Full Show PT 1: Monday, March 2 [Vault]

Summary

The Bert Show: Full Show PT 1 – Monday, March 2 [Vault]

Date: March 2, 2026
Summary by Episode Content (excluding ads/intro/outro)

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Overview of the Episode

This episode of The Bert Show centers around work and relationship frustrations, dramatic job exits, gender roles in family finances, and the judgments we make about the people our friends date. The hosts (Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, and Tommy) mix serious advice with their trademark humor and authenticity as they tackle listener calls, share their own stories, and play infamous audio of on-air job resignations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. What Would Make You Quit Your Job?

[00:30 – 04:49]

• Prompt: “If ____ happens at work today, I’m quitting.”

• One teacher (Katie) calls in, desperate over a head lice outbreak:

  • Host 1: “She said if one more kid today…has head lice, it's my last day.” [00:48]
  • Co-host/Commentator: “We used to have checks in class. How embarrassing.” [00:50]

• Chris, an auto insurance worker, shares:

  • He’d quit if they don’t add bathroom stalls or give more gas money:
    • “We have two bathroom stalls and there’s people that come in there in the men’s room specifically, just blow up the bathroom…like they're at home.” [02:00]
    • Complaints about commute and need for better transportation:
      • “Like half of our office doesn’t even come in throughout the entire week.” [02:33]
    • Reveals he enjoys his four-day workweek despite other issues.

• Hosts and commenters joke:

  • “He’s got a four-day work week…his biggest problem is stinky bathrooms…there’s people angrier at him than at Desperate Housewives girl.” [03:50]

• Key Insight: Sometimes, minor annoyances highlight larger dissatisfactions in day-to-day work—but for many, the perks (like a four-day week) make all the difference.

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2. Dramatic On-Air Quitting Stories

[04:49 – 09:32]

• Jacksonville DJ’s On-Air Resignation:

  • Audio clip played of a DJ discovering he’s being let go and quitting live on air:
    • “I’ve decided to just say screw it and give the big middle finger to upper management instead of giving them the opportunity.” [05:17]
    • “Kiss my Cox Radio Jacksonville, and especially you, Bill Hendrick and David Israel…It’s gonna be a bright day in Jacksonville when your desks are emptied.” [06:37]
  • Hosts React:
    • Host 1: “Bitter, bitter.” [07:01]
    • Co-host/Commentator: “I wish I had the courage to do that…I've never seen the dramatic exit.” [07:03]

• Inetta the Moodsetta’s Iconic Resignation (2006):

  • Famous for: “So if you're confused about what I'm saying, listen very carefully. I quit this bitch.” [09:29]
  • Hosts agree Inetta still “set the bar” for quitting on air.

• Insight: Quitting stories—especially public, spectacular ones—capture frustrations many people suppress. They become cathartic tales for listeners.

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3. The Breadwinner Dilemma

[09:37 – 17:38]

• Caller (Teresa) wants advice on telling her husband about her promotion:

  • She wants him to go back to college while she becomes the breadwinner but is nervous about his traditional views.
  • “He wants to go to college…but he kinda has a thing with the woman being the breadwinner…don't want to hurt his ego.” [10:51]

• Hosts discuss male ego and identity:

  • Co-host/Commentator: “Men’s identities are so closely related to their jobs…they lost a sense of identity because they weren’t working.” [13:05]
  • Co-host/Producer on his own relationship: “I would struggle more…if my wife was the one getting notoriety for the show…that would bother me more than the money.” [13:21]

• Advice from listeners:

  • Callers suggest framing it as “temporary” and a step towards him providing more in future.
  • “You’re going to school now…when you get done, I’ll be able to stop and you’ll be the breadwinner again.” [15:01]
  • Others encourage honesty and ensuring it’s truly his dream—not just her projection.
  • “You really got to play ego here…it’s all about stroking ego here.” [16:19]
  • “Men are very delicate.” [16:25]
  • Consider part-time or night school as a compromise.

• Final takeaway: Communicate openly, reinforce teamwork, and be sensitive to ego and identity issues.

