¶ Fall Holidays
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rans podcast . This is your special guest host Fitty , as I'm filling in for Mike Bono for this episode . Today we have a really great episode for you , as we have the All Things Fall show with a great panel of guests .
Today we're going to be talking about some topics related to Strictly Fall and also Halloween , so we hope everybody enjoys . At this time we're going to have our guests introduce themselves and tell you where they're coming from , and then we're going to get right into the topics .
But before we do that , make sure you check out all the sponsors of the great show that we have here in Ride Home Rans and support all these businesses . At this time we're going to have our guests introduce themselves . So , jj , let's start with you .
Hey , I'm James Phillips , JJ Phillips . Everybody calls me from the Austin Town , Youngstown area .
Thanks , wendy .
Hi , I'm Wendy Kunash and I am from Cleveland , ohio . Okay , thank you .
Jordan .
What's up guys ? I'm Jordan DeMarco . I'm from Pittsburgh , pa .
Okay , and last but not least , Brandon .
How you doing everybody . I'm Brandon Wiley , coming out of Erie , pennsylvania , but , like Fitty said , originally from Sharon , pennsylvania .
Lot of good people here from Western PA . Now we're all over the place , so all right . So our first topic we're kind of going to talk about here on the roundtable is fall starts September 21st and it goes to November 30th on the calendar . So what is your favorite fall holiday ? Is it Halloween or Thanksgiving ? And why so ? Wendy , let's start with you .
Oh yeah , I love this question , so I love Thanksgiving . I'm not really a Halloween fan . I think people put up their decorations way too soon . Here in Cleveland I'm not kidding Like September 1 , people are starting to put up their decorations for Halloween instead of October 1 or anywhere near Halloween . So I'm kind of over it by the time it gets here .
Thanksgiving doesn't ever get enough attention ever anywhere on TV , social media , just in general , as a celebrated holiday and the purpose behind Thanksgiving . I think too much emphasis goes on the materialistic aspect of the other holidays and what you can get out of them . Thanksgiving is , I guess , boring for a lot of people .
They just feel like , oh , all you do is eat and that's part of it . Yes , and I think that's probably why I love it so much , because it's just that togetherness .
It's bringing people together , family or not , and sharing a really good meal , but being humble and just remembering what you have and being thankful for what you do have , which is time , presence with people that you care about and food right , I mean , going back to the time of that's enough , honestly , like that's all I could ask for .
It's just spending good time with good people around good food . So I'm really big on Thanksgiving .
Okay , okay , yeah , jj . How are you JJ ? How about you ? Which one do you like more , halloween or Thanksgiving ? Oh man .
It's Halloween by far . It's not even close . It's not even a contest , I mean . I mean I grew up watching all types of horror films and stuff like that , so Halloween's my time of year . I mean just all the horror films that come drop every year . I mean people dressing up in the parties , the parties they used to go to .
Halloween parties are by far the best . And Thanksgiving's cool , you know , eat sleep football . I mean that's basically it Eat sleep football . That's what Thanksgiving is for me . But yeah , it's Halloween . I mean the whole month I watch horror movies . I try to watch one daily because that's just my thing .
Okay , jordan , how about you Halloween or Thanksgiving ?
So those are both good points by those two . I have a dilemma when it comes to picking this , because my gut says Halloween for me , because I'm the type of person as soon as November hits , I'm getting ready for Christmas , and that's not to say that I leave out giving at all . I love Thanksgiving .
I spending time with the family is super important to me , so that's a huge thing . But when I'm thinking about Thanksgiving , I don't even think about that being fall . Still , if that makes sense . It's kind of stuck between hardcore Christmas time and then after Halloween .
So for me , in terms of a fall holiday , I go with Halloween just from growing up and all the traditions of doing stuff for Halloween and things like that . But I would say out of those two holidays I actually like Thanksgiving more . I just don't group it in my mind with fall , if that makes sense .
Yeah , absolutely , and it's like right at the end of the fall season , so , yeah , it kind of can get grouped into the winter time .
That's what's in it . During the week of Thanksgiving , I'm that type of guy that people hate . If you're listening to Chris .
All right , and Brandon finishes up on this one Halloween or Thanksgiving , and why .
Yeah , it's definitely Halloween by far . I'm the type of part of the type of person that Wendy can't stand because I started decorating like middle of September . So I did it I was chomping at the bit this year . Oh , I'm my son . He's like I'm a six year old son too . He's six . We were all decorated by middle of September .
Man , I know , wendy , I'm sorry , but I like how it's , just like . I've always been a big Halloween fan . I love I still dress up . My son has like five different costumes . He dresses up all the time for like a lot of different events . When he comes from school he puts on the costume , so we just like get in the spirit . I love fall beers .
