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September 9, 2025 9 mins

Hudson is confused after he was supposed to go on a date with Lauren and then she randomly blocked him... Find out why he got ghosted!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I've never been left waiting by the phone. It's the
Friend Show. Some good morning, Welcome to the program. How
are you good? How you doing doing all right?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Man?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
What's going on with this woman Lauren? We kind of
need the whole backstory. How did you meet? Tell us
about any dates you've been on? And then why do
you think you're being ghosted? Because that's what we're here
to do is try and figure out what's going on.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
So I met her on Instagram and like I just
came across her page and thought she was really cute
and uh, you know, I like a few photos or
whatever and followed her and she followed me back, and
we just started like messaging. Eventually got her number, and
you know, we had a date plan, but we actually

(00:43):
never went because one morning, like I woke up and
she was blocked, like her whole thing was blocked, Like
I was blocked, number was blocked.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I was like, what the hell?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Like, so, I, uh, I don't know, I need some
help trying to figure this out.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So you slid in the DMS like you don't know
this person at Oh, you just she popped up on
for you or whatever, and you're like she's hot. So
you you know, you followed, got the followed back. I
know how this works. You know, you get to follow,
you get the follow back, you send the DM, the
dms are going okay, and then you uh set up
this date, but it's not gonna happen because you got
blocked all of a sudden. So how do you go
from never meeting someone to being blocked?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
That's what I want to Like, I mean, I didn't
even have the date, you know what I mean? Like,
I'm so confused, like you you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I don't know what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, no, I don't know. It just never happened to me.
But but I will say I have You know, I've
had conversations go go quiet, and you it's bothering you
because you go back. You look like I didn't say anything,
I didn't do anything, Like what's going on here? What happened?
So let's see if we can figure this out. We're
gonna call Lauren. You'll be on the phone. We're gonna
ask these questions on your behalf. And the hope is
always is that we can straighten this out and then

(01:50):
set you guys up on I guess what will be
the first date you can meet for the first time, and.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
We'll pay for them.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, Hudson, Yeah, welcome back. Let's call Lauren. You guys up. Well,
you kind of on Instagram. You wound up following each
other and then you sent a DM and you were
chatting and you asked her out and she accepted, and
you kind of had a plan, except then all of
a sudden you find yourself blocked and you're like, wait
a minute, how do we go from you know, flirty

(02:15):
dms and planning dates to being blocked exactly?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, let's call her now and try and figure this out.
Good luck, Hudson, Thank you. Hello. Hi is this Lauren?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yes, this is Lauren.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Hey Lauren, good morning. My name is Fred.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'm calling for the Fred Show, the morning radio show,
and I have to tell you that we are on
the radio, and I would need your permission to continue
with the call. I said, Okay, if we chat for
just a second, you can hang up anytime.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Sure, I mean, why am I on the radio?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, it's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
The whole crew is here and we'll see if it's
cool in just a second. But thank you for taking
the time. We're calling on behalf of a guy who
says he's slipping your DMS and you guys were talking
about going out.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
His name is Hudson. Do you remember this guy?

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Oh? Yeah, I remember him.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, So he called us and he told us that
he I guess you popped up on us for you
or something, and he followed you, and you followed him back,
and you DMed and he asked you out, and that
was all going well, and you guys are planning a
date and then he says he got blocked and he
doesn't know why. Now find it hard to believe that
he doesn't know why, But he doesn't know why.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
So what happened?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So?

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I mean, I thought we hit it off really well.
We had good banter, similar interest that he was cute.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I was kind of excited for the date as well.
But then I found out that he actually started messaging
my best friend on Instagram like a few days after
he messaged me, and I'm just like, what the heck?
Like that was a huge turn off. It seems like
you're trying to date me and my best friend at
the same time.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
We called that the wide net in the biz. Do
you think he knew that or do you think he was.
I mean, in all fairness, do you think he was
just going after hot girls on Instagram?

Speaker 4 (03:59):
I think he had to have known because we have
photos together on my Instagram.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh inst Okay, now that he's a rookie move, you
know you gotta go. Look, you can't.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
You can't fish where your fish. You can't fish with
the fish you just caught, you know what I mean? Like,
you can't. You can't do that. You can't be trying
to talk to somebody and then also preying on the
people from her profile who were in the pictures with her.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Rookie mistake? Who does that? Okay?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I forgot to mention that Hudson is here by the way,
and he's been very quiet. I'm very forgetful. I'm sorry.
This is you know a problem for me, Hudson. What
are you doing? Is this what happened?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know? You match with her or not matched with her?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I guess you follow her and then you went looking
through her stuff to find more dates.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, like I just hold off the sete here like
I didn't do anything wrong, Like I I'm single, Like
we haven't even gone on a.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Date, like I was.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, I saw like one long Irene's friends in the
photos and thought she was cute, so I just followed her, like,
what's the big deal?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Like, bro, you don't think they talk?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
You don't think I mean, if you're on somebody's Instagram profile,
you probably chat. You don't think that was gonna come
up in conversation.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I don't know. I don't think it was a big deal.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's the same way I found her. I mean I
was just like, you know, it was just liking folks.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, but wow, here's what happens, Hudson, And let me
tell you exactly what happened.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
And I bet Lauren you're gonna tell me. I'm right.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
So he's talking to you, and then he goes on
your profile and he finds that hot girl is friends
with you. He requests her, and then the only friends
that you have in common are the two of you
and you you three. So then she calls her friends.
She calls Lauren and goes, hey, do you know this
guy because he's asking me out? And then Lauren's like, yeah,
I know, because he's asking me out too. That's exactly

