Ride Home Rants
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The Last Hurrah: Bachelor Party Culture Revealed
What makes the perfect bachelor or bachelorette party? Is it the exotic destination, the outrageous activities, or simply gathering your closest friends for one last pre-wedding celebration? Our panel of diverse guests tackles these questions and more in this entertaining deep dive into pre-wedding festivities.
From the classic Vegas blowout to underrated gems like Bristol, Tennessee, and Erie, Pennsylvania, our guests share candidly about their experiences across the country. But location is just the beginning. We explore the delicate balance between planning an unforgettable celebration and respecting guests' financial limitations, with most agreeing that accessibility should be a priority when choosing destinations.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when Mister Askew introduces his revolutionary concept: "The Run-up to the Hump" – a summer-long bachelor celebration spanning multiple locations and events. This sparked lively debate about whether bachelor parties should be concentrated experiences or extended celebrations, and how many people constitute the ideal party size.
Perhaps most revealing are the contrasting approaches between bachelor and bachelorette celebrations. As Jordan notes, "Guys can randomly, sporadically do things... but girls, when they go on a trip, they like to have detailed itineraries." This observation resonated with Alyssa, our resident female expert, who confessed planning isn't her strong suit but bringing "the energy" certainly is.
Whether you're planning your own celebration, serving as best man or maid of honor, or simply curious about this pre-wedding ritual, this episode offers invaluable insights, hilarious anecdotes, and a reminder that regardless of destination or activities, it's the people who truly make these celebrations memorable. As one panelist perfectly summarized, "I could go to a dirt mound in my backyard and have fun at a bachelor party with the right people."
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I have a great and special episode for us today. I have a panel of guests here. We're going to be talking all things Bachelor and Bachelor at parties A little fun way to roll out the summer here, with the wedding season getting in full swing. It seems like here we're going to let the panel introduce themselves here. Guys, I need your name and the answer to these two questions, and it is in what decade were you born and what is your favorite way to cook eggs for a meal? And TJ, we're going to start with you how we doing TJ.
Speaker 2:Lett to cook eggs for a meal. And TJ we're going to start with you how we doing TJ Lett. I was born in the 90s, mid-90s to be exact. Eggs, so many things you can do with them, but probably a great omelet. So I put it in an omelet and you can do so many things with them. So that's how I would choose if I had to be down to one way.
Speaker 1:I got you there.
Speaker 4:Can't go wrong with an omelet, alyssa, we're going to go to you Alyssa Johnson, born in the early 90s and I would probably say over medium, so I can put it in a breakfast sandwich.
Speaker 1:There you go. Can't go wrong with a good egg sandwich, all right, and next we got Drew.
Speaker 5:Hey guys, drew McLaughlin, I'm also the early 90s and I also like over medium for an egg sandwich About the same.
Speaker 1:All right, and we got the Vampire Coach himself, mr.
Speaker 3:How you doing, mr Askew, aka the Vampire Coach, how you know, born in the 70s, the 70s, I had to say that these 90s, holy cow Eggs. Hey man, give me an egg benedictine.
Speaker 1:Egg benedictine. Alright, can't be mad at it, mister Brandon, let's go to you.
Speaker 6:What's going on, everybody? My name is Brandon Wiley, I'm a late 80s baby and I like my eggs scrambled with cheese scrambled with cheese.
Speaker 1:All right, and last but not least, we got Jordan. What's?
Speaker 7:going on, guys. Jordan DeMarco I'm a late 90s baby, not a 2000s. Late 90s Still counts. And I like my eggs. I call it Pittsburgh style, but I like my eggs dippy, dippy eggs. I take my toast and dip it in the yolk.
Speaker 1:That's how I do it. I'm so glad somebody else calls them dippy eggs. Growing up near that area, area, it's always been a dippy egg for me, um. But yeah, mike bono, uh, born in the late 80s as well. So all you 90s babies can you know, shut up with your young age and that, uh, me and mr here being the oldest two here, um, and it's a toss-up with me for eggs. I do like a good egg sandwich, but Jordan brought back a nostalgia with the dippy egg. Can't go wrong with a good dippy egg, for sure. But we're not here to talk about food. We are here to talk about all things Bachelor and Bachelorette parties here. We have a bunch of questions here. Alyssa, we're going to start with you. And it is how many bachelorette parties have you been to being the only resident female on the panel today? We're going to start with you.
Speaker 4:I would say about six.
Speaker 1:Six.
Speaker 4:I was just out one two weeks ago.
Speaker 1:Alright, I didn't think the number was going to be that high for anybody to be honest with you here. Uh, so all right, not not a bad. Uh, turnout jordan. What about you?
Speaker 7:I'm a two-piece, one for someone else and one for mine, if that counts. But I just have like three of my best friends get. They're engaged, so I got probably three more in the next year, which is going to be rough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds rough and that close in proximity. But, mister, what about you?
Speaker 3:You know what? I need to repeat that question one more time.
Speaker 1:How many bachelor parties have you been to?
Speaker 3:Three, three.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 6:Brandon, what about you? Uh, from what I can remember, I've been a lot of weddings and I've had a lot of bachelor parties, but I'm just gonna I'm gonna say probably like five or six okay that I can remember that's the important part.
Speaker 1:You remember for sure, Drew. What about you?
Speaker 5:I, yeah I, recently I've been to a lot of them. I'm probably going to say one, two, five, five.
Speaker 1:Okay, and last but not least, dj.
Speaker 2:Off the top of my head, outside of mine I've been to three others, so nothing crazy actually now that I go back and think about my long life yeah, I, uh, I'm with jordan and that one.
