January 9, 2026 • 22 mins
Do your kids understand what your job is? Fred and the crew discuss! Plus, you won't want to miss why Kyle got ghosted on an all new Waiting by the Phone!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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But I got this card. I guess we did a
holiday card. This is very nice from the air traffic
controllers at the O'Hare Airport in Chicago who have a
nice holiday card here. We love we love aviation. I'm
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a pilot. We love air traffic controllers. We love air traffic.
You don't have to be a pilot to eleven air
traffic controller. The next time then you go flying around
in a plane and you take off, when you land
and everything goes, you know you didn't run into another airplane.
The next time that happens to you, which hopefully is
every time you go flying. You can thank all the
people in the tower, all the people in like a
(01:03):
room with little radar screens in front of them. You
can thank all those people who work twenty four to
seven to make sure that all that stuff goes as
well as possible. But why is this Why does this
particular holiday card jump out to me? Well, because on
the front is this beautiful drawing. It's a candy cane,
and we have some trees, and we have the Air
Traffic Controllers Union's logo that the kid knew to write,
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which is real. I mean, that's yeah, yeah, understanding young
about unions, which is right. See that's the actual logo
and that's what the kid I mean, it's pretty good.
That is close. Yeah wow, yeah. I guess they have
a contest among all the air traffic controllers for which,
you know, which drawing gets to be on the front
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of their holiday card. This is the first one I received,
so I don't know what the other ones look like.
But the winner of the twenty twenty five NATCA ZAU,
which is the facility holiday card contest, is Ellie. Ellie
is seven years old and is in second great Her
favorite class is Aret. She is a flyer, in cheerleading.
She also plays soccer and enjoys drawing in her free time.
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We asked Ellie what she thinks her mom does it work.
The response, she's an air traffic controller. She helps fly
planes and controls the air. I'm sure, sort of not
quite flying the plane, but controlling the air.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Certainly she helps fly the plane, right, Well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But she does well, she's not in the plane. Ellie's
mom's not actually helping to fly the plane. She's directing
the plane.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The plane fly without Ellie's mom.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it could.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Really, I can just.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Go up there and go you can't.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Actually, yes, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You can't. You don't have to talk, No, you can't.
But this for a seven year old, this is pretty good.
This is pretty good. And so where I'm going with
this is I'm not knocking seven year old Ellie here
at least did a great job. It's a beautiful drawing.
And I mentioned that it is a beautiful drawing. But
where I'm going with this is that there may be
a little bit more understanding here or less of what
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Ellie's mom actually does than and Ellie understands. And I'm
just wondering any of you out there eight five, five, five, nine,
one one oh three five? Do you do your kids
not really know what you do? Like if you were
to ask your child what do you do for a living?
What would they say that? I mean, do they have
a firm understanding on how the food gets on the
table or not? Or DoD I mean, I don't know.
(03:25):
Did you know what your parents did growing up? For sure?
No you didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I had no idea. I thought, MoMA, you didn't know
what Helena did. I know what Helena did. But my
mom I just thought she was a mom. Like I
was like, I was like, this.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Is but she had a job.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, like she had she always had money. But I
was like, this is like she's just a lady. Like
she just wakes up and she's a lady. Like my
mom was like just that she should she was ahead
of the pta, like she's like, I don't know, she
was just.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Her job was to be a mom, which is a job.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well yeah, but she had worked at Avon You remember
a makeup Yeah, yeah, she was like one of their
factories something.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I said, don't know what she did. So her job
wasn't that girl? What it was that girl? Because she
did it all, and I was like, she's really just
that girl.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But Helena, I knew her jobs because she wore uniform
for her she was supposed to work at first and
then a nurse.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wow, okay cool. So we later have learned the firm
understanding of what mom does. Yea super did? Yeah? Did
you guys all know? I mean you knew? Was mama
Martina always at the school.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
She was and when she first came here she worked
at a hospital in a lunch room. I think the
hospital that Jason Brown was born.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, she helped me, according to that's all mar help
Jason be bored. She pulled me out.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Guys invisible stream, You guys have a couple of like
how you find out?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
To me?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We think our dads knew each other.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
They had the noise.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, so yeah, she worked there and then after that
she worked for CPS and SID of my stepdad.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I couldn't tell you exactly what it was.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Because I knew he was an engineer, but I don't
like now that I'm older, I don't really know what
that means still, so like an engineer at a school
doing what Like I don't know what that means, is.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That how they met? No, No, No, they met at a bar.
