Ride Home Rants
Ride Home Rants
Cool Breeze and Autumn Leaves; Why the Fall Season is the Best
Our annual All Things Fall episode kicks off with our panel of guests representing greater Northeast Ohio while Mike represents Central Ohio in Columbus. This panel of contributors breaks down their opinions of last falls exceptionally warm weather and how nice a warm fall can be. They dive into deep discussions about pumpkin spice, corn fields, and their thoughts on family pictures in the fall!
Make sure you get your notebooks out as the guests break it down on the best fall locations to check out and visit. Are you a fan of cold or warm apple cider? This brings a lively debate from our panelists as well.
Whether you are a die hard lover of fall or someone who just cherishes cool mornings and autumn leaves, this show is one you want to check out and be sure not to miss!
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, Mike Bono. I have a great guest for a guest. I have a panel of guests for us today and it is becoming an annual episode for us and I'm super pumped to talk about it. But it is the all things fall show. We're going to be talking about all things in my favorite season of fall. I love the weather and everything like that. But I'm going to let my panel of guests introduce themselves, so I need your name. Do you wear glasses and what is your favorite flavor of yogurt? And, Tony, we're going to start with you.
Speaker 2:My name is Tony. I do not actually wear glasses, I'm just kidding. I do wear glasses. And my favorite yogurt flavor you got to go with the classic strawberry.
Speaker 1:Okay, wendy, let's go to you.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm Wendy, I do not wear glasses and my favorite yogurt is the Chobani Zero Sugar Vanilla.
Speaker 1:That was very specific and I like it. Tj, let's go to you next.
Speaker 4:Hey, this is TJ. I do not wear glasses but my vision has been going at nighttime so I have some nighttime contacts, so I think glasses are in the near future. I guess my favorite yogurt is strawberry banana Anything but plain gotcha, and it's everybody's favorite.
Speaker 5:manager of the show fitty so everybody knows me, I'm fitty, um, I don't wear glasses, but I'm to the age that I have to turn the radio down to see where I'm going before I pull in somewhere. Um, so I'm to that age so I guess I don't think that counts as glasses, but I'm I'm done that, old now. Um, my favorite flavor actually um, I kind of got into this is getting plain vanilla yogurt, putting some, um, blueberries in there and then some granola and mixing it around and making it a parfait. So I guess vanilla yogurt, but with the sides. If I'm not doing the sides and I'm probably just doing a good banana yogurt flavor as my jam.
Speaker 1:I got you. Obviously, everyone knows me, mike Bono. I wear clear glasses to make it not as noticeable on my face because I used to wear contacts and I don't anymore because I keep getting these nasty styes on my eye when I wear contacts. So glasses are in that future for me now and getting to that age, and yogurt I don't really eat yogurt that much anymore, but when I did, it was the strawberry banana that I would go with. Yeah, anything but plain for me on that fact. But we're not here to talk about yogurts, we're here to talk about all things fall. And, wendy, we're going to start with you being our resident realtor here. For most people, last fall was in 2024, was exceptionally warm until almost Thanksgiving. Do you think fall has days in the 70s and low 80s, or what is your feeling on? Like a warmer fall?
Speaker 3:Typically for here. We usually don't get them. We don't. When we do, we are throwing parties like crazy, Because I mean most of our Halloweens around. You know that time in the October time, it's in the 40s, the 50s, it's rainy, we're wearing jackets, we're wearing rain gear, we're cold, we're wearing boots. So last year was awesome, but it's not usual like that for us in our October months, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:I got you DJ. What about you?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm a big warm weather guy, so anytime we can have warm weather, deep into october even you know it's wishful thinking but into november I love being outside, so that warmer weather is just a blessing. Everybody's smiling um, you know, watching football outside on the porch, things like that. So warm weather in the fall, I'm all for it. All right, biddy what about you?
Speaker 5:Yeah, you know, like I've lived in a lot of different places and I lived in Pennsylvania and worked in West Virginia and been in Southern Ohio. So like last fall was kind of what I was used to in some other places that we're all living in Cleveland, but it was really warm until like Thanksgiving. I'm sure the panel remembers it was 80 degrees on Halloween last year. It was in the 80s, high 80s through. You know, september and October had very few bad days and November was even really warm too. So I'm a fan of it.
