Hello, and welcome in to the latest edition of Yankee Candle Reviews here on SoBros Network. I will be your host – the Fragrance Aficionado of SoBros Network, also the EIC, Stoney Keeley. My passion for Yankee Candle began in 2006, when I strolled into the location in Providence Marketplace in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. I picked up a jar of Autumn Woods, and found it captured the essence of the season perfectly. I’ve been hooked in this…well, you could even call it ‘romantic…’ relationship with Yankee Candle ever since. Today, we’re taking a whiff of the enchanting Glistening Leaves.

Glistening Leaves is much more of an early fall fragrance than we’d usually be smelling here in October, but I didn’t exactly know that when I lined up my content calendar in September of 2025 (yes, I’m usually moving a year or so in advance on these Yankee Candle Reviews (I’ve already recorded something for December of 2028)). So, here we are – we’re in full-on “shift to pumpkin” mode still smelling ethereal outdoor fragrances. SMDH – what have we become?

Nonetheless, Glistening Leaves is a fantastic addition to that outside-the-box early fall rotation. I hate this new wax, and didn’t feel like Glistening Leaves really threw for shit. I had to practically shove my face over the flame in order to smell it in my office, surely expediting the process of all the cancer these things are going to give me one day. I digress. The fragrance is awesome – bridging the gap between summer and fall…there’s some fresh citrus to it. It does smell a tad like grapefruit. But, that freshly sawed wood smell hits you on the back end. It’s an awesome ode to late summer – that combo of grapefruit and sawdust is so unique. I don’t think I’ll seek this one out every August, but I’ll take my time burning this one, for sure.

Recommended Burning: You’re coming down the mountain after a long hike in the late summer sun. You’re out of water, but you have a grapefruit. Needing refreshment, you squeeze it over your face as the citrusy smell lingers on your skin. As you continue your trek, you encounter a lumberjack chopping down a tree. Your face is kind of sticky and that’s super weird, but you can’t help but notice how interesting the smell of citrus and sawdust is together. You go home and you invent Glistening Leaves.

Check out the Yankee Candle archives here on SoBros Network for my extensive backlog of Yankee Candle reviews! Also, be sure to check out my comprehensive list of the top 100 Yankee Candle fragrances of all time. I worked on that thing for forever, so any read is appreciated, thank you. That is all.

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, second on Football & Other F Words, analyst for Stacking The Inbox, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, the NFL Draft, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.

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Pour up The 3:15 and join McCash as he relives this legendary (for better or for worse) remake alongside Brittany Fernandez and Stoney Keeley. Today, we’re drinking with…The Amityville Horror.

To make The 3:15: 

Ingredients

• 2 oz black vodka (or regular vodka)
• 1 oz blackberry liqueur
• ½ oz cranberry juice
• ½ oz fresh lemon juice
• ¼ oz simple syrup
• Club soda
• Fresh blackberries and a rosemary sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. Fill a shaker with ice and add the vodka, blackberry liqueur, cranberry juice, lemon juice, and simple syrup.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice.
4. Top with a splash of club soda.
5. Garnish with fresh blackberries and a lightly torched rosemary sprig

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, second on Football & Other F Words, analyst for Stacking The Inbox, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, the NFL Draft, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.

Elsewhere on the SoBros Network: Check out Stacking The Inbox for premium coverage of the Tennessee Titans and NFL Draft. Subscribe to Nashville Movie Dispatch for all of our movie content. We get weird on Phone It In, the history podcast that explores legendary tales, important historical figures, and events.

For Spooky Season’s episode this year, we wanted to do something a little bit different than the usual slasher, ghost story, or pure horror classic. I realized I had never seen a single entry to Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography, and while that may seem unforgivable to some, I’d say “hey – shit happens, man.” We were kicking around ideas and The Birds came up, which I thought would be the perfect departure from masks and monsters. So, here we are!

It is certainly a slow burn story that feels like a stark departure from the usual Spooky Season rotation. But, that’s precisely why I enjoyed it. It’s quiet – almost to the point where you could put this film on in the background and sleep to it….minus…y’know…the whole “birds screeching” thing. I like what The Birds has to say about our place in the world under the thumb of Mother Nature, and I can certainly appreciate the technology for its time. But, there are issues to discuss with this film as well. If you find yourself looking for something different to watch this October on a gray rainy afternoon, might I suggest The Birds, and once you’re done, come press play on this episode of Movie Review Rewind.

