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Fred buys his nieces a Barbie Dream House for Christmas. Plus, we debate relationship drama on an all new Stay Or Go!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I did something I never thought I would do yesterday.
Truly in my life. I bought a Barbie dream House.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I feel like I contributed to a pivotal moment in
my niece's lives. I feel like, I mean, there are
certain things in life that happen. The Barbie dream House
for some, and I know not everybody. I know it's
an aspirational thing. And it's only the uncle with no
kids and no real financial obligations.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's able to do something like that.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know, if I had kids or a four oh
one K then guaranteedee human, then I wouldn't be able
to do this. But I and I was able to
buy the Barbie Dreamhouse. Now I was told yesterday that
they wanted one by my sister, because that's another thing
now she's decided is that if it's expensive, then she'll
just recommend that I buy it, right, And I can't well,

(01:15):
you know this, Kiki, and I can't wait until the
girls fully understand that, because I do think at some
point my sister, who I love dearly, I think she'll
I think she'll use it. I think she'll just tell
them like, oh, you wanted you want you know, these
dance lessons, or you want this thing, then I want.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
You to ask Baba.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Like I think at some point they're just gonna have
phones and they're gonna have my number and then they're
just gonna call me and then I'm gonna have to
tell them no. But right now we know there's a
they have. My nieces have people where they have middle
people who are you know, handlers, who are facilitating all.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I guess they're called parents.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
But so I got a text it was the girls
would like a Barbie dream.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
House for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
However, if you don't want to spend two hundred dollars,
you can get that. And then it was like in
lesser anenunciate like you know, I don't know, like it
was like a lesser thing. You can get them in
the Barbie town home.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Barbie. Yeah, So I didn't. I didn't know this.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I didn't know that they have a more affordable option
now with the Barbie dream house. It's the Barbie town home.
It's one hundred dollars less. Stop it. Yeah, it's it's
a town home instead of a mansions.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Every right to move about her dream home.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a Barbie tiny house. It's what it is. And
it's like, I don't yeah right, and I'm not. It's
too early for those girls to understand how life really works.
That you hope for a mansion but you wind up
in a town home like that's not you know, or
or not or less, And so I decided to spring
for it, especially after watching Polly's little video of her
singing Happy Birthday to me. I probably watched that thirty

(02:54):
times yesterday when Amanda says, because you know, Amanda is
a therapist, my sister, so every thing is consent. So
she would have asked the four year old, and it
was even alluded to in the video if it's on
our social Friendshire radio. She spoke with Polly ahead of
time to make sure, she was okay to make a
video for my birthday. So then when in the video,

(03:17):
you can hear her say, now we're gonna do the
thing that we talked about before because you already agreed
to it. But my favorite part of the whole video
is she says, Okay, now you're gonna sing Bubba happy
birthday because they called me Bubba because my sister called
me Bubba. And then she goes, I'm gonna sing happy birthday.
She she then states what she's gonna do because even
though we established it like, we're gonna state it again

(03:38):
because we are we are intentional, you know about what
we do. But because of that video that I sprung
for the Barbie Dream Home House or whatever it's called,
I don't really know what I bought and I'll never
see it. At least I won't see it until after
Christmas because they do Christmas in Texas. So the nice
thing is I just sent this gigantic box of their house.

(04:00):
I think I would assume it's a gigantic box. It
looks like a gigantic structure. And because and then my
sister has to deal with that, she has to wrap it,
and then they'll have to put it together. Colin will
have to put it together, and then I guess I
just get the glory. So it's really it's it's it's
on theme, it's on brand for what this uncle gig
is and I just love it. You know, it's here,

