November 17, 2025 • 18 mins
Bella goes to the dentist for the first time in 5 years. Plus, a listener on Keke's Court is conflicted after she didn't bring food to the company potluck and her coworkers were NOT happy about it!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
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him aloud.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We welcome Bella Hamen.
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
I went to the dentist for the first time in
five years. N I know, I had been very afraid.
I had a bad experience with my first dentist that
wasn't my dad.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So my dad's his friend is a dentist.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So growing up, that's all I knew was just going
to my dad's bestie. So I loved going to the dentist.
While I got married. I moved went to San Diego
and I got a new dentist and this guy was
not so nice. He made me cry. I was like,
I'm never going to go to the dentist again. Fast forward,
my wisdom teeth are completely in and I'm like, I
(01:21):
don't think this is right.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I should probably and there.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I made Ben check it out because I'm scared, and
he said, there's sideways, babe.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You should probably go look at that.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So I went to the dentist and I only had
four cavities.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So I texted the gang.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'm like, hey, well, okay, actually technically had six.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I didn't tell you about. But twa your teeth. Let's
have your teeth.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No but tour on the wisite that I order you
to get out, so I'm not counting it.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's grown math, Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So I have to go in four separate times, two
for the fillings because they're on different sides in my face.
And then I have to get my wisdom teeth out
because they have cavities on them. They're really hard to brush,
is what my dentist said. And he said, you got
to get them out.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But she texted groups, guys, I only had five cavities,
proud you only had you only it been.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Worse so bad after five years and.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Then Jason said and he was like, well remember and
I had forgotten, but then.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I had eighteen cavities after not going for nine years.
They took me into the conference room of the dentist office.
Like I didn't even know dentist office had conference rooms,
but they had to like put me in a meeting
and be like this is what you're about to like
tackle in what it's going to cost. I literally was like,
can you just like pull on my teeth? Can I
just get vineears? Like is that cheaper?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
You know?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
And like I didn't go every week for like a year.
Oh no, yeah, because it was like different. They can
only like do so many in one sitting. Like oh,
I was like, I was like five cavities after four
six cavities after four years.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That is not bad at all.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The dentist office closed after that because retire they were done.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They met their quota. For the entire of the business.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
I helped keep it the flow through the Yeah, total,
I mean, isn't that all your I.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Think every single tooth. Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Like thirty two because my dentist kept counting numbers like
I kept hearing it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So I feel like it's like thirty thirty two.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We have thirty two teeth, and six of your thirty
two teeth arerotted.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
No, just rotted their bonus ones. Remember my bonus teeth.
So it's like it was like six out of forty.
That's not bad, you guys, six out of forty.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It is not bad. I'm proud of you, and I'm
proud of you. You're going I am now reformed.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
So once you are finally all done, you're gonna be
You're gonna feel amazing because it feels great when they're
like see you in six months and I'm like bye, it's.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Almost like they ask you to go a certain amount
of times a year years so that this doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, and they had these devices guys are called toothbrushes.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
More Freas show. Next, this is the Pread Show.
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Live Nation, a fresh show. It's Kiki's all right, gionnerbal
Kiki is here, Judge Kiky your honor?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yes, he's all yours.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
All right, let's get in the courtroom. The gabble has
been hit, it says Kiki. Am I wrong because I
don't mess around with potlucks?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, I got to play the song because we can
move on.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
No, wrote this.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Is there, probably go from you.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
I just started working at a small office of about
ten people, and everything was great until potluck season hit.
I don't do potlucks. I don't like bringing or eating
other people's homemade food. When everyone started planning the holiday potluck,
I said I won't be bringing anything, but I'd happily
chip in money or help with supplies. Well, my boss
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got offended and said everyone has to contribute something because
this is a team bonding tradition. Well, on the day
of the potluck, I brought my own lunch and I thought, and.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I thought it would be nice to still sit and.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Eat with everyone, But the entire time I got side
eyes and shady comments. So my boss kept saying things
like some people just don't believe in the holiday spirit,
and it got super awkward.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Passive aggressiveness for the boss.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
And now I'm honestly thinking about finding a new job.
I'm here to work, not pass around mystery castle roles?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Am I wrong? Wow?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
New job?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Over the holiday potluck?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Wait? Girl?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The economy though?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Where you can go.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Potluck?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Eight three?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Five?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Thoughts on the potluck? Are we in on the office potluck?