Speaker 1:It's a two-piece, and one of which being my own, uh, so I don't know if you can count that. I'm counting it, uh. So, um, yeah, I haven't been to been to a lot, but still fun nonetheless. But, tj, let's stay with you. And where is the best place you have gone for one?
Speaker 2:Wow, I mean obviously short list. I'm a local guy, I don't like traveling too much for too long, so I'll say mine, because mine was in cleveland so it was a 20 minute drive on a bus, nothing crazy. One night came back. So I'm a local guy. Um, traveling adds a lot of expenses, a lot of unknowns. So just sticking around so close, close to home cleveland, gotcha drew, what about?
Speaker 5:you uh, I gotta say the best one is probably best place I've been to is probably Chicago. That was the first and only time I've been in there and it was a freaking blast. Went to a Cubs game, we did it up, we had a good time. So that one sticks out on, sticks out my head. So I'm going to say Chicago.
Speaker 1:Okay, brandon, what about you?
Speaker 6:I had one summer where I was from and had a bachelor party in May and a bachelor party in June. And in May I went to Las Vegas, in June I went to Miami, florida, and those were those are very expensive, fun trips. Yeah, who would have to say I was. I have to say that I really, really enjoyed Miami. I'm a I'm a Miami guy. Culture, food Was like my thing. I'm not a big gambler. Vegas was fun, but Miami was better.
Speaker 1:I got you that hurt my wallet Just hearing those two cities and how expensive it probably was. For sure, Mr. What about?
Speaker 3:you, I would say Cincinnati. The nasty natty Is where I've been, mr. What about you, I would say in Cincinnati, you know, the nasty natty is where I've been, to a majority of my, maybe a couple down south somewhere, but I can't remember.
Speaker 1:But in Cincinnati? Most definitely Okay.
Speaker 7:Jordan, what about you? Yeah, so like we were saying, we're in the same boat, with the two and one being yours. So I'm partial to mine, I guess. But I had mine down in Tennessee like towards not Nashville. Everyone here in Tennessee thinks Nashville. We didn't go to Nashville, I'm not doing that. But we went to Bristol, tennessee, and got a big Airbnb cabin up in the mountains with like six or seven dudes and split it all that way and it was pretty good time up there.
Speaker 1:Okay, and Alyssa, what about you?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'll probably steal everybody else and go with two. My own was in Charlotte, easy to get to, but I agree with like the cost is a big thing and the one I was just on was in deep creek lake okay, yeah, I'm, I'm partial to mine.
Speaker 1:Um, I was in columbus, ohio. Uh, it's a top golf. You know I'm a big golfer, uh, so was out there, had a, had a good time there, from what I remember of it. But yeah, it was definitely. Yeah, it was close, it was cheap to get to. Brother-in-law actually drove me there, so you know it was a good time for sure. Alyssa, what was one Bachelorette location you have been that you would say is an underrated place to go.
Speaker 4:I might say my own in Charlotte, because I think a lot of people were kind of like why are you going there? Because it's not like Chicago, it's not like a bigger city. I think it's a really pretty city actually and there's a like Chicago. It's not like a bigger city. Uh, I think there's. It's a really pretty city actually and there's a lot of good places to eat and just a lot of places that you can easily get to without having to like spend a lot of money to travel to.
Speaker 1:Okay, Drew. What about you? You're still muted there, Drew. Hey, you hear me now.
Speaker 5:I got you now. Sorry, I'm just getting out of my car. Uh, you asked the underrated yeah okay, uh, I gotta say actually the generous host Fitty's bachelor party. It was in Erie, pa, and we had a blast up there. We did a bunch of stuff. We rented a boat, all the bars on on uh water. It's definitely underrated. It was cheaper than like going to like a chicago or miami or las vegas. So definitely I would say erie is a good place and it's cheaper and it was underrated okay, jordan.
Speaker 1:What about you?
Speaker 7:yeah, with only having like two, I would say say I'll give like an underrated. I thought Tennessee's underrated.
Speaker 7:When people hear Tennessee they think Nashville, but I'm going to say in terms of underrated being doing, getting a place where you can do a lot of things outside. I think a lot of times people get a bachelor, a bachelorette trip and they think we got to go to a city and we got to hop from this place, this place, this bar, to this restaurant, this bar. That's how the money adds up. So I think if you can get a place where you can do a lot of stuff outside, that's relatively cheap, or if not, free and you're all together doing stuff like that, to me that's underrated. You don't have to go hopping from place to place, gotcha, mister what about you?
Speaker 3:I think one is um, I can remember, man, it's been a while. But actually, though, in PA, one of my guys, a couple of my guys up there in the PA area you know a guy you know say, had a party or whatnot. And you know Pittsburgh, man, it's a really nice area and I think it's underrated, but there's a lot to do, a lot to do in that area. You can't go wrong with Pittsburgh?
Speaker 1:I love Pittsburgh to death. I grew up an hour outside of it, west Virginia. You cannot go wrong with Pittsburgh. I haven't been there in a while and I miss it and I'm itching to go back. So for sure, brandon, what about you?
Speaker 6:I'm going to say I was between two places and they're both in Ohio. Clinton Bay was obviously one fun place to go to. I go there pretty religiously. One of my boys had a bachelor party, but I will say I hate their sports teams. But Cleveland is pretty damn fun and I and it takes a lot for me to say that because I hate Cleveland so much- we don't win anything.
Speaker 2:How can you hate us?
Speaker 6:I'm a Steeler guy, so you know it's.
Speaker 5:it's just like it's like code you know, but no, cleveland is a great time.
