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The bird show.
Host Bert Weiss
We had Regis on the show and his throat was all jacked up.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Sorry about my voice.
Host Bert Weiss
I lost it about two weeks ago and it's just getting worse. I tried Mucinex Bird. You ever lose your voice? I constantly. When I go out and I tie it on the night before, I always lose my voice the next day on the end.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
How do you get it back?
Host Bert Weiss
Do you have any special recipes or anything? Actually, I do have this. It's a throat tea that I use that works overnight. It's really great. Bert uses a throat tea.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
What's the name of this Teeburb?
Host Bert Weiss
We're going out to get it right now.
Co-Host Stacy
Throat coat or something.
Host Bert Weiss
It is throat coat. So Melissa with the save there and remember the name of it because she used it after I.
Co-Host Stacy
After you did. I used it when I had a cold one time. And it's not the best tasting tea, but it certainly works because it does coat your throat.
Co-Host Georgiana
I don't even have. I don't even have a sore throat. I want to go get it.
Host Bert Weiss
So this was Regis on his show. You know, they just talk randomly in the first couple of minutes of the show. So I talked to this guy, this.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Radio host, Bert Weiss, in.
Host Bert Weiss
In Atlanta today.
Co-Host Bert
Yes.
Host Bert Weiss
And he tells me that he uses throat coat.
Caller Alyssa
Throat coat? Yes, I've used throat.
Host Bert Weiss
Have you?
Co-Host Bert
Yes.
Host Bert Weiss
And does it work?
Co-Host Bert
I think so.
Host Bert Weiss
You see, I'm just wondering what is good for this thing, which was really cool.
Co-Host Stacy
That's fantastic. On national television.
Host Bert Weiss
It's quite a coup right there. So Rich Eldridge, who's a friend of the Bird Show, He's a friend.
Co-Host Georgiana
Well, he's a friend of some of.
Host Bert Weiss
Ours, some of you guys. For seven years, we've had this great relationship, and he writes about the whole Regis thing. I text him yesterday like I normally do, and I think we have a story that's Peach Buzz worthy.
Co-Host Stacy
You're hurt. Your feelings are hurt. The way you're talking is.
Host Bert Weiss
I don't know where it's gone wrong with us. Like, I feel like. I feel like I do when I get in an argument with my wife and she's mad at me, but I have no idea why.
Co-Host Georgiana
It's probably your ego.
Host Bert Weiss
Not anymore. Because I have ego away. So Rich writes about the whole thing yesterday. And I did. I text him once yesterday. Hey, Regis said thank you to me on his show. Is it Peach Buzzworthy? And I text Rich. It's the guy that writes peach Buzz in the ajc. And normally Rich is very good at getting back to me. And he'll either write something like, yeah, I heard it, or he'll call me. And I didn't hear anything from him, so I emailed him the exact same line. So I text and emailed, and he covers it in the Peach Buzz this morning. But then he takes a swipe at me at the very end of it.
Co-Host Georgiana
Well, you also went to his house and left him a note on his door.
Host Bert Weiss
And I did that skywriting thing.
Co-Host Georgiana
Sent him some message balloons.
Host Bert Weiss
And then he takes a very hurtful swipe at me, smoke signals the Peach Buzz this morning. First of all, I'm gonna eliminate. He's not a friend on my MySpace anymore. That's gonna hurt him.
Co-Host Stacy
Your voice is about to break.
Host Bert Weiss
I need throat coat. It says, we learned about the less than scintillating cycle of events. There's the first shot. There's the first one.
Co-Host Georgiana
Well, I mean, really. I mean, I. I do hurt for you. No, you don't.
Host Bert Weiss
Hold on. Yeah, I can see the hurt on your face.
Co-Host Stacy
You love it.
Co-Host Bert
Jeff.
Co-Host Georgiana
I just.
Host Bert Weiss
I think it's funny.
Co-Host Stacy
Better him than me is what you're saying.
Co-Host Georgiana
Cause I want that boom, right on the note.
Host Bert Weiss
Bam.
Co-Host Georgiana
Right there. But I think it's.
Host Bert Weiss
I mean, technically, I didn't do anything wrong, right? This is normally what we've done with Rich for seven years. Correct.
Co-Host Georgiana
But I think I don't know. Go ahead. I just think the lesson sin Lane because the reality is Regis just said your name.
Host Bert Weiss
I think that's pretty.
Co-Host Stacy
I don't think that's a big but.
Host Bert Weiss
I just think it's a national.
Co-Host Stacy
If it was Jeff dollar. If he said your name on that television.
Host Bert Weiss
Are you kidding me?
Co-Host Stacy
Come on.
