Hello everybody this is Shane R. Monroe and you’re in the passenger seat with me passenger seat radio. It is Monday the 26th of July 2021. And yes, you’re actually in the passenger seat with me you can hear the absence of water running and instead is replaced by road noise. I am on my way to the airport to pick my son up. To celebrate as it were the end of the month of debauchery, yes, all good things must come to an end. And the month of debauchery is officially over. So I’m in the car. We had Howard on and I was thinking you know, I could spend the next 30 minutes driving listening to Howard or heat on do a show. So let’s do a show. I don’t have any canned topics to talk about. So we’re just gonna, it’s gonna freehand it. So we’ll see if anybody comes in the chat I find it I always find it interesting based on the day of the week, the time of the day, various various parameters as to who shows up how many people show up and this was completely unannounced. So we’ll see who’s got the spreaker app running on their phone so as I mentioned last week, I was back in the office today yes this is not a permanent thing though. We are looking at September to resume any sort of regular office time and with regards to that it’s still going to be a hybrid working scenario for us we don’t know any details yet but we will be home more than we are at work and especially if the Delta variant or others pop up to to put people at risk there will definitely be even fewer opportunities to be at work and that’s okay you know so I went in today I had a new hire right so I had to do some onboarding and get him his laptop get him his VPN token you know standard onboarding stuff and you know get you know get him set up get him in teams blah blah blah you know, all that kind of stuff. And so this was the first time I’ve walked back downtown with all of Downtown Phoenix is under like massive construction like half the roads are blocked off. It’s absolutely crazy I guess they’re they’re using this downtime the lack of traffic and lack of people I guess to to get some stuff done and God bless him for doing that. You know what I’m saying? I’m a big fan of doing road construction and things of that nature and stature when people aren’t around so let’s see so I’m trying to think there was a couple things I did want to talk about for sure. I was hoping somebody would fire up in the chat here it’s been three minutes and nothing yeah so yeah, Sunday was Sunday was kind of a mess yesterday was kind of a mess. Just so we literally we’ve had this whole month of debauchery right? It’s actually technically longer than a month of debauchery. It’s more like eight weeks of debauchery and we managed to get pretty much nothing accomplished at all in the house. In other words, so we were looking to to exchange rooms My son is going to take my wife’s craft room which used to be our daughter’s bedroom and then she’s going to take his old bedroom as sort of her office so it’ll be live offices adjoining which will be nice. see each other more. When she’s in her crafting modes. That’s kind of nice. But you know, we literally waited until essentially the last couple of days to do anything I mean she painted one wall but you know and she started moving some of her stuff out but you know the thing about crafting at least the way she does it, I don’t know that many crafters so I just have to assume the way she does it slay most people do it. So she has many areas of crafting interest. That could be from cross stitching to resin molds to I mean all sorts of things. And so I mean she was big into Cricut scrapbooking. Listen, she’s she she’s got a lot of stuff going on. And as such, that means she’s got a lot of stuff going in to her craft room. And as such, of course, that means there’s more crap to move out and to move around. So she’s actually looking to be in a smaller room this time around. So she’s got to move crap. All over. We’re the place we got to find new locations for this and that. Yeah, our house literally, if you were to walk by our house right now and look in the window, it would look like one of those tragic quarter houses that you see where you can’t even see the floor. There’s nothing but crap everywhere. That’s what our house looks like right now. Unless of course, you go to one of the rooms that we’re working with, and then it’s all empty, right? Because you have to move stuff around. But yeah, so it was just it was one of those days yesterday where I kept getting myself heard I dropped a bookcase on my toe, like flayed my tail open. I. So this is this was a harder one to explain that when my daughter moved into that room, she want we offered to paint whatever color she wanted, and she wanted this deep blood red. So of course Brian doesn’t want that he wants a bright green color. So we had to move everything out paint and then we have to, then we have had to do a you know, a full blown carpet clean, right? Because you know, it’s filthy as floor. My wife’s been in there for a long, long time animals have been in there, it’s just nasty. So inside that room, we built like this, I guess it’s like an armoire and armoire. It’s like a portable closet. But it’s so big, it’s barely portable. So you put it up, it fits in a corner, it’s hard to explain maybe I’ll put a picture out but and then it’s like sealed to the wall. It’s like this big giant closet in this room, it’s not going anywhere, the thing weighs like 9 million pounds, we built it in place, there’s no way it can come out of there, we’ll sell the house with it, you know, or die in the house with it, whatever. So anyway, so my wife is taping that thing off because we’re not going to move it paint behind it, we’re going to paint as much of it as we can around it right. And so she’s like, hey, there’s a picture back here. And you can see if you look behind the thing through the crack a little bit, you can