Just The Highlights! 08/20/24

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a fresh show. This is what's running now.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
This now, this is an interesting one, A little spin
off of the don't bring your other restaurant food into
another restaurant to eat it. Rufio reveals something that I
think a lot of people probably know something about.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
And of course you can always be part of the
show eight five five five to get text the same number.
You're calling this your secret meal. Yes, I have secret meals.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I'm gonna be in so much trouble for this, but
uh say, like, I have to go to the store
and by myself run an errand just as.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
At home, I will I know, I know all.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
The fat food places on the way to said place,
and I will pick one. Like on Saturday, I had
to go to the store and I'm like, ooh, there's
a white castle body for the store.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
So I picked up white cast So I.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Eat it in the car and I get rid of
the evidence before I get home.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
And then where do you throw the evidence away? Oh whatever,
I'll just a neighbor's trash canners.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Noh, Like, I'll stop at a gas station, you know,
I to pull up the garbage can right there.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I just throw it away. Prettle meal. Yeah. And then
there's sometimes I'll be like, say I get out of
work here at Like, say I get done at noon, right,
but what are you doing here till noon? Something else?
Oh no, I'm just really imagination. This is a crazy story.
Say I'm done at work here at eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I was still a crazy story.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, yeah, I put numbers out there.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Right, Say I'm done here at work at eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I will leave here, make my way home, and then
I'll be like, oh, there's a this there's a chick
fil A in the way home.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I will stop there.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Then I'll text my wife, Hey, I'm on my way home,
but I'll be sitting in the parking lot eating. So
like I leave work, I text it I'm on my
way home, and then you know, give her the evidence.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And then she'd be like I'll get home and be like, hey,
did you eat anything?

Speaker 5 (02:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Do you want to get something? That was like sure,
and then like I have to eat. I have to
eat within the hour again. Wow, yeah, Wow, you've done
this before.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
I tried it once because Rufio inspired me by a
secret brow and then Mike has my location and was like, oh,
I hope the Wendy's was good.

Speaker 7 (02:18):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh you forgot about that stuff. You forgot about that
little oh wow, Like I can't do that?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now hold on now.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Is it secret because you want do you want it
just for you and you want your own little time?
Is it secret because you feel like you're being judged
for eating it? Is it secret because I don't feel
like I'm you don't want to spend on everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
It's just that my wife Jess won't eat certain restaurants.
You know, she was not gonna go, oh, let's get
White Castle today, or you know, it's the typical like
Wendy sucker Bell because she.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Doesn't want to crap herself for the rest of the
And by the way, I love White Castle, but it's
one of those places. And there's a few of them
where it's like, all right, cancel everything else I gotta
do today. Yeah, I'm eating this and I'm gonna love
every second of it, but I'm gonna need some I'm alone.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
It's just like, you know, there's there's certain places they'll
be like ooh, Arby's, So I know, like I'm not
gonna have Arby's with if I'm with my wife. So
I'm just gonna eat Arbi's now, right.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
And when you're in a relationship, when you go to
a fast food restaurant, your bio is ten dollars fifteen
at the most. When you get the order for everybody else,
it's forty fifty dollars. You're like, you know what, I'm
gonna let their home.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
So that's it.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Now. That's when you start bringing sandwiches from home, like,
I'm not doing it. Wow, A lot of people do this, though,
one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I do this.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Sometimes I'm just like Rufio. I'll grab a secret scoop
of custard from colvers.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Nice Loo's a good one. See.

Speaker 8 (03:41):
I do the unnecessary coffee, Like every time I run
an err and I need a coffee all of a sudden,
so taking money on it.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
To be honest, I don't finish it.

Speaker 8 (03:49):
I like sit on it because I feel like in
my head like it's productive of me.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh yeah, because you get your coffee. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 8 (03:55):
It could be like six pm, but I have my coffee.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's how I feel about drinking these in general, is
I'm only drinking because I'm around other people. Like it's like, well,
I'm oh, everyone's gonna beat the bar. It's five o'close.
I just go there and I'm drinking, and it's like, well, why,
I don't need to be doing this, you know, it's
just but I'm being productive because I'm being social. I'm
with my friends, and apparently that's just the only place
we can meet. Like my friends don't meet at the
old pickleball cord. They need it to dive bar down

