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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the fread show.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Live Nation. Fr I can't build the song with my mouth, Okay,
like I care.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
No not?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Are you sure spread.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Show is on? You're new to the show.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I made it ninety minutes at a bachelor party in Nashville.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Literally the first ninety minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
It's iconic.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Ninety minutes. I love that story. That's it. Ninety minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
And you got a new hotel, rit didn't you?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Uh huh?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I landed. It was with Friday. I had to come
back to Saturday. And I landed, and I drive myself
out of my hotel and I went. I met the
guys at the bar. They were already there and we
were having a good old time. And then a bachelorette
party from Chicago walks in a fritt I bought a
bottle of fireball and we finished it, and then that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
That was it for me. I think I was there
from three to four thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I then stumble out to the front of the bar
and tell the cab driver, because there were cabs. This
was before uber, I said take me to my hotel,
as if he knew where, and he said, well, sir,
I don't know where that is. I said, Jim, then
just take me to a hotel, so he did. I
then proceeded to check into that hotel and I woke
up the next morning in that hotel, and I then

(01:37):
it's a miracle that I'm alive, to be honest with you.
A twenty nine year old female is in morality Monday
in the arena today, she said, I was supposed to
get married last year, but my fiance and I ended
up breaking things off a few months before the wedding.
It was mutual, no drama, just a realization that we
weren't compatible long term. The thing is, I'd already bought

(01:59):
my wedding dress custom made. It cost me nearly four
thousand dollars. I know that's a lot. I paid for
it entirely myself, and it meant a lot to me.
After the breakup, I packed it up and put it
in storage. Haven't been ready to sell it or do
anything with it. It's emotional. And here's where it gets messy.
My younger sister, who is twenty four, so she's twenty nine.
Sister's twenty four, recently got engaged. We're not super closed,

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kind of different people, and she's always been a bit entitled, honestly.
She came over a few weeks ago, saw the dress
when we were organizing my storage closet and asked if
she could have it for her wedding. I kind of
laughed and said, oh, no, that's mine. She had annoyed
and said, but you're not even getting married. You're gonna
let the thing sit and rod in the box. I
told her again, no, it's personal to me, and even

(02:42):
though I'm not using it now, I'm not giving it away.
She asked if she could buy it at a discount,
and I said I wasn't ready to sell it, and
she threw a fit, called me selfish and said that
I was being dramatic over just address. Our mom is
now involved and she thinks I should give it to
her as a gesture of sisterly and because it's going
to go to waste. But I honestly feel like she's

(03:04):
only asking because she doesn't want to pay for one herself,
and she's not exactly struggling financially. So now I have
my sister and my mom acting like I'm heartless and
petty for not handing it over. But it feels like
a boundary that I want to keep her dress. She
didn't have to give a tame by end of story,
next anything else, I mean, it probably is going to

(03:24):
go to waste. I mean, not that she's never going
to get married, but if she does, will she use
that dress?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Maybe she might or change her mind and pick something else, but.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
The dress, I assume you know, she had the vision
of the dress. The dress doesn't dependent on the person
that she's marrying. But when she was having this dress
fitted and made and everything, it was with the intensive
marrying someone who she's now not marrying. So is that
the dress she's gonna want to wear when she marries
someone else someday? I don't know, right, but it's her dress,
she paid for it, it's her She doesn't have to

(03:54):
give it to anyone.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
No, it could rot in the box all at once, Like, no,
you're not entitled to it.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
The sister is a weirdo opinion, because out of all
the dresses in America or where or wherever they reside,
you want the dresses in my closet with my hurt,
pain and tears attached to you are weird?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Why don't you put me in that position exactly?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Like you know that I intended to wear that dress
to get married to someone, and now it's like, well
I want it, so I should have it, And then
for the mom to get involved and be like, yeah,
she's weird too. Eight five three five Jason, I feel
like you would just give it to her.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I mean that's because that's you think she's entitled to it.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
But if someone, I mean, if someone wanted anything from me,
I probably would just give it to them. But like, yeah,
I don't think it's weird that she feels that she's
entitled to a dress, Like that's crazy wild.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, it's her dress, it's her style, it's her dress design.
So if she does get married to day, maybe she
will wear it. Because the dress is not necessarily attached
to the person, you know, it was her vision I
mean attached to her, but not to the person she
was marrying.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Right, Like, so while the memory is there, if she
gets married the next few years and the dress still
fits her and looks, I mean that's you know you have.
The way I understand it is that women typically, you guys,
have a vision for your wedding day that isn't necessarily
hinged to the person that you're marrying, because you developed
this as like a child, right Like, as you grow
up and watch movies and go to other people's weddings

(05:20):
and stuff, you're like, oh, I want to wedd but
you don't even know who you're gonna marry yet Oftentimes
when you envision what it is that you want. Calen's
had this this TP forest thing since she met anybody.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, she's dated.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Several people since she had the TP forest revelation.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Why do you have?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I mean it's fair, right, I mean I've known you
for almost ten years and you've dated many people, but
you've always had the forest TP wedding revelation.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I mean, I don't know if I do it anymore.
It feels like a little played out at this point.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
But because you've been speaking too publicly about it. That's
the thing you've been telling everyone you want the forest
TP wedding, and everyone's doing it. It's the reason why
you got to keep your dress locked up that you've
already had made. Yeah. Oh yeah, because you wouldn't anyone
to see, especially your sister.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah no, she's not wearing that, you know, because.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I know you have like a sort of a mixed
concept of whether you want to actually be married or not. Yeah,
So it's like, you know, you got to keep that
for yourself. Okay, Let's say you did have a dress
for some reason from another previous relationship, and your sister
came to you and said, I want that. It was
custom made for you. It is your vision. You're going
to give it to her.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
No, I feel like a wedding I mean, there's not
a lot I wouldn't do for her, as you know,
but I feel like a wedding dress is so personal.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
First of all, she's five nine and I'm like barely
five six.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
So it would be cropped rights on.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Her, like you know, her ankles would be out.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
But no, I think it's deeply personal and I would
get very upset with people telling me like how I
need to handle something that I paid for with my
own money, that I made to fit my body like
it's weirdo energy like Keiki said. So no, it's a
no for me dog. But I'll go with you, like
I'll help you.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, I mean you'll move out of your house for
six months so she can man and you'll live on
the street.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
But as far as the wedding dress is concerned, no, no.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
I mean it's oldest child syndrome. Let me see this.
What does that mean? I'm the oldest child?

Speaker 8 (07:12):
What are they tell me?

Speaker 1 (07:13):
The babies get everything literally and figuratively. I don't know.
I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, I could.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
See something like this happening in my house too, But
I wonder what my mom would do.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Fighting over dress, yeah, I mean, I've been a custom
made wedding dress from many years ago. I've been thinking about,
you know, just whenever that time comes. I've had this
vision and the vision is not going to change. It's
a beautiful dress.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
We would you do?

Speaker 9 (07:36):
Well?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, long train obviously right white if whitest can be,
you know, because that's what I.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I've been to many I've been to weddings and people
that I slept with and they were wearing white. Okay, okay, okay,
they're walking down the I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
You're not pure, missy.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
You can't try. But of course I didn't say that
out loud.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Good.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I was tempted to. I was tempted to. She walked
down the aisle with her fiance standing up there. You know,
a husband to be who doesn't know that we hooked up.

Speaker 10 (08:12):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Messed up, wouldn't it. Yes, Yeah, I don't know. I
don't know if in my family that I would see.
My sister gets everything she wants, uh for the most part,
But I wouldn't say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess so.
But my mom's not. I think she likes me better.
So there's that.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
That's nice.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
But yeah, no, but my is my sister stuff because
it's for the kids. Like everything she's doing, let's be honest,
everything my mom loves my sister. But everything she's doing
these days is leverage to get in with the kids.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's what it is.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
And like the more accents she gets, the more stuff
shows up on my sister's front door, the less action
she gets, the less stuff shows up on my sister's
front door.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's how it works. Lexi.

