don't think any, you know, they're all kind of the same. To me there's like certain food for this one or that one and then like other Thanksgiving, that one's, you know, pretty awesome. But if the kids get into it it definitely adds to it. And my house is pretty excited about the Easter bunny and colored eggs.

Speaker 1: 11:31

So it's up there, Sure and Rusty. Round us out on this one. Where does Easter rank as one of your favorite holidays?

Speaker 7: 11:43

All right, it's a top three, for sure. It's a traditional thing with our family. You know, everybody always would gather at grandma's and everybody had their part. Everybody bring something, everybody do something. So you're getting together with your, your cousins, your aunts and uncles, and, like everybody's mentioned the calendar. So we had Thanksgiving, christmas and then Easter was the big one, so, but now everybody's dying off.

Speaker 7: 12:03

I don't want to sound crass, but so now we're having to try to redevelop it and reorganize it amongst our relatives. So we're bringing it, we keep that tradition. So now we have we. It kind of rotates to who's going to host it and everything else, but it's more of a traditional thing, um, but the best thing is it's spring's knocking on the door, man, so it's baseball, softball season, so it's it's opening the door to that. So it's spring's knocking on the door, man, so it's baseball softball season, so it's opening the door to that. So it's a whole other thing. Christmas is nice, but you know you got to get through January and February. Now we're coming in here in March and April and it's like we know what's next. So maybe snow until June, but it's opening the door to a whole new season and it's more of a traditional thing for us.

Speaker 1: 12:46

Gotcha. Yeah, you know, and actually some of you have touched upon and I'm actually going to. It brings us to the second question. So Easter is constantly changing its date from year to year based on the religious calendar, Right, Not not a hard world calendar, but the religious calendar. So in your opinion, because Easter, you know, has been in March, it's been in early April, it's been in late April, Like what is the best month and you know date, in your opinion to have Easter JJ.

Speaker 2: 13:15

I would probably say April, just because I mean, well, we're in Ohio, so the weather, I mean it could be snow or it could be 60, 70 degrees. So I mean it's just I don't know, I'm just used to. It just seems like it should be in April. But it's just a personal preference for me.

Speaker 1: 13:35

Sure Brandon.

Speaker 3: 13:38

I feel like growing up, I was just always, I feel like it was always in April, like I didn't even think about, like I don't think Easter started happening in March until I became an adult. At least that's in my mind, that's how I feel. So I'm like I've always associated with April. So since I've been older and realizing like Easter happens in March, sometimes like when does this happen? Is this something new? But yeah, I don't know. Know, it's just the association april and easter seem to be be like connected. It's like peanut butter and jelly. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 14:10

So I, I don't know, I prefer it in april, all right, that's a good analogy for it, chris, what about you on this?

Speaker 4: 14:17

you say april too. Um, now april's look different the older I've gone to. I don't whether you believe in global warming or not, but it's like not as miserable to live up here anymore, like the weather is kind of getting more mild, more early, so I don't really have a problem with it being as early as it is now, because you can still get a nice sunny day where it's beautiful out. But uh, I have another reason. I really like Easter so much too too, not just their religious aspects, but normally works in conjunction with the Masters too. And, like Rusty said, you know, that kind of means springs right around the corner, and so I kind of like when it falls, like you know, back to back or when it works well with the Masters. But I like that Associating it with April, like Brandon says. I don't know, it just seems right to me.

Speaker 1: 15:05

Okay, shannon, what about you? Because you're in like two really cold places where you grew up and you know where you're at now. So is it really better if it's March or April for you? Yeah, right.

Speaker 5: 15:15

It should be in June forever, but that's an option. So I would go with April. There's just something about easter and I think it's like the colors. You know spring, the flowers are here, the pastel look and those are kind of the same colors that you use when you're dyeing eggs or coloring eggs and things like that. Plus, I also associated with spring break in college. You know, spring break was a little wild, but that's not what this podcast is about. But I always thought of that. I was looking forward to april for that reason, like we're getting a break, we're getting out of here, we're going somewhere warm, so I'm gonna vote. April is the best time to celebrate easter okay, jason, what about you?

Speaker 6: 15:52

yeah, I agree, the later the better, because I'm good of having to plant easter eggs for a hunt. It's not fun to you, can't do it in the snow, it's not good Cause one of the kids see your tracks so you'd be blown right there and thomping around through the mud and everything. That's no good. So the better the ground, better the hunt. So later the better.

Speaker 1: 16:12

Okay, and Rusty, what about you? April, for sure, better weather, yeah, okay, see, and I think everybody would agree april is better. It's a funny thing, though, when I was, when I was going through these topics and what we were going to come up with here, I thought back to and some of you were in college at this time, I remember but easter of 2008 was the earliest easter in like 150 years, and it was actually like in, I think, the second or third uh weekend of march, to the point that when I was in college at bethany, our spring break coincided with easter. It was like the craziest thing ever, and that easter, I think, according to the calendar, won't happen again for like another hundred years. Being that early, I want to say it was like march 17th, that's how early that was, but that's uh, it was a little cold that year. We'll just say that, so, all right.

Speaker 1: 17:08

Next one, and everybody here is a foodie, and we're going to start off with jj because he is a foodie here. If you had to pick, what is your one favorite easter food?

