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December 15, 2025 17 mins

Fernando Mendoza won the Heisman trophy! The Powerball jackpot prize is up to $1 billion! Fred says he respects adults who eat cereal. The viral raccoon who broke into Virginia liqour store and got drunk, apparently a repeat offender.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Bread Show.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
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(00:23):
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on text eight five five five N one one on
three five Fred, You're stupid. No, No, that's not it.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Actually I already got that one today.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It says, Hey, Fred, one thing my brother in law
and I bond over is your show? Could you please
wish Matt a happy thirty third birthday?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Thank you, Happy birthday, Matt. What a guy? What a guy.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm glad you guys can bond. At least your brother
in law listens. Okay, so we all knew. I'm just
looking up different stuff that maybe your phone does that
you didn't know. We know that we can use the
phone as as as a scanner. Uh like it's a
document you'd knew that, right, as a document scanner. Oh
like like suppos using like the scanner machine out here,
your phone can scan it DOC make it a pedio.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
You didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh, your phone's a scanner. You don't need to own
that ugly thing. And I don't own house. I think
they're ugly, so I don't have one. You did you
know that you can create and then what I want
to know is more importantly, like to be in the
meeting where everyone smokes weed and discuss this, like you
know what, man like this one. You can create custom
vibration patterns for VIP contacts such that like the phone

(01:31):
could be in your pocket and it would and if
it's a text from someone specific that you set a
pattern to like, you could make the pattern like like
the vibrate go however you want it, like you know,
if you wanted it to go like whatever you then
it would do that, and then you would know in
your pocket like oh.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's Mom or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I wouldn't make it. I wouldn't make it too intense
when Mom reaches out. I wouldn't make it too like
crack it up. No, I wouldn't do that. One level
of your DIY projects with your phones built in a
level Okay. I think a lot of people knew there
was a level in there. But you don't need like
a level thing anymore, like a physical one. There's a
dark mode for extending battery life. You can use the

(02:13):
volume buttons as a camera shutter.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes? You can turn your phone into a hotspot. I
think people should.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
My favorite thing ever, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You can use your phone as a wireless mouse. What
turn your smartphone into a wireless mouse for your computer
with apps like Remote Mouse or Unified Remote. The hack
is perfect representations controlling media playback or using your computer
from a distance.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I know you could do that. Um.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
You can use your phone as a magnifying glass. You
can set up a medical ID for emergencies, create custom
text replacement shortcuts. Turn your phone into a security camera.
Repurpose an old smartphone as a home security camera with
apps like Alfred or manything. Let me see here. You
can use your phone as a remote control, a universal

(03:03):
remote like for your TV.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
I do that? You do? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Because at one time he took the remote to work
on accident. That was the final straw. You said never again,
so to save our relationship. Now it's on our phones.
Amazing all kinds to me. Oh from the person who
was angry, Fred, I wasn't complaining. I was giving you
constructive advice. No, what I was doing I was I
was fighting for my life, okay. I was fighting for

(03:26):
my life trying to explain my point okay, and the
room wasn't quite grasping it. So I was beginning to
think that I was the idiot. But I don't think
I was explaining it right. So I had to re
explain it, and then we got it. That's what you
just heard.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Mm hmm. You save your advice for your radio show,
Thank you, Jo. Fred's show is on Biggest Stories of
the day, Love.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I just I just of all the things I'm going
to do today, I didn't think that was the one
to complain about, but surely the show was just plenty
of time.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
There's gonna be more. Just like hold on.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know, it's like, uh, you know, when you go
into like the food court, you don't stop at the
first restaurant.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know, you look around, you sort of look.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
When you go to the airport, like yesterday I went
to the airport, there's a big long you know whatever
the concourse, you don't just stop at the first restaurant.
You don't stop at the first guy Fieri's Pizza Kitchen
right there.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
You don't stop. No, you gotta see what else?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because what if I wh I know you do, because
if you ever see that, you're eating there immediately. But like,
what if I go, what if there's a pot belly
down the way? In this case, there is a Bojangles
down the way, or what if there's a Starbucks? Or
what if there's even what if I see a Starbucks
but there's a duncan further down? Oh, you can't make
that mistake. And now I'm holding my Starbucks. There was
a duncan the whole time. I just didn't walk far enough.