(04:21):
the street, you know where there's like an old management
smoking cigarette since nine am. Like that's the kind of place.
But yeah, no, I'm with you, Like I'm out, I
better grab a coffee. Why I've gotta have a coffee,
And then the ice melts and it's gross and nobody cares.
I do this all the time. Somebody texted two one nine.
Then I have to eat what my wife makes for dinner.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Same like I'll go to the grocery store like I
for some reason, I love grocery store or sushi whatever,
you know, it's it's good.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, and be like ooh two for ten and I'll
eat it.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
And then like at the grocery store, I get home,
I gotta eat dinner.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I'm like, oh, mab, did you want to eat it?
While you're shopping.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, I eat what I'm Some of them are like
go home to take and then it's like it's time
for dinner with my wife.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
So what are you doing walking down the aisle with
some chopsticks and like a little soy sauce tan.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm going to pay for it at the end. I'm
not worried about paying for it. I'm just like you.
I mean, that's not in food that I really eat
on the go. It is. It's very portable sushi on
the go. You're eating in the stores. People eat wild like,
so what do you do?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Like you set it up on your cart and you're
just walking down to the top and you got chopsticks
in one hand, and you gotta have a little soy
sauce dipping thing.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
How do you do that?

Speaker 9 (05:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
You know you got to use the bottom.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Of the lid tray the other tray to put the
soy sauce inside.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I would have thought sushi is a definite I gotta
sit down type situation because I gotta get my little
my little soy sauce. I gotta get my little wisabi.
I gotta mix it up. The guy's not making it
for me. In front of me sushi, Like I've been
sitting there for twelve hours of reading. Yeah, but I'm
not worried. I'm more worried about the logistics. Man, Like

(05:55):
you're walking down the cereal aisle with a couple of
right with some chop stands.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I know this is crazy. Ready, now, it's wild. The buffet.
I'll do it next time. But you know they have
the buffet. You buy it.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
You're gonna buy it. I'll load up and they'll eat
while I'm out there at the store. At the grocery,
you wait before after you ate, because only wait at
the end.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's all one. It all depends on the size of
the container you buy. It's all. It's priced by the
container size you buy.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Although I try this stuff as much as possible into
the smallest contain.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
My god, I can't wait next time I go to
the grocery store. Here it comes Rufio. You gotta try
the sushi ban He's got a hand roll in his hand,
shopping for toilet paper, Like, what.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
The hell is going on? You can't wait ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I've heard of people eating like a candy bar or
something while they're shopping, and then you just have the
wrapper and you're like, I've heard of that, but I'm
not not not like pre prepared food. I'm not even
pasta salad from the Delhi or whatever.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know. Whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Trending stories this morning is you may know the d
ncee oh wait, I got I vorted my theme music
for the DNC.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Come on, it's gonna take too long. H Yeah, there
you go. The d n C is in is in
Chicago and.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
The outgoing President, Joe Biden, closed the first night of
the Democratic National Convention by arguing that democracy has prevailed,
but it must be preserved. He said he's worked as
president to keep American moving forward and spoke about his accomplishments,
but he pointed out helped all Americans, not just those
in blue states. Prior to his speech, Hillary Clinton spoke,
Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance, and protesters did gather outside.

(07:41):
I'm getting tons of tons of calls and techs from
friends of mine, going, I can't believe you're still in town.
I can't believe you stayed in Chicago this week. I
saw on TikTok that it was going to be a
total mutiny, and I don't want to be wrong. I
don't trust me. I don't want to be wrong.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
But so far, so good. I mean, you know, a
couple of disturbances here and there, but everyone seems.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
To be okay. But I was last time. I'm like,
did I miss a whole like memo about leaving down?
Like you're not supposed to be. I mean, they do
this every four years. And the one thing I did
like was traffic was real light yesterday.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
It was nice. Yes, maybe keep the videos going. Man,
I have to go to two restaurants.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's like, you know, a lot of people didn't like COVID,
and I didn't like COVID, but man, there was no traffic.
I'll tell you can get anywhere I needed to go
super fast. You know what, d NC go ahead and
put a big, big, god chainlink fence over the city.
It's fine most of amic And this actually surprises me.
Jason Brown, this one's for you. I don't know if
I think this is true. But most Americans say they

