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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast . This is , as always , your host , mike Bono . I got a great annual episode for us . We are going to be talking all things Easter . With the holiday coming right around the corner here and being this Sunday , we're going to see what everyone's traditions are . We do have a panel of guests .
I'm going to let them introduce themselves . Guys , when you introduce yourself , I need your name . What was your favorite TV show growing up and did you at any point in your life play an instrument ? And , matt , we're going to start with you .
Sure , my name is Matt Aldemore . Favorite TV show growing up was the .
A-Team and I played the guitar for about one week in college until I realized it wasn't going anywhere . Got you no worries , A-Team , it's a solid show , Absolutely for sure .
Next on the list we have Bob Bob Neisel Favorite TV show was the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and I played the trombone and tuba , trombone and tuba .
It can't go wrong with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , for sure . Next on the list we got Brennan .
My name is Brennan Seacrest . Favorite TV show growing up Probably I'm a little bit different generation , even though 18 was still on Probably Drake and Josh for me . And then recently , within the past couple of years , I just picked up the guitar . So , still working on that , I made a little further than a week . But , believe me , it's nothing to be .
It's more of a campfire play than it is a get on stage and play . So I got you .
And rounding out our panel of guests . We got Brandon Wiley .
What's going on ? Everybody ? My name is Brandon . Favorite TV show growing up was Martin . You know , martin , martin , all my stuff and I played the drums for two weeks and that was it .
Drums for two weeks . I got you All right . As everyone knows , mike Bono here Favorite TV show growing up I mean it was any Saturday cartoon that we had on back in the back in the 90s . Big Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan , big Power Ranger fan too as well . I was part of their fan club in the 90s .
It was a weird time and I have played the guitar since I was a freshman in high school . I still pick around with it every now and again when I can and my schedule allows me to , or when the power decides to go out and there's no electricity , nothing else to do . Pick up the guitar and and play for the family , uh , but not as much as I used to .
I did get on stage a little bit with it , uh . So I've been playing for for a little while , but , um , yeah , now more just a hobby than actually playing an instrument .
But we're going to get into the show here and we're going to talk all things Easter coming up with the holiday , and Wiley , we're going to start with you here and it is one word to describe peeps is One word to describe peeps yeah , peeps , yeah , disgusting that's a solid word for that .
Yeah , um , not , yeah , I yeah , I'll have to give my thoughts here in a second , but brennan , what about you ?
gross we got . They got a weird texture . I don't , I don't , I'm not , I'm not against marshmallows , but yeah , they're . I don't , I don't know about peeps I got you bob .
What about you ? Terrible , terrible . All right , I'm glad we're getting different words to say the same thing , but , man , let's run us out here I'm gonna say expensive , expensive .
Yeah , we got , yeah , we got two Easter baskets . We're in the process here , after we're done recording , putting together Expensive now .
Yeah , absolutely , yeah , awful comes to mind . For me , peeps are just absolutely disgusting . I hate having to buy them for my son because he absolutely loves them and it's dude why they're so gross . I'm all for marshmallows , but get me over a campfire and smore them things up . But other than that , yeah , no Peeps , not a go for me and Matt .
With that being said , what is your favorite Easter candy ?
Jelly beans , jelly beans . I guess I'll is your favorite Easter candy Jelly beans , jelly beans . I guess I'll say it as a statement Jelly beans .
Jelly beans . I was going to say that was more of a question than it was an answer . Bob , what about you ?
The last few years , Starburst jelly beans .
Those are fire . I'm a huge fan , but they came up with the Starburst jelly beans . Brandon , what about you ?
I don't know if it's for you guys , but every Easter I'm more of a Saris guy . It's kind of like the splurge kind of chocolate . If we're eating chocolate , I'm eating Saris . Maybe it's more of a PA Pittsburgh-type deal . I'm not sure exactly where they're all at , but I love a good saris , saris egg or saris chocolate bar .