It's a cool story.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
And then my mom worked at the office, but always
been in the same office, so I guess I kind
of knew.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And she worked at the high school that you went,
so you were there. Oh, certainly that had to have
been great.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Oh the first two years I was hiding at my blocker.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You couldn't, like, you couldn't do the thing where you
ran to the mailbox and took the grades out. This
is before they was all online, I'm sure, but no,
like when we were younger. I think you guys even
still right the grades came in the mail Yes, yeah,
so I'd run out there and try and get out,
and my mom I knew when they were coming. But
your mom would just go right to the teacher, right
what she do?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, she didn't care too. She'd walk right during class
hours like she.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Was just walking there.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And I want to talk to them, because, yeah, she
didn't care.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I wouldn't like that very much, I don't think. And
you guys had a firm understanding of what your parents
did for a living. I mean, your dad was a
truck driver, and that was a truck driver Yeah, my
mom was a nurse, so yeah, pretty pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, my mom, this is funny.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
So she worked in sales, but as you know now,
she's a therapist. So when that transition happened, things got
a little weird because she would not only bring me
to like her office and put a VHS on for
me because she was a single mom, you know, so
I didn't know what they were doing in there, like
her and this other person. There was sometimes screaming and crying.
And then she had this thing called the Freedom Project,
which was like a therapy group, and she would sometimes
(06:17):
have them in our basement and she would have them
take bats and literally beat pillows to get like anger out.
And I had no idea what was going on down there. Wow,
I was like, what are all these women? It was
like part of her method, Like I guess they were
like stage I don't know, family trauma.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
YadA, YadA.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
But I was this little kid, like, my mom has
all these people over and they're binging like fast in them.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That a text I'm a dental hygienis and my kids say,
I'm a dentist. Well, I mean, look it's what I'm
gonna say. You did mean I gets the dentist. Thing
takes longer. I know that you got to go to
school longer. But I will say, every time I go
to the dentist, the dental hygienist like removes my teeth
and then puts them back in, basically scraping away at
stuff I never knew was there. And then and then Laura,
(07:01):
and the dentist walks over and doesn't He barely glances
and goes, yeah, it looks good. It looks good, you know,
and that's it. That's it now. I Hey, you go
to school for a long time to earn that, I guess.
But you know, I'm thinking that the dental hygienis, by
and large is doing a lot of heavy lifting. So
you know, when I go as far as to call
myself a dentist, I think that's illegal. But you know,
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my name is Kim. My kids have no clue what
I do. I'm a sheep metal worker. I've even taken
my five year old on a job site once and
she has no idea what's going on. A j said,
my mom worked in a drug stories, so as a kid,
I told everyone she was a drug dealer, not knowing
that there were other kinds of trucks.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's really cute.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's kind of funny. A man did Maddie. By the way,
was Maddie's birthday recently, So Happy birthday, Maddie. My eight
year old's mind was blowing. She learned that I used
to be a preschool teacher. He put together after a
very frustrating math homework session, and I made a comment
that I'm a teacher, and I know what I'm doing. Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's always crazy to see teachers out in the wild. Oh,
it's so scared. Like somebody in my family was a teacher.
I feel so weird, Like what are you doing? We're
only supposed to be in the classroom. Really, like when
you were running to your teachers at the grocery store
or like at the local I don't know, Denny's, I'd
be like, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
That's why teachers, a lot of them say they won't
live in the area that they teach because.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
They don't want to have it either, like the weird.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
God. Yeah, I never really saw my teachers that I
went to, like a private school. You guys don't have
a lot of issues with that. I wish I hadn't
My parents. They thought it was the best thing. It
probably was, but I didn't like him. But they hadn't master,
They hadn't master of this what. Yes, I'm pretty sure
that was in the eighties and nineties. I'm pretty sure
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we can't call them that anymore. I don't know if
that's even right. But he had a house in the
neighborhood where we would go trig or treating, and every
year he was in the house. But he wouldn't answer
the door and give kids candy.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I get it, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No, but like you're you're you're the leader of a school,
and it wasn't anywhere near the school, so it wasn't
like it would only be students. Like he was the
kind of person that was supposed to be in charge
of the nurturing and development of a bunch of kids.
But he wouldn't give kids Halloween candy.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yes, said his wife or someone.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
No one did it. No one, Like they were inside
the house, but nobody would come to the door. And
it's like, dude, who are And by the way, it
showed sorry RPD him. I wish him well in heaven
or wherever he is. But oh, I think he died
of old age, like he didn't like he didn't give
kids Halloween candy. But you're supposed to be about kids,
(09:35):
and you don't get and I get it if you're
if your house was right next to the school, then
it would or I don't know, if there was only
going to be the kids that went to your school,
that could be strange, but even more reason to give
Halloween cake. You want to be the man, I mean,
I would give the best Halloween candy out.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I don't think they want to see kids outside of
the classroom, Like, they don't even want to see you.
They don't want to know you. They don't want you
to know where they live. They don't that great, And
I get it someone who sits on the couch.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Did you guys ever think about like, did you ever
have any hot teachers? I had a one particular hot teacher.
