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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey lease wake up week.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
This is actually I think a difficult week. I'll be honest.
I think it's a difficult week. I think he's a
tough song. So we like to make it hard right
here every now and again. I'm sure that clip will
be isolated right show is on. You're new to the show.
I made it ninety minutes at a bachelor party in Nashville.
Literally the first ninety minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's iconic.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Ninety minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I love that story.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's it. Ninety minutes and.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
You got a new hotel, Ritt, didn't you.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I landed. It was with Friday. I had to come
back Saturday, and I landed, and I drove myself out
of my hotel and I went. I met the guys
at the bar. They were already there and we were
having a good old time, and then a bachelorette party
from Chicago walks in a Fritz. I bought a bottle
of fireball and we finished it. And then that's it.

(01:22):
That was it for me. I was I think I
was there from three to four thirty. I then stumble
out to the front of the bar and tell the
cab driver, because there were cabs. This was before Uber,
I said, take me to my hotel, as if he
knew where. He said, well, sir, I don't know where
that is. I said, then just take me to a hotel,
so he did. I then proceeded to check into that
hotel and I woke up the next morning in that hotel,

(01:46):
and I then it's a miracle that I'm alive. To
be honest with you, what is it that you have
to pretend to like in your life because someone that
you love or deeply care about likes it. Jason, he
is now a car show guy. I think you have
been a car show guy, except now we're taking really
embracing it. We're taking pictures, we're posting them to social media.

(02:07):
Last night it was you next to some classic car? Yeah,
in a folding chair, and then you said that people
were walking up to you and asking you like, hey,
I got a hemmy in there right or whatever, and
so you're just making stuff up.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, that was actually Mike's car. So Mike, normally we're
just the walkers, Like car shows are just weird. People
just park on the street and you just walk by
cars and look at them, like the concept is very weird.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
However, like we're normally just walkers.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
But last night he brought his own car to a show,
so like parked it and then you bring like your
little launchairs and you like sit next to the car
and you just kind of like hang out, like we
went and got some beers and just like hung out
or whatever. And so then people come, oh, nice car
and they ask all these questions. Well then he decided
I'm gonna go take a walk. So it was just
me by the car. So people walk up to me

(02:52):
like whoa was this a seven twenty five me Supercharger?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And I was like you know it, girl, like what
you know? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Look at that heavy there's no hemy in the car right, like,
oh what colors? I was like, oh, bred you know,
I don't know, you know, and they're looking at me
like I'm dumb, but I have to like pretend like,
you know, yeah, this is my car.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Get some line.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, man, So you're just sitting here lying to people.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right because we're not even gonna go down the road
of like, oh, that's my boyfriend's car.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Like then that opens the cats out there and not
the cars.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Should write know your audience girl, right, like that was
not the time one of the place, right exactly.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
You should have like a little laminated sheep with like
you know, most commonly asked questions. You're like what you Yeah,
what kind of engine is in here that you just
kind of use your finger and look for? Okay, here
it is. That's a five twenty in there. I just
made that up.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I don't know what it is, right, And I know
he's so mad at me because I was like I
asked him.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
We were saying.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I was like, so when people walk up to this car,
like what what are they like so excited about? That's
like different from all the other cars because you know,
But then he's like, are you serious, Well it's got
this I.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Was like, I don't know what any of that is.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
But okay, like I'm here to support you sitting in
this parking lot.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
So you don't do you enjoy this or is it
you're doing it because he loves it and so you
go do it.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, I wouldn't go do it by myself.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
I enjoy being outside.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I enjoy the adult beverage, not necessarily like walking and
looking at cars because I don't really know what I'm
looking at, Like I look at the color. The color's nice,
but like I don't know what makes that car different
than that car, and this is a sixty nine and
this is a seventy two.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I couldn't tell you, you know.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
One of my favorite Jason Brown stories is when you
guys got in a fight and then you knew that
you knew that Mike the mechanic went to the car show,
and so then you you decided, no, I'll go to
the car show too, And then you just walked around
the car show alone just to be seen because there's
nothing more obvious, there's nothing more obvious that you're up

(04:55):
to something. Then if you walk around a place that
you don't like.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
By myself, just casually going for a stroll by cars.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That was so funny.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's like, oh, what are you doing here, Mike. I'm
just here looking at cars, you know, because that's what
I like to do here, right, I'm trying to find
the next car, Daddy. But like we just pretending like
we don't see each other, you know, Like that's fine,
thes What I'd always wanted to do is I've always
wanted to go to one of those classic car shows
where you can like just pull up your own car,
you know, like more casual ones you don't have to

(05:25):
register or whatever. Yeah, with like a with like a
newer car, like you know, like over the weekend, I
had a rental Nissan Ultima. I think it was like
circa twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four. It had about
nineteen thousand miles on it. It was like, you know,
the traditional rental car, brown, silver, beige, whatever it is.

(05:45):
And I just kind of want to pull that thing
up next to like the you know, Lambeau or Ferrari
and pop the hood and just sit there in a
folding chair as people walk by, like super proud in
my car, you know, pop the hood, like look in
the trunk.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
I got out there actually, like hey, is that it
is that a former hurts twenty twenty three? Yeah, you
bet it is, you bet it. That's that's a V
six in there too. I went, you know, I got
an upgraded one. Yes, you better work. Let's talk to
Shane quickly. Shane listener number I think seven of thirteen.
You're you're definitely up there, shanee we hear. We love Shane.

(06:22):
What do you pretend to like because someone that you
love loves it?

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Yeah? So country music and those seltzer liquor drinks like
the Trulies or the.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
White clot want a sacrifice you pretend to like trulyes
because someone you don't have to be that committed. I mean,
I'm sure they could drink it truly, and you could
drink a you know, Miller Lte or whatever. I don't
know if they'd be that offended, but but that is
real sacrifice.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yeah, Because I mean I do like country music. I
grew up listening to it, but that's.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
The extent that they do, and I like, whenever I'm
around them, they're just like, oh my god, how can
you not like it? And like it's the same for
the drinks. I'm just like, I don't know, because I've
been more sober beer drinker or other drinks and they're like,
oh my god, I just feel like hardcore judgment.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm like, fine, I don't tell them.

Speaker 7 (07:12):
I don't like it's that level.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
But I'm just like, wow.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Wow, somebody, you're gonna break up with this person and
be like you know what. And by the way, I
never like those truies anyway, And that'll be crushing to
this person extremely. It will be very, very hurtful when
that person learns, thank you, thank you, You're welcome, have
a good day. What is it for you? Kiki? What
do you?

Speaker 7 (07:33):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
You?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
You have to pretend to like it because this dude
is your fiance now, and you're like, you know, it's
it's official.

Speaker 8 (07:40):
Yes, action movies, you know, I hate a down the
stairs and everybody's shooting and stuff blowing up, Like I
hate those movies. But I have to sit there with
my little popcorn and go, wow, so good. That's how
you got that ring right? That's yeah, I hate an
action movie.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
How does it go again?

Speaker 8 (08:01):
Everything is on fire? Like what everything's e m ts everywhere?
Like watch a movie with some peace.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Like.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
Everybody's running all the time. It's just I hate an
action movie.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, I do feel like action movies are heavy on
like that. I know, you know, I know what to
do here? Just blow that up, you know what I mean.
It's I'm necessarily blown everything up. It's like, you know what,
the only thing to do here is blow this up.
That's the only possible thing. There's only one move, and
it's it's used explosives. That's it. That's all we can
do here. Your car broke down and you need to tire.

