BEST OF: 06/19/2025

Listen to the Best Of where Fred tells us his newest obsession is Legos and he wants to know what you spend your adult money on! Plus, have you seen the show Severance? Fred wants someone to explain the premise of the show to him! And, find out why Abby got ghosted on a Waiting by the Phone from the vault! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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week and this is actually I think a difficult week.
I'll be honest, I think it's a difficult week. I

(00:43):
think he's a tough songs so we like to make
it hard and run here every now and again. I'm
sure that clip will be isolated the right show is.
I mean, I'm gonna sound like a like a jerk,
but I feel like the people who get super hype
about the high school re union are the people who
peaked Tonighthigh School Because like, I don't know, I don't
get I'm not really high about anything that happened twenty

(01:05):
five years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I miss it so much.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
High school, Yes, I see, I don't. It's so much better.
I left that place and they got better, better, better,
better better. Really, No, did you peak in high You
didn't look at you. You're here on this show. You
got all these businesses, and you got three towels for
the business. Now you got you're almost a realtor, spray tan,
what don't I do? Philanthropist power suit wearing TV on

(01:32):
on Lady. So I would not say you peaked in
high school. You got a beautiful daughter and a husband.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
You thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
I feel like that was just a time was had
and people say, oh, I went to college and had
like way more fun, and listen, I didn't have that
college experience.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
It wasn't necessarily fun. It just was what it was,
if that makes any sense.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, high school wasn't bad. I just was in no
hurry to like go stand in a room with a
bunch of people that I hadn't talked to in a
very long time, Like what are we going to talk about?
You know, I don't know. It's very awkward.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It can be. I can see that.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
And people were really offended that I wasn't into the
and I didn't go I mean, and I don't think
they were offending because I wasn't there. They were just
defended that there were people that weren't as excited about
it that show. Good morning, Thanks for having us on
the radio, on the iHeart app live and anytime search
for the Fresh Show on demand. So guys, I want
to start the show. This made me laugh this morning
with this is how you know if you're old. Gen

(02:21):
Z has now defined how we know if someone's old.
If you don't have any numbers in your Gmail address,
then you're an OG. You're an og.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm not going to tell you what my Gmail is
because that's my private email and because there are no
numbers in it. Yeah you do, big daddy Fred Gmail
dot com with no. Sixty nine, no one, two, three four, nothing,
But think about that. You don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
But my name is spelled weird. There never will be numbers.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Gen Z professionals are using Gmail to determine their colleagues'
ages now. One Reddit poster shared an anecdote from work
explaining that they're gen Z. Coworker called him out for
using their first and last name at Gmail dot com.
I can remember this. This is terrible. I mean it
was twenty years ago, but I can remember when a
guy working at Kiss FM in Austin, when I worked

(03:13):
at Kiss FM in Austin, Texas, and a guy that
worked at this where you work at the like the
the cool oldies station. It was like the jam and
oldies station. They played like I don't know what they played,
like like like R and b oldies. Oh okay, you know.
And the dude his name was Jose Brown and Jose goes, dude,
have you heard about this email where you get like

(03:35):
a gigabyte of storage? And I was, like a gigabyte,
Like we barely have internet that this and dial up
here and you get all day? How do you do that?
I'll send you an invitation. It's invite only, oh stop.
And Gmail was invite only in the very beginning, and
so I remember I signed up for it, and I
signed and I got whatever I wanted because there weren't
that many people that had it at the time. It

(03:57):
was like Google has Google has email addresses. That's wild. Anyways,
I got one and then all these years later, but
the problem is, and here's what I want to know.
Also eight five, five, five nine one one oh three five,
you can call it text the same number. How many
of you got a Gmail address or an email address ten, fifteen,
twenty years ago, whatever it is, And at the time

(04:17):
it was funny or at the time it was like clever,
and now you're grown and sexy and and now it's
kind of funny when you because like mine. Again, I
don't want to say because I don't want a hundred
emails to my private email. But like now when i'm
that's the email that I used for stuff, like you know,
outside of work. So when I when they're like, what's
your email, then I have to tell them this one
you still use it I want to do. I'm not

(04:39):
going to change it because again I've had it's the
same like my phone number, unless you don't want people
to get ahold of you. Ever, again, you can't change
your phone number after a certain point otherwise cause you
know who knows There are people that I haven't talked
to you in a long time. I don't just like them,
but if they want to get a hold of me,
that's only way. It's my phone numbers. So if I
change it, I would have no way of knowing who
does and doesn't have it.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
I guess when I'm at Northstrum and I tell them
legally brown and then the numbers that are actually made is.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
The shape, and like they're like what And I'm.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Like, you know, like brunette, see right, but that's what
I mean. Like, you got to go up there a minute.
What's your email? You know, tig Mama sixty nine sixty nine.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Don't give out my email.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Sorry, big Mama sixty nine sixty nine. You know now
what I mean. At the time, you know, when you
were twelve, you thought that was funny or whatever, but
you didn't realize that that you might have to use
that going into adult life or on a resume. Right,
But yeah, this was the post. It is that gen zer
at work. After giving them my personal email address that
is my real name at Gmail, with no additional letters

(05:40):
and numbers, the person was like, how did you get that?
The Ready user also wrote in their post on the
subreddit gen x I had to explain when Gmail first
came out, it was invitation only, but I got one
from a friend early on and my name was still available.
Oh my god, I'm old. There are other ones like
if you have an AOL address, a badge of honor
at this point, if you have an earthlink dot net address,

(06:04):
what you're ancient?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Ear?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
What about Yahoo?

Speaker 7 (06:08):
Is?

Speaker 1 (06:08):
I feel embarrassed if I kind of nobody's using Yahoo?

Speaker 8 (06:12):
Yeah, you and my mom mm hmm. And the address
is embarrassing. It's miss with the z lady B two k,
Miss lady B two k. See there you go.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
So you're like you are the doctor or whatever, and
they're like, hey, we're gonna send your results to an email.
What is your email address? You're like, miss lady, And.

Speaker 8 (06:34):
Then I would try to spell it out so they
wouldn't kind of put it together, and then they're like, okay,
miss lady, I can read it right, Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
People always look at me like that's your email. I'm like, oh,
because again I'm not going to change it now. And
it's just one more thing I got to check I
get responsible for. But I had any I had a
Yahoo that was attached to my MySpace, right, So I
don't know my MySpace password because I don't know if
you still cam for a while, you could still get
back in it. So I go to my Space. I

(07:03):
can't remember it. So then I say forget password thing whatever. Well,
then it sends the thing to my Yahoo, and I
also don't know the password of the Yahoo. And then
I don't know how to get the Yahoo at all,
because how do you get the email if that was
the I don't even know where the Yahoo password hand
email would go. I mean that predates that even you know.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
How you in college too, that like, when you leave college,
they're going to take that email away.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
They don't always know. They don't always some colleges you
can keep them. I didn't, but some colleges you can
keep them.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
Okay for ours day. After a certain point, they're like,
you're out of here.

Speaker 9 (07:38):
So in all my notification stuff that I've printed, that
was my other only email, I can't get.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
In that either.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
I use AOL, I use SBC Global dot net, I
use hotmail. Oh yeah, let me see here. I don't
use this email any I'm reading all the texts. I
don't use this email anymore because it's embarrassing. But when
I was a teenager, I was in love with the
Jonah Brothers still am and my email was my name

(08:06):
loves nick j at gmail dot com. See that's what
I mean. And then you got a cop to that.
You know, you got to go to the you're at
nordstrum and they're like, would you like to sign up
for the rewards? And you're like, I guess it would.
It's uh, fred fred at I love thespice girls dot net.
Yeah whatever, you know in his own No one you

(08:27):
can change. Someone just texted this too. You can change
your email address if you want to, because you have
twenty seven thousand un read emails anyway, so what difference
does it make? You may as well start over.

