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That's RocketMoney.com cancel or RocketMoney.com cancel we're lost. I'm going to pull over and ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're looking to get to the campground. Well, you're going to take a left at the old oak tree end of this here road. No, I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out. How are you getting a signal out here? T Mobile and US Cellular decided to merge so the network out here is huge. We're getting the same great signal as the city and saving a boatload with all the benefits. Oh, and a five year price guarantee. Okay, here's those directions. Actually, can you point us in the direction of a T Mobile store? America's best network just got bigger. Switch to T Mobile today and get built in benefits the other guys leave out. Plus our five year price guarantee. And now T Mobile is available in US Cellular stores. 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I don't call them birdship. I'm glad they do. Yeah. All right. And then they write an email like that. We should have. That's free. Yeah. You don't have to have crazy problems. You just have a question you can't answer. We're your birdipedia. Hey, Holly, you're on Q100. Hey. I was actually in a situation five years ago and I was pregnant. And I was debating whether or not to tell my employer. I had great health insurance with Blue Cross and I decided to tell them. And the next week I was laid off. And I was left throughout my whole pregnancy with no health insurance. That really stunk. So for that. Cause I would say I probably wouldn't tell him. We gotta get our HR guy on. Our overly enthusiastic HR guy on. He's already dialing. He's already dialing. I'm sure. Cause it's. I know I'm always torn here. Cause we've heard that Georgia's one of those no fault states where they can pretty much let you go for just about anything. But in a case like this, it sure seems like that wouldn't be legal, but that all they have to do is find another what the right to work rule means. Cause this is just clarified for me like within the past couple weeks is some states you actually have to. Like there has to be a procedure for terminating someone where you almost have to document it and leave like a paper trail and say, okay, Bert, you showed up late twice last week. So you send it to him in writing and you notify them and then boom. And you have to be terminated for that reason, you know, to be fired. And then when you're in a right to work state, which also means a right to be told not to work, then they don't have to do that documentation. So while legally you probably can't be fired for being pregnant, if she shows up five minutes late one day, he can say, hey, we can't have this kind of tardiness and let her go. And then she doesn't have a basis to come back and go. Other employees are late five minutes that doesn't matter. They didn't have a reason either. They just said business was slow. But, you know, another thing that really stunk, and I don't know if many people know this, but, you know, when you're pregnant and you have health insurance and someone lays you off, it's preexisting. You can't go anywhere and get health insurance. And the only insurance that you know you're able to get, besides nothing would. Would be Medicaid. So the situation was terrible. So. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. It sucks. Yeah. And I'm sure this isn't the only case of that. Oh, no. Good luck to her. I hope nothing like that happens. I think I'm trying to get her on finding her, you know, get pregnant. Get pregnant, have these issues depending on who they work for. Because a lot of companies don't like the idea of having pregnant employee, because they know that either, you know, there's gonna be problems. There may be days that they may not be able to come in, and then they want maternity leave, and they just. Unfortunately, I think too many companies see women who are pregnant as a problem. I wonder if there's anybody listening right now that would call up and we'll put you on the voice disguiser. Man or woman that just won't hire women for this reason. Mm. I'm sure we'll get calls. And again, we'll put you on the voice disguiser. No one's gonna know who you are. And I think the more shocking call is to hear a woman call up to probably say, yeah, I'm sorry, but I wouldn't hire another woman. Go get those calls, too. Yeah. Cause I can't afford to loser for any amount of time like that. Especially now, when. If you're in a hiring position, it's like a buyer's market. Unemployment is high, there's a lot of people available for jobs, and everybody's looking for a job that pays more money. You could probably be that picky if you were that much of a. You probably could. And you might justify it by saying, look, business is tough, so I can't have a manager who, a year from now is going to be taking six months off or three months. How long is paternity leave? I don't know, but three months. But then they'll pat the guy on the back, like, congratulations on the new kid or whatever. But somebody had to have that kid. So. Yeah, I just. I think it's so unfair. And I think it's