Radio Blogs: Fred Stepping Out Of His Comfort Zone!

Fred goes on a guys trip where he only knew one person out of the eight attendees.

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than these are the radio blogs on the Fread Show. Yeah,
Wednesday we had the lady booked. I mean, if she
still comes around, who knows. Maybe she got into some
freaky stuff she won't tell us. I don't know, but
she called. Last week. We were talking about people who

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have friends that they've never actually met. Whether it's like
I don't know somebody who works in an office that
you work with way across the country, or somebody that
you met online you'd never met in person or whatever.
Because there were some people on Reddit who had met
after two twenty four years of knowing each other after
playing video games together twenty four years ago, and they
finally met. So people were calling in. An insane amount

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of people were calling in talking about, Oh, I didn't
know this person until I, you know, years later in
the YadA YadA, gada. And then this lady calls in
and goes, yeah, I was playing video If I got
this right, I was playing video games with some people,
these other women, and we chat a lot and all
this stuff, and we're gonna meet up. It was this
past weekend, and we're gonna stay at one of their homes.
And I was just kidding around and I'm like, to marry.

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I think she was a married woman too, and I'm like,
yeah she is. Hey, like look kind of freaky stuff
you guys gonna get into. And it was and it
was like silence. Well, I don't know. You don't know.
That means that there's been some freaky stuff discussed. Because
if I, for example, I'm about to tell you about
my weekend I went on a guys trip. I knew
before I went in there was no freaky stuff. Like

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if you'd ask me on Friday, hey, is there some
freaky stuff? My answer wouldn't have been I don't know,
how did you know that? It was no though, because
I know you know that, but I they might have
wanted and they didn't, but they might. I am not
engaging in freaky stuff, So if you'd ask me Friday
about freaky stuff, I would have said, they're for certain

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when I talked to you on Monday, no freaky stuff. Okay.
This woman, though, was like, I don't know. She was
open exactly right. So I hope everything's okay, and we'll
talk to her on Wednesday, and I'm very excited to hear.
I thought about her all weekend when I wasn't thinking
about myself. Dear blog, So do you remember I told

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the story a few a couple of months ago. I
guess it was. I have a friend in Southern Illinois.
He's worked with the show before. Dennis is his name.
Oh yeah, he was the guy in charge of When
we were talking about how you could fly down to
southern Illinois and hang out and carbon Dalle and Marion,
you know, and have this It's just when you land,
when you go to the Lake of Egypt, it's it's
as if you're in like Europe or something, which is

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why it's Marion and Korabundal because it just fits. It's
far fancier than it gets credit for. I'm I mean,
let me tell you for my money, the Texas Roadhouse
in carbon Dalle it may as well be a five
star cuisine. I don't know why. Like people wait for Carbone,
you know, people wait for these restaurants they wait for
you know, try and get into all these Michelin stars.
No Texas Roadhouse in Cardabundali is like nothing you'll ever

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taste anyway. So you remember this guy? So I hung
out with him a few weeks ago and we went
to a random person's retirement party. Do you remember this?
Oh yeah, And I didn't know. I didn't know this person.
And my understanding was it was like a little drinks
mixer at a bar or something, and we were going
to walk in and hey, how you doing and congratulations. No, no, no,
We walk in and it was the dean of a

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law school. He was retiring. It was all of his
esteemed his parents were there. It was a very intimate thing.
And here comes to me at this thing. The only
thing I regret about that is that I didn't do
what your friend did, Kaylin and give a speech. I
regret because there were speeches when we walked in, people
that like have known this guy for fifty years are

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giving speeches, and I regret. If I had been on
my toes, maybe a beer or two in already, I
would have gone up there and just given a speech
about a man I'd never met before, because people were
talking about this guy and he seems like an amazing
human being. Yeah, he wanted to be his friend. I
wanted to be His name was Peter Alexander. I wanted
to be his friend. He's a lawyer, and I was
gonna assume me I said his name, but he said,

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all these students, you know, all these people. He's health,
he's very smart, he's written books. And I'm like, this
is a guy that I want to know. So we
leave the thing and I said to my friend Dennis,
I go, that's a guy that I want to know.
And he goes, well, there's a guy's trip that's been
going on for about ten years now. We go to
this dude's lake house in Alabama. He goes, other guys go,
we've all been pretty tight. I don't really know if

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there's an invite for you on this Like it's it's
a pretty tight group. And yeah, yeah, it's a very
exclusive group. And I would have felt and at the time,
I'm like, I would feel weird being I mean, talk
about a guy who's not all that social. You want
me to go to somebody's house in a different state,
stay in said house. I can't even go to a
hotel and a scape. And I got to be social
with a bunch of people I don't know, not even then.

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I got to make an impression, because now I'm the
odd man out right, lo and behold, I get an invitation.
I got it. I got the call. I got the call, No,
the phone, I got the call. You know, the scroll
came in the mail. You know what writing they do,
know they wait their whole lives. And I got it.
I got it right exactly. And I started singing that

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song too, and Kelly Clarksond I called her. I said,
sing it to me. I'm oh, man like this. And
so I went. I went to this thing. It was
in Alabama, and it was Friday through Sunday, and it
was I believe seven or eight other men and me,
and they all knew each other very well. Everybody was
very nice to me. They were very nice to me.
They laughed at my jokes, wow, which was very nice.

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You know, my whole object my whole objective the entire
weekend was just not to make my friend Dennis look
bad because I tried to think, like in my friend group,
if if we're going on a trip and we've been
going on the same trip for like a decade, and
then somebody and goes, hey, I'm going to bring Steve
this year. None of you know him, but like, I'll
vouch for him. He's okay. I might be like, now,

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hold on a minute, who is this Steve individual? And
why is he crashing our social event and drinking our beer? Like, now,
wait a minute, I need to brief on Steve. But
apparently I said enough nice things about their friend Peter
that I was in and they were all so nice
to me. They were so nice to me. I was
socialn I didn't escape. I was there with them the

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whole day. What did y'all do? Right? Like? What were
the activities? And I have to say, this is this
demographic slightly older than I am. You know, I'm in
my I we'll call it early to mid forties, and
they're in there. I would say mid to late fifties.
So these are men who are like profess successful professionals.
They have kids, your ages, you know what I mean?
Like these are these are guys that are a little

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beyond me in life. But it was very interesting because
you know, I can learn from people like this. But
what do we do? We It's wild? It was wild wild.
We got up early. These guys get up early. I
can't say, I like seven thirty. They've already They're already up.
They've already like gone for a run or something. I'm like,
wait a minute, I'm in bed seven thirty. You guys

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already ran around the block and ate you know what
I know? There a no so anyway we did that.
We there was a boat involved. There was a dock
in like a lake. Did you swim? I got in
the lake. I was in the lake. I was. I
was so outside my comfort zone. And I don't think

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anybody knew. I don't think anybody knew. This was social
with strangers. They were all very nice. I like them all.
I think I got invited back. There was there was
a vote halfway through, right in front of me too.
Only one guy said no. Only one guy said he
can't come back. So that guy was out numbered, and
I think he was kidding, but I'm not sure. Okay,

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so you know, if you've made a good but I
think I get to come back. No one's rescinded the
invitation just yet. You swim, You swim and swimming a lake.
I did, No, I did it was you didn't say, like,
are you guys peeing inim here? No, they just announced
they were doing everyone knows. But but I just stayed upstream. Yeah,
so I I guess I peed on all of them.
But what so? I guess. I guess it was kind

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