Full Show PT 1: Tuesday, April 7 [Vault]

Summary

The Bert Show – Full Show PT 1: Tuesday, April 7 [Vault]

Date: April 7, 2026
Hosts/Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, and the Bert Show Team
Podcast Theme: Real talk, listener drama, relationship dynamics, and candid entertainment, with a comedic, authentic morning-radio vibe.

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, The Bert Show dives into listener call-ins and candid crew discussion around a particularly loaded "should I stay or should the dog go?" situation, segues into hilarious stories of toddlers destroying expensive or sentimental objects, debates the realities of adults on personal allowances controlled by their spouses, and shares personal anecdotes about sleep habits. With their signature mix of humor, empathy, and goading, the Bert Show brings listeners inside authentic, messy slices of daily life.

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1. Listener Drama: The Dog Named After The Ex (02:03–14:03)

Main Storyline:
A listener, Hillary, shares her predicament after moving in with her boyfriend of 1.5 years. She discovers that his dog, Kona, was adopted with his ex-girlfriend after their time in Hawaii, and the dog's name memorializes their shared location. Feeling uncomfortable, Hillary wonders if it's reasonable to ask her boyfriend to get rid of the dog (which she never liked) or at least change its name.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

• Initial Reactions:
  • The hosts press Hillary for more details, uncovering that she found out about the ex via snooping in drawers during her move-in (03:41–03:53).
  • The discovery of the adoption papers, with both her boyfriend's and his ex's names, triggers Hillary’s concerns.
• Is the Dog Really About the Ex?
  • Bert suggests the dog is being used as a proxy for deeper insecurities: “You don't like the dog, so you're looking for a reason... You're using the fact that he bought it with the ex girlfriend to push the dog out of the relationship, right?” (05:38, Bert)
  • Hillary ultimately concedes: “Well, yeah, I guess.” (05:52, Hillary)
• Listeners and Hosts Respond:
  • Multiple listeners call in, often unsympathetic; one bluntly says: “She just needs to grow up and be a woman and get over it.” (07:16, Angel)
  • Hosts scathingly and humorously discuss the logic of “ex cleansing”—getting rid of everything from the dog to clothing:
    • “He's probably got clothes that he bought with her in Kona also, so he's going to have to get rid of all of those clothes.” (12:37, Bert)
    • “I think we’re all in agreement. You’re totally right.” (13:02, Bert—sarcastically)
• Emotional Core:
  • Hillary confesses, “Every time you see that dog, all you see is every single time he said I love you to his ex. ...That’s exactly what I see.” (11:47–11:55)
• Consensus:
  • Most hosts and callers find Hillary’s jealousy misplaced and the idea of ditching the dog because of its connection to his past unreasonable—even "nuts" and "stupid" (12:03, 12:09).
  • Several jokes are made about the need for Hillary to “mark her territory” with the dog to move on from the ex.
• Memorable Moment:
  • The conversation takes a wild turn into the dog possibly having ex-girlfriend’s underwear, and “advice” for Hillary to give the dog her own. (“If you really want to make your dog forget about [her], you need to take your underwear off immediately and let your dog eat it.” 09:24, Bert)

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2. Listeners Share: When Your Toddler Destroys Expensive Stuff (16:19–23:24)

Main Storyline:
Sparked by a news story about a toddler flushing his mom’s wedding and engagement rings, the cast invites listeners to share stories about the most expensive or sentimental items their kids have inadvertently destroyed.

Highlights & Notable Quotes

• Rings Flushed Down the Toilet – and Saved! (16:33–17:38)
  • A mother recounts her son flushing priceless rings; a plumber recovers them just in time.
• Listener Stories:
  • Juice-Stained Carpet: “$2,300 worth of damage to my carpet...a sippy cup full of juice that was allegedly spill proof.” (18:36–19:13, Angela)
  • Sentimental Loss: “My...husband was supposed to have been watching him...he decided to flush my pearl bracelet, which was the last thing my father gave me before he died...about $500,” (19:16–19:37, Angela)
  • Boat Disaster: “I took the keys...put them in the cigarette lighter...shorted every wire...about four grand.” (20:04–20:48, Bo)
  • House Flood: “She knocked the top of the...toilet...hit the pipe...flooded our whole house. About $6,000.” (21:03–21:20, Jennifer)
  • Three-Story Waterfall: "Our little guy...played with the taps...$8,600 worth of damage." (21:41–22:19)
  • Rolex Lost On a Plane: “She had my gold presidential Rolex...fell off her little wrist and went down the toilet...about $18,000.” (22:29–22:54, Michelle)
• Hosts’ Take:
  • On the ring story: “One more flush and they would have been gone. Luckiest plumber alive.” (17:04–17:19, Bert)
  • On the Rolex story: “For $18,000 my whole arm would have come out of there totally blue!” (23:08, Bert)
  • Reflections on blaming children: “But you can’t really be mad at a one-year-old.” (19:47, D)

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3. Extreme Sleep Stories (25:44–32:12)

Main Storyline:
Melissa shares her personal best for sleeping: after a marathon work trip, she sleeps for nearly 26 hours straight, minus breaks to briefly eat—prompting the team to compare long-sleeping records.

Discussion Points

• Melissa’s Story:
  • "When I got back from LA...I just go in to where we were staying and just go straight to bed. I don't get out of bed until noon on Saturday…26 hours of sleep." (29:01–29:43, Melissa)
• Sleep Recovery and Health:
  • Melissa explains her need for naps is tied to post-kidney transplant and immune system management.
• Competitive Tales:
  • Another host chimes in: “I slept for a full 24 hours...thought it was the same day!” (30:12–30:24, Wendy)
• Comic Relief:
  • “If I got 26 hours of sleep, I'd be six foot three!” (29:44, Bert)
  • “Did you pee the bed?” “No, I did not pee the bed.” (30:42–30:43, Bert & Melissa)
  • “How’s President Reagan doing?” (31:24, E)

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4. Relationships & Money: Are There Adults on Allowance? (34:18–45:53)

Main Storyline:
Bert asks the audience: Do any adults actually live on an allowance doled out by their spouse? The conversation quickly reveals it’s more common than you think—often with surprising gender dynamics and sometimes funny, other times disconcerting power struggles.