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4. Judgment About Who Our Friends Date

[18:03 – 24:42]

• Host confesses:

  • He’s “not the only one who’ll pass judgment on a person based on who they date.” [18:09]
  • Example: A stylish friend dates “a boosh…mid-80s on the Booshie Scale.” [18:41]
  • Hosts coin terms: “Builder beige,” “booshie beige.”

• Everyone admits:

  • They judge friends’ romantic choices, sometimes downgrading them on an imaginary “cool ladder” for a bad match.
  • “If they’re really your friend, after six months, you have to start accepting the other person into the fold…the boosh into the fold.” [22:07]

• Caller Melinda shares:

  • She ended a friendship because she couldn’t handle hearing about her friend’s bad boyfriend:
    • “I just couldn’t continue listening to her complain about her boyfriend she was never going to leave.” [23:15]
    • Host 1, humorously: “She didn’t even just drop down the ladder. She didn’t have a ladder anymore.” [23:33]

• Hosts debate:

  • Should you ever tell a friend their partner is dragging them down? Consensus: only if they ask or express doubts.
  • “But if she comes to you saying, ‘I’m not really sure about this,’ you could give your real opinion.” [24:18]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On dramatic job exits:

  • “Kiss my Cox Radio Jacksonville…and especially you, Bill Hendrick and David Israel.” – Jacksonville DJ, [06:37]
  • “So if you're confused about what I'm saying, listen very carefully. I quit this bitch.” – Inetta the Moodsetta, [09:29]

• On the breadwinner dilemma:

  • “I just don't want to hurt his ego, you know?” – Teresa (caller), [10:51]
  • “It’s all about stroking ego here.” – Co-host/Producer, [16:19]

• On judging friends’ partners:

  • “I’m not the only one who will pass judgment on a person based on who they decide to date, am I?” – Host 2, [18:09]
  • “She didn’t even just drop down the ladder. She didn’t have a ladder anymore.” – Host 1, [23:33]

• On approaching difficult convos:

  • “You know your significant other so well. Sometimes it’s about timing—like when to approach them with that kind of conversation.” – Host 1, [17:39]

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Topic/Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------|------------| | Quitting: “If ___ happens at work…” | 00:30–04:49| | Epic Quit Stories (DJ, Inetta Clip) | 04:49–09:32| | Breadwinner Dilemma (Teresa’s Call) | 09:37–17:38| | Judging Friends’ Partners | 18:03–24:42|

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Episode Tone and Style

The episode is full of candid, often tongue-in-cheek banter, balancing humor (about gross bathrooms, ‘booshie’ partners, and quitting on air) with open, thoughtful conversations about sensitive topics like job satisfaction and family roles. Listener calls add authenticity, and the hosts are consistently supportive, curious, and irreverent—true to The Bert Show’s style.

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For first-time or returning listeners, this episode delivers big laughs, relatable stories, and practical advice on modern work and relationships—all in a welcoming, slightly mischievous atmosphere.

Transcript

[Host 1]

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[Host 2]

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[Host 1]

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[Lifelock Announcer]

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[Host 1]

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[Caller - Nervous Wife]

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[Host 2]

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[Lifelock Announcer]

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[Host 1]

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[Co-host/Producer]

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[Host 2]

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[Lifelock Announcer]

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[Host 2]

The Birch Show. We put the question out there. If blank happens at work today, I'm quitting. And I'm bummed because we had one girl on hold named Katie. I don't know if her call dropped or if she hung up, but apparently she's a schoolteacher and there's a bit of a head lice problem.

[Host 1]

Oh, gross.

[Host 2]

So she said if one more kid today.

[Host 1]

Oh, that's good.

[Host 2]

Has head lice. It's my last day.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Oh, did y' all have the check in class? Yes. How embarrassing. Like, we would have to sit at our desk.

[Host 1]

Yes.

[Co-host/Commentator]

And the nurses came around, would go through our scalps to try to find lice. And the thing is, like, you're in front of every. And you're in front of everybody else. So if any kid is caught with lice, then that's the gross kid. Dirty kid that has to leave the room.

