Fred's New Favorite Show!

Fred asks the crew is they have seen The Rehearsal and explains the premise of the show!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Anyone watching the rehearsal on HBO. Yes, are you really?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (00:05):
What's wrong with you today? You're paying attention to the
stuff that you're not doing and then you don't remember
the stuff that you did do so exciting.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
And the truth of the matter is I knew the
I knew the answer before I even asked the question,
that you were not watching it? Are you okay? I'm
right to laugh? And that just that tickled me. Your face,
like you're watching Nathan Fielder. Really, She's like it seems
a little quirky for you. You're right, Jason, No, you can.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
You find things funny that are so funny to me
that the fact that you find them funny, I don't know.
Like when she was trying to make you say bad
names for like two months, coming out of nowhere, like
no one said anything about it, and all of a sudden.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
She was trying to which no one. I said, I'm
the smartest human being here, but I wasn't gonna fall
for that. And you also were not subtle about it,
just out of nowhere. Interesting humor on this one. Yeah,
you love but you you're like, you know, your buddy
Pete Cold coach Inya. You know, you know, you know

(01:12):
it brought me so much joy. You know, hey, Fred,
Pete's on the phone, you know, really geeky? Is it
Pete again? Oh you guys are I'm on my thirtieth
day in a row of cold medicine. I think at
this point I probably should see a physician or something

(01:34):
like that. You have an addiction. Now it happened to me.
Oh know how it goes? No? I think I think
it's maybe it was like a mix of the cold
and maybe allergies or something. It just happens to me
every time the weather changes, just like two weeks of hell,
and I take every medicine I can find, none of
it works. And then I just got and then I
call the doctor and I said one antibiotic and they say, no,
you don't need it. It'll go away because they're afraid
to get the antibiotic because you'll become resistant. And then

(01:56):
U and then it just goes away. You need a steroid,
I think from the soundser cough, Well, but I don't know.
You need a day off. I got you need to rest.
I answer you seriously, this is just a joke. Maybe
like two you know, like like two days. Well, right

(02:17):
as I'm actually worried about you. If we leave now,
it would be three. Actually, if we want to go
all the way to the weekend, it's worse. Man. You know,
you know my boss it's called mister Hurts. You know
it hurts. You know. Yeah, he called and he said,

(02:38):
we need to we need to go home. What is
going on you? Okay? I mean I'm the one who's
sick and I'm be having medicated and you're the one
that's like, huh, what what did we do yesterday? What's
waiting on the phone? How does that work? Want that
the cables? Did? You got roasted for twenty minutes. I
don't know how you forget that. I get I might

(03:00):
have gone home and cried. Maybe I should just play
it now, because yes, you're gonna have to wait. You're
gonna have to wait now. I was up late less
than watching the rehearsal, which Kiki's apparently a big fan of. A. Yes,
it's interesting. Do you know the premise? No, I'm looking
at the description right now, but I don't know that
two seasons. I honestly couldn't even get through the first

(03:22):
season because you know, you know his humor Nathan Fielder,
It's like it's like very dry and very awkward and
very smart, but on this so it's like he creates
these wild simul I don't even know how much money
this show must cost to put on, but he creates
these wild simulations to try to improve these theories that
he has about stuff. And it's funny, but like in

(03:44):
a very dry in atypical way. On this season of it.
I kind of gave up on last season because it
was getting a little tedious. This season is all about
air crash disasters, air air airplane disasters, and he decided
to take on like either happening and he has an actual,
like kind of smart theory about why, and so he

(04:07):
does these like wild simulations to try improve his theory, Like,
for example, he thinks that it has something to do.
He's trying to figure it out, like why are pilots
not communicating with each other? Why are things happening in
the cockpit that like are happening, Well, another pileo will
sit there and watch it happen. Is it like a
seniority thing? Is it a respect thing? Is it like

(04:27):
the first officer won't stand up to the captain thing
whatever it is. So he was like, in order to
create my or in order to you know, live out
my experiment, he builds an entire replica of a terminal
in a Houston airport in on a set somewhere, exact
perfect replica of the Houston area. It's like, how much
did that cost? Right? And he just keeps going and

(04:50):
who's funding it? I mean, this has to cost millions
of dollars in set design. Like it's just it was
wild anyway, it's really smart, but it's like, oh my god,
one thing after another, your mouth just drops. I can't
really describe it. You gotta watch it. It's on Max.
But it's smart for me. It's slow, but it's like,
I no, you'll laugh because it's just it's like so insane.

