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March 24, 2025 15 mins

Legendary boxer George Foreman passed away on Friday. March Madness is down to the final sixteen teams. DoorDash is offering a payment plan for a burrito. New York Post came out with the five unhealthiest items on a fast food menu. TikTok took away after backlash. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The show is on Friends Biggest Stories of the Day.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
So, the two time heavyweight champion boxer George Foreman passed
away on Friday at the age of seventy six. Now,
what do Jason, What did George Foreman do? He made
a grill? See, I knew you would say that. What
he What did he do before that? Though? Uh? Did
he bite the ear?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Oh jesus, he was just planning to make a grill
before he made a grill.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh no, I'm kidding no, But but he bit the
ear right? No, that was Holyfield. Oh yeah, Mike Tyson
is not George. Yeah, yeah, no, No, they are very different,
very different men. Yeah, yeah, yeah, George Foreman though, the
two time heavyweight champion boxer did I did I say

(00:50):
yes to start the story? Yeah, I was gonna say didn't.
I just tell you what he did? And then what
you had to do is repeat it?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Sure, term memory issue. I'm definitely listening. He passed away.
Foreman also won an Olympic gold medal in nineteen sixty eight,
as he was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame
as well. What did George Foreman do? He was a
boxer and he did not bite the ear. Yeah no, No.
He did, however, invent the George Foreman grill, which went

(01:21):
on to sell more than one hundred million units. I
don't know who did the interview with him, but I
saw one not that long ago about just sort of
how that all happened and whatever else. But he made
so much money on the George Foreman grill, like a
gazillion times more than he ever made as an analyst
or in boxing or whatever else. He also has twelve
children and five sons, and he named all five of

(01:42):
his sons George. No, what that's wild fun fact about George.
You had twelve kids, five sons, they're all named George.
So hey, you know it's I feel like man, Oftentimes
they'll name their first son after themselves and then the
rest are named something else. And it's like, does the

(02:03):
one that if if you're a let me ask you
a question eight five five five one three five. If
you are a junior, or even if you're like a
female version of a junior, like you were named after
your mom or you were named after your dad, do
you have a higher expectation of performance than everybody else?
Or is it just you got the name of the

(02:23):
person because you were the firstborn, or do you feel
like because you're named after your dad? Like, I got it. Now,
I gotta do more with my life because I have
to accomplish more. I can't be a loser. Or do
you or do you feel like that that parent favors you?
Like for example, my niece, her name is Pollie Paula,
and she's named after my brother in law's aunt and

(02:46):
my aunt, not my mom my aunt. So I gotta
think that Pollie's looking pretty good in the will from
my aunt. Not as good as me, but pretty good
because well she's the namesake, right, I gotta think that
benefits you somewhere along the lines, doesn't it should none
of you, I guess none of you guys are a
junior in any sense.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
No, see, I wouldn't like I have a daughter, I
personally like. Okay, the ants is cool, Like I like
that I could name my kid after my aunt or whoever,
but myself, I'm okay with that. Those already one screw
up named Paulina. We don't need to got like, we
don't need that.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
We don't have to be so harsh on ourselves. Now,
I be silly, but you know, what I mean, everyone
knows your name is Pauline, right, yes, don't get me Paulina, Paulina, Pauline,
Paula because yeah, Paula here at work yep. Yeah, well
or Paula by r HR director who probably if all
people should know your name. No, the short ersion I

(03:43):
always get this story messed up. But the short version
of the story is you were born in Chicago. There's
a street called Paulina that looks like Paulina. That's what
your mom wanted to name you. But the nurses make
sure I'm getting this right. The nurses said no because
people will confuse it with the name of the street.
So they actually, like the nurses convinced your your mom, yes,

(04:04):
who was not was relatively new to the country, No,
don't do it that way. Her name is going to
be Pauline instead, so no one confuses it. Is they
get there? Right?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
You're right?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, And that's a true story.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I had nurses who told my mother, do not, you know,
go with Paulina, because then Paula should be Paulina.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right, like that's how you say it.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
And no, they said he should put an e because
of the street Polina, which was on far from where
I was born, which was eighteenth in California. If you know,
you know, there's a hospital there, and they they did
not come to play. They did not come to play.
My mom no epideral, no nothing, no water, no nothing.
And they name they named her baby.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Period. Wow. I know, okay, yeah, it's it's not great.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
But I personally would like to change my name, but
legally I cannot.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
To Pauline or to like Steve.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I would like to name myself Paulina because that's all
I ever know, and I don't know who Pauline is.
But then I found on I gotta get like a
whole new Social Security and all that, and you guys
know I'm not doing all that.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'm not filin papers for one letter. I don't know.
Maybe you get a fresh startup the on your credit
score and every I don't know. Wait, hold on, now
you got Kiki's been trying to do this for years,
named the toll Way. People won't find it. I know
a guy the Men's NCAA Sweet sixteen. For some reason,