Speaker 8 (08:34):
Yeah, man, there was a time in college where you
can get a free appetizer at tgif if you had
a new email and you signed up for their email. So, baby,
I had a new email every week, Go get my
free appetizer from CGI.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
So I have plenty of email look accounts. I still
have the same email address that I set up when
I was sixteen years old through hotmail forty seven, and
I had set one up for each of my family members.
So it was our last name and then my I
was the number one at hotmail, my mom was last
name whatever. Okay, yeah, so thirty one years ago, So
that would be how you would do that, you know,

(09:08):
if you so apparently now you are an og if
you've got anything with how crazy numbers at the end
of it or whatever, and that's how we can now
tell that you were an old person already knew, but yeah,
I never thought about that, but I guess it's kind
of impressive. I have a Gmail that has no numbers
in its amazing. That's right. Yeah, I know. Thank you,

(09:30):
Thank you so much. I did that.

Speaker 10 (09:31):
I did.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
That's my new party trick now to impress all the
young uns. As if the gray Hair and the Gray
Beard didn't give it away. Good morning. Thank you so
much for waking up with that. I have seen my
TikTok yesterday, not to be confused with the show's TikTok,
because I went into Credshow Radio because I was afraid
it would be stolen by all the many people out
there trying to steal our identity. And what's funny is

(09:51):
there are and there are people on TikTok impersonating me,
and I'm like and then people will email me and
be like, are you really giving away your laptop? And
I'm like, no, not again. And I was telling it
back then. By the way, on X and Jason tried
to go head to head. He tried to meet the
person in a Walmart parking lot and the range somewhere up.

Speaker 9 (10:10):
I saw those dms uh yesterday, and I was like, oh,
if you everyone blocks me in the DM because.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
I went hard at that. I should I should go
on block him. Somebody I guess hacked my ex and
and it was trying to sell laptops in the dms
and asking people if they were fans of mine. I
don't know. Have you been a fan of mine? And
I promise you that never came from me. I do
have a laptop for sale if you're interested. I don't.
And then so my TikTok is Fred Show Radio. The
show's TikTok is the Fred Show TikTok, not to be confused,

(10:37):
but another pointless TikTok, and I put I very rarely
post on there because I feel so stupid making selfie videos.
I don't have a confidence kik he does, I just don't.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
We got to get over there.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I don't and I'm reading the damn let him, let
him think I'm stupid, Let me.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Make a TikTok.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well, yeah, well, thank you for the left them and
let me. Yeah, I'm almost down with them. By the way,
you're right So yesterday it was to reveal my latest
Lego creation, because I put the concord together a couple
of weeks ago and I was like, this was painful,
slash satisfying, slash happy, slash sad. There were tears, there

(11:16):
was there was anger, there was happiness and satisfaction. So
then I moved on to a McLaren f one. Now
that also same sort of thing. And then I said, well,
now I'm gonna get the pack. It's a slippery slope.
It's very addicted. Jason is on a Lego journey as well.
You just haven't moved on to the second set yet.

Speaker 9 (11:34):
Yeah, I need to say these coins because Legos are
not cheap, no kind of an expensive hobby, and I
don't have Lego money right now.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, No, don't worry. You know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna get her going on Lego. I'm gonna go to
the store. I'm gonna go to the Lego Sto. I'm
gonna get you guys some legos. I was going to
surprise you from the well. I got Kiki a new
hand mirry yesterday. It's on the way. Think you should
be using a broken one. It's also bad luck. But
I want to make it as easy for you to
stare at yourself as possible. All more, she's the only

(12:01):
one who has a hand mirror at the ready at
all times. Now, Pauline, I don't know what to get you.
I did just get your kids some form of water toy.
You did.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
By the way, my sister told me to get it
for you.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
You know how excited I was when I saw that,
more excited than she had.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
A water table? Is that what I want? She has
no idea, You.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Have no idea, but that's going to occupy her all
summer long, all summer.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Just like to come over with dress like a firework
and played that. That was the part of the gift.
I didn't tell you. Man, he's gonna come over and
play with the water table. I don't know what you
go hose up to it and it's just a table
that water flows over that. I think that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
We're going to find out.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
We put it together. I'm so excited to thank.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
You, And so I posted a TikTok my latest lego creation,
which again range of emotions as I as I reveal
it to you, all and granted people are like, great
build Fred, I'm like, I didn't invent it, Like I
followed the directions. And that's another thing people in the
comments going, hey, dude, it comes with instructions. I'm like,

(12:57):
I know that. But if you ever put one of
these together, then you know that you can make a mistake.

Speaker 9 (13:02):
But they're subjective, like it's just pieces with arrows like.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Right, yea, and then like the thing, And if you've
ever put one together, or at least recently, they'll you'll
put like something, you'll put pieces of it together, and
then you add it to like the main piece. But
if they don't do a great they'll point where it's
supposed to go kind of but like then you kind
of have to count the little bomps. And it's like

(13:27):
from the vantage point of the images, it's not hard
to screw it up. And it's also not hard to
use a piece that fits but not the piece they
intend for you to use. Like you know, there might
be a block that's this big, but they want you
to use two blocks to fill that, and they want
you to save the big one for later. But then
if you confuse that, and then you know thirty minutes

(13:48):
later you need that piece for there, and you won't
have any pieces left, and then you've got to figure
out where the pieces that are supposed to go there.
Oh my god. So it was a pac Man arcade
machine that I put together. I'm very proud of it.
By the way, I'm very proud of it. That it
should be.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
It's really cool.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
I also have to make a confession. Oh you cheat.
No no no, no, no, no no no. I did not.
I did not. I will say this. There's and no
one will ever find it. But there is one part
of that of that arcade that I got to the
very end of the build of that part of it,
and there was and there was one piece that just

(14:24):
didn't fit where it was supposed to. And I have
no idea how I got that far. And the one
little it was like a little hang, a little like
a trim piece. And I don't know how I built
this whole thing. It took me forty five minutes an hour,
and one piece just didn't fit. And so the only
thing you could do was take the whole thing apart
and put it back together, which I had already done

(14:45):
once because I screwed up another part of it.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
So I looted, and you can live on my shelf.

