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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Fresh show. This is what's trending. I pushed
around the button. We're still there. Yeah, okay, it wasn't
man right now, I'm just pushing all the buttons to
see which one it is.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's how we figure it out, though.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
No, I mean, and I'm doing a power cycle on
my brain. Yeah, I'm in power cycle. A bunch of
texts this morning eight five, five, five, nine, one one
oh three five. Nice body referring to me Jake chill
at home. I think his voice is kind of high.
Maybe that's what it is, his voice. Maybe his voice
and his body don't match. Or maybe the voice is
what gives short to me. Okay, because he does kind
of have a softer, higher voice. Yeah, he's a good actor.

(00:35):
Though agreed about Jake g I was listening all morning.
Did Shelley win the show down yesterday? Oh? You didn't
hear that part? That's the part that gets us all
the ratings. No wonder. Maybe I also want to say
that the malfunction was strategically timed. They wait till the
most critical part of the show to start screwing around
with stuff. But that's nothing, that's nothing, rare yea these

(00:56):
guys love to do like software updates, Like let's do
a software It's seven thirty in the morning. What's happening
and there's nothing happening at the radio station seven thirty
in the morning, is there. No, No, we'll just do
it two in the morning. Nah, right in the middle
of the Fred Show. Let's do it. We're gonna need
to just take everything down and put it back up.
But we're not really sure what's gonna happen when it
comes back. But that's the perfect time to do it.

(01:18):
Habitur's I'm telling you when no one's listening because it's only.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Happening on one side too, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh no, it doesn't happen any other show in the
middle of it. Just stars. No.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm just say like our listeners in Raleigh, they heard
everything like perfectly fine, thank god, it's only here we
complains the most.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean, it's a miracle that place is put together
with duct tape. That's the truth. The radio station in Raleigh.
I'm God bless them, God bless Trevor and Burger and
all those guys. But honestly, like the last time I
was there, I soldered stuff myself. I had a blowtords out.

(01:58):
I was moving the walls around. I was, I was,
They're like, hey, the microwave doesn't work, and I'm like okay,
I power cycled back. I mean it was like they're like, yeah,
in order to get in order to get on the radio,
you got to hold these two wires together. From nineteen
seventy like Marconi himself worked at them. The radio was

(02:19):
invented at that place. It's it's God bless them. I
mean it's it's truly like a pawn shop from nineteen
seventy eight. Yeah, anyway, holding us down. No, No, it's
we love we love them. We love those guys. What
are some other texts? Oh, all the teachers going back
to work broke the radio. I certainly hope that's what happened. Imagine.
I certainly hope that they were the capacity of the

(02:43):
listenership was so high that it just didn't know what
to do. That's really what we're looking for these days anyway.
So just no, just know that it matters. And we
had this conversation before all the teachers and moms and
kids went off first summer, we had this conversation. We
had family meeting and we said guys, Look, if you
like this show and you want us to keep doing it,

(03:03):
don't don't have it, don't stop listening for the summer.
So there's like heart palpitations and meetings and you know,
I got Big Daddy Bob calling me, going where did
everybody go? You know? And I'm like, I don't know,
I don't know. And now everyone's back apparently, so it's good.
I hope everyone else enjoyed their minor time at the top,
but nope, we're taking it back right everyone, Our rightful

(03:26):
spot is the top, right right if they can hear
this right right. In the meantime, they're playing polk music back. Also,
I need to give a shout out this morning to
I got nice message from our tour Simonis, who's a
radio host in Lisbon, Portugal at AFM. Apparently this is

(03:49):
what he said. He said, Hi, Fred, Today I was
left alone by my two co hosts, and it feels
like everyone else in the building went on vacation, same
same our tour, so it's just me and the mic.
So to feel less alone and connect with my overseas peers,
I decided to link up with radio hosts from all
over the world who were on the air at the
moment with that said, I would love to get a
hello from you for my show. You can text it

(04:09):
to me here. Well, hello, our tour in the beautiful
city of Lisbon. It's a nice place and you're a
nice guy. Yeah, and he's there, so good, good morning
man here. And I was waiting for the second part
where he's going to ask you for like a thousand
dollars exactly a minute. I got this book. I did

(04:36):
buy a MacBook from him. Are you saying it's not real?
I gave him my social Security number and routing information.
What do you mean? He said that I was a
descendant of I'm a Portugue. I'm a Portuguese prince is
what he said, and which everyone can see when they
look at me. And he said that I was going
to inherit eighty seven gazillion gold balloons. Wait a minute,