another, you know, sometimes another obstacle to Throwing a woman's shoulders when she's trying to be in the workforce. You know, we've. We've had this debate on the show before. Is it harder to be a guy or is it harder to be a woman? Oh, man, it's not even close, dude. It's so much harder to be a woman. Yeah. And this is a. This is just. We would never come on today, or maybe we will later and go, okay, what. Tell us why you won't hire guys. Mm. Did you take maternity leave and either of your kids were born? And I take like, like a couple of days. Yeah, but, like, don't you get. You get a two weeks or something like that? You wanted to. They. When I told our. Our boss at the time that I was gonna take a couple of days off, this is a guy that had a couple of kids, and he sort of laughed at me about it. He said, yeah, go ahead, take the days if you want, but I'm telling you right now, you don't need them. I'm like, what do you mean I don't need him? He's like, I'm telling you, dude, there's just not a lot for you to do. Just go ahead, take your days. If you really think you need that bonding time with your kids, go ahead and do it. But look, you don't do it, your wife is there. That's what he's at. Your wife is there, your mother in law is there. They're not even gonna let you touch the baby. But go ahead and take the days if you want. How many times has he been married? I think he's been married a couple of times. There you go. You made the right call. I think when Hayden was born, you were gone like a week. Like whatever day he. The week. Four days. Yeah. Remember, he was born premature and he was in ICU also, so that changed the game a little bit. But I know when Hollis was born, it was less time. Yes. But I think if it's. Guys, don't listen to what Bert just said. If it's your wife's first kid, go plan on a week. Don't be dumb. Yeah, she delivers on a Tuesday. Just tell you guys, you'll see them on Monday. Go, go. And by the way, as a side note, the boss was pretty much right. Oh, yeah. I mean, my wife wouldn't let me touch the kid, and my mother in law was like, get out of the way. I got business to do here. Go to game from 1992. But you know the situation. If you didn't Take any time off? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't even a question. I mean, I wanted to be there. Those are days you don't want to miss. First couple of days of hanging out with your kid, you know. Let's talk to Kate. Who wants to be on the voice disguiser. Go ahead, Kate, you're on Q100. Hey, good morning. Good morning. You are on the voice disguiser. Oh, thank you. I just wanted to comment on the employers that first of all, of course they're being illegal by not hiring someone that's a woman because they could get pregnant. But it's also, you know, the young lady said earlier she couldn't get insurance because it was a pre existing condition. That's not true either. Now it's easier, I think, only if you lapse in your insurance. There's COBRA and things like that employers have to offer. Right. So. But hiding it from your employer, you know, that's. You don't have to tell him. It's a, you know, HIPAA protects you from telling them it's a medical condition. That is not grounds for dismissal itself though. Right? If he finds out that, no, you cannot say you're pregnant, you're gone. No, you cannot say that. No. But a right to work state too is. You still have to be with that. They can still, you know, you can still come back and say, well, they did fire me because it was a woman, the young lady that said she got laid off afterwards, I'd have got an attorney. You know, it's easy to. There are things in place and the pre existing conditions, a whole separate issue. And yes, you can get insurance, but a lot of times you are punished for having a preexisting condition. Condition with insurance. And you know, I think that. And I lost my point. I just lost my thought. I was going up, I was going up the hill and then I just fell over the side. The skateboard's rolling down without you on it. Now you know how my handlebars were kind of shaking. It'll hit you about 9:15. We'll be talking about something totally different than two hours. Yes, exact. I know a small business who, they hired a woman and the woman did not tell. Is Kate still on or is she gone? I would be interested to know the answer to this. But the woman, when she got hired, was pregnant and didn't reveal that and it didn't come up. So then like three months into her new job, she's like, oh, I just want to let you know, I'm four months pregnant. So now she's on board with them. They're required to give her maternity leave and she is on their insurance now. Hey, John. John, go ahead. You're on the voice disguiser. Hey. I just started doing the hiring of my job. I'm only 24. I'm just kind of working my way up in the professional world. And I was told that strictly, I'm gonna hire a lady for one of the offices, that I could not hire anyone younger, anyone that could still potentially have a get. I had to hire an older lady that was like postmenopausal. Oh, my. Seriously? They told. They straight up told you that? My boss sat me down and told me that. Absolutely. And it sucks