Like I love Oktoberfest and you know , yingling and all that stuff . Like I just get into the season . I got candles , scented candles that just smelled a whole room up of all fall sense . So yeah , thanksgiving I enjoy . Of course it's community , it's family and friends and obviously football , but Halloween is definitely by far exceeds my fall expectations .
So Okay , well , I would definitely say I think you know everybody's going to have a 50-50 opinion on that , right ? I mean people really going to love , you know , thanksgiving , like Wendy said and like JJ said you got , you know , really going to love that Halloween . So I think it's going to be a good split .
If you ever did like a huge poll on this , I think probably people are going to be like it's , you know , 50-50 , 55 , 45 type of deal . But , wendy , we're going to go back to you on this one . What are your two favorite things to do in fall ? They can be anything from the holidays or activities , family vacations , sports , special places you like to go .
What are your two or your more favorite things to do during the fall season ?
I definitely enjoy the high school football games . The Friday night games are pretty phenomenal . I don't even have a student or a child that I'm necessarily supporting through that period , but I'm all about the football games , the Friday night lights .
I mean that was my favorite part of high school , so I enjoyed that for sure , trying to catch some of the local games as much as possible . That's one and the second one . It's kind of tied . I got a lot of things that I really enjoy doing . I'm very outdoorsy , so anything really related to being outside .
I like to ride my bike a lot , especially through some pretty parks that we have here in the Cleveland area the Metro Parks . We have the towpath . We can get caught up on that for a good 20 , 30 miles and then take the train back , but it's the scenic route .
Watching that the leaves what we're kind of famous for here , right , everybody likes to see the season change and checking that out , yeah those are my few things .
Okay for sure . Definitely fun things to do in the fall . Jj , how about you ? What are two of your favorite things to do in the fall ?
Definitely Friday night . Life is definitely number one . It's not even close . Nothing like high school football season . It's by far the best . I mean all the college professionals like high school is like the most enjoyable to watch . You're there and you just kind of feel the energy and everything at the games . It's a great experience , great feeling .
And then my second thing I like all you're probably going to laugh at me about this one , but I like all the different like fall donut flavors and all that type of stuff the pumpkin spice , the you know all that all the different type of apple pie . I mean , I'm just a foodie . So that's some of my favorite things . Favorite things , yeah .
I mean full does have a lot of good , like fall related foods , that you really can't eat at this time , so that's definitely a good one Jordan how about you ? What are two of your favorite things to do in the fall ?
Yeah , I'll keep the trend going here . I'm a high school football coach so it's got to be the Friday night lights , right . You know you get the community coming out . You know you feel the energy of the town , the kids . You know they're getting up for it , something about when you're playing a game on Friday night you
¶ Favorite Fall Activities and Outfits
look up and you see orange trees around your stadium and stuff . It just it feels like home almost , you know . So that's for sure . Number one for me , I can't wait to get to Friday every week and we're looking at still be playing right now . Number two I'm a huge . I like apple picking . I like pumpkin picking , like being outdoors and doing that stuff .
Like I love picking apples , all different kinds of apples and then bringing them home and doing stuff with them apple pie , apple dumplings , whatever you want to do , or just I love a good apple , so picking them off the tree , it's like there's nothing like getting it fresh . So that's my type of thing .
And apple cider like I'm a huge , I would drink gallons of apple cider from the month of September to now . Apple cider Okay , I'll get down and it will be gone in the week . I'll re up the next week and that's my best .
Okay , those are good ones , and Brandon finishes up on this . What are two of your favorite things about a fall to do ?
First of all , I got to agree with Jordan that apple cider is essential . It's essential .
In particular , I like spike hot apple cider . I do like that I like the liquor .
I like the liquor .
I'm not to try that . Put a cinnamon stick in that joint too , oh really .
Yeah , I get into it .
So , my favorite I love busting out the hoodies and sweatpants and , you know , just taking . I love seeing the leaves change colors . So , like I said , my son , you know , and my lady , we all go for walks and , you know , to the parks and everything like that . It's just a good vibe .
And again , I love when a little bit of there's a little bit of chill in the air and starts to starts to cool off a little bit . I know a lot of people don't like that because I mean I enjoy summer but I'm a fall weather person too . So I know I might have said more than two things . But here's the other thing I love .
I always go to a Steelers game one or two in the September , october months , so that's also a very enjoyable time for me too during the fall season .
Yeah , and I think you know we're gonna have so many different ideas about what's great with fall with them . I know people love to travel during that time and go on like different train rides or go exercise outside , go to the football games . You know , and I think if you look at the different areas , you guys are from right .
Your falls are gonna be all a little bit different with the weather as well , and we're gonna kind of get into that here a little bit later .
