April 1, 2025 • 8 mins
Fred is inspired to get into Legos after seeing a video on TikTok!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, they talk better than these are the radio blogs
on the Fred Show. So it's like running in our diaries,
except we say them aloud. We call them blogs. I'm
going to take one deer blog. I outed myself, so
it's it's like I I posted the picture, So it's
my fault. But I've developed a bit of a new obsession.
(00:23):
And as you know, I go through seasons of obsessions.
What all have I gone through in recent times? Whether
it was the glider pilot thing. I did get my
glider pilot license, there was that, just a normal obsession
that somebody would have. During COVID, I was bored. I
became a flight instructor. I was bored. I don't know
(00:44):
what else about. There was the fruit in the water.
I went through that phase. Aren't you a gamer? At
I tried to be a gamer. I just don't have
the coordination or the attention span. But my latest thing,
and I really am not entirely sure where it came from.
I want to blame TikTok because I said I got
on the Lego TikTok algorithm. But I assembled last week
(01:07):
or two weeks ago on vacation, I assembled a Lego
concord plane, a Lego concord plane, and the thing is massive,
and it was limited edition, and then they got more
in and then I found one and I bought it
and I put a Lego concord together. Now, I just
want to discuss with you the range of emotions that
(01:28):
I experienced assembling a Lego concord. There was happiness, there
was satisfaction, there was sadness, there was frustration, there was anger.
In fact, if there were a number of times where
I thought about just destroying the thing because I don't
know why. But it's not as easy as I thought
it would be. Like it's not hard. It comes with
(01:48):
a big book and you just do what it says.
But I don't know, like it does require like if
you mess up one thing, you may not find out
about it for a little while as you put like
the modules together. But see, growing up never had this,
We never had the kind of legos, like the kits.
My mom would just buy us a big bucket of
Legos and be like, here you go make something. Yeah,
(02:08):
But I don't know if maybe they didn't have these
kits back then, because I don't remember having to follow
instructions to put somebody together in like model form. But
I did it, and I was very satisfied at the end,
and I find it somewhat therapeutic and somewhat relaxing while
also really frustrating. But then I went and bought an
F one car and I assemble that the McLaren F
(02:29):
one car, and it's pretty freaking cool when they come together,
Like the amount of detail is unbelievable. But now that
I realize, I'm kind of obsessed with it. Then I
bought it's at my house and I got to go
put it together. Now, I bought a pac Man video game.
So it's not an actual video game, like you can't
(02:50):
actually play it, but it looks like a mini arcade
pac Man made out of legos.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So I bought that. But I mean, I think the
problem is I'm a grown up with grown up money,
and I have the I have enough fu money to
spend on things that I, as a kid, wouldn't have
been able to. So now I can go out and
buy whatever legos I want and put them together. I
love it. I don't know, do any of you have
any sort of like juvenile type hobbies that you're into.
(03:21):
I can't decide if I think this is good for
me or if it just adds to my anxiety. I
can't tell.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So my baby's turning. She's turning one tomorrow. Actually she
isn't saying So GI's turning one. And for her birthday,
I want to start like a tradition that I never
really had, because I'm like, Okay, I want to buy
her stuff like it's my baby, and then I want
her to like also, like, you know, enjoy some of
these childhood toys. So I think we're gonna do like
a build a bear thing every year where she'll go
and she'll build a bear for her first birthday because
I never got to do that and I wanted to
(03:46):
do so desperately, So I think it's more for my kid.
I want to do American Girl when she's a little bigger,
so she could like pick her doll and all that
stuff too.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But I really want to get her.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
She's way too small for this, but like I always
wanted like a Barbie jeep.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's the one, honey, I will get that for her tomorrow.
