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May 5, 2025 14 mins

Sovereignty wins the 151st Kentucky Derby. Fred asks you to count how many pandas Elon Musk says. Hawaii is enforcing a new tax for tourists. 32 people were saved from a sinking boat in Miami!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Red Show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
I mean, I'm gonna sound like a like a jerk,
but I feel like the people who get super hype
about the high school reunion are the people who peaked
in high school, because, like, I don't know, I don't
get I'm not really hype about anything that happened twenty

(00:20):
five years ago. I miss it so much. High school, Yes,
I see, I don't it's not so much better. I
left that place and they got better, better, better, better better.
Really did you peak in high school? You didn't look
at you. You're here on this show. You got all
these businesses, and you got three towels for the business,
you got your You're almost a realtor, spray tan, what

(00:42):
don't I do? Philanthropists? Power suit wearing TV on on Lady.
So I would not say you peaked in high school.
You had a beautiful daughter and a husband.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
You thank you. I feel like that was just a
timeless had and people say, oh, I went to college
and had like way more fun, and listen, I didn't
have the college experience. It wasn't necessarily fun. It just
was what it was, if that makes any sense.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, high school wasn't bad. I just I was in
no hurry to like go stand in a room with
a bunch of people that I hadn't talked to in
a very long time, Like, what are we going to
talk about? You know, I don't know. It's very awkward,
it can be. I can see that. And people were
really offended that I wasn't into the and I didn't go.
I mean, and I don't think they were offending because
I wasn't there. They were just defended that there were
people that weren't as excited about it. I mean, we

(01:26):
had that girl from high school on the show, and
she was not I haven't spoken with her, said I don't.
She'd mad at me. I didn't go, and I didn't
give any money either, And I'm like, well why, I mean,
it wasn't the greatest time of my life. I've moved on.
I've you know, I don't know, I've accomplished other things. Yeah,
it's all good. I just don't I don't know what
we're gonna do. We're gonna go, I mean, that's it.

(01:46):
I also think that normally these things are all about
the alumni relations people getting access to you to get
money from you. That's at least what I've found about
the stuff they do for our school is they'll be like,
you know, they'll be like, oh, we're having a cochaa
function and they have it like the Friday before Christmas
because they know everybody's gonna be in town or whatever.
And then you show up at all it is is

(02:08):
after school and then it's like here and as you
walk in, you could donate to this thing and that
thing in this scholarship and that thing. It's like, oh,
so this free drink is not free. Actually, it's you
just want my money. You know. You wanted to get
a look and see if I'm on ozampik or not.
And if I'm on ozampic, they maybe they got a
couple extra dollars to give to you. That's what I
feel like is happening. It's all good if you want
to go, but I feel like, you know, if you

(02:29):
if you were going to keep in touch with people,
then you would have right Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like
fifty to fifty with it.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Like I used to really be all in and I'm
like probably in the high school was the time, like
we had a great time, but it's just like now
I just fight.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Everybody's weird. Look at you. The Kentucky Derby was on Saturday.
Let's look for them. I'm so excited. I have no
idea what's going on, but it's so excited coming with
him mothering outside this guy. Two of them go break
five mother, Bruno. Come on, journalism, look good.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Sovereignty you knows to those don't to the last sixteenth.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Of a vile Sovereignty is taking the lead. Journalism is
second for the good son so sovereignty one. Okay, And
I was asking a question I ask every year, but
do you think these horses know how badass they are? Like?
Do you think they know when they won that they
won and that they're the best, or do you think
they're just like I don't know. I mean, I just
I've showed up so I don't get fined. You know,

(03:27):
I'm just here so I don't get fined. Like, I
don't know. Do you think those I know they're treated well.
I would like to believe they're treated well, those horses,
because if you win, then that you know, it's like
three million dollars or something that the owner gets. So
I would like to believe that they're well treated anyway,
but I don't know. I mean, do you think they
know that everyone in the world is watching them and

(03:48):
they're the fastest, best horse of the day, or they're
just like, well, I don't know where's my carrot.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I feel like they have to know, because I'm sure
the owners like brush them all day and talk nice
to them and you know, worship them.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
They better. I don't know, but you get you get
ten percent of the winnings. I looked up if you're
the jockey, so three hundred grand, which doesn't seem like
enough because you get slung mud all over you and
you could die. You could absolutely die. If you fall
off that thing and you're in the middle of the
pack and then the other horses run over you, You're dead.
You're gone, it's over. Or if you get thrown off
a horse and like land the wrong way or whatever.