I think about her regularly.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Spanish teacher me too, they're always hot. Yeah she was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah that's interesting because that's not this. She was a
math teacher. But we had hot Spanish teachers too.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, you don't keep up with them on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I think I'm friends with one. Why I am friends
with the hot one? On Facebook. But I don't know
what she's doing now. But she was very young. I
mean she couldn't have been we were fifteen sixteen. She
was probably twenty four twenty five. So yeah, I mean,
like very attractive.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That's tough for the boys, I feel like, and the girls.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But I was always a loud mouth and like you know,
we were mainly well, not like rude. But I'm half deaf.
I've been half deaf my whole life. And my voice
sounds like this, and it did it like thirteen. It
sounded like this at thirteen, which is weird. I know
she would always tell me to show the hell up
and in a nice way. That always nice. But I
don't know. I hope, I hope that she sees what
(11:03):
I made of myself. I couldn't do triggonometry to save
my life. I don't know how to do statistics or anything.
But but but that loud mouth that you were.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
All about still haven't shot up.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Lady, look at me, look at me now. Maybe that's
why she doesn't like comment on anything on my Facebook
or anything like that. As a teacher of this easier text,
the worst was running into a student at the store
when you were buying alcohol.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh I would have freaked out.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, I can imagine we dropped the bottle and right now, right,
my husband is a general manager at a hotel. I'm
an occupational therapist. According to my three year old, we
we both work at Costco. Dy, that's good, that's all right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I can't wait to ask Gigi what I do because
I don't even know what I do sometimes, like I
do one hundred different things, and I'm just like, is
she gonna understand this game? Her dad's easy, right, fireman whatever,
fire ax save people, right, mom?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
No idea living off?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Like when they asked, like what's your mommy's favorite hobby,
and like, oh yeah, they observe whatever you spending money?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well, you remember Polly when she was younger, my niece
was like two ish, She didn't like listening to me,
like they live in a different city. But like my
sister would play the show on the iHeart radio app
through her car and Polly didn't like it because she
thought I was inside the radio she got and she
couldn't understand why Bubba wouldn't come out, like, well why
does he why is he in there? Like tell him
(12:23):
to come out and play with me, you know, and
it was like a man. I had to explain, well,
he's not actually in there, it's just his voice. But
she really didn't like it. Oh another text, my old
science teacher is my neighbor, and I still have to
call him mister so and So. I would too. Honestly,
if I saw one of my old teachers out, I
don't think i'd be like, what's that, Bob? No, just
on my own I chat out to Bob. You know,
(12:44):
I don't think I would do it. I think I would.
I think I would call him mister who woul whomever.
I still do the same thing unless I didn't like him,
then I'd flex like what are you gonna do? Not
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(13:27):
left waiting by the phone. It's the Fred Show. Hey Kyle,
good morning, Welcome to the Progrum. How are you.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Hey, I'm doing all right. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You know, it's our pleasure for now. Sometimes it's not.
It depends on how this goes, but we're trying to
help you out. You feel like you've been ghosted by
this woman, Mary. Can you kind of explain how you
met and about any dates you've been on, and then
you know.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
How how you think we got here? Yeah, yeah, I'll
do my best. I met Mary on the dating apps
and we chatted for a bit on there. She was
dropped gorgeous and I'm sure she had like everybody trying
to ask her out. So we messaged for a bit.
I got her number as quickly as I could.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
We protected her.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
For a few days, and I was like, oh, she's
literally as funny as she is beautiful, so we uh
you know, I I tried to lock it down. I
tried to ask her out. Uh did s her out great.
She was honestly, she was so pretty it was a
little hard to focus. But when we got to the
end of it, I.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Excused myself to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
And then when I came back, she was gone.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
She left the date.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, and I cannot Maybe she she thought, like
I like, I thought, maybe she went to the bathroom,
and so I tried to like call and text her,
but I wasn't going through, So I like, I don't
know what happened.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Maybe she thought I, like took too long in the
bathroom or something, but the guy before me was really
tearing it up, so.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I had to wait. Oh well, thank you, thank you
for that detail. I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
You know, those those buck oysters were happy. I really
got them.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Even more detail. But no, hey, it's thank you for that.
I really appreciate you painting the picture. A couple of comments.
First of all, I think people we want funny men
and women, you know today we want. That's equality we
look for. But maybe we don't necessarily like enunciate that
a hot and funny person the funny thing is really
important like that, because if they're funny, then that means
(15:38):
that they're lighthearted typically or very dark inside. But either way,
like I don't know, we don't talk enough about funny
people and people with a good person I'm serious, and
people who have like a good personality because oftentimes those
people can go with the flow and they're less rigid
and all that. So that's I'm sorry to make this worse,
but like this sounds like a real a real gem
that you found, except she left you on the date
(15:59):
and you haven't been able to get ahold of her sense,
then you are mystified as to how this happened, right.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yeah, I'm kicking myself to figure out why.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well, we're gonna try and help you out. We're gonna
play a song come back in a couple of minutes.