Speaker 6 (14:51):
You with your OCD can live with that on yourself
knowing there is a piece that is wrong.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, but it doesn't look wrong because it looks perfect
because I made it. I made it fit.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
It fits like you have eight hundred times.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
No no, no. It was like the bottom part of it
with little coinslot and I don't know why, but like,
I built it once and it just wasn't right. I
didn't put. What I didn't do was I I didn't
count enough, I didn't place. I can't I can't describe it.
But if you follow the instructions, instructions are not as straightforward.
Like again, you could set something down on a place

(15:27):
on the build that's not exactly where they wanted it.
You could be one dot off and the right, and
then you put the whole thing together and then it
doesn't it doesn't a line. And so I did that
once and then I'm like, I was so frustrated. It
was like midnight I had to work the next day.
I took the whole thing apart and put it all
back together in the dark, and I got it all perfect,

(15:48):
except there was just one piece that just didn't fit.
It just didn't go. And I was like, no, for
I'm not doing this again. So I gluted it. If
it counts, it counts, and it looked. Tell you what
I will give you. I will give you this. I'll
bring it in if you can find where it is.
You can't because it.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Was flawlessly you know on the inside.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Don't care, and don't do this. Don't do this, don't
do this. It looks the thing looks flawless. Okay, no,
it's not perfect. It is no, no, but it is perfect.
Now you can't you won't find you'll never find it.
Nobody will ever know. But you know, and that's the
worst part. And I don't care anymore. Part I let
it go. Let it go.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
So okay, see you love them, I love them.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Let them, let them hate on my lego, let them
hate on my lego. Bill And I'll tell you right now,
if I hadn't just come clean and admitted that to you,
and you would never know.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
But I was.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was in a moment of desperation. It was like
one in the morning. I'm like standing in the darkness
school night shaking because I couldn't rest until my lego
build was right, and I was like, no, I'm not
doing this again. So I just stuck it where it
needed to go and it looks perfect. But I'll never understand.
And with the tiktoks that people want to watch, the

(17:01):
tiktoks that people don't want to watch, I'll never understand
because again that thing, you know, thousands of people watch that.
I posted actual videos and animal rescues and flying and
things I think people would care about. Kiki helped me
put one together. I sat and added in one like
a big boy, and nobody really watched it. And then
I go do this Lego thing, and I cannot believe
the number of people that are like, I'm forty years

(17:23):
old and I do Legos too. But there's there's there's
a point of this. First of all, it's to make it.
I'd like to make an announcement of my next build.
I've acquired. It's on the way. It's friends, yes, yes, yes, hi.
Everyone would you like to ask me? Well, first of all,
announce the build and then I'll take questions. But I've
ordered and acquired and and it is in root the

(17:44):
next Lego build for your boy, and it is the
back to the Future Deloreum. Oh my god. Uh huh,
that's right. Yeah, yes, Klen Kalen from that Klen? Are
you from the AP because you're not allowed an are
you from CNA?

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Are you Kaitlyn Collins?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah? No, Actually, are you come here?

Speaker 5 (18:04):
Please?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I'd like to do it on her.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Is it true that your last piece isn't fully complete?
And how do you feel moving on to your next piece?

Speaker 10 (18:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know what, go full press secretary right now, be
like next.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm putting terrif on you. I put a four thousand
percent terrif on you.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, I'm city executive order.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
I would just I would look, I'd like to address that.
And it's not a rumor. I know what you're trying
to do. Uh, Caitlin Clark from Detroit. I know what
you I know what you're trying to do. And I
already came clean on this. I've said what I had
to say. I did what I did, I said what
I said, and I've made all the statements about this
I'm going to make. So that's sad. Anything else any
other questions?

Speaker 2 (18:45):
You put this together? Look at Yeah, you put this together.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
I know.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
But here's the thing. Do you see where the screen
is like like where the fake screen is and the
Lego screen the glue. Okay, oh my god, don't feed
your boyfriend the acids posit you your business. You know
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put together a little

(19:11):
Lego container for him. You need to for its depositories. Yeah, no,
where the screen is though, Like you have to be
a mechanical engineer to assemble that. Like it took like
three or four hours because everything moves, and there's there
are little gears and levers and light and there's a
light but like all and then there's a Okay, so

(19:33):
I think I may have said this before, but there's
a chain. There are chains that make that move behind it.
You can't see it inside the build. They don't send
you chains, they send you links. You have to put
the chain to everything. There's nothing comes assembled. You have
to put everything together.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Oh my god, women in stem it makes me wonder
if something's wrong with me, because you guys seem like
you guys have the want, the will, the patience to
do this.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
This doesn't excite me, like i' you got mad looking.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's okay that it doesn't exciting kids. But see now
that I was I was educated about this. That's not
for kids. Like, yeah, I guess the black one. The
black boxes, I guess are not intended for children. Oh okay,
my friend TJ told me about this because I guess,
you know, like my niece couldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
I couldn't do this. I'm not evening funny you could.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Though, you could?

Speaker 2 (20:21):
You guys same doing the whole thing together. Like I
can't do this.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
I thrive on a good set of instructions and being
able to fall like that gives me comfort. So the
fact that you get like a book and you get
to go step by step like flip the page, like
that's everything I could watch.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
But there I have a few I have layers of
issues with this, and yeah, I'm still doing it, but like, okay,
so that thing had fourteen came with fourteen bags of
legos and then like sometimes inside the bag or other
bags of smaller legos, but they're all mixed up, right,
so you I use plates and I wind up pouring
the pieces on from each bag on the plate. But

(20:57):
then you have to like you still have to the
pieces among them. It's layers of anxiety and a lot
of times there's similar shape so you have to look
and say, okay, I need this piece. So first I
have to find the pieces in this madness of hundreds
of pieces, and then I have to organize them, and
then I have to put it together, and I have
to make sure I got the right pieces in the

(21:18):
right places. It's a lot. I don't know why I'm
enjoying this. I'm not sure if I am. But there
was a point to this and it took twenty minutes
to get there. But whatever, what are you? Because this
came up yesterday too. Is a lot of adults in
the in the comments on TikTok on Fred Show Radio,
saying that now that they have adult money, they're buying

(21:41):
more Legos than ever before because they got adult money
and they're loving this. You got grown up money, you
know when you were a kid you could I mean
these Lego sets that was two hundred bucks, the Concord
was two hundred bucks, the McLaren was two hundred dollars.
And if you're putting these things together every few days,
I mean that's you're talking of. It's expensive. Yeah, I
own eight hundred dollars in legos. Now, like, what am

(22:01):
I going to do with these things. I know, I
realize that, but I couldn't afford that as a kid.
I mean, that's a kid I would have got. I
would have gotten a set for my birthday, and I
would have gotten a set for Christmas maybe. And when
I was a kid, we didn't have sets like this.
It was just big buckets of Legos and you had
to make it up yourself. Yeah, but I'm wondering, what
are you doing? It doesn't have to be Legos. What

(22:23):
are you doing with your grown up money now? Because
it's kind of a it's kind of amazing that I can.
I I'm bragging now, I can walk into it. I
don't have kids. I don't have to put you in
through college. I only have to take care of myself.
You know, I make several dollars an hour. I could
walk into a Lego store buy whatever. I'm not any
not as much as I want, But I could walk
into a Lego set. I'm bragging, and I can pick

(22:44):
out a Lego set and buy it and not feel
bad about it. True, but that's something you can only
do if you have a job and you're a grown up. Yeah,
you know what I mean. So, like, what what do
you find yourself doing with your grown up money? Is
it legos, is it models? Is it makeup? Is it
like you know what growing up money. I'm buying that
because I can. But like as a grown up being

(23:04):
able to walk into an equivalent of a toy store
and just it's like when you were a kid. Remember
you'd walk into a toy store when they had them,
and you would be like, I want everything, and your
mom's like, you can have one thing, or you can't
have anything. Most of the time it was that. Well
now even a grocery store. Remember the grocery store you'd
walk into, I want that cereal and your mom would
be like, you can't have that. We're not buying that.

(23:24):
We have cereal at home. You got to eat the
cereal that you got first. Now if I want and
I realized that's like a twelve dollars investment. You know,
cereal is expensive. But if I want, if I want
that box of cereal, I can have it because I'm
a grown up. I made that money. What do you
find yourself doing with your grown up money? Makeup and food?
For sure, Like I think about it every day. Like

(23:46):
when I was a kid, you didn't have McDonald's money.
You had to go home and he spaghetti or whatever
was it?