Speaker 2: 17:20

um that's a tough one. I got a lot of favorites. Um, I'm gonna go with ham. I'm gonna go with ham. It gotta be the ham. I mean, there's just something about it. It just I don't know. It's just not easier for me if we don't got a ham. I mean it just, you just gotta have it okay, brandon, what uh?

Speaker 1: 17:41

what about you?

Speaker 3: 17:43

um, I don't, I don't do pork anymore, uh. So I mean, I maybe at a time I would have said ham, but I'm all, I'm a pasta guy. For some reason eastern pasta go go hand in hand. So that's the, that's my italian side coming out of me.

Speaker 1: 18:00

So that's definitely your italian side that's what all the time people was like it's coming up here, but, brandon, go ahead and finish this out, is it? What type of pasta?

Speaker 3: 18:11

it's pasta. I mean, growing up that was what we did for christmas, like my mom's side of the family is, they're italian 100 um and that's you know. It was just kind of a thing. Every holiday you're incorporating some type of pasta I don't know easter and pasta just sounds right to me, um, probably more than anything else, but at a time, like I said, when I was eating more pork and that I probably would have said, yeah, I incorporate a little bit of ham in there, but pasta is my top what is?

Speaker 1: 18:39

what is the pasta? What is your go-to easter pasta?

Speaker 3: 18:43

so. So this is actually so. When my grandfather was alive, um, he used to make and my grandma they used to make um, homemade raviolis, uh. And so obviously you know they have passed. Um, I haven't had a homemade ravioli in a long time, but my mom and my dad still make our special spaghetti sauce. You know what I mean. So the recipe's been passed, so as long as I have that sauce, I can do anything. All right, I could do any type of noodles. You just give me the noodles, I don't care what they are Bowtie, rigatoni, whatever and I'll pour that sauce on, and that gives enough fulfillment for me.

Speaker 1: 19:27

Okay, we're going to go to the next Italian guy on this and see what he has to say. But, chris, take it away.

Speaker 4: 19:32

I was going to say I'm going to throw a twist on this. So we normally do a ham two on Easter and I'm just not the biggest ham guy, but my dad's side of the family. We get together on good friday and it's, you know, the last friday of lent and we kind of do a meal almost like, uh, christmas eve in a traditional italian setting. So we got, you know, we lay it out, we go crab legs, cod, salmon. You know we basically do seven fishes. So I'm gonna spoil myself and say, say Good Friday and have the crab legs, because Easter's kind of hit or miss with me food wise.

Speaker 1: 20:06

But yeah, OK, Shannon, how about you on this?

Speaker 5: 20:12

I agree with you about the seafood vibes. We would have a fish fry on Good Friday and then the traditional food we would have in addition to the ham and all that stuff, on Easter we always had deviled eggs. We'd make so many eggs like you can only die, but so many and some of those getting cracked and turned into deviled eggs, and that was just really, really good. My grandma used to make them all the time, so that's what I remember the fish fry on friday and a couple days later cracking those eggs, making deviled eggs okay, jason, what, uh?

Speaker 1: 20:41

what about you?

Speaker 6: 20:42

and I am very boring about it. Everyone's saying ham and other stuff. I just I love hard-boiled eggs, so we go for it. You know there's like 40 of them here and I'll probably eat 20 of that's.

Speaker 1: 20:53

I eat hard-boiled eggs every day of the week okay, and round this out on this one, because you had a pretty interesting take back on the uh thanksgiving show um about the food. So what is your take, though, on easter? What's your favorite food?

Speaker 7: 21:08

ham? No, I don't, I mean, I told you taking care of those kids, so here I am getting food for them. But hey, ham and my dad used to make an awesome, awesome prime ribs. Prime rib was was the the go-to with the ham and it was, it was great. I mean it was, it was awesome. And he can't leave out. Uh, the reese's peanut butter eggs. That was the main statement. Man, that was the thing. But, um, ham and prime rib. But yeah, good friday was always another. It kind of extended from good Friday. And who doesn't love a good fish fry? So you know, you get that whole change from the fish to the gorging yourself on various meats and everything else on Easter. But it was ham and prime rib on Easter which made it really, really something to look forward to. It was really good.

Speaker 1: 22:03

Okay, a lot of interesting takes on that. That's why I wanted to have that topic on the show. All right, um, jj, we're going to go back to you on this. To start us out, from the public view, easter is a holiday where people see much more relaxed and able to do more things freely than, say, christmas or thanksgiving. As an example, a lot of people take trips, go to sporting events events baseball or basketball, golf they go out to eat or just do numerous different things. Why do you think Easter is this type of holiday that's so relaxed, even though it's so meaningful in the consideration of the religious realm? What is your take on this?

Speaker 2: 22:42

I just think the times just been changing like that, because when I was younger it wasn't relaxed, like we weren't going on trips and going to sporting events. We were like in church most of the day and on that type of deal and then with the family and having dinner afterwards. So I think since times have like really been changing, the holiday just got a little bit more and more relaxed okay, brandon, what's your um you know, what's your take on this.

Speaker 1: 23:07

You know, because I think you have a pretty unique um take with your religious background.