We're gonna call Mary. We're gonna ask these questions. You'll
be on the phone at the same time. You're welcome
to jump in at some point, and hopefully there's a
good reason why she left and we could straighten things
out and then set you guys up on another date
and we'll pay for that. Yeah, that'd be amazing, Kyle. Hey,
all right, let's call Mary. You guys, you met on
(16:28):
the APS. You were really impressed by her. She was funny,
she was hot. He thought the day went well. You
went to go to the bathroom, you came back, she
was gone, and you have not been able to get
ahold of her sense. She didn't text you, she didn't
tell you anything. She has a responded to you, and
you want to know why? Yeah, I do, I do.
All right, let's call her now. Good luck, Kyle, thanks man. Hello, Hi,
(16:54):
this is Mary.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah, this is Mary, Hey, Mary, good morning.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
My name is Fred. I'm calling from the Friend 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 this call. Can
we chat for just a second. You can hang up anytime,
I mean.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Again, okay, Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I appreciate that we're calling on behalf of a guy
who says he met you on a dating app and you,
guys recently went out. His name is Kyle. Do you
remember Kyle?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, I can't talk about that on the radio.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You can't, well you can, I mean, why can't you?
Will you kind of tell us what's going on? Because
please be right, I'm begging you because he reached out
to us and said a lot of nice things about you,
and I was excited to see you again until you
left the date. You know, he told us that we
just talked to him a second ago. He told us
(17:54):
that the date was great in his estimation, but he
came back for the bathroom you were gone and he
hasn't been able to get a have you said?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, if you could kind of let us in
as to why, then we'll pass it on to him
and then you know, this could be over if you want,
we want. No, No, it's just us talk.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Yeah, I mean we met. We met on an app
and I don't know, she asked me out and it
was like fun. It was fun on the date until
the end of the date.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
I was just like, what what happened?
Speaker 8 (18:30):
He went to the bathroom, and as soon as he
walked away, a girl walked up to me and she
was like, I gotta tell you something, and she told
me that Kyle was like straight up playing under the
table the entire date, and I just I was mortified.
(18:50):
I was so embarrassed. I just ran out and then
then I just lost him.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Who was.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So she was watching the all go down and then
waited for him to get up to then tell you
that this was happening under the table. You didn't know?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Yeah, And I thought about it and I was like, oh,
maybe that wasn't happening like it just he was like
it was weird.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So that's why he had to go to the bathroom.
Oh no, son, I should probably ride, I sell. So
I'm feeling ikey right now. I forgot to mention that
Kyle is here. I gotta get I gotta come clean
on that. Kyle. There's no way, Kyle, you weren't.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I mean, you're gonna believe a complete stranger.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Okay, Well I believe you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I mean I don't know. I might believe you if
you see you're saying we don't know you. You're saying
that happened like you're saying that is absolutely untrue.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
That you're But he's like a stranger. You're a stranger
to me too, write So what's this random girl going
to gain from lying to me about it?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's that's exactly point. That's a good point.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
I was probably just like readjusting my pants. She probably
looked over at like the wrong moment, adjusting them costly.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Video of it, Oh, no, okay, so it really did happen.
Oh no, there's video, bro, Now what are you gonna say?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I mean, I think it's most so she recorded.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So are you is this an acknowledgment? Are you admitting it?
Or are you just.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Are in a restaurant? Now?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Who does that interest?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
You're addressing? For like a really long time.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
We're kind of adjusting it. I mean, okay, I don't know.
This is a new one. I've never heard of. I've
never heard of this one. Just when I think I've
heard it all that, uh, we come with this. So Mary,
I'm gonna ask the question. I know the answer. This
could have been a misunderstanding except for the video evidence. Like,
(21:06):
let's check out the replay. I mean, I don't want
to check out the replay, but I just mean I
don't either. There's Kyle this video of this, like, how
how do you recover? What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I guess this would be a really good tongue of
plug my only fans?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What you're is this a routine?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Like?
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Is this a bit freaked out? I don't know what's
going on? Mary? Do you want to go out with
this guy again? You get a free membership to his
only fans.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Apparently, no hard, big time no for me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know what I think. I know what I
think about this. It's just his he's really chill. Yeah right,
I would be mortified right now. I would hang up.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, I can't. I can't believe I haven't hung up either.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I can't believe we haven't hung up. All right, Look, Mary,
thank you for your time, and I'm sorry that happened
to you. Kyle bro No, oh, never again.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I'll try to do better next time.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah,
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But I got this card. I guess we did a
holiday card. This is very nice from the air traffic
controllers at the O'Hare Airport in Chicago who have a
nice holiday card here. We love we love aviation. I'm
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a pilot. We love air traffic controllers. We love air traffic.
