Ride Home Rants
Ride Home Rants
Action Heroes, Alien Tales, and State Showdowns: A Ride Home Rants Adventure
What if the ultimate action hero showdown from the 80s and 90s could settle the age-old debate: Schwarzenegger or Stallone? Join me, Fiddy, along with our hilarious guests Bob, Collin, and Dave, as we navigate this and more on the Ride Home Rants podcast. We kick off with quirky confessions about our birth months and the animals that make us quiver. Our chat then rolls into fond zoo adventures across Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, and beyond—where else can you meet a kangaroo up close without hopping on a plane?
The conversation takes a cosmic turn as we ponder the extraterrestrial with a good dose of humor, thanks to Dave's alien tales. Are we really alone, or did aliens help stack those pyramids? We also take a light-hearted jab at pop culture, weighing in on whether "Family Guy" is a work of genius or just another wannabe "Simpsons." And as if that's not enough, we give you a sneak peek into Jim Thorpe, PA, a historical gem that promises more than just coal and tales of the Molly Maguires.
To round things off, expect a no-holds-barred comparison of Pennsylvania and Ohio, from sports teams to bar scenes, all wrapped in playful banter. We even contemplate life's most thrilling adventures—from scaling Everest to the mysteries of the ocean. And yes, we try to sum ourselves up in one word, setting the tone for an exciting year ahead. Don’t miss out on this delightful escapade with us and make sure to spread the laughter by sharing with friends—because everyone needs a bit of joy in their day.
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This episode explores the joy found in seemingly trivial conversations, showcasing how topics like zoos, accomplished athletes, and fears spark meaningful connections. Through hum
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is your special guest, host Fitty, and today we bring you an outstanding episode called the All Things About no Things episode, and it is a show consisting of us talking about all things but yet no things. So when you finish the show today, as listening to it, you're going to decide to yourself did I really take anything away from this show? I don't really know. I guess you'll have to figure that out along the way. So think it.
Speaker 1:As people that know me, the mind of John Falcone meets Seinfeld that's the best way to describe this show. It's going to be a good time. I got three great guests here who I've known for a long time, who know how my mind works. So this is coming straight from my thoughts over the past couple months about what we can talk about on this All Things About no Things show. Without further ado, we have three great guests. I'm going to let them introduce themselves. They're going to tell you their name, what animal they're most terrified of, and then what month is their birthday. Bob, we'll let you start.
Speaker 2:Hi Bob Neisel, my birthday month is April and I am most terrified of snakes. Okay.
Speaker 3:Colin, this is Colin Pope. I was born in September and I'm a snake guy with Bob. I can't stand them Okay.
Speaker 4:Dave, hey, dave, frank, october is my birth month and man, I'm afraid of bears, man, like just terrified, saw one of the woods once, woods once, and it was no good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no bueno on that one. No bueno, no bueno on the bear. So my birthday month is in August, and the animal I'm most terrified of is actually a Komodo dragon. Komodo dragon, so because if anybody ever watched a Komodo dragon video them things eat sharks, alligators themselves, pigs, whatever Komodo dragon closest thing to a dinosaur that's out there. Definitely not here to talk about the Komodo dragon, though, even though it would be a pretty cool episode. But it kind of leads us into question number one. So we're going to start with Bob, and then we're going to go to Colin and then Dave. We're going to start with this for you guys what are your opinions on the zoo? Do you like the zoo, and what zoo or zoos have you ever been to?
Speaker 2:Bob, I like the zoos Overall. I have been to the pittsburgh zoo, the columbus zoo, um, I don't know if we throw aquariums in there as well. Some aquariums, uh, in the outer banks and stuff as well I think we'll count an aquarium as a zoo.
Speaker 1:So, colin, what about you?
Speaker 3:yeah, I I'd have to say I like the zoo. I know there can be a bad rap around zoos sometimes, but I think that has to do with the people more than the animals there. But I've been to the Pittsburgh Zoo, the Columbus Zoo in February, which was an interesting experience, and I've been to the Cleveland Zoo and Aquarium. Okay, how?