Speaker 6:The city is fun and they've done a lot with the flats and I really do enjoy the city.
Speaker 1:I can't lie to you, brandon. I knew exactly where you were going when you said you hate the city. You didn't have to say it. I knew Cleveland was coming out of your mouth. I knew it was coming out of your mouth. I knew it was coming out, knowing you're a pittsburgh guy for sure. It's law, man, it's code you have to dj, what about you?
Speaker 2:oh man, I, I will say I went to pittsburgh for my honeymoon, so I got respect for pittsburgh, um, so the most underrated place that I've been to was Buffalo, new York. We had an Airbnb. I think there was like 15 of us and it was. It was just space. You know, we were away from everything. Small little town with nobody in it. So people left us alone. Beautiful golf course up there. So Buffalo, you know, finding a small place out of the way, kind of out of the city, you can do a lot of good things and you know, it kind of leaves it up to you guys to make it a good time, you know, if you're around the right people. That's kind of what makes a bachelor party a bachelorette party.
Speaker 1:So Buffalo, new York. I got you. No, no worries on that. We'll stay with you on this one. I I believe you're married now too as well, so we're going to go with this. Where did you go for your bachelor party?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, three years, three years strong. So from Willoughby, ohio, so we're 20 minutes from downtown Cleveland. So we started up in Willoughby and there's really cheap bars and food up in Willoughby. So we started there, uh, rented a bus, went down to Cleveland and did the whole hopping and you know, walking around as the bachelor party and you know, came back at the end of the night. So really it was a one night thing. It wasn't too much of a commitment amongst the guys I was with, so it was in Cleveland, ohio.
Speaker 1:Okay, drew, I don't believe you are engaged or anything like that yet, but do you have plans as for where you would want to go for yours?
Speaker 5:Actually I just got engaged, like two weeks ago.
Speaker 5:There, it is there it is yeah, once you do it, you start thinking about it. My friends and myself we kind of talked about it when we were not kids but high school, like the first guy gotta, we gotta go to vegas, we gotta go to vegas. And I would be one of the first few guys so thinking about that. Um, I've never been there before, so I I don't know about it, but I've been to a casino in Florida. It's right outside of Miami. It's the Hard Rock Casino. It's shaped like a guitar. I've been there about two or three times and it's a blast. It's so much fun. So I would really, if I had to pick right this second, I would probably pick right outside. I think it's called Hollywood Florida, right down there. Stay at the casino or get an Airbnb and chill in Miami for a few days.
Speaker 1:I got you. Okay, jordan, what about you?
Speaker 7:yeah, uh. So we, we went to I'm gonna put air quotes bristol, tennessee, which is, like the you know, far eastern north, the eastern part of tennessee, but really we stayed in the mountains right across the state line in north carolina, like elk park, north carolina, I think it was called. It was, I mean, the, the smallest town you could ever think of. Um, but we went to bristol for the nascar race. We played a bunch of golf, like there were some sweet golf courses up in the mountains and then we, we finished off sunday there was the big nascar race in bristol. So we kind of put on our american spirits and and got to it at that but it was a good time, man, like it was the worst golf you know we've all ever played, but we had a blast.
Speaker 7:you know shooting terrible, so that's about how most bachelors have to go. I feel like it's just a bunch of crap, but you have a great time 100%.
Speaker 1:If you're golfing at a bachelor party, I mean, yeah, we're not going for score at this point in time, brandon, what about you?
Speaker 6:What's the question? Again, we're answering.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I was like in and and out where'd you go for your bachelor party?
Speaker 6:well, I'm not. I'm not engaged or married, I've never been.
Speaker 1:I could but god damn, I am just all swinging missing today.
Speaker 6:I could have swore you were, it's all good man no, um, but I can give you where I would like to go. Yeah, um, I love, I love Toronto, so I want to do Toronto, canada. Um, you know, toronto is a fun city. I've only been a couple of times, but every time I go, each time I went, it's been a blast, and so I just feel like there's so much more of the city that I want to see and experience so that going to be my, my uh, you know that would be my preferred destination I got you, mister.
Speaker 1:I'm not even going to guess anymore if you're married or engaged. You know, did you have a bachelor party and where was it at?
Speaker 3:because I'm just swinging and missing uh, I'll tell you what man, uh, I had. Uh, you know, people talk about you know, people talk about you know one day, listen, man, mine was a summer long. Every single day it was something different, and I just put it like that. Okay, I took full advantage. Full advantage Every single day.
Speaker 1:Mister, I would expect that, would expect nothing less from you, my man this is why, we love having you on the show, mister and that is 100 the truth don't doubt it at all. I don't doubt it. Uh, alissa, what about you?
Speaker 4:yeah, we uh, we went to charlotte for mine but I had actually picked out like three places that I thought would be cool to go, that were cheaper and still a fun time and let my bridesmaids and pick, kind of vote which place they really wanted to go to of the three.
Speaker 1:Okay, like I said, I was in Columbus Ohio, went to Topgolf, wasn't really playing for score, but I'll tell you this, it's my first time ever going to Topgolf. Had no idea they had games like attached there. Like we just happened to look up at the big screen and like, how are we getting points? Like we're not even hitting the ball far, like we thought it was just see how far you could hit the hit the ball, not even close. We had no idea what we were doing for like the first half hour we were there. Um, so it was a lot of fun. Once you figured out what, what the hell we were doing, um for sure, top golf is, uh, it's, it's a great place to go to. Uh, only time I've been there was for my bachelor party and what I remember of it. It it was such a good time.