Does everybody have to participate? If you're not comfortable you do?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You don't have to do it?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The shenanigans. You know, this happened to me several years ago.
I was told you you need to bring something because
I don't typically go to the potluck, and the potluck
is usually as you know, o boy, as you know,
they plan things around here for the nine to five
ors eight to six ers, whatever you want to say.
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They don't plan things around here for the people to
start at four in the morning. And that's okay. They
don't have to, I guess, because I guess there are
more people here nine to five or whatever. However, I
don't really hang around till like noon. When we got
here at five, so I could eat a bunch of
food that was cooking someone's home. And I've seen how
they're living, like not at home, I see how they exist, right,
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so I'm scared of what their houses look like. But anyway,
I didn't go for a few years, and I was
summoned to the boss's office in the suits, multiple suits
were in the room, and they said, Fred, you need
to come to the potlock this year, and not only that,
but you are expected to contribute something what because you
need to be part of the group. And I said okay,
I said, no problem. This is exactly how it happened.
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I said, okay, no problem.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So I went home. I said what am I going
to bring? I got it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Vodka soaked gummy bears. Now I'm going to have you
know that there was It requires a deft hand to
get it just right, just perfect, and they were perfect.
They were completely because sometimes I've made him in the
past and like you'll pour the Vodkan hum or whatever,
and then you put them in the refrigerator and then
it doesn't absorb them.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
For some reason.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
This was these were kiss chef's kiss No, I really,
I really did a great job. And so I brought
them and I set them on the table and I said,
there's my contribution. And guess who won the dessert category?
Your boy?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And guess what. There was a there. There were multiple
people in the office who made formal complaints.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What yes, that it was unfair that I won because
I used alcohol. No, you know what I did, you
sore losers. I catered to my audience. That's what I did.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I catered audience. I know what these people want. They
want to get drunk. So I should see you at
the super Bowl of Soup this year, right right? Are
you still doing that?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I got shared about it last week because I got
asked if I was making something and I was like, no,
but I'll come.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It was like anythink, like do I give soup energy?
Like I love it, but I don't know how to
make a soup. I'll do it again.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I got last place in that ill you'll never see
me again. I'm still mad about that. What did you
make makel soup? Okay, that's how you got it last place,
That's how you got last place. It's really good though,
again to the masses, you weren't catering to the masses.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Is only want to vote for you Polish and pickles.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And I wasn't even there because you know, I'm not
gonna eat it, so I I couldn't have voted for you.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I'm sorry. You know what you gotta do. I saw
somebody online do this. This is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
If they force me to do that, I'm gonna go
down to Potbelly and I'm gonna I'm just gonna bring
my crock pot down to Potbelly and tell the nice
people down there fill it up with the chili, which
is elite, fill it up, and then I'm just going
to carry that thing up there and set it down
and then I'm going to win because it's elite and
and that's that's all there is to it. So I
got to know from you guys though, Office pod Luck.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yes, are we in on this? Are we out on this? Again?
You need to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, I'm fine if you want to have like an
office Thanksgiving and have it catered by someone and we
have it like a public sanitation score available, and I'm
fine with that if as long as you got a
A or higher, you know, a ninety year higher on
your publication. But otherwise I don't know, because again I
watch people around here, and I see how they treat
their little their little workspaces, and I see how they
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sort of like do things, and I'm like, your house.
I don't want to know what your house looks like.
And now you're in there cooking and I got to
eat it. Yeah, absolutely not. Hey, Jen, Hey, Jen, So
this one's now she's not talking about leaving her job
because she was chastised for not being involved with the
office podluck.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
So look, I'm not a fan of potlucks either, thank you.
But all she'd have done was head over to jewel
and bought a ten dollars thing of cookies and brought
it and not touched anything and not made it a
whole thing. It is a cultural thing, and it is
a team building thing, and she didn't have to make
it a whole thing. You know, it's her job, it's
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the team culture, and it didn't have to be a
whole thing that attracted attention to her.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, I mean I think it's like it kind of
shows a lack of professional maturity, like you got to
kind of.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Go with it sometimes, well, especially if it happens during
hours where you're supposed to be in the office and
you're the one person who brings their own food and
kind of rejects it like you're making a statement. At
that point, I suppose you could hang around and kind
of pretend like you're eating it, and but but you
don't have to bring your own lunch and like take
a stand on the whole thing and then threaten to
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quit your job. Like, guys, we're all trying to hang
on to our jobs around here. Like you know, if
they told me it's either come to the podlock or
you're fired.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'll eat your nasty pickle sleep I don't care. But
your cat, your cat probably swimming in it, you know.