[Host 2]

And so they make him stand up and walk out. Right there.

[Co-host/Commentator]

It's in front of everybody.

[Host 1]

Have you ever seen lice on a kid? I found it once when I was babysitting.

[Host 2]

What does it look like?

[Host 1]

It's just this little white thing. It's like, hard to tell what it is, but once you find it and then they're everywhere, and then you feel like it's all over you and you get the crawlies. I completely understand why she would quit today.

[Host 2]

Well, it's gonna make Chris feel like, hey, my job isn't that bad. Hey, Chris, how are you?

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

I'm good, I'm good. Actually, I got two things that my job. If my job doesn't give us more bathroom stalls and more gas money to get to work, I'm just damn quick.

[Host 2]

Now what. What do you do for a living where you have to say specifically where you work?

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

But I work at this auto insurance company.

[Host 2]

Okay.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

Springs. And like, we have two bathroom stalls and there's people that come in there in the men's room specifically, just blow up the bathroom like, like there's no one else that needs to use the bathroom. They give you something to put down on, on the stall and everything like that, but they, I mean, they just go to town like they're at home.

[Host 2]

It's enough. It's enough to make you quit your job just about. Now I want to go to the other thing you said. You said if they don't give you more money for gas.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

Yeah, like, why I need. I need a raise. Like, I like the MARTA line. Luckily there's one bus that runs up that far, right? And it. And it stops maybe like a block and like a half a block from my job. So I take the martyr. I don't have a problem. But it's just that, man. I mean, really, come on, like something. Either we need to like, get a, like a buddy ride from the, from the medical center to our job because a lot of people are really complaining. Like half of our office doesn't even come in throughout the entire week.

[Host 2]

Now when you sit, when you sit down and have your meeting with the boss today, are you gonna. What order are you gonna.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

Actually, I'm not in. I'm not, I'm not coming to work today. We have a four day work week.

[Host 2]

Oh, okay.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

We work four ten hour days.

[Host 1]

Well then I like that.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Four days on, three days off.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I would hang on to that job if I were you. That's. That's a cool gig.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

Yeah. I mean, I'm a. Hang on to it. It's cool. But yeah, just the bathroom thing is just ridiculous.

[Host 1]

You got to plug your nose and just do it.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Tell them to flush and go.

[Host 1]

Flush is like courtesy flush.

[Host 2]

Yeah. You get your fresh air on the three days that you're not working.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

Right.

[Host 2]

Unfortunately for Chris, there's people right now listening, angry at him the same way they're angry at Desperate Housewives. Girl, he's got a four day work week. He's on the MARTA line, and his biggest problem is that there's people who are stinky in the bathroom and he has a problem. We had another girl on the phone. She hung up too. She may have actually quit during the phone call.

[Host 1]

Really?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

What happened?

[Host 2]

She said, yeah, she was actually at work now and she was having an issue with her boss. So it doesn't really count. I don't think if it's, you know, you can't say, well, if my boss is mean to me today, because, you know, technically it's kind of their job.

[Host 1]

They're allowed to be.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But I think it's like Jen said earlier, in your mind, you're already ready to go, so you're just finding reasons. So if your boss is mean to you today, well, he just may. Or she just may be themselves. But today's the day that. You know what? I can't take this anymore.

[Host 2]

It's like the person whose relationship ended because their boyfriend parked too close to him in the garage.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Exactly.

[Host 2]

Like. What are you talking about?

[Co-host/Commentator]

Straw that broke the camel's back.

[Host 2]

It's been building up for, you know, 10 months now, 10 weeks now, and there's one thing, and that's it. Game over.

[Host 1]

Oh, we got to talk about this Jacksonville dj.

[Host 2]

Oh, yeah. We might as well talk about it right now.

[Host 1]

Can we talk about it now?

[Host 2]

Yeah. Do you have the audio?