Speaker 1:Don't remember much after that. I do remember coming home and smacking my son for no reason. That's one thing. He was up, he shouldn't have been up, I don't know why. Smacked him, said go to bed. That was pretty much the extent of it. So, yeah, that was the highlight, I'll say my bachelor party was coming home and just seeing the look on his face. But yeah, that was where mine was cheap, it was quick, easy and, you know, didn't have to do too much. Travel about an hour away from where, where I live, so not not too too far uh to get to uh. But, alyssa, when you're planning a uh for you, a bachelorette party, should the future groom or bride consider the cost and length of the trip and distance to travel for the guests that are attending, or does that?
Speaker 4:matter. Yeah, I, um, I 100 think. So I think if you're going to ask your friends to make the weekend about you, you have to be able to also make it accessible to them, as long as it's like within reason, um, and I also think that's why sometimes the underrated ones that are the best ones, because they're usually a little bit cheaper, closer, easier to get to and really it's about having all your friends there and having all your friends get along. So if you're making it easier on them, they're probably more than likely going to have a better time.
Speaker 1:I got you, drew, what about?
Speaker 5:you. Yeah, I agree with Alyssa. You know as we get up in age all of us, you know life is happening, kids are happening. You know different situations. So you know you don't want to say, hey, we're going to pack our bags and go to Rome for two and a half weeks. You know like you can't do it. But you know in my experiences with it, you know if you want to be there you'll be there and usually people go to them. But you definitely take account of, you know, different situations and what people could do and what people can't do.
Speaker 1:But overall the people end up showing up, kind of no matter what I got you, mister. I can't wait to hear this answer.
Speaker 3:I tell you what I'll keep it, man, as pgi, as a, as much as I possibly can. But now, but you know, um, you know, you know you want to take in account. You know people who you want to try to have around you. Uh, when you, when you're planning um, you know saying this is, you know, this event, you know because you want to again. You know something like a listen said earlier. You know you want to try and make it accessible. You know saying for people, you know, because you know friends, you know they as, uh, wisconsin, they, you know they get older and people move away and they move out. You know everybody's not as local, so you try to find a reasonable place where everybody can come and meet up. You know, but at the end of the very day, man, you know I don't, you know, at the end of the very day, you know if you can make it, you can make it, if you can't, you can't. It's still going to be a party.
Speaker 1:Okay, jordan, what you can make, it you can make it.
Speaker 7:You can't, you can't, it's still gonna be a party. Okay, jordan, what about you? Yeah, it seems like we're all pretty much in agreement. Like you got to take into account, um, everyone that's around you that's going on the trip. You know, like my biggest thing was, like you know, I was kind of like a list of like, where I gave options like we could do this, we could do that, and you know the response that your groomsmen give you, which, as they should, is like, dude, you pick, you decide. Like this is about you, but at the same time, like I never thought of it as about me, I thought it's about us. Like this is about celebrating our friendship in my mind, like all of you are my best friends. Like this is about celebrating us as a whole. So I us as a whole.
Speaker 7:So I like to take an account. You know where everyone wants to go, what to do, I mean, and definitely you try to make it as fun but affordable as possible. Um, so, like we took like there was no way I was ever flying anywhere for mine or anything like that. It's just way too much to ask. Um, but you definitely want to take into account. Like you know, people are gonna be taking off work, like mine.
Speaker 7:We were there for freaking six days, like we were there for a while. You know what I mean. So, like we all split that Airbnb, you got people taking off work Like I was lucky I'm a teacher, I timed it up with like our Easter break, or it wasn't Easter like our spring break, so I only had, instead of however, many more. But you got other people that are taking off work for that and coming for maybe four out of the six days, or taking off all their work days and coming for six days. So we tried to make it as affordable, accessible and as fun as possible and that's kind of what you got to do.
Speaker 1:I got you, Brandon. What about you?
Speaker 6:Yeah, you know it's obviously agreeing with everybody else, but you know I like to bargain high, try to agreeing with everybody else, but you know I like to bargain high to get some feelers out there about six months before, eight months prior. Hey, you know you want to do jamaica. Is it possible? What is everybody feeling? You know what I mean. Like, so you got to get the feelers out. That's what we did with our miami vegas trips, because there was a lot of us that went and so, organizing that, we were like where you know, let's, let's, let's aim high, we're gonna be there for four or five days. I think we're in vegas for like five days, which is outrageous. Um, I don't, I don't recommend that to anybody. You made it back from vegas after five days. I, I was, I, yeah, it was, it was. It was not completely in one piece, I was I was significantly.
Speaker 6:I was in, I was in a bad. I was in a bad place because I was miami in vegas summer and by the time I hit june and I was, you know, it was not good. I was going on. I think I gave myself an IV or something when I got back on um but yeah you aim high.
Speaker 6:You know, you see what people can do. Obviously it's a once in a lifetime, you know well, for some I want to say once in a lifetime might have multiple bachelor parties, might be married multiple times. But you know, it's, it's, it's special, uh, it's, it's, it's. So, you know, I like to obviously give people a heads up what's doable, what's not, be courteous of people's times and schedules and families. But hey, who's to say we can't do a crazy, you know, trip, if you have the capability to do so.
Speaker 1:Right, you made a lot of points there.
Speaker 2:I can't really refute on that one. So, yeah, I like where your head's at. But, tj, what about you? Can we, can we all get back? Can we all get to where we need to get to, Whatever it is? You know, you're you, it's always going to be. You have good people around you, but you don't want to get so crazy to where, hey, your bachelor party is remembered for all the things that went wrong versus all the things that went right. So, um, I think that there you got to take into consideration of you want to be the one that's remembered. You want to be the bachelor party that everybody talks about and nobody's gonna talk about the disaster it was, you know, and be positive about it. So, um, yeah, you got to take into consideration, maybe, where it's at, the money cost, the fun to be had, but, um, you really can't go wrong with the good people, with good people around you I got you drew?
