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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh is on Fred's biggest stories of the day. I mean,
you know, it's getting out of hand, you guys, it's
really getting out of hand. I will say, uh, you
guys are profully quiet about the the wish for Bob
to come back text that.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Actually, she said, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's funny. Bob just texted me and he said, ha
ha it was him. That was him. He's loving every
minute of this. Good morning everyone. We're doing our best
over here. But think twice before you get text some
stupid stuff. I'll put it that way. So the Oscar
for the last time. I'm Surekaylin has more on that.
But despite over five hundred movies released in twenty twenty four,
the average American only watched three of those five hundred movies.
(00:45):
Jason hasn't watched three movies of the last five thousand
movies that came out.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Literally not well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The only movie I saw that I think it was
nominated was Wicked. That was that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't even know what the other movies are about.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, no, but half of people haven't seen any of
the ten Best Picture Oscar nominees, none of them. Yeah,
I was yea, though I have to look to it
today because I always feel that way. I felt that
way for a long time about the Oscars. Then I
don't I see that, you know, the nominees, and I'm like,
you know, I'm not sure if I need to watch
this because I don't know what I'm looking at.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, to me, more one looks good the substance I
heard that's really good on my list.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
On my list last night of like, oh, like what
should me and my husband watch because we want to
watch new stuff. So the Oscars is the perfect place
to see a whole list and just gather like, oh,
we should see that, Like Amelia Perez, I want to
see that one too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Ooh, Conan's joke right at the actress, the lead actress.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That was wild. Some of the jokes are yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, did he get political? Because I didn't get to
watch a whole lot of it last night, But that
was one of the reasons that we learned on Friday,
or that we had read that they picked him because
I didn't think he would get too political, which of
course everyone's so sensitive about right now.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, I feel like from what I saw, I had
to do now because it was really boring but from
what I saw, he didn't. But he definitely talked directly
that actress who had those old tweets about George Floyd,
and it just made me like it was I mean,
it was uncomfortable because she was sitting right there and
he was talking right at her. But yeah, I'll talk
more about it, I guess whatever there is to talk about.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, we have a huge problem too this morning because
Hulu had technical issues which ended the OSCARS live stream
just before the best Picture announcement. I mean, how could you?
Right before? How could you? I was tuned into Hulu.
I was ready to watch it, and then I wasn't
able to, and then just outrage. I mean I haven't
(02:33):
been this mad since I couldn't watch the Mike Tyson fite.
I was very upset. But anyway, they apologize for the
experience and will make a full replay of the event
available as soon as possible, which does you no good
because now we already know what happened, so you ruined
it for me, man the whole thing. South Carolina is
dealing with over one hundred and seventy five wildfires that
have consumed approximately forty two hundred acres across various counties,
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including Spartanburg Union Pickens County, Ian response to the fires,
the governor there has declared the state of emergency to
bolster firefighting efforts and ensure the safety of the affected communities.
They have prompted mandatory evacuations in several regions the Carolina
Forest near Myrtle Beach, where a significant blaze has threatened
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numerous homes. Dry windy conditions have made the situation worse,
making containment efforts challenging for firefighters. And uncrewed spacecraft called
the Blue Ghost has successfully landed on the Moon on Sunday,
making Texas based Firefly Aerospace only the second private sector
company ever to complete such a feed. The lunar Lander
(03:40):
touchdown on the Moon's surface about three thirty am Eastern,
and it captured stunning footage during its descent, which was
way more exciting than the oscars. Way more exciting, But
I guess it's part of a privately owned fleet helping
NASA in its aim to return astronauts to the Moon
later this decade. More space eyes because we love space.
(04:01):
Seven planets are expected to be seen in the Earth's
night sky on Friday, so Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Sat
and Uranus and Neptune will all be visible from Earth
with the naked eye. Experts said, however, you would need
a good telescope to get a good look at the
so called planetary parade is what they're calling it. There's
(04:22):
a webcast hosted by the Virtual Telescope Project, which, okay,
that will helps skywatchers and the curious find their favorite
planets in the sky. So you can go watch that
if you want to. The alignment happens when the planets
orbit the Sun on a relatively flat disc shaped plane.
While the lineup is not unusual, it's rare for all
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seven planets to line up at once and won't happen
again until twenty forty. That's exciting, it is. But where's
Butcher and Sonita doing? Well, that's true, you're right, they're
still on the space station. And you know, we've sent
several people have been up to the space station, gone home,
We've sent people, we've sent like spacecrafts to the Moon
(05:03):
and back right, but we have not pulled through to
get Butch and Sunita, who have been up there for
like seven months now. You're a very good point. This
is crazy I thought they were. I thought Elon was
supposed to go get him right away. He's too busy
firing people. I guess. I guess I don't know. The
Skype era is over for this is terrible news if
those of you, any of you been using Skype and
(05:24):
you love it, and you're like, what am I gonna do?
I guess Microsoft is trying to move everybody over to teams.
