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September 26, 2025 31 mins

A woman in the Bay Area has bought billboards in the hopes of finding "Mr. Right". Plus, the crew gets nostalgic after talking about book fairs!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The biggest stories of the day. Like Pauline is rubbing
off on you. I'll call mom of Fred, yes, and
then she'll make you do that. Think, oh, yes, I
don't think so I know.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
To call that's right, Ladies, call his mom. All I'm
gonna say.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
To stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, that's not good.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
You don't call someone's mom has grown up to get
them to do the thing that you want them to do.
You don't do that, Paulina.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
It might be a less resort if you're a husband.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
No, you do it all the time.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
It could be a less resort thing.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
I'm saying, like, if nothing else works, and nothing does work,
they got to call his mom let him know.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Maybe if it's.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Not working, there's a reason and there's another path, you know,
you know, Okay, all right, well, I mean listen, I'm I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Pro talking to the mom for sure.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Maybe you're just not right about something.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hey, you know what, I never considered that.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I know, I know, I know, I know that maybe
Hobby's right about something sometimes occasionally.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Maybe Hobby has boundaries.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Occasionally, Well so do I Why I call his mom
and we discussed No, that is unboundaries.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
That is, in fact the opposite of boundaries. But no,
you know you don't call my mom.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Don't call my mommy, No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I brought you.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I brought you into this family, and I'll take you out. Okay,
I have to call. I'll change your phone number. I
don't want sad news. An Asian man hacked your phone too.
An Asian man hacked her Facebook and her phone, and
she's no longer reachable to you for requests about the wedding.
I mean, I am a Benny Hannah chef, I'm certified.
But no, I will not cook at your wedding. I won't.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
You won't no private dinner form and I I just cause.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
You don't make up put up salts on a food
and you're out.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
You're trying not to cut my hand off at my
be the chef night at Benny Hannah and and Kiki
over here is like, I don't know, it's not salted properly. Really,
that's funny because I was trained for thirty two minutes
on lighting things on fire in front of my friends.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I can't believe you actually did. That was the funniest thing.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Oh, I was so excited, it was it was great.
I was so excited.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
You had the outfit on, you were juggling the eggs.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
It was he trying to.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Ruin my night and he couldn't. He couldn't have been done.
You couldn't have been done. Oh no, we had a time.
There was no greater I could think of a few
greater things I've ever done than when I got to
cook at Benny Hanna.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
And that's a fact.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
There was Then I played Bozo Buckets, Yes one n
I got to throw the first pitch out at the
Winston Salem Dash game. Wait that was that was the
night that the veteran was before me. Oh yeah, very
very very deserving veteran, Yes, who practiced standing up from
his wheelchair for a year to throw the pitch you followed.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
It was terrible.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was wonderful and it was terrible at the same time.
It was like, you guys set me up.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
They should have saved him for last Oh absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
No.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Then if you've not heard the story before, so we uh,
you know, were on North Carolina. We were on in
Greensboro at the time, and they say, hey, comes in
to Winston Salem, Dad, You're gonna throw out the first
pitch of the game. It's a very exciting fireworks Night's
Friday night. Like Okay, So I go to this thing
and like a lot of these games, there's there's more
than one first pitch. There's like other first pitches like
sponsors and whatever, and then there's the first pitch, right,

(03:22):
So I was the first pitch, Like we had a
couple pitches ahead.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Of you, and then you're gonna gonna announce you and
you're gonna go out there. Ever one's gonna clap and
it's gonna be great. You canna throw the first pitch
and then you're gonna be you know, famous, And I'm like, okay, cool.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
So I'm out there like we got one ahead of you,
would say to military salute. I'm like immediately this is
not good, like this is we I don't need to
be going after a meet like we can just I'm like, hey,
we're good, like no, no, no, it's great. So they show
is this man. I think he was like a Vietnam or,
I don't know, an older gentleman, much older gentleman.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
He was in a wheel chair.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
He had his hat, you know, you know the hat
that veterans wear that's you know whatever, and so they
he had like a caretaker and he was in a chair,
and they wheel him up the you know, ramp, and
then they wheel him out in the Felasian gentleman, you know,
veteran of many wars and hero to many people, Steve
or whatever his name was. And so they wheel him
out and everyone stands, and they turned the caretaker, turned

