June 11, 2025 • 8 mins
Paulina recalls her childhood with her mom and her mother sees it a completely different way!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fred Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We have your chance to win a trip for two
to see Kelly Clarkson's return to Las Vegas for her
brand new residency studio sessions live in the Coliseum at
Caeesart's Palace on August first, tex Hazel to three seven
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tickets to the August first show, two nights hotels day
July thirty first to August second at the Flamingo, Las
(00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
They talk them back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, they talk better than they say.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
These are the radio blogs on the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now you're writing in our diaries exceptly saying them aloud.
We call them blogs. Paulina, yoh, thank.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
You so much, dear blog. So Fred, I know you
talk about this often and I can relate to you now.
But you know you've mentioned before that your parents like
to rewrite history a little bit of the upbringing that
you had, and they'll say, oh, you know this never
happened or I don't remember it this way, And I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Finding that to be very common amongst parents.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What's funny because my parents were amazing parents and they
did a great job, Like I'm not just saying it,
like legitimately, they did a great job.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So why why some of the stuff they.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Deny they deny, and why some of the stuff they
make up they make up? I don't understand. I don't know,
because it's like you you made me mow the lawn.
They swear up and down that never happened, Like who cares?
You did make me mow the lawn, but you also
paid me for it, which you didn't have to twenty
dollars each time?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And who cares?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Right, I was again, I should be doing chores, Like
it's not like I'm saying that you like ran me
over with the lawnmower.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
But anyway, yes, so yes, yeah, I'm noticing that it's
very much real, and yeah they're denying, like to me,
the dumbest things like you said, like like mowing the lawn.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't understand how that comes off in any way before.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You made me mow the lawncause're okay, so you did.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
But I want to know why are are parents doing this?
Like my mom's going the same thing too. She said
she made a comment together and she about something on
Instagram and she was like that never happened or I
don't remember it like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Like that's it.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
That didn't happen, like I don't know who was in
her ear or what. And I was like, mom, and
I was like, this happened. And I was like, because
I'm in therapy for a lot of things, but this happened.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It happened because I've unpacked it with my therapy. I
had to deductibles high. By the way expensive, it is high.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But I told her, I was like, Mom, I was like,
I'm healing through it, so it's okay. I'm not mad.
You're the best mom ever. And I always say this
to you about all of our just like parents. I
feel like our parents truly be the best that they
can or the best that they could do with what
they knew at the time, right. And I do believe
that everybody. I know, everybody has a story or whatever
from growing up. And I know everybody and everybody had
like the same layout of childhood. But that doesn't mean
(02:41):
anything bad. It just means you know the best you
could with what you knew. Because trust me, Gig, my
daughter is gonna call me in twenty years and say,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
We don't do it like that nomore like blah blah blah,
you know what I mean, or like why did you
let me do this? Or didn't let me do that?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And she'll have her own way of parenting too, like
things are gonna change in twenty thirty years.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But I'm just from my.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Experience, this is what I feel. My feelings are super valid.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So what's the latest example of something that Mama Marta
says that happened that didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
She made a comment one time because she used to
she was, you know, smoke her cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yea cigarette, that's another words another publinais that is and cigarettes.
She yes, and I would take them and sell them
at school. But that's another story. It's not the story
that we're telling.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
To the right.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's from my entrepreneurial life and making a little money
on the side. I like, I like where we're going
with this business. Yeah, I only thought, I only wish
I thought of it. Actually, yes, same.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yes, And I remember she would and a lot of
parents did in the nineties and two thousands. Is like
they would smoke in the in the house, you know,
and it was a common She had the fan running
that little over the whatever oven fan you know I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh yeah, that'll solve the problem. Yeah, thing, the thing
that blows some of them flow air outside. You know
what mine does? Mind just blows the air back at
my face work. They live in a condo. I can
high rise it. I don't think it exhausts anywhere. Literally
blows just away from the stove. Yeah, they like that
essentially back at me. So I'm essentially smoking. I would
(04:08):
be smoking my cigarette twice that way, pretty much, because
as you know, it's what I do is I go
in my own home and I like cigarettes under the stove.
I used the stove to like the cigarette first and foremast.
