Ride Home Rants
Ride Home Rants
Comedians, Quarterbacks, and Cole Schneider's Unforgettable Journey
Imagine being related to a famous comedian, having a run-in with a baseball legend, and moving from the bustling streets of Baltimore to the Midwest charm of Ohio. That's just a taste of our conversation with Cole Schneider from Case Western Reserve University. His stories about cultural shifts, jazz jams, and sports fanaticism are as entertaining as they are relatable. Cole's unique journey is a vivid tapestry of experiences that offer a fresh perspective on embracing change and growth.
We also navigate the unpredictable world of stand-up comedy, where the crowd can be your best friend and your biggest challenge. With tales of recent sold-out shows and heckler hijinks, including a surprise appearance by my wife, we consider the impact of social media on live performances. The art of quick wit is explored as we transform disruptions into unforgettable comedic moments, making the unpredictable an essential part of the showbiz thrill.
Finally, we engage in a spirited debate over the future of NFL quarterbacks like Tom Brady, Eli Manning, and Philip Rivers, drawing comparisons with today's stars like Josh Allen. We also touch on the fast-paced excitement of hockey and lacrosse, and wrap things up with our fast-paced "Fast Fiddy 5" segment, plus Cole shares his candid insights and motivational advice, reminding us all of the value of personal growth and education. Whether you're a sports enthusiast, comedy lover, or simply after some good laughs and insights, this episode has something for everyone.
The episode explores the intersection of comedy and life, highlighting personal anecdotes from host Mike Bono and guest Cole Schneider. They share stories of celebrity encounters, the balancing act of passion between sports and music, and the thrill of stand
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I had a great guest for us today. He comes to us all the way from Case Western Reserve University up in Cleveland Ohio. He is in the management of the administration. We're going to get into all of that there and what he actually does, but Cole Schneider joins the show.
Speaker 2:Cole, thanks, for joining, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:I'm excited, yeah, so before we get into your background and everything, is it true, you once met Rob Schneider, the famous comedian and actor. We're just going to get this out the way early.
Speaker 2:So apparently he's a cousin of mine, um, they're like a distant cousin, uh. But I met him at full sail when I was working there in the emissions department. He was shooting his show. I can't remember what it was called, but it was like this would have been probably 10 years ago. So he was shooting his show at the time, um, and he was not the friendliest guy in the world, but he was. It was fine. I don't blame him.
Speaker 1:You know, he probably had a million people trying to meet him yeah, it's always weird when you see somebody like that's that famous out and you know that you get that quick little intro to them and like that's just kind of your basis for them. Um, like, oh yeah, back in college the Pittsburgh Steelers would always do a charity basketball game at Bethany College and I met Charlie Batch and I had always been a fan of Charlie Batch. I thought he was a pretty decent quarterback. They were signing autographs at halftime for everybody and I was like third or fourth in line up to meet him and I heard him turn to somebody and go, can we hurry this up? I have places to be? And it's just like wow, you're here for charity, what a dick, like I mean like. And to this day I'm just like yeah, you know what?
Speaker 1:Charlie batch, he's just a jerk. I don't, I don't like him anymore. Like and it that was the only interaction I had with him was just hearing that from like three or four people away. And yeah, to this day I'm just like yeah, you don't want to make Charlie batch, he's, he's a jerk. Like I don't.
Speaker 2:I've met. It's funny, I met Tommy Lasorda, a famous manager for the Dodgers. Yeah, I think he might've managed some other teams, but I'm not completely sure. But he, we were at this like charity baseball game and Joe Walsh was there, strangely enough, the guitar player from the Eagles. It was like the summer camp thing, uh. But we met both of them and Tommy was sorta, uh, I asked him to sign my baseball and uh, he looks at the baseball. It's got a bunch of signatures on it from a bunch of old Dodgers players. And he just looks at me and he goes where the fuck am I supposed to sign this? And he just throws the ball at me.
Speaker 2:He doesn't sign it. Later I went back and got him to sign it. He did end up signing it, but it was just like the weirdest interaction I've ever had with a human being.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's probably not the best first impression, but that's still funny to tell so so I I always have to fact check johnny anytime he sends me anything.
Speaker 2:So you're originally from maryland, is that correct? Yeah, for baltimore, maryland, uh well, a suburb of baltimore, uh, but that general area it's kind of like cleveland. Everybody says they're from cleveland, even they're from, even though they're not necessarily from like willoughby or something like that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I mean, yeah, take us through a little bit of that. You know where you're from and everything like that, you know and what it was like growing up there.
Speaker 2:Maryland's great. You know people there are, who they are a lot of government employees, things like that. My dad's originally from upstate New York, my mom's from Northern Virginia and they met in the middle kind of. So I was born there, actually in a town called Salisbury, which is on the eastern shore of Maryland. So if you think of Maryland it kind of looks like a weird claw. I was on the ocean side of the bay Gotcha, yeah, and then I grew up on the western western shore, um, lived there, born and raised, ended up moving down to florida, um, and then now I'm here all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it sounds like you've you've moved around a good bit. Um, I don't know why anybody would leave florida for ohio, uh, but you know that's to be seen, especially with the winners we've had and how cold it's been this past winter. But you also played sports and were involved in music growing up. So how did you balance both of those endeavors?