(04:39):
So what I'm saying is, don't complain about the first
thing that you hear, wait a little longer, and then
decide was that the most egregious thing? Or was it
something that happened in hour number three? You know what
I mean? I do? Yeah, yeah, I can't really stay
news to start the morning, and I woke up and
start I was like, this is awful. Rob Ryder and
his wife Michelle were killed by their son. And I

(05:02):
first saw this, I'm like, what the bodies of the
legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer Reiner
were found dead inside of their Brentwood, Los Angeles home,
and what authorities are calling in a parent double homicide.
They were killed by their son Nick. His legacy spans
decades and many genres. Perhaps you've heard of him before,

(05:23):
but this is spinal tap. When Harry met Sally, stand
by me the princess bride. A few good men involved
with all of that marriage since nineteen eighty nine. The
couple shared three children and have been fixtures in both
Hollywood and philanthropy. Also sad news this morning, a person
of interest detaining connection with Saturday shooting at Brown University
has been released from custody after law enforcement officials said

(05:44):
that eminence now points in a different direction. The shooting
that happened there left two students dead and nine others
injured at the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island.
In a statement on Sunday, Brown said that there's no
immediate threat to the community, even as the suspect remains
at large. In some happy beer news, the Heisman Trophy
was awarded over the weekend, and Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando

(06:05):
Mendoza won the Heisman Trophy. Was a very very sweet
speech I did watch. He spoke in English, spoke in Spanish.
He talked about his mom. He cried the whole time
Indiana plays in the Rose Bowl on January first. You know,
other sports news and Jason, I know you're all over this,
but your boy Chiefs quarter by Patrick Mahomes towards ACL

(06:26):
last night.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
I saw that right at the end of the game, right.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
And the winning moments of the Chiefs loss to the Chargers. Mahomes,
fighting to keep Kansas City's playoffs hopes, playoff hopes alive,
was tackled while throwing the ball away.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
When down, grabbing his knee.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
He was helped off the field later rule to have
a torn ACL on his left knee, which is a
devastating blow that instantly ended both his season and the
Chiefs postseason hopes. This is also the first playoff since
nineteen ninety eight that won't have Tom Brady, Peyton Manning,
or Patrick Mahomes involved.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Wow, So there's them.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
The powerball jackpot rose to an estimated one point one
billion dollars. I wouldn't necessarily brag when I well, excuse me.
I won't necessarily brag when I win, but there would
be signs you'd never see me again, you guys, you
guys would there would be a wire to your bank accounts,
there'd be a cash infusion, and then maybe after a

(07:16):
few years, I would I would like emerge with a
with a Howard Hughes beard, you know, and just you'd
be like, is that it can't be?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'd have like big gold chains and diamonds. I mean
you might, you might, you might see it that way,
probably a bunch of twenty five year olds all around me.
It'd be great, But that would be there's no way
I'm getting up at three o'clock in the morning. If
I had one point one billion dollars, this is no way.
Maybe I'd buy the place and I'd say, our show
starts at eleven am.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Our show starts at noon.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
And I know that's not great for those of you
driving and traffic in the morning, but like, I don't know,
maybe just drive later. It's when we start at noon,
we end when we feel like it some days later.
If I were one point one billion dollars, it'd be like, hey,
you know what we've been on for thirty eight minutes.
I'm not feeling it today. We'll try again tomorrow, you know,
we'll just go home and start over again. We'd have
no ratings, but it wouldn't matter. We have to have

(08:10):
a food story in the biggest stories of the day.
Rhesis puffs is going dark chocolate. Now, here's another one.
Do any of you eat like just full on children
cereal in the morning?