(04:21):
Here's here's a here's a Barbie dream house. Buba got
it for you.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
You.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
They have to put it together, they have to manage
like how the girls get to play with it and
the whole thing, and I just I get to be
the hero.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's a great job, it is. I hope I hope that.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
They don't put the photo on the box because I
have seen kids know what they're getting so many different
times because stupid companies will put like a picture of
a big bike on the side of a box and
then it arrives and they're.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Like, oh my gosh, oh yeah no, I'm hoping that.
I don't know where they're going to hide this thing.
But I think in the attic they don't listen. So
they listen to another morning show in Dallas.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
They'll listen to me.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think they listen to ability to kid. They don't
listen to me. I can talk yeah, no' Serry's a friend.
It's fine, but why would they Before that it was
Kid Cratick. I got to hear a Kid Cratick show
used to do. I'm like, well, you know, I do
this for a living, right, you know it's agrelable on
the art.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Great deal, right exactly. You want to Barbiere, you know
why you get the townhome? Now?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Forget about it. Forget about it. I'm returning the dream house.
You get the townhome now. I think the townhome is
pretty brilliant marketing though, because it's uh. I think the
dream house was one hundred and eighty bucks and I
think the townhome is like eighty. So somebody at Mattel
was like, guys, luck, we're not selling enough of these houses.
We got to really adapt to the times here, so

(05:37):
let's downsize and and we'll make it up. But I
know we've talked about it before, but what other other
pivotal toys if you had the money. And I get
that a lot of people didn't have the money for
this stuff, but you know, there was always the kid
on the block that had the money somehow, and even
though you were all in the same neighborhood, like somehow,
you know, Jimmy's parents. I don't know if they were

(05:58):
all buying everything on credit or what. I have no idea,
but like somehow there was that one kid that had
the trampoline. There was the one kid that had the
Barbie Jeep or the or whatever the male equivalent was,
like a little little battery operated corvette or I don't
remember what what what the eighties version was for a
young Fred.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
But what else?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
What else can you guys think of? Like the toys
that like the pivotal toy. The bicycle was one.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Oh yeah, the Razor scooters. When those first came out,
everybody wanted that first.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Roller blades were a thing in the nineties. I think
they tried to make them come back. I'm not sure
if they had. Oh yeah, that was a pivotal toy
for you, Kalin tick Melmo, do.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
You not remember how hard they were to get?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, yeah, but I mean that I feel like the
bicycle changed the game like that, Like now I can
get on my bike and I can ride into the
sunset and never come back.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
You know, it was the ultimate freedom.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Tickle me Elmo didn't didn't really provide me with the
same enjoyment.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
Well, damn yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean, uh,
my furbies did everything, and I all so bad. I
wanted my bar I wanted the Barbie car I wanted. Obviously,
my parents always bought me.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
The I mean the Barbie Gee was a male equivalent
of everything. But I was like, wait, like, I don't
want the tractor. I want about the pink jew Wagon
might not tell me nothing in my Barbie ge. I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
For some kids' phones, I would guess, like video game systems,
I would guess computers, yeah, are like real game changers,
like you remember, I would imagine you remember when you
got your first phone, when you got your first you know,
computer or whatever. But yeah, so I'm excited for this now.
I just know it's going to get more expensive from here,
which is where I was really going with this because
Kiki I saw and I alluded to it a couple

(07:49):
of times yesterday. But if you follow her on social
media that you took your nephews to dinner, was it
red lobsters that where you were?

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yes? Yes, their choice. Mm hmmm, I'm sure, I'm sure.
And I noticed were there three of them? Yes? Yes?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
And I noticed there were like lobster tails on the table.
I think I saw like crab legs. Oh my god, Yes,
there were flays. There was a seafood. I didn't know
they had a seafood tower at Lobster that they did.
I mean, but I was just amazing that we're probably
three hundred bucks worth of the food on the table
for these kids, which what are you with?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Thirteen? And then the other ones are under ten, aren't they?

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yes, And the problem is starting to be that now
they're like they're tight, so they hang out, they talk
all day on their phone. So before I would take
the littles out and then I would take the older
ones out, and I would do it separately, you know,
one check, we'll go to the littles, the other one
go to the Now they're starting to communicate with each other,
so they're like, well, aren't you gonna pick up you know,
com ARII, And I'm like, well, Jackson, no, I was

