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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the thing on Reddit. It was on a
front page this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
All the other crap that's going on today, this is
what I saw and it jumped out of me, and
I'm appalled. Did people memorize numbers before mobile phones? So
you've got people that are alive now that are asking
the question, what did you do before you had a
mobile phone that had phone numbers in it? Of course
you memorize numbers, yes, And I.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Feel ancient for saying that.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
But you know, all of us in this room lived
in a time where you had to memorize numbers. I
had to know my obviously my home phone number. I
had to know all my parents' numbers, like their office
or whatever mobile phone if they had one. And I
guess you could save numbers, but it wasn't like it
is now. You probably knew all your best friend's numbers, right, yeah,
But this is what I want to know. And every

(00:48):
now and again we do this, and I'm amazed. But
what comes to mind? Eight five, five, five, nine, one
one oh three five you can call it text the
same number. But kids of the two thousands, like that
were born in the two thousands, they'll never understand a
lot of things like they'll never truly appreciate. Like yesterday,
I was wearing my Blockbuster shirt that you guys got me,
and I was in the elevator of the building and

(01:09):
I'm man, i'd never seen before, said, you know, my
ex wife worked at Blockbuster, but I had to divorce
her when she lost her job because she wasn't contributing
to the family.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I don't think he was serious, but I guess I
guess his ex wife did work at Blockbuster at one point.
But but no one but but maybe I thought it
was a cue.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It was a random story that was very random because
he told he told me he was in Crystal Lake.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I'm assuming it was when she was a child.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
But my point is, you no one will appreciate, no
one will understand the joy that is. You know, Friday afternoon,
Friday night, your parents drive you a Blockbuster video and
for those who don't even know what that is, you
pull up in front.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know, you go in there.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's just a it's a magical, bright, beaming box and
you walk in there and in the world is your oyster.
You can have anything. Anything was possible, right, Maybe it
would be a funny movie. Maybe it would be a
serious movie. Maybe it was a new movie. If I
was able to get there fast enough, maybe, you know,
because it could have been sold out. And if it
was gone, then it was free. Remember it was like

(02:10):
in stock or it's free.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh yeah, why do I know that? Because I worked there?
You get a video game? I mean it was a
big deal. Can you remember the joy that was pulling
up in front of Blockbuster? Now you'll never the kids
these days will never know that because now it's on Netflix,
and even last night, I'm going through the thing going,
I don't know, there's nothing to watch. I got six
streaming services, Like there's five million things that I could
be watching, and I'm like no, But you'll never understand

(02:33):
the joy of pulling up in front of Blockbuster. I
mean what comes to mind though, when you think the
kids these days will never really be able to appreciate
or understand.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
They can't play Ding Dong Ditch and they never use
the payphone.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, the ring camera screwed everything up. Yeah, you can't
ding Dong ditch. You can't like TP somebody's house anymore.
You can't pass gas on your way into somebody's house.
You know, like if you got one and you're like,
I don't know. You can't be talking back on your
way in either, Like if you're you know, I don't
know your your your spouse brings you to you know,
the coworker Molly's house on Friday, and you get the
bottle of wine, You're like, I don't want to be

(03:08):
here like in just an hour. Okay, you can't do
that anymore because now the ring cameras capturing.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
All of this.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, I know you're coming before you were even there,
just because of my phone, Like it'll ding ding when
someone's like literally approaching the door, so you can't ding
down ditch me?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
What about you guys though, Like like if you had
a kid today, they'd never understand appointment television.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I get so excited for like Disney Channel Friday Night,
New Original Movie whatever. Yeah, Like no, Gigi's got it
right now on her Netflix Click.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Apartment's right there, and they're running.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
During the commercials like you had to go get your snacks,
you had.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
A pee, you had to do it all before the
commercial was over. You can't pause it. She'll never know that,
And I'm sad for her.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I really am.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Or I'll take it way back when you wanted to
know what time your show was going to be on,
and you had to go to the TV guide channel watch.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yes, right with that music.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Now that's really old timing. I have to admit I
was really young for that. But let me see here
I'm going through. There's a list of these things, CDs.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Sydney, Hi, Sydney, Hey, how are you Greg?

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Good morning kids. These days they're never gonna understand it,
but kiss these days do.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Not understand the chaos of Black Fridays.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
So I've honestly never done on Black Friday. Like I've
really never done the thing where I wait outside of
a target for a flat screen TV, you know, with
a tent or something like, I've never done that before.
I guess I'm privileged, I don't know, or I'm willing
to pay for fifty bucks and not get tackled for
a flat screen TV.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Are they less crazy than they used to be?