(08:45):
don't care who Taylor Swift endorses to become the next president.
I don't think that's true. I think if she came
out and said whatever, and I'm pretty sure I know
what she'd say. But if she, if she came out
and said that, I don't see how that doesn't change everything,
like almost potentially even change the end of the election.
I mean she she could engage people who aren't going

(09:07):
to vote. She could engage people who are not paying attention.
She could engage people who are paying attention to change
their mind because she did.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Look at how much scrap she sells. I think that's
the key.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
I think she would motivate people that wouldn't or isn't
aren't registered to vote, or you know, isn't planning on
going to vote.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Like which, Yes, is more powerful. I think it's very powerful.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
But sixty one percent of those surveys said that Taylor
Swift's endorsement would have no impact on who they vote
for in November. Nineteen percent said that her celebrity support
would have not much of an impact. Just twenty percent
agreed that a Swift endorsement would have an impact on
their voting decision. Seven percent said that Swift's endorsement would
have a very big impact, thirteen percent said very little.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I think it obviously depends what you ask. But right
what age was that survey asked, and although all the
people you asked at them all or whatever. They use technology,
so you know, oh, at on one TikTok right now
watching chapelone videos, so they're not available to answer this question.
So there's a computer coming soon that has will have

(10:10):
a sense of smell. Osmo is the startup that uses
artificial intelligence technology to help computers generate smells like we
generate images and sounds. The founder of this company, who
earned a bachelor's degree in neuroscience from the University of
Michigan and then studied olfactory neuroscience at Harvard, says the
startup's mission is to improve human health and happiness by

(10:31):
digitizing humans sense of smell. So the team trained their
AI model on a data set of five thousand aroma
molecules across various odor categories floral, fruity min team. Eventually
they want to be able to use the technology to
teleport sense by digitizing a scent in one location and
then relocating an exact copy in another location. So I

(10:53):
don't know, I guess you'd be like, here's some flowers,
and you send a picture of flowers, and then all
of a sudden, they'd smell it or some thing.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, do we need that? I don't know we
needed then?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
No, no, but you know here I if I had
a dollar for everything I've said in my twenty years
of radio publicly, what do we need that for? Right?
And now I have like four of them. I remember
I went on this whole thing in like twenty two
thousand and five. I went on this whole thing about
a stupid iPads where I'm like, this is dumb, who
would ever use it?

Speaker 9 (11:24):
Like?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
What's an iPad? What do you use a bigger phone?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
I run the phone. I got a computer. I don't
need a middle Oh my god. Like, not only do
I have, I own several. I use them all the time,
and they're everywhere. They're cast registers. Now they're everything. And
I was the idiot going, it's just a bigg ass iPhone, stupid.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
So watch this in five years, it's gonna be smell
smell a radio and we're gonna be like, oh my god,
we're eating the best thing. And then we're gonna go
I'm gonna push a button and it won't work because
it's here, But if at any other place, it would
go out into the world, and you'd smell it and
be like, I want to go get that, and then
they'd go buy it.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Look at that. Or you'd bring your sandwich into the
restaurant and eat it right in front of it.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Let me see here a text about eight four to
seven text. I'm not trying to hate, but ninety percent
of people who are actually influenced by Swift aren't old
enough to vote. I don't know by that. I think
you'd be surprised. Who do you think is who's buying
all the tickets? The parents, and they're not buying the
tickets because they don't think that Taylor is a good example.
I think she has more of an influence than people
are giving her credit for with people who are older

(12:23):
than eighteen.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Right, And you know people are super spreaders.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
So if you are under the age of eighteen and
love Taylor Swift, you're going to pressure the people in
your household.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
To go and vote.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
She got grown as money, go in her concerto like
that's and love it.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Love it. This someone has influenced.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
And then someone said, yes, Fred, you can send somebody
a fart And I knew that was coming. Yes, if
we're going to use it for good. We can use
it for bad too, I'm sure and A British OnlyFans
model has gone viral for posting videos of herself leaving
her underwear alongside food at the supermarket and in other
public settings. Her name is Choe Lopez. She often posts

(12:59):
videos on an instant showing her taking off her underwear
in public and then leaving them behind as a quote donation.
In her most recent video, she slips her black lace
thong off from under her white dress in the middle
of a grocery store. She tosses them on a shelf
of food with a smile and walks off caps in
the video, leaving a donation at the supermarket. Thousands of
commenters have been calling for her to be arrested and

(13:21):
have her social media account shut down. I do not
want your dirty ass chonies on my right. I have
no idea what's going on down there. I have no
idea what sort of tangy cat situation you got going on? Kiki,
not you, Kiki, But that's tangy cat is a Kiki phrase?

