Hello everybody, this is Shane R. Monroe. You’re in the passenger seat with me. It’s passenger seat radio. It is August 8th, 2024. You’re on my 13-mile commute home. Welcome to the show. So yes, Thursday is my day in the office. So I just got out, I got past my dead zone and it looks like insane traffic right now. So maybe this show will be actually longerthan most of the regular shows. All right, well, let’s see. So I guess we should probably talk about Deadpool and Wolverine, right? I’m a huge Deadpool fan. But you know, I’ve been I’ve been not exactly excited about this because you know, Disney owns all this shit now. And I really didn’t think Disney was going to let a decent Deadpool movie make it out.Well, my son’s been bugging the shit out of me to go see it. So we did. We finally went, I’ve, well, there was the opening weekend, so I guess not finally. So I’ve contributed to the $200 million this thing has made. My son’s seen it three times. Three times he’s been to the theater once with me and twice with his friends to see Wolverine and Deadpool. Absolutely crazy. Hey, Brian Holtz on. What’s up, brother? So yeah, so let me let me tell you about it. First off, it should be like no surprise that I’m not a fan of Marvel movies. I don’t like the formula that they use. I don’t like shared universes. I don’t like multiverses. I don’t like any of those lazy fucking script writing things that Disney and Marvel seem to do. So I really didn’t want to see the movie at all, to be honest. But you know, listen, it’s Ryan Reynolds, you know, the guy go gay for that sort of shit. So I had to go and see Deadpool, right? I had to go and see Deadpool. Wolverine’s fine. I mean, I really liked Logan. I liked the last two Logan movies. I thought they were good. But you know, I just have such a low tolerance for CGI, especially bad CGI. But you know, it’s it’s Ryan Reynolds. So it’s Deadpool. I have to go see it. And I actually, to be honest, I didn’t roll over all on my own. I waited until a trusted source, namely Critical Drinker on YouTube. He is he and I see eye to eye on a lot of shit. So once he said it was okay, you know, it wasn’t gonna you know, it’s probably the worst of the three movies, but it’s still pretty good. I’m like, okay, well, you know, for him to give any sort of positive feedback, it’s, it’s probably going to be okay. At this point in time, I think I can talk about spoilers. I mean, the movie’s been out for a little bit, right? I mean, if you follow any news at all, you already know a lot of the spoiler material. So if you haven’t seen it, or for some reason, you have no idea the spoilers that are going on, you may want to hold off on finishing this episode. So I’m gonna, I’m gonna talk freely about the movie. Yes, CGI crap fest. There’s no two ways about it. Half the movie was in front of the green screen. And of course, there are times when the CGI is convincing and looks good. And there’s other times that it’s just blatantly not. And those are the, you know, I didn’t go to this movie to expect a great film. I went to the I went to hear what sort of nasty shit came out of Ryan’s Reynolds mouth and how far Disney was going to let him go. It was more of a, it was more of a curiosity than anything else. I wanted to see what Disney would let him do and what they would not let him do. So that’s really sort of the inspiration for me wanting to go.And I, you know, and again, I didn’t want to see I didn’t want to see Deadpool conscripted into the MCU or anything like that. So I was kind of, I was concerned on a lot of levels. But as it turns out, as it turns out, Disney realized the shithole that they’re in finally, I guess, because there were like no limitations on that movie. It was R rated. It was bloody and violent as hell. And it was as you know, it was a probably the most irreverent movie ever of you know, Deadpool, Marvel, X-Men, whatever, easily the most vulgar superhero movie of all time. And you know, listen, that’s what I was there for. I was there for the vulgarity. And I was not disappointed, not at all.So that was one thing. Plenty of horrible things. But now what makes it greatest and this is, this is probably why I like the movie. It’s more of a satire of the MCU than an actual MCU movie. Lots of direct jabs at Disney, direct jabs at MCU, direct jabs at Marvel. It was, it was great. I mean, it was, it was very, it was like I said, it was almost satirical in nature. So I did I, I enjoyed that piece of it. And of course, they had, they had some amazing cameos of, of, of people that I was really excited to see. Now, what would have really been cool? Okay, let me tell you who was there first off, right? So you had Chris Evans come back not as Captain America, but as his Fantastic Four character, Johnny Torch. Is that right, Johnny Blaze, Johnny Torch? No, Johnny Blaze is a Ghost Rider, which apparently, Nicolas Cage almost returned for a Ghost Rider cameo, which would have been great. I love Ghost Rider. I mean, I know the second one wasn’t all that great. And the first one, you know, listen, I liked it a lot. I’m a huge Sam Elliott fan.But anyway, I digress. So you had, you had Wesley Snipes show up as Blade. Unfortunately, the day before I went to see it, something popped up in my newsfeed and I couldn’t unsee it. So I knew that that was one of them that was going to happen. And he did great. I mean, there’s no reason after seeing this. And after watching the big battle scene, right? There’s absolutely no reason why they should not move forward with the next Blade movie with Wesley Snipes in the outfit doing the doing the