Key Discussion/Call-In Highlights

• The Rules:
  • “We’re not looking for an agreement. We’re looking for a guy or a woman that has said, look, you are obviously irresponsible...I’m going to give you $5 or $10 a day, and that’s all you get.” (35:00–35:09, Bert)
• Listener Laura:
  • Explains her husband “just can’t spend a dime without me telling me...He can’t use a credit card unless he calls me.” (36:24–36:35, Laura)
  • She checks their credit card balance “20 times a day.” (37:25, Laura)
• Listener Melissa:
  • Controlled her husband's ATM access for budgeting; defended strict measures because he overspent (38:08–39:38).
• Gender Dynamics:
  • Bert comments: “Everyone calling up saying they’re in control of the allowance is a woman, controlling the guy.” (39:47, Bert)
• Secret Allowances:
  • Samantha admits to hiding much of her tip money so her husband doesn’t know the true amount: “I'll hide the bulk of my tips and leave like 30 bucks in there. And that’s kind of his ‘allowance.’ Like, I don’t tell him that.” (42:05–42:14, Samantha)
• When the Roles Reverse:
  • Katie describes her husband trying to control her spending. “The operative word is try.” (42:22–42:37, Katie)
  • There’s a noticeable shift in tone; E notes: “Why does it seem funny when it's a woman doing it to a guy, but now that it's reversed, it seems sad… oppressive.” (42:45, E)
• Personal Anecdotes:
  • The hosts share stories of parents with separate versus joint accounts, and the pros/cons of everyone needing to “report in” on spending.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • “As a grown woman, I’m too independent to ask permission for anything.” (45:49–45:50, D)
• Consensus:
  • Most hosts find strict allowances for adults “embarrassing” and an unhealthy relational dynamic unless absolutely necessary for financial recovery.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• "You don’t share plastic like that." (13:07, D, on getting rid of ex’s sex toys)
• “She just needs to grow up and be a woman and get over it.” (07:16, Angel, caller)
• “All you see is every single time he said ‘I love you’ to his ex. …That’s exactly what I see.” (11:47–11:55, Bert & Hillary)
• “I slept for 24 hours...and I thought it was the same day!” (30:12–30:24, Wendy)
• “If I got 26 hours of sleep, I’d be six foot three!” (29:44, Bert)
• “Why does it seem funny when it’s a woman doing it to a guy, but now that it’s reversed, it seems sad, seems oppressive.” (42:45, E)
• “As a grown woman, I’m too independent to ask permission for anything.” (45:49–45:50, D)

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Episode Timeline & Timestamps

• 02:03–14:03: Listener Hillary’s “dog named after the ex” dilemma
• 16:19–23:24: Listeners call in with “most expensive thing a toddler destroyed” stories
• 25:44–32:12: Sleeping marathons—Melissa’s record and crew’s sleep stories
• 34:18–45:53: Adults on allowance—listeners reveal real-life “money control” arrangements

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Summary

This episode showcases The Bert Show’s unique blend of humor, brutal honesty, and relatability, balancing the absurdities of relationship squabbles (especially around “ex baggage” like dogs), the chaos of parenting, and the complexities of money powerplays in marriage. Listeners are treated to a dynamic mix of calls, banter, and confessions—reminding us all that life’s messy, and sometimes hilarious, realities are better when we laugh about them together.

Transcript

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Visit borhurst.com the Birch Show Good morning, Hillary.

[C]

Hi guys.

[A]

How are you today?

[C]

I'm all right.

[D]

I'm all right.

[A]

What's going on?

[C]

Well, I need your help because I'm in this weird situation. My boyfriend of a year and a half has been begging me to move in with him. And I was, like, really resistant to do it because, you know, when you move in with someone, it's a big change. And I liked where our relationship was, and, you know, I like my own space. And he has a dog, and I'm not really into animals and into pets, and so it kind of made me a little hesitant to do it. But my lease ran up, and he's been begging me, so I did it. And while I was moving in, I found out that he adopted his dog with his ex, and they adopted it after they moved back from Hawaii, and they adopted it and named it Kona after where they lived.

[A]

And

[C]

I kind of. I kind of am annoyed because the dog is a reminder of his ex, and I want him to kind of get rid of the dog. I mean, I don't like the dog anyway. I think the dog is annoying and messy. I mean, the dog's sweet and very nice and wouldn't never hurt anyone. But the dog is like a reminder of his ex that he had a significant relationship with, and I don't really know what to do about it or how to approach.

[E]

Did you know that it was that he got the dog with his ex when you moved in with him?

[C]

No.

[E]

So how did you find. How did you find out?

[C]

I was going through drawers, like, trying to find space, and I found the adoption papers, and his name and his ex name were on the papers.

[A]

Now, I'm not one of these guys that normally draws the analogy between pets and family like human beings, but if he had a daughter when you met him, would you not date him because the daughter was a constant reminder of his past marriage?

[C]

No, but I would hope that he would have told me about the daughter. Like, he didn't tell me about this whole. The whole dog situation, but.

[D]

Well, I will. I will defend him, though, because if he came out in fur, I mean, to me, it's more of a red flag if somebody introduces me. Well, this is the dog that I adopted with my ex. Like, I mean, everybody moves on, and if you still have a dog, then it's his dog, and in his mind, it's his dog.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

He's not looking at that dog and. And being reminded of her every single day. It's his dog.

[D]

It's his dog. They don't share custody of the dog, do they?

[C]

I don't think so. I don't know. I didn't ask.

