June 3, 2025 • 16 mins
If you were an Uber Eats driver, would you snag someone's fries? Fred and the crew discuss that. And it's Paulina's birthday! She tells us a very special way she's celebrating!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The show is on the biggest stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
My wife uses a knife to remove corn kernels from
corn on the cob, and it drives me insane. I
feel like, if you're gonna do that, that's something that
you do before you sit dine at the table, Like
if you're gonna if you're gonna take the corn off
the cob, that you do that like in the kitchen
and then you sit down. Because if you're like trying
to do that in front of everybody and the corn
slips and goes somewhere like spraise people. It's kind of
(00:28):
a delicate art of removing corn from the cob.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yah to y'all, too BOSSI as someone who used to
have braces, Like just let me use my knife, let
me use my fork, let me get the kernel off
this corn. I'm not hurting anybody.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
If you're at a corporate dinner and you're hosting, you
should eat something easy to entertain and talk, like a salad. Yeah,
I guess I've thought about that, Like there's stuff I
would eat if I'm with my friends, and then there's
stuff I would eat if I if I'm with it,
you know, trying to impress people or something you know.
I mean, like I wouldn't order the messiest thing.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And then if I'm alone, I'm way different.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Forget about it.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Forget about it, especially if it's late at night. Some
activities that took place, I am.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like you slipped and fell in a gummy came in
your mouth exactly, Yeah, you know what that happened. You
seem to happen more regularly these days where I'm like
just walking, I'm just minding my own business. Probably I'm
running on the lake. I'm doing eating a carrot or something,
you know, something healthy, and then it's just out of nowhere,
just pop and it just flies through the air and
it masticates itself. It chews itself and goes down my
(01:34):
throat and then I don't know what happened, didn't even
chew it. And then before long I'm starving and I'm
eating like combinations of everything you can find. I hate
it when this happens.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's hipping the things. I'll like my finger around the plate.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, it's really I think I said this last week.
And I don't know if you were here in a CaMLA,
but I believe that if I were in a relationship,
I would be I would lose the additional thirty pounds
I'm trying to lose because I and people say it's
the opposite, you eat more. No, I think I would
lose the weight because the way that I eat now
is disgusting, like in private, like I'm a disgusting person,
(02:08):
Like I'll go run three miles and then I'll eat
a hole Jet's pizza by myself, and I guess that's
called balance. But I wouldn't probably do that in front
of another person. I would probably like eat regular portions
because I would be afraid of judgment.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You would find time though, when you're in a relationship
you like has to plan that Jet's pizza, but you
would still do it because you're not gonna let go
of good the good times, or like.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
How I orders like I want this and that, and
I just get all of it and then put it
in the fridge and eat off of it for a
couple of days. But I wouldn't probably do that in
front of someone else because that person would be like, hey,
you're disgusting, like you're a gross person, you know, and
then they wouldn't want to, like, you know, sleep with me.
So I would probably not do that for a while.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You I'd like that's how I am too, and I
lose weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm like, I'm cute.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You know, I'm eating this. I mean yeah, But then,
like you, you'd get tired. It goes away, it goes away. Yeah,
and you do pick your tie. I was alone last
night and I was real getting after it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah. Yeah, Okay, here's the latest weather phenomena that you
didn't know that you have to be concerned about. It's
the Saharan dust cloud. Ah, yes, did you know. I
didn't know this was a thing. There's such thing as
a Saharan dust cloud. And it smothered the Caribbean yesterday
and it's heading towards the US. It's a huge cloud
(03:21):
of dust from Africa's Sahara desert. Yeah, and it covered
the entire Caribbean yesterday. I said it both ways, in
case you have a problem with the way I say it,
Caribbean and Caribbean. I said it both ways, so don't
have me. It's marking the biggest dust event this year
at the dust Event, right. It's stretching two thousand miles
(03:43):
from Jamaica to Barbados and seven hundred and fifty miles
from Turks and caicos to Trinidad and Tobago, and it's
caused hazes, guys, sneezing, coughing, and watery eyes. Forecasters warn
people with allergies or asthma to stay indoors or wear masks.