work. He did amazing. He’s still there. He’s still funny. He’s still present.And quite frankly, they shouldn’t do another Blade movie unless it’s him. Flat out. End of discussion. And then Jennifer Gardner showed up as Electra, which I thought was kind of, wow, that’s an answer. I get I get Blade, but Electra? That’s kind of reaching a little deeper into the pool, don’t you think? I mean, if, if Affleck would have showed up as Daredevil, that would have made more sense than Jennifer Gardner showing up as Electra. But she did a great job. She looks great. They had was in Channing, Tatum showed up as Gambit. Not a character I really, I really know much about. But I thought it was a nice addition. I thought it was good. It was fun. And there’s, and there’s, there’s so many, there’s so many Easter eggs and, and, and such that, you know, we could talk about that all day. But oh, like I said, overall, I thought it was good. I thought it was a little long, they could have trimmed it a little, the pacing, you know, there were some pacing sufferings. But as usual, you know, Ryan Reynolds managed to get all sorts of great 80s songs. And, you know, I don’t, I guess I could ruin these two. I’m sure it’s pretty much common knowledge now. But you have NSYNC is the opening number. You’ve got, you’ve got Greases, you’re the one that I want. Yeah, the actual song, not some Miley Cyrus fucking remake of it. No, the original song of Olivia Newton, John and John Dravolta. Amazing. And then of course, they had Madonna’s Like a Prayer, which there’s been a ton of discussion about that in the news.And that was, that was brilliant, too. There is, I will point out something that you in case you haven’t seen it yet, or maybe you’ve seen it and you didn’t get it. There is an amazing Star Trek two reference in the movie. And you know, that was almost worth the price of admission. And it was great because the way that they set up the camera and everything for that shot, I knew exactly what they were going to do. And I’m going, they’re not going to do that. They’re not going to do that. Oh, my God, they did that no fucking way. So yeah, so it’s the sum of its parts, you know, like I said, I could do without all the CG, but I don’t know, we’re gonna escape that anymore. It’s just it’s starting to get nasty. But anyway, so yeah, listen, somebody who didn’t really want to see it, somebody who didn’t really want to watch an MCU movie, somebody who didn’t really want to watch a Marvel movie, and somebody who didn’t want to give Disney any money, I ended up seeing it and I enjoyed it. So there you go. That’s, that’s pretty much it. Let me see here. I got some chat here. Let me see what we got. Curious if you have been out in your shed lately, and if you found anything, may forgot you had. No, no, recently, I’ve been trying to downsize a little bit, right? So I’ve started in my room, my office area, and other locations. And so I’ve been trying to get rid of some stuff. And for me, it’s very, very, very difficult. Sorry, hang on a second traffic.It’s difficult for me to get rid of stuff. And it’s, it is unfortunate that I have to, but you know, you gotta, you gotta start breaking shit down and getting rid of stuff. I keep a lot of boxes, which is sort of my kryptonite, right? I keep, I don’t want to get rid of a box. Like, like, like, like, like the, like the little dragon slayer arcade machine, right? The little one, not the big one, but the little one came in two different boxes. I’ve got both of those boxes, you know, you don’t, you don’t really need both boxes. Hell, you don’t really need either of the boxes, but I still have them. And at some point in time, I’m probably going to have to part with them.But yeah, no, I haven’t, I haven’t been out to the shed in a long time, I’ll probably have to bomb that place. Just because it’s probably, you know, there’s probably a lot of creatures in there, based on the fact that I haven’t been in there in a while. But when I was, but I do, I do tend to forget all the silly shit that I have. I’ll, you know, I have, I have my wife, my wife has a problem with horizontal surfaces. I have a problem with storage, right? With boxes, I will box shit up, I will put stuff in every crease crevice, drawer. So I have a problem with that. And you know, I keep like every cable, I keep every adapter, I don’t even know what half these adapters go to, but I got them, I kept them. God knows I might need them someday, you know.So yeah, I just downsized the, the CD collection, right? I mean, I got rid of all the plastic. So now I’m down to, you know, my sleeves. So that’s great. I mean, I managed to get rid of a whole box. Basically, I went from two giant boxes full of CDs to one medium sized box of CDs. That’s great. Perfect. I’m downsizing, right? Let me see. Try not to look again.Let’s see, you were collecting C64s you got back in. Yeah, I still have all of that stuff. And very exciting. I have a firm, let’s see. Hang on, sorry. Try not to get waylaid. I’m on the, I’m on the 17. I got to get off here. I’m going to swing by Arby’s. They’ve got a mix and match three for five thing going on, you know, and when food goes on sale, I’m inside of my fasting, or my eat window. So I’m, I’m doing the 16, I’ll get back to the 64 step. I’m doing a, this was on my list. So I’m doing the 16 eight plan right now, which means you get eight hours to consume food, and then you have to be 16 hours off. And apparently, there’s some magic behind that, where you’re not fasting for so long that your body starts hoarding, but you’re long enough where the body starts chewing out