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November 13, 2025 13 mins

The House passed a bill that ended the 43 government shut down. The US will stop production of the penny. A man from Palm Springs says his face has been used in romance scams.

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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Text making questions complicated. That's how we love the Fred Show. Yeah,
I mean it was very simple. You get one choice
or another, live music or sex. I don't know, Fred,
what about the due point? What's the due point?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't know? What about that?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Is there snow.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Right? I don't know, though, I'm not sure is there?
Is it a low pressure system or a high pressure
system prevailing?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't know. I asked you a simple question. I
love that.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Fred asked more questions about who the concert is, then
who the sexual partner is? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah? Well yeah? And then someone else made an excellent point.
Sex all day?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Every day you could listen to music while having sex.
You could even have sex and have a band present
if you wanted to.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
What you could do it at the concert?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Thank you? Thank you? Exactly have you done it? No?
I haven't actually not a concert? Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
What if you could only do one? What if you
only pick one for the rest of your life? You
could either you could either go to live shows and
and never have sex again.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I'm what you approve. Or I should have I should
have been out here Live Nacy to hire me. I
got to ask the questions. I'll go to fifteen countries
and talk to forty thousand people. Maybe I'll have sex
with some of them well in the count But of
course Live Nations said music over. Of course they die
because they're not selling the other one. Okay, but all right,
So there's there's the question that we're moving on from this.

(01:57):
But is it you can pick one or the other
for the rest of your You can go to concerts
and not have sex. You can have sex and not
go to concerts. What do you pick concerts?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Really? Do you think that?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Do you think that because you've been in a relationship
for fifteen years you answer the question differently?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So there's I mean, yeah, I think so, but I
can't imagine the insufferable pain I would be in knowing
that Taylor Swift is performing here and I can't go
because I chose sex the rest of my life.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
That almost happened anyway, because we can't afford it, so
because we can't afford to buy the table.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
So I can't put myself in that position, which is
why I had to listen from my balcony. Right, all right,
Paulina one, for the rest of your life. This is
this is a defining decision.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's got complicated. I would probably still say probably.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Sucks, just because I can't go without it that long,
not the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Y'll play music in the background and the cake. You's
just gonna do it at the concert. So that's fine. Yeah,
it's all good.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
The House passed a funding package late last night to
end the forty three day government shutdown in a two
two two vote. The bill includes three full year spending
bills for some parts of the government, extends funding for
the rest until January thirtieth. That team complicated to me,
which means another budget fight's expected early next year. Yay

(03:14):
love that the Mega Million's jackpot is on the verge
of hitting a billion dollars a billion guys. The longest
ever run without a winner continued in the latest draw.
The estimated jackpot for the drawing on Friday now stands
at nine hundred and sixty five million dollars at the
no ticket match, all six numbers drawn overnight on Tuesday,
cash value four hundred and forty five point three million dollars. Guys,

(03:39):
the penny is dead. It's over, it's done. The penny
has gone. On Wednesday, the United States Mint in Philadelphia.
Maybe it's final circulating penny, which will be on pond
Stars in like a year, and they're going, I don't know, man,
it's gonna be hard to sell. I can give you
a dollar for this. You ever watch pond Stars, Everything's
hard to sell. The guy comes in there with the
he comes in there with the constitutions.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I got a guy down the street. He knows a
lot about constitutions.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Let me get it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And then all of a sudden, as the dude still,
it just happens to be there. Oh I'm a constitutional expert.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
The guy gets it like a magnifying glass out and
within five seconds, he be able to authenticate Yeah, I'll
give you. I'll give you seventeen dollars for this. I
mean it may sit for a while. I'm not sure.
But the move follows a directive by President Donald Trump
earlier this year, citing the rising costs to produce each penny,
which it costs four cents to produce a penny. So

(04:29):
I'll let you just, you know, put that in your
pipe and smoke it for a while. Although no new
pennies will be minted for in general circulation, the billions
already in use will remain legal tender indefinitely. So there
was a question out there earlier you could still use them.
They're still worth a penny, there's well, technically they're worth
four that's try that next time you want to use
a penny, be like, well this is worth four cents actually, right,