So Skype users can move your counse to the team's app,
where the tech Giant notes that they can use many
of the same features. So, yeah, Skype is over. We're
not doing that anymore. We're moving over to teams.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
TikTokers, here's here's the latest thing today. I feel like
every day it's which thing from TikTok? Do we not
need to do that everybody is doing? And this is
the one that you may have seen. Have you heard
of this airport theory?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Okay, So there's a series of tiktoks about airport theory,
which says that basically you can get through security in
fifteen minutes consistently on average fifteen minutes, and so the
people who show up two hours early to the airport
are crazy because it will never take that long, and
so people are trying to prove or disprove this airport
theory that arriving at the airport only fifteen minutes in
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advance of your flight to clear security will work, which
goes against the conventional wisdom of showing up hours in advance.
The problem is, I guess it's causing a bunch of
stress at the airport because people are doing this and realizing, wait,
I'm not going to make my flight, which is causing
problems in the security line. People are missing flights, and
now the airlines are like, hey, can we stop with this?
(06:38):
Like you really? You know, maybe if you're in I
don't know, Amarillo, Texas, you can get through security in
fifteen minutes, but not in Atlanta, not every time, and
just because you saw somebody on TikTok do it, So
how about we don't do this anymore and then everybody
makes their flights.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But I do feel like there are two kinds of
people in life, and I feel like these people need
to be aligned, because a misalignment here is a serious issue.
But there are the kind of people that show up
about an hour and a half to two hours early
and there are the people who think they can show up,
like if they arrive when the flight starts boarding, then
they'll make the flight and be fine and no time
is wasted. And I am of the earlier camp. I'm
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of the camp where you need to show up early
because well, what's the problem. You show up early and
then there's long lines and whatever and it takes forever.
You're safe if you get right through. Then go enjoy
a nice uh you know Chilis did Chilis to go?
You know, or go get you a bagel, or maybe
have a nice, nice beer at the airport. If you
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can drink a beer at any time in the airport,
there are no laws about drinking in the airport. You
can have a beer at eight thirty if you want to.
No one's gonna stop you. It's acceptable there. So I
don't know which camp are you guys in. I think
Kalin's of the early camp. Jason's have like to go
the day before camp. Yeah, I'm already there. Yeah, Kik
just doesn't get hotels and sleeps at the airport.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, just stay there.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, And then Paulina forgot she had a flight entirely,
So did I get all that right, yep, yeah, because
I figure if you go early, you know that way,
you're not stressed, and everybody knows how this goes. You
go early, you get in, you pass security, then you
got to go to your gate. You have to see
that it's there, right okay? B twenty three. Okay, there
(08:25):
it is. I lo's up to it. B twenty three.
It says we're going to Phoenix. Says it right there? Okay? Perfect?
It doesn't board for an hour. Now I can survey
my options and I can see what there is to do.
Do I want to go to the bookstore. Do I
want to go buy a periodical? Do I want to
go and have a nice McDonald's or maybe go to
the macaroni grill. I haven't decided, but I have those
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options because I've also been perusing my options as I
walk to the gate. The last thing you want to
do is just pick the first option you see, only
for your gate to be way far away and then
you really you missed a better option on your way
to the gate. You'd never want that to happen. Okay,
(09:08):
A lot of feedback on that this morning. Good, So
don't do that. It's a national I want you to
be happy day, which is encouraging you to do something
that makes other people happy. So I guess we're relying
on other people to make us happy today. Which, yeah,
what do you guys do? That's what are you doing?
What are you guys gonna do?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I'm here, Okay, that's not so far.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No, you're gonna try a little harder than that. It's
National Anthem Day, okay, and National read across America Day
aka Doctor Seuss's birthday today. The entertainmer of Port Kaelin
has that next two minutes after System Music will do blogs,
our audio journals and waiting by the phone, let's figure
out if somebody is being ghosted and why. We'll do
(09:59):
that in about thirty minutes. On The Fred Show, we're
back in too. Glad you're here. It's a fresh show.
It's Kiki's Court, all right, the honorable Kikilik is here.
Judge Kiki, Oh, I'm here, Yes, take it.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Away, all right, let's get into the courtroom, it says Kiki.
My name is Mona. I've been married for two weeks
and I'm already no longer speaking to my mother in
law throughout my wedding planning process, she kept trying to
add people to my guest list. My husband and I
paid for our entire wedding by ourselves, and we can
only afford one hundred people. Well, on my wedding day,
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my husband and I had to turn away twenty additional
guests that my mother in law invited instead of us
enjoying our reception. We were arguing and debating if we
should just eat the additional costs or tell the uninvited
guests to go home. I stood my ground and turned
them all away, which resulted in my mother in law
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throwing a fit at our wedding reception. She stormed out
Missy most the night and cost a complete scene. We
haven't spoken, and now I'm wondering if I made the
right decision.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, okay, all right, judge Geeky, what say you.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Mona, I'm on your side.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I am on your side with this, because I've said
this to every wedding I've been in and every bride
I've stood beside. It's like, your wedding is not the
family reunion. You know, your cousins that you haven't seen
in years. If you have no direct communication with these
people on a regular basis, you should not feel pressure
to add them to your guest list.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And your wedding is a day for you and your husband.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It is not about your mom's guest list, your grandma's
guest list, like they need to have a party.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
If they miss their their family, that bad.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Because when you think about how expensive a wedding can cost,
would you pay seventy dollars to eat with cousin Sally on.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
A regular day?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
So why would I pay for a seventy dollars plate
for her to come to my wedding and we don't
even speak.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So yeah, just so I'm clear, and you mentioned it,
I'm just want to be certain to have all the
details before I assess my position on this. This is serious. Yes,
but they paid for it. The parents didn't pay for it.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
No, the bride and the groom paid for the wedding
and they can only afford four hundred people.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah well then no, then then I didn't Pauline in
your family, wasn't it this way where they paid for
their own guests?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
No, we paid for our guests, but we also didn't
have anything like you know, crazy over the top legover
budget kind of like I don't know if this is
how Mona's was.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But the thing is, though, even if they pay.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
For their own guests, like your mother in law or whatever,
your in law's pay for their own guests, some people
just want to do small weddings. So if you only
have like a fifty person wedding, which my best friend
wants to do that, and then you know his mother
in law invites, you know, the family extend to the
cousins or whatever from the other state, then now the
wedding's one hundred people.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Right, or you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm just more impressed they came up, they come up.
