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Six seven? I said? Six seven? I said six seven.
One has to be more texting, That's what I said.
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five minutes. Hey Sidney, Hi Sydney, thank you for explaining
to us, which six seven means? What is there?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Our entry school And I would say about ninety percent
of my kids will tell me that they don't know
what it means. But I think the.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Best way to compare it is that it's this generation
twenty one, like the nine plus ten bus.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Fine, what does that mean?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
The vine that was from I don't know, maybe ten
years ago, and it said what's nine plus ten? And
it's said twenty one? And everyone laughed at that.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I would say, it's this.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
John twenty one. It's just a number that kids find funny.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Huh. I guess I missed two trends. Then. I don't
know where I was. I don't know where it was
another one, but I wasn't present for that either. Maybe
I was unconscious. I'm not sure. All right, Sidney, Well,
thank you, thank you. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
It's probably yeah, right, it's probably okay.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't mean it sound like an old hit. I
just I don't. I don't know. I count on you
guys for that, and you really let me down on it.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Honestly, I don't know any elementary schoolers.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I apologize if you could work on that better than
they tell me about. These are the radio blogs on
The Fresh Show. So it's like we're running in our diaries,
except we say them a loud. We call them blogs.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Paulina, Yes, go, thank you so much, dear blog. I've
been out of the babysitting game. For a minute. Okay,
I used to be a babysitter nanny.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
If you will, and I will, you will, I will
because I'm much because these girls are they make money, honey, Okay,
I know it's a such your one right kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I want to be.
Speaker 9 (05:03):
Clear, and you should absolutely be paid what you are
owed and what you deserve.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
And babysitting and childcare is no joke.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
That is a job, and it's a difficult job and
for us, like I know Kayleen needs to do it too,
like it was such a fun job like when you're younger,
especially in college. And I'm trying to expand my village
right now. So I have my mother in law and
I have my mother, and then my sister in law
is helping. But next year things are going to change
for her, my sister in law, so she'll be out
of the picture completely for a little bit. And then
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my mother in law works full time, so does my mom,
and everyone's got these opposite schedules. And I am so
grateful and blessed that we've gotten this far eighteen months
in where like I was able to really just lean
on everybody, and that is a blessing.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I don't take it for granted for a second.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
And what I've been doing, though, is getting like little
part time like babysitters, mostly people that I know. So
like if you had like a niece or something, Freda
or Kaylen or whatever, and then you'd be like, oh,
I'm sure, yeah, and she's live in our.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
States and I'm just trying a babysit gig.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So you want tady books an hour.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And you know what, my girl deserves that. But at
the same time, we got to be a little realistic.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Okay, can I please read to you what a sitter
told me that she charges and I don't think it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
How old is this person?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I want to say, maybe like twenty two to twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Three, twenty three years old. Okay, it's just like a
side job for this person.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
This is a side job. I believe she's still in
school one kid for one kid, and I'm then that
doesn't matter. And I used to hate this as a sitter,
like I'm upstairs in the most part, like doing other
things like working and other stuff. So like I'm in
the building, but I need someone to like watch GGI
play with her, feed her lunch because I can't do both.
And then like be on a phone call or a
zoom or like, you know, do you like typing emails?
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Like I can't do that with a two year old
or almost two year old, Like it's really difficult, you know,
when they're pulling your computer or they're on your leg screaming,
Like it's really hard and that's really embarrassing too when
you're on a call. So I'm like I and honestly too,
she has more fun with these sitters because they're younger
and they're fun. They want to like play. I want
to play too, but like we gig play all day,
so like it's fun when a new face comes in
and she gets really excited.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I have two sitters that are like on rotation. Their neighbors.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
They live like a couple of houses down, very convenient
neighbors are Also, these girls are also in high school,
so they've got school, which is way more important than me.
And then they've got extra curriculativities. They've got the sports
and this. Okay, so I found this girl and she's
really sweet and I love her. But I just don't
know if I'm crazy or if I'm like missing something here. Okay,
she asked, you know, hey, you're doing really well. Blah
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blah blah. She goes for ongoing care. So I guess
that means like it's not like a we're not doing
a set schedule. It's more ongoing if you will. Like
there's no like full time part time position. It's like
maybe like ten hours in aney everything. Yeah, my starting
rate is thirty dollars an hour. Okay, I've heard of this.
