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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Each the Freend Show, Good Morning on the radio, and
the iHeart app as well search for the frend Show
on demand. Working remotely has saved the average New York
City employee three hundred and thirty one hours a week.
Think about that for a minute. Three hundred and thirty
one hours a week saved by not having to commute
in New York. The lowest is South Dakota one hundred
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and forty five hours a week. But still, that's a
lot of time that you're not doing whatever is required
for having to get to and from work to and FRO.
Research shows a working from home saves time at different
parts of the US. In the Midwest they saved the least.
New Yorkers saved the most. Workers in India, for example,
one hundred and ninety six hours. This is per year.
(00:45):
This is per year, and that week that'd be a lot.
It's twenty four times seven. No, this doesn't work for
a year still though, no, No, I did the math. Though,
it's like, what is that I did the math earlier.
It's a lot of hours a week. Yeah, it's very precise.
I could do the math.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Rufio.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was actually thinking, as I said, per week I'm like,
hold on, I'm over here. Yeah, Like, how many eight
is like three hundred hours a week? There are three
other three hundred a week. It saves you all the week.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
One sixty eight fooled me? What is one sixty eight
twenty four time seven? Oh okay, no, I was I
was wondering.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So divide three thirty one by fifty one, uh fifty two?
Uh whatever? Six six and a half okay, So six
and a half hours a week. That's still a lot.
That's not three thirty one, but it's uh, we sound
like totally I sound like a total idiot this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's a lot of time that you're saving not having
to drive to work every single day. But yet most
places are making people start to come back to work.
Now Here, we thought we had this work from home
efficiency down and it was like, oh, well, we'll never
have to go back because look we we we've made
it this far. And now it's a lot of businesses
I think this one included, are like, no, you should
come back in and people don't like it. The other
(01:56):
funny thing is a lot of businesses have downsized significantly.
They're their workspace and then they want everyone to come back,
even on certain days, and they don't have room for everybody,
so well that's not going to work. So now I've
heard that certain businesses are expanding again.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They're like adding floors and stuff because.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's like, well, we may have overcorrected and now we
want everyone to come together. And the management argument is
that there's a collaboration that happens when we're all together
in a room that wouldn't happen otherwise. Do we agree, yes,
So if you were I mean, we've come in this
whole time. We never stopped. That's why I agree the
(02:33):
whole pandemic. We never stopped coming to work like everybody
else whatever. But if you were somebody who's been working
from home five days a week, Kiki, and they said
you've got to come back in three days a week,
you'd be okay with them.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It depends on the job. It really depends on the job.
Like I was in the digital department before I got
on the show with you, and as a digital person,
you need to be here, you need to shoot content,
you need to do things. Now, when I was in
the commercials department and all I was doing was putting
commercials on a log and looking at the wall here
you can look at anybody'll look at the while at home,
So yeah, I don't need to be here. Yeah, ok yeah,
(03:05):
so they should you know, should be up to the
discretion of the department heads. And if it makes sense,
let people stay at home. Companies don't want to pay
you what you probably should be paid for your job,
so the at least you can do is let me
save money on my commute.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's not too much to ask, like, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Okay, so now that we got the math right, it
only took about ten minutes to work this out, carry
the one and then we you know, we wrote it
all down. So basically in New York, if you consider
five days a week, that's over an hour a day
that you would get back. That's pretty good quality of life.
I mean, plus not to mention the stress. I'm actually
surprised though it's not higher in like a Chicago or
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Los Angeles, which isn't included here because I mean, especially now,
people hour and a half each way on the road. Yeah,
and I mean can you imagine like and people listening
to us right now. I mean that's one thing about
getting up early. We don't have far to go, but
and there's not much traffic on the road. But I mean,
if I I don't know that, I would rather stay
at home not to have to sit in traffic an
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hour and a half each way. I mean, I don't
know how people do it. I love that you do
because you have to listen to us, your captive audience.
But that's got a weigh on you over time.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, especially I gave I've been doing it for like
what two years? Is you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You've been working from home and now you're going back
into this transition. My best friend does a hybrid role,
and I love that because it's like I think, two
days at home, three days in the office.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I think he loves it. I love it. I think
it's great. I love it for him.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, because I think you then get out of the
house and that kind of like helps you.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Some people may disagree, but it's like that mental health
aspect of like, you know, getting out and like seeing
humans interacting. You're not just not just you in the
laptop all day. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The other funny thing is most people I know who
worked or worked from home will tell you. They got
more done and did more than they do in the office.
It's the reason I don't hang around this place m M,
because I get nothing done here.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I mean, Rufio' is like, oh, I'm here till four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Every them I'm like, dude, how many bowls and cup
of noodles did you eat?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Four? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Like you know, with everybody, you know this and that,
and before long it's like, oh, I didn't get anything done.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, that's very true.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
When I worked from home, I felt like I worked
non stop, Like it was I was checking that laptop
every day that all day. That little tune is still
stuck in my head, the team's call tune.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's still there.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, what a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
We tried to do our show remotely for like two
days and we all said, no, COVID is better.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It was chaotic. Yeah, But I just for the people
who do have the commute. I feel for you and
thank you for listening to us. And I think that's
our only utility. I think that's all that's left for us,
is to keep people company on the commute. That's all
that we can offer you. That nobody else can and
and math very good, math and very good. I read
good as you can tell. Hey, Liz, good.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Morning, Good morning you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Hi, you're going back to the office for the first time.
It's three months.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
This is the first time only because I'm getting lunch
with a friend. Otherwise I wrote. I work them out
five days a week, and for months my bosses have
been telling me that I need to go into the office.
I have no obligation go in there though I have
no manager to watch me. My manager works remote from Michigan,
and her boss works like my entire team the remainder
of them are in New York, and I still have
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to come in because it looks good for the company.