Speaker 7 (13:40):
Yes it is.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
But keep your stuff on and away from my roast
turkey or chicken.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Or rot my chicken. I'm about to get That's.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Oh, if they're a long day.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's another another pollinaism. I just I got a kikiism
in there and a pollinaism. We got tangy cat in rosadery.
Killing don't need that. And I don't know how to
even say. There's another word I have to think about
before I say it, Like we should go get a
ro tissery ro tissy and I say rotisseriy out loud.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
There's a bunch of words now nominous, then mo, then no,
it's ven mo venmo.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm not on it. So but then now I find
myself saying vemno, because you do I know. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's National Accessible Air Travel Day, focuses on the need
for accessible air travel for people with disabilities, and National
Radio Day. Oh good, all the radio people can post
a picture with a microphone next to their face so
we can all know that they're on the radio. Yeah,
let's all take a picture in the studio so you
all know that we're on the radio.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Our day, guys.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, this is neat the Entertainment Reports Kelly and Klein
next in two minutes after Tommy Richmond.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, they talk better than they say.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
These are the radio blogs on the Fresh Show, like
we're writing in our diaries, except we say them aloud.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
We call them blogs. Kik you ready, yeah, go dear blog.

Speaker 7 (15:02):
So I got a phone call yesterday from one of
my nephews. He's five years old. His name is Dylan.
He actually facetimed me, and you know when we picked up,
he was like, hey, you know that thousand dollars that
you gave me.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
My dad stole it.

Speaker 8 (15:17):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hold on a second, when did you give how old
is your is? You're not and you gave him thousand dollars?

Speaker 7 (15:23):
No, So I gave him fifty dollars for his birthday,
and I gave it to him in all singles. That's
my new party.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, okay, because it looks like a lot of money.
It looks like a lot of money.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
So with all the young nephews that I have, I
give them fifty bucks, but I do it in singles,
so it's like a stack of cash. And I handed
to him and apparently he thought it was one thousand dollars.
So he's been telling everybody like my aunt gave me
a thousand dollars, and I'm like, I just love this
for me, Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Like that's how I do. Except when the next nephew,
because you got how many of them? Oh my god? Seven?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Except when the next one finds out about the thousand
dollars and they're going to be the ones that can count.

Speaker 7 (15:57):
Exactly, so the one second count they get they get
different things, right.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
But the ones that are little that I can get
away with this.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
This is my party trick because I remember as a kid,
there was always one uncle and every time I saw him,
he would give me singles, and I thought I had
so much money, so I pulled this trick off with
them all the time. So he's been telling everybody that
I gave him a thousand dollars and then he called
me to tell me that his dad stole it. As
a kid, what are you gonna do with all these singles?

(16:24):
So of course my brother takes it, puts it away
or whatever, but in his mind, he stole it. And
so it just reminded me like when I was a kid,
I felt this exact same way. When my uncle would
give me some money. My mom would take it and like,
I'm gonna put this up for you. I never saw
that money again.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's how I was gonna shut. Yeah, was my money.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I was gonna say, you know, my parents, they may
have paid for my house in school, and food and
toys and water and you know whatever else, vacations and
everything clothes. I'd like a full accounting of where all
those twenty five fifty dollars savings bonds. But I always
giving when I was a kidcounting, Yes, somebody get Ernst
and Young's in here or whatever. And I'd like to

(17:04):
know where, you know, Nana's twenty dollars bill went, because
it seemed to just disappear into the ether somewhere.

Speaker 10 (17:09):
Right.

Speaker 7 (17:09):
You would have a birthday party and then a lot
of people just give you money and cards and then
like was she like, I'm putting this up, where.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Is my money? I feel like, you know, where is
my money?

Speaker 11 (17:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (17:18):
So my nephew is ahead of his time.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
He wants all account for all of his thousand dollars
that he got, which was really fifty dollars. But he
would like us to keep account And I just think
this is hilarious that he feels like his father robbed him.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, so what did you.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Say to the five year old when you give him
fifty bucks, like here, here's ten of it, or here's five,
and you can go buy a toy because they don't
really understand what fifty gets them or.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
How do you do that?

