Fred's Birthday Is Coming Up!

Fred doesn't want ANYTHING for his birthday!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
text will be said. Standard message of data rates may
apply all thanks to Live Nation. I want to make
it an official just proclamation right now on this show
because every day now in our little sheet with ideas
for the show, it's Fred's birthday ideas. It's Paulina saying,
so what are he into these days? Fred? Because that's
your way of asking what to get someone for their birthday?

(00:42):
What he into these days? And you asked me yesterday
the day before, and then you put it on the
sheet both times yes, And I said to you and
I mean this, I don't want anything for my birthday.
I don't. I don't. And that's not when people people
say that, And like my mom, Mom says that she
doesn't mean it, like I what was it for her birthday?

(01:04):
I'm like Mom, what do you want? She I don't
want anything. Just some shoes are a purse. Right, oh,
justin you don't want to nothing big? Yes, oh no
that was I did nothing big. You don't have to
get me anything, nothing big. Just some shoes are a purse. Okay,
well she knows I don't. I don't scamp on that.
So that is something big. So that wasn't helpful.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
We need your list. I need desk by monday.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I don't need one more thing. I don't need one
more thing. I got too much crap. I got all
kinds of crap. I don't need anything.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, So an experience. What do you want? Where do
you want to go? What do you want to do?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm on no, I want to go. I want to
go to the digital detox. Can you send me to
that at the summer camp? And we go and uh
and there are no phones and I'm allowed to go.
I think in this business we call it rehab, but
like I would go there too, actually, depending on how
nice it is. What's the diet, Like, what do you
get to do? Do you have to like exercise and stuff?
Because I don't want to do that. Do I have

(01:57):
to sit around and like cry because that's going to
be hard for me to do. But more of like
a vacation, you know, like kickback and buy the pool,
manicures and pedicures and then a facial. And then every
now and again they ask how I'm feeling, Like, now
that's you need a girl's trip.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Then I'd like.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
A girl's trip. I'm good with that. Yeah, just ask
me occasionally how I'm feeling. But give me a drink.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
What's your Amazon cart?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Nothing like? What is? Like?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
What did you click on last that?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
You were like?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
What's this?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I want? Nothing like you, guys. I'm not I'm not
messing with you. Make a donation to something I don't care.
I don't need one thing.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
You can dominate to me.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Make a donation to Kiki's Wedding Fun in my honor
for my birthday, make a donation to the jaw Rule
Fun Kiki's wedding.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
I put it on Instagram and people said some very
interesting suggestions for your birthday. Somebody I'd like to hear,
I should buy you a dog. I considered that, Yeah,
oh that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
They said I should buy you I got a.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Little choked up there.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I wanted to give you a puppy.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
If you come in here with a dog. You know
I love a dog.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
But no, yeah, it is time.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
It is that like I had a visceral reaction to
having to care for something like, no, I'll help rescue them,
but I don't need I don't, not yet.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Somebody say I should buy you a wife, get buy me?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Ay, well, that's where we're at at this point, is
it might It might take purchasing one.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Uh huh, somebody says some key key t's. I thought
that was a great investment.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I like it. Yeah, well, you know I do
have one in the collection, so I suppose I could
know how many are there now?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think like seven?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Oh okay, so I'm six short. Yeah, so maybe we'll
get you the collection. But you know, let's let's stop
the games, Like, what else.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Do you want? I don't know why, you guys, I
don't need more crap. I don't. I just don't. I
don't need anything. Y'all are very generous people, y'all. Save
your money.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
What restaurants do you like to save your money?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Save your money? You know, Paulina, we don't have to
know more skits and games and lies. We don't have
to do it anymore. Hey, Fred, what are you into
these days?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well? Really, what are you into?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Like?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
What what's on your mind these days? Let's change it
up a little bit. What are you thinking about? I
mean they sleep, Okay, start there in a store.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's not think a.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Spot treatment because you seem like you want to rest.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh, someone say, get me legos. Yeah that's funny. They
are relaxing. But but you said.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
You're like on the outs with Legos.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, well we're not on the outs per se. Like
it's just I don't I don't know people I have
issues with Legos, you know issues.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
What did this start?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, no, no, it's just First of all, I'm grown up,
so I don't know if I should be. Second of all,
like I need a bigger space to have the legos
out of the way because the Legos in the process
of putting them together, it's like there's stuff everywhere and
it's kind of a mess. I don't like that. Like
I'd like to be able to, you know, have my
little Lego area if I ever won the Mega millions,
I have a Lego room, Like I'd have a Christmas

(04:50):
tree room that we just wheel the Christmas Tree into
we'd have a Lego room, so there's a place for that,
you know what I mean, with a nice ergonomic chair
and yeah, I'm starting to sound like a pepon now
my retirement when you come see me in sun City,
you know, that's what I'll have. I'll have a Lego
room with a nice ergonomic chair and I'll just put
stuff together. But people don't realize like it's very. It's very.