She will have a twelve month Oh I miss mine.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I want was so bad, like I needed freedom.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I didn't even get the frend Flintstone one. I really
wanted just like a car, a little car that would
take me places.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, now you can get her a Lamborghini. You know,
a g wagon? Yeah? Yeah, I want to say Polly
has a g wagon or no, she has a Barbie Jeep,
pink Cheep, I can't remember. Maybe I'll get made of
a g wagon. Yeah, now that don't get any ideas
the power wheels one that's like, you know, start somewhere
and then right when she graduates, then you can get
(04:33):
the real thing. But I want to get back to
this tomorrow because there was a whole story today about
about all the things that adults are doing now because
they have the money, the expendable income to do them
that they didn't when they were a kid. And legos
is on the list of things that like adults are
obsessed with. I have to be honest, though, even as
a forty something, they're pretty freaking cool. Like when it
(04:54):
all comes together, they look really cool, and they've got
like cars, and they have if you're into Star Wars
and Harry Potter, they have all kinds of stuff and
I'm not, but they have like art you can do
a Mona Lisa. You can do like a Picasso. You
can do that love thing that's in I think is
(05:16):
that Philadelphia where that thing is that the love statue?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well that is yeah, I saw that in Philly.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They have like city scapes. You can do the Pyramids,
you can do the Eiffel Tower. You can do a
Titanic for seven hundred dollars, which I'm not I'll get
it for you, Kalin, I guess, and you can have
a you know, half of the Titanic in your home.
Oh yeah, I need that. I mean seven hundred dollars.
So I mean, but it would probably take me weeks
and weeks and weeks to put it together. The other
(05:43):
problem is I don't have any discipline, Like once I
sit down and I become determined, Like the other day
when I was putting the race car together, I think
it was like six hours and I didn't eat dinner,
like at some point it was it was like I
didn't I didn't like drink water, go to the bathroom,
like I was just so immersed the process. I just
(06:03):
I just couldn't put it down until it was finished.
That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, like I it
has to be complete otherwise it drives me crazy. So
I really am not yet sure if it's there, because
I've seen people online talk about how it's relaxing and
therapeutic for them, but I'm not really sure if it
is or if it's really actually stressful. You need like focus.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's why I'm I'm for me personally, I couldn't do that.
I have no focus to do a Lego set. But
when you said, you know, you bought your plane one
and all these things, I'm like, you really have a
lot of a lot of attention to give because.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It'll help you. Because like when I I just started
on my Lego journey too, but I didn't even have
I didn't know this. Yeah, I didn't have Legos growing up.
But I decided about a month ago that when my
mom bought me one, I think it was for Christmas,
so it was a little over that she bought for
my birthday. She bought me my first set. So but
what I noticed is when I was sitting there doing it,
(06:57):
it made me focus to a point where it was
like two hours of like I didn't worry about anything.
I didn't think about all the other things I had
to do. And actually, I don't know if that's really
relaxing or I do agree that it's therapeutic because you
don't think about all the other stuff that's stressing you
out because you're focused on like this one thing. And
then when I was done, I was like, oh my god,
(07:18):
Like it was almost like like it was a sleep
or something, and like when I woke back.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Up, I'm like, wow, Yeah, what did you put together?
What kids? Did you get? Panda?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
My mom got me two pandas and a tree, So
I have a little Panama set sitting on my dining
room table. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah. The concord came with a little floral arrangement that
you put together in Legos, and so I put that.
It was free with purchase, so I put that together.
I gave it to my mom. Yeah. Huge. I don't know.
I mean, I guess there are worse things to be
obsessed with, but I don't know. I hope I'm not. Well,
I'm not the only one, because apparently Jason and I
(07:55):
are both on a Lego journey. The only issue I
have is, like I would I'm hoping that when Pauly
get a little bit older, she wants Legos too, But
it's not really like a it's not really like a
tandem activity because like the pieces build on each other.
It's not like I could say, Okay, Polly, you do
this bag and I'll do this bag, because it doesn't
really work that way because you kind of have to.
(08:16):
It has to go into order and then it has
to like stack on each other. So it does. I
don't know. It's kind of like a one person activity.
But that's perfect because I'm all about one person activities.
I do a lot of one person activities. Most of
what I do is one person activities. My love life
is a one person activity. It's all one person activity,
so I'm pretty much used to that. But but yeah,
(08:39):
so the lego Jason and I are together. We're on
a lego Joey.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes, something I never thought I would say as a
grown up, But here we are. The Entertainment Report. We'll
do it next. Fread Show is back in two minutes.