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Well, I mean like now the stores don't even open
and you know until like they're regular hours. They don't
even do like the midnight release, the one am release,
the two am release online, so like yeah, or it's
all online right like Amazon Cyber Monday.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Everything that's all you know that kids really know these days,
They don't know the chaos of these releases happening, not
these like crazy deals you can only get on Black
Friday and their parents going out to get their Christmas
presents on Black Friday, or you know whatever it is.
It's just so different now.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
I feel like Target Legal had to say no more
of this midnight stuff because people are getting aimed for
a blender. Yeah, so now we can't do this anymore.
You gotta go to the website. Thank you, Sidney, have
a great day. Yeah, as you called, Hey, Mike, good morning, Mike,
Good morning. How are you, Mike? I don't think you
have to good Thanks for calling, by the way, for listening.
You don't have to be that old to appreciate the

(05:30):
kids these days will not to be able to what.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
So only being thirty six. I remember going to the
movie theaters as a kid, and when your parents needed
to pick you up, you'd call them on the payphone,
and for those two seconds where it'd say the collect call,
what's your name, you would say, I'm a booth theaters,
come pick me up, and then hang up. Fuck.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh see.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I bet there people who don't even want to collect college,
there is a way. There were a couple different ways.
You'd call the operator, or you could call like one
one hundred. Collect was big when we were young. And
then you would then say I want to call somebody.
They'd call them for you, and the person who picked
up the phone could agree to accept the charges if
you didn't have like a quarter. But yeah, you could
use that little time where you're supposed to say your
name to be like come pick me up, you know,

(06:10):
and then yeah, because you didn't have any money, yeah,
I see, it'll never happen.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Find a payphone, nope.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
Or when the pagers came out and you got to
bring your parents pagers with you.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh yeah, i'll pagers.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
If you had a pager when I was going up
that you were you were com big deal.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah you have the clear one though, you had to
have the clear one. You had to have the clear one.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, thank you, Mike, have a good day, all right,
thank you?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, because yeah, if you had a page, because
this is before cell phones, like we're readily available, I
give you had a pager like what's up?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
You know? Hey?

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah right hey zen, hey en see this this is
another one kids, He says, We'll never understand.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Having to get off the internet so that your mom
or your dad or someone.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Can make a call. That ruined my childhood.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
I was talking to my crush Aim and had to
get off the worst.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, because the people don't realize. And by the way,
I think we did the story. A few months ago,
AOL just dropped that service, so there were people out
there still using it. But you could steal up until
a couple of months ago, dial up to AOL. But yeah,
you had to use the phone to get on the internet.
And if you only had one line and whatever on
the phone, nobody could call anybody.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I miss Aim, Like, you can be down to chat, Like.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
You can say, okay, I'm ready to talk to my friends,
or I'm having a way message, I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Talk to my That was amazing. That was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
We'd like it if you'd get back from high school
or cards or whatever, and it would be like there'd
be like people who left you messages.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
It was so exciting. Yeah, yeah, bring it back. Yeah,
thank you, Zedd day. Yeah, love you guys, Love you too.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Hey, Brenda, Hi, Hey, good morning Brenda.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Kids. These days I'll never understand it, and.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I don't understand it myself.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Ever.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Get in the car and go anywhere without Google Map?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh can you remember that?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
So you didn't have GPS in the car, so you
had to like print it out. You had to type
in the address before you left, printed out, and then
you had paper instructions that you would follow. I mean,
people are listening to this, not going this is this
is this is madness.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
What's where was you?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:21):
No, you had to look at a paper map.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Right, Oh that was one step further.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah right, you had to have an
act listen in a sexton. Thank you, Brenda, have a
good day. Glad you called ROBERTA.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, Hi. Kids these days won't understand, they.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Won't understand how easy it was to be sneaky because
nowadays everybody has like ring ring doorbells.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
There's cameras everywhere.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's like I remember back in my day, we used
to go daytime.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yes, ma'am, right, well you get that.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
You have the family was a family three sixty life
apps where you know, it's like where are you?

Speaker 1 (09:01):
What are you doing? Find my friends?