(08:46):
just trying to take you, you know, like it's like
now you have to take them as a group because
they ride for each other, so you can't even like
just sneak out and take one. You gotta take Oh yeah,
it's getting crazy.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I have noticed that Paul's doing that for Mathe and
I mean, she's big sister. But it will be like,
I'll bring Polly something because mave is is what is
she two and a half. So it's not that she
doesn't know. If we've already had this debate on this
show whether the kids at that age even know if
you gave them the gift versus someone else. Polly absolutely
knows if it came from me and that I gave

(09:18):
it to her, and whatever May I I don't know yet,
like for example, the Barbie house is coming, and Amanda
is like, it'll be good for both of them, like
you don't need to get two of them or something
like it'll be fine. But Polly will say, I'll bring
Polly a present when I come to see her. I'll
usually get on Amazon and I'll ship it to the
house and then i'll give it to you know it's
there already, and then I give it to her as
a surprise, and and then the first thing she'll say

(09:40):
now is what did you get from May?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Which is very nice of you, but I'm like, you know,
what minds your business?

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Okay, Like give my toy back? Because why you are rat?

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Why you are rat.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Polly like, what are you doing like in this economy?
Like look, why are you snitching? Like, don't go tell her?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
She's like, what about my sister? You know, does not
know what's going on? Like I makes the prices for
Gigi and she doesn't know. I bring her like a
bunch of head I don't know. Yeah, they're happy, like
they don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Well, I'm she remember a couple of years ago, we
had the debate when Polly was much younger. I'm like,
why am I buying a bunch of toys for this
kid because she's two years old? Like, she doesn't know
they came from me, and she's gonna get a bunch
of toys. I mean, so fine. And then you guys
were like, no, you have to buy her toys, and
I did. But the fact is the satisfaction. I mean, yes,
of course she was happy to get something new, but
she I mean there was no like way for her

(10:33):
to have taken inventory of of how much she had
or where it came from. So the joy really is
is in you watching you know, you get like you
get whatever. However many minutes it takes for them to
open the toy and then throw it to the side,
like it's really about me at that point, like and
so is this Barbie house. To be honest with you,
I can totally see why parents do stuff like this
where it's like, you know, why.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Does why does he have that?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's like because I there's no Polly is not getting
the town hall, which she can have. We're not I'm
not on these streets. People aren't going to be talking
about me like that. You know, they're not going to
be like I heard Fred was only a townhouse guy.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
I heard he wouldn't do the.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Four He wouldn't do the four payments for the for
the whole thing, you know, So no, I did the
four payments for the whole thing because I I can't
have my nieces because but that's about me, right, It's
not even about them absolutely.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
I mean, I you know I would have sitt in both.
But you know I want, I want about the marve
Kolo sack.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
But you know what do.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
They need a town home and and mansion for? If
you got the mansion, you don't need the town home
is vacation home home?

Speaker 8 (11:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Oh lord, that says.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
And then when when Polly doesn't want to share with me?
If she did say, go play with the townhouse. You know,
the big house is fine, so go ahead and put
that in the car Uncle free.

Speaker 8 (11:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm curious though, quickly before we get to the headlines
the biggest stories of the day eight five, five, five, nine,
one three five, there was a point to all of it.
Well one, it was to brag that I sprung for
the for the I was really proud of myself because
I'm like, I can get out of this for last
I really can, and they would be they'd be very
happy with it. But no, I went for the bigger item.
But in light of the lobster tails at Red Lobster

(12:08):
for the for the eight year old, what is the
super expensive thing that your kid has asked for? And
You're like, where did you come up with that? Because
that's another thing we've learned from Kiki's nephews. Yep is
like I know in this generation now and it's smart
and I wish we could have done this, but but
you know, making like in fact, I talked to a

(12:30):
friend of mine about this last night. Her niece sent
her like a I guess there's a shared document that
this teenager made and has all of the gifts different
price ranges. It's all organized by price range, and then
there's like some aspirational gifts in there too, like it's
I don't know what a seventeen year old wants now,
but it's you know, some clothes upp here and at

