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March 6, 2026 12 mins

Fred wants to know what's something you started binging on tv and you have no idea why. An asteroid will not hit the moon after some concerns. Apple Music will add an AI transparency tag for AI musicians. Southwest says they might only clean the premium seats in between flights.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The biggest stories of the day. By the way, that's
probably the topic.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
But eight five three five, what is the thing that
you found yourself watching on you know whatever, TikTok and
Instagram reels, on TV or whatever you streamed it. What
is the thing you found yourself watching that you're like,
I cannot believe I'm watching this.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Because the stuff with infomercials.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Back when infomercials were really big, I used to watch,
like late at night, I would watch them.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I was fascinated by I'm like, this is amazing.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Who's the guy with the orange juice and the spilling?
Wasn't that a guy was spilling on?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
The guy was spilling right?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
There was the guy, that flexial guy that would like,
you know, tape a boat together and sail away the
metal pipe. Right then there was the slap chop guy.
That was a long time ago, but you know it's
I'd see the same infomercial. I'd watch it over and
over when I was a kid. That Ron Popeel food
dehydrator commercial. Yeah, i'd watch that one. I already know

(00:55):
what's gonna happen. He's gonna chop stuff up and put
it in the hydrator and then or the or the
one that was magic. This was this was before air
fryer fame. Is he had like a rotisserie grill and
they was, yeah, rosaderie and they can take anything on
the show and stick it on a spit and stick
it in there, and then an hour later you had

(01:15):
like this bone appetite. Everybody like this amazing, you know,
like perfectly roasted anything.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Those people like deserve to raise because like their ability
to like be excited about something for like.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
An hour and I really, you know, find new ways
that it could help your life.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
You got me excited about consumer electronics.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Right, I'm jacked two, I am. I can't sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think one night, you know, I may have I
may have inhaled some secondhand THHD smoke legally and I
it was it was tag.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
There was was.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I believe It's called World Chase Tag and they run
around like an obstacle course and have to tag each
other thirty minutes later. Still watch it, Yeah, absolutely still on.
But yeah, I find myself watching all kinds oficulous things
because I have nothing. I don't have like a child
yelling at me or anything. But I'm just I'm just curious.
Sham wow. The orange juice guy with sham wow. Thank you, Yes, okay,

(02:09):
sham wow watching people try and peel the shells off
a raw egg without breaking the egg.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Watch that one too. I did watch that one too.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I watched that for hours.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yep. They had like surgeons doing it.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Uh huh, you know, being like like break and yoak
would go everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Weird like rubbery thing like that.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, I watched that for a long.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Set it and forget it. Yeah, someone knows what I'm
talking about. Yeah, the Miracule Blade New Wave oven. Oh yeah,
this is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
It's a blender.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh yeah yeah. And it's like that looks amazing. I
need it, like all I gotta. I just stick all
that stuff in there and push a button. It comes
out looking like Smoothie King right. Unbelievable severe storms could
affect nearly sixty million people from Texas to the Great
Lakes today, according to forecast. Meteorologists warn that some storms,
including super cells, might develop throughout the day, with the

(02:59):
most intense activity likely in the evening and overnight. The
highest tornado risk stretches from Madison, Wisconsin, down to Dallas.
On Thursday, powerful storms swept across the southern plains, bringing
numerous tornado threats from Texas to the Midwest. Louisiana was
also rattled by a magnitude four point nine earthquake, one
of the strongest recorded in the state, though no damage

(03:20):
or injuries were immediately reported. Great news guys NASA says
the chance of an asteroid hitting the Moon in twenty
thirty two, as reported on The Fred Show, of course,
is now zero, So there's now at least one thing
less to worry about it. And I don't I'm sure
something bad would happen. I don't know what happened. If
something happens to the Moon, it's got to be something
gravitational or something bad would happen or light I'm too stupid,

(03:44):
didn't know. But anyway, all I know is that it's
not going to happen. Now, there was a four point
three percent probability of a direct impact of an asteroid
to the Moon.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Now they're saying none.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
What about Earth?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
No word on Earth? No word.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
But I think we have bigger things to worry about
than things coming from space. I think we got some
other things right now. We got to attend to Apple
music is announcing an AI TRANSPARENCYED tag. We're just talking
about this yesterday. But the problem with this is for
some people is that it's voluntary. So they're implementing a
new Artificial Intelligence TRANSPARENCYED tag to flag content that is