That's pretty no , that's that . That's definitely a pittsburgh . Uh , people with saris I I can't find . I moved to central ohio and I can't find it anywhere down here . It's absolutely infuriating me , uh , that I can't find saris chocolate anywhere . Uh , but wiley , what about you ?
give me a reese's's Cup , easter egg any day . That's my go-to . I got you . I got a weakness for Reese's Cups and the Easter egg one is just . I don't know , it's something about it , it's different , dude anything Reese's for me is a go .
I could live on Reese's for sure . But me Cadbury eggs . Get me a good Cadbury egg with caramel in it . Yeah , they sell out so fast out here . That's another thing . You've got to get it at the right time down here near Columbus . Give me a good Cadbury egg .
That's the best . The candy is just the stuff that goes on sale as soon as it's over .
Yeah , 100% . I'm waiting for it next week .
It's going down .
I'm going to be 400 pounds next week with all the cheap candy I'm going to be eating for sure . But , wiley , let's go with you . What will you be eating this Easter ? Do you have any type of special meals that you eat on Easter Sure ?
um , not particularly I . I think you know we like we do pastas , you know it kind of . It kind of varies it depends on where we're at . Um , pasta is always one one dish . Um , no chicken . We're kind of just go back and forth with different stuff .
We don't have like a set thing I got you , uh , but bernie , what about you ?
yeah , same here . Nothing , nothing extravagant . I honestly , honestly , my my , my mom is who cooks the dinner and she was just asking me the other day , actually , if I wanted something specific and I was like , as long as it's
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the normal spread , I mean , if it's got , you know what I mean , you got your , you got your greens . Whether it's Mac and cheese or cheesy , but it doesn't matter , just put it in front of me , that's about it .
Yeah , my wife is still shocked after almost 10 years . She's like you're just not picky when it comes to eating . I was like just put food in front of me , It'll disappear . I guarantee it every time , Bob what about you ?
Any special foods for Easter ? Yeah , we do the Bosca bread , like the sweet bread , I prefer it with raisins as opposed to without Fresh kielbasa . We make that for Easter Ham as well . Pierogies have all that , and then , you know , there's always other vegetables and other mains and things that go along with it .
So that's every year . Gotcha Never thought about kielbasa for Easter that's . I need to add that to the repertoire for sure uh , but matt , what about you ?
a couple years back , I , uh , I did a brisket and it was a big hit . So about the past three years , I'm gonna be smoking brisket for about uh , 12 , 8 , 12 hours or so . Um , excited about that . But I have to give a shout out right now .
The main thing we're going to be having is my daughter's birthday this year on Easter , so we're going to be having some birthday cake . So got to give a shout out to Trudy here on the podcast . Absolutely .
I was actually born it was Easter Sunday . I fell on March 26th . Hasn't happened yet . Every time it's supposed to fall it happens to be a leap year and it misses my birthday every time it happens . But yeah , my parents said I was the reason they stopped having kids because every kid was born on a holiday .
My sister , my one sister , was Mother's Day , my oldest sister was St Patrick's Day and I was on Easter . So we just can't have another holiday with another kid , and I was the biggest one . So they just stopped at almost nine pounds they stopped .
That's a really good excuse they were giving you too .
That's 100 percent . I just ruined everything . That's a nice way of what they're telling me . You screwed up , we had two girls and then we had you , and then that's just not going to go over . Well , but we always have ham . Every year we always have a ham , and it depends on where we're having the holiday .
If it's our year up home in West Virginia with my family , obviously coming from an Italian family we have the pastas and all the Italian fixings On the Irish side with my wife a lot of hams , greens , everything like that but it's all good , no matter where it goes . My wife does most of the cooking on this side of the family , so I can't complain .
She's a hell of a cook . There's a hell of a cook . Uh , there's a reason I've gained 60 pounds since I've met her . Um , and it's not just because I'm getting older , it's because she's a hell of a cook . That's first and foremost . Uh , but matt , uh .
