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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fred's Show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Somebody said that I and this is a multi part
story on TikTok. I played for the first part, but
it does go on. I guess this guy the Disneyland story,
the guy who was gonna take his kid at Disneyland,
disney World, whatever, he was the other kid's stepparent for
a period of time. I guess, oh, so oh wow, Okay,

(00:25):
but yet it's complicated. But I still contend that if
I'm not Look, if if I'm a stepparent and then
I have a kid with those kids mom and we're
a family unit, we're married, and we're together. No, I
can't break off and just take my kid somewhere, right

(00:46):
because again, my mom got remarried, and then the guy
she married raised us, and you know, he's our dad
and whatever. If they had had another child together, I
know they would have made every effort to make us
all feel equal, even though that was our half sibling,
right like a man, and I would have had the
same mom and dad, and then we would have had
the same mom.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
But they didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
But if they had, and I know that, then my
dad couldn't just break off and take his quote unquote
kid and do something cool and leave us behind. But
if they were to break up, then I understand. But
at the same time, it's like, so, then if I
can only afford to take my kids somewhere and I'm
not I'm not a part of that family anymore, really,

(01:27):
then I just don't take I just don't get to
do anything with my kid because I can't afford to
take six people. It's very complicated, I would agree, But
so do you rob your child of the experience you
can afford to give him or her or because you
can't do it times five? Or do you or do
you just say, look, this is what I can afford
to do. We're gonna do this, And then maybe, I
don't know, if the relationship persists with the other kids,

(01:50):
maybe you do something different with all.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I really don't know the answer, but I guess if
you default towards I'm just not going to do anything
with my kid that I can't do with everybody, then
that's gonna limit a lot of things because that's a
big ass family.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
And is the mom gonna chip in it? Why is it?
Why is this woman not.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Saying well, then I want everyone to go, so I'll
pay more than half so that everybody else can. So
that's that hasn't come up at all. You know, she's
just going, if he's gonna take this kid, he has
to take all of them.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know, you're right about that, but also too in
a way, and I hate saying this, but I think
it's true.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
He's kind of entitled to that one on one time
with his child.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Zoo Like, maybe this Disney thing is special to him
and he wants to take his kid. And I understand
he was the step parent to the other children at
some point, and I respect that, but also I don't know,
it's that one on one time with your kid, and
I feel like he's entitled.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
To that too. He is. I'm a sucker.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I would take all the kids.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I couldn't.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
I could not see myself pulling up and I was
I lived in this house with these kids at one point.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
You're invested in their A lot of times, I like,
you don't know them. I feel like once you're invested,
like you then have a responsibility for almost ever to
at least like have some sort of special experiences with Dimon.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Did you not love me? As a stepparent when you
lived here. You know what I'm saying, As I could
never I would, I would save my penny and take
them off. But as you said, Paulina, he is entitled
to that one on one time. You know, it's just
about how you do things.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't love you enough to have a two hundred
credit score because I can't pay the credit card bill
after I took all these kids.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
You don't love the kids. I mean, you don't love.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
The kids enough enough to have a two hundred credit
score because I can't pay the bill, because I can't
take six kids to Disneyland.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, I don't. That's crazy. You're gonna leave me at
Pauline at home. It's just takes.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
What do you mean, I'll tell you the last place
I want to.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Ya I took.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I took Caitlin and Jason on one trip. I'm taking
Kiki on another.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Paulina and I went to the shooting range together and
got our concealed weapons permits.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's all that matters.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I mean, you know, we had our our daddy daughter time.
It sounds weird, but you know everybody was invited, but
no one else came.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I mean I feel like, you know, you guys do stuff,
you know, Jason Kalin hang out together, and I mean,
I don't know. It's not everyone's going to be able
to do everything all the time, and yet there's still
a lot of love for me. It's just, you know,
what can I afford to do? What is my what
is my immediate responsibility? And I guess if I'm one
hundred years old someday and my kid is seventy and

(04:20):
I didn't get to do anything cool with my kid
because I couldn't afford to take all the kids, some
of which were not technically mine, and I'm not with
their mom anymore.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's a shame.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, you know, so biggest stories of the day BYU
loses to Alabama last night, Sweet sixteen Duke over Arizona,
Florida over Maryland, and Texas Tech big comeback over Arkansas.
I know, Jason, your bracket must be just bracketing. Yeah,
it's just blown up, you know, bracket. Yeah, winning the
whole thing, Jason, I'd love to know who because you know,

(04:52):
Sweet sixteen we're getting down to the nitty gritty here,
but winning the entire tournament.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Uh, you know the Ogs the Alabama huh yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
In Alabama winning Mill. Well, that's an interesting pick. They
did win last night, so.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh hell yeah, okay, yeah I just said that.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
So yeah, tonight there's wee sixty old miss Michigan State, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Auburn,
and Purdue Houston. So we'll be down to the final
four by Monday. So very exciting everyone. What else do
I have for you this morning? And biggest stories of
the day? Oh, another sports story. There's a guy making
all kinds of news for the NFL Draft, which is upcoming.