Speaker 2:My father forced me. I mean, the thing is he's a musician. I grew up loving baseball, loving football as well, played both and then also did jazz throughout high school jazz band. But that was what really stuck with me the football thing. My coach didn't necessarily love me very much and my baseball coach loved me, but I was not very good at baseball, so it was kind of a funny thing. I was better at football but my coach, for some reason, baseball. So it was kind of a funny thing. I was better at football but my coach for some reason, just absolutely hated me throughout the whole entire time.
Speaker 1:And what are those? In high school, I mean, I wasn't like the best player in the world. I was a decent receiver and my coach just did not like me because I spoke my mind and like just did not, just, absolutely did not like me, and I got kicked out like just did not, just, absolutely did not like me. And I got kicked out of a lot of practices. And you know, it took till my senior year of me just getting just absolutely pummeled on scout team. And then he was like yeah, we'll put you on like kickoff as a senior and it's just like whatever, I'm starting somewhere. I don't even care at this point in time.
Speaker 2:It's so interesting know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, and I don't know. I mean, I, I was listening, I know you probably saw me turn around. I don't know if you just heard the cat fight.
Speaker 2:That just literally happened oh, is that what that was?
Speaker 1:any time. I'd go to record my animals like let's see how we can get into the show, and they just decide to fight or come up and just absolutely just be as loud as humanly possible. It never fails, amazing. Yeah, I was just like what the hell is it? Oh, okay, it's just my cats being assholes is what it is. Yeah, so when you said your dad forced you into sports or force you into the music, part of it uh, both, yeah, I mean he wanted me active.
Speaker 2:Uh, he didn't want me to get in trouble, I, when I was growing up. So I lived in Maryland for a couple years, or Florida for a couple years when I was, uh, my parents are divorced, so my mom lives in Florida, my dad lives in Maryland still the case, um, so I lived in Maryland for a couple years years, or Florida for a couple of years when I was like third or fourth grade, and then by fifth grade I was getting in a bunch of trouble. So my mom sent me back up north to live with my dad and my dad took it upon himself to basically make sure I'd never gotten in any trouble. It didn't work, but he was going to those ages.
Speaker 1:It's just like, yeah, I'm going to do what I'm going to do, yeah, so I definitely get that so fast forward. You know you, you graduate from high school, you go off to college and I believe he chose John Hopkins university to attend. Is that correct?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I went to the Peabody Institute for music performance so I did jazz there, didn't finish at the time, which you don't really, I mean honestly, with a music degree. It's one of those things where I mean I could have finished and I could have, you know, worked somewhere, but it wasn't really going to be worth it for the money. Plus, it was during the housing crisis. So my mother was kind of going through some stuff down in Florida and needed some help, so I kind of just high-tailed it down. You know got out of there yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean I get it. I mean I have a bachelor's degree that I am absolutely 100% not using in any way, shape or form. You know I have a day job and I'm a stand-up comedian. So, like I don't know why you would need a bachelor's degree to be a stand-up comedian, I'll be my degree's in communications. So I guess you could say you know You're utilizing it somewhat. I'm using a little bit of it, but not to what I thought I was going to do, because it was in sports, broadcasting and journalism. Not even close to using any of that, except for, you know, we talk a little bit of sports on the podcast, but that's about it.
Speaker 2:How do you like stand-up? I've always been terrified of doing something like stand-up because it's so individualized. How do you like doing it?
Speaker 1:I love it. At first, you know, I had crippling stage fright. Um would have to show up to shows like hours beforehand because most of them, when you're starting out, are in bars, and get a lot of liquid courage in me to get up on stage. Um, now I look forward to it. You know, 13 years in doing comedy, you know I look forward to getting on stage and it's just a rush when you can make a room full of people laugh and know that you were the reason for that. That interaction is probably a lot like music. When you get that applause at the end of it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I play guitar, I mean, but it's nothing to the level of, like, performing um, it's all yeah, you know, I always have a lot of respect for comedians and I have friends that are comedians, but it's nothing to the level of like performing, it's all. Yeah, you know, I always have a lot of respect for comedians and I have friends that are comedians and they've always kind of said the same thing. It's kind of like that mutual. Hey, we're both putting ourselves out there. It's just a different, a different scope of entertainment, but it really is just. It's that high that we're chasing that fun of like getting in front of people and and then actually enjoying your craft, whatever it is that you're doing, it's, it's a beautiful thing. I totally understand that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had a an absolutely sold out show a couple of weeks ago. I mean, by the time this airs, I mean it'll probably be close to a month ago, but still, you know it was. It was the first show of 2025 that I had and absolutely standing room only at this place, and the crowd was great. Obviously, there's there's those hecklers that you're going to get no matter where you go, and I look forward to those, like I can't wait for somebody to heckle me, Oddly enough in this show one of the hecklers was my wife for somebody to heckle me.