Speaker 1:about you, Dave.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so, um, you know, I think about the zoo is. You know these animals, some of them you know what it kind of sucks for them being in the zoo, but for some of them they got a much better life than they would ever have had had they been in any other zoo. Um, the Erie zoo in Erie, pennsylvania, has kind of been my go-to, although I'll tell you the zoo to watch out for and that's the Oakland Zoo down if you go to watch a pit basketball game, because that can get a little bit crazy sometimes too. That's the other zoo I've been to.
Speaker 1:I really like the zoo. I think the zoo is awesome. I think it's very interesting that you can go see a lot of these animals that you would never have the chance to ever see. I've been to the Cleveland Zoo, the Akron Zoo and the Erie Zoo All very interesting, all very different, that's for sure. The thing that always reminded me about the Erie Zoo is you go into the as Dave will probably back me up on this you go into the barnyard exhibit and you just see like pigs and barnyard animals of like goats and stuff. It's a very interesting, interesting exhibit.
Speaker 1:But the Cleveland Zoo is really great, especially if you can walk up and see the giraffes and feed them. I'm not feeding a giraffe, that's for sure, but if somebody wants to feed the giraffe they can. So I think all of us like like the zoo. So the next one we're going to kind of go into is your who your guy's opinion is on this who is the most accomplished athlete ever and it can be from any era, in any sport, any anything. So, coach Nizel, what would you say?
Speaker 2:Oh, not familiar. Sometimes I feel like maybe some golfers might be there. But I still go back to jordan okay, I mean I don't know brady's there, I still go back to jordan okay, colin, who would you say?
Speaker 3:you're making me show my age here a little bit. I haven't been around for a lot of uh, these superstar athletes, but um, yeah, I'd probably have to agree with Bob. I think I'm going to go with Jordan too.
Speaker 1:Okay, dave.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so I mean this is a complicated question. I mean growing up I mean we had the Pro Stars cartoon growing up with Wayne Gretzky and you know, bo, I'm going to tell you it's Bo Jackson. I mean Bo Jackson is the guy that I mean if he'd have stayed healthy, he'd have been more accomplished than anybody else. And if you're talking about just pure accomplishments, go, I mean that's a really, really tough question to say. I mean Brady's the football guy, I mean Tiger's the golf guy. You know, I think there's some very, very clear and prominent ones. Basketball is probably the ones the toughest because it's all generational, right, guys that grew up with Will, in, in, in, in Kareem, you know, as opposed to guys like us that grew up with Jordan and these young guys that grew up thinking that, actually thinking that LeBron was the greatest, like, I mean it's. It's a really, really tough question, but if you ask me that question, let me Bo Jackson, all day, every day.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we had two Jordans and Bo Jackson. So I'm going to throw some names out because I like knowing the history of athletes and talk about their accomplishments. So one is Will Chamberlain, a phenomenal basketball player. When he actually retired he became a pro volleyball player as well. He also played in Conan the Barbarian. I believe that was the Conan, he was the, not Conan the Destroyer, I think. Yeah, he was in the Barbarian Anyways, but in that movie he was training for it, working out so forth and such. But he got to know um arnold schwarzenegger very well. He also got to know andre the giant, former wwe wrestler.
Speaker 1:Now, according to them, two guys who were probably two of the strongest people ever. They said will chamberlain was stronger than both of them. They said his strength was freakishly amazing that he could be stronger than Andre the Giant. For all of us old guys who know Andre the Giant know he was just a freakishly large, strong man who used to be able to lift cars. So I'm going to throw Wilt Chamberlain out there and I'm going to throw Jim Thorpe out there, the Olympian, the professional football player, the professional ballroom dancer and baseball player. So I'm going to throw Jim Thorpe and then, finally, I'm going to throw out Michael Phelps. What he did in the Olympics as a swimmer was probably the greatest individual accomplishments ever, because when you're in that pool or you're on that track and calling your former track guy, it's you versus you and ain't nobody else in there. To make you be great, you have to be great yourself, and to do what Michael Phelps did in the pool was probably one of the greatest feats ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah sometimes your biggest opponent is yourself. Yeah, so I would agree with you on that. All right, next one it's going to be interesting and, bob, we're going to see what you're going to start out with here. If you're moving away to a new country to live in, what country are you choosing and why?
Speaker 2:Scotland, and why?