I'm more impressed they come up. I'm more impressed they
came up with four hundred people, and they didn't include
all the random cousins and stuff like that, because there's
no way, there's no way. I don't I wouldn't be
able to invit four hundred people. No, they invited one
hundred people or one hundred. I don't know where I
got four hundred from. Either way, that's a lot of
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people I don't even I guess it is. And the
problem with being married or getting married when you're older,
you know, I'm in my early forties or whatever, is
that Now, I know a lot of people and not
everybody probably needs to be at my wedding, but a
lot of people probably think they should be, right, you
know what I mean. So, like, there would be a
lot of people offended if I had a wedding of
any you know size that wasn't beyond just family and
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my sister, mom, dad, you know, maybe a couple close friends.
Even then though, I think there'd be a lot of
people in my life like what do you mean? I
didn't get invited to the wedding, Like what do you mean?
And so I can see why at this point in
my life, I can see why older people when they
get married, or people who are not you know, twenty
something anymore or whatever, or second marriage is, I can
see why they just go off and the elope because
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you don't have to deal with any of this. You
don't have to worry about who who got invited and
who didn't get invited. You don't have to have anyone
else's opinion on this, parents or other family members, because
it's like, look, I just went off and did it,
and it's done, and it's over, and nobody came. And
then maybe you have a party afterwards and that's not
the expense of a wedding, and you can invite everybody
who wants to go, because I don't think you should
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be obligated to pay for people that you don't want there.
It's your money. Now, I've heard of people in the
past where it's like we're paying for the wedding, but
then the parents on each side pay for their guests.
So like if they insist on Aunt Sally, and they
insist on Uncle Rico or whatever else, then then they
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can pay for that. But the other issue with that
is if I wanted them, if I wanted somebody there,
I probably would have invited them exactly. So like, why
am I giving you guys an extra guest list, like
an extraneous guest list. Why why do you now get
to change the whole vibe in my wedding with a
bunch of people. I don't know. The only way I
can see that being a thing is if they if
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the parents paid for it, because if you're going to
take somebody else's money, then they're going to get input
on who gets to go. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I also did one thing that I don't know if
it's common or not, is I did tell my mom
and my mother in law, like, if they wanted to invite,
let's just say like a really good friend or something,
or someone that they worked with for twenty years. My
mom has been the same job forever, so she was
really close to her coworkers who saw me grow up.
And I was like, oh, you know, if you want
to invite somebody like, you know, please do Obviously they
wouldn't be on my let's just say my list, right,
(15:23):
They're not top of mind for me.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But I wanted my mom in laws.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
To invite people that maybe I don't know who they are,
but you know, havy my husband maybe like grew up
with this person, like a family friend that I don't
know who that is, you know, or my mom like
I don't have a lot of family here in the country.
So they weren't coming out from Poland. They were gonna
fly out here for my wedding. And I was like, well, Mom,
who do you want to invite?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Right? That is like family that I might not be
aware of or on my radar. Did she take them advantage? Yeah,
she brought my high school English teacher. Oh yeah, she
was holding hands with Yes, like me too.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You were smart to have a destination wedding too, because
I think that weeds him out as well. Yes, oh yeah,
because not everyone's going to pay for that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I would love to hear from the brides because I
can only like, I get particular about a dinner party,
like is my dinner party?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
This is why I want at the table.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
So I can only imagine when it's the biggest day
of your life. You know, not the biggest day, but
you know, one of the most important days of your life,
and you feel like you have to please everybody else.
Absolutely not so.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Eight five, five, five, nine, one, one oh three five
you can call it text the same number. But you
guys are the jury in Kiki's court. I want to know,
do you do you think that you should Do you
think that your parents should be able to inject guests
onto the guest list because well, so and so is important,
and so and so is important and whatever you know
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as where you may favor friends or coworkers or whatever.
I mean, do you think that your family should get
some kind of input and who gets to go to
this stuff? Or do you think, no, it's my wedding,
I paid for it, and so I'll choose and if
that upsets family well, then I guess that's a me
problem and not a you problem, because I y's the
other problem here is that you know, maybe you're not
as close with certain people as your parents are. They
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think they should be there. You'd rather invite someone who
you met more recently. It might cause long term damage.