Speaker 11 (08:58):
Hi, Hi, how are you guys?

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Hey? Good morning, so.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
MORALEI Monday on a Wednesday, Big sister has a custom
wedding dress. Little sister saw it and said, and when
big sister's not getting married anymore, Little sister saw it
and said, give me that, And she said no, And
now mom and little sister are mad about it.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
What do you think.

Speaker 11 (09:17):
I think the mom and sister are in the wrong
because the dress is a personal thing to somebody, Like
we just got married, not that long ago. I still
have my dress. I am thinking about doing something with it.
So yeah, she may not be using it now, but
there's a possibility maybe she wants to. I don't know
who knows what she'll do with it.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
But it's still her dress, right Yet you wouldn't she
want your own dress too, Like it's your day, your thing.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Go get your own dress, right, Stop being.

Speaker 12 (09:42):
A Weirdoh, it's a most special thing in.

Speaker 11 (09:44):
The world to go and do the dress shopping. You know,
it's it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
That's right, Lexie. You're only gonna do it maybe two
or three times your whole life. So you know it's right.
I hope it's only once. Thank you, Lexie.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I have a good day.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
You two. Thank you. Sophia says two birds, one for
the sister, one for the mom. It's her dress. She
paid four grand for it. Her sister can pound sand
In other TEXTO, yeah, absolutely not. I hope she keeps
it until she wants to use it. The audacity of
that person is wild. Sounds like her sister is being dramatic.
But I do wonder, like how many times have you

(10:17):
given your friend or a family member an idea or
said something about something and then they go do it.
It's like, here's my idea for address, I had it
made well, I want that. I mean, have you ever
had that where you gave you said, oh, I want
to name my you know, first daughter, Marie, or I
want to name my first dog Spot or whatever, and
then all of a sudden, here comes best friend with

(10:38):
Spot and you're like, wait, wait one minute, waiting one
I just told you that.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, people get really mad about that, and I get it,
Like I'd be frustrated too if somebody's like, here's my
daughter Gigi after I just said I'm gonna name my
kid Gabrielle orgg.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
But like I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
For me, it's like I don't get mad at that
kind of stuff as much as the normal normal person does.
Like I have a friend who got a car and
like another friend was like, oh, I want that car,
and then like the one got the car or something,
the other one got mad and I was just like,
but like you guys are like two different households, like
same car, responding.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, car and a baby. I feel like a baby
name yeah, But like at the same time, like what are.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
The odds of me like still communicating with a certain
person like thirty years later, Like I'm gonna have my
daughter forever, but like what if I'm no longer friends
with you know Jonathan, God forbid?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Right, we're not friends anymore?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
He has a daughter named Gigi.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Do like I always wanted a pet cruiser and then
probably I went and got it.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'm always doing this.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Now I can't have a pet cruiser anymore. I'm so mad.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I know, well, did stop copying.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I wanted was a pet cruise.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
All I wanted was a Mini Cooper and then one
day rowing up in her Mini Cooper and I'm like, great,
now I can't have it.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
It is the Fred Show.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Good morning, thanks for having us on the radio, on
the iHeart app live and anytime search for The freend
Show on demand.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
I may have seen him my TikTok yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Not to be confused with the show's TikTok, because I
went into Fred Show Radio because I was afraid it
would be stolen by all the many people out there
trying to steal our identity. And what's funny is there
are and there are people on TikTok impersonating me, and
I'm like, and the people will you me and be like,
are you really giving away your laptop? And I'm like, no,
not again. And I was selling it back then. By

(12:06):
the way, on X and Jason tried to go head
to head. He tried to meet the person in a
Walmart parking lot and range somewhere.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
I saw those dms yesterday and I was like, oh,
if you everyone blocks me in the DM because I
went hard.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
At that, I should I should go and block him.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Somebody I guess hacked my ex and and it was
trying to sell laptops in the dms and asking people
if they were fans of mine, how long have you
been a fan of mine. I promise you that never
came from me. I do have a laptop for sale
if you're interested.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
I don't. And then so my TikTok is Fred Show Radio.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
The Show's TikTok is the Fred Show TikTok, not to
be confused, but another pointless TikTok, and I put I
very rarely post on there because I feel so stupid
making selfie videos. I don't have a confidence kik he does,
I just don't.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
We got to get over that.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
I don't and I'm.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Reading the damn let him, let him think I'm stupid.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Let me make a TikTok.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, yeah, thank you for the them, and let me Yeah,
I'm almost down with them, by the way, you read fast.
So yesterday it was to reveal my latest lego creation,
because I put the concord together a couple of weeks ago,
and I was like, this was painful, slash satisfying, slash happy,
slash sad. There were tears, there was there was anger,

(13:22):
there was happiness and satisfaction. So then I moved on
to a McLaren f one. Now that also same sort
of thing. And then I said, well, now I'm gonna
get the pack. It's a slippery slope. It's very addicted.
Jason is on a Lego journey as well. You just
haven't moved on to the second set yet.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yeah, I need to say these coins because Legos are
not cheap. No kind of an expensive hobby. And I
don't have Lego money right now.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
No, No, don't worry. You know what I'm gonna and Cameln.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'm gonna get her going on Lego. I'm gonna go
to the store. I'm gonna go to the Lego Sto.
I'm gonna get you guys some Legos. I was going
to surprise you from the tour.

Speaker 9 (13:54):
Well.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I got Kiki a new hand mirror yesterday. It's on
the way. Think you should be using a broken one.
It's also bad luck, but I want to make it
as easy for you to stare at yourself as possible
all morning. She's the only one who has a hand
mirror at the ready at all times. Pauline, I don't
know what to get you. I did just get your
kids some form of water toy you did.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
By my sister told me to get it for you.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know how excited I was when I saw that,
more excited than she.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Water table? Is that what I've want? She has no.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Idea, You have no idea, but that's going to occupy
her all summer long, all summer.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Is going to come over with.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
There's like a firework and play that. That was the
part of the gift that I didn't tell you. Man,
He's going to come over and play with the water table.
I don't know what you go hose up to it
and it's just a table that water flows over.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Is that I think that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
We're going to find out.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
We put it together. I'm so excited to thank you.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
And so I posted a TikTok my latest lego creation,
which again range of emotions as I as I reveal
it to you all, and granted people are like, great
build Fred. I'm like, I didn't invent it, Like I
followed the direction. And that's another thing people in the
comments going, hey, dude, it comes with instructions. I'm like,
I know that, but if you ever put one of

(15:03):
these together, then you know that you can make a mistake.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
But they're subjective, like it's just pieces with arrows, like right, yeah,
and then.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Like the thing, and if you've ever put one together,
or at least recently, they'll you'll put like some you'll
put pieces of it together, and then you add it
to like the main piece. But if they don't do
a great the point where it's supposed to go kind
of but like then you kind of have to count
the little bumps and it's like from the vantage point

(15:32):
of the images, it's not hard to screw it up.
And it's also not hard to use a piece that fits,
but not the piece they intend for you to use. Like,
you know, there might be a block that's this big,
but they want you to use two blocks to fill that,
and they want you to save the big one for later.
But then if you confuse that and then you know,
thirty minutes later you need that piece for there, and

(15:56):
you won't have any pieces left, and then you've got
to figure out where the pieces that are supposed to
go there. Oh my god. So it was a pac
Man arcade machine that I put together. I'm very proud
of it. By the way, I'm very proud.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Of it that it should be.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
It's really cool.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I also have to make a confession.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh did you cheat?

