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November 21, 2025 14 mins

Fred and the crew goes over executive sports report Jason Brown's NFL picks. Amazon is sending out money to their customers after a two billion dollar settlement. TSA might charge a fee for those without a Real ID.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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All thanks to Live Nation. Frend's show is on Fred's
Biggest Stories of the Day night. Jason Brown's out today. However,
we have the picks in a sealed envelope. Ernst and
Young has certified the results. Let's go with a week whatever.

(00:42):
This is twelve. I think maybe week twelve of the NFL.
Jason Brown our sports reporters unsanctioned gambling picks. Draft Queens
dot Com is the sponsor. That's not real. I got
you gooddy having Bill's Texans.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well you know he had this, Yeah yeah, Well a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Of people probably had the bills and lost money. Text
into one last night. Yeah, yes, Josh allensacked eight times.
He got the sack eight times, which is Jason stream
except not the right thing.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I wonder if you have do you want me to
just read it because it'll be easier.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yes, I will probably be out of order.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, all right, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
So for cold Chiefs you already know, he would say Chiefs, Kingdom, Seahawks, Titans.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
He took the Titans, Titans, as you.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Would say, sorry, excuse me, Vikings, Packers, took the Vikings, Jets, Ravens.
He's going with the Jets, Giants, Lions. He knows what
to do. He went the Lions, Steelers, Bears. He took
the Bears, Patriots versus Bengals. I'm surprised, but he took
the Pats, Browns versus Raiders. He's going the Browns, Jags,

(01:46):
the Cardinals, Jaguarsars, Jaguars, Eagles versus Cowboy Nation.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
You already know Falcons.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
He took over the Saints, Rams over the Bucks, and
the Panthers over the four Niners.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Wow. Wow, So he's he doesn't mind the smoke from Bella.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Then I guess not. I guess not in his parslay.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Oh here we go. Has everyone been playing in the
parslay this week? Ors?

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, you know what, I'm not sure I hope that
he made sure of that.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Whatever has before, so well, he probably didn't today either.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Woody Marks, who I've never heard of, will catch five times.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm sure we will get text about that.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I've never heard of him, but he's going to catch
five times. That's that's something.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well I'm not I don't know the most about the NFL,
so it's possible he's still good.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
But A J.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Brown will score at least one time. And lastly, Trey
McBride will run one in.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay, okay, all right, there you have it. Yes, if
you need to go back to the iHeart app to
review those to place your bets, and you're welcome to
do that.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
I'll do it later.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
They'll be up there. Yeah right, not right now.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Can post a photo if you guys want.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
We're in the middle of a live radio show, so yeah,
when I play my bets, I'll do that later.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
And the text are already coming in to my phone.
So you so you really are going to not take
you know, X y Z to Kiki's wedding. There are
people who believe that they're entitled to the spot.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh I love that, So.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I think there may be an actual eBay.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
I think it should be like, for the love of
for it, for the night, I'm down.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, he'll be a full service evening if you choose,
if you so, if you so choose, I'll get.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
You a room at the Ramadol And you do that,
we're going to add that to the budget. Yeah, you know,
Motial six is somebody, and.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Well we got you a little better than that.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
You can bring a date.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I'm not trying to go to the hotail motel. Okay,
so I don't want to go ciberis all right. I
love look but a slipping slide if you know, you know,
I like how you're not adding rooms for me to
the wedding budget. Like we're just spending it at at
a reckless pace.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
We really are. Like it's wild.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
It's a it's a state of delusion I've never experienced
before in my life.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
But it's kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know, I don't want to hear about it. In
a second. I know you're worried about being scammed too.
We'll get to them. Amazon has started sending out payments
to eligible Prime members. It's part of a two point
five billion dollars settlement. Maybe get some money. Amazon as
opposed to spending money with Amazon, which is it seems
to just go out with Amazon and money just goes
towards them and away from me. That's all it ever happens.