This isn't crazy, and I baby said before, even from
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like celebrity kids like I've baby said Dave gir Old kid,
like I've done all this. Yes, yeah, yes, yes, it's
the funny was there was a whole thing?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah no, it's a really cool day. It was a
really cool day.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Okay, how much does she want a dial it in here?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It is an hour?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Is is?
Speaker 9 (07:57):
I'm not gonna say it's crazy today because it's not
like back then I charged tofteen.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I'm gonna be so real. This is also like seven.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Years old, so ten years ago, seven ten years ago, okay,
so we doubled the price.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Not terrible. I'm on mass.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So she wants she's twenty something years old, she wants
thirty bucks an hour.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
There are forty year olds that w't make thirty dollars
an hour, So I just feel like that's not that
age matters. But that's that's a lot. But hey for
great care, like I will pay that, and I know
a lot of parents will agree with that. But it's
a great sitter. You trust her. I will pay my
arm legg and kidney like for a great sitter that
my daughter loves. Not crazy, I'm a little like whoa,
but like not crazy? Okay, this is the part of
lost Me. And then she charges a one hour fee
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to cover prep and travel time each day.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Prep. Now she prepares? She like prep like, why are
we wacching a vaccine for this? Like? What are we like? Prep? Like?
Is she now? Hold on? Is she like teaching? Is
there like? Is there like a little program for the day?
Like are we doing our craps? And then she goes, no,
I'm being honest, like, wow, what are we what are
we prepping for? And I guess I figured that traffic
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time or commute was just so of rolled into the
thirty bucks an hour, which I think is I don't
I think for an adult, I think that's probably about right.
I think that's what my sister pays. Yeah, And it's
not for twenty something because it's a second job, and
that you're talking about an adult. Now you're not talking
about a teenager. So the expectations higher.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
And it depends to like where you live, like what
city or like what state you like the prices do
vary thirty dollars and we live in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
I'm not mad at that, that's not I'm not whatever.
I can do that. But I looked at this though,
and was like, WHOA. So I went to prep and
then to.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Drive and then she says, I've been working with this
mythology with families who live more than three miles away.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Mythology.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Yeah, mythology. I'm like methodology. Okay, so she's into mythology.
Now we're doing the same. But what what are we
teaching that? What sort of weird amivities are we into?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
She is, she's worth thirty dollars and I'll pay them
telling I'll give you my kidney for a good sitter
or someone that can feak to me.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
She's going to teach your kid abou zeus. I think
I think you'm at methodology right.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, my bad?
Speaker 9 (10:01):
Yeah, okay, anyway, so okay, put three miles away.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
So I have a problem with that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Wait, so you're paying an hour for commutedants three hours
or three miles.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
So if you're more than three miles away, she'll charge
you the fee.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We have a radius even so.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
That's what I'm saying. I walk more than that a day.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
So I used to drive across like one time for
a baby, same job. I drove two hours when I
live in Los Angeles. Cause for to go to like
Orange County, we're.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Talking about an hour and more in traffic then maybe
maybe or like.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
Maybee, Like we're in the same city unless you live
like two hours away, then tell me this is not
gonna work, right, I'm not, We're not doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Thirty bucks an hour doesn't surprise me. Actually the commute
time that you're paying for that kind of surprises me.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
And I'm just I'm going through the text messages here.
People are in shock, just as I am, because I'm confused.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
With the prep Like, hey, exactly what are you prepping?
You're kind of resort fee like at a hotel, Like
I don't really know what I'm paying for.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Roll it in man, like, don't don't nickel and dime me,
Like I hate that. And I got theyve gotten rid
of a lot of resort fees too, cause for that reason,
because you show up and you're like it' said two
hundred bucks a night for the great the resort. Now
it is seven hundred dollars. I check out. I'm like, wait,
it was all this all? Well? You know, did you
want to use like did you want to breathe?
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Did you want to use the hallways? Did you oh
you wanted you didn't want to climb through the window? Well,
then sorry, then you're gonna have to pay it again
door feet. A lot of people, a lot of people, Uh,
forty five bucks a day, thirty dollars an hour is crazy.
People are saying they want to quit their job. Now
twenty bucks an hour? Look at me? Yeah, a lot
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of people think it's it's a little bit high. What
is prep and drive charge? Babys hitting three miles thirty buck?