Speaker 5:I'm just not a fan of what happens with the lake when it's that warm that long because the lake can't freeze and then we get like the hellacious snow and winter that we had up here was exceptionally terrible. So like being in cleveland, I'm sure everybody would agree you have to pick, like do you want the cold fall and the mild winter or do you want the exceptionally warm fall and the terrible winter? You know for me I'd still take the warm, super warm fall and the terrible winter. But you know it's kind of hard to to say what's right and what's wrong in that sense. But the warm, the warmer it is, the longer it is, the better it is I got you and tony.
Speaker 1:What about you?
Speaker 2:I gotta say as much as I kind of miss the 60s and 70s, I am not objected to warm fall nights okay, uh, I'm going to be the only one on this panel and I am such a 50 to 70 degree slut.
Speaker 1:It's unreal, like I absolutely love that temperature of weather. I'm one of those people that cannot be cool enough. I am always hot as it is. So when you get me into like 50 to 70 degrees, and I'm loving every minute of it, I love the warm weather. Don't get me wrong, I love summer, uh, but this summer has been exceptionally warm, uh, for me, um, like, even right now. I mean, it was in the 80s today here and I'm sweating sitting in my house when my AC set at 66 degrees. So, like, that's where I'm at. So, yeah, give me the 50 to 70 degrees and I'm happy, happy as a lamb. That could be. Tony, I want to stay with you on this. One Little bit could be, I guess, controversial, I don't want to say, but it is. But warm or cold apple cider, what do you prefer?
Speaker 2:I do not think that is a controversial thing at all. I like cold apple cider.
Speaker 1:There's so many pumpkin spice people, apple cider gets a little risky for people that like it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like cold apple cider, Honestly cold apple cider fan. All right, Fetty.
Speaker 5:I'm cold apple cider too. I'm a hot coffee fan, but I'm a cold apple cider fan all the way.
Speaker 1:Gotcha TJ.
Speaker 4:Damn, what is wrong with you people? Warm apple cider, a little whiskey come on now. We need a. We need, we need, we need to, we need to clean some things up, y'all, come on now. We gotta get that. Well, we gotta pour it in, put it in the microwave, get that thing a little steaming. Oh, that's fall there so. But now I do need a cooler summer night, or I need a cool fall night, and that goes perfect with that warm apple cider. So I can't be doing it on an 80-degree day, but if I had preferred or I had to choose, it's definitely warm.
Speaker 1:Okay, wendy, what about you?
Speaker 3:Definitely warm. The hotter the better yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm warm and I will mix some fireball whiskey and then get that cinnamon in there too as well, like a caramel apple type of deal going on. That's phenomenal. Right, there is what that is. You got to get creative sometimes, wendy, what's your favorite fall go-to place? Uh, to visit, uh, in the fall patterson fruit farm you said patterson's fruit farm yep, patterson fruit farm.
Speaker 3:I'm sure bitty's been there by now. Um, it's over in chesterland. It is the thing to do, um it's. You can go out there to the orchards. You can pick your own apples. Um, you can pick out your own pumpkins. There's little playground area, there's little crafts for kids, so total enjoyment for everybody, small, older. Um, they have fresh donuts. They have, which are absolutely amazing. I can't eat them, eat them, but I I hear they're good. I have an allergy to wheat. Um, but they have fresh donuts. They have fresh cider, warm or cold, and they have like a little gift shop with chocolates, all kinds of things that they sell, and from other local farmers in the area too. They bring in their produce, their honey, things like that, and they sell it for them there too. It's like the best little thing to do okay, tj what about you.
Speaker 4:So the first one that everybody goes to is patterson's. It's a phenomenal place, especially for kids. Um, just so many activities to. But I'm a big haunted house guy. I love going to haunted houses, so, um, I'll send a plug. I got um in Berea. It's about 15 minutes away from where I'm at uh, joe Boo evil events in on Berea campground um in the fall. Uh, one of the best experiences for haunted houses it's, um they took over for the seven floors of hell and they put their experience on the different houses, so there's uh multiple different houses there. Um, a great, great time you go with a couple of your buddies and things like that, and yeah, that's a great haunted house experience with great special effects. So I'm a big haunted house guy during the fall can't, can't complain about that pretty.
Speaker 1:What about you?
Speaker 5:um, I'm a big Patterson's person too. You know Wendy kind of hit everything on the head there. But I also really do like Mapleside Farms in Strongsville, which is a lot of fun. It's a different vibe than Patterson's. You know, there's a corn maze and they have like vino all the way, so it's a wine tour through the corn maze. There's a lot of cool stuff for kids. You can go up to their shop and buy apples and some other stuff. They usually have different food vendors there. I think it's the second largest slide in the world. There down that hill you get to see the piglets race. It's just a really cool thing to take the tractor ride. I'm a big fan of Patterson's, but since Wendy went with with that, I'll go with mapleside farms I got you all right, tony.