(12:50):
this price point with a link. So all you got
to do is click on the link and then hit
by and then like the addresses in there, and just.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I love it. Yeah, my sister she has links. It's
all right there, like we need to do more of this,
help each other out.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
But yeah, so I guess this girl it's like, you know,
here's some clothes, I want, some gift cards, and then
all the way to the bottom, it's like.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Bm W and Gucci. Right, It's it's all the way
down here.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's like, you know, just in case you're feeling really generous,
you know, a fifteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Dollars back is down here this year.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Smart And I guess the mom of this teenager was like,
what are you doing putting a you know, fifteen hundred
dollars handbag on this list? And it was like, well,
you know, aunt so and so might be feeling a
little generous, and so I, you know, I got to
put something in.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
There for all price ranges.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
But I'm just curious if what you know what it
was for you guys like that that your your sister
or your nieces or nephews or whatever.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's like, where where did you? You want?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
What you want flying lessons? You're eight years old? Like
what are you talking? You want to you want a
private jet? Like what do you mean designer?

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Like why are you asking for designer at your young
tender age?

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (13:59):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know like they want.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
Gucci, they want shoes, they want to marry chi exactly.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm like, I'm not even warning.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
I have on fashion nobu. Right, how do you expect
me to pay for this? But that's the stuff that
they ask for.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, that's gonna be. But that's gonna be where I
come in.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is Pauli's gonna say or may it's going to say,
I want this thing that's expensive, and then my sister's
just gonna punt it off on me. So I said,
but it's cheaper than college. So fine, you know, here
you go, here's here, you're whatever you want because I
don't have to pay for college. Now let me see
her friend I have you've seen the fifty plus parking garage
from Matchbox for boys. God, that's brilliant because I would

(14:41):
imagine it doesn't come with fifty cars. So you know,
if you buy the fifty car which I guess this
is the equivalent of the Barbie dream House, but if
you buy the fifty car garage from Matchbox, then you
could probably have to buy fifty cars because you can't
have the thing like empty, you know what I mean. Like,
so Matchbox is smart because it you know, I would
imagine over time you got to keep buying the kid

(15:03):
cars to fill the thing up because nobody wants like
two cars in their fifty car garage, right, that's pretty smart.
Power wheels were it in the nineties, big wheels?

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:14):
That those were like that was like the big wheel
in the front and the little one in the back,
like kind of like a first bike, right, Is that
what that is?

Speaker 8 (15:21):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I remember those, the big wheels. Yeah. I haven't had
one of those in a few years.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
So I don't that's one big wheel and two little
ones in the back.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh yeah, a little tricycle.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
All about keeping up with the Jones is Yeah, No,
that's I agree. I think a lot of this stuff
is about the parents and not the kids, and then
the kids benefit from it because you know, it's like
when I was growing up and my mom bought me
a Nintendo and it came with a game that had
three games on it. It was like, fine, here, play
with this. And then the neighbor kid that she didn't
like I came home. I'm like, well, you know whatever

(15:54):
his name is, Trey or whatever his name was, he
has ten games. And my mom looks at me, Trey
ten games, Yeah, he has ten, ten of them. Yeah,
get in the car and we went to Toys r US
and we bought nine more games because there was no
way the Tray and his parents that were drunks. There
was no way that they that you know then, that
were very rude and that there's sprinklers sprayed our house

(16:16):
or whatever. There was no way that Tray was gonna
have more games than us. There was just no way.
So I think maybe that's I'm teaching people now that
I'm teaching children this morning who are listening. Exploit your parents'
desire to not be the parents that don't give you
the thing. Absolutely, let me see here my daughter's text.
My daughter's grown, but when she was a teenager. She

(16:38):
found in a box my Christmas list from I was
a kid. It had things on it like a Rubik's cube,
a necklace, a clock, radio, and some other little things.
She said, what is this? That's all you wanted? And now,
of course the list is super elaborate. It's right. I
mean think about that, like, you know Legos or whatever.
But now Legos are two hundred bucks. Uh, and you

(16:58):
can't just have like the a bucket of Legos like
we got. I gotta have the Lego Eiffel Tower. It's
three hundred and ninety nine dollars a lighting kit that
goes with it. My fifteen year old son won't give
me a Christmas list for what he wants. He plays
video games in hockey. It's super he's super smart. But