Co-Host Georgiana
Yeah, I've already got him mentioning my name during the interview as my ring back. Exact Regis saying my name over and over.
Host Bert Weiss
We learned about the less than scintillating cycle of events when we heard the interview live on Q100. Then we watched live and then we received a text from Weiss and a follow up email. Here's the real shot. Buzz was tempted to reach into our desk for our own handy work related remedy. Ego away. Oh, there's something desperately wrong with my relationship with Rich Eldritch and I have no idea where I went wrong.
Co-Host Stacy
I'm just laughing at Barbie.
Host Bert Weiss
And so you see my face this morning, y'. All. You should have seen my face. In our industry when I get into the Peach Buzz, it's like a coup because you know there are other morning shows that get up and they read the column also. And you've got bragging rights for the day.
Co-Host Georgiana
Now today they're high fiving each other.
Host Bert Weiss
Totally high fiving each other. So I'm reading the article, I'm like, this is great. He covered it. There's Regis Philippin's face and everything. And I read through the who and I get to that last line and I'm like, what?
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Wtf?
Host Bert Weiss
It was such an emotional high and an emotional low.
Co-Host Georgiana
I actually, I saw it last night.
Host Bert Weiss
And you didn't warn me.
Co-Host Stacy
I didn't know about it.
Co-Host Georgiana
I didn't know how to tell you.
Co-Host Stacy
I didn't know about it until you came in with this, like, because I had said when I walked in this morning because I didn't get an ounce of sleep last night. So I was like, oh man, I'm struggling today because I didn't get any sleep, so I'm gonna have to game up. And the person, well, I'm just. And I'm in a bad mood and I'm like, well, what happened? And then. So I didn't know about it until Bert broke the news to me when I got in the studio dinner a.
Host Bert Weiss
Couple of weeks ago. Maybe I said something, I don't know.
Co-Host Georgiana
But I hold on.
Host Bert Weiss
The Coldplay sings from my heart.
Co-Host Stacy
We do need to do a second date. Second article.
Host Bert Weiss
Second find out what happened.
Co-Host Stacy
Article update.
Host Bert Weiss
No, I'll Call him after the show. Find out what I did to offend in the meantime.
Co-Host Georgiana
And you've got.
Host Bert Weiss
Chris Martin speaks for me.
Co-Host Georgiana
Chris Martin is comforting you. Rich wants to talk to you.
Host Bert Weiss
I don't know that I can. Hold on. Okay. I don't know that I can do this.
Co-Host Georgiana
Is that line one?
Host Bert Weiss
I don't know that I can do this.
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Now try to be humble.
Host Bert Weiss
What did I do? Where did it go wrong? Rich, where did.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Good morning, Burchell.
Host Bert Weiss
Where did it go wrong? I mean, explain to me. I'm so confused by our relationship.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Bert, it's not you. It's your ego. I love you, Bert. It's not you.
Host Bert Weiss
But I didn't. I didn't handle this any different.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Sometimes your ego crawls out and texts messages people, and then hacks into your email account and sends things out.
Host Bert Weiss
But when I text you, you're usually so good at texting back, you'll either write back, yeah, I heard it. Which means, okay, you don't want to cover it, or you'll call me.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Well, I gotta be honest. I was chasing a few other things yesterday in between.
Co-Host Georgiana
Hold on.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Regis references like, oh, there's a presidential candidate. His name is Barack Obama now. Okay, Bert, walk with me. Take my hand. Okay, Take my hand and walk with me.
Host Bert Weiss
We're gonna.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
We are gonna step away from the situation, all right? We're gonna gain some perspective.
Host Bert Weiss
Okay.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
All right. We're looking out over the horizon now.
Host Bert Weiss
Do I have my.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Regis Philbin comes on. On does the live interview, which was very fun.
Co-Host Georgiana
A Flemmy. Regis Philbin.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
A Flemmy. Regis Philbin.
Caller Alyssa
And he's got.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
He's got a tickle. A thing.
Host Bert Weiss
Yeah.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
And he's like, yeah, Bert, what would you do? And you're like, I use this stuff. And he's like, oh, great. So then Regis. Because he probably didn't go out to a film premiere the night before Regis, in advancing years, he gets on the air, and he's got to talk about something for 10 minutes during host chat. So he brings up, you know, well, I'm Fleming, and this guy Burt Weiss, you know, and so I thought, well, that's interesting. I'm jotting it down.
Host Bert Weiss
It's a nice little mention. Sure.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
And, you know, so I'm like, well, you know, may or may not make the final cut for Peach Buzz, depending on the news cycle, depending on whether I can find out whether Barack Obama got on the treadmill for 20, 20 minutes or more at the Peachtree Center Athletic Club.