The dust, which is part of the heron air layer,
is expected to reach Florida, Louisiana, Alabama in Mississippi by
(04:04):
the weekend, but it will be less dense. The dust
can block some sunlight and stop tropical storms from forming
during a hurricane season, which runs through November thirtieth. I've
never heard of this. We're all scared now of a
dust cloud.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Dust cloud, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It can travel, So what is happening? If you have
a pet, then I don't know what you sort of
estimated that it would cost to own Benzo or Lux
or or any of your animals that you guys have,
but I guess the average answer has been for cats
fifty seven hundred bucks and for dogs eighty one hundred
(04:42):
dollars to own for fifteen years. Now they're saying the
real number, though, is three times that, according to a
survey that came out today, and that depends on what
type of food you buy, you know, vet bills, how
sick your dog or cat gets, and how much you
spoil them. Caring for a cat now costs an We're
from twenty grand, they say, to forty seven thousand dollars
(05:04):
over the life of your cat. For dogs, it's twenty
two grand to juiced under sixty one thousand dollars. Yeah,
whoa to have a dog for fifteen years? That's thirteen
hundred bucks a year for cats to fifteen hundred dollars
a year for dogs. They say, something like a rabbit
can cost over one thousand dollars annually. I thought they
were always sick. I thought rabbits got sick a lot.
(05:25):
And I've never owned a rabbit.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I don't know much much about rabbits.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I don't know. Would you say, though, would you say
you spend fifteen hundred bucks a year on menzo.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
One hundred percent? Well, yeah, because you get like the
shots and the heartworm and all of that at the vaccines.
Plus like if you do any grooming for them, that
costs a buck. So now I got to like go
in the backyard with a hoe. Is because I don't,
I don't I can't really afford to do it all
the time, and he's a stinky boy. But honestly, like
if it's sixty one thousand whatever you said, for the lifetime, Like, bro,
that is like another kid.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You're right, you know, it's kind of heading up.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's never family member.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Our hats and outfits over here you putting on lucks. Yep,
that stuff all costs money.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh yeah, his wardrobe. His mental health service is his nails,
his teeth, entertainment.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Travel.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
There's a Chinese newspaper called Youth Daily, and they did
a story on how young people in China are paying
five dollars a day to pretend they have a job.
So you pay five bucks, you go to a shared office,
but you don't do any actual work because it's all
a ruse. This is also you don't have to tell
your friends and family that you're unemployed. So the job
(06:27):
was rat in China is only five percent, but youth
unemployment's more like seventeen percent. So I guess a lot
of people just that they pay money, They go sit
at a desk, it's Wi Fi and coffee and they're
pretending to work. They will even assign you fake tasks.
So if anyone asked what you did at work today.
You can show them an email and say I did
this or I worked on this project. There are even
(06:49):
places that have fake bosses and you can pay extra
to have fake fights with them, like maybe they were
roots you in an email or whatever, and then they apologize.
You can go tell all your friends like, all my
workplace is so terrible, whatever, whatever it sounds like. Most
people then pay the five bucks and then go and
try and find a real job. But apparently this is
cheaper than sitting at a coffee shop all day and
(07:11):
pretending that you have a job when you in fact
do not. And we've done I think we've done stories
about this before in the past. But I wonder if
anyone out there has ever had to fake that they
had a job until they did have a job, so
that they didn't have to tell, you know, go home
and tell their wife or you know whatever, kids whomever,
that they don't have a job.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
We did a Sarah go like that, I remember, and
he would like be missing. He would go he would
leave for work quote unquote during the day. We were
like where did you go? And he would go to
like the library and just sit all day.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I know about a number of people over the years
who've lied about the circumstances as to why they don't
have a job. Oh yeah, Oh they'll say that this
is what happened, but they got fired, or they'll say that,
you know, oh I got laid off or this or
that thing happened, but really they screwed up. And I've
heard about that happening before because they're too embarrassed to
tell their partner that they messed their job up as
(08:00):
opposed to just telling the truth. But I ever heard
of that one before. An Uber driver had shared that
some drivers eat customers fries and other behind the scenes things. Now,
you were DoorDash driver at one point, Jason was, and
you say that you were never you were tempted, but
you never actually went with eating anyone's food.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Because it's like all you do is smell their people's food.
