October 30, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Bread Show. Dame is taking over Las
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yet of my favorite guy? A sharp transition though, the
for me guy who does all the food reviews in
Texas that I was telling you about, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I watched your video that you sent me on the
plane flying into the hurricane yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Those people are nuts.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I want to do that because I love weather and
I want to see the inside of the hurricane.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And I'm here for a good time in a long time.
You don't want to sleep forty five minutes away from
your house, but you'll go into an airplane that flies
through a hurricane. Yes, this doesn't make any sense to me.
I want to see it, but you did see it
in the video. I don't need you flying through a hurricane,
like I don't need them to take that risky. But yeah,
these people are nuts, like there is a hurricane that
(01:04):
looks let's go right through it. Let's just fly right
into it. Yeah I am, I don't know me and
time Skilling on the plane. Okay, well that's I think
that's what you really want, is Time Skilling to be there.
But morning everyone, it's the Friend Show. No. My guy.
He's in Houston. He's this older gentleman and he goes
to different restaurants. He's just his white tech textan. I
think I think he's in Texan and he goes to
(01:26):
any kind of like different culture and he kind of
Ethiopiu and I think I saw him the other day
and Vietnamese whatever. He goes just to anywhere the people
tell him to go to try it, and he sits
down and he's just like, hey, I don't know anything
about anything, like teach me and show me, like order me,
you know, order for me whatever I should eat. And
then at the end he tells you whether it's for
him or not, so he'll go for me or not
for me. But he'll never like bash the place. He'll
(01:48):
just say like I liked it. Or I didn't like
it because it's you know, but whatever. He'll go into
a place and eat goat. He's like, all right here,
great goat sounds good. He just whatever would be like
a local thing. So yeah, you should check him out.
It's very inspiring. People are like, if more people were
like this, then maybe we wouldn't have so many problems
in this country. More people were open minded and wanted
to learn about each other and listened and whatever else. Yeah,
(02:10):
so maybe he's starting a movement, maybe this guy for president,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I also like that if he doesn't like it, he doesn't,
like you said, doesn't bash it, like everyone's allowed to
not like something, but then you don't have to like
say it suck.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right right, And he gets he doesn't. He pays for everything.
He won't take anything for free. Oh yeah. The other
guy I love is the guy in New York, the
cab driver or the uber driver. He calls himself a
cab driver. I think he's an uber driver, but he
goes to Michelin Star restaurants like for lunch. He just
shows it, like he just walks and now they know
him in all these places. Get the people that work there,
watch the videos. But he doesn't have a ton of money,
(02:42):
I don't think, but he has enough. But he'll go
spend four hundred bucks on lunch and he'll just go
to a Michelin star restaurant. One guy and he'll be like, hey,
do you have a table for one that. Sometimes they're
like okay, or like at the bar, but now they
know him, so now when he shows up, he gets
treated like royalty because you know, hundreds of thousands of
people are watching these videos, and so you know, the
better they treat him, the better. Like the chef Daniel
Bleud came out, Oh hey to meet. It's just a cavity.
(03:04):
It's like a normal guy like the rest of us.
But he gets treated like, you know, here's the caviare
upgrade and the rest of it because they because the
servers all are on TikTok and they watch the videos
because they are also normal people working at rich people restaurants.
I like that guy too. I can't remember his name.
Does he share the bill at the end? Yeah, and
he pays and they try it. They like, he wouldn't
do Jay Balvin's restaurant, And then Jay Balvin happened to
(03:25):
be there. It just happened to me, which which that
seemed wild to me, except these videos are not like
high production value. He's just a normal person, like making
this whatever normal. So I don't know that he set
it up exactly, but I don't know. So Jave Alvin
sits down with him, and then Jay Balvin's like free dinner,
and he's like, no, I have to pay because that's
part of the deal. Like I can't give an honest
(03:46):
review if I'm not. But I think he's making money
on the views.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Going to say you can take something for free, My dude,
it's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I guess the thing is if if this place gives
me free food and this place doesn't, then you know,
are my reviews going to be skewed by that? I mean,
he's getting millions of views. I got to think it's
paying for itself at least, but I don't know. I'm
always surprised at how little people actually make on social media,
Like you got four gazillion views on that and it
checked for seventeen dollars, which one pays the best? Is
(04:14):
it YouTube? Or is it is? What everyone is saying
is yes, I'm going back. It's like a new thing.