Yeah again, if you insisted on it, someone who lived,
you know, twenty miles away and was gonna have sit
in traffic for an hour and a half full time
is money and absolutely and so you know that costs
and gas is expensive. I guess I would get that,
but then you know, I think thirty bucks is high is.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
On the high side, on the high side, it is,
so then.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You're already charging a premium. Yes, so I don't know.
If you insist on that, then maybe you charge thirty
five an hour or something. And then it's looped in
because I get one? Am I getting? Is it? Prep?
Are you showing up with like again? Are you showing
up with a with a program? Or are we doing
arch and crafts? So? Are you showing up with little clay?
Are we doing hacks? Do you bring your own rag?
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Or what are we doing here? And then and then
you have to pay for her food too.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
She didn't say that, but I always do as somebody
who like was a sitter, and then I hire sitters.
I will pay for lunch because I I'll order lunch
sometimes with the baby and me, and I'll be like, well,
what would you like?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll get them what That would be messed up if
you ate in front of her.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
No, that's really rude.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Eve.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I'll leave alive food like I'll always get like an
your sister Amy, she does it too, I Amanda, I'm
losing it today. Amanda orders fooch show ordered food for them, right, Yeah,
you should I feed your babysitters.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, feed your sitters. But it's expensive.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I mean, like you know, so like this weekend, I'm
gonna be there and on Saturday, she's hiring a babysitter.
And I believe this woman works at the school where
my sister is a counselor, and so she's like a teacher,
so she's legitimate. But Coullie and may know her, so
they there's like a comfort whatever. I think she's thirty
bucks an hour, and so if we go out for
three hours or four hours, you can add one hundred
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and twenty bucks to whatever we did exactly. So you know,
you go have a nice dinner, however much that costs.
You go someplace real classy like Applebee's or something. You know,
you got three people, we all get the three for me,
you know.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Kids though usually people will charge more for multiple kids.
So thirty dollars for two kids is a nicety.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But this is that's a racket because the native is
already asleep. But my sister is funny about this. My
sister will be like, no, no, no, if we're hiring
a babysinner, they're coming at five. We're gonna eat at six.
I don't care because that woman is gonna get paid
to bathe my children right, put them down, Like we're
not doing the thing where the two kids are already
in bed, and I got to pay thirty bucks an
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hour just to make sure they don't burn the house down.
Like you know, my sister wants to get a little something.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Their money's worth, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So you know, usually it's like they're coming at five
thirty six, I'll feed them dinner. I pay them for
every hour, but you got you're doing bath time and
you're doing nighttime whatever stuff.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
But I love that she still pays them that rate
even when the kids are sleeping, because some people will
fight on that shoe. It's so weird taking they're like, oh,
the kids are asleep, and it's like, doesn't mean anything.
The kid can wake up, the kid can cry. The
kid's next to me and it's happened to me. It's midnight,
and the kid's like not going back to sleep because
mom and dad are not there. They don't want to
go back to sleep, you know, to.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Be an alert.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, that would be something if it's like forty dollars
for waking hours, thirty for sleeping people do that.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
It was a make your own prices here.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
And it's like I refuse to pay that for sleeping hours,
Well then I'm leaving.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
It's your kid like price. You want them alive.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, it's expensive. That's really expensive because again you're adding
one hundred plus dollars to your date night. Yeah, it's
already you know, an adult date night with some drinks
and stuff. You know, come on, like talking one hundred
hundred fifty bucks, go out to dinner, have some drinks,
two hundred and fifty bucks to go out for three hours.
You know, I can see why people wouldn't do that,
but stay or go by the way, Daddy Bob Chairman
(14:48):
did text me back. He did invent MTV and spring break.
And as for liability a little looser times back then,
No pun intended, because I asked him. I was like,
how did you like sleep at night when you were
doing this stuff? Because I you know, now you could
not need that. You could do it. You have to
sign waivers and yeah, you'd have fifty lawyers out there
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and zero social distancing and masks and wrap people in
late next time. The allergies right, oh god, I mean,
what kind of candy. Do we have toys for the
kids that don't need candy? What are we doing here?
You know? Are the right right? How much is babysitting?
What do we do? I gotta pay for prep time?