Speaker 1:Oddly enough, in this show one of the hecklers was my wife, so she chose to heckle her husband. So you know, but it's fun. I mean I love the interaction. Oh, I did is because I didn't get to the 100% punchline of the joke in the time that she wanted me to, because it was one that she was involved in. So it was a story about something we both did and it was. I mean, it was about how we basically cock blocked our neighbor for lack of a better term but yeah, she had her boyfriend coming over. We didn't know.
Speaker 1:It was real late at night. My son was out because a couple of his friends were messing with our house and just doing normal teenager things. He said he was just going to catch them and do this. So we go out after my son calls. I was like, hey, this is creepy dude Walking around and looking in mary's window, like I don't know, like I don't know what to do. We're like, well, you stay there where you're at.
Speaker 1:And yeah, by the time I could get off my couch and get to, like my little sun porch, to where I could see my neighbor's house which was like 10 feet from my couch for me to get there I don't have that big of a house. Like my wife had already grabbed her nine millimeter and was out the back door. Oh god, like and like she mom voiced them a little bit too. When she saw him she was like, yeah, no, go, go. And he just about face and walked up the street and so we knock on her door and just to her know, hey, there was a creepy dude. Like she's a single mom living by herself. She's probably around our age, in her mid-30s, and so she answers the door in just a towel and she's like, oh, yeah, that was my friend. He was like, oh, sorry, no, he was wearing all black and he was just kind of like creeping around your house. She forgot, she locked the doors and that was the only reason he couldn't get into the house.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I didn't get to the knocking on the door part and, like my wife just finished the joke, I was like I was getting there. So yeah, I mean we looked good as a unit my family, I'll say that because we had a down pat, the whole stakeout situation. But yeah, so I mean it's just people always like. A lot of comedians like don't want hecklers at their shows. I am like 100% hoping somebody heckles me at my shows and it's because I have a microphone. Have a microphone, you're everyone's in proximity to a speaker, so I'm gonna ruin your night if you're gonna yell something out to me. I got the stigma as being the angry white comic because I go on these long-felled rants in my stories and storyteller comedian. That just it, yeah. So I mean like I'll ruin your night.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you like everybody in like, but it's just, it's so much fun to be on stage in a long yeah, somebody's gonna for to be heckled is like such a scary thing for me, because I've no, I'm not quick with that sort of thing like to to get back at someone for saying you know what I mean? Like I'm just, I don't have that bone in me, so it's. It's always impressive whenever I see somebody that's super quick with it and they can hit them with something. It's just like nice and and you know, of course, like F that guy for for doing it or whoever like it's so shitty to to call out while somebody is performing, right, but I guess you know I was.
Speaker 2:I was listening to an interview recently about, uh, I think it was from Stavi, the, the standup, oh yeah, and he was talking about how. They were talking about how, um, this new crowd work phenomenon that's happening with, like Instagram reels and things, has kind of made audiences more ruckus and I thought that was kind of interesting and they were like is that good for comedy or is that bad for comedy? And I don't know. What do you think about that as a comedian?
Speaker 1:It's a double-edged sword For me. Like I said, it's less jokes I have to write because I am very quick-witted. Basically, everyone has those thoughts like when you're out in public and somebody like says something and like your first response to seeing that, like out in public and you don't, and you don't say it, like that's the thing. And when you're on stage, you get to say it, like you get to, yeah, to tell that person exactly what you feel, and a lot of people get a laugh out of that.
Speaker 1:But, like you said, if you were up there, you would not like to be heckled and you wouldn't be able to quickly snap back at them. So it's a double-edged sword because it works for me, because I know certain rooms that I'm going to work, like, okay, this is going to be a rowdy room, I probably don't need to have a lot of jokes prepared, because people are going to yell out and then the entirety of my show is going to be me trashing this person and I cannot wait. So, yeah, like I said, I like it, I look forward to it. I warn people at the start of every one of my shows, like if you're thinking about heckling, go ahead, I like it. I'm just letting you know I'm going to hurt your feelings and everyone else will get a laugh except for you.
Speaker 2:So it's actually kind of a good deterrent to do that right off the bat. You know, right off rip just to be like, hey, just so you know, if you come at me I'm going to destroy you. It probably prevents a lot of people from doing it. They're like, eh, maybe the next guy I'll get, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, the like I said the last show, like even one of the one of the other hecklers, like she bought my wife and I a drink after and we're like I am so sorry. Like my husband told me, like I remember, like no, no, no, no, trust me, I've had way worse than what you've said. So, like you don't have, like you're fine, you didn't have to do this, I appreciate it, but yeah, so I mean, I've had people come up to me and she even said, like I don't know, I see it all the time on social media, like I just thought that's what comedians like that was. Like you found the right one to do that to um, anybody else I might not want to uh, go that hard at because you you came, you came pretty hard, but I came back a lot harder, so you made one like hecklers are never clever like in music.