But I'm like, do I really I post? Jason told
me that I posted.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
One Snapchat story and I was not a millionaire yet,
and I.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Was like, this is be uh No, You're supposed to
like do high frequency and then no one's paid me
anything for anything.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think I have ten cents in my creator account,
which is exciting. You know. I think I might use
it on a Michelin star meal. You should. Yeah, I
have Snapchat for one reason and one reason only, and
I need to get rid of it because I don't
think that reason is happening anymore. So it's fine. I
have no business on Snapchat. I don't need to be
on there. It's not for people like like fifteen years old,
(04:55):
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
No, it's like turning a corner, Like I mean, because
like turning a corner now that everyone knows that you
can make money off at like all influencers and celebrities
and everyone is on Snapchat because they're trying to get them.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, well maybe maybe I'll re engage. I don't know
how much money are we talking about here. It is Thursday,
October thirty at The Fred Show is on hig Kalem. Hello,
welcome back, Hello, Jason, Hi, Paulina, Thankey's back tomorrow, and
then all's well in the world. She open Shelley will
be here in a little bit. She's got money. In
the Showdown one fifty, Yes, one fifty in the Showdown
one Game Day Streak, one Game Day, one Game Day,
(05:28):
one Game one Day Street, I really malfunctioned one Day
Winning Street. Yeah that was that part. Yeah, something like that.
I mean's here on the phone in the text eight
five five, five nine one one three five. We'll get
to the Entertainment Report a little bit. Blogs this hour,
biggest stories of the day, the throwback, throw Down today,
waiting by the phone, lots of stuff. What are you
working on?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
K Katie Perry getting kind of annihilated for throwing your
own birthday cake.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Also, we have a rap shortage, and I need to
put a call out.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We have a rap shortage, rap music shortage. Idea, we
got to talk about it. I had no idea. Yeah,
someone texted no air traffic controllers, so yeah, let's drive
right through the hurricane. Yeah, these guys meant to do it.
But yeah, yeah, normally we would have air traffic controllers
to say, yeah, I think I would take a ride
around that. I may not go. I may not with
that that thing with the whole in the middle. You don't,
(06:17):
you don't. We don't want it, we don't need it. No,
but these people drive, they drive through it, they fly
through it on purpose in the government, and I hope
they're getting paid. I don't know if maybe they're not
getting paid, but I guess isn't it for like do
they do the Obviously it's for like research. I think
they're they're trying to like get the winds and other
things when they fly through it. I think the purchasers
down here like in Twister. Yeah, I don't. I don't
(06:38):
think they're just like check this out, you know, like
look like we we sent our least valuable people up
there to see if they come back.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Like, No, I don't think that's how it is, because
it's American Airlines jet right, see how far right?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Like, guys, what's this? Volunteers? This is wild but wild?
Someone said YouTube long form video paced the best. Oh yeah,
so they've been the highest pair for a while. I
feel like, well, how long forms? I got hard though?
Too long for how do you want a blog?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, that's what I'm talking about, thirty is sixty seconds tops.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
My travel vlogs would be good on YouTube, I.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I guess, but I feel like solo travel vlogs would
require me to travel with someone else to document the
solo travel, which then is no longer solo travel. I
watched the girl just do it.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I mean, it's a lot of equipment, but she brings
like a tripod, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm not doing that. Okay, that defeats the purpose of
my trip. I feel like if I'm sitting up lighting
in tripods, you know, to do like stand ups on
my vacation, you know, like ifee stick is good for you.
There's a girl who does day trips and I love her.
Have you seen her? Which one? Grace and maybe she
girl girl?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
She gets on a plane at like six am, does
a day trip, comes back at like I don't know,
nine pm.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
With what money? How are these people like? I want
to say, Okay, no, she's cute. I think she's from here.
She's cute. But I have to say I think she
stole the idea from a guy who's been doing it.
There's a guy who's been I think a lot of
people are doing it now, but there was a dude's
who's been doing it, and he did like Egypt in
a day, but now he's sponsored. Yeah, he's like his
whole thing is he lives in New York. And he'll
(08:04):
be like, you're not gonna believe it. I'm getting his
catchphrase wrong, but he'll be like, you're not gonna believe it.
But you know, Ethiopia is a day trip for me.
And so he'll get up in New York and he'll
fly there a night and then he's back the same day.
So he'll be like, he did a safari in four hours.