Co-Host Georgiana
For the record, let's Just say Barack Obama had no throat condition.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Not any throat condition that I'm aware of.
Host Bert Weiss
I think I understand what you're trying to say is that you were very busy yesterday and there were very important things that you were working on.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Well, and Bert, again, we're stepped back. We're looking over that horizon.
Host Bert Weiss
Yeah.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Now tell me, do you think stepping away from you as Brett Weiss, do you think that maybe this is the most important thing in the universe?
Host Bert Weiss
No, but I just don't understand the swipe. Because it was a text and an email.
Co-Host Stacy
Well, you think it was over the top, Rich, or because I. From birds.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
It was a little over the top.
Co-Host Stacy
Because from birds.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
We're stepping back, we're looking at that perspective. We're looking at that horizon. And Bert, honestly, you know, I have to deal with a lot of morning show personalities.
Host Bert Weiss
I understand.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
And they all think that every single thing that happens during the course of their four or five hours on the air every morning is column worthy. And we both have known people in this industry in the past who are no longer on Atlanta radio who they got to the stage of their career where if they thought, if they urinated in the morning, they thought that that should be.
Host Bert Weiss
But I have never complained to you before if you didn't put something in the paper for us, you know, you and I have always been okay with that. That wouldn't offended me at all.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Bert, I think that, I think that we, we just need to work on our relationship a little bit. Maybe go to some counseling.
Co-Host Georgiana
Hey, just for the record, if you're filling space, I did urinate this morning.
Host Bert Weiss
I'm constipated.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
If you can email me the color, that would be great.
Co-Host Georgiana
I ate asparagus.
Host Bert Weiss
Alright. So in the future, how should I handle these then when I think there's something that might be buzzworthy, should I, how will I, how should I do that to where you're not offended?
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
I think that one or the other would have been good yesterday. Okay, one or the other. And the singing telegram, that was also a little over the top.
Host Bert Weiss
Then I will ask you if I send a text. For seven years you've sent me a text back saying got it. So I just assumed that you didn't get it and that's why I sent the email.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
You know what? The reason, the reason I didn't send you a text back was because I already heard the segment on the radio and then seen the follow up on the TV show. So I was kind of in the loop. And a lot of times, if I send you a text back. It's because I didn't hear the segment because again, I'm listening to all these morning radio shows.
Host Bert Weiss
Gotcha.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
And so if I'm not necessarily in the loop on it, I will maybe send you a text back and say, hey, could you give me a call so I can get more information about this?
Co-Host Georgiana
I find that I always get a prompt response from Rich when I use my email address, vickylockmail.com.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Well, and that is a factor. Yeah.
Co-Host Georgiana
Yeah.
Host Bert Weiss
Okay, Rich. So we're still tight. We're still holding hands, looking out over the horizon.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
We are. We are. And. And. But I just need you to know that I'm holding hands with everybody, Everybody on Atlanta Morning Radio. It's not just you. We're not in this relationship.
Co-Host Stacy
I'm fine with the Coke commercial. We're all holding hands there in the.
Host Bert Weiss
Field, swaying back and forth with each other.
Co-Host Georgiana
Here comes that polar bear sliding down to screw up our big penguin party.
Host Bert Weiss
All right, Rich.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
I didn't mean to be hurtful.
Host Bert Weiss
I will spray myself.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
Okay, all right. That's not exactly honest. You did mean to be hurtful.
Host Bert Weiss
I know you did.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
I meant to take the wet towel and snap you on the ass a little bit.
Host Bert Weiss
I still don't. I just. Okay. I don't quite understand it, but I understand.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
I didn't mean to hurt you. I just wanted to. To hurt the ego.
Host Bert Weiss
Well, you did that successfully. If your mission, Rich Eldridge, was to hurt me, you hurt me, Rich Eldridge. You hurt me. You hurt me to the core, Rich Eldridge. All right, man.
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Host Bert Weiss
So Reader's Digest here. I'll read right from their website. Man, I know we got a lot of doctors and a lot of nurses listening. They offer two dozen doctors a chance to tell it like it really is. And general practitioners, surgeons, shrinks, pediatricians, other specialists really took the challenge. Most of them wanted to be anonymous, although a couple of them let their identities known. But some of this stuff here is really scary. The first one I told you guys about is I was told in school to put a patient in a gown when he isn't listening or cooperating. It cast him in a position of subservience.
Co-Host Bert
I think that would be totally true.
Host Bert Weiss
I mean, psychologically, absolutely. I mean, there's that little itty bitty cloth thing and your junk could be hanging out at any minute.
Co-Host Bert
That almost makes sense to me. I almost don't have a problem with that.
