Full Show PT 2: Tuesday, February 24 [Vault]

Summary

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The Bert Show – Full Show PT 2: Tuesday, February 24 [Vault]

Date: February 24, 2026
Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy & The Bert Show Cast

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Episode Overview

This episode is a classic Bert Show installment, full of the cast’s signature blend of humor, real talk, and relatable listener drama. The crew dives deep into:

• The saga of a Russian “sugar daddy” email scam that caught Bert’s attention
• A listener call about complicated sibling loyalty versus parental expectations
• A roundtable on the professional risks of social media (with a focus on MySpace and Facebook), highlighting real-life anecdotes and advice

The tone is comedic, self-aware, and supportive, with honest conversations punctuated by laughter and banter.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Russian “Sugar Daddy” Scam Email

[02:00 – 12:22]

• Introduction to the Scam:
  Bert shares that he was contacted by a Russian woman named Evgenia/Evanya through a dating website called “SugarDaddyForMe.com.” The email is full of charmingly broken English, which the cast reads dramatically, including Bert’s attempts at a Russian accent.

  • "To me, 28 years old. I am from sugardaddy for me dot com." – Bert reading Evgenia’s email [02:34]
  • The cast jokes about whether someone created a fake profile of Bert or if it’s all a prank.

• Entertaining the Possibility:
  The group breaks down the email’s odd phrasing and hilariously tries to interpret Evgenia's intent.

  • "We should communicate long time" – Interpreting her request for extended conversation [05:13]
  • "She has 28 years." – Bert, on her way of sharing her age [06:23]

• Skepticism and Realization:
  Suspicion rises when Bert reveals he never replied, but the scammer sends a follow-up referencing his supposed response.

  • "Someone is messing with me, I think. But I'm strangely intrigued..." – Bert [06:36]

• Spam Revealed:
  Co-host Jeff admits he received the same email, confirming it’s spam:

  • "I got the same email." – Jeff [11:21]
  • "It is." – Bert, realizing the scam [11:25]
  • The cast expresses mock heartbreak as the fantasy bursts.
    • "It hurts that Ugbani doesn't exist." – Cassie [12:01]

• Listener Call Validates the Scam:

  • A listener, Danny, calls in to say financial expert Clark Howard recently discussed similar scams on air, confirming that the aim is to get victims to send money for an “airplane ticket.” [12:27–12:38]
    • "All they want you to do is send the money for the airplane ticket." – Danny [12:38]
    • "Is nothing real?" – Bert [12:44]

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2. Sibling Loyalty vs. Parental Expectations

[15:20 – 21:52]

• Listener Calls About Family Drama:
  Rose, a listener, is conflicted about whether to warn her sister that their parents know she’s secretly living with her boyfriend. Parents are paying for her sister's education and housing and disapprove of the arrangement.

  • "My sister’s wide out lying to my parents... [they] say, don’t live with this guy. I think she should be able to live her own life." – Rose [15:24–16:10]

• Cast's Opinion on Sibling Roles:
  The hosts debate whether your primary loyalty should be to your sibling or to the family “rulebook."

  • "You just should always just lock arms with your sibling and be more loyal to them than to rat on them to your parents." – Bert [20:05]

• Resolution and Family Dynamics:
  In a follow-up call, Rose reveals she eventually chose to warn her sister, enabling the ruse to continue. Sisters’ secret “allies" arrangement is likened to a strategic board game:

  • "It is a game of risk now." – Jake [21:55]
  • "She'll protect you because it's true. You gave her some military secrets..." – Jake [21:59] The group reflects on fairness in family treatment, sibling rivalries, and the collateral consequences of betraying a sibling’s trust.

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3. Social Media Risks for Careers

[22:12 – 27:03]

• Employers Checking Social Networks:
  The cast discusses how human resource professionals increasingly scrutinize social media like MySpace and Facebook when considering applicants.