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That's crazy?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
What is prep?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's another thing? Is and you know what, I think
you should flip the script on these babysitter types, like
if you know and look, I like this, I understand
that it's not five bucks an hour anymore, ten or
fifteen or you know whatever, and it's a big responsibility
and you will and if you get somebody good. I
also have heard it can be very competitive, where like
people will find a good babysitter and they don't want
to tell their friends about her because they want to
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make sure that she's available.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, that's real on.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Like Saturday nights for them, And so a lot of
them will pay even more to make sure that they're
the preferred house, right Exactly, You can flip the script
and be like, hey, if I'm paying a premium rate,
like so let's say thirty bucks. People seem to agree
on the text that in our little focus group here,
that that thirty bucks is a premium rate for a
babysitter if I'm paying that, what language do you speak? What? Like? What? What?
(16:21):
What are you bringing to the table here? You know,
like what what are we? Are you an artist? Are
you do you? I mean, come on, like, okay, you're
prepping for what to teach my kid how to speak
you know Mandarin? Okay, great, let's do it. Like that's amazing,
I'm all for it. That's thirty bucks an hour. That's real.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's expensive. You guys, stay safe out there.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Honestly, if I ever had a kid, and I don't
think it's happening, but if I ever had a kid,
we were saying this off the air, like I would
absolutely if I had babysitters or help or whatever, if
I if I could afford that, then I would. Those
people would bring something to the table that I well,
in addition to like knowing how to deal with children
they like and keeping them safe and things like that
that I don't know how to feed them and things
I don't know how to do, they would have to
(17:03):
I mean a language, like like different sort of perspective,
and I would almost be do you speak to little
Freddie and whatever whatever your native tongue is, Like that's
the that you guys can interact like that, because yes,
because because I want my kid to be way smarter
than I am here and I don't. I think speaking
more than one language is almost has become like the
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way it needs it should be the way it is
in the world. So say or go. This is a
note that we got and this woman does not want
to be on the air, but she wanted us to
read this entire email. So I want to know what
you guys think. We're debating some relationship dramming her. I
feel like this is pretty relatable eight five, five, five, nine,
one one oh three five. Unfortunately, I think people can
relate to this, but it says Dear Fred's show. I'm
(17:45):
struggling to decide if I should stay with my husband
of three years together for nine and would love some insight.
We started having problems about two years ago, and I
feel like we just can't seem to stay in a
happy place. I did start going to therapy shortly after
the problem started, and actually he did too. We even
started doing couples sessions in addition to our individual sessions.
(18:05):
They seem to help for a bit, at least in
the sense that we'd fix the problem, but then after
a few weeks we'd be having the same arguments all
over again. We just had a baby in March and
he was two months early, so that led to a
five week nick You stay for him and a Ronald
McDonald house stay for us. To say that that tested
our relationship would be an understatement. I guess part of
(18:26):
me really hoped that he would finally step up to
be the man I wanted and needed once he became
a father. Don't get me wrong, he is not a
bad person. But I feel like I'm putting all my
energy into saving our relationship, but despite me asking, he's
not doing the same. I never wanted a broken family
for my baby, but I know that I also don't
want him to grow up in a home full of
(18:47):
anger and arguments. I've contemplated staying until my baby is
a year old, but even that has started to feel
like an impossible challenge. I'm starting to wonder if we're
even compatible anymore, but I don't know what the right
answer is. I would love all of your input. Thanks
for your time. First of I don't know none of
us fortunately have any experience in You know all of that.
(19:07):
You've got a relationship that with struggles. You've got a
kid now, a kid that was sick. I mean, I
know that that is incredibly stressful for relationships, and so
you add that challenge to all of this, and it's like,
you know, what person am I getting? Right?
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Am I We're so stressed out? You know, we're trying
to take care of our baby, and so, I mean,
you separate that from all of this, But they were
having problems before that. Again, I don't know that it's
fair to judge people when they're under pressure, but they're
both under pressure and she doesn't feel supported. And I
don't know how he feels because we haven't heard his
side of it. But eight five, five, five, nine one
one oh three five I'm curious what would you guys
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do in this situation? I mean, this woman, you know,
she doesn't feel like she's connecting with their partner anymore,
and you know they have gone to therapy and they
at least she's tried. It seems. I don't know what
comes to mind. You're the married one, what would you do?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I am a married woman.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
You said, the situation is a little bit different, and
you know there's uh they were they have a child right,
and then there was some health stuff going on. But
I do feel like the first i'd say almost two
years of being postpartum as a woman is already just
extremely difficult, and I think it's difficult for both parties right,
Like you're not going to connect as much. You're not
going to feel the same as you did, like you
(20:22):
know when you first met or even when you first
like got married or whatever. It might be just because
there's so much going on the first year for sure,
but I almost extended to two years of post baby life.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Life is different.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
They're going through a lot of stuff right now too,
and they did with their own child. So I feel
like if both parties want to, like exactly like in
therapy discussed this, do you want to be in this relationship?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Do you want to work through this?