Yeah anyway, so yeah, so it's pretty much sold cigarettes
in school.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And she says it never happened.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
No, she says that she wouldn't smoke your cigarettes in
the house with that fan on, And I was like no,
but like I remember the visuals, I remember the sound
that it made.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
My clothes would always saw like it, and it's just
what it was.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
If you have parents that you know, would smoke cigarettes
like the age is, your clothes would smeall like it
and people think that it was me in high school
and I'm like, no, it like really isn't me, Like
it's just from my home, and like she.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Just nesn't remember.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It that way and I do. And I'm like, well,
my clothes didn smell like that for no reason. And
number two, like a happened. I mean, she's no longer
like smoke cigarettes, And I love that. I think that's
such a hard habit to just completely break and quit
for the rest of your life. I think that's amazing
that she did, and I'm so proud of her. But man,
I'm like, no, but this happened.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's funny you bring that up.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Like last home, we were talking about things that like
today's generation parents would never let their kids do that
we just did very freely. And I think as you
go back in time, of course, it probably gets even
more and more sort of outrageous, the stuff like you
got to do what you were allowed to do, this
and that and the other thing. And like the kids
these stages would never experience them. They're smoking in the
house or inside is the one that we can leave behind?
(05:23):
Like that to me as well, I grew up for
part of my life with a smoker, and like I
can remember, like, yo, good morning in the you know,
come out to eat breakfast, and it's just in the
house smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Animals smell right right, or.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Like in the car, or in restaurants there was a
smoking section we'd have to sit in, so we're sitting
there at the table at the restaurant eating smoking cigarettes.
You could smoke on a plane at one point in
my life and I'm not that old and we had
to do that too, And like now, the thought of
someone lighting a cigarette on a plane, like I would
be I would be a pall.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I would jump right. Yeah. So it's just.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Funny to me that you know that that's what we
can leave behind. But yeah, parents seem to they forget things,
and I don't know, like who cares.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ye think I've noticed with that generation.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I think sometimes they feel attacked or like they're being
critiqued and they get defensive over it, and I think that's.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Something that's going away.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
But I've noticed it my parents, my grandparents, like totally
rewriting history, and I think it comes from a place
of like, you know, not wanting to be you know,
run over the coals for something that they didn't mean
to do to hurt us. But it's definitely more beneficial
if we all just talk about it.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And know they we still love you.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, oh my god, Mack, I love you more than
anything in the world, like you are. You're the best mom,
and I love you so much. But we're not going
to rewrite history, right, We're going to acknowledge what was,
and we're going time, yes, and we're going to move on.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But you're right, maybe they feel like attacked or something.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's funny to me, like.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The lawnmower thing, like like whys.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Were wildly generous?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They were so generous, right, Like we didn't want for
much growing up, but there was there were extras that
I wanted that my mom wasn't going to keep up with.
Whether it was like mostly it was like basketball hard,
you just garbage. And so they were business owners. It
was like, you want something, how are you going to
get it? Well, you're too young to get a job,
So here here are things you can do that we'll
pay you for that I probably should have just done
(07:11):
as a kid because I got to live in the house,
but instead they paid me for it and so then
I could go buy my crap. So that was cool,
like but so, but like that never happened. You never
once did that? What I did it for years?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Like what do you mean? I can remember the lawnmower.
We had two of them. Yeah, yeah, one with a bagging?
What was out? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Which one?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well? Both we never had that night? What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It's worse when your siblings don't like verify the experience
with you, because like my brothers, I'd be like I
was the dishwasher in this house, like there was no
other person washing dishes in this house but me, and
then Helena will say, girl, he didn't do that. And
then I look at Cam like did I do that?
And he goes, nah, I remember you doing.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Eddy and me should agree regardless.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's the sibling like bond.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, that's that's cold blood.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Where did your parents ever like make up things to
you and add on to stories.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I think I think we're there too, Like I was.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
This bad kid in high school and I never it's
a class and I sud.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
To beat the pop tart machine. She told my in
laws that the other day.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah, we had a pop tart machine at school, like
to pay a dollar or whatever. Cool and She's like,
you didn't go to class, You're always getting pop tarts
and like but she said she made She goes, you
were my yeah, my father in law was right there,
and she goes, remember when you were in school buying
that ish. And I was like, well, first of all,
let's like clarify what isshes right, because she was trying
to say, like i'll buy pop tarts.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Sounded like somebody if you said, if you said to
the whole Way high school, I'm not thinking strawberry pop
tarts now, I'm thinking you were like black tar heroin.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Dealer, not clarifying, like make me sound crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, I said, I'm gonna start telling people like, no,
they didn't make me mow the lawn. They had me
selling black tar heroin
This is the Fred Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We have your chance to win a trip for two
to see Kelly Clarkson's return to Las Vegas for her
brand new residency studio sessions live in the Coliseum at
Caeesart's Palace on August first, tex Hazel to three seven
three three seven now for a chance to win two
tickets to the August first show, two nights hotels day
July thirty first to August second at the Flamingo, Las
(00:24):
Vegas and round trip airfare, a confirmation text that we
sent standard message to data rates supply all thanks to
Live Nation.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
They talk them back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, they talk better than they say.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
These are the radio blogs on the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now you're writing in our diaries exceptly saying them aloud.