(08:41):
You need to just blow it up. It needs to explode. Yeah,
I'm sorry. Yeah, there's a long line at Chipotle. Not
just blow the thing up, blind it on fire. Everybody's running.
It's a lot of work to follow on those movies.
It's the French show. Good morning, Thank you so much
for waking up with us. So, how just function knows
your family? And well that should be the topic. We'll

(09:03):
leave it there and call now, How just function is
your family? Eight five five three five call now and
we'll be talking about this for three hours. No, how
does functional does your family have to be for this
to make headlines? And how weird are the holiday is
going to be? So? A guy says that he is
suing his brother in law after a prank in which

(09:23):
super glue was poured into his belly button while he slept.
Oh I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh my god, you're right over the can.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I hear the snorting and I know that's Kalen.

Speaker 9 (09:36):
So okay is It's just like pranks are so silly
until they go wrong, and then you tell someone like
that's how I lost my belly button.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
You know what I mean. It's a fine line.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I just like, what what must be happening? You know
at the function where you're like, oh, he's asleep. Oh,
I know what to do? Thay gorilla glue out?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
But this is the headline. Man suing his brother in
law after he filled his belly button with super Oh man,
yeah so. In a viral post that was shared to Reddit,
the guy writes that his wife and her family are
furious after after it's just a ridiculous story, after he

(10:19):
took his brother in law to Small Claims Cord, but
feels that he had no choice. He writes, my brother
in law, who was completely sober, thought it would be
hilarious to fill my belly button with super glue. At
some point, I must have touched it, because when I
woke up, I had glue partially dried in my belly
button and on my finger. We tried to remove it,

(10:41):
but it was stuck. The glue had adhered to my skin,
and when we attempted to peel it off, it caused
tearing around the edges.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
The guy explained that his insurance policy comes with a
thousand dollars copay for emergency room visits. He went to
the ee er anyway, and he couldn't remove the glue
on his own, so's I guess he had to go there.
They used to solve him in an linkments to remove
the glue, and after everything, the medical bill was twenty
two hundred dollars. He then asked his brother in law
to cover the cost, but that guy refused. The husband
writes that his wife is upset. Her family thinks that

(11:11):
he overreacted. No, I mean, here's the thing. If you're
gonna prank somebody, I mean, come on, I don't think.
I don't think this guy's overreacting at all. If you're
gonna prank somebody and and you don't think it out,
and that or if the prank goes wrong and there's
a twenty two hundred dollars bill as a result of
the prank. You gotta pay. You did the prank, you

(11:32):
gotta pay the price. Like this dude was asleep, he know,
he didn't ask for his belly button get filled up.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
WHOA what.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
You just took it somewhere else?

Speaker 2 (11:45):
But that's that's no you did.

Speaker 10 (11:49):
Well.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Hey, I'm just I'm just telling you the headline. I
am reporting the news. I am a journalist. This man
is suing his brother in law after he filled his
belly button with super glue. Don't you agree that there's
no there's no question here, like if you if you
do the prank and there is you know damage. I
don't know if you dye somebody's hair and they can't
die it back or they want to die back and

(12:11):
then they got to go to the salon or you know,
just you know, an every day prank. It's only someone's
belly button that was super glue and they gotta go
to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
You got to pay for that, right, Yes, that's official
pranking rules. Yeah, Like, I.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Don't know why this is on him. This man was
just sleep but he didn't ask for, you know, to
fill up belly button.

Speaker 9 (12:31):
It's like so embarrassing to go to the er too,
like when they ask you what's wrong, and if it's
not quote unquote normal, like that's embarrassing. Like my belly
My brother in law glued my belly button and I
need you guys to get it out.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I would foul charges, like straight to jail.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, that's the thing you have to see when you
go to the r and they go, so what happened here?
You know, like, so what happened here? And then it's
like you got to explain. I told the story before,
but I have a friend who is a physician and
during medical training he had a rotation in the emergency room.
I guess all doctors do. And he told me the
story because the story was more about empathy than it

(13:08):
was about what happened. But he was like a dude
came in. I feel like every year doctor has the
same story, which just makes me wonder, like have we
not sent the memo out about not doing this? But
apparently a dude had a glass coke bottle in his
rectum and right right, that's what I'm saying, and so

(13:28):
and so they needed to know how it got there
because I guess how it got there might be helpful
into how to get it out. And I think we
all know how it got there. But the dude was
swearing up and down that he slipped and fell on
it and then it lodged its way all the way,
and so he was this My doctor friend's telling me.
He's like, I was mad at this guy because it's like,

(13:50):
stop lying to me about how this happened. Like I
need to know how you got it up there, what
you used, what you did, because then I'm going to
use a similar method, hopefully to reverse it, because if
this thing breaks in there when we're taking it out,
then we have this serious pelvic surgery. Now. Now we
got to go through the stomach and we got it.
It's a whole big thing, and we don't want to

(14:10):
have to do all that. So just tell me what
what were you doing and what you know, what are
you on and like what really happened here? And the
guy just insisted I slipped and fell on this thing
and it went there. And so as an er doctor,
I just can't imagine the things that you must hear.
But if you guys, I'm sure not quite that. But
if you guys, ever had a brank go wrong.

Speaker 9 (14:31):
Yeah, I broke my toe because actually my friend ended
up marrying the dude who did it, which is hysterical.
But in college, they put a box like in the
middle of the street with a cinderblock in it on
Saint Pati's Day, knowing that like drunk people would kick it.
I was the drunk person who tried to kick the
box out of the street and I broke my toe.
Oh yeah, yeah, and they thought it was hilarious and

(14:54):
your parents.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Probably had to pay a medical bill on that.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (14:56):
I mean I was on my dad's insurance at the
time because it was college. But yeah, like going into
the er, it's embarrassing. And then I was wearing a
boot in college from a prank.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
I because that's the thing is it looks how did
this happen?

Speaker 7 (15:07):
Right?

Speaker 1 (15:08):
You got to explain. Well, like I remember I went
to the ear as a kid. I we weren't tall enough.
We put the basketball rim at my friend's house down
as low as it would go, which I think was
like seven feet or eight feet. I can't from seven
feet maybe, but we weren't tall enough to dunk that
at that height at that point, so we had the
brilliant idea of jumping off of a bucket to then

(15:31):
dunk the ball. Like, okay, this is great. So it's
concrete and a basketball hoop. How are we going to
get up there? I know we'll jump off a little bucket.
So obviously you know what happens next. The bucket, you know,
falls over when I'm jumping and I land and I
won't get into it, but let's just say my fingernail
was involved. It was graphic and it was painful and
it was terrible. And then I have to run home

(15:53):
and I'm like ten years old. I have to tell
my parents what I did, and it's like, you're an idiot.
And then I don't even know what to do with this.
So we go to the ear and then I have
to tell this guy. You know, my parents are like, well,
how'd you do that? It's always the dumbest thing, you know,
or like the dude who shreds his hand cutting an avocado,
you know, because he does the knife thing or whatever.
You know, how you can do that where you can

(16:13):
slice the avocado like in the in the whatever it is, right,
and people cut their they like sever tendons this way
on their hand doing that, and then you got to
like imagine having to go to the r and be like, yeah,
I need hand surgery because I, you know, was trying
to make a smoothie or something. You know, you just
feel stupid. But yeah, I think that that's prank rules.

(16:36):
I would say, is you gotta if you are guilty
of if you are the super glue filler up, or
then you got to pay the price.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Okay, good, we're all on the same page about this.
I just wanted someone just text if someone oh god,
if someone dies in the prank, theydn't have to go
to jail. I mean, I guess that's that's true, right,
even if it's a prank, if somebody gets that seriously her,
you gotta go. Yeah, so I don't this is messed up.
This didn't ask for that.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, No, did.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
You guys ever do the prank? It was like a
thing in my in college my freshman year in the
dorm is like when people were asleep if their leg
was kind of because we had bunk beds and we
would we would raise or actually I guess they were
like normal beds. One was on each side of the
room because you know, college dorm rooms are like rectangular
for the most part, at least ours was. They were
long and rectangular, so in order to save space where

(17:26):
you could raise the beds and like basically put you know,
they'd come in and they would put like another set
of legs on it, so it was twice as high
so you could put like your desk underneath it. Essentially
it made it a bunk bed, except with no lower bed.
So like if you're and a lot of guys would
sleep and then like their foot would hang out or
their leg would kind of hang, you know, because out
of the sheet or whatever or the comforter, And so

(17:47):
that became this thing for a few weeks where dudes
would take out sharpie and they would draw on your
leg if it was exposed while you were asleep, and
you wouldn't necessarily know this happened. So if it was
like on the back of your leg, you'd walk around
if like whatever they drew on it, and if you
were wearing shorts, everybody would see it.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Come on, don't play.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
I walked around an entire day with a gigantic dog
along my cat.