[D]

Yeah, there's nothing to worry about. How long have y' all dated?

[C]

A year and a half.

[D]

A year and a Half.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Hey, Cindy, good Morning. You're on Q100.

[C]

Hey, I just think that she's stupid because there's plenty of other dogs out there. I mean, there's plenty of dogs that are sitting in homeless shelters right now that need to be adopted, and she should beforehand that the dog was named after wherever they lived in Hawaii. Who cares that it was the ex's dog? The ex is out of the picture. If you trust him, who cares?

[D]

Well, I'm also surprised that a year and a half, you've dated a long time and you've hated. You just haven't spent any time around this dog in a year and a half.

[C]

No, I've spent time around the dog. I just don't like the dog.

[E]

But what, she just found out that it was with the ex?

[D]

Well, regardless. Regardless, I'm surprised that she has not tried to, you know, tried to. This is part of him. So if she's dating him for a year and a half, the dog is a part of him. He's not gonna get rid of it.

[A]

Now, Hillary, let's get down to what this really is all about. You don't like the dog, so you're looking for a reason to go to him to get rid of the dog. And you're using the fact that it's that he bought it with the ex girlfriend to push the dog out of the relationship, right?

[C]

Well, yeah, I guess.

[A]

So what would you rather him do with it? Just give up his dog to a friend or you don't care?

[C]

Well. Well, no, I don't really care, but if we have to keep the dog, I want the dog to change. I want him to change the dog's name.

[A]

The dog is how old?

[E]

Melissa's cool with that.

[A]

How old is the dog?

[C]

It's almost six. No, he's had that name for six years.

[D]

Do you get stuck taking care of the dog a lot?

[C]

Well, I mean, like. What do you mean? Like taking it for a walk? Yeah, occasionally, but not. No, I mean, like, I'm not looking for fleas all the time. I mean, I don't really get that cuddly with it.

[A]

I'm assuming you grew up in a house that didn't have dogs.

[E]

Yeah, you can tell it doesn't matter. Have you even addressed the fact that you were snooping around his house, which is how you found this out anyways?

[A]

It wasn't really so much snooping as it was trying to create space. She said, oh, yeah.

[E]

Oh, she's trying to create space. Like, what are you gonna keep Your underwear In the file cabinet in his office.

[C]

In his dresser drawer.

[E]

You liar. Who keeps adoption dog papers in a dresser drawer for six years?

[D]

I don't know.

[E]

Where did you find him? Where did you find him?

[C]

Oh, in. In his. The bottom of his sock drawer. It wasn't with anything else?

[A]

Oh, yeah. That's where I keep all my important documents, right? My birth certificates here. My passport's here.

[C]

The whole thing.

[D]

Hey, angel.

[A]

Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[C]

Hello.

[A]

To me.

[C]

It sounds like the. She is jealous of the dog.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

She just needs to grow up and be a woman and get over it. He does not need to change that dog's name. She just needs to grow up. It is a dog. Men love their dogs. Everybody loves their dogs. If she don't like a dog, that's her problem. Move out. Go somewhere else. But don't be a little witchy about the dog.

[A]

There's not too many people don't like you. I gotta be honest.

[D]

People aren't gonna give up their animals. And I'm surprised. I mean, and you've been together a year and a half. I don't know why all of a sudden you had a team. You knew he had a dog when you moved in, but she didn't know where it came from, so it doesn't matter.

[E]

I'm not saying she should get rid of the dog. I'm just saying I see her point of view.

[D]

Oh, you.

[E]

No, you don't. Yes, I am.

[A]

You lie.

[C]

If he.

[E]

They've been together a year and a half, and that dog is. You know, whatever. It's probably worth a mention from him that that dog was his. With his ex girlfriend?

[A]

Well, is it possible in the year and a half that they have been dating that she has shown signs of being jealous before and he figures. Look, I'm just gonna. This is not a big deal in my life. I'm just not gonna say anything to her about it and we'll go about our business. Because she's got this jealous streak.

[E]

Yes.

[D]

Also, do the math. If the dog is six and you've only been with him. With him a year and a half, he's had that dog for.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

All you have to do is line it up. Yeah.

[E]

Do you think it weirds the dog out that he's watched his owner have sex with multiple women?

[C]

Probably.

[D]

No, it's probably. Well, I won't go there.

[A]

Hey, Hillary, did you hear that?

[C]

Yeah. The dog's not allowed in the bedroom.

[A]

So he's only watched your boyfriend have Sex with his ex then.

[C]

Oh, my God, I hope not.

[A]

Probably you should ask your boyfriend about that too.

[D]

He may have been in the bed with him. Because sometimes dogs just take their crumbs. They don't care what's going on. You know, my dogs, when I was growing up, my dog would come in and get my underwear. I bet the dog dogs shoot her underwear, not yours.

[A]

You realize that you are living with a dog right now that has the underwear of your current ex in its mouth.

[D]

There's some things that a dog will take out of the trash can. It's a little more intimate than that too.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[A]

How are you gonna live with this?

[C]

I don't know. You just made it worse.

[D]

You need to give a pair of underwear to this dog.

[A]

If you really want to make your

[D]

to forget about, you need to take

[A]

your underwear off immediately and let your dog eat it.

[C]

Agreed.

[A]

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[C]

What's up, guys?

[A]

You tell us.

[C]

Hey, Jeff, you're my hero, man. I just wanted to say thank you. I have no advice for this chick, but if this girl's boyfriend is listening, dude, can this broad, man, you can rent better love than this girl.

[A]

I think he means that in a good way, though. In a nice way. I don't think he was ripping on you. Is everything else in your relationship absolutely fine right now?

[C]

Yeah, we're good.

[A]

Then why are you creating a whole bunch of crap if everything else is going fine?

[D]

She hates the dog. She doesn't want to live with the dog.

[E]

You guys are putting this on the dog.