(04:15):
created by AI. The streaming platform announced the latest up take,
calling them transparency tags. Any composition, track, music, video, or
artwook that artwork artwook art work that was created with
AI is required to be listed under the AI TRANSPARENCYED tag.
The catch, though, is that disclosure is still up to
the distributor and record label, and Apple Music is noted

(04:36):
if omitted, none is assumed.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
That means it's not mandatory.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
In a newsletter, Apple says that proper tagging of content
is the first step and given the music industry the
data and tools needed to develop thoughtful policies around AI.
Southwest Airlines, man, they're making everybody mad. You know, they
got rid of their little sticks in the gate area.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
You know the sticks.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
You got to stand by your stake and fight with
the per Well, I'm I'm a five, I'm ade right
then I get on the airplane before you and I
get to choose from the two hundred seats before YouTube.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, yeah, they're not doing so hard.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
And now they've got a sign seating people don't like that.
Mad about that.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
And then people I've seen a lot of industry folks
I know on social media Facebook specifically, because you don't
I like to go there and torture myself. They're upset
because they travel like every day and they used to have,
you know, a status with Southwest, which meant they got
to fly the plane, and now apparently they don't have that.
Like it's you know, the way this has all been reshuffled.
It doesn't work well for them or something. They're mad.

(05:37):
Southwest Airlines is reportedly testing a new cleaning approach that
would focus only on the extra legroom seats in the
front instead of cleaning the entire cabin between flights. They're
only going to clean the premium seats now. So like
if somebody, I don't know, what the hell hasled, if
somebody changed your baby's diaper, like stuck the thing in
the you know, which you should never do, of course,

(05:58):
but if you you know, I don't know. People are
just disgusting and I and I think it's Southwest. The
flight attendants are the ones who clean the planes, unlike
some airlines who they have a cleaning crew, so between
flights they like go and pick up the trash ver
I guess now they're saying now. Normally Southwest planes turn
around quickly between flights, with flight attendants mostly tidying up
trash and seat belts rather than doing a full cleaning.

(06:20):
Under this test, though, a cleaning crew would briefly board
to clean the premium section, while standard economy seats would
continue to get only the quick tidy. So someone's going
to like professionally clean the front, but then the back
is I won't see what happens. Critics worry that passengers
will notice the difference between sections and blame flight attendants,

(06:40):
while the airline says the goal is simply to improve
service for premium seats during tight turnaround times.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
I don't know. I don't like him.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
If you're looking for a job, Wendy's is going to
pay somebody one hundred thousand dollars for a Chief Tasting officer.
The role is real and mostly involves eating Wendy's food,
reviewing it, and creating social media content burgers, fries, and Frosted's.
The job is largely remote, with occasional visits to a
local Wendy's, or appearances in brand videos and ads. You

(07:08):
don't have to have any traditional qualification, just a good palette,
personality on camera and a love of Wendy's food.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
For one hundred grand, one.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Hundred grand, I'll start eating beef again. I don't care.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm in. I would do. They're good too, I'm in.
I'm absolutely in.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Have you seen in the controversy now all the all
the fast food CEOs are going at each other after
the McDonald's robot ceo posted a video eating a sandwich
and like you could tell this man who had just
left pilates and eating a green shake and he absolutely
did not want to do this.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Taking the world's smallest bite out of his burger.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
He kept calling the Archburger whatever, the new Arches burger
a product. Oh, this product has been tested. It's a
burger man. Like, I know, I know that you're in
that world where you're like pushing you know, food on humans,
and you know you use all these industry products and
whatever whatever other roi and whatever other.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Sort of that's a guy who circle He's DoD it
like so much. I was like, wait, is it real,
like is it a burger?