  • "They're finding that more and more human resource professionals admitting to using social network sites like MySpace and Facebook to check out their applicants, beyond just the resumes and the public profiles." – Bert [22:12]

• Real Life Consequences:

  • Cassie shares a story of two coworkers who were fired after venting about their boss on each other’s MySpace pages. [23:12–23:28]
  • A teacher listener, Jamie, calls in to stress how educators are warned to keep private or scrub their online profiles, as students and parents now routinely search for teachers online.
    • "If you wouldn't want a parent or one of your kids seeing it, don't put it on there." – Jamie [23:42]

• Social Media as ‘Scouting Report’:
  Bert muses about the ethical gray area of teachers checking students’ profiles to get an idea of their personalities before the school year starts. [25:19–25:48]

• A Listener’s Close Call:
  Jake, a caller, describes how he was almost fired after posting “F him I hate you, you POS” about his boss on MySpace; an associate showed it to his boss, but HR told him it was “personal life” and let him off with a warning.

  • "I mean, I actually didn't get in trouble...They said really, there's nothing we can do because it's all your personal life." – Jake [26:24]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Bert’s fake Russian accent for Evgenia:
  "I hope still remember me. Was that close?" – Bert [03:21]
• On the spam revelation:
  “Did she say Jeff?...Does it say Jeff on it?” – Realization moment [11:26–11:29]
• Sibling sabotage as board game:
  “Sometimes it's a game of risk is what you're playing.” – Bert [20:30]
• On social media dangers for teachers:
  "Our principal has told us...Go through, clean out, anything, any pictures that wouldn't be appropriate." – Jamie [23:42]
• On workplace ranting online:
  “If I were you, just CUMULUSjobs.com…” – Jake (joking about looking for new work after the social media post) [27:03]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:00 – 12:22] Russian Sugar Daddy Scam Reads & Revelations
• [15:20 – 21:52] Sibling Loyalty: Listener Call and Cast Debate
• [22:12 – 27:03] Social Media Hazards for Careers: Stories and Advice
• Notable listener call-ins: Rose [18:13, 19:07], Jamie [23:37], Jake [26:00]

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Summary Conclusion

This episode typifies The Bert Show's blend of comedic storytelling, audience engagement, and honest discussions about everyday dilemmas. The cast’s playful, supportive dynamic makes even serious topics entertaining, while their candor encourages listeners to reflect on loyalty, online presence, and the real-life nuances of modern relationships. The episode is a testament to the Bert Show’s ability to turn listener stories and internet absurdities into genuinely thoughtful—and funny—radio.

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Transcript

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[B]

I'm going to pull over and ask that man for directions. Hi there. We're looking to get to the campground.

[C]

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[B]

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[D]

The Bird Show I'm strangely intrigued by this. Great music. I don't know how it's happened, but a woman in Russia has contacted me to be her sugar daddy.

[E]

Oh yeah?

[B]

How did she find you?

[D]

I don't know. I don't know. If it's a hoax, it'll start to come together A little bit as I read some of the email.

[F]

Okay.

[D]

And we can all follow along with what I think is going on because I think somebody's jacking with me.

[F]

Okay.

[D]

Okay. The first email, the subject line and she's from Russia. So it's in broken English. So it's going to be a little difficult to read. It says, hello, maybe my new friend. My name is Evgenia. I'm assuming that's how you pronounce it. To me, 28 years old. I am from sugardaddy for me dot com. So right off the bat I'm thinking, okay, someone's jacking with me and put a profile of me up on SugarDaddyForMe.com and contacted this woman was my first

[E]

thought because we talked about that website and so many different conversations. For how long? I mean, it was like months a while.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, months, right.

[F]

And you never put us. You've never put a profile yourself up there.

[D]

You sure? I'm positive.

[C]

All right.

[D]

Maybe I should try this in a Russian accent.

[C]

Good luck.

[D]

I don't know how to do one. I hope still remember me. Was that close.

[E]

That's pretty good, Boris.

[D]

Yeah, I remember you looking for women for serious relationships. That's what she writes. I had interest to you on this site more than month ago and you give me your email address. But later I get strong flu and to me was necessary lay in hospital all this time. I recovered just a week ago.