You don't care right now, but your parents are like, no,
they have to come, like, come on, they they were
part of your upbringing or whatever. I mean, it's comp
families complicated.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No, it really is.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
But I think I think the fair thing is to maybe,
if you can afford it, offer your parents a table
and you say, listen, this is your table. Fill it
with whoever you want to feel it with. Outside of
your table. The rest is my wedding.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You know what I'm saying. I feel like that's more
than fair.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
We're talking one hundred dollars a plate at these some
of these maquet halls.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's expensive, very.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, because I would even again, I would even say
even if you were paying for people to come like
you want to. To Paulina's point, you want to invite
your coworkers. You want to invite people that you know.
I don't know that. Well, maybe i've never even met them.
I'm not paying for that. But I also, even if
you're paying for it, I don't even know if I
want them there. I don't know them.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, true, that's a good point, trick.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, they're just hanging out drinking my free bar, you know, dancing,
doing the electric slide and I don't even notice person.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's what I'm saying, Like, even if you said, okay, fine,
you can pay. You can pay for fifty more people
if you want fifty more people to come, Like, even
if you were to say that, okay, well I don't
know these people. Like for example, my well, my parents
paid for my sister's wedding, but they then had input
on who got to go. And there were some people
that were like friends but also clients of my parents'
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business and stuff like that they got invited, and that
took up space from because the number of guests didn't change,
the number of people who could come didn't change, but
they paid for it. So they were like, well, we're
inviting so and so and so my sister couldn't say
very much. And then some of those people didn't show up,
and so, well, my parents were pissed, and they had
every reason to be. My sister was more pissed because
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she was like, well, we had to invite so and so,
they didn't even come. And then these other people that
I did want to invite couldn't come because we had
to invite so and so, And I couldn't say anything
to you because it was your money. But then here
we go.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It's respectful like to not show up after your RSVBDA.
I'm not talking about like like emergency, like the craziest
thing you've ever seen, you know, car flipped over, arms
fallen off.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh no, that would be I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That might be a reason not to go to a wedding.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I might.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I might be like, well wait a minute, though, like
could the ambulance have stopped? Could you have like pulled up?
You know, like, what do you mean pull up on
me and my wedding? A bunch of texts my mother
in law wanted people my husband and I didn't want,
or no, we paid for one hundred percent, and she
threatened to keep the money that they were going to
give us. Oh, I guess it's a gift. So we
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laughed at her. No one's going to control my story.
That's what this person said, yeah, I like that one. Yes,
I had friends that had their wedding in Colorado just
to avoid having a bunch of people come. Yeah. I
think that's a very smart thing. The further away you
have it and the more expensive it is, you got
to realize that fewer people are going to come, but
you might be able to use that to your advantage.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Remember when Paula tried Thanksgiving week?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh, I do.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Again.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
For those of you who are new friends of this year,
Paulina got married what last two years ago? Last year?
I can't keep well, you were pregnant, so it was yeah,
it was like a year and a half ago, right,
last summer or tummer anyway, whatever, and and so the
initial plan was Mexico on Thanksgiving week, and then you
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were offended that people wouldn't go. You were offended that
people were saying they couldn't go. And I'm like, Paulina,
it's Thanksgiving in Mexico, Like, that's a very nice thing,
except most people want to spend Thanksgiving with their family.
You're asking people to go to your wedding on a holiday.
You can't be upset if people don't go. If you're
gonna have your if you're gonna have your wedding an
all inclusive resort in Mexico that is going to cost
people a little bit of money. You also can't be
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offended if they don't go.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I know, I had to grow up from that mentality
because I still don't like Thanksgiving guys.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, that's I don't really care for it. But hey, listen,
it all worked out in the end in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
So you were the reverse I thought it. I thought
you planned it that way so that maybe people can't come, right.
They're saying like, oh, I know they won't come now
because it's on this day. But yeah, so OURSVP to
a wedding and I show up. That is extremely rude.
But as his mother in law like, she threw a
fit at the reception too, and now it's not speaking
to her daughter in law because she turned people away.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
See, let's talk to Eva. Eva's the one. Good morning,
by the way, good morning. So you're the one that
laughed at your your mother in law because you're like, no,
you're not inviting people to this wedding, especially if I'm
paying for it's my day exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
My husband and I, excuse me, paid for our wedding
and one hundred percent, and she was like, well, we're
keeping the twenty five hundred and we're not coming.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And we're like, okay, it's gonna cost way more than that,
so what. But you ended up coming. The day was great,
but it's just like the threatening is not gonna work,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yes? Yeah, And why is it up to you to
determine who comes to my stuff, like especially if you're
not paying for it exactly? Yeah, like, hey, thank you,
have a great day, you too.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Look at this all these people weddings, Man, it brings
out all kinds of drama, like everyone's got a wedding story.
Both my sisters had holiday weddings and then wonder wondered
why people didn't come that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Where are y'all at right? I mean, forget that turkey
raise come to myself.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I had my wedding on Christmas in Mexico and nobody
showed up. It's very offensive. I'm like, what do you
mean you don't What do you mean you won't come?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Beautiful though? Come on, like holiday is in Mexico on
the beach in Kenkoon.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, it does sound nice, except for the whole.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You know, family thing is family tradition.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Problem solve. I think we all agree. If it ain't
your day and you're not paying for it, then you
don't have a leg to stand. On the Entertainment Report,
we'll do it in two minutes. Headlines and funds that
coming up.