But I also think , depending on what you enjoy is also based off where you go right , where Brandon's probably gonna get a little colder in Erie During the fall time , where Jordan may be a little bit warmer in Pittsburgh , and spending time in all of these areas over the years for fall , I can definitely tell you each has its own benefits to being in those
areas and they all have their downsides too as well . So , brandon , you kind of just hinted on this and we're gonna bring it back to Wendy on this question , the which you just brought up . So , wendy , what's your ideal fall weather ? You know what is ? What is that for you ? What's your ideal fall weather ?
Because we've had a lot of different weather up here , so kind of what's your ?
what's your . What's your ? Yeah , I mean our last week we fluctuated so much , like today where I like 52 and rainy and cold right , Because the rain doesn't help when the temperature gets a little bit lower , but we were in the 70s , like the mid 70s last week . So it's just , it's so crazy .
It was beautiful to be in the 70s , but is that really fall for us ? The answer is no . I mean , usually our sweet spot is like that 58 , 60 , I would say 58 , 60 degrees . Really not heavy rain . Some dampness is okay , you know , like on a Friday night or something , I get it . But yeah , that 60 mark is pretty much . I think that's key .
That gets me there . Get the gloves , you know , maybe a little hoodie or something , I don't know .
Yeah , Sir , sir Zaynzay , what about you ? What's your ideal fall weather ?
Probably like closer to what she was saying like high 50s , low 60s , no rain , though no rain , just the nice crisp weather , hoodie weather , hoodie weather , seeing the different colors all around , that's ideal , perfect .
Okay , jordan , what about you ? What is your ideal fall weather ?
I'll go like a little bit colder . I'm like a really like a 50 to 55 type of guy and sunny out . I do like there's a certain type of day when it's a little damp out , it's a good thing . It's like it feels good , feels like fall , but I like straight 50 degrees . I'm .
Any day that I can wear a hoodie in shorts and maybe I'm crazy for wearing a hoodie If I can wear a hoodie in shorts . That's like my favorite weather of all time , and anywhere from 50 to 55 degrees is like my sweet spot right there . Crisp enough for me .
Okay , brandon , how about you Go ahead and run us out with this question ?
Yeah , I have to agree . I mean I'm a high 50s , low 60s type of guy . Last week I had to put the air conditioner on . I was like this is crazy . I was not happy about that . So this is not right for fall weather man . So I was struggling with the air on Late October in Erie . Pennsylvania is absurd .
Well , you know what I would say , you know , if I had to pick this and , being a former coach and kind of being all over the place , honestly , the warmer it is for me , the longer it is . To me that means there's less of a winter time .
So the warmer we could go , it means the less it's going to be cold , because the winters keep just getting longer and longer as you get older and older . So I'm cool with this band as warm as it can be , for as long as it can be . So nothing like listening to , like Joe Nichols , sunny and 75 when it's actually sunny and 75 in late , late October here .
So now Jordan kind of hinted on this in his last answer to the question . But , wendy , we're going to start with you . What is your go to fall outfit for yourself ? Like , what is your go to that you love about fall that you can wear ?
I was just wearing it a little bit ago . I had to change . I was outside walking the dog and I'm a little chihuahua but I'm all about like putting on , you know , one of the beanies like you have on right now . I got my hair down , I got a sweatshirt , hoodie sweatshirt and I got the best and gloves with .
You know , no fingers that are cut off with fingers and just some yoga pants and tennis . You know , total comfort .
If I could live in that every day , I would 100% hands down , because nobody really wants to wear a coat , nobody ever really wants to wear like a heavy jacket , but the perfect vest , like a little bit of down , like not too poofy but keeps you warm . You know bright colors . Put it sweatshirt for sure . Yeah , screams , totally screams comfort .
JJ , how about you ? What is your go to fall outfit ?
Well , sweatpants and a hoodie , black and gray , black and gray , that's it , black and gray , with a pair of sneakers , no coat Just . I mean it's perfect for me no gloves , no coat Just , and it's perfect for the gym . Go , get to the gym . We'll swap out into your shorts real quick and you're ready to go .
All right , and Jordan , you kind of answered this in your last answer , but go ahead and reiterate it if you want .
Yeah , I'll go off of what he said , though I'm a black and gray guy , so I'll either have a gray hoodie on or a black hoodie on . If I have a black hoodie on , I'll have gray shorts on . If I have a gray hoodie on , I'll have black shorts on . You know the rice versa . So the hoodie and shorts , like I'm not a pain , like you have to .
Something crazy has happened to me to wear pants , like it has to be going in pain and like I'm the type of guy , even now , like it was 58 degrees , and ran in here today I think I put a hoodie on and shorts and I went out and flip flops . That's how lazy I am .
On the weekends I'm not putting tennis shoes on , but if I my go to fall fit , hoodie , shorts , some tennis shoes , I'm good to go , some running shoes , that's it . That's every day for me . That's something crazy is going on .
That sounds like good coach . Coaching attire right there man . So , Brandon , how about you ? What is ? What does that go to ? Outfit for you .