(04:08):
That's all I ever happened to Amazon. They started sending
out refunds to eligible Prime members as part of a
two point five billion dollars settlement with the FTC, the
Federal Trade Commission. The company agreed to pay out in
September to settle a twenty twenty three lawsuit where the
FTC accused Amazon of misleading customers into signing up for
Prime and making it hard to cancel. Under the deal,
Amazon will pay a billion dollars in civil penalties and

(04:30):
one point five billion to eligible customers, though the company
didn't admit any wrongdoing. Eligible Prime members will receive refunds
of their subscription fees up to fifty one dollars. To qualify,
you must have signed up through certain enrollment pages between
June of twenty nineteen and June of twenty twenty five,

(04:51):
and use no more than three Prime benefits in any
twelve month period after enrolling. This is pretty slim. I
don't know how many people did that, but the payments
beginning earlier this month and will continue through December via PayPal,
Venmo or a check. That's another thing. If I got
a PayPal request or a PayPal thing from Amazon, I'd
probably deny it, thinking I'm getting scammed, right, Like, what

(05:12):
are you trying to do to me? You're not sending
me money PayPal from Amazon.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
They just dump it in there. They don't even ask
you to accept it.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
You wake up to money or PayPal anytime people are
sending me money. I'm like, hold on, yeah, yeah, yeah,
what is this one of those deals where hey, if
you give me your social Security number? You you Nigerian
prints you, I'll send you. Yeah. Different, We have eighteen
gazillion dollars in an account because you're a descendant of
a Nigerian prince. All we need is your PayPal information
and before long then I owe somebody eighteen million dollars.

(05:45):
AI has It's gone too far? Guys? I mean, and
how many times am I going to say that in
the next decade? Uh? There's a talking bear that's AI
driven that's been pulled because it shared everything from kinks
to where to find knives. The way company is halting
sales of its AI powered stuffed animals after reports that

(06:05):
they would talk to children about anything from BDSM to
where they could find knives. The follow Toy has a
line of products, including Teddy Bears and pandas that use
open Aiyes Chat GPT to talk with kids. Consumer safety
report found that there wasn't much that the toys wouldn't
talk about. The bear even offered an especially detailed description
of how to light a match. The news has caused

(06:27):
Followed Toy to pull its products while conducts a company
wide audit. So I know you're miss Ai over here.
I am get a PhD. And AI. Nobody knows more
about AI than Baulina, as I've learned this week.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
But he as a pr woman for AI. How would
you save that story? Well, yeah, I don't. I don't
play with that. I don't play with kids. I don't
play with knives.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
But you know you don't encourage kids playing with matches
using that toy stuffed animal.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
No, No, that they took it too far with this one. See,
that's the scary side of it, And that's very real.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So is getting therapy from AI. Oh No, that's also
scary too. Hey.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Therapist is like hey, right.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
You ever heard a BDSM and mat she's at the
same time and knives.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
No.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
I use it for when I fight with Hovey over
the leftover lasagna.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's different. The bad side its different.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
The TSA might possibly start charging a fee air travelers
who don't have a real ID and you don't do
you know, Lisa, because you is this another one of
the things you refused to do.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
It's one more thing. No, I'm not doing this. My
idea is real. We got it when you gave it
to me. It's still real today. Kiki, we got us.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
The TSA has proposed a rule that would charge travelers
without a real ID eighteen dollars at security checkpoints, and
plans to launch a biometric identity verification program for people
who don't have a real ID or other approved ID
like a passport. The TSA says affirmative ID verification methods
are time and resource intensive, so the fee would cover

(07:58):
the government's costs. Passengers will start paying the fee once
the TSA announces that people could register for the Alternative
Identity Verification program at CSA dot gov. Travel experts say
the fee is reasonable since travelers have had years to
years Tiki to get a real ID and paying eighteen
bucks to potentially travel with that one isn't unreasonable. Requirements

(08:18):
would vary by state, so the TSA advises people to
check their states Drivers Licensed Bureau website to see what
they would need to get a real idea. I got
to think it's more reasonable to get a real ID
now than it isn't. The rush kind of over. You
could probably walk in and get one right now. But like,
why are.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
We doing this?

Speaker 6 (08:35):
We'll walk up and say this, this ID that I
issued is no longer real, and this new is real.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Like, why are we putting IDs in phone?

Speaker 4 (08:43):
It's tired of it?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
They got you can put your ID in your phone out?
Why are we doing that? It's called technology, We're evolving whatever.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
This is a scam.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
But see they messed up to last time because when
I went because I also don't have one.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
When I went, I moved, so I didn't bring shot.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Shocking news. Probably Tiki don't have the thing that you're
supposed to have gotten a year ago. That's right, wild information.
This is the craziest thing I've ever heard before. Change
a home talking to why do you ask to go
to the DMV and get your real ID.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
If I could, I would, you know, I would send
them so quick. I didn't have a utility bill printed
or something. So I am a social security What do
you need that for? For me to prove who I am?
To get a real idea?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
What I mean?