So like I would just get so hungry, and then
when there would be something that was really good, like
five guys, I'd be like, oh, like the fries smells so,
you know, fills up your car.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So I would get doing that because I think I
would go in there and I would wind up ordering
food at these places, like well, I'm here.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I once a taco bell I was like, well, I'm
waiting for this order. I might as well just go
to this Kioskin order something for myself.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Get somebody. Yeah, while we're here, said the problem is
in places a night, so it's like, oh, I guess
that's the other thing too, is you're spending all the
money that you're making.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
How do you not eat the fries though? Like, I
can't ride with fries in my car and not just
have a couple.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
It's hard, It's very hard.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah. The guy admitted that he's taken fries from people's
orders in the past, but doesn't do it often. He
says he tries to remain professional, but sometimes he's tempted
to take food from orders that aren't fully sealed or closed,
especially if he's stuck in traffic. He says he also
punishes impolite customers by taking his time getting to their
home to complete the order. He said, if someone asked
(09:22):
him where are you or to hurry up, he will
purposefully slow down. He said that people increase their chances
of getting their food on time if they tip and
say thank you. That's the only problem I have with
tipping ahead and I do it, but you get whatever
service you get ran Like I've had it. I've had
it where they like they take the tip, but then
(09:44):
they don't actually bring it to my door. They leave
it somewhere else or whatever whatever, and it's like, wait
a minute, I'm not going to take the tip away
because I'm not that much of a savage, but like
the tip he is. I mean, if you do, like
an awesome job and it shows up quickly and to
my door whatever I've paid for, well, then I'd be
more likely give you a bigger tip than to what
I'm gonna give you up front, right, But then I
sometimes I'll give you the tip up I mean, I
(10:05):
always give the tip up front, and then they don't
do the thing all the way. You're like, wait a minute,
well you got your tip, so why are you lazy
bring it all the way to me? And toilet paper, guys,
you can tell it's a slow news day with toilet
paper might be a thing of the past. Environmental concerns
are growing, and studies reveal the producing a single roll
of toilet paper consumes thirty seven gallons of water. The
(10:26):
industry heavily relies on virgin forests, contributing to deforestation and
climate change. So what are the solutions. The solutions are
of a day, So everybody would have a bidet in
their house, and I guess that would then negate the
need for toilet paper. But then how do you walk
around like a little low, wet little butt. Yes, you
walk around like a wet little booty. That way we
(10:47):
spray the booty down. Okay, so everything's good. But then
I gotta walk around with wet booty. No, I gotta
dry it off somehow exactly, okay, and I gotta check court.
It's like if I if I did my deal with
the bidet, okay, fine, but then I got a double
I need like some quality assurance that like we are
in fact good right, yes, So I don't know about that.
And then the other thing would be reusable cloth toilet paper.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Come on, now, I.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Don't think I could do that either. Maybe if it
were just me, maybe, But like in a house you
got like a bag full of like I don't know
who this is, let's watch.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
It throw up of a poop cloth filled bag in
my house. I mean, like that's just I don't care
if it's my poop or any I.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
We gotta find a different way.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We got to find the environment.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, but I don't mind paper.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No, It's National Leggs Day, and it's National Chocolate Macaroon Day,
Macaroon Day. Paul in his birthday, We'll be birthday pee,
thank you. Going to Hooters tonight, huh.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You know it?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Big night, the usual here, I come, Big night, kigy high. Hey,
I mean it's here on the front of the text
eight five five five night three five blogs and just
a second Paulina gets a birthday blog the Entertainer Report
after that, what's in there?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
We are talking new music as well as the most
well rounded concert lineup.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Dare I say of all time of all time? You
dare you dared to say it? And you said it,
and I dare you to say it again.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
It is the most well rounded concert lineup of all time.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Tomorrow on the show Game Show Wednesday, Kiki Karaoke one
hundred and fifty bucks in the showdown New Waiting by
the phone Tomorrow morning is well come them night. Yeah,
they talk better than they excited. Tell me. These are
the radio blogs on the Fred shows. Like for writing
in our diaries, except we say them aloud. We call
them blogs. Paulina the Birthday Girl go.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Thank you so much, dear blog, Thank you everybody you know.