(04:52):
So why am I only getting one cent for it?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
And see how that goes over? No sense? Yeah, it
makes no it makes no sense. You right? How many
of you in this room know who Bob Ross is? Me?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Me?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now that is shocking. Jason Brown doesn't know. He hasn't
seen any movie ever. He chooses live concerence over sex.
And and yet he knows who Bob Ross is.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
The right guy, the guy with the big hair, the painter, yeah,
the panther on pvs.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
The guy that would paint the happy trees, right, and
then he would paint this masterpiece in like, you know,
thirty minutes.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Start to finish. Yeah, hey, talk like this is a
happy little tree happy. He was high. I think this
is the happy tree. How they think about it.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yes, there's there's no mistakes, no mistakes. You just watched
his and be mesmerized. And I guess you're supposed to
do it along with him. I guess that was the
point that I was supposed to get my easel and
my Van Dyke brown out. Remember it was Van Dyke brown, Like,
I used a lot of Van Dyke brown. Like, what
how did that different from other browns? I'm not sure.
He would just mix it right. It all came out

(05:54):
perfect every time. So three Bob Ross paintings sold over
the weekend for six hundred thousand and an LA auction,
blowing past the pre sale estimates of fifty grand each.
The top seller, Winter's Peace, painted during a nineteen ninety
three episode of the Joy of painting went for three
hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Home in the Valley went
for two twenty nine, and the third painting, cliff Side

(06:17):
The Cliff Side, sold for one hundred and fourteen thousand,
eight hundred dollars. Proceeds will support public television stations that
are struggling after Congress cut a billion dollars in federal funding.
Additional ross works will be auctioned in coming months to
help small and rural stations that rely on licensing fees
for shows like America's Test Kitchen and This Old House.
For some reason, I watched This Old House on TikTok.

(06:37):
Sometimes I'm amazed at like people building rooms and things.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's like, hey, I got this crack in my house.
How do I fix it in my staircase? And then
here comes this old man who knows how to do
absolutely everything. And I love this guy and these people
because I don't know how to do any of it.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Like I feel like.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
You're either born into knowing how to work on stuff
or you're not. Yeah, because I just don't have it,
Like I simply don't have it. I can watch all
the YouTube videos and I'll try and take the projects
on myself, and I want to, probably want to. I'm
making it worse, but there's no I'm not building a
cabinet or a staircase that anyone should ever use. But

(07:16):
it looks so sad, Like Carpenter's listening right now. Who
can do that kind of stuff? It looks so satisfying,
like so satisfying to like when everything fits perfectly together
and it's just like, whoa you did that? Like can
you imagine walking into your kitchen every day and be like,
I all that I built that out of a tree.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
It was a tree, and then I did that. You
do your thing though. When it comes to the legos, yeah,
but it comes with instructions. Everything's already pre built. I'm
just saying. And even that I screw up sometimes and
have to go back and red feeling though, right, you
feel completed?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, I haven't been doing legos as regularly. I did
do a game Boy. I made a game Boy out
of legos, right, See, that's a big It's amazing, it's lit,
it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
That thing is so cool. It looks just like a game.
I have no idea how they do this. Amazing. Oh,
a j don't you do it to me? A text?

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Imagine being in a room with Bob Ross and Jimmy Fallon.
I don't know if I can do that. I think
my brain might actually, like like explode if I tried it.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Eh, happy is a happy little tree.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
But my buddy, my pals, Bob Ross is Oh, I
can't believe I can't.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I can't believe it. Oh, I got you somebuddy. Yeah, okay,
I can't do it.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I need to listen to more Jimmy because like after
I hear him for a minute that I'm really like
on it.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
But he's got his he's got his taglines.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Everyone's his buddy and his pal, and everything's the funniest
thing he's ever heard. Yeah, the good news about being
on The Tonight Show is that you would feel very
funny when you left, you know, because because he validates everything.
Yeah you know what I mean, Like he laughs, he
laughs hysterically. Oh my god, you know every single thing
you say like that would be amazing. Like if we
added him to the show, I'd walk out of here