Speaker 7 (17:42):
Right? So what I do is I will go to
the currency exchange, get the stack of singles with the
little band around them all, and I just come. And
all of them have a birthday in like July, so
we'll usually do something together. So I'll just come and
I'll hit him with a stack of cash for you,
stack of cash for.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
You, and they're like, oh my god, she is so rich.
It's one and fifty dollars. But Stele, you know, to
them it's a it's a thousand dollars. And I feel like,
you know, this is what do they.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Get to spend it though? Like or does it just
go away and it's never to be seen again.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
They're supposed to be spending it, But to my knowledge,
my brother is out here stealing thousands of dollars.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Ye, next time you go to the bar with your brother,
see if he's paying one exactly, because then you'll know
exactly what's going on.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
More fread Show. Next fread Show is on it's stay
or go all.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Right, So I did the thing I never do, and
I posted a picture on National Radio Day.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh God of me in a radio studio. You literally
said it an hour ago. We're brough all the radio
be able to poll the picture then with the ball
or behind them.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
You don't get to make fun of something that I'm
currently making fun of myself for like you don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Actually you can do it. You can if you want.
But I don't know why I thought of it.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
But I thought of this picture of a baby fread
at my very first real radio job. That was in
my college yearbook, and I'm like, where is that picture?
And I found it during a commercial.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Not Chris Frederick. Yeah you first radio name.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Brother Fred, brother Fred, Oh I know him, brother Fred. Well, yeah,
that's the story in itself we're not going to tell.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
But I guess the whole article. We got a whole article.
I got a hold found it.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
I was like, you know what, I'm posting this because
I was a little baby, little baby DJ Fred had
no idea that it would get to this whatever. This is.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
When a person graduates from college hoping to get a
job in the media today, most could expect to spend
years working their way up to the larger markets.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
One SMU student jumped ahead.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, one SMU student lied his asshole, made a completely
fake demo on a radio station that doesn't exist to
get a job in market number five that I never
should have had, never should have had. And then fast
forward twenty some years later, I have a job I
never should have I've had. So anyway, that's up thread

(20:02):
on air. You can go check it out if you
want to. But I happy National Radio Day from a
baby fread in a bunch of clothes that don't fit.
I don't know why anyone let me dress like that?
Like why didn't know one in my life? Like a
lot of people in my life cared enough to support
me for twenty five years in this thing, but they
didn't support me enough to buy me close it fit.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
But this is like the style?

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Now what am I'm always saying I should have kept
all those clothes and I wear them again. Very cute,
see very mindful. I was very not mindful at that
stage of my life. But anyway, a lot of people
to think. But mostly it's you guys. Mostly it's the
people listening to this whatever this is this crap who
put up with us every single day and have for

(20:41):
so many years.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
It's the only reason we get to do this every day.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
So that's my thank you on a national radio day
from me to you, from them, and I believe it
or not, I'm being entirely sincere from the bottom of
my heart.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
A lot of people. I've got.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Just countless people to think over the last twenty five
years that like stood by me, taught me stuff like
didn't abandon me when I was an idiot, you know,
like honestly should have fired me one hundred times, people
who will never be forgotten. And and really it's just
the people who've listened all this time. But you know,
look at you. A lot of people in here. I

(21:15):
have similar stories though. I mean, Kiki was scheduling the
actual commercials that you hear on the radio. Yeah eight
years ago. Oh no, maybe just just a few years ago.
I thought it was more than that radio like three years. Well,
I thought you worked here much longer than that, That's
what I mean. Oh yeah, so you were here like
three or four years before.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
That, weren't you. I was an intern for free for
two years.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
She That's what I'm talking about. All of that before
you ever got to even talk on the radio. Crazy
part is that the four of us, we're all local.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
We're all local talent, which doesn't happen, which doesn't happen,
all of.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Whom have never had a job at any other radio station.
So well, yeah, probably worked in LA and Chicago.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Not many people. That's not so bad.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
That either speaks to immense talent or lack of availability
of people.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
One or the other. It does. I don't know which
one it is. I can finess my way into a room. Okay,
tell you no doubt about it. I remember that, I
remember that.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
But I'm grateful for all you guys and for this,
and I don't know, I'm feeling all nostalgiasday on.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
National radio Day. I should get all in.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
But never forget, never forget the people who helped you. Hey, Sierra,
good morning.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
How you doing. I'm doing all right?

