September 26, 2025 • 9 mins
Paulina misses a book fair at elementary schools and hopes baby GG will be able to go to one when she's in elementary school!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tell me.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
These are the radio blogs on the Fred Show. So
it's like we're running in our diaries, except we say
them a loud We call them blogs. Paulina go, thank
you so much, dear blog.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I know we talk about this a lot as adults,
adults in the room, sometimes that's what we are.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But the thing is, you know, when you're grown.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Up 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, but a couple dollars,
I want to go back and do things again right,
or like bring things back now at this big age
(00:39):
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 (00:44):
Oh yes, oh yeah, I remember this. At school. They
used to have, like you know, once a year or whatever,
they'd bring in all the books and you could buy them.
Your parents would you know, have to give you money. Yes,
now that's the one time a year my mom would
let me spend as much as I wanted, you see
you well, she was like if you know books, right,
so like, oh yeah, and 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
(01:06):
back to school. Those are the two times a year
that was almost a blank check because she again it
was if I can get this dude stoked about going
to school, then backpack and some pens or whatever, you know.
Then I lasted about a week.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But yeah, as a mom, I think that's so cool though,
and I hope that my baby gg guests experienced that feeling,
like that school feeling that you know, buying your school
supplies all that that was always so fun. 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 emment from Poland, like she didn't really understand
(01:38):
what this was, the concept of this plastic 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 gave you a catalog. You remember that, Oh yeah,
come home and circle what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh, but I never got to go get it. So
I always used to take buy whatever book you want.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, it was like we lived this moment though of
like going in to like your school gym was always.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
In the gym.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And I don't even know who who is running these fairs,
like Scholastic, like who was believe.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's why they were called these Scholastic book fairs because
I believe the company is Scholastic. Yeah, what are you? Still?
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I want that, like like calm 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 2 (02:25):
I want this that like I have adult money now.
But 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
(02:47):
it on 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 1 (02:52):
I just like any scholastic to make this happen.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Though we're any SECERD, We're still talking about you, so okay,
I'm not hearing him trying to make it about how
you can still relive this or your daughter. But no, no,
I want it for me. This is the one thing
I need.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
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. But you're right, I'll bring my daughter,
but I don't even know do they have them today
at schools?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
They do. We're getting a million techs that they still
have them.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Okay, so yeahs I me to your school book and
I will bring my.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Daughter, but I'll shop for myself. What is it for
you guys? 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
(03:38):
this stuff whatever. But like I remember, I used to
save up 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, do
a stuff around the house or whatever. But now I
could probably go in there and do some real damage.
And I don't need to do that, but I'm tempted
because I don't know. It would just feel fun to
(04:00):
be like I'll take that and that and that because
I don't have any you know whatever, it's just me.
I could. I could probably pull that off. Can you
think of anything? I see a lot of people texting
about market day that it was. It was like, yeah,
school frozen. Yeah, But I.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Remember looking through the catalog as a little big bad girl,
and I was like, man, steaks they brought steaks to children?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, no, you could you could buy steaks in school.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I remember it was like after school and like your
parents would come and like you would get it's like groceries,
but it was from school market market day.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It sounds like a racket, Like who is making money?
These schools were hustling.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, do you know where your parents could have got
food at the grocery store?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Like I don't understand. It was like premium meat choices
like somehow we used to do in middle school. We
had magazine sales and that was I guess, and 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
(05:08):
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,
but like I'll be darned if I didn't go and
you know, hit up every neighbor for a magazine subscription.
But that was in the ninth that was in the nineties,
long ago, the nineteen hundreds. Paulina a Scholastic has a website.
(05:30):
We just got a text so circle away. 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 1 (05:39):
We're getting blown a s classic book for it is
gonna hate to see me coming because I am like
I'm doing this big.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh they're gonna love to see you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, but I feel you. I feel you because now
you got a little bit you have. 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 and you couldn't. 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 years ago when I was buying stuff for
uh at the time, my godson. It's like, I don't
(06:09):
know why, but walking into if you can find a
Toys r Us or a toy store, and I think
they were trying to relaunch Toys r Us or whatever.
