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August 7, 2025 13 mins

A soldier was arrested for opening fire at a Fort Stewart injuring 5 soldiers. United Airlines had to ground all of their flights because their computer system was down. The MLB will have their first female umpire officiate a game. Claire's filed for bankruptcy for the second time this decade.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bribe's biggest stories of the day, Right, I have to
start with serious news. Too many days, too many serious stories.
But five soldiers were wounded yesterday when an active duty
sergeant opened fire at Fort Stewart in Georgia. The suspect
as a twenty eight year old man. He was taken
into custody after other soldiers immediately tackled and subdued him,
preventing further casualties. He's an automated logistics sergeant with the

(00:22):
second Armored Brigade Combat Team who joined the army in
January of twenty eighteen, and it is from Jacksonville, Florida.
He used his personal weapon in the shooting, not a
military weapon. All five wounded soldiers are in stable condition
and are expected to recover. The three required surgery. Two
were moved to Savannah for additional care. There was a
groundstop for United Airlines only yesterday. All of their flights

(00:44):
were grounded nationwide due to a technology problem with their
weight and balanced computer system. It sounds like when Kaitlin
tried to go someplace and the GPS didn't work.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, that was tough. I pulled up ways.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I was like, I know the general direction let's just
start going right, sitting for three hours on the tarmac,
was not it?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Control it out to late and we'll just head that
way and like you check it out, go.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Towards south, Go south, South America.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Go. I saw TAKEO video the other day. They have
a they have computer software for pilots that like does
flight planning or whatever else. But then it will also
like like one of the things I have will show
you like a three D image of the airport that
you're going to and like the runway and stuff. And
so the pilots the door was open and they were
waiting to go, I guess, and the passenger was in
the front row and the pilots had this guy's iPhone
out and they were like you know, pinching and up

(01:28):
and zooming in and out on the airport they were
going to and like looking at it from different angles.
And this person's like, really they use their iPhone? No,
and it's something different, but it looked like that. It
was like how do we get there? I don't know,
people get your phone out, Like they were using some
kind of app and they were like looking at it
and they had like their you know, finger on their
chin and they were like zooming in and out and
it didn't look great.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You have an iPad in your yeah, plane with plane?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
What is that has that thing on it? It has
a chart and the all the procedures and it has
all the you know, manuals and everything on it. Yeah, anyway,
you need the wight and bounce computer system. I guess
this started after six pm Eastern lasted several hours. Although
the issue was fixed, over a thousand flights were delayed.
More than forty were canceled, according to Flight to Where
the airline, so the safety is their top priority. Well

(02:11):
that's good, and they're covering meals and hotels with the
affected customers. The FAA, of course, wanted to make sure
we all knew that it had nothing to do with
air traffic control this time, and they said that it
was not caused by any kind of cyber attack. Major
League Baseball has its first female umpire. Her name is
Jen and she will make histories the first woman to
officiate a regular season Major League Baseball game during the

(02:32):
upcoming Marlins Braves series in Atlanta August ninth through the tenth.
She'll work the bases in a Saturday doubleheader and serve
as the home plate umpire on Sunday. She's forty eight
years old from New Jersey. Boy, we have she likes
long walks on the beach ward a lot about this woman.
She climbed a Triple A in twoy twenty three, officiated

(02:53):
MLB Spring Training Games in twenty four and twenty five,
and she's the first woman since two thousand and seven
to do so. The Web Commissioner praised her dedication and
called her elevation a role model for women and girls
across this sport. Remember Butch and Sonny? Yeah, you ever
know those guys? Well, Butcher's retiring and I probably would too. Yeah,
you know, these guys were stuck astronauts. They were stuck,

(03:15):
and not in a fun way. They retired. But he
retired from the Space Agency listed five months after his
unexpectedly long space flight came to an end. If you
remember last summer, they launched them as test pilots on
Boeing's first astronaut flight, which should have been a week
long trip to the International Space Station turned into a
state of more than nine months because of the malfunctioning