Speaker 11 (22:29):
How about you?

Speaker 1 (22:31):
I'm all right, I'm great. It's that's a radio day.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Who knew?

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Thank you? I didn't even know that, really, that it
was a thing until today, even though I probably mentioned
it every year on the radio.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
But what's going on with you? Tell us? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (22:43):
In sayergo this morning with just your husband? Yeah, it's
your husband. I got the email right here, But why
don't you explain?

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Sure?

Speaker 9 (22:53):
So, I know this part of the show is called
stay or go, and I'm not necessarily thinking of leaving
my husband, but we have been dealing.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
With with a tough time right now, know I means,
but we're all what happened? Yes, well I'm historian. I'm like,
was that was that? Was that a pregnant pause?

Speaker 8 (23:12):
Was that?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Was that a pause for dramatic effects? Like you're good
at this, maybe you've done this before.

Speaker 9 (23:18):
No, my husband and I can't seem to agree on
what age it's appropriate to leave our our son home alone.
He just turned nine, and the way our work schedules work,
there's usually one two hour period where he would be
alone unless we got childcare for him, which is pretty expensive.

(23:38):
And but we don't have family around us either.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
So my husband says that he's.

Speaker 9 (23:44):
Old enough to stay home and he deserved that opportunity
to be trusted, and when he was a kid, he
was left home alone even earlier than that.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I'm thinking about this house. Was I when I maybe
around that age? I don't remember me. I can't remember it.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Had you been before that because my sister was born,
I wasn't maybe sitting my sister at when she was
one or two, but I can't remember how old were
you when you were left alone?

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I mean our parents did to us all the time,
but like they left all the cousins again, so there
was always an older cousin fifteen or sixteen watching the
rest of us.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
But I mean left home alone. I don't know, probably
thirteen or fourteen, something like that. Oh, so you're saying
nine too, because you had a look on your face.
You're saying nine too young?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Nine's too young? Yeah, hopefully he Maybe he has friends
in the block on the neighborhood. Yeah, you can send
them over to nine is too young? Okay? So you
think how old then, Sierra? You think now.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Eleven, even eleven.

Speaker 9 (24:40):
Might be a little too young. What's leaning towards?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
And he thinks now he thinks he thinks nine is okay?
You think another three or four years?

Speaker 9 (24:49):
Yeah, exactly. He thinks that he's trustworthy. And I do
trust my son. I just don't trust the outside factors.
Like if there's a fire, there's a stranger at the door,
then that gives me.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
I mean, it make me sound an old time and
I'm not that old, but like it is a whole
different generation now though, because you've got cameras everywhere and
cell phones and you know, ways to get a hold
of people immediately and you know, watch and see what's
going on.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I guess, if anything, I would think it would be
younger now than it's ever been, depending on the kid.
I'm not a parent, but I mean if your kid's
kind of like a like an idiot, then then you know,
as kids can be, then maybe don't leave them alone,
Like if you just caught them playing with matches like now,
wouldn't be the time to necessarily just like leaving you know,
the house for hours on end, put a ring camera.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
In every room in that house.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
No.

Speaker 7 (25:38):
I saw this on a Team Mob episode. I'm still
watching te mom. But she was leaving to go out
on a date with her fiance and she left two
of her kids home by themselves, and she's told them before.
She she said stay in view of the camera, and
then she said, don't call me, we're on a date,
and they just walked out the door. So I guess
her plan is as long as they're in camera view
in the house, then they can watch themselves.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
So eight five five five N one one O three five.
We have parents of the young kids here who haven't
gotten to that yet, and then we have people like
me who probably shouldn't be a parent of anything.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I guess nine didn't seem that young to me. But
then it really would depend on the kid in the situation, right,
and how close are neighbors and friends, and you know,
are your neighbors people that you trust and that you
know can kind of look over and maybe it's maybe
it's in a half an hour here, an hour there,
and then you work up to it, you know.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
But this is like a real fight you guys are having,
do you think, I mean, what's the compromise? I assume
you won, or you're going to win.