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
The dinner plan for the like I want a cheeseburger,
and Mom's like we have we can make that at home. Like, no,
we can't make a McDonald's cheeseburger at home. Not the same.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
So now as an adult, like whatever whatever I want,
whatever restaurant I want to try, I can try whatever
makeup products I want, fashion Nova like it's bad.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
Or whatever you want at the grocery store. Is how
many times you asked for something? I bought a jar
of nutella yesterday. Nothing to put it on. I'm just
eating it with a spoon because cars, Yes, because you get.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Up at three in the morning, and if you want
the jar on utella, you can have it.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
I want to face dive into that when I get
home from work. That's what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
I want to iced coffee I'm giving That's what I
can make my mine at home.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
But three o'clock hits, I'm running Duncan. Yeah, I'm taking
the baby in the stroller. We're going to a Duncan Alina
runs on, don I run on.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
This is't a matter of whether you have a lot
of money or don't. This is simply a matter of
if I choose it, I can do it because I'm
a grown up and I have grown up money. And
I noticed for a lot of people it was Legos.
But there are people in my comments going, hey, I
am a grown up and I can buy any Lego
I want, and I do it and I don't care.
And it's a very liberating feeling. But this is a
whole thing. I mean, there was a whole article about it,
trading cards, model kits, clay, sculpting miniatures, Legos, Legos. So

(25:00):
when if you sent me this, I think it was you,
maybe Caitlin or no, my sister. Lego's are on a
cover of Time magazine. Mm hmm. Yeah, there's a movement.
There's a move going on. Hey, Victory girl, Hello, what
are you spending your growing up money on? Victor?

Speaker 10 (25:14):
So it's been about I was, say, twenty plus years
and the last time I collected Pokemon cards. Uh, that's
the thing I got back into actually at the end
of last year.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Pokemon cards. All right, So where do you you go
to like a Are you one of these two that
goes like the Walmart and like digs around trying to
find them, or do you go to the sports card
store or what do you do?

Speaker 10 (25:34):
So now it's actually kind of difficult to go to
like sports cards are like collectible stores because everything's marked up. Unfortunately,
there's a lot of scalpers right now. I don't know
if you've seen like the videos with Costco where people
are like kind of lining it and yeah, yeah, now
there's thankfully there's like Facebook groups that you know, let
people know when this drafts that target Walmart Costco. So

(25:57):
been using those routes thankfully to be able to get
some product because any news has to come out. It's
kind of impossible to be able to get stuff on
the day of or even game stop right now, they're kind.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Of limited on the stock to what's that? What's your
best pull? Victor?

Speaker 10 (26:12):
I actually got a hyper rich harzard from a called
the Obsidian Flames.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
What's it worth?

Speaker 10 (26:21):
How?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
How much is it worth?

Speaker 10 (26:23):
So unfortunately that car is only about twenty two bucks.
I do have one card that's I think granted as
a PSA ten right now, it's a couple of hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
What is the Dragonaire?

Speaker 10 (26:33):
Yeah, the Dragonaire secret illustration there.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
To spend forty dollars to get it.

Speaker 10 (26:39):
So yeah, yeah, I mean yeah at this point. I
mean I started collecting maybe like in September of last year,
and I've busily spent around the amount that you have
on legos right now.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
So I'm telling you got that growing up money, Victor.
Thank you man, have a great day. I love you, guys.
I'm one of the thirteen. By the way, I'm thank
you brother. Number. Take that number, Victor, you take that
hy Hello, hey, how and a good morning. How are
you spending your grown up money?

Speaker 11 (27:07):
This is really kind of like silly but basically donuts
because in high school this was more than ten years ago. Yeah,
I know, it's just donuts. But I went to Religious
High school and every Tuesday we had something called Tuesdays
with Joe like coffee, and they would be like, you
can either spend your like period before class started doing nothing,

(27:30):
or you can come to this religious ferment because we
have donuts and coffee, and I never got sweets at
home ever, so I would always go just for the donuts,
and I would try to sneak out if I could
sentimes out day, but I would try to sneak out
with the donut. And then a senior year, we had
a Jewish philosophy class and the teacher was like, draw

(27:50):
a picture of what you want your life to look
like in ten years, and I literally do myself with
a husband and baby, of course, and donuts.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
And that was all I want, Like, no one's going
to make me attend to any sort of thing. I'm
going to get my own donuts on my own terms.

Speaker 11 (28:06):
Yes, I and I I love donuts. And it's it's
so like wildish.

Speaker 12 (28:12):
I guess, oh.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
No, it's not. You do you, Hannah. You're grown up now.
Thank you. Have a good day, you too. Yeah, that's
like when I was a kid in the sports card
stuff and I'd mow the lawn for two weeks and
I could go get like two packs or something. Now
I got a little bit of grown up money if
I wanted to. And I don't need to be getting
back into sports card collecting because I'll go in there
and I'll spend grown up money on this stuff and

(28:34):
it'll get out of hand because then I'll be like, oh,
if I keep buying, then I'll this is what they want. Yeah,
people are saying I spend money on monthly massages. Legos
already plural NOAs whatever. Oh yeah, but it's like everything
else in the Midwest.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Okay, you gotta add the ass.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
For me, it's concerts like I always like keep starting
young middle school, which like obviously sheet my mom and
want me to go to concerts alone, so I would
always have to find someone to take me, or if
the concert wasn't like appropriate, like my dad was going
to take me to and I'm an anger management tour,
like shocking, and my mom said no, and I'm still
mad at her, and like now no matter what concert, like,
I can go. I can say the whole time, doesn't

(29:09):
matter if I'm tired the next day. Nobody's telling me
I can't go.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Okay, okay. Someone says they have two thousand dollars worth
of yo yos ooh yeah, I light up yo yo
remember those A lot of legos, a lot of video games,
a lot of people spending a ton of money on
video games because they can. This makes sense. When you
were a kid, it's like, you know, you might get

(29:33):
a game here and there, maybe if you were lucky, holiday,
birthday whatever. Now it's like, yeah, really I'll get it. Now, Hey, Reba,
you're with me in that team Lego.

Speaker 13 (29:43):
Hey, Brad, yes, I am.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
And you what is your latest build Riba since we're
talking about you know, since you and I are on
the same team.

Speaker 13 (29:51):
My daughter built a big, huge Hogwarts castle, the big
four thousand piece. I think it was four seven thousand.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
It's the big new see that does look cool. I
just didn't really think about anything about it. Hogwarts, I
don't know it looks and plus, what am I going
to I don't know why I'm gonna put these things.
That's the other thing. Because I thought about I'd buy
them and I put them together, and then I would
like donate them. The problem with that is I don't
think kids want pre assembled legos right exactly.

Speaker 13 (30:19):
I have a whole room of Harry Potter legos that
nobody wants.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
There you go. I don't know what I would. They
look so cool, but I don't know anything about it.
I have no context. I only read the first book
and I don't even know what's happening.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Hogwarts had to be hard, though, that's intricate.