Speaker 9 (18:09):
I knew exactly what they do on your life, right,
it always is.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
And I didn't know. I walked around a whole day
like this because I don't know. I don't look I
don't look at the back of what is it my
shin or whatever. I don't look at that to see
if anybody drew on it. So I walked around this
all day. I should have sued. I should have sued.
No for twenty two hundred bucks. That's you, guys never
had these kind of calen did you guys ever had
these kind of Collin shenanigans?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
No, didn't bring me at home.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
My brother used to do a lot of pranks, but
it was just like he was just mischievous. He was
just doing dumb stuff like he would take a can
of oil sheine or like hairspray and make a fire
torch just like run walk past you and just light
this big fire and then like laugh and run off.
He used to pop out of closets and like scare everybody,
like it was just good.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (18:56):
So those kind of pranks, but nothing that would have
ended in jail, because get it, Yeah, why do people
bring people?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Oh I still prank my boyfriend all the time.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Frank, your boyfriend, what do you do?

Speaker 9 (19:08):
So he was in our bedroom the other night and
he was like half asleep, and I snuck out on
the balcony through the other door, and I just.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Like pounded really fast and scared him. I jump out
and scare him when he comes home. It's funny, I know,
but it's fun I.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Think he went to pick up your dry cleaning and
then here you are just jumping out paying. I think
it was basically on packing your bags and doing your laundry.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh my god, no, I'm so mad at him. He's
banned from doing my laundry. Oh no, man, can stop
doing your girl's laundry.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Please.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
I agree with them. It's really upsetting.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, well, I've never done my girlfriend's laundry. I don't
have one. But if I maybe that's part of the
reason I've never done it because I don't have one.
But if I did have one, I'm not doing the laundry.
Please one. I don't want to see what I don't.
I don't need to know, like you don't need to
be looking at my underwear, and I don't need to
be looking at yours. But the other thing more importantly, wait,
I don't know. I don't know why you're still passionate
about that.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
But I'm really passionate about this.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
But the second thing is I'd be afraid to mess
something up, like like what if what if I, like
wash your braw and I'm not supposed to, Or what
if I wash your underwearing correctly and then I write
and then I dry it correct And those little chonies
worth twenty five dollars and I messed up a bunch
of them. Because my all of our stuff, you know,
and Jason can attest to this, all of our stuff.
It just literally you can just put it all in,

(20:24):
all of it at one time.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, all the small colors, all fabrics, it's just watch
it on cold. I separate the bottoms from the tops.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's separated. I do.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
What does that?

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Been life? I don't know, but my brain, why do
you do that?

Speaker 3 (20:38):
I don't know because I can't put the bottoms in
with the tops and it's too much. So I'm like, okay,
how do I separate this? In my head, the bottoms
go in once and the top's going on and then
the whites.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
What the hell?

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't even do that, you guys, I know this
is going to make a lot of people shiver. Oh,
but I don't even separate the white.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Oh my god, I'm gone.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
You just watching everything on cold? Well sometimes it depends,
but but like every day just sort of whatever. Nah,
everything goes in on cold and most things get dried.
And I know that bothers a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, I try everything and every single Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Where am I gonna hang clothes?

Speaker 7 (21:14):
You?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
So you have a house where I'm gonna close lunch? Well, now,
as we learned, Mike the mechanic as a home and
Jason will not be able to live it happens to Mike,
So there is he should get used to efficiency because
that's probably what he's going to need.

Speaker 10 (21:31):
You know, exactly.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
There is a correct way, according to etiquette experts, to
eat a banana. This is a completely random thing, but
I actually saw this video and I've seen this guy's
videos before and I thought it was a parody. But
he is very much for real. He is a British
guy and he teaches us all the etiquette that we
did not know. In a recent viral video, there's a

(21:56):
a British etiquette expert. His name is William Ahnsson, and
he demoned traded what he claims to be the correct
way to eat a banana, and that is with a
knife and a fork. If I gave you a banana
and you used a knife and a fork, I would
take the banana away from you and lock you up
and throw it away, and then I would erase your

(22:17):
phone number and unfriend you and unfollow you everywhere, and
I would pretend that I had never met you before
my life, and we would never speak again. This guy
meticulously cuts off the ends, slices down the peel, and
then eats the banana from a plate, slating his approach
as more civilized than peeling it by hand, quote unquote

(22:39):
like a primate. So the video has over two hundred
thousand views, and of course, as soon as I see
it this, I go right to the comments. I mean,
that's really where the gold lives in most of these
videos is sometimes I just can't even wait to get
to the comments. I can't even watch the whole video
before I get to the comments. And this person, one
person said, what kind of lazy, no good servants do

(23:01):
you have working for you in that big mansion that
don't even know that you're supposed to peel your banana
before you serve it to someone? Preposterous? He also did
a tutorial in the Proper Way to Eat Grapes, recommending
the use of scissors to cut smaller bunches for plating.
What would you do if you saw someone eating a
banana with a knife and fork? What other pizza is?

(23:24):
Or a pizza is one, by the way, but I
was gonna say what other food is unacceptable to eat
with a knife? Like a pizza with a knife and
fork unless you're eating Chicago deep dish pizza that's really
hot and like steamy, and because once it kind of congeals,
you can pick that up, like if you slice it
and like once it all kind of forms into one thing,
then you could. But otherwise I can see a knife
in a fork situation. Otherwise, is there any should you

(23:47):
ever be using a knife and a fork for pizza?
Should you ever be using a knife and fork for fruit? No?
Maybe berries if you're in a restaurant, Maybe so that
you're not grabbing it with your hands. I don't eyde it? No,
I mean, are there any other etiquette rules that you
guys were surprised to know?

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Let me think about I understand why I can't eat
my pizza with a fork.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Why do you need to eat a pizza with a fork.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Because sometimes it gets messy, it may be greasy.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
I like to cut every now and then pick it up.

Speaker 9 (24:20):
Well, I block my pizza and everyone makes fun of
me for that. Oh, like get in the grease sauce
just a little bit. I mean, Lord knows, I'm not
getting it all off. But I sometimes when it's really wet,
I'm like, I don't really want all that.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
I just feel like I feel cute when I use
a knife and a fork. I have to eat boneless
wings with a knife and a fork.

Speaker 11 (24:35):
Ooh, I do people do? I wouldn't if I had.
If I had to eat that, I won't eat that.
I do the wings with bones, I do know. Yeah,
but if I had to, like I don't think I would,
I would use my hands.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Do you use the knife prefer yes, boneless wings?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, I use a fork if there's super saucy than
I would. Yeah. Yeah, I guess because I don't need
to pick it up because there's no bone. I've seen
people use a knife and a fork for ribs, and
I've seen people use a knife and for chicken wings
and there's not that much meat. Okay, So like I'm sorry,
I'm picking it up now. Then again, I don't know.
I mean, I guess if you hear like a fancy

(25:10):
fancy is serving ribs, but ribs need to be picked up.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (25:13):
I use a fork sometimes, but I get the meat
off of it with it. Yeah, I just use it
like pick the meat off and then I go in
on the bone. And you guys gotta do both.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Do you have any etiquette rules that? Okay? So I've
got one from growing up, and I don't know if
it's a real rule or not, but this is a
rule in my house. My dad instilled this in us.
And my dad came along when I was like eight nine,
the guy who raised and adopted me, so I was
old enough to be like have to adjust to this rule.
It wasn't like it was ingrained to me as a child.