(17:19):
he doesn't want all kinds of stuff. I guess that's
that's good, But I mean, yeah, you probably want some
ideas of something. I asked for an easy bake oven
when I was a kid. I thought that was too
extravagant in terms of price. And now they're back, by
the way, I think. I think they're doing better than
a light bulb. Now is a heating element.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's an air friar. I'm convinced.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh god, now people are sending me the other Barbie things.
That Barbie camper. There's a Barbie camp campus. My mom
had that.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's still in the garage.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
See she needs this man, and probably they need that. Yes,
can you stop it right now? They need they got
a mansion. Okay, they're not getting it. Get a camper,
Davis the man.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Whatever?

Speaker 2 (18:07):
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Speaker 1 (18:32):
That show is on. It's stay or.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Go all right, Hi Becca, good morning, welcome to the program. Hello,
Hi Becca, what's going on? This is a complicated one
here because and I don't know that. I have a
little gist in front of me, and what's going on?
I want you to tell everyone the story, but I
I don't know, I people are gonna like my opinion
on this, but but what's going on with you?

Speaker 1 (18:56):
And this is your boyfriend who you reconnected.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
With, right, Yeah, we took up, we took the break
a few years ago, but we ended up reconciling and
getting pregnant with our son and we've been together ever since.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, congratulations, by the way, I mean, that's exciting to
have a kid and whatever. No, I don't want to
interrupt you, but that's the good news. Congratulations to you.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, But recently, my boyfriend came to me and shared
that he wants to get a paternity test, which totally
shook me to my core because he said that he
and his family have concerns over the fact that our

(19:44):
baby looks nothing like him, because my boyfriend has he
has like dark eyes, dark hair, dark complexion, and he's
feeling insecure about having a paler, you know, blonde, blue
eyed son, and that he feels like people always scare
and that friends and family are like talking about it.

(20:08):
But it's never been a question in my mind.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, first of all, that's got to feel good that
my family and I've been talking about this about how
a kid looks nothing like me, and how the mother
might be a little little hohoche. I mean, you know
what I mean, like, that's that feels great that you know,
that conversation that has taken place.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh, it was horrible. It was horrible. I felt terrible
when he brought it up. It's never been a question
in my mind, obviously, and you know he's never said
anything like this before. When but when he brought it up,
you know, he pointed out that we were on a

(20:48):
break back then before I got pregnant, and now he's
wondering if maybe the baby is someone else's.

Speaker 7 (20:55):
It's I know the baby is his.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I'm obviously confident in that. But you know, the baby
looks like me. You know, sometimes kids look more like
one parent than the other.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
How long was it a break before you guys, like
when you guys were apart before you got pregnant?

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Was it months? Was it years? I mean, I don't know,
it was just a couple of months.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Did you get with anybody else during that time? I mean, again,
I'm not suggesting that you did anything wrong here, because,
by the way, if you were on a break and
you did get with someone else and you got pregnant
like that you can do that. You weren't together. It
wasn't like you cheated. I'm just curious if that's even
a remote possibility.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, that's a fair question. But honestly, no, like absolutely not.
I was using that break to you know, focus on
myself and like making sure I was, you know, doing
what I wanted to be doing. And so no, there
was no one else in the picture. That's what's crazy.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, I want to know what every one of the
room thinks, of course, but you guys at home as well.
Eight five, five, five, nine, one one oh three to
five ben context the same number. What I might be
an unpopular opinion. I don't think you necessarily, I don't
think you owe him anything except you're well. I feel
like in Steerago the theme is pretty similar, and it
has to do with trust, and it's people who are
to get Usually it has something to do with people

(22:17):
who were together who don't believe one another for whatever reason.
And then I wonder, like, well, why are you together
if you don't believe what the other person's saying. But
I think you could very easily put this to rest.
You don't owe him this, But I mean there's a
scientific proven way to determine that it is in fact his,
that there was no overlap, that there was no indiscretion,
and then you never discuss this again, and if it