He went to Africa, I think it was eight, did
(08:24):
a safari ate something, went back to the airport, flew home.
What is the point of that, Well, I mean to say,
I think the point that he's trying to make is
that you can see anything you want to see with
limited time and budget. Because the thing that I kept
hearing before I would start doing the solo travel stuff,
it was, you know, or my mindset was, why am
I going to spend all this money if I only
(08:45):
have two days or three days, or it's not worth it,
or I won't see anything because you know, we don't
get weeks and weeks off at a time that we
could say, hey, let's go to Africa for two weeks
and like see a bunch of stuff, Like, we don't
have that. So I've never been because it's far and
I'm thinking, well that so my previous mentality would have been, well,
I guess I'm gonna have to wait until I have
a lot of time. And these people, I think are saying, you, look,
(09:07):
you're not going to see everything. You're not really going
to see much at all. Actually, but like a day
is extreme, but maybe a couple of days. It's better
than never going at all, go on weekend or something.
And so like pre COVID, when I was out there,
you know, like out here in these streets and going places,
like if we had three days, I'd go wherever I could.
I'd look on the airline and thing and see where
I could go. Because it's like, well, I have a
(09:27):
friend who's been his name is R. Dub Randy. He's
been to one hundred and ninety three countries all you
and recognized countries. Is not much older than me. And
that's how he did it, is that his thing was
as long as I see everything, And he was trying
to check the box, right, But like so it was
a mission for him. Yeah, but his whole thing was
to me was I'd rather see everything once and then
go and then I'll be fifty something years old and
(09:48):
then i can go back to where That's what he's
doing now, is he's going back to the places that
he really likes because he's seen everything. So some would
say like, well, that's a waste of time and money others,
and then my argument counter argument would be, well, then
you're never going to see any thing because if you're
always waiting for the time and the money, you may
never get it. So, like I think that very long
answer is the point to why these guys are doing it,
because it's like, hey, look I got one day and
(10:09):
this much money, and the last minute flight costs this much,
so I'm just gonna do it. Is it kind of
silly to go to Africa and like see a giraffe
and then go back to the airport. Yes? Yeah, Is
it better than never seeing a giraffe in Africa? I
guess it's up to you. Yeah, But you know what
one guy's doing. A ninety five year old man, this
is this man is this is a man of your heart,
(10:29):
and I don't know where this is. I got to
find out where this Omaha, Nebraska is where you're going
to go to meet this man. He's ninety five years old.
He's a retirement home resident in Omaha, and he has
started his own Taylor Swift fan club. He's my everything.
His name is Frank, and I should have just used
his first name. You would have known whom I was
talking about it. Since he's your everything, I should have
just said Frank, and then you would. And I want
(10:50):
to know if he's seeing anybody. Yeah, well that's why
I'm suggesting maybe you should go and it could work
out very well for you. You go all around. Yeah, yeah, Frank.
I love how it got too. It's not like an
old grandma. It's a dude. It all started when a
staff member and his retirement community said that she'd written
to Swift and never got a reply. So this guy,
who's a lifelong cheese fam told her I know some
(11:12):
people and launched the club. This is some ownership. Such
a grandfather thing to say, like such an old man
thing to say, like I know somebody. What began with
ten residents quickly grew to one hundred members and they're
proudly calling themselves Swifties, which I hope they don't think
they came up with that. I have a great name
for it. Let him believe it, Let them have it. Man,
(11:34):
you don't got much time. Frankie even decorated his walker
with a T Swift decal and mailed letters complete with
a photo to Swift, Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes, hoping
to catch their attention. The ultimate which is for her
to visit the retirement home. You know they're gonna hear
from her. There's no way that she doesn't do something. Yeah,
I'm waiting for that.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I'm waiting for her to meet up with Sweet Lila,
whose mother Caitlyn we had on the show. Like, I'm
just like, come on, girl, we need it, we need
you with Frank. I need the photo of you and
his walker and him. Yeah, you got to go hang
out with frank. Now, how she's going to get to Omaha.
I don't think she gonna do that, but there'll be
a video or she'll send something.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
She's gonna send something because you know, as thoughtful as
she is, she has people. She thoughtful enough to hire
people to look for stuff like this and then do
it and sign her name. Either way, I give her
credit for that. Yes, she care. Like all those notes
she sends, like when the media when we get to
meet her sometimes when we used to get to meet
her before some dude grabbed her butt. Thanks for that.