Speaker 1:did I go to you? Did I? Did you answer this question or am I just losing my mind here? Yeah, I did. Okay, that's what I thought I'm just it's. We talked about it off, off camera and off everything. Yeah, what's going on with me? So we're we had a feeling it was going to go off the rails a little bit here, but yeah it is what it is. You know, life happens. Um, oh yeah, for sure, uh t TJ. Is there such a thing as inviting too many people to a bachelor or bachelorette party?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there is. You got to remember that, even though you're the one being celebrated, there's a part of you that's going to click where it's like damn, if something goes wrong, it's kind of my fault, I was the one that set up this bad situation. And then you start freaking out like now you kind of the one babysitting and and you don't want that either, so you can put it out there. People are always going to back out at the last second. It is what it is. But now if you have too many, too many cooks in the kitchen doing a lot of dumb things and it turns into, you know, the more people, the more bad situations could pop up. So and I think also, when you keep it light, you don't have as many people it makes it more special for the people that are there that you let them know. Hey, you were on the list, you were one of my people I was thinking about. So I think that you can. You can cap it at some point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we definitely don't need a hangover situation going on at these parties, for sure.
Speaker 5:We don't nobody needs that to happen, but Drew, what about you? Yeah, I'm actually going to disagree with TJ.
Speaker 1:I think the first time we ever disagreed in our life. Listen to this. This is a monumental moment.
Speaker 5:No, I think the more the merrier. You know, like I think it also depends how many friends you have. You know I'm not going to invite random strangers to mine, but you know I got, I got a lot of good friends. My fiance has a bigger side of the family. You know I got a few cousins and you know I'm starting to plan mine out. You know I'm starting to think of all those guys that are, you know, going to be there. It's not going to be like a, you know, 40, 50 people type of thing, but there'll probably be.
Speaker 5:You know, if I think now probably close to 17, 18 of us, and those are the people that you know I want to be there. And you know you're celebrating yourself and you want your people that you care about to be there. And you know, like you're celebrating yourself and you want your people that that you you care about to be there. And you know anything depends on person to person, but no, I think, where you know the amount you want, there is the amount you want there I got you, brandon, what about you?
Speaker 6:and I say more to mary too. I'm agree with drew on that. I think, um, the more people you just have to celebrate, you know something special like that you know the better. And so, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm all for um, trying to get as many people on board as possible. That means something to me. At least you know what I mean. So I'm totally here for that gotcha jordan what about you?
Speaker 7:you know, originally when you asked this I was kind of like, nah, man, you want to keep it, you know, fairly small. But then I kind of got persuaded over the last two responses here and I mean I I kind of agree with them like, um, what drew said, everyone's different. So I think some people have a smaller circle, some people are blessed with a bigger circle of people they trust and love and that they consider their best friends, you know, and, and if that's the case and you got a lot of people in your corner like that, then God bless you. Like hell yeah, man, bring them and let it rip. You know.
Speaker 7:But what I will say is I've seen people do this before. I've never been in one that's had it. But I've seen people, you know, they bring their groomsmen or bridesmaids on on trips that are usually farther away, um, and then they will bring an extra friend or someone else just to bring the price of where they're staying down, and that's that's messed up to me, like you know. I mean, I've seen people intentionally do that. I feel like, and that don't fly with me. But I mean, like I said, if you got, you know, 17, 18 people in your corner, man like hell, yeah, bring them on and let's go like that's cool, you know what I mean. I get it, but don't do the money thing. Don't do the money thing.
Speaker 1:That's, that's lame yeah, for sure I get it um with the, the big circles and and whatnot. I'm trying to lose people out of my circle. And if I'm being 100 honest with myself as I get older, like I'm trying to lose people out of my circle and if I'm being 100 honest with myself as I get older, like I'm becoming the crotchety old man is what I'm. I'm the becoming the epitome of get off my lawn guy. Is is where I'm coming at in in my old age. For sure, uh, but mister, what about you?
Speaker 3:no, there's no such thing. There's no cap. There's no cap of time, there's no cap of place location no, there's no cap man. This guy who had a whole summer.
Speaker 1:It's a whole summer and I expected less from this answer.
Speaker 5:I really wish I went to Mr Batchelor.
Speaker 1:I wish I knew Mr. Back then we did it again.
Speaker 5:A whole summer bachelor party. That's right.
Speaker 3:And this is what some of you guys need to realize. Man, hey, you know, don't think it has to be. You know what I'm saying. Just one location, guys, you know, go to have multiple ones, have multiples, man, you know, you might have one in PA one week, you might do one in Cleveland the next week. You know what I'm saying. Another two weeks you might go down to the National, you might go down to Charlotte, hey, and then you know, on that final final, you know, take might go down to the National National League, you might go down to Charlotte, and then you know, on that final final, you don't take that trip out to Las Vegas. You know what I'm saying. And make it back Absolutely.
Speaker 5:Mr needs to be a motivational speaker. I love this.
Speaker 1:You missed your calling man. Be a motivational speaker.
Speaker 7:Mr's going to start a new thing. There's no more bachelor bachelor trips. It's called the run-up to the hump. Every month you take a trip, the run-up to the hump.
Speaker 3:That's perfect. I like that.