What are your thoughts about people and families going out to eat on easter to like a restaurant or anything like that ? Do you agree with that , or is it more like , hey , let let's have something at the house ?
I don't know . You know , once I had kids I never had any desire to leave the house for any holidays , as you could probably attest to Mike Bono . But you know , yeah , I don't really subscribe to it . You know , maybe an Easter brunch , because you know people leave in church , but never done it .
Actually , I don't know a lot of people that do do it nowadays . So it's not
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not really big ever been a big deal or something that I really subscribe to , to be honest .
Yeah , I can't , I don't , I don't agree with going out to eat on any holiday , for that , like you said , you know , if you're leaving church you want to go get a brunch or something , I'm okay with that , but dinner , like that's , yeah , that's , it's family time . We're going to have it at the house . Uh , we're all going to be together .
Um , I know that's an unheard thing nowadays with you know , everyone conjugating at one house and you Just being with family seems to be a lost art . Being a paisan family's everything . We're always together , all 16 of us in my immediate family , for every holiday that we can . It's always a big tradition for us to all get together .
We don't get to get together as much as we like to , so , uh , that's uh , first and foremost . But , bob , what about you ? Your restaurant ? Or are we at ?
home . Uh , there was one year with my wife's side that we I don't remember all the circumstances , but we ended up going out , like we knew in advance , made reservations , went out for a nice sit-down dinner . It was nice . It was a different experience . There were no dishes but overall no , it's always been , you know , for both sides , you know .
So yeah , I got you Brennan , what about you ?
I feel like it's different , like maybe a different family dynamic . I could see it happening , or maybe a family that has to travel a lot , depending on what . You know what I mean in terms of other people , but I , yeah , I couldn't , I couldn't imagine doing that . Whenever , like you said , it's family time . You know what I mean .
It's not really something that you would want to go out for , but I could see if somebody's on the road or whatever , and if somebody had a job or anything like that that had to work over easter , I could see maybe going out instead of eating like a hotel or something like that .
So , but now , yeah , we're always , we're always just my immediate family and that's it yeah , I mean , yeah , I get that , you know you're , you're out working , um , I luckily haven't had any shows on any type of holiday where I had to be traveling or anything like that . So , um , but yeah , I get it . But Wiley , what about you ?
me personally , I like to be in with family . But I mean , there's been those times where you know you pivot and you're like let's just go out and try it . I mean I'm not opposed to it , but I prefer to be home . But you know , everybody lives their life . You know , whatever works for everybody , home is where the heart is .
So as long as everybody's together and good and happy , you know , that's all that matters very true .
I I can't disagree with that too as well . Um , but yeah , I don't think that like , but I don't even remember a time where , like that was a thought for us though you know what I mean . Like that's just the way . But we were grown , we grew up , but I mean to each their own . If you , you got , if anybody goes out , I mean more power to you .
Uh , bob , I do like the no dishes part , that's . That's a phenomenal aspect of it . I never really thought of that like , oh hey , no cleanup , let's just pay , go home and relax .
Um , so , I feel like that challenge to find a place that's open , honestly yeah , not as much as you think .
I mean , I feel like places are trying to advertise . I mean more so the brunches in early , but places will say , hey , easter dinner come . I don't know . It surprises me I think .
I think catering is probably a big one . I always see people trying to cater for holidays , whether it's , yeah , local or whatever .
At least they're open until a certain time to cater , to make food to send home to people yeah , catering , I mean , I , I could see maybe getting something catered in um for sure , um , but yeah , just leaving . That was just never , ever really a thought uh for us . But uh , wiley on this one .
As we know , easter is a holiday that is not the same every year like every other main holiday . Do you have a preference ? When Easter falls on , it could be late March or we're into April now mid-April . Is there a certain time that you prefer to have Easter ?
Yeah , you know , I guess I always felt like , at least in my mind , I always felt like Easter was always in April . So when it is in March it throws me off a little bit . But so I don't know , april just feels right . But you know , it is what it is .