(22:38):
ever comes up, it's like, dude, we already did this.
I say, just go get the paternity test proved to him,
because you know for a fact that it's his. Prove
to him that it's his. This is over, and it's
never discussed again. Now, if you want to go get
into the fact that he doesn't trust you, that's another thing.
But I mean, I guess it's possible that you could
have been impregnated by someone else because you weren't together,

(22:59):
So why not just go do.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
It and then we're done preach. Okay, so more people,
I guess, brother, I'm right there with you.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
I thought that was gonna be an unpopular opinion because
I'm I suppose you're giving in to his insecurity, which
you don't have to do. But I guess this is again,
you know the answer, So just go do it and
this is over.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
We're done with that.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
And then you guys think she should stay with him
after that, Like I would take the test and leave
if anything, or I'm not taking the test unless I'm
legally required to.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
If I know that's that's my kid.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
And you guys are talking about this in that way.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I guess for me though, Kaylin, it's like they weren't
together and so it's not necessity. It's an insecurity and
and she she told him that it is, and she
told him she wasn't with anyone else. And if this
relationship is going to go on for years and years
and years, then at some point you're going to have
to believe the things had come out of her mouth.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
But they were not together.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Now this is it would be very different from me
if they're if they were married or in a relationship
of partnership and they didn't break up and then all
of a sudden, they've been together the whole time, all
of a sudden he comes out and goes, you know what,
I think, maybe you cheated on me. That would be
one thing, But it's not unfeasible or infeasible, whatever the
word is. It's not impossible that during the time they
were together that she had a one off hookup. So

(24:14):
I guess this is just an easy thing to put
to rest.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yeah, but she's saying she didn't, and I believe her,
and I think she should leave him. And I think
if you take that test, fine, that's up to you,
but I think.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Go, that's my opeki, where are you coming from.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
I would absolutely take the test just to shut everybody up,
and then it's up to you. It's your prerogative if
you want to stay or go. But at the end
of the day, like he wants, if you're not sure
about this being your kid, let me. Let me shut
you up and your family and your mama and everybody else.
Let's put it all to rest. Let's put it on
a table. And then once I take the test. Now
you really don't hate me because I'm a throw it
in your face every day.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
But she didn't believe me. But rest of your life,
for the rest of your life.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
But I do think, like you, he's not sure and
that's so you can't especially.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
If the relationship hasn't been consistent.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
He's not wrong for having a wan't even know the truth, Like,
that's what tests are here for.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Take the test.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, And Caitlyn's point is, well, she told him the
truth because they're in a trusting relationship.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
I just don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Well, it's you're right, But there are scenarios where I
would say this is outrageous and and and and she'd
be feeding into his insecurity. And there are other situations
where I say, let's just check the box because and
then we can deal with it after that. But like,
let's check the box, Becca, What does it make you
feel when I say just go do it and then
this is over?

Speaker 9 (25:31):
And yeah, I mean I've definitely thought about all of
these options, and yeah, I feel like, you know, if
I go do the test, like it is going to
be unfortunately kind of spiteful on my behalf, Like.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Y'all are saying like, I don't think I I don't
think that I'm the kind of person that would be like, okay,
I'll do it. Like I would very.

Speaker 8 (25:56):
Much be like there you.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Want to prove period.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, I can't understand that I get that refrigerator. Yeah yeah,
make it really weird.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
And then I might post it on social media and
the tech his whole family. I'll be like, oh, you
guys talking about me behind my back.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Check it out. I'm posting it.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Everybody knows I make them T shirts.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh yeah, let me take some phone calls on this, Becca.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
I want to see.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
People at home have to say a bunch of texts
about this too. But thank you for sharing. I wish
you the best. I hope it works out. Maybe let
us know what you decide to do. Thank you, have
a good day.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
What the test saying?

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, and I'm curious, Well, yeah, if we don't hear
from her, then I think we keep.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
You're curious, what, No.