(04:14):
his wheelchair towards the plate, you know. They took him
out near the mound. And then there is no joke.
It took about fifteen minutes, Matt ten. It Tookhi about
ten minutes as he tried to rise and then would
sit again and then tried to rise it and then
his daughter, granddaughter whispers to me, he's been practicing this
for a year.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh my heart.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
And so finally he was able to stand. This isn't funny, Giky.
It's only funny because it's me. He was able to stand,
and he threw the ball a little ways, you know,
and then people are crying. People are like, I mean,
it was like clapping, It was emotional.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
It was like no, it was like my tears. I
mean literally, people like, oh my god, it's oh my god.
The woman who set it up just texted me, she's
listening right now. Oh wow, Oh this is incredible. God
bless you, our country and the whole thing. And I
keep you not. I go to the person from the
team and I go, we don't have to do this,
like I gotta go. I gotta go, I gotta.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Go, Like, can we just see it's cool, I'll come
back another time. They're like, oh no, it's happening now,
and oh my god, this is anything. And then they
wheeled this guy off and they're like, and now the
loser DJ for the radio station, and the people are like, whatever,
now you're paying attention. Now they're getting their tissues out,
they're trying to redo their makeup. It was a beautiful
moment for him and a terrible moment for me. I

(05:33):
just went out there. I'm like, okay, great, here, just
take it. I don't know, here's the ball.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Did you at least have a good pitch.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was a good pitch, but nobody was watching because
they were too busy, like donating to the you know
usl or whatever. They ran to the kiosk to donate
to our soldiers, like you know, they were There's no
way they were paying.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
It was terrible.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
That it was a wonderful moment, it was a terrible
moment all at the same time. And I just want
to thank Carolyn Carver for setting that up. Can we
next time, Carolyn? Can She doesn't work for us anymore,
But next time, can you ask who else is on
the survivor of nuclear war? And then you know you
gotta ask these questions ahead of time.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm all right, Jason Brown.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Hello, I don't know if we have a full telly
of your picks, but they're not great.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
But last week they were except we found out that
you didn't do them.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, you don't get it into the Bella and then
Bella well she basically it was a little sloppy, to
be honest with you, and you were called out. Now
nobody would have known. Nobody would have known, but we
do know. Now did you pick these yourself?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yes? These are from my own brain.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Can you raise raise your hand in under oath to say, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I made all these decisions myself.

Speaker 6 (06:40):
A Scouts of America whatever, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, because you were an altar. I know you weren't
a boy scout, but you were an altar boy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
I actually was a cub scout for a little bit.
I was chilling, so the den leader had to go
to rehab. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Also one of my favorite stories.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
That's a true story too.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah I was I was a Cub scout for a
short time and then the troop leader had to go
to rehab.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
So it would be funny.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I might write that book. I might write one.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, Week four NFL picks Jason Brown, our sports reporter,
Seahawks Cardinals. Ooh, Cardinals not off to a good start.
That was last night they lost. I'll tell you what
there's I'm gonna give you a tip, sports reporter. There's
a Thursday night game. Okay, you could get a little
one up on everybody. If you go cheat, you ain't