[Host 1]

Yeah, I've got it right here. This guy, speaking of quitting. Yeah, speaking of quitting. This is a DJ on the radio in Jacksonville and he learned that he was about to get fired before he was fired. And so this is his on air break in Jacksonville.

[Co-host/Producer]

All right.

[Lifelock Announcer]

A few minutes ago, I was letting in on a little bit of information that I'm assuming was supposed to be secret, but I was told that I'm going to be let go on Friday after my show. And I have since then. I confirmed it. And you know what? I've decided to just say screw it and give the big middle finger to upper management instead of giving him the opportunity. So first, I want to say thank you to you for making the last four plus years of my life great here in Jacksonville and on Rock 105. I couldn't think of anywhere better to work here in Jacksonville. I'm glad I got to work here during some great times and during some not so great times. And again, thank you, upper management for the not so great times. But in the end, I would not trade any of it for the world. I'm grateful we spent the time together. Now Don Davis and Rob Barr and Jake and the rest of my family here that makes things happen on the air. You guys are the greatest. And I wish nothing but the best for all of you. Now onto the problem. And there is nothing worse than managers that think that radio people are like commodities to be used up and thrown away with. They're no longer valuable to the shareholders, which, by the way, I've been working at. I've been working without a contract in good faith for the past few months in the hope that something would work out for me and I'd be able to work out something that would benefit both Cox Radio and my family, but obviously that wasn't a priority. Now I find out there's another deal in the works with somebody else and they're only minutes away from handing me my walking papers. Well, here's your 15 second notice. Kiss my Cox Radio Jacksonville, and especially you, Bill Hendrick and David Israel, you two empty suits will be lucky if this is the only time this happens to you. And it's gonna be a bright day in Jacksonville when your desks are emptied and radio is free of you. Now, this shows you how much they're paying attention, by the way, because they should have been in here by now and if they were really listening to the radio stations and knew what was going on. So thanks for nothing, rotten Hellcox Radio.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

I am gone. Hey,

[Host 1]

bitter, bitter.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But you know, there's so many people like so many people right now.

[Host 1]

Go.

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

Man.

[Co-host/Commentator]

I wish I had the courage to do that because I was about to say before we played that I have wanted to witness somebody making the dramatic.

[Host 2]

The meltdown.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yes. I've never seen the dramatic exit.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

You know where they just like that.

[Host 1]

I will say his isn't as good as Inetta's.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I Netta the moodsetter really set. Set the bar.

[Host 1]

Set the bar for quitting on the air.

[Host 2]

I quit this bitch.

[Caller - Listener]

But he threw names out there.

[Host 2]

Yeah. What's that? Yeah, do you have it?

[Host 1]

Yeah, I got Inetta.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Let's hear a little. This is.

[Host 1]

And this, by the way, 2006, quitting on the air, which I'm sorry, but kicks that Jacksonville guy's butt.

[Host 2]

And this, for example. These are two examples, by the way, just so you know, of radio. When you hear radio personalities on the air one day and then not the next day. This is why letting radio personalities go is generally a secret. I love this song.

[Inetta (Radio Personality)]

The big station 93 BLX. It is the Gulf coast number one for hip hop and R and b. And now with Ray, Ray and Miranda, the home team in the morning. Do it to it. What better song to do it to it. It's our Netta the Move set. And I told you I had a very important announcement. And here it is. I refuse. I refuse to walk around and watch people on my job looking over my shoulder, people lying to me, people talking about me. It's ridiculous. It is sad. I can't take it. I'm not gonna take it. I don't have to take it. I'm not a dummy. I know how to find another job. But I refuse. Refuse to walk around people you can say what you want to say about me. And if you see me on the street, I let you know whatever you want to know. But I refuse. For the last six years, I made $6 an hour. That ain't nothing. I just got a raise. After six years, I know I'm qualified. And after saying this, I don't care if I ever get another job in radio. Period. It does not matter to me. But I never will not be set in the mood at BLX no more. I refuse to walk around with people that'll speak to you. Hey, Artnetta, how you doing? But then as soon as you walk by that bitch, I will not do it to myself anymore. So if you're confused about what I'm saying, listen very carefully. I quit this bitch.

