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Yeah, they talk better than the excited. These are the
radio blogs on the Fred Show, like we're running in
our diaries, except we said I'm aloud.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We call them blogs, Klein, Yes, ready, yes, you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Do it, go deer blog.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
So I just want to start this out with a
shout out to all of you who lived as an
adult without cell phones. Okay, now I lived without cell
phones my whole childhood, but being an adult without a
cell phone is a scary time.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Did you live in a phase where you had to
print out a map quest before you went somewhere? Yes, okay, good,
at least you saw that. Yes, I said that was
most of our lives Ruffia.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
In my life right, And then it would in factor
in like construction or a road closure, and you have
fifteen pages and you're like, wait, I've gotten real loss
from map quest. So I did go through that struggle,
but I'm just not used to it anymore, obviously because
we have these computers in our hand. So on Friday
it was very chaotic. I was trying to go to
Jason's Pody the dog event that he was, and I
(01:01):
was leaving early. I was like, oh, I got this.
I never leave early. I am really, I'm killing this.
I'm crushing this adult life. So I have one set
of keys for my apartment and my boyfriend was at
work with that one set of keys. But you can
lock like the bottom lock with you know, just like
a little push.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And so thought, okay, I'm good, looked in.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
My purse, every have everything, have the dog, good, poop eggs,
left my phone in the apartment. Locked my phone in
the apartment. Okay, went down. I'm like, no big deal.
I have maintenance people. They surely have a master key.
Go down to the front office with the illegal dog
that I am not supposed to have in my apartment.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This dog here right, there's no dog.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Right. I was like, oh, I just found this dog
on a street. Because they're looking at me, like, girl,
this is a no dog building.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And I'm like, just you see it. I don't see
a dog.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
So she's like okay, So so I get the master
key quote unquote go upstairs.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Doesn't work in my apartment.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Way no no.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
So I'm like, okay, go back down. Said, I'm like,
this isn't working. Are you sure this is the one here?
Try this other one doesn't work? Okay. Maintenance guy comes up,
try doesn't work. Another guy's like, oh, I'll put some
oil on it. I'm like, no, no, the key doesn't fit.
Like we're not going to jam it in.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
We can't lub it up and get it in there
like activities.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's just it's not a problem, like.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
A little bit like takes some time. Like, no, guys, no,
such a hurry.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
This is a journey, right, I need to get to
the part where we get in my apartment.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah. No, I feel that it's always for play. So
I'm like, okay, crap, what do I do now? I
I have.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Never I know my boyfriend's workplace, like where it is,
but I've never been in there. I don't know where,
so I try to find that. I guess it again
with a dog, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Probably illlegal in that we're just going to walk over
there and just walk in. Because another interesting tidbit. I
don't know if I can I say sure about his workplace.
He might be a competitor of ours, So I don't
know if you walking in with a dog is necessarily going.
I mean, everyone I'm sure would be kind to you,
but I don't know that that's like welcome. You know.
I don't know that you and I could walk in
(03:16):
there and be like, hey, I'm just looking. I just
eat my key.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
No, yeah, my anxiety going in there.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
And I thought, Okay, there's one of two things I
could do.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I can either go to.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Our workplace with this dog and try to find someone
that has Jason Brown's number who then can get my
boyfriends number because I don't have my boyfriends number.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Memorized oh my right, because you don't have your phone.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I don't have my phone.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh my god, the slippery slope disaster.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
So I'm like, do I want to So I'm like, no,
I'll just go right to his building.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Go to his building, try.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
To sweet talk the doorman to go upstairs. But he
works in a similar industry and there are a lot
of fun people that sometimes say they're people who they're not.
So he's calling me trying to figure out if it's
actually his girlfriend downstairs phone.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
But my phone's in the apartment, so they he is,
I want a mess it.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Mess, send someone else down to make sure it's not
like a crazy lady going, oh I'm his girlfriend, it
is me. Go upstairs, get the keys, have to go,
get my car, drive to my apartment, go upstairs.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Get my phone, go back, drive to his work, give
the keys, then go to the party.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And I just want to say I love my cell
phone and I hope I never have to be without
it again, because how was I?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And then I'm like, should I just go to the
party for that?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
How do I get to Tiley?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, it's amazing, Like you don't. I don't know anyone's
phone number. I don't know any of your phone numbers.
I don't would have no reason you put them in
my phone or somebody gave it to me or forded
it to me, you know, ten years ago, and I
never once saw the number.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It just got saved. And that's the end of it.
I couldn't you know yours like your parents phone?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I know my parents number, I know my home phone number,
like I would know how to get ahold of them. Yeah,
but like I don't know my sister's number. And but
that's it. I mean otherwise I don't. I don't have
anybody's number, you know, and get into anything.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You can't even get into your email, you can't get
into your Instagram. Everything needs to send you ever get
a cod to type in and he sends the co
to the phone right right, and my mom is a therapist,
so she was in session.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
My dad doesn't like have my boyfriend on social media,
so it was just it was a mess.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Several months ago, I at high velocity dropped my phone
at extremely high velocity on accident. It looked an awful lot,
like it got chucked against a stone table, but but
I don't know what happened. There was nothing left though.
It was a tragic accident. It was shot out of
the gun basically. But then I realized at that moment,
(05:24):
I don't have any like I have an iPad, So
I was kind of okay, but I'm not going to
carry an iPad around. So like I went to the
store down the street and I was like, hey, guys,
I need a phone, and they're like, well, what's We'll
take your old one. I'm like, yeah, I know, you
say any condition, but you don't mean that kid walking
down the street. This is going to cost you X
(05:46):
and it was expensive. They're like it's going to be
a lot of money to do this, and I'm like,
I don't care. I don't have a choice, Like I
don't have anything, like I don't I literally cannot operate
my life without this phone.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Right, So, like a little kid, I've been doing drills
and repeating people's numbers so that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't like write them down on some paper and
keep that somewhere or something.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, it's true too, but yeah, but where would you
even go, like to use the phone?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Like, where would you go someone's phone?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
But well I guess yeah, I was gonna borrow someone
else's phone, but some you're just some random person with
a dog in the streets, can.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I borrow you?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
See?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
That's what I beat you in the back of the
sand Yeah, they said, you know, you in the back
with a white Vans randawn the street.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
If anyone kidnapped me, they would return me so quick.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I get a lot of money for your girl.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I think ye of all the people on the show,
you would garner the most in it in a kidnapping
hostage situation. I just want you to know, congratulations.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Come with a dog.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And no phone, she can't call for help. Amazing waiting
phone in two minutes
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