Oh is on Fred's biggest stories of the day. I mean,
you know, it's getting out of hand, you guys, it's
really getting out of hand. I will say, uh, you
guys are profully quiet about the the wish for Bob
to come back text that.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Actually, she said, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's funny. Bob just texted me and he said, ha
ha it was him. That was him. He's loving every
minute of this. Good morning everyone. We're doing our best
over here. But think twice before you get text some
stupid stuff. I'll put it that way. So the Oscar
for the last time. I'm Surekaylin has more on that.
But despite over five hundred movies released in twenty twenty four,
the average American only watched three of those five hundred movies.
(00:45):
Jason hasn't watched three movies of the last five thousand
movies that came out.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Literally not well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The only movie I saw that I think it was
nominated was Wicked. That was that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't even know what the other movies are about.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, no, but half of people haven't seen any of
the ten Best Picture Oscar nominees, none of them. Yeah,
I was yea, though I have to look to it
today because I always feel that way. I felt that
way for a long time about the Oscars. Then I
don't I see that, you know, the nominees, and I'm like,
you know, I'm not sure if I need to watch
this because I don't know what I'm looking at.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, to me, more one looks good the substance I
heard that's really good on my list.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
On my list last night of like, oh, like what
should me and my husband watch because we want to
watch new stuff. So the Oscars is the perfect place
to see a whole list and just gather like, oh,
we should see that, Like Amelia Perez, I want to
see that one too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I haven't watched it.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Ooh, Conan's joke right at the actress, the lead actress.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That was wild. Some of the jokes are yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, did he get political? Because I didn't get to
watch a whole lot of it last night, But that
was one of the reasons that we learned on Friday,
or that we had read that they picked him because
I didn't think he would get too political, which of
course everyone's so sensitive about right now.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, I feel like from what I saw, I had
to do now because it was really boring but from
what I saw, he didn't. But he definitely talked directly
that actress who had those old tweets about George Floyd,
and it just made me like it was I mean,
it was uncomfortable because she was sitting right there and
he was talking right at her. But yeah, I'll talk
more about it, I guess whatever there is to talk about.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, we have a huge problem too this morning because
Hulu had technical issues which ended the OSCARS live stream
just before the best Picture announcement. I mean, how could you?
Right before? How could you? I was tuned into Hulu.
I was ready to watch it, and then I wasn't
able to, and then just outrage. I mean I haven't
(02:33):
been this mad since I couldn't watch the Mike Tyson fite.
I was very upset. But anyway, they apologize for the
experience and will make a full replay of the event
available as soon as possible, which does you no good
because now we already know what happened, so you ruined
it for me, man the whole thing. South Carolina is
dealing with over one hundred and seventy five wildfires that
have consumed approximately forty two hundred acres across various counties,
(02:58):
including Spartanburg Union Pickens County, Ian response to the fires,
the governor there has declared the state of emergency to
bolster firefighting efforts and ensure the safety of the affected communities.
They have prompted mandatory evacuations in several regions the Carolina
Forest near Myrtle Beach, where a significant blaze has threatened
(03:19):
numerous homes. Dry windy conditions have made the situation worse,
making containment efforts challenging for firefighters. And uncrewed spacecraft called
the Blue Ghost has successfully landed on the Moon on Sunday,
making Texas based Firefly Aerospace only the second private sector
company ever to complete such a feed. The lunar Lander
(03:40):
touchdown on the Moon's surface about three thirty am Eastern,
and it captured stunning footage during its descent, which was
way more exciting than the oscars. Way more exciting, But
I guess it's part of a privately owned fleet helping
NASA in its aim to return astronauts to the Moon
later this decade. More space eyes because we love space.
(04:01):
Seven planets are expected to be seen in the Earth's
night sky on Friday, so Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Sat
and Uranus and Neptune will all be visible from Earth
with the naked eye. Experts said, however, you would need
a good telescope to get a good look at the
so called planetary parade is what they're calling it. There's
(04:22):
a webcast hosted by the Virtual Telescope Project, which, okay,
that will helps skywatchers and the curious find their favorite
planets in the sky. So you can go watch that
if you want to. The alignment happens when the planets
orbit the Sun on a relatively flat disc shaped plane.
While the lineup is not unusual, it's rare for all
(04:42):
seven planets to line up at once and won't happen
again until twenty forty. That's exciting, it is. But where's
Butcher and Sonita doing? Well, that's true, you're right, they're
still on the space station. And you know, we've sent
several people have been up to the space station, gone home,
We've sent people, we've sent like spacecrafts to the Moon
(05:03):
and back right, but we have not pulled through to
get Butch and Sunita, who have been up there for
like seven months now. You're a very good point. This
is crazy I thought they were. I thought Elon was
supposed to go get him right away. He's too busy
firing people. I guess. I guess I don't know. The
Skype era is over for this is terrible news if
those of you, any of you been using Skype and
(05:24):
you love it, and you're like, what am I gonna do?
I guess Microsoft is trying to move everybody over to teams.
So Skype users can move your counse to the team's app,
where the tech Giant notes that they can use many
of the same features. So, yeah, Skype is over. We're
not doing that anymore. We're moving over to teams.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
TikTokers, here's here's the latest thing today. I feel like
every day it's which thing from TikTok? Do we not
need to do that everybody is doing? And this is
the one that you may have seen. Have you heard
of this airport theory?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Okay, So there's a series of tiktoks about airport theory,
which says that basically you can get through security in
fifteen minutes consistently on average fifteen minutes, and so the
people who show up two hours early to the airport
are crazy because it will never take that long, and
so people are trying to prove or disprove this airport
theory that arriving at the airport only fifteen minutes in
(06:16):
advance of your flight to clear security will work, which
goes against the conventional wisdom of showing up hours in advance.