(07:25):
gonna clock me.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Okay. So we're already ohing one on a game that
already happened. Grantity. I think it happened at the last
minute on the field goals. So there's that.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Part.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
I would have picked the Cardinals to actually, But anyway,
Viking Steelers, Steelers, that's eight thirty in the morning. That's
in like Germany or something. Oh, it's somewhere. It's in Europe, somewhere.
Where is it?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh, it's yesterday.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Is in Berlin. Let me see, it's in Dublin. It's
in Dublin. Yes, it is. Eagles, Buccaneers, Eagles, Chargers, Giants,
m Charger, Commanders, Falcons, Uh, Falcons, colt Rams.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
The Rams.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
We're gonna go with the Rams, Bears, Raiders, Bears, Uh, Packer, Packers, Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Nation? Baby? Why? Though?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't understand, like, okay, Titans sections, Uh, Titan.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
You don't like Texas that much? I guess.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Panthers, Patriots, Uh, we gotta go with the Panthers, Saints, Bills, MMM, Bills, Browns, Lions, Lions, Jaguars.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
It's about time.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Four and Ravens, Chiefs, Chiefs and the Monday Night games, Jets, Dolphins,
Jets and Bengals, Broncos and Broncos of.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Barcelona.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yea, the Barcelona Broncos in the National Football League. You
no that it's exciting?

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah? Yeah, okay, Hey, I believe it. Guys, Amazon Owes,
you use some money?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Really?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
How about that? Amazon Owes use some money.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
They've agreed to pay historic two point five billion dollars settlement.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's only the other way around.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm always giving Amazon money with the Federal Trade Commission
after it was accused of tricking customers into buying subscriptions
for its Prime membership. The settlement comes just days into
the trial between the e commerce giant and federal regulators.
Under the agreement, Amazon will pay a billion dollars civil
penalty and provide one point five billion in refunds to

(09:42):
an estimate thirty five million customers who were harmed by
their deceptive Prime enrollment practices, the agency said in the
press release. The lawsuit was filed in twenty twenty three
under the Biden administration over the company's cancelation policy.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
So there's some stipulations.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I think you have to have not used Prime more
than three times in a year or something like.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I don't know, you have to go look it up.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
But you might be entitled to fifty bucks from Amazon,
which you would then, of course proceed to spend on Amazon.
So I'm sure it will be fine. Kiki, Yeah, I
guess it's official. No word if they've said anything to
the Chinese people. But President Donald Trump signed an executive
order on Wednesdays approving the TikTok sale to US America

(10:22):
or US, American US Americans, the US when it does
say that TikTok's US business to American owners, though China
has yet to officially approved the deal, so we signed
something that says it's done. They I don't know that
they feel that way, but anyway, the apps current Chinese
owner byke Dance, will reportedly owned nineteen point nine percent
of the new company's stock under the agreement, American users

(10:45):
Datum will be managed by Oracle about one.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
In fire and this is good news.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
By the way, We're gonna have TikTok because one in
five US adults now regularly get their news from TikTok,
which is up sharply from only three percent in twenty twenty.
So it went from three percent to twenty percent. Younger
adults see the biggest jump. Ages eighteen to twenty nine.
Forty three percent regularly use TikTok for news, which is
up from nine percent. Ages thirty to forty nine, twenty

(11:10):
five percent do up from two percent, and those fifty
to sixty four and sixty five plus numbers are much lower.
Among TikTok uses, specifically, more than half now say they
regularly get news from there, and that number has climbed
from twenty two percent to twenty twenty A lot of statistics.
But people are now going to TikTok for news, and
that's good because we're on TikTok, the Friendshow TikTok.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
You can find us there and you won't find much news.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh's lass news.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
So much news news about yes, yeah, right, news right,
news about the dude you know shows up drunk to
his dad and yeah, that kind of news. Yeah, it's no,
it's the kind of news you need. Dadbod and Riz
are among five thousand words that have been added to
the Miriam Webster Dictionary.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Five thousand words. So this was the question last night.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
I was talking to some they added five thousand words
to a dictionary.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I didn't think I knew five thousand words.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
It turns out, though, that the average human knows somewhere
between thirty five and forty thousand words and uses them regularly.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
I wouldn't have guessed I knew five thousand words in
my head, and they're adding them all the time. And
by the way, he's not even a word. It's charisma.
It's short for charisma. So why we're making up words?
And putting them into or taking pieces of words and
putting them in a dictionary next to words that already exist.
And I contend this is just to make the dictionary relevant,
because when's the last time that anyone said, like, you

