Why Complain?

The crew talks about the wild complaints viewers submitted during the Superbowl!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, now, I'm all for people using their voice, ma'am,

(00:03):
but I'll tell you something. You know, you don't have
to As a society, we don't have to complain about everything.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We don't all need to be heard though, either like
it's okay to have an inner monologue or like say
it to your besty, type it in your notes, app
like not everyone needs an opinion on everything.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
You know, a woman, she's a news anchor in Denver,
I think, or so were in Colorado and she read
a handwritten letter that she got from a viewer saying
that basically, she dressed like a promiscuous woman. Yeah, she
dressed like a harlot of the night. Oh no, she
wasn't wearing a pollon of power suit. She wasn't. I

(00:42):
guess she was wearing something that this this viewer found undesirable.
So they took the time to look up the mailing
address for the television station. Make sure to get this
woman's you know name correct, and then write a letter
to her about how terrible she looked on TV. And
then go get a stamp, and those aren't cheap. And

(01:02):
then if you can find one, you know, if you
know where to get a stamp even and then put
it in the mail and then wait, you know, for
her to get this letter. And it's like, I think
the point that she was making, and it's a point
that we occasionally think around here too, it's like, you know,
you don't have to you don't have to let us
know every time you think we suck, like you don't. Like,

(01:23):
first of all, most of us have confidence issues as
it is, and like deep, deep identity issues and anxieties.
So you know, just just trust that if you think
we suck, we've already we've already identified that within ourselves today,
Like already for in the last two hours, I've already
figured it out. You know that I suck, So you
don't need to remind me. It's okay, But like, what
does it say? What does it say about the people themselves? Though?

(01:46):
That's the part that's a little bit sort of confusing
for me, is so we suck or or this woman
doesn't dress well on TV or whatever, But you took
the time to find out how to get a hold
of the place and in this case write a letter
on paper and a pen. I don't know where you
found you to one of those, and then an envelope
you found it? Did you have to go buy? Like?

(02:08):
I don't have you ever noticed? But if you need
one envelope, you got to buy one hundred. So this
person probably invested twenty or thirty dollars in this letter?
And what does that say about you? Right? You know
what I mean? Like you can tell me I sucked?
But why did You're the one taking the time to
let make sure that I know what you think? And
it's not nice. And that's a lot of time in
your day and energy. So why were so mad?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's very odd to care about what other people do
with their life, whether it be tattoo's piercings, the way
they dress, the way they cut their hair, Like why
do you care what another person does if it doesn't
affect you?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
For an email? Like what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Also?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I mean just send a texture and write a
nasty DM like that. It's easy. Free yah now, and
be sure and put your full name on aaron where
you work and everything else too, because that also is helpful.
I just it's interesting to me. And hey, you know what,
speak your mind, say what you want, stand up for yourself,
all these different things. I just it's just like I don't.

(03:05):
I don't know. I don't know. We don't have to
let everybody know about everything we're mad about. You know,
if you don't like it, if you have a bad
experience at a place, then maybe don't go back. If
you feel like someone you know wronged you or ripped you, often, definitely,
by all means, it is a process for that, but
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
That.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Being said, one of the first things I do when
I see kind of a crazy post of any kind
is go right to the comments, because they are wild,
they are wildly entertaining. So there's that, But I also
just think, like, you know, did you have to You know,
maybe you didn't have to. But those are one hundred
and some odd people, man, they really they told the NFL,
they told them, And next guess what, guys, Next year

(03:45):
they're going to have a hundred fewer viewers. Yeah, the
eighty million people that watch to right, and they'll be right,
they'll be right there next year. You'll probably write another
note too. That's that's another thing. You know, how many
times have we seen around and you're like, oh, you
are You're terrible, You're you're the worst, and I'll never
listen again. And then the next morning it's it's another time.

(04:07):
That is a clown. No one what you did. You
didn't waste any time. But you know what, I just
want you to know captain positivity in twenty twenty five.
I love it. I love everybody, even some of the haters. Now,
some of it take it to some people take it
too far. I don't love you, but you are some
of you are entertaining, and I just want to thank
you for listening. It's the Fred Show on the