The problem is, I guess it's causing a bunch of
stress at the airport because people are doing this and realizing, wait,
I'm not going to make my flight, which is causing
problems in the security line. People are missing flights, and
now the airlines are like, hey, can we stop with this?
(06:38):
Like you really? You know, maybe if you're in I
don't know, Amarillo, Texas, you can get through security in
fifteen minutes, but not in Atlanta, not every time, and
just because you saw somebody on TikTok do it, So
how about we don't do this anymore and then everybody
makes their flights.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But I do feel like there are two kinds of
people in life, and I feel like these people need
to be aligned, because a misalignment here is a serious issue.
But there are the kind of people that show up
about an hour and a half to two hours early
and there are the people who think they can show up,
like if they arrive when the flight starts boarding, then
they'll make the flight and be fine and no time
is wasted. And I am of the earlier camp. I'm
(07:16):
of the camp where you need to show up early
because well, what's the problem. You show up early and
then there's long lines and whatever and it takes forever.
You're safe if you get right through. Then go enjoy
a nice uh you know Chilis did Chilis to go?
You know, or go get you a bagel, or maybe
have a nice, nice beer at the airport. If you
(07:39):
can drink a beer at any time in the airport,
there are no laws about drinking in the airport. You
can have a beer at eight thirty if you want to.
No one's gonna stop you. It's acceptable there. So I
don't know which camp are you guys in. I think
Kalin's of the early camp. Jason's have like to go
the day before camp. Yeah, I'm already there. Yeah, Kik
just doesn't get hotels and sleeps at the airport.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes, just stay there.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, And then Paulina forgot she had a flight entirely,
So did I get all that right, yep, yeah, because
I figure if you go early, you know that way,
you're not stressed, and everybody knows how this goes. You
go early, you get in, you pass security, then you
got to go to your gate. You have to see
that it's there, right okay? B twenty three. Okay, there
(08:25):
it is. I lo's up to it. B twenty three.
It says we're going to Phoenix. Says it right there? Okay? Perfect?
It doesn't board for an hour. Now I can survey
my options and I can see what there is to do.
Do I want to go to the bookstore. Do I
want to go buy a periodical? Do I want to
go and have a nice McDonald's or maybe go to
the macaroni grill. I haven't decided, but I have those
(08:48):
options because I've also been perusing my options as I
walk to the gate. The last thing you want to
do is just pick the first option you see, only
for your gate to be way far away and then
you really you missed a better option on your way
to the gate. You'd never want that to happen. Okay,
(09:08):
A lot of feedback on that this morning. Good, So
don't do that. It's a national I want you to
be happy day, which is encouraging you to do something
that makes other people happy. So I guess we're relying
on other people to make us happy today. Which, yeah,
what do you guys do? That's what are you doing?
What are you guys gonna do?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I'm here, Okay, that's not so far.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No, you're gonna try a little harder than that. It's
National Anthem Day, okay, and National read across America Day
aka Doctor Seuss's birthday today. The entertainmer of Port Kaelin
has that next two minutes after System Music will do blogs,
our audio journals and waiting by the phone, let's figure
out if somebody is being ghosted and why. We'll do
(09:59):
that in about thirty minutes. On The Fred Show, we're
back in too. Glad you're here. It's a fresh show.
It's Kiki's Court, all right, the honorable Kikilik is here.
Judge Kiki, Oh, I'm here, Yes, take it.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Away, all right, let's get into the courtroom, it says Kiki.
My name is Mona. I've been married for two weeks
and I'm already no longer speaking to my mother in
law throughout my wedding planning process, she kept trying to
add people to my guest list. My husband and I
paid for our entire wedding by ourselves, and we can
only afford one hundred people. Well, on my wedding day,
(10:36):
my husband and I had to turn away twenty additional
guests that my mother in law invited instead of us
enjoying our reception. We were arguing and debating if we
should just eat the additional costs or tell the uninvited
guests to go home. I stood my ground and turned
them all away, which resulted in my mother in law
(10:56):
throwing a fit at our wedding reception. She stormed out
Missy most the night and cost a complete scene. We
haven't spoken, and now I'm wondering if I made the
right decision.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, okay, all right, judge Geeky, what say you.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Mona, I'm on your side.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I am on your side with this, because I've said
this to every wedding I've been in and every bride
I've stood beside. It's like, your wedding is not the
family reunion. You know, your cousins that you haven't seen
in years. If you have no direct communication with these
people on a regular basis, you should not feel pressure
to add them to your guest list.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And your wedding is a day for you and your husband.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It is not about your mom's guest list, your grandma's
guest list, like they need to have a party.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
If they miss their their family, that bad.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Because when you think about how expensive a wedding can cost,
would you pay seventy dollars to eat with cousin Sally on.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
A regular day?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
So why would I pay for a seventy dollars plate
for her to come to my wedding and we don't
even speak.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So yeah, just so I'm clear, and you mentioned it,
I'm just want to be certain to have all the
details before I assess my position on this. This is serious. Yes,
but they paid for it. The parents didn't pay for it.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
No, the bride and the groom paid for the wedding
and they can only afford four hundred people.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah well then no, then then I didn't Pauline in
your family, wasn't it this way where they paid for
their own guests?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
No, we paid for our guests, but we also didn't
have anything like you know, crazy over the top legover
budget kind of like I don't know if this is
how Mona's was.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But the thing is, though, even if they pay.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
For their own guests, like your mother in law or whatever,
your in law's pay for their own guests, some people
just want to do small weddings. So if you only
have like a fifty person wedding, which my best friend
wants to do that, and then you know his mother
in law invites, you know, the family extend to the
cousins or whatever from the other state, then now the
wedding's one hundred people.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Right, or you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm just more impressed they came up, they come up.