Speaker 6 (09:21):
What you mean.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Is how you id people. It's the purpose of the
social Security number.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
You don't get to like it.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
You like it like I'm already me. Why would I
prove that to you?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Who else is.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Trying to be me? I'm well, that's part of the problem.
Is zo people out there just trying to be you
and scamming people and whatever. This is the way in
the future, Tiki. We got to embrace it.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
I have the last ID that you gave me. You
gave me this ID.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I issued it myself to you, which is why you
need a real ID, because I drew it. No, I
drew a picture of you.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Take that idea, and that's enough. I don't know what
my birth cerativity is like.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Come on, man, And in today's version, you can still
use your passport, I guess, but you're gonna have to
update that at some point because on they have chips
in the passport now ship.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, and they don't.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
They don't stamp them anymore, you guys.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
A lot of places don't share them. No, no, same,
A lot of places don't stamp them. And then I
guess there's a place in the airport where for the
countries that don't stamp them, where you can go and
get a stamp if you really must have one.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Must.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
But I don't know who's doing that. And in we
don't have enough money news today or someone has way
too much money. A pristine copy of Superman Number one
from nineteen thirty nine the comic book just sold for
nine point one two million dollars, making it the most
valuable comic book ever. The book's near perfect nine point
zero grade stun collector is almost unheard of for an

(10:40):
eighty six year old issue. It's conditioned rarity, and the
landmark moments inside it helped drive the astronomical price. The
comic features early foundational storylines and key first appearances that
shape the first Superman franchise, making it one of the
holy grails of collecting. Before the sale, the previous super
Man record belong to a private sale copy. They're sold

(11:03):
for five point three million in twenty twenty two that
had an eighth grade. So yeah, I don't know, and
you know how desperately I want to like comic books.
It's just I don't know. It's not hitting for me
because I feel like smart people people wate smarter than me,
you know, and like they like wake more culture than
I am, like comic books. I don't know. Yeah, I

(11:24):
don't know. I want people I admire like comic books.
I don't know that I want to be like a
nerd about it, like Maris, our coworker down the way,
and I love him, but like, yeah, big time nerd.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
He loved it.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
But then again, I'm not wearing it today. I was
wearing a peanut shirt yesterday, so I'm in no position
to talk.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
That.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Being said, I don't know, there's something about like I
like reading and the storylines are really good and the
character development's really good, and smart people read this stuff,
and I want to be a smart person.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
You are very smart.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I want to be smarter than smart you.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Are, and I don't think you need comic books for that.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
No. In this segment's brought to you by Red, where
they're going to lock you up if you don't get one, Paul,
they're waiting outside to take you away. It's a substitute
educator's day. Which that's a hard job. Yes, that's like
trying to be a decent step parent. It's a hard job. Yeah,
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of indecent step parents out there who don't care. But

(12:18):
like being a quality substitute educator and being a quality
step parent. That's not for the faint of heart. It's
not right. National Gingerbread Cookie Day. I wish I could
tell you which of my step moms is my stepmom currently.
I just don't know. I don't because there's been many
of them, and some more than once. National. Yeah, yeah,
it's a real story. And you want to know why

(12:39):
I'm the way I am to have a seed National
Gingerbread Cookie Day and National Stuffing Day today. And I
had another Thanksgiving sandwich last night, this time from Capriott's
because I am embracing the Thanksgiving sandwich this year.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
You're in the holiday spirit?

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Well, no, I just like a Thanksgiving sandwich. Subway has one.
I think maybe Arby's has one, I heard, And then
I don't know how many places have Caprioti and know
it's a chain, but they have one, you know where
they put everything on the on the sandwich, the turkey,
the dressing, they put mayo, they put cranberry sauce. Some
put like those those those dehydrated onions on there, or

(13:14):
like crispy onions. Some people do that.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh, because you won't get the food on Thanksgiving, right.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, because we travel.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, you're in a tropical place, right, So they don't.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
It's like for twenty five years ago going to this
place and they don't. They don't do it. Sometimes they'll
try and do it. Like you'll walk into like some
little what do you guys eat on Thanksgiving? I don't
know whatever? They like fish, yeah, like taco fish, taco,
I don't know, fish, yeah, stuff. But then they'll have
a little sign like for hey, you lame Americans, like
they want to we have this if you want it.
It's like I look at it and I'm like I
kind of want it, but then I don't want to

(13:45):
be that guy, right, so I don't get it. But yeah,
no I don't. I don't. I can't remember the last
time we had a traditional Thanksgiving, a traditional Thanksgiving with
like all the stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Okay, so you got to get it in now, which
leads us.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
To our next topic. And just to omen this might
one of the more controversial topics we may we may
ever discuss on this show and

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