April 9, 2026 • 9 mins
Fred was in an Uber with Keke when the driver took a wrong turn!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Better than the excited.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Tell me these are the radio blogs on the Fred Show.
It's like we're running in our diaries, except we say
them aloud. We call them blogs. I haven't done one.
In a minute, I'm going to do one because I
have an observation. Dear blog. Kecky and I came back
from our field trip. We had a workfield trip. We
were in Charlotte, North Carolina. Shout out to Charlotte, North Carolina. Yes, slowly,
but surely it's the little engine that could it is.
(00:24):
You know, we've been on for ninety days and we
have several listeners, which is exciting.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
If you're in scherlid. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The show's growing, guys, because this is what we got
to do, all right, this is what's going to take
these days. What is it for us to hang on
to our job?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
What's going to say?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We gotta keep growing? You got a city you want us,
we'll go. We'll go on a road show. There's seventeen
of us and one of us will go wherever you want.
So we're coming back from the airport in an uber
and first of all uber at a kip. So you know,
I don't these guys can here's the destination, right, they
knew where we were going my house and in the office.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
For Kiki, she wasn't coming over. She had enough. She
had three days of me was enough.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
What you get news.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So they had the death. Don't worry about it. Okay,
we weren't in Charlotte. We were in Hawaii. We were
you know, it's like the Mike Rabel relationship. It's like
it's like Deanna, whatever name is it. Yeah, we were
holding hands in a resort in Sedona. Yeah, exactly right.
If you zoom out a little bit in that Mike
Rabel photo, you'll see Kiki and I holding hands.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But so they knew the address, and so I'm just
sort of watching along as we drive and realizing that
the guy missed several turns. I hate that, Like he
wasn't paying attention, like obviously, and it's fine, like the
guy was very nice guy and a very nice car
and whatever else, but like I could just see him
missed one, miss two, missed three. I don't know what
he was doing, but like we were now going, I
don't know where we were going, and so part of
(01:43):
me is like, does he even have the right address?
But he said to me the address. I was loud,
so he did so. Number one Uber etiquette, do you
say to the driver you're in their car? Do you go, hey,
you missed the turn right? I think that's kind of rude.
So I didn't say anything. But then what was crazy
is that in order to sort of save the situation,
he found some alleyway.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, and we were like.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Going down this alleyway with like a quarter inch on
each side of it. It's not a thoroughfare, like you're
not supposed to do it, and it's his car, like
we weren't gonna die. But I mean, I'm just I'm
watching this, like is this a good idea? I was
very uncomfortable, But really the question is here, and the
purpose of my blog is I could have saved him
a couple times, but I didn't want to be that guy.
(02:28):
If you're an Uber driver or a ridshare driver and
your passenger recognizes that you might not be focused on
getting to where we're going, do you want them to
say something or is it rude because maybe you have
a better way. I'm thinking I don't think there's a
better way because you're in my neighborhood. But maybe about
to show me a better way, but he didn't. He
showed me a way that I thought maybe he was
(02:50):
going to take off half his car.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No, literally, I would just sit there and join the
free ride. And then I kind of I looked up
from TikTok and I'm like, wait a minute, I said,
now I know this job. Don't pay a lot before
living in the hood, because why are we in the
back of an alley, you know what is going on?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I was like, yeah, the house. The entrance in my
house is next to a dumpster. It is a dumpster.
Times are tough, you guys. This is my house. Whoa,
it's a big Look how big the dumpster is. Though
it's so nice. It was crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So yeah, I was sitting there, but I was like,
I can't say anything because I don't know where we're
supposed to be going. As a woman, I have been
in the back of a ride share car and I
can tell that they're not following the map. But in
my mind, I think automatically, you're trying to kidnap me
because for some reason, everybody want me.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So I'm like, oh, he's trying to kill me.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So what I will do now is I turn on
my Google maps, and let I put the sound.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
On that's passive aggressive turn left.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, my navigation starts talking because I need you to
know that I know that you're not following the.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Directions and I know where you're supposed to be turning.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So I'll just turn it on and let it play,
and then I'll say, oh, I get oh yeah, I'm
gonna just take a short cut.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And I'm like, you were trying to kill me.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because like, if you're in a major, major metropolitan city, Chicago,
New York especially, I don't know, actually I can't speak
to it, but Chicago, for example, the GPS, the Uber
GPS doesn't always work very well, and sometimes it'll like
show us spinning in circles and I'm like, well, we're not.
We're not dancing, we're not doing a toil in a car,
we're not in the lake, we're not you know, in
top of a building right now.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
We did not LEFFI tate, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I think sometimes these guys in the city they
know a better way or they or they know a
way around traffic. So in the city, I just let
him go because honestly, there's one hundred ways to get
you know. Again, I don't mean to make this Chicago centric,
but if you've been to Chicago, or if you live here,
there's lower Wack or Middlewac or upper Whacker you got.