Speaker 7:You get married in July. You got six months to run up the hump. Every month you go somewhere different. That's the new term.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Baby, I don't know if the mic picked this up, but as soon as I said you had a summer-long bachelor party, my wife goes. Oh god, are they still married after that?
Speaker 7:It was just out of nowhere.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, dude, dude. Mister, my wife absolutely loves your answers and then when she listens to the show, she's like. She's like it's mr gonna be on. Every time I tell her there's a round table, she's like please tell me mr's gonna be on it because she loves the answers that you give for any episode, no matter what the topic is, you come out with phenomenal stuff.
Speaker 1:Uh, alissa, we didn't forget about you with this when we got off the rails with mr. Uh, no matter what the topic is, you come out with phenomenal stuff. Alyssa, we didn't forget about you with this one. We got off the rails with Mr.
Speaker 4:What about you? Maybe this is a different perspective because I'm a female, but I definitely think that there could be too many. You know cooks in the kitchen. But I think it also really depends on the personality of your friends, because for me, I think the best thing is like on mine we had about nine and they all like the coolest thing about the Batch Bachelorette Party, batch Party, I think is seeing all your best friends from different circles like be best friends in that moment and I think if you know that you have some personalities that aren't going to get along well, then maybe yes, it's still about you, but I think you need to take that into consideration.
Speaker 1:I got you. Ok, we'll stay with you on this one. Have you ever had to plan a bachelorette party for any of your friends?
Speaker 4:No, thank gosh, I don't want to, I don't. Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare to me.
Speaker 1:No, thank gosh, I don't want to part of it. I don't. Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare to me. I haven't had to plan one for any of my friends, um, but I didn't. I barely could plan my own. So, like it was, it was yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 4:I'll check yes or no. Like if you give me a list of things, I can go down and be like yes, no, yes, no. Or if you want ideas, I'll help yes or no. Like if you give me a list of things, I can go down and be like yes, no, yes, no. Or if you want ideas, I'll help give them, but I don't want to actually structure it. That's. I want to show up and have fun and be the energy oh yeah, I definitely bring the energy, for sure.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, not planning one, mister. Uh, I can't wait for this, mister. What about you?
Speaker 3:no, you know what, ironically man, no, seriously man, no, I I've. No, I haven't man, that is, uh, that is something to think about. No, I don't know, we're gonna have to change that.
Speaker 1:Now, mister, like that we got.
Speaker 5:We gotta find somebody drew mister, can you be my best man please?
Speaker 1:drew, we gotta. He just got engaged. We got a golden opportunity block off the summer?
Speaker 2:yeah, no, we're going everywhere we're blocking the summer off for you drew.
Speaker 1:You better save up some vacation days run up to the hump buddy I'm a teacher all summer, up to the hump buddy.
Speaker 5:I'm a teacher All summer. Let's rock All summer.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're a teacher, oh yeah.
Speaker 7:All summer let's rock baby Drew, do you have a date set yet? Because if not, buddy, it's a long run up to the hump.
Speaker 5:No, I don't, we can start now, if you want.
Speaker 3:Start now. I tell you, at 11.59pm tonight, drew boy, we're going to start you might hit the line I'll get in my car right now.
Speaker 5:Oh shit.
Speaker 3:Jordan what about you.
Speaker 7:Hold on Now. I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 7:Have you ever planned one for any of your friends? Oh hell, no. But I'm going to have three next year, but luckily I'll have people to collaborate with on it. But you know what I think it's. I'm going to go back to Alyssa for a moment. Guys and girls are so different when it comes to bachelorette trips, at least in my opinion. Like guys can just randomly, sporadically do things, not saying you couldn't, alyssa, or anything like that, but like girls, when they go on a trip, it's like they like to have detailed from this time we're doing this, we're going to here, we're going to here.
Speaker 3:And I don't know.
Speaker 7:I don't think, alyssa, you're like that, but I've seen girls that are like I mean, it is just like an itinerary list and like I don't know, I could never do that. So if I'm in charge and one of my best friends whose trip we're going on, he wants me to do that, I'm not the guy for that, but I can give you a baseline. I give you an outline, a rough outline. It's going to be a rough outline.
Speaker 1:For sure I get that, though, jordan. It's going to be a rough outline. For sure I get that, though, jordan. The only other one I've been to was my best friend's. It was in South Bend, indiana. He was getting married near Notre Dame where his wife went to college and everything like that. And I mean his brother didn't really plan much. It was, hey, we're all showing up, basically, um, about four or five days before before the wedding, guys are just going to get together. We just kind of were like hey, this, this pub's open, y'all want to go here. Like that was kind of the gist of it, like there wasn't anything real crazy, um, but like it that we were all flying by the seat of our pants, like we had a general idea, we're meeting here and then from there also like we're going to figure it out, we're going to build our wings and jump off this cliff and figure it out on the way down. That that was the entirety of the night.
Speaker 7:Yeah, sometimes just the unscripted is the best, because then you don't know what the night holds. A hundred percent.
Speaker 1:But Brandon, what about you?
Speaker 6:Yeah, because then you don't know what the night holds, 100%. But Brandon, what about you? Yeah, so I have had to plan two. And then I had to plan an impromptu night just because shit was getting a little boring. So I had to make a quick Miami Florida connection to a club last minute, and so that was pretty fun. But the one was local, so it wasn't that bad. The other one that was a little bit more intense was the Cleveland trip, because I planned that whole weekend, but it was pretty fun and everybody. If you have to plan one for the future, just chat GPT. Now All you got to do is chat GPT.
