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October 23, 2025 36 mins

Do you know how much it costs to be a bridesmaid in a wedding? Fred tells us! Plus, a lady asked ChatGPT to pick lottery numbers for her and she won!

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but I don't know. Pauline. I'm looking at you, Kiki,
I'm looking at you.

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I don't know why you're looking at me.

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Speaker 4 (01:58):
No, one day, I'll be there, but it's over one fore.
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, yes, my Queen's I thought maybe you because in
your home, don't you have pictures of all them, and
then you two.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
No, I have pictures of them all, and then my
sister the icon and Ray well, absolutely yes.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
For some reason thought you would put yourself up to
no friends.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I don't know why you would think that I would
do that. I would never do that.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, because I have a picture of you up in
my house, as you should. But you gave me so
I thought maybe you had like maybe gotten two copies
of it. And then but people are always like, who
is that beautiful woman? You know you related to her.
I'm like, nope, no, no, no, she gave me that
for Christmas and I hung it up. But prominently so

(02:43):
this is will make some of you laugh in the room,
I think. But being a bridesmaid hope. So boy is
now costing us women as much as rent. Yep, and
that sounds a little low based on the things I've
heard around here, fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred dollars
on average for local weddings this is more realistic, and

(03:03):
then for destination weddings that never could jump to between
three and five thousand dollars. The average rent monthly rent
in the US is two thousand dollars, So basically for
a local wedding to be a bridesmaid, you'd spend as
much as you do on your rent just said, there's
a math math on that issue.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
A trigger warning.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Before you do.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's what I just said. Well, what I just said
was I think you're gonna laugh when I say this.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Laugh. I was ready to have some fun.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
That was my warning to you.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, no, I'm none of this is funny. As Jason
said one day, I think it was Jason. I don't
know who said that. But none of this is funny,
is it right?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I mean, I don't know. I've never been a bridesmaid,
not yet at LISTA.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Okay, so you obviously don't know how I deal with
my problems because I also have a ton of unread emails,
not workwise, but for other emails. And I don't ever
calculate how much it costs me in total.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I don't want to be hurt in that way, you know, So.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
You have no idea. Maybe that's why you don't have
any money. I don't know how much you spent. Well, no,
you just said about ten seconds ago the way, I
have zero dollars.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
So that's why I really Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
But when you called yourself a broken So I'm not
saying you're like, I don't know how much they spend.
That might be why. I mean, who knows. Maybe people
are coming and taking money from you left and right.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
You don't even know.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Well, in your like logic, I got to pay it
either way, So why am I going to calculate the
total and hurt my own feelings. I got to pay
it off somehow, so I know, I just want to
get the number to zero.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, I guess if I don't have any if I
don't have enough money, then I might tell someone like,
I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
I would never dare oh someone down in that way, I.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Let someone down. So what what are the expenses?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
How are you letting someone down in your spending being
a bridesmaid?

Speaker 5 (04:39):
I just think it's an honor to be asked. I
know I might be in the minority.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Which is than just whatever I'm asking, though I'm not judging.
I don't know the answers. So then anything anything they
say they want, then you just buy it because you've
been asked, because it's an honor.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I don't know how it works. I don't know
what you're expected to do.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, I've never been in a situation where it's like
I want this, I want that. But certainly there are
expected at least that we've set amongst our friend group,
and there's usually a bachelorette trip, there's you know, and
there's a certain way that we do it in our
friend group. You really don't pay for anything but your
own flight if you're the like, it's just how we
do it. And I would hope that people would do

(05:14):
it for me. I mean, I would be conscious of it,
but it sounds.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Like you should get married just to get your money back.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, Hillary and I think I've talked about this on
the show.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hillary and I Hot Hillary as we call her, have discussed,
like actually discussed, not joking, having a bachelorette party joint
and taking our front and they just have to celebrate
us in that way because both of us may never
get married.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't think that's a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
In fact, I'm starting to think now, who all have
I had to, you know, do things for in that regard,
Like whose weddings have I stood in and had to
go to bachelor parties and things like that? Or excuse me,
I had the honor of being asked to go to
Bachelor guards honor?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Is that weird to say?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
No, it's not that it's not an honor to be in.
No one's saying it's not an honor to be in
a wedding party. I think what I'm saying is it's
not necessarily because of that honor that I'm going to
go broke trying to make you happy on your bachelor party.
That's what I'm saying. If I don't have the money,
I can't spend it. That's just me.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Like if you like we're going to SANCHOPEI I'd be like,
we're not or for you?