Speaker 3: 23:12

Um, you know, and then you know now yeah, um, you know, I and, and you know, just for context too, you know, even I still, I still consider myself a christian. Um, you know, obviously, when you're, when you're practicing Catholic and Catholicism has such a, again, a deep meaning for it, it's just, I don't know it's, it's something else about it. I think it's the somberness of you know, you know, especially if you're a believer in Christ, you know just the, the, the, the three days, resurrection, you know, it's just kind of like this mode of emotion that you go through, and so I don't know it. Just, an Easter is supposed to be the uplifting. You know, we rise, we rise on this day and there's something about it that's communal and family oriented and it's not about presents, it's not about really anything like that.

Speaker 3: 24:00

Although you know my parents, you know, know, they just brought over an easter basket for my son and it was almost like christmas and I'm like what the hell is this like? You get me, you got toys and stuff and all this other stuff and they didn't even bring me anything. So I kind of felt a little salty about that. But anyway, that's beside the point, um, but yeah, I think that really has a lot to do with it. It's just a deeper meaning. It's more of a reflective time, um, but nonetheless, uh, you know, I, I I do appreciate it as a relaxed type of holiday, instead of the hustle and bustle of other ones that you typically go through sure, chris.

Speaker 1: 24:38

What's your take on uh on this?

Speaker 4: 24:41

so, uh, brandon kind of touched on my first one, but I think there's kind of three reasons, uh, why it's like uh, more laid back. The somberness definitely one of them. If you understand it from the you know calendar, in terms of Jesus, I mean, it's a Easter day, is a happy day, but uh, the lead up to it is, you, you know, very quiet, quiet in the church, you know, no one's talking, lights are dimmed. So I think that has a lot to do with it and you know, a lot of the family passing also kind of adds to it.

Speaker 4: 25:13

I feel like you know some of the people who may have left our lives at this point or were part of that generation we're getting together was really really, really important, and not that it's not still in some families and whatnot, but I feel like certain traditions along the way or certain uh things that you uphold might not be as strong necessarily. Um, secondly, I think the expectations it's not christmas like. There's, like I said, the lead up after thanksgiving to christmas. Some people skip Thanksgiving and I feel like the expectations make that hype what it is. I feel like there's no hype around Easter and the weather has a lot to do with that too, like you're kind of if it's cold outside, it's not really like, hey, let's go outside and do something crazy for it, and you know, if it's nice you might sit outside.

Speaker 1: 26:09

But it's kind of like the dawning of a new season. So I just think everything about it lends its hand to just relaxing and just a lot of reflection. I think Okay.

Speaker 5: 26:15

Shannon, how about you? What's your take on this? I would agree with everybody's opinion on it so far, especially the part about it not really being about presence. That's not really the focus of. It's more about being present in the moment.

Speaker 5: 26:28

Um, whether you practice any type of faith or not, it just seems more just chill for some reason, because even thanksgiving, you know that's, I feel like the big focus on that is the food.

Speaker 5: 26:37

And then you get to christmas and there there's a spiritual aspect to that too, but it's overshadowed by the present, some things like that where I feel like easter, there's just a balance of it all. There's a spiritual aspect to that too, but it's overshadowed by the present and things like that where I feel like Easter, there's just a balance of it all. There's a little balance of like a little focus on the food, a little focus on the spirituality portion and the presents come from, you know, the Easter egg hunts or getting a basket or something like that. So I just feel like the focus changes a little bit more. But, like they're saying, you know, as some of our elders have passed on, they were the ones who really carried on a lot of those traditions and made sure the family got together. So sometimes I feel like that tradition part kind of dies out and then comes back again with each generation. So I feel like kind of ebbs and flows okay, jason, what's your opinion on this?

Speaker 6: 27:17

yeah, I think everyone kind of said some of the things I was thinking, especially Brandon and Christopher. One thing reflection. I think Brandon used that word. It's, I think, a lot of holidays. You get lost on what they're really for other than the holiday. Like Independence Day, 4th of July, it's like fireworks and it's a party, but there's not a lot of thought on what it really is. And Christmas it's presents and it's this and that, but there's not a lot of thought as to what the holiday really means. I think this one, because there isn't a lot of that the fireworks and the gifts there is more awareness and reflection of what the holiday is, is for what the day is for. Um, and then brandon also said the word rise. That's not what I was thinking too like, because, like change of season and again what the day represents, it feels like kind of a liftoff to a new season. The weather is changing, kind of like a new energy coming around and it just has kind of a refreshing feel of it for me.

Speaker 1: 28:14

Sure and Rusty round us out on this one.

Speaker 7: 28:18

I'm going to steal what he just said because I think a lot of it is the reflection and what the, the holiday, means. But the? It is seasonal, it's, it is a chill time of the year. It's like man, we got over this ordeal, especially in this part of the world with the, with the weather and everything else, and it just plays on that mindset that you know, I I'm. I hear I'm going to get corny and symbolic. Ok, here's Jesus coming out of the grave. Here we are coming out of the winter.

Speaker 7: 28:50

We're going into a new season where you know it's the end of the, it's the end of the multiple back to back to back to back to back holidays too. So, you, you got a little bit of a breather. People can enjoy it for what it is. And then, um, you know the season is changing. It is getting nicer out, um, and you know people can breathe. The kids are getting ready to finish up school. That ties into it. Um, it does get a little crazy with the expectations of the kids, with the gifts. It has turned into some. In some cases it can turn into a second Christmas. But as the kids get older they realize that's not what it is and it makes it a whole lot easier on us. So definitely for sure, for sure. That's I mean. Everything everybody said ties it all in.