(03:36):
star liner that came back empty. They later had to
come back to Earth on SpaceX's spaceship. And so yeah,
after nine one week turned into nine months and it's like, yeah,
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
No, we're all seeing again.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, we're all said, I'm going to write a book now,
and Sunny and High are running off into the sunset together.
It turns out of the you know, I think they
were both married, but now they're in love. No, I
don't know that.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I want to see they're not in love.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
They need to do a movie. How do you know that?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
In low spending nine months with somebody not even on earth,
like who knows where you are?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
In this little tin hand.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I feel like I feel like that's how we almost
would be forced to love each other.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I feel like in the end it would either be
extreme hate or extreme love.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, it's not about the same thing after all.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Uh maybe I think maybe extreme hate and extreme love
meat in the middle somewhere. Honestly, that was That's one
of those profound things you've ever said. Wow, all within
the first ninety minutes of the show. Incredible, Wow, Is
it isn't that the same?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Sometimes?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Speaking of which, and maybe this is a blog and
I'll just talk about it now because why would I
not have Why would I have focus? Speaking of profound things,
you know, your birthday was this week and I went
to them. This is not a new problem. But I
went to the store where they still cards. This was
in this particular case. I went to a CBS, but
they have rows of cards. When did all the when
did all the greeting cards start to suck? Like everyone

(04:59):
I opened it was like happy birthday, and then you
open it, it was like made the Lord bless you with
with many more days of prosperitym like no, like John
three sixteen, like no, very religious sometimes not that one.
And then but everything was like it was like wildly profound.
It was like happy birthday that opened.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
You know, ever since the first day I saw your beautiful.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Right right, I hope that prosperity follows you throughout your journey.
I'm like, wait, what, like what happened to the car?
That was like you're getting old, right, the oldest crap?
You open it? Yeah, yeah, right right, you open it,
it's like an elephant. It's like old. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, it's very upset.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Though that or every car had to have some sort
of like explosion like it had like like pyrotechnics in
every car. I'm like, all right, this all right, this
one looks okay. Then I open it and then there's
like a kangaroo jumps at me and I'm like right,
and they're seventeen dollars yes, or literally twenty nine dollars,
the greatest scam of all time, or the Papyrus ones
or whatever that are made from recycled paper from Uganda.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
And you know, I know you're rich if you got
a papyrus right, come.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
In like a little plastic thing and I'm just going,
oh my god, that's the all for someone to open it,
go thank you, and then throw it away.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
I do read every word, though, and I would appreciate
whatever cards. Sometimes I find a card I like, but
it's for someone else, so I'll cross out, like for
my beautiful wife, you know, across.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
A funny Yeah, those are funny.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
And just write like my friend's name because I'm like,
I like what this said.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
When it's so that's my point, I'm like, what happened
to just silly like the I don't know, just silly basic,
and I'm opening it's like this whole novel. I'm like,
what you know, Jesus in love with me? Or yeah,
you know, now I should compare these to a summer's day.
Oh so temperate, and I'm like, what Shakespeare get out

(06:43):
of my card? Claire's, a mall stable that attracts preteens
for its bargain jewelry and accessories, is filed for its
second bankruptcy in less than a decade. Everybody in this room, Claire,
especially Jason. Claire's, was part of your upbringing, wasn't it. Yes,
I wanted to shot there so bad, that's right, but
I couldn't. But the way your pacifier, if only your

(07:07):
mom had left your pacifier in A little about normal
life mom a little? But how many people? I mean,
I feel like almost everyone I know got their ears
beers it Claires, Yes, like it was just and what else?
They had little hair things in there and glitter. I
know people who worked it, Claire And oh yeah, yeah

(07:28):
that in Spencer's. Remember Spencer's back in the day when
the mall was the mall. You know, it's a little
different now. I don't even know Spencer it still exists,
but it's there. It was a little edgy Spencer's. You know,
you go like towards the back, and it was like,
this is a little little spoker back there. Yeah. Right,
it's like, you know, a mad head back there, and
you know it's like like like glowing the dark, grateful

(07:52):
dead posters and it's like, whoa what are you doing back?
It was a whole new world in the back of
Spencers my childhood. Right, you go to God, we sound
I'm sorry, we sound old, but at least at least
there's a range. Was I think there's about ten years
range in this room, and at least everyone can relate
on this topic. But you go to the mall on
like Saturday, and maybe you go to a movie, but
you go to Spencer's, you go to Tower Records, you go