Speaker 1:What about you?
Speaker 2:well, since everybody said patterson fruit farm, I mean I gotta throw my hat in the ring as well. Patterson fruit farm is that place. I mean it's worth it to get donuts, you get pumpkin, you get all kind of good stuff. One place that I'd actually like to throw in the ring, I would like to throw in this place in Middlefield. It's called the Amish Country Market. That's the place out in Middlefield. I remember my senior year of high school. We went to Amish Country Really great experience. I think that's the name of that place, but I know that they had candy and pumpkins and stuff. So I'll have to go at that place in Millfield if you guys ever get a chance to go.
Speaker 3:That's a great one.
Speaker 1:Okay, I haven't been to any of those. I'm not going to lie to you guys here. I'm the only one on this panel right now that doesn't live near the Cleveland area. It's about a two-hour drive for me, which isn't bad, but for me it's more the nostalgia from when I was younger, kind of like TJ there there was a great little haunted house at one of the parks back in West Virginia, at Brook Hills Park. They always do their haunted house there every year. They have hay rides, they have everything that you could think of there too as well. It's not just the haunted house, they even have the golf course lit up in Halloween theme and fall theme there. It's pretty cool to see. I haven't been there in years, but it's just one of those places that I remember going to as a kid and all through high school and everything like that. It's just a great little place that nobody's really ever heard of unless you've been to West Virginia and in that northern panhandle type of region to know where exactly it's at, because it's one of those places if you blink, you miss it. And it's awesome to to go there and to just and just see, and a lot of my friends worked there through high school too as well. So it made it a lot more enjoyable, I guess, for me, uh, knowing that a bunch of my friends were running that place there too as well. So it's, it's just one of those ones for me it's the nostalgia of it and it's it's. It's back home in West Virginia where I can't wait to get back to.
Speaker 1:West Virginia Falls are I don't care what anybody says the best. The hills and the trees and the leaves changing and everything like that. I will fight that till my last breath. If anybody wants to, by all means come at me on that one. I will fight you till the day I die on that one. West Virginia Falls are absolutely the best falls Period. End of discussion on that one for me. But, tony, what's your favorite apple-flavored fall treat?
Speaker 2:Well, I gotta say you gotta go up to New England for a fall. If you want some real foliage, Go up to New Angled.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I could go to New England. I don't know if I can. Actually, as somebody who grew up in West Virginia, that close to Pittsburgh, and knowing the rivalries with that, I just don't think I could go up to New England.
Speaker 2:Respect, respect. As far as flavors goes, this is going to shock some people Apple pie. But here's the funny thing I actually have allergies to apples, but I can eat apple pie.
Speaker 1:That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. I'm gonna need I'm gonna need more on that.
Speaker 2:Tony, you can't just drop something okay, I can, I can drop some. Well, sometimes I can eat some apples and my throat gets all funny and stuff. But you put a piece of apple pie in my in my face. I can eat it, no problems at all. I'm guessing it's the same with cherries as well. Some cherries it's bad, no bueno.
Speaker 1:But cherry pie, my favorite dessert I'm at a loss on that one, that's that is so crazy that I have ever been cherished through that too. But you put it in a pie and it delicious and you're fine, like that's the weirdest I mean, is it?
Speaker 3:I gotta ask the question is it? Is it like canned apple? Yes, pie filling that, yes. So it's not like chopping up real apples, putting it in the pie, baking it and then you can eat. So it's not like chopping up real apples, putting it in the pie, baking it and then you can eat it. It's canned.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if it was made a certain way, like for instance, if you cooked apples in a certain way, I could eat it that way.
Speaker 3:So something in the, something in the processing between the raw to cooked, yes, and that's the same with peaches, Like I can eat peach cobbler peaches. There must be like a chemical release or something. Oh wow, that is crazy. Okay, we'll talk offline. Sorry, all right, you're fine, I'm so intrigued by this.
Speaker 2:I'm so intrigued by this.
Speaker 1:I might cancel the rest of these, these questions that I have here because I need to know, like this allergy now, because now my mind is going to be spinning the rest of the day.
Speaker 3:I've heard of this, that certain people cannot eat the raw form of something. However, once it's been cooked down or processed in some way, they're able to eat it. I think it's so crazy because there's just this push to get to the most natural form, raw form of food in our society right now. And here you are on the other end of the spectrum and I got more before I have.