But when we all get notes and I don't know
(12:31):
if she wrote them or maybe just signed I think
initially she did. I think back in the day she
really wrote them. I don't know if now she does.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I know her handwriting, but I do wonder if someone else,
like had to master her handwriting, or.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Maybe she signs it like that. Yeah, you're right, I
don't know. But anyway, even if she's got people that
are thoughtful enough to do that, then I'll take it
because how many people do we meet every day that
like don't even want to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I was just name dropped one of the ones that
you interviewed where later he was like talking to you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
About how annoying the interviews were. I won't say his name,
but yeah, wait a minute, hold on, I'll tell you
off there.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But it was just That's one of my favorite stories,
is like you interviewed him earlier and then later he's like, oh,
these interviews I had to do earlier.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I remember, I don't remember who it was you're going
to tell me, but I remember the story. We were
in Vegas. I think we did a bunch of interviews,
and then I saw it was this person. I saw
this person. Hold on, so tell me who it is.
Hold on, turn to myself, tell me, yes, yeah, that's
who it was. And so then later we're like in
more of like a casual like I think it was
like a bar or something, like we were drinking, maybe
(13:34):
where we.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Were watching maybe the iHeart Festival, like from that little
platform thing or something.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And I was like, hey, man, you know whatever, like
I just and I guess he didn't put together that
I was one of the people who had interviewed him,
and he was like, oh, good to see you. Man. God,
those interviews are just so tedious, and they were like
I was one of maybe I don't know a bunch
of people that did so they probably were. He probably
was telling the truth. But it's like and I was like, yeah,
I was one of the guys that interviewed you, and
he was like right. He just kind of looked at
(14:00):
I mean, he was like, well, not you, yours wasn't,
but I'm I said that right, It's right. No, mine
was probably the worst of all of them. I'm sure
it would be, though, you know, if you had to
do like ten in a row and everyone's asking the
same questions, Which is why I like to throw in
the curveballs. Make them cry, Make them cry, you know
what I mean. That's what I like to do.
This is the Bread Show. Dame is taking over Las
Vegas this January for his seven night resident Adobe Live
at Park MGM, and we've got a trip for two
to the January twenty fifth show to night Hotel State
Park MGM January twenty fourth through the twenty sixth and
round trip airfare. Text forever to three seven three three
seven now for a chance to win. A confirmation text
(00:21):
will be said. Standard message of data rates may apply
all thanks to Live Nation. Have you watched a video
yet of my favorite guy? A sharp transition though, the
for me guy who does all the food reviews in
Texas that I was telling you about, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I watched your video that you sent me on the
plane flying into the hurricane yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Those people are nuts.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I want to do that because I love weather and
I want to see the inside of the hurricane.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And I'm here for a good time in a long time.
You don't want to sleep forty five minutes away from
your house, but you'll go into an airplane that flies
through a hurricane. Yes, this doesn't make any sense to me.
I want to see it, but you did see it
in the video. I don't need you flying through a hurricane,
like I don't need them to take that risky. But yeah,
these people are nuts, like there is a hurricane that
(01:04):
looks let's go right through it. Let's just fly right
into it. Yeah I am, I don't know me and
time Skilling on the plane. Okay, well that's I think
that's what you really want, is Time Skilling to be there.
But morning everyone, it's the Friend Show. No. My guy.
He's in Houston. He's this older gentleman and he goes
to different restaurants. He's just his white tech textan. I
think I think he's in Texan and he goes to
(01:26):
any kind of like different culture and he kind of
Ethiopiu and I think I saw him the other day
and Vietnamese whatever. He goes just to anywhere the people
tell him to go to try it, and he sits
down and he's just like, hey, I don't know anything
about anything, like teach me and show me, like order me,
you know, order for me whatever I should eat. And
then at the end he tells you whether it's for
him or not, so he'll go for me or not
for me. But he'll never like bash the place. He'll
(01:48):
just say like I liked it. Or I didn't like
it because it's you know, but whatever. He'll go into
a place and eat goat. He's like, all right here,
great goat sounds good. He just whatever would be like
a local thing. So yeah, you should check him out.
It's very inspiring. People are like, if more people were
like this, then maybe we wouldn't have so many problems
in this country. More people were open minded and wanted
to learn about each other and listened and whatever else. Yeah,
(02:10):
so maybe he's starting a movement, maybe this guy for president,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I also like that if he doesn't like it, he doesn't,
like you said, doesn't bash it, like everyone's allowed to
not like something, but then you don't have to like
say it suck.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right right, And he gets he doesn't. He pays for everything.