Thank you my Fred Show family, not coworkers, my family,
as I am really progress as I get older, I am.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
We're friends to family.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's the upgrade in life, right and you guys are
my family. So thank you for making my birthday so special.
You guys do a great job every year. But thank
you so much. Like I just I love birthdays and
celebrating and stuff, which it's so beautiful to me. And
thank you to our amazing thirteen listeners for all the
love and birthday shout outs and you know, all the
Instagram comments that's so sweet. I see it. Also, thank you.
And one more really cool thing on my birthday that
(13:15):
I didn't realize was coming out today, but something I've
unlocked a new level to my paulinaists, which is insane
because I've dreamt about this since I was in college.
Because you know, Fred and I not the same college,
not the same year, but we both are English majors.
And that is something that I flex on people with yea, yeah, yeah,
(13:37):
I was first, that's true, yes, yes, yes, and but
like everyone's always like, oh, you know English major, like
what do you do with that? It's like, well, no,
I really didn't do nothing with it. I mean I
do radio, which is amazing, but like in English, in English,
but like you know, I've always depends on the day
whether I see Paulina at you and that's you know,
its own like uncoding that you got to do to
(13:57):
sometimes understand me. But I have always wanted to do
some form of like writing in my life because I've
always kind of liked it. When I started in radio.
Actually at IC, I did like blogging was the thing
that kind of got me in the door to Uice radio.
So my first published article my guest to hop as
they call it, right, I'm a guest contributor to a site.
(14:19):
It's called Hip Latina and it's like very it's lifestyle entertainment,
you know what I mean, stuff like that. I'll think
of it almost like a Cosmo, but like the Latin
version if you use it and English in.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
English woex tips and positions.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Not my article, and that's just one not next month, yeah,
next month's issue. Yeah yeah, But I'm so excited because
I was asked to write an article basically about parenting,
but also like about what it's like to be I'm
very vocal about this being a Nosabo kid, right, so
like not speaking completely fluent Spanish, but trying to teach
my daughter fluent Spanish. So a lot of moms, a
(14:53):
lot of people can relate to this, especially if like
you were born here but your parents weren't right, or
maybe like your third generation, so it's like how you
keep culture, how do you keep language in the family,
And also like as a kid who I'm learning to write?
My daughter and I were both learning, you know, we
both are picking up those Spanish books and learning things together.
Obviously I know a little more than my daughter because
she's also one, so there's not much that she says.
(15:15):
You try to get her happy birthday, and she gave
you happy. We got happy.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That's how I got.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But I am so excited that they decided to publish
on my birthday. But I'm so excited they gave me
the opportunities to do this because I feel like I'm
in my Carrie Bradshaw era.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I couldn't I couldn't help. But wonder when is my
first article ever going to happen? And it's today, it's
coming out.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Mister Big. Who's he going to be?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, mister big?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah yeah, she got her mister Big chasing around for.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Man, I don't know see now I.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Don't know no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah see I'm like the married h what is
it called? Carrie Bradshaw? But and like it's just crazy
because I always wanted to like write an article and
be a little writer in my little room, my little laptop.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
How do people see it? What the website?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So it's on Hip Latina dot com. I'm going to
collaborate them on their instagram, so if you follow them,
then hopefully you see mine vice versa.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And speaking of hip latinas, can we just shout out
Mama z Cosina. Yes, yeah, she's a local to the
Chicagoland area, but m O m m A z Cosina.
