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May 18, 2026 15 mins

Fred wants to know if you were getting a divorce what would you ask to keep!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you broke up with someone or got a divorce,
God forbid, is there something kind of obscure that you
would that you would absolutely have to take with you?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Like you you you insist on it.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I mean, sure you want half the money or the
house or whatever you want, But I mean, is there
something that you can think of off the top of
your head, like, oh no, that's going with me now.
For a lot of people, it might be pets. And
what's funny. What's funny to me are the people who
fight over pets that the other one didn't even want.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
That happens all the time.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Or then in Caitlin's case, you would have left with
a dog that you inherited essentially when the relationship began,
which is.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Sorry, I kind of did.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I mean when we broke up, we were passing her
back and forth and she was his dog first.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Hey, I didn't. I didn't make the decision.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
No, right, that's what I mean. That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
She shows you that would be something that that I
would do for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'll get back to it in a second, though, because
the one woman who's won't asking for something very specific
in a divorce that I thought huh, well, I suppose you. Okay,
well we can debate a second. But there's a guy
also making news this morning who was finally able to
recover about four hundred thousand dollars in bitcoin after being
locked out of his crypto wallat for over a decade.
Why well, he forgot the password to his crypto wallet

(01:10):
because he made it while he was high in college.
And after nearly eleven years, he's been trying NonStop combinations
to get back into his account. There's another there's another story,
and I think it might be like a like a legend,
an urban legend. Have you heard the one about the
guy who's sitting on like fifty million dollars in crypto

(01:31):
and he's down to his last password attempt and like
venture capital firms that tried to buy this computer from him,
and like, but they've only got because you know, I
guess there are only so many times before maybe the
computer reformats or something.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
This seems like an urban legend.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
But supposedly there's a computer sitting out there with a
gazillion dollars worth of crypto. And I don't know a
lot about crypto, but I guess if you don't have
the key, the digital key access to it. Then you
don't have the money. That's like how they know it
that you own it. Oh, it's like a piece of paper.
And so you have to be able to unlock the
password or you know, decode whatever to be able to
get these things and then cash them in. So somebody

(02:07):
bought them a long time ago, thinking whatever, and then
not realizing they would grow to the amount that they've
grown to. I don't of you, guys when again look
this up, because it's a story that's been out there
for a while, but I don't know if it's true.
But he was out of his last password attempt before
the thing implodes and they were trying to figure out
what to do with it. But anyway, this guy apparently

(02:29):
took an old computer, his old college computer. He put
all the files from the computer into Claude. Claude was
able to find an old password wallet and helped him
unlock the account. Wow, so I made him, well, I
helped save him. I guess four hundred thousand dollars and
the password was oh god, no way, it was partially

(02:55):
four to twenty was part of the password. And then
apparently a dirty lyric from an NWA song.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
He didn't start with that, So let's see, you were high.
You were high when you did it.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
That's why you couldn't remember exactly.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
The guy was so thankful after cashing out the four
hundred grad that he jokes that he wants to name
his future child after the CEO of the company that
made Claude.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Should Yeah, should?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, I guess. Okay, So this is the story I
was talking about. Is a woman who got divorced recently
and she asked the judge for something very specific in
the final settlement. She said she wants the car, the dog,
and the Netflix password, and it was written into the
divorce agreement. But here's what I don't understand, Like, what

(03:42):
is that? I mean, I know it gets more expensive,
but okay, there is some logic here. Yeah, So she
said that she wants access to the Netflix password because
Netflix is constantly hiking their prices.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
So if she still has access.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
To the account, then I guess that whatever price she's at, Like,
that's I don't know if you haven't raised them, right,
But I don't know if you have an older price,
if they only raise it so much, or if everyone's
paying the same. I don't know, but she seems to
think that if her X cancels the subscription that she'd
have to start over and get a new membership, and
then that.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Would cost more. Now, how much did a divorce cost?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
What?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I want to know, divorces, how much did you do?

Speaker 1 (04:18):
How much did you spend to have somebody right in
the deal that you get the Netflix password?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
That just seems that's important though. You know, what's your
Netflix account.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
You kind of curate your screen, your recommended movies or whatever.
So why would I want to start that over just
because I'm losing.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
You Take me to the murder mystery part of it,
and we'll start over.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
No, we can't start over like if I was getting
a divorce. I want my air fryer, no questions asks.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
You want this one new air frier like you could
get an upgraded new air fryer, and that wouldn't be enough.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
That one is already seasoned.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, it's already probably melted.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yes, yes, the chemicals.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Are already adequately seeping into the food.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Absolutely, Yes, I want my air fright and.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
You love the way that tastes. Yes? Okay, Hey Nikki,
Hey Fred, how are you doing? Hi? Nikki? Good morning.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
So you eat if you got divorced, did you get
divorced or breaking up?

Speaker 6 (05:11):
For it is a long, a long relationship, okay.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
And you're still in it?

Speaker 6 (05:16):
No, thank god, Oh you're not.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
But what did you want back that you didn't get back?