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Are?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I guess the honor can extend to like, I'm your friend.
I've done enough for you that you're asking me to
be in it. So I'm going to do the best
I can. But I'm also going to stand there and
support you, which I thought was the point. Not necessarily
the beach vacation.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, No one's asking for it to be an honor.
It's just how I personally view it, and I'm just
willing to do whatever.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah that's yeah, Well I'm not that sweet than I guess.

Speaker 7 (06:38):
Yeah, well no, I probably won't be in any weddings
at this point in my life because I'm thirty three.
Honestly now, my friends really got married like that except
for me, Like I've never been in a wedding, Like
I've been a flower girl once and that's it.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
And that was for my cousin. I think it was
like last year yea, yeah, yeah, literally last year was
by de fault.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
They're like, you got to be in this, I guess,
and I'm like, I guess I got it because we're family.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
But I have never been asked.

Speaker 7 (06:59):
But when I had my wedding, I truly try to
be like the chill as bride. It could be because well,
I was pregnant, I couldn't do much. But I also
felt like I didn't want to do the whole beach
vacation in Cancoon or wherever, like the other spot that
Tulom or whatever, because I'm like, I know it's gonna
cost a lot of money, and I'm already asking you
guys to be a part of this.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I know, just to get to the wedding, it's going
to cost you money, you know, Yeah, for a destination wedding.
I would understand why you would take that into consideration.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I don't know that I paid. We paid for food.
I think we paid for hotel. The last bachelor party
I went to, I don't think we paid. We didn't
pay for his flight.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
We don't pay for flights. That's like how we do it.
We pay for everything else. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
But I mean, I think if someone in the group
hadn't been able to afford it, or didn't have the money,
or it was too extreme, then we would have figured
that out.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
You know what I mean. I guess I guess no one.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm honored that you asked me to be part of
that group, especially because most of the people in that
group had known each other a lot longer in this
particular group than I had known them. So it was
nice to have been included in that. I wasn't in
the wedding. I was invited at the bachelor party. I
wasn't invited. I don't know that anyone was standing up there.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
I didn't go to the wedding. I couldn't go, but anyway,
I guess I didn't. That was the honor for me.
It was the gesture. The rest of it was I
was not asked to stand in my brother in law's
wedding party. And I also wasn't asked to go to
the bachelor party. I love the guy, but Shenanigan's I
want to know what sort of low rent trippers were there.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
That's what I want to know.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
I want to know what was going on at this
bachelor party that I couldn't see as the brother of
the bride.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, Amanda's nice because I would have forced you to go.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, me too, literally, like I will have all my
spies at Timothy's bachelor right, that's right, girl.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
But we've talked about this before. I was not the
least benefitted. I would have found it disingenuous if he
had asked me to be in his wedding party because
I didn't know him that well. I'd only known him
for like a year. So you're saying, if you've only
got seven or eight spots, because I think it was
supposed to be even on both sides, and Amanda obviously
drove that, then I take the spot of somebody that

(08:53):
you've known since childhood, because because I'm the brother, like.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, you're the exactly, you're the new brother.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
The people standing up there should be the closest people
to you, and you know, I officiated the wedding, which
was also my sister's idea, which was very nice. But
if I hadn't been included, it wouldn't upset me at all.
I should not take a spot. He was in a band.
He toured the entire country for years with five of
these people. The band broke up, so the White Arms

(09:23):
of Atheena are no longer with us. But that being said,
I wouldn't have been really offended because again, like I
can come up right now with five, six, seven guys
that I would ask, and I could probably come up
with twenty honestly that would stand up there right. So
then my future bride, let's say I'm not all that
close with the brother. I haven't really met that. I've
only met the brother a handful of times. Whatever. If

(09:45):
she wanted that, then she's going to get that. But
I would not necessarily think, well, now you know, Steve
can't stand up here, because you know, Bruce has to
stand up here instead a guy who I just met.
So like you, if that's your request, fine, but I
think that that's a space that should go to someone
who's who represents what that's supposed to stand for which

(10:08):
are the closest people in your life.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
My brothers will be included in my wedding.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
But periods with them.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
He is, But if he wasn't, Bruce would have to
just sit it out, or we would find another girl.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Go find a girl for Bruce the same.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
I know it's weirder to care about, like the numbers matching.
I've always thought that is so odd, like figuring out
my best friend and I held hands getting down my
friend Matty's aisle because it was an uneven number.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yes, what You're never going to.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Look back at your wedding photos and go, wow, you
were there.