Speaker 1: 29:40

Sure, and you know, and my take on this too, and I this, maybe people agree, they don't again. When you have, like, you're in the heart of baseball starting and they play seven days a week, right, and you're talking, basketball is getting into their playoffs, we're into the season. You're talking nhl hockey as well, you know, and then you're talking about golf. I think the sports tie into it as well, you know. And then you're talking about golf. I think the sports tie into it as well, because they can't put those off because of timing reasons and they play normally on all their holidays. So I think, because of the weather is nice, people want to go.

Speaker 1: 30:12

Not too many people, I don't think, want to go to a sporting event on Thanksgiving or Christmas or New Year's. So I think that does tie into it as well. And I think you're right, the change in the weather. Students finish in school, things like that, and we're going to kind of go back to this here in a little bit. So the really the thing we all want to talk about is what everybody's going to do for Easter this year. So, whether you're doing something or nothing hanging out in your pajamas all day or, you know, wrestling the Easter bunny, you know, let's hear it. So, jj, what are you doing?

Speaker 4: 30:40

You and the.

Speaker 1: 30:40

Easter Bunny going to rumble, or are you just going to be kind?

Speaker 2: 30:43

of chill. I mean, I guess we can go a few rounds, you know, see what happens. I'm going to be at the house, in my pajamas, probably, and we're going to be cooking here, eating here just us and the kids, family. So that's going to be it. It's going to be a nice relaxing day.

Speaker 1: 31:01

Okay, brandon, what are you guys doing for easter?

Speaker 3: 31:05

um, we're gonna, you know, for my son, um, there's a little family easter egg hunt that we're gonna do. Um, obviously, um, you know, spend some time together with the family, just really relax. Probably gonna do nothing too heavy, figure out where we're gonna eat and things like that. Probably is gonna be pasta for me, um, so we'll, we'll see what else. I'll throw in some collard greens too.

Speaker 5: 31:29

I like to mix it up okay you know a little soul food.

Speaker 3: 31:31

That's my other side of my culture. You know my other half of me um so I gotta have I gotta have the best of both worlds. Um, so we'll probably we'll probably do that and just have just something low-key. You know, nothing too too too wild this year, but just kind of family time and, um, of course I told you my lady's pregnant, she's sick so she's not doing you know she's having a hard time right now. So, um, we're probably just gonna keep it pretty basic this year sure, I definitely get that, chris.

Speaker 1: 32:01

What are you and your family doing for easter this year?

Speaker 4: 32:04

all right. So, uh, we're getting together with my dad's side of the family, uh, on good friday, like I mentioned a little earlier, and then, uh, sunday morning, we're gonna wake up. Uh, you know, I got a little one at home that's uh 16, 17 months old, right in there. So, uh, easter bunny's starting to be a really big deal. Easter egg hunts are really cool. So we're going to hide some eggs around the house, some goodies for him. Really enjoy that Probably.

Speaker 4: 32:26

Cook up some breakfast and bunny-shaped cinnamon rolls or pancakes or something like that, and then go to church, go over to my mom's house after to celebrate with her side of the family, and then we're going to go eat ravi ravioli at, uh, my wife's grandpa's at nighttime. I'm just going to eat and reflect and be happy and, you know, spend time with family. Uh, I think Shannon mentioned it earlier about new traditions and stuff. So you know, we we have gone through, unfortunately, a lot of loss and you know, all parts of our family, but, uh, you know, having little one at home and everything that he needs now, it's a real special thing.

Speaker 1: 33:08

You know what, if you're going to be cooking pancakes and making you know Easter shapes of them, you know JJ doesn't live that far away from you. He's a foodie. He might be over having breakfast with you. It's about 7 in the morning.

Speaker 4: 33:16

I mean, that sounds like I mean he looks like like he's having a lot of meals that day, I mean come over.

Speaker 1: 33:28

Jj, I'm short but I can put it away now. Oh, that's funny. Um, shannon, what are you guys doing for easter this year?

Speaker 5: 33:34

so this year I'm probably gonna spend it with my husband's family or my in-laws his grandma's usually the one taking the charge, but she's sick now. So we're all going to her house and, like the cousins and aunties and uncles are rallying together and everybody's taking a dish over. We were going to have an Easter egg hunt, but I don't know what the weather is going to be like, so it might be an indoor egg hunt situation going on. So we're all trying to figure out how we're going to make that happen. But this year we're going to try to get the adults involved and make some eggs for the adults, you know, with a little maybe adult beverage or something like that.

Speaker 5: 34:07

Many, many bottle inside the egg. So that's going to be something a little different this year, but that's mainly what we plan on doing.

Speaker 1: 34:15

OK, well, hopefully you and Brandon don't get too much snow up in the great great city of Erie, so hopefully it's nice to you guys up there because people think Cleveland's weather can be rough Erie's a whole other area.

Speaker 7: 34:29

I see it every morning. I'm familiar.

Speaker 1: 34:33

Jason, what about you guys having a new baby and the four kids? What are you guys going to be doing this year on Easter?

Speaker 6: 34:40

My wife likes to host as many things as possible, so we're going to have as many people as she can find to come over and the whole day will probably end up being about 10 kids, 6 and under, so the whole day really is planned around an Easter egg hunt and then managing the chaos that they will create over the 8 hours they'll be here. It'll be a busy day, it'll be crazy, and I.