He won't take anything for free. Oh yeah. The other
guy I love is the guy in New York, the
cab driver or the uber driver. He calls himself a
cab driver. I think he's an uber driver, but he
goes to Michelin Star restaurants like for lunch. He just
shows it, like he just walks and now they know
him in all these places. Get the people that work there,
watch the videos. But he doesn't have a ton of money,
(02:42):
I don't think, but he has enough. But he'll go
spend four hundred bucks on lunch and he'll just go
to a Michelin star restaurant. One guy and he'll be like, hey,
do you have a table for one that. Sometimes they're
like okay, or like at the bar, but now they
know him, so now when he shows up, he gets
treated like royalty because you know, hundreds of thousands of
people are watching these videos, and so you know, the
better they treat him, the better. Like the chef Daniel
Bleud came out, Oh hey to meet. It's just a cavity.
(03:04):
It's like a normal guy like the rest of us.
But he gets treated like, you know, here's the caviare
upgrade and the rest of it because they because the
servers all are on TikTok and they watch the videos
because they are also normal people working at rich people restaurants.
I like that guy too. I can't remember his name.
Does he share the bill at the end? Yeah, and
he pays and they try it. They like, he wouldn't
do Jay Balvin's restaurant, And then Jay Balvin happened to
(03:25):
be there. It just happened to me, which which that
seemed wild to me, except these videos are not like
high production value. He's just a normal person, like making
this whatever normal. So I don't know that he set
it up exactly, but I don't know. So Jave Alvin
sits down with him, and then Jay Balvin's like free dinner,
and he's like, no, I have to pay because that's
part of the deal. Like I can't give an honest
(03:46):
review if I'm not. But I think he's making money
on the views.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Going to say you can take something for free, My dude,
it's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I guess the thing is if if this place gives
me free food and this place doesn't, then you know,
are my reviews going to be skewed by that? I mean,
he's getting millions of views. I got to think it's
paying for itself at least, but I don't know. I'm
always surprised at how little people actually make on social media,
Like you got four gazillion views on that and it
checked for seventeen dollars, which one pays the best? Is
(04:14):
it YouTube? Or is it is? What everyone is saying
is yes, I'm going back. It's like a new thing.
But I'm like, do I really I post? Jason told
me that I posted.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
One Snapchat story and I was not a millionaire yet,
and I.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Was like, this is be uh No, You're supposed to
like do high frequency and then no one's paid me
anything for anything.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think I have ten cents in my creator account,
which is exciting. You know. I think I might use
it on a Michelin star meal. You should. Yeah, I
have Snapchat for one reason and one reason only, and
I need to get rid of it because I don't
think that reason is happening anymore. So it's fine. I
have no business on Snapchat. I don't need to be
on there. It's not for people like like fifteen years old,
(04:55):
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
No, it's like turning a corner, Like I mean, because
like turning a corner now that everyone knows that you
can make money off at like all influencers and celebrities
and everyone is on Snapchat because they're trying to get them.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, well maybe maybe I'll re engage. I don't know
how much money are we talking about here. It is Thursday,
October thirty at The Fred Show is on hig Kalem. Hello,
welcome back, Hello, Jason, Hi, Paulina, Thankey's back tomorrow, and
then all's well in the world. She open Shelley will
be here in a little bit. She's got money. In
the Showdown one fifty, Yes, one fifty in the Showdown
one Game Day Streak, one Game Day, one Game Day,
(05:28):
one Game one Day Street, I really malfunctioned one Day
Winning Street. Yeah that was that part. Yeah, something like that.
I mean's here on the phone in the text eight
five five, five nine one one three five. We'll get
to the Entertainment Report a little bit. Blogs this hour,
biggest stories of the day, the throwback, throw Down today,
waiting by the phone, lots of stuff. What are you
working on?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
K Katie Perry getting kind of annihilated for throwing your
own birthday cake.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Also, we have a rap shortage, and I need to
put a call out.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We have a rap shortage, rap music shortage. Idea, we
got to talk about it. I had no idea. Yeah,
someone texted no air traffic controllers, so yeah, let's drive
right through the hurricane. Yeah, these guys meant to do it.