I mean , I think it's interesting , but I just remember a lot of my fondest memories of Easter were like I feel like it was in the month of April . So I guess if I had a preference I'd say I like it when it's in April . Closer to spring , the weather gets a little bit nicer .
So I gotcha . Yeah , I can see that , Brandon . What about you ?
Yeah , that was a good answer out of Brandon , but no , I'm honestly , probably up until last week I kind of completely forgot that it was even this week . So no , I don't really don't have a preference , it's wherever it falls . I think this , this show , kind of gave me a good .
Whenever I was looking at the calendar I was like , all right , it's the week before Easter . So if it weren't for this show , I don't think I would have even known a couple months in advance . But it's something that I kind of didn't really pay attention to . To be honest .
It's just something whatever it falls , it falls , and that's when I'll shut down for the weekend , for Good Friday , saturday and then Sunday . But yeah , that's nah .
I'm with you on that one . I can never remember when it falls . It was funny , actually , because my parents texted me last weekend and were like , hey , what are your plans for Easter ? And my response was when the hell is Easter , I don't know when it actually falls . My mom was like it's next Sunday , Michael .
I was like , oh yeah , this is our year to be in Ohio , so we're going to be here , but thank you for reminding us that it's next week for sure . But , Bob , what about you ?
I mean , I don't necessarily have a preference on the date , just that , whatever day it is , the weather is nice , so you can be outside a bit Easter egg hunts , things of that nature , so that's the only thing that matters .
Yeah , for sure , Matt . What about you ?
Well , you know , like I said , it's my daughter's birthday and she was actually born on Easter , april 20th , almost 11 years ago I guess . So I kind of like that we can kind of wrap kind of two festivities into one . But I got to tell you as a teacher , holy moly , these late Easter days , we haven't had a weekday off since President's Day .
And man , oh man , kids really let you know it . So I don't know , I'm a little torn . We need to get this little break here real quick .
Yeah , I got you here . They're actually making up snow days , so they lost a little bit of their Easter break ,
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because apparently here in Muskingum County , if there's a dusting of snow , they're just like let's just shut it down for the day . Like we're , none of us want to be out in this and like I right and I grew up where you , where you were there in west virginia we're getting there .
Better been a foot of snow on the ground and then they'll be like two hour delay . Suck it up , get it . Get in here , let's go .
We're learning today like so 2000 , 2011 , I think we had like two or three feet and they were like hesitant to even . You know what I mean , for I mean we ever end up shutting down . For I don't even know , I was young , hell , I was probably in kindergarten or so at the time . But yeah , I remember that it was .
It was , it was really hard for them to shut down for even that amount of time . There was two , three feet on the ground way to make me feel what .
I remember exactly what you were talking about . I was in college when , uh , that happened and they shut it down for a week . Uh , we called it snowmageddon , um , because they were sending people home if they lived close enough to to get home from college . And they looked at me they're like you live like 20 minutes away .
I was like , yes , but my truck can't get out of that spot , so it snowed in , so I'm hunkering down here and so , um , yeah , but yeah , I mean yeah , they just did so . I mean , yeah , he was supposed to be today , was supposed to be his last day , uh , before break , and he has to go to school tomorrow .
They get good Friday and I think they're giving him that Monday off after Easter , easter Monday , but yeah , so they lost a little bit of their break , which I mean I get it , you got to make up days . But cutting into Easter break and stuff like that , it is what it is . But all
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righty , matt , is it weird to take pictures with the easter bunny ? Let's just get that out like the santa claus thing . Is it weird that we're taking pictures with the easter bunny ?
yes , 100 . There's my answer . Yes , it is weird .
It is like just like short , sweet to the point . Bob , what about you ?
I would uh concur , especially since the the Easter Bunny is like human size and not the size of like a regular rabbit .
Yeah , yeah , brendan .