Speaker 2 (16:12):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I did not.
I did not. I will say this, there's and no
one will ever find it. But there is one part
of that of that arcade that I got to the
very end of the build of that part of it,
and there was and there was one piece that just
didn't fit where it was supposed to. And I have

(16:32):
no idea how I got that far. And the one
little it was like a little hang, a little like
a trim piece. And I don't know how I built
this whole thing. It took me forty five minutes an hour,
and one piece just didn't fit. And so the only
thing you could do was take the whole thing apart
and put it back together, which I had already done
once because I screwed.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Up another part of it. So I gluted.

Speaker 7 (16:53):
And you can live with you with your OCD. Can
live with that on yourself, knowing there is a piece
that is wrong.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
No, but it doesn't look wrong because it looks perfect
because I just I made it.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
I made it fit. It fits like.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Eight hundred times.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
No no, no, it was like the bottom part of it
with little coinslot and I don't know why, but like
I built it once and it just wasn't right.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I didn't put.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
What I didn't do was I I didn't count enough,
I didn't place.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
I can't I can't describe it.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
But if you follow the instructions, instructions are not as straightforward.
Like again, you could set something down on a place
on the build that's not exactly where they wanted it.
You could be one dot off and the right, and
then you put the whole thing together and then it
doesn't it doesn't a line. And so I did that
once and then I'm like, I was so frustrated.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
It was like midnight. I had to work the next day.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
I took the whole thing apart and put it all
back together in the dark, and I got it all perfect,
except there was just one piece that just didn't fit.
It just didn't go. And I was like, no, for
I'm not doing this again. So I glute it. I
don't know if it counts, it counts, And look, I'll
tell you what I will give you. I will give
you this. I'll bring it in if you can find

(18:08):
where it is. You can't because it was flawlessly.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
You know on the inside.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Don't care, and don't do this, don't don't do this.
Don't do this. It looks the thing looks flawless. Okay, No,
it's not perfect. It is no, no, but it is perfect.
Now you can't you won't find you'll never have it.
Nobody will ever know. But you know, and that's the
worst part.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
And I don't care anymore. Part I let it go.
Let it go.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
So okay, see you love them, I love them.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Let them, let them hate on my lego, let them
hate on my lego Bill. And I'll tell you right now,
if I hadn't just come clean and admitted that to you,
he would never know.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
But I was. I was in a moment of desperation.
It was like one in the morning.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I'm like standing in the darkness school night shaking because
I couldn't rest until my lego build was right. And
I was like, no, I'm not doing this again. So
I just stuck it where it needed to go. Man,
looks perfect. But I'll never understand what the tiktoks that
people want to watch, the tiktoks that people don't want
to watch, I'll never understand because again, that thing, you know,

(19:10):
thousands of people watch that I've posted actual videos and
animal rescues and flying and things I think people would
care about. Kiki helped me put one together. I sat
and edited one like a big boy, and nobody really
watched it. And then I go do this Lego thing
and I cannot believe the number of people that are like,
I'm forty years old and I do legos too. But
there's there's there's a points of this. First of all,

(19:32):
it's to make I'd like to make an announcement of
my next build.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
And I've acquired it's on the way.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
It's vibe friend. Yes, yes, yes, hi. Everyone, would you
like to ask me? Well, first of all, announce the
build and then I'll take questions. But I've ordered and
acquired and and it is in root the next Lego
build for your boy, and it is the back to
the Future delorem. Oh my god, uh huh that's right? Yeah, yes,
Kalyn Kalen from the Yeah Klein is it? Are you

(20:00):
from the A P because you're not allowed any Are
you from CNN?

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Are you cos?

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (20:06):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Actually, are you come here please? I'd like to do
on one on one with her.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Is it true that your last piece isn't fully complete?
And how do you feel moving on to your next piece?

Speaker 9 (20:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:21):
You know what, go full press secretary right now, be
like next, I'm putting terrify you.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
I put a four thousand percent terrify you.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, I'm city executive order.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
I would just I would look, I'd like to address that.
And it's not a rumor. I know what you're trying
to do. Uh, Caitlin Clark from Detroit. I know what
you're I know what you're trying to do. And I
already came clean on this. I've said what I had
to say. I did what I did, I said what
I said, and I've made all the statements about this
I'm going to make. So that's sad. Anything else any
other questions.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
You put this together. I'm looking at you. Yeah, you
put this together.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I know. But here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Hold on, do you see where the screen is, like
like where the fake screen is in the Lego screen? Okay,
oh my god, what don't feed your boyfriend the acids
posit you mind your business.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
You know what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I'm gonna put together a little Lego container for him.
You need to for its depositories.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
No, where the screen is though, Like you have to
be a mechanical engineer to assemble that, like it took
like three or four hours because everything moves and there's
there are little gears and levers and there's a light
but like all and then there's a Okay, so I
think I may have said this before, but there's a chain.
There are chains that make that move behind it. You

(21:43):
can't see it inside the build. They don't send you chains,
they send you links. You have to put the chain
to everything. There's nothing comes assembled. You have to put
everything together.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Oh my god, I'm in stem.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
It makes you wonder if if something's wrong with me,
because you guys seem like you guys have the want,
the will the patients to do this. This doesn't excite me,
like actually got mad looking It's okay.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
That it doesn't exciting mad kids. But see now that
I was, I was educated about this. That's not for kids. Like, yeah,
I guess the black one. The black boxes, I guess
are not intended for children. Oh okay, my friend TJ
told me about this because I guess, you know, like
my niece couldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
I couldn't do this.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
I'm not evening funny.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
You could though, you could?

Speaker 4 (22:25):
You guys same doing the whole thing together, like I
can't do this.

Speaker 6 (22:30):
I thrive on a good set of instructions and being
able to fall like that gives me comfort. The fact
that you get like a book and you get to
go step by step, like flip the page, like that's
everything I could watch.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
But there I have a few I have layers of
issues with this, and again I'm still doing it, but like, okay,
so that thing had fourteen came with fourteen bags of legos,
and then like sometimes inside the bag or other bags
of smaller legos, but they're all mixed up, right, so
you I use plates and I wind up pouring the
pieces on each bag on the plate.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
But then you have to like you still have to.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Find the pieces among the It's layers of anxiety, and
a lot of times there's similar shape, so you have
to look and say, okay, I need this piece. So
first I have to find the pieces in this madness
of hundreds of pieces, and then I have to organize them,
and then I have to put it together, and I
have to make sure I got the right pieces in
the right places. It's a lot. I don't know why

(23:26):
I'm enjoying this. I'm not sure if I am, but
there was a point to this and it took twenty
minutes to get there. But whatever, what are you? Because
this came up yesterday too. Is a lot of adults
in the comments on TikTok on Fred Show Radio saying
that now that they have adult money, they're buying more

(23:46):
Legos than ever before because they got adult money and
they're loving this. You got grown up money, you know,
when you were a kid you could. I mean these
Lego sets that was two hundred bucks, the Concord was
two hundred bucks, the McLaren was two hundred dollars. And
if you're putting these things together every few days, I
mean that's expense. You talk if it's expensive. Yeah, I
own eight hundred dollars in Legos. Now, Like, what am
I gonna do with these things? I know I realize that,

(24:10):
but I couldn't afford that as a kid. I mean,
that's a kid I would have gotten. I would have
gotten a set for my birthday and I would have
gotten a set for Christmas maybe. And when I was
a kid, we didn't have sets like this. It was
just big buckets of Legos and you had to make
it up yourself. Yeah, but I'm wondering what are you doing?
It doesn't have to be Legos? What are you doing
with your grown up money now? Because it's kind of

(24:31):
a it's kind of amazing that I can. I I'm
bragging now I can walk into it. I don't have kids,
I don't have to put you in through college. I
only have to take care of myself. You know, I
make several dollars an hour. I could walk into a
Lego store buy whatever. I'm not any I'm not as
much as I want, But I could walk into a
Lego set. I'm bragging, and I can pick out a
Lego set and buy it and not feel bad about it. True,

(24:53):
but that's something you can only do if you have
a job and you're a grown up. Yeah you know
what I mean. So, like, what what do you find
yourself doing with your grown up money? Is it Legos?
Is it models? Is it makeup?