(05:10):
It's mindless, like I can't think about anything else when
I'm doing that, because if I mess up a step,
then the whole then I wind up actually more stress
than I was before I started. So it's a very
it's a nice mindless activity.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
I don't know what other people, what do you do
for mindlessness?

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Scrolled on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, I don't think that counts. What I'm sending you
to the digital de you know what, because your birthday's
coming up and I'm sending it's the same day and
I'm going to send you on a digital detox.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I probably wouldn't mind it right now in my life.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Do you think you could really do it? Honestly? Like
if if I send you an actual place and they
put your your phone in one of those bags fairaday
bag or whatever they call it, where they seal it
and you can't get to it. And they literally said
for one week, you cannot have.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
It for a week. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well, how long do you think this is going to last?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
To be a friend a day?

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Like I rehabits on a day, I was thinking about
a day.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think I think by the end of the week,
you'd realize that you were okay, like that you didn't
need the phone as much. I think I think you would.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I think the first couple of days would be really hard.
You'd had the shakes that really would you'd be wondering
you have you'd have, you'd have torpedo turns left and right.
You would know what to do. And then if you
haven't been listening for ten minutes that you don't know
what I'm talking about, it you think I'm gross, You
go back rewind. No, you'd be fine, you have a right.
But then I think you'd realize, like, Okay, there's a

(06:30):
freedom here. No one's emailing me asking me to do anything.
No one's emailing me. Because that's the other thing, you know,
with all the upside of like the stuff you can
scroll and the stuff you can see, there's an accessibility
where people expect you to be available all the time.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
That the truth.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
My newest pet peeve and I think I figured out
why yesterday. But my newest pet peeve is people putting
stuff on my calendar without asking me if I can
do it now, I think, now you got to realize
I've said it earlier. I say earlier in the week,
Like I don't. I'm not big on all these all
this office tech, Like I don't. I don't know about
all this like because again, this is not a traditional job,

(07:08):
like we don't have a lot of teams meetings or
make decks, or we don't have sales force, we don't
have people in whatever, So I don't really know how
this all works. I'm assuming that people putting stuff on
my calendar can see my calendar. Is that what it is?

Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, you can see like not what's on your calendar,
but you can see what's blocked out as busy, or
what's blocked.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Out is open. And see, I don't since we don't
really work in nine to five, I don't really do that,
Like I don't necessarily have stuff on the calend, like
I know what I have to do, but it's not
necessarily on there for everybody to see. So I guess
I know why they're doing that, or why they think
they can do that. It's because it's open open, But like,
maybe I need to set the thing to where like
you can't put any I'm busy after ten am unless

(07:46):
you call me, right.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Just block out every day from like ten to five.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
But then that's on my personal calendar too, isn't it,
And then that's gonna bother me, okay, cause then it
looks like I guess is it. My favorite days are
the days when I look at the day and I
don't have that many little blocks is on there? That
means the day is mine. So I don't want to
make a bunch of fake boxes on there just so
that people won't put stuff on it.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Read the right one day, no responsibilities.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh a day with nothing in the calendar?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yes, look if another from you all.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
But like if I'm okay, if I work a normal
job and I know that we work, we start at
four in the morning. If I'm going to put something
on someone's calendar at two o'clock, I might call them
and say hey, I'm going to put the you free
it too, like cause I know you. I know you're
working with your different hours four hours before I even
woke up. I know you were at the radio station,
but like, hey, are you good at too? But no,

(08:40):
people just put it on there, and I think they're
just used to being able to do that, and it
drives me crazy because I'm like, you didn't ask me.
But I guess in the real world you don't have
to ask people. You can just do it, right.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
I think everyone should X you know. I think that
would that's just common courtesy.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
Only times I do a little fred I put stuff
on your calendar, but I know when you're going to
be here when you're not, but like.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
No, and usually you'll say, hey, this is coming or whatever, right,
And you also have never put something like hey I
need you back here at three, you know, and I'm
like it's not happening, like it's not it's not happening.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Or like if the person doesn't respond. There are some
people here that would never answer any emails. So that's
why I just throw stuff on their calendars. I'm like, Okay,
we'll talk about it then. Since you want to dodge me.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
But it finally hit me last night. I was like, oh,
that's why people do that, because I'm like, how the
audacity of all these people They just put stuff on
there and they just assume. And then I was going off.
It was something else in another city, and I was
telling Trevor, our boss there. To the other I'm like, well,
these people have the audacity they and I realized like, yeah,
I guess they just they see it's open, so they

(09:39):
take it, don't I'm like, how do you and and
and how do you know? I don't have anything to do?
So now I guess I got to put everything on
my calendar so I look super busy, so no one
makes me do anything. Yep, but he's in my head.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Why are you really doing anything?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
I got saf I'm going again to do Lego. I
want to kick these keep these TV's website looking at
the new collection. Okay, that takes me several hours