Speaker 2:It's always like free bird or you know, something like that. Um, so I'm assuming it's the same.
Speaker 1:It's like you suck, you know, or something like that yeah, like you can imagine it's never any good one of one of her heckles was like oh, you were funny till you weren't. It's like oh, how original. No one's ever fucking said that Also what the hell does that even mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's pretty much what I was like.
Speaker 1:That's not even good English. How drunk are you right now?
Speaker 2:Like why?
Speaker 1:don't you just go have another drink and you just enjoy your night there, sweetheart, because you don't want to keep coming at me? I'm telling you right now. So interesting, yeah, but, like I said, you've traveled a lot for work here. So what are some of the various positions that you've had after graduating, college and everything like that? You know you've traveled, like I said, for the very. You know it's pretty interesting. It's pretty interesting, I mean, for me. You know I'm a comedian, so I'm on the road a good bit. Um so, but what's that like for you and your travels and your experiences?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I like living in different places. I think traveling and kind of seeing different areas is important. If you get stuck in one place, that's just kind of sad, right. So I always feel like you should travel, you should see different things in your life. Maryland is so expensive nowadays. When I was a kid it was much more reasonable to live there. Now you have to be so rich to be able to live in some of the areas that we're living in. And then down in Florida, you made a joke about not wanting to live there. Let me tell you, dude, the summers are brutal. They talk about the winters up here in Cleveland and how gnarly they can be, but it's almost the opposite with Florida and summers are completely unbearable. At least here I can put on layers, you know.
Speaker 2:But when I was down in Florida I found this college through a buddy of mine, a musician buddy. It was called Full Sail University and it's like a entertainment arts university kind of. They do like production things like that, and it was kind of. You know, I could talk about things that I love. You know, I love music, I love movies, I love, you know, video games. So it really had all of those things. It was kind of an easy job to take, but I started out doing like receptionist work, essentially Like I worked at the main building front desk where they do the tours and everything. So I did that for about a year until I got moved over into working with students on campus to get them into admissions, which it's a for-profit school, so it's very sales-like. So there were quotas essentially. Even though you can't really do that in education, they still found a sneaky way of doing it. So I did that. And then I went into online. Full Sail has a huge online school. I think they have like 40,000 people online or something.
Speaker 1:That's all I've really seen for Full Sail is they're online Like that's. I've heard of full sale and it's only mainly been like their online portion. They actually have a campus, correct.
Speaker 2:They do actually have a campus and it's a cool. The thing is like, really, if you're going to go, you got to go to the campus because it's you know you're going to live in Orlando, which is great if you want to do that. But then like they have better, they have great equipment there. Like you know, they spend millions of dollars on this stuff and you know, maybe there's 2000 students, something like that, actually on the campus. But it also you could kind of look at it as a marketing tool for them, right, like they can put that online and say, look at this beautiful school, but you're going to be online using a Mac that we give you. You know what I mean? Like it's just not. It's kind of selling this, this vision, that isn't there for an online student.
Speaker 2:So I didn't really love that job very much. I started. I loved it at first, but when I got into the online world, it really kind of sucked the joy out of you know, working with students and kind of helping them realize their dreams. So I left there. Then I worked for a college that was online called Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and I was working with, like students that were doing interior design, which you can definitely do online, like you don't need to, because that's everything's going to be in a CAD program or something along those lines. Uh, and then my girlfriend and I moved up here. My girlfriend at the time, uh, moved up here and because her family lives in Solon, um yeah, and then we broke up. But I love it up here. Uh, you know, I've got buddies that I played music with still do that live up here and I love my job. I actually like Case Western a lot. It's a really good university. So I've kind of just stuck it out up here and it's been totally worth it. I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you mentioned it. I know the summers in Florida can get brutal. Oh, they are. My aunt lives down in Naples, florida, okay. So I mean she used to come up for Thanksgiving and Christmas. She does not anymore because she just doesn't like the cold. But I still remember I mean one year for whatever reason like the beginning of August. It was probably the last family vacation that we all took. We went down to Orlando august and not the best idea. Like it was brutal down there.
Speaker 2:It is, and it rains every afternoon. Yeah, just like kind of rough.
Speaker 1:It was like that like 10, 20 minute, like absolute downpour, that it was just sunny and beautiful again. Yep, um so same, yeah it. It was just the most bipolar. Like you think Ohio is bipolar weather. Like no Florida takes the cake, I mean, given it doesn't get like negative 2 to like 70 in one day like it does here, but like, yeah, you get those freak quick storms, thunderstorms, and then it's just like, oh, like it never happened, just sunny and beautiful. And then it's just like, oh, like it never happened, just sunny, beautiful.