So I'm just so dumbfounded. What exactly is so like
important for me to come in when I literally work
a lot longer working from like from home than I
do in the office. I'm going to go in there
and probably talk to everybody because everybody wants to catch up,
and then like I won't even get like anything done
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that I would have when I like would have been
at home.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, so you're needless to say you're a little
resentful about this?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Absolutely, Yeah, it's like a waste of time, like for
who just to show face and make people like like
the managers and like I had honchos look good.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
This is so stupid.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I ended up paying like a student loan because we
work from home. Like that's like like ten grand I
was be able to pay it off, and like that's
where I see like the benefit and like I'm starting
to save up money now, like saying, God was like
in this economy, like woman millennial is like able to
do anything. And so now I'm just kind of like
why do this. I'm like saving money. I'm being productive,
(07:24):
like you know, I'm doing my work. Otherwise you would
have fired me by now.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Right, Well, that's the thing we're not talking about the cost.
Starting with the cost.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I mean, I don't know how much you know gas
it takes you to drive to work, but that's you know,
think about that, right, yeah, to your point about it.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
And one thing, if you go out the clothes either
like you save money. I have no idea what to
wear into the office, and I have to make this
decision in like twenty minutes. I dress like a Homeland
person every day and like now I'm like having to
go in and work like and like look business casual.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But good point.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
I don't even know how to address thissiness casual anymore?
Like where are the kids wear in these days? I
don't freaking know.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Wow, Hey, Liz, well, thank you for you know, listening
to us at least. And and we appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Oh, I appreciate it too.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Have a good day, like man be able to have
to go back to working, like, please go back to work.
Actually right, we need the ratings, we really, we really
need the ratings. I William, Hi, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And ladies and ladies, Yes, so you're you're on your
way back to work today.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
I am on my way back into the office. But
I was just going to make the comparison that, you know,
I work in sales, so it's like before before the pandemic,
I'd have to get up an hour before work. You
got to press my clothes iron things, drive forty five
minutes into the office, sitting in.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Front of a computer. Working in sales, you can eat.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Sales people are over your back looking for the next sale,
and then there's constant pressure.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Versus working from home.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Just became much easier, easier, kind of process. You know,
you get up, you get ready to work, you kind
of manage.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Your own time.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Gets a little too stressed, you could take a break
on your own breather.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
So I think it.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Definitely benefited the people that are independent and self motivated.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I guess, and thank you, William, have a great day man,
thanks for listening to yep. I guess I figured after
three years of people working remotely, or two and a
half or however long it was before they started sort
of peeling that back, I figured that that was just
the way it would be forever, because you know, a
lot of companies figured out how to do it. You
figured it out, you got the technology, we have the
efficiencies now. So I guess I'm surprised we're unwinding that
(09:38):
at this point. Hey, Kate, hi, Hi Kate. Commuting an
hour and a half both ways, yikes.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
So I'm actually I'm a certain teacher, so I don't
even go into an office. I go into a school
every day, but it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Takes me a really long time in the morning, and then.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It takes me like an hour and a half in
the afternoon, and.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
I'm expected to like do homework and less employment.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
When I get home.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
But it's like it's too much.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I'm dead by the time I get home.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, I believe in but there's no one. You really
can't do your job without being face to face with folks, right.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Oh yeah, that's like working at education. You definitely have
to like be in person.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
I can't imagine going back to like teaching remote because no.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, okay, thanks for having us on while you do it,
and we love you.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Thank you too.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah ye I got more freash show. Next, it's the
Fresh Show. This is what's trending.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So the US Surgeon General calls loneliness a public health crisis.
If you feel like you're missing a bond with people,
that you're not alone, because they released an advisory calling
attention to isolation and the lack of connection that they're
seeing in America. He says that even before the COVID
nineteen pandemic, about half of all adults so they were
experiencing loneliness every single day. He says that the Surgeon
(10:55):
General says that loneliness can raise the risk of premature
death twenty six percent and social isolation by twenty nine percent.
These conditions have also been linked to increased risk of stroke,
heart disease, dementia, anxiety, depression, and self harm. America's spent
about twenty minutes a day in person with friends in
twenty twenty, which is down from about sixty minutes a
day nearly two decades earlier. That's a serious thing. And
(11:19):
I guess I don't really know what is the what
is the solution if you feel lonely? I mean, they
don't have those those those party lines anymore. I saw
one on TikTok the other day. It was like from
the eighties. It was one of the commercials about it.
And this is before my time even, But I guess,
and if you're old enough to have ever done this,
I would love to hear about it. Eight five five
(11:39):
five nine one one oh three five. But I guess
back in the day, like in the eighties, you would
call a number and I guess pay and then you'd
have access to it was like a chat room on
the phone, and there'd be a bunch of other people
on the phone, and then you'd be like, hey, what's up.
And then you'd try and like get I guess, get
one of the people like talk to you offline, and
then you'd you know, because a party line is a
(12:01):
week ye kind of.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It was free though, Yeah, and we were on the
party line talking to people we had no business talking to, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Realer than me. So what what on earth? I never
did this? You did it?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It was Yeah, it was called the party line ROOFIEA.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Did you know about it?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, party That's what I was talking about. They had
various versions of it. Okay, So you call the number.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Call the number, you dial in, and you would be
in a room. You can go in different rooms too,
like you mentioned, and you would talk to different people from.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Around the world or wherever they were.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And like some of my friends met up with these
guys or girls or Yeah, it was the thing.
Speaker 11 (12:38):
I did that in my aime chat rooms, like I
had no business to be in there.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
My friends, and yeah there were real creeps in there today.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Absolutely Yeah, No, I that I did do. But I
never called any of these numbers. But just every now
and to get on TikTok, there's a feed that will
show like really old commercials or those old like I
guess you used to be able to subscribe or go
to a business and watch video like video profiles of
men and women for dating and then like so they
would be like a dude being filmed in nineteen eighty
(13:10):
two or something in front of it like a blue
like literally not a blue screen, like a blue background,
and he would be like, hey, ladies, you know, and
they would come up with a clever like little stuff
to say to try and catch people's attention. And I
guess you'd be like that video and that video, and
then they set you up with those people. But every
now and again they'll put those up on TikTok and
it's hilarious because they got like, you know, eighties hair,
and they're trying to be all suave and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'll have to find some audio. They're pretty good.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
I do remember also seeing like the phone sex commercials
late at.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
All now for a hot girls calling to hang up.