Host Bert Weiss
I don't even know why it would have to be a situation where one person would have to be up here and the other one down here. Anyway, he's the doctor and you're the patient. You're already at a place where.
Co-Host Georgiana
Yeah, but. So.
Co-Host Stacy
But he's saying if the patient was.
Host Bert Weiss
Uncooperative, strip him down naked.
Co-Host Stacy
Wow.
Host Bert Weiss
I used to have my secretary page me after I had spent five minutes in the room with a difficult or overly chatty patient. Then I'd run out saying, oh, I have an emergency. So if the Pager goes off while you're in there, you just may think like, you're being a big old pain in the butt. Sometimes it's easier for a doctor to write a prescription for a medicine than to explain why the patient doesn't need it.
Co-Host Bert
Really?
Co-Host Stacy
Well, you know, I have to say, though, I think that a lot of patients probably go in there. You see commercials now for specific medicines. Those medicines are not being prescribed to you, but you see the commercial for it. And the purpose of that is so that the patient demands it of the doctor. And so I'm gonna need Levitra. Yeah.
Co-Host Georgiana
Why? Because the guy walking in the park looks so happy.
Host Bert Weiss
Yeah.
Co-Host Stacy
Or you have to give me an antibiotic for this. Well, the doctor's like, well, you don't need an antibiotic. Well, I need an antibiotic for this. So I wonder if it's.
Host Bert Weiss
Rather than just arguing, it's like, great, take the Levitra. Get out of my office. I've got nine other patients lined up.
Co-Host Stacy
Yeah.
Host Bert Weiss
94% of doctors take gifts from drug companies, even though research has shown that these gifts biased our clinical decision making.
Co-Host Georgiana
I have a significant problem with that. Pharmaceutical companies.
Host Bert Weiss
You would think a lobbyist would do something about that one. Well, lobbyist probably working for the lobby.
Co-Host Georgiana
You're not going to find a probably bigger lobby than the pharmaceutical industry.
Host Bert Weiss
Yeah. I think some senator would stand up and say, yeah, this has got to stop.
Co-Host Stacy
There's a lot of money in pharmaceuticals.
Co-Host Georgiana
Well, I just think that in our industry, for example, you cannot legally, as a record company employee, come in with, like, the new Kanye West CD and hand it to the program director who makes a decision about what music to play with. A fresh baked apple pie, for example, or a trip to Sea island for the weekend to stay in a beautiful. You can't do that because then you'll be influenced to play that record over that. You can't do that really, in any. Like, you can't go see the judge about getting a permit to build something on your land and offer him a trip. You can't. But for whatever reason, in that industry, it's perfectly acceptable to say, hey, we're having a conference. Finger quotes. At these, you know, these houses down in Seaside, Florida. You should come down. Of course you're gonna be influenced to.
Co-Host Bert
Prescribe this place, their brand over and over. Yeah, right.
Host Bert Weiss
This one actually might be pretty good advice. Avoid Friday afternoon surgery. Have you guys ever heard this one?
Co-Host Stacy
Mm, mm, mm.
Host Bert Weiss
Avoid Friday afternoon surgery. The day after surgery is when most problems happen. If the next day is Saturday, you're flying by yourself without a safety net because the units are understaffed and ERs are overwhelmed because doctor's offices are closed.
Co-Host Stacy
Hmm.
Co-Host Bert
Makes sense.
Host Bert Weiss
Good advice. In many hospitals. I had no idea if this is true or not. I had no idea. In many hospitals, the length of the white coat is related to the length of training. Medical students wear the shortest coats.
Co-Host Bert
Really?
Co-Host Stacy
Really.
Host Bert Weiss
That's something to look for the next time you're in there.
Co-Host Georgiana
That's good. It's an urban legend, isn't it? That can't be real.
Host Bert Weiss
These are legitimate doctors. Hmm. Not a day goes by when I don't think about the potential of being sued. It makes me give patients a lot of unnecessary tests that are potentially harmful, just so I don't miss an injury or problem that comes back to haunt me in the form of a lawsuit.
Co-Host Stacy
I believe that we are a lawsuit happy country right now.
Host Bert Weiss
You can understand that one. It's pretty common for doctors to talk about their patients and make judgments, particularly about their appearance, which is walking a real fine line. Like if the person's not healthy, you'll obviously want to talk to other doctors about that. But if somebody just comes in there looking all sloppy, your doctor's saying, man, you check out hobby today.
Co-Host Bert
Woo.
Host Bert Weiss
She put it on. That's terrible.
Co-Host Bert
But I'm sure that that's just like office gossip. Their office just happens to be where you go to the doctor.