Speaker 6:Plan me a weekend to Miami. I'm a batch, I'm the best man and that shit. We'll plan it for you. So fear not, we are in the new age of technology, so you're good.
Speaker 3:I did all that pre-ChatGPT man.
Speaker 6:So it was fun, though it was a good time Talk about AI.
Speaker 1:That's terrifying. Ai planning a bachelor party the amount of shit that's going to happen at that party if you follow chat btt is just like. It's just as my wife would say so many blown achilles. Like quick, quick little side story here because I have to tell this. I don't know if I've told it out here before, but we were. We were watching an nfl game and they kept coming up with aws, the, the stat cast, and she was just like what is that? I was like it's ai. She's like is that why people are blowing their achilles? I was like do you know what ai stands for? Like she had no idea what it stood for. I was like it's artificial intelligence, basically the computers. Oh, I thought that's why, like there were so many Achilles injuries Now, anytime anybody mentions AI, I was like you're just going to blow your Achilles out, man. That's what's going to happen now. It's funny to us, I guess. But yeah, she thought that, drew, what?
Speaker 5:about you. Yeah, I had a plan uh one it was actually Fitty's master party. But um, you know, fitty, he had. He had an idea what he wanted to do and he had outlined it for for me. So it was super easy. All he had to do was kind of collect some money and show up, in a sense.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say Fitty planned that whole thing.
Speaker 5:Don't act like you had anything to do with that the only only thing I had to do really is we got a boat for a day and, um, I don't know if anyone ever had to drive a boat before. Yeah, but he wanted me to drive the boat because I was the best man and it was probably the choppiest day in lake erie that ever was ever. And I'm driving this boat and it's choppy. I don't know how to drive a boat and it was fun, but towards the end I got a little nuts. So that was my best man responsibilities that weekend Driving the boat. Yeah, because he handled all the rest. If you're ever needing a boating license, all you got to do is you go up to this attic in Erie and you watch a 10-minute video and half of it doesn't work. Another half is muted, so it's kind of like here's the keys and figure it out Just type Bill, just sit in this room for 10 minutes and then we'll give you keys.
Speaker 5:Essentially, with a 17-year-old that's trying to like get a, a video to work, I'm like okay, this is not yeah, and all right, here's the keys. Go drive a boat. I'm like okay, but um so if anyone ever needs anyone to drive a boat, I I have experience, I got you tj, what about?
Speaker 2:you never had to plan one, um, but yeah, uh, bachelor and bachelor parties are. You are vastly different. But I feel like, guys, we have like, hey, this is what I'd kind of like to do, and then I don't even care what day it's on, let's just kind of do these three things or four things, and we don't care what time we wake up, we don't care what time we're, just hey, somebody on breakfast. Cool, we doing that thing today. Yeah, let's do that today. You know, so it's. I mean, I'll be down for it. You know, being a teacher, you lesson plan, so you put things together every day. So I'll be cool with it if somebody ever asks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you're not wrong with just guys. Just don't plan anything. I'm a 13-year comedian. I barely plan my sets out anymore at this point in time. It's just that's where I'm at. I'm not planning a bachelor party. That's not going to happen. Tj, we're going to round out the show with this question here, and it's where do you think would be the worst place to have a bachelor or bachelorette party? Browns game. I'm not even mad at that answer because it is like it's just you know they're gonna lose.
Speaker 1:That's the problem is it's gonna be a loss.
Speaker 2:Um I, you know honestly for me, somewhere cold, I don't want to go anywhere cold. Know honestly for me, somewhere cold, I don't want to go anywhere cold. It's hard for me to enjoy cold weather, cold and snow, because then you've got to drive around trying to get place to place. You know everybody's inside, so you know somewhere cold and crowded, got you?
Speaker 1:Drew, what about you?
Speaker 5:Yeah, this is probably going to be extremely unpopular opinion and every time I say this, people are like you're out of your mind. I can't stand like the hiking trips. Like I'm not here to hike, I'm here to like drink beer and have a good time. So like I went on a hiking bachelor party and I thought I was just a job off, jump off the mountain. I was like I was that close to doing it. Um, I don't know, I just I viewed it as like a you know, a bachelor parties to have fun, beard up and walk around a city type of thing. I'm just not a hiking guy, I'm not an outdoors or a woods kind of guy. So I guess my answer would be worst.
Speaker 1:I got you. That's a good answer. I'm not going to lie. I don't hate that. I'm a hiking kind of guy.
Speaker 5:People you're out of your mind. I love hiking the views, the weather, the trees.
Speaker 6:I'm like eh, you know yeah.
Speaker 5:Get with nature, Drew. I can go for a stroll with the boys, but I don't know if I can hike a mountain with the boys.
Speaker 7:I don't know if we're going on miles. A stroll up a little hill.
Speaker 3:Okay, you just need a little shot of 1800. You'll be alright. Get charged up, you'll be good to go.
Speaker 5:He got a plan on my bachelor. It has to happen. He got to plan my bachelor. I mean, it has to happen.
Speaker 2:He knows the spots, he knows the hiking spots.
Speaker 1:Dude, we are going to make this happen for you, Drew. There's no way this isn't happening. I will make it my life's mission at this point in time to make this happen.
Speaker 5:We don't need chat GPT. We got Mr.
Speaker 2:We don't need chat GPT.
Speaker 3:Chat Mr dog dog, we got chat, mister.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go, jordan. What about you?
Speaker 7:for this last question. Um, it's gonna sound bad because I mean I would love to go on one here, but I think any place that you can drastically lose money fast is not good. Now, drew or who, who said they were going? Yeah, I think drew. You said you're going to casino down in florida, right?
