April 2, 2025 • 7 mins
When you were younger did you create an embarrassing email address? Fred and the crew discuss!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So guys, I want to start to show. This made
me laugh this morning with this is how you know
if you're old. Gen Z has now defined how we
know if someone's old. If you don't have any numbers
in your Gmail address, then you're an og.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You're an og.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Now, I'm not going to tell you what my Gmail
is because that's my private email and because there are
no numbers in it. Yeah you don't, Big Daddy Fred
Gmail dot com with no. Sixty nine, no one, two,
three four, nothing, But think about that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You don't know. But my name is spelled weird. There
never will be numbers. That's true.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Gen Z professionals are using Gmail to determine their colleagues'
ages now. One Reddit poster shared an anecdote from work
explaining that they're gen Z. Coworker called them out for
using their first and last name at Gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I can remember this. This is terrible.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I mean it was twenty years ago, but I can
remember when a guy working at Kiss FM in Austin.
When I worked a Kiss FM in Austin Tech and
a guy that worked at the whelread you work at
the like the the cool oldies station. It was like
the jam a oldie station. They played like I don't
know what they played like.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like like R and B Oldies. Oh okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And the dude his name was jose Brow and jose goes, dude,
have you heard about this email where you get like
a gigabyte of storage? And I was, like a gigabyte,
Like we barely have internet that is in dial up
here and you get all the how do you do that?
I'll send you an invitation. It's invite only. Stop And
Gmail was invite only in the very beginning. And so
(01:36):
I remember I signed up for it, and I signed
and I got whatever I wanted because there weren't that
many people that had it at the time. It was
like Google has Google has email addresses.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Anyways, I got one and then all these years later,
But the problem is, and here's what I want to know.
Also eight five, five, five, nine, one one oh three
fight you can call in Texas same number. How many
of you got a Gmail address or an email address ten, fifteen,
twenty years ago, whatever it is. And at the time
it was funny or at the time it was like clever,
and now you're grown and sexy and and now it's
(02:08):
kind of funny when you because like mine. Again, I
don't want to say because I don't want one hundred
emails to my private email. But like now, when that's
the email that I use for stuff, like you know,
outside of work. So when I when they're like, what's
your email, then I have to tell them this one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You still use it? I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I'm not going to change it because again I've had
It's the same like my phone number, unless you don't
want people to get ahold of you. Ever, Again, you
can't change your phone number after a certain point otherwise
because you know who knows there are people that I
haven't talked to you in a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't just like.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Them, but if they wanted to get a hold of me,
that's only way. It is my phone number. So if
I change it, I would have no way of knowing
who does and doesn't have it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I guess when I'm at Northstrum and I tell them
legally brown and then the numbers that are actually it
is the shape like they're like what and I'm like,
you know, like brunette.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
See right, but that's what I mean, Like you got
to go up there a minute, Hey, what's your email?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You know, make Mama sixty nine sixty nine. I don't
give out my email.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Sorry, I big Mama sixty nine sixty nine. I'm you know, no,
but I mean at the time, you know, when you
were twelve, you thought that was funny or whatever, but
you didn't realize that that you might have to use
that going into adult life or on a resume. Right,
but yeah, this was the post. Is that gen zer
at work? After giving them my personal email address that
is my real name at Gmail, with no additional letters
(03:25):
and numbers, the person was like, how did you get that?
The ready user also wrote in their post on the
subreddit gen x I had to explain when Gmail first
came out it was invitation only, but I got one
from a friend early on and my name was still available.
Oh my god, I'm old. There are other ones like
if you have an AOL address a badge of honor
at this point. If you have an earthlink dot net address,
(03:48):
Oh what you ancient.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Earth Link? What about Yahoo?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Is?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I feel embarrassed if I nobody's using Yahoo? Yeah, you
and my mom mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And the address is embarrassing. It's mis with a Z
ladies B two K.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Miss lady B two K. See there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So you're like you're the doctor or whatever, and they're like, hey,
we're gonna send your results to an email. What is
your email address? You're like, miss lady.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
And then I would try to spell it out so
they wouldn't kind of put it together, and then they're like, okay,
miss lady.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I can read it, right you let people always look
at me like that's your email. I'm like, oh, because again,
I'm not going to change it now. And that's just
one more thing I got to check I get responsible for.
But I had any I had a Yahoo that was
attached to my MySpace, right, so I don't know my
MySpace password because I don't know if you still can
(04:45):
but for a while you could still get back in it.