Or that's what I'm going to say. That's what I'm
going to say. I'm gluten intolerant, which I think I am.
And then to be well, there's no gluten in this,
well I'm anti gluten intolerant. Then as well, there's no gluten,
I can't eat it. So I'll go I'll go either way,
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depending who asked me. Yeah, that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Jim, thank you. It's advice. You just showed me go.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Oh you know what, I'm uh, I got it. I
don't know what's in this stuff, but I'm allergic to
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
That's what you do. Have a good day. I'm glad
you called, Alex.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Hi, good morning.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I love you, guys.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I love you too, Thanks for calling, Thanks for listening.
So in Kiki's Cord, Judge Keke presented the case of
an individual who is really contemplating a career change because
or at least a job change, because he or she
is not interested in being involved in the office potluck.
And I'm right there with him that. Am I going
to take you as far as to hit the streets
and go work into some inferior radio station.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm not going to do that, but I don't. But
I'm not necessarily going to eat either, And I think
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think you should go.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I don't think you necessarily have to eat. Maybe put
a little bit on your plate. And I think you
need to bring something. It doesn't need to be homemade,
it could be something packaged, but I think you need
to show up. I think bringing your own lunch was
a little not the right mode.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I agree with that, But they're also the purists who
will criticize you, you from you right over there, criticize
you for not bless you for not I wasn't sure
that it's.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
A call for a yak or a vomit. I wasn't
sure it was two sneezes. No, But but I did that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
When I did the vodka thing that the sok gummy bears,
it was like, well, he didn't cook. First of all,
it was he didn't cook anything. And I'm like, well,
I'll have you know that you have to have the
perfect proportion otherwise it won't work. First of all. Second
of all, no one said that that wasn't cooking. I
don't know what your definition is, but as far as
I'm concerned, I was in the lab.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I made him.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And then so people will criticize you on that level too.
They'll criticize you if you don't make something at.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Home, and I think that's wild. I think alcohol is
always an option. A beverage, alcohol, a drink, always an option. Yeah,
I think you should get ten points for bringing any
sort of jello shot, any sort of gummy bears.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So thank you, thank you I was.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
There was actually a formal complaint lodged against me being
the winner for that reason. But you know what, I
still want to have a good day. Ay, And I
took my twenty five dollar gift card and I spent
it in glory.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's what I did. It's weird to hear that much.
It's very no, but this is a real controversy. Have
you been to a potluck since no? Because no, no,
I did. The next year.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I made although because then I had to rub it
in people's faces, so I made like very elaborate jellow shots.
I can't remember what they were. You went back, Oh no,
I did, forget that, like I'm doing it again, and
they weren't as good. I didn't win. Nobody was mad
about them. Yeah, but like I forget what they were.
But it was like a multi step jello shot. It
had like there was a lot going on and it
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just wasn't as good. But no, you know, I was
coming with the alcohol again for a year two. But
I think other people picked up on that and we
did something similar. So I mean, look, guys, cater to
your audience. Yes, this is what you gotta do. Hey Rona, Hey,
how you doing the office potlog. Are we in or
we out? Do we have to go if we don't
want to go? Are we bad people?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I have strong feelings about this. I hate a pot luck.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Do not invite me to anything and then tell me
you have to bring my own food.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
I'll chip in for a caterer, yes, or you know,
tipend ten twenty bucks, but do not tell me I
have to bring my own food.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And by the way, some people can cook. I mean
there are people that were really into it and they
make good stuff and fine. But I and there are
people who's cooking I might trust. But again, I haven't
seen your house. I don't know where you cook this.
I don't know if you own lysol, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Do you let the do you let your dogs and
cats and turtles and ferrits just crawl around everywhere and
not clean up where you? Did you use the same
spoon to taste multiple times?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You probably did because nobody was watching, nobody would have known.