Speaker 1: 35:02

A busy day, be crazy and I don't think it's good. It's really not supposed to be very warm for us here in cleveland, I think, maybe like a hot of the 40s, so everybody's gonna be inside. Man, you'll have a. You'll have a one time with that we'll be loaded rusty. What about you, man? Uh, what are you guys gonna be doing on easter? Hopefully you don't have to go fire anything no, I don't have to fly, but it's.

Speaker 7: 35:23

I don't want to bring anybody down, but the kids will be with their mother for the most part of the day. Then they'll come to me in the afternoon, but, as you know, with dad just passing this week, it's kind of like everything's in a mishmash and um. So I'm probably gonna hang at home for a while and then, um, when the kids get home, we will, we'll, you know, we'll hang out at the house, we'll eat there will be plenty of leftovers, um, because I've got some stuff here for them and then, um, we'll go from there and then they're off school. Still, they finish off spring break on monday. Like I said, we're getting ready for noah's birthday, so it's going to be pretty busy. And it's not a joke april fool fools. He was born on april 1st.

Speaker 7: 36:03

Nobody believed us when we said her water broke back then and then, lo and behold, it's like oh what, you had a baby. Oh, you didn't believe us. So here he is, 21 years later. He's killing it. He's killing it and I can. I can, um, I can feel for you guys in erie, because I fly there every morning. So, yeah, I'm familiar with that. Um. So, and get ready to be inundated in a week with all the eclipse people too, with all this stuff they're doing up there, cause we're doing it here too.

Speaker 3: 36:36

Yeah, it's going to be wild.

Speaker 7: 36:37

That's all everybody's talking about. I'll be in Avon and I'm going to probably be. I don't fly on Monday, so I'll probably be hammered by 10 and I'll sleep on and I'm going to probably be, I don't fly on Monday, so I'll probably be hammered by 10 and I'll sleep.

Speaker 6: 36:46

That sounds like a great.

Speaker 1: 36:47

Monday after oh, that's, that's funny, that is definitely funny. I think back um about. I think it was about seven years ago before I moved up here. Easter weekend that year and I was still coaching in Pennsylvania. It was in the high 70s and I remember on Good Friday I went out to actually watch Penn State scrimmage at their home facility in State College. On that Saturday I remember coming up to downtown Willoughby and hanging out for the day it was almost 80 degrees and I remember on that Sunday it was like 75 degrees. Actually we had Easter outside. It was so nice, so, um, but definitely interesting. What everybody's going to do. So this one, um, and when, everyone's gonna have to kind of think here um, you know, what is the one most unique Easter that you've ever had? Whether you went somewhere, did something very different, something crazy happened, you know, or something of that. Such like, what is the one Easter that stands out to you the most? Jj, you got to go first on this one, so I got to put you on this one.

Speaker 1: 37:57

You have a very unique Easter to tell everybody about.

Speaker 2: 38:03

Um let's see here. I really don't have a unique Easter. They all just go according to plan. They all just run together. I've never had anything exciting, anything crazy, anything different happen. I mean, they literally go according to plan every single year.

Speaker 1: 38:25

Fair. Okay, Brandon, what about you? You got to have a good, like unique, Easter story for us, you know unfortunately I can't really think of anything too unique.

Speaker 3: 38:36

Um, I will say, like the, I think the thing that that I miss is, you know we're sitting here talking about not to be somber, uh, but just people that you know, just the, the Easter's that we had with our family in the past, and so it's more of a I think about the nostalgia of it and and remember those times and it's like and it's not to say that we can't make up our own times.

Speaker 3: 39:01

Obviously I'm creating new traditions with my son and new memories with my son, but it's still in my head that, wow, you're never going to have. You remember those Easter's you used to have as a kid. Um, when you're a little bit carefree, and your family, you know all your family members that you were close to. You know everybody was alive, everybody was at the table, everybody was cooking, everybody was doing that stuff. So it's pretty much more so those, those stories and those Easter's that I that I remember and I miss the most. So I can't really think of anything else that really sticks out, but more so the childhood nostalgia of the Easter's that I used to have.

Speaker 1: 39:38

Okay, I gotcha, chris, you got anything for us on this one.

Speaker 4: 39:42

Yeah, you know, as I thought about it, there really is only one Easter that really sticks out for like good reasons, like my sister popped her shoulder out of the socket one easter, but like that's not a good memorable one. So, like I like a good, memorable one. That happened one time. I remember, uh believe tiger won one of his masters on easter sunday and uh, I just remember everyone was like in front of the TV in hysteria, we were yelling, and then we all hopped on the Wii it had just come out not too long ago and we all got on, played Tiger Woods golf against each other and it just, I don't know it was unlike any other. It was never recreated. It just happened one time for the one time and it was a good time.

Speaker 1: 40:32

Okay, Interesting Shannon. Any unique uh stand out to you from your memories I have a few that stand out.

Speaker 5: 40:39

I'm celebrating them in buffalo the day after easter. So easter was always a good time, you know, hanging out with family and whatnot. But on monday we celebrate dingus day, and I don't know if they celebrate that in other areas, but it's pretty much a Polish holiday, I guess you want to say, and like everybody has off from work, or most people have off from work, and you're just like hanging out, you know having adult beverages and whatnot, and just you know, going to the different bars, learning about Polish culture and different dances and stuff. So it's really a cool community event, although it can get a little wild sometimes, but not as crazy as like St Patrick's Day gets or something like that. So when I think of Easter, I always think of the next day, which is that Monday. It's like the party doesn't stop and just having a good time connecting with different people, different cultures, and yeah, it's just a lot of fun.