You can go under ground, you can go in the air.
You can go around through alleys. Apparently yes, but I'm
(04:51):
not kidding when I at one point it was probably
a block in this alley and there was a there
was a delivery driving truck, because that's what it's intended for,
is for the deliver drivers to pull in there and
then go into the restaurants and stuff in the bag.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
At one point he.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Had to actually close his door and then move his
mirror because that was the only margin that we had
to get.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Through this iss cirical.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I think it's now you say how you say it?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I have said it before, and then I've asked them
afterwards if it bothers them. I think if I notice
them like struggling or because getting an uber where we
work is very confusing sometimes for them, and like if
we're getting out or if they're dropping me off, I'll
just be like, oh, yeah, you can just go left
right here if if you want to, And then afterwards
I'll be like I'm sorry, I hate doing that. I
just you know, my suggestion because it's hard to get
(05:33):
to and then they usually say no, I prefer you'd
tell me that's.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Just someone just texted you. I prefer you say something
and give me the best root if there is one.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So when else did?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I always think that they're trying to add money to
the fair by going the wrong way. In this case,
I'd paid a flat fee. Yeah, because I love this
service and I love well no, because well, because it's
the same price as an Uber. I'm not going to
plug the guy because well he does give me a
little nice cars and stuff. Chat out to a one transportation. Hey, hey,
one Classic transportation free for my guy.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You might go through an alley, but it's.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
All goods at alley. But he I know it's the
same price as an Uber, but like they have your flight,
so they it's exact same price as an Uber. But
they'll they're they're there so you don't have to like
go to the airport and be like where is the
Uber thing? And then text you know, and then you
know if you order the Uber but like maybe you're
because I always trying to get cute, you know where
(06:25):
I like Uber will land, and I'll be like, Okay,
I think I can get out there, like in eight
minutes or something, so then I'll order the Uber. But
then they're like, oh sorry, there's no one here to
get the thing on the jet bridge up to the plane,
so we're gonna have to sit here for twenty minutes.
Or you land in you know, Chicago and New York
and you're like, oh, we're here, No you're not. You
are thirty five minutes away from here. Oh yeah, not
(06:46):
added in a different zip code, like go to Dallas
Fort Worth International Airport. You physically, like when you land,
the little thing on the map on the you know,
seatback tells you how far you are from the destination,
you're still three miles away from the destination when you're
on the ground. So I'll get cute though and be
like all right, Uber because I don't want to wait,
And then by the time then they get mad, you
get to pay because it's like you're not going to
(07:07):
get out there in time.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So I planned this, go.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
To Zone C, Zone D, gut the go down right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, we're picking up on the arrivals well, I mean
I just arrived, or we're picking up in the departures,
but I just arrived.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Like anyway, I'm taxi line all day at the airport
because there's like no one in it anymore because they're
all sill looking for the Uber line.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And I don't want to go up down. I do
baggage claim exactly, we're out of here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, So the pickups on the on the drop offs,
this is this is a pro tip.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Tell us about your driving uber on my driver, where
does he picked up?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, apparently he you know, scratches the hell out of
his car to take to take his home. But he
was really it was a real hero move because I
think he realized that it was going to add like
probably ten minutes to the drive because we were so
out of the way. It was a real hero move
on it. And he was sacrificing his own car and
he made it. He did do it. He did it
a great job. But I could have saved it. And
that was the whole point of this was do you
(07:59):
say something or I don't. Here's another one. I don't
mind when a rider suggests a different routes let me
see here, but it bugs me when they suggest very
last minute, so I would have to take a sharp
turn my brother's Huber in New York. Took a short
cut and drove on the sidewalk. I had another guy
(08:22):
from it was an uber actually it was a ride
share and this dude, this dude, he just took the
shoulder all the way down the freeway and he's like,
I know you want to get home, and.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm like, I do, but it was it was completely illegal.
I did.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But I'm like, dude, we're gonna get pulled over and
you're gonna go to jail and then I'm gonna get
stuck halfway between the airport in my house. And this
was not a one I'll have you know. But but seriously,
we're just He's just like, dude, we got to get there.
I'm like, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We're just.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Cause you know how like in the on the sides
of highways they'll put like the rumble strips in.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Or whatever, so created by someone who went to your school,
your high school. Really, yes, they made a bowload of
money on those, Like, ah, God, someone made money off that.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Someone was like, what if there were strips that alert
you going off the roll?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Like why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Apparently Google Maps gives a slightly different route from uber GPS. Okay, yeah,
I don't know anyway. So here's you's so passive aggressive
of you. You do just get kidnapped in the background.
You turn laught, turn left, turn laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Shut up to this guy.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I was just really ten minutes later, I was just wondering,
you're supposed to say something or just let you know
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Jesus take the wheel, which is what we did.