[Host 2]

The Birch Show.

[Co-host/Producer]

Teresa wants to be on the voice disguiser. Good morning, Teresa.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Good morning. How are you guys?

[Co-host/Producer]

Good. How are you today?

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Good. Good.

[Co-host/Producer]

So Tracy told us that you have something that you've always wanted to give or do for your husband.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yes.

[Co-host/Producer]

But you're not sure you're gonna pull the trigger on it just yet.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Okay. You seem nervous.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah, I am a bit nervous. It's. It's kind of a life changing thing for him. And I just kind of. You know, I've been married for eight years and we're like high school sweethearts and everything. And I got married when I was 20 years old, but I never went to college. And my husband had started college and everything. Well, I got pregnant and he couldn't finish because we couldn't afford it. And he worked for the landscaping company. He doesn't own it, he just works for them. And he's been doing that for a while. And he just really is bummed out. He wants to go to college. So anyway, I've been working administrative assistant job. And for the past four months, I haven't told him, but for the past four months, I've been training for promotion. And I don't even want to say the job or where I work, if that's okay. I don't want to.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Sure.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Okay. But they offered me a position, a huge, significant raise where he could actually quit the landscaping. Landscaping company, go to college, finish, get his business degree, all that. So it really, really is a huge gift for him. And I'm excited to tell him. And I couldn't tell him this weekend, but the problem is, is that he's very traditional and he kind of has a thing with the woman being the breadwinner. And, you know, he wants to do that for our family and lead our family like that. And I just. I don't know how to tell him. And I'm nervous because I don't want to hurt his ego, you know, I don't want to give a blow to his ego, actually. So this is good news, but definitely

[Host 1]

a question for you guys.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

How you would feel about that.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But it's for him to go back to school in order for him to. I'm just wondering if that is.

[Co-host/Producer]

His mentality may be different because you're doing this for him, for the family, Right.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

For him. Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

And he's going to be training something else.

[Host 1]

Right. Right.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah. And that's. That's kind of what. What I wanted to. To do. And I have to tell him today. I mean, I have to tell him tonight.

[Co-host/Producer]

I don't think we.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

You.

[Co-host/Producer]

We may want to just throw this out to women that have had to go through this with their husbands, that knew that their husbands weren't gonna be okay with the woman being the breadwinner. Cause I just. It wouldn't matter to me. Stacy was making more money than me, but it was all going into the same pot. Bring the money into the house, man. We are a team. I couldn't care less if she was making more money.

[Co-host/Commentator]

It's not more money at the moment. It's like him going back to school essentially. Is her working. Is that changing?

[Host 2]

I'd still be. I personally would be okay. Like, I think it would be great.

[Co-host/Producer]

I'd be fine with it. I really would.

[Co-host/Commentator]

So if you weren't working, Jessica was the only breadwinner.

[Co-host/Producer]

But here we are. I mean, your situation is gonna be a little different because here you, you know, you have a husband that this is gonna bother. And you're asking Jeff and I, and we. The place we come from, it doesn't bother us. So we need to find some virtual listeners that have got. Had to go through this with their husbands to give you some advice on

[Host 1]

it, or maybe guys like you, guys who didn't think it would bother them,

[Co-host/Commentator]

but then it did.

[Host 2]

It did.

[Co-host/Producer]

Right. Bring it all into the house. And then all of a sudden, she's making more cash because there's a. And it really was bothering you. Yeah, there's 404-741-Q100.

[Co-host/Commentator]

There's a study that just came out today talking about how men's identities are so closely related to their jobs that, you know, they did a study on guys that, I guess in this economy lost their jobs and found that they lost a sense of identity because they weren't working.

[Co-host/Producer]

I think I would struggle more if I had to be totally honest with you guys. I'll share some ugliness, the ego part of me. Like, if Stacy had a show and we were out all the time, and she was the one getting the notoriety for the show, and she was the one that people really wanted to meet when she introduced me, sometimes people cared, other times people didn't care and stuff like that. That would bother me more than the money situation, than the paycheck.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah, See, I think it's the ego part of it.