She we have a tradition on the Friend Show for
some reason that we get Puerto Rican food for everyone's birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Do we have it?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We have it?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We have it.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
She'd sent us new stuff this time.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We have we have it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We see here to the back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
We're this up right now. We got to get to
the Entertainer Report. Next Fred Show
The show is on the biggest stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
My wife uses a knife to remove corn kernels from
corn on the cob, and it drives me insane. I
feel like, if you're gonna do that, that's something that
you do before you sit dine at the table, Like
if you're gonna if you're gonna take the corn off
the cob, that you do that like in the kitchen
and then you sit down. Because if you're like trying
to do that in front of everybody and the corn
slips and goes somewhere like spraise people. It's kind of
(00:28):
a delicate art of removing corn from the cob.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yah to y'all, too BOSSI as someone who used to
have braces, Like just let me use my knife, let
me use my fork, let me get the kernel off
this corn. I'm not hurting anybody.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
If you're at a corporate dinner and you're hosting, you
should eat something easy to entertain and talk, like a salad. Yeah,
I guess I've thought about that, Like there's stuff I
would eat if I'm with my friends, and then there's
stuff I would eat if I if I'm with it,
you know, trying to impress people or something you know.
I mean, like I wouldn't order the messiest thing.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And then if I'm alone, I'm way different.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Forget about it.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Forget about it, especially if it's late at night. Some
activities that took place, I am.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like you slipped and fell in a gummy came in
your mouth exactly, Yeah, you know what that happened. You
seem to happen more regularly these days where I'm like
just walking, I'm just minding my own business. Probably I'm
running on the lake. I'm doing eating a carrot or something,
you know, something healthy, and then it's just out of nowhere,
just pop and it just flies through the air and
it masticates itself. It chews itself and goes down my
(01:34):
throat and then I don't know what happened, didn't even
chew it. And then before long I'm starving and I'm
eating like combinations of everything you can find. I hate
it when this happens.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's hipping the things. I'll like my finger around the plate.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, it's really I think I said this last week.
And I don't know if you were here in a CaMLA,
but I believe that if I were in a relationship,
I would be I would lose the additional thirty pounds
I'm trying to lose because I and people say it's
the opposite, you eat more. No, I think I would
lose the weight because the way that I eat now
is disgusting, like in private, like I'm a disgusting person,
(02:08):
Like I'll go run three miles and then I'll eat
a hole Jet's pizza by myself, and I guess that's
called balance. But I wouldn't probably do that in front
of another person. I would probably like eat regular portions
because I would be afraid of judgment.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You would find time though, when you're in a relationship
you like has to plan that Jet's pizza, but you
would still do it because you're not gonna let go
of good the good times, or like.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
How I orders like I want this and that, and
I just get all of it and then put it
in the fridge and eat off of it for a
couple of days. But I wouldn't probably do that in
front of someone else because that person would be like, hey,
you're disgusting, like you're a gross person, you know, and
then they wouldn't want to, like, you know, sleep with me.
So I would probably not do that for a while.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You I'd like that's how I am too, and I
lose weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'm like, I'm cute.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You know, I'm eating this. I mean yeah, But then,
like you, you'd get tired. It goes away, it goes away. Yeah,
and you do pick your tie. I was alone last
night and I was real getting after it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah. Yeah, Okay, here's the latest weather phenomena that you
didn't know that you have to be concerned about. It's
the Saharan dust cloud. Ah, yes, did you know. I
didn't know this was a thing. There's such thing as
a Saharan dust cloud. And it smothered the Caribbean yesterday
and it's heading towards the US. It's a huge cloud
(03:21):
of dust from Africa's Sahara desert. Yeah, and it covered
the entire Caribbean yesterday. I said it both ways, in
case you have a problem with the way I say it,
Caribbean and Caribbean. I said it both ways, so don't
have me. It's marking the biggest dust event this year
at the dust Event, right. It's stretching two thousand miles
(03:43):
from Jamaica to Barbados and seven hundred and fifty miles
from Turks and caicos to Trinidad and Tobago, and it's
caused hazes, guys, sneezing, coughing, and watery eyes. Forecasters warn
people with allergies or asthma to stay indoors or wear masks.