Yeah , I'm just really reiterating what everybody else is saying . I mean , give me some joggers and you know hoodies and I'm , I'm good it's . You know tennis shoes and like like JJ was saying , you know , you go to the gym and just slip the slip the sweatpants off and just shorts and ready to go . It's just a nice thing , easy , easy yeah .
I think for me , you know , it's like it's like twofold right . If . If the weather is like what it was today and I'm watching football on the weekend , you know I'm going to throw a hoodie on and some sweatpants and just sit on the couch and they can be cold and rainy and I'll watch it in comfort .
But if I got to go out and do stuff , I'm probably going to want to throw on a pair of jeans , maybe some boots , you know , a quarter zip pullover or a hoodie and throw a beanie on . So you know , usually that's that's kind of mine , but this is a this is always a hot topic .
This next question for everybody , based on the fall , because it keeps coming out earlier and earlier every year . So , wendy , we're going to start with you . When is it officially pumpkin spice season for you ?
Well , I'm not a fan . Not a fan , james JJ .
I heard you oh come on .
I heard what you said Come on .
All things , all things pumpkin spice apple . September 1st Nope September 1st .
To me .
I will eat pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving . Only time , that's it . That's the only time . It's not happening any other time . Nothing pumpkin any other time .
Pumpkin . Thank you .
Don't do that no .
Well when . Wendy is playing her pumpkin spice season never begins , but only pumpkin on Thanksgiving . So yeah , JJ , I know you're going to have a different answer to that , so go ahead for this . When is it officially pumpkin spice season for you ?
September 1st . The crazy thing is I don't even like pumpkin pie , but I love like the pumpkin spice , drink the doughnuts , that type of stuff , but I don't like pumpkin pie . It's crazy . I like pumpkin cheesecake good too . But yeah , september 1st , let's get it going , let's get it going .
Man , it's so hot on September 1st . Oh man , it's who ? I don't know . On that one , jordan , how about you ? When is that official first day of pumpkin spice season for you ?
I'm team Wendy here . I don't do pumpkin like anything . The only time . I ever eat is like I'll make like pumpkin muffins . That's like the deals about . The only thing I can have is a pumpkin muffin , that's it . I don't do pumpkin pie , I don't do none of it .
So like my girlfriend will drink pumpkin spice , everything , so but for her , like I tell her , you better not break it out until at least like mid-October it's got to be mid-October for me , like it better be an average high temperature of 60 degrees Five . We got a problem , jj , don't grab yourself a Dunkin donut , pumpkin donut .
You'll love it Friday nights , jj , with like a tank top one . I'm going to get a pumpkin pie .
Listen , listen , pumpkin something . Give me some pumpkin donuts or something .
I'm going to have a pumpkin drink , how do you even be able to say thanks ? Like November 1st is when pumpkin spice season starts . I don't ever have it , but I'll be willing to say no .
Okay , so see , everybody has a different opinion on this , but Brandon , round us out on this when is your official pumpkin spice season starting ?
So yeah , I'm not really a pumpkin spice guy . However , this is really weird for me because , like I enjoy , I enjoy . Like , like I said , pumpkin beers , like you know what I mean , I can drink that . I can't drink the . You know what they say PSLs , you know from Starbucks . I don't do that . But
¶ Favorite Scary Movies for Halloween
I like , when the temperature drops below 70 , I'm kind of like all right , let's get this , let's get this thing rocking , and then I get spooky and then you know , that's when everything starts to really go down . So whenever that temperature drops just a little bit , I start to get into the mood .
Okay , pumpkin seeds anybody . Pumpkin seeds , at least somebody .
All right , pumpkin seeds . I like pumpkin seeds .
All right , there we go . There we go . Better pumpkin seeds , because it's not pumpkin spice to me .
That's like pumpkin . All right , we'll give that . I think the pumpkin seeds are a way to go , you know , I think for that . You know it's such a hot topic , right , because Duncan keeps coming out earlier and Starbucks keeps coming out earlier with it and all these different places keep coming out earlier with it .
So I guess , from a sales standpoint , the more you can sell , the better you can push it out in September , the more money you make . It is a smart business decision . But , wendy , we're gonna kind of go to you for this next one and we're gonna see what you think , because you kind of mentioned this right when we started the show .
What is your favorite scary movie to watch for Halloween ?
Oh man , Really I don't even like scary movies . What I really do ? I can't , I can't , I can't even watch them . Like I tried thinking about it earlier too and even yesterday , like can I bring myself to watch one ? I can't even do it . Like I get scared watching Date Line . I'm not gonna lie .
I get nervous .
Like the people that do the stuff . I worry that they're out there in the general public . Yeah , I'm failing at this question because I'm not a fan of scary movies .
That's okay . You know , Date Line can't be scary . There are some scary people on Date Line . I think we all can agree on that and I think if you just walk outside there is all types of scary people usually can really see when your eyes are open . Oh yeah , I will tell you .