Speaker 2:I take up all the time but I'm actually allergic to fish. But I can eat shrimp, crab legs, oysters.
Speaker 4:Everybody can eat shrimp and crab legs, I mean come on, now, you can't go wrong with that, even if?
Speaker 1:I ever grow an allergy to shrimp and crab legs, I will die a happy man.
Speaker 5:There's no way, I'm not getting that.
Speaker 1:That's just I need. Okay, we, tony, I gotta know more about this. But, bitty, what apple treats? Do you have any allergies that we need to know about now, since we're just on allergies?
Speaker 5:no, I just got some, uh, medical allergies to medicine. Um, nothing with food, I don't. I don't know about, let me knock on wood here, but um, probably my favorite flavored apple tree. I really do like apple-flavored donuts. That's my jam right there, apple-flavored donuts.
Speaker 1:You can't go wrong with that at all, tj, what about you?
Speaker 4:I assume Apple Jacks is off the table. I'll allow it. I'm not above that. I'll say, I mean, honestly, I just an apple man, just a normal. Give me an apple, slice them up. You can throw an apple in anything. So I'm not. I mean, I'm not. I don't get too fancy with it, man. Apple cider I still like the apple cider and all the things you can do with that, but I don't need to get too fancy. Give me an apple a day. Keeps the doctor away or you know, just not having to pay into health insurance. But yeah, either way, I'll keep it going.
Speaker 1:Wendy, what about you?
Speaker 3:I was going to say apple pie, dutch apple pie, but since that was already said, I'm going to go with apple fritter, because that's a close second oh yeah, I need those those aren't all.
Speaker 1:Those are great. Give me a good caramel apple though. You know what I mean. You can't go wrong with a good caramel apple, especially in the fall that would be for me, but it sucks.
Speaker 1:I can't not because of Tony's reasons. I can't eat apples like normal people like I have to cut them up. At a very young age I had and this is going back again. I'm going to hear a lot of the West Virginia jokes but I actually have two fake teeth in the front of my mouth so I can't bite into anything like that. It will rip them completely out of my mouth. So I have to, like a child, cut my apples up, want to eat an apple so that I can actually have it. I can't just bite into it and yeah, it's been since I was a um, since I was junior high, like I had to have them and it's it's a bridge. That's literally next to my two front teeth and I can't. I can't bite into apples. I love apples and, but I haven't actually eaten one in forever because I feel like a child bringing out that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, bring out the thing my apples up to have to eat them.
Speaker 1:It's just a pride thing for me. At 36 years old, I got to cut my apples up, the same way I do for my baby, nieces and nephews.
Speaker 3:It's okay, we're not judging.
Speaker 1:I judge myself six ways from Sunday, wendy. I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't blame you guys if you did at all. Um, but okay, wendy, what's the most overrated thing about? Fall for you?
Speaker 3:Okay, pumpkin spice, anything. Pumpkin spice anything. I mean it's everywhere. It's in room sprays, it's in plugins, it's in car fresheners, it's in food seasoning, in everything. It's literally everything. It's in cold foam. You can buy pumpkin spice anything, even clothing, coffee mugs. It's everywhere. It's like a thing, and I'm so over it. I don't even like it. I don't like it.
Speaker 1:But, tj, I'll give you my thoughts here in a minute, because I have a big rant about that. But, tj, go ahead.
Speaker 4:That was the first one that came to my mind. Pumpkin spice, I'm telling you. And I sat there trying to think of like, okay, let me try the drink.
Speaker 4:I'm like you know, you know, there's nothing that intrigued me about it, there's nothing that hooked me about it. But I'm telling you I don't. I just I'm not a fan of cold nights. So I mean, I mean I'm good with wearing a sweatshirt, but overrated is when it gets cold at night. Um, you know, under that 50 degrees, because you know, if you all week, then we can go outside with the campfire and everything. I'm like I still would rather be outside in a short sleeve shirt or just like a light, a light three quarter sleeve shirt. So rather be outside in a short sleeve shirt or just like a light, a light three-quarter sleeve shirt. So I don't like the cold nights, um, but yeah, pumpkin slice is probably.
Speaker 1:Pumpkin spice, probably number one. You need to invest in flannels, then I'm just gonna tell you that you don't need. It's so much better. Uh, fitty. What about you though?