see that there is a frame there’s a picture back there, we have no clue what it is we’re super curious. She’s trying to get it out with a broom, she’s not having any luck. And so me being the nice guy that I must find out I’ll get it out get moving get it get it move out of the way I’ll take care of this. So I’m trying to get this thing out and it’s it’s thick carpet in this room, right so it’s not sliding. So you have to be able to wedge something between it and like the armoire because the walls textured so you can’t if I were to push it against that and try to slide it, hook it like with the edge of the broom and pull it it would get caught against the wall. Right. So I finally think that I’ve managed to wedge the broom handle just right between the frame the back wall and the far wall I’m positive that I’ve got it to make sure that I had it I put as much pressure against the broomstick as I could with my hand and as such I was pushing my hand against the wall to try to give myself leverage and then I pulled the broomstick back to try to move the frame well as I mentioned the wall is textured it basically like gave me severe abrasions on the back of my hand so it didn’t listen then I got a scorching headache the wife was letting the dogs run all over us underneath our feet and the cat was running under our feet and of course we’re on the clock because my son’s back in 40 minutes right so you know we we had a limited amount of time to get everything done we had to move all of he had to move his I did disassemble his bed move his bed get all this computer shit moved it was just it was it was too much too much running the round nonsense so it was it wasn’t it wasn’t my favorite day yesterday and then today I go into work and so I got that scorching headache that I managed to get rid of last night showed back up again today It worked so I ended up having to walk down again down to Fry’s food downtown and get some sort of you know migraine or acetaminophen with caffeine whatever you want to call it and so just to get that back under control but yeah and I’ll tell you what, it’s been monsoon city down here so you know we’ve been in this huge drought next thing you know we’re and we’re both in a drought and a flash flood warning at the same time only in Phoenix do we get shit like that? Yeah, severe drought Oh, Flash Flood Warning, you know. And then you have those storms like that one that I recorded where I caught the trampoline flying down the road. That’s a great video by the way, I still get a lot of hits on that comments too. But so I took some video but of course you know it was dark. There was no trampolines flying down the center of the road. So didn’t have anything fun. There. Anyway, so yeah, so as such it is muggy as hell. I don’t know what that percentage of humidity is. But it’s it’s bad. So when I spent a year, little over a year actually in Orlando, Florida as part of the naval nuclear power program, I did boot camp there. I did a school there my submarine or my MMA school and then I did I had a bunch of other stuff down there and I Smurf down there too. smurfing is when you have bullshit cleanup duties between duty stations they call it smurfing because you wear your like your Smurf clothes, your dark blue pants your blue shirt and your little white cap you look exactly like a smurf. That’s why they call it smurfing will, maybe trivia there for you. So with all of that time down in Orlando, I had a lot of opportunity to appreciate the weather for what it is. And I tell you what, the that’s that’s what it is in, in Orlando, Florida, the home of Disney World? Well, because send me whatever, it is muggy and rains at like 330 every day, you can almost set your watch to how often it rains. It’s absolutely kooky shit anybody who lives down there knows exactly what I’m talking about. But yeah, but that it’s like 85 degrees 8590 degrees, so you get this sort of a cooling trend. But then the humidity makes it feel like you’re literally swimming through the air. It’s just like anybody who’s in the southern states probably knows exactly what I’m talking about. But I remember Orlando being just absolutely batshit miserable for the humidity alone. And that’s when you’re out in the middle of the summer. Because I went to boot camp in September right so it was still pretty frickin hot in Orlando at that point. And so you know, you’re out on the grinder, you’re marching, they’re dropping, you make you do push ups, because they don’t like the ways one of the, you know, one of your company mates tied their boots, and standard stupid bullshit. But anyway, so yeah, so that’s what I got to walk through, like back and forth twice. Today, down through downtown, but it was kind of nice, though. I’m getting to actually see people, because, you know, I go to Albertsons or like, you know, grocery store, right? I go to the grocery store, and maybe I’ll get a Home Depot. I go a couple of different places, but that’s not where like people are, there’s, I don’t know, like Albertsons I see the same like 10 people there every time I go but in this case, you have to go back and you got to go downtown and it’s just it’s like nothing happened right? People are still walking around they’re still talking about you know, they’re still talking about the same ship they were talking about before. It’s just I don’t know it seems weird that you can go from one extreme to another and then back and it feels like nothing at all has ever changed and nothing has changed at all really? Yeah, interesting. You know I’m doing 65 and a 55 and cars are passing me like I’m standing still It’s unbelievable. Now this is essentially like the Phoenix autobahn you wonder why car insurance is so crazy here outside of the fact that every time you turn on the news there’s somebody in Phoenix that got an accident driving the wrong frickin way I do not understand that