because, like, you know, I mean, I see a lot of potential candidates that would rock, but so you have to hire. Basically what they're saying is hire the less qualified non fertile, non fertile woman than the woman that could help our business. Absolutely. And a lot of them don't have computer skills. I mean, they're not being, you know, they're not fresh out of college or school or computer are a part of their everyday life. You know, I'm getting hurt because I gotta hire someone. I understand. But the boss would rather take the pay the money or put the manpower into the extra training that comes with the older person than they would risking somebody being off for 90 days because they delivered a kid and they have to stay home for a couple months. And there were plenty of calls like that one. There were plenty. There wasn't just one. I wonder if this is a different question for a different time, but I wonder if there are any women out there. I gotta find this article that I read yesterday, but it's basically the chronology of Sarah Palin's pregnancy with her last child and how she hid it from her, from everybody for six months, even the closest advisors to her, and told her staff on the seventh month and all this other stuff, hid the whole thing, and then went back to work. Three or four days after she delivered the baby, she was back in the governor's office doing meetings and stuff. Think there's any women mad at her that because she went back so quickly. Right. Because now if you're women mad at her today for trying to do what she's doing. So if you're a male boss, if you work for a male boss and you're delivering a baby and this boss knows about Sarah Palin and is like, well, wait a minute. You're going to take a month off? You're going to take two months off? You're going to take 12 weeks off. Sir Pal was back on Friday. She delivered on Tuesday. Three days the Birch show the holidays are expensive. 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I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're looking to get to the campground. Well, you're gonna take a left at the old oak tree end of this here road. No, I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out. How are you getting a signal out here? T Mobile and US Cellular decided to merge, so the network out here is huge. We're getting the same great signal as the city and saving a boatload with all the benefits. Oh, and a five year price guarantee. Okay, here's those directions. Actually, can you point us in the direction of a T Mobile store? America's best network just got bigger. Switch to T Mobile today and get built in benefits the other guys leave out. Plus our five year price guarantee. And now T Mobile is available in US Cellular stores. 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We'll see whose hand goes up first. Okay. I'm trying to see the eye contact. So football season getting underway and that could mean your company's productivity is about to drop. Nearly 37 million people manage fantasy football teams according to a recent. Oh, there's a hand. Well, there's a hand now. What do you know? Whose hand just went up? Oh, mine. It did. I don't do it at work. Well. Well, Jeff, saw you working on your thing yesterday. I mean, she might not have been working on it. She might have just been checking. I was checking to see how badly I lost. Addictive. Listen to the rest of this study from a Chicago based employment research firm. Those people spend nearly one hour of paid time every week crafting and trading players. Okay, stop right there for a second and I'll ask for an. For some honest people to call. Anybody that I have ever met, anybody that I have ever known that is in one of these fantasy leagues puts in way more time than one hour a week. Like they're suggesting on cnn. Well, they're saying it's one hour of paid time, so they're probably like averaging it out and everything. But one hour a week at work? Because I saw Wendy and I only saw for a second, but it was. Is it through espn? Espn. So she was on like espn and I don't think she was making any trades or stuff, but I mean, I used to work with guys who would have folders that professional sports recruiters would be jealous of. Like, I'm assuming. I think Adam Baum is in probably a couple of these things. Dylan, when he worked here, he was hardcore. Like, nothing at this radio station got done for eight months. They're all in my list. They're playing the same songs over and over and over again. I mean, I want to know how much time you guys are really spending on your fantasy football leagues. 