Speaker 5:you know what, what I find probably most overrated about fall and this goes into like a whole optics thing and I could have a whole show on this but like everybody's like smiling and super happy and like, oh, I'm at the pumpkin patch Let me post this on social media, cause I have the coolest life ever and I'm in that place. Like you give the optics that your life is perfect and no one's life is perfect, right, but you get this perception of that and then it's not true but it becomes reality. So, like, my pet peeve about like what's probably most overrated about fall is people posting all these pictures like family pictures in the corn or family pictures in the pumpkin with my dog and my life's perfect and look, we all match and our dog's perfect and my house is perfect, and that's probably what drives me the most nuts about fall. Just be a genuine self.
Speaker 5:No one really cares about your picture in the fall in front of the cornfield. Um, just, nobody really cares. Just be you and just enjoy it and just just be quiet about it, like that's. That's my rant on that for the day, but I can go into a whole spiel about that, about optics and perception versus reality and social media and things like that. So that's it. No one cares about your pictures in front of the pumpkin patch.
Speaker 1:I now have two things. I need to go on, but I want to get to Tony first. Tony, overrated for fall. What about you?
Speaker 2:The Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4:They're only overrated in the summertime, when we have hope.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm a New Orleans Saints fan. We got our own issues.
Speaker 1:You got to deal with the Buccaneers. That's your issue. Twice a year, all right. So Wendy brought it up first. I'm going to get into that. Pumpkin spice is the devil. I absolutely hate pumpkin spice and it's because it's. It's everywhere. September hits and even before September my boss was coming into work and she had like a little bit more pep in her step one day and I was like you're in a good mood for 8 am, like you're never in this good of a mood for 8 am, and she was like, oh, they brought back pumpkin spice at uh Starbucks already and it's on my way in, so I got my pumpkin spice. I was like, see, now we're gonna have a bad day here today, so excited that pumpkin spice is out in August and that's just not okay with me. Um, and yeah, I this is this is my wife's favorite saying, but it doesn't blow my skirt up, you know what I mean like it's it's not doing it for me like it's.
Speaker 1:It's not that great it's. You know I'm not a big fan of pumpkin flavored anything really. Um, so like pumpkin spice and like it. It bugs me sometimes to even clean out pumpkins when we're carving pumpkins with my niece, like we do every year. Um, and so I don't like that at all. Um, so I'm not gonna drink or eat anything pumpkin spice.
Speaker 1:But yeah, the the fad that everyone is and it's such a basic white girl drink too as well too, like, we'll go there too. We're already down this road. It's such like it's just you see them, and it's going to go tie me right into Fitty's rant that I'm going to go on here in a second too as well about the fake people on the internet and the not living your life. But it's such a basic. I got my pumpkin spice and we're in the pumpkin patch and now we're all going to take pictures together. No, it's just no Like, yeah, I just people like that post all those pictures and stuff.
Speaker 1:Like Finney was saying, it's just, it's just, y'all started, y'all triggered me. I, I'm gonna say those two comments and I didn't think we were to get to here, but we're here now and this is the room we're gonna live in for another minute or two, uh, but yeah, like I see all the people posting and it's already starting that, uh, it's just oh well, we're out here in this cornfield and everybody has their matching flannels on, and even the dog has a flannel bandana around it and we're taking a picture together and it just looks all great and it's like I know you, your life is a crapshoot. Why are we acting like it's not right now, like let's just call a spade a spade, and let's just call a spade a spade, and let's just just not act like we're so perfect.
Speaker 4:We're not. Well. Do you think about it the thing? Think about the process Right. Every group picture that I've ever taken has always taken twice as long as it ever needs to take and there's so much detail that goes into it that doesn't need to be had. It's a miserable experience. No, no group picture has ever been like oh my gosh, that was great. One one shot. No, especially if you're getting dressed up with your family, it's never just one and done you know what I can't wait for?
Speaker 1:my sister does this every freaking year, uh, with my nephews and my niece, and just she has to have everybody has to match and they have to take the picture, and it's, I guess she's. I hope she hears this episode because I, like I cannot wait for her response because I absolutely I I've told her once before like this was recently too, because she posted the picture and like things were going on and we're not going to get into that, but it's just like. It's like your life's not perfect. I get it, like nobody's is, but like just stop. I could see the hate in my nephew's face, like mom made me dress up the same and take this same picture every year and I hate it and I and I can't stand it. And I told her um, that is like this is, this is the worst thing I said. I told her, if I could dislike a picture on instagram, if there was a dislike button on instagram, I would. I would be repeatedly.
Speaker 3:Your own family. I love my sister to death.
Speaker 4:Let's not get this twisted.