Host Bert Weiss
You know, everyone thinks all doctors know one another, but when we refer you to specialists, we often have no idea who those people are. Generally we only know that they accept your insurance plan. I didn't know that.
Co-Host Bert
I didn't know that either.
Host Bert Weiss
I thought that there was some kind of relationship there. And this is another doctor that they trusted this doctor saying that's not the case. Doctors are only interested in whether they are inconvenienced. Most don't care if you have to wait for them.
Co-Host Bert
I know that that's subjective, though, don't you think? I mean, that may be the majority, but that seems kind of like an opinion more than.
Host Bert Weiss
I don't know, I'd say more often than not. I've talked about this before. I think how unfair I think it is that you have to sit in a doctor's office sometimes 90 minutes before you get in there. Yeah. I find that to be more the. The case and the exception.
Co-Host Georgiana
You didn't you leave a doctor's office twice?
Host Bert Weiss
Couple times, yeah.
Co-Host Georgiana
The same doctor's. I was like, two consecutive weeks you'd.
Host Bert Weiss
Got out of there well, there's one for my knee where I was supposed to get some.
Co-Host Georgiana
That's right.
Host Bert Weiss
Radiologist, some radiology done. And yeah, they were. They were three hours late. I got to the officer like we're running behind. Three hours. Three hours. How about a call?
Co-Host Stacy
Yeah.
Host Bert Weiss
Though we don't cry in front of you, we sometimes do cry about your situation at home, which I sort of like to hear about.
Co-Host Stacy
Yeah.
Host Bert Weiss
I believe that 60% of doctors. These are shocking stats. 60% of doctors don't follow hand washing guidelines.
Co-Host Bert
60%.
Host Bert Weiss
60%, yeah.
Co-Host Bert
Oh, that creeps me out. You don't know whose hands, who they had their hands on before you.
Host Bert Weiss
96% of doctors agree they should report impaired or incompetent colleagues are those who make serious mistakes. 96% say they should. 46% of them admit to having turned a blind eye at least once.
Co-Host Bert
Yeah. It's kind of like a community that protects each other. Right. Because it goes back to the whole suing thing. Nobody wants to get sued. They're all afraid of getting sued and all those medical malpractice things. So you sell out another doctor, they could sell you out.
Co-Host Stacy
I know that work. I think it's human nature too, because there's so many people that think about doing the right thing and then don't. Mm.
Host Bert Weiss
I know that my sister in law works in South Carolina and she saw a doctor that was coming in inebriated a couple of different times and turned him in. And all the nurses and doctors turned on her.
Co-Host Georgiana
Really?
Host Bert Weiss
Yep.
Co-Host Bert
Really. He was coming in drunk.
Host Bert Weiss
Mm. And they turned on her. And one last one from a doctor. Doctors have a limited amount of time, so the younger and more attractive you are, the more likely you are to get more of our time.
Co-Host Georgiana
Totally believe that.
Host Bert Weiss
Yeah.
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Really?
Co-Host Georgiana
Yep.
Co-Host Stacy
Well, that's assuming that all the doctors talking about are men.
Co-Host Georgiana
I think if you. Women too. I think if you are going into the hospital and there are three patients to be taken care of and one of them is a 95 year old woman suffering from dementia who wandered out of her house and was, you know. Hypothermia. Right. That's right. Exposed to cold. Then you have a 60 year old guy with chest pains and you have a 22 year old new mother.
Host Bert Weiss
You think he's gonna.
Co-Host Georgiana
And the doctor has time to give to one of them.
Host Bert Weiss
22 year old getting right front of the line.
Co-Host Georgiana
Why not? 95 year old's been on the earth 95 years, she's already sick. She wandered out of her house. Why wouldn't I Mean, it's human nature.
Host Bert Weiss
Let's do checks and balances to see if this is actually accurate.
Co-Host Bert
I was thinking that the 95 year old would be the one they picked. Because that'd be the most critical.
Host Bert Weiss
No, because one of these that I actually eliminated because I just took the most shocking. There were 41 of them and they'll all be up on our website@AllTheHits Q100.com one of them said that so often as doctors we see elderly that it's so refreshing to see young people come in that we see them first. Wow. Good morning. Alyssa, you're on Q100. Hi.
Caller Alyssa
Hi. Good morning. I love you guys.
Host Bert Weiss
Thank you. Are you a nurse?
Caller Alyssa
I am.
Host Bert Weiss
Do you find this list generally accurate or just hype?