404,741q100. The course of any given week at work, by the way. Right? Not in your spare time or maybe that's even. Well, I think work is More. Well, because you're taking time away from family also. Yeah. If you're on those at home, I guess both get addictive. Yeah. Because you want to know your updates and you really like, it becomes like a competition because it's a league with your friends. So it's like you want to beat your friends. So you're already, you're checking up on it every two seconds, especially on Sundays. You should see how many times people on Sunday spend on their. Let me ask you this question. When you had to pick your team, how long did that take you? Oh, our draft wasn't that long. It was probably about an hour. There are some that are more intricate than others. There are some that you can go online and you just sign up and they pick your players for you. And then there are others that, I mean, you got to know to pick a running back first and a quarterback second. And your defense, you don't get picked until the 12th round. That's what I mean. Like, so was yours because the friends are more casually into it. So you didn't have to prepare for your draft at all. Oh, no, everybody was into it. So we were all like talking smack on. We have like a little board. Like when you do your draft, there's like a little smack board where you can just like, why'd you pick that guy? Why'd you pick that guy? No, we all picked our players live. There's two people who are probably not there to pick their players. So they were on auto draft, so they got whoever was next in their predetermined draft. So no, we are picking players from the side. I'm assuming some of these calls are going to sound a lot like the World of Warcraft calls we took a while ago where breakups were happening in relationships. They demanded, you know, your wife or your husband demanded that you, you never play again because you were taking too much time away from the family. Wives. Checking the history on your browser to make sure you're not at CBS, SportsLine or ESPN.com. what movie was it where the guy got busted going to his baseball draft? Oh, that was Knocked Up. Knocked up where she thought he was cheating on him and instead she was hanging out in a guy's living room. Right. That's funny. Diana, good Morning. You're on Q100. Hey, how are you? Good, how are you? Good, I think. My husband has a part time job with fantasy football. He's in two leagues. One's a keeper league. Do you know what that is? They keep most of their players from the Season before and one's a regular league where they draft. And he probably spends about 15 to 20 hours a week between the two of them. 15. That is a part time job right there. Oh, it drives me crazy. He sits on his laptop every night and that's all he does. And for the people who don't, because some people. This might be a foreign language, but the way a fantasy league works is you pick an assortment of play. You outfit a team using players available that are in the entire league and then by monitoring their statistics throughout the year, you have better performing and worse performing teams. So you could have running a running back from the Falcons and you could have a quarterback from the Chargers and you could have, you know, a defense of players from one team, offensive players from another team and all over the place. And you. So you're creating. So when you're checking the stats, it's not like you just go and see how the Falcons did. No, you're seeing like you got to see how your quarterbacks. There are individual stats by each Sunday up. Sure. I mean, because I've never played like you get like if one player scores a couple of touchdowns and you get a certain amount of points for that. If your defense, you know, it's just. There's a whole bunch. Your defense loses points if they give up like points. So if you. They get a field goal. So there's players. So each player statistics even on the, you know, defensive side. Well, defense, no, but offense team, you pick the team's defense. So you would pick the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense. So your defense saw the same team. Okay. I'm just curious. It changes the way you watch the game because you're not rooting for a team when you're watching two teams play. You're rooting for people. How many of your husband's stake in this fantasy football league is there? Thousands of dollars. Not his. Maybe like 600 in each league. Maybe is what you'll win. How much for your. We just play for fun bragging rights. Yeah. I know somebody who's in one where the way they get into. They do football every year. They only do football and they do. It's a fee. Like you pay 250 bucks to get in and then like $100 every paycheck throughout the year. And like the grand prize is 20 grand or something like that, 25 grand. I mean they have an accountant, like somebody who works and it's all in one company. So somebody who works in the finance department has volunteered to be the accountant for this draft so they collect all the money, keep it all in the bank account, blah, blah, blah. The injury. This is how much money I am? Hell, no. This is how much money. That fantasy football thing, right. They use the interest that the money earns in the bank account from the year before to fund their draft party, which is held at, like, you know, like in the back room of Dantana's. And the whole thing's catered and everybody drinks for free. It's big. It's big. I appreciate a theme party. Hey, Megan, Megan. Hold on one sec. For me, okay? Okay, hold on. Hey, Josh. Yes, sir? Don't go anywhere. You're gonna be my final call. Okay. Alrighty. Hey, Megan. Hey. How are y'? All? Good, how are you? I'm good. My husband and his friends wait all year long for their