Speaker 6 (05:22):
I got him a Frank Sinatra watch and I told him,
I said, listen, if we ever split up, I want
this back.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
And he's like, why do you.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
Want to back? I go because I'm a big time cooner.
I liked my old guys. I like my Dean Martin
and Frank Sinatra and everything. I said, this means a lot.
And he's like, okay, sure.

Speaker 8 (05:41):
So we broke up.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
I said, can I get the watch back? I said
that was the stipulation of our agreement being in a relationship.
And he's like, no, I go, well, you can take
your coach person the wallet back.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
I go, I have you ever use it?

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Take it back?

Speaker 8 (05:53):
You know.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
I was like, whatever else you gave.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
Me, I'll give it back, just give me the watch back.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
And he's like, no, it.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Was it owned by Did he did he wear the watch?
Did Frank Sinatra like sing with it on?

Speaker 3 (06:05):
No?

Speaker 6 (06:06):
It was just it was a watch. Maids like it's
kind of like the Jack Daniels bottle of Frank Sinatra.
You know, it's it was just meant for you, knowing
fan whatever.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
It doesn't matter you wanted did you did you get
it back or did he take it?

Speaker 6 (06:19):
And yeah, he forget and he's not wearing it with
his new girlfriend, and I'm like, oh, I wish you
knew where he got that watch drug now.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I wonder sometimes about like, uh, and thank you, Nikki,
have a great day. I'm glad you called back. Go
get your watch back five five five one one oh
three five. I also wonder sometimes if people give rings
back and then get a new person gets proposed with
the same ring, we're proposed to with the same ring.
You know what happens sometimes, you know it. It has
to happen where there's someone like who looks up their

(06:48):
ax and it's like wait a minute, and the girl's
got you know, or a gift even worse, like I
don't know, he got me a bracelet or something. And
then the next girl is wearing the bracelet and you're like,
wait a minute, what does she knew that I originally wore.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
That, you know, at least take it back and exchange
it for something else, like, I don't care if you
use the money you know from my ring to buy
another girl a ring.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
First of all, I'm never giving a ring back.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Never took me too long to get it, so you know,
but at least exchange it before you just give it
to the next girl.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
That's so lazy.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Stay here.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
If we break up, I want my wedding ring back.
I spent a lot on it and she cheated, so
she doesn't deserve it in my mind. Well, if we
break up, Wait a minute, hold on, I'm confused, though
this is past and present tense. If we were to
break up, I want my wedding ring back. I spent
a lot on it and she cheated, so she cheated.
So are you still together right? Or did you break up?
And when he edto my seats.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
In this scenario, did she cheat? Yes?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I'm trying to figure out is this real or it's fake?
Can we changed tenses here? I'm worried what really happens?
What happened? Is there anything for you p you can
think of, like it's random but you got to have it?
Or is there anything you'd go for just to piss
him off?

Speaker 6 (08:00):
I wanted to like bobbleheads and the painting that's a
crooked on the wall that you hate looking at.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Going with the Michael Jackson autograph or Michel Jackson.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Were Michael Jackson autograph, it would have been it would
have come home with me.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, I wish it was.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
But to Michael Jordan autograph. He had a couple autographs.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I'm taking them all, like I I will literally like
close the house down a sure somebody's packing up real quick.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
We run out the back door, like I'm taking you want.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Everything gone by the time he gets home. Oh, I
haven't all planned out yet. My mom built that with
my dad. It's kind of iconic. There was just like
a toothbrush on the cover. Everything here that should be. Yeah,
like literally like everything was when he came home.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And you've been listening for it, you know that.

Speaker 6 (08:39):
I like.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I love Hobby, Hobby Poling his husband, great guy. He's
just said about four words to me. They've always been Hello.
I say more words than he does. Yeah well to
me because you know me, Yeah, but I always approach
him and say hi. I cannot remember a time where
Hobby's ever walked up to me and said hello.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
That one time I would make it happen. This I
don't find it.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
It's but when I.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Came to your new house to see your new.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
House, your husband might be a psychopath because he has
the basement all to himself for all of his collectibles.
And I walked down the stairs and there's a gigantic wall,
and I'm looking at this gigantic wall where he's going
to display all of his wares, all of his collectibles,
his autograph, this and that and the other thing, and
and where does he start to hang things? He only

(09:24):
had one thing hung up, and he started all the
way in the top left corner. Yes, it is all
the way in the top left corner, practically touching the
corner framed, and it's just there. And the rest of
the wall was there because we stopped with that. I'm like,
that's not where we know. First of all, all the
way in the corner. We gotta leave a little border.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
I didn't even know.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm second about.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
We just stopped right there, Like, what's he gonna do
cover the entire wall? My gosh, it drew me crazy.
Everyone knows you started, you start in the middle, and
you branch out.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yes, why you never come to my house right, And there's.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
No laser level involved, nothing, no tape measured. I don't
have not draw it out first before.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
You hung it up. My god, it's unbelievable. Alex.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
You so you're the one that's got the story. Are
we pastor president? With the divorce?

Speaker 4 (10:15):
What's the tea?