[Co-host/Producer]

The ego part of that would bother me.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer]

The notoriety, but the cash, I don't care. It's all going to the same place.

[Caller - Listener]

But does he talk about going to college, like, almost every day, or is it just, like, once in a while type thing?

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Or is he once in a while? Because I know he kind of suppressed that because he knows the reality of it right now. You know, it's just too hard to do it. But I think he wants to do both. Go to school and provide for the family, and it's just too hard to do that, especially business school.

[Co-host/Producer]

Hey, Kristen, you're on Q100. Good morning.

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

Hey. I went through this exact same situation about five years ago with my husband, and it was difficult to approach him because at the same time, he has actually always been the brother winner. I got a great job. I went actually to school myself for a little while, got my associates, and got a great job. And I knew that he really wanted to go back to school. And when I approached him, I said, this would benefit us as a family by you getting your degree. And then in the end, he did get a better job. He works, I work, and we're living great. And it was so for him, it's for the family. It's for everybody. So it's not a bad thing to approach it that way.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Okay.

[Co-host/Producer]

All right.

[Host 2]

That helps.

[Co-host/Producer]

Thank you.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer]

Hey, Pat. Good morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

Yes. I just feel like that if you explain to him, honey, this is. You're going to school now to where you can make a better living. Where when I stop, when you get done, I will be able to stop and. And stay at home and you'll be the breadwinner again. So you're actually furthering our family by going to school and letting me take care of things now.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking earlier. Says if you present it, like, as a training, like him going back to school is training for him. To be a better provider, then that might ease it.

[Host 1]

And I forgot what you guys said. Do you have children?

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Me?

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah, you do.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Okay, we do.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

We have two.

[Caller - Listener]

It's still gonna be hard for him to give up work and go to school. Like, he's still gonna work even if he goes to school. It's so, like, hard for guys who want to work and provide all the time, like my dad. Like, he wanted. He wants work. Like, that's what he wants to do. He wants to provide. It's going to be hard for him

[Co-host/Commentator]

to give up his job to go

[Caller - Listener]

back to school anyways, no matter if he wants to go or not.

[Host 2]

And I would just check and double check to make sure that you. This isn't a situation where he's mentioned a couple times that I'd like to go back to college and you, like, have made this. This big dream of his. Because if you come at him with, I'm going to give you the opportunity to go to college and give us a better life than it sounds like.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Sounds like a provider now.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Producer]

You really got to play ego here. It sounds like with all the advice coming in. Yeah, it's all about stroking ego here.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah, it is, it is. And just being delicate because men are very delicate.

[Co-host/Producer]

Hey, Heather, you're on Q100. Go ahead.

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

Hey. My advice is that if her husband's going to go back to school, he doesn't necessarily have to quit his job. He could work a part time job or he could even keep his full time job and go at night or on the weekends or online.

[Co-host/Producer]

Is that a possibility for you?

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah, that is. It is. I think he values being with his children too, so we might have to work through some time management stuff, but yeah, actually, yeah, that might be good. Both worlds.

[Co-host/Producer]

Will you have any resentment towards him if you came at him honestly and said, look, this is the opportunity in front of me, and he said, no, I don't want you to take the job. At that point, do you have any resentment that you're sort of working under this glass ceiling in your own house also?

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah, I don't see how I can't take the job. I don't see how it's gonna help us at all to progress, you know? Yeah, there would be a big problem, I guess.

[Co-host/Producer]

You gotta be honest with them. Tell them what's in front of you guys. Best for the family, best for you. It's a no brainer.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Mm.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Okay. Okay.

[Co-host/Producer]

Okay.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

That was good.

[Co-host/Producer]

All right. Good luck.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Good luck.

[Host 1]

Yeah, let us know how it Goes okay.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

I sure will.

[Host 1]

Sometimes, don't you think, too, when you know your significant other so well. It's about Tim.

[Co-host/Producer]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

When to approach them with that kind of conversation.