I will say this really quick , like the one that sticks out in my mind from when I was younger , like a young teenager watching through high school with your friends and shit like that . Was it Stephen King's ?
it . Oh , that's a good one .
The original one like that scared the shit out of me . Yeah , I mean it doesn't really fall in line with , like , my favorite , but the one that left an imprint that scared the hell out of me is that one for sure .
And that was that old for the listeners and viewers who don't know , and as some of us are old enough on here too , remember that was like early 90s , like two day episode on TV yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah yeah , yeah . Like very , very , very odd movie , that's for sure . But JJ , you're the Halloween guy , so what is ?
And I know you love all Halloween movies , but what is your one favorite one to watch during Halloween time ?
Oh man , that's easy . The original Halloween movie 1978 , the classic . Oh my goodness , that is the best horror movie ever made . It's not even close Like it's . I watched it at least . I probably watched it , probably about five times already this month .
I'll be honest with you yes , yup , yup .
That's a formal wedding .
Yes , yes , it is . I mean , it'll probably be on Tuesday , it'll probably be playing nonstop , so I'll probably be watching it on Tuesday All day , so yeah , yeah . So I mean yeah , that's it right there .
Jordan , how about you ? Are you gonna agree with JJ on this ? You ?
gonna be with Team JJ . Jj , hit it right on the head . There's not a the original . And then they did a good job . I think for the most part off in the last three new ones they made that went off . The original . The original there's nothing like it . There's nothing like the music . When you hear that music , there's nothing like that .
That's just a classic movie . I remember the first time seeing that when I was like five years old , seeing that white mask , like watching it in a basement with the lights off , and I was so scared of that white mask , like it was terrifying , like I worked at a gym part time , like he watched it five times .
Every time I go to the gym on the weekends when I work I put it on TV and I just I reloop it the whole day so everyone can taste the Halloween . I'm getting so confused . Like I've watched it probably at least six times already , like I watched it on Halloween night , I'll probably watch it just three times so I fall asleep .
Yeah yeah , that's okay , all right .
well , that's definitely definitely a strong point right there .
And bring the longest out on this . Michael Myers is the best killer in any movie ever . He's behind it . Everything's not even close .
Okay , Brandon , round this out on this one .
Yeah , so for one thing , it is what gave me my fear of clowns that I still do today . So I do not mess with no clowns . I don't know if you remember that a couple of years
¶ Favorite Horror Movies and Halloween Costumes
ago , when there was like people walking around with like in clown outfits and stuff , I look , I had my carrier in conceal and I was not putting it in any clowns or putting it up on me . So I'm glad that that's over because I don't do that , but anyway it's a great movie . This is a hard one because I love again .
I love horror or flicks , but the one that I find myself watching the most , and it's actually while ladies and I we both love Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp .
Oh okay , Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorites , as soon as that's brought in the first movies I watched when the season starts and then probably a hundred times throughout the whole season that I watched it , but I love that movie .
I was thinking about this too when we were coming up with the poppics and I'm like I don't know if I have a go-to , but I know the one I won't watch and it's the unedited one is the original Exorcist Not so much through the fact that it's scary . It's so disturbing and it was made in 1972 and the Catholic Church tried having it outlawed .
And just the language and the vulgarity and the scenes . In that it's not so much scary but it's very , very disturbing , and I don't know if a movie quite that disturbing has ever even been made since .
So I don't have a go-to , but that's one I will completely avoid if the unedited one is on Exorcist when she walks down the steps backwards Crazy , classic , I never forget .
my dad told me about when he saw that when he was younger and then he pulled it up for me and I was terrified that when she goes down the steps backwards I turn it off .
It's something that makes it scary is that that stuff is real . So fun fact , real quick .
I don't mean to divert , but when I first years ago I used to live in a seminary because I was studying to become a Catholic priest at one point crazy I know , but the seminary that I lived in they used to do Exorcisms in their big chapel there and so there was like a lot of like a lot of crazy energy that was in that place , a lot of crazy stuff
that we experienced throughout the years . So that's what makes that stuff , the like the Exorcist , is even more scary because it's real and I believe in it 1000% , you know .
And the crazy thing is going off with .
Brandon said not to get sidetracked too much here , but since we're talking about Halloween , if you really think about it , you know , with how that movie went down and you think about the Exorcism in a Catholic sense , right , you know they have these barriers in place that you have to go through a medical panel , right , and get all this blood work and a CT
scan and an MRI and these X-rays and then , boom , they pass you off to two certified like psychiatrists or psychologists or medical health experts that have to pass you through saying there's nothing actually psychologically wrong with this person , and then you have to have the Catholic Church intervene and kind of what it went through in the movie with that showing
those steps . It is a very disturbing movie , so , but we're not . We don't want to bring the Debbie Downers here on this show , we want to keep it going . So I'm going to have nightmares .