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (25:03):
Like?

Speaker 1 (25:03):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I got grown up money. I'm buying that because I can.
But like, as a grown up being able to walk
into an equivalent of a toy store and just it's
like when you were a kid, Remember you'd walk into
a toy store when they had them, and you would
be like, I want everything, and your mom's like, you
can have one thing, or you can't have anything. Most
of the time it was that well now, even a
grocery store, remember the grocery store. You'd walk into you

(25:25):
I want that cereal, and your mom would be like,
you can't have that. We're not buying that. We have
cereal at home. You know, you got to eat the
cereal that you got first. Now, if I want, and
I realized it's like a twelve dollars investment, you know,
cereal is expensive. But if I want, if I want
that box of cereal, I can have it because I'm
a grown up. I made that money. What do you
find yourself doing with your grown up money?

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Makeup? And food?

Speaker 5 (25:48):
For sure, Like I think about it every day. Like
when I was a kid, you didn't have McDonald's money.
You had to go home make spaghetti or whatever was
ye the dinner plan for the Like.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
I want a cheeseburger, and Mom's like, we have we
can make that at home. Like, no, we can't make
mcdonald'scheeseburger at home.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's not the same.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
So now as an adult, like whatever, whatever I want,
whatever restaurant I want to try. I can try whatever
makeup products I want, fashion Nova like it's bad.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Or whatever you want at the grocery store, because how
many times you asked for something.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
I want a jar of nutella yesterday, nothing to put
it on. I'm just eating it with a spooney because cares.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
And yes, because you get up at three in the morning,
and if you want the jar on nutella, you can
have it.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
I want to face dive into that when I get
home from work.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
That's what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
I want to iced coffee. I'm getting it.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's what I say.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
I can make my mine at home. But three o'clock hits,
I'm running Duncan. Yeah, I'm taking the baby in a stroller.
We're going to Duncan.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Molina runs on run on a.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Matter of whether you have a lot of money or don't.
This is simply a matter of if I choose it,
I can do it because I'm a grown up and
I have grown up money. And I noticed for a
lot of people it was Legos. But there are people
in my comments going, hey, I am a grown up
and I can buy any Lego I want, and I
do it, and I don't care, and it's a very
liberating feeling.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
But this is a whole thing. I mean, there was
a whole article about it.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Trading cards, auto kids, clay, sculpting miniatures, Legos, Legos, one
of you sent me this. I think it was you,
maybe Caitlin or no, my sister Lego's run a cover
of Time magazine. M hm, yeah, she's there's a movement.
There's a move going on. Hey, Victory girl, Hello, what
are you spending your growing up money on?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Victor?

Speaker 13 (27:19):
So it's been about I was twenty plus years and
the last time I collected Pokemon cards.

Speaker 9 (27:25):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (27:25):
That's the thing I got back into actually at the
end of last year.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Pokemon cards.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
All right, So where do you go to like a
are you one of these two that goes like the
Walmart and like digs around trying to find them, or
do you go to a sports card store?

Speaker 1 (27:36):
What do you do?

Speaker 13 (27:38):
So now it's actually kind of difficult to go to
like sports cards are like collectible stores because everything's marked up. Unfortunately,
there's a lot of scalpers right now. I don't know
if you've seen like the videos with the Costco where.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
People are like kind of lining it and yeah.

Speaker 13 (27:54):
Yeah, now, there's thingfuitely, there's like Facebook groups that you know,
let people know when the drops that target Walmart Costco.
So been using those routes thankfully to be able to
get some product because any news has to come out.
It's kind of impossible to be able to get stuff
on the day of or even game stop right now.
They're kind of limited on.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
The stock too. What's what's your best pull, Victor?

Speaker 13 (28:17):
I actually got a hyper rich harzard from a so
called the Ocitian Flames.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
What's your worth? How much it worth?

Speaker 13 (28:27):
So unfortunately that card is only about twenty two bucks.
I do have one card that's I think gritted as
a PSA ten right now. It's a couple hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
What is the Dragonaire?

Speaker 13 (28:38):
Yeah, the Dragonnaire secret illustration there.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
But you haven't spend forty dollars to get it, so yeah.

Speaker 13 (28:45):
Yeah, I mean yeah at this point, I mean I
started collecting maybe like in September of last year, and
I busily spent around the amount that you have on
legos right now.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
So I'm telling me you got that growing up money, Victor.
Thank you man, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I love you guys.

Speaker 13 (28:59):
I'm one of the thirteen.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
By the way, make you take that Hannah hy Hello, Hey,
how Anna, good morning. How are you spending your grown
up money?

Speaker 14 (29:12):
This is really kind of like silly, but basically donuts
because in high school this was more than ten years ago. Yeah,
I know, it's just donuts, but I went to religious
high school and every Tuesday we had something called Tuesdays
with Joe like coffee, and they would be like, you
can either spend your like period before class started doing nothing,

(29:34):
or you can come to this religious sermon because we
have donuts and coffee, and I never got sweets at
home ever, so I would always go with just for
the donuts, and I would try to sneak out if
I could send a don't day, but I would try
to sneak out with the donut. And then a senior year, we.

Speaker 10 (29:51):
Had a Jewish philosophy class and the teacher was like,
draw a picture of what you want your life to
look like in ten years, and I literally drew myself
with a husband and baby, of course, and donuts and
donut that was that's all I want.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Like, no one's going to make me attend any sort
of thing. I'm going to get my own donuts. On
my own terms.

Speaker 10 (30:10):
Yes, I and I so I love donuts, and it's
it's so like childish.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
I guess, Oh no, it's not. You do you, Hannah.
You're grown up now. Thank you. Have a good day,
you too.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, that's like when I was a kid in the
sports card stuff and I'd mow the lawn for two
weeks and I could go get like two packs or something.
Now I got a little bit of grown up money
if I wanted to, And I don't need to be
getting back into sports card collecting because I'll go in
there and I'll spend grown up money on this stuff
and it'll get out of hand because then I'll be like, oh,
if I keep buying, then I'll this.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Is what they want.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, people are saying I spend money on monthly massages
legos already plural NOAs whatever. Oh yeah, but it's like
everything else in the Midwest, Okay.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
You got to add the ass.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
For me, it's concerts like I always like eve starting
young middle school, which like obviously sheet, my mom didn't
want me to go to concerts a lung, so I
would always have to find someone to take me, or
if the concert wasn't like appropriate like my dad was
going to take me to and I'm an anger management tour,
like shocking, and my mom said no, and I'm still
mad at her, and like now no matter what concert, like,
I can go. I can say the whole time, doesn't

(31:14):
matter if I'm tired the next day, nobody's telling me
I can't go.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Okay okay.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Someone says they have two thousand dollars worth of yo yos.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Ooh yeah, I light up yo yo yo. Remember those?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
A lot of legos, a lot of video games, A
lot of people spending a ton of money on video
games because they can. When you were a kid, it's like,
you know, you might get a game here and there,
maybe if you were lucky, holiday, birthday whatever. Now it's like, yeah, really,
i'd get it now. Hey, Riba, you're with me in
that team Lego.