Speaker 1:would you pick Scotland?
Speaker 2:Beautiful, I don't know, I just loved it. A couple times I've visited History, even the cities, the small towns. I don't know. Yeah, it's wonderful, food's okay, okay.
Speaker 1:As long as they got the okay food. That's what matters, colin. I think I know what you're going to say, colin, but let's go for it.
Speaker 3:Yes, if I had to pick a country to move to and actually my answer is probably going to surprise you it would be Portugal.
Speaker 1:I was not expecting that.
Speaker 3:I went there the last New Year's we were in Portugal and the place is amazing. Everything's super clean, people are really friendly. The place I was at the whole country is basically right on the ocean, because it's not very big. No, it was neat. The only thing I'd have to learn a little, you know, conquer a little bit of a language barrier.
Speaker 1:But we'll deal with that when we get there? Yeah, you know, you can always pick it up along the way. Dave, what are you picking here?
Speaker 4:well, I think, more importantly as to where I want to go is I'm going to tell you where I don't want to go. Um, you know, there's lots of great people in Africa, but there's it's just not a place to go. There's lots of great people in East Asia, and there's just not a place to go and to go along with these guys, man, like Europe's got it in spades. I loved Eastern Europe. Um, I'd go to the Slovak Republic. I went to visit my family there, and you want to talk about cost of living, you want to talk about standard of living. It's, it's so many things where we could go as Americans and enjoy our lives. And you know, gosh, you tell me I got to get out of here. It's their Canada, baby, let's go Like uh, I could eat some gravy fries too. It's one of those two.
Speaker 1:So for me, I would say I would probably go to Costa Rica. I think it was an amazing place. When we went there Now, granted, very humid, we were also there during the rainy season and definitely in the heart of the rainy season, so it was definitely humid, but I liked costa rica, it felt very safe. Um, it actually has a higher life expectancy than america. Um, they actually put more money into their education. Their health care system is ranked just as high as america's. Um, there's no military there and then their crime rate's actually very low. And then it is actually just very historic as far as, like the people that have come there. There's actually a lot of Italian people who have settled in there over the years. There was a lot of people from Australia, different parts of South and Central America, so I find it very culturally appeasing as well. I think it's a really cool place. I think maybe one of the other places I would probably consider, of course, would be Italy, just being Italian, but outside Dave's shaking his head on that one. Outside of that, though, I think maybe not permanently living there, but I think parts of south africa would be very interesting, especially on the water, um, and I think also parts of japan as well, so that would probably be probably be it for me.
Speaker 1:So next one. Now, you can't pick both of these, you can only pick one. But do you think aliens or ghosts are real? And which one are you picking? And why Bob Ghosts? Why would you say ghosts?
Speaker 2:I don't know, because you said I can't pick both. Okay, yeah, I don't know, I'd say both. That was the first one, ghosts.
Speaker 1:What would you say, Colin?
Speaker 3:I'm going to have to go with ghosts, and the reason I say that is because I've actually had an experience with the paranormal before in my life. So I'm not quite sure what was going on, but I'm I'm pretty well convinced it goes surreal.
Speaker 1:So okay, how about you, dave?
Speaker 4:yeah so I'm 100% aliens and that's because I mean for us to think that we're the be-all and end-all in the universe and that the four of us sitting here right now having this podcast are the I mean, as affluent and as smart as we are to be the end-all and be-all of the universe. I think that that's just, that's such a you know a fallacy, because I mean, how do you think those pyramids got built? Like I mean, legitimately, it's gotta be aliens, man. Like there's no way that that happened by accident.
Speaker 1:I would say aliens as well, kind of like what Dave said we can't believe there's this gigantic universe out there and we're the only human beings or animals or insects or microbes or whatever you want to say, that are out there in this vast universe that we have not explored. Plus the guy from Ancient Aliens with the big hair that sits on top of his head, that guy is pretty great too, so I don't forget his name. He's very Greek, he has a very Greek name, but he always looks just like he's very intense about aliens and watching Ancient Aliens Made me think that, but I can't remember that guy's name. But, uh, that guy is definitely an interesting character.