(04:20):
So I think you should get more than three hundred
thousand dollars for that. I think it should pay better.
I also want to know why all my friends become
horse experts. On the day of the Kentucky Early I
mean I was in a group of people and I
would say there was probably five thousand dollars among I didn't.
I didn't bet on anything, but there were five thousand
dollars among like ten people being bet on various parlays

(04:42):
and they're trading tips. Well, you know this one does
well in the mud. And I'm going, what is what
do you like? Go to the track of the weekend? Like,
how do you know? Are you scouting? Like how do
you know? How do you know that? How do you
know that?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Kl listen, I don't know the horses like I know
my Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
You know, I don't know how they can run. I
don't know how they do in these conditions.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I haven't spread out to the horse race button yet,
but I don't trust it.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
So so a different person owns the horse, you're saying,
obviously than the jockey.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Right, yeah, and the jockey doesn't know they hire the jockey.
Oh okay, they're like free agents. So like jockey, some
jockeys are like the best jockey. I guess I don't
know a lot about this, but my understanding is you
you can hire a jockey who's won before and then
they're more skilled than others or whatever. Where do you
go to find a jockey? Like is there a website
or is it like kick so there's like a you

(05:30):
match you swipe bride, swipe pass. Okay, there's a jockey thing, yes, yes, yeah,
I know it is. It's like I really don't Oh,
I like this guy's credentials. Oh okay, it's five threes
light before you know, I would guess, Yeah, I want
to know my jockey's overcolor. Yeah yeah, I mean I
believe you can hire whatever jockey you want. And they're

(05:51):
small little things, aren't they They are, but they you
know because like me, I would slow the horse down,
you know, six five tondred aerodynamically, that ain't gonna work,
and the horses look at me and be like huh huh.
I always felt that way, Like when I could, I
was always has I'm always tall. But it's like, did
the horses look at the people who are about to
go on a little Western bride, you know, when they're
on vacation in Albuquerque or whatever. You know, the horse

(06:14):
is looking oh no, no, no, no, no no. Always bring
out this huge horse for my sebnay.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Because he's about height, and it's like they bring oh,
here's you know, big Bertha, and he's like this dude
on a horse like I.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Don't you know, all the horses are walking around looking
at the tourists of the day and they're like, oh god,
not her, no, not her? No no no no no,
but start limping, you know, not interested.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, people need to stop doing that, like you need.
Everything is not for everybody.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Don't do ride to jet skis. Leave the horse back alone. Please.
I don't know if you know this, Kiki, but we're
going to Toronto just speak at a conference. And I
think you know that part. I think you knew that part.
But they're big on horses there. And I actually signed
this up for a horseback riding tour of the city.
Now you just sign me up there, I know I did.
I did. Actually, yeahs the limit the donkeys. Actually we

(07:01):
read around donkeys. You never heard you never heard of
the Toronto donkeys. Oh yeah, nought. I figured that was
the best way for us to bond and see the city.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
No, I'm more of a camel type of girl.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
And then for a running tour as well. It's a
running tour. Yeah, it's an exciting way to see all
the different things they have there. I don't have my
real idea. No, your passport work fun it's all good. So,
in case you were wondering, primate experts have weighed in
on the one hundred men versus gorilla debate that we
got into last week. So a god named Michael Stern,

(07:32):
who was the former curator of Primates at the Philadelphia Zoom,
has weighed in on the one hundred men versus gorilla debate.
Who would win one hundred men versus at gorilla? I
still contend that gorilla would win. I think as long
as there were no weapons or unfair advantages, I believe that,
you know, the gorilla could take you out one by one.

(07:54):
I think it would have to be a coordinated effort
of strength all at the same time, because they say
that the gorillas are what like ten times stronger than
their weight or whatever I told you on Friday. But
he said, the debate doesn't have much to go on
because a gorilla would see that it's outnumbered and then
it would run. He said. The gorilla would sprint through
the nearest line of men, knock one or two over,
and then make a run for it. He said, for

(08:14):
the most part, guerrillas are gentle creatures, and the talk
of them fighting men is hurting their reputation. Michael Stern
speaks for all gorillas. Okay, he's stood in front of
a podium. Okay, A bunch of guerrilla stood behind him,
and he said, look, this is hurting the reputation of
my client. He did share that a primate could do

(08:34):
damage to a group of humans. Chimpanzee. I guess that
is a primate. It could do damage. So not a gorilla,
but a chimpanzee is what we're worried about. My goodness,
our moment of zen this morning. Shout out to the
Daily Show. This is Elon Musk. Now, we don't get
political here. We're really not trying to be political. I
just want you to count the number of times he

(08:55):
says pandas in this thing he's talking about on Fox
News of course, about how Doge you know, his little
organization that's trying to find savings in the government, ways
to cut stuff that he's upset because you know some
of these organizations they try and save baby pandas, but
they don't have a panda.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
Yeah, I mean, cly like like these programs, these grounds
are going to be like along lines of save the
baby pandas one and it's like, well of course, who
wouldn't want to save the baby panda too? And and
you know, in some cases they've got a show panda three,
which they.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Will they will try to out for special occasions. In
a lot of cases they don't even have a show panda.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
For no, there's not even one panda six because we
asked for pictures.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
And we don't even get one panda.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
It's like, well, you got to well that's a lot
of you know, what's what's what's a billion dollars?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Gay? It does not even get you one panda. That's
nine pandas in thirty five seconds. Yeah, so apparently if
you want a billion dollars in the government, you better
produce at least one panda. And he wants pictures. Wow
yeah right, No, No, I mean well, I mean I
think the point he's alleging that people are out here
asking for money for causes that they don't aren't maybe