Speaker 8 (10:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:37):
And I also had two people take up hobby spots
because I had two men right on my side and
my other two men.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
So I was like, well I need those two spots.
So you know, Bruce said, whoever failed anymore?

Speaker 2 (10:49):
What if you'd been like, hey, hovey, they have to
be they have to be groomsmen, those two because we
got to get them up there somehow I did, no, no, no,
But but I thought they were on your side.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
No, they stood, they had to stay with the men.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I can't remember. I thought you had men stand on
your side.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
I can't remember Jason was not in a pink power
suit with shorts.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
No, I can't remember the layout.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, I look at photos now.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I know of weddings where men have stood on the
women's side because they're close with the women.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Oh, I think they did another thing about it. I
think like Jonathan and Jason were on my side. But yeah,
they weren't in pink power suits. But you can tell
they absolute should have.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I don't know why they was.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I thought that I spent good money on that Paulina
and I wasn't even in the wedding.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
That's a outfit. Yes, Oh will Ryan stand up there
with the ladies.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
No, he has appointed himself as the chief of staff,
so he will walk down what he wanted. Yeah, with
his own moment and maybe Scott the aunts.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Or something like.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
He's like, I'm the chief of staff. Because I was like,
would you like to be my man of honor or?
He was like, no, I'm giving more chief of staff
And I said, okay, whatever you want to be.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
You invited him, we should be the man of honor. Yes,
I thought I was the main man in your life.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
You are my flatmor girl. We talked about this.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Happy to do it. Happy to do it, Honor. What
an incredible Honora. I'm so excited about.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
This to show up right, please, If.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Someone texted, I definitely prioritize my bridemaid by the way,
I will be at your wedding.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I don't come to a lot of stuff, but I
would miss you.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Keep saying it after we see a video about it,
then looking to attend the exclusive screening at AMC theaters,
like that would be iconic.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
That's what That's what we're going to be invited to go.

Speaker 8 (12:37):
To do it.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
They don't want to support me the.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Exclusive string the screening.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I definitely prioritize my bridesmaids being able to afford going
to the Bachelor read party. We did it in Madison, Wisconsin,
which I guess is close to where this person lives.
But yeah, because some people wouldn't be able to go.
I've also heard about I've told the story before, but
I've heard about people having not having to but offering
to pay for someone who couldn't. Handed destination wedding. Like

(13:02):
there's the story about my buddy Grant who got married.
Sadly he's divorced. I'm trail standing his next wedding too,
But it, bless his heart. But one of the guys
who was there weren't Peel didn't stand at this wedding,
but we were honorary roomsmen, I guess, and one of
them we were all in college together, and one of
them couldn't afford to go because he was in dental school,

(13:23):
so they picked it up so that he could go.
And then he's the guy that wound up with the
honeymoon suite. He wound up with the presidential suite because
because he got Louis, he got grouped into like the
wedding budget, so they somehow got the room mixed up.
So when the when the bride and groom checked in,
they were like, yeah, I don't know the presidential suite book. Sorry,
and they're like what was supposed to be ours? And
they're like, I don't know what happened, sorry about that.
Well turned out that the guy they were paying for

(13:43):
our fraternity brother got the presidential suite because they because
it was on the same like bill, and so this
dude like if he hadn't said anything, he would have
had the week of the long weekend from like you
know of heaven, you know, because he goes to his
he comes down from seeing his room and he was like,
did I have four bedrooms? I have a pool? And
my buddy's like, wait what, I have a regular room?

(14:05):
What I'm paying for you? What are you talking about?
He's like, dude, double doors at the end of the hallway.
The whole thing I got, I got a view of,
like the entire beachrim it.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
The guy's like, get out of my room, give me
the key, like that's my room.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
But if I hadn't said anything, then this dude would
have been just balling all weekend. They were like, dude,
they brought me like food and like you're feeding me
things and there's saw this champagne in the room.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Bery's congratulations and childlate like.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Like I didn't know I got to be congratulated. You
don't get out of my room. Hey Valerie, Valerie, good morning.
So you tell me about this. This this is a
bachelorette experience.

Speaker 9 (14:47):
Bachelor and wedding.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
What happened?

