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RideShare RoadTalk: Conversations In Motion
Susan's Husband Is An Asshole
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Episode 21:
What started as a lively chat with tourists from Florida and Tennessee quickly shifted gears into a hilarious—and eye-opening—story about the first passenger I ever had to kick out of the car for downright foul behavior.
As we bonded over SEC football, college town vibes, and wildly different travel planning styles, we cruised through the streets of Washington, DC, dissecting the strange case of Susan’s Husband—and why some people insist on doing the dumbest shit.
Buckle up. Let’s drive!
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Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk Conversations in Motion, a podcast where we create unfiltered talk space that examines the meaningful lives of my passengers, while engaging in personal and topical discussions. I'm your host and driver, John Fontes, and we're cruising the streets of Washington DC. Buckle up, let's drive. Where are you guys from this area?
Speaker 2:or different places. So we're from Florida, orlando and Tennessee.
Speaker 3:Nashville. Okay, cool, I got a little bit of this area Different places, so we're from.
Speaker 1:Florida, Orlando and Tennessee, Nashville. Okay, cool, I got a little bit of something for all those places. I went to school down in Florida what part Down in Boca?
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't do all the drugs Right. I don't know what my parents were thinking. 87.
Speaker 2:Okay, was this college? I'm assuming yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then my kid, not in Nashville, but he goes to UT.
Speaker 2:Not in Knoxville.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he's having a ball man.
Speaker 3:I bet you did. It's a fun school. Yeah, knoxville is definitely a vibe. Yeah, I've never been, but I've heard so much about it.
Speaker 1:Man, you get 107,000 people in that stadium Easy. Yes.
Speaker 3:Yes, and their team has grown. I mean from you know, from football and yeah, I mean, sec is where it's at.
Speaker 1:I don't. I mean, you say you want that Big Ten football, I get it, but SEC man, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 3:SEC is so dominant. There's so many schools that can actually be you know what I'm saying Like the last couple years they've been okay, but it's just hard to compete with that you said Nashville right, Correct.
Speaker 1:That place has changed a little bit.
Speaker 3:A little bit. Nashville is like the it City at this point.
Speaker 1:That's like the they're growing like crazy too. That's like the bachelorette party of the center of the world. Now it seems like we call them the woohoo girls. What do you call them, the woohoo girls?
Speaker 3:They're on the bus going woohoo, they need to be drunk. That's fun, it's nice, always something to do in Nashville though, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:What's on the game plan for the rest of the weekend? Anything good.
Speaker 2:We got an agenda, but the three people in this car right now we just going with the flow. Ok, we're going to, we're going to a private boat now, oh, oh, excuse us, okay, I can't tell you nothing. When we pull up, it's like that's where we're going.
Speaker 1:No problem, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2:I think she's only dressed, not in charge at all. I'm only dressed, that's what I'm saying. I'm like. I'm hurt for the weather.
Speaker 1:Okay, so someone else has got the wheels which is sad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, they got it. Yeah, okay, man, I can't do that. I can't do that anymore.
Speaker 1:I gotta be in control. I need an exit strategy. I need to know what's up. I just turned 57. I gotta play chess every time I go out. I like that.
Speaker 3:You drive your own car. What's that? You drive your own car, where you leave me once in my wife not dropping, oh you keep driving yeah yeah, that's my curse.
Speaker 1:I guess I don't know what it is, it's just, you know, I gotta have the plan in place but I'm spontaneous, yeah, yeah, but I just I have to be the one that's you know, moving the pieces.
Speaker 2:Yeah, understood. Yeah, when I try to apply and stuff, it doesn't always work out, but the great thing is I have a great partner that's really good at planning. I did it.
Speaker 3:One time I think I was a private dinner in London, but I always go back to her for the hotel, because I'm really skeptical in hotels. I brought the plane tickets, not the rest. I did one part of the trip, so you're the planner.