(05:21):
that's a hard thing to say. Matchups have been determined
Thursday and Friday. Those games began Alabama versus b YU
Florida versus Maryland, Duke versus Arizona, Texas Tech versus arkansasn Friday,
it's Michigan State. Woo, Let's go go Green go. Wait,
it's Michigan State, Ole, Miss Tennessee, Kentucky. Auburn, Michigan. That's

(05:46):
when you say something bad but not Auburn Well Michigan.
Oh oh, okay, Auburn versus Michigan, Yes, yuck, yuck. I
don't think is there an Auburn Michigan. I don't know, man,
I don't know. There's always it's like weird teams in
this thing that I'm like, I've never heard of you
at Auburn. I'm sorry, were pretty determined. You're not listening
Jason's time. I'm not surprised that you're confused. Purdue all

(06:12):
in the Sweet sixteen. That's that Thursday and Friday. So
there's a partnership that's been announced between door Dash and
I believe it's called Klarna. That's the name of the business.
I don't know. Yeah, after pay Baby. Yeah. I try
to stay away from that because I feel like this
is the kind of stuff that gets people in trouble
like me. Yeah, but DoorDash in Klarna, you can now

(06:36):
buy a burrito or a McDonald's order and pay for
it later across four interest free payments. See's what I'm
talking about. Like, if I don't have the money for
the for the burrito, I don't need to be the
burrito will very quickly because it's already thirty five dollars
to have it delivery. If you've noticed, you know that
the three dollars crunch wrap or whatever from Taco Bell,

(06:56):
it actually costs seventeen dollars. But I certainly don't want
to have to walk two blocks to go get it,
So sure, bring it to me for seventeen. But if
you're telling me that I could then pay for it later,
that's a problem because, as I think, we've probably all
learned it one time or another in our lives. At
seventeen dollars burrito, if you don't pay for it in
I think it's a week or two or three or
whatever it is, it becomes a ninety seven thousand dollars

(07:18):
burrito in no time. You have to spend at least
thirty five dollars. But customers who defer payment on a
fast food delivery are significantly are at a significantly higher
risk of missing one of the interest free installment payments
consumer reports. Warrens if you don't pay the bill on
time and you start getting multiple late fees, it could

(07:39):
be a very expensive pad tie. So I don't know
about this one. I'm gonna say, don't do it. That's
what I'm gonna that's my financial advice of the morning. Yeah,
don't make installment payments on a burrito, but just stand
a cheaper burrito. The upside could be like if you
are making payments on something and you make them on time, Like,

(08:01):
doesn't that help your credit? So like could that be good?
Like one good thing? Or no? I don't know. I
feel like, if we're making four payments on a taco
bell order, we don't need the taco bell, right, You're
not here doing God's work. Not this one doesn't help, Okay,
I don't Maybe, I mean that could be true, but
I feel like, you know, again, there's small payments so simple,

(08:25):
and then you're not. You forget one payment and then
all of a sudden, like it kind of defeats the
purpose of not having the money at the time because
it becomes that much more expensive. Look at me, I'm
Dave Ramsey over here. You know't have the money, then
you can't have the chilupah. I mean, I think that's
probably a wise I don't know me after walking by

(08:50):
someone smoking weed and because of course I don't, but
if I were to walk by it and ingests some secondhand
smoke and I didn't have any money in my checking account,
that's going to become a very expensive payment plan all
of a sudden. So I don't think I need it.
I don't need it. Also, this morning, the five worst
fast foods for your health have been revealed. These are
specific menu items. Now, these are pretty gluttonous menu items.

(09:13):
Like I don't know that everybody's just and I'm not
judging you if you are, but I'm not sure if
everyone's just pulling up an order in this stuff, you know,
just like it's These are a typical things, but you're
not supposed to eat them every day. Okay. Some of
the worst defenders on this list the bacon king from
Burger King. Yeah, I don't know what that is, but

(09:34):
it sounds like a higher level of commitment to bacon
than just your average bacon sandwich, you know, Like, I
don't know, you know what I mean, like you they
have like the Son of the Baconator at Wendy's, which
is like a small bacon cheeseburger kind of thing. They
also have like the Grandfather Baconator that's like seven feet
tall and it has like eighty eight thousand pieces of

(09:55):
bacon on it, and like they have it. It doesn't
mean you have to get it every time you go,
but maybe the big Bacon Classic triple see, that's what
I'm talking about from Wendy's, the honey barbecue chicken strip
basket from Dairy Queen. These are all packed with high
levels of fat, sodium, and carbs. Other unhealthy options to
avoid the sausage patty breakfast crunch wrap from Taco Bell,

(10:19):
the Crispy Chicken club wrap from Arbi's, and the mac
and cheese bread bowl from Panera. I want to hear
both sides of the story on that one, Like surely
there's something redeeming about it, Like I don't know, dairy
is that good? Their mac and cheese is so good,
but it is a lot of calories. But and you
know what, he's good for the environment because there's no waste.