The dust, which is part of the heron air layer,
is expected to reach Florida, Louisiana, Alabama in Mississippi by
(04:04):
the weekend, but it will be less dense. The dust
can block some sunlight and stop tropical storms from forming
during a hurricane season, which runs through November thirtieth. I've
never heard of this. We're all scared now of a
dust cloud.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Dust cloud, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It can travel, So what is happening? If you have
a pet, then I don't know what you sort of
estimated that it would cost to own Benzo or Lux
or or any of your animals that you guys have,
but I guess the average answer has been for cats
fifty seven hundred bucks and for dogs eighty one hundred
(04:42):
dollars to own for fifteen years. Now they're saying the
real number, though, is three times that, according to a
survey that came out today, and that depends on what
type of food you buy, you know, vet bills, how
sick your dog or cat gets, and how much you
spoil them. Caring for a cat now costs an We're
from twenty grand, they say, to forty seven thousand dollars
(05:04):
over the life of your cat. For dogs, it's twenty
two grand to juiced under sixty one thousand dollars. Yeah,
whoa to have a dog for fifteen years? That's thirteen
hundred bucks a year for cats to fifteen hundred dollars
a year for dogs. They say, something like a rabbit
can cost over one thousand dollars annually. I thought they
were always sick. I thought rabbits got sick a lot.
(05:25):
And I've never owned a rabbit.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, I don't know much much about rabbits.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I don't know. Would you say, though, would you say
you spend fifteen hundred bucks a year on menzo.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
One hundred percent? Well, yeah, because you get like the
shots and the heartworm and all of that at the vaccines.
Plus like if you do any grooming for them, that
costs a buck. So now I got to like go
in the backyard with a hoe. Is because I don't,
I don't I can't really afford to do it all
the time, and he's a stinky boy. But honestly, like
if it's sixty one thousand whatever you said, for the lifetime, Like, bro,
that is like another kid.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You're right, you know, it's kind of heading up.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's never family member.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Our hats and outfits over here you putting on lucks. Yep,
that stuff all costs money.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh yeah, his wardrobe. His mental health service is his nails,
his teeth, entertainment.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Travel.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
There's a Chinese newspaper called Youth Daily, and they did
a story on how young people in China are paying
five dollars a day to pretend they have a job.
So you pay five bucks, you go to a shared office,
but you don't do any actual work because it's all
a ruse. This is also you don't have to tell
your friends and family that you're unemployed. So the job
(06:27):
was rat in China is only five percent, but youth
unemployment's more like seventeen percent. So I guess a lot
of people just that they pay money, They go sit
at a desk, it's Wi Fi and coffee and they're
pretending to work. They will even assign you fake tasks.
So if anyone asked what you did at work today.
You can show them an email and say I did
this or I worked on this project. There are even
(06:49):
places that have fake bosses and you can pay extra
to have fake fights with them, like maybe they were
roots you in an email or whatever, and then they apologize.
You can go tell all your friends like, all my
workplace is so terrible, whatever, whatever it sounds like. Most
people then pay the five bucks and then go and
try and find a real job. But apparently this is
cheaper than sitting at a coffee shop all day and
(07:11):
pretending that you have a job when you in fact
do not. And we've done I think we've done stories
about this before in the past. But I wonder if
anyone out there has ever had to fake that they
had a job until they did have a job, so
that they didn't have to tell, you know, go home
and tell their wife or you know whatever, kids whomever,
that they don't have a job.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
We did a Sarah go like that, I remember, and
he would like be missing. He would go he would
leave for work quote unquote during the day. We were
like where did you go? And he would go to
like the library and just sit all day.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I know about a number of people over the years
who've lied about the circumstances as to why they don't
have a job. Oh yeah, Oh they'll say that this
is what happened, but they got fired, or they'll say that,
you know, oh I got laid off or this or
that thing happened, but really they screwed up. And I've
heard about that happening before because they're too embarrassed to
tell their partner that they messed their job up as
(08:00):
opposed to just telling the truth. But I ever heard
of that one before. An Uber driver had shared that
some drivers eat customers fries and other behind the scenes things. Now,
you were DoorDash driver at one point, Jason was, and
you say that you were never you were tempted, but
you never actually went with eating anyone's food.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Because it's like all you do is smell their people's food.