Speaker 1:Okay, I love doing that too, but you ever heard the phrase of paralysis? By analysis could have made five trips by the time it takes me to figure it out. Everything has to be in perfect right and if one things out of, because everything has to be perfect, right yeah. And if one thing's out of place oh, someone's getting lit up, Right this? Is my, I've invested so much time, so you don't know.
Speaker 3:While we're laughing. That is a serious job, Like planning, especially out of the country.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know how much goes into that.
Speaker 3:That's a lot of planning it is.
Speaker 1:I don't know how much goes into that.
Speaker 3:That's a lot of planning. It is I'm like geez, I did it twice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did that. I planned an international trip for like eight guys for a golf trip and it was cool. But you know, when you have to explain what the exchange rate is and does to a bunch of idiots who then think I'm trying to work an angle, I'm like nah, dude, just don't go. I don't set the laws of finance in the UK, Just stop, just stop. Don't even worry about it. What do you mean? It's 0.61 to the dollar. It's like that's what it is.
Speaker 2:Right, I didn't breathe and it changes is Right, I didn't breathe, and it changes daily.
Speaker 1:Right right, right, don't be surprised. Yeah, go ahead and exchange at the airport too while you're at it. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:We all know those people.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you're in a pinch, I get it. That's a huge deal.
Speaker 2:How long have you lived in DC?
Speaker 1:Whole life yeah, the exception of school. I've been very fortunate. I started and ended one career and then started a company, and now I'm on the downward slide of figuring the rest out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1:Yesterday the whole. I'm out tonight specifically trying to get some content because there was an asshole last night who I threw out of my car and so I'm just trying to get snippets of people calling this dude out. I'm referring to him as Susan's husband. Susan's husband was a fucking asshole Tourists. Husband and wife, two kids picked him up at a hotel. Mom and two kids get in the back. Kids picked them up at a hotel, mom and two kids get in the back. Susan's husband busts open the front door, which is fine, might want to ask. I don't know, I got my cooler, I got my wallet Bunch of personal stuff.
Speaker 1:Dude starts taking the stuff and, like throwing it on the floor, starts here, hold it. I'm like no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we started right and I just said, look, man, I'm kind of chill, I don't, I don't need this job, so just can you just slow down a little bit. Yeah, and he just wouldn't, and I appreciate he might be having a bad day, not my problem and I'm like, and I'm like, and I looked at his wife and she's not saying a word and I said, okay, I understand the dynamic. This is a dude that's never been told no in his life and I'm just like the wrong guy. No, like you're the alpha in your world Me too, and it's my car Now. You got to go.
Speaker 1:And now he starts pushing back. He's not going to get out of the car and I'm like, dude, your kids are here. Yeah, can you just please? Yeah, you know. So, anyways, I might have invited him around the corner to work it out, I might. I can't remember because again, I don't need the job. Um that's crazy and so, anyways, I had the idea of coming back out and retelling the story through a different lens and getting people's reaction to it and having a good laugh about it.
Speaker 2:Man, fuck Susan's husband man, that's what I'm saying. Fuck that dude. Yeah, 100%, 100%. Yeah, lee what you know how I'm a personal space man. You can't come inside this van car and try to do that Like no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1:You know, that's the first time I ever did that too.
Speaker 2:Told someone to get out yeah, Politely, of course you know, interesting, interesting, but it's not surprising, though, just the amount of personality that exists in the world yeah, I guess that's admirable, you know I I reverse engineered.
Speaker 1:I was like you know what. I've been there, man, married, you're traveling with your kids. You're in a hotel room, wife's probably laying in you a little bit, maybe you're behind on your reservation, you're flustered or whatever. But nah, fuck that dude, that's, that's just not cool man. And then he starts like it was so strange. He starts like making fun of my cooler. He's like, yeah, what's with the cooler? Anyways, man Like who does that? I'm like that's what you got. I mean it's a fucking sandwich. You want it. I'm Italian, so you know it's good. You want half of it. I'll give it to you, because that's not a bullshit sandwich. It's got a seatbelt on for a reason. It's a fucking good sandwich, asshole.