Speaker 1 (08:19):
What do you even?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
So you guys eat like rabs this stuff in the morning,
But like, I really respect an adult who sits down
to a bowl of fruity pebbles or like a bowl
of Lucky Charms in the morning, Like I was going
on there, No, but I would I respect it? Like
you you it's nostalgic. Maybe for you. You're looking for
a sugar bomb and you're probably blaming it on your kids.
You're probably like, hey, this is what we got. We

(08:40):
got tricks, guys, we got tricks at the house. That's
what we're having for breakfast. But like, really, is that
what it is? Or are you just a glutton?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
So if a guy, if you went to a guy's house,
if you were single and you like, I don't know,
you guys messed around or whatever, and then you wake
up and he like goes to open the cabinet to
have some breakfast. Then he pulls out of some count chocula.
Neat so differently, or would you be like this guy's
got a whimsical spirit, like.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
He's got a little kid.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's exactly how I talk.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
I don't think grown men should eat cereal. Something about
the way it looks.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, I thought I was blown away by the backspace control.
Grown men shouldn't eat cereal.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
They also shouldn't be blonde, but that's another conversation.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm just I'm grown up. I can only eat special
k like is it grown up? I can only eat
grape nuts. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I don't know if I want to watch it? Guy
even do the like or eating soup?

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Like, I don't know, I shouldn't eat soup either.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, you know what, don't don't show your toes either
while we're at it. That ye me list?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Okay, thanks, you got all the really well like the
soup thing you lost me because I love a good soup.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
But I'm gonna make a man, but we're all gonna
be eating soup.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Okay, but I the being blonde thing is showing your toes.
I don't wear a backpack. That's another conversation. I wear
a backpack, but I don't run with it. I wear
a backpack, don't run with it. Don't run with the backpack.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Where's he going?

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Like? What do you mean like running a marathon with
a b or like running to your late because you're.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
You're just show Blaine with your backpack.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
As a grown man, you can just be like running
because you're late?

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Like what is going? These are wild takes? Sep Okay.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
So what I've learned this morning is don't want backpack.
I can't eat cereal or soup. I can't be blonde.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
You know your fake bond was fine. I just feel
like natally actually blonde.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Don't whatever you do.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't get that.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Like, hey, it's where texture person? You offended? Now, hope
you're not blind?

Speaker 3 (10:42):
You want me to get the smoke?

Speaker 1 (10:43):
All right? No, I'm just saying. I'm just saying, like,
no for me.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I mean, there are people with their toes exposed in
ten degrees right now who are like I am offended.
There's a cereal eating listener right now who's part of
the thirteen going Really, Kaitlin, Yeah, this is where it ends. Yeah, really,
men with beards eating Snickers bars.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's why I draw.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
That, right, Yeah, pretty specific.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're thinking of one particular person.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
No, I agree, not a TwixT but a snicker right,
don't Yeah, don't eat candy like that either, Eat any
candy shape like that.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Someone tell Fred count chocula is only a seasonal cereal
these days. As a man in his forties, I see
it on the shelf, I'm buying it. Well, I don't know.
I guess plan ahead then, you know, buy some for
the have enough for the whole year. If that's you
got grown up money, go do that.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
These icks for men are so real. My girl single
and I have corn pops, fruity pebbles, Snacks, smacks, honeynut cereos,
and raisin bran. Raisin brands responsible even though those little
raisins are covered in sugar, which is the only reason
that raisin Brand's good. So like, if you think maybe
there's fiber and stuff, But if you think that you're

(11:58):
eating raisin brand because it's like has like dried fruit
in it, the joke's on you. Because those little dried
fruits are covered in sugar, which is why it's so good.
So anyway, they're coming up with the dark chocolate Reeseus Puffs.
The combo peanut butter and Hershe's Milk chocolate debut in
nineteen ninety four, and now there have been I guess
note or they haven't been changed in new editions. Now

(12:19):
the Reese's Puffs dark chocolate, naturally flavored cereal has been
added to the franchise. Umm oh, it's Reese's after Dark
is what they're calling it? A glow in the dark?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Wait? Hold on? Wait what I hold on? What?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
So of nuclear reactive cerial To promote the cereal that's
now on shelves, the Bran is partner with Vault forty
nine to introduce Reeses after Dark, a new glow in
the dark chocolate universe that can be found on the
back of the box.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
The word of the year. Another one of this is
from a Miriam Webster. The twenty twenty five ward of
the Year is slop, which means creepy, zany or demonstrably
fake content on the Internet is coming from the rise
of AI and people don't know what's real.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
And whatever.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
But slop is the Merriam Webster twenty twenty five Word
of the Year. Pornhub is revealed the amount of women
watching porn is growing. They have a year in review report.
There was a that's funny, there was a someone did
had skid about this on TikTok about like when all
these different you know, iHeart app or whomever comes out
with the year in review. You know you're you listen