Speaker 15 (31:47):
Hey Brad, yes, I am.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
And you.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
What is your latest build, Riba? Since we're talking in
that you know, since you and I are on the
same team.

Speaker 15 (31:56):
My daughter built a big, huge Hogwarts castle, the big
four thousand piece. I think it was four or seven thousand.
It's the big newest line.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
See that does look cool.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I just don't really think about anything about it, Hogwarts,
I don't know it looks and plus what am I
gonna I don't know why I'm gonna put these things.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
That's the other thing.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Because I thought about I'd buy them and I put
them together, and then I would like donate them. The
problem with that is I don't think kids want pre
assembled legos, right exactly.

Speaker 15 (32:23):
I have a whole room of Harry Potter Legos that
nobody wants.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
There, you go, I don't know what I would. They
look so cool, but I don't know anything about it.
I have no context. I only read the first book
and I don't even know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Hogwarts had to be hard, though, that's intricate.

Speaker 15 (32:36):
They're all very very they're very, very very hard. And
she started when she was like thirteen years old, when
they very first came out.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, she's a.

Speaker 15 (32:46):
Good kid, and she's on the honor roll, and I
would rather her spend her money on and spend our
money on that kind of stuff versus drugs.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, yeah, no, I think that's a great compromise.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Legos.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, thank you, Reva, have a good day. No, I mean,
I'll tell you what, that's a great parenting technique for
Gigi and for Polly. And how about we just say,
I'll tell you what. I'll give you two hundred dollars
a month to spend on legos if you'd like, as
long as you don't spend it on black Tar heroin.
You have two choices, black to our Heroin and legos,
and if you pick Black to Our Heroin, you don't
get the money.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I think that's fair, Hey.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Michelle, Yes, Michelle, your husband spends his big boy growing
up money.

Speaker 16 (33:27):
On a train layout.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
He has a train layout. How do you know he's
not going to cheat on you. That's how he's got
a train layout in his house.

Speaker 17 (33:38):
Fifteen by five train layout.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
And so let me guess.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
He's got to have the tracks and little stations, and
he has to have the whole like, you know, a
little stores, and he has to have the whole community.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Right.

Speaker 17 (33:50):
Yes, I made a situation with him. He took my
hot chop down to put the train layout. So I said,
let me decorate the train layout, see.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
The whole thing. I've seen this on TikTok too. It's
very addicting because it's not just a train on the track.
Now you've got to build the whole like the world
around it, hills and landscape and buildings and cities and
hospitals and stations and oh yeah, you can get really
into this.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Don't get me started.

Speaker 12 (34:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 17 (34:18):
The one building, it can be hundreds of dollars for trains,
thousands of dollars.

Speaker 12 (34:23):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yep, there you go. Thank you having the day, Michelle.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Thank you too.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Don't? What is it same? I don't.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Oh oh, it's a person's argument with me about Lego.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
Oh good, this is like what I wanted to get
my metal detector again, because I had fond memories when
I was little and you guys made fun of.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Oh yeah, right, it's so similar.

Speaker 16 (34:47):
It is.

Speaker 7 (34:48):
I played with the metal detection when I was little
on the beach, and I want one now, well.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know you should get One's roasted me. No, you
should get one. Big Lego money, big big metal detector money,
big money treasure. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
You're right when you're.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Right, when you find when you find that coin that
everyone's been looking for, you know, and you can retire,
you know what. I hope. So I hope I'm laughing
one day when you're like, hey, fred, I retired because
I was out on North Avenue Beach with my metal
detector and my big white hat, yeah, you know, and
then my white nose because I put that stuff on
my nose so that it wouldn't burn. You know what

(35:21):
I'm talking about. I was not walking around a metal detector.
It's a good thing. You have a boyfriend now, so
all of a sudden you're like, metal detectors are cool.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
More Thread Show. Next, this is the Fread Show one O.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Three five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one of music stage.
It's the Fread Show and it's our holiday wish with
Amy wither Right and one hundred truck Crack. He said,
been super emotional so far this year. We're getting text
every morning from people saying that, you know, they're crying
in their in their cars and their way to work,
which is not the point. I think it's happy tears. Amy,
But so far three days, almost twenty thousand dollars for

(35:59):
people who could really use some extra help this holiday
season from you and one one hundred truck Wreck, which
is amazing. It's good stuff.

Speaker 16 (36:06):
It's the best time of year and this is the
time that you know, we are so fortunate. We've done
so well business. My family's healthy, and you just got
to find room in your heart and room in your
pocket to help other people and put a smile on
their face no matter what the circumstances are. So I
know we have Angel with us next, and Angel's trying
to be it sounds like an entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Right up, my Alan?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah Angel, Hi, Angel, how are you hi? I'm good, Angel,
Welcome about Amy wither right is here for one one
hundred truck wreck and that can only mean good things,
that's right. And you're trying to be Amy was saying,
you're trying to be an entrepreneur. You're trying to be
on Shark Tank or something like. You're working on the
next big idea.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Right, h Well, there would be a dream come true
for sure.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Well let me read this note that you sent to
us if you don't mind. Is that okay? Angel?

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Yeah? No, sure, It says, dear friend, show on Amy.
My holiday wish is for a fast running desk top computer.
I'm a single mom with a lot of health issues
that caused me to go to the doctor and hospital often,
which means I need to work from home, and this
is why I started my small business. Unfortunately, the computer
that we had started on fire.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Whoa wow, Wow, it started smoking.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
So that's yeah, go ahead and unplug that. But that's
why this year my holiday wish is for a computer.
My business is the only way that I can support
us right now, and my little ones also need a
computer for their homework and many other things. So please help.
I can't support my family without one. We'd be forever grateful. Amy,

(37:40):
I have a feeling you can do that.

Speaker 16 (37:42):
Yeah, And I know a little bit about computers because
we have a ton of them, too many of them.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
I think I.

Speaker 16 (37:48):
Carried two to three with me at all times because Fred,
you never know when the damn thing's going to work.
I don't know about you, Angel, but mine are intermittent.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Well apparently you never know what it's going to start
smoking exactly exactly.

Speaker 16 (38:01):
So Angel, we got to get you a good computer.
So I'm thinking about a couple of things. I'm thinking.
First off, one eight hundred truck, Right, we can buy
you that new computer. But you said you've got you've
got kids that may need a computer too, So how
many kids do you have?

Speaker 1 (38:15):
I have three, three.

Speaker 16 (38:17):
And I bet they only computers for school or wherever
else they got going on.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Right, the old that's all they do is electronic learning.

Speaker 16 (38:26):
These all right, So this is what we're going to do.
One eight hundred truck rights. We're going to give you
twenty five hundred dollars to buy you a new computer.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
Okay, oh my god, thank you.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
I don't Oh, she's not done. She's not done. Angel.

Speaker 16 (38:40):
And then secondly, Angel, we always have computers that are
only three years old. Every three years, we recycle all
of our computers at work. So I'm going to peel
off three of those computers that are only three years old,
and we're going to give those to your family so your.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Kids can use them. How about that?

Speaker 12 (39:00):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Wow, you guys, you're gonna do it so mud So
your business is no longer smoking computers, so any of them.
So that's good. So you can get back to work.
Your kids will have what they need for school and
to entertain themselves and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
And there.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I'm sure they're gonna love it. For the holidays, they're
gonna think it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
That is so amazing.

Speaker 16 (39:20):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
You really don't know how much.