Speaker 1: 41:30

Very cool different cultures and yeah, it's just a lot of fun. Very cool, jason.

Speaker 6: 41:34

Any unique easter stand out to you from your memories I'm about unique. But as I thought of my story, I guess I'm really all about the easter egg hunt and I thought of one year where I I got an early jump on the kids and hit the yard and scattered them all before the easter bunny made his rounds, and it wasn't until about four or five hours later that all the kids came over to do it. And whatever was in the yard, these little slugs got in all the little plastic eggs and the kids ruined the whole thing. The kids are all like what the heck? Yeah, so that was no go.

Speaker 1: 42:10

Very funny, that was no bueno on that one man no bueno on that um, all right, rusty, how about you any unique easter you know?

Speaker 7: 42:18

stand out to you yeah, actually it was um pretty weird. It was I just got married and flying for fedex, I was due for recurrent that week and I ended up telling them I didn't want to fly down. I wanted to drive down because I wanted my car for the week. I figured I'd drive to Memphis, tennessee, for some reason, from Cleveland. So a 10-hour drive on Easter Sunday all that way, not a damn thing open other than the roadside gas stations. I mean, I don't know what I I was thinking, but my new wife was fine, she was with her family. I would be back, you know, in a week. I thought it was going to be great and, um, man, I'm never doing that drive again for work, I'm just gonna.

Speaker 7: 43:03

You know, it was a weird, weird easter, because I started, I traveled, on easter sunday, we started recurrent class on monday and but that whole drive 10 hours, nothing opened except for the gas stations on the road. So it was kind of like a like a ghost town that whole way, and but it was, that was pretty, probably the only one that was out of the tradition and it was just like I'm taking off, i'm'm driving. It's Easter Sunday, see ya.

Speaker 1: 43:29

So that was it. Very interesting I think mine on this one when the when COVID happened in 2020, I was able to go home in 2021. That year, all the spring, all the sports in college got moved to the spring, so we had football going on, we had track going on and we actually had a track meet Easter weekend. So I wasn't vaccinated yet, um, and I just had to track me on saturday and that sunday I was like I'm not gonna go home, I don't want to get my family sick, like if I'm sick. So I actually stayed in my apartment, I grilled a steak and I watched all six rocky balboa movies that day.

Speaker 1: 44:07

So I will always remember that I'm eating my hoodie on right now, but, like I remember, I went for a power walk that morning. I ate a steak for like an early dinner and I just watched rocky balboa all day long. And that was my most unique easter. I think I ever had spent it by myself, making steak and watching rocky balboa, which sounds like a pretty good day in a typical, typical everyday life, you know, but you're doing it on easter because, uh, because of covid. So, all right, I got a good one here for you guys now, and I know jj is going to appreciate this and rusty kind of hit it on it earlier. What is your one favorite easter candy?

Speaker 2: 44:42

jj go oh, recent, all the reese eggs. I mean you can't go wrong with those. Now they got like the big, huge, like five pound, one pound, ones man, you can slice them up. Oh man. Now they got like the big, huge, like five pound, one pound, ones man, you can slice them up. Oh man, yeah, recyc all day and tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 44:58

Brandon, what about you, man?

Speaker 3: 45:00

Yeah, yeah, that's I. I love Easter egg too, um, but I'll throw in another little one in there too. I love chocolate meltaways, um, for those, for those who are, who are from, uh, you know, obviously, the shenango valley area, we have daffin's chocolate, and daffin's chocolate used to have the best chocolate, uh meltaways I had ever tasted, and so that was usually always my go-to easter candy was chocolate meltaways from daffin's candy.

Speaker 1: 45:30

Okay, chris, what's your go-to favorite Easter candy?

Speaker 4: 45:33

All right. So JJ and Brandon said my top two hands down the Reese Easter egg straight. You put one in each of my cheeks. I'll play chubby bunny all morning. The bigger one, you know I'm. I'm a little more peanut butter than chocolate anyway, so slicing that up, I'm all about that. And Brandon, what did you say? I forget.

Speaker 1: 45:57

The meltaways.

Speaker 3: 45:58

Yeah, the meltaways.

Speaker 4: 46:02

All day long. They got peanut butter and chocolate meltaways.

Speaker 4: 46:05

So I guess I'd say there's only other one that would be like a separator for me, so I'll throw it out, since they said those ones, those little, they're like little chocolates but they're different color with the hard outsides. My grandma would always put them in the little glass bowl and when people would say kumbets, you know, I didn't think of the nuts, I thought of those little Easter eggs. I was like, oh, those are like kid kumbets. So I always thought those were like the lucky nut to eat. So those little eggs, I don't know if they were Hershey or what, but they're a different color. They had the heart outside.

Speaker 1: 46:41

I'd put them up there with the Miltaways and the Reese Egg. Okay, shannon, what is your?