So like I would just get so hungry, and then
when there would be something that was really good, like
five guys, I'd be like, oh, like the fries smells so,
you know, fills up your car.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So I would get doing that because I think I
would go in there and I would wind up ordering
food at these places, like well, I'm here.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I once a taco bell I was like, well, I'm
waiting for this order. I might as well just go
to this Kioskin order something for myself.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Get somebody. Yeah, while we're here, said the problem is
in places a night, so it's like, oh, I guess
that's the other thing too, is you're spending all the
money that you're making.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
How do you not eat the fries though? Like, I
can't ride with fries in my car and not just
have a couple.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
It's hard, It's very hard.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah. The guy admitted that he's taken fries from people's
orders in the past, but doesn't do it often. He
says he tries to remain professional, but sometimes he's tempted
to take food from orders that aren't fully sealed or closed,
especially if he's stuck in traffic. He says he also
punishes impolite customers by taking his time getting to their
home to complete the order. He said, if someone asked
(09:22):
him where are you or to hurry up, he will
purposefully slow down. He said that people increase their chances
of getting their food on time if they tip and
say thank you. That's the only problem I have with
tipping ahead and I do it, but you get whatever
service you get ran Like I've had it. I've had
it where they like they take the tip, but then
(09:44):
they don't actually bring it to my door. They leave
it somewhere else or whatever whatever, and it's like, wait
a minute, I'm not going to take the tip away
because I'm not that much of a savage, but like
the tip he is. I mean, if you do, like
an awesome job and it shows up quickly and to
my door whatever I've paid for, well, then I'd be
more likely give you a bigger tip than to what
I'm gonna give you up front, right, But then I
sometimes I'll give you the tip up I mean, I
(10:05):
always give the tip up front, and then they don't
do the thing all the way. You're like, wait a minute,
well you got your tip, so why are you lazy
bring it all the way to me? And toilet paper, guys,
you can tell it's a slow news day with toilet
paper might be a thing of the past. Environmental concerns
are growing, and studies reveal the producing a single roll
of toilet paper consumes thirty seven gallons of water. The
(10:26):
industry heavily relies on virgin forests, contributing to deforestation and
climate change. So what are the solutions. The solutions are
of a day, So everybody would have a bidet in
their house, and I guess that would then negate the
need for toilet paper. But then how do you walk
around like a little low, wet little butt. Yes, you
walk around like a wet little booty. That way we
(10:47):
spray the booty down. Okay, so everything's good. But then
I gotta walk around with wet booty. No, I gotta
dry it off somehow exactly, okay, and I gotta check court.
It's like if I if I did my deal with
the bidet, okay, fine, but then I got a double
I need like some quality assurance that like we are
in fact good right, yes, So I don't know about that.
And then the other thing would be reusable cloth toilet paper.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Come on, now, I.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Don't think I could do that either. Maybe if it
were just me, maybe, But like in a house you
got like a bag full of like I don't know
who this is, let's watch.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
It throw up of a poop cloth filled bag in
my house. I mean, like that's just I don't care
if it's my poop or any I.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
We gotta find a different way.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We got to find the environment.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, but I don't mind paper.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No, It's National Leggs Day, and it's National Chocolate Macaroon Day,
Macaroon Day. Paul in his birthday, We'll be birthday pee,
thank you. Going to Hooters tonight, huh.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You know it?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Big night, the usual here, I come, Big night, kigy high. Hey,
I mean it's here on the front of the text
eight five five five night three five blogs and just
a second Paulina gets a birthday blog the Entertainer Report
after that, what's in there?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
We are talking new music as well as the most
well rounded concert lineup.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Dare I say of all time of all time? You
dare you dared to say it? And you said it,
and I dare you to say it again.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
It is the most well rounded concert lineup of all time.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Tomorrow on the show Game Show Wednesday, Kiki Karaoke one
hundred and fifty bucks in the showdown New Waiting by
the phone Tomorrow morning is well come them night. Yeah,
they talk better than they excited. Tell me. These are
the radio blogs on the Fred shows. Like for writing
in our diaries, except we say them aloud. We call
them blogs. Paulina the Birthday Girl go.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Thank you so much, dear blog, Thank you everybody you know.