(12:32):
know what, I dude, I have an old copy of
the dictionary, like I need to stop by Barnes and Noble.
If I could find one and snag me a new dictionary,
I gotta have it. Beast mode, Dad, bod riz have
all been added. What else, dumb phone, which is like
the phone before iPhone era phones, like a phone that

(12:53):
didn't didn't do as much as a dumb phone. Farm
to table. That's three words, love language, side eye and
hard pass.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Okay again two words we don't need it. I know
we don't. I know we don't.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
A Bay Area woman named Lisa has rented digital billboards
along Highway one oh one, stretching from the South Bay
up to San Francisco to advertise her search for mister Wright.
The billboards director to a website, Mary Lisa dot com,
where she shares her preferences, values, lifestyle, and often offers
a dating application or an even offers rather a dating
application so that you can fill it out and she

(13:29):
can find love this way. She says that traditional dating
apps have not worked for her, so she's taking a
bolder and more public route, with hopes penned on making
this bold move payoff in love. How would you have
responded to a guy on a billboard asking for applications
for you to date him?

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Would you have ever responded to that? No?

Speaker 1 (13:51):
So do you think this will? I think guys will
do it. Guys will do because guys we're stupid, Like
if we think, you know, I'll fill it out, you know,
Like the guys are like that. Like women I think
would be like what's his soul? Like, what's his soul?
You know?

Speaker 3 (14:04):
They would looking. They would look a picture on the
billboard and be like what like if he love his mom?

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Like what you know? What's on the inside with you?
What's going on with this criminal record? Like what's his
credit score? Oh?

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
What are the top three things that you would want
to know about a man that you're looking? You don't
know anything about him, like you see a picture of
him on a billboard? Real, like real talk. Don't tell
me some stuff about oh your like what I mean,
I'm I'm like real talk credit score, like how much
is in a bank account?

Speaker 3 (14:33):
How big is dingerling is money? For sure?

Speaker 2 (14:36):
I need to know your financial situation, like.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Do you have any or if you don't, like are
you at least responsible about it?

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I need to know your financial situation.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
I need to know your health situation, and I need
to know your faith situation.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
For me, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
What do you mean by health situation? Like, if you've
got cancer, you're out? No, Like if you have if
you got the clap, you out.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
If it's you burning, you need an antibiotics.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, well hopefully you got the anim that's all you needed.
That's the least of your problems.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
I just need to know that.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, okay, all right, Kaitlin.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Because I do think that guys typically and I think
women do too, But I think guys typically will look,
I'm attracted to you, and then they'll dig into the
rest and a lot of times we'll and I hate
to be like, you know, to generalize all men, but
or stereotype, but then I think it's like sometimes if
they're hot enough, then we'll talk ourselves out.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Of the major red flags like oh you're married or
you know, do that too.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I can talk myself.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, so I think I.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Think women can do it too, which is why I
was careful to generalize. But yes, real talk top three things.
You see a dude's face on a billboard and it's
maryfred dot com.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
What do you really want to know?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
I hate to copy Kiki, but definitely finances.

Speaker 7 (15:48):
Mmurmer.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I do want to know.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Different from her health situation, I want to know, like
how you take care of yourself? How do you eat?
Do you go to the doctor regularly? Because I don't
want to beg people to go to the doctor? Mental
health management, right, that's included in health? Yeah, like do
we are you open to therapy? Are you open to
talking about your feeling?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
It takes yeah? And then m Do I go funny
or do I go serious?

Speaker 5 (16:15):
I don't know, I like would want to Can I
say that I would want to talk to their friends
or like people that know them?