[Host 2]

Like if, like, do it right. When they lie down for bed, don't ever leave. If they are in bed, don't talk to them.

[Host 1]

Like if it's, you know, if you can tell they're not in the greatest mood today. If he's, you know, her husband's on the greatest mood today. Maybe just wait till tomorrow.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

You know, test it.

[Host 1]

There's a barometer there for sure.

[Host 2]

The bird show. We have to talk about something. This might expand into a bit, be a bigger discussion.

[Host 1]

Okay.

[Host 2]

With, you know, tomorrow or later in the week or something. But I'm not the only one who will pass judgment on a person based on who they decide to date, am I?

[Co-host/Commentator]

No.

[Host 2]

And the reason I found out yesterday about somebody who's dating someone else and the girl in the relationship was, in my mind, always very hip, very cool, very stylish. Cool chick. And the guy that I found out she's dating is kind of a boosh.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Really?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Like, how bad?

[Host 2]

Like, he's pretty. He's on it. Like, what's the Bouchie? Scales, like 1 to 100. He's probably mid-80s.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Really?

[Host 2]

Yeah. You know, he's just kind of a. He's kind of a tool.

[Co-host/Commentator]

So it's almost the same as if you know a guy who. Well, his friends, like, his good friends probably think more of him because he's dating her.

[Host 2]

Yep.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But because she.

[Host 2]

Because I know her better and I know she's all cool and hip and stylish and he's blah. Like, I just kind of like, I'm

[Host 1]

like, whoa, he's beige?

[Host 2]

Yes. Like, not. No, he's beige, but he's bad beige.

[Host 1]

He's builder beige.

[Co-host/Commentator]

He's booshi beige.

[Host 2]

Yes. And I, like, I didn't want to believe it because of.

[Host 1]

Well, maybe she sees something in him that you don't. Or maybe she sees something in him, like when they're by themselves together, that he, you know, like, maybe comes out of his shell more when he's just like one on one with her.

[Host 2]

But still, it's okay, though, to pass that judgment, right? Yeah.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Oh, everybody does that.

[Host 2]

Okay.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah. Because if you're really. Yeah. If you are shocked by who they're dating, if this just doesn't make sense to you, then, yeah, I could see how you, like, look at them differently.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

And how long do you. How long do they have to be together. Because here's the deal. They've only been together, you know, X number of weeks or months or however. I don't know how long they've been. I haven't done enough research into the gossip yet to find out.

[Co-host/Producer]

Maybe.

[Host 1]

Maybe she's slump busting.

[Host 2]

That could be.

[Host 1]

Maybe.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But I usually will give it six months beyond the six month mark. Then I have to start kind of either accepting it or kind of make, you know, not judging as harshly. But up until six months, you know, any day they could break up. Any day I could have my friend back.

[Host 1]

Doomed.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

And is it something.

[Co-host/Commentator]

But everybody does. If you don't approve of who they're dating of, then you want. It's true, you want them to stay together.

[Host 1]

And especially when you get the. Like, I have a friend that was dating this person that I got this full description beforehand. Like, oh, she's this and she's that and she's, you know, I mean, just over the top stories about how awesome this girl was and whatever. So my friend introduces me to her and I'm like completely underwhelmed. And I don't know if it was the oversell at the beginning or if I would have felt like that anyway, but yeah, you're kind of like, oh, really?

[Co-host/Commentator]

And that's why friends are always nervous. Or you're nervous rather to introduce, you know, somebody that you're starting to date to friends because you want their approval because of the judgment that people pass.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

So do I. Am I.

[Host 1]

The fact we're terrible creatures now, hold on.

[Co-host/Commentator]

This is awful.

[Host 2]

The fact that she even dated him.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Go ahead.

[Host 2]

Once. Like, the fact that they even. The fact that they're even known as a couple. No matter how brief the time.

[Co-host/Commentator]

He French kissed.

[Host 2]

Yes. Is it okay. Is it okay for me to ding her?

[Co-host/Commentator]

He was telling us we all know who he's talking about.