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 8 (10:16):
I guess that text was a little bit confusing.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yes it was. Yes, yes, you are divorced.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
So I guess when we were still together, I said,
if you end up leaving me, I want the ring back.
This is when we were, when we were happily married,
but then we just got divorced and she found out
she cheated after we got divorced.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
I'm like, okay, well I want my ring back. I
think that's fair.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah, I think you get the ring back if
if they're cheating involved.

Speaker 8 (10:42):
Yeah, if I love her, if I cheated on her,
it's hers, that's on.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Me, right, Yeah, I agree with that. That is my
philosophy about the ring. If you cheat, then sorry, you
just relinquished over much money. But if you get cheated on,
then I think you get the ring back. Because she
defiled the relationship.

Speaker 8 (11:00):
I think so too. I'm pretty sure, I'm getting a
bit so I don't think she really ends any ground
to stand up.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well you, good luck to you with that, and thank
you for straining me. I'm sorrying about your divorce, and
thank you for straightening this out.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
In the middle of relation.

Speaker 8 (11:10):
Right.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
I want to know why he said that while they
were happily married.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, why did you? Why did you say that?

Speaker 8 (11:15):
We were together for twelve years, married for five we
were at one point married Okay.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh, you know when you're married sometimes you have those
stupid conversations. I don't usually start them, but you know,
it's the kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
For whale would you still love?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Or like if I died, would you get married again?
You know? Or like if I cheat it? What would
you do?

Speaker 8 (11:32):
You know?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Kind of it's like why are we telling? Why are
we talking about this? Like you're not you just want
to get mad and then and then people get.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Right, people get mad because it's like, I don't know,
maybe I would marry if you were dad.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Really we're not, so we don't have to do this.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Thank you, Alex had a good day.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
That was one of those conversations.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
If you ever cheat on me, I'm taking that ring
bag all the while she was like, that's wild.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
She was on you know, Raya or whatever.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Hey Abby, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Abby?

Speaker 6 (11:59):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Now, did you break up with somebody or not yet?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
No, we're still together actually, but you've already thought about
what you want back if you were to break.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Up with him. Yeah, I bought him.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
I had this Capital one card and he kept begging
me and begging me to buy him a chain from case.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
So I finally gave in, and I did.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
And it cost me three thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
No, hold on a minute, now, hold on, I could
want that bag.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Hold on a minute, hold on, I got it. There's
lots of went back here. First of all, so you
have a credit card. So he's like, well, you have
the cards, so then go buy me a chain.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Well he didn't even to make payments on it.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
But see Tailor's oldest time happy. They never do, They
never do. They never make the payments. Did he make
the payments? Hed happy?

Speaker 8 (12:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Okay, sorry I'm driving.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Did he make the payments or not? No?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
They never make the payments. Abby, I have this, You
have that credit card, go use it. No, Abby, get
the payments out of this man. I'm very upset, right,
now I'll make a payment, Abby, I'll make a payment, Abby,
I love you, have a good day. Get some money

(13:23):
out of this guy.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Please.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
I hope you never break up, but like, let's start
making the payments now. Hey, is it Anne or Annie?

Speaker 7 (13:30):
Ann Marie? Actually?

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Anne Marie is here? Anne Marie. What did you want
back in the breakup with a divorce?

Speaker 7 (13:38):
Well, this was a breakup and this wasn't Collins. I
was a freshman, I was stupid, but he gave me
a promise raise and when we broke up, he said
he wanted it back for sentimental reasons. So I told him,
you want the promise ring back? Then fine, I want
the custom Steelers jersey that I gave you for your
birthday back.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well his name was on it though, right, Yeah, I wanted.

Speaker 7 (14:03):
It back because I wanted to, you know, throw in
the garbage.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well that's fine, I guess, yeah, but his name is
on it though. Like if his name get the ring back,
he can keep his dumb little thing. And whatever, did
you get the ring back or did you have to
give it back?

Speaker 6 (14:21):
No? I didn't give it back.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
I don't want.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Anything back that I put your name on, you know
what I mean? Like you can keep that.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
You could burn it, okay.

Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah, I was trying to say that nicely that I
was going to not burn it, but I was going.

Speaker 8 (14:36):
To burn it.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Whatever makes you feel better. A trade to trade. Thank
you and Marie, have a great day.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Thank you. Glad you called.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Here's a good one A text eight five five five
nine one one o three five. I asked for the
boudoir pictures in my divorce and he said no. His
mom ended up finding the book and gave it back
to me. That's weird.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Yeah, that's a sick of control, Like that's that's.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
A very strange thing. You're divorcing me, but you still
want the nude pictures.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
I took it for you. Yeah, yeah, that.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Is that is really messed up, you know, which is
why maybe we do a digital version and then we
password protect it so we can like, you know, burn it.
I can make it go away afterwards. If we're doing
boudoir photos for one another, maybe we make it so
they can like I can you know what I mean,
like put something. Isn't there some kind of way you
can do that where if I don't want you to
have it anymore, I can make it pooh, just poof

(15:27):
go away into the ether.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Oh no, cause then I mean you're taking screenshots and
stuff though he's truly a sick.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh so that's true.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
And just put your head on somebody else, body like
I do. I've been sending to Niki and I have
for so many years, the

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Same I've been sending in the stand

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