But are you Are you truly cooking to the standard
of a rev a professional kitchen? The enter is absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You're not. You're not, And thank you, thank you. Ron
I'm very passionate about this. Have a good days.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, no, you know, these are the kind of issues
that we are tackling. This is what our show is for. Okay,
we tackle the real issues at hand. And it's that
time of year. She took it too far with like
to go out of her way to do something different.
She could have just blended in and just not eaten anything,
and I think it would have been fine.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Well, she got to eat lunch. I just think she
should have at least brought something, you know, like, hey, guys,
I'm not gonna I don't. You don't even have to
say I don't want your food, just don't eat it,
but also contribute something. And you're new to this office.
It's only ten of y'all, so it's like you're very noticeable,
so at least play a little bit of the games.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Yeah, it's just true the greater good, like sometimes you
have to do things you don't like just for the
greater good.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Like you want to have a be cool, be chilled, right,
make friends.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Soone text it, after having my own cleaning business, I
will never eat at a potluck ever again.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That please. I'm talking about what did you find right,
that's what I mean. Soup, that's what.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And then I know that a lot of people are
asking for the pickle soup recipe.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Now that's some me. I would have liked it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But but you got to understand that that's not a
winning dish because not everybody pickles. Pickles are very polarizing
for people. People are either. And then within the pickle community,
then you've got the different kinds of pickles. Some people
like the sweet ones. And then for me it's dial only,
dial correct. Don't come around here with the gerkins or
whatever those things.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I don't want. Don't want gerkins my life, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So so No, but if you'd come with pickle soup
and I said, it is exciting, and then I find
out it's the sweet kind, the bread and butter con
then we're out.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We're done. We're out, and I'm not going to eat
them mad, I'm not voting for it. I'm also I
will never return. No, it's just two year two, bring
you back never. Maybe pellets have changed picklesup. Maybe a champion.
I want an apology, and maybe you were.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You were either gonna win big because you're going to
have like a devoted sort of core or you were
going to lose because you're baby was too specific. Yes, exactly,
a little focused research first, walk around and ask people,
are you Mexican tortilla super chilli?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
What do you what would you like? What would you
vote for,
This is the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Sam is taking over Las Vegas this January for his
seven night residency Adobe Live at Park MGM, and we've
got a trip for two to the January twenty fifth
show to night Hotel State at Park MGM January twenty
fourth through the twenty sixth and round trip airfare. Text
pillow to three seven three three seven now for a
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, they talk better than they say.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
These are the radio blogs on the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's like we're running in our diaries, except we say
him aloud.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We welcome Bella Hamen.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hello, producer, and you're not really an intern but producer
and various other things extraordinaire. Please explain to everyone the
text that you send us on Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay, dear blog.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I went to the dentist for the first time in
five years. N I know, I had been very afraid.
I had a bad experience with my first dentist that
wasn't my dad.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So my dad's his friend is a dentist.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So growing up, that's all I knew was just going
to my dad's bestie. So I loved going to the dentist.
While I got married. I moved went to San Diego
and I got a new dentist and this guy was
not so nice. He made me cry. I was like,
I'm never going to go to the dentist again. Fast forward,
my wisdom teeth are completely in and I'm like, I
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don't think this is right.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I should probably and there.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I made Ben check it out because I'm scared, and
he said, there's sideways, babe.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You should probably go look at that.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So I went to the dentist and I only had
four cavities.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So I texted the gang.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'm like, hey, well, okay, actually technically had six.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I didn't tell you about. But twa your teeth. Let's
have your teeth.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No but tour on the wisite that I order you
to get out, so I'm not counting it.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's grown math, Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So I have to go in four separate times, two
for the fillings because they're on different sides in my face.
And then I have to get my wisdom teeth out
because they have cavities on them. They're really hard to brush,
is what my dentist said. And he said, you got
to get them out.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But she texted groups, guys, I only had five cavities,
proud you only had you only it been.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Worse so bad after five years and.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Then Jason said and he was like, well remember and
I had forgotten, but then.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I had eighteen cavities after not going for nine years.
They took me into the conference room of the dentist office.
Like I didn't even know dentist office had conference rooms,
but they had to like put me in a meeting
and be like this is what you're about to like
tackle in what it's going to cost. I literally was like,
can you just like pull on my teeth? Can I
just get vineears? Like is that cheaper?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
You know?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
And like I didn't go every week for like a year.