That's now imprinted in my brain . My subconscious is going to be thinking about that as I'm trying to go night night . Well , now we'll have some- .
So we'll see in this Some more fun topics . So , wendy , we're going to go with you with this one . So two things , so one and this is for everybody do you still dress up for Halloween and if not , what you're thinking back ? What was your funnest Halloween outfit you ever had ?
So you're gonna answer either one for everybody . Oh , okay , so I will dress up . If there's a Halloween party that I am going to and I will go all out , I will say that , like , my costumes will be extreme , so I will play the part and spend lots of money . That's as festive as I get .
I will say that I have not done that in two years , though the funnest costume I've ever done which actually doesn't sound fun , but the events of the evening turned out to be fun was I got one of those like cop uniforms , right , and that's not like the funnest , most elaborate costume I've had .
I've had these crazy Disney character ones , anyway , the cop one , though the fun behind
¶ Opinions on Halloween Weddings
this one was that , you know , they cut like full on tight one zip up like you know , super sexy cop costume hat , everything , boots , had . The whole costume Comes with like handcuffs . I go to three different parties this night .
I also was a heavy drinker at the time and so , anyway , I'm whipping out my handcuffs to everybody , like you know , play in the part like I'm a cop , and they're like oh , you're gonna arrest me , and I'm like yeah . Anyway , I end up putting the handcuffs on both of my hands , you know , to show that they were like real handcuffs .
Because someone challenged me . They were like , oh , those are plastic . I'm like , no , these are real . And I had a key and everything Okay . So anyway , I got pictures to prove this . I had to go to the emergency room . So shit went south because the handcuffs got so tight around my wrist that they like broke that way so we couldn't get them off .
Like it was insane . There was nothing they could do in the agency room because they were so backed up with , like all the crazy Halloween accidents . I'm wasted beyond belief . I ended up leaving the emergency room . I go home , pass out , take off the clothes as best as I can by ripping them off .
I'm in bed like this with both my hands , like you know , handcuffs together . I can't do anything . They're turning purple because now I'm putting on circulation . So I call my friend . They come over . They had to go down the lows and they had to buy those bolt cutters .
They had to buy bolt cutters to cut them off of my hands , like I should have sued the company or something for this . But anyway , I didn't have stitches in my left hand because they had cut so much into my left wrist and everything . Anyway , it was a fun time .
So that's the most .
I had to be like I was talking about my costume , right , cause you're a cop , and blah , blah blah , and then I had to be showing off with my handcuffs and I ended up paying the price for that . So anyway , yeah , that was fun .
All right JJ can you talk that ?
in the no .
I can't talk that at all . I can't even touch that . I really don't dress up anymore unless , like , of course , there's a party or something I go to I'll dress up . But I haven't dressed up in a while . But the one costume that I do remember is like Steve Urkel .
I dressed up at Steve Urkel one year and it was a real good time , fun time , went through a few different parties and just had a great time .
Okay , jordan , how about you ?
Yeah , I can't talk , wendy , that's a classic . Yeah , we had a Halloween party last night with me and my girlfriend . She went as a cookie and I went as the cookie monster . Oh nice , last night , the first time I messed up , probably in a little bit too . Thinking back when I was a kid , my favorite costume was probably I dressed up as a ninja .
I think it was like the Power Ranger ninjas too , like when they went in their ninja phase . So like first time I ever had a costume on . They were like you can only see , like my eyes , so no one knew how I was .
When I was on the streets , like doing stuff , I felt cool like no one knew who I was , you know what I mean , like I didn't tell them either . So I felt real cool . And then in high school I dressed up as Jackie Moon , with the Afro , the Jersey , everything Like you know , will Ferrell .
that was a fun one , so Okay , and Brandon Brown is out on this one .
Yeah , I don't know if y'all can see this , but this was from me last night . This was me last night .
Oh , that's pretty cool .
I don't know , listeners can't see it , but yeah that was me last night we was in Buffalo , new York . We did this party thing . It was really dope , but I love dressing up , trying to do it as much as I can Probably my favorite childhood though .
My favorite costume was during childhood I was Zoro for like three years in a row and then I wore it just all the time Because I thought I was actually Zoro and I had like a little moustache painted on me . So yeah , that was my favorite , all time greatest costume .
You know we're gonna probably dress up at work this week . I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for that . But my favorite all time costume we're just talking about this I probably by seven or eight years ago . A friend and I we went out to a bar for Halloween and he dressed up like Paulie from Rocky .
And I dressed up like Rocky , with the sweatsuit on and my hands were wrapped and I had a hat on and all this stuff . So it was really . It was funny because people were like , oh , you're a Rocky and who's the homeless guy with you ? And I'm like it's his brother , paulie , and no one could figure out who Paulie .