Speaker 1:If I think of ghosts makes me think of like the exorcist, and I don't want to think about stuff like that. So I just choose not not to say ghosts on that, but definitely the aliens part. So, uh, I won the next ones. I want to talk and this show has been around for a long time. It's been around. I think we're going on 25, 26 years of it, almost as long as Colin has been alive. I think he came out when Colin was like two years old. So is Family Guy overrated or underrated as a TV show, and why Bob?
Speaker 2:Going back the 20-some years you mentioned, I would say underrated. I mean, I go back that far to, I guess, the way it infused culture and made jokes at the expense of everything in society fair.
Speaker 1:What do you say, colin?
Speaker 3:yeah, I'm gonna have to go with, uh, underrated as well. I think, um, I think there's a willingness with the the writers and producers of that show to kind of, you know, go after all kinds of subject matter and not really worry about you know what, what people who don't like the show are going to think about it. And the other reason I'm saying it's underrated is because that and the tiger King, or what got me through most of the 2020 COVID shutdown.
Speaker 1:So that's fair. All right, dave, what are you saying?
Speaker 4:yeah, I'm not trying to do this just to be contrarian but overrated, because I I feel like family guys in something foreign is brilliant, but he, he stands on the shoulders of of geniuses. If you take sein and you, you mix in a little bit of a Simpsons and of course I I think that the Trey Parker match stone from from from South really kind of plays the trail there and I feel like he's kind of stepped on their shoulders in order to make his show be brilliant. So I think I mean I think it's overrated, but but only slightly, because it's a a slight ripoff of the Simpsons and South Park. Like I mean, if you think about when South Park was coming out, it was genius, it was stuff that. And even still they're doing stuff that nobody else will do. They're doing stuff that cancels everybody else and I mean I guess to a point seth mcfarland was doing that too, but I mean only after.
Speaker 1:You know, matt stone and trey parker did it first that's fair, you know, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say underrated on this, just because the quality of people, though he's got on as like famous actors and actresses. You know, like Mila Kunis has been on it, of course, for all but one year. You know, seth Green You've gotten Adam Carolla has been on there. You've had on Sam Elliott. I mean, you just had to have had on all these different people. Adam West, adam West, yeah, rip Adam West. Sam Elliott, you just have had on all these different people.
Speaker 3:Adam.
Speaker 1:West, adam West yeah, rip, adam West. You've just had on all these different people. I think. It's also a testament, I think, to the power of Seth MacFarlane to get all these well-known people on there and have, know and have this show with all of that and the success that it's had year after year after year. So one of the next things I want to talk to you guys about is what is the best city in the USA you've ever visited and you would encourage others to visit? Bob looks like he needs a minute on this, so I'm going to answer this question first. As our guest ponder, I'm going to say it's Jim Thorpe, pa.
Speaker 1:It is in the Pocono Mountains. It is the old town of Machunk. It is where anthrax coal was found in the 1700s. That was revolutionary to the revolution of society and the mills and functioning of the world. They built dams there originally and had things shipped down the water. It was very interesting in that aspect. And then it also was a very large Irish town, colin. I don't know if you ever knew that or not on my trip there, but it's very large. It had a lot of mines. A lot of Irish immigrants went there.
Speaker 1:It actually the true story. It actually was the birthplace of the Molly Maguires. And then the Molly Maguires clashed with the Pickerton Detective Company and actually hung seven individuals in that town at the county jail and you can talk about ghosts. One of the Molly Maguires before that they were hung said I will always be remembered, or whatever it was. He put his handprint on the wall. The handprint has stayed. They've torn down the wall, rebuilt the wall, painted over the wall. The hand has always have stayed. They said it's a very, very haunted place. And then also Sean Connery played in a movie there in 1970 about the Molly Maguires.
Speaker 1:Anyways, then, going from there, it became Jim Thorpe in the 50s, after Jim Thorpe, who was never in Mauchunk, had his third wife sell his remains to the town in honor of him and they built a huge monument of him. And then now today it is jim thorpe pa, 70 years later, um, named after the historic olympian jim thorpe, who was never there. Closest he ever got was carlisle, pa. I like history, so there's everybody's history for the day. I definitely encourage jim thorpe. A outstanding, outstanding place. Bob, what do you got? What do?
Speaker 2:you got about uh bar harbor maine bar harbor maine.