Speaker 2:And then it's just even more humid, like after that rain so, oh, it's disgusting man, there's a songwriter named david dondero and he he says you can cut the humidity with a knife, and I think that that's kind of the perfect, perfect way to put it. Um, he's 100 correct. I mean it is, if you ever take a plane down and you're getting off of a plane and you hit that tunnel, that initial tunnel coming off the plane immediately, it's just like a warm hug. Yeah, you just walk into it. It's interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we always would fly down when we went down there and, like you said, you get off and you're just like, oh thick, yeah it's rough, yep, um, but I've always I mean, I'm always, I'm a warm-blooded person, like I can never be cool enough as it is. Um, and I've, I've always said I'd rather be cold than hot, because I could always put more layers on. I can only take so much off and then you're just, you're just out of options at that point in time. So I get that to a point. But as I get older, I start to hate the snow more and more. So I also get like the snowbirds after they retire to go down South for the for the winter.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah, I, I understand that for sure um, this is the worst winter I've had so far. Like, uh, I moved here in 22, um, so it's been pretty easy sailing for the most part. This is really the first year where it's like, oh, this kind of sucks, yeah, but right now it's beautiful. It's beautiful again. You know, we're well 40 degrees, but not that bird bird, almost february in ohio.
Speaker 1:Not too bad, I'll take.
Speaker 2:I'll take 40 stuff yeah, exactly so you're located in cleveland or where you know.
Speaker 1:No, no, I am in a little town called philo ohio. Philo, ohio. It's about an hour east of Columbus. So, yeah, I'm more central Ohio where I'm at right now, but I was originally born and raised in West Virginia.
Speaker 2:Oh nice, my buddy's from Point Pleasant.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, that's one place in West Virginia that I just have not visited yet and I want to. It's Point Pleasant, mainly because my wife and I were into that I just have not visited yet and I want to. Uh, is point pleasant? Um, mainly because my wife and I were into like these ghost hunting shows and that the moth man.
Speaker 1:I've always wanted to go and see that uh museum and everything like that and just be there uh for that, to experience that Um. But yeah, we're. We're big into the paranormal Uh. My wife doesn't like haunted houses or scary movies, but we will watch a paranormal show every night when we're eating dinner, and it's just become our dinner shows. Now we're running out on Discovery Plus, so if anybody from there is listening, like, update your paranormal stuff a little faster like we're running out we are running out of shows.
Speaker 1:Um, we were awesome. We were big into the ghost adventures.
Speaker 2:Like we loved that show and my buddy loves that show too, still watches it and they just haven't come out with new episodes.
Speaker 1:And we're just like, all right, you're way past when the new season should have been out. Like we're just, we want new. We've watched all of them Thousands of times. We could only rewatch them so many times before. We're like saying what's going to happen before it happens, like we've seen it that many times. It's funny because she didn't like any of that stuff before she met me. Um, okay, like she doesn't like being scared which I don't understand those people like I'm being scared and so but I, I always loved watching that stuff and I I'm into that stuff a little bit, so she kind of started to get into it too as well. So I've been hearing no judgment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no judgment. Do you believe in? Do you believe in this stuff? Or is it more just like pro, like wrestling right when it's, you know, you know it's fake, but it's still entertaining? Or do you believe in like extraterrestrial life, you know?
Speaker 1:whatever it might be, do you believe in it? I don't believe in the extraterrestrials, but I do believe there is a spiritual world. Um, I've had experiences to where it's just stuff that I can't explain and I don't want to say it's paranormal, but I it's. It's more the you can't explain it. Sure, like that's what intrigues me. Like okay, how? Okay, how did that happen? Like, if I can debunk something, I will debunk the hell out of it. And like, no dude, this is why that happened.
Speaker 1:But there's been stuff that has happened in the house we're currently living in, and so it's to the point. Well, I mean, I don't know how you explain that Like our front door literally just slammed shut, and it's a pretty heavy door, and it just slammed shut one night and we were the only two here. Like our dog was sitting there. Like we have 110 pound Husky. Like she didn't grow up, just like throw the door shut herself, like just running into it, being being a dumb Husky, like, but, and it was like, okay, so wasn't. One of the animals are 15 year olds, not here. What the hell did that happen Like, and it's just stuff like that. So, yeah, I believe in that stuff, but like the, the aliens with, like the extraterrestrial stuff. I don't, I don't believe in that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've never had any like anything happened to me like that. I think probably, like in that thought process, it might be that some people are more susceptible to these sort of things, like you know, like a psychic right or somebody like that is in touch with those things. Maybe I'm just like I have like ghost blockers or something where it just totally blocks.
Speaker 1:I think you just came up with a new show like just people that just don't, but just ghost blockers, like nothing happens to them, but people want it to happen to them. It could be paranormal comedy. We'll write that down and if anybody takes that, this is timestamped, just so you know.
Speaker 2:We'll make hundreds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we will make tens of dollars on that. That's right exactly. But you're also a big sports guy.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, so who are some of your favorite teams. So I'm a weird sports fan. So my dad's from upstate New York, so he grew up a Giants fan and a Knicks fan and a Syracuse orange fan. So I'm very much a New York fan for the most part, except for baseball. I grew up an Orioles fan. I even have my cup today.