Keep up with all of our work covering the world of movies on Nashville Movie Dispatch. Listen to the Movie Review Rewind podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you take in your podcasts! Just search for ‘Nashville Movie Dispatch’ and you’ll find us. Or, just smash the play button on the embed below!

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, second on Football & Other F Words, analyst for Stacking The Inbox, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, the NFL Draft, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.

Elsewhere on the SoBros Network: Check out Stacking The Inbox for premium coverage of the Tennessee Titans and NFL Draft. Subscribe to Nashville Movie Dispatch for all of our movie content. We get weird on Phone It In, the history podcast that explores legendary tales, important historical figures, and events.

Man, back in they heyday of SoBros Network, when life was a little slower, and we all had a little more time, I would sit down and hammer out a content plan for Spooky Season in August. We’d tag team it, and I always felt like it produced some of our best work. Maybe they’re just personal favorites, but I always thought the style and vibes of the season brought out the best in us. As things change and evolve as they always inevitably do, I never want to lose sight of how much fun October has always been at SoBros Network. And, to me, these pieces are worth remembering and celebrating.

Halloween Classics on SoBros Network

• 2017: Rooster provides a little background info on Halloween and the reason for the season on this History Lesson on Samhain.
• 2018: Rooster recounts the tale of one of the most legendary cryptids of all time, the Point Pleasant Mothman.
• 2019: The best bit of fiction we have on this site: The Widow’s Mountain.
• 2019: Brittany shared one of the scariest true stories I’ve ever read in a piece titled ‘The York Road Stranger.‘
• 2019: Rooster and I did a Phone It In episode on Skinwalker Ranch.
• 2020: Brandon, Brittany, and I got together to rank horror franchises: Vick’s Flicks Podcast: Ranking Horror Franchises
• 2020: I power ranked the best Goosebumps books and the top 10 cryptids.
• 2021: Some of our friends and I provided a few outside-the-box movie suggestions for this time of year.
• 2021: I wrote about this king housing an entire sweet potato pie in a screening of The Addams Family 2.
• 2022: Brittany, Jesse, and I ate a bunch of different pumpkin-flavored stuff.
• 2022: A few of us got together and did one of the ghost tours at The Hermitage, and I wrote about the experience.
• 2023: Spooky Season Viewing For Comic Book Fans – There’s an interesting genre of…like…I don’t know how else to describe it…”comic book horror.” So, I made a list of some of my favorite flicks that borrow vibes from the comic book world to check out in case you haven’t already.

Happy Halloween – stay safe out there!

Image courtesy of Beth Teutschmann on Unsplash!

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, second on Football & Other F Words, analyst for Stacking The Inbox, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, the NFL Draft, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.

Elsewhere on the SoBros Network: Check out Stacking The Inbox for premium coverage of the Tennessee Titans and NFL Draft. Subscribe to Nashville Movie Dispatch for all of our movie content. We get weird on Phone It In, the history podcast that explores legendary tales, important historical figures, and events.

I was chatting with a coach not too long ago and admitted that I had a dumb question to ask him. I told him I understand how motion helps in the passing game because it can indicate whether a defense is in man or zone coverage. But, what I didn’t quite grasp is what motion tells you when you’re running the ball. Is answer was pretty simple – the gist of it was, “anything you can do to get the eyes of the linebackers off the ball.”

I started seeing instances of that showing up on tape. Linebackers would be following the motion, communicating an adjustment, and by the time the ball was snapped, the defense was a little off balance. No, it’s not to say motion is a cheat code in the run game. It doesn’t work every time, but when it does work, it’s beautiful. As I was studying Jam Miller tape back in the spring, I came across this play against Missouri that highlights how effective motion can be in running the ball. It ain’t always a big play, but hot damn, it can be an efficient chain mover.

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, second on Football & Other F Words, analyst for Stacking The Inbox, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, the NFL Draft, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.

Elsewhere on the SoBros Network: Check out Stacking The Inbox for premium coverage of the Tennessee Titans and NFL Draft. Subscribe to Nashville Movie Dispatch for all of our movie content. We get weird on Phone It In, the history podcast that explores legendary tales, important historical figures, and events.