[F]

I'm. I'm distracted by his accent.

[D]

But yeah, it's not hard to maintain. I sometimes thought of you in this time and I thought that you already not remember me. After my recovering I tried login sugar daddy for me but my profile did not work there already. But I'm so glad that I saved your email in my notepad and now I can write to you this letter.

[F]

Oh my God.

[E]

So this are you sure is directly to you.

[D]

It says bertahitsq100.com.

[E]

Okay, so it wasn't some bulk email she sent out to everybody she could find.

[D]

Not that I know of. Now people may call and say look, I got the same one.

[E]

You got the same one.

[D]

Okay. I hope you will answer on it. Now some words about mindsearch. I looking for serious relationships here. Also I want to find my man and making strong and happy family in future.

[F]

This is so surreal with his accent, this music.

[D]

It's really hard because it long way for it. We should communicate much and long time what to come to it not so. I don't even know what the hell

[E]

that Means we should communicate long time.

[D]

We communicate long time.

[G]

Long time.

[D]

I know that this is difficult to find future love by so way. But I have no result in other ways and to decide to try this. I hope that you still interesting in me and will answer me back. I very much would want that you would write me more about yourselves and have sent me photos. I also shall send you mine photos and will tell more about myself if you answer. I applied my photo so you can see what I look like. Wait, your answer very much.

[F]

Nice job, dude.

[E]

I gotta say.

[F]

Nice.

[E]

Wait till your enterprise.

[D]

I'd give her, but I thought she

[E]

wanted your answer before she sent you pictures.

[D]

She's eager, man. She's rushing. She's drunk probably and she's eager. And I'm giving her an 8. 207.

[F]

Because you're married, right?

[D]

Well, I just, you know, I try to keep it American.

[F]

How old is she?

[D]

28. She has 28 years. The second email and I won't do this one in the really bad Russian accent. I am happy see that you answer to me. I never answered her.

[F]

Oh, somebody is messing with you.

[D]

Someone is messing with me, I think. But I'm strangely intrigued and I want to find this girl and I want to get her on the radio for us. The second email reads like this. Hello, my new friend Bert.

[F]

Oh, she calls you by name.

[E]

So that's specifically to you. Yes, because you are not communicating much and long time.

[D]

That's what it says in the first one.

[F]

She's mess. I mean, somebody's messing with you.

[D]

Hello, my new friend Bert. It is Avenya. How are you? I am fine and become more better when receive your answer to my message. Wait a second. I never answered her. Now I have some free time and I will answer to you simply. I get tired from men on Internet who even not read mine letters and answer on it by a couple of lines and insulting for me because I spend usually not less than hour what to write Letter A.

[B]

She really thinks about what she's going

[D]

to say simply I am not so good in English and sometimes simply cannot understand or not notice anything. I don't know.

[H]

I thought you were going to do this one in the Russian accent.

[D]

You can't help it. It's in me, man. Thank you.

[E]

Like a real actor who's going to stay in character all day.

[D]

I'm like Robert Downey right now. Yeah. Tropic Thunder. Thank you for spend time to write me. So somebody wrote her back as me. I hoped that you will answer to my message and Very glad to have your answer. It show that Internet really work. And then she starts to tell me a little bit about herself. Bring it on. I live in Russia, as probably you understand already. At city is Chevisk. I, Z, H, E, V, S, K. Just a couple of vowels in Russia would be awesome. I'm 28 years old. Doesn't seem right without this.

[F]

There we go.

[D]

My birthday is on 29.

[F]

I have my shot of vodka in front of me.

[G]

I'm ready to go.

[D]

Of December. My growth is 171cm. Weight is 51kg.

[E]

Oh, metric.

[F]

Damn metric.

[D]

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

[H]

Ask Michael Phelps, he knows about meters and whatnot.