Speaker 13 (30:32):
They're all in very very they're very, very very hard.
And she started when she was like thirteen years old,
when they very first came out. Yeah, she's a good
kid and she's on the honor roll, and I would
rather her spend her money on and spend our money
on that kind of stuff versus drugs.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, yeah, no, I think that's a great compromise. Thank you,
have a good day. No, I mean, I'll tell you what.
That's a great parenting technique for Gigi and for Polly.
And how about we just say, I'll tell you what.
I'll give you two hundred dollars a month to spend
on legos if you'd like, as long as you don't
spend it on black Tar heroin. You have two choices,
black to O Heroin or legos, and if you pick

(31:13):
black Tar Heroin, you don't get the money. I think
that's fair. Hey, Michelle, Yes, Michelle, your husband spends his
big boy, grown up money.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
On a train layout.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
He has a train layout. How do you know he's
not going to cheat on you. That's how he's got
a train layout in his house.

Speaker 14 (31:33):
Fifteen by five foot train layout.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
And so let me guess he's got to have the
tracks and little stations, and he has to have the
whole like you know, I had a little stores, and
he has to have the whole community.

Speaker 14 (31:44):
Right, Yes, I made a sipulation with him. He took
my hot chop down to put the train layout, so
I said, let me decorate the train layout.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
See, it's the whole thing. I've seen this on TikTok too.
It's very addicting because it's not just a train on
the train. Now you've got to build the whole like
the world around it, hills and landscape and buildings and
cities and hospitals and stations and oh yeah, you can
get really into this. Don't get me started.

Speaker 14 (32:12):
Thank you extensive the one building, it can be hundreds
of dollars for trains, thousands of dollars.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yep, there you go. Thank you. Have a good day, Michelle,
thank you too. What is it? Don't? What is it same?
I don't. Oh oh, it's the person's arguing with me
about lego.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Oh good.

Speaker 6 (32:34):
This is like what I wanted to get my metal
detector again, because I had fond memories when I was
little and you guys made fun of Oh ye.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Right, it's so similar.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
So it is. I played with a metal detection when
I was little on the beach, and I want one now.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Well, you know you should get one's roasted me. No,
you should get one big lego money, big big metal
detector money, big money treasure. Yeah, you're right when you're right,
when you find when you find that point that everyone's
been looking for, you know, and you can retire, you
know what. I hope. So I hope I'm laughing one
day when you're like, hey, Fred, I retired because I
was out on the North Avenue, be to my middle,

(33:10):
to the way.

Speaker 9 (33:11):
Wait, Fred's show is on now hot this morning show
one get it way good.

Speaker 10 (33:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
So I hung out with my friend Tatiana on Saturday.
She has a very fresh baby, and I just was like,
can I come over? Can I get you out of
the house? What are we looking to do? She's like,
I guess we could go on a walk, and I'm like, okay,
I know. I had my dog with me, Willie, and
so I was like, I know there's a bar that
allows dogs, so we could always stop there if you
want to drink.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
If not, no big deal. And it was like two
men in a baby like truly, neither of us knew
what the hell we were doing. We're like, does she
how bundled up? Does she need to be?

Speaker 10 (33:44):
Like?

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Can I change her at the park, like we just
it was. It was a very funny sight and I
was like yeah. She's like, okay, so is it weird
to bring your baby to a bar? And I'm like,
absolutely not. I see babies and bars all the time,
you know, no judgment. Moms need to drink too, And
she's like, okay.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I guess. So I bring her to the bar and Willie,
my dog, gets in.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
I get in and then Tatiana's behind me with the
stroller and the guy at the front goes, is that
a baby? Which I wanted to be a smart ass
because like what else would we have in the stroller?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
And I was like yeah, and he goes, I'm sorry,
no baby's allowed.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
And I thought that must be That has got to
be a restaurant policy. That's not about bars.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
They don't serve some food there at this point, but.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
I mean, that has to be there. I'm saying that
has to be their policy, okay, because I don't think
that's a law, Like, why can't I bring my baby
into a bar? I've ever been left waiting by the phone.
It's the Fred Show. Hey Abby, good morning, Welcome to
the show. How are you.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
I'm good guys, how are you doing great?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Welcome to waiting by the phone. So we're trying to
figure out what happened with this guy Patrick, and we
got to have the backstory. So how did you meet?
Tell us about any dates you've been on, uh and
how those went, and then where things are now?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
All right? So first I met Patrick at a Saint
Patrick's Day party the irony there, and we just we
just talked for like hours. We both have kids, and
we bonded over that, like we're both single parents, you know,

(35:14):
just talking about like the funny stories that our that
our kids, you know, do, So we just like really
clicked right away. It was like instant connection. Then we
like the more we talk, like he was asking like,
you know, whereabouts I lived. We found out that we
lived pretty close to each other, and he asked for
my number before he left, which was like, you know,

(35:36):
I was excited because like I thought he was really
cute and we feel like I felt like there was
definitely connection there. So we had been kind of texting
back and forth after he got my number, and then
a few days later it was a really nice day
and Patrick was like, hey, you know, like I'm gonna
take my son to the park, which was not too

(35:56):
far from my house because they said it was pretty
close to his and like I said, you lived pretty
close and he was like, hey, do you want to
come and join? It's like I felt comfortable because it's
like a big thing, like introducing your children to any
other adult that you had, Like even if he's like
not my boyfriend, it's just a lot to introduce to
anybody coming into our lives. So I really appreciated him

(36:18):
saying like if I felt comfortable, like bringing my kids over,
so I grat So I have two daughters, and I said, sure,
you know what, like what why not? You know, it's
it's innocent. It's not a date. You know, it's just
kind of meeting up and kind of getting to know
us better. And you know, we had like a real
like it was a really it was really nice to
see him again. We trid a lot, the kids had

(36:39):
a lot of fun playing. But after that, like I
never heard from him again, Like it was very weird,
Like he didn't like I sent him a text afterwards,
they said, hey, like, you know, thanks for inviting us.
We had a great time. You know, talk to you
soon or like love to see you again, you know,
let me know, and it was just cricket. So I
just don't know, like what happened if I said something,

(37:01):
you know, It's just I'm just sitting here trying to
figure it out.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah. That's interesting because you guys, you did meet in
the wild per se, you met in person, so this
guy wasn't a total stranger, and you have kids and
he has kids, so you know, getting them together and
figuring out, you know, if they're going to get along
and stuff. I suppose that's innocence enough. And since things
went well in your opinion, then it's like, well, wait
a minute, what's going on? Why wouldn't this guy call

(37:25):
me again?

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Yeah, it was just very strange. Like I feel like
both interactions, like the first and the second, you know,
like you know, hanging out, we're fine, like total you know,
innocent but fun, and you know, there was no awkwardness
at all. So I'm just I'm kind of stumped of
what could have happened.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Okay, Well, let's call this guy Patrick, see if we
can get him on the phone. We'll ask these questions
for you. You'll be on the phone, of course, at
the same time. At some point You're welcome to jump
in after we get you some info. And the hope
is always is that we can figure out what happened
or what's going on. Set you guys up on another date,
and we'll pay for that. All right, Let's see what
happens next. Part two of Waiting by the phone after
this song on the Friend Show, Hey Abby, Hello, Hi Abby,

(38:05):
Let's call Patrick. You guys met at the Saint Patrick's party.
You talked for a long time. You thought it went
really well. You bonded over the fact that you both
are single parents and you have kids, and so you
decided collectively to get together at a park or playground
or whatever with the kids. And it wasn't really a
date per se, but you know, the kids got to
meet each other and you guys got to talk some more,
and you thought everything went really well. Except you have

(38:26):
not heard from Patrick since then, and you want to
know why exactly.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
So I'm just kind of racking my brain. What's happening.
So I don't know, Like at this point, I need
some help, I need some intervention.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Look at mom multitasking over there. I got the kids
in the background. They'll try to figure out. Yeah, you know,
I mean you got needs or I understand. Let's call
this guy now? Good luck? Abby?