you know what’s funny? I remember I remember when I first got down here and I moved in a friend of mine was already here and I said you know give me some of the give me some of the dirt you know what’s what’s some of the local shit that I need to know about? You know, before I got down here it’s like so tell me tell me what’s going to blow me away when I get down here what’s weird is well first off you’re gonna see people carrying sidearm you’re gonna see people with weapons I have a lot of cops none of that just citizens running around with frickin guns on their side you know open carry you know open carry state Am I great That sounds like fun and then he said it yeah never never be on a street at night that’s named after a president and based on every street that I’ve been on down here in downtown that is named after a president that seems like pretty fucking solid advice and then he said look both ways when you cross a one way street and and I kind of laughed at that when he first told me that and then after I got here it’s suddenly started making sense because normally heard one way right you’re gonna look up the direction and traffic should be coming well around here You better be looking both ways because some assholes probably driving the wrong way. But within one day of showing up in Phoenix, the in the outskirts it was, it was outside. It was on the 60 so it was on grand on the way out of town. Well, I was on the way into town, but that’s how I was thinking about it’s on the way out of town. I pulled into a gas We had the U haul you know the whole baby we were all I mean it was I was exhausted from the move the trip everything. And we pulled in this gas station. And so I put the get I start the gas pumping and I go in my wife’s in the car or whatever. I go in. And as I’m going in, there’s a sign on the door that says no weapons. And I’m like, that’s sort of weird. But I come back out this. This like a farmer’s truck pulls up to the to the gas pump right next to me. This guy looks like he’s right out of a fucking wider movie. Here’s the guy cowboy hat, the boots, got the bandolier of bullets around his waist. And two, I swear to God, they were six shooters. I mean, I couldn’t. He didn’t pull one out for me to look at it. But it looked like the guy had a pair of six shooters, like old west, you know, test Smith and Wes frickin sick shooters on his belt. And I’m like, Well, I guess he wasn’t kidding. And within that same day, or within the same week, at least, it might not have been the same day but within the same week, I saw the first asshole going the wrong way on a one way street. And I’m like, Well, I guess I guess I guess that’s true, too. Now however, I’ve not been on a presidential street after dark. So I’ve I’ve managed to avoid that particular entanglement. Let’s see. So I’m approaching the airport. Now I’ve still got about 10 or 15 minutes, I’m gonna have to park you know, I don’t mind going to the airport. I mean, it’s, it’s further than word but not that much further. But I hate I hate the parking, I hate getting into the parking structure, hate the parking and getting the ticket. And now having to you know, figure out if you were on the east side, the west side. You know, when I pick my friends up from the airport, I sit in the cellphone parking lot. This is pretty cool. I don’t know if your Airport has one of these. I’m assuming they all do now, but I thought it was pretty cool. Essentially, you pull into the airport and You Park You can’t get out of the car, you have to leave your engine running. If they if you park they’ll be somebody to tell you like in two seconds. But so you sit there and you watch the screens, they got a big giant display showing all of the flights that are coming in. And you sit there and wait. And then when your party gets their luggage and they call you you can nip right on over pick him up curbside, you’re done. But my son’s not quite a curbside pickup yet eventually he will be there for now I’ve got to go through the rigor and the rigors of, of have, you know, parking and doing that whole thing. And because he’s not an, he’s an unaccompanied minor. So this is weird. For those of you who don’t have kids, or maybe have young kids, and and don’t know how this works, it’s really interesting. So if you’re under the age of 18, but you’re over the age of like, 14, right, so 1418, something like that. You can be an unaccompanied minor, but you don’t have to pay for like the child ambassador program. I love how they named this. It’s basically a way of getting $150 out of you a notion 150 bucks each way, by the way, right? So when you put him on the plane and we gets off the plane when he goes back, right so you put them on the plane, then grandma puts another plane, each way is going to cost you 150 bucks. That’s a lot of money even for a month of naked fun debauchery time. That’s a lot of bank. So and what they do is they essentially have somebody looking in on them, they get a little badge, you know, there’s like little signatures that have to be done right? So you have to fill out a form and then you have to specify who’s picking them up with the designation so it’s really cool if you’re gonna send like an eight year old somewhere and you have no choice to send them without accompanying them. But when you get like a 14 or 15 year old The last thing I mean listen when I was 14, I was taking a bus you know halfway across the country to visit relatives I was on a greyhound to 14 alone. Nowadays you probably wouldn’t do that. But my point is is you know he’s 14 he’s six foot three, you know 240 you know this is not this is not somebody who needs to be wearing Alaska air Eagles club, frickin things, you know? So yeah, so the so his return trip so when we when we went, he got picked up in Portland when my fat when when my wife and he were visiting my, my daughter there, so they drove