Speaker 2:God, that is funny. Yeah, that is funny. Susan's husband. What were the kids' reaction? They were silent man. Yeah, were they? Yeah, and I felt bad too.
Speaker 1:That's what I was like that's the and so in the movie script version of that story you know, the dude was giving Susan a tune up in the room later, right Probably?
Speaker 2:asshole.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially if you felt that he was embarrassed in front of the camera Right.
Speaker 1:Oh, sweetheart, you shouldn't have said that to him. Oh right, okay, wrong. Yeah, this Navy Yard area got developed a little bit. There's some good food places down here too. Nice, okay, yeah, the wharf even more so. Oh, that's a good place to walk around at night.
Speaker 2:What in?
Speaker 3:the South of America. Have you been to the South? I've been to the South of America.
Speaker 1:That Wharf area used to just be. There was like an old seafood market. That's still there, okay, but it was all just like nasty, like third tier, like hooker hotels.
Speaker 2:Okay, just stuff, you know Got it.
Speaker 1:But now they blew it out. It's like a billion-dollar development, really amazing concert venue in there called Anthem, all kinds of hotels and stuff going on. It's just a really cool vibe just walking around. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Are you in the DC proper area or are you on the outskirts? I'm up in Maryland but, like you, know five miles outside of the city.
Speaker 1:So everyone claims to be a Washingtonian, even if you don't live down here. I don't want to live down here because of the speed tickets $100 a pop, really.
Speaker 2:Cameras are everywhere, okay.
Speaker 1:Speed cameras, red lights, stop signs, right turn on reds. Oh yeah, I wouldn't survive. I got. There's no lie. There is a woman. We got two minutes. I'll tell the story in one. This lady was 300 pounds from Wyoming, drunk, hammered, gets in the back of the car, falls asleep and I can hear her stop breathing. She's got sleep apnea. I can hear it, so I'm pumping the brakes.
Speaker 2:Come on, man, you got to get up. Yeah, not today.
Speaker 1:And so I start ripping through red lights because I don't want this lady to die in my car yeah because I don't want to drop 50 grand on the attorney just to prove why this person is in my car damn yeah, yeah, and so I got like 400 in red light tickets, wow, and I had to do like the online adjudication.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, with the judge I got about 30 seconds and he's like man, you're good. I never heard some bullshit like that in my life. He goes. Wait, you were ride share and she was in the back seat with sleep apnea and you were trying to get out of here. Cool man.
Speaker 2:That's real money, man. Yeah, yeah, no, that's, yeah, that's I mean that's like clearance seven.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's DC. I've heard about that man. But yeah, I would not survive because, yeah, the way I drive Mm-hmm, that's why it's I shouldn't be getting tickets on a daily basis. Hey, it's just not a good vibe, man. I guess it's not good. There's a lot going on, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it's just. There's a lot of these revitalized neighborhoods. I mean, yeah, this place was a dump. There was nothing down here 15 years ago, like all these buildings. Other place called Noma Union Market area.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Which is really cool to walk around some good food joints up there. Okay, it's kind of interesting to see that.
Speaker 2:Is there a big Italian community here?
Speaker 1:No, okay, okay, there's a couple good spots, but not like a little Italy. Baltimore is a no, okay, okay, there's a couple good spots, but not like Little Italy. Baltimore is a great spot Okay.
Speaker 2:Damn dude.
Speaker 1:I was about to say I was like I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:He doesn't want to stop.
Speaker 1:He might go on. Clyde Theroux, he wants to be on the podcast he wants to be in it Literally. Let me get you right here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was cool chatting with you guys, enjoy your weekend and your stay, yeah, yeah, I appreciate it, I appreciate it watch yourselves getting out.
Speaker 1:Thank you, enjoy. Thank you as well. Thank you, bye. Now Grab my purse and eat Anything you want to say to Susan's husband before you leave.
Speaker 2:Hey, fuck Susan's husband Ding ding.
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