Oh no, yeah, because it was like different. They can
only like do so many in one sitting. Like oh,
I was like, I was like five cavities after four
six cavities after four years.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That is not bad at all.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The dentist office closed after that because retire they were done.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They met their quota. For the entire of the business.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
I helped keep it the flow through the Yeah, total,
I mean, isn't that all your I.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Think every single tooth. Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Like thirty two because my dentist kept counting numbers like
I kept hearing it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So I feel like it's like thirty thirty two.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
We have thirty two teeth, and six of your thirty
two teeth arerotted.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
No, just rotted their bonus ones. Remember my bonus teeth.
So it's like it was like six out of forty.
That's not bad, you guys, six out of forty.
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So once you are finally all done, you're gonna be
You're gonna feel amazing because it feels great when they're
like see you in six months and I'm like bye, it's.
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Almost like they ask you to go a certain amount
of times a year years so that this doesn't happen.
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Yeah, and they had these devices guys are called toothbrushes.
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Live Nation, a fresh show. It's Kiki's all right, gionnerbal
Kiki is here, Judge Kiky your honor?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yes, he's all yours.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
All right, let's get in the courtroom. The gabble has
been hit, it says Kiki. Am I wrong because I
don't mess around with potlucks?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, I got to play the song because we can
move on.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
No, wrote this.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Is there, probably go from you.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
I just started working at a small office of about
ten people, and everything was great until potluck season hit.
I don't do potlucks. I don't like bringing or eating
other people's homemade food. When everyone started planning the holiday potluck,
I said I won't be bringing anything, but I'd happily
chip in money or help with supplies. Well, my boss
(05:27):
got offended and said everyone has to contribute something because
this is a team bonding tradition. Well, on the day
of the potluck, I brought my own lunch and I thought, and.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I thought it would be nice to still sit and.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
Eat with everyone, But the entire time I got side
eyes and shady comments. So my boss kept saying things
like some people just don't believe in the holiday spirit,
and it got super awkward.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Passive aggressiveness for the boss.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
And now I'm honestly thinking about finding a new job.
I'm here to work, not pass around mystery castle roles?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Am I wrong? Wow?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
New job?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Over the holiday potluck?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Wait? Girl?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The economy though?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Where you can go.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Potluck?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Eight three?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Five?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Thoughts on the potluck? Are we in on the office potluck?
Does everybody have to participate? If you're not comfortable you do?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You don't have to do it?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The shenanigans. You know, this happened to me several years ago.
I was told you you need to bring something because
I don't typically go to the potluck, and the potluck
is usually as you know, o boy, as you know,
they plan things around here for the nine to five
ors eight to six ers, whatever you want to say.
(06:52):
They don't plan things around here for the people to
start at four in the morning. And that's okay. They
don't have to, I guess, because I guess there are
more people here nine to five or whatever. However, I
don't really hang around till like noon. When we got
here at five, so I could eat a bunch of
food that was cooking someone's home. And I've seen how
they're living, like not at home, I see how they exist, right,
(07:13):
so I'm scared of what their houses look like. But anyway,
I didn't go for a few years, and I was
summoned to the boss's office in the suits, multiple suits
were in the room, and they said, Fred, you need
to come to the potlock this year, and not only that,
but you are expected to contribute something what because you
need to be part of the group. And I said okay,
I said, no problem. This is exactly how it happened.
(07:33):
I said, okay, no problem.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So I went home. I said what am I going
to bring? I got it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Vodka soaked gummy bears. Now I'm going to have you
know that there was It requires a deft hand to
get it just right, just perfect, and they were perfect.
They were completely because sometimes I've made him in the
past and like you'll pour the Vodkan hum or whatever,
and then you put them in the refrigerator and then
it doesn't absorb them.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
For some reason.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
This was these were kiss chef's kiss No, I really,
I really did a great job. And so I brought
them and I set them on the table and I said,
there's my contribution. And guess who won the dessert category?
Your boy?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And guess what. There was a there. There were multiple
people in the office who made formal complaints.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
What yes, that it was unfair that I won because
I used alcohol. No, you know what I did, you
sore losers. I catered to my audience. That's what I did.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I catered audience. I know what these people want. They
want to get drunk. So I should see you at
the super Bowl of Soup this year, right right? Are
you still doing that?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I got shared about it last week because I got
asked if I was making something and I was like, no,
but I'll come.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It was like anythink, like do I give soup energy?