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Or is that not two people are not concerned about
like how how it's going on physically, like how it's
going on in the in the bedroom.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
We can we can work that out.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well, I don't have money.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
I was gonna say that was gonna be my.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Other if you don't have any debt. We can work
with the rest of it. Jason Man's face on a billboard.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
I would have to go with job, significantly older age.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Are you are you eligible for the Golden Bachelor exactly?

Speaker 6 (16:50):
To be yeah, I have to know their height, their age.
I guess I'll go with job, and then also I'll
add another one. I want to know, like are you
an animal person, because that's like very.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
If rolls are reversed and it wasn't Lisa on the
billboard in the Bay Area, but it's a dude and
you were eligible.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
I want to know debt, like what you carry in
debt because I have so much that like.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Together, like might be homeless.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
I don't know, like you're living under that bridge, so.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
You need to be You need to have financial viability, Okay,
somebody who.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Like got it, like just their finances down lessing. I'm multimillionaire,
but like have it down you know, I don't.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
You have to have a credit score acceptable for us
to have a place to live.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Okay, yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
At this point in my life, I would say somebody
who doesn't want more kids because I don't. So for me,
it's like, you know, I got my one daughter and
that's it. So like you do know, want kids? You
can have kids, just like don't want more because I'm
not doing that with you. And then number three probably
would be if you're on anybody's list, like hit list,
like like you can't be making nobody mad FBI, FBI,
your ex girlfriend like mafia, the mafia, anybody like to know,

(17:55):
like okay, like people have it out for you, because
I don't people like that.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I stay away from len, know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
So I would want to date you because I'm not
going to be on that list with you.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
We're not bonding Clyde.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
And this is your guys, last thing in headlines because this,
by the way, this was the secondent about headlines.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
But you want to know what about you?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
God know, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
I mean I care, but I'm with you guys like,
that's not that's not maybe no, that would be maybe
fourth or fifth on the list. Independents, like are you
an independent person? Finances would be good. Finances are good
if you're counting it, they are. I would love someone

(18:39):
who makes more than me, and I know a lot
of guys for some reason are masculated by that.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's crazy to me, Like, go marry, Like I would
love somebody who's just bawling, especially somebody who's balling because
they figured out how to do it themselves. I mean,
I trust funds fine too, but then you kind of
are indebted to the family. I feel like my friends
who are married into trust funds and they didn't have
I know, I know several.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
This is not a joke.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I don't even know why this.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Is not a joke.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I know several men who married women whose families are extremely, extremely.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Wealthy, and.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
I trust me, I've asked all those questions. No, and
I think for those guys, it's like and most of
them were strong men, but it's like, Okay, I make
I make X, I went to school for four years,
I made this much money, and I married somebody who's
worth millions of dollars. And it's like, the families are nice,
but they know that everything that you have, they're providing
essentially even if it wasn't their parents' generation that made

(19:34):
the money. A lot of times it was grandpa or
before that. But there's still this judgment that like, and
I think even confident men are Like the budget was
based on what my wife has not based on what
I can provide, and so I think it's just a
weird feeling to know that, like you're living well outside
your means and not because you provided it. And I

(19:55):
know people are listening not going that's crazy. I would
love somebody who is super rich and they just pay
for everything. But it's almost like you're you're having to
ask for permission for the from the family for everything,
and then you're you owe them stuff, like if they
bought the house because dad, you know, started a construction
company that builds, you know, gigantic buildings or whatever, then
they're coming over whenever they want and you're not telling

(20:16):
them no, yep, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Like the boundaries are are are messed up a little
bit there, so.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
She needs to have her own money independent.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I think that would be cool.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
And then close with family okay, a good family relationship okay,
And if there's not a good family relationship, then there
need to be a clear reason why, okay, because family
is important. And then the animal thing too, But I
don't know, I kind of put that in with family
because it's all one and the same, and I might
get into the advent calendar game this year, I'm thinking about.
There's a lot of cool Advent calendars out there. There's