(10:06):
as involved with as in the panda was the example.
But nine pandas in thirty seconds. So that's exciting. One
of Pope Francis's final wishes will come true. Before he died,
the Pontiv asked for one of his popemobiles to be
converted into a mobile healthcare unit and sent to the
Gaza Strip. The new clinic will feature medical equipment for diagnosing, examining,

(10:26):
and treating children, and will be staffed by doctors and medics.
That baseball fan who fell from the twenty one foot
right field wall and onto the field at PNC Park
in Pittsford last week during the seventh inning of the
Pirates in the Cubs game is awake, alert and getting better.
He still has a long road ahead of him, a
family member wrote, but today brought a moment of hope

(10:48):
that we've all been holding on too. If you haven't
seen a video of this, it's like, it's not good.
I mean, it's what you'd imagine. I don't know if
he was trying to grab for a ball. I'm not
sure what happened, but he's in the outfield on the wall,
and yeah, and he does flip. It's not good. Hawaii
lawmakers have approved a new measure to raise the state's
lodging tax, Marking when Experts says the nation's first state

(11:08):
level tax of its kind designed explicitly to fund environmental
protection and climate change adaptation. In short, it's going to
cost you basically twenty percent more on top of your
hotel bill to go to Hawaii. So they're expected to
sign this, I guess sometime soon. Zero point seventy five
surch charts the existing ten point twenty five tax on

(11:30):
short term accommodations like hotel rooms, vacation rentals, and time shares,
raising that to eleven and then they collect three percent
lodging tax and then an excise tax of four point seven.
So if you add all that, eighteen point seven percent
is added to your hotel room if you go to
Hawaiian for conservation, so your you know whatever, it would

(11:51):
be your two hundred, two hundred dollars hotel room in Hawaii,
your five hundred dollars hotel room is what an extra
hundred bucks now something like that, you get twenty dollars.
Basically twenty dollars per one hundred is what you would
pay now, So forget about your resort fee. You get
the resort fee man. And then now you go to Hawaii,
you got to pay twenty percent more to make it,
you know, keep it looking nice or whatever. I'm going.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
So sah, yeah, you are oh no, well save your pennies.
Then you're telling me this reunion. Watch out of the
Primates too and the pandas for that matter.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Thirty two people, mostly in bikinis, were rescued from a
sinking yacht off of Miami Beach this weekend. It was
a four million dollar Lamborghini boat. I didn't know they
made boats, but rescue crews, including the Coastguard, swooped in
just in time. Most of the group escaped unbothered, snapping selfies,
of course, as the sixty three foot three point six
million dollar boat tilted nearly vertical. Some even made sure

(12:48):
to save their MacBooks and oh and a bottle of
Classe azul Go tequila, so you gotta grab that on
the way out. Of course, you know, the four million
dollar boat, that's a problem. But we go to make
sure we grab the tequila on the way out. That's
a big deal, that's correct. Yeah, that's like these people
that are grabbing their stuff when the you know, the
airplanes flipped over on the runway and they're trying to

(13:08):
get out. It's like when we grab my bag real fast,
It's like, wait, you really you worried about to be
airplanes upside down? You know? But anyway, that's why I
don't like boats, okay, I don't want to be stuck
on a boat all day. I don't. I don't want
to be committed to this group of people all day.
And then it could flip over and what happens to
my tequila? It could go everywhere exactly. And for gamers,

(13:30):
this morning, I've got bad news. The release of gram
Theft Auto I Believe This Is six has been delayed
until May twenty six of twenty twenty six. One of
the most highly anticipated titles in video gaming history, the
newest GTA was previously scheduled to be launched in the
fall of this year. But no, guys, not till May
of next year. So I'm not sure what you're all

(13:51):
going to do now or what's going to be on
your Christmas list, but you can't have it. I'm sorry,
my goodness, yeah, I'm sorry. It's sinkod Amio Today, National
Astronaut Dave, It's I Eleanoma Monday. So where Sunscreen? National
Hogi Day, National Cartoonist Day, and National Silence the Shame Day,
which brings an opportunity to continue the conversation about mental
health and wellness and erase the stigma. We'll get to

(14:13):
the entertainer of fort Next, Blogs, audio journals, Wall anyboy
to phone is new this morning? Why did somebody get goosed?
That's a bunch of twenty minutes away, five hundred and
fifty bunch of Kiki in that a showdown you can
win this morning and uh and Kiki's courts coming up
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