Better than the excited.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Tell me these are the radio blogs on the Fred Show.
It's like we're running in our diaries, except we say
them aloud. We call them blogs. I haven't done one.
In a minute, I'm going to do one because I
have an observation. Dear blog. Kecky and I came back
from our field trip. We had a workfield trip. We
were in Charlotte, North Carolina. Shout out to Charlotte, North Carolina. Yes, slowly,
but surely it's the little engine that could it is.
(00:24):
You know, we've been on for ninety days and we
have several listeners, which is exciting.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
If you're in scherlid. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The show's growing, guys, because this is what we got
to do, all right, this is what's going to take
these days. What is it for us to hang on
to our job?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
What's going to say?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We gotta keep growing? You got a city you want us,
we'll go. We'll go on a road show. There's seventeen
of us and one of us will go wherever you want.
So we're coming back from the airport in an uber
and first of all uber at a kip. So you know,
I don't these guys can here's the destination, right, they
knew where we were going my house and in the office.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
For Kiki, she wasn't coming over. She had enough. She
had three days of me was enough.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
What you get news.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So they had the death. Don't worry about it. Okay,
we weren't in Charlotte. We were in Hawaii. We were
you know, it's like the Mike Rabel relationship. It's like
it's like Deanna, whatever name is it. Yeah, we were
holding hands in a resort in Sedona. Yeah, exactly right.
If you zoom out a little bit in that Mike
Rabel photo, you'll see Kiki and I holding hands.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But so they knew the address, and so I'm just
sort of watching along as we drive and realizing that
the guy missed several turns. I hate that, Like he
wasn't paying attention, like obviously, and it's fine, like the
guy was very nice guy and a very nice car
and whatever else, but like I could just see him
missed one, miss two, missed three. I don't know what
he was doing, but like we were now going, I
don't know where we were going, and so part of
(01:43):
me is like, does he even have the right address?
But he said to me the address. I was loud,
so he did so. Number one Uber etiquette, do you
say to the driver you're in their car? Do you go, hey,
you missed the turn right? I think that's kind of rude.
So I didn't say anything. But then what was crazy
is that in order to sort of save the situation,
he found some alleyway.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, and we were like.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Going down this alleyway with like a quarter inch on
each side of it. It's not a thoroughfare, like you're
not supposed to do it, and it's his car, like
we weren't gonna die. But I mean, I'm just I'm
watching this, like is this a good idea? I was
very uncomfortable, But really the question is here, and the
purpose of my blog is I could have saved him
a couple times, but I didn't want to be that guy.
(02:28):
If you're an Uber driver or a ridshare driver and
your passenger recognizes that you might not be focused on
getting to where we're going, do you want them to
say something or is it rude because maybe you have
a better way. I'm thinking I don't think there's a
better way because you're in my neighborhood. But maybe about
to show me a better way, but he didn't. He
showed me a way that I thought maybe he was
(02:50):
going to take off half his car.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No, literally, I would just sit there and join the
free ride. And then I kind of I looked up
from TikTok and I'm like, wait a minute, I said,
now I know this job. Don't pay a lot before
living in the hood, because why are we in the
back of an alley, you know what is going on?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I was like, yeah, the house. The entrance in my
house is next to a dumpster. It is a dumpster.
Times are tough, you guys. This is my house. Whoa,
it's a big Look how big the dumpster is. Though
it's so nice. It was crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So yeah, I was sitting there, but I was like,
I can't say anything because I don't know where we're
supposed to be going. As a woman, I have been
in the back of a ride share car and I
can tell that they're not following the map. But in
my mind, I think automatically, you're trying to kidnap me
because for some reason, everybody want me.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So I'm like, oh, he's trying to kill me.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So what I will do now is I turn on
my Google maps, and let I put the sound.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
On that's passive aggressive turn left.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, my navigation starts talking because I need you to
know that I know that you're not following the.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Directions and I know where you're supposed to be turning.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So I'll just turn it on and let it play,
and then I'll say, oh, I get oh yeah, I'm
gonna just take a short cut.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And I'm like, you were trying to kill me.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Because like, if you're in a major, major metropolitan city, Chicago,
New York especially, I don't know, actually I can't speak
to it, but Chicago, for example, the GPS, the Uber
GPS doesn't always work very well, and sometimes it'll like
show us spinning in circles and I'm like, well, we're not.
We're not dancing, we're not doing a toil in a car,
we're not in the lake, we're not you know, in
top of a building right now.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
We did not LEFFI tate, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I think sometimes these guys in the city they
know a better way or they or they know a
way around traffic. So in the city, I just let
him go because honestly, there's one hundred ways to get
you know. Again, I don't mean to make this Chicago centric,
but if you've been to Chicago, or if you live here,
there's lower Wack or Middlewac or upper Whacker you got.