fat. So the game plan is I’ve been on this about a week, it’s new, I mean, it’s new for me. And, you know, the first couple of days are, you know, absolute hell on earth. But, you know, each day, it’s getting a little bit easier to wait. And I think a large part of it is the psychology of wanting to eat. You know, it’s part of a ritual. And I think there’s a lot of people out there, like myself, that food becomes ritualistic. You wake up in the morning, you get a cup of coffee, right? I mean, that’s morning, Joe, you wake up, you roll out of bed, wipe the shit out of your eyes, run into the kitchen, make a cup of coffee, boot up the PC, you know, and you know, there’s that’s my first caloric intake every morning is a cup of coffee with some, you know, sugar free Italian sweet cream in it. And then, of course, you got to have a little something for breakfast. So I have my blueberries and oatmeal and yogurt, right? So there’s my might not be able to get it this time. Hang on. I don’t know that hope you can still hear me.Wait a minute. Did I find it?That was fun, huh? How exciting was that? Only here, folks only here on passenger seat radio.What was I saying before my phone flew onto the through onto the floor?Damn it. Lost my train of thought. Yeah, oh, the intermittent fasting thing, right? So it’s amazing, you know, you you’re you consume calories. And it’s not because you’re starving, I’m not starving in the morning. But it’s part of the ritual. You know, you know, I have lunch at like 11 1130 every day that I’m working. And yeah, it’s yeah, it’s okay, I got to eat something before I go work out. So you’re putting the food down, you know. So I think, you know, for me, I’ve got the munchies at night, that sort of thing. So to put a limitation on myself, right, in terms of, you know, you can’t eat from 6pm to 10am. Those are my hours. That’s my fasting hours 6pm to 10am. So I have to miss breakfast. And a lot of people can’t do that. A friend of mine said that he was doing the 16-8s and he couldn’t do it in the morning. He was just getting too crabby. Wasn’t feeling good. But so far, it’s fine. But I have a mental problem. It’s like, I’m watching the time. Oh my god, it’s 930. I got 30 minutes until I can eat. But then you ask yourself, are you hungry? And I’m like, well, yeah, aren’t I? Of course. Well, maybe not. So but right now, I’m trying to establish that metabolism, right? So 10 o’clock, I’m eating something. Whether it’s lunch at 10 o’clock, right, or it’s a quick snack and then lunch at 1130 or 12. Like this morning, I was I had to go to the office. So I brought a peach with me. At 10 o’clock, I had the peach. And at 1130, I went and grabbed a turkey sandwich from Sticklers downtown.Good stuff, Sticklers. So anyway, so yeah, I’ve been doing that. And so far, it’s been pretty good. You know, I never really feel hungry. Not really. Not hungry. But like, every now and then, like at night, about 930, 945, I’m getting ready to go to bed. I’m like, God, I’d like to be able to eat something right now. But you know, and that’s good. That’s what you should not be doing. You should not be eating something at 945 at night. It’s a perfect thing. So anyway, yeah, a friend of mine recently sent me a bot shot of what game was it? It wasn’t was it Aztec Challenge?It was it was Aztec Challenge from Cosme for the Commodore 64. Uh, bacon, egg, cheese on a hard roll. God, you’re making me starving, man.Yeah, I did I did live near New York for about five or six months. I’m sure I told the story on here. And yeah, everything like within, I don’t know, a 50 mile radius of New York is kind of New York. Right. And so every morning, we’d get up and we’d go down to like this bagel shop. And that’s exactly it. Those are the exact things that we would eat like every morning when I was there. So I kind of know what you’re talking about. What was the name? What was the town that I was in? Like, if I went up on a hill, I could see New York. So but it was it was still pretty far away. So I don’t remember how close it was. I never went into the city proper, though. Too busy working, it was sort of a it was a work job. But you know, we played a lot of games at night, we just didn’t really leave was the middle of winter, too. It’s like Christ on his throne.Fucking snow. We lived on the bottom of this hill. So it would ice over.It would ice over there’d be you can just sit and watch the window and people would be getting into accidents constantly all day long. It was it was crazy. Anyway. So yeah, I’m excited. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, the wife and I are going to go out. And I got my hotel, you know, we like to we like to just get out of the house and go stay somewhere nice. And, you know, it’s just ritual for us. It’s sort of like date night, but it’s like all night. But we’re, we’re going to a place that we’ve been before. And I’m sure I talked about it. And I’ll be probably talking about it again next week. But if you want to look it up, it’s a place called Undertow. Undertow, it’s a themed bar. And you have to make reservations and you get like an hour and a half window to be in there. And it’s it’s beautiful. It’s like you’re inside the hull of a ship. It’s called Undertow. Look it up. And I’ve got a couple of pictures. I didn’t get a lot of good pictures last time, but I’m going to get better pictures this time when we go. All right, listen, I got to I got to get some food here. And we’re going to end the show. This is Shane Raminro. Paz, you’re still here saying we’ll see you next time. Take care.
Passenger Seat Radio Episode 2024-08-08