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Hello? Hi is this Patrick?

Speaker 10 (39:03):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (39:03):
This is he?

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Hey Patrick, good morning. My name is Bred. I'm calling
for the Fred's Show, the Morning radio Show, and I
have to tell you that we are on the radio
right now and I would need your permission to continue
with the call. Is uh? Is he coo? If we
talk for just a second.

Speaker 15 (39:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's fine.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Okay, Well, thank you for calling on behalf of a
woman who reached out to us. Her name is Abby.
I guess you guys met at at a party recently
and went on a date. I guess it was kind
of more of like like an outing with your kids.
Do you remember this woman?

Speaker 11 (39:30):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (39:30):
Yeah, yeah I remember Abby?

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yeah? Okay, So what happened? Because she we just talked
to her a second ago and she was talking about
how she met you at the party and you guys
bonded over being parents and and you know, she thought
everything went great. You guys apparently decided to meet up
with your kids and she hasn't heard from you since.
So what what happened?

Speaker 10 (39:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (39:50):
Yeah, I was I was gonna take my son out
to a park and just called her up to see
if she wanted to join, you know, nothing serious, but yeah,
we met up. She's she was great, you know, I mean,
she's really fun to be around. Honestly, her her two
kids were just paris.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
That was kind of my opinion.

Speaker 15 (40:14):
Yeah, well, I just in the in the way that
they terrorized my son, and I guess me, I do
want to say though, you know, I'm I'm a dad,
I'm a single dad. I understand how kids can be.
But her her two kids were just next level. I
mean they they spent most of the afternoon just double

(40:35):
teaming on my son, taking his toys, pushing him. One
of her daughters sneezed at one point, you know, I said,
God bless you, and she just made a bee line
straight for me and wiped her nose and just wiped
it all over my jeans. You know, we kind of laughed,
but I was thinking, this is this is really out
of line, and so I tried to get him to
play some games. They just didn't want to listen to me.

(40:57):
One of them just straight up told me I was
ugly and then running. Okay, I mean that that hurts
the ego a little bit. And I'm like, all right, whatever,
But you know the worst part of it. They they're biers.
Both of her kids bite like, one of them literally

(41:17):
bit me.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
I don't know if you've ever been.

Speaker 15 (41:18):
Bit by a kid, but that hurts.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
I'm sorry to laugh, but I mean, okay, So yeah,
rob In germs on you. They're biting you, they're calling
you ugly, they're roasting you. And what is during all
of this? Like, what what she just watching this and laughing?
Is she enabling it?

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Is she?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Is she trying to correct them? I mean, what's happening?
What is her?

Speaker 15 (41:38):
Well, no, she wasn't trying to correct them. I don't
know that she was enabling other than just not stepping in.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
But it just seemed like they ran the show.

Speaker 15 (41:47):
I could tell that there's probably no consequences at home,
you know, if they get in trouble. It just felt
like they were in charge. So I don't know, it
was it was just a lot for.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Me for an afternoon. She never told him to stop,
and I.

Speaker 15 (42:02):
Didn't really feel like it was my place to do that,
so I thought, I'll just remove myself from the situation.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
After this afternoon, we can kind of.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Be done with it.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Yeah, I would like that much either. But let me
bring Abby in. I forgot to mention that Abby is here.
Abb you didn't say it was that your kids were
biting this man.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Okay, so my two year old cuz like we are
working on it. I old her to apologize. Like, first
of all, Terris is like really extreme and like I
really don't like that word, especially associated with my children.
So I really hate that, Like that's just for me,
Like if he's turned off by me, that's fine. Like

(42:38):
him using that word to describe my children, that's a
huge turn off by for him, like for me towards him,
they're not. They obviously were like a little more on
the excited side obviously to like meet new people. I
meet a new kids, Like they weren't ganging up on
his son. I did try to interject. There's just so
much like it's hard to be a single parent, like

(43:01):
you know, like it's kind of hard since he I
devote some issues like with my acts, like I don't
have much of support from my child's father, so it's
me doing it all. So it's like really hard that
he's like blasting me as a mother. It's just very
hurtful because I was trying, so like he's kind of
going to the stream, but I did nothing.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah, I mean my mom, my sister, and I were
raised by my mom primarily and she was a single
parent for a while. And I commiserate with what you're saying.
I think, though you know your kids could act up.
But just from my perspective, if it were me and
i'm Patrick, I guess what I would have been looking
for is less about what a two year old's doing

(43:42):
and more about maybe what you're doing about it, because
he certainly couldn't discipline the kids that would have been unaccessible.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
But that's what I'm saying. So you're listening to what
he's saying that I didn't discisten my child.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Friend, Well, i'm asking you if, okay, I'm not criticaging you.
I started myselfing out by not criticized, but I'm saying
if but I.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Had already I had already explained that when she did
go to bite him, I put her aside and said,
you cannot be doing that and you need to apologize.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Is that what happened? Patrick? Did she did? She was
Are you not giving her enough credit for her trying
to manage her kids? Well, no, no, she did. She
did step in.

Speaker 15 (44:20):
I mean, it's not like she didn't do anything. It's
just that I didn't see necessarily the results coming out
of her telling her her kids what to do.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
I mean, it's not like.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
They just continue doing it.

Speaker 15 (44:32):
They would stop, but then it would they would a
back up.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
So and again I support for her, for.

Speaker 15 (44:38):
Single moms, and and I do apologize for using the
word terrorists. That may have been a little harsh. That's
not necessarily what I meant. It just it was a
lot for me and my boy. We're just not used
to that kind of energy. So it was just a lot.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
And that's fine. But like also I feel like he's
trying to come off at like their boat says like
his son, Yes, his son has behaved, but his son
also like through stand at my daughter's a few times.
I want to say, they weren't biting the child like
by like I said, only my two year old bit him,
And like again I try, I disciplined them. We're working

(45:11):
on it, like she's too, so like maybe she got scared,
you know, like we're trying to communicate with her, We're
trying to explain that that's not okay. Sometimes her older
sister will get upset and bite her back, but my
other my older daughter does not bite other people. Like
it's a it's a sibling thing between them that like
we're trying to work on. So the fact that like

(45:32):
it's all coming down on me, it's just like really hard,
Like I'm trying my best, and I know he's trying
his best, Like I would never have used that, like,
you know, feeling that he didn't disciplined his son enough
or that his son was doing things like I give
everybody like I give everybody, like the greatest all I
give everybody, Like you know, I feel for I feel

(45:53):
for every single parent out there trying the best they can.