Speaker 15 (39:22):
This means me.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Now, when you're a little small business turns into like
the next big business, you know, don't forget about Kiky Paulina,
Jason Carroen. Okay, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
No, I promise I won't forget you either.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Amy, what about me? Don't forget about Amy either. But hey,
I I hope you have an amazing holiday.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Angel.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
I hope this helps out a little bit. I'm so
glad that you told us your story. And and hang
on one second, we'll make sure we have all the
info will get you to these computers. And of course,
thanks to Amy Amy with her right one eight hundred
truck wreck for hooking it up.

Speaker 16 (39:55):
Got that holiday wish.

Speaker 14 (40:05):
I like when you get mad.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
I guess I'm pretty glad that's your alone. You said
she's showed to me.

Speaker 14 (40:15):
I mean, I don't.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
See what she sees, so maybe it's because I'm moving up.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Colone. God, God, please to your kids.

Speaker 7 (40:36):
I need to tell them that they if they were
really bad, I would rip up their birth certificate and
they will have ceased to exist.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Whoa whoa, whoa.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
How Fred's show is I should asks number one customer
in the world.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
I believe that I might be. It is possible.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
They should have like.

Speaker 7 (40:52):
A top ten percent where you guys get like merched
like a tracksuit or something.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Can you go to Chipotle enough and you get that
golden Chipotle card. I feel the tracksuit would be an order, yeah,
because that would be the kind of thing I wear.
When I ordered door Nest four times a day, I
wonder what my record. I think my record is probably
five in a dive. Well, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Like, okay over there, Well, okay, maybe I ordered breakfast.

Speaker 8 (41:19):
Well, let's not shame him. Let's not shame Maybe I
ordered breakfast. That sounds I don't have to cook. Maybe
I ordered lunch. This is not all the time. This
is my record. This is like this happened one maybe
one day. Maybe I got some lunch, and then I
think maybe I ordered dinner, and and then I wanted
a beverage, but the beverage wasn't available at the dinner place,
so I combined the order, which I guess is technically

(41:39):
one order, but sometimes they send two people to do that.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
They should be more efficient.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
They should figure out a way that like if you
order more than one thing on your order, that but whatever, right,
and then it's possible. But later in the day, I
thought maybe dessert was an order. Yeah, somebody slipped me
a THHG gummy. It's or maybe they had slipped me
the THHG me from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
It's possible we've.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Ever been left waiting by the phone.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
It's the Fred Shell.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Hey Abby, good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
How are you.

Speaker 12 (42:09):
I'm good, guys, how are you doing great?

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Welcome to waiting by the phone.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
So we're trying to figure out what happened with this
guy Patrick, and we got to have the backstory.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
So how did you meet?

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Tell us about any dates you've been on and uh
and how those went, and then where things are now?

Speaker 15 (42:24):
All right?

Speaker 12 (42:24):
So first I met Patrick at a Saint Patrick's safe
party the irony there, and we just we just talked
for like hours. We both have kids, and we bonded
over that, like we're both single parents, you know, just

(42:44):
talking about like the funny stories that our that our kids,
you know, do, So we just like really clicked right away.
It was like instant connection. Then we like the more
we talk, like he was asking, like, you know, where
about I live. We found out that we lived pretty
close to each other, and he asked for my number

(43:05):
before he left, which was like, you know, I was
excited because like I thought he was really cute, and
we feel like I felt like there was definitely connection there.
So we had been kind of texting back and forth
after he got my number, and then a few days
later it was a really nice day and Patrick was like, hey,
you know, like I'm going to take my son to
the park, which was not too far from my house

(43:27):
because I said it was pretty close to his and
like I said, we lived pretty close. And he was like, hey,
do you like want to come and join. It's like
I felt comfortable because it's like a big thing, like
introducing your children to any other adult that you had,
Like even if he's like not my boyfriend, it's just
a lot to introduce to anybody coming into our lives.
So I really appreciated him saying like if I felt

(43:49):
comfortable like bringing my kids over, so I grant So
I have two daughters, and I said sure, you know what,
like what why not? You know, it's it's innocent, It's
not a day. I was just kind of meeting up
and kind of getting to know us better, and you know,
we had like a real like it was a really
it was really nice to see him again. We tried
a lot, the kids had a lot of fun playing.

(44:11):
But after that, like I never heard from him again,
Like it was very weird, Like he didn't like I
turned him a text afterwards, they said, hey, like, you know,
thanks for inviting us, we had a great time, you know,
talk to you soon or like love to see you again,
you know, let me know. And it was just cricket.
So I just don't know, like what happened if I
said something, you know, it's just I'm just sitting here

(44:33):
trying to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Yeah that's interesting because you guys, you did meet in
the wild per se, you met in person, so this
guy wasn't a total stranger, and you have kids and
he has kids, so you know, getting them together and
figuring out, you know, if they're going to get along
and stuff. I suppose I've seen a sense enough and
since things went well in your opinion, then it's like, well,
wait a minute, Uh, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Why wouldn't this guy call me again?

Speaker 12 (44:55):
Yeah, it was just very strange, Like I feel like
both interactions, like the first and second, you know, like
you know, hanging out, we're fine, like total you know,
innocent but fine, and you know, there was no awkwardness
at all, so I'm just I'm kind of stumped of
what could have happened.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Okay, well, let's call this guy Patrick, see if we
can get him on the phone. We'll ask these questions
for you. You'll be on the phone, of course, at the
same time. At some point you're welcome to jump in
after we get you some info. And the hope is
always is that we can figure out what happened or
what's going on, set you guys up on another date,
and we'll pay for that.

Speaker 12 (45:26):
All right, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Hello, Hi, I mean, let's call Patrick. You guys met
at the Saint Patrick's party. You talked for a long time.
You thought it went really well. You bonded over the
fact that you both are single parents and you have kids,
and so you decided collectively to get together at a
park or playground or whatever.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
With the kids.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
And it wasn't really a date per se, but you know,
the kids got to meet each other and you guys
got to talk some more, and you thought everything went
really well. Except you have not heard from Patrick since then,
and you want to know why exactly.

Speaker 12 (45:55):
So I'm just kind of racking my brain what's happening.
So I I don't know like, at this point, I
need some help.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
I need some Look at mom multitasking over there. I
got the kids in the background. They'll try to figure out. Yeah,
you know, I mean you got needs, gir I understand.
Let's call this guy now. Good luck, Abby, thank you.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Hello. Hi is this Patrick?

Speaker 12 (46:28):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (46:28):
This is hey Patrick. Good morning. My name is Fred.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
I'm calling for the Fred's Show, the morning radio show,
and I have to tell you that we are on
the radio right now, and I would need your permission
to continue with the call.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Is uh? Is it coo if we talk for just
a second.

Speaker 9 (46:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's fine.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Okay, Well, thank you for calling on behalf of a
woman who reached out to us. Her name is Abby.
I guess you guys met it at a party recently
and went on a date. I guess it was kind
of more of like like an outing with your kids.
Do you remember this woman?

Speaker 9 (46:55):
Uh? Yeah, yeah, I remember Abby.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Yeah, Okay, So what happened because she we just talked
to her a second ago and she was talking about
how she met you at the party and you guys
bonded over being parents and and you know, she thought
everything went great. You guys apparently decided to meet up
with your kids, and she hasn't heard from you since.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
So what what happened?

Speaker 9 (47:14):
Yeah, yeah, I was I was going to take my
son out to a park and just called her up
to see if she wanted to join, you know, nothing serious,
but yeah, we met up. She's she was great, you know,
I mean she's really fun to be around. Honestly, her
her two kids were just paris.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
That's kind of my opinion.

Speaker 9 (47:38):
Kid. Yeah, well just in the in the way that
they terrorized my son, and I guess me, I do
want to say though, you know, I'm I'm a dad,
I'm a single dad. I understand how kids can be.
But her, her two kids were just next level. I
mean they they spent most of the afternoon just double

(48:00):
team in on my son, taking his toys, pushing him.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
One of her daughters sneezed.