Yeah, they talk better than these are the radio blogs
on the Fred Show. So it's like running in our diaries,
except we say them aloud. We call them blogs. I'm
going to take one deer blog. I outed myself, so
it's it's like I I posted the picture, So it's
my fault. But I've developed a bit of a new obsession.
(00:23):
And as you know, I go through seasons of obsessions.
What all have I gone through in recent times? Whether
it was the glider pilot thing. I did get my
glider pilot license, there was that, just a normal obsession
that somebody would have. During COVID, I was bored. I
became a flight instructor. I was bored. I don't know
(00:44):
what else about. There was the fruit in the water.
I went through that phase. Aren't you a gamer? At
I tried to be a gamer. I just don't have
the coordination or the attention span. But my latest thing,
and I really am not entirely sure where it came from.
I want to blame TikTok because I said I got
on the Lego TikTok algorithm. But I assembled last week
(01:07):
or two weeks ago on vacation, I assembled a Lego
concord plane, a Lego concord plane, and the thing is massive,
and it was limited edition, and then they got more
in and then I found one and I bought it
and I put a Lego concord together. Now, I just
want to discuss with you the range of emotions that
(01:28):
I experienced assembling a Lego concord. There was happiness, there
was satisfaction, there was sadness, there was frustration, there was anger.
In fact, if there were a number of times where
I thought about just destroying the thing because I don't
know why. But it's not as easy as I thought
it would be. Like it's not hard. It comes with
(01:48):
a big book and you just do what it says.
But I don't know, like it does require like if
you mess up one thing, you may not find out
about it for a little while as you put like
the modules together. But see, growing up never had this,
We never had the kind of legos, like the kits.
My mom would just buy us a big bucket of
Legos and be like, here you go make something. Yeah,
(02:08):
But I don't know if maybe they didn't have these
kits back then, because I don't remember having to follow
instructions to put somebody together in like model form. But
I did it, and I was very satisfied at the end,
and I find it somewhat therapeutic and somewhat relaxing while
also really frustrating. But then I went and bought an
F one car and I assemble that the McLaren F
(02:29):
one car, and it's pretty freaking cool when they come together,
Like the amount of detail is unbelievable. But now that
I realize, I'm kind of obsessed with it. Then I
bought it's at my house and I got to go
put it together. Now, I bought a pac Man video game.
So it's not an actual video game, like you can't
(02:50):
actually play it, but it looks like a mini arcade
pac Man made out of legos.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
So I bought that. But I mean, I think the
problem is I'm a grown up with grown up money,
and I have the I have enough fu money to
spend on things that I, as a kid, wouldn't have
been able to. So now I can go out and
buy whatever legos I want and put them together. I
love it. I don't know, do any of you have
any sort of like juvenile type hobbies that you're into.
(03:21):
I can't decide if I think this is good for
me or if it just adds to my anxiety. I
can't tell.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So my baby's turning. She's turning one tomorrow. Actually she
isn't saying So GI's turning one. And for her birthday,
I want to start like a tradition that I never
really had, because I'm like, Okay, I want to buy
her stuff like it's my baby, and then I want
her to like also, like, you know, enjoy some of
these childhood toys. So I think we're gonna do like
a build a bear thing every year where she'll go
and she'll build a bear for her first birthday because
I never got to do that and I wanted to
(03:46):
do so desperately, So I think it's more for my kid.
I want to do American Girl when she's a little bigger,
so she could like pick her doll and all that
stuff too.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But I really want to get her.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
She's way too small for this, but like I always
wanted like a Barbie jeep.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's the one, honey, I will get that for her tomorrow.