(25:41):
But he hates it when a waiter or a server,
waitress whatever, takes food away from the table before everyone
is done eating. He will slap their hand, like he
will physically stop them. And it is very difficult at
some restaurants because I guess some restaurants, like the management
or whatever is us about if there's an empty plate,

(26:02):
it needs to go.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, that's true, and so.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Like, so what will happen is, especially they're working in teams,
he'll have to do it multiple times because like they'll
come see a plate and they'll go to take it
because that's what they are supposed to do, that's what
they were training. And he doesn't want it because he
feels like it rushes everyone else who's still eating. So like,
if you're a really fast eater and you're done and
I take the plate away and now it's just you
and me and your plate still there, it's like I'm

(26:25):
just sitting there looking at you. Yeah, But if I
have a plate in front of me, it's like I'm
still eating, you're still eating, so you don't have to
be rush. He cannot stand it.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
I can't stand that.

Speaker 9 (26:34):
Like people will wait for me if I'm not seated
at the table to start eating. I know it's like
a respect thing, but like eat your food, you know
what I mean, Just get started.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I don't think we all need to wait for everyone
to be seated.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh that's another one. That's another one. If everyone doesn't
have their food then yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (26:48):
Usually I'm last because I'm like doing stuff for grabbing
stuff and i'd rather not feel like people are waiting
for me.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Just enjoy.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
If you guys have anything that your parents made you
do that may or may not have been real etiquette,
it just is ingrained in you because yeah, that one.
That one like to this day, and I've had to
get kind of like comfortable with it because it has
become more commonplace that restaurants want the tables cleared, and
so it's like it's by the fourth time somebody comes
to take your plate's like, just take it right. I mean,

(27:15):
I don't want to argue with you. I'm I'm tired.
I'm tired. I'm tired. You're supposed to put your napkin
next to your plate, not on it. I'm going through
a list of these things. You're supposed to shield your
lemon when squeezing. No one does that. No one seems
to do that. But I don't know why that's not obvious.
Like if I've got a lemon and you're sitting next
to me, I know it's going to go everywhere if

(27:35):
I just go, you know, that's the noise it makes.
I don't know why that's the noise it comes to mind.
I don't know what what noise is squeezing and lemon
make I don't know. That's why I'm not the satified
guy in the show. You're always supposed to pass food
to the right. I didn't know that. I didn't know
that it mattered. You're always apparently you're supposed to meeter

(27:55):
the speed at which you eat your food, Like you're
supposed to eat slower on purpose, Like even if you're
really hungry, you're not supposed to just go at it.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
I guess because we eat more than we should that way.

Speaker 9 (28:05):
I mean, if I, like, like get distracted and take
a minute while I'm eating a meal, I'm like, WHOA,
I am full.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I just had to wait a second.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
You know, I'm supposed to introduce the person of higher
status first. So like if I'm in a room and
I suppose there's like I don't know the boss, and
then you guys, and I'm introducing to people, I'm supposed
to introduce the boss first because he's supposedly of higher status.
I say, supposedly, I would consider all of you of

(28:34):
higher status to them, but I apparently know but I
wouldn't do that though, I would introduce them you guys first,
because the people know you guys. They don't know who
that person is. You know what I'm saying, Like, if
we're going to an event, people want to meet you
guys first, so I would introduce you that you're the ones,
you're the stars, so I would introduce you guys first.
Apparently it's bad etiquette to add your boss on social media.

Speaker 9 (28:57):
What, Yeah, I don't like that our old boss isn't
here anymore. He kept following me, and I kept removing
him from my followers list in my Instagram because I
just don't need Like that's just gonna cause me.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Are we talking about the guy who only followed you
and no one else on the show?

Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, no, no, no, I let him follow me. But there
was a guy, a guy in this.

Speaker 9 (29:14):
Office that used to be here that I just I
just saw nothing good can come from this, So I
kept removing him from my followers.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Like why, like why are you watching? Yeah outside of work? Yeah,
but our but our boss, you know, our closer boss.
I let him follow me.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
There was one guy that he was a big wig
in the company. He is no longer, which that you know,
like every other person doesn't is no longer.

Speaker 7 (29:38):
That is.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Are abbution?

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, No, it's only once left and I don't know
for how much longer, but they he only followed he
met all of us, and I've known the guy for
like a decade. He does not follow me on social media. Okay,
I literally have known the guy since he was not
a big wig. And now again he doesn't work here anymore.
We had a meeting with all of us, we leave

(30:03):
the meeting and by the time, like five minutes later,
he's following Kaylen and only Kaylin and no one else.
And I've said something to him. When I finally said,
I said, I said to the guy, yeah, I go
do well. No, it was just like, can you be
a little less can you be a little more slick
next time? You know, like he obviously wants to see

(30:23):
your stuff and only your stuff, but maybe add the
rest of us so it doesn't look that obvious.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Oh what did he say?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I was like, dude, I've known you for a decade.
You only followed Kaylen And he was like, I don't
remember what he said. It was like, oh, I thought
I phoned. Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
Said, I get it though. Yeah, I kind of liked
that with my followers. I only want to see pretty stuff.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well, I can't. I can't understand why he would only
want to look at Kaylin and not my ugly ass.
But at the same time, it was like, can you
can you make it? Can you make it a little
bit less obvious? What?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
It was funny?

Speaker 1 (30:53):
But you're a creeper that you're a lecturess. So you
only follow pretty people? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (30:59):
Like, I only like to see pretty stuff on my timeline.
Ugly people on my timeline like it?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Like it triggers. I'm like, oh god, not you again,
Like why, so hut.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
To you again?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yes, I only like to see pretty stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Wow, thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I think you're complimenting me. I am okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well I don't. I don't think you have a choice
but to follow everyone else in this room.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Cute. I think we are a good looking show, especially
for radio.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Wow that note, especially for radio. So you only follow
pretty people?

Speaker 8 (31:32):
Yeah like, I only like to see pretty stuff on
my timeline. Ugly people on my timeline like it? Like
it triggers, Oh God, not you again?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Like wow, so hut to you again? The French Show
is on. I got a hot take, and I've said
it before. I got a hot take. Honestly, you're in
a public restroom.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Lets you just take the wheel, let's put our cheeks together.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
You can you can cover, you can cover all the
toilet seat you want. But then you touch the stall,
you touched, door, you touched, the sink, you touched, you touched. Honestly,
there's there really is no avoiding of all the places
on my body. They're going to get nasty. It may
as well be my booty, because I'm not touching my booty.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
You put your raw clapus.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I do. I do in a hotel room. And if
we're in a situation where I'm in public and I'm
having to do that, and you know, I try and
avoid that at all costs. You know, if there's any
chance of that happening, I cancel my plans. I try,
and I'll plant out my whole day based on making
sure that I don't have to do there's not a
situation like that on the go. I really don't like
public rest ristrooms at all.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
I don't either.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
I don't even like to breathe in them. I just don't.
I don't. But then then I'll go get on an
airplane and sit down and you know, just PLoP down.
Here we go, because you know, what I've lost control
at that point. I've lost control of the germs, like
they're everywhere, there's nothing you can do. And I feel
the same way about a public restroom, like, honestly, the
bottom of my booty is I'm never going to touch

(32:57):
that goes right back in my pants. Ever been left
waiting by the phone. It's the Fred Shell. Hey Mitch,
good morning, welcome to the show. How are you.