[D]

She doesn't want to live with the dog.

[E]

But there's so many more issues that aren't even being addressed. I defended the fact that there is a little bit. The dog is named after an experience he had with his ex girlfriend. She is obviously a jealous girl. It's weird. You know what I mean? Like, I'll give her that.

[A]

The dog represents all the sex they were having all around Kona and this really deep, loving relationship that they had that they thought would last forever.

[E]

Probably on the beach and all kinds

[C]

of stuff, whatever ocean.

[E]

But so main sun chairs. Because all that what? So all that stuff, you know, happens. So I can understand that. But let's talk about the fact that he never said that he got the dog with an exact. Did you know that they were living in Hawaii at a time, at the

[C]

time that they adopted, that they got the dog after they Got the dog.

[E]

Did you know about them living in Hawaii together?

[C]

Oh, yeah. I knew that he lived in Hawaii.

[E]

Okay. So I just. I think that's worth a mention in the fact that then she moves into the house and snoops and finds that those issues are bigger.

[D]

Because I don't understand why that disclosure. Because I think he's been more respectful by not ever bringing the ex up about the dog. Because she's a little on the crazy side.

[A]

And I'm sure she so in this psycho jealousy.

[D]

And he's like, I'm not gonna sit with every. Like, if I got, you know, like, the dogs I have now, Katie and I have named these dogs together, regardless if I named them after the place we lived or not. So, I mean, that's life, you know?

[A]

Life.

[D]

So. Dude. So I don't know why she's so upset about that.

[A]

But what you see every time you see that dog.

[D]

Hillary.

[A]

Hillary, every time you see that dog, all you see is every single time he said, I love you to his ex. And I only want to be with you, though. Right?

[C]

That's exactly what I see.

[D]

Oh, so that's you. You've wasted an opportunity a year and a half to. For you to make friends with this dog and have a relationship with the dog and whatever.

[E]

You guys are missing the whole point that she's nuts.

[D]

It's just not good. It's stupid to be jealous over something like that.

[A]

It is. Especially if the rest of your relationship is fine.

[D]

Does he know how mad you are about it? Oh, I'm sure he does.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Lucky him.

[A]

I'm assuming you're not one of these women that just kind of keeps things in. I'm sure you told him.

[C]

He knows. He knows how I feel.

[E]

I think you should just insist that I think you should learn to live with the dog, become friendly with the dog. But then you should rename the dog.

[D]

But I do hate the fact that if you gave him an ultimatum between you or the dog, you know, he's gonna pick the dog.

[A]

You know, he's probably got clothes that he bought with her in Kona also, so he's gonna have to get rid of all of those clothes. Yeah, he's probably got some shoes that he bought.

[D]

I think they slept on the same sheets. Cause guys don't often go buy new

[A]

sheets, so you're probably sleeping on the same sheets that she slept on from Kona. Plus, he's using the same name that he was in the relationship with with the ex, so you ought to force him into changing his name, plus that

[E]

giant box of adult novelties. He didn't buy those alone.

[A]

Oh, dude. So I think we're all in agreement. You're totally right.

[D]

You don't share plastic like that.

[A]

Hey, Donna. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[D]

I share dog.

[E]

This is Kona.

[D]

Because the dogs ain't gonna be in the same place. I hope.

[E]

And this is Big Kahuna.

[A]

Hey, Donna. Go ahead.

[C]

Has to be the craziest thing I've ever heard in the first place. She's just trying to find a reason not to be living there. She didn't want to move in to start with, so now she's using the dog as it is. And to rename a dog after six years, Melissa. Luckily, he didn't have any children.

[A]

Yeah, Melissa. You want to address that?

[D]

Hasn't been six years.

[A]

Melissa has nine names for her adopted dog right now.

[D]

Well, we'll talk about that later.

[E]

Melissa can't vote on the changing of the name.

[D]

The old name for the dog is not a good experience for that dog.

[A]

So, Hillary, we gotta run.

[D]

I think she already did.

[A]

Or you can run first.

[E]

She hates us.

[A]

See ya.

[D]

He's already running.

[E]

Bye.

[A]

Bye. Stupid cult.

[E]

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is always available because a great trip starts with peace of mind. Here's a story I saw this morning that made me think about this Evan Brumby is as cute as they come, but this 2 year old sure knows

[D]

how to cause some trouble. Yesterday he flushed his mom's wedding and

[C]

engagement rings down the toilet and then

[B]

walked away and I heard a flush

[C]

and I said, what did he just flush down the toilet?

[D]

Because he's always doing it.

[C]

Always flushing something down the toilet.

[A]

Evan's mom later went to get ready

[C]

and realized her rings she had left

[A]

in the bathroom after cleaning them were gone.

[B]

Oh no, Evan, where is Mama's rings?

[C]

And he said, the toilet.

[A]

This mom never thought she would see her rings again, but a plumber from Mr. Rooter came to the rescue. It took three hours, but he found the rings. One more flush and they would have been gone. It was lucky because you know, there's

[C]

like four condos in here and anyone

[A]

who could have flushed the toilet and it would have been gone.

[B]

The relief I felt was just crazy.

[A]

Evan's mom says this is a story

[C]

she will never let Evan forget.

[B]

I kept thinking someday when he's ready to give somebody her rings, he'll know

[D]

what he did to me.

[A]

We're gonna work on laughing right now. And they never quite say how much it was right there or potentially how much they could have lost right there. But we'll start low and work our way up.

[C]

Hey, my stepson actually was Helping daddy clean at the house. And sprayed like a ton of window cleaner into the TV speakers. A $400 TV.

[E]

Oopsie.

[A]

Seems so much fun at the time. We have a painting. It's not, it's probably. It's not worth a lot of money, but it was given to us hand painted by one of our friends for our anniversary. Our friend Sammy did it and it's hanging up on our catwalk. And one day as I walked out of our master bedroom, there's Hollis at one and a half with a pen, just writing right over the painting.