She will have a twelve month Oh I miss mine.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I want was so bad, like I needed freedom.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I didn't even get the frend Flintstone one. I really
wanted just like a car, a little car that would
take me places.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, now you can get her a Lamborghini. You know,
a g wagon? Yeah? Yeah, I want to say Polly
has a g wagon or no, she has a Barbie Jeep,
pink Cheep, I can't remember. Maybe I'll get made of
a g wagon. Yeah, now that don't get any ideas
the power wheels one that's like, you know, start somewhere
and then right when she graduates, then you can get
(04:33):
the real thing. But I want to get back to
this tomorrow because there was a whole story today about
about all the things that adults are doing now because
they have the money, the expendable income to do them
that they didn't when they were a kid. And legos
is on the list of things that like adults are
obsessed with. I have to be honest, though, even as
a forty something, they're pretty freaking cool. Like when it
(04:54):
all comes together, they look really cool, and they've got
like cars, and they have if you're into Star Wars
and Harry Potter, they have all kinds of stuff and
I'm not, but they have like art you can do
a Mona Lisa. You can do like a Picasso. You
can do that love thing that's in I think is
(05:16):
that Philadelphia where that thing is that the love statue?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well that is yeah, I saw that in Philly.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They have like city scapes. You can do the Pyramids,
you can do the Eiffel Tower. You can do a
Titanic for seven hundred dollars, which I'm not I'll get
it for you, Kalin, I guess, and you can have
a you know, half of the Titanic in your home.
Oh yeah, I need that. I mean seven hundred dollars.
So I mean, but it would probably take me weeks
and weeks and weeks to put it together. The other
(05:43):
problem is I don't have any discipline, Like once I
sit down and I become determined, Like the other day
when I was putting the race car together, I think
it was like six hours and I didn't eat dinner,
like at some point it was it was like I
didn't I didn't like drink water, go to the bathroom,
like I was just so immersed the process. I just
(06:03):
I just couldn't put it down until it was finished.
That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, like I it
has to be complete otherwise it drives me crazy. So
I really am not yet sure if it's there, because
I've seen people online talk about how it's relaxing and
therapeutic for them, but I'm not really sure if it
is or if it's really actually stressful. You need like focus.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's why I'm I'm for me personally, I couldn't do that.
I have no focus to do a Lego set. But
when you said, you know, you bought your plane one
and all these things, I'm like, you really have a
lot of a lot of attention to give because.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It'll help you. Because like when I I just started
on my Lego journey too, but I didn't even have
I didn't know this. Yeah, I didn't have Legos growing up.
But I decided about a month ago that when my
mom bought me one, I think it was for Christmas,
so it was a little over that she bought for
my birthday. She bought me my first set. So but
what I noticed is when I was sitting there doing it,
(06:57):
it made me focus to a point where it was
like two hours of like I didn't worry about anything.
I didn't think about all the other things I had
to do. And actually, I don't know if that's really
relaxing or I do agree that it's therapeutic because you
don't think about all the other stuff that's stressing you
out because you're focused on like this one thing. And
then when I was done, I was like, oh my god,
(07:18):
Like it was almost like like it was a sleep
or something, and like when I woke back.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Up, I'm like, wow, Yeah, what did you put together?
What kids? Did you get? Panda?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
My mom got me two pandas and a tree, So
I have a little Panama set sitting on my dining
room table. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah. The concord came with a little floral arrangement that
you put together in Legos, and so I put that.
It was free with purchase, so I put that together.
I gave it to my mom. Yeah. Huge. I don't know.
I mean, I guess there are worse things to be
obsessed with, but I don't know. I hope I'm not. Well,
I'm not the only one, because apparently Jason and I
(07:55):
are both on a Lego journey. The only issue I
have is, like I would I'm hoping that when Pauly
get a little bit older, she wants Legos too, But
it's not really like a it's not really like a
tandem activity because like the pieces build on each other.
It's not like I could say, Okay, Polly, you do
this bag and I'll do this bag, because it doesn't
really work that way because you kind of have to.
(08:16):
It has to go into order and then it has
to like stack on each other. So it does. I
don't know. It's kind of like a one person activity.
But that's perfect because I'm all about one person activities.
I do a lot of one person activities. Most of
what I do is one person activities. My love life
is a one person activity. It's all one person activity,
so I'm pretty much used to that. But but yeah,
(08:39):
so the lego Jason and I are together. We're on
a lego Joey.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes, something I never thought I would say as a
grown up, But here we are. The Entertainment Report. We'll
do it next. Fread Show is back in two minutes.
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