Speaker 5:um, if I had to do it now, yeah, that's where I go I mean that's better than vegas.
Speaker 7:Like, just hit that. Listen. Here's my advice to you, because I've been to Vegas a few times, the casinos you said you've gambled too. But just go in there with the cash you want to use and do not go anywhere near that ATM buddy. Don't do it.
Speaker 7:We're always talking to one of my friends who's getting married at some point next year and he's a gambler. My friends who he's getting married at some point next year and he's he's a gambler. We were. He was at my house for last week when I got married and I come into my living room he's got fan on my tv and he's gambling on ponies in australia at 1 am. He's up. He's up slapping his own ass getting the horse to ride faster on a one lap australian pony race. Like that's a problem. You got a real problem if you're up at 1 am gambling on ponies in australia. So when you get a little bit of fuel in you, that 1800 mister's talking about you start really feeling yourself and winning a few times.
Speaker 7:That's a slippery slope. You go down, so I'm a man. Vegas has got to be the worst place to go, Because how many people I wonder what's the percent of people that come out on top of Vegas after their bachelor weekend?
Speaker 5:It can't be high 0.4%.
Speaker 7:And lost it all in 20 minutes on one game because I just thought I could do it. And it's got to be the worst place because you're going to lose money, you're just going to.
Speaker 5:I also feel like if you do win money, it's like all right, where are we going? It's on me, I need to spend it anyways.
Speaker 7:It's gone, that money's gone. Whatever you win is gone in 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:It's gone, Brandon. I don't know if there's many places left.
Speaker 6:What about you? Yeah, you, yeah, so I gotta, I gotta, agree with a little bit. About drew and jordan, I share the same sentiments. Vegas, I think, is a little overrated spot. I'm not a big. I'm not a big gambler. I think I blew 300 within the first like five minutes of being in a casino and that was it, and I retired and my jersey is hung up on the rafters I will never do that again.
Speaker 6:Um, but I I think, if I have to pick one, I'm not a big camping outside guy, so like I I think I think that would that would for me, that would bore me and I wouldn't have fun I got you oh, here we go now, we're now, we're now, we're at it.
Speaker 1:Mister, what about you?
Speaker 3:so you, you know the location there's. There's not a such thing as a bad location. Now, the thing is, you know, saying with that in mind, the thing is, you know who is the mole. You want to make sure you don't have a mole in your camp, yep yep, he's speaking the truth over here there's one in every group there is.
Speaker 3:You can go anywhere. You can go to Antarctica, freaking Alaska. There is no such thing as a bad place. Let me tell you something if I can go to Mars, I will go to Mars and have me a good time, alright, with one of them. You know what I'm saying? Fun piece absolutely. Go to Mars and have me a good time, all right, with one of them. Captain Kirk, you know what I'm saying? Fun piece, absolutely.
Speaker 5:You can get to Mars.
Speaker 6:Yeah, the guy who goes on Facebook Lives the whole trip he needs to be kicked out.
Speaker 3:We had that happen.
Speaker 6:in Miami we had a dude who was going live all the time. We were like, man, if you don't turn that damn live off right now.
Speaker 3:What's the matter with you? I was like get me off.
Speaker 6:I felt like a celebrity. I was like, no, he ain't, he ain't getting me.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that person's bad.
Speaker 6:He was TMZ-ing us man. He was TMZ and us.
Speaker 3:You can't have that guy man.
Speaker 6:No, that's the mole, that's the outward that's the guy You're talking about, mister.
Speaker 3:That's the mole. Hey, you gotta have one of them. Ads dog that. You know what I'm saying? That block you know what I'm saying cameras from coming up. You know what I'm saying? Block the Wi-Fi.
Speaker 2:You gotta have one of those buffers, man. You need that dude smacking the phones out of their hands.
Speaker 4:That's right.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, dion don't take pictures.
Speaker 1:I call you as the paparazzi. I knew better than not to have Mr Going Last, but, alyssa, we got one more person here to get through. I should have said Mr for last but Alyssa, what about? You, you're not having faith in my answer. You're giving mr all the credit here, but I mean that's a tough act to follow following mr.
Speaker 4:It is hard, it won't be as entertaining, but I don't think there's such a thing as necessarily a bad place. I think there's a bad itinerary and bad like really expensive. So if you're making all your friends spend a lot of money and then you're booking it thing after thing after thing and I have no time to chill, and then I'm drained and spending money, and then you throw in something like something you really don't enjoy on top of it, yeah, that that's where I would probably say like I don't know if there's a bad place, but it's bad itinerary and planning, I think.
Speaker 3:I gotcha, we're doing that one yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah for sure. Definitely bad planning, I mean. But I got to agree with Mr and Alyssa here. I don't think there could be a bad place. I mean, I have zero desire to go to Vegas. I'm a gambler and I have zero desire to go to Vegas. Desire to go to Vegas, I'm a gambler and I have zero desire to go to Vegas. But yeah, I think if you get the right people, I could go to a dirt mound in my backyard and have fun at a bachelor party with the right people. So I get that. But I mean, that's a tough one. There's no bad places, honestly, other than Cleveland. The hell with Cleveland, just for you, tj, to get that in there. But that is actually going to do it for this week's episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast.
Speaker 1:This week's episode of the ride home rants podcast. I want to thank all of my guests TJ, alyssa drew, mr Jordan and Brandon for coming on and talking all things bachelor and bachelor at parties. This was a lot of fun to get to talk about this and everything that goes along with them. As always, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell him anyways, they might like it, just because you didn't, that's going to do it for me and I will see y'all next week.