[D]

Oh, no.

[A]

Having the time of his life.

[D]

This is great. Did you leave it up or take it down?

[A]

It's still up. Yeah, you can still see the pen mark on. Hey, Angela, Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[C]

Hi, I'm calling in regards to about the toddler stories and what how much damage I got. Actually two for you. Okay, one is a fantastic story. I have over $2,300 worth of damage to my carpet by my 18 month old son who we had a sippy cup full of juice that was allegedly spill proof and he took it all over the place.

[A]

Oh, no.

[C]

We had to call the carpet guy to come out and clean our carpet like over five times. Unbelievably, it still never got completely out.

[D]

Looks like some sort of crime scene.

[C]

And then I have another wonderful story about my now 10 year old son. When he was 1 years old, my husband was supposed to have been watching him and he decided to flush my pearl bracelet, which was the last thing my father gave me before he died. Oh, no. Down the toilet.

[D]

Oh.

[C]

And it never came out. So that was about $500 worth of the sentimental value.

[D]

Yeah, the cost of that. But you can't be mad at him.

[A]

He's one and they don't know he's

[D]

flushing something down the toilet. He doesn't know.

[E]

You could be mad in general, but

[D]

you can't be mad at them.

[E]

Right?

[A]

You get toddler immunity. All right, so Angela, total was 3,000. Here is Bo. Good morning. You're on Q100.

[C]

Hello. I was about four years old and we have a lake house in North Georgia. And I was. Everybody was up on the boathouse eating lunch. I was playing in the boat and I took the keys out the ignition of the boat and put them in the cigarette lighter. And what happened was it shorted every wire and all 20ft of the boat. I mean, like just had to rewire, had to take the entire boat apart. And it was a nightmare.

[A]

So when all was said and done. How much are we talking about in damage?

[C]

I guess it was about four grand.

[A]

$4,000.

[C]

You know, when I was really young, I could probably find out from my dad if I called him an ass.

[A]

Oh, he would have an exact a.m. yes. Jennifer, good morning. You're on Q100.

[C]

Morning. My daughter was three and a half years old and helping us clean the bathroom and she knocked the top of the. The toilet thing off and hit the. The pipe in the wall and flooded our whole house. Yeah.

[A]

How much are we talking about?

[C]

About $6,000. Dang, dude.

[D]

what level can you like, I don't know, put them on the street with a tag on them?

[E]

I don't know, but man picked up with recyclables.

[D]

Put them in the bin. What the sign saying this is too expensive. One free box. Be careful.

[A]

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

[E]

Hi.

[C]

Hey, good morning. We've got three children and we were getting ready for church one morning and just trying to find shoes and get everything done. And our little guy was upstairs. We called him down, went to church, came back about hour 45 minutes later to a three story waterfall. He had played with the taps in his bathroom and stoppered the sink. Oh, no. And we have. His bathroom was upstairs and it was over the powder room on the main floor. And then the basement had a full bath and there was water coming out of every orifice of our house.

[D]

Oh.

[E]

How old was he at the time?

[C]

He was three. It was $8,600 worth of damage.

[A]

8,600 at three years old? Yeah.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

And Michelle may be our closer call here. Hey, Michelle, good Morning. You're on Q100.

[C]

Hey, how are you?

[A]

Okay.

[C]

I had my daughter on an airplane and I was teaching her how to tell time and she had my gold presidential Rolex that I'd gotten from a college graduation present. And she went into the bathroom and it fell off her little wrist and went down the toilet. And Delta Airlines.

[A]

It was a Rolex.

[C]

It was a gold presidential Rolex with diamonds on it.

[D]

How much is that watch worth?

[C]

About $18,000.

[E]

You can't get it back because I'm guessing that stuff goes into a tank and if you're willing to

[C]

Russian it just disappeared.

[D]

Get blue dye all over you.

[A]

Be honest. Did you reach down into it and try to get that thing out of there? No, I would have for $18,000 in my hand. My whole arm would have come out of there. Totally blue.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

$18,000. And she was how old?

[C]

She was five years old.

[A]

Five years old.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Well, you know what? That. That one right there. I'm blaming mommy as much as kid.

[D]

To give the kid an $18,000 watch

[E]

to take into the bathroom, number one. And number two, the fact that she didn't go into that tank to get $18,000, I'd work it out, stop the play.

[A]

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[D]

Visit borhearst.com I am wondering, I am curious what the record is and how close I got to it. And we're talking about. I'm talking about sleeping. Okay. Now I. They tease me about being like a cat in a, you know, a sunny window where I curl up and I can sleep.

[A]

Melissa's cheap and tired.

[D]

Yeah, I'm cheap and tired. I am cheap and tired. Save that. But not cheap in that way now. So anyway, so I love to sleep. I can sleep and I don't get enough at night, but boy, in the afternoon. So I make up for it. But no, when I was a teenager, I was one of those that, like any teenager, I would sleep until early afternoon. But then when I became an adult, I actually got out of that and I, you know, morning person, everything. But then when I got sick and I was on dialysis, that ended wore me out. I started taking like four hour naps in the afternoon, only because I had to. That's the only way I could get my energy back. So when I got my kidney transplant, I only cut that in half, even though I probably don't need a nap anymore. But I sleep a couple hours in the afternoon every day. Day. So they give me a hard two

[A]

or three hours in the.

[D]

Two hours in the afternoon. Yeah. So these guys give me a hard time about that for loving to sleep. But I outdid myself, even outdid the teenager part of myself when I got back from la. Well, we were in Amelia island, so we weren't.

[A]

Let's also establish in LA, you were working 18 hours a day doing interviews.