So I go to my Space. I can't remember it,
so then I say forget password thing whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, then it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Sends the thing to my Yahoo, and I also don't
know the password of the Yahoo, and then I don't
know how to get the Yahoo at all, because how
do you get the email? If that was the I
don't even know where the Yahoo password hands email would go.
I mean that predates that even you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Know how you in college too, that like, when you
leave college, they're going to take that email away.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They don't always know. They don't always college. Some colleges
you can keep them. I didn't, but some colleges you
can keep.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Them, okay for ours day. After a certain point they're like,
you're out of here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So in all my notification stuff that I've printed, that
was my other only email.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, I can't get in that either.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I use AOL, I use SBC Global dot net.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I use hotmail.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh yeah, let me see here. I don't use this
email any I'm reading all the text. I don't use
this email anymore because it's embarrassing. But when I was
a teenager, I was in love with the Jonas Brothers
still am.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And my email was my name.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Loves nick j at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
See that's what I mean. And then you got a
cop to that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You know, you got to go to the You're at
nordstrum and then would you like to sign up for
the rewards?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And you're like, I guess it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Would it's uh, fred Fred at I Love the Spice
Girls dot met know whatever you know in his own
lo one you can change.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Someone just texted this too.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You can change your email address if you want to,
because you have twenty seven thousand unread emails anyway, So
what difference does it make?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You may and will start over.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, man, there was a time in college where you
can get a free appetizer a TGIA if you had
a new email and you signed up for their email. So, baby,
I had a new email every week, Go get my
free appetizer from CGIO. So I have plenty of email
look accounts.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I still have the same email address that I set
up when I was sixteen years old through Hotmail forty seven,
and I had set one up for each of my
family members, so it was our last name and then
mine was the number one at hotmail.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
My mom was last name whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, yeah, so thirty one years ago, So that would
be how you would do that, you know, if you
so apparently now you are an og if you've got
anything without easy numbers at the end of it or whatever,
and that's how we can now tell that you are
an old person. I already knew, but yeah, I never
thought about that, but I guess it's kind of impressive.
(07:10):
I have a Gmail that has no numbers in it,
that's right. Yeah, I know, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I did that. I did.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That's my new party trick now, to impress all the
young uns. As if the gray hair and the gray
beard didn't give it away. It's fine, We'll do the
biggest stories of the day, headlines. The Entertainer of Port
blogs all on the way. This hour The French Show
is commercial free
So guys, I want to start to show. This made
me laugh this morning with this is how you know
if you're old. Gen Z has now defined how we
know if someone's old. If you don't have any numbers
in your Gmail address, then you're an og.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You're an og.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Now, I'm not going to tell you what my Gmail
is because that's my private email and because there are
no numbers in it. Yeah you don't, Big Daddy Fred
Gmail dot com with no. Sixty nine, no one, two,
three four, nothing, But think about that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You don't know. But my name is spelled weird. There
never will be numbers. That's true.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Gen Z professionals are using Gmail to determine their colleagues'
ages now. One Reddit poster shared an anecdote from work
explaining that they're gen Z. Coworker called them out for
using their first and last name at Gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I can remember this. This is terrible.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I mean it was twenty years ago, but I can
remember when a guy working at Kiss FM in Austin.
When I worked a Kiss FM in Austin Tech and
a guy that worked at the whelread you work at
the like the the cool oldies station. It was like
the jam a oldie station. They played like I don't
know what they played like.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like like R and B Oldies. Oh okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And the dude his name was jose Brow and jose goes, dude,
have you heard about this email where you get like
a gigabyte of storage? And I was, like a gigabyte,
Like we barely have internet that is in dial up
here and you get all the how do you do that?
I'll send you an invitation. It's invite only. Stop And
Gmail was invite only in the very beginning. And so
(01:36):
I remember I signed up for it, and I signed
and I got whatever I wanted because there weren't that
many people that had it at the time. It was
like Google has Google has email addresses.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Anyways, I got one and then all these years later,
But the problem is, and here's what I want to know.