But everybody knew I was Rocky from the outfit . It was just a funny memory . But the next one it's kind of interesting because I don't know a lot of people would have done this , but I know a few people have and I want to get your guys' take on this . And , wendy , we'll start with you .
What are your thoughts on people having a wedding on Halloween , that's , on a Friday or Saturday ? What are your thoughts on a Halloween wedding ?
Yeah , okay . So I'm glad you brought this up , because I've been thinking about this a little bit and my question is why , like why do you want to do that ? I don't know Like . I know a few people that have done this on Halloween .
One of my girlfriends .
Rachel , she got married on Halloween three years ago . And then another girlfriend from my gym she was telling me that she's getting married on Halloween . One just got married on October 13th because it was like Friday the 13th and that was like she's been planning it for years around .
But anyway , I just have to ask the question like why are you so spooky and dark , like cause that's what that tells me . Like that doesn't seem like I mean I'm not trying to say like weddings , but into this category of fairy tale and all white , but it kind of does you know what I'm saying ? Like people think white dress wedding .
Like when you think of a Halloween wedding , you think like God . I do Instantly my mind's like God's scary death blood vampires . Like you are , I don't creepy , I don't think I want to go to that . I don't think it's not my style , it's not my thing . Yeah , no .
I don't know , definitely can agree with you on that . So , jj , let's kind of go to you . What are your thoughts on people getting married on actual Halloween ?
No , this is my first time even hearing like people actually did this . But my first question would be everybody dressed up in costume at the wedding . Is that yeah ?
that's a great question .
That's a great question I mean , I mean , I mean , I mean , I guess if people love it that much they would do it . But would it be white dress , would it be black dress or would it be like I don't know the whole vibe of how the wedding would be . So I mean , if you want to do it all for I mean go all out , if you're going to do it , I guess .
Yeah , you know what ? The one wedding that I do know about , the somebody did that they actually wore a black
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dress . So we'll just kind of leave that as is , but they wore a black dress instead of a white wedding dress , but Jordan . What are your thoughts on it ?
Yeah , I gotta agree with Wendy , that's definitely not my cup of tea . I love Halloween . I do . Could never picture myself having a Halloween wedding . The question about do you dress up ? I would assume .
So I would assume so , like if I got invited to a Halloween wedding , I'd probably just dress up and then I'd walk in and probably , if I'm the only one dressed up , I'd be like well , it's a Halloween wedding . I mean I guess for power to you .
That's like you're real serious like that and you love it that much , like JJ said , but that would never cross my mind to do every October wedding . Fine , not October 31st .
Okay , and Brandon , what about you ? What are your thoughts on people getting married on actual Halloween ?
I mean , somebody else does it . I would love to go to that wedding . I'd dress up . I mean , I'm probably not gonna have a wedding on Halloween , but I would get dressed up if somebody did . So , yeah , I mean , if that's the vibe . That's the vibe . Fall weddings are fun , though . I've been to a lot of fall weddings . I love the colors .
Like I said , you know it's cool , but yeah , halloween wedding . I'd go fully dressed and have a blast .
Okay .
Oh , wow .
Yeah , yeah , not a Halloween wedding , though . So a fall wedding , but not Halloween . So so we're finishing up on a couple last topics here , but I wanna kinda get your guys' take on these two , especially cause this is more like territorial from where you guys are at right now .
So if you had to recommend to all of our listeners and viewers , like one place around you that they would have to go to experience a full , you know , fall day , fall activity , you know , whatever it may be , what would you recommend for them to go to ? Andy , let's start with you on that to experience the fall here .
Yeah , one place , only one place , only one place . Oh man , that's so tough because we have so many here . Shoot , I don't know , cleveland's got so much going on , I don't know .
I mean I'm gonna say Patterson Fruit Farm because I mean it's such a small piece of what we have to offer in all of Cleveland because it's such a small little entity place , but it is the go-to place when you think of fall . Everyone is flying up to Chesterland to go to Patterson Fruit Farm , to go to the Apple picking orchards .
I mean , you got to do that . You got to go pick out your pumpkins . You know they're gonna cost three times as much as they normally should . You got to do the tractor ride . You got to go get the donuts that are freshly made . You got to get the apple cider that they just made .
You got to experience the whole thing and let the kids go through the hayride stuff . So , patterson Fruit Farm , for sure , chesterland .
Okay , Jay-Jay , how about you ? What's the one place you're gonna recommend to everybody to go to in that brick Youngstown area ?
I would probably say White House Fruit Farm out there , like for the same reasons they have all . Like the apples , the pumpkin , you can get some of the best donuts ever . I mean , I mean , just the whole vibe out there around this time of year is great . And also I had a question for them . I forget her name , is it Wendy ?
Wendy .