Speaker 12 (13:43):
You would I wanted to hear it, so I'd like
call it and then they'd be like, hi, enter your
credit card, Like.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow, you should have explained a lot of things.
Speaker 12 (13:59):
Then you know that reaction, you would try to come
up with like seven digit words that you could like
like I would like try to like make the ones
up just to see if they exist.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It so I can't say of them, but try to
spell it out. Well, this is dis will age all
of us too.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But I think everybody in this room can relate to
a Collect call, like when you when you were four
mobile phones, you know, and you didn't have a quarter
or something, and there are these things called payphones, and
now you can like they're a big hole.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Like if you go to old hair.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now there's just like faded paint where there used to
be phone.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Or little bays. Yeah in the building, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Right right right, And and the other thing we have
in the building they've covered up here ass trays. Have
you seen that they put like they've tried to like
put stone in, but they used to just have ass
trays in the wall where you just what.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, what was going on?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But yeah, yeah, you would call one hundred Collect and
in the moment, in a little space where you say
your name, you just say the whole message, Hey mom,
come pick me up?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yes, oh yeah, I would.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
I would.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
You would be I'd be at the mall and I'd
dial one collect and be like at the tone, please
say your name Mom, it's it's come pick me up.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm ready to be picked up.
Speaker 13 (15:08):
And then and then they would call your home, your parents,
and they'd be like, you have a collect call from
mom to pick me up. And then they'd be like,
do you want to accept? You Then they'd be like, no,
because my mom knows to come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Because you know, you won't have to pay for the
call there, yes says your name. Yes, it would be
like you have a collect call from Christopher if you'd
like to accept, press one, and then it gets billed
to whoever picks up the phone, but instead you'd be like,
pick me.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Up mom, and the moment and then yeah, you go
a message receipt.
Speaker 11 (15:37):
And you just like wait outside, Yeah, friends to come
pick you up.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's a lot of trust, like in the system.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know, so have you every time you left your
home in your life? Can did you have a mobile phone?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
No?
Speaker 11 (15:48):
But I definitely like I missed the payphones. But I
think there was like times that the movies maybe where
like we would pick a time when it was over
and my mom would pick me up. But I don't
think I ever used to pay phone, but was litt.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I think it was college before it was like here's
a mobile phone.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, No, I didn't like and here you.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Go like take this with you and it was big.
It wasn't like brick big, but it was still like
not going in your pocket.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Really.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
The first one was a star Tech Motor star Tech. Yeah,
those were kind of fans. My first one Lewis good morning,
Lewis works till good morning guy. Hey, you used the
party line?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Oh man, we all used to it when I was younger.
I remember a buddy of mine. Shirts. Mean. It was
funny because for guys it was a free You got
a couple of minutes if you called in and said
you were a girl. It was unlimited.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
For girls, it was Vegas just like everywhere every club.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes, well, free means some dude from Kansas City. He
thinks he's gonna get hooked up and buying all your drinks.
That's what That's what free to you means in Vegas.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
It's not free.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
There charging Fred Tripple. Excuse me, I'm smarter than that
for that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, So you'd collin say you were a girl, and
then you'd get on there and not be a girl.
And what was the end game like to try and
get someone's number and go out with them.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
It's for fun, But the best part would be when
you you'd find somebody that you know on there. I
remember I showed up that work and this girl was like,
did I talk to you on the party line? And
I was like, yeah, we were bored and drunk or
being a stupid own call. Sometimes. My buddy used to
meet girls on it all the time, take him out,
and then you know, I'd be like, they always ghost them.
(17:33):
He would ever call him back, and I'm like, oh,
it's kind of could you lie on the party.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Girl?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He said your name was Luisa Lewis. Yeah, there you go, hey.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Man, have a great day. Thanks for listening. I appreciate you. Yeah,
those were the days. I guess a lot of that
predated even me. But but every now and again on
TikTok you'll see these old commercials and be like, whoa
the Fred show? He is on Good Morning on the
radio and the iHeart app anytimes search it for the
frend show on demand, pulling it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
But this made me laugh this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You'd mentioned on our little ideas sheet that we have
let me have a little ideas sheet just shared. It's
very fancy to share document. We type stuff into it
that we might want to talk about. And I laughed
out loud when I read it. But you were talking about,
as I do with most things that you do, whether
you intend for it or not.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But I I.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You were talking about the smell of your childhood, and
I feel like there are certain.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's a fact.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I think that our old factory, our nose, you know,
like memories are associated with certain smells, which I think
is why, like I don't know, certain foods they are
sentimental to people, or like I think the same can
be said about music, is that you hear a song
and people associate really closely. Associated memories can be taken
back right back to where they were when they heard
that song. Yeah, whatever song it is, but for you,
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the smell of your childhood.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
So my personal smell the childhood is Salem's some lights.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Marborough.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah. So if you know how.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I cant smell on my jacket going into school and
like in high school, kids asking me if I smoked
cigarettes just because like the smell was so happy and
my clothing.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
This was Mama March it was. It was a smoker.
She was a smoker. No longer a smoker. We love
that for her, yes, but it was bad her and
my stepdad.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I mean, I can really go on and on like
about the smells of my childhood, like vodka spilled on
the carpet, stuff like that, you know, just like little.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But this is interesting though, because I'd be curious. There
was probably a bunch of random stuff. But eight five
five five three five is I call the fred shake
can textas same number what comes to my My grandparents
house always had a smell and I never knew what
it was, and it couldn't be duplicated. It just was,
I don't know, you know, they no matter where they
were living. They lived in Peoria for a while, Illinois.
(19:55):
They lived in Scottsdale, Arizona for a while. You walk
in her house, it smelled like my grand Barras and
it was a good smell, but it was sort of
like a I don't know. It wasn't a food they
ate or I don't know what the hell it was.