Speaker 1:I saw the Orioles cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's one of those things where I could watch baseball games on a regular basis, because I lived in Maryland. Football is more of a national sport anyways. You don't have to live there to watch it, and the Knicks were amazing throughout the 90s. So Patrick Ewing is a god in my eyes, so I've always just been a Knicks fan growing up. It's been hard being a Knicks fan for a long time, but right now it's nice being a Knicks fan again.
Speaker 1:I grew up in West Virginia. There's no pro sports teams.
Speaker 2:Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1:Pittsburgh. I grew up an hour outside of Pittsburgh is where. Okay, so I root for all the Pittsburgh teams but, oddly enough, football I'm a Tampa Bay Buccaneer fan. Interesting. And it was mainly because when I was young they still had those creamsicle orange jerseys and I saw those and I was like those are sweet. And I was like maybe four or five before they changed and I've just stuck with them because I liked their jerseys at the time.
Speaker 2:Those 90s teams were crazy With All-Star Brad Johnson.
Speaker 1:Yeah, brad Johnson was the quarterback, joe Jerevicius, keyshawn Johnson, warren Sapp, like all those. Derrick Brooks, john Lynch, crazy teams, like I loved all those guys. Oh, rondé Barber, yeah, yeah, great players. Just had so many great players on that team so it was a little easier rooting for them when they were doing well like that. But, like for a while there it's just like damn, I'm a Buccaneers fan Like it's just, it's like but you know and then.
Speaker 1:But like everyone got on me like oh, so now you're a Tom Brady fan. When he went there I was like I still don't like Tom Brady. I hope he gets a Super Bowl, but I still don't like him.
Speaker 2:And I don't really hate tom brady that much because he never beat the giants in the super bowl, so I I'm always just kind of in that world of like. Now, whatever he was, yeah, he's the go put. He couldn't be eli manning for some reason, so that worked out superman even has kryptonite.
Speaker 1:So you know that that was eli manning. Just happened to be for be Tom Brady's script for some reason, because Eli Manning is trash, I'm sorry. He's not trash, he's not but I don't think coming from the Manning family.
Speaker 2:He might go to the Hall of Fame in his first ballot. A lot of people are really upset about that.
Speaker 1:I don't think he's a first ballot. I think he gets in because of the Super Bowls and beating Tom Brady. I think he deserves to get in for that, but I don't think first ballot it's not a Hall of Go ahead.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I was just going to say it's yeah, go ahead. Well, I was just going to say it's yeah, go ahead. Well, I was just going to say it's not a hall of statistics, right, it's a hall of fame. So it's like you know, he's still top 10 in a lot of categories all time. For quarterbacks, is he the greatest quarterback of all time? Does he have an MVP? Does he have anything like that? No, but it's not a hall of statistics, so it's not necessarily that necessary for a guy like him. Sorry.
Speaker 1:No, you're fine. I was just going to say when you've got guys like Hines Ward they are on their fourth or fifth try to get into the Hall of Fame and definitely deserves to be in the Hall of Fame 100%. You've got guys like him that still haven't made it and then they're talking like oh, eli manning, first ballot.
Speaker 2:It's like I think we, if it's up there, let's give heinz the bump before eli um but you know rivers, or eli, manning, uh, for see, because I always think of like that class, right, because rothlisberger, rivers and Manning, we're all in that, that class, it's like you. You put Roethlisberger and I think, right, yeah, even though he's hated by a lot of people, but I think you put Roethlisberger and Eli and then I don't know if Phillip Rivers gets in. I don't think he's there.
Speaker 1:Phillip is going to be a coin flip, I think. I think there's some people that want to see him in there, yeah, and then there's people that I mean he's definitely not a first ballot, I mean obviously, I mean he's gonna, it's gonna be way down the line and he'll get in for for something maybe, but I I don't know, might be like a final ballot guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah kind of like all right, this is his last shot. Do we give him the nod Because he was a good quarterback. He wasn't a great quarterback, but he wasn't a terrible quarterback. I think he just got. He's a regular season quarterback. I think he just got the raw end of the stick with the Eli Manning trade, Because Eli Manning could have been a charger like and should have been a charger. He forced his way. He forced his way to New York. Yeah, Thankfully for you, you being a New York man, but that's, yeah, that's like.
Speaker 2:It's not like Rivers didn't have some great players, though I mean tomlinson he had what was the tight ends name?
Speaker 1:great uh, tony gonzalez was there. No, no um he played basketball.
Speaker 2:Gosh, what is that guy's name? It's gonna drive me crazy. But um, yeah, like some, some great players on that team, uh, that you know he probably should have done a little bit more with In the playoffs. It always seemed like he was injured or he just didn't play well.