Speaker 5: 46:44

favorite go-to Easter candy? My favorite is definitely the Reese Egg. I think we can all agree on that, if I'm gonna throw something else out there. Another fave is the starburst jelly beans. They are just top tier in the jelly bean game. So those would be my top two, even though yes for the number one um, jason, what about you?

Speaker 6: 47:03

I mean, I, jason, I know you're a clean eater and you're into the fitness and stuff, but you gotta like some type of candy for easter yeah, I'm not a big candy guy but I, if in the office someone brings in some Cadbury eggs, I might have one for the season, because it's kind of a you know, old school.

Speaker 1: 47:20

Okay, Rusty, what about you? What's your go-to Easter? Candy Bar?

Speaker 7: 47:24

none the Reese's eggs man, you can't beat them. And I am so thankful that nobody said peeps, those are disgusting, they're nasty. Hey, has anybody ever nuked one?

Speaker 5: 47:41

No.

Speaker 7: 47:45

One of those damn things the kids saw on YouTube or TikTok or something. And then they did it one time and it does. The thing gets to be like the size of a pillow, but then it explodes all over the microwave and it's just that mass of sugar and marshmallow or whatever the hell they put in it, but Reese's eggs bar none. I don't care what size small Now they're even real small, they're ripping you off. But then they do have the giant ones that are like a football and those things are. You know, you could put those right up there next to the ham and slice them up and eat

Speaker 1: 48:17

them up. You're dead right. Well, I think and I'm not a big, I'm not a big candy person, but I will.

Speaker 1: 48:20

I will crush some peeps man, just it's all about that, oh man, you know I gotta go now if you're doing peeps I could just sit there and eat them with with coffee all day. Cadbury cream eggs who doesn't? Who doesn't like cadbury cream eggs with the same commercial? Those are good. 40 years all of us have been alive, or or even not that we've seen cadbury cream eggs with that same easter bunny and that same lion dressed up like an Easter bunny on the commercial. But, uh, my go-to. Yes, exactly, but my go-to bunny. Everyone's gonna think I'm crazy, but I love red vines. They're like the bootleg version of red licorice, red vines are everything, they're everything.

Speaker 1: 49:11

Love me some red vines. I will crush those on easter all the time. Also, on a funny side note, I'll have to send you guys this on instagram if you didn't see it, but I was going through my uh, you know, like the stories or whatever, people post the random videos and there was a like backyard bootleg wrestling thing going on, with a guy dressed up as the Easter Bunny kicking people's butt in a wrestling match in some back room of some bar or something like that, in a wrestling ring. It's actually pretty funny. I'll have to send it to you guys on.

Speaker 7: 49:43

Instagram. There was the one where he was beating somebody up out in the street. Bob Meenery did a really cool thing with that. That was the evil Easter Bunny. The evil Easter Bunny. You can the street. Bob meanery did a real cool thing with that. That was the evil, if you can you can find that on on youtube.

Speaker 1: 49:55

Don't show your kids that one, though they'd be terrified. But easter bunny had some nunchucks and stuff like that. So just some funny things. Well, last topic, uh, for everybody. You know, you guys kind of talked about this and we talked about this with with the season, right? So with Easter's arrival, spring is upon us. So what is your favorite thing you know to do in spring? Um, when the, of course, when the weather gets nice. So, like, what's your one go-to favorite thing, whether it's something with your kids or your spouse, or just that you just love to do during this season? Jj.

Speaker 2: 50:32

Usually the springtime has always been a flag football season for me. I usually co-help coach or something one of my kids' team or something like that, and that's always a fun time. Just seeing young kids, teaching them, developing them in the sport, and just to see them. It's just a good time.

Speaker 1: 50:53

Okay, Brandon, what about you? Um?

Speaker 3: 50:58

I like, I like, I love doing spring cleaning, Um and I mean that on every on, every, every capacity.

Speaker 3: 51:06

Like I love throwing out everything, I love the first nice, like cleaning of your car and then driving around listening to music. But this year I'm really excited because it's the first year I'm signing my son up for, uh, he's starting baseball and so this is like his, this is like his first time doing so. I'm excited to like go to the games and, like you know, be one of those dads that, like you know, hit the ball, keep your, keep your eye on the ball, son. You know what I mean. So I'm really looking forward to that. We've been practicing already, um, so, yeah, those are. I'm looking forward to, you know, these new traditions. But that's typically things I like to do. I like to get rid of stuff and spring clean, have, have the windows open, get fresh air coming in and just kind of, you know, restart. And you know we've been talking a lot about like, renewal and so like. For me that's like a spiritual practice, um, to get rid of old things and go into a new season.

Speaker 1: 52:03

Well, I'll tell you what, Brandon, you know, having the, having the little one and the one on the way, if, like cleaning the car, you might just have to get a minivan now and just play kids bop, you know, going on to the, going on to the baseball games as you're driving a fresh minivan look, man, if we gotta put yeah, we gotta play kid bops, we'll play the kid bops.

Speaker 3: 52:21

Man, it'll make it work. No matter what, we'll still be driving five miles per hour. Everything will be looking shiny, though, so that's all that matters.

Speaker 1: 52:28

You're gonna go from playing fetty wop to kid bop, so it's gonna be from track, from track queen to snack queen uh, chris, what. What about you? What's the one thing you look forward to the most in the spring?