You don't have to be a pilot to eleven air
traffic controller. The next time then you go flying around
in a plane and you take off, when you land
and everything goes, you know you didn't run into another airplane.
The next time that happens to you, which hopefully is
every time you go flying. You can thank all the
people in the tower, all the people in like a
(01:03):
room with little radar screens in front of them. You
can thank all those people who work twenty four to
seven to make sure that all that stuff goes as
well as possible. But why is this Why does this
particular holiday card jump out to me? Well, because on
the front is this beautiful drawing. It's a candy cane,
and we have some trees, and we have the Air
Traffic Controllers Union's logo that the kid knew to write,
(01:24):
which is real. I mean, that's yeah, yeah, understanding young
about unions, which is right. See that's the actual logo
and that's what the kid I mean, it's pretty good.
That is close. Yeah wow, yeah. I guess they have
a contest among all the air traffic controllers for which,
you know, which drawing gets to be on the front
(01:45):
of their holiday card. This is the first one I received,
so I don't know what the other ones look like.
But the winner of the twenty twenty five NATCA ZAU,
which is the facility holiday card contest, is Ellie. Ellie
is seven years old and is in second great Her
favorite class is Aret. She is a flyer, in cheerleading.
She also plays soccer and enjoys drawing in her free time.
(02:07):
We asked Ellie what she thinks her mom does it work.
The response, she's an air traffic controller. She helps fly
planes and controls the air. I'm sure, sort of not
quite flying the plane, but controlling the air.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Certainly she helps fly the plane, right, Well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
But she does well, she's not in the plane. Ellie's
mom's not actually helping to fly the plane. She's directing
the plane.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The plane fly without Ellie's mom.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it could.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Really, I can just.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Go up there and go you can't.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Actually, yes, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You can't. You don't have to talk, No, you can't.
But this for a seven year old, this is pretty good.
This is pretty good. And so where I'm going with
this is I'm not knocking seven year old Ellie here
at least did a great job. It's a beautiful drawing.
And I mentioned that it is a beautiful drawing. But
where I'm going with this is that there may be
a little bit more understanding here or less of what
(03:03):
Ellie's mom actually does than and Ellie understands. And I'm
just wondering any of you out there eight five, five, five, nine,
one one oh three five? Do you do your kids
not really know what you do? Like if you were
to ask your child what do you do for a living?
What would they say that? I mean, do they have
a firm understanding on how the food gets on the
table or not? Or DoD I mean, I don't know.
(03:25):
Did you know what your parents did growing up? For sure?
No you didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I had no idea. I thought, MoMA, you didn't know
what Helena did. I know what Helena did. But my
mom I just thought she was a mom. Like I
was like, I was like, this.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Is but she had a job.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, like she had she always had money. But I
was like, this is like she's just a lady. Like
she just wakes up and she's a lady. Like my
mom was like just that she should she was ahead
of the pta, like she's like, I don't know, she
was just.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Her job was to be a mom, which is a job.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well yeah, but she had worked at Avon You remember
a makeup Yeah, yeah, she was like one of their
factories something.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I said, don't know what she did. So her job
wasn't that girl? What it was that girl? Because she
did it all, and I was like, she's really just
that girl.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But Helena, I knew her jobs because she wore uniform
for her she was supposed to work at first and
then a nurse.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wow, okay cool. So we later have learned the firm
understanding of what mom does. Yea super did? Yeah? Did
you guys all know? I mean you knew? Was mama
Martina always at the school.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
She was and when she first came here she worked
at a hospital in a lunch room. I think the
hospital that Jason Brown was born.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, she helped me, according to that's all mar help
Jason be bored. She pulled me out.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Guys invisible stream, You guys have a couple of like
how you find out?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
To me?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We think our dads knew each other.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
They had the noise.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, so yeah, she worked there and then after that
she worked for CPS and SID of my stepdad.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I couldn't tell you exactly what it was.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Because I knew he was an engineer, but I don't
like now that I'm older, I don't really know what
that means still, so like an engineer at a school
doing what Like I don't know what that means, is.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That how they met? No, No, No, they met at a bar.