Speaker 9 (14:50):
So my best friend I met her down in Texas.
Her father was German Air Force Air Force so he
was stationed over there, Okay, and then years the line
while she got married in Germany and then her bachelorette
party was in London. So I did that whole thing
and they lasted like two whole weeks.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
And how much did that cost?

Speaker 9 (15:11):
Oh that was quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, and there was no part of you.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's like I can't if you didn't have the money,
then would you have said I can only do part
of it or do you just say forget about I'm
going into debt for this.

Speaker 9 (15:26):
I would have tried anything that I could have.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, that's kind of cool.

Speaker 9 (15:31):
Friend.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's a two week European vacation too, like you know,
you get to do not that vacation but because you're
probably doing stuff, but like that's a cool experience as well.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
So I get that. Thank you, have a good day.

Speaker 9 (15:43):
Thank you. And I love you guys.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (15:46):
I listened to you guys every single morning.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Thank you, appreciate that, have a good day.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I'd be so mad if I were, like, you know,
I don't know, in between jobs and other and my
buddies like, hey, we're going to Dubai and you know
we're going and it's gonna cost eight thousand dollars and
we're going and like you better be there, buddy, and
here I am, like, you know, taking up payday loans,
like I could take a payday.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
Loans about Yeah yeah, Hey Kim, Hi, good morning, Hi Kim.
So you're the you prioritize your bridesmaids. You said, we're
gonna have a bachelor at party that's closer to homes
that everyone doesn't go broke on this thing.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh yeah, Like.

Speaker 10 (16:25):
Three of my bridesmaids don't even live in Illinois. So
I was like, I'm already asking you to fly in
plus like multiple times. And I was like, if I
want everybody to show up and be there for me,
like when I'm having fun versus like two or three
being able to come, Like, to me, that was more important.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
See. I like that. I like that.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I think you're asking, especially bachelorettes or bridesmaids. I should
say you're asking a lot. Is there's day of planning
this help with. I didn't realize how much goes into
this and how much is expected. You know, Kiki's developing
a little army here and they all have jobs and
positions and business cards and whatever else. But I mean,
you're asking a lot. So like, I get it's your day,

(17:07):
but the idea of you have to have this particular
drastic costs this much, or we have to do this,
or we have to do that, or we have to
go to this place. I mean, you're asking a lot,
so you got to make it like kind of user
friendly on the people who you're asking to help work
for you, basically.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Right, I think you should you consider it, well, Kim, Yeah,
go ahead.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (17:24):
I was gonna say yeah for sure, because like, those
are the people that you want to be in your
life after the wedding too, Like.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
You don't want to make them mad.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, it wouldn't that be something was by the time
the wedding comes and ends the next day, everyone's like,
probably I'm not your friend anymore. I I want nothing
to do with you. You're absolutely terrible. Thank you, Kim.
Have a good day, you guys.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I lost it an entire friend group because I couldn't
afford to go on a bachelor party.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
That's insane. That's insane. So you are better for it
because they suck.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
That is terrible. I'm divorced now, but by ex wife.
She wanted to put her brothers, her friends and people
I didn't know on my side.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh yeah, that's what I mean, That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Like you should get to pick, and you shouldn't be
pressured to pick the weird random sibling.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Don't put them on.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
You're not weird or random.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
But I'm just saying, like I was not the least
bit offended, and I wouldn't have been offended if I
had no role, because like again, I looked at everybody
up there, and everybody up there had a deep, significant,
long term meaning to my brother in law. They should
be up there. I shouldn't, No, you should. I didn't
know the guy's middle name.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
You and Amanda are a package deal. You come with her, Yes, yes, you.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Happy, But I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
You are her only begotten brother. This is a symbolic gesture.
It's not like if I'm if you're not up there,
we're gonna have to offer you. We're gonna have to
offer you and your God forever.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
It's really Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of
the day.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's for a couple of days.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Man, Now you call him, Oh, he kept thinking of
our stuff he has.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
He's like, we're missing the key ingredient. It's like a
gluten free show. Now without Jason, this is terrible. He's
the gluten no he's in Miami. He'll be back next week.
Everything's fine, don't worry. It's all right.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
I get into it.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
It was, you know, we have our spots on the porch,
which is the the Ikia desk outside in the hallway
that's outside the studio, and.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Everyone has their spot.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
And the first person I see when I walk in,
there's always Jason sitting at the end, you know, in
this little little company. She's laptop and he's just going
at it. And and he's not there. And it was
just an empty feeling this morning. But it's gonna be okay.
We're gonna get through it, guys. We can we can
do this.