It just smelled like them their house. Kiki White diamonds perfume.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't know if anyone Taylor Taylor White. I think
you could get it at Walgreens. She toilet tissue. But
that smell is so distinct to me. My mom used
to bathe in it like she that was her. That
was the thing back then like, yeah, all the queens
had the white.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Dimes, white diamonds. That was the smell of her childhood
for me.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
I spent a lot of time at my grandma, my
grandma's house, and uh, two things stick out were the
original she had the little caramel boh and the bowl
used to eat those like like obviously candy. And then
it's a Filipino thing. It's called Filipino spaghetti. You could
get into places like Jolly be but like it's like
made with banana ketchup so it's like a sweat sauce.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And then with hot dogs. You had to have hot
dogs in spaghetti. Oh so that was my childhood growing up.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
Wow, right Jason, Yeah, So this is so funny that
we're talking about this because I just thought about the
other day.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm currently driving around with this in my car.
Speaker 12 (21:15):
But for some reason, I was always like doing yard
work with my parents, Like I was always outside. So fertilizer,
which it literally is in my car as we speak,
like grass fertilizer. It like brought me back to having
to do yard Wow, fertilizer.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So yeah, white diamonds to cover up the fertilizer, to
cover up the the Marborough light and Salem slim smells
that were going on.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Allen, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What's the smell that comes to mind the smell of
your childhood?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Okay, so it's kind of a funny story. Was at
my best friend's house in high school. She was a
lifeguard hanging out with all the older lifeguards fonfire, no
parents tall, and they were passing something around the bonfire
and I go, oh my god, why does it smell
like my childhood?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Interesting?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Something something green? And you're hippie.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh man, So that lies. So that was just the
way that your house smelled, but you didn't necessarily know
what it was.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It was down in Pa down in Texas at the
softball field. My daddy would play softball every Friday night.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
And I thought all us kids were running around and.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, and.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I've missed the damn ball. He was getting hits all
right after the game.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And afterwards the tailgated.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Five seconds later. I swing at it, Eleen, Thank you
have a good day, you too, thinks I'm glad you called.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Uh is that right? Sam?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's well so for some reason it spelled with an
F right now on my computer screen. So anyway, I'm
I call you football. Yeah, you don't mind have changed
your name to you anyway?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Here's my question for intern Benamine that Benjamin is answering
the phones.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Have you ever met a faban? Multiple times? Names? Everybody
here Kyle turns into like a Sean like it's a
whole different name. And he even put the phonetics for me.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I have to take a picture of this because he
even wrote B A H A N and then oh Jesus,
Lord Jesus, take you all right? So anyway, shot on
if you would the smell of your childhood.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
My dad raced dirt, so anytime I am around, like
the exhaust and dirt smell together.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
It throve me way.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Back to my childhood.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Like I can smell it anytime.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
You go to a racetrack or something.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's amazing how that works.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Yeah, I took my I started taking my son to
racetracks now and I actually saw it. One racetrack they
made a candle that smells nice.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh love the smell of gasoline.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
People are all upsetting it gasoline on their hand of
someone like I'm gonna washing my hand for a minute,
want soak it in a little bit all right, football,
have a good day. Never met a football until today.
But it's a beautiful name. Really rolls off the tongue. Hey, Jory, Yes, Hi,
good morning, welcome, how are you?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Hi? Good morning, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
How are you? Boys? Are good? What's the smell of
your childhood?
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Fun fact? First, spread you and I have the same birthday.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And Kiki, So that's the three of us. Yeah, shout out.
We are We're brilliant.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
We are, we are for sure. So my father used
to smoke a pipe and smell it was Bond Street
tobacco and it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Could you ever find yourself smoking a pipe just to
just to get that smell back?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Oh? Absolutely not that I can recognize it if I
ever smell it for sure?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Wow wow, Okay, thank you, Jory, have a good day.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Happy birthday on our birthday in advance by Anna.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Good morning, Yes, hi, good morning. Is that really your
name or is it like Chelsea?
Speaker 10 (25:41):
No, it's really my name. When I'm playing games, I
use an alias.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Look for the games? Are we playing? And required alias?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Well?
Speaker 10 (25:52):
If I get them wrong, I don't meet people to
know it's me.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh oh, I see, I see my name is Yeah,
I'm going to write that one down. I may name
my daughter that. It's just beautiful. What is the smell
of your childhood?
Speaker 10 (26:09):
So definitely like Kiki, My mom used to love white
diamonds and thound herself in it. But my grandmother's hallway
always smelled like Murphy's oil, and I didn't figure it out.
And like two weeks ago, I was shopping and I
smelled it, and I'm like, oh my instantly was like
in my childhood, my grandmother's.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Wow, Murphy's oil. Yeah, okay, thank you so much, have
a good day.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I love you too.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Martin says dad's work boots. Daniel says fresh baked sweetbread.
Dove's so, oh my god. There's so many texts, pine salt, garbage,
fried chicken and collar, greens, holmide, tortilla. Somebody said butterscotch candies,
what guys garbage? Like it was it not a good childhood?
(26:55):
Or like you're living amongst the tracks? Get back to that,
the smell of garbage I grew up or the garage
not go.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
He really put? She really put garage? Just for the record.
Fred Show. The Fred Show is on Fred's Fun.
Speaker 14 (27:23):
Fact greenland sharks.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Greenland sharks, which are also known as gurry sharks or
gray sharks, tend to live very long lives, as the
longest living vertebrate on the planet. They can swim in
the ocean for up to four hundred years, and they
don't reach sexual maturity until they're one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So you're not getting it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You're not you're hitting puberty until you won fifty, and
you live for four hundred I got to wait one
hundred and fifty years to you know, you know, as
a woman, I was thinking procreation myself, obviously, which is
the only reason that people when a man loves a woman, Kaylen.
The only reason that you would engage in something like
that is to make a child, obviously. But if you're
(28:19):
a greenland if you're a gray shark, a gray shark,
you got to wait one hundred and fifty years for that.
It's almost like my true life story. I had to
wait almost one hundred and fifty years too. Well, Jason
Brown was in these streets. Yeah, yeah, what's my memoir
called at Home and Interested in I'm Home Alone and
Interested in Sex with a forward by Kaylyn and Kaylin
and one chapter will be called Fred, the Greenland Shark
(28:43):
who didn't reach sexual maturity until one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Done with the book at this point, yeah, I mean
we've we've written the whole thing. Yeah we have. It's
a Freads show. We're back in a minute.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
More Fread Show next
Each the Freend Show, Good Morning on the radio, and
the iHeart app as well search for the frend Show
on demand. Working remotely has saved the average New York
City employee three hundred and thirty one hours a week.