Caller Alyssa
I find it very, very accurate. I do find it accurate. Sometimes we get a little shocked about how doctors do respond to the patients and they. I wouldn't say a lot of them have ego trips, but the majority of certain fields of doctors you're going to see have that. I'm better than you. You're going to listen to what I say. You'll be the submissive, subservient patient. You also, you didn't have anything on there. I don't know if there was any surgeons that had made comments, but there is some very awful and interesting things that go on in the OR while you are under anesthesia.
Co-Host Stacy
You can't be general. Come on, you gotta be specific. We need one story. And which fields are more egotistical than others?
Caller Alyssa
I think the surgeons are a little more egotistical just because they think that they're the gods of the medical field.
Host Bert Weiss
I gotta tell you, I want my surgeon arrogant. I want him, I want him going in there thinking that there's nothing can stop. He's indestructible. Indestructible. I want that.
Co-Host Georgiana
And no matter what, he's not going to walk out of there with me in a bad place. He's going to walk out of there and I'm going to be better than I was when I went in.
Host Bert Weiss
As a nurse, I would imagine sometimes that gets unbearable. But I could tell you as a patient, the more arrogant I think, the better off for me as a patient. What are some of the things A.
Caller Alyssa
Lot of times too, the more arrogance, the worst is certain something improve.
Co-Host Georgiana
Some things that happen when people are under anesthesia in the operating room, things.
Caller Alyssa
Get kind of wiggled and jiggled and made fun of or poked and prodded and made fun of.
Host Bert Weiss
Are you telling me that, like when a guy is just laid out, he's under all that anesthesia, you guys are making fun of his size, of his.
Caller Alyssa
I don't know. Now, for personal experience, I do not know. I just have other nurse friends who are surgical nurses, like, or nurses. And they have said that their physicians, their surgeons have done some pretty mean things to these patients while they're under.
Host Bert Weiss
It's jacked up. If I come through it okay, though, that's all right.
Co-Host Stacy
As long as. I don't know.
Co-Host Bert
Jiggle my cellulite all you want. Just fix my heart or my head.
Co-Host Stacy
Or whatever it is.
Co-Host Georgiana
I don't know that she's talking about cellulite.
Host Bert Weiss
I think she's talking about your parts. You know, like maybe your boy parts.
Co-Host Bert
I don't have boy parts.
Co-Host Georgiana
No, but I think that's what she's referring to.
Host Bert Weiss
This is the one that we were like. Really? In many hospitals, the length of the white coat is related to the length of training. Medical students wear the shortest coats. Is it true?
Caller Alyssa
Yes. Yes. I'm RN on my way into Emory right now. And if you are a medical student and you are in the hospital, you have a short coat. If you are, you have a long coat.
Host Bert Weiss
I had no idea.
Caller Alyssa
Different levels of residency as well, where you have your attending, your fellow, your first year resident, your second year resident, your third year resident. So honestly, you really don't know what level resident you're having come in to look at you. But you have your attending, but they all wear long coats. And then your medical students wear your short coat.
Host Bert Weiss
That is great.
Co-Host Stacy
Interesting.
Host Bert Weiss
If we could stop the show today and I'd be happy.
Co-Host Bert
That's good information.
Host Bert Weiss
I never knew that the next time you're in a doctor's office or the next time you're in a hospital, you'll look for that, right?
Caller Alyssa
Students are first graduating if you go to a teaching hospital. And July 1st is their first day at the floor. So you never want to go July 1st.
Host Bert Weiss
Okay, very good advice. Thank you.
Co-Host Bert
There's a whole bunch of people rescheduling surgery today.
Host Bert Weiss
And one last one here. Angel. Good morning. You're on Q100.
Caller Alyssa
Good morning.
Host Bert Weiss
Good morning.
Caller Alyssa
Hi.
Co-Host Georgiana
Turn your radio all the way down, please.
Caller Alyssa
Okay. Sorry.
Host Bert Weiss
Okay, go ahead.
Caller Alyssa
Just call him. Because there was one comment y' all said about the doctors take gifts, and it is against the law for the doctors to take a gift. I'm an OR surgical nurse, and it is against the law. They find up to $100,000 per event that the state or the Government actually finds that they have taken a gift. This includes to be food, lunch. Lunch is included. If it brings lunch and they're not giving some sort of educational in service is against the law.
Host Bert Weiss
This says 94% of doctors take gifts from drug companies. 94%.
Co-Host Georgiana
You talk about the educational thing. That means with the sandwich, all they have to do is include a brochure about their new prescription medicine and they're covered.
Caller Alyssa
They have to actually teach something. They did not give a brochure. They have to actually teach something in order to bring food in.
Co-Host Georgiana
Right. So they can hand them the food and go, here, enjoy this sandwich. By the way, my pill will help you sleep.