Speaker 1:Maine's always a place. I wanted to see why bar harbor maine.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I was just thinking of something different that I've enjoyed large national park, acadia national park uh, you know it was a town right on, you know, the ocean on the water, um, just nice, quiet, enjoyable. I don't know, I was there in summer, so it wasn't winter, so maybe I would take that back if I ever visited in the winter months okay, colin yeah, so I'll have to go with uh.
Speaker 3:Asheville, north carolina. Uh, I was there in june a couple years ago and I'm a big mountains guy, so, smack dab in in blue ridge mountain country, um, really enjoyed myself while I was there. Um, definitely, some, some killer views and you go in, you know, go out, hike all day and then go into town and have a small town nightlife at night. It was. It was really something so very cool.
Speaker 1:I I want to hear dave's on this, because dave actually used to live in north carolina. So what do you got, dave?
Speaker 4:so you're blowing my mind calling, because my answer is boone, uh, north Carolina, because you're. I'm going to paint this picture for you right now. If you go to Boone, north Carolina, and first of all, it's a perfect mix of Southern everything, but at the same time you get you get seasons and all of the above. And to go to Carolina and watch an Appalachian State game in the fall, you tailgate above the stadium, you sit above the rock and the colors of the leaves are just like Western PA, where most of us are very, very familiar with, but the weather is perfect and you're tailgating and you go down to a ballgame down. It's an experience everybody should have.
Speaker 4:It's like going to Lambeau, it's like going to any of those places that you think about but nobody's ever really heard of. You've got to go to Boone, north Carolina. If I could move there, that'd probably be the place I'd go, because they get all the seasons, the people are awesome there, they are Western North Carolina's finest and you know, and they don't make you feel like you're a carpetbag and Yankee there. It's really, it's great.
Speaker 1:Very cool. Everybody has four different places they can check out. I would throw some honorable mentions in there, because I can do that, because I'm hosting the show. I would say Chagrin Falls, ohio, would be one of them. Vermilion, ohio, would be another one. I've also been to Memphis, tennessee. I would also say that was a really cool experience as well. And then Hershey PA cool experience as well. And then Hershey PA the home of Hershey's chocolate, hershey world, the Hershey football stadium, hershey theme park, all things Hershey. So you could just go go there as well. So those would be my, my few honorable mentions there. Okay, next one If you were starting a town and all that was in this town was a post office and a police station, with a fire station attached to it, what three restaurants, food, grocery store, whatever are you adding into this town? You could pick three things, only three things. But you have a post office and a police and fire station. What other three things are you adding, bob?
Speaker 2:Hospital, school and supermarket. Okay. I'm going to grocery store.
Speaker 1:Okay, colin, what would you say?
Speaker 3:Oh man, I would have to say grocery store tavern and some kind of like a small, like uh bed and breakfast or some kind of deal like that to to get a little bit of tourism going on okay, how about you, dave?
Speaker 4:so I, I get three places. Uh, you know, I'm gonna put a wegmans there because it's got a little bit of your bar, it's got a little bit of your everything going on, and uh, you kind of fill that in. Number two, uh, I'm gonna put a fat boys in there. That was a bar that closed back in like uh, oh, five and eerie and it had chicken wings and it had everything under the sun that you really need to have a place that you're gonna go to. And um, the last one, man, yeah, you guys may feel bad like not having a hospital or something there, but but put a dock in a box there, man, like have some sort of like a, like a UPMC, like a urgent care kind of facility, because you didn't have that. Then you know like you'd be in trouble too.
Speaker 1:So I would add a hospital because it's going to be one of your biggest employers as well. I'm going to add in a gas station because you need gas. I'm gonna put in sheets because you can also get food there. So there's your restaurant and there's your gas. And I'm gonna add in an ace hardware because if you're gonna have a town, you need a hardware store for people to buy tools at to build their homes and work on their homes so if you can't have chicken wings, that's uh overrated.
Speaker 4:Why would I live there in the first place?
Speaker 1:so those would be, uh, my three things. So, all right. The next one if there was a movie about your life, about the life of bob, colin or dave, or the life of bob, colin and dave, that could be a great movie title. But if you had a life of Bob or Colin or Dave and you had to pick one of these three people to narrate your life story in a movie, who would you pick? Sam Elliott, james Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman? Bob, james, earl Jones.