Think about that for a minute. Three hundred and thirty
one hours a week saved by not having to commute
in New York. The lowest is South Dakota one hundred
(00:22):
and forty five hours a week. But still, that's a
lot of time that you're not doing whatever is required
for having to get to and from work to and FRO.
Research shows a working from home saves time at different
parts of the US. In the Midwest they saved the least.
New Yorkers saved the most. Workers in India, for example,
one hundred and ninety six hours. This is per year.
(00:45):
This is per year, and that week that'd be a lot.
It's twenty four times seven. No, this doesn't work for
a year still though, no, No, I did the math. Though,
it's like, what is that I did the math earlier.
It's a lot of hours a week. Yeah, it's very precise.
I could do the math.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Rufio.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was actually thinking, as I said, per week I'm like,
hold on, I'm over here. Yeah, Like, how many eight
is like three hundred hours a week? There are three
other three hundred a week. It saves you all the week.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
One sixty eight fooled me? What is one sixty eight
twenty four time seven? Oh okay, no, I was I
was wondering.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So divide three thirty one by fifty one, uh fifty two?
Uh whatever? Six six and a half okay, So six
and a half hours a week. That's still a lot.
That's not three thirty one, but it's uh, we sound
like totally I sound like a total idiot this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's a lot of time that you're saving not having
to drive to work every single day. But yet most
places are making people start to come back to work.
Now Here, we thought we had this work from home
efficiency down and it was like, oh, well, we'll never
have to go back because look we we we've made
it this far. And now it's a lot of businesses
I think this one included, are like, no, you should
come back in and people don't like it. The other
(01:56):
funny thing is a lot of businesses have downsized significantly.
They're their workspace and then they want everyone to come back,
even on certain days, and they don't have room for everybody,
so well that's not going to work. So now I've
heard that certain businesses are expanding again.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They're like adding floors and stuff because.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's like, well, we may have overcorrected and now we
want everyone to come together. And the management argument is
that there's a collaboration that happens when we're all together
in a room that wouldn't happen otherwise. Do we agree, yes,
So if you were I mean, we've come in this
whole time. We never stopped. That's why I agree the
(02:33):
whole pandemic. We never stopped coming to work like everybody
else whatever. But if you were somebody who's been working
from home five days a week, Kiki, and they said
you've got to come back in three days a week,
you'd be okay with them.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It depends on the job. It really depends on the job.
Like I was in the digital department before I got
on the show with you, and as a digital person,
you need to be here, you need to shoot content,
you need to do things. Now, when I was in
the commercials department and all I was doing was putting
commercials on a log and looking at the wall here
you can look at anybody'll look at the while at home,
So yeah, I don't need to be here. Yeah, ok yeah,
(03:05):
so they should you know, should be up to the
discretion of the department heads. And if it makes sense,
let people stay at home. Companies don't want to pay
you what you probably should be paid for your job,
so the at least you can do is let me
save money on my commute.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's not too much to ask, like, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Okay, so now that we got the math right, it
only took about ten minutes to work this out, carry
the one and then we you know, we wrote it
all down. So basically in New York, if you consider
five days a week, that's over an hour a day
that you would get back. That's pretty good quality of life.
I mean, plus not to mention the stress. I'm actually
surprised though it's not higher in like a Chicago or
(03:43):
Los Angeles, which isn't included here because I mean, especially now,
people hour and a half each way on the road. Yeah,
and I mean can you imagine like and people listening
to us right now. I mean that's one thing about
getting up early. We don't have far to go, but
and there's not much traffic on the road. But I mean,
if I I don't know that, I would rather stay
at home not to have to sit in traffic an
(04:03):
hour and a half each way. I mean, I don't
know how people do it. I love that you do
because you have to listen to us, your captive audience.
But that's got a weigh on you over time.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, especially I gave I've been doing it for like
what two years? Is you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
You've been working from home and now you're going back
into this transition. My best friend does a hybrid role,
and I love that because it's like I think, two
days at home, three days in the office.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I think he loves it. I love it. I think
it's great. I love it for him.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, because I think you then get out of the
house and that kind of like helps you.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Some people may disagree, but it's like that mental health
aspect of like, you know, getting out and like seeing
humans interacting. You're not just not just you in the
laptop all day. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The other funny thing is most people I know who
worked or worked from home will tell you. They got
more done and did more than they do in the office.
It's the reason I don't hang around this place m M,
because I get nothing done here.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I mean, Rufio' is like, oh, I'm here till four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Every them I'm like, dude, how many bowls and cup
of noodles did you eat?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Four? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Like you know, with everybody, you know this and that,
and before long it's like, oh, I didn't get anything done.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, that's very true.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
When I worked from home, I felt like I worked
non stop, Like it was I was checking that laptop
every day that all day. That little tune is still
stuck in my head, the team's call tune.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's still there.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, what a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
We tried to do our show remotely for like two
days and we all said, no, COVID is better.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It was chaotic. Yeah, But I just for the people
who do have the commute. I feel for you and
thank you for listening to us. And I think that's
our only utility. I think that's all that's left for us,
is to keep people company on the commute. That's all
that we can offer you. That nobody else can and
and math very good, math and very good. I read
good as you can tell. Hey, Liz, good.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Morning, Good morning you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Hi, you're going back to the office for the first time.
It's three months.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
This is the first time only because I'm getting lunch
with a friend. Otherwise I wrote. I work them out
five days a week, and for months my bosses have
been telling me that I need to go into the office.
I have no obligation go in there though I have
no manager to watch me. My manager works remote from Michigan,
and her boss works like my entire team the remainder
of them are in New York, and I still have
(06:25):
to come in because it looks good for the company.