Speaker 9 (20:45):
Because if you don't, then one person's already out the
door whatever, then I would say.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
This isn't gonna work.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
But I feel like it's so hard when you are
freshly postpartum, so really like make that choice right or
to feel like, oh, do I want to be in
this relationship or not? Because they say it's the hard
it's a challenges relationships and marriages a lot, and.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
They were having problems beforehand, and I think she's just
looking for some effort.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
It's interesting. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's hard if you're already having existing issues. We know,
kids don't fix anything, They make them more difficulty.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's what I mean. Like, the problem was there, and
then they introduce a kid, and then you introduce some
of the biological things that occur anyway, and then on
top of that you introduce the stress of the kid
being early and those challenges.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, I would say, like you said, have a conversation
where it's just a blacker white question do you want
to save this?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
And both parties answer, And then if there is no
emotional or physical abuse, I say, then try to maybe
work through it a little bit more, because it would
be a very difficult time to go through a separation
as well, and it is hard on both parties. But
she said that getting to the end of the year
even sounds difficult for her right now, which makes me wonder,
(21:56):
you know, what else is going on?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, Hey Jen, Hello, good morning, Hi young, good morning.
So you heard this scenario and stare going You're saying
stay why I say stay?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
So my husband and I are actually going through almost
the exact same thing, Like it's crazy and saying, how
many couples are going through this right now? So what's
helping us is actually reading that book the Five Love Languages. Yeah,
a popular one, and it teaches people what your partner's
language might be, and it could be like two different languages,
like he's speaking one and she's speaking another, and they're
(22:29):
just not on the same page. So getting an insight
like that and actually writing something down like Okay, well
this would make me feel loved or this would make
me feel hurt or open, and then they both do
the same thing and it's like, oh okay, something might
click and they understand each other better. And the whole
thing with a baby and the nick you, we actually
had that too, and it's really hard and having a
new baby it puts so much stress on a relationship.
(22:52):
But you have to like try and look at all
your options to see what helps you guys reconnect and
understand each other because communication is so important, and if
they're like speaking totally different languages towards each other, it's
never gonna help.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
The love language thing is temporarily better. To your point,
you and the love language thing is really impactful, because
you're right. I mean, I could be communicating you know
in a way, or I could be sharing my affection
with you in a way that isn't as useful as
a different way. You know. Maybe I'm a gift giver,
or maybe I'm a time spent person in your words
of affirmation person and so here I think I'm putting
(23:27):
in the effort, but it's not landing with you. It's
not resonating with you the way I wanted to because
I'm not connecting with you in a way that would
be more productive.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Yes, it's so real. How that is like that my
husband and I were completely different too, So like we're
trying so hard. I have to like we're ready to
post it notes now like I felt this such and
such way, and then it will come back to it later.
Because he's a talker and he's the more the physical
touch with I think most guys are, and I'm the
quality time type of person. So it's they might just
(23:58):
have very different things. So I think she should stay
for now and really look at all the options. So
I'm curious to know if the therapists that they've been
going to even suggest to that or you know, brought
something like that to their attention.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, thank you, Jen, I appreciate it, and I hope
everything gets better. Thank good. Yeah, glad you called it.
And there are a few people on the text saying
and you do hear this sometimes like if things are
going so poorly, then why have a child? Well, I
mean there are lots of variables there, like did they
mean to have the child? And then yeah, this sir,
I've heard of scenarios where things are going terribly and
it's like, well, let's let's make a kid and then
(24:30):
that'll bring us closer together. Now that's not necessarily great logic.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't say let's add a really really
stressful element to something that's already not working. But I
don't know. I mean, I think there are people that
just relationships are hard. And I'm saying this mostly based
on what I know. I'm not firsthand, but relationship. I
think we would all agree relationships are hard, and so
(24:51):
I think maybe some people just assume that it's going
to be challenging and then they still go about their
goals of creating a family. And maybe for her, the
idea of divorcing him really wasn't on the forefront until recently,
you know. So it's like, well, I'm not going to
leave him, We're going to work through this. It's a
hard time, we're going to get past it. But then
as issues compound, it gets worse. So I don't know
that it's as simple as why go and have a
(25:13):
kid when things aren't going well? I don't know that that.