But yeah, yeah, normally we would have air traffic controllers
to say, yeah, I think I would take a ride
around that. I may not go. I may not with
that that thing with the whole in the middle. You don't,
(06:17):
you don't. We don't want it, we don't need it. No,
but these people drive, they drive through it, they fly
through it on purpose in the government, and I hope
they're getting paid. I don't know if maybe they're not
getting paid, but I guess isn't it for like do
they do the Obviously it's for like research. I think
they're they're trying to like get the winds and other
things when they fly through it. I think the purchasers
down here like in Twister. Yeah, I don't. I don't
(06:38):
think they're just like check this out, you know, like
look like we we sent our least valuable people up
there to see if they come back.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Like, No, I don't think that's how it is, because
it's American Airlines jet right, see how far right?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Like, guys, what's this? Volunteers? This is wild but wild?
Someone said YouTube long form video paced the best. Oh yeah,
so they've been the highest pair for a while. I
feel like, well, how long forms? I got hard though?
Too long for how do you want a blog?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, that's what I'm talking about, thirty is sixty seconds tops.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
My travel vlogs would be good on YouTube, I.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I guess, but I feel like solo travel vlogs would
require me to travel with someone else to document the
solo travel, which then is no longer solo travel. I
watched the girl just do it.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I mean, it's a lot of equipment, but she brings
like a tripod, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm not doing that. Okay, that defeats the purpose of
my trip. I feel like if I'm sitting up lighting
in tripods, you know, to do like stand ups on
my vacation, you know, like ifee stick is good for you.
There's a girl who does day trips and I love her.
Have you seen her? Which one? Grace and maybe she
girl girl?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
She gets on a plane at like six am, does
a day trip, comes back at like I don't know,
nine pm.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
With what money? How are these people like? I want
to say, Okay, no, she's cute. I think she's from here.
She's cute. But I have to say I think she
stole the idea from a guy who's been doing it.
There's a guy who's been I think a lot of
people are doing it now, but there was a dude's
who's been doing it, and he did like Egypt in
a day, but now he's sponsored. Yeah, he's like his
whole thing is he lives in New York. And he'll
(08:04):
be like, you're not gonna believe it. I'm getting his
catchphrase wrong, but he'll be like, you're not gonna believe it.
But you know, Ethiopia is a day trip for me.
And so he'll get up in New York and he'll
fly there a night and then he's back the same day.
So he'll be like, he did a safari in four hours.
He went to Africa, I think it was eight, did
(08:24):
a safari ate something, went back to the airport, flew home.
What is the point of that, Well, I mean to say,
I think the point that he's trying to make is
that you can see anything you want to see with
limited time and budget. Because the thing that I kept
hearing before I would start doing the solo travel stuff,
it was, you know, or my mindset was, why am
I going to spend all this money if I only
(08:45):
have two days or three days, or it's not worth it,
or I won't see anything because you know, we don't
get weeks and weeks off at a time that we
could say, hey, let's go to Africa for two weeks
and like see a bunch of stuff, Like, we don't
have that. So I've never been because it's far and
I'm thinking, well that so my previous mentality would have been, well,
I guess I'm gonna have to wait until I have
a lot of time. And these people, I think are saying, you, look,
(09:07):
you're not going to see everything. You're not really going
to see much at all. Actually, but like a day
is extreme, but maybe a couple of days. It's better
than never going at all, go on weekend or something.
And so like pre COVID, when I was out there,
you know, like out here in these streets and going places,
like if we had three days, I'd go wherever I could.
I'd look on the airline and thing and see where
I could go. Because it's like, well, I have a
(09:27):
friend who's been his name is R. Dub Randy. He's
been to one hundred and ninety three countries all you
and recognized countries. Is not much older than me. And
that's how he did it, is that his thing was
as long as I see everything, And he was trying
to check the box, right, But like so it was
a mission for him. Yeah, but his whole thing was
to me was I'd rather see everything once and then
go and then I'll be fifty something years old and
(09:48):
then i can go back to where That's what he's
doing now, is he's going back to the places that
he really likes because he's seen everything. So some would
say like, well, that's a waste of time and money others,
and then my argument counter argument would be, well, then
you're never going to see any thing because if you're
always waiting for the time and the money, you may
never get it. So, like I think that very long
answer is the point to why these guys are doing it,
because it's like, hey, look I got one day and
(10:09):
this much money, and the last minute flight costs this much,
so I'm just gonna do it. Is it kind of
silly to go to Africa and like see a giraffe
and then go back to the airport. Yes? Yeah, Is
it better than never seeing a giraffe in Africa? I
guess it's up to you. Yeah, But you know what
one guy's doing. A ninety five year old man, this
is this man is this is a man of your heart,
(10:29):
and I don't know where this is. I got to
find out where this Omaha, Nebraska is where you're going
to go to meet this man. He's ninety five years old.