(20:45):
a whole industry with this. You can get ones that
have little bottles of Scotch in it. I don't really
drink scotch. I don't really drink anymore. But you can
get all kinds of different ones. But this one, Costco
is selling a five foot linked Advent calendar, so they
drop it's five feet long. I guess it's chocolate Advent calendar.
If you're not familiar with this, it's a Catholic thing.
I don't really know the whole history behind it, but

(21:07):
it's you know, every day leading up to Christmas, you
open like a little compartment and there's a little gift
in there is the premise counting down to Christmas. And
I don't know why we're giving gifts or where that
all came from. I'm sure somebody can explain to me
the history of it. But now they've got all different ones.
Like growing up, we had ones they didn't necessarily have
anything in them. They were just it was just fun
every day to like count down to Christmas. And now

(21:28):
you know that you've got dog toys in them, you've
got chocolate in them.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
You got alcohol makeup.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
There's one I know that that has makeup in it,
like Sephora makes it or something a Mac or somebody.
But it is the Mega Advent Calendar. It features full
size lint chocolates including Truffles, Bars and Bears one hundred
and eighty nine bucks and it's only available at select
Costco stores.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
They had a wine Advent calendar at Costco.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
I don't know if you mentioned that or not, but
someone gave me that one year and that was fun.
And it's a German person or people a ridge needed
the Advent calendar in the nineteenth century. They used to
do markings in chalk, and then a German explorer brought
it over here and now we do the thank you.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
You're welcome, thank you.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
A lot of fun facts in here, guys, a lot
of fun fact we talked about the words that you know,
talked about Advent calendars.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, the German credit shout out, get shout out to
the German Protestants.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Absolutely, it's National pancake tape, the National Johnny Apple Seed Day.
I think every year we look it up. I don't
know why we're celebrating, Hey, a happy day, Johnny Appleseed.
These are the radio blogs on the Fred Show. So
it's like we're writing in our diaries, except we say
them a loud. We call them blogs. Paulina go, thank
you so much, dear blog.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
I know we talk about this a lot as adults,
adults in the room, sometimes that's what we are.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
But the thing is, you know, when you're grown up.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
And you look back at stuff from your childhood or
things that you know kids might or might not have today,
the experiences I get a lot of like nostalgia and
just like these feelings of wanting to go back into
time because now that I have a couple of dollars
in my pocket, not money.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
But a couple of dollars, I want to go back.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
And do things again right, or like bring things back
now at this big age and mine. My new thing
that I'm like the new hill I'm dying on, is
I want to bring back those scholastic book fairs.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh yes, oh yeah, I remember this.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
At school.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
They used to have, like you know, once a year
or whatever, they'd bring in all the books and you
could buy them.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Your parents whould you know, have to give you money.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yes, Now, that was the one time a year, my
mom would let me spend as much as I wanted.
You see, she well, she was like, if you know,
if you books right, so like, oh yeah, maybe he'll read,
maybe he'll get excited about reading and like learning something.
And so she let me buy whatever that was one
that and back to school. Those are the two times
a year that was almost a blank check because again
it was if I can get this dude stoked about
going to school, then yeah, the new backpack and some

(23:44):
pens or whatever, you know. Then that lasted about a week.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
But yeah, as a mom, I think that's so cool though,
and I hope that my baby GG guess experienced that
feeling like that's school feeling that, you know, buying your
school supplies all that.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
That was always so fun.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
And I want this to come back though, because I
remember as a kid, my mom didn't really give me
the money to do it. I don't think my mom's like,
I mean, she's an amember from Poland, Like she didn't
really understand what this was, the concept of this clastic
book fair and she didn't really get it, and she
wouldn't just give me money. And I used to come
home because they give you a catalog. You remember that

(24:18):
come home and circle what I wanted? Oh but I
never got to go get it. So I always used to.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Take what book you want?