Speaker 3:Okay, colin, I'm going with Sam Elliott. Okay, dave.
Speaker 4:This is a great question because there's no wrong answer. I mean, I'm going to go with Morgan Freeman, it's a little bit homier, but gosh, I mean these guys are all right. There's no wrong answer to this question.
Speaker 1:You know, if I was like a country guy and I was in maybe like the wilderness or somewhere rural, I'd probably go Sam Elliott. But I don't know if Sam Elliott fits my like lifestyle, so I'm going to probably not go with Sam Elliott there. I like Morgan Freeman. I love James Earl Jones Talking about Conan he was in that too but I love Morgan Freeman how he narrated the Shawshank Redemption. Shout out, shawshank Redemption. 30 years old this year I was going to be 31. But I really like Morgan Freeman on that. So that's who I would pick. All right, the big one. Now the big one. We're all going to see who everybody thinks on this, because this is a hot topic. Who was the best action hero from the 80s and 90s? Sylvester stallone, jean-claude van damme chuck norris stephen seagal or arnold schwarzenegger bob, you forgot one.
Speaker 3:Who did I forget Bruce Willis? Yeah, I was thinking that too, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, we'll throw in Bruce Willis there too, Bruce Willis Going to go, bruce Willis.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, Colin.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go with Stallone, and the only reason I do say that is Rambo was awesome, rocky was awesome and he's still going as Dwight in the Tulsa King, which is a great show. He's still making movies, so I'm going with Sylvester.
Speaker 4:Dave, if you made me stick to the ones that you threw out there. Yeah, I mean, I said Stallone man because Tulsa King is great, you know, and I feel bad because you know you made me stick to the ones that you threw out there. Yeah, man, I just said Stallone man because Tulsa King's great, you know, and I feel bad because you know these guys have all aged invariably different ways. But I'm with Bob man, bruce Willis, like it's the holiday season man I just watched Not only did I watch diehard, not only did I watch die Hard man, I watched all the Die Hards over the Christmas. And it's so very, very hard to compare, because we're in such a dearth of this right now, finding a really, really good action here today that compares to literally anybody that you said on your list right there, to literally anybody that you said on your list right there.
Speaker 1:You know, for me, I was always a big Jean-Claude Van Damme fan growing up kickboxer, the quest time cop, universal soldier, you know him, and Dolph Lundgren fighting it out. But the one thing I always will go back to, even though this isn't an 80s, 90s thing, um, when stallone made the expendables, especially the first one, and he was able first and second one, not so much the third one, but first and second one. He got, like van damme and chuck norris and schwarzenegger and bruce willis and, uh, jet lee andph Lundgren, to all be on that. That Terry Crews, that was like the most incredible thing ever with like action heroes that older people have grown up on, and that was just so, so cool that he was able to get them all to buy in and do that. So, all right. The next question is going to be interesting because we have two guys on here from PA and one from Ohio. So give me three reasons why Pennsylvania or Ohio is better than the other Bob.
Speaker 2:Three reasons.
Speaker 1:Why I'm assuming you're going to say Pennsylvania, bob, you're right, I am.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what are three reasons? Pennsylvania, bob, you're right, I am.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what are three reasons?
Speaker 2:Pennsylvania is better than Ohio, it's not Ohio, we'll say the food and the sports teams.
Speaker 1:Okay, Colin, I'm assuming you're picking Ohio?
Speaker 3:Yep, I'm going to have to Hang with the home team there on that one. I'm going to say I'm going to say Taxes, I'm going to say not getting your vehicle Inspected every year and I'm going to Throw one out Out of left field there and say the, the Italian out of left field there and say the Italian influence that we get from Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Youngstown is pretty hard to beat.
Speaker 1:Okay, and Dave, I'm assuming you're picking Pennsylvania?
Speaker 4:Yeah, but I mean this is way closer than you think because you know each other from coaching high school football in Ohio has Pennsylvania in spades. It's embarrassing what the PIA does compared to the OHSA, compared to how they handle everything. That part of me is is is just, I mean I can't get it. Here's the big one. Like you know, I can't find an Ohio. I can't find any good bars, man, like I mean like real bars, you go to Ohio, you go to try to drink a cold beer and you got to go to, like a Bennigan's, like no, I, you know I go to.