Speaker 10 (19:39):
No.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Actually, he heard that I was having a bachelor party
for my non wedding and I was including him, and
then we're all going to Sandra Bain. He's paying for it,
and he decided not to come. Yeah, camin Actually she
volunteered to pay for it. It's amazing, very generous.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, it is. I'm sorry, honey. I'm sorry that you're
gonna be paying. We're gonna be making easy payments on
that for the next forty seven years. The NFL is
this is great news, guys. The NFL is not considering
dropping Bad Bunny as his Super Bowl halftime performer. I
didn't realize there was any consideration at all.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Right, they keep trying it.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Pretty sure that nobody actually was considering that. But the
commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, addressed the Bad Buddy
controversy or news conference. It's the first time that he's
commented on the move announced in late September that garnered
worldwide attention along with backlash. He explained, he's one of
the leading and most popular entertainers in the world. That's
what we try and achieve. It's an important stage for us.
It's an important element of the entertainment value. It's carefully

(20:33):
thought through. I'm not sure we've ever selected an artist
where we didn't have some blowback or criticism. It's pretty
hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions
of people that are watching so Guys terrible news. They
are in fact not going to go with Hallan Oates. Instead,
they were talking to Hollanoates. I don't think that Johan
talks to Oats anymore. But they were actually talking about

(20:54):
a reunion. They were going to get them back together.
They were going to put them in a room and
they're gonna make it all work and then they're bad.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Bunny.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
You're in the parking lot now because Hall and oates
for doing it, which would be kind of lit. But
I'm also not asking for.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
That knock it off, take down that change dot org petition,
like the hologram Jimmy Buffett like, I you can't give
it up.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Sorry, Kenny Chance, he's not available, he's not coming. It's
not going to be able to do it.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Fans of the Toronto Blue Jays, who are in the
World Series against the Dodger starts tomorrow night, they're worried
about the so called Drake curse that might now strike
because the rapper has been publicly celebrating the World Series
birth because has you know he you know the six
Toronto with no t Toronto. If you're a local, if
you know, you know, yeah, Toronto, Toronto. We just don't

(21:38):
see the extra tea. I was told that and then
I was like, my boss, I'm like, you're boogie, you
don't know. It sounds silly, it sounds ridiculous. But then
someone there told me he was right, So it's fine,
Uh double down, you were right, Toronto. If you see Toronto,
then you are not You are not familiar apparently, But
the Drake curse is a playful superstition that teams or

(21:58):
players tend to lose it after Drake shows support. Hasn't
happened every time, but I guess it has happened. The
Mega Millions jackpot has cleaned to an estimated six hundred
and eighty million dollars ahead of Friday night's drawing. The
cash Love Some option is about three hundred and eighteen
million dollars, which means you get one half of that.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I can.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'll make it work, guys. I'll figure it out. You
know what Caitlin bacheloread party paid for. If I win this,
I will give you, provide you with a nice stipend.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
You can just go have it. You and Hot Hillary?
Can you just go have it? You and AI and
Hot Hillary and everybody else can just go have it?
Have a party.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
We should. You know, I deserve it.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think that you should call on all the people
who you've paid for. At a certain point, let's say
it's age forty. If you're not married, then I and
that would because you've chosen not to get married by
the way. This is not me saying well, if no
one wants to marry you, no they don't, Well they do.
I think I think there's someone who really wants to
marry or you just won't do it. But I think
at forty you can. You can redeem your ticket. You

(22:56):
can say, look, all of you who I paid for,
it's my turn.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Because who's going to be mad? You know?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
I'm like, look, we're going to Mexico. We're going to
We're going here, We're going there. I paid for your crap.
You're paying for mine because now we're all getting together again.
We're gonna have a good time. Now you can't and
then reclaim it if you do get married. I think
you get one. Oh my goodness, you get one. So
you don't get you can't claim your free golden ticket
to all the people who owe you one and then
five years later go oh, I'm getting married doing it again.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
You're paying for that too. You can't do that.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Okay, you can't do that. All right, that's not right,
it's not right.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
But three hundred and eighteen million dollars is the catchulump sum.
It's the ninth largest in Mega Million's history. I have
another story in just a second about the lottery, But
experts warn that the one hundred million dollars worth of
jewelry taken from the louver in Brazen Daytime, in the
Brazen daytime heist is likely to be dismantled for its
precious gems and metals, destroying the artifacts as we know them,