[D]

Totally contributed to that. And that's why I allowed myself to do this. Yeah, because I had told these guys there was, you know, some. There's a lot of events that. But Fox was so awesome to us in LA and a lot of events going on and there were times where, you know, I had told Jeff, Jeff or Bert, one of you. I said it was immune system maintenance where I had to go, you know, kind of just crash for a half hour and crash and come back because, you know, for me, my immune system is lower than most because of the medicines I take for the transplant. So I always have to keep an eye on if I get too tired, if I'm too, you know, too cold or too this. I just got to make sure that I kind of keep a self check and take care of myself. And if I feel myself getting too tired or whatever, then I need to excuse myself, take care of that, take a quick nap, come back, be good. So I don't have the endurance that a lot of people have. And so knowing this, when we got back from la, it was a Thursday when we all were leaving the American Idol stuff and going out to our vacations for Memorial Day. I actually flew from LA to Jacksonville and met Katie at Amelia island where she had a work event over the weekend. So she's like, you know what, why don't you just come with me, stay at the place we're at and then, you know, just, we'll have the weekend there. So she was already at her conference by the time I came in. And the plan was I go in, I just go into where we were staying and I just go straight to bed. And then when she got back from the conference, I'd wake up and we'd have the rest of the day.

[A]

Fine.

[E]

Did you fly? Just some technical questions in case Guinness asks for the record.

[C]

Did you?

[E]

Red eye.

[D]

I did. Red eye.

[E]

Did you sleep on the plane?

[D]

No, I'm not good at sleeping on planes. I dozed. But let's say if I slept on the plane, it was maybe 10 minutes, 15, 29.

[A]

And even that's probably a light sleep where you can still hear everything go on, but you're technically asleep.

[D]

I jerk and I wake back up kind of thing, back up really fast. Whiplash, right. And I do take Xanax on flights, but by the time I got to Jacksonville, the Xanax would have worn off. So. But there was still a little medication in my system.

[A]

This was like the perfect storm. You're working 18 hours, you got the Xanax that's wearing off.

[D]

It is time for Melissa to be 16 again. So, so I, and I try to time this so I get to the place we were staying at 10, let's say 10 o' clock in the morning. So 10:00am on Friday, I'm in bed. Okay. And I don't get out of bed until noon on Saturday. What? 10am with and I. And take an hour out of that for eating. So when Katie came in from the conference and she woke up and ate

[E]

and went back to bed.

[D]

Yes, I woke up and ate, went back to bed. Then her and the other people we were hanging out with, they went out, came back in, I got up and ate again and went back to bed.

[A]

26 hours. Yes, 26 hours of sleep.

[D]

Slept.

[A]

If I got 26 hours of sleep, I'd be six foot three.

[D]

Save that. So I say, oh, one. One to two hours. Take away from that for the eating.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

But I slept.

[E]

How do you physically do that?

[D]

I've done that. I laid there and slept.

[C]

You have, Wendy, you've done longer than that.

[D]

You gotta break my. What is the.

[C]

Well, it's about the same time.

[E]

I can. Yeah.

[D]

I don't know. It was when I was a teenager, I guess.

[E]

Doesn't count.

[C]

It was pretty long time. It was when I was vacationing in Florida. I went to sleep. I went to sleep around 3pm because

[D]

just taking a nap, I didn't wake up until the next day at 3pm So I slept for a full 24 hours.

[C]

And I thought it was the same day. And asking where my lunch was while

[D]

I wasn't like waking up.

[A]

Hours of sleep.

[E]

Yeah, high school and college stuff doesn't count.

[A]

I don't think you would think that your body would wake you up for food more than once. Well, I said, you just woke up one time.

[D]

It would be to pee. I can't even get through one night. Did you pee the bed without having to be honest?

[A]

Did you pee the bed?

[D]

I did not pee the bed. Okay. No. 2, I was probably dehydrated from the flight. So, yeah, that's probably it. But I. Yeah, I always have to pee. The only reason I woke up is because Katie came in. So the first time Katie came in from the conference, she kind of. It jostled me up. And so I said, well, since I'm up, let me get something to eat because I was hungry. It went right back to sleep. And the only reason I woke up the second time is because Katie came. It was like midnight. Katie came in and. And are you still asleep? And jostled me up and I ate and went back to sleep.

[A]

When you woke up, did you feel like you could just conquer the world or were you still tired? Like it was almost a jet lag thing or.

[D]

It felt normal. Like I woke up the next morning, I was like, okay, I'm good. And then everybody's like, all right, well, Ms. Carter's back hibernating.

[C]

Come on.

[A]

It's like that movie Awakening.

[E]

We're like, did you get up? And you're like, is Obama still president? What year are we? Are they flying cars yet?

[D]

How's President Reagan doing? But yeah, so what? Yeah, 26 hours.

[E]

See, here's what would have happened to me, which is what I'm fascinated by because like, if you crash the whole day, I would wake up. Like, let's say I'm as tired as I could be. So I sleep eight hours. That wakes me up at 6 or 7pm at that point I think my brain takes over and it's like, dude, you just jacked yourself up. You ain't gonna beat. My brain will taunt the rest of my body. You ain't gonna be able to sleep tonight, you loser. And then I would be too stressed to fall back asleep.

[C]

And then it's like, is that what

[D]

your inner voice sounds like again?

[E]

You ain't gonna be able to sleep tonight.

[A]

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[B]

Okay, can we talk about how confusing weight loss has become? Like 1 minute its carbs are bad and then the next it's no, actually, carbs are fine, but only if you walk 10,000 steps and drink a green juice. And honestly, it's just a lot. And then even if you do lose the weight, keeping it off is a whole different story. If you're struggling and want something that fits your real life, hers can help. It's designed to support you in reaching your goals in a way that actually fits your life. That's why weight loss by hers is getting so much attention right now. Hers connects you with licensed medical providers who create doctor developed treatment plans tailored to you. They offer access to an affordable range of square FDA approved GLP1 medications, including the Wegovy pill and the Wegovy pen. It helps regulate your appetite so you eat less and keep the weight off. If you're ready to reach your goals and want to try something new, visit fourhers.com Bert to get personalized affordable care that gets you. That's F o r h E-R-S.com Bert borhers.com Bert weightlifts by hers is not available in all 50 states. We'll go via registered trademark of Novo Nordisk. A s get started and learn more, including important safety information with Gobi clinical study information and restrictions. Visit borhearst.com

[A]

this is what I wanted to ask the Bird show community. Are there any adults right now on an allowance? Like, you have to line up every week in front of your wife or in front of your husband, and he gives you a certain amount of money to spend every day or every week, and that's all you get?