I'm more impressed they come up. I'm more impressed they
came up with four hundred people, and they didn't include
all the random cousins and stuff like that, because there's
no way, there's no way. I don't I wouldn't be
able to invit four hundred people. No, they invited one
hundred people or one hundred. I don't know where I
got four hundred from. Either way, that's a lot of
(13:06):
people I don't even I guess it is. And the
problem with being married or getting married when you're older,
you know, I'm in my early forties or whatever, is
that Now, I know a lot of people and not
everybody probably needs to be at my wedding, but a
lot of people probably think they should be, right, you
know what I mean. So, like, there would be a
lot of people offended if I had a wedding of
any you know size that wasn't beyond just family and
(13:29):
my sister, mom, dad, you know, maybe a couple close friends.
Even then though, I think there'd be a lot of
people in my life like what do you mean? I
didn't get invited to the wedding, Like what do you mean?
And so I can see why at this point in
my life, I can see why older people when they
get married, or people who are not you know, twenty
something anymore or whatever, or second marriage is, I can
see why they just go off and the elope because
(13:50):
you don't have to deal with any of this. You
don't have to worry about who who got invited and
who didn't get invited. You don't have to have anyone
else's opinion on this, parents or other family members, because
it's like, look, I just went off and did it,
and it's done, and it's over, and nobody came. And
then maybe you have a party afterwards and that's not
the expense of a wedding, and you can invite everybody
who wants to go, because I don't think you should
(14:12):
be obligated to pay for people that you don't want there.
It's your money. Now, I've heard of people in the
past where it's like we're paying for the wedding, but
then the parents on each side pay for their guests.
So like if they insist on Aunt Sally, and they
insist on Uncle Rico or whatever else, then then they
(14:33):
can pay for that. But the other issue with that
is if I wanted them, if I wanted somebody there,
I probably would have invited them exactly. So like, why
am I giving you guys an extra guest list, like
an extraneous guest list. Why why do you now get
to change the whole vibe in my wedding with a
bunch of people. I don't know. The only way I
can see that being a thing is if they if
(14:56):
the parents paid for it, because if you're going to
take somebody else's money, then they're going to get input
on who gets to go. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I also did one thing that I don't know if
it's common or not, is I did tell my mom
and my mother in law, like, if they wanted to invite,
let's just say like a really good friend or something,
or someone that they worked with for twenty years. My
mom has been the same job forever, so she was
really close to her coworkers who saw me grow up.
And I was like, oh, you know, if you want
to invite somebody like, you know, please do Obviously they
wouldn't be on my let's just say my list, right,
(15:23):
They're not top of mind for me.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But I wanted my mom in laws.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
To invite people that maybe I don't know who they are,
but you know, havy my husband maybe like grew up
with this person, like a family friend that I don't
know who that is, you know, or my mom like
I don't have a lot of family here in the country.
So they weren't coming out from Poland. They were gonna
fly out here for my wedding. And I was like, well, Mom,
who do you want to invite?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Right? That is like family that I might not be
aware of or on my radar. Did she take them advantage? Yeah,
she brought my high school English teacher. Oh yeah, she
was holding hands with Yes, like me too.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You were smart to have a destination wedding too, because
I think that weeds him out as well. Yes, oh yeah,
because not everyone's going to pay for that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I would love to hear from the brides because I
can only like, I get particular about a dinner party,
like is my dinner party?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
This is why I want at the table.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
So I can only imagine when it's the biggest day
of your life. You know, not the biggest day, but
you know, one of the most important days of your life,
and you feel like you have to please everybody else.
Absolutely not so.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Eight five, five, five, nine, one, one oh three five
you can call it text the same number. But you
guys are the jury in Kiki's court. I want to know,
do you do you think that you should Do you
think that your parents should be able to inject guests
onto the guest list because well, so and so is important,
and so and so is important and whatever you know
(16:42):
as where you may favor friends or coworkers or whatever.
I mean, do you think that your family should get
some kind of input and who gets to go to
this stuff? Or do you think, no, it's my wedding,
I paid for it, and so I'll choose and if
that upsets family well, then I guess that's a me
problem and not a you problem, because I y's the
other problem here is that you know, maybe you're not
as close with certain people as your parents are. They
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think they should be there. You'd rather invite someone who
you met more recently. It might cause long term damage.