(23:50):
which is very sad. I guess these are historic things.
And someone, I mean, that's just some ball or stuff
right middle of the day, right a middle of the morning.
They just roll up with the truck the ladder. I'm
up in there. Hey, I'm here to take some stuff,
and you're gonna watch me do it. And then they did.
But I mean, if I show up to ponnd Stars
with a crown from Napoleon, you know, like I can't
and you know whatever chun Lee is like.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
They died.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
This one's gonna be hard to sell. Let's get the
expert from the guy down there. We have a Napoleonic
expert on call. Let's call him in here right now.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
I know, you think it's worth eight million dollars. We'll
give you twenty seven bucks in a hat, you know,
but like, how do you how do you, like, what
are you gonna do with that?

Speaker 1 (24:31):
So, of course, sadly they have to.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Dismantle it if they want to get any money out
of it and melt it down whatever else. But if
I show up with like just a bag full of rubies,
just a whole big bag here, I'm here to sell these,
like I mean, isn't that kind of obvious I stole
something like I don't know, but I'm sure that these
these highly sophisticated criminal enterprises know how to do this.

(24:53):
They know how to break it down and launder all
the stuff so they can make money on it. It's
kind of sad Like I met that. I wondered that
LOU would pay them ransom, Like I wonder if they'd say, look,
you got us like the hackers you know, like Apple
and Google and whoever they pay. There's there's a program
where they will pay hackers if you find it a
vulnerability and you tell them, then they'll pay you the
money rather than you exploit it and then charge them

(25:15):
on the back end. I wonder if the LOU would
be like, look, this stuff is worth as we'll give
you this much if you'll just give it back. The
problem with that is you're negotiating with the terrorists. Now
you're negotiating with that. You know, this would only I think,
encourage people to try and go in there and steal stuff,
right because then it would be like, well, you know
you're paying them. They stole our stuff, now you're paying them,
so now I'm gonna go steal stuff. You can pay

(25:36):
me to get it back. So they probably can't do
that publicly, but you think they'd be like, look, I
know what you're gonna do. You're gonna melt this down,
You're gonna take it apart. We don't want you to
do that. You got us our rental security wasn't very
assertive that morning. They'll let you pull a truck up
with a ladder and climb up several stories. I don't
know how that happened, but yet so are bad on
that this order of business or all entrances right right

(25:59):
to the loo. Maybe a couple more cameras on the
multimillion dollar you know whatever. But yeah, I guess I
would say that, like I'll give you a million bucks
if you'll just give us their stuff back so we
can put it, because again, you're just going to defile it.
So like whatever, But yeah, it's kind of sad. They
just assuming that stuff has gone forever and it's a
part of history. Tinder is tackling fake profiles with a

(26:20):
facial verification tool.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
If you don't like.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Dating apps because of the faker scam profiles, I think
there are a lot of them out there, then Tinder
is listening to you.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
They are going to have you fit.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
You have to scan your face if you want to
use one of the biggest dating apps in the planet.
Tender is announcing first of its kind mandatory facial verification
feature that helps confirm users are real and matches their
profile photos. Match Group, which owns Tinder, says that the
policy will apply to all new users, and US research
shows safety and privacy issues have contributed to a seven

(26:50):
percent drop in subscribers on Tender.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
They hope to offset that with this.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
And then the other lottery story this morning was that
a Michigan woman credits AI for her one hundred thousand
dollars powerball win. A woman named Tammy, she asked chat
gypt to pick numbers for the September sixth power ball drawing,
purchasing her ticket online through the Michigan Lottery, and she won.
She thought she only won fifty grand, but then she
realized that chat gpt had also picked the power ball,

(27:15):
so it doubled so or the multiplayer whatever it is,
so she got one hundred thousand dollars. Now the Michigan
Lottery is careful to say that there is no Chatgypt
is not talking to their little ball little ball flipper thing,
their a little ball deal. So like, hey, chatchyp didn't
know anything. Guys like the chat Gypt got lucky again.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Yeah, they know like probability, so they probably Chad probably.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Knows the numbers that get called the least. Watch how
fast they put a cabash on this. Oh yeah it's
ending today. Yeah whatever I mean. Shout out to her.
She is the moment for thinking of that. I didn't
think of that.