Like I love it, but I don't know how to
make a soup. I'll do it again.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I got last place in that ill you'll never see
me again. I'm still mad about that. What did you
make makel soup? Okay, that's how you got it last place,
That's how you got last place. It's really good though,
again to the masses, you weren't catering to the masses.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Is only want to vote for you Polish and pickles.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And I wasn't even there because you know, I'm not
gonna eat it, so I I couldn't have voted for you.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I'm sorry. You know what you gotta do. I saw
somebody online do this. This is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
If they force me to do that, I'm gonna go
down to Potbelly and I'm gonna I'm just gonna bring
my crock pot down to Potbelly and tell the nice
people down there fill it up with the chili, which
is elite, fill it up, and then I'm just going
to carry that thing up there and set it down
and then I'm going to win because it's elite and
and that's that's all there is to it. So I
got to know from you guys though, Office pod Luck.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yes, are we in on this? Are we out on this? Again?
You need to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, I'm fine if you want to have like an
office Thanksgiving and have it catered by someone and we
have it like a public sanitation score available, and I'm
fine with that if as long as you got a
A or higher, you know, a ninety year higher on
your publication. But otherwise I don't know, because again I
watch people around here, and I see how they treat
their little their little workspaces, and I see how they
(10:08):
sort of like do things, and I'm like, your house.
I don't want to know what your house looks like.
And now you're in there cooking and I got to
eat it. Yeah, absolutely not. Hey, Jen, Hey, Jen, So
this one's now she's not talking about leaving her job
because she was chastised for not being involved with the
office podluck.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
So look, I'm not a fan of potlucks either, thank you.
But all she'd have done was head over to jewel
and bought a ten dollars thing of cookies and brought
it and not touched anything and not made it a
whole thing. It is a cultural thing, and it is
a team building thing, and she didn't have to make
it a whole thing. You know, it's her job, it's
(10:53):
the team culture, and it didn't have to be a
whole thing that attracted attention to her.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, I mean I think it's like it kind of
shows a lack of professional maturity, like you got to
kind of.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Go with it sometimes, well, especially if it happens during
hours where you're supposed to be in the office and
you're the one person who brings their own food and
kind of rejects it like you're making a statement. At
that point, I suppose you could hang around and kind
of pretend like you're eating it, and but but you
don't have to bring your own lunch and like take
a stand on the whole thing and then threaten to
(11:26):
quit your job. Like, guys, we're all trying to hang
on to our jobs around here. Like you know, if
they told me it's either come to the podlock or
you're fired.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'll eat your nasty pickle sleep I don't care. But
your cat, your cat probably swimming in it, you know.
Or that's what I'm going to say. That's what I'm
going to say. I'm gluten intolerant, which I think I am.
And then to be well, there's no gluten in this,
well I'm anti gluten intolerant. Then as well, there's no gluten,
I can't eat it. So I'll go I'll go either way,
(11:57):
depending who asked me. Yeah, that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Jim, thank you. It's advice. You just showed me go.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Oh you know what, I'm uh, I got it. I
don't know what's in this stuff, but I'm allergic to
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
That's what you do. Have a good day. I'm glad
you called, Alex.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Hi, good morning.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I love you, guys.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I love you too, Thanks for calling, Thanks for listening.
So in Kiki's Cord, Judge Keke presented the case of
an individual who is really contemplating a career change because
or at least a job change, because he or she
is not interested in being involved in the office potluck.
And I'm right there with him that. Am I going
to take you as far as to hit the streets
and go work into some inferior radio station.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm not going to do that, but I don't. But
I'm not necessarily going to eat either, And I think
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think you should go.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I don't think you necessarily have to eat. Maybe put
a little bit on your plate. And I think you
need to bring something. It doesn't need to be homemade,
it could be something packaged, but I think you need
to show up. I think bringing your own lunch was
a little not the right mode.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I agree with that, But they're also the purists who
will criticize you, you from you right over there, criticize
you for not bless you for not I wasn't sure
that it's.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
A call for a yak or a vomit. I wasn't
sure it was two sneezes. No, But but I did that.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
When I did the vodka thing that the sok gummy bears,
it was like, well, he didn't cook. First of all,
it was he didn't cook anything. And I'm like, well,
I'll have you know that you have to have the
perfect proportion otherwise it won't work. First of all. Second
of all, no one said that that wasn't cooking. I
don't know what your definition is, but as far as
I'm concerned, I was in the lab.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I made him.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And then so people will criticize you on that level too.