It's a cool story.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
And then my mom worked at the office, but always
been in the same office, so I guess I kind
of knew.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And she worked at the high school that you went,
so you were there. Oh, certainly that had to have
been great.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Oh the first two years I was hiding at my blocker.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You couldn't, like, you couldn't do the thing where you
ran to the mailbox and took the grades out. This
is before they was all online, I'm sure, but no,
like when we were younger. I think you guys even
still right the grades came in the mail Yes, yeah,
so I'd run out there and try and get out,
and my mom I knew when they were coming. But
your mom would just go right to the teacher, right
what she do?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, she didn't care too. She'd walk right during class
hours like she.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Was just walking there.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And I want to talk to them, because, yeah, she
didn't care.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I wouldn't like that very much, I don't think. And
you guys had a firm understanding of what your parents
did for a living. I mean, your dad was a
truck driver, and that was a truck driver Yeah, my
mom was a nurse, so yeah, pretty pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, my mom, this is funny.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
So she worked in sales, but as you know now,
she's a therapist. So when that transition happened, things got
a little weird because she would not only bring me
to like her office and put a VHS on for
me because she was a single mom, you know, so
I didn't know what they were doing in there, like
her and this other person. There was sometimes screaming and crying.
And then she had this thing called the Freedom Project,
which was like a therapy group, and she would sometimes
(06:17):
have them in our basement and she would have them
take bats and literally beat pillows to get like anger out.
And I had no idea what was going on down there. Wow,
I was like, what are all these women? It was
like part of her method, Like I guess they were
like stage I don't know, family trauma.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
YadA, YadA.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
But I was this little kid, like, my mom has
all these people over and they're binging like fast in them.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That a text I'm a dental hygienis and my kids say,
I'm a dentist. Well, I mean, look it's what I'm
gonna say. You did mean I gets the dentist. Thing
takes longer. I know that you got to go to
school longer. But I will say, every time I go
to the dentist, the dental hygienist like removes my teeth
and then puts them back in, basically scraping away at
stuff I never knew was there. And then and then Laura,
(07:01):
and the dentist walks over and doesn't He barely glances
and goes, yeah, it looks good. It looks good, you know,
and that's it. That's it now. I Hey, you go
to school for a long time to earn that, I guess.
But you know, I'm thinking that the dental hygienis, by
and large is doing a lot of heavy lifting. So
you know, when I go as far as to call
myself a dentist, I think that's illegal. But you know,
(07:23):
my name is Kim. My kids have no clue what
I do. I'm a sheep metal worker. I've even taken
my five year old on a job site once and
she has no idea what's going on. A j said,
my mom worked in a drug stories, so as a kid,
I told everyone she was a drug dealer, not knowing
that there were other kinds of trucks.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's really cute.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's kind of funny. A man did Maddie. By the way,
was Maddie's birthday recently, So Happy birthday, Maddie. My eight
year old's mind was blowing. She learned that I used
to be a preschool teacher. He put together after a
very frustrating math homework session, and I made a comment
that I'm a teacher, and I know what I'm doing. Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's always crazy to see teachers out in the wild. Oh,
it's so scared. Like somebody in my family was a teacher.
I feel so weird, Like what are you doing? We're
only supposed to be in the classroom. Really, like when
you were running to your teachers at the grocery store
or like at the local I don't know, Denny's, I'd
be like, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
That's why teachers, a lot of them say they won't
live in the area that they teach because.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
They don't want to have it either, like the weird.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
God. Yeah, I never really saw my teachers that I
went to, like a private school. You guys don't have
a lot of issues with that. I wish I hadn't
My parents. They thought it was the best thing. It
probably was, but I didn't like him. But they hadn't master,
They hadn't master of this what. Yes, I'm pretty sure
that was in the eighties and nineties. I'm pretty sure
(08:44):
we can't call them that anymore. I don't know if
that's even right. But he had a house in the
neighborhood where we would go trig or treating, and every
year he was in the house. But he wouldn't answer
the door and give kids candy.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I get it, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No, but like you're you're you're the leader of a school,
and it wasn't anywhere near the school, so it wasn't
like it would only be students. Like he was the
kind of person that was supposed to be in charge
of the nurturing and development of a bunch of kids.
But he wouldn't give kids Halloween candy.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yes, said his wife or someone.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
No one did it. No one, Like they were inside
the house, but nobody would come to the door. And
it's like, dude, who are And by the way, it
showed sorry RPD him. I wish him well in heaven
or wherever he is. But oh, I think he died
of old age, like he didn't like he didn't give
kids Halloween candy. But you're supposed to be about kids,
(09:35):
and you don't get and I get it if you're
if your house was right next to the school, then
it would or I don't know, if there was only
going to be the kids that went to your school,
that could be strange, but even more reason to give
Halloween cake. You want to be the man, I mean,
I would give the best Halloween candy out.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I don't think they want to see kids outside of
the classroom, Like, they don't even want to see you.
They don't want to know you. They don't want you
to know where they live. They don't that great, And
I get it someone who sits on the couch.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Did you guys ever think about like, did you ever
have any hot teachers? I had a one particular hot teacher.