But if you if you go to a toy store,
I don't know. It's just everything was electronic now it
was like everything you did a battery. I don't it
just didn't it didn't hit the same, like it didn't
have the classics. I don't know. I didn't walk in
there and I was. I remember as a kid, I'd
(06:29):
walk in there with 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. Don't as it was? Uh, Debbie, Hi, Debbie,
yes Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The one thing that I have to do now is
when I go to Great America, I get.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
The flash passed as an adult and I am not
waiting in lines anymore. I see. 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 1 (07:05):
No lines.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
My niece loves me.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I'm taking her tomorrow and we are not waiting in
any lines for the roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I like that. I like that. Yeah, good for you, Debbie.
That's right. You got grown up money. Now you don't
deal with lines anymore? Right, right, had a good day,
Thanks you too. Yeah. I feel the same way about
Barnes and Noble now, like and someone textually the same thing.
We're getting blown up about this. Yeah, it's the same thing.
I walk into Barnes and Noble if I want five books,
I can buy them. I can have it right now.
(07:31):
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 buy whatever
I want. Jason, what is it for you? Could you
think of anything?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I always wanted a trampoline, and now I feel like
I could finally buy a trampoline.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You're going to have a trampoline if you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But now we couldn't have it because they were afraid
some kid was going to fall off and break their neck.
My parents are more worried about liability. 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. That's what I want now. And it was like,
even with the ground, that's what I would do. Yeah,
the Kardashian trampoline. And see, now I can justify this
stuff because well, my niece is my knee, one of
(08:23):
my nieces come over now. Granted, in the high rise condo,
having an in ground trampolining 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 no trampoline, Caitlin, what comes to mind
for you?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Or my parents didn't want to take me to. So
it's like whatever music you want to say, Yeah, I
like money is no object because I just wanted to
relift that. Yeah. Emma, high, Emma, Emma, I mean what
is going on? Emma? Okay, he's looking up the book things.
(09:09):
If you call the show, unless we got our name wrong,
which we've done that before too, where I'm like I'm Stacey,
Stacey Stacy and they're like, I don't know. My name
is Steve. I don't know
Tell me.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
These are the radio blogs on the Fred Show. So
it's like we're running in our diaries, except we say
them a loud We call them blogs. Paulina go, thank
you so much, dear blog.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I know we talk about this a lot as adults,
adults in the room, sometimes that's what we are.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But the thing is, you know, when you're grown.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Up 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, but a couple dollars,
I want to go back and do things again right,
or like bring things back now at this big age
(00:39):
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 (00:44):
Oh yes, oh yeah, I remember this. At school. They
used to have, like you know, once a year or whatever,
they'd bring in all the books and you could buy them.
Your parents would you know, have to give you money. Yes,
now that's the one time a year my mom would
let me spend as much as I wanted, you see
you well, she was like if you know books, right,
so like, oh yeah, and 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
(01:06):
back to school. Those are the two times a year
that was almost a blank check because she again it
was if I can get this dude stoked about going
to school, then backpack and some pens or whatever, you know.
Then I lasted about a week.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But yeah, as a mom, I think that's so cool though,
and I hope that my baby gg guests experienced that feeling,
like that school feeling that you know, buying your school
supplies all that that was always so fun. 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 emment from Poland, like she didn't really understand
(01:38):
what this was, the concept of this plastic 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 gave you a catalog. You remember that, Oh yeah,
come home and circle what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh, but I never got to go get it. So
I always used to take buy whatever book you want.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, it was like we lived this moment though of
like going in to like your school gym was always.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
In the gym.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And I don't even know who who is running these fairs,
like Scholastic, like who was believe.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's why they were called these Scholastic book fairs because
I believe the company is Scholastic. Yeah, what are you? Still?
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I want that, like like calm 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 2 (02:25):
I want this that like I have adult money now.