[D]

I hope you understand how much it in centimeters and kilograms. Probably at your country you have other things to measure weight and growth. I live with my sister in apartment not far from center which we rent for us. It is she advised to me to try to search man through Internet in your country. Matter in that my sister one year ago, also using those agency acquaintances has got acquainted with one man. He live at your country, but he is Russian. He leave to your country already about five years ago. Until now he lived there. His name is Roman. Roman the Russian.

[E]

I think this is legit. I don't think anybody's messing with him.

[D]

But I never answered back.

[F]

He never answered her back. And she said that he did.

[D]

I am glad that mine sister have luck to find her soulmate. She was alone too long. Roman also was alone enough long time. He lost his wife before leaving to your country. If our correspondence will develop, we can talk by phone one day in future. I am very glad that with help of it all, we can communicate with you. And then she wraps it up. Okay, now I should finish and back to work. I hope my letter was not too boring for you. And you're still interesting in me. Probably. You hear about scammers, people who use photos of girls, insane words of love and later asking for money. I hear in Internet it is a lot of similar vermins.

[H]

Vermin.

[F]

Vermin.

[E]

So I want that is an underused word.

[D]

It's used in Russia way more than it is here. It's been used once. It's been used more than it's been here. So I want to say you that I am not one of them. And I would never start ask you money especially I would never start right you that I fall in love with you. Because I consider that it is not serious and a little absurd.

[F]

Said the L word.

[D]

Though I am here what you find right, man. With which I can be happy and can develop serious relationships for real in future, not for relationships in Internet. Signed Evanya.

[E]

I think Evania is the real deal. That's too good.

[F]

Sweet Evania.

[E]

Because the broken English is really good. Broken English. Do you know what I mean? If it were somebody who actually spoke English and was trying to write broken English, I don't think it would be that authentic.

[F]

Jeff has a smirk on his face.

[E]

Did you jack on it?

[H]

No, I got the same email.

[D]

Oh, you did? She's digging on you too.

[H]

It's spam.

[D]

It is.

[F]

Did she say Jeff?

[D]

Yes, it is.

[E]

Does it say Jeff on it?

[D]

Yes.

[F]

Aw. Is Evanya not real? Is Evania on the spot?

[H]

I didn't want to break your heart.

[D]

Yes, you did. You purposely just broke me in a van. I don't.

[H]

I don't know if I got ever got the second one now.

[D]

There's a direct email address for her. Yeah.

[H]

@yahoo.com.

[D]

yeah, man. Yahoo all over the world.

[F]

Yahoo.

[E]

Let's find her with our private investigator.

[D]

I really do. I was intrigued by it yesterday, thinking, you know what? I would really like to get her off.

[H]

Oh, it's not a hurt.

[D]

And then I thought, oh, it hurts.

[F]

It hurts that Ugbani doesn't exist.

[E]

Ivanya, don't.

[D]

Let's see. He's pessimistic about love for me, though she might exist. Here's what I thought. Yesterday, she accidentally emails me. I put her in touch with Trey.

[C]

They fall in love.

[E]

Oh, no.

[D]

Because she is fairly hot. Good morning. Q100 Burt Show.

[G]

Hey, guys, it's Danny.

[D]

Hey, Danny.

[F]

Hey, Danny.

[G]

Hey. Clark Howard was just talking about the same thing yesterday on his radio show, saying that it is a hoax. All they want you to do is send the money for the airplane ticket.

[D]

Oh, that's heartbreaking.

[F]

It was Bigfoot. And now Ivanya. I don't know what to believe in anymore.

[D]

Is nothing real? Is nothing real?

[F]

Is nothing real?

[H]

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[D]

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[D]

Hi there.

[B]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[C]

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.

[B]

How are you getting a signal out here?

[C]

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[B]

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[D]

All right, so this is Rose on Friday.

[G]

So my sister's wide out lying to my parents. She's had boyfriends since summer of between high school and college. My parents never really liked him. She's moving into like an apartment. She swears up and down that she's living with a girl. The girl isn't starting until right before classes start so she's not coming in yet. My dad is dead set that it's because My sister and her boyfriend are living together and she's just lying. My dad is gonna wait until after the weekend when supposedly this roommate is moving in and then bust my sister. I don't know what I should do because my sister is getting her education paid for and her rent paid for by my parents. Technically she should be doing what they say. And they say, don't live with this guy. I think she should be able to live her own life. My mom totally agrees. She's a grown woman. Let her live with who she wants.