They'll criticize you if you don't make something at.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Home, and I think that's wild. I think alcohol is
always an option. A beverage, alcohol, a drink, always an option. Yeah,
I think you should get ten points for bringing any
sort of jello shot, any sort of gummy bears.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So thank you, thank you I was.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
There was actually a formal complaint lodged against me being
the winner for that reason. But you know what, I
still want to have a good day. Ay, And I
took my twenty five dollar gift card and I spent
it in glory.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's what I did. It's weird to hear that much.
It's very no, but this is a real controversy. Have
you been to a potluck since no? Because no, no,
I did. The next year.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I made although because then I had to rub it
in people's faces, so I made like very elaborate jellow shots.
I can't remember what they were. You went back, Oh no,
I did, forget that, like I'm doing it again, and
they weren't as good. I didn't win. Nobody was mad
about them. Yeah, but like I forget what they were.
But it was like a multi step jello shot. It
had like there was a lot going on and it
(14:38):
just wasn't as good. But no, you know, I was
coming with the alcohol again for a year two. But
I think other people picked up on that and we
did something similar. So I mean, look, guys, cater to
your audience. Yes, this is what you gotta do. Hey Rona, Hey,
how you doing the office potlog. Are we in or
we out? Do we have to go if we don't
want to go? Are we bad people?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I have strong feelings about this. I hate a pot luck.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Do not invite me to anything and then tell me
you have to bring my own food.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
I'll chip in for a caterer, yes, or you know,
tipend ten twenty bucks, but do not tell me I
have to bring my own food.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And by the way, some people can cook. I mean
there are people that were really into it and they
make good stuff and fine. But I and there are
people who's cooking I might trust. But again, I haven't
seen your house. I don't know where you cook this.
I don't know if you own lysol, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Do you let the do you let your dogs and
cats and turtles and ferrits just crawl around everywhere and
not clean up where you? Did you use the same
spoon to taste multiple times?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You probably did because nobody was watching, nobody would have known.
But are you Are you truly cooking to the standard
of a rev a professional kitchen? The enter is absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You're not. You're not, And thank you, thank you. Ron
I'm very passionate about this. Have a good days.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, no, you know, these are the kind of issues
that we are tackling. This is what our show is for. Okay,
we tackle the real issues at hand. And it's that
time of year. She took it too far with like
to go out of her way to do something different.
She could have just blended in and just not eaten anything,
and I think it would have been fine.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Well, she got to eat lunch. I just think she
should have at least brought something, you know, like, hey, guys,
I'm not gonna I don't. You don't even have to
say I don't want your food, just don't eat it,
but also contribute something. And you're new to this office.
It's only ten of y'all, so it's like you're very noticeable,
so at least play a little bit of the games.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Yeah, it's just true the greater good, like sometimes you
have to do things you don't like just for the
greater good.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Like you want to have a be cool, be chilled, right,
make friends.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Soone text it, after having my own cleaning business, I
will never eat at a potluck ever again.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That please. I'm talking about what did you find right,
that's what I mean. Soup, that's what.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And then I know that a lot of people are
asking for the pickle soup recipe.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Now that's some me. I would have liked it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But but you got to understand that that's not a
winning dish because not everybody pickles. Pickles are very polarizing
for people. People are either. And then within the pickle community,
then you've got the different kinds of pickles. Some people
like the sweet ones. And then for me it's dial only,
dial correct. Don't come around here with the gerkins or
whatever those things.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I don't want. Don't want gerkins my life, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So so No, but if you'd come with pickle soup
and I said, it is exciting, and then I find
out it's the sweet kind, the bread and butter con
then we're out.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
We're done. We're out, and I'm not going to eat
them mad, I'm not voting for it. I'm also I
will never return. No, it's just two year two, bring
you back never. Maybe pellets have changed picklesup. Maybe a champion.
I want an apology, and maybe you were.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You were either gonna win big because you're going to
have like a devoted sort of core or you were
going to lose because you're baby was too specific. Yes, exactly,
a little focused research first, walk around and ask people,
are you Mexican tortilla super chilli?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
What do you what would you like? What would you
vote for,
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