[D]

Oh, yeah, I've seen that happen. People that have been irresponsible.

[E]

Well, I know what you're looking for. So let's eliminate couples who have mutually decided that their budget allows them to have.

[A]

No, that's not what we're looking for.

[E]

Yeah, so this is what we're eliminating. If you have come to an agreement as husband and wife that you have $90 extra every week, so you each take 45 and you can spend that on whatever you want. That's not.

[A]

Agreements are too healthy for this show.

[E]

Yes.

[A]

We're not looking for an agreement. We're looking for a guy or a woman that has said, look, you are obviously irresponsible with them. You can't handle it.

[D]

Right.

[A]

So here's how we're gonna handle our budget. I'm gonna give you $5 or $10 a day, and that's all you get.

[D]

Your spouse is almost like your money police.

[A]

Look, this happened. You remember a couple years ago? Yes. Like, it's a parent situation. You remember a couple of years ago when I went to the Florida Georgia game with my buddy Kevin from down in Florida?

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

He had an allowance.

[A]

She gave him $100 for the weekend and said, you are not allowed to spend one penny more. He had $100 cash, and we're in the middle of a bar, and it was his round, and he paid and he was out of money. And he said, guys, I'm leaving the bar. I got nothing left.

[D]

He's scared of her.

[A]

He's totally scared of her. I understand it because as a kid, I mean, I can remember my parents every Friday giving me, like, 15 bucks. That's what I got. I lined up, we had a sheet of the chores that I did, and they paid me my allowance. But that's as a kid. Now you're seven, eight Years old. I'm looking for the whole situation that you're doing as an adult. You have to line up in front of your husband or your wife. I can't even do that.

[D]

I couldn't.

[C]

It's embarrassing.

[D]

I just don't think that's a healthy relationship. Anyway.

[A]

Now, we can put you on the voice disguiser if you want. Also, for sure. Laura, do you want to be on the voice disguiser?

[C]

I don't care.

[A]

Okay. You're obviously not on the allowance.

[C]

Then it's okay. My husband is like. He just can't spend a dime without me telling me. He can't take $20 out the ATM. He can't use a credit card unless he calls me and gets it approved.

[D]

Why?

[C]

It's just. It's just I'm a control freak, and he. I mean.

[D]

Oh, so he hasn't. He hasn't had a reputation or has not proven to you that he can't.

[C]

No, he's not. He's actually probably better at money than me, if it came down to it.

[D]

Oh, hell no.

[A]

So let me ask you this.

[C]

Friends will call. It's like the running jokes. They'll be like, miss Laura, can Liv have $10 today to have lunch with me? And they'll call, like, the night before if they want to have lunch at work.

[D]

Really? How long have y' all been together?

[C]

We've been married for 10 years.

[A]

Okay. It's working for you guys. Well, I'm assuming if you're that controlling in a situation where you don't really need to be, that you're pretty much controlling everything in the relationship.

[C]

Oh, yeah. It comes down to half the budget. But I. I take it to an extreme, which is, like, crazy.

[D]

Are you ocd?

[C]

Yeah, you are.

[A]

If he doesn't check in with you and he spends money, then what happens?

[C]

I check. Like, I check our credit card bank balances, like, 20 times a day, then what will you do?

[A]

20 times a day you check.

[C]

Why did you take $20 out the ATM? And he'll be like, my God, do you have, like, a camera? Oh, me. What's going on?

[D]

Does he get.

[C]

Does he get in trouble? Well, I mean. I mean, there have been times when money was really tight in our life that I did, like, really get mad. Now it's like he just knows that we don't do that.

[A]

He doesn't want to deal with it.

[D]

Did you hear about that show? It's all about you. It's this new one on A and E. It's called Obsessed.

[A]

Yeah, I Did see the commercial for that.

[C]

Yeah, I'm pretty bad, but I'm weird. Like, my house is a mess, so it's not like I'm obsessed with being clean. Well, I mean, I am clean, but

[E]

the house is actually torturing your husband.

[A]

Hey, Melissa. Good morning. You're part of the Burt Show.

[C]

Hey, good morning. How are y'? All?

[A]

Good. How are you?

[C]

Good. I did the same thing with my husband. I was very particular about his money when we got our first joint checking account. Right. Of referral, got married, they mailed, you know, the two ATM cards, and I took his and just said, okay, I'm gonna go ahead and tear yours up. And he was like, fine. You know, because he knew he traveled all the time, and when he would get a per diem check for six days, it'd be gone in day three. And I said, you know, that's your money. You do what you want. That's your per diem check. But as far as our household budget, I have.

[E]

What if there's an emergency? How does he.

[C]

Well, I mean, you know, if he had. He had the per diem money, I mean, you get. They give you a check for five days. If you send in three, that's your deal.

[E]

What if he's there and he. And, you know, he needs to rent a second. His rental car breaks down, he breaks his leg. He just needs cash.

[C]

Well, I mean, obviously, I could certainly get it to him at some point. He didn't travel that far. It was a manual labor job, so he was constantly around plenty of people. And I actually went into dick with some of his co workers because he continued to borrow money. He never. He couldn't have $20 in his pocket without just spending it on, you name it. Anything. I mean, he had. He would come home with stacks of lottery tickets, you know, just anything. So I said, here's the thing. You know, I would give him lunch money, or I would offer to pack him lunch or give him certain money to do certain things, but otherwise. Otherwise, had I put him in control, I would come home. I mean, he never knew. He's not. Unfortunately, he passed away a couple years ago, but he never knew how much our mortgage payment was. He never knew how much his car payment was, his insurance. He just. He just knew that it was done. You know, it was.