I never really thought about it , to be honest . I mean you bring it up and I guess that is . I mean it's just you kind of know it's a human . You know what I mean . I guess , do you know the human is the better question If you're going to a mall , maybe . Maybe that is a little bit , but I don't know .
I guess I guess in a young , young kid's mind you know what I mean . It's innocent . But as you get older you're starting to wonder , like that's a little , it's a little off . You know what I mean 100 percent .
Uh , wiley the one with the young kids here that you're with . Uh , is it weird if they're taking pictures with the Easter Bunny ?
You know , I think we decided to pass on it this year because I think we were talking about it and thinking about it and like , yeah , I don't know , I don't know the bunny , it just looks weird . It looks like a stressed out . All the mall bunnies look stressed out and I don't know . They just look deranged and weird . So I'm not a fan .
Let's just stick to Santa Claus . We can leave the Easter bunny alone for pictures .
I couldn't agree more . In one year , when my nephews were real young , I was in high school and my parents made me dress up as the Easter Bunny for my nephews and I'm pretty sure it scarred them for life . A six-foot-five bunny without the ears , like just walking towards them , like that kind of , I think , ruined them for the Easter Bunny .
But yeah , like I didn't even know what to do being the Easter Bunny . But yeah , I didn't even know what to do being the Easter Bunny . At least it's Santa . You know what to do if you're being Santa Claus for a holiday party or anything , but the Easter Bunny . Does he talk ? Is it a bunny that talks ?
Now you've got this giant man-sized bunny that's talking to you , coming at you . I don't get it . I don't think we've ever done it with my son taking pictures with the Easter bunny . It's always been like , yeah , you'll get your basket at Easter time on Easter Sunday and then we'll go to dinner and we'll call it a day . Yeah , I never used to take it .
My sister was all for it this year with my niece . Oh , then posting pictures . Oh , she got pictures with the Easter bunny and I get she's five . But like all right , like let's . Let's calm it down with sitting on the Easter bunny's lap and take pictures in the mall with with the Easter bunny . I don't agree with it . Um this year , though .
Um while you , while pro sports will actually be played on Easter , what are your thoughts on having pro sporting events on Easter ?
Bono , can you repeat that ? I'm sorry .
Yeah , but pro sports are actually being played this year on Easter . What are your thoughts on having pro sporting events on Easter Sunday ?
You know , I didn't even really think about that . To be honest with you , I think it's just because I typically don't watch sports on Easter . To be honest , I think it's cool . Man , I love sports , I'm always game . I think there's always a nice tradition or a fellowship that comes with holidays getting together and watching games .
Obviously , I'm big for Thanksgiving , I'm big on football Just kind of eat and hang out , so I'm all for it .
Okay , brennan , what about you ?
By this time of year . I'm really draft mode for the NFL and everything like that . So what is it ? Golf ? I mean golf's probably one right RBC Heritage . Is that being played on Easter ?
Yeah , pretty sure the final round of that . I'm pretty sure there's a couple NBA playoff
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games that are going to be played . I think the NHL playoffs are about to start , I think there's one or two more regular season games and then yeah .
I would say . I mean , I couldn't imagine that there's a problem with . I love just golf on the TV in the background . So a full stomach like that . You know what I mean . You're already cashed out with the plate and you got golf on . I don't really see .
I mean if there's sports on Christmas , there can be sports on Easter . Yeah , all right , bob , what about you ? Yeah , I mean , like Brennan just brought up , there's sports on Christmas , thanksgiving , new Year's Day . Why is Easter different , I guess , in terms of sports being played , the fact that you , you have family together , something in the background .
So yeah , yeah , I'm on board , but , matt , what about you ?
well , I'm a little bit older and I think all you guys here , but you know , growing up I remember being a little kid that was really the only time we ever watched golf and I kind of that was it . That was the Masters , was Easter , you know . And since they changed up golf it just kind of ticks me off .