(08:53):
thinking I was Chris Rock every single day because he'd
laugh at absolutely everything you say.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Hey, get a word in he'd be upside down in
the corner. He'd be on the table.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Is estificately coming by. For the past fifteen years, a
fitness trainer. His name is Scott Cole. He lives in
Palm Springs. He's noticed that his photo is used by
romance scammers on social media trying to lure women into
fake relationships, and so this is the face apparently for
fifteen years of romance scammers. They create profiles using this

(09:24):
guy's picture. I don't know why they chose him, Yeah,
but sometimes with made up would you be falling? No,
I don't have it in front of me. I'll get
it to you though. I Have you fallen for this? No?

Speaker 1 (09:36):
I have not. I've fought for a romance scam. No.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
But I saw this guy's photo and everything, and I
was like, well, I get it because he's actually good looking.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
But also number two.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
I was like, well, Pump Springs, Like, I mean, poor
man probably has like a boyfriend at home and then
now he's like on the dating app and it's probably
all the chaos behind it.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
So the scammers create profiles using his image, sometimes with
made up names or even his real name, on platforms
like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. One woman in your
from her LinkedIn inbox thought that she was chatting with
this guy by the name of Kevin, but it was
his picture, only to find that the photo was actually
this guy's. The guy asked her for money for a
fake work problem, prompting her to reverse image search and

(10:14):
discover the truth before losing her money. Cole says that
he has received hundreds of messages from women around the
world who either lost money or nearly did, and despite
filing reports with platforms and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
the misuse of his likeness continues. So someone somewhere in
the world thinks that this guy is it, Like, this is.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
The guy, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, he is.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
This is a man who is so hot that people
will give all of their money to his face. I
think I would be honored. I think I would be
honored if, like you're using my you somewhere in wherever
country this is happening, you believe that I'm the guy
that's so good looking that you just I will mesmerize
your victims into giving you money.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's a flex.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'd be honored. And finally, you know, I have a
lot of questions. But a Pennsylvania man says that he
was accidentally shot by his own dog.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Let's just listen to this. Just listen.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, no, no, no, no, you're supposed to laugh, but listen
to this sentence. All right, it's a series of sentences.
A Pennsylvania man says he was accidentally shot by his
own dog after the animal jumped onto his bed and
triggered a shotgun that he had just finished cleaning. Okay,
so let me dissect that sex or a cut.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
So the guy is cleaning his gun in his bed apparently,
which is now I don't normally I don't don't usually
clean my guns in my bed. Use that in my
pool is where I clean them. He's you know, water,
but in the bathtub with water. So he's cleaning his
gun in his bed his dog. Apparently the gun's also
loaded though, which he is not a good idea. And

(11:54):
then the dog jumps on the bed and fires the
gun that you were just cleaning, it was also loaded,
and then shoots you.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
It hit him in the lower back. He was rushed
into surgery.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Please say that the shooting appears to be entirely accidental
caused by the dog landing on the loaded weapon. The
man is expected to recover, and officials confirm the dog
will not face any danger or charges.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Charge a dog with Did the dog grow fingers and
figure out how to shoot the gun?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I don't know. I don't get this.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
I have no idea, but just just the visual. I'm
in bed cleaning my loaded gun and only for my
dog to jump on it. And it's pointed at me too,
by the way, it's I don't know, man, it's nationally
I've cleaned a lot of guns in my life and
that's never happened to me.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Did you have to clean your gun? He's supposed to
clean it after you shoot it.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh, okay, I learned something new. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
It's National Education Support Professionals Day and Sadie Hawkins Day.
And this is a very old timy thing. But where
the girls ask the guys to dance? Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Sweet?

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Does that happen anywhere? Is a Sadie hawk is thing
happening anywhere ever?

Speaker 1 (13:02):
In high school? Did you guys know? But you know,
people aren't dancing enough.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I say that I would require young people speaking to
each other, I think, which I'm not sure if that's
going to happen.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Make eye contact, dance, Yeah, let's dance right now.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Jason okay, oh my gosh played a song okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
I can't wait to see what dance

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