(05:13):
It's like and like the third episode is wildly it's
wildly insane, Like it's a concept where he I mean,
I don't want to give it away. The third episode
was thirty seconds of TV that I actually had to
close my eyes for. I was like, what is happening
right now? And I just don't know, like what kind
of brain you've got to have to come up with

(05:33):
this this stuff? But it's really good.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm reading a Reddit thread about one of the episodes
about a singing competition.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Did you watch that? Yeah, he creates a fake singing competition.
What that has to do with aviation disasters, You'll have
to see. There's the scene I'm talking about is like
where he decides to like if he could simulate someone's
childhood and upbringing, like as an adult, if he could
like simulate them going back to being a baby. And
there's a breastfeeding scene. Yeah, where he's being I mean,

(06:05):
I just I don't want to give it away, but
it's just like it's like what is going on? And
it's just one thing after another where you're going, oh wait,
it'll be like you know, Season one was it was
a guy who had I mean, I can't even get it.
It's just too it's too elaborate. But it was like
a guy who had lied about having a master's degree

(06:26):
to his friends but he hadn't, and they went to
a bar every week for trivia. And his theory was
that I'm oversimplifying. It was like if I if we
practice you coming clean to your friends over and over again,
like eventually you'll become desensitized to having to tell them
this bad news. So he built an exact replica of
their neighborhood neighborhood bar, and then he found actors that
looked like his friend, like the person's people say, I

(06:48):
mean like and the replica of the bar is like perfect.
It looks exactly like the one in the guy's neighborhood,
but it's been set somewhere down to like the silverware
and the plates and the kind of pizza that they
I'm going, like the set designers, I don't even know
why you'd want to be like, really, he built an
airport and how much HBO paying for this? Right? So
he's like this is like kind of a reality show

(07:10):
kind of but it's a joke. But it's not like
it's like doing this. I think he thinks that like this,
these are real. I mean it's hard with this guy
to tell like are you being serious? Are you kidding?
Is this who you are? Or is this a character?
I don't know if you know, if you're familiar with
Nathan Fielder, but like it's deadpan, it's just like it's awkward,
it's you wild, it's really crazy. But you got to

(07:31):
watch him that and if you want to watch something
totally different. Then go and look at Yellowstone National Parks TikTok,
because I don't know what's going on with that. It
appears to be the actual account for Yellowstone, and I'm
not sure whose idea it was to like and maybe
it's a parody, but it looks like it says Yellowstone
National Park and whoever's taking it over has snapped and

(07:53):
they have like millions of followers now and it's all
like highly sexual, like extremely sexual, like with the animals
are it'll be like it would be like this is
I don't even know if I can say this, but
it's on TikTok. Like one of the scenes is that
you know that lumberjack guy that's on with the and
he'll just take a shirt off, and so it's that

(08:14):
guy and he's like and then they stitch it and
he's like banging on the wood or whatever with the
axe and then they stitch it and it's a waterfall
from Yellowstone and it says like it is a very graphic,
a very graphic statement about what the park would like
him to do to that, like, and it's a whole

(08:34):
series of this stuff. It's like, so those are the
two things I need you to watch go to TikTok
and the Yellowstone National Park account. I don't know what's
going on. And then someone just said, just tuning in,
what show are you talking about? The rehearsal and HBO
wow wow, And I guess you kind of have to
watch at least part of the first season to get
the concept of what he's doing. But I couldn't even
get through the whole the whole first season. I was

(08:56):
just like, this is too awkward, too weird. But then
the aviation one kind of comes together. But Mike, it's
just like one crazy thing after another.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Okay, I just watched the Yellowstone video you were referring to.
Now I'm just gonna watch this Lumberjack all morning, so
carry on, you guys.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Somebody just posted nels on Fred's show Radio TikTok. They
should go find they should watch that. Follow that. I
don't know what real spy over there.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
We need to lock you out for today because.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Too silly, TikTok. Is it about the list now? Is
it about the waiting by the phone that you can't
remember that you did yesterday where you got bodied? Okay, well,
I guess I'll head over to the Instagram. Now Friendshield Radio,
I can't wait? Or did you TikTok? The Fred Show?
TikTok and Fred Shiel Radio follow us on both. All right, well,

(09:44):
I don't know what just happened, but I was trying
to I was trying to explain to you the rehearsal,
which is if you've watched the show, you know it's
kind of a difficult concept because it's like, I think
he's being serious, but then he's very much not. I
just you have to see and then and then go
look at them Yellowstone Ticket and now other National parks
are following suit and trying to do the same thing.

(10:04):
But I'm just like, who in the government was like, hey,
pervy guy Park Ranger, come here, take over our TikTok account.
Be pervy. I think it's it's got to be a woman,
because a lot of this stuff is like very female
oriented sexually. All could be, but I never thought I
would say, like Yellowstone National Parks, TikTok is spicy and
used to go check it out.