I mean they have the Memorial Tournament in Columbus , by where you're at , and it's not on Memorial Day , you know . I mean they changed up the schedule and I mean I just remember being a young kid watching the Masters , the final round of the Masters , you know , in the evening . It was kind of an Easter tradition .
And then , you know , because of schedules or whatnot , you know , it falls whenever it falls now and it kind of just disappoints me , you know . I try to , you know , go back to days gone by and it's just disappointing . So I won't watch any other sports .
No , I mean I get it . I can remember one year , the masters , the final round of the masters being on easter sunday and my , uh , my dad having it on in the background . We're , we're big sports family . I , I love all sports , a huge hockey fan , football uh , can't really get into the nba as much anymore . Um , it's just , it's not what it used to be .
So , yeah , I could , I mean I may watch the NBA finals , but that's that's about it . And I could , I could care less what happens there . But yeah , I mean sports is typically always on in my house . I mean , hell , I , I start every day at 5 30 AM with a cup of coffee and sports center on . So I mean , why should Easter be any different ?
Let me start my day cup of coffee , get my sports in and let's get the day started . But yeah , I mean I think it'll be interesting having playoff games a little bit more on the line . If the NBA is playing games on , then , especially with the NHL too as well , I mean I don't see a problem with it .
But golf's definitely one of those ones you put on the background after a good meal . You could fall asleep too , wake up still , know what's going on and not really miss much . I like those kinds of sports . Those are it for me . Matt , would you ever consider taking a vacation during easter weekend ?
um , no , I mean I'm a little I'm kind of turning into a homebody . But yeah , I mean really , uh , I guess I'm not the person to ask because , uh , happy wife , happy life . So she's one ask . You know , I'm open for anything . So if she says , hey , let's take off and go to vegas , I'm all for it .
If she wants to go to the beach , I'm all for disney , whatever . Um , yeah , that's kind of her , her avenue there . So I really can't answer because I don't have a choice .
You're not wrong at all . I I learned very early on , growing up in a house full of uh , full of women , with me , my dad looking like bart and homer . Um , I basically said , hey , you can be right or you could be happy .
Uh , you , you choose what , what life you want to live , and I'm I'm the happiest person on the planet , so I don't make many decisions . Uh , I get that , but , bob , what about you ?
I mean I'm tiling towards being at home for , yeah , different stuff , whether it's good friday services , easter , sunday , mass stuff like that , um , I don't know , vacation's nice too . I mean , I guess , if I could hit those things wherever I'm going , maybe I , but it's not something in the near future , anything that I'm wandering or I've ever done , Brandon .
what about you ?
Tradition isn't a huge thing for us . So as long as I have my family , I think I could really anytime anyplace anywhere , because that's what it's holidays for us is about is just spending time with the family . So as long as I got them with us , I mean , I've never really done any uh vacations like to the beach or anything outside of summer .
Up until about two years ago we'd done new . We went to florida for new year's and stuff I don't see like . As long as I got my family , I guess it really doesn't matter . But yeah , there's not too many tradition things that would hold us down here , but it always just works out that we're always home .
I got you ? Yeah , for sure , uh , wiley , what about you ?
oh yeah , I'll take a , I'll take a vacation anytime . Um , so it doesn't . It doesn't really matter if , like you said , like everybody else has been saying , especially too if you're just with your family and there's something , uh , you know important about sticking with it .
You know people and during the Sticking with your family , your friends , your loved ones , as long as it's with family , people I love care about , sign me up for a vacation .
I definitely get it . A vacation is never a bad thing in my eyes , getting to relax , definitely . Family needs to be involved around the holidays . If it's all of you going together , then I mean I guess I really don't see a problem with it . Uh , especially if it's just a weekend trip , not like going for like the whole week or anything like that .
So , um , I can get it and I mean , hell , right now I w I work in a rental car industry and there's so many people traveling for the holiday , for the weekend , so people are doing it . It's not unheard of . But yeah , as long as it's family together , I'm all for it . And Wiley , we're going to end the show here with this question here .