I don't know. We don't know enough to say if
that was the logic or not. Hey Emily, Hey hi Emily,
you hear this day? Orgo? What do you think?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
I think that she needs to take all the energy
she's spending worrying about her marriage and everything else.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
And just focus on the child. They didn't.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
It doesn't sound like they were in a solid place
before the child. It's not going to get better. And like, honestly,
she didn't list any reason for being with him, you know,
and agresan it could be she's health insurance or x
y Z, but it's like, you know, why is one
to enhance your life, not someone that's going to.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Make it more stressful. Well, in fairness, if she's going
to do that, Emily, if she's not, if she's just
going to sort of abandon any effort towards the relationship.
It then she should leave it, right, because that's not
going to help anything. If she just says, all right,
I'm gonna pretending this guy's not even there and focus
on my kid, well, then then leave right. No, no, yeah,
I said leave.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
But she should focus on healthy relationship and just focus
on the child.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, yeah, because we're yeah, Okay, I get what you're saying.
Thank you, Emily, you have a good day. Yeah, fe
glad you called. Hey Katie, Hi, Katie, Hi, are you hi?
Good morning? So sadly you've been in this situation, but
you're saying stay.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
Yes, absolutely, would tell me mom. So we so we
have my husband and I have been together or we've
been married for ten years together almost fourteen, four kids,
lots of stress. We almost lost our two months or
our baby when she was two months old TURFB. So
we were at the university for a few weeks. We
(26:52):
just dealt with a two months stay at Riley with
my nine year old for crones. Okay, So we've had
a lot of a lot of stressful situations with our kids.
Health wise, money's tight. We both work full time, but
supporting four kids is difficult. But you're going to have
a lot of these stressful situations in your marriage and
(27:14):
you kind of just have to look at each other
and say is it worth it? And you just have
to stop and say, you know, I love you, you love me.
At the end of the day, that's all we need.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
We're going to just work through it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it takes a lot of strength.
There are people saying in the text. One says, does
he do have his half of the parenting? If he
doesn't now, he never will. Do you think that's true?
I mean, is it if the effort is there? I mean,
is that what we're looking for. We're looking for the effort.
Even if you disconnect, you're.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
You're going to put into it what you want to
put into it. So if he's not wanting to put
that effort towards it, then maybe stop and you know,
look at what you are dealing with. But I mean,
it's a fifty to fifty thing, especially when you have
kids and when you're both working. Everyone has to work now,
and if he's not putting toward his effort and he hasn't,
(28:08):
then you kind of need to you know, look at
that and say maybe this isn't worth it.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
She did say his effort is lacking.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That's what she told me, and she's asked multiple times
she feels like she's putting in more effort for the relationship.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Then yes, well then.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I mean you can have that conversation with him, and
if he doesn't seem to get it, then that would
definitely be something that I would kind of look into
a little bit further.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Well, Katie, thank you for listening, for sharing, and good luck.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Thank you you too.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, I have a good day. And again, you know,
if he were unwilling to get any sort of outside help,
be it you know, therapy or faith based or whatever
it is, then you could say, well, maybe he's depressed
or he has some sort of something going on with
him that if that's rectified, then that might improve the situation.
Because sometimes, you know, you can get in your own
head to where everything seems daunting and then you're not
(28:57):
really maybe feeling like you're being productive or valuable to anyone.
But it sounds like he's done some of that. So
he has made an effort. I don't know how much,
but it's it's not as though he's living this way
and then saying why, well, I'm not going to do
anything about it, which we do here sometimes in this thing. Hey,
Laurie nice, you went through something similar and you say go.
(29:19):
We've had stay and we've had go from people who
know this. Unfortunately, why why go? Because he's not going
to change, and how do we know we can?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Well, I went through it. I hoped that when the
why curse, that when the baby came, he would step up,
you know, be there. And he was sometimes sometimes he
was great, and then he would go back to doing
what he wanted to do and not be in there.