We call them blogs. Paulina, yoh, thank.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
You so much, dear blog. So Fred, I know you
talk about this often and I can relate to you now.
But you know you've mentioned before that your parents like
to rewrite history a little bit of the upbringing that
you had, and they'll say, oh, you know this never
happened or I don't remember it this way, And I'm.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Finding that to be very common amongst parents.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What's funny because my parents were amazing parents and they
did a great job, Like I'm not just saying it,
like legitimately, they did a great job.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So why why some of the stuff they.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Deny they deny, and why some of the stuff they
make up they make up? I don't understand. I don't know,
because it's like you you made me mow the lawn.
They swear up and down that never happened, Like who cares?
You did make me mow the lawn, but you also
paid me for it, which you didn't have to twenty
dollars each time?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And who cares?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Right, I was again, I should be doing chores, Like
it's not like I'm saying that you like ran me
over with the lawnmower.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
But anyway, yes, so yes, yeah, I'm noticing that it's
very much real, and yeah they're denying, like to me,
the dumbest things like you said, like like mowing the lawn.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't understand how that comes off in any way before.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You made me mow the lawncause're okay, so you did.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
But I want to know why are are parents doing this?
Like my mom's going the same thing too. She said
she made a comment together and she about something on
Instagram and she was like that never happened or I
don't remember it like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Like that's it.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
That didn't happen, like I don't know who was in
her ear or what. And I was like, mom, and
I was like, this happened. And I was like, because
I'm in therapy for a lot of things, but this happened.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It happened because I've unpacked it with my therapy. I
had to deductibles high. By the way expensive, it is high.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But I told her, I was like, Mom, I was like,
I'm healing through it, so it's okay. I'm not mad.
You're the best mom ever. And I always say this
to you about all of our just like parents. I
feel like our parents truly be the best that they
can or the best that they could do with what
they knew at the time, right. And I do believe
that everybody. I know, everybody has a story or whatever
from growing up. And I know everybody and everybody had
like the same layout of childhood. But that doesn't mean
(02:41):
anything bad. It just means you know the best you
could with what you knew. Because trust me, Gig, my
daughter is gonna call me in twenty years and say,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
We don't do it like that nomore like blah blah blah,
you know what I mean, or like why did you
let me do this? Or didn't let me do that?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And she'll have her own way of parenting too, like
things are gonna change in twenty thirty years.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But I'm just from my.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Experience, this is what I feel. My feelings are super valid.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So what's the latest example of something that Mama Marta
says that happened that didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
She made a comment one time because she used to
she was, you know, smoke her cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yea cigarette, that's another words another publinais that is and cigarettes.
She yes, and I would take them and sell them
at school. But that's another story. It's not the story
that we're telling.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
To the right.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's from my entrepreneurial life and making a little money
on the side. I like, I like where we're going
with this business. Yeah, I only thought, I only wish
I thought of it. Actually, yes, same.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yes, And I remember she would and a lot of
parents did in the nineties and two thousands. Is like
they would smoke in the in the house, you know,
and it was a common She had the fan running
that little over the whatever oven fan you know I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh yeah, that'll solve the problem. Yeah, thing, the thing
that blows some of them flow air outside. You know
what mine does? Mind just blows the air back at
my face work. They live in a condo. I can
high rise it. I don't think it exhausts anywhere. Literally
blows just away from the stove. Yeah, they like that
essentially back at me. So I'm essentially smoking. I would
(04:08):
be smoking my cigarette twice that way, pretty much, because
as you know, it's what I do is I go
in my own home and I like cigarettes under the stove.
I used the stove to like the cigarette first and foremast.