Oh , where are you in Cleveland area ? Isn't there like a restaurant , that's like a poorer themed or something like that ?
out there . Yes , yeah , in Cleveland Heights .
Okay , yeah , it's in .
Cleveland Heights .
Yeah , I always wanted to check that out and see what that was like .
Okay , yeah , so Jordan , what's the one place in that greater Pittsburgh you know area you're gonna recommend for everybody to go to , to go spend a day and doing something in the fall ?
Yeah , for me , like I'm still a kid at heart and they kind of both , you know , refer to their versions of it , but for me out here it's Triple B Farms out in Manonga Hala . You know huge corn mazes , gains for the kids , the hot donuts , the hot fresh cider . You know the apple picking picking . You know all the different activities there .
Like I used to go there when I was a kid . So even like still when I go there I get real giddy , just like go do everything , go through the corn maze , go do this , go do that , get on the hay ride . I get still like my favorite thing to do makes you like a kid again . I've been to White House before JJ , that's a good one up there too .
Man , I like that Triple B down here is like huge . They do every year they do . They make like pump in , like theme , like movie characters , and there's a whole big thing you walk through . They do these crazy movie characters every year , different lines , oh cool . That's real cool to see . They put a lot of work into that , takes them forever .
So like you go there and you go down which one's the best ? It's pretty cool . So that's like my go to man , let me go pick some apples , let me go get some hot cider , all that stuff . Real broke busy Okay .
And then Brandon , how about for everybody that wants to come to Erie in the fall ? What's that one go to place that they got to go to ?
Yeah , there's a lot of , there's a lot of cool spots here , but I have to say the it's called fall harvest at this place , called Port Farms it's . We have like a lot of beautiful places out in , like in the county areas and like a lot of like wine vineyards and wineries and it's just beautiful scenery and so , yeah , I would , I would recommend Port Farms .
It's out that way it's a good time .
Okay , and I would probably say maple side farms . It's in like the greater Brunswick Strongsville area for people . It's a lot of fun . I actually think it has the biggest slide in the United States for you to go down . It's really cool .
It has it's called like vino all the way and it's like a corn maze that you can get like wine or beer in and they give you like little snack box to go to and stuff like that . So it's pretty fun date day for anyone out there that's looking for something to do but has great food , a lot of cool things just to go check out .
You can buy some pumpkins and you know whatever else your heart desires to go decorate your house , which leads us to the final topic . We're going to talk about ball decorating . So , with ball decorating , right , usually probably start in September . You know , in October you do your fall thing , you go into Halloween and then you go into Thanksgiving .
So are you guys keeping your decorations up that whole time and not changing them ? Are you changing them from fall to Halloween to Thanksgiving ? So , wendy , let's start with you .
This can be easy no decorations .
That's that simple . I knew that was coming . That is simple Okay , JJ , how about you ?
Fall decorations One shot , one kill , fall from , so you don't have to change it from Halloween to Thanksgiving , just fall type decorations , okay .
Jordan . So , alright , everyone's gonna get mad at me for the people that hate Christmas stuff early . So here we go , I will go fall decorations and then , once you get to like October , the fall decorations stay , and then you kind of just overlap it with the Halloween decorations . When Halloween is done .
All you do is strip the Halloween decorations and you're left with the fall decorations . So you're good to go . Now I've listened to me before anyone goes crazy . I put my Christmas tree up the week of Thanksgiving . I don't decorate it , stays bare , and then as soon as Thanksgiving's done , that's when I start to decorate it .
But I like to have the tree up before Thanksgiving as a symbol , like we're almost there , it's bare and then I'm in . So I am that guy . Like I said , I'll be listening to Christmas music the week of Thanksgiving .
Oh man , okay , I can't get enough .
One month is not enough for me , it's not .
Throw a little Christmas into the , into the fall show . So when we will have , and for all of our listeners , we will have a Christmas show this year and it will air on Christmas Eve , so everybody can look forward to that . But not getting too far ahead here . Brandon , how about you ? What's your call with the decorations ?
So , like I said , and I was judged by Wendy about , was you know , decorating Serious judge vibes over there . But , like I said , I do the Halloween thing right in the middle of September and then , of course , halloween hits . I might keep the decorations up a couple days after and then kind of just strip it .
And then , you know , like Jordan said , actually usually the week of Thanksgiving all night , that Friday on , like a black Friday , we'll put the tree up . It's kind of like a thing that we do , and then we'll start decorating it , probably like a couple weeks afterwards , and have like a family , have like a family
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, you know , night where we play Christmas music and put the water mist up . And this is my son back here .
So yeah , that's usually what we do , okay , Well , everybody , I hope you enjoyed listening to the All Things Fall Roundtable . This is something we definitely have enjoyed doing . Thank you to JJ , Wendy , Jordan and Brandon for being on , and Brandon's son for making a guest appearance here at the end . We always love for you guys being on .
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