So I'm just so dumbfounded. What exactly is so like
important for me to come in when I literally work
a lot longer working from like from home than I
do in the office. I'm going to go in there
and probably talk to everybody because everybody wants to catch up,
and then like I won't even get like anything done
(06:46):
that I would have when I like would have been
at home.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, so you're needless to say you're a little
resentful about this?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Absolutely, Yeah, it's like a waste of time, like for
who just to show face and make people like like
the managers and like I had honchos look good.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
This is so stupid.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I ended up paying like a student loan because we
work from home. Like that's like like ten grand I
was be able to pay it off, and like that's
where I see like the benefit and like I'm starting
to save up money now, like saying, God was like
in this economy, like woman millennial is like able to
do anything. And so now I'm just kind of like
why do this. I'm like saving money. I'm being productive,
(07:24):
like you know, I'm doing my work. Otherwise you would
have fired me by now.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Right, Well, that's the thing we're not talking about the cost.
Starting with the cost.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I mean, I don't know how much you know gas
it takes you to drive to work, but that's you know,
think about that, right, yeah, to your point about it.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
And one thing, if you go out the clothes either
like you save money. I have no idea what to
wear into the office, and I have to make this
decision in like twenty minutes. I dress like a Homeland
person every day and like now I'm like having to
go in and work like and like look business casual.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But good point.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
I don't even know how to address thissiness casual anymore?
Like where are the kids wear in these days? I
don't freaking know.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Wow, Hey, Liz, well, thank you for you know, listening
to us at least. And and we appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Oh, I appreciate it too.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Have a good day, like man be able to have
to go back to working, like, please go back to work.
Actually right, we need the ratings, we really, we really
need the ratings. I William, Hi, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And ladies and ladies, Yes, so you're you're on your
way back to work today.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
I am on my way back into the office. But
I was just going to make the comparison that, you know,
I work in sales, so it's like before before the pandemic,
I'd have to get up an hour before work. You
got to press my clothes iron things, drive forty five
minutes into the office, sitting in.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Front of a computer. Working in sales, you can eat.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
Sales people are over your back looking for the next sale,
and then there's constant pressure.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Versus working from home.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Just became much easier, easier, kind of process. You know,
you get up, you get ready to work, you kind
of manage.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Your own time.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Gets a little too stressed, you could take a break
on your own breather.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
So I think it.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Definitely benefited the people that are independent and self motivated.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I guess, and thank you, William, have a great day man,
thanks for listening to yep. I guess I figured after
three years of people working remotely, or two and a
half or however long it was before they started sort
of peeling that back, I figured that that was just
the way it would be forever, because you know, a
lot of companies figured out how to do it. You
figured it out, you got the technology, we have the
efficiencies now. So I guess I'm surprised we're unwinding that
(09:38):
at this point. Hey, Kate, hi, Hi Kate. Commuting an
hour and a half both ways, yikes.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
So I'm actually I'm a certain teacher, so I don't
even go into an office. I go into a school
every day, but it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Takes me a really long time in the morning, and then.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
It takes me like an hour and a half in
the afternoon, and.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
I'm expected to like do homework and less employment.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
When I get home.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
But it's like it's too much.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I'm dead by the time I get home.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, I believe in but there's no one. You really
can't do your job without being face to face with folks, right.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Oh yeah, that's like working at education. You definitely have
to like be in person.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
I can't imagine going back to like teaching remote because no.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, okay, thanks for having us on while you do it,
and we love you.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Thank you too.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah ye I got more freash show. Next, it's the
Fresh Show. This is what's trending.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So the US Surgeon General calls loneliness a public health crisis.
If you feel like you're missing a bond with people,
that you're not alone, because they released an advisory calling
attention to isolation and the lack of connection that they're
seeing in America. He says that even before the COVID
nineteen pandemic, about half of all adults so they were
experiencing loneliness every single day. He says that the Surgeon
(10:55):
General says that loneliness can raise the risk of premature
death twenty six percent and social isolation by twenty nine percent.
These conditions have also been linked to increased risk of stroke,
heart disease, dementia, anxiety, depression, and self harm. America's spent
about twenty minutes a day in person with friends in
twenty twenty, which is down from about sixty minutes a
day nearly two decades earlier. That's a serious thing. And
(11:19):
I guess I don't really know what is the what
is the solution if you feel lonely? I mean, they
don't have those those those party lines anymore. I saw
one on TikTok the other day. It was like from
the eighties. It was one of the commercials about it.
And this is before my time even, But I guess,
and if you're old enough to have ever done this,
I would love to hear about it. Eight five five
(11:39):
five nine one one oh three five. But I guess
back in the day, like in the eighties, you would
call a number and I guess pay and then you'd
have access to it was like a chat room on
the phone, and there'd be a bunch of other people
on the phone, and then you'd be like, hey, what's up.
And then you'd try and like get I guess, get
one of the people like talk to you offline, and
then you'd you know, because a party line is a
(12:01):
week ye kind of.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It was free though, Yeah, and we were on the
party line talking to people we had no business talking to, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Realer than me. So what what on earth? I never
did this? You did it?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It was Yeah, it was called the party line ROOFIEA.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Did you know about it?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, party That's what I was talking about. They had
various versions of it. Okay, So you call the number.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Call the number, you dial in, and you would be
in a room. You can go in different rooms too,
like you mentioned, and you would talk to different people from.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Around the world or wherever they were.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And like some of my friends met up with these
guys or girls or Yeah, it was the thing.
Speaker 11 (12:38):
I did that in my aime chat rooms, like I
had no business to be in there.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
My friends, and yeah there were real creeps in there today.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Absolutely Yeah, No, I that I did do. But I
never called any of these numbers. But just every now
and to get on TikTok, there's a feed that will
show like really old commercials or those old like I
guess you used to be able to subscribe or go
to a business and watch video like video profiles of
men and women for dating and then like so they
would be like a dude being filmed in nineteen eighty
(13:10):
two or something in front of it like a blue
like literally not a blue screen, like a blue background,
and he would be like, hey, ladies, you know, and
they would come up with a clever like little stuff
to say to try and catch people's attention. And I
guess you'd be like that video and that video, and
then they set you up with those people. But every
now and again they'll put those up on TikTok and
it's hilarious because they got like, you know, eighties hair,
and they're trying to be all suave and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'll have to find some audio. They're pretty good.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
I do remember also seeing like the phone sex commercials
late at.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
All now for a hot girls calling to hang up.