Speaker 4:I want to go in Ohio, I want to go to PA. I want to go in ohio. I want to go to pa, I want to go to bar, I want to go someplace. It's got a little bit of character to it. Pa's got that in spades. Um, although you know this is one of those things where I'm going to give a 60, 40 pa slant. Um, you know it would have been 90, 10, 20 years ago. I've had a lot of good times in ohio and I, I can't, I, I can't make it a landslide like I used to, especially because what Ohio's doing with high school football, like you know, it's embarrassing compared to PA.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's fair. So this is hard. This is really really hard for me. I'm going to say Pennsylvania because of three places Hershey, pa. Jim Thorpe PA and Erie PA. Those are the three reasons I have to give the nod of Pennsylvania over Ohio, although Ohio does have some very, very cool small towns to go check out and explore and everybody that knows me knows I'm a small town exploring type of guy and checking out food and restaurants and breweries and things like that. But those three towns are three of my more favorite towns ever and they just all rely or all lie in pennsylvania. That's why I have to go with that. So we have three questions left for everybody listening to this. All things, about no thing, show. Now the big question is what do you think of this?
Speaker 2:it's very different, but I should expect that with you, colin uh, I'd have to agree with that.
Speaker 3:I, as someone who's been on the show multiple times now, I I think this is, uh, it's very unique and I think that's a good thing, and I think that, uh, people should check it out okay, dave, same thing.
Speaker 4:Man is somebody that's been on here now a couple of times. Here's the deal. Like, uh, you're looking for something that's going to be your boilerplate, boring every other day. Whatever, this isn't your. Stop your one-stop shop. Like, uh, you, you tune in this podcast because you want to hear something that's going to be different.
Speaker 1:I appreciate that Mike and I have worked really, really hard to make it a little bit different from the round tables and individual shows and things like that. All right, two questions left. What would scare you the most? Climbing Mount Everest, going to the moon or going to the bottom of the ocean, bob? Going to the bottom of the ocean, bob.
Speaker 2:Going to the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 3:Colin Bottom of the ocean. We just watched that submarine implode on itself. So I'm going to have to say bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 4:What about you, dave? Oh my gosh. Yeah, ocean man. My goal while swimming is don't die. So I'm not a water guy, that's out for me.
Speaker 1:I think going to the moon would be terrifying, even though I think I I don't like height, so going to mount everest would be, would be out of the question, and going to the bottom of the ocean and like going into the darkness would be would be really weird. But going to the moon and just knowing that there's no sound, no noise, there's no rescue team, there's no, nothing, nothing, they're just vastness of no sound and nothing out there, the vastness of nothing, that would be terrifying to me. Because if you, just if what happens? If you float away, you'll just float for forever. Thank you, it'll be fine, you'll just, you'll just float for forever. I I don't know, man, I've watched too many movies. Uh, about that stuff, and all right. The last question on the all things about no things podcast and everybody's listening you to decide did I truly take anything away from this show or didn't I? What did they really talk about? But we're going to talk about one last thing. Give me one word to describe yourself Bob.
Speaker 2:Overweight Colin.
Speaker 3:Oh man, colin, oh man, I guess. Oh man, I don't know, loyal, I guess. Okay, dave.
Speaker 4:Man, I'm talkative man. I talk to damn much.
Speaker 1:Okay, we got overweight. Loyal and talkative. Okay, figured it was a cool way to end the show there. But in all seriousness, thank you guys for coming on. You know this was a great episode. It was a lot of fun to start the new year here with the all things about no things show. To all of our listeners out there, happy 2025. We wish you the most successful and fruitful year yet for yourself and your family. To our guests, bob, colin and Dave, thank you so much for coming on and taking a part of this very fun and zany episode of the All Things About no Things podcast, with yours truly Fetty Falcone spinning the questions here. As always for all of our listeners out there, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend and tell a friend. And if you didn't like it, be a friend and tell a friend. And if you didn't like it, tell them anyways, because I bet they like it just because you didn't. This is Fitty signing off and we will see you next week.