Speaker 1:I love my sister to death. She does the family pictures. It drives me up a freaking wall.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious, mike. You gotta bring this up in one of your sets. You gotta bring this up in one of your sets, you don't think this is coming up on stage sets.
Speaker 1:You gotta do someone.
Speaker 2:You don't think this is coming up on stage, man, I swear it's like a sitcom. I see these people dressed up and all this, just like, oh my god, just take your picture and go somewhere, please.
Speaker 4:Let the rest of us enjoy this. And then they're in the way they're all in the way. You're like move, take your picture off, and then they're in the way, they're all in the way you're like move like this picture.
Speaker 1:I need my hot chocolate galloway I'll take that to my grave too. Hot chocolate is better than anything I like it with milk, though and you gotta, you gotta have the marshmallows. You're just a sociopath.
Speaker 3:We'll talk about that there with milk, though you got to have the marshmallows If you don't have the marshmallows.
Speaker 1:You're just a sociopath. We'll talk about that there. I got way off track with that because that just set me down a rabbit hole. We're going to stick with the pumpkin theme, apparently, for these ones here. These last couple of questions here. I think I know where everyone is. But, tony, we'll start with you. Pumpkin flavored coffee fan hell, no, yeah, I think I know the answer to this one, fanny not a fan of it like I.
Speaker 5:I only really like like pumpkin seeds and pumpkin pie. I don't really like pumpkin. Donuts are okay, but I'm not I. I don't like really flavored coffee, except the white chocolate mocha from starbucks. That's about it gotcha tj yeah, I mean pumpkin.
Speaker 4:It's such a dominant flavor it just takes over. So no, I mean, I'm okay pumpkin pie, I'm cool with pumpkin pie, uh, but pumpkin flavored coffee, I'm gonna pass on it every time I got you.
Speaker 1:Wendy.
Speaker 5:Nope, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1:You mentioned that at the start of the rant. That just seems a bit terrible. It's been a part of five minutes that I just it's okay, you got it out.
Speaker 2:Hey, let it all out. Mike, Just write home the rant.
Speaker 1:Well, Wendy, what are your thoughts on pumpkin seeds? Are they overrated or underrated?
Speaker 3:Pumpkin seeds.
Speaker 1:Seeds yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, I do like pumpkin seeds. I feel like they're underrated.
Speaker 4:Okay, tj, completely underrated. I mean, you get so many of them but they're just a pain in the ass to get them out of the pumpkin. For me, I always get it out when we're carving, mom always put it in the ass to get them out of the pumpkin. For me, I was always getting it out when we were carving, mom always put it in the oven and dude all night. You just were munching on pumpkin seeds every time you walked by. But completely underrated.
Speaker 1:Okay, fetty, you kind of already mentioned it there.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I love pumpkin seeds. I think to me they're better than sunflower seeds and they're not as much work. You can just eat the whole pumpkin seed itself instead of trying to break them open and try to eat a sunflower seed. So yeah, I'm a huge pumpkin seed fan. I don't do the whole bacon thing, though, like TJ brought up. I just get them out of the package and pop them in and eat them.
Speaker 1:I got you Tony.
Speaker 2:I have no comment because I don't like pumpkin seeds. All right, no comment.
Speaker 1:I'll take that one. I don't really eat them. I will eat them. Lately we've been actually trying to grow our own pumpkins because we're tired of buying them for every year. Okay, my sister and niece come down for our annual pumpkin carving that we do every year. So we've been just taking the seeds and dumping them in our garden and hoping to God we get something. We've gotten one pumpkin every year, so I mean it. It always is just like a little small one that goes to my niece. That's easy for her to carve. But we try every year just to have our own pumpkin so that we're not buying them every year. But we're getting there with that and we're going to round out the show, tony, with this one. Do you decorate for fall and if so, what do you normally put out for decorations?
Speaker 2:I decorate nothing, I put nothing out. That just sounded hateful. Like I decorate nothing, I put nothing out.
Speaker 1:That just sounded hateful.
Speaker 2:Like I decorate nothing, I'm a Saints fan. I just deal with this. I'm a Saints fan who's going through it right now.
Speaker 4:You blame the Saints for fall.
Speaker 1:Everything about fall Betty. What about you?