Speaker 12 (13:43):
You would I wanted to hear it, so I'd like
call it and then they'd be like, hi, enter your
credit card, Like.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow, you should have explained a lot of things.
Speaker 12 (13:59):
Then you know that reaction, you would try to come
up with like seven digit words that you could like
like I would like try to like make the ones
up just to see if they exist.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It so I can't say of them, but try to
spell it out. Well, this is dis will age all
of us too.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But I think everybody in this room can relate to
a Collect call, like when you when you were four
mobile phones, you know, and you didn't have a quarter
or something, and there are these things called payphones, and
now you can like they're a big hole.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Like if you go to old hair.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now there's just like faded paint where there used to
be phone.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Or little bays. Yeah in the building, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Right right right, And and the other thing we have
in the building they've covered up here ass trays. Have
you seen that they put like they've tried to like
put stone in, but they used to just have ass
trays in the wall where you just what.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, what was going on?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But yeah, yeah, you would call one hundred Collect and
in the moment, in a little space where you say
your name, you just say the whole message, Hey mom,
come pick me up?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yes, oh yeah, I would.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
I would.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
You would be I'd be at the mall and I'd
dial one collect and be like at the tone, please
say your name Mom, it's it's come pick me up.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm ready to be picked up.
Speaker 13 (15:08):
And then and then they would call your home, your parents,
and they'd be like, you have a collect call from
mom to pick me up. And then they'd be like,
do you want to accept? You Then they'd be like, no,
because my mom knows to come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Because you know, you won't have to pay for the
call there, yes says your name. Yes, it would be
like you have a collect call from Christopher if you'd
like to accept, press one, and then it gets billed
to whoever picks up the phone, but instead you'd be like,
pick me.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Up mom, and the moment and then yeah, you go
a message receipt.
Speaker 11 (15:37):
And you just like wait outside, Yeah, friends to come
pick you up.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's a lot of trust, like in the system.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know, so have you every time you left your
home in your life? Can did you have a mobile phone?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
No?
Speaker 11 (15:48):
But I definitely like I missed the payphones. But I
think there was like times that the movies maybe where
like we would pick a time when it was over
and my mom would pick me up. But I don't
think I ever used to pay phone, but was litt.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I think it was college before it was like here's
a mobile phone.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, No, I didn't like and here you.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Go like take this with you and it was big.
It wasn't like brick big, but it was still like
not going in your pocket.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Really.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
The first one was a star Tech Motor star Tech. Yeah,
those were kind of fans. My first one Lewis good morning,
Lewis works till good morning guy. Hey, you used the
party line?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Oh man, we all used to it when I was younger.
I remember a buddy of mine. Shirts. Mean. It was
funny because for guys it was a free You got
a couple of minutes if you called in and said
you were a girl. It was unlimited.
Speaker 13 (16:41):
For girls, it was Vegas just like everywhere every club.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes, well, free means some dude from Kansas City. He
thinks he's gonna get hooked up and buying all your drinks.
That's what That's what free to you means in Vegas.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
It's not free.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
There charging Fred Tripple. Excuse me, I'm smarter than that
for that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay, So you'd collin say you were a girl, and
then you'd get on there and not be a girl.
And what was the end game like to try and
get someone's number and go out with them.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
It's for fun, But the best part would be when
you you'd find somebody that you know on there. I
remember I showed up that work and this girl was like,
did I talk to you on the party line? And
I was like, yeah, we were bored and drunk or
being a stupid own call. Sometimes. My buddy used to
meet girls on it all the time, take him out,
and then you know, I'd be like, they always ghost them.
(17:33):
He would ever call him back, and I'm like, oh,
it's kind of could you lie on the party.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Girl?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He said your name was Luisa Lewis. Yeah, there you go, hey.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Man, have a great day. Thanks for listening. I appreciate you. Yeah,
those were the days. I guess a lot of that
predated even me. But but every now and again on
TikTok you'll see these old commercials and be like, whoa
the Fred show? He is on Good Morning on the
radio and the iHeart app anytimes search it for the
frend show on demand, pulling it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
But this made me laugh this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You'd mentioned on our little ideas sheet that we have
let me have a little ideas sheet just shared. It's
very fancy to share document. We type stuff into it
that we might want to talk about. And I laughed
out loud when I read it. But you were talking about,
as I do with most things that you do, whether
you intend for it or not.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But I I.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You were talking about the smell of your childhood, and
I feel like there are certain.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's a fact.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I think that our old factory, our nose, you know,
like memories are associated with certain smells, which I think
is why, like I don't know, certain foods they are
sentimental to people, or like I think the same can
be said about music, is that you hear a song
and people associate really closely. Associated memories can be taken
back right back to where they were when they heard
that song. Yeah, whatever song it is, but for you,
(18:55):
the smell of your childhood.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
So my personal smell the childhood is Salem's some lights.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Marborough.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah. So if you know how.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I cant smell on my jacket going into school and
like in high school, kids asking me if I smoked
cigarettes just because like the smell was so happy and
my clothing.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
This was Mama March it was. It was a smoker.
She was a smoker. No longer a smoker. We love
that for her, yes, but it was bad her and
my stepdad.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I mean, I can really go on and on like
about the smells of my childhood, like vodka spilled on
the carpet, stuff like that, you know, just like little.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But this is interesting though, because I'd be curious. There
was probably a bunch of random stuff. But eight five
five five three five is I call the fred shake
can textas same number what comes to my My grandparents
house always had a smell and I never knew what
it was, and it couldn't be duplicated. It just was,
I don't know, you know, they no matter where they
were living. They lived in Peoria for a while, Illinois.
(19:55):
They lived in Scottsdale, Arizona for a while. You walk
in her house, it smelled like my grand Barras and
it was a good smell, but it was sort of
like a I don't know. It wasn't a food they
ate or I don't know what the hell it was.