Co-Host Stacy
You know what, And I have to say that as a patient, I always get irritated when the reps are there and get in before me. Or like the reps don't pay attention to the patients in the waiting room. And I see that with their roller bags all the time. And then it irritates me a little bit.
Host Bert Weiss
I have never thought about it. I've always just assumed that the reps are there on a schedule also. The same way you schedule your visit, they're scheduling their visit. I've never thought they just show up and they get in.
Co-Host Stacy
Well, they may schedule it, but for some reason it irritates me. I think the reps, I think the patient should be in there first and the reps at the end of the.
Host Bert Weiss
Day, like maybe between like 6 and 7 or 5 and 6 and you just wheel them in one at a time.
Co-Host Stacy
I think that, yeah that the medical patients are priority and those reps are last.
Host Bert Weiss
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All right, here is Tavonne. She wants to know if you guys think if she's being a little bit too aggressive. She wants to find her mom a man this year.
Co-Host Bert
She's determined.
Co-Host Stacy
Okay.
Host Bert Weiss
Hey, Tavon. Hi. Good morning. How are you?
Caller Alyssa
I'm great.
Host Bert Weiss
Okay, so explain to us why now all of a sudden, like, you've got, you've got to find your mama, man.
Caller Alyssa
Well, to be honest, like, long story short, me and my mom are from New York. And she basically moved me down here around middle school just to give me a better life. And she didn't really know anyone here. Took a job at a construction company where there was like two other employees. Employees, both men, both married. So for like 15 years she was working at a job where normally it would be the time where she would meet people and make friends and she really didn't have the opportunity to. So she puts me through college, works really, really hard. I'm actually getting married in two weeks, less than two weeks. And we were at Lenox for fireworks and, you know, just sitting around and looking at all these colors. And it was our last time us going to Lennox for our single girls out. And I was thinking, you know, this is pretty ridiculous that at this point in time my mom was 46. I sent you guys pictures. She's absolutely gorgeous. Looks like she's in her 20s and she's still single. And it's just frustrating because we're really close. I know the guys that try to talk to her. I'm usually always there because we hang out a lot. And it's usually either 20 year olds that want, you know, just the it from her, the booty from her, or it's like 40 or 50 year olds that pretty much are divorced and don't really want a relationship and just want the booty from her. So I figure, you know, I'm gonna take things into my own hands. And for her birthday in May, I surprised her with a photo shoot, which I told her was just, you know, to help her confidence, but it's actually to get some nice professional pictures done so that I can just do a blitz for, like, the rest of the year and put her on every site. Match.com, craigslist, MySpace. I made her a MySpace page, like, eHarmony. I was even gonna make up a website called datemymother.com with a makeup, like, headshots with, like, her face on it and all her stats on the back. And my boyfriend's about. Well, my fiance's about six, three, almost £300. So I figure he can be, like, the filter. And, you know, as guys email in, you know, I can talk to him because I know. I mean, we're really close, so I know all the things that she's looking for. And then if we ever had to meet anyone, he could be there to, like, you know, make sure I don't get, like, taken or plundered or, you know, anything like that. And then hopefully by then, I can set up, like, some kind of speed dating or something where I can get, you know, at least 10 or 15 guys or maybe do that whole 30 dates and 30 days thing. But, I mean, I don't know if it's like, if it would be a little weird as I talk to these guys, or if they're thinking they might think I'm pimping out my mom or something. I'm not sure how it would go over, you know, from a male's perspective, especially since the age range would probably be, like, you know, late 30s to maybe early 50s. I don't know if those type of guys would just be like, this chick has got to have something crazy, you know, going on with her, or her daughter's crazy or my mom's psycho or something.
Host Bert Weiss
Does your mom have any idea you want to get this aggressive about finding her man now?
Co-Host Bert
No.
Caller Alyssa
She's like, I told her about the MySpace thing, and she's like, oh, okay, you know, you can do that for me. She's not really that computer statistic where she would actually know how to use it. So she's like, oh, okay, you know, you could just put me up there and maybe I'll check emails every, you know, once a week or something like that. But I have, like, a whole mission plan. Like, you know, by Christmas, New Year's, it's usually my grandmother's single, my mom's single, and I'm the only one that's getting married. So usually New Year's, we all three of us meet up for New Year's, and I'm like, I'm determined for us not to look like a bunch of spinsters on New Year's in New York because, you know, we're always us three together. And I'm always looking around like, oh, look at all these couples kissing at New Year's. And it's me, my single mom, and my single grandma. This is quite awesome. So I'm trying to make sure that by New Year's just now, I'll have somebody to kiss, and hopefully my mom will have somebody to kiss, too.