Speaker 5:I mean when I was, you know, single, I never really decorated for fall. But my wife really likes to decorate, so we have our decorations and we'll get some pumpkins from Patterson's, which are really cool, and they have like the mini pumpkins and like the little squashes and stuff like that, so we'll get those and put them around the house. But I mean I think like the cool thing about decorating for fall is like you can have it up through Halloween if you choose, and you can really have it up to Thanksgiving. So it's not like decorations that you like put up and have to take down like in three or four weeks. It's something you can really kind of have the whole year. And I think it's cool when people have wreaths and different things like that, you know, out there. I think it adds a nice aesthetic to homes. Maybe they make some kind of pop and those flowers are changing and trees are changing and, you know, leaves are on the ground. So, yeah, I mean we like decorating for fall. It's a pretty good time.
Speaker 4:Okay, dj, I'm actually if me and Tony agree on this one don't like decorating. I don't particularly pay attention to decorations. I don't know why people need the approval of other people looking at their decorations. So this is my wife all the way, and just random things go up when I'm out of the house and I'm like oh, where'd that come from? And so you know, I'm big on, I'm not big on. But I am called upon to take down the decorations, which makes me even more irritated. But no, I'm not, I'm big on, I'm not big on. But I am called upon to take down the decorations, which makes me even more irritated. But no, I'm not, I'm not. I don't have a need to decorate.
Speaker 1:I got you.
Speaker 5:Well before Wendy goes on. So but TJ, what does your wife put out for decorations? Just like, did you put a pumpkin? Yeah, we have the pumpkins.
Speaker 4:We have the things on the window, like the window stickers. She'll have her own little inflatable. We have a little flag in front of our house that we change for each thing. Um, yeah, no, there's, there's decorations out there. There's, they're, they're out there. It's just, I mean, it's not outrageous, it's not like we're spending thousands of dollars in electric bills, but, um, it sits there and she likes to go through the seasons and different things that happen. So she has a little bit, a little bit of everything for everything.
Speaker 5:Um, but yeah, I mean, I think, but most of the decorations inside the house are what really drastically change, like she'll bring out the different pillows, she'll bring out the different, um, like, uh, like, tablecloths and things like that isn't it always funny, though, like when, when you are like in a relationship and you do decorate, like, it's always like, oh, let's decorate on this really beautiful day, and it's like, hey, let's take the decorations down on, like the coldest just the worst day that's ever happened ever.
Speaker 5:And then it's muddy and something breaks and you're out there with like a shovel or a hammer vacuum stops working, like so much the thing. When you take it down, you know, and it's always just bad weather. But it's like when you put stuff up it's usually always great and's like happy. And then you take it down and then, yeah, you just flip out because you're angry.
Speaker 4:Well, I'm just sitting there waiting for, okay. Which one of this is my fault? Again, it's something around here.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to figure out what it is. You two are speaking from experience.
Speaker 1:Wendy, do you decorate? We'll get your opinion, being the only female on the panel here for this one All right.
Speaker 3:So I will say this I'm usually not a decorator. I like to be very, very minimal and I'm in this very big clearing phase of my life where I'm just getting rid of summer stuff. So for many years I have chosen not to decorate. However, this year, this past winter, I went and got a Christmas tree and some Christmas decorations and then this year I've already decorated twice inside the house and I put a wreath on the door so that that counts for something. So it's very small, like little bit of stuff here and there. More of a color base, some more of like amber and gold of stuff here and there, more of a color base, so more of like amber and gold, um, uh, colored bases and things like that is. And decorations that I pulled out, um, that kind of, are all on led candles and things like that. So simple, not like character pumpkins and you know, happy halloween stuff. No, that I can't, I can't, I can't do any of that. So I just need kind of simple, very minimal and I'm happy just playing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so, bono, around the corner from our house, our neighbor down the street has like a 50, maybe 75, I don't know, I'll say 50 foot skeleton in his front yard, giant skeleton. It keeps out year round and he actually decorates it for all the different holidays, so like it's a giant skeleton. But it was like decorated for christmas giant skeleton, decorated for easter giant skeleton, decorated for fall, decorated for halloween.
Speaker 5:And I'm like, oh my, that's insane, you know I'm like, is it that hard to take down because it's been up for a year and you've decorated every holiday that we've had, including, like the fourth of july, to like a that's a good, like a happy fourth of july giant skeleton, I'm like it has. Well, 10 goes with the fourth of july theme.
Speaker 3:I don't know, it has to, it has to be, it has to be that hard to take down, because I've seen a couple myself too that are year-round up in areas.
Speaker 1:I have a co-worker. She's obsessed with Halloween and she's already started her decorating for Halloween and she has this big 12-foot skeleton riding a skeleton horse that she put up that she's going to be pictures of, that she has dressed like the Grim Reaper and she was just telling me the how hard it was to get that up. And so, 50 foot yeah, if I'm putting up a 50 foot skeleton, that son of a bitch is staying up here.