Speaker 7 (27:48):
I'm mad that you didn't read every day trying to
promote Chad to the world.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
I try it for this powerball drawing this coming.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Up, but let's do it. What I got. Great girl winning.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
The Michigan Lottery, and a press release says that the
win was completely luck of the draw. The results of
all lottery drawings are random and cannot be predicted by
utilizing AI or any other number of generating tools.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
So yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
But but yeah, it's the little Chad man is not like, Okay,
lottery dude, Like, what's what are the numbers going to be?

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah, I don't believe that Chad knows everything. He knows
stuff that I haven't even said yet about me or
I haven't even done yet.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, that's what the lottery numbers are going to be.
So I'm gonna win this money. Get the hell out
of here.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's National Horror Movie Day, National Boston Cream by Day,
my favorite day, National TV talk show host I love
a Boston Cream put mavy TV talk show host day.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Shout out to me.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
I'm not I'm not, I'm a I basically do a
community affairs community access show is what I.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Basically there are my TV stars, stop playing with me?

Speaker 6 (28:48):
Right?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah? Okay, as well, I said she almost choked as
it was coming. And get that up for some reason,
because it's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
My start Cawin's Entertainment Report.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
He's on the Fread Show.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
A longtime friend of Ditty claims that while he was
incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, he woke
up with a knife to his throat. His friend didn't
specify exactly when the incident happened, but suggested it was
likely not meant to kill Ditty outright, rather than just
intimidate him. As you know, He's currently serving a prison

(29:25):
sentence after his July twenty twenty five conviction on two
counts of transporting individuals for prostitution.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
His term is four.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Years and two months, and his legal team hasn't publicly
responded as far as I've seen, to this claim that
his friend made. Bruce Springsteen opened up about his longtime
struggle with depression and how when he first began seeing
a psychiatrist he was so embarrassed that he would actually
disguise himself with like a hat and glasses just to
walk into the office, which makes me sad. He shared

(29:54):
that mental illness was common in his family, his dad,
aunt's cousins. They all dealt with it, but back when
he grew up, therapy and treatment were not openly discussed,
so people just suffered through it. The turning point came
in his early thirties. That was his Nebraska album Era
If You Are a Fan, when he had what he
described as his first breakdown, got helped thanks to his

(30:14):
manager today. He says that therapy is a big part
of his life, something that he had once been too
ashamed to do, but now embraces. And I always wear
like a hat.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
And mustache to go to my what do you call
it executive coaching? You know, a disguise. Yeah, but I'm
going to take it off.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
No, you should not be ashamed.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, no, take take off the hack glasses, nose, mustache combinations.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
It very much looks like Super Mario. What do you
do it?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
But I know it's you, it says, definitely not Calin.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
I know it's you.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
When we passed each other in the hallway and I'm
wearing the same outfit.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Hey what some man? And my mom says, she's a
psychiatrist psychologist. Excuse me. I know there's a.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
When she were a psychiatris I could use some meds.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Hey, now so do I.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
But she did say a really cool thing she's been
noticing with like newer generations, is that back in the past,
you know, the rule is like that your patients have
to approach you to say hi, and obviously everyone would.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Just ignore each other.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
And she says, the younger generation runs up to her
hugs and goes, this is my therapist. So it's cool
to see the conversation evolve. And this is the story
that I teased. I was on Instagram last night and
I saw a story that someone did and they were
ranking the most expensive NFL team to go to a
game to support, and then I.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Asked the Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
So the Cowboys are nowhere on this list? Which on
this first list? However, now, I will say I saw
a story on Instagram, then I went to Chad on
the Google feature. I got Chad's list, So I will
tell you both lists. The first list I saw number
one Lions, number two Raiders, number three Eagles, four forty
nine Ers, and five Bears.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
So the Raiders I would see because Vegas and everything
in Vegas is expensive.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
For sure, But like my two teams are sandwiching that
entire list, and I'm like, oh, okay, that's fun.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Now what Chad says is a different answer.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Chad says the most expensive based on average ticket price,
the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
So there you go, then the Chiefs, then the Lions still,
then the Bears.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Then well that's because if you decide not to walk
back from the Bears games because you've had too many
beers and too many hot tugs and you get one
of those petty cabs if that's because you have to
pay the guys seven hundred bucks. When I made that
mistake one time, I think it was raining. I was
with I was with someone over there, But did they
have dumb stuff playing?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
They did?