draft. They get together, they have this huge barbecue. They get drunk, they have their draft. They each have their own folders. My husband gets magazine after magazine in the mail the month before. He always has his draft thing up at his computer at work. It's the huge. This huge thing. And I was a huge football fan. Still am. Go dogs. But he has made me hate football season because that is all he does. We have a two year old and I swear Sunday is like football day. And it should be, but it is ridiculous. Do you think he's spending more time, honestly, at work? Is he spending more time working or is he spending more time? Well, he's a very hard worker. But yeah, I mean, he definitely. It's more than one hour, you know, a day. It's a lot that the draft means everything. So, you know, and there. It's ridiculous. Their draft, it's silly. Yeah. I mean, people go really over the top on it. Hey, Josh, Go ahead, listen to this. What's going on, man? You tell us, man. Where are you heading? I'm actually on my way to Gainesville. My. My boss, he does that whole fantasy football thing, and he doesn't only have one. He's got like three different teams. And so this morning he was doing that and he got caught up and he ended up sending me to Gainesville to go drop off some frames to get painted. And so I'm on my way up there right now as he's doing that as we speak. And he tried to actually get me to do it yesterday. He was trying to, I guess, draft me to fantasy football. He was, like, trying to tell me how much fun it was. Well, if he gets you involved, then who's going to do his job? Well, he's actually the owner of the company, so I don't think he really has to do anything, but he just sends us off. It's really funny though. It cracks me up. So stuff that he would normally be doing, he's sending you out to do so he can stay and do his draft and. And do his fantasy football. Yeah, pretty much. That's how bad it gets. That's the boss. And I love how these are the very people that made fun of the World of Warcraft people. Right? But guess what? You're not. You're not any different. It's different in sports. It's not any different. Like you make fun of people for dressing up and doing geeky things. Well, let's see, that's what you do. Put your face paint on and you skip work to do this. So it's the same thing. And we're all complaining we don't have enough time, but there we are, super poking each other on Facebook and spending seven hours in the day. I know. I don't know how they do it. Hold on. What are you looking at, Wendy? I was looking at the new AFL Week 1. Yeah, they write up how we all did the Birch show. So I don't want us to be tainted by hopeless romance. By hopeless romance. Because it can still happen. And I'll prove it to you right now. And it always seems to come in the form of senior citizens. Am I gonna cry? I don't know. I thought it was a pretty cool story when I heard it this morning. And it just sort of proves that you can always fall in love. It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if you're 17, if you're 27, or if you're 90 something years old. 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Chauncey Christofferson, who's from Washington state and a former military, read her memoir. The two started corresponding and in seven months they fell in love. We actually fell in love the old fashioned way. Chauncey flew out to Connecticut to visit. I already knew who to look for. And I knew her room. I walked right into her room with all unannounced. Each has been married before, but this time around is uniquely special. To be in love at 85 and 96 is just simply wonderful. It's nice to be loved. Operate her room unannounced. And I don't think anyone can disagree with those words now. Many ask Thelma, why get married at such an old age. She simply says, have you ever been in love? Katie Zachary, Channel 3. It is out there. It is out there. You know, you just have to wait till you're 85. There's an 11 year age difference. So they've reached age where there is no such thing as an ache effector, I guess, anymore. No, I'm just kidding. But 96 and 85, yeah, sweet. And the way they do the math. Half of 95, 48, 47 and a half. Okay, she's all right. She's in the clear. He's. He doesn't even know he could go to a 60 year old. He blew it. Oh, my God. He could have gotten so much. Come on, let it go. Stop. He's in love. Leave the room. Yeah, I mean, we got. We finally got ourselves a good story. Leave the room. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying that guy probably didn't know what the equation would let him do. Whatever. Walked right in her room on a nap. And I love that he was the one reading the article and he's like, I'm gonna do something about this. I'm gonna find that little lady. Walks right on in the room. I'm gonna find my little lady. I'm gonna find my little lady. I'm gonna make her mine. Sweet. I knew exactly what I was looking for. What'd he say? I knew her room number went right in there. Here it comes, baby, here I am. Love, Destiny. The Birch Show. We're lost. I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions. Hi there. 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