You can go under ground, you can go in the air.
You can go around through alleys. Apparently yes, but I'm
(04:51):
not kidding when I at one point it was probably
a block in this alley and there was a there
was a delivery driving truck, because that's what it's intended for,
is for the deliver drivers to pull in there and
then go into the restaurants and stuff in the bag.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
At one point he.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Had to actually close his door and then move his
mirror because that was the only margin that we had
to get.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Through this iss cirical.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I think it's now you say how you say it?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I have said it before, and then I've asked them
afterwards if it bothers them. I think if I notice
them like struggling or because getting an uber where we
work is very confusing sometimes for them, and like if
we're getting out or if they're dropping me off, I'll
just be like, oh, yeah, you can just go left
right here if if you want to, And then afterwards
I'll be like I'm sorry, I hate doing that. I
just you know, my suggestion because it's hard to get
(05:33):
to and then they usually say no, I prefer you'd
tell me that's.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Just someone just texted you. I prefer you say something
and give me the best root if there is one.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So when else did?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I always think that they're trying to add money to
the fair by going the wrong way. In this case,
I'd paid a flat fee. Yeah, because I love this
service and I love well no, because well, because it's
the same price as an Uber. I'm not going to
plug the guy because well he does give me a
little nice cars and stuff. Chat out to a one transportation. Hey, hey,
one Classic transportation free for my guy.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You might go through an alley, but it's.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
All goods at alley. But he I know it's the
same price as an Uber, but like they have your flight,
so they it's exact same price as an Uber. But
they'll they're they're there so you don't have to like
go to the airport and be like where is the
Uber thing? And then text you know, and then you
know if you order the Uber but like maybe you're
because I always trying to get cute, you know where
(06:25):
I like Uber will land, and I'll be like, Okay,
I think I can get out there, like in eight
minutes or something, so then I'll order the Uber. But
then they're like, oh sorry, there's no one here to
get the thing on the jet bridge up to the plane,
so we're gonna have to sit here for twenty minutes.
Or you land in you know, Chicago and New York
and you're like, oh, we're here, No you're not. You
are thirty five minutes away from here. Oh yeah, not
(06:46):
added in a different zip code, like go to Dallas
Fort Worth International Airport. You physically, like when you land,
the little thing on the map on the you know,
seatback tells you how far you are from the destination,
you're still three miles away from the destination when you're
on the ground. So I'll get cute though and be
like all right, Uber because I don't want to wait,
And then by the time then they get mad, you
get to pay because it's like you're not going to
(07:07):
get out there in time.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So I planned this, go.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
To Zone C, Zone D, gut the go down right.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, we're picking up on the arrivals well, I mean
I just arrived, or we're picking up in the departures,
but I just arrived.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Like anyway, I'm taxi line all day at the airport
because there's like no one in it anymore because they're
all sill looking for the Uber line.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And I don't want to go up down. I do
baggage claim exactly, we're out of here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, So the pickups on the on the drop offs,
this is this is a pro tip.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Tell us about your driving uber on my driver, where
does he picked up?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, apparently he you know, scratches the hell out of
his car to take to take his home. But he
was really it was a real hero move because I
think he realized that it was going to add like
probably ten minutes to the drive because we were so
out of the way. It was a real hero move
on it. And he was sacrificing his own car and
he made it. He did do it. He did it
a great job. But I could have saved it. And
that was the whole point of this was do you
(07:59):
say something or I don't. Here's another one. I don't
mind when a rider suggests a different routes let me
see here, but it bugs me when they suggest very
last minute, so I would have to take a sharp
turn my brother's Huber in New York. Took a short
cut and drove on the sidewalk. I had another guy
(08:22):
from it was an uber actually it was a ride
share and this dude, this dude, he just took the
shoulder all the way down the freeway and he's like,
I know you want to get home, and.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm like, I do, but it was it was completely illegal.
I did.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But I'm like, dude, we're gonna get pulled over and
you're gonna go to jail and then I'm gonna get
stuck halfway between the airport in my house. And this
was not a one I'll have you know. But but seriously,
we're just He's just like, dude, we got to get there.
I'm like, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
We're just.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Cause you know how like in the on the sides
of highways they'll put like the rumble strips in.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Or whatever, so created by someone who went to your school,
your high school. Really, yes, they made a bowload of
money on those, Like, ah, God, someone made money off that.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Someone was like, what if there were strips that alert
you going off the roll?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Like why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Apparently Google Maps gives a slightly different route from uber GPS. Okay, yeah,
I don't know anyway. So here's you's so passive aggressive
of you. You do just get kidnapped in the background.
You turn laught, turn left, turn laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Shut up to this guy.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I was just really ten minutes later, I was just wondering,
you're supposed to say something or just let you know
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Jesus take the wheel, which is what we did.
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