Speaker 4: 52:46

I'm probably going outside hanging out with my family. Uh, you know my son Giovanni's, at the age where we can kind of play outside too start. You know playing, catch, running around, you know just being a little boy getting money and stuff. So doing that, going on walks, and selfishly, I really get excited to golf this time of year. I'm not very good at it but I really do enjoy the heck out of it. So you know kicking it with the fam or golfing for sure.

Speaker 1: 53:16

OK.

Speaker 5: 53:18

Shannon, what about you? I'm kind of similar. I love to go outside. So as soon as the weather is nice, that's probably the first thing I'm doing Going for a walk, pretty aimlessly, or down by Presque Isle if you've ever been up here, you know kind of walking by the water. It's just super relaxing. And the other thing I like to do is buy candles that are spring scented. You know different flowers and things like that. So then when the weather is kind of crappy outside, it just feels kind of nice inside with the scent. So those are the two things getting outside, getting the floral scents inside the best.

Speaker 1: 53:49

Okay, jason, what about you?

Speaker 6: 53:51

Yeah, as a football coach, this is the. This is my, one of my, one of my favorite times of the year. I like the spring practices and all the coaching clinics. Traveling a little bit, get down to the Scarlet and gray game for the coaching clinic and the weekend I try to get out to happy Valley whenever I can just uh, travel around and kind of have some me time at the campuses.

Speaker 1: 54:11

Sure, and Rusty round us out on this one.

Speaker 7: 54:15

All right, getting the yard ready for the summer is a big thing, those first nice days. But the best part is getting the windows open in the house and turning the damn furnace off.

Speaker 7: 54:27

And you know that nice day where the sun's beating in, it's warm in the house, you can get the breeze in the house. My living room is filled with my kids' collections of freaking tropical pets, so where I don't have to have the heat on in the house at a certain temperature, I can get the windows open and it's all good. And the best part for me is going to work and not having to worry about getting that damn airplane de-iced when we have to leave in the mornings anymore. That's fair, that's a good one.

Speaker 1: 54:58

That is fair Before we let everybody go, because I am hosting the show and Brandon knows this and Jason knows this from when we did the Small Business Roundtable. Everybody knows when you're on the show there's a Fast, fitty Five. But since the small business round table, everybody knows when you're on the show there's a fast 55. But since there's actually, uh, more than more than five of you and not everybody's gonna get five questions, everybody's gonna get just one. So I'm putting everybody on the spot for this version of the fast 55. To round out the easter episode jj, let's start with you. Okay, is tom tom hanks? Okay, is Tom Tom Hanks a top 10 actor of all time? Yes, okay, fair enough, I would agree with you on that. I think he's top five. Yeah, brandon, your question is what was a better invention hand sanitizer or the GPS?

Speaker 3: 55:50

Um, um, I would say I would say hand sanitizer okay. I don't know why, but I think so. They always have map quest because of kids. Man, these kids are nasty and so we need that stuff on deck sometimes, and so they bring too many damn germs, so I need that. We need that stuff on deck sometimes, and so they bring too many damn germs, so I need that. We need that spray on deck all the time.

Speaker 1: 56:14

Okay, that's fair, chris, your question. Who would you rather be in their prime, mike Tyson or Hulk Hogan?

Speaker 4: 56:23

Mike Tyson. There was no show like Mike when he was fighting. So Mike Tyson on that, still feared by many.

Speaker 1: 56:31

But soon to be feared by Jake Paul when he knocks him out.

Speaker 4: 56:34

Absolutely.

Speaker 1: 56:36

So, shannon, your question, what is a better eerie restaurant? And Brandon, we'll see what your reaction is to this. What is a better eerie restaurant? The Sloppy Duck or Rum Runners?

Speaker 5: 56:50

I would say Sloppy Duck. Sloppy Duck has better food, rumrunners has better drinks.

Speaker 3: 56:55

I approve of that.

Speaker 6: 56:56

I would agree on that.

Speaker 1: 56:58

I would agree on that. If no one's ever been to Erie, you just have to go, because you have to go to the restaurant called the Sloppy Duck. There's a giant duck outside. You can take a picture by. It's great. It's great, jason, who wins?

Speaker 6: 57:16

in a fight dracula or michael myers?

Speaker 3: 57:18

michael myers.

Speaker 1: 57:18

Yeah right, michael myers yep nope, that's jj's dude, michael myers. So all right, rusty, you're gonna bring us home on this one and I think it's gonna you know, hit home on all of us because we all grew up with it. What is a better movie, the Sandlot or the Goonies?

Speaker 7: 57:40

Oh, dude, I'm torn. You know what I'm going Goonies Okay.

Speaker 1: 57:52

I'm going.

Speaker 7: 57:53

Goonies Okay, I'm going Goonies. Movies like Sandlot have been done in different, different types, but the same premise of the movie. But Goonies is the freaking Goonies man, you know? I mean, come on, who all doesn't love a good truffle shuffle now and then?

Speaker 1: 58:15

That is true, they're both great movies, so I wanted to throw the Fast 55 at you guys and have a little bit of fun there with that. But to our guests, you know, jj, brandon, jason, chris, rusty and Shannon thank you so much for being on this episode of Ride Home Rants. I hope you guys and all of our listeners have a very, very great, very safe and very wonderful happy Easter. As always, if you like the show, be a friend and tell a friend If you didn't tell them anyways, because they might like it, just because you didn't. This is Fitty signing off and we will see you next week.