Speaker 1:You know, as soon as he's up, he is like he's part of the house now, Like I'm not taking him down. So we're going to make the best of it.
Speaker 5:And he's like wide too, Like it's not like a skinny skeleton, it's like. You know I have to get a picture and send it to you guys when I ride past the house again, but it's quite eventful, so my man is ready for Halloween 24-7. Looks like Jack Skeleton out there, or whatever that character is. Nightmare on.
Speaker 4:So if you're like, but you know, if you just want to ruin somebody's day, do you not take like a paintball gun and like shoot the head so that they have to go clean the head? Like just ruin everybody's day, Brilliant.
Speaker 3:That's brilliant.
Speaker 1:That's such a good idea. There's day oh brilliant. That's brilliant. That's such a good idea. There's so many people that listen to this show over that area. I cannot wait I'm gonna need pictures of the paintballs that are gonna do on this guy's house now I do not own a paintball game.
Speaker 3:Wait, wait, wait. Do they post family photos on Facebook too?
Speaker 1:They post family photos as well around the skeleton. This guy's done.
Speaker 3:Because then you might be triggered.
Speaker 4:I have no idea on that one.
Speaker 1:They just take family photos around the skeleton now the skeleton's dressed the same way. Dressed as the skeleton. Now, the skeletons dressed the same way.
Speaker 5:Dressed as the skeleton but you have to take them like 100 feet away if they take it from like 100 feet away, so you can see the whole skeleton get a drone shot of them, oh my god, that's funny anyways, uh, I, uh, my wife uh, decorates for fall.
Speaker 1:Uh, she doesn't decorate for halloween, uh, but she decorates for fall. She doesn't decorate for Halloween, but she decorates for fall. And she leaves it up through Thanksgiving, has all of her leaves, her pumpkins, her wreaths that she puts up every year. And I don't hate it. I hate, like TJ, the taking it down is the is the hardest part. But when those decorations come down, this is where I shine, because I'm like clark griswold and I love decorating for christmas and I know all out for christmas and I can't wait for that. So it's like when fall comes down, christmas gets to go up. Uh, only problem is, um, I don't like heights. So getting up on my roof to to put the lights up has been like the biggest chore. But now that my son's older, it's like, all right, dude, you're up on the roof now I'll catch you if you fall. But like that's just where we're at, I'm not getting up on the roof, I'm getting old, and so so is that a november first thing?
Speaker 4:Is that, like Thanksgiving's, done.
Speaker 1:My wife wants to put Christmas up like November 1st. Nope, no, this has been the biggest fight we've had ever and I've told her.
Speaker 3:December 1.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll give her Black Friday.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll give her Black Friday. Give her Black Friday. Oh, I won't even do that.
Speaker 1:But my whole thought process is we've got to kill the bird before the fat man needs to come out. I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4:It's its own thing.
Speaker 1:You've got to give it its respect. It's one of my favorite holidays, mainly because it's around football and food. It's the three F's Family football and food. It's the three Fs family football and food. My three favorite Fs that you could have. But every year the Christmas tree comes out Earlier and earlier. She was walking behind me. I thought I was going to get yelled at here for this part of the Christmas tree. I thought that was coming down my way part of the christmas tree.
Speaker 5:I thought that was coming down my way, uh, but you gotta think about it too when you're decorating for christmas. What would hurt worse? You falling off the roof? Are you trying to catch, like your 230 pound sun falling off the roof? I'll take the ladder. Might be pretty painful with a lot of weight bearing down on you, like that I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1:Uh, my man has been living in the gym and he's under 200 pounds right now.
Speaker 5:We're, we're, we're doing good um won't be as painful if you have to catch him falling through.
Speaker 1:so what you were talking about, yes, would have been when he was, you know, uh at that. But yeah, that would definitely would not be fun. He's pretty agile for a bigger guy, so I'll give him that. But he's not afraid of heights at all, like the old man is here. I just don't like heights at all. But yeah, we got way off track at the end of this here, but we talked about Christmas and the fall show, but that is actually going to do it for this week. That's all the fall questions I have for this week's episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. I want to thank all of my guests Wendy, tony, tj and Fitty for joining. I love everything about fall and the weather and everything like that, so it's good to get and talk about it here on this platform and everything like that. But, as always, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just because you didn't. That's going to do it for me and I will see y'all next week.