Speaker 10 (26:39):
I'm curious.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
That is maybe the silly question.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
But like, let's just say she does end up leaving
the relationship, but she files for child support where there's
still have to be a test done for that, So
the test is coming either.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Way most times for child support. Absolutely, Okay, got it. So,
I mean that's what I learned on Judge mat I
was going to say, you know, that's record.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
I mean, that's that's that's a real legal process. Yeah,
so you're right, then, friend, just knock it out. Now,
just do it now.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
I wouldn't I mean, because she knows, I mean, if
she's absolutely certain, if she wasn't with anyone else, it's
like this isn't, this isn't. This is a no brainer
one argument, you know what I mean, Like you're you
know the answer.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
The easiest test you'll ever take? But would you stay
or would you go? How could you stay after that?
That's true?

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Well, the thing is, I know that we were on
a break, so I would give him the grace of
he doesn't know what I was up to, honestly, and
I don't know what he was Yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
People lie every day to my partner, I don't know.
I don't know this lady.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
So I.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Know that if there's a question and it's a child involved,
I wouldn't want my child to grow up with his
other side of the family always having this lingering question
when I could have easily put it to rest if
I knew one hundred percent of the test.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
But don't YEA, yeah, yeah, I mean that's I guess
that's what you have to decide next. But if I
know the answer to the question and it's a debate,
I you know, you know me, I'm the argument, But
do you know.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
What I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Like, if I know I'm right, like, then we're going
to prove that, because it's that's when it comes to
my integrity and your family. That's another thing. Why does
the whole family not believe her either? I hate that
that's messed up Francesca. Hi, Hi, Hey, good morning. So

(28:21):
you just heard it. I'll recap it quickly if you
didn't hear. But this woman was with a man. They
went on a few months break, they got back together,
she got pregnant, they have a kid. He doesn't think
the kid looks like him. His family apparently agrees with him,
and he wants a paternity test, even though she says
it's yours. I didn't get with anyone else, what would
What do you think?

Speaker 7 (28:42):
So personally, I would go, I'm a nurse and I
studied genemics, and I think that like kids can come
out looking all kinds of ways, it doesn't always have
to be a mix of both parents. And to be honest,
I don't know that this is the personal opinion, but
I never want to be with anyone who'd even remotely
questioned me like that. That's just more a deep rooted issue.
So I think she would be someone would be lucky

(29:04):
to have her and never question her, and I think
she should.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Go yeah, yeah, and I did.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I would feel much more strongly against the test if
if they hadn't taken a break, because it's like, dude, Okay,
now you're just insecure you don't trust me like forgets you. Man,
that's that's a terrible one, right, You're you're accusing me
of of cheating on you. Now, she she was in
her right to sleep with another man if she wanted
to while they were not together. So I think it's

(29:30):
that gray area that makes me think, well, let's just
get this out of the way. But thank you for
calling it, for listening and being part of the thirteen.
Have a good day.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Thank you, glad you call.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I guess I thought that my opinion would be a
little less popular because I'm essentially leaning into his insecurity
and his family, and I don't like the way this
went down. But it's just it's if she's sure, it's
such an easy thing to do. Hey, Lindsay, Lindsay, good morning.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Hi, Do you actually went through this this exactly?

Speaker 2 (30:01):
This? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (30:02):
Pretty much.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
So.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
I was dating.

Speaker 10 (30:05):
The father of my daughter when I was I don't know,
in my twenties. We broke up, got back together after
being at a break, ended up getting pregnant, and then
his father was the instigator of like you guys are
on a brank How.

Speaker 11 (30:20):
Do you even know it's yours? Like this little girl's
not allowed in my home.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
She's not allowed.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
It was awful.

Speaker 10 (30:27):
Yeah, So I was like, you know what, if that's
what you want to do, then bring it home and
go ahead, slab your eighteen month old daughter's mouth and
find it out.

Speaker 11 (30:36):
Go ahead and do it so.

Speaker 10 (30:37):
It comes home with it.

Speaker 11 (30:38):
Can't bring himself to do it because he knew that
it was her or his the whole time.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
So we ended up staying.

Speaker 10 (30:44):
Together, had a second child, and then ended up getting divorced.
And it was the best decision that I could ever
have done. I let both children be a part of
his family to an extent.

Speaker 7 (30:59):
But it's awful.

Speaker 10 (31:00):
It's just a constant thing that always comes up, and
it's so unfair. And if that's the kind of like
they don't trust you, that that never.