Yeah anyway, so yeah, so it's pretty much sold cigarettes
in school.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And she says it never happened.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
No, she says that she wouldn't smoke your cigarettes in
the house with that fan on, And I was like no,
but like I remember the visuals, I remember the sound
that it made.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
My clothes would always saw like it, and it's just
what it was.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
If you have parents that you know, would smoke cigarettes
like the age is, your clothes would smeall like it
and people think that it was me in high school
and I'm like, no, it like really isn't me, Like
it's just from my home, and like she.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Just nesn't remember.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It that way and I do. And I'm like, well,
my clothes didn smell like that for no reason. And
number two, like a happened. I mean, she's no longer
like smoke cigarettes, And I love that. I think that's
such a hard habit to just completely break and quit
for the rest of your life. I think that's amazing
that she did, and I'm so proud of her. But man,
I'm like, no, but this happened.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's funny you bring that up.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Like last home, we were talking about things that like
today's generation parents would never let their kids do that
we just did very freely. And I think as you
go back in time, of course, it probably gets even
more and more sort of outrageous, the stuff like you
got to do what you were allowed to do, this
and that and the other thing. And like the kids
these stages would never experience them. They're smoking in the
house or inside is the one that we can leave behind?
(05:23):
Like that to me as well, I grew up for
part of my life with a smoker, and like I
can remember, like, yo, good morning in the you know,
come out to eat breakfast, and it's just in the
house smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Animals smell right right, or.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Like in the car, or in restaurants there was a
smoking section we'd have to sit in, so we're sitting
there at the table at the restaurant eating smoking cigarettes.
You could smoke on a plane at one point in
my life and I'm not that old and we had
to do that too, And like now, the thought of
someone lighting a cigarette on a plane, like I would
be I would be a pall.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I would jump right. Yeah. So it's just.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Funny to me that you know that that's what we
can leave behind. But yeah, parents seem to they forget things,
and I don't know, like who cares.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ye think I've noticed with that generation.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I think sometimes they feel attacked or like they're being
critiqued and they get defensive over it, and I think that's.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Something that's going away.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
But I've noticed it my parents, my grandparents, like totally
rewriting history, and I think it comes from a place
of like, you know, not wanting to be you know,
run over the coals for something that they didn't mean
to do to hurt us. But it's definitely more beneficial
if we all just talk about it.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And know they we still love you.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, oh my god, Mack, I love you more than
anything in the world, like you are. You're the best mom,
and I love you so much. But we're not going
to rewrite history, right, We're going to acknowledge what was,
and we're going time, yes, and we're going to move on.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But you're right, maybe they feel like attacked or something.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's funny to me, like.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The lawnmower thing, like like whys.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Were wildly generous?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They were so generous, right, Like we didn't want for
much growing up, but there was there were extras that
I wanted that my mom wasn't going to keep up with.
Whether it was like mostly it was like basketball hard,
you just garbage. And so they were business owners. It
was like, you want something, how are you going to
get it? Well, you're too young to get a job,
So here here are things you can do that we'll
pay you for that I probably should have just done
(07:11):
as a kid because I got to live in the house,
but instead they paid me for it and so then
I could go buy my crap. So that was cool,
like but so, but like that never happened. You never
once did that? What I did it for years?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Like what do you mean? I can remember the lawnmower.
We had two of them. Yeah, yeah, one with a bagging?
What was out? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Which one?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Well? Both we never had that night? What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It's worse when your siblings don't like verify the experience
with you, because like my brothers, I'd be like I
was the dishwasher in this house, like there was no
other person washing dishes in this house but me, and
then Helena will say, girl, he didn't do that. And
then I look at Cam like did I do that?
And he goes, nah, I remember you doing.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Eddy and me should agree regardless.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That's the sibling like bond.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, that's that's cold blood.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Where did your parents ever like make up things to
you and add on to stories.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I think I think we're there too, Like I was.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
This bad kid in high school and I never it's
a class and I sud.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
To beat the pop tart machine. She told my in
laws that the other day.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah, we had a pop tart machine at school, like
to pay a dollar or whatever. Cool and She's like,
you didn't go to class, You're always getting pop tarts
and like but she said she made She goes, you
were my yeah, my father in law was right there,
and she goes, remember when you were in school buying
that ish. And I was like, well, first of all,
let's like clarify what isshes right, because she was trying
to say, like i'll buy pop tarts.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Sounded like somebody if you said, if you said to
the whole Way high school, I'm not thinking strawberry pop
tarts now, I'm thinking you were like black tar heroin.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Dealer, not clarifying, like make me sound crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, I said, I'm gonna start telling people like, no,
they didn't make me mow the lawn. They had me
selling black tar heroin
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