(05:31):
A defensive tackle named Desmond Watson could become the heaviest
player ever drafted after impressing scouts at Florida's Pro Day.
This dude is six foot six, four hundred and sixty
four pounds and he can bench two hundred and twenty
five pounds thirty six times, So he can lift me
up thirty six times.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's nice. But he is six six four sixty four.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
And his bench press topped any bench press performance at
this year's NFL combine. He also covered the forty yards
in five point ninety three seconds and recorded twenty five
inches in the vertical jump. I couldn't do any of
that in I weigh half of this guy what this
guy does. So the coach of the Florida Gators described
him as a unicorn. You'll go the rest of your
career and you'll never be around a guy of that stature.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
That's a big freaking dude.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
So the next time that you get mad at your quarterback,
you know, for throwing the ball and it doesn't it
doesn't go right on target, just realize there's a dude
who's four hundred and sixty four pounds running towards his
ass as he's throwing the ball. I don't know, man,
I would be. I'd be so scared. If I were
a quarterback in the NFL. I get the ball and
I would just going away. And it needs to get

(06:41):
run over all the time by guys like that. This
story is for Paulina, and if I had some stab
boys to mend music on hand, I would play it.
I don't have the record cueued up right now, But Paulina,
there are big changes coming to your beloved Hooters.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Today's not the time.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Please, no big changes coming to the beloved Hooters. The
iconic chain is making moves to save itself on the
brink of bankruptcy by scrapping its infamous bikini knights.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh bikini nights. I don't think I've ever attended bikini Knights.
I don't want to go now, but they're.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Taking it away, So how are we gonna do that?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
I remember the first time my dad took me to Hooters.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I think I was like thirteen, and I prepared for
it like I was going to a strip club as
an adult, Like I thought. I thought we were doing
something very salacious. Oh yeah, oh, because it was a
relatively new thing when I was young. I was like,
we're going to Hooters. Hey, it's We're just a restaurant,
you know, very much open to the public, family environment.
But I thought, why are we playing? Oh okay, exact

(07:53):
what does this have to do with my parch? I'm like,
why is the random Bruno Mars on point right now?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Hey, you guys are paying attention. That's cool.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well how can I not hear that?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It just Brina Mars just started screaming at me about grenades, So, uh,
are you gonna are you going to catch a grenade
for Hooters so that they don't have to stop doing
bikini nights.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I would give anything to Hooters at this point. When
is that?

Speaker 2 (08:19):
What is?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's a night of bikini that doesn't seem sanitary? Bikinis?

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, Jason, let me tell you a lot of things
that aren't sanitary that people do.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Okay, I mean, I know.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
It works in a restaurant, but just like having your bikinis, Like, oh,
I don't know there are bikini restaurants.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't know how many there are anymore. But then
like the two thousands, they were like, bikini restaurants, don't
that well you could just go and somebody to bikini
serving you. I'm like, okay, but yeah, they're looking for
a more family friendly focus. The CEO calls it a
rehooterization of the brand. I'm going to use that today.

(08:57):
I'm going to use that in a sentence today. I'm
going to rehooterize this weekend.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's a shift towards well, they did go on a
shift towards more risky uniforms and marketing. The company is
going back to its roots, aiming to appeal to a
wider audience. A vendor working at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds
is accused of putting super glue in his coworker's soda,
which I this has got to be This could be
bad for so many reasons. But a woman said, in

(09:25):
the past couple of weeks, well because Hooter stopped the
bikini knights. A woman said in the past couple of weeks,
the drinks on her desk had a strong chemical smell
and taste. After she drank the beverages, she told State
Fair police to set up a surveillance camera to monitor
her drink on her desk, and the camera caught her
coworker putting something in her drink. Police interviewed the guy

(09:45):
who admitted to placing his supplements was what he called it,
in his coworker's Coca cola. What they found were clear
protective gloves and a Gorilla brand super glue container and
a cap in the trash near his office the Milwaukee
County District Attorney's office. His father fel on account of
placing foreign objects in edibles. I guess that's a charge.

(10:06):
But yeah, you don't do that. That is not a
nice thing to do. You don't like your coworker, you
upset about something. And this is the second cat story
of the week. I think because you know, why not
a silver main coon cat, which my sister has won.
I think he's forty pounds. My mom has one. I
think he's twenty five. These cats are monstrous. They look
like a little bobcats. I'm not sure that we did

(10:26):
the DPT bobcats. I don't know. Have you ever seen
those videos on TikTok of people who like bring in
a straight dog and it turns out to be a
wild coyote? Yes, I mean I feel like that's what
happened with my sister's cap. But a silver main coon
cat from Minnesota was awarded a Guinness World Record after
his tail was measured at eighteen and a half inches long.
Mister Pugsley Adams is his name, and I guess he's

(10:50):
a very easy going cat. Two years old and he
has an almost nineteen inch long tail. Wow right, So yeah,
of congratulations cat for that that. I kind of figured
somebody was gonna make like an eighteen inch joke, but
then no one did.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
So this morning.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I slow pitched that one to you.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I just kind of let it hang there, and I
was like, is anyone going to make an eighteen inch No,
you're not, okay, So it's National something on a stick
day and that okay, all right, and the National Weed
Appreciation Day, and Canlan was sure to write in here
garden weeds, not the other kind. So you see, we're
wondering which I mean next valid because I feel like
these days weed appreciation me it could be a lot

(11:36):
of things.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
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