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Like we lived this moment though, of like going into
like your school gym was always in the gym. And
I don't even know who's running these fairs, like's Glastic?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Like who was? I believe that's what they were called,
these Scholastic book fairs because I believe the company.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
What are you?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Are you serious?

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I want that like like come here at the radio
station set up, like we'll give you a space like
a gym, and I want you to put all the
books out and then I want to walk around with
my circled like you know, my circled catalog and be
like hey, I want the goosebumps.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
I want this that like I have adult money. Now
Here's here's a nice thing about being a parent, is it?
Like so you your mom was an immigrant and maybe
didn't understand it because she didn't have it in Poland
and maybe there wasn't as much money. Now you have,
you know more, you can provide Gigi with more. So
now when the book fair comes along, now you can
let her go nuts because you didn't get to go nuts,
so now you have that opportunity to pass it on

(25:17):
to your kids. So there you go, like, that's that's
that's how you can relive it, I think, So give
it to her.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
I just like I got any Scholastic to make this happen.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Though we're any succer, we're still talking about you, so okay,
I've not heard him trying to make it about how
you can still relive this or your daughter.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
But no, no, I want it for me.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
This is the one thing I need. I don't ask
for much in this life. I really, I really don't,
and I just want to go to the book fair.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
But you're right, I'll bring my daughter, but I don't
even know do they have them today at school?

Speaker 2 (25:41):
They do, We're getting a million texts that they still
have them. Okay, so yeahs I me to your school
book and I will bring my daughter, but I'll shop
for myself.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
What what is it for you guys?

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Though? That was like it was you didn't have grown
up money, so you couldn't have it, And now you
do have grown up money so you could if you
wanted to, Like can you think for me? I would
probably be sports cards, which I don't need to get
back into that because it's essentially gambling. It is gambling
because it's expensive, and then you know, you may not
get anything, and then if you do, then I don't
know what the hell I would do with this stuff whatever.
But like I I remember, I used to save up

(26:11):
all of my money, my allowance from whatever or whatever,
and I would go buy basketball cards and baseball cards.
But there wasn't that much money really for me. I
mean how much you're making, like you know, doing stuff
around the house or whatever. But now I could probably
go in there and do some real damage. And I
I don't need to do that, but I'm tempted because
I don't know. It would just feel fun to be
like I'll take that and that and that because I

(26:31):
don't have any you know whatever, it's just me.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
I could. I could probably pull that off. Can you
think of anything.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
I see a lot of people texting about market Day
that it was my d.

Speaker 7 (26:42):
It was like, yeah, school zen frozen. Yeah, But I
remember looking.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Through the catalog as a little big bad girl and
I was like, man, no steaks the burgers they brought
steaks to children.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
Well, no, you can.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
You could buy stakes in school.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
Yeah, I remember it was like after school and like
your parents would come and like you would get it's
like groceries.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, but it was from school marketing market day.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
It sounds like a racket, like who is making money
on these school were hustling?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, do you know where your parents could have got
food at the grocery store?

Speaker 7 (27:18):
Like I don't under think it was like premium meat
choices like pim must somehow.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, we used to do in middle school.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
We had magazine sales and that was a I guarantee
that was a commercial racket. They'd come in with this
big display and this big like presentation and it was
if you sell a lot of magazine subscriptions, then you
could have a bike or whatever. And I don't know
where the money went or who made money on this.
Probably the teachers are all like some sort of illegal
gambling ring on this. I don't know what was going on,