Speaker 8 (45:55):
Yeah, we are not trying to criticize you. We are
not trying to criticize you at all, but I think
we have to respect his decision to not want to
be a part of that right now. It was a
lot for him. And you can admit that, right, fine,
you can admit that.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
Fine, God is totally fine. I can admit that. The
whole thing is is just like be a man and say,
you know what, I feel like this is not working
and like you know, like it's better off exactly we see.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Okay, but hold on, hold on, I mean just one
a second. This is not an indictment on parents his
so parents as a whole. And I also understand we're
talking about your children, and so understandably you have emotion
about this and you should and that is fair. But
that's probably why he chose not to say anything and
just sort of fade away, because he probably didn't want

(46:40):
to have to tell a woman who he just met,
I think your kids were unruly and then get into
this sort of conversation because I understand why you're defensive.
I totally do, but I also think you need to
understand from the other side that it's a difficult conversation
to have with someone when you're talking about their kids.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Well, sure, but he didn't even have to bring up
the kids. I could have just said, you know what,
I'm just not feeling the vibe, like I think you
know a relationship, you know what, honestly, like just say
something like don't leave somebody on red, like just be respectful,
Like I've had to end things. They're not they're uncomfortable.
They're uncomfortable when you have to tell someone yeah, you know,

(47:18):
like I'm not feeling it or like you could. There's
a respectful way to end things without ghosting. That's all
I'm saying, Like, I just feel like I deserved a
little bit more respect than that after I feel like
you really didn't have a connection.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
But that's fine, that's I think that's I think that's fair.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
I think that's fair. I think that you're you know,
your your emotion and defensiveness about this is also fair.
But I also think that it's possible that when we're
talking about our own kids and our own families and
our own especially when they're our own kids, that maybe
you're a little blinded by how that experience may have
been for someone else and why that may not be
for them. I also understand the communication part of this.

(47:58):
So look, no one's coming down on, you know, criticizing you.
It's not for him. He has that right. That is dating.
But Patrick, I'll ask the question, I mean, would you
like to go out with her again? Maybe we you know,
don't bring the kids this time, and then slowly work
on that whole thing, you know another time.

Speaker 15 (48:15):
You know, Honestly, had we had this conversation, I may
have understood a little more. We we kind of kept
it pretty surface, but I really dig the fire that
she has that she's representing standing up her kids. I
see that she's working on it. I'm absolutely not opposed

(48:36):
to going out again.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
It's oh, I see this. I did not see this coming,
So you have no problem being a human Kleenex again.

Speaker 10 (48:45):
Well, I don't think it's going to be that way.

Speaker 15 (48:47):
I think I just have a bit more of an
understanding of what she's going through, and I like her passion,
all right.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
I mean, look, I'm a little surprised, but Abby, I
I understand where you're coming from. Patrick, I I didn't
expect this. But great, So it'll be an adult date.
You guys go out again. We'll pay for it and then, uh,
you know, maybe we'll check in down the road. But Abby,
I appreciate your perspective, and I hope that you can
see his and maybe see where we're coming from as observers.

(49:13):
And I hope you guys have a great day.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
I can. I mean, I appreciate it, and obviously, like
maybe we do have some stuff to talk about, so
I do appreciate it. Like Patrick being honest, I can
respect the honesty here, so I can. So hopefully you
know if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Like Patrick,
you could be honest with me. We don't have to
do this with the radio if it doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Yeah you did. You did kind of chew us out
a little bit. So I'm a little afraid of I'm
a little afraid of that we're talking about your kids.
I get it.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Yeah, I've had a rough go and I do stand up.
So I mean, I really wasn't trying to fight anybody's
head off, but like when you start talking about my
kids and me as a parent, like you know, obviously
I'm always going to defend what I believe is right.
So it wasn't I think that against you guys because
we all we all don't know each other.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
It's a fread show. Good morning. Thanks for having us
on the radio, on the iHeart app live and anytime
search for a Fred show on demand. Aren't you of
you watching Severance?

Speaker 2 (50:13):
No, but like I feel like I should because everybody
talks about it.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Could somebody tell me at Severnce please eight five five
five three five. I feel like there's usually somebody in
the room who's watching, you know, one of everything. Someone
here covers all of it, you know, do we have
any Minecraft people?

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I like it?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
You like Minecraft the game or the like the movies
that kind of stuff. Because it was a movie. Of course,
it was I think the biggest movie in a long time.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah, the Wee records.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
But did you go No?

Speaker 2 (50:39):
They sent me a nice pr box that was cool.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so you're a Minecraft.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Girlcraft had no idea I'm going this week.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Because you know, we got the housewives people, we have
the dateline people, me, you have the we have the
sports people, Jason, mom, we have a team Mom, Piky,
we have.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
But we haven't like I really do you do?

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Before where do I have a story for you? That's
why I came to works in it and that will
be in the second port. So you're gonna have to hang.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Around exciting week on Wheel a Fortune.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
I know that's I'm clucking.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Why I bring this up because I don't I'm not
watching okay, And you know sometimes I just reject. I
just say no, no, Moss is what I say. Sometimes
when everyone's talking about something, what do you mean you
know how that goes? Yeah? Are you watching Severance?

Speaker 15 (51:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
What do you mean? You know the thing that people
do when you're not watching the show that everyone else
is watching, and I just I don't know. I haven't
watched it, and now at this point I might just
not watch it out of principle, just I'm just not
going to. But so I don't really know what it's about.
So I need someone to explained this to me. But
there's a big story. Today, over a third of real
life employees would willingly undergo the procedureroom to sever their

(51:47):
work memories from their personal lives, like britt Lower did
as Helly on Apple TV Severance. Among eighteen to twenty
five year olds, the figure rose to almost fifty percent.
Among workers age fifty five and over, only one in
five would want to be severed. One expert says the
fact that so many employees relate to the characters in

(52:08):
Severance shows just how blurred the lines between work and
personal life have become. The research is a stark reminder
of the stress and pressure people face today. No one
should feel the need to completely forget about their work
lives just to cope. Rather than employees feeling the need
to disconnect entirely from work to protect their mental health,
leaders should build cultures where people feel able to bring

(52:29):
their whole selves to work without feeling overwhelmed or burnt out. Okay,
So I guess I don't know if I need someone
to explain this to me, Like, okay, so that's what
the show is about. The show is about that you
don't remember work when you're at home. I guess that
would be nice for something. I guess.

Speaker 6 (52:48):
Yeah, Okay, So Mark leads a team of office workers
whose memories have been surgically divided, like you said, between
their work and personal lives. So yeah, you don't have
any memories of it when you're at the other I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
That's amazing.

Speaker 8 (53:01):
I feel like that would be good for everyone's mental health, correct,
you know, like you can really clock in and enjoy
your family without checking email worrying about like Sunday scaries.
I don't know if you guys get that, but yeah,
like Sunday scaries, you can really just enjoy without thinking
about what's what's facing you on Monday.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
I love the people that think that that's what this
job is for a lot of people, like like oh, Fred,
you just you just go in there and talk and
then you go home and like take a nap and whatever.
It's like I yeah, this is not well, not for Jason.

Speaker 9 (53:34):
Up in the middle of the night at least three
to four times screaming, freaking out.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Oh you have four full time jobs, so there's that.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
It would be amazing to not think about that.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
But don't you think more about the other crap than
you do this, Like oh yeah, yeah, because it's like
you've got actual jobs once you leave here, Like you're
the moron who decided during COVID to come in here
and give yourself another job. Yeah, and I'm so glad
you did. You were my favorite moron for that because
you've made it show so much better. But at the
same time, you also made yourself So it was like

(54:03):
I remember when you know, COVID started and you you
were doing promotions in marketing for a couple of radio stations,
and you had the forethought to say, you know what,
I don't think we're gonna be doing a lot of events,
and so you came in here and decided I'm gonna
start learning how to do morning show stuff. And we
were like great. And then when COVID was over, I
remember the suits at the time were like great, So
Jason's going back to work now and I'm like, uhh,

(54:26):
that's exactly how I responded professionally. I go, oh, y'all
better figure it out, because my boy's not leaving. He's
ours now, you know. And then so here you are.
But you know what, they did figure it out. They
just gave you this and all that. They figured it out.