Also eight five, five, five, nine, one one oh three
fight you can call in Texas same number. How many
of you got a Gmail address or an email address ten, fifteen,
twenty years ago, whatever it is. And at the time
it was funny or at the time it was like clever,
and now you're grown and sexy and and now it's
(02:08):
kind of funny when you because like mine. Again, I
don't want to say because I don't want one hundred
emails to my private email. But like now, when that's
the email that I use for stuff, like you know,
outside of work. So when I when they're like, what's
your email, then I have to tell them this one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You still use it? I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I'm not going to change it because again I've had
It's the same like my phone number, unless you don't
want people to get ahold of you. Ever, Again, you
can't change your phone number after a certain point otherwise
because you know who knows there are people that I
haven't talked to you in a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't just like.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Them, but if they wanted to get a hold of me,
that's only way. It is my phone number. So if
I change it, I would have no way of knowing
who does and doesn't have it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I guess when I'm at Northstrum and I tell them
legally brown and then the numbers that are actually it
is the shape like they're like what and I'm like,
you know, like brunette.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
See right, but that's what I mean, Like you got
to go up there a minute, Hey, what's your email?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You know, make Mama sixty nine sixty nine. I don't
give out my email.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Sorry, I big Mama sixty nine sixty nine. I'm you know, no,
but I mean at the time, you know, when you
were twelve, you thought that was funny or whatever, but
you didn't realize that that you might have to use
that going into adult life or on a resume. Right,
but yeah, this was the post. Is that gen zer
at work? After giving them my personal email address that
is my real name at Gmail, with no additional letters
(03:25):
and numbers, the person was like, how did you get that?
The ready user also wrote in their post on the
subreddit gen x I had to explain when Gmail first
came out it was invitation only, but I got one
from a friend early on and my name was still available.
Oh my god, I'm old. There are other ones like
if you have an AOL address a badge of honor
at this point. If you have an earthlink dot net address,
(03:48):
Oh what you ancient.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Earth Link? What about Yahoo?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Is?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I feel embarrassed if I nobody's using Yahoo? Yeah, you
and my mom mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
And the address is embarrassing. It's mis with a Z
ladies B two K.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Miss lady B two K. See there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So you're like you're the doctor or whatever, and they're like, hey,
we're gonna send your results to an email. What is
your email address? You're like, miss lady.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
And then I would try to spell it out so
they wouldn't kind of put it together, and then they're like, okay,
miss lady.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I can read it, right you let people always look
at me like that's your email. I'm like, oh, because again,
I'm not going to change it now. And that's just
one more thing I got to check I get responsible for.
But I had any I had a Yahoo that was
attached to my MySpace, right, so I don't know my
MySpace password because I don't know if you still can
(04:45):
but for a while you could still get back in it.
So I go to my Space. I can't remember it,
so then I say forget password thing whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Well, then it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Sends the thing to my Yahoo, and I also don't
know the password of the Yahoo, and then I don't
know how to get the Yahoo at all, because how
do you get the email? If that was the I
don't even know where the Yahoo password hands email would go.
I mean that predates that even you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Know how you in college too, that like, when you
leave college, they're going to take that email away.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They don't always know. They don't always college. Some colleges
you can keep them. I didn't, but some colleges you
can keep.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Them, okay for ours day. After a certain point they're like,
you're out of here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So in all my notification stuff that I've printed, that
was my other only email.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, I can't get in that either.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I use AOL, I use SBC Global dot net.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I use hotmail.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh yeah, let me see here. I don't use this
email any I'm reading all the text. I don't use
this email anymore because it's embarrassing. But when I was
a teenager, I was in love with the Jonas Brothers
still am.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And my email was my name.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Loves nick j at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
See that's what I mean. And then you got a
cop to that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You know, you got to go to the You're at
nordstrum and then would you like to sign up for
the rewards?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And you're like, I guess it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Would it's uh, fred Fred at I Love the Spice
Girls dot met know whatever you know in his own
lo one you can change.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Someone just texted this too.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You can change your email address if you want to,
because you have twenty seven thousand unread emails anyway, So
what difference does it make?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You may and will start over.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, man, there was a time in college where you
can get a free appetizer a TGIA if you had
a new email and you signed up for their email. So, baby,
I had a new email every week, Go get my
free appetizer from CGIO. So I have plenty of email
look accounts.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I still have the same email address that I set
up when I was sixteen years old through Hotmail forty seven,
and I had set one up for each of my
family members, so it was our last name and then
mine was the number one at hotmail.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
My mom was last name whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, yeah, so thirty one years ago, So that would
be how you would do that, you know, if you
so apparently now you are an og if you've got
anything without easy numbers at the end of it or whatever,
and that's how we can now tell that you are
an old person. I already knew, but yeah, I never
thought about that, but I guess it's kind of impressive.
(07:10):
I have a Gmail that has no numbers in it,
that's right. Yeah, I know, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I did that. I did.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That's my new party trick now, to impress all the
young uns. As if the gray hair and the gray
beard didn't give it away. It's fine, We'll do the
biggest stories of the day, headlines. The Entertainer of Port
blogs all on the way. This hour The French Show
is commercial free
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