(05:49):
how that happened, right.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Does this happen to you?

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yes? And he pretty much used the same kind of
game and said the same I mean, he said this
almost identical DMS like.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
No, see, because I mean, I'm a dummy when it
comes to dating. I'm a dummy. But I know better
than that. I even know better than if I find
someone on a dating app and I see a girl
that I've dated in the photos with the first of all,
we've discussed this but a pet peeve of mine, and
it maybe has saved me before, but don't post pictures
with other men or other women on your dating profile
because you're just asking for someone to be a more

(06:20):
attracted to somebody else in the picture. Make it about you,
it's your profile. But that being said, it has saved
me a few times. We're like, I don't know that girl,
but I know another girl in the picture, and I'm like,
this isn't gonna go well because if I match with
her or try and go out with her, and then
she says to her friends, so I met I've matched
with this guy. Fred, he's you know, whatever, It'll never
happen because another girl will be like more than likely.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh you know, YadA YadA, YadA.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
So why why not we why don't we cast in
that a little wider.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Hudson.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
You're more than welcome to DM anybody you want, But like,
why don't we have to DM everybody?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
She knows?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I'll know what's a big deal is that's a little
I don't know, a little up type for me.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Okay, now I'm pursuing me and trying to date me,
and then you're also doing the same thing to my
best friend. Obviously we're going to talk about it. Not
a good first impression at all, And I don't know
if you want to keep doing that, go find someone
who likes to play games.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Let's just play Devil's Advocate for a second. I don't
like this this strategy. But let's just say you've never
met the guy you don't know. So let's say you
go out with him first and it works out, then
he probably won't go out with your friend, and you're good, right,
because like, if it works out then you don't, then
he's not going to go out with both of you.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's not going to work.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
I'm sure he would try if he's gonna I think
he would try, right, because you always yeah, wait, so exactly.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm not saying anybody should do this, but I'm just saying,
may the best woman win?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh please?

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, look, who's to say that.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Who's to say that he's not compatible with Lauren but
not in it in an inflammatory way, and he is
a better match for her friend. Who's to say I'm
trying to see all sides here. I'm not saying do
this or that I would do this. I think you're
asking for this exact outcome. But let's just I mean,
who's to say that, Lauren, maybe you'd like the guy,
but he's not for you, but he's a great match

(08:11):
for your friend. And so no harm, no foul, nothing happened,
nothing physical. You just sort of say not for me.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
I mean, I can see where that could happen, but
it's just the fact that he pursued both of us,
and it's not something that happened naturally. It's not like
they met and they kind of hit it off and
it was a better match than me.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Let's go out first. I don't know, I start hitting
on my friends.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
On one day and then you see if we have chemistry,
I would agree, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Look at my Instagram for all my.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Hot times, or how about this, how about this next time?
Much and just ask him all out to the same date.
Just get him all out, you know, and let's just
let's just rapid fire this thing. We'll just we'll speed
date the whole friend group and let's see where we
wind up, you know what I mean. Let's get him
to compete for you. Please, Hudson's thinking about it. Yeah,

(09:02):
do not do that, Hudson.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
I don't recommend that. No, I'm gonna ask the question, Lauren.
I mean, he said he you don't have a problem
with what you did, Hudson.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
You don't. You don't see the error in your ways? Oh,
here's that big of a deal. Honestly, No, Laura, I'll.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Ask the question, probably rhetorical, would you like to go
out with him? Would you like to meet him? At
least we'll pay for it, and and just to you,
not your friend. Your friend doesn't get to go.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
No, No, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I do not want to meet this guy. I'm good.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Okay, all right, well Hudson, back to I g you go.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
And let's maybe let's let's just cast a little wider net,
you know, Let's let's let's not target one single friend group.
How about we target lots of friend groups. And only
one person of each group. How about that. Isn't that
stage advice?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, oh my god, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, you do seem you seem like you need a drink. Okay,
best of luck to both of you guys. Thank you
for your time.

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