(10:42):
But for sure, yeah, you're filling the vest. You can
eat the vessel. Yeah, if I can eat the vessel,
I'm canceling out whatever bad part for me that's being
canceled out by However, I'm helping the environment. Yeah, I'm
full of them. I'm full of rose. I'm full of it.
And then the sausage patty breakfast crunch trap. That just

(11:03):
sounds like I remember when my sister had one of
those for the first time, and she called me and
she was embarrassed because she was at first very upset
because she thought she'd ordered a hash brown and she
drove away and there was no hash brown to be found.
She was mad. She was about to turn around and
go get her hash brown and read them and tell
them where is my hash brown? This is an unacceptable

(11:23):
business practice. And then she instead decided just to take
a bite of whatever she got, only to find the
hash brown was within Oh it was stop shopping. It
was handheld breakfast. It was all right there. She'ese the
hash brown, the egg, the sausage, it was all just
right there in one hand, just ready to be consumed.
And she loved the efficiency. She was so excited she
had to call me and tell me there's a hash

(11:44):
brown inside the thing that's right. Oh yeah, on the go. Now,
if you eat all that, then you probably won't need this.
But it doesn't matter because you can't have it anyway.
A Chevvy filter from TikTok has been pulled after complaints
of toxic body shamming. Let me tell you something. When
I'm on TikTok, I am not looking for the filter

(12:06):
that makes me look the fattest. I don't need that
filter at all. I'm looking for the filter that makes
my skin look you know, China, dull, pristine, and that
makes me look the skinniest and the best light. Okay,
So I'm not looking for this, which is why I
didn't even know it existed. However, a TikTok filter has
now been banned after experts warn that it created a
toxic online culture. The chubby filter used AI to make

(12:29):
it appear as though users had gained a lot of weight,
so you would post a before and after picture, one
picture showing your regular appearance and the others showing yourself
with a greater body weight. However, experts have worn that
this could contribute to a toxic diet culture, and as
a result, TikTok has stepped in to ban the filter altogether.
So there it is. But I didn't know it existed,

(12:51):
because that's certainly is not what I'm looking for when
I'm posting to whatever social platform. Look at me looking fat.
I don't need a filter for that. And finally, a
Florida man has been arrested because he swallowed seven hundred
and seventy thousand dollars worth of Tiffany and Company jewelry.

(13:12):
So the guy was staying in a Orlando hospital for
multiple If you swallow a million dollars worth of diamonds,
I guess they keep you at the hospital until they
find the diamonds. Oh no, right, because you got a
million dollars worth of stuff in you. So he had
to stay at the hospital for multiple weeks until he
passed all of the diamond earrings. And they've been able
to recover all four of the ear rings, as well

(13:35):
as two other unidentified ear rings. I guess, I'm not
sure he swallowed a lot of diamonds. What I want
to know is, if I go to Tiffany with a
million dollars today and I want to buy some earrings,
are they the ones that pass through this man? Yeah? Because
they recovered them, So what are they doing with them?

(13:55):
I they're gonna just put them back in a little
blue box and sell them to somebody cleaning them. No,
so I guess. Last month, the guy post is a
representative for an NBA player and was taken to a
private room to inspect all the diamonds. He then proceeded
to swallow them all and then leave. He was pulled
over a few hours later, arrested, and then put into

(14:16):
the hospital where he had to patch them all and
he did. I can't imagine. I don't know. I have
a lot of questions, but that can't be a pleasurable process. Well, yeah,
what'd you do with them? I ate him? Okay? Well,
and then whose job is it to go find him? Then?
Like this is terrible? Don't we don't think nurses enough?
Because I bet it was some nurse somewhere at some

(14:36):
hospital that was like, really, I have to do this?
Do I get one of the diamonds because then you know,
maybe they go upon it or something at that point,
don't even have to tell anybody where they were. But
somebody had to sort through that guy's stuff for two
weeks to find a million dollars worth of diamonds that
he swallowed. Disgusting. It's National Cocktail Day and National Cheesecake

(14:58):
Day today as well the entertainment. Poor Kalones got that
next game so minutes after it says that we'll do
blogs on audio journals waiting by the phone, why did
somebody get ghosted? Brand new And in the next twenty
minutes we'll do it.

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