It just smelled like them their house. Kiki White diamonds perfume.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't know if anyone Taylor Taylor White. I think
you could get it at Walgreens. She toilet tissue. But
that smell is so distinct to me. My mom used
to bathe in it like she that was her. That
was the thing back then like, yeah, all the queens
had the white.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Dimes, white diamonds. That was the smell of her childhood
for me.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
I spent a lot of time at my grandma, my
grandma's house, and uh, two things stick out were the
original she had the little caramel boh and the bowl
used to eat those like like obviously candy. And then
it's a Filipino thing. It's called Filipino spaghetti. You could
get into places like Jolly be but like it's like
made with banana ketchup so it's like a sweat sauce.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And then with hot dogs. You had to have hot
dogs in spaghetti. Oh so that was my childhood growing up.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
Wow, right Jason, Yeah, So this is so funny that
we're talking about this because I just thought about the
other day.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'm currently driving around with this in my car.
Speaker 12 (21:15):
But for some reason, I was always like doing yard
work with my parents, Like I was always outside. So fertilizer,
which it literally is in my car as we speak,
like grass fertilizer. It like brought me back to having
to do yard Wow, fertilizer.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So yeah, white diamonds to cover up the fertilizer, to
cover up the the Marborough light and Salem slim smells
that were going on.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Allen, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What's the smell that comes to mind the smell of
your childhood?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Okay, so it's kind of a funny story. Was at
my best friend's house in high school. She was a
lifeguard hanging out with all the older lifeguards fonfire, no
parents tall, and they were passing something around the bonfire
and I go, oh my god, why does it smell
like my childhood?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Interesting?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Something something green? And you're hippie.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh man, So that lies. So that was just the
way that your house smelled, but you didn't necessarily know
what it was.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It was down in Pa down in Texas at the
softball field. My daddy would play softball every Friday night.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
And I thought all us kids were running around and.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, and.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I've missed the damn ball. He was getting hits all
right after the game.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And afterwards the tailgated.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Five seconds later. I swing at it, Eleen, Thank you
have a good day, you too, thinks I'm glad you called.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Uh is that right? Sam?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's well so for some reason it spelled with an
F right now on my computer screen. So anyway, I'm
I call you football. Yeah, you don't mind have changed
your name to you anyway?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Here's my question for intern Benamine that Benjamin is answering
the phones.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Have you ever met a faban? Multiple times? Names? Everybody
here Kyle turns into like a Sean like it's a
whole different name. And he even put the phonetics for me.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I have to take a picture of this because he
even wrote B A H A N and then oh Jesus,
Lord Jesus, take you all right? So anyway, shot on
if you would the smell of your childhood.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
My dad raced dirt, so anytime I am around, like
the exhaust and dirt smell together.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
It throve me way.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Back to my childhood.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Like I can smell it anytime.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
You go to a racetrack or something.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's amazing how that works.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Yeah, I took my I started taking my son to
racetracks now and I actually saw it. One racetrack they
made a candle that smells nice.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh love the smell of gasoline.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
People are all upsetting it gasoline on their hand of
someone like I'm gonna washing my hand for a minute,
want soak it in a little bit all right, football,
have a good day. Never met a football until today.
But it's a beautiful name. Really rolls off the tongue. Hey, Jory, Yes, Hi,
good morning, welcome, how are you?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Hi? Good morning, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
How are you? Boys? Are good? What's the smell of
your childhood?
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Fun fact? First, spread you and I have the same birthday.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And Kiki, So that's the three of us. Yeah, shout out.
We are We're brilliant.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
We are, we are for sure. So my father used
to smoke a pipe and smell it was Bond Street
tobacco and it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Could you ever find yourself smoking a pipe just to
just to get that smell back?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Oh? Absolutely not that I can recognize it if I
ever smell it for sure?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Wow wow, Okay, thank you, Jory, have a good day.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Happy birthday on our birthday in advance by Anna.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Good morning, Yes, hi, good morning. Is that really your
name or is it like Chelsea?
Speaker 10 (25:41):
No, it's really my name. When I'm playing games, I
use an alias.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Look for the games? Are we playing? And required alias?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Well?
Speaker 10 (25:52):
If I get them wrong, I don't meet people to
know it's me.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh oh, I see, I see my name is Yeah,
I'm going to write that one down. I may name
my daughter that. It's just beautiful. What is the smell
of your childhood?
Speaker 10 (26:09):
So definitely like Kiki, My mom used to love white
diamonds and thound herself in it. But my grandmother's hallway
always smelled like Murphy's oil, and I didn't figure it out.
And like two weeks ago, I was shopping and I
smelled it, and I'm like, oh my instantly was like
in my childhood, my grandmother's.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Wow, Murphy's oil. Yeah, okay, thank you so much, have
a good day.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I love you too.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Martin says dad's work boots. Daniel says fresh baked sweetbread.
Dove's so, oh my god. There's so many texts, pine salt, garbage,
fried chicken and collar, greens, holmide, tortilla. Somebody said butterscotch candies,
what guys garbage? Like it was it not a good childhood?
(26:55):
Or like you're living amongst the tracks? Get back to that,
the smell of garbage I grew up or the garage
not go.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
He really put? She really put garage? Just for the record.
Fred Show. The Fred Show is on Fred's Fun.
Speaker 14 (27:23):
Fact greenland sharks.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Greenland sharks, which are also known as gurry sharks or
gray sharks, tend to live very long lives, as the
longest living vertebrate on the planet. They can swim in
the ocean for up to four hundred years, and they
don't reach sexual maturity until they're one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So you're not getting it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You're not you're hitting puberty until you won fifty, and
you live for four hundred I got to wait one
hundred and fifty years to you know, you know, as
a woman, I was thinking procreation myself, obviously, which is
the only reason that people when a man loves a woman, Kaylen.
The only reason that you would engage in something like
that is to make a child, obviously. But if you're
(28:19):
a greenland if you're a gray shark, a gray shark,
you got to wait one hundred and fifty years for that.
It's almost like my true life story. I had to
wait almost one hundred and fifty years too. Well, Jason
Brown was in these streets. Yeah, yeah, what's my memoir
called at Home and Interested in I'm Home Alone and
Interested in Sex with a forward by Kaylyn and Kaylin
and one chapter will be called Fred, the Greenland Shark
(28:43):
who didn't reach sexual maturity until one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Done with the book at this point, yeah, I mean
we've we've written the whole thing. Yeah we have. It's
a Freads show. We're back in a minute.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
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