Speaker 12 (33:07):
I'm doing good man, Just have a little issue.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, yeah, So Giselle is a woman that you met
at a bar. So you guys met out in the wild,
you met in public, which I think, Yeah, you would
think that would make a big difference, right, You would
think it would make a difference that you know that
that that you meet someone out actually, so you like
you kind of get a vibe for the chemistry and stuff,
because it can be hard to do on the apps
you don't know who you're dealing with.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah, one hundred percent. If I prefer to like connecting
real time, you know.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, so what happened? Where are we at?

Speaker 7 (33:36):
So?

Speaker 10 (33:36):
Yeah, like we met at a.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Bar and you know, uh, just like off the jump,
I thought she was cute. We I felt like we
hit it off exchange numbers and you know, we're flirty
on text, like the vibes are good. We even started
planning like like our first date, but uh, you know,
it just kind of completely disappeared, and there's like with
no lime or reason. There wasn't like a follow up.

(33:59):
So I just feel like, you know, I could tell
if like I can vibe if it's if it's not working,
you know what I mean. But it just felt like
it was cool and then it just stopped. Okay, I'm
just kind of confused.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Let's do this. We're gonna call Gazelle. You'll be on
the phone at the same time. We're gonna ask some
questions on your behalf. At some point you're welcome to
jump in on a call, and the hope is that
we can figure out, you know, why you've never heard
from her again after what you thought was a successful date.
Hopefully we can come up with something, you know, a
good response he's been busy or not feeling well or
something came up, and then we'll set you guys up

(34:28):
on another date that we paid for us.

Speaker 10 (34:29):
So good.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, perfect, Hey, Mitch, go, let's call this woman Gazelle.
You guys met at the bar, you thought she was cute.
You guys exchanged numbers and you started planning your your
first date, I guess. But then you've reached out to
her since then, trying to you know, you met in person, right,
so now you're trying to plan the date you talked about,
and she gave you her numbers. So these are all
good signs, except she's not responded to you since then,

(34:53):
and you want to know what's going on?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Yeah, exactly, all right.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Let's call uh, let's call Jazel now, good luck, Mitch. Hi?
Is this Giselle Hijazelle? Good morning. My name is Fredam
calling from the Fred's Show. The whole crew is here.
It's 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.

(35:16):
Is that okay if we chat for a little bit? Okay? Yes,
So we're calling on behalf of a guy named Mitch.
I guess you guys met out at a bar, recently,
exchanged numbers, talked about going on a date. Do you
remember her for him? Him? Mitch is the guy. Sorry,
I guess I thought that was implied, but anyway, you

(35:37):
remember the guy. All right, So what happened? Because he
I mean, he said he went up to you. You
guys chatted in person, you changed numbers, talked about a date.
I mean, you knew what you were dealing with. I
guess you probably didn't have to give him your number
or agree to a date. But then you've disappeared. So
what's going on?

Speaker 7 (35:52):
Sorry, this is weird.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
No, it's weird. No, it's definitely weird, no doubt about that.
All Right, Well.

Speaker 7 (36:01):
Whatever, I recently got out of a four year relationship
and like, it was bad, my ex cheated on me.
It was awful. The breakups been along a lot of
hard work for me to get through.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (36:14):
I met Mitch and yeah, he was really cute and
I thought we had a connection. But like on the
night that we went out, I I don't know. I
started kind of like piecing some things together throughout the night,
things started kind of clicking. Okay, I realized how small.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
This world is.

Speaker 7 (36:32):
Mitch, it turns out, is the ex boyfriend of the
girl that my boyfriend cheated on me with.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Okay, Mitch is the ex boyfriend of a woman who
your ex boyfriend cheated on. Okay, I'm just haveing clear here.
So you were cheated on by Mitch's ex girlfriend? What
was I have to do with him? Though?

Speaker 7 (36:54):
Well, like the connection, the situation, like, it's been really
hard for me to get through. I don't know how
you would feel. But if your wife's cheated on you
and then you started dating.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
It's just so complicated.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
I can't even like, do you understand me?

Speaker 7 (37:10):
You get it like you're in a long relationship with
the one and they cheat on you, and then you
go on a date with the person that that person
was in a relationship with. That connection is not okay
in my world.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
I don't know. I mean, you both couldn't you commiserate
over both being cheated on? I mean, I've heard of
this happening, by the way, I've heard of you know,
it does seem a little strange, but I've heard about
people's exes getting together.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
Right, Well, we don't have to This was cheated on
by the girlfriend. Maybe they had already broken up, right,
I guess we don't know.

Speaker 7 (37:37):
I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty bother them
either way.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
It's too close to home.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Yeah, it's too many feelings about the situation to go
on a date with somebody that is remotely connected to
the woman that helps my boyfriend cheat on me.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I get that.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Let me. Mitch is here. I forgot to mention the
Mitches here. I'm very forgetful. I apologize. Mitch. Did you
did you put that together? Did you? I guess I'm
assuming you didn't. And and and by the way, were
you cheated on when you were active in a relationship
with this woman the other woman?

Speaker 12 (38:06):
Well, hey, Joe, I had no idea. So wait, no,
me and Allison weren't together. But wait, went like, I mean,
that's still weird, like Allison right, like.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
You're with Allison?

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Oh yeah, how could I forget?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Well, I guess I don't know why he's being penalized
for that is my thing. Why are we taking this
out on him? He didn't do anything.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
It's not that it has anything to do with Mitch.
It has everything to do with the hoe bag and
the ex and looking at the situation, it's too close
to home. This is a huge city and that's the
person I went on a date with.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 13 (38:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:48):
That kind?

Speaker 4 (38:49):
I mean, you could have told me there, I understand.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
You know you're there, like how's that for?

Speaker 7 (38:55):
How do you bring that up on a first date? Like, Hey,
I know we've been talking for like an hour, but
I'm pretty sure the last person you banged banged my
last person.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
I bank just like that.

Speaker 9 (39:05):
Is it a good time to date it you're still
so hurt by it, I wonder like I'm saying that, no.

Speaker 7 (39:11):
It's not, which is why I stopped talking to this person.
I'm clearly not ready to be in a relationship.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
So that's fair, that's fair. That's in a perfect world.
You have that conversation with him, and I understand you're
not obligated to do that, but I suppose you could
have maybe and I'm not criticizing you, but you could
have maybe not given him your number or or release.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
Yeah, this is a soft crash in my world, Like yeah,
let me just do I know. I'm going to deal
with it personally, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, I get that, And I guess the communication here
was was broken down. But that is a very small world,
I will say, And I think you know what flex
would be for you two to hook up and then
you know, maybe send some pictures accidentally, you know, be
a little lot ketty about it.

Speaker 7 (39:52):
It's that crossed my mind. I was thinking about all
the ways we could revenge. But man, I'm trying to
be a better person.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Why right, what exactly what good does that do?

Speaker 7 (40:03):
All? Right?

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Because by the way, you were wrong so I think
you know, and this wouldn't be wrong. You were wronged
by being cheated on. This wouldn't be wrong, and it
would be pretty good, you know, pretty sweet revenge. However,
I assume you're not interested in going out with him
now if we pay for it, Mitch.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
I think we could be friends and definitely plan retaliation.
But yeah, I'm sorry it's hurts you in anyway. I'm
just not ready for gating.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (40:28):
Okay, Yeah, I don't want to if someone's not emotionally available,
I don't want to, you know, invention that either, you know,
I understand.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
I guess.

Speaker 10 (40:36):
Just you know, it's okay if we stay in touch
and you.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Know, if you want to talk about it or whatever,
I'm here for you.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
We have a great budget for this because we very
rarely hooked people up. So if you guys want to
go on a friend date and plan retaliation, then hit
us up. We'll pay for it. But thank you both
for your time. Best of luck to both of you,
and it's the Fread Show. Good morning, thanks for having
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of my favorite shirt So what have you guys? Gave
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(41:03):
on and the question that you had for belahmine was
Bella hemine.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Welcome, get in here. Hey, Fred, feel scared?