[A]

I don't. I don't know what the message is, but everybody calling up saying that they're in control of the allowance is a woman, and they're controlling the guy.

[D]

I. Yeah, I just. I talked about this before my parent, the way my parents handled their money was it was a joint account only for house stuff. Only for things that the two dealt with. The two of them, which was house and children. But they had independent accounts that they. That. And so if they want to buy dress, if dad wanted to go do this, if mom wanted to go do that, they never had to say anything to each other.

[A]

That's not an allowance. Really.

[D]

Did they. I'm saying is like they didn't have. I don't understand the concept of pulling all your money together without creating a situation in which you have to check with each other. Did they both work? Yes. See, there's difference. Well, and then she. Well, she. But she retired before he did. If one of them stays home though, you have to.

[E]

You have to pull that money.

[D]

You have to pull that money. My best friend is a stay at home mom and she and her husband work it out. But there's. I mean, I don't think there's an allowance. I mean, I think they talk about it and communicate about it, but it's not like he doles out to her an allowance even though he's the breadwinner.

[A]

No, Stacey, I mean, stays home with the kids also. And we're drawing off of my salary and we don't have to check in with each other other on big per. On big purchases. It's just known between the both of us that we will check in with each other.

[D]

Is there a dollar amount you guys have set?

[A]

Not really, no. Samantha wants to be on the voice of Schwartz.

[C]

Good morning. Good morning.

[A]

Hi.

[C]

Hi. I mean, I listen to your conversation and I'm totally in agreement with you. That's the way it should be as a married couple. But unfortunately there are those men out there who just can't get a hold of. Of how much you can spend, how much is at a point of wasting. And unfortunately, that's my husband. I'm in an occupation where I get tips. And he unfortunately has been in and out of employment for the last year and a half. And the job that he has, he doesn't make very much. So before his check is his check, whatever. You do what you do. But now that we're kind of living off of mine, he's going back to school, that type of thing. I put the money in my wallet that I know if he goes in my wallet and he sees that amount, he might not spend as much as he would if he saw how much I really had. So I'll hide the bulk of my tips and leave like 30 bucks in there. And that's kind of his quote unquote allowance. Like, I don't tell him that.

[D]

She doesn't dictate that.

[A]

So he's on an allowance and he don't even know it.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

That's impressive.

[D]

That's major control.

[A]

Here's Katie on the voice disguiser. Good morning.

[C]

Morning. My husband totally tries to control me with money. And just in every other aspect of our life, which is odd because I'm. He. He tries to Control is. The operative word is try.

[E]

Why does it seem funny when it's a woman doing it to a guy, but now that it's reversed, it seems sad, seems oppressive.

[C]

Trying to kind of just be the doormat. It's so not like me. But he. I do have to let him know if I'm going to spend money. And I have to call to make sure. Hey, I have to buy this book or whatever for school. Are we okay? Are we clear? And he's like, yeah, go ahead. Or whatever. But lately I've been rebelling. And I go and I spend money and I buy shoes and I buy frivolous stuff for me. And then I'm like, hey, look what I bought.

[A]

So the family line, though, I'm like, well, I work the family line. Is that you're supposed to call him before every single purchase.

[C]

Yes. To do the same with me. Until I started checking the account, and I'm like, wait a minute. He's spending money without telling me. So all bets are off.

[D]

Aren't most divorces, they say, I mean, like a lot of money. Horses are over money. The majority of them. Right.

[E]

You know, what do they tell you? That if I read it years ago, I don't remember what the reason was. But if you are living within a budget and you're trying to hide money from your spouse, do you know where the easiest way to do it is? $40 at a time? When you go to the grocery store.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

You pay with your credit card or your atm and they say, would you like cash back? And most places will lay good up to 40 bucks. So every time you go, you just add $40 to it and all they

[D]

say, but it's on the grocery bill.

[E]

It'll just say Kroger 58.26. That's 18, 26 worth of groceries and 40 bucks parte. See you at the Cheetah.

[A]

Hey, Ashley. Good morning. Here on the verse, making it rain.

[D]

What's up?

[C]

Hey, guys. My sister has been married for about five years, and she was on a strict Allowance for her husband. She has $200 a month of her own money to spend.

[A]

And how would he dole this out?

[C]

She just knows that that's how much she has to spend. And she, it's not even like she has an account. I mean she just obeys this. It's the most insane thing ever.

[D]

Does he make a little like when

[C]

she had a job. She's a stay at home mom now, so she has a little bit more justification. She says. But even when she was making money on her own and she was a graphic designer, so she made good money. She only had $200 a month to spend and that included her gas, any kind of like clothes or food, any kind of like lunch that she wanted to go out to, like girlfriends. All of that was included in the $200.

[A]

On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being I love him and 10 being I hate him. How much do you dislike your brother in law?

[C]

He's about a two.

[A]

Really?

[C]

Yeah. I mean, well, you taught. It's a hard thing because I think he's the most insane, controlling person about money. But when I get around him, he's really a nice guy and I do like him. I just have completely different philosophy, like on how to spend money. Like my husband and I just spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spending time. I mean there is a part of me that's like, I respect the fact that he wants to save all of this money, but not to the detriment that my sister has to like live under these like confinements, I think men or women.

[D]

I mean like, yeah, I'm, I mean I'm cheap. I mean that's a joke on the show. It's true I'm cheap, but it's no joke. Yeah, but, but my personality is too independent for me to have to ask permission.

[A]

Oh no.

[D]

As a grown woman for anything.

[A]

The bird show.