He's a retirement home resident in Omaha, and he has
started his own Taylor Swift fan club. He's my everything.
His name is Frank, and I should have just used
his first name. You would have known whom I was
talking about it. Since he's your everything, I should have
just said Frank, and then you would. And I want
(10:50):
to know if he's seeing anybody. Yeah, well that's why
I'm suggesting maybe you should go and it could work
out very well for you. You go all around. Yeah, yeah, Frank.
I love how it got too. It's not like an
old grandma. It's a dude. It all started when a
staff member and his retirement community said that she'd written
to Swift and never got a reply. So this guy,
who's a lifelong cheese fam told her I know some
(11:12):
people and launched the club. This is some ownership. Such
a grandfather thing to say, like such an old man
thing to say, like I know somebody. What began with
ten residents quickly grew to one hundred members and they're
proudly calling themselves Swifties, which I hope they don't think
they came up with that. I have a great name
for it. Let him believe it, Let them have it. Man,
(11:34):
you don't got much time. Frankie even decorated his walker
with a T Swift decal and mailed letters complete with
a photo to Swift, Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes, hoping
to catch their attention. The ultimate which is for her
to visit the retirement home. You know they're gonna hear
from her. There's no way that she doesn't do something. Yeah,
I'm waiting for that.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I'm waiting for her to meet up with Sweet Lila,
whose mother Caitlyn we had on the show. Like, I'm
just like, come on, girl, we need it, we need
you with Frank. I need the photo of you and
his walker and him. Yeah, you got to go hang
out with frank. Now, how she's going to get to Omaha.
I don't think she gonna do that, but there'll be
a video or she'll send something.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
She's gonna send something because you know, as thoughtful as
she is, she has people. She thoughtful enough to hire
people to look for stuff like this and then do
it and sign her name. Either way, I give her
credit for that. Yes, she care. Like all those notes
she sends, like when the media when we get to
meet her sometimes when we used to get to meet
her before some dude grabbed her butt. Thanks for that.
But when we all get notes and I don't know
(12:31):
if she wrote them or maybe just signed I think
initially she did. I think back in the day she
really wrote them. I don't know if now she does.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I know her handwriting, but I do wonder if someone else,
like had to master her handwriting, or.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Maybe she signs it like that. Yeah, you're right, I
don't know. But anyway, even if she's got people that
are thoughtful enough to do that, then I'll take it
because how many people do we meet every day that
like don't even want to be here.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I was just name dropped one of the ones that
you interviewed where later he was like talking to you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
About how annoying the interviews were. I won't say his name,
but yeah, wait a minute, hold on, I'll tell you
off there.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But it was just That's one of my favorite stories,
is like you interviewed him earlier and then later he's like, oh,
these interviews I had to do earlier.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I remember, I don't remember who it was you're going
to tell me, but I remember the story. We were
in Vegas. I think we did a bunch of interviews,
and then I saw it was this person. I saw
this person. Hold on, so tell me who it is.
Hold on, turn to myself, tell me, yes, yeah, that's
who it was. And so then later we're like in
more of like a casual like I think it was
like a bar or something, like we were drinking, maybe
(13:34):
where we.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Were watching maybe the iHeart Festival, like from that little
platform thing or something.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And I was like, hey, man, you know whatever, like
I just and I guess he didn't put together that
I was one of the people who had interviewed him,
and he was like, oh, good to see you. Man. God,
those interviews are just so tedious, and they were like
I was one of maybe I don't know a bunch
of people that did so they probably were. He probably
was telling the truth. But it's like and I was like, yeah,
I was one of the guys that interviewed you, and
he was like right. He just kind of looked at
(14:00):
I mean, he was like, well, not you, yours wasn't,
but I'm I said that right, It's right. No, mine
was probably the worst of all of them. I'm sure
it would be, though, you know, if you had to
do like ten in a row and everyone's asking the
same questions, Which is why I like to throw in
the curveballs. Make them cry, Make them cry, you know
what I mean. That's what I like to do.
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