Speaker 11 (31:07):
Goes away and it's always going to be an issue.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, Lindsay, I'm sorry you went through that, but I
appreciate you. Sharon, have a good day.

Speaker 11 (31:14):
Yeah you too.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah. I gotta say though, like, if I this might
this is probably also not popular, But if I were
dating someone, I took a break and I hooked up
with someone else during the break, and I knew that
I wasn't bringing in any kind of like anything from that,
Like there was no there was no repercussion, like I
don't know, I didn't get an.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Instat ye right exactly like there nothing was.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Oozing or anything. I didn't need any kind of solve
or ointment or whatever. I'm not suggesting that I would lie,
but I'm not sure that I would be forthright with
that information. Now.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
She told us she didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
I believe her, but I also can see a world
where I would not ask questions or want to know
the answers about what happened, because, let's face it, when
people take breaks, it's usually to to explore something like this,
you know what I mean, like it tends to happen.
So I don't again, like this is just an easy
slam dunk. She didn't do it, get the thing and whatever.

(32:09):
But I guess there's a part of me that understands
his concern. Now as far as getting the whole family
of all behind your back, I hate that.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Breaks are just synonymous with shenanigans and put that on
I just I just don't know yets dot com.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Are synonymous with shenanigans.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I'm just I'm not saying that I would lie to
someone because I don't condone lying, but I wouldn't be
in a big hurry to tell you about the stuff
I did when we weren't together, because it doesn't matter
anymore because we're back together, and I think it's only
going to cause problems moving forward. Ricky, how you doing,
Good morning.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
Good morning. How are you guys doing?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Hey, man, stare go, what do you think.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
I think she should say? First of all, she said
her boyfriend was darker, they were on a break. I mean,
there's a lot of things the question there, So I
think she should give him the paternity to firm than
it is andennial.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, yeah, it could be that simple. Thank you, Ricky,
You have a good day, man, Thank you. Yeah, we all,
we all seem everyone seems to agreed take the test.
But it's a matter of then what do you do?
You know, do you stay with him, do you do
you have some understanding for his concern or do you
say no?

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Forget you man?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Hey, Susie, Hi, Hi, good morning, welcome, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Stay go.

Speaker 11 (33:33):
She should definitely go. If they're not married and he
already has trust issues, she needs to take the test
prove them wrong. And then get out.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, that's the part I'm unsure about is is do
we do we accept?

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Do we just say okay, I get it?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Kind of? I'm gonna give you some grace on this,
just based on the definition of a break or am
I that is that? Is this egregious enough that I
can't forgive you for this? You should take my word
for it. And that's the end of it. That's the
hard part of this, I think. And you're saying, uh,
you're saying he should trust her or she should go,
and that's it.

Speaker 11 (34:09):
I think he should trust her if she says that
it's that it's his, something like the fraternity of a
child is definitely not something you want to mess around
with or lie about. And if she is lying, which
I don't it doesn't seem like she is, then that's
one thing. But if she's positive that it couldn't be
anybody else's but his, then I think she needs to

(34:33):
maybe second guest where she's going to be.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Especially because the family's involved, Like.

Speaker 11 (34:38):
When you're attached to their family too, and not having
the trust of anybody like that's just not a good start.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Everyone thinks you're a little harlot.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
The whole family thinks you are like a man on you.
I can't stand that either, with yeah you're own sorry,
go ahead, Oh I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 (35:01):
My oldest son looks identically like me, and my husband
coaches many of his sports teams, and everyone is always
asking him which is his kid, And when they pointed
out it's exactly like this woman, it's he looks like me,
blue eyes, blonde hair, and my husband has dark eyes
and dark hair. So I was like, oh, hey, of
yours CFP is he acts like my husband.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Now there you go. Then thank you, Susie, have a
good day.

Speaker 11 (35:29):
Thanks you too.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Anytime it's like and by the way, my e're in
an argument and there's a debate in a relationship and
it's like, well, my family said, it's all great, great, great,
So you went and told him you were inside of
the story and and you've all been talking about it
without doing anything. That's cool. Yeah, that's I hate that.
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