But is there a particular Easter that stands out to you that you would like to share with everybody , like anything memorable happen or anything like that ?
um , that's a great question . Um , you know , at least from my childhood , I feel like you know , everything's always nostalgic and everything was always a memory . You know what I mean ? It's just .
I had so many great Easters , I think these days it's just , I feel like every year , with my kids and my family and my lady is just creating traditions and doing new things . It's always those are my favorite times now , you know , especially building a family and again just building off of our traditions that we had and creating new ones .
So I don't really have a specific one . It's just been over the past , like I said , seven years since my son was born , and then I have a seven-month-old daughter , so , you know , just making new memories . It's her first easter
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, so , um , this one will for sure be memorable too yeah , you can't top the first ones , uh , but brennan , what about you ?
I ?
feel like I'm honestly blessed to say that I don't have any memories , because I feel like sometimes , if it's , if it's a memory , and not always obviously there's always good memories , but if it's any good memory then it's like nostalgic of waking up and going and finding your easter basket whenever you're a kid , but any any time now if I had an easter memory
probably be something bad . So I'm I'm blessed to say I don't really have too many great easter memories , but uh oh yeah , like , like , like brandon said , he kind of said like the nostalgia of it and just looking forward to better , better Easter's with with more family , I guess .
Oh I , I gotcha for sure , Bob . What about you ?
So date me a little bit , I guess . But I guess traditionally the Easter bunny in my family gave , you know , like a modest basket you had like an outfit to wear . It was kind of nice you know where later on in spring , some candy , you know some small you know game or something , or something for the family , I don't know something , nothing too crazy .
And I remember one year we're looking for our baskets and we get our baskets and my little brother has a PlayStation two in his basket and I thought , since when does the Easter bunny bring video game systems ? Um , yeah , so I mean that that was .
That was the one that stuck out , maybe not for positive reasons , I mean at least I was able to play with him , but yeah , that stuck out absolutely Matt what about you .
Well , you know I already mentioned my daughter being born , uh , almost 11 years ago on Easter . That was a fun Easter meal in a deserted hospital on Easter , but really , actually it was funny . Bob said that . Thinking back , you know being nostalgic . My one year and it was only one year we actually got a Nintendo for Easter and it was awesome .
I still remember that . And we got Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt with the Nintendo . I remember that was so awesome . So I'm really dating myself , but I remember getting Nintendo in our Easter baskets , my brother and I . So , yeah , that's a good one if we want to get nostalgic .
Absolutely . You can't go wrong with Mario and Duck Hunt . I remember playing those games . So I mean , you're , you're not , we're not dating a lot of people on this episode , but I definitely remember those .
Uh , I would say for me , um , one that really sticks out , uh , you know , is when uh got to do the first easter , uh , with my son and my wife , um getting to share the holiday with them , in the morning with them , um being the first one you know , in in our house .
That that one really sticks out for me , uh , just because it was the first one of of many for us . So that one , you know , that will that'll always stick out for me .
I mean when , when you're younger , you always see , uh , you always remember all of those , those I mean I remember my parents laying out jelly beans , leading my sisters and I to to our baskets , uh around the house . Um , now I think about that . It's just like that was so much cleanup you guys had to do like you .
You put out individual trails of jelly beans from our rooms to our baskets and color coded . The girls get to follow the pink ones .
I had to follow the blue ones , obviously , but it was stuff like that , you know you remember stuff like that , but I mean , yeah , the one that really , really sticks out is , you know , the first one that I got to spend with my wife and my son , so that , yeah , that's the one for me .
And we're going to end the show on those nostalgic moments , talking about PlayStation 2s and Nintendos and jelly beans and Easter baskets and everything like that , just good moments , and I hope everyone out there has a very happy Easter . It's filled with family , friends and loved ones and not a creepy giant Easter bunny walking around anywhere .
But , as always , that is going to do it for this week's episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast . 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 .