(04:59):
are you saying that our tour is lying to me? No,
that's impossible, guys. We have controversy and what's trending this morning?
I should play the Olympic music and Jason, I'm sure
you have something to say about this. But we thought
the Olympic stuff was over. But USA Gymnastics said Monday
that it's appealed to restore gymnast Jordan Childs bronze medal
and the floor exercise has been turned down. The federation

(05:21):
was informed by the Court of Arbitration for Sports that
the rules do not allow for an award to be
reconsidered even when conclusive new evidence is presented. The news
comes a little more than a week after the actual
floor exercise competition itself, or a late inquiry by her
coaches first triggered the saga that played out in the

(05:42):
day's sense. So in the last routine of the floor
exercise final, she got a score of thirteen point six
to sixty six, which included a deduction of one tenth
of a point for an improper slip split leap known
as I'm not even a tour jit full yet. Of course, obviously,
that score put her fifth behind two other gymnasts who

(06:04):
had scores of thirteen point seven. But then the coaches
from USA Gymnastics formally appealed that specific deduction and the
judges agreed. Her score then went up, which then made
her eligible for a bronze medal. The Romanians then said
that the last minute reversal was unfair, and ultimately that's
been upheld, so you gotta ship that thing back. Sorry

(06:25):
about that, good luck getting it back right. Got'd be
like find it, come find it, come take it right.
Getting yourself that sucks anyway. And it looked like they
had and they had video that this wasn't correct.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right, So you can appeal it one way but not
the other apparently, so she just doesn't get a say
in it, and that sucks that you have to give
the medal back.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
But then do you sort of just always know that
you want it? I mean I realized that's probably not
as good as you know.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Like your first solo medal. This is all the drama
around it, like crappy is that?

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah? That does kind of suck. A four point four
magnitude earthquake hit southern California yesterday afternoon, sending shit waves
that were felt across the region. It was about twelve
twenty two point five miles south southeast of Highland Park,
near LA's Chinatown neighborhood. People felt the shaking. Aaron Rodgers
is trending today. He apparently regrets telling reporters in twenty

(07:16):
twenty one that he had been immunized that's the quote
against the coronavirus, you know, as soon to be published
unauthorized biography. He told an author, Ian O'Connor that while
his claim to immunization was the crux of his appeal,
he would handle the situation differently today. If there's one
thing that I wish I could have done different, it's that,
because it's the only thing that critics could hit me with.

(07:37):
So this is a guy who said, well, I guess
he tested positive for COVID as an unvaccinated player. He
was sidelined, but he had said that he was immunized.
But what that really meant was that he wanted homeopathic
treatment regimen that would then qualify as a vaccination. NFL
said no. But before that, he had said that he

(07:59):
was immunized, So that's what he really wanted, was some
sort of you know, alternative, and they said no to that,
and he took a lot of heat for him. A
proposed rule, a federal rule, would make it easier to
cancel subscriptions, which is amazing because if you've ever noticed,
it's very easy to sign up for stuff and it
can be exorbitantly difficult. Oh my goodness, have you ever

(08:21):
tried to cancel a gym or VECA membership, I'm a letter.
You got to have a notarized letter with your grandmother's blood. Yeah,
you got to hand it to him too, Like you
can't even there. It's crazy, insane. But yeah, they'll take
your credit card and you're in the gym in about
four seconds. Right.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
So the Biden administration, if they get their way, the
answer would be that it's like a one to two thing,
very simple. The administration is going to work through the
FTC and FCC to ask companies to make it as
easy as possible to cancel subscriptions as it is to
sign up for them in the first place. For a
lot of services, it takes one or two clicks on
your phone to sign up. It should take one or
two clicks on your phone to end this service. The

(09:01):
new regulations were announced yesterday, but we'll take anywhere from
weeks to months to go into effect. There's a rage
that's trending. I didn't realize this, Americans owning miniature farm animals.
Do you know any want who done this? Cow's goats, donkeys,
and other tiny farm animals. Yeah. Rob Derd did it
back on with his little mini horse. I'm surprised she

(09:23):
had time with all of his MTV shows to do anything.
It was part of the show.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
It was Robin Big Yeah, Rip big Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I'm just curious. By the way, if you've got a
second eight five five five nine three five Bellhamine, don't
click on anything but the phone. I swear to God.
By the way, I do not think it's her fault.
I just love every time I see her in the
hallway to blame it on her, because it's just my career.
It's not you know, it's not a big deal. It's
just my livelihood. I mean, she's got she's got twenty
more years to live than me. But that's okay. It's fine.