(13:24):
to this and you're in this percentage of this. What
if they did one for that when they did like
a year en wrapped for the things they came and
watched eighty seven thousand hours of Growing Girl report or whatever.
But there is a I guess they have a year
in review report, like for everybody. In twenty twenty five,

(13:45):
females made up thirty percent thirty eight percent of all
visitors to the site, which is up fourteen percent since
twenty twenty five. It's still mainly men watching this stuff
in the US, with only twenty eight percent of women
going on the site. However, in Mexico it was fifty
to fifty. You're watching more of this kind of stuff.
Women now make up the majority of watchers of the
content in the Philippines, Columbia, and Argentina more than men

(14:09):
shout out to the Philippines.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
What else do I am here?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh and the drunk Virginia raccoon that we told you about,
the one that was found in the bathroom passed out
of the liquor store because it broke in and then
it was you know, saves and released or whatever rescued
and release. Apparently he's a repeat offender. Hanover County Animal
Protection officers say that it wasn't his first criminal offense.

(14:35):
How do they know that? How they know it was
him and not like his cousin or something. But they said,
this is not the first time he's been in one
of the buildings, and added that he had apparently broke
into a karate studio and the DMV eating snacks along
the way. But I guess he's living his best life.
But it turns out this dude's a bit of a criminal.
He's a bit of a miscreant. You know, he's just

(14:57):
breaking into wherever and eating, drinking whatever he can. So
but again, did they like did they tag him or something?

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Like?

Speaker 2 (15:03):
How do you know? Like I know it's that raccoon.
They all look very similar, right, they ask him, it's
you again and looking at a munk shot like what
they do. It's National seatbelt Day, it's National Family PJ Day.
Now that's weird. And National pickle Day. See now you
think that blonde blonde people are strange, I don't know people.
I think people who all dress up in the same outfit.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's an egg. That's a little weird.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, you know, we just like my mom used to
do this like when we were kids and everybody grandparents
or whatever, and and one year she got us all white,
like sweat set. So there's a picture of our entire
family wearing all white. It's giving, insane, it's giving what
they give you when you go.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's giving.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
What Sharon was wearing, Sharon Moore, was that his name,
the Michigan coach. It's it's giving. What he was wearing
when he was indicted, that's it's giving. My son Christmas
was all like, we've been locked up in some form
of mental institution, which we should have been, but we weren't.
How many times did you do that story on Friday?
Four times?

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I did it twice an hour because those were your directions,
not mine.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
And Kayleb Klen broke into programming on Thursday, Shikesley.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I a Lourie.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
I was like, can I please?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I know there's a radio fun for children happening right now,
but boy, do I have a story for all of
you that'll warm your hearts.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
I was locked in, but I'm so proud of Paulina
and you already knew about the story when I got
to work.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Paulina text me the day before going what's going on
with you?

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Of them?

Speaker 3 (16:31):
And I'm like, how long do you have?

Speaker 2 (16:33):
And I'm sure we'll get to it, because if you've
been listening for not a very long time. And Kaylen
went to Michigan State, Michigan has a rival. Michigan State
had a similar controversy, not nearly as in depth as
this one. I mean, there are so many layers to this,
but Caylen was so excited to share with the world
what Michigan.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Man are capable of. Yeah, I mean, and it's getting worse.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
In fact, I saw a picture last night he and
his wife at the lawyer with the kid, so I
know she's standing by him, not what yeah last night
last night she he's pushing the strollers.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
She's there with him. Oh, God, and I gotta wonder, like,
what did she know? You know?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I mean, and again, it's none of our business, But
like when I hear about multiple layers of infidelity and
OnlyFans and the assistant and the whole thing the assistant
for years. I'm sure we'll talk about this later. And
then she's standing right there, and hey, I respect whatever
decision's best for she and her family, but I unless
she knew then this dude was doing her dirty.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, I mean, I feel awful for the kid in
the situation. My issue is mostly that it was covered
up by the university for so long.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Kid, you have three kids, Togo. Yeah, yeah, it's terrible.
I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm sure Kadon will be all over that just a minute.
And Jason won't tell us more about how he met
Amy Robots or whatever her name is, who happened to
be standing near Roberts in your eyes, but no one
cares about him, the entertainment apporting his next

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