(27:47):
but like I'll be darned if I didn't go and
you know, hit up every neighbor for a magazine subscription.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
But that was in the ninth that was in the nineties, long.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Ago, the nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Paulina a Scholastic has a website we just got a text,
so circle away.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I don't think that would quite be the same though
as walking into the room and a lot of people
are inviting you. Teachers who listen to us, and parents
are inviting you to come to their scholastic book fair.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
We're getting blown back a classic book for it is
gonna hate to see me coming because I am like I'm.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Doing this big.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh they're gonna love to see you. Yeah, but I
feel you. I feel you because now you got a
little bit you have.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
You know, look, you have more money than you do
as a kid, even if you don't have a lot
of money, and so yeah, you get to just like
roll in there and it would just be like I
can have whatever I want.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
And you could.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I mean, I supposed the same would be true, like
a toy store, but toys toys aren't the same anymore.
I was talking about this a couple of years ago
when I was buying stuff for uh at the time,
my godson. It's like, I don't know why, but walking
into if you can find a Toys r Us or
a toy store, I think they were trying to relaunch
Toys r Us or whatever.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
But if you if you go to a toy store.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
It's just everything was electronic. Now it was like everything
you did a battery.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I don't just did. It didn't hit the same, like,
it didn't have the classics. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
I didn't walk in there and I was I remember
as a kid, I'd walk into it was like this
mystical land where I wanted everything, and now I could
probably buy a lot of stuff. And I walked in,
I was just like, this is not as fulfilling to me.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Doesn't the same as it was.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Debbie, Hi, Debbie, yes, Hi.

Speaker 8 (29:14):
The one thing that I have to do now is
when I go to Great America, I get the flash
passed as an adult and I am not waiting in
lines anymore.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
I see.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
So you used to go to six Flags as a
kid and you would just have the normal ticket and
it was like whatever, But now you got grown up money,
so you're like, you know what, No, Debbie's no, I'm not.

Speaker 8 (29:34):
No lines. My niece loves me. I'm taking her tomorrow
and we are not waiting in any lines for the
roller coasters.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, good for you, Debbie. That's right, you got grown
up money. Now you don't deal with lines anymore.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Right, right you?

Speaker 8 (29:48):
Debbie had a good day, Thanks you too.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
I feel the same way about Barnes and Noble now,
Like and someone texted the same thing. We're getting blown
up about this. Yeah, it's the same thing. I walk
into Barnes and Noble. I'm like, if I want five books,
I can buy them. I can have it right now.
It's right because I'm a grown up. You got it
like that, and I'm midlife and I don't have that
much more time to live, so I just want to
buy whatever I want.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Jason, what is it for you? Could you think of
any of them?

Speaker 6 (30:12):
I always wanted a trampoline, and now I feel like
I could finally buy a trampoline. You couldn't have a
trampoline if you wanted to, Yeah, Like I would go
we go to Sam's Club every weekend, and as you
would walk out on the wall there would be a
giant trampoline and I would look at it every week
and be like, I want that. And I couldn't have
it because our yard was too slanted, or so my
parents told me. But now we couldn't have it because

(30:34):
they were afraid some kid was going to fall off
and break their neck. My parents are more worried about liability.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
But then I convinced them that, you know, they had
the like the rich kids had the kind that you
could dig in the ground.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
That's what I want now, And it was like, even
with the ground, that's what I would do. Yeah, the
Kardashian trampoline.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
And see, now I can justify this stuff because well,
my niece is my knee and one of my nieces
come over now. Granted, in a high rise condo, having
an in ground trampoline would be kind of strange. I
think there could be a lot of uses for that.
That would be fun for me too. But anyway, I yeah,
moving on, But Caitlin, what comes to mind for you?

Speaker 5 (31:09):
And I know this is going to sound weird, but
even at my young young age, I always wanted to
go to concerts that I just like couldn't obviously afford
or my parents didn't want to.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Take me to.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
So for it's like whatever music you want to say, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Like money is no object because I just wanted to
relift that.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, Amma, high, Emma, Emma, what is going on?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
He's looking up the book thing?

Speaker 3 (31:39):
If you call the.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Show unless we got our name wrong, which we've done
that before too, where I'm like I'm Stacey, Stacey Stacy.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
And they're like, I don't know. My name is Steve.
I don't know

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