Speaker 9 (26:40):
I hope so. Well, so here's the thing, he says
that it's playing into the other aspects of our relationship.
So every time there's some type of argument, then it
goes on, well, you always have to have your way,
just like like with our kid right now, and it's
either your way or the highway. But I just feel
like his mom, I know what's best for him. This

(27:02):
is biological science, Okay, I'm just.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Going to know what's fast.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
As a kid, you'd be scared.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
I'd be scared to stay home alone at nine years old,
but then I'm scared of everything, but I would be there.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
He's still scared to stay at home alone. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Actually, I obviously would trust a nine year old girl
to stay like better than a nine year old boy.
For some reason, you know what I'm saying. I feel
like girls are more mature at that age, Like I don't.
If I left Ashton alone at nine years old, I
don't think i'd have a house.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
To come back.

Speaker 7 (27:32):
See.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's why I say it's right case my case. I mean,
it's probably like the minimum age. But let me take
some phone calls on this and see Sierra, good luck,
thanks for calling. Thank you. People are saying the legal
agent Illinois, for example, is fourteen years So Abby, Abby,
I can't leave min I don't. I don't have a
kid that I'm aware of, but I can't. I couldn't
leave that kid alone until he or she was fourteen.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's the law.

Speaker 11 (27:53):
That's what yeah, in Illinois, it's fourteen and not way
too young. I think fourteen is kind of old. All
it takes is one nosy neighbor to like see your
kid and think that you're not doing your.

Speaker 9 (28:05):
Job and make a phone call and blow up your life.
I mean, nine is way too young.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah. See someone else is saying it's third. I mean,
I'm getting a bunch of different texts about it. Maybe
it depends like what part of the you know, what's
what city you actually live in and all of that.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
But yeah, okay, yeah, hell yeah.

Speaker 11 (28:22):
Yeah, Illinois is fourteen. We've got one of the oldest
stay at home laws normally, like nationwide, it's about twelve.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
But two years later I can drive and four years
later I can smoke a cigarette.

Speaker 11 (28:31):
Like it kind of seems right, maybe right little in
the military or yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Exactly, I don't know about that. Abby. Thank you have
a good day.

Speaker 9 (28:39):
Yeah you too.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Aaron is a social Hi Aaron social worker erin good morning,
How were you?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Good morning, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
What's so what's the appropriate age?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
When are you supposed to be able to leave your
kid at home?

Speaker 7 (28:51):
Well?

Speaker 5 (28:51):
So, I don't necessarily agree with it, because, like you
I was like ten when I was staying home alone
when I was young.

Speaker 9 (28:57):
But the loss is fourteen, so that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Two years later, I'd drive a motor vehicle. I can
drive it across the country. I could go and go
and go, and many of much gas money.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
I have a Well, why would you say that if
someone would ask you as a social worker. If someone says, hey, Aaron, uh,
you know how old? How old is it old enough
for me to leave my kid alone?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Well?

Speaker 11 (29:20):
I there, why is it is?

Speaker 9 (29:22):
It does stay fourteen?

Speaker 5 (29:24):
But it also says you have to have reasonable like
if you're leaving them home to run to the store
for fifteen minutes, like you know that they're going to
be back. You're not leaving overnight, and you've got reasonable
plans to come back.

Speaker 9 (29:37):
So it's tricky.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
But if you had a neighbor that was obnoxious or
your kids were obnoxious, like you're going to get in trouble, so.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Right, someone turned you in or whatever? You am?

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Okay, all right, eron, Well, thank you, Yeah, no problem,
have a good day. Casey, Hi, Casey, how you doing?

Speaker 9 (29:53):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Brian, how are you Casey?

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Good morning? So how old is too old or too
young or whatever to leave your kid alone. This is
a fight that this woman is having in her relationship.
And he says, now, she says nine is too young.
In this case, it was nine years old, and she's
saying eleven, twelve something like that.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
What do you think?

Speaker 11 (30:10):
Well, I really think it depends on the kid, because
I have a sixteen year old daughter now who still
doesn't want to be left a home alone. But I
have a twelve year old.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
I have a twelve year.

Speaker 11 (30:19):
Old son who, like at seven, he was like, yeah,
I get out of here.