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:04):
All this stuff.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, you can't be messing with in someone's basement at
like what twelve pm.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Cut in school?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
We're at nine o'class glove, Okay, you guys were there first.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Then when you trust me, look at you. Thank you, ROBERTA.
I have a good day.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, I mean it's much harder to lie now, it's
very hard, much harder to lie. Hey, Jazz, oh my god,
I forgot about this. Chazz hi by guys dcs will
never understand.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
On a calling movie phone and trying to get the
times when the movie starts.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
We're having to call the movie theater itself.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
It's like I want to go see you know, Batman
or whatever. It's like, okay, what time is it? I
don't know, you get to call it. It's like there's
like an answering machine or on a hundred movie phone guy.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, Then when you actually missed the you know, your movie,
you have to wait until the entire thing goes all
over again.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
That was like that was like the TV guide thing.
It was like, no, I just wanted to see what
time TRL was, you know, or or the grind was on.
I just wanted to see. Thank you, Jaz, have a
good day. Do you have what it takes to battle
show Biz Shelley in the show Biz showdown. Hi, Showbiz, Hi,

(10:21):
good morning, good morning. How are you feeling after a
large wind streak is snapped and big checks are written?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I always a nervous. I'm always a little bit nervous
the days after I lose. And then of course you've
never lost two in a row, so you know, I know,
trust me, ool got sure.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, it could be bad. Kim is here to try
and make history. Hi, Kim, Hi, how are you?

Speaker 6 (10:47):
Kim?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Good morning? Tell me something about you. Fun fact about
Kim is what.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well I live in Skokim and nurse Oh oh gosh.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
I can't really think I've always wanted to be on
this show when you were on the show.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's all downhill from here, I tell you. Maybe the baby,
oh thank you. Yeah, he's almost gosh, he's six months now.
So yeah, yeah, where you been, Kim? I mean you
could have called six months ago. I want to take
you. You so long, I'm not sure you've been busy a
little bit? Yeah, okay, fair enough? Yes, five questions. So
we record seventy one losses and that she's never lost two.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
In a row.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Good luck, guys, all right, good luck, you gotta go, Shelley,
after the sound boof poof kim, here we go. Question
number one, Taylor Frankie Paul was announced as the next bachelorette.
What brought Taylor to fame?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Mormon wife?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I think okay?

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Selena Goelman said that she suffers from arthritis, which which
influenced the packaging for her beauty brand name the brand
where Beauty. This Watch What Happens Live host said he
credits his weight loss to micro dosing GLP one drug.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh one, Andy, Andy Cohen, I.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Think it was.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think it was after. I think it was after
which Tesla no sorry sorry, which Tesla founder was dethroned
as the world's richest person this week, and the NFL
find Jalen Carter fifty seven grand for spitting on Cowboys
quarterback Dak Prescott. Which NFL team does he play for?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I don't know if we have What do we think about?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Three?

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Guys, Jason, You're the rule, You're the rule guys? After Okay,
what do we think about one? Because it wasn't like
a full situation.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
But it was close. One I'm okay with but three
I think was it definitely went and then all right, Shelley, Yeah,
how she did four and like just micro seconds from
a five. She's very good. No, she's very good. But Jason,
we have to have we have to have it adult
in a room. Okay, and for some reason, somehow with you,

(12:56):
I'm not sure how that happened.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
But okay. Question number one.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Taylor Frankie Paul was announced as the next bachelorette. What
brought Taylor to fame?

Speaker 1 (13:06):
The Secret Lives of Mormon? Why, Yeah, that's correct. Selena Gomessa.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
She suffers from arthur ritis, which influenced the packaging for
her beauty brand name, the brand Rare Beauty. Yeah, this
what's what happens Live host said he credits his weight
loss to micro dosing a GLP one drug. Andy Cohen,
which Tesla founder, was dethroned as the world's richest person
this week. I hope someone's watching out for him, checking on.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
I know Elon muff.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, and the NFL find Jalen Carter fifty seven grands
for spitting on Cowboys quarterback Deck Prescott. Which NFL team
does Jalen play for?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh no, the Eagles. Yeah, that's five. That's a clean win.
I'm sorry. There's no controversy here. Kim. You did a
great job yesterday.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
You will yeah, but you did a really, really good job.
We're very proud of you. I hope it was a
good experience that you you wanted to do this for
so long. But you have to say, my name is Kim.
I got showed up on a showdown. You know the rest.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah, my name is Kim.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
I got put up on the show down. And I
cannot hang with the gorilla.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
You were even good at that. You were good at
that to Kim with that got real. Cat can't get cat. Kim,
you are the girl.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Cato say.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
I love you, guys.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
I love you all of you guys, and especially Cheeky.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
I love your new addition to the show.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
So please you know what you call any don't know
why I took you so well, You call anytime you want.
We love having you on. Hang on a second, okay,
thank you? All right, stay right there. I don't want
to hear the controversy. Get off the text. Get off
the text because one was a little shaky and three
was after the buzzer. That's the rules. Jason makes the
rules as we go. It says it in the rules

(14:56):
that Jason can make the rules.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
It does final.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Decision, jurisdiction, and we try and hook up everybody all
the time, so I don't want to hear it one
fifty tomorrow we number a one thousand and fifty three
in a one game win streak.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Shelley, Okay, well it's something. Yeah, no, no, we're back
on track.

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