You don't care right now, but your parents are like, no,
they have to come, like, come on, they they were
part of your upbringing or whatever. I mean, it's comp
families complicated.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No, it really is.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
But I think I think the fair thing is to maybe,
if you can afford it, offer your parents a table
and you say, listen, this is your table. Fill it
with whoever you want to feel it with. Outside of
your table. The rest is my wedding.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You know what I'm saying. I feel like that's more
than fair.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
We're talking one hundred dollars a plate at these some
of these maquet halls.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's expensive, very.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, because I would even again, I would even say
even if you were paying for people to come like
you want to. To Paulina's point, you want to invite
your coworkers. You want to invite people that you know.
I don't know that. Well, maybe i've never even met them.
I'm not paying for that. But I also, even if
you're paying for it, I don't even know if I
want them there. I don't know them.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, true, that's a good point, trick.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, they're just hanging out drinking my free bar, you know, dancing,
doing the electric slide and I don't even notice person.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's what I'm saying, Like, even if you said, okay, fine,
you can pay. You can pay for fifty more people
if you want fifty more people to come, Like, even
if you were to say that, okay, well I don't
know these people. Like for example, my well, my parents
paid for my sister's wedding, but they then had input
on who got to go. And there were some people
that were like friends but also clients of my parents'
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business and stuff like that they got invited, and that
took up space from because the number of guests didn't change,
the number of people who could come didn't change, but
they paid for it. So they were like, well, we're
inviting so and so and so my sister couldn't say
very much. And then some of those people didn't show up,
and so, well, my parents were pissed, and they had
every reason to be. My sister was more pissed because
(18:57):
she was like, well, we had to invite so and so,
they didn't even come. And then these other people that
I did want to invite couldn't come because we had
to invite so and so, And I couldn't say anything
to you because it was your money. But then here
we go.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It's respectful like to not show up after your RSVBDA.
I'm not talking about like like emergency, like the craziest
thing you've ever seen, you know, car flipped over, arms
fallen off.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh no, that would be I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That might be a reason not to go to a wedding.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I might.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I might be like, well wait a minute, though, like
could the ambulance have stopped? Could you have like pulled up?
You know, like, what do you mean pull up on
me and my wedding? A bunch of texts my mother
in law wanted people my husband and I didn't want,
or no, we paid for one hundred percent, and she
threatened to keep the money that they were going to
give us. Oh, I guess it's a gift. So we
(19:48):
laughed at her. No one's going to control my story.
That's what this person said, yeah, I like that one. Yes,
I had friends that had their wedding in Colorado just
to avoid having a bunch of people come. Yeah. I
think that's a very smart thing. The further away you
have it and the more expensive it is, you got
to realize that fewer people are going to come, but
you might be able to use that to your advantage.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Remember when Paula tried Thanksgiving week?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh, I do.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Again.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
For those of you who are new friends of this year,
Paulina got married what last two years ago? Last year?
I can't keep well, you were pregnant, so it was yeah,
it was like a year and a half ago, right,
last summer or tummer anyway, whatever, and and so the
initial plan was Mexico on Thanksgiving week, and then you
(20:38):
were offended that people wouldn't go. You were offended that
people were saying they couldn't go. And I'm like, Paulina,
it's Thanksgiving in Mexico, Like, that's a very nice thing,
except most people want to spend Thanksgiving with their family.
You're asking people to go to your wedding on a holiday.
You can't be upset if people don't go. If you're
gonna have your if you're gonna have your wedding an
all inclusive resort in Mexico that is going to cost
people a little bit of money. You also can't be
(21:00):
offended if they don't go.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I know, I had to grow up from that mentality
because I still don't like Thanksgiving guys.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, that's I don't really care for it. But hey, listen,
it all worked out in the end in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
So you were the reverse I thought it. I thought
you planned it that way so that maybe people can't come, right.
They're saying like, oh, I know they won't come now
because it's on this day. But yeah, so OURSVP to
a wedding and I show up. That is extremely rude.
But as his mother in law like, she threw a
fit at the reception too, and now it's not speaking
to her daughter in law because she turned people away.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
See, let's talk to Eva. Eva's the one. Good morning,
by the way, good morning. So you're the one that
laughed at your your mother in law because you're like, no,
you're not inviting people to this wedding, especially if I'm
paying for it's my day exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
My husband and I, excuse me, paid for our wedding
and one hundred percent, and she was like, well, we're
keeping the twenty five hundred and we're not coming.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And we're like, okay, it's gonna cost way more than that,
so what. But you ended up coming. The day was great,
but it's just like the threatening is not gonna work,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yes? Yeah, And why is it up to you to
determine who comes to my stuff, like especially if you're
not paying for it exactly? Yeah, like, hey, thank you,
have a great day, you too.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Look at this all these people weddings, Man, it brings
out all kinds of drama, like everyone's got a wedding story.
Both my sisters had holiday weddings and then wonder wondered
why people didn't come that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Where are y'all at right? I mean, forget that turkey
raise come to myself.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I had my wedding on Christmas in Mexico and nobody
showed up. It's very offensive. I'm like, what do you
mean you don't What do you mean you won't come?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Beautiful though? Come on, like holiday is in Mexico on
the beach in Kenkoon.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, it does sound nice, except for the whole.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You know, family thing is family tradition.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Problem solve. I think we all agree. If it ain't
your day and you're not paying for it, then you
don't have a leg to stand. On the Entertainment Report,
we'll do it in two minutes. Headlines and funds that
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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