Speaker 9 (54:41):
Yeah yeah, I mean I just sit here in the
app so yeah, no, it's definitely this stuff after this
show that.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Well, you do more than that. But yeah, you know,
I'm not saying this is a hard people driving work.
I'm not speaking for myself. People driving to work right
now work a lot harder than I do. That's that's
not what I'm saying. But for the those who think
that we just get could come in here and talk
and then there's like nothing that happens after that, that
would be silly. You would be silly for thinking that's silly.

(55:09):
But I don't know, I don't think you could do that.
You couldn't do this job, and pretending you you couldn't
do it, I don't think you could. I don't think
you could have a radio show and and you know,
have a personality radio show and then no personality, well
and your life doesn't come into it. Yeah, we wouldn't
be able to do this job that way.

Speaker 10 (55:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
I read an article recently that was talking about like,
you know, when you're at work, you know you should
never over share, you should never tell your co workers
about your life.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Keep things separate. And I'm like, honey, with this job,
like I.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Wouldn't have a job because like I gotta I gotta
talk about right or one or the other.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
On severn someone textedly this seven and eight on severns.
You don't even recognize the people you work with outside
of work. It's a complete separation. You could go to
work hungover and feel bad but not know why. Oh,
because you don't bring your personal life into work, and
then you don't bring work into your personal life, so
it's completely divided.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Well, that'd be terrifying to feel crappy and not know why.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Yeah, I don't know if this would work.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
And we see each other like we like basically live
together out right as well, So I don't think it
would work for us.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Yeah. I mean Caitlyn Gosh, she hogs all the covers,
like every day I wake up.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
We are the grandparents in willy Wonka. We all share
a bed we see each other more than I see
my family times.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Absolutely really yeah, and GG needs to keep it down
at night, okay, because because his uncle Fred needs some
sleep in this fredhouse that we live in together all
day on the Real World Fred Show, True Stories. And
if you don't know that, Reford, you don't know, you
don't know nothing. Hey, Lana, Lana High Okay, so thank
you for trying to explain Severance to us. So what

(56:48):
is the premise of this show and why should I
watch it?

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Okay?

Speaker 12 (56:52):
So Stubbance is basically like a corporate sci fi So,
like you've heard like, the premise is that people undergo
this surgical procedure to divide their workplace memories from their
personal lives. But it's a procedure that only exists at
this one giant corporation, essentially to keep their secrets. But

(57:15):
part of what's scary about that is you don't know
what the corporation is doing, and also you create this
entirely different version of yourself with none of your personal
memories that only exists at work, So they know nothing
about anything else except what it's like to be at
that office, and you don't know how the office is

(57:36):
treating you when you're like outside, like they can do
anything to you, and they can just give you a
random explanation for what happened to you, but that's usually
in severance at least, not what actually happened to you.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Is this a good thing? Like it? Do you watch
this and go I would want this?

Speaker 4 (57:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Yet, I'm guessing that the premise or the idea is
that people and the reason that people in this survey
wanted is because they wish they could just leave work
and not have to think about it anymore. So I
guess that would be the upside, right, is that you
don't have to you know, like Kiki's been worried about
the show of his Kiky show Down all weekend. Well,
I guess if she were on severance, then she'd walk
out of here and she wouldn't even know that she

(58:17):
had worked here, right, wouldn't worry about it?

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 12 (58:21):
I mean, well that's part of like the they have
like ethical debates. Like in the show. There's people who
are like, no, severance is bad, You're treating like a
slave version of yourself, And then there's people who are like, actually,
I would really want this, like a lot of the
characters who like undergo the procedure had like personal dramas
that they were trying to forget, Like the main character's

(58:44):
wife died and so he went underwent the severance procedure
because of he went to like separate morning time.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
I guess, but isn't life kind of managing all the
different things and trying to figure it out? I mean,
I guess I'm making this a little bit more existential
that it needs to be. But I get it. I
get the idea that people would like to leave work
at work and then go live their personal lives and
then come and then work starts again and then they
can leave, and you know what I mean. And I
think it's true. A lot of businesses don't allow that

(59:14):
because now we all have email on our phones and
you know, the full internet everywhere we go. I'm like
twenty years ago where it was like, oh, you sent
me an email, I don't know. I didn't have dial
up internet where I was, so I couldn't see it,
like you could really only do the work stuff. And
even though this place will say like, well, don't email
after five or whatever, everybody emails after five and there's
no way that I'm gonna wait to email you back

(59:35):
until nine am the next day. And even though they
say that's what you're supposed to be allowed to do, that,
you're not allowed to do that. Everybody knows that. So
I don't know. Lana, Hey, thank you, have a great day.
Thanks for listening. Yeah, yeah, oh, thank you so much.
I don't know, big fan of you, Lana.

Speaker 14 (59:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
I just don't know. I don't know. I don't know this.
This job wouldn't work because you got to be able
to bring that in here and whatever. But at the
same time, I guess if I had a job that
was a little it was it was different. You know,
like if I had an accounting job or something and
you're paying me forty hours a week or something, and
I do that and then I leave you and then
you're texting me about accounting at eight o'clock at night,

(01:00:13):
that would be annoying because well, there's nothing. I'm not
going to account for anything until tomorrow, Like there's gonna
be no accounting happening now, Like we're going to account tomorrow.
But then I think there are probably people listening now
going but I throw all of myself into the job
That's why I'm good at it, you know, That's why
I excel. That's why I make more money than other people,
because I'm willing to not have that divide. I don't know,

(01:00:34):
because how do you how do you? How do you
separate yourself from everybody else? If you just if you
just walk out, it's like you were never there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
You know, like a thin toilet paper, So if it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Was wait, no, I don't know that those nails do
you like? No? No, no, no, I don't remember this.
You like thin toilet papers? Who would who hurt you?

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
No one?

Speaker 16 (01:00:58):
No one likes toilet paper purport right, you may choose
your and the middle washing. Yes, girl, that would be
so mad if you gain miles. But I like a
thin toilet paper. I don't want all that, like a
like a cloth like, I don't want all that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
It leaves the res of doing all that I don't need.

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
That morning, The Fresh Show is on My Friend's Fun
Fact Fred's Fun.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
So bad. Learn so much, guys.

Speaker 7 (01:01:28):
Did you know the messages from your brain travel along
your nerves at up to two hundred miles an hour,
So in your body right now, when you're thinking about
something and you say like move my arm boom two
hundred miles an hour?

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Oh inside of you see. But for me, I start
thinking about this and it's like, you know, thinking about breathing,
Like you don't think about breathing, right, But then when
you start thinking about breathing, then you think about breathing.
You see what I'm saying. And then it's like right
then you it's like, oh, I'm thinking about it now.
But normally it would just be like an automatic thing.
You don't think about it. But then when someone's like,

(01:02:05):
you know, how many breasts you think you take? Because
that's a question that comes up all the time. People
are always asking now, but the human body is capable
of amazing things. For instance, when your brain sends messages
via your nerves, the signals travel along billions of nerves, cells, neurons, synapses,
and neurotransmitters in a process that could be as speedy
as two hundred miles an hour wow, according to the

(01:02:27):
National Geographic And then a little bit later on, you know,
you take a gummy and slows down a little bit.
It's more, you know, forty five, it's more like a
school zone. Maybe maybe maybe fifteen, Yeah, I don't know
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