[Host 2]

Like, is it okay for that to be a notch again? Is that okay for her to come down from the Hip and Cool stadium? From the hip and Cool. Like, if she's on the cool ladder, can she pop down a couple of rungs? Even if she's only.

[Co-host/Commentator]

She's on the cool ladder. And then she missed a step and she down a couple and kind of caught herself.

[Host 1]

Conversation's freaking me out. I don't know.

[Host 2]

I'm not talking about you.

[Host 1]

No, I know you're not.

[Host 2]

I mean, I'm not talking about you right now, but someday I'm sure I will be. Just so you know. But so is There. If it ends tomorrow, then does she not fall down on any rungs?

[Co-host/Commentator]

Well, I think that, like I said, the six month mark, if they're your friend, if they're really your friend, then for me, after six months, then I've got to start just accepting the other person to the fold, the bush into the fold, and just kind of try

[Host 2]

to see, you have to embrace your

[Co-host/Commentator]

boosh, and you have to try to embrace my bouche. And, you know, then you start having, like, Jen was saying that, you know, if she sees something in him and she's truly falling in love with him, then you've got to kind of try to see what she sees in him and just be supportive, but you don't

[Host 1]

have to hang out with him, because that's torturous.

[Host 2]

Hey, is this. Is this Linda?

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Melinda?

[Host 2]

Yes, Melinda. How are you?

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

I'm good. How are you guys doing?

[Host 2]

Good. What's up?

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

When you guys started talking about this, I had to say something. I ended a friendship with a girl because I couldn't stand her boyfriend.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Really?

[Caller - Nervous Wife]

Yes.

[Host 1]

He was bougie.

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

He was terrible. He wouldn't work. He wouldn't help her with the bills. She was working two jobs. He was sitting around all day doing nothing. And then she was coming to me saying, I don't have any money. He's doing this, he's doing that. And then I can't say to her, well, you know, he's a jerk. You should leave him. Because then the next day, they're in love again.

[Host 2]

So what ended up happening with you and your friend?

[Caller - Listener with Advice]

I just could. I was just like, you know, this friendship. I just kind of slowly cut her out. Stopped calling her. Didn't really want to hang out as much, just because. Because it just wasn't. I just couldn't continue listening. I couldn't continue listening to her complain about her boyfriend that she was never gonna leave.

[Host 1]

So she didn't even just drop down the ladder. She didn't have a ladder anymore.

[Host 2]

She pushed her right off. And she's like those people in the gutter commercials, like they're reaching for a gutter. Bam. Next thing you know, they're on their back. All right, thanks for the call, Melinda. This is gonna require more evaluation.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah. And I'm also.

[Host 1]

This is a good conversation.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah. And I'm also wondering, at what point do you say something to her?

[Host 2]

Oh, you never can. You never can, can you?

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

No.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Can you? If she is asking questions about it, like, if she comes to you and says, I'm not really sure about this, but save your friend from the boosh.

[Host 2]

It's all the problem.

[Host 1]

But if she's, like, head over heels, you can't say anything. She is.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Is she head over heels?

[Host 2]

If she is.

[Host 1]

Is she head over heels?

[Host 2]

If she. If she is. That way you can't talk crap about it.

[Host 1]

No, you definitely can't.

[Co-host/Commentator]

No.

[Host 1]

But if she comes to you saying, hey, I'm not really sure about this, what do you think about it? You could give your real opinion.

[Host 2]

Hey, Kevin. What's up? Hey. Yeah, I've been doing the same thing that you are. I've been doing it for a year.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Oh, yeah.

[Host 2]

You're past the point, and it's my brother.

[Co-host/Commentator]

Oh, well, you gotta support your brother. And it's past the point.

[Host 1]

In no return, you're gonna have a booshin log.

[Host 2]

No, I can't.

[Inetta (Radio Personality)]

I can't stand it.

[Caller - Auto Insurance Worker]

And it's so hard when she talks not to punch her in the head.

[Host 2]

Well, I'm sure you can work through it. The Burt Show.