Speaker 9 (48:06):
At one point, you know, I said, God, bless you,
and she just made a bee line straight for me
and wiped her nose and just wiped it all over
my jeans.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
You know, we kind of laughed.

Speaker 9 (48:15):
But I was thinking, this is this is freely out
of line, and so I tried to get him to
play some games. They just didn't want to listen to me.
One of them just straight up told me I was
ugly and then just running like okay. I mean that
hurts the ego a little bit, and I'm like, all right, whatever.

(48:35):
But you know the worst part of it. They they're biers.
Both of her kids bite like one of them literally
bit me. I don't know if you've ever been bit
by a kid, but that hurts.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
I'm sorry to laugh, but I mean, okay, so yeah,
coving germs on you, they're biting you, they're calling you ugly,
they're roasting you. And what is during all of this?
Like what what is she just watching this and laughing?
Is she enabling it?

Speaker 13 (48:59):
Is she?

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Is she trying to correct them? I mean, what's happening?

Speaker 9 (49:02):
What is her? Well, no, she wasn't trying to correct them.
I don't know that she was enabling other than just
not stepping in. But it just seemed like they ran
the show. I could tell that there's probably no consequences
at home, you know, if they get in trouble. It
just felt like they were in charge. So I don't know,
it was it was just a lot for me for

(49:23):
an afternoon. She never really told them to stop, and
I didn't really feel like it was my place to
do that, So I thought I'll just remove myself from
the situation after this afternoon, we can kind of be
done with it.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Yeah, I would like that much either. But let me
bring Abby in. I forgot you mentioned that Abby is here. Abby,
you didn't say so was that your kids were biting
this man?

Speaker 12 (49:41):
Okay, so my two year old guz like we are
working on it. I told her to apologize. Like, first
of all, Terris is like really extreme and like I
really don't like that word, especially associated with my children.
So I really hate that, Like that's just for me,
Like if he's turned off by me, that's fine. Like

(50:03):
him using that word to describe my children, that's a
huge turnoff by for him, like for me towards him,
they are not. They obviously were like a little more
on the excited side, obviously to like meet you people
meet a new kids. Like they weren't ganging up on
his son. I did try to interject, there's just so
much like it's hard to be a single parent, like

(50:25):
you know, like it's kind of hard since he like
I divoted some issues like with my acts, like I
don't have much of support from my child's father, so
it's me doing it all. So it's like really hard
that he's like glassing me as a mother. It's just
very hurtful because I was trying, so like he's kind
of going to the stream. But I did nothing.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Yeah, I mean my mom, my sister, and I were
raised by my mom primarily, and she was a single
parent for a while. And and I commiserate with what
you're saying. I think, though you know your kids can
act up. But just from my perspective, if it were
me and I'm patrick, I guess what I would have
been looking for is less about what a two year
old's doing and more about maybe what you're doing about it.

(51:10):
Because he certainly couldn't discipline the kids. That would have
been a chance.

Speaker 12 (51:14):
But that's what I'm saying. So you're listening to what
he's saying that I didn't my child, friend, Well.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I'm asking you if, okay, I'm not criticizing you, I
started do something out by not criticizing you, but I'm
saying if I but I had.

Speaker 12 (51:27):
Already I had already explained that when she did go
to bite him, I put her aside and said, you
cannot be doing that and you need to apologize.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Is that what happened? Patrick? Did? She did?

Speaker 2 (51:38):
She was Are you not giving her enough credit for
her trying to manage her kids?

Speaker 9 (51:42):
Well, no, no, she did step in. I mean it's
not like she didn't do anything. It's just that I
didn't see necessarily the results coming out of her telling
her kids what to do. I mean, it's not like
they just continue doing it. They would stop, but then
it would they would back up. So and again I
have support for her for single moms, and and I

(52:05):
do apologize for using the word terrorists. That may have
been a little harsh. That's not necessarily what I meant.
It just it was a lot for me and my boy.
We're just not used to that kind of energy. So
it was just a lot.

Speaker 12 (52:15):
And that's fine. But like also, I feel like he's
trying to come off at like their boat says like
his son, Yes, his son has behaved, but his son also,
like through stand at my daughter's a few times they
weren't biting the child like by like I said, only
my two year old bit him. And like again, I
disciplined and we're working on it. Like she's too, So

(52:39):
like maybe she got scared, you know, like we're trying
to communicate with her, We're trying to explain that that's
not okay. Sometimes her older sister will get upset and
bite her back, but other my older daughter does not
bite other people. Like it's a it's a sibling thing
between them that like we're trying to work on. So
the fact that like it's all coming down on me,
it's just like really hard, Like I'm trying my best,

(53:01):
and I know he's trying his best, like I would
never have used that, Like, you know, he's feeling that
he didn't disciplined his son enough or that his son
was doing things like I give everybody like I give everybody,
like a great assault. I give everybody like you know,
I feel for I feel for every single parent out
there trying the best to catch Yeah, we always for you.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
We are not trying to criticize you. We are not
trying to criticize you at all. But I think we
have to respect his decision to not want to be
a part of that right now.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
It was a lot for him, and.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
We can you can admit that, right, fine, you can
admit that part.

Speaker 12 (53:33):
Totally fine, that is totally fine, I can admit that
the whole thing is is just like be a man
and say, you know what, I feel like this is
not working and like, you know, like it's better.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Off, like that's see okay, but hold on, hold on,
I mean just one second. This is not an indictment
on parents and parents as a whole. And I also
understand we're talking about your children and so understandably you
have emotion about this, and you should and that is fair.
But that's probably why he choll not to say anything
and just sort of fade away, because he probably didn't

(54:05):
want to have to tell a woman who he just met,
I think your kids were unruly and then get into
this sort of conversation because I understand why you're defensive.
I totally do, but I also think you need to
understand from the other side that it's a difficult conversation
to have with someone when you're talking about their kids.

Speaker 15 (54:22):
Well.

Speaker 12 (54:22):
Sure, but he didn't even have to bring up the kids.
He could have just said, you know what, I'm just
not feeling the vibe like I think you know, I'm
not a relationship, you know what, honestly, like just say
something like don't leave somebody on red, like, just be respectful.
Like I've had to end things. They're not they're uncomfortable.
They're uncomfortable when you have to tell someone yeah, you know,

(54:43):
like I'm not feeling it, or like you could. There's
a respectful way to end things without ghosting. That's all
I'm saying, Like, I just feel like I deserved a
little bit more respect than that after I feel like
we really did have a connection. But that's fine, that's
I think that's I think that this.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
I think that's fair.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
I think that your you know, your your emotion and
defensiveness about this is also fair. But I also think
that it's possible that when we're talking about our own
kids and our own families and our own especially when
they're our own kids, that maybe you're a little blinded
by how that experience may have been for someone else
and why that may not be for them. I also
understand the communication part of this. So look, no one's

(55:23):
coming down on you, no one's criticizing you. It's not
for him. He has that right that is dating. But Patrick,
I'll ask the question, I mean, would you like to
go out with her again? Maybe we you know, don't
bring the kids this time. And then slowly work on
that whole thing, you know, another time.

Speaker 9 (55:40):
You know, honestly, had we had this conversation, I may
have understood a little more. We we kind of kept
it pretty surface. But I really dig the fire that
she has, that she's representing standing up her kids. I
see that she's working on it. I'm not opposed to

(56:01):
going out again.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
If oh.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
This, I do not see this coming. So you have
no problem being a human Kleenex again.