I think about her regularly.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Spanish teacher me too, they're always hot. Yeah she was gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah that's interesting because that's not this. She was a
math teacher. But we had hot Spanish teachers too.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, you don't keep up with them on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I think I'm friends with one. Why I am friends
with the hot one? On Facebook. But I don't know
what she's doing now. But she was very young. I
mean she couldn't have been we were fifteen sixteen. She
was probably twenty four twenty five. So yeah, I mean,
like very attractive.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That's tough for the boys, I feel like, and the girls.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But I was always a loud mouth and like you know,
we were mainly well, not like rude. But I'm half deaf.
I've been half deaf my whole life. And my voice
sounds like this, and it did it like thirteen. It
sounded like this at thirteen, which is weird. I know
she would always tell me to show the hell up
and in a nice way. That always nice. But I
don't know. I hope, I hope that she sees what
(11:03):
I made of myself. I couldn't do triggonometry to save
my life. I don't know how to do statistics or anything.
But but but that loud mouth that you were.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
All about still haven't shot up.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Lady, look at me, look at me now. Maybe that's
why she doesn't like comment on anything on my Facebook
or anything like that. As a teacher of this easier text,
the worst was running into a student at the store
when you were buying alcohol.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh I would have freaked out.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, I can imagine we dropped the bottle and right now, right,
my husband is a general manager at a hotel. I'm
an occupational therapist. According to my three year old, we
we both work at Costco. Dy, that's good, that's all right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I can't wait to ask Gigi what I do because
I don't even know what I do sometimes, like I
do one hundred different things, and I'm just like, is
she gonna understand this game? Her dad's easy, right, fireman whatever,
fire ax save people, right, mom?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
No idea living off?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Like when they asked, like what's your mommy's favorite hobby,
and like, oh yeah, they observe whatever you spending money?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well, you remember Polly when she was younger, my niece
was like two ish, She didn't like listening to me,
like they live in a different city. But like my
sister would play the show on the iHeart radio app
through her car and Polly didn't like it because she
thought I was inside the radio she got and she
couldn't understand why Bubba wouldn't come out, like, well why
does he why is he in there? Like tell him
(12:23):
to come out and play with me, you know, and
it was like a man. I had to explain, well,
he's not actually in there, it's just his voice. But
she really didn't like it. Oh another text, my old
science teacher is my neighbor, and I still have to
call him mister so and So. I would too. Honestly,
if I saw one of my old teachers out, I
don't think i'd be like, what's that, Bob? No, just
on my own I chat out to Bob. You know,
(12:44):
I don't think I would do it. I think I would.
I think I would call him mister who woul whomever.
I still do the same thing unless I didn't like him,
then I'd flex like what are you gonna do? Not
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(13:27):
left waiting by the phone. It's the Fred Show. Hey Kyle,
good morning, Welcome to the Progrum. How are you.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Hey, I'm doing all right. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You know, it's our pleasure for now. Sometimes it's not.
It depends on how this goes, but we're trying to
help you out. You feel like you've been ghosted by
this woman, Mary. Can you kind of explain how you
met and about any dates you've been on, and then
you know.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
How how you think we got here? Yeah, yeah, I'll
do my best. I met Mary on the dating apps
and we chatted for a bit on there. She was
dropped gorgeous and I'm sure she had like everybody trying
to ask her out. So we messaged for a bit.
I got her number as quickly as I could.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
We protected her.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
For a few days, and I was like, oh, she's
literally as funny as she is beautiful, so we uh
you know, I I tried to lock it down. I
tried to ask her out. Uh did s her out great.
She was honestly, she was so pretty it was a
little hard to focus. But when we got to the
end of it, I.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Excused myself to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
And then when I came back, she was gone.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
She left the date.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, and I cannot Maybe she she thought, like
I like, I thought, maybe she went to the bathroom,
and so I tried to like call and text her,
but I wasn't going through, So I like, I don't
know what happened.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Maybe she thought I, like took too long in the
bathroom or something, but the guy before me was really
tearing it up, so.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I had to wait. Oh well, thank you, thank you
for that detail. I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
You know, those those buck oysters were happy. I really
got them.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Even more detail. But no, hey, it's thank you for that.
I really appreciate you painting the picture. A couple of comments.
First of all, I think people we want funny men
and women, you know today we want. That's equality we
look for. But maybe we don't necessarily like enunciate that
a hot and funny person the funny thing is really
important like that, because if they're funny, then that means
(15:38):
that they're lighthearted typically or very dark inside. But either way,
like I don't know, we don't talk enough about funny
people and people with a good person I'm serious, and
people who have like a good personality because oftentimes those
people can go with the flow and they're less rigid
and all that. So that's I'm sorry to make this worse,
but like this sounds like a real a real gem
that you found, except she left you on the date
(15:59):
and you haven't been able to get ahold of her sense,
then you are mystified as to how this happened, right.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yeah, I'm kicking myself to figure out why.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well, we're gonna try and help you out. We're gonna
play a song come back in a couple of minutes.