Thank you my Fred Show family, not coworkers, my family,
as I am really progress as I get older, I am.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
We're friends to family.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's the upgrade in life, right and you guys are
my family. So thank you for making my birthday so special.
You guys do a great job every year. But thank
you so much. Like I just I love birthdays and
celebrating and stuff, which it's so beautiful to me. And
thank you to our amazing thirteen listeners for all the
love and birthday shout outs and you know, all the
Instagram comments that's so sweet. I see it. Also, thank you.
And one more really cool thing on my birthday that
(13:15):
I didn't realize was coming out today, but something I've
unlocked a new level to my paulinaists, which is insane
because I've dreamt about this since I was in college.
Because you know, Fred and I not the same college,
not the same year, but we both are English majors.
And that is something that I flex on people with yea, yeah, yeah,
(13:37):
I was first, that's true, yes, yes, yes, and but
like everyone's always like, oh, you know English major, like
what do you do with that? It's like, well, no,
I really didn't do nothing with it. I mean I
do radio, which is amazing, but like in English, in English,
but like you know, I've always depends on the day
whether I see Paulina at you and that's you know,
its own like uncoding that you got to do to
(13:57):
sometimes understand me. But I have always wanted to do
some form of like writing in my life because I've
always kind of liked it. When I started in radio.
Actually at IC, I did like blogging was the thing
that kind of got me in the door to Uice radio.
So my first published article my guest to hop as
they call it, right, I'm a guest contributor to a site.
(14:19):
It's called Hip Latina and it's like very it's lifestyle entertainment,
you know what I mean, stuff like that. I'll think
of it almost like a Cosmo, but like the Latin
version if you use it and English in.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
English woex tips and positions.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Not my article, and that's just one not next month, yeah,
next month's issue. Yeah yeah, But I'm so excited because
I was asked to write an article basically about parenting,
but also like about what it's like to be I'm
very vocal about this being a Nosabo kid, right, so
like not speaking completely fluent Spanish, but trying to teach
my daughter fluent Spanish. So a lot of moms, a
(14:53):
lot of people can relate to this, especially if like
you were born here but your parents weren't right, or
maybe like your third generation, so it's like how you
keep culture, how do you keep language in the family,
And also like as a kid who I'm learning to write?
My daughter and I were both learning, you know, we
both are picking up those Spanish books and learning things together.
Obviously I know a little more than my daughter because
she's also one, so there's not much that she says.
(15:15):
You try to get her happy birthday, and she gave
you happy. We got happy.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That's how I got.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But I am so excited that they decided to publish
on my birthday. But I'm so excited they gave me
the opportunities to do this because I feel like I'm
in my Carrie Bradshaw era.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I couldn't I couldn't help. But wonder when is my
first article ever going to happen? And it's today, it's
coming out.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Mister Big. Who's he going to be?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, mister big?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah yeah, she got her mister Big chasing around for.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Man, I don't know see now I.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Don't know no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah see I'm like the married h what is
it called? Carrie Bradshaw? But and like it's just crazy
because I always wanted to like write an article and
be a little writer in my little room, my little laptop.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
How do people see it? What the website?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So it's on Hip Latina dot com. I'm going to
collaborate them on their instagram, so if you follow them,
then hopefully you see mine vice versa.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
And speaking of hip latinas, can we just shout out
Mama z Cosina. Yes, yeah, she's a local to the
Chicagoland area, but m O m m A z Cosina.
She we have a tradition on the Friend Show for
some reason that we get Puerto Rican food for everyone's birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Do we have it?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
We have it?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We have it.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
She'd sent us new stuff this time.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We have we have it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We see here to the back.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
We're this up right now. We got to get to
the Entertainer Report. Next Fred Show
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