Speaker 1 (41:14):
You have your phone? We can just text you right anyway? Okay, okay, sorry, No,
you don't have to be sorry. What what what is this? Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:21):
What did I do?

Speaker 1 (41:22):
What is No? I'm asking you what my shirt?

Speaker 7 (41:24):
What?

Speaker 2 (41:25):
What is that? That's Blockbuster?

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Yeah? And how old are you?

Speaker 2 (41:28):
I'm twenty seven?

Speaker 1 (41:29):
And do you know what this is? Yes?

Speaker 2 (41:30):
I know Blockbuster? Fred?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
I don't think you would you know what this is?

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Have you been to one? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:37):
When?

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Well, when's the last time you've.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
So you know what this is? Because Blena was very
worried that you didn't know what my shirt said.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
I just didn't Axel, No, I know what that is.

Speaker 14 (41:47):
I just I told Katy the other day. I didn't
know the difference between Jared. What was that? What was
that guy's name Jared Leto and Jared Leto and J
and j Letto?

Speaker 1 (41:57):
And yes, I was really you know the difference between
Jared Leto and Jay Leno?

Speaker 9 (42:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:05):
I was so confused me neither girl?

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I mean, okay, it's not just wildly different people though.

Speaker 14 (42:12):
Yeah, I also don't know the difference between Christina Aguilera
and what and uh oh god, what's that girl's name?

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Gwen Stefani? But come next to each other? I don't
know which ones which girl?

Speaker 11 (42:21):
Now you lost me the Jared j Lenel think Okay,
I can see that because.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
The name of how similar?

Speaker 1 (42:25):
How wait? How could you see that the differenceween Jared
Leto and j.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
You put them together in side by side.

Speaker 11 (42:33):
Yes, but if like Kaylen did an entertainment report and
brought it up, I might confuse at you?

Speaker 2 (42:38):
How right? The names are just too similar?

Speaker 11 (42:41):
Yeah, but now Gwen Stefani and Christina aguilar are, Jared.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
And J are not the same name at all? Ja
and J.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
No, I guess it.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Anyways, So probably didn't think that you knew what this
shirt meant, and I just I was curious. I was hoping,
I mean, at twenty seven that you knew when Blackbuster was.
But there's probably some someone listening now, maybe some young
kid who has no idea.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
No, we all know, we've been informed. Have you ever
been to one?

Speaker 1 (43:07):
You have? So you've rented I assume a DVD.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Well I never did, but because I'm too little.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
But my mom, oh, I see, So you accompanied somebody
inside a Blockbuster.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yeah, it's like a library.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
It sort of was like a library, right, it was.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
It's get yeah, yeah, you can check them out. That's good.
That's kind of good.

Speaker 7 (43:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, w.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
A v VHS sate. Yeah, I had a lot. Ok yeah,
because my sister, oh, her sister's millennial.

Speaker 14 (43:34):
Yeah, I'd like to speak with her.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Three thirty two, I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Okay, So, and I always get these wrong. I'm gen
X slash millennial, but more I mean, like on the
cost of I guess most of you are millennials and
your gen Z.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Okay, I'm ninety eight, so this is the list.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
I'm twenty one. I know Blockbuster. Someone texted, well, that's good.
I'm twenty three. I used to go to a Blockbuster. Okay, good,
thank god. Okay, we build that form, well, I do it.
Paulina was worried about it, whether that you knew, because
one did.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Like the Netflix era start right, like what age group?

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Well, I would think it would be hers, Yeah, probably.
I think the DVDs in the mail were like late
mid to late two thousands.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Right, I think so.

Speaker 14 (44:15):
Yeah, I remember when Netflix only did DVDs and you
would get a mail to your house.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Yeah, yeah, good times.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Yeah, a couple of times. But that was your version
of Blockbuster. And I was talking to someone the other day.
Fifty million bucks, I believe, was the number that Netflix
offered to sell to Blockbuster for five zero fifty million
dollars and now they're worth like fifty billion. Wow, let
me see it again. OK. Up the other day no,
excuse me, five hundred and sixteen billion dollars. So Blockbuster

(44:46):
could have bought Netflix for five zero fifty million, and
instead they said, no, why would we do that. Blockbuster
will need you. Now Blockbuster's gone and they're worth five
hundred and sixteen billion dollars. One Blockbuster left in Oregon. Yeah. Yeah,
there was a whole documentary about him. How they like,

(45:07):
I don't know how they do it.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
I don't where they're getting all the DVD is from
I don't know, right, someone's basement. Yeah, I don't know
how it's all working.

Speaker 14 (45:13):
Don't sell DVDs, you guys, it's like target.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Well okay, but how do you play it? I mean
like I just actually donated a bunch of DVDs because
I guess everyone that's true. I don't know, you don't.
I always he's a huge gamer, but he's more of
a switch to guy, now, you know, more of a
switch to not switch one or no, certainly not certainly not. Yeah,

(45:39):
I mean I'm sorry I haven't sent you three already
because you know you're on the cutting edge as a
gaming influencer, right, well, yeah, the g yeah, the game,
the game for sure, you get that locked that down, right,
I know a podcast you're gaming, ga, Jason. Okay, so

(46:02):
to get on this eight five five five three five
and you can call him text the same number, but Bella,
stay here because so these are things but well you
you are your gen X why why why? I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know what all those things are.
And then you guys just keep saying letters and now
I'm really confused. Ze Okay, So these are things that

(46:26):
basically that our parents would have most of our parents
would have allowed us to do. And I just want
to get your reaction to like how this would have
gone in your house. Then again, your parents are a
little while your parents are are a little I mean,
I've talked to your mom. She's a little while Apparently
your dad's trite and believes that he needs airtime now
too to speak about his mayoral duties, which does not
happening because I can't. I can't provide equal time to
your whole family, Nor can I provide equal time to

(46:48):
the entire you know political uh uh, you know the
landscape of California. There are actual election laws against this.
His competitor would have to get equal airtime.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
I don't know, he's not it doesn't have a competitors.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Well, he wouldn't that. Yeah, so he ran unposed. So
he did.

Speaker 13 (47:05):
He's gain him opinion, And why is he about it.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
He's just jealous that my mom is on air. He's
just jealous.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I'm sure your dad's a lovely man. But if he
ran unopposed, I mean that's that he volunteered basically those
campaign dollars, if no one ran against him, he didn't
really win or lose. He just sort of is okay. Anyway,
here's my question. I want to know from the people
at home and the people in the room, and then you,
as the youngest member, how this would have gone on

(47:33):
in your house for example? Okay, were you allowed to
just well you kind of grew up in it. Did
you always grow up in kind of a smaller town. Yeah,
maybe maybe this doesn't apply as much to you. But
were you allowed to just roam the neighborhood?

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (47:46):
It depends my It depends how old I was, if
I was in trouble, like you know, like grounded.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
When you were old enough and not in trouble, could
you roam? Yeah, for the most part, But like my
mom would want to know where.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Well, I'm not talking about the time where you were
grounded or sleeping fellow, I.

Speaker 13 (48:04):
Mean like, were you allowed I'm wondering if you were
allowed on a time when you were conscious, ungrounded, not
in jail, right when the weather was nice, you know,
when they were most people weren't protesting.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Were you able to within the neighborhood? Yeah, okay, you
could in my neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
I'm in a different reality like that, don't I having
You guys are having a conversation. I'm having a conversation.
She's having a conversation. But it's not the same conversation. Okay,
because because like as kids, like when I was young,
it was and it was just you know, ride your bike, go,
just go, And there was no way really for us

(48:43):
to get you know, there were no cell phones. Maybe
a pager, but I didn't have one really, I mean,
there was really no way to know where we were,
what we were doing. I mean they were payphones, but
we didn't really use those. And it was like, hey,
go at you know, nine am or whatever, and just
come back before it gets dark, which in Arizona in
the summer is like ten o'clo at night. And I'm
not saying my parents didn't care, but they did. There
was nothing was happening. See.