(09:51):
When I'm unemployed. I'll make sure her coffee is super
super hot when I serve it to her. Ops. Anyway,
I want to, though, if you would, who has the
most obscure or has had the most obscure pet, because
I'm sort of amazed at what people are willing to
keep in their homes. But yeah, miniature cows, goats, donkeys,

(10:12):
and other tiny farm animals have grown in popularity since
the COVID nineteen pandemic. Also, people raising chickens in their
backyard for fresh eggs, which I guess that's cool. One
farmer said, a lot of people don't have access to
several acres, but if they have an acre plot, they
can have a miniature cow or a few miniature goats.
Some people see a small farm animal as a stepping

(10:33):
stone to owning larger animals. Others don't have the desire
to expand. Some owners of many farm animals turn their
hobbies into side hustles like tours, breeding, and blogging about
their experiences. The challenges would include if you're thinking about
this chase and the volatile nature of prices for each
of the types of miniature farm animals. And while they
can be cute, they could also be aggressive. Important to

(10:55):
know that how do they Is it like a you know,
how do they make a mini mini ture animal? And
they're bred that way? Right? And then they yeah, and
then they did yeah. Okay, but I'm just cured. I'm
curious who has the most obscure You can text her
call the same number the most obscure pet, because I
mean it's kind of amazing what people are, you know,
are willing to investicate? Yeah, I had a squirrel. We
had a squirrel. We had a pet squirrel. Oh like

(11:17):
it actual? So how did this come about? It? Did
you was it domesticated or did you find it and
then adopt it yourself.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
We found it in the yard and then Mike was
just working in the garage every day, and the squirrel
would just come and hang out. Like the squirrel would
come in the garage and like walk over stuff and
Mike would give him peanuts and whatever. But then he
would like, like if you came to visit, he would
like jump on you and like sit on your shoulder.
He would like do it to everybody so I could

(11:46):
pet him, Yeah, you could like pet him. He would
be on your shoulder. He would like run around and
like that.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Would make me so nervous because don't they sometimes have
you know, rabies and yeah I got bit ones.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, but he would do it to everybody, so like
you weren't expecting. You just showed up at my house
and then like runs a squirrel up your legs and
they're so fast, they're so fasty, but they're so soft.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Like I saw this video the other day of a woman.
I'm not sure where she was, but she was like
in a like a trench somewhere and I don't it
wasn't in the United States. And she's she's like in
this tread, this little thing like a rose a little river,
like a shallow river, and this like python looking black
snake just comes cruising down the river and what and
like head for her, and what does she do? Picks

(12:29):
the thing up. It's not hers, like it's a wild snake.
And it had the little like the little things on
the on the neck that make it look real scary,
like a little wings, you know what I mean. I
had little wings on there. Yeah, And and she just
picks the thing up and holds it close to her
face and it's like, you know, hanging out. And it
didn't bite her, It didn't do anything. But I'm just
going like people are wild, Like you don't know that

(12:52):
guy or girl, you don't know that snake. My grandpa
had a pet raccoon and it bit my aunt's ear. Yes,
someone just said my brother in law had crocodile's Caitlin,
I had a raccoon as a child in our house
as a pet. Boa constrictors crocodiles. Somebody had crocodiles. I
had an albino African Claude water frog, a mini horse. Gosh, yeah,

(13:16):
and Massachusetts is Jason's favorite state.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
What's it called, Massachusetts, masshuset.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's good and that was really good. Thank you. It
just rolled off the ta name. It's been ranked the
best place to live in America in twenty twenty four.
According to wallet Hub, the best state is Massachusetts. To
determine the best and worst states, they compared across fifty states.
Key dimensions affordability, economy, education, health, quality of life and safety. Florida,

(13:47):
New Jersey, Utah, New Hampshire were the top five. Louisiana,
New Mexico, Arkansas, Alaska, and Nevada the worst states to
live in Guys, In case you were wondering, it's National
Prosecco Day and National Fila Mignon Day. Perseco a little sweet,
but I just put all together, you know, have yourself
a nice mimosa and then you know, grow yourself up,
flaming you on, treat yourself, you know. And for Kaitlin,

(14:10):
maybe a nice uh, poor Jop, I don't know, because
you don't like the you don't like the cows. No,
So I just I don't know what I don't know
what loves the cows, well not. She doesn't like the
flaming on the version of the cow yeah, because that
means not things Champlain

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