Speaker 1:He was made of glass. I'll give him that. He always found a way to be hurt. I guess I don't want to say he found a way, but it just always. I think that's going to be a lot of the case with like now. Like Josh Allen, you know he's a great quarterback, regular season he can be Patrick Mahomes and um and the AFC championship, where they always end up meeting just can't get it done. And I think that when his time comes, when he retires, that's going to be a deciding factor. I think for a lot of people Like all right, you did great in the regular season, but what happened when it was one game before the Super Bowl and you just couldn't get it done?
Speaker 2:It's a sad thing that it's also for the bills, because you know they had their run back in the nineties with, uh, was it Jim Jim Kelly? Right, yeah, the quarterback. Um, and so is he the new Jim Kelly for the bill. Like that would just be so sad if they'd never win anything and they have this great team. You know it's not like they've made it to the Super Bowl like they did in those days, but it's just because the Chiefs are just that good. I don't know, it's just crazy how good they are.
Speaker 1:They're becoming the new Patriots. I liked them at first. I'm happy to see them doing well, winning the Super Bowl. I was just like can we get somebody else to play in the Super Bowl other than Patrick Mahomes? Seriously, that's where I'm at In the playoffs. I root for, obviously, my team. I root for Pittsburgh if they're in there, tampa if they're in there, and then whoever is playing, the Chiefs. That's been for the past two or three years now it's like, okay, those are the teams I'm rooting for this year. I hate to say it because I'm not a Philadelphia sports fan at all.
Speaker 2:No, way, dude, don't you dare say it. Don't say it. You can't root for the Eagles, dude.
Speaker 1:I can't root for Mahomes. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 2:I like Jalen Hurts dude, I can't root for Mahomes. That's where I'm at. I like Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1:I like Jalen Hurts as a quarterback. I liked him in college. I'd like to see him win one. That hurts to even think Anything. Philadelphia I can't. It's one of those.
Speaker 2:If there's any Eagles fans out there, don't worry, you're a great team this year's. Any eagles fans out there? Don't worry, like you guys are, you're a great team this year. Uh, good luck to you. I don't mean it. I don't mean it like that, it's just as a giants fan. I've never been a big, big eagles fan, that's for sure. It's been uh, pretty hard to ever be okay with the eagles, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:That's like you know anybody that you know. It's like carolina the falcons, or um, saints, saints, yeah. I could not think of that. I don't know why I couldn't think of the saints, for whatever reason, like I can't root for them as a buccaneers fan like, or like anybody like that. So I get that to a point. You know being you know a giants fan yourself, yeah, yeah, um, but a one sport I don't. I don't know a lot and a lot of people don't follow it Hockey. Do you follow hockey at all?
Speaker 2:I like going to hockey games Down in Florida. They actually have in Orlando. There's a hockey team, I think it's an AHL team, but they're called the Orlando Solar Bears. So they were a lot of fun to watch and Florida hockey is very interesting. I went to a Tampa Bay Lightning game back when they were really solar bears, uh. So there they were a lot of fun to watch and Florida hockey is very interesting. Like, I went to a Tampa Bay lightning game back when they were like really, really good, um, so I've always enjoyed going and went to capitals games as a kid, uh, but I just it's hard to watch on TV because I don't think it's a very good TV sport.
Speaker 2:Um, the puck moves so quickly and it's really hard to just pay attention to what's happening. A lot of people complain about the fights. I think the fights are great. I think it's funny, absolutely, yeah, like that. I keep that. I don't understand why people say get rid of that. I think that's such a. It's almost charming in a way for the sport. But yeah, I just I can't. I can't watch it on TV and also I didn't really grow up a fan of any of the teams. So I think if I had that, um that loyalty from when I was a kid. It would be different, but I just don't have that that loyalty to anybody. Yeah.
Speaker 1:See, I, I grew up a huge hockey fan. Um, okay, I love the penguins, penguins, penguins, um, crosby, crosby, malkin, uh, lemieux, latang, like all those guys. Um, and it helps that you know, my wife's a huge hockey fan. She's an even bigger penguins fan, um, like, she knows more about hockey and the penguins than I do. Um, and I know a good bit, and I know a good bit, yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So it's just something, but it is tough to follow on TV. I'll give you that I still watch it on TV when I can, but it's a sport that doesn't get a lot of credit. I think people don't give it the chance because it's so hard to follow, because the game is so fast.
Speaker 2:And the puck moves quick and it's hard to follow and it's even faster than it used to be, like I feel. Like nowadays, I mean, the cameras are like this, you know, going back and forth, these guys are moving so quick. So, yeah, I think if they just figured it and again, I'm an idiot, I don't know anything, but like you know, I just I anything but like you know, I just I think if they could figure out a way to have better production for it and you could really like see it better. I just don't know how you do that um, they tried this.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was back in either the late 90s, early 2000s, where they put like this blue hue around the puck and it kind of had like a trail thing but it like distracted a lot of people and then the cameras wouldn't be able to. I don't know if it was just because the year that they tried to do it, when it was the late 90s, early 2000s, they even tried it to where if a player took a slap shot it turned red the faster the puck went. It brought a little bit of an aspect to it, but it was hard. I think it was harder to follow that. I don't know why, but it like it just kinda. I I, yeah, like I said, I don't know if it was just when they tried it and they probably could do a lot better with it now being 2025, but that was one thing they tried and it was just it. It took, it took away from the game, I think.