Speaker 14 (49:05):
That was that's where we differ. I had to have
a cell phone, so I wasn't allowed to roam. You
weren't really roaming, So I wasn't really roaming. I mean
like it felt like I was, but not really.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Okay, were you allowed to go to someone's house whose
parents your parents didn't know? Uh? Yes, okay, so you
could do that yes, because I guess that's the thing,
and that's that didn't happen. I mean, my wife went
to all kinds of people's houses and parties and stuff,
and my parents didn't ask where I was or or
who the people. They didn't interview the parents ahead of time.

(49:36):
They didn't call over there and see what was going on.
They weren't They weren't logged into the live stream, you know,
on YouTube or whatever to see. Okay, so you were
allowed to go to people's homes, so your parents didn't know.

Speaker 14 (49:47):
My parents were like, thank god, okay, were you.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Allowed or slash when you're given the opportunity to go
hang out in them mall all day? Was that even
a thing you could do?

Speaker 7 (49:57):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (49:58):
I hung at them all.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Because that was something when we were like before we
could drive. That was what like three or four dudes
in the weekend we get dropped off of the mall
and then three or four girls dropped off of the
mall and it was essentially a date, but it wasn't
a date, and we would we didn't have any money,
so we maybe eat, maybe we had money to eat,
you know, but like, yeah, we would just walk around
in circles in the mall, and you know, it was

(50:19):
like a little flirty walk I dabbled kind of thing. Okay,
so you were able to well, here there are people
growing up right now who don't even probably know there
are towns for them. There isn't a mall, right or
there's nothing there to do, so like you wouldn't walk
around the mall. Okay. And by the way, this is
a list that was made by a website. It's eleven

(50:40):
things that parents of gen X kids did that would
be considered a neglect today.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
My parents neglected me.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
I guess. So were you expected to cook your own food?
Apparently now you don't have to cook your own food
or something.

Speaker 14 (50:54):
I always cooked with my parents because my parents are chefs,
so I like they wanted me to learn how to cook.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
That was a big thing.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Like if you wanted to make something and you were
eight years old or ten and they weren't there, maybe
that wasn't even a thing either. But I mean, were
you allowed to, you know, tear on the stove and
cook an egg or something if you wanted.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
To, I would.

Speaker 14 (51:14):
The thing is I was really lucky because I grew
up with a house with a lot of food, so
I never really had that.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
You never had to cook it? Okay, right, well I.

Speaker 14 (51:20):
Did, but like not like I never cooked eggs by
myself or anything.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Plus I'm the youngest, so my sister was always home.
I was never really alone.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
You hit people serving on you, serving you? Okay? Are
your nieces and nephews who are much younger, are they
allowed to do any of that stuff? Like can they
go roam in the neighborhood.

Speaker 8 (51:35):
And they can go to the park, but there's cell
phones with locations on them, so that doesn't really count.
They're not allowed to cook. Everybody gets door dashed or
uber eats, now what?

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Okay, So that's okay, So don't turn the stovea on
that because you might burn the house down or whatever.

Speaker 8 (51:49):
I know, I was crying up pork chops at teams,
you know' making spaghetti, Oh.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Yeah, noodles rice. You had to make rice, and you
had to make eggs, oh oh yeah, and knew how
to make mac and cheese. Oh yeah, no, there was no.
It wasn't order of peacha every time you're hungry. No, no, interesting.
I didn't touch a stove until I was definitely in
my twenties. We talked about this yesterday, making babies cry
it out. I guess that's not a thing that people

(52:15):
do anymore. It's just let the baby cry out, because
you knowa Pauline was talking about how little baby Gigi, you know,
gets mad as stuff and like hits and whatever at
one year old, which is you know, and tells her
mom to f off and you know, leave and stuff
like that. That's crazy and one, it's a lot of
angst in that kid already. But you know, the thing
was you just let them have the outburst and just
let them do it. But I do think that like

(52:36):
in this day and age, the people would be annoyed
or they would actually think you were not doing your
job if your kid freaks out in the store and
you just let them freak out and walk around like that, right, yeah,
I mean that's what you're supposed to do, I thought
as a parent, But I don't know that people wouldn't
call CPS on you. Now if you were walking around,
you know, the jewel or the Walgreens or whatever, and
your kid was just screaming because you just weren't going

(52:56):
to deal with the fact that you were going to
buy him the popsicles or the toy or whatever the
cops show up for them, like abuse now or something.
Letting kids figure things out themselves. Ignoring school bullies. Now,
this is a more controversial topic because bullying has gotten
far more sophisticated now. I mean, it's the same spirit
of idiots saying mean things to other people because they're

(53:18):
projecting that they're actually the loser, which is the thing
that your parents always tell you when you're growing up,
Like when the kid's making fun of you and saying
mean things about you, it's like, well, this person actually
is very insecure about themselves and they make that. You know,
it's a terrible quality that someone people to make themselves
feel better by putting you down, and you're going to
grow up to be really successful and great, so don't
worry about them, you know. That's the advice I got

(53:41):
about bullies. But my parents weren't calling the school saying
don't bully my kid. My parents weren't calling the parents.
But my parents were like, this is part of life,
and people are always going to be a holes. And
that's true to this day, and I'm forty four years old,
and there are still people who get off on other
people's failures and meaning, so like, if you're not equipped
for that, then I don't know how well you're going

(54:01):
to do in the real world. But I will admit
you know, it's gotten. It's gotten far more dramatic, far
more drastic. The accessibility with technology and social media and
the ways that people are bullying are far vaster than
they were. But as it pertains to just kids being
mean to kids, I don't know how much of their
that there is anymore. How did your parents deal with

(54:21):
you being bullied?

Speaker 14 (54:22):
Well, my dad's Italian so.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
Ap to them, there's a big hole in your backyard,
so he said, put.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Me on the radio side.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I put your mother on the air, and I let
her speak freely. She doesn't even know my name.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
I know, Jeff. No. My dad and my mom would
give very opposite advice. My Dad's like, let me know
who they are. I want to talk to them.

Speaker 14 (54:54):
I was like, he's like very confrontational, and my mom's
just like, who cares, just like blow it off their losers.
And so I would never really listen to my dad
in that sense. I mean, like a couple of times
I did, and I probably shouldn't have, but I tried
to stick with what my mom said because it felt
a little more rash.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
When you egged the car. Oh, yeah, that is true.

Speaker 14 (55:16):
Maybe I am like my dad? Well I did I Okay,
it sounds like your.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Dad would actually kill people with his bare hands, and
you egged a car, so you're not like your dad
a car.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I threw poop at the people's cars.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Here's poop. Oh I thought I thought you were gonna
say you're poop.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
I was worried.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
In this segment. Is you're not the person to talk
to you? Are you a bully?

Speaker 5 (55:38):
No?

Speaker 14 (55:38):
Somebody egged my house and I didn't even know who
they were, and so I retaliated with dog poop.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
That's what it's giving. Okay, so you bully. Your parents
basically raised you like you were one of us. So
this is not You're not the person to talk to.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
So sorry, like the bullying.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Thing, I know, i'd look like and someone's gonna text
up here and go, oh the you know, terrible example
of this? Then, yes, of course there are extreme examples, and
there are ways that people are bullying now that they
couldn't bully a sten. But I do say that there's
something too kids being mean to kids and you've got
to teach your kids how to manage that because it's
not going to go away in adulthood. And so like

(56:13):
if you take your kid out of school or if
you I don't know a lot of different things that
I've heard of people do or homeschool your kid simply
because you don't want to expose them to certain things
that are mean. I understand that that sort of desire,
But like what happens then when it's time for your
kid to go out and get a job and be
in the real world and someone's mean to them and
they don't know what to how to cope with that

(56:34):
or what to do because it's going to happen because
people are mean.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Oh yes, my dad taught me how to punch mine.
Is that bad? No?