(08:14):
to Sam Goodie, which was you know CD's and tapes
mostly CDs, or like Chatski's. You go to a Spencer's,
you'd go to, uh, I feel like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Handy store of some sort.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I feel like I would go to her the cookie place,
Missus Fields, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Or that place where they had the bag and you
just fill the bag up of candy and they wait
at the end, you know whatever. They had a million
versions of those. You'd like kind of walk past Victoria's
secret and giggle a little bit.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh yeah, or you'd go in and be like, I'm
gonna buy a secret thong.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, it's wash it in.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's right, that's a that's another topic to write down.
But like, I didn't realize that the thong was such
a rite of passage. Yes, she really is.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh yeah, my mom didn't know. She still don't know
how thongs probably, like I was so shy. I know,
so shy. I don't think he had.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
The same one since then I only got that one,
and I was like, this is not fun. It looks Yeah,
we have to get back to that juicy fier. Jesse
Smolette has returned to TV for Special Forces World's Toughest Athlete.
He's returning to television in this reality competition show. He
was a coaster on the Fox series Empire until about

(09:20):
six years ago, when he was accused of staging a
hate crime against him. Now he'll be one of the
celebrity contestants on Fox's Special Forces World's Toughest Test. The
show features eighteen quote unquote celebrities involved in an Army
boot camp style athletic competition. Johnny Manzel, Cody Brown, Teresa
Judice will all be on this show and it's premieres

(09:40):
in September twenty five.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Ny Man, I know Brianna chicken Fry I think is
on there too, But what a motley crew?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Right?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Just people I forgot about.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I didn't realize that we were still going to
do that for Juicy Smollia. No, I don't think we should,
okay and then have a few lighthearded stories here. A
drunk woman in California was rescued after she fell into
a cha and got stuck. Witness I said the woman
was dancing on a roof and pulling up her shirt
and pulling down her pants and somehow then fell into
a chimney. More than a dozen firefighters stood on the

(10:11):
roof as a ladder was used to reach her, and
then a harness was used to lift her up. The
woman was taken to a hospital to get checked out.
She should be fine. Police said a half empty bottle
of tequila was in her backpack, and they're not sure
how she got stuck in the first place. I hate
that when I'm dancing around, flashing people on the roof
and I got stuck in the chimney. It's the worst thing.
It's the worst thing when that happens. Man, it's terrible.

(10:33):
Heather and Nick got married in Las Vegas. You should
have thought of this, Paulina, because you could have saved
a lot of money. In front of a giant jar
of Hellman's mayonnaise named Manny Mayo. Manny Mayo, I guess
is a I don't know mascot for Helman's and they
got married in front of the Unilever, the owner of
Helman's brand paid for the event in exchange for using

(10:54):
it to create commercials. But you really could have You
could have like influenced your way through a free wedding. Yeah,
ik jo, oh, you know from Maggiano's Italian.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'll also try to get you a job as Elvis,
but that didn't work because I wanted you to marry us.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
But they were like, well, we need an employee to
do that, and.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I will as to apply for a job. No, I
offer it to work there. I know.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
I try to finss my way many many things over there.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
But that's crazy, So I don't get it, like just
because they did a commerci.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Right that you stood in front of Manny Mayo and
your thing is free and a very lucky gambler. He
hit three hundred and eighty nine jackpots in one single
day and won one point eight million dollars at a
casino in Tampa. The Seminal Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
said that the guy won jackpots on several popular slot machines.
He won ninety nine grand on or more on five

(11:38):
different machines he'd one day. The most he won on
one slot machine was one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
The casino said it was one of the most impressive
streaks they've ever seen. Three hundred and eighty nine jackpots
in a day shenanigans. I'm not sure if I ever
won a jackpot on a slot machine. I have don't
want a jackpont on a slat machine in one day.
One three eighty nine is aside job.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
It definitely is.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's an inside job. I think it's national I p
a day, and it's Purple Heart Day, which commemorates the
creation of the oldest American military decoration for military merit.
The Purple Heart honors the men and women who are
of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. My grandfather
has one, so shout out to him. Rip my grandfather
Fritch doesn't have one. John has one.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, John, I didn't know his name.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
John's a bit of a gangster. Oh yeah, he's a
fighter Ace. The name was a fighter Race. The Navy
was shot and this is a real story. There's a
book about it. He was shot down in his plane,
parachuted down, you know, ejected down into the water, and
was rescued by a submarine. Oh whoa yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's another submarine right right, And I can't even get a.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Text one not the one that bombed him. No, no,
I mean no, they didn't rescue him and then save
his life. Just get sorry about that, John. I'm going
to restart this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Shout out to John. You were on Demon Times day.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
I don't know why Shohn is a Okay John from bad.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
I get I've left the difference of marine John's day. Yeah,
I don't. Yeah, No, I believe it was an airplane
that shot him, and I don't. Yeah, it was

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