We're gonna call Mary. We're gonna ask these questions. You'll
be on the phone at the same time. You're welcome
to jump in at some point, and hopefully there's a
good reason why she left and we could straighten things
out and then set you guys up on another date
and we'll pay for that. Yeah, that'd be amazing, Kyle. Hey,
all right, let's call Mary. You guys, you met on
(16:28):
the APS. You were really impressed by her. She was funny,
she was hot. He thought the day went well. You
went to go to the bathroom, you came back, she
was gone, and you have not been able to get
ahold of her sense. She didn't text you, she didn't
tell you anything. She has a responded to you, and
you want to know why? Yeah, I do, I do.
All right, let's call her now. Good luck, Kyle, thanks man. Hello, Hi,
(16:54):
this is Mary.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah, this is Mary, Hey, Mary, good morning.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
My name is Fred. I'm calling from the Friend 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 this call. Can
we chat for just a second. You can hang up anytime,
I mean.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Again, okay, Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I appreciate that we're calling on behalf of a guy
who says he met you on a dating app and you,
guys recently went out. His name is Kyle. Do you
remember Kyle?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, I can't talk about that on the radio.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You can't, well you can, I mean, why can't you?
Will you kind of tell us what's going on? Because
please be right, I'm begging you because he reached out
to us and said a lot of nice things about you,
and I was excited to see you again until you
left the date. You know, he told us that we
just talked to him a second ago. He told us
(17:54):
that the date was great in his estimation, but he
came back for the bathroom you were gone and he
hasn't been able to get a have you said?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, if you could kind of let us in
as to why, then we'll pass it on to him
and then you know, this could be over if you want,
we want. No, No, it's just us talk.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Yeah, I mean we met. We met on an app
and I don't know, she asked me out and it
was like fun. It was fun on the date until
the end of the date.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
I was just like, what what happened?
Speaker 8 (18:30):
He went to the bathroom, and as soon as he
walked away, a girl walked up to me and she
was like, I gotta tell you something, and she told
me that Kyle was like straight up playing under the
table the entire date, and I just I was mortified.
(18:50):
I was so embarrassed. I just ran out and then
then I just lost him.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Who was.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So she was watching the all go down and then
waited for him to get up to then tell you
that this was happening under the table. You didn't know?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Yeah, And I thought about it and I was like, oh,
maybe that wasn't happening like it just he was like
it was weird.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So that's why he had to go to the bathroom.
Oh no, son, I should probably ride, I sell. So
I'm feeling ikey right now. I forgot to mention that
Kyle is here. I gotta get I gotta come clean
on that. Kyle. There's no way, Kyle, you weren't.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I mean, you're gonna believe a complete stranger.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Okay, Well I believe you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I mean I don't know. I might believe you if
you see you're saying we don't know you. You're saying
that happened like you're saying that is absolutely untrue.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
That you're But he's like a stranger. You're a stranger
to me too, write So what's this random girl going
to gain from lying to me about it?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's that's exactly point. That's a good point.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
I was probably just like readjusting my pants. She probably
looked over at like the wrong moment, adjusting them costly.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Video of it, Oh, no, okay, so it really did happen.
Oh no, there's video, bro, Now what are you gonna say?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I mean, I think it's most so she recorded.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So are you is this an acknowledgment? Are you admitting it?
Or are you just.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Are in a restaurant? Now?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Who does that interest?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
You're addressing? For like a really long time.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
We're kind of adjusting it. I mean, okay, I don't know.
This is a new one. I've never heard of. I've
never heard of this one. Just when I think I've
heard it all that, uh, we come with this. So Mary,
I'm gonna ask the question. I know the answer. This
could have been a misunderstanding except for the video evidence. Like,
(21:06):
let's check out the replay. I mean, I don't want
to check out the replay, but I just mean I
don't either. There's Kyle this video of this, like, how
how do you recover? What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I guess this would be a really good tongue of
plug my only fans?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What you're is this a routine?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Like?
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Is this a bit freaked out? I don't know what's
going on? Mary? Do you want to go out with
this guy again? You get a free membership to his
only fans.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Apparently, no hard, big time no for me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know what I think. I know what I
think about this. It's just his he's really chill. Yeah right,
I would be mortified right now. I would hang up.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, I can't. I can't believe I haven't hung up either.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I can't believe we haven't hung up. All right, Look, Mary,
thank you for your time, and I'm sorry that happened
to you. Kyle bro No, oh, never again.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I'll try to do better next time.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
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