Speaker 8 (30:23):
I'm fine.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
I really think it depends on the child, and it
also depends on the circumstance and how long you're going
to be.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Gone and all of those things.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah, I'm just thinking about this now. I was much
I'm eight years older than my sister, which worked out
very well for my parents. I was a built in
babysitter from basically the days one that two is born.
But as soon as she was like potty train, they
could leave because I was like eleven or twelve at
that point. As soon as I turned sixteen, I was
her transportation. I mean they thought us out. I think
built in babysitting, Thank you Casey, have.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
A good day. Thanks bred. Yeah they considered this, didn't they,
is it? Gabriel? Hi, good morning. Okay, So what is
the appropriate age to leave your kid alone?

Speaker 10 (31:06):
Well, my parents taught me from a young age that
you got to take responsibilities while you're younger and so
you can learn for the future. And when I was
eight and nine, I was actually watching my four year
old and three year old brothers and sisters, so home
alone by myself when I had seven siblings. So I

(31:27):
don't see any problem with leaving your kid home at eight, nine,
at or ten. Okay, yeah, wow, as long as they
have enough responsibility and you are trustworthy with them, I see.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Okay, Gabriel, thank you, have a good day. Yeah you
as well, thank you. Oh how polite? Look how polite
that guy was? Hey, Justin? Good morning? How you doing?

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Good morning? I'm good.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Hey, Justin?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Man, I'm doing all right. Thanks for Collin. What is
the what is the age which you leave your kid alone?

Speaker 3 (31:57):
I would say nowadays will probably be around twelve to thirteen.
I remember when I was a kid, in about six
or seventh grade, my mom used to leave me home alone.
The hurt thing was don't answer the door to anybody,
don't answer the phone to anybody. If they don't have
a key to the house. They don't need to be
in here. And it'll only be for about an hour

(32:18):
or to a day. But I feel like with all
the cameras nowadays, maybe about twelve to thirteen, it'll be
the best time to leave kids home alone.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
I would say.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Now, I mean everyone's got ring cameras and cameras in
this place in that place, so that you can have
a better idea what's going on, and then you can
get a hold of the kid more easily than you
could back in the day.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Oh definitely. I don't have a cell phone. Back then,
it was a house phone and that was it, and
I had to call my mom's office. Can I speak
to my mom?

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah? Oh yeah, thank you, justin have a good day.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Thank you you guys too.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
I wonder about this sometimes too, like the stuff that
we we talked about it before, but the stuff that
we used to be allowed to do as kids, like
my parents didn't hesitate to let me.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
You know, the sun goes up, get on your bike,
get it.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Basically when the street lights come on, that's we need
to be home, like when it's dark, they need to
be home, and I wouldn't talk to them all day. Yeah, no,
check in, No, we go right around the neighbor to
go to the yogurt store. Are we go over to
the convenience store?

Speaker 4 (33:12):
We go.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
I mean we'd ride around, I mean just all day,
you know, with our friends or whatever. And I don't
know that I would let my kid do that. Now.
It wasn't that my parents were bad parents. They were
great parents, but like there'd be a charity thing at
school and they'd let me go knocked door to door. Yeah,
we didn't know all the neighbors as far as I
could go, because my parents like be entrepreneurial, like go
raise some money, you know, like just go do it,
go knock on doorsay, And I would never let my

(33:34):
kid do that now. But the question is people are,
like it's different times now. Were those people, those creepy
ass people just not there? I don't know when I
was young, right, That's what I'm saying. Or like now
that because Chris Hansen calls him out online, now we
know who they are, but like before they were there
and somehow we all just got lucky. Like I don't
know you have times really changed as far as like
weirdos go or or are we just more aware of

(33:56):
it now?

Speaker 8 (33:57):
You just seem more especially on social media, Like as
a parent, that's the anxiety to one hundred because of
social media.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
To be honest, like it's a lot of information. It's
good information, it is at the same time, it's like
what we didn't know? I don't know, I guess.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
I mean as a kid, like I did some dumb things,
you know, like my parents didn't know. I just went
I did some dumb things. But now as a parent,
like when Ashton gets to the age, I'll be like, yo, bro,
like you need to check it.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Like I know, I know the tricks. You know, you
ain't gonna trick me.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I know all that. You know.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
What's the worst part of the dumb stuff you did
is none of it was caught on ring cameras. None
of it. The entertainer of