Speaker 2:And all the action. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Well, I mean, and I'm a weird like, I actually like watching lacrosse. As weird as that is, um. You know, growing up I've never watched lacrosse game. I know, isn't that funny. I know, um, because my, my dad's a Syracuse orange fan. The orange are really known for lacrosse, so I grew up watching lacrosse games all the time, and in Maryland it's really popular as well. So you could always just say, okay, he's a lacrosse fan, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
Speaker 1:I understand the sport enough to follow it if I were to watch a game. But I just can't. I watched a couple of buddies of mine because Bethany College had started a lacrosse program my junior or senior year and I was working for the radio station at the time and we were trying to plan out to be able to announce a game on the radio. We just when that time of the plan out to be able to announce the game on the radio and we just when that time of the year when they took all of the cable out of the press box for the internet and the phone lines to be able to remote there. So we just couldn't do it. It was just something that Bethany did and they never had any sports and teams that played that time of year. It was just okay. Well, we just can't make it happen.
Speaker 1:I studied up a lot because they're like all right, mike, we want you to announce it. I was like I know nothing of lacrosse. I studied harder than I studied for most exams in college. I was like I know nothing of lacrosse, so I studied harder than I studied for most exams in college. I'll be honest For this. I need to know. I don't want to sound like an idiot on the radio and I need to know what I'm talking about. And it never happened.
Speaker 1:So I know enough to follow it, but I've never actually seen a game. But we are running down near the end of the episode here. I do want to get this segment in. It is the fun way we like to end the show and it is the fast. 55. Okay, it is five random questions from the wonderful manager of the podcast, johnny 50, falcone. These are kind of rapid fire, but. Manager of the podcast Johnny Fitty, falcone, these are kind of rapid fire, but you can elaborate if you need to and if you know the mind of Johnny, like these have nothing to do with what we've been talking about for the entire day of the show. So if you're ready, cole, we can. I'm ready, man, all right, oh God, would you rather be a what is A mog, half man, half dog, or have the superpower to be invisible?
Speaker 2:I'm not going to elaborate.
Speaker 1:A mog. Okay, I'm fine with that. All right, I'm telling you right now, I got these today, so I haven't had a chance to prep these. This is great, you just keep going. I would say okay. So he's going hard on you. I'm just letting you know that now. Okay, question number two who wins in a fight? 1,000 frogs versus 100 ducks?
Speaker 2:God, he already asked me this question actually, which is really funny, and I said frogs, and I'm sticking with it.
Speaker 1:Okay, I think he was testing you on that one. I don't know if he's tested you on that before Question number three who's the funnier comic and actor, adam Sandler or Kevin Hart?
Speaker 2:Oh man, I don't like either of them all that much. I'd go Sandler over Hart, though, Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm with that one. Question, number four if you could attend one of these iconic parades, which would you pick? The Macy's Day Parade for Thanksgiving, or the Parade of Roses for the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Rose Bowl, that would you pick the Macy's day parade for Thanksgiving or the parade?
Speaker 2:of roses for the Rose bowl on new year's day. Rose bowl, that would be awesome. And if, do I get to go to the game after? Because that's the real question is, if I do, that's sick.
Speaker 1:I mean that's absolutely a hundred percent. I would. I would pick that one. Last question here. One word to describe Joe Rogan is oh God, one word. One word, meathead, why I'm all right with that. I'm telling you right now, cole, he has been taking it light on people when we've done this segment. He went a lot harder on you with these questions than most people have gotten, so, but that was the Fast 55 put me on the spot with Rogan, and as easy knows the spot with Rogan, and as easy knows I hate Joe.
Speaker 1:Rogan, I gotcha. But Cole, I do give every guest this opportunity at the end of every show. If there's anything you want to get out there, whether it's just a good message, or if anything for Case Western or anything like that, I'm going to give you about a minute and the floor is yours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, one thing I always say is, if you're looking to college I know we didn't get a chance to talk about this that much but if you are looking into getting into colleges, do it. It doesn't matter where you go, it's important just to make sure that you're growing as a person, you're building your education. And if college is that, know. And if, uh, if college is that direction, go for it. Man, uh, you know that's the biggest thing. So, um, I don't really have a whole lot of other stuff that would be. My biggest thing is just make sure that if you have a goal in mind or something that you want to go after, whether it's college or whatever go after it.
Speaker 1:Why not? Oh right, yeah, I always like it when people just have a good message like that at the end of the show. I'm all for helping people promote anything they got going on, but when it's just a good message like that, I really appreciate it. I really think it's a good way to end the show, especially after the past 55. But that is actually going to do it for this week's episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. I want to thank my guest, cole Schneider, for joining this show. It was a lot of fun to get to sit and talk with you. Really do appreciate you coming on. 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'.