Speaker 8 (32:31):
I'm like, I was like, turn that up, you know,
going like oh yeah, they had for sure neey on
lights and yeah, you make that mistake one.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Time if you go to if you're in Chicago, you
Soldier Field. I'm like, yeah, sure, whatever, take me and
then they can only take you. So they only took
me halfway because there's a point where they can't go
any further. And then then like eighty four dollars. I like,
first of all, where did the four come from? Eighty four?
It's like where you know? And then I'm like, wait,
we did, And I realized I'm a big man, and
like you probably had to really pedal hard, but like
we didn't go that.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Well, I won't do that again. That's why it's so expensive.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Don't do that now.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Chad did say though that based on family cost, it's
still the lions. If you're getting like the parking, the
food and everything.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Then the Eagles and the Raiders, which is crazy.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
So I guess shout out to the Lions and the
fact that fans want to go even if we suck.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
By the way, if you want to catch up on
any part of our show, you can do so it's
from today any day really the Fred Show on demand
on the free iHeartRadio.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Why did you not sucking? Right?

Speaker 9 (33:28):
No?

Speaker 3 (33:28):
No, they're not sucking this way?

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Did suck?

Speaker 5 (33:31):
I just I think it probably is a testament to
like how we'll go to games either way. Yeah, you
know which we do. We're goofy for that, but no,
we do not suck right now. I'm not feeling it
like I did last year. Like you guys know, last year,
I was like, this is our year. I don't know,
something feels off nice.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
See. Yeah, there's a clip I sent to uh.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I can't pull it up fast enough. But are I
don't even know he did? The Boss, the biggest Boss,
that the daddy, Tom. Yeah, Tom Pullman. He's Jets fan
and we joke that he's he made me a Jets
fan because as far as he's concerned, I'm a Jets
fan because of him and so go Jets. Yeah, I
love him so much. He's the biggest boss boor do

(34:09):
I love them?

Speaker 1 (34:10):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
But there was a kid that they found walking out
of the Jets game because they're owing a million and
terrible and whatever else, and the kid.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Was like, I love that kid.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, I'll find the audio because he doesn't cuss it it,
but it's just I said it to him yesterday. I
was like, this is apparently what it's like. And I
think a lot of people feel the same way about
a lot of teams. I think, you know, the Bears
are doing well this season, but I feel like people
have felt that way about the Bears. And because the
quote the kid used was I was born into this,
And I think that you've got a lot of a
lot of teams out there where you're you're born into it.

(34:40):
I think you're born into Lions. I think you're born
into Bears. I think you're born into Eagles. I think
you're probably born into one of the New York teams.
And it's just like, dude, this is what we're doing.
My grandpa like this, my dad likes this.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
They're gonna hurt you like I was hurt right, you.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Know we're doing this together. Yeah, we're there, camaraderie in
this pain. Shut out to Tom Bullman. What a good
looking Manny is too? And he's ageless. The guy, I
mean a guy's ageless. I don't know what sort of like, uh,
medical procedures he's into, or sort of executive checkups he's getting,
or what they're injecting him with to look this way,

(35:17):
but like, have you ever seen a guy who's just
ages so gracefully?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Well that's why he was just in fashion Week.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
I saw that. I noticed that, Yeah, I noticed it.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
The guy he does all black and leather jacket like
nobody else could ever do it.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Well.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
He's versatile, which is why they like it. But yeah,
he walked. I think you walked in a couple of shows.
I think I did it.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
I think you did though.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
But like he when he goes to the gym, leather jacket,
black jeans, black ouphant. The guy he can do it
all better better. But this clip is for him. I
sent it to him. This is a Jets fan, a kid,
a teenager being asked this is from sports Center. Jets
fan had an opportunity to share thoughts on the game
and said, he's put.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Your thoughts on the game.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I hate this team.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
I was born into the I'm not gonna ever, I'm
always a Jets.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Fan, but like I.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Just I hate the same.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
There you go. I mean, hey, poor guy. You know
they got a new coach, they got they got rid
of Aaron Rodgers, they got all this stuff. I hate
this team.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Just inflation in his face.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh yeah, it looked totally legit, Like he just looked
like someone had taken all the wind out of him.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
You know, like, why did you do this to me?
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