Speaker 2 (08:06):
And then he went on this like two cents, thinking
about how well this is my lunch. By the way,
who cares?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Man?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
If I would if I worked at McDonald's, if I
was the CEO McDonald's, I'd be like nuggets now, anytime
of day, I'd have it. You know how the president
has a diet coke button in his office. I'd have
a nuggets button and a fry's button in my office.
I would push it and someone's job would be to
bring me the freshest fries you've ever had in your life.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I didn't know that he had that button.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's why the president. Yeah, yeah, he has a diet
coke button in the in the oval office. He pushes
a button and somebody comes in with a diet coke.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's so cool.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah, there's a real housewife with a champagne button in
her closet. So she pushes it and someone brings her
a glass of champagne.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
See I like it.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I love this so much. Yeah, what would your button, Well,
it'd be coke zero zero. Fred, you know I discovered
what did you discover? Cherry coke zero? You're a lover,
You're gonna love. I'll bring you one to my car. Yeah,
in her trunk.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
The Dietaucha Pepper continues to be the most elite of
diet drinks. As I'm as I'm working my way out
of soda again and I'm working through the diet drinks.
I read a study that says that will help me
stop drinking soda. I think it's working. Someone else said
fifty to fifty, like half diet half the regular one.
The problem is the diet overtakes the flavor of the
regular ones, so it doesn't really work.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
You may as well just drink diet. But yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
A Las Vegas tourist is facing animal cruelty charges after
police say he stole a flamingo. I saw that from
the Flamingo Hotel and then turn it into a selfie
props or vantage put it in photos.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
On his phone, led police to arrest him.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
The Flamingos survived, and the tourist is now facing multiple
animal cruelty charges. I guess this guy, thirty three year
old man. He stole it and took it to his
hotel room. The bird's name is Peache. He just wanted
pictures with it. I'm surprised I'm not getting you. Guys
know how I feel about birds. I'm not getting near.
I don't trust a bird. I am not kidnapping a bird.
It's animal cruelty.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go to jail. I don't care.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
He should be nice to peachee the bird. You're not
supposed to take them to your hotel room. Is not
the Hangover movie with the tiger.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
How drunk was he?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Right? Like?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
How drunks you have to beat a steal a flaming
and bring it to your hotel room and nobody heard
it to you from what I read, like you heard it,
That's what I read.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well, he took a picture with his hands around.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's like neck, I don't think the bird was The
bird is okay now, but I stupid, yeah, taking pictures
for his little social media.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
We've all been really drunk. I don't think anyone's stolen
a bird and brought it to your house.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
A girl in college did go on the Black Web
when she was drunk and buy like some sort of
like wild cat, like a tiger or something, and literally
like put it on her mom's credit card and didn't
remember doing it in the morning.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
So that I had a fraternity.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Brother who was a kleptomaniac, and he in college thought
it was funny to steal stuff, like not like steal
a TV. He would steal like the condom machine from
the bar. He'd bring a crowbar somehow into the bar
under his jacket, pry the thing off and like put it.
And then it was like one day there's a condom
machine in the fraternity. I was like, where did you
get this? He's like this play down the road. At
one point, I kid you not. I woke up and

(11:03):
in the lobby of our fraternity room was a road sign,
but not like not a stop sign, one of those
from the highway, like the ones that hang over the
road that are like eight feet tall by ten feet long.
You know, they'll say like, you know, Detroit and an
arrow you know in that director right right exactly, not
even like a street sign like the rectangular ones that

(11:25):
are you know, no, I mean the I'm like, how
did you like they use a crane to put them up.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm like, how did you how did you do that?
He's like, don't worry.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
About that's better than we had a cop job.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
But she would steal our stuff and she later did
a later Ye's petty theft you.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I later excellently found her in adult content she had done.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh yeah, okay, wearing your sweater for God and another
day and another thing that young people want, younger people
than us at least. VHS taps are making a comeback,
and some are now selling for big money. People want
And there are people listening right now who don't even
know what that is a VHS tape.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
You can you can google that and do that.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
This this is a precursor to DVDs and the precursor
to streaming. But people now want VHS tapes. They're hunting
for old tapes, especially rare horror movies, cult films, and
sealed copies, which can sell for hundreds or even thousand.
So I don't think it's as much about watching them,
because the quality is not as good as what you
can get now. It's it's that people are buying them

(12:26):
to sell them. Steve Aoki I saw the other day
has a gigantic collection of like old CDs that are
still in still wrapped. I'm like, okay, well, I guess
that's the rich people do. It's a National employee Appreciation Day.
What are we getting today? We get anything what's here?
What Adam gets us?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
What do you get us? A six? No, never mind,
no more stubs around here.

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