Speaker 1 (56:42):
But the rule in our house was don't hit unless
you're you have men hit. If you get hit, then
you can hit. That was my thing. Yes, And that's different.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
For what I got first on the butt with a stick. Yeah,
when we were in kindergarten. And so my dad taught
me how to throw a punch kindergarten. Yeah, yeah, throw
a punch. And so the next day he said, there
he is and I punched him.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
If if boy, th guess, if a man hits a woman,
then you can do what you gotta do a.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Man, it's a woman. He was a little boy. He's
really fat.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
That's what. Well, that's what I just said, though.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
I just said, you had a welt on my butt.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
She was little and it was just she was a child.
But like, if if a man hits a woman, then
you know, a woman can retell you in whatever way
she pleases, except you know, poop. There's the one went
there too, Hey, Jose, Jose? Okay, why did we call Jose?

Speaker 7 (57:28):
So?

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Like, why do we call the radio station and then
we don't say anything? Maybe put him on hold and
then pick him back up one more time, Jose, because
I hear that there's like a phone on. Okay, Well
that was fun, thanks, Jose. I agree with you that.
I mean, what insightful? What insightful feedback there? And honestly,

(57:50):
but the middle, the middle part of that call touched
me the most. I think when he really got into
his childhood and talked about it.

Speaker 9 (57:55):
Was like when he was talking, time had no meaning.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
He could have gone on forever.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Was for me, it was poetic, like the guy is
a true orator. Like a lot of people say that,
like like Barack Obama can speak and Martin Luther King,
But when Jose talks to me, it's like I'm the
only person in the room.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
I'm a different person, you know what.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
A true speaker.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Yeah, he was great, a true.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Orator, you know what I mean? Yeah, I was. I
was totally just locked in on everything he had to say.
I feel like, Jose, know, your mic is very much
on and you can speak. What an incredible speech. Okay,
Well anyway, and I was just I was wondering if
any of this related to you, because because you do

(58:39):
represent that generation, but I think your parents made made
it such that none of them represent. No, it's okay,
it's okay. You can go now and probably they can
come back have a nice day, because that's that's where
we're at now, is with this is we have to
switch people, physically, switch human beings so that we have
enough people to do the jobs rather and the door.

(59:00):
Then I tell her, no, we don't really follow directions.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Someone has a voodoo all of me and they're poking it.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Okay, I'll stop. I'm sorry. Oh damn, Okay, I think
I've been poking it for years. I didn't think this
thing worked. But out of context, that's going to be something.
I've been poking it for years, and I didn't think
this thing worked. That Fred's show is on. I don't
have an issue with a woman proposing to me. I
just know. I mean, if that's what she wants to do,

(59:39):
then you know we're so it would It would depend
on the circumstances.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
If you liked her and loved her a lot.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
I guess if I I guess to be honest with you, though,
knowing myself, if if if I felt that way, that
I would have already done it. I would have been
the one to do it. So odd. Sorry, if someone's
having to propose to me, then then I probably wasn't
in a big hurry to do it, or I wasn't
even as big of a hurry to do it. Do
you have what it takes to battle?

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
You're definitely gonna be callina battle. Not today.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
No, No, I'm feeling good about today. I think today's
gonna be a good day. He I think you're gonna win.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
It's time to sing your song that we all need
to hear each week.

Speaker 11 (01:00:26):
I have a song to sing for the people that
believe in me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Because I got this.

Speaker 11 (01:00:32):
I'm gonna tie myself and then I'm gonna throw a
party and you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Guys are all invited. Hey what soup bayy?

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
I like it? Your challenger Today we go live to
Jane Hi, Jane, Hi there, good good morning. Fun fact
about you, Jane would be I'm obsessed with you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Fred.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
You know what you win? You win winner, ding ding ding.
We don't have to play the game. Well, I would
urge you to aim higher. But okay, I'm very grateful.
Thank you, James, Oh.

Speaker 10 (01:01:11):
Thank you Bertie.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
You guys wake me up every morning. Well we we
do something. So ninety one win in t one hundred
and one loss is He'm definitely gonna beat Pauline. And
these are just general knowledge questions. Shelley was out one
day and Paulina filled in, and we did this and
the people demanded it, constantly demanding this game. If we
could do it every hour, we would. If we did,
people wouldn't be happy enough.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Well, pay stand out time with forks.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
I've been trying to stage a protest in several cities
where we're not doing as well. I've been trying to
get a protest in a square of Salt Lake City
for some time now, and we can't get anyone. I
can't even get anyone to protest. But it's it's terrible,
all right, So let's play the game, guys. Good luck,
all right, good luck? Okay, one day, one day we'll
hit the top ten in Salt Lake City. One day. Okay,

(01:01:58):
maybe maybe fifteen. Maybe one day we'll hit the top fifteen, dreaming.
Yeah right, let's keep let's keep our goals realistic. Question
number one, Jane, which Disney princess is known for losing
a glass slipper? Albany is the capital of which US state?

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Three?

Speaker 5 (01:02:20):
Two Alabama, Jane, We often forget about Albany.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
We shouldn't, but we do. How many days does February have?
How many days is February happen during during a leap year?
Let me finish the question during a leap year. Let
me nine on a classic rainbow as opposed to a
drunk one. What color immediately comes after red?

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
Orange?

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
And how many items are there in a Baker's dozen?
All right, that's a four. That's a good score. A
tie does go to Paulina. So because we only played
a game once two weeks, so we're not doing tie
breakers four Paulina, Wow, okay, all right, you ready?

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I think at least a tie. I think at least
a time maybe a five for you today?

Speaker 7 (01:03:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Which Disney princess is known for losing a glass slipper?

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
That Cinderella?

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Right? It is? Albany is the capital of which US city?

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Oh? Wait, city Albany?

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Say no, no, hold on, sorry, I'm staying corrected. It's cities
have capitals, guys, Albany is the capital of which US state.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
New York, New York, New York State.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
I confused? I confused you. How many days does February
have during a leap year?

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Twenty nine?

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Yeah? I can always tell when you're not when you
really don't know. Because you go five on a classic
rainbows supposed to one that's on crack? What color immediately
comes after red?

Speaker 9 (01:04:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Is it? You would remember that? The ray? I always
remember this, roygibiv roygibib.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Wow, it's cool. I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Yeah, Yeah, it's is it cool?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
You know that? I really did?

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Are you wildly impressed? Yeah? And how many items are
there you have to get this? Actually? How many items
are there in a Baker's dozen.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
Oh we talked about this. That's some Oh bakers does.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
We're always talking about this.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
We're always at thirteen.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
It is thirteen. It's thirteen. That's a tie. That is
officially a win for you, probably a win number ninety
two see record ninety two and one hundred and one. However, Jane,
because you said you were obsessed with me, and because
everybody wins in this game, you get a prize of
some form, so I want you to enjoy a prize
of some form. Okay, I will thank you so much,

(01:05:11):
and Jane, thank you so much for your dedication. Have
a great day. You sound like a popular person. Tell
all your friends about our little program because we always
need it. The Fread Show is on Fread's Fun Fact.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Fread Fun.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Learn so much. Did you know that smelling green apples
helps with weight loss? Research stated that the smell can
help curb your hunger. The neutral, sweet scent that comes
from green apples and bananas is enough to temporarily forget
about hunger. That's what you gotta do the next time

(01:05:54):
you're hungry, Just put a green apple to sniff that
thing just right. I mean I wouldn't be the worst
thing I adore if you ate the apple too. But yeah,
then you wouldn't be able to stif it anymore. Then
you want to beat the big Mac. You smelling green
and apples. I always eat an apple before my big Mac.
You know, it's all about balance, you know,