to Wenatchee from there, but he had to fly back normally We have my relatives take him over to Seattle to SeaTac. Because that way, there’s no change of planes, which is most convenient. Of course, that’s a six hour round trip for my parents, so I feel like shit. But in this case, now that he was, you know, he’s old enough. Now we can get into transfer planes, you know, he can fly out of Wenatchee. And because of the, because of the low prices and the low fares when I booked, it was like 20 extra dollars. It’s like for 20 bucks. I saved my parents six hours, and God knows how much gas running him over to the airport. So in Seattle, and I guess they tried to give them shit. I mean, I don’t have any details yet. I’m sure I’ll get more after I pick him up. But they were trying to give him shit for being unaccompanied without paying the minor fee or the child ambassador, whatever the hell laska calls it. And then each of them have some grandiose title for it. I don’t remember what what Alaska calls it, but it cracks me up this whole thing and so he was really pissed. You know, they were trying to sucker him in for Alaska. Alaska is the cheapest, by the way. I think American Airlines is 150 in Alaska is 75 each way. But I mean, imagine that $150 to fill out a piece of paper new and it’s not like these kids sits on their lap. I mean, it’s just they get a little bit of extra attention as all it just it’s crazy. Anyway, so I can’t wait to hear that story. He was he was really uptight about it. He was like, and then my my my mother actually texted me and you know, said that he was upset and I’m like, Okay. Yeah, so anyway, I got, I got done at work. And then I am headed home because I still needed to move as electronics now. My wife does not, it does not compute for my wife and I and I understand and I’m very patient with her. young males need their electronics. And that is after a bed. Having electronics in your room is the only other thing you really need. Everything else is a nice to have. It’s as he was, what’s my terminal here? Okay, terminal three, got it. Everything else is a nice to have, right? You need a bed to sleep. And you need your Xbox and your computer. I mean, you need your electronics. It’s just the way it is. And my wife’s like, just just let him move it tomorrow. Like I’m not letting him move that shit. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. And so I’m like, so I need to be home from work in time to get that moved. So that when he gets home tonight, because listen, despite the fact that he’s been traveling all day, bla bla bla bla bla, he’s gonna want to go home, flopped down in his chair and turn on the Xbox. I mean, I listen, I get it. I was there. In the 90s when I moved to Charleston, South Carolina. We set up we we moved into a townhouse I even remember it. It was in goose Creek, South Carolina. It’s amazing. I can really remember this. If I think about it long enough I might even be able to remember the address. But the boxes we were bringing the boxes in before the truck was unloaded my Amiga 500 and a TV was set up and I had lemmings running by that time that’s I mean that’s the timeframe right? So I get it I mean I need my computer set up I need to I need to connect I just kind of find that’s before the internet folks that was that was well before the internet now when I say Connect I’m talking about connecting with my game. Let’s see parking for terminal three Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba the airport doesn’t look super busy hopefully this will go smooth and let’s see what we got here. Is this the pull up for the parking three Yes. Oh righty then now the last time was at the airport they had a bunch of construction going on. And so depending on I’m sure this is for every airport there’s different exits out of the airport right so if you drive around long enough you know you go on a loop you go in a circle and then you you end up getting off at the right location one head south one heads north $4 per hour deal for data gets more expensive every second All right. Got that? Let’s Park frickin McGee is shitting here dude. Damn. Alright, so let’s see what we got here. See what’s on channel two. From a nasty Pope. I’m gonna ask the Pope. Dude, come on, man. There’s a car in front of me has nity what he’s doing. Are you gonna park right there because if you’re not I’m going to park there I’m going to probably take it now yes no no come on. Let’s move it along. Now I’ve got like three cars behind me cuz this guy has no clue what’s going on right I left a little bit early he’s in 20 minutes so I’m believable. I’m not sure I’ve parked on this side before this is always interesting try something new. Alright, so I’m going to park right yeah. That’s my parking limit on the sky. Well, this is premium parking that’s why the guy’s driving around like he doesn’t know what he’s doing because all these premium parking spots you know, I get tired of that shit. You know, in my regular grocery store, I have a you know, I have a good rapport there and you know, and Albertsons usually has decent meat and lately it’s been a little on the piss poor side actually in terms of media sources But hang on a second trying to frickin find a spot the park here non-premium right here but anyway so like now I thought our supermarket was going to escape the crazy shit where like three quarters of the parking lot gets converted to online pickup. Well now ours is officially online pickup and like all the best parking spots are gone. I know first world problems right where my place to park at the grocery store Wang. Alright guys, I gotta get the hell out of here and go pick up my kid. I hope you enjoyed the show. I was only 26 minutes down. I felt like an hour. Alright, this is Shane R. Monroe passenger see radio. We’ll see you next time. Take care, buddy.
Passenger Seat Radio Episode 2021-07-26