But 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
(02:47):
it on 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 1 (02:52):
I just like any scholastic to make this happen.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Though we're any SECERD, We're still talking about you, so okay,
I'm not hearing him trying to make it about how
you can still relive this or your daughter. But no, no,
I want it for me. This is the one thing
I need.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
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. But you're right, I'll bring my daughter,
but I don't even know do they have them today
at schools?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
They do. We're getting a million techs that they still
have them.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Okay, so yeahs I me to your school book and
I will bring my.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Daughter, but I'll shop for myself. What is it for
you guys? 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
(03:38):
this stuff whatever. But like I remember, I used to
save up 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, do
a stuff around the house or whatever. But now I
could probably go in there and do some real damage.
And I don't need to do that, but I'm tempted
because I don't know. It would just feel fun to
(04:00):
be like I'll take that and that and that because
I don't have any you know whatever, it's just me.
I could. I could probably pull that off. Can you
think of anything? I see a lot of people texting
about market day that it was. It was like, yeah,
school frozen. Yeah, But I.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Remember looking through the catalog as a little big bad girl,
and I was like, man, steaks they brought steaks to children?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, no, you could you could buy steaks in school.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I remember it was like after school and like your
parents would come and like you would get it's like groceries,
but it was from school market market day.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It sounds like a racket, Like who is making money?
These schools were hustling.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, do you know where your parents could have got
food at the grocery store?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Like I don't understand. It was like premium meat choices
like somehow we used to do in middle school. We
had magazine sales and that was I guess, and 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
(05:08):
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,
but like I'll be darned if I didn't go and
you know, hit up every neighbor for a magazine subscription.
But that was in the ninth that was in the nineties,
long ago, the nineteen hundreds. Paulina a Scholastic has a website.
(05:30):
We just got a text so circle away. 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 1 (05:39):
We're getting blown a s classic book for it is
gonna hate to see me coming because I am like
I'm doing this big.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh they're gonna love to see you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, but I feel you. I feel you because now
you got a little bit you have. 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 and you couldn't. 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 years ago when I was buying stuff for
uh at the time, my godson. It's like, I don't
(06:09):
know why, but walking into if you can find a
Toys r Us or a toy store, and I think
they were trying to relaunch Toys r Us or whatever.
But if you if you go to a toy store,
I don't know. It's just everything was electronic now it
was like everything you did a battery. I don't it
just didn't it didn't hit the same, like it didn't
have the classics. I don't know. I didn't walk in
there and I was. I remember as a kid, I'd
(06:29):
walk in there with 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. Don't as it was? Uh, Debbie, Hi, Debbie,
yes Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The one thing that I have to do now is
when I go to Great America, I get.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
The flash passed as an adult and I am not
waiting in lines anymore. I see. 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 1 (07:05):
No lines.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
My niece loves me.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I'm taking her tomorrow and we are not waiting in
any lines for the roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I like that. I like that. Yeah, good for you, Debbie.
That's right. You got grown up money. Now you don't
deal with lines anymore? Right, right, had a good day,
Thanks you too. Yeah. I feel the same way about
Barnes and Noble now, like and someone textually the same thing.
We're getting blown up about this. Yeah, it's the same thing.
I walk into Barnes and Noble if I want five books,
I can buy them. I can have it right now.
(07:31):
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 buy whatever
I want. Jason, what is it for you? Could you
think of anything?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I always wanted a trampoline, and now I feel like
I could finally buy a trampoline.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You're going to have a trampoline if you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But now we couldn't have it because they were afraid
some kid was going to fall off and break their neck.
My parents are more worried about liability. 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. That's what I want now. And it was like,
even with the ground, that's what I would do. Yeah,
the Kardashian trampoline. And see, now I can justify this
stuff because well, my niece is my knee, one of
(08:23):
my nieces come over now. Granted, in the high rise condo,
having an in ground trampolining 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 no trampoline, Caitlin, what comes to mind
for you?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
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.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Or my parents didn't want to take me to. So
it's like whatever music you want to say, Yeah, I
like money is no object because I just wanted to
relift that. Yeah. Emma, high, Emma, Emma, I mean what
is going on? Emma? Okay, he's looking up the book things.
(09:09):
If you call the show, unless we got our name wrong,
which we've done that before too, where I'm like I'm Stacey,
Stacey Stacy and they're like, I don't know. My name
is Steve. I don't know
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