Co-Host Stacy
Well, now, has she communicated to you her frustration at being single, or are you just frustrated that she's single?
Caller Alyssa
She's communicated some frustration. I guess she's more happy. Go lucky. Like, you know, he'll come when he's supposed to come. She's trying to still be open. And, you know, she's. Whenever she meets a guy, she's trying to be open for the possibility, but she's not that type of person that has a deadline or is, like, trying to rush into things whenever she meets a guy. So she's just trying to just coast along until it happens. But for me, I see it. It's really hard to date in Atlanta as it is and find, you know, single straight men. And then on top of that, the older you get, the more harder it is. And, you know, I just. I want a stepdaddy, you know, I think it's about time, you know, that, you know, she has somebody, she will give anybody the clothes off of her back. I've seen her do it before. She's such an awesome person. And it's just. It's, I guess, more probably still more frustrating to me. And I probably have more of a time clock because I just think it's just ridiculous that she's single. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Co-Host Rich Eldridge
I don't.
Host Bert Weiss
You're gonna be walking a real fine line with guys when you do this, because you could. I mean, you could get so aggressive about it that guys would be turned off your mom because you're getting too aggressive, right?
Co-Host Bert
Yeah. Because you don't want it to look like she's desperate because it doesn't sound like she is. I mean, sounds like she's beautiful, she's got her family, her life going. And. And you said she has a Good job and everything else. So you don't want, yeah. You don't want to paint her as like a charity case.
Caller Alyssa
Right.
Host Bert Weiss
Which, what it's, which is really sort of what it's like coming off as.
Caller Alyssa
Oh, that's not good.
Co-Host Stacy
Well, I mean, because I think maybe if you tone it down just a little bit, like the datemymother.com I think is a bad idea. That's what makes her look the most desperate, you know.
Co-Host Bert
Yeah. But I think that the professional pictures is a great idea. I think putting her up on, you know, helping her do some online dating is a great idea. She might meet some different people and can't you do it? I've never done the online dating thing. But can't you do it by category of age too?
Caller Alyssa
Yes.
Co-Host Bert
Be able to find guys like that would be more age appropriate. Because you were saying like the 20 year olds are just booty and there's.
Host Bert Weiss
Got to be different. Like, I mean outside of Johnny's Hideaway, there's like that trifecta of like older single people there in Buckhead. There's Johnny's Hideaway, there's another Howls and Carbo's. Isn't that where like all the older dudes hang out? I don't know, it's gotta be places that she could send him or her.
Caller Alyssa
See, it's so difficult because I mean, I'm only 25, so to me it's like I don't really, you know, know, you know, I'm not trying to find a sugar daddy, so I don't know where like all the hotspots are for the older single males or where, you know, older people go to hang out. So I'm clueless in all this and just figured throwing around on the Internet might be easier.
Host Bert Weiss
So what are you asking us? Are you asking us to ask our listeners if this sounds too desperate, if.
Caller Alyssa
It sounds too obliging, is it too desperate or is there like maybe a better way for me to do it, maybe to try to ask other people where there are better places maybe I can go with her. I mean, I've tried going out with her but sometimes because I look really young as well, so sometimes it looks like, you know, since she's in her 20s, that she's bringing her younger, you know, 18 year old sister out and I think sometimes that might look more desperate.
Co-Host Stacy
Well, and I think, I mean I, I would assume that she's a little more relaxed and talking to a guy or dating a guy if her daughter's not her wing woman for the night.
Caller Alyssa
Right?
Host Bert Weiss
So I think this could probably be more common than we think, because I know Stacy's gone through this with her mom. Also, like, there's a little bit of a fear there that her mom is gonna, you know, be alone for the rest of her life. Now, Georgiana's probably fine with it, but I know as the daughter, Stacy's like, man, I'd really like to see her with a guy. But again, you're walking that really fine line of not wanting to be too aggressive. Hey, the bird show. What time is it? Chumba time. Chumbacasino.com is the online social casino with over 100 free games. Play anytime, anywhere for your chance to redeem some serious prizes.
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Original Air Date: February 13, 2026
Hosts/Panel: Bert Weiss, Stacy, Georgiana, Bert (co-host), Rich Eldridge
Featured Callers: Alyssa, Tavon
In this energetic and candid installment, The Bert Show’s cast dives into their signature banter, featuring:
Witty, authentic, and sometimes vulnerable, this episode pulls listeners into the heart of the show, offering both laughter and real talk.
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True to The Bert Show’s style: the episode swings between tongue-in-cheek jabs, warm camaraderie, relatable family/friendship discussion, and a dash of morning radio zest. The cast is candid, authentic, and never far from a laugh—even when exploring more serious or vulnerable moments.
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