And it was fighting, and I tried to five years
(29:55):
to make it work. But the same thing. He'll get
you know, he's going to step up, He's going to
step up. He was a great guy.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
He's still a great guy.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
We're still friends. We co parented together.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
But the unhappiness he never went away. We tried, you know,
working it out, and we tried working it out, and
he would get better for a little bit, and then
he would just slide right back into his ways of
doing what he wanted to do. And he was a
great husband and a great father when.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
He wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
So no consistent, but count on him no consistency.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, Laurie, I'm sorry, but I appreciate their perspective. Have
a good day you too. I'm not sure we've helped
much because you get a lot of people who've been
through this calling in and it's about fifty to fifty
go stay, go. I'm looking at all these right now,
a lot a lot of go U and then a
lot of stay. You've committed almost nine years to this,
so or ten years to this, so you got to
(30:54):
stick with it. You got to write it out and
you got a lot of this. Love is not all
you need. And yeah, yeah, do you have what it
takes to battle show biz? Shelley in the show Biz Showdown, Hoby, Hi, showbiz, Hey,
good morning. All right, we got good money, we got
(31:15):
a tie breaker, we got Jade Hi Jane, hello, j
all right you both got five yesterday? Right, yeah, boy,
go on for Yeah, Jane knows her stuff here, but
five questions a tiebreaker this morning. Eight hundred and fifty
bucks is the price one thousand and seventy six wins,
only seventy four losses? You guys, ready, yes, good enough?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Jane?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
All right, you gotta go off. She goes to the
sound booth poop. She cannot hear the questions, uh one
radio Joe, Well, no, I think it's I don't know
you want speakerphone or something because I hear myself real time. No,
I'm not, I don't know. I hear myself some sided
nurse Shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Are you using shatt Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
What's going on here? Are you playing this right? Anyway? Witch?
Star of the Bear and Deliver me from Nowhere? Said
he just graduated high school at the age of thirty four.
Jeremy Allen White, Katy Perry and her new man made
their first planned public appearance in Paris over the weekend.
Who is she dating? Justin the summer? I turned pretty star?
(32:20):
Lola Tongue is twenty three today? On which streaming service?
Which you find that show video? It looks like Megan
Fox and Machine Gun Kelly maybe back together? Did they
recently welcome a baby boy or girl?
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Girl?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And Kim Kardashian says she's close to becoming a practicing lawyer,
following in the footsteps of her dad. Who is Kim's
late father, Robert Kardashian. That's another five, another one, My goodness, Oh, boy.
Here she comes, showing another five stop. I will stop.
I refuse to stop. I will never stop. Are you ready? Yeah,
(32:56):
we may be doing this for a while. Which Star
of the Bear and Deliver Me from Nowhere said he
just graduated high school at the age of thirty four.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Jeremy Allen Waye.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah. Katy Perry and her new man made their first
planned public appearance in Paris over the weekend. Who is
she dating Justin Trudeau? Yeah, the summer I turned pretty
Star Lola Tongue is twenty three today on which streaming
service would you find that show?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Threeeks?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
No? No, it's Prime. No, it looks like Megan, Foxy Machine,
Kelly maybe back together? Did they recently welcome a boy
or a girl?
Speaker 4 (33:35):
A girl?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It was a girl And Kim Kardashian says she's close
to becoming a practicing lawyer, following in the footsteps of
her dad, who is Kim's late father, Robert kardash Yeah,
but that's the four that is before. I'm sorry you
did not win, Jane. You won Jay eight hundred and
fifty bucks. Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
That's three homes an hour.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
That's seventy five. I think, Shelley, you have to say,
my name is Shelly. I got showed up in my
own darn game.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I got showed up on a showdown by Jade.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
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cat cat cats, boobs cats, boom boom cat cat.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Jade is really good at this boobs.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Cato cat cats, boots cat cat cats.
Speaker 11 (34:31):
I know that was beautiful boots and cats. That was
one of the worst boots and cats in my life.
It was really terrible. I'm dizzy from Actually, I'll work
on it. Yeah, there was no synchronosity. There is that
the word synchronized.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Whatever, like, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Jade, I'm a little dizzy still, I'm a little great
out Hey, hang on a second, Jade, have a good day.
Thank you to enjoy your money, Shelley. She was good.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
That's over with.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Actually she was good though, she was really good. So
it's one hundred bucks tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I want she won eight, like eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 10 (35:09):
You said eight fifty eight fifty percently not the fifty okay, Yeah, no,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Eight hundred and fifty bucks. That's she got to end
one hundred bucks tomorrow, will do it again.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Have a good days showing right you too?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Bye? Okay, but yeah, she was really good. It was
gonna be five after five I think for a while,
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