Speaker 9 (56:10):
Well, no, I don't think it's gonna be that way.
I think I just have a bit more of an
understanding of what she's going through, and I like her.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Passion, all right.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
I mean, look, I'm a little surprised, but Abby, I
I understand where you're coming from. Patrick, I didn't expect this.
But great, So it'll be an adult date. You guys
will go out again. We'll pay for it, and then, uh,
you know, maybe we'll check in down the road. But Abby,
I appreciate your perspective, and I hope that you can
see his and maybe see where we're coming from as observers.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
And I hope you guys have a great day.

Speaker 9 (56:41):
I can.

Speaker 12 (56:41):
I mean, I appreciate it, and obviously like maybe we
do have some stuff to talk about, so I do
appreciate it, like Patrick being honest, I can respect the
honesty here, so I can so hopefully, you know, if
it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Like Patrick, you can
be honest with me. We don't have to do this
over the radio if it doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Yeah, you did kind of chew us out a little bit,
so I'm a little afraid of I'm a little afraid.

Speaker 13 (57:02):
Of that.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
We're talking about your kids. I get it.

Speaker 12 (57:08):
Yeah, I've had a rough go and I do stand up.
So I mean, I really wasn't trying to fight anybody's
head off, but like when you start talking about my
kids and me as a parent, like you know, obviously
I'm always going to defend what I believe is right.
So it wasn't anything that against you guys, because we
all we all don't know each other.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Yea, hey, I think he's a little turned on over there.
So that's great.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
You guys go up as adults, have a great set,
and we'll pay for it and we'll check in later
and and good luck to both of you. It is
the frend Show. Good morning, thanks for having us on
the radio. On the iHeart app live and anytime search
for the Freends show on demand. My four year old
niece Polly needs everything exactly exactly. My sister travels with
like it's like she's an NBA team. She comes wheeling

(57:54):
in like big boxes of equipment, which tale, I mean,
it's we got to We're gonna have the right pillows. Correct,
We're gonna have.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
And I think they have names for him.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
It brings pillows.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Yeah, it's like her special pillows too. And then there
of course we have to have certain dolls and certain
pajamas we have. We do travel with the noise machine. Yeah,
oh yeah, No, Honestly, it's like if you've ever seen
a sports team come into towns for a game, it's
my sister. The big uall truck pulls up in front
of the house before her the advanced team. It's like

(58:26):
that call her Daddy interview with Kamala Ayas where they
had to make the set in the hotel room Las
Vegas to make it look like the set.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
That's how we do it.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Oh, they did that.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
So Polly walks in and it looks like she's in
her own room.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
But yeah, but really we're in Scottsdale. Yeah, yeah, no,
it's sweet, but it's like it's like no. And then
of course nobody can put the kid down properly because
nobody could possibly get all the steps right, which is
probably true because the kid has trained you, honey. And
my sister got so mad at me when I said,
she was really upset because I'm watching the kid tell

(58:59):
her what. The four year old tell my sister what
to do, and then my sister does it. And I said,
you guys, this is Freudian, and my sister's a therapist,
so she should get that. She does get that better
than I do. But I was like, this is Freudian,
she is raising you. And my sister is like, and
this is what she said to me. You know, as
a family that doesn't have any other kids, you guys
just don't understand. So one of those things because I

(59:22):
don't have a kid, so I don't know, which is
probably true. By the way, I don't have a child,
so I probably don't fully understand, and I don't claim to.
But what I can see with my eyes is that
my four year old niece runs that bitch. And I
mean my sister, I mean, you know, the entity of
the entity of the home.

Speaker 7 (59:39):
Yes, you were clarifying that I would tell yourself.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Well, actually, don't tell her anything ever again.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
But oh I love her, but she'll she'll kill us all.

Speaker 7 (59:47):
Gently remind her that like her daughter, probably will grow
up with sleeping issues if she has to do all
those things to put her down, because my mom was
like that with me, and she wasn't with Bella. And
one of us can sleep and the other can't, like
you know what I mean, Like, but my sister doesn't
need a sound machine.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
We were talking loud like she's a good sleeper. I
don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:00:04):
It worries me for Polly, because you know, when you
don't sleep with all that stuff, you can't sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
That's fair well, And look, I'm not a parent, but
I also know that my sister's number one and Colin
her husband, my brother in law, their number one priority
is to make whatever the issue at hand is stop.
The problem with that is that I don't know when
the issues will end. And the other thing is she
is a master manipulator, this four year old Matt love

(01:00:29):
this little girl, but like if if she's unhappy and
mom's there, then she needs dad. Really, Oh yeah, she's
a daddy's girl. She wants dad. Dad has to do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
I need dad if Dad's not there, like works at
the bar.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
These always are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Win for cigarettes. And hey, like our dad's never came back.
So I can't tell her that story. Colin doesn't smoke,
thank god.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
But that's a good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Bedtime story, right, let me tell you about my dad.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Anyway, This is anyway. I love my sister and I
love my nieces. But it is interesting to watch because
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
I get it. It's like you're tired. They're tired.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
The sooner that they get what they want, then the
sooner I can get what I want, which is to
go to sleep.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Close my eyes, because here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
The toddler goes to bed at you know, the baby
she has a one year old goes to bed at
like seven, and then the toddler goes to bed I
think at like eight, eight thirty. But no matter what happens,
the toddler's getting up at like six, no matter what happened, right,
and then I don't know what time Polly gets up.
It like it's like they're constantly working against the clock.
Like the window is just narrower and narrower, so I
get that part for sure, but she loves it like well.

(01:01:37):
Occasionally I'll get her when we're all together because she
lives in Dallas, so if we're all together someplace, occasionally
I'll get her to go out, like to a bar,
and then she'll have a couple of drinks. We'll be
sitting there, it's like ten o'clock. I'll be like, hey, Amanda,
Polly's charging as we sit here. She's gaining strength. Every
moment you're not sleeping. Polly is gaining strength. And my

(01:02:00):
sister we both had anxiety. My sister's like, I don't
like this. Have another drink of Mary?

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Can keep think?

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Each minute you sit here? Oh this was the best.
So one night we went to a concert. What's the
band that my sister knows the drummer? This is an
emo band from the two thousand Summerset. So my sister
knows the drummer from a band called the Summerset. And
we went to a concert a couple of years ago
and she didn't have the second baby yet, so Polly
was maybe like two, and so we're at the concert

(01:02:28):
and they don't go on till like ten o'clock at night. Now,
at this point, Polly's a two year old and she's
getting up at six no matter what. It's ten o'clock
at night. This is the latest that these two have
been out, the three of us. Latest these two have
been out since they had the baby. So we're at
the concert ten o'clock. These guys go on and the
guy gets at least singer Brian, and he gets on
the stage and he was like, this is gonna be.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
The longest show we've ever done.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
And all my sister wanted to do was get to
the end of the show she could see her friend
and then leave, and like, through throughout the night, he
just kept like, so now we're like ten forty five,
he's like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Just getting started.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
And that was when I was like, hey, Amanda, Polly's charging.
She's like, damn it. And then he's like, you know,
eleven thirty. He's like, we got ten songs to go.
We're gonna play the whole new album.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
We can go home.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
My sister's like, and the drummer can see us, so
we can't leave, and you know, so it's yeah, in
the whole time, like Amanda, she's getting stronger by the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
She hated me for that Bread Show is on. Yeah,
Bread's fun. Fact Bread learn so much guys, did you know?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Did you know that a snail has two thousand, five
hundred teeth? Whoa, and this is actually kind of frightening.
Those teeth can be found on their tongue that's covered
in ridges. Snails eat by rubbing their tongue on its
food while the ridges cut it into tiny pieces.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Youw, that's nasty. I think that would make a romantic
life for a snail. Pat More Fred Shall next.