[F]

Right.

[D]

All right, so just give me a little bit of. A little more information on this. You said there was some sibling rivalry going on also.

[E]

It seemed that way because we couldn't figure because we were all. Well, Melissa and I were talking about how we would have immediately gone to our siblings.

[F]

Yeah, absolutely. Warn the sibling of the parent knowing and give them the opportunity to do something about it before they get in trouble. But in the end, I mean, you could hear that she went back and forth. I think she should be able to live her life, live with who she wants to, however she gets college paid for, her rent paid for. So the sister was going back and forth on how she should handle the situation. And in the end she decided not to tell the little sister that the parents were tipped off to the live in boyfriends.

[H]

And in the beginning it seemed totally legit. In the end it was when the rivalry stuff came out at the beginning. Cause I asked, I deferred to those guys, you know, Jen and Melissa, because they have siblings. So at the beginning she's like, didn't bring anything up about getting the rent paid for and oh, everything's fine. And then by the end of the conversation, you could see cracks in the, you know, testimony. You're like, you know, randomly she would just say, well, you know, she's a good person even though she's getting her rent all paid for. I never had my rent paid for. But anyways, whatever.

[D]

Stacy as a grown woman will still talk about that. The way her younger brother was treated in comparison to her. Like she had to drive around an old beat up car for a while. He got a brand new car. Still.

[E]

I always complain about how I had like the earliest curfew of anyone I knew growing up. Like, I mean, even as a senior, I had to be in by like 10:30 or 11. And by the time my brother was a senior, oh, he was out till like 12:30.

[A]

What?

[E]

Never had 12:30.

[F]

But he's a boy, he's a girl, and it's more dangerous for you to be out than your brother. That's not a great point. That's the points that parents give. My brother had the same thing. He didn't have a curfew. Whatever.

[E]

No curfew at all?

[D]

No, no.

[F]

My sister and I did.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

I'd still be mad about it.

[F]

Yes, whatever.

[D]

So stay out all night if you want.

[F]

He's a strong man and he's not going to get into danger. Whatever. I wouldn't.

[H]

I wouldn't go there, Bert. Just let him have their anger. Don't involve yourself in it because you're a man and they may take it out.

[F]

Well, if he didn't grow up with siblings, then.

[D]

Oh, don't really understand it. Rose is back. Good morning, Rose. You're on the voice disguiser. How are you?

[G]

Oh, good.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

What's going on?

[G]

So I told my sister.

[F]

You did?

[D]

You did tell the sister. Oh, good.

[E]

I'm proud of you.

[D]

When did you have the change of heart? Why?

[G]

I don't know. One of what the lady said when you guys took callers, she was just like your sister. You have this important bond and it. I don't know if it just made me feel guilty or good or both, but I was just like, you know what? She's totally right. She's my sister. I love her. She would do the same thing for me. So I called her and I told her and she called her boyfriend because my dad had to work on Monday so he had to go back. So she just had to wait it out until Monday morning. So he waited to move in until Monday or until today. And she had some girl come over with some boxes and kind of just pretended like she was moving in.

[H]

So her boyfriend is going to move in there today?

[G]

Yeah.

[H]

In a pretend girl just spent the night there last night or whatever or over the weekend.

[G]

That was exactly right. And it's kind of frustrating because, I don't know, she just. She got all dramatic about it. The nice thing is that now ask me to use against her in case I need to.

[D]

But the nice thing about it is

[E]

what she can easily.

[D]

So you're building up. You've built up a couple of points this weekend.

[G]

Yeah, it's very handy.

[E]

How long do you think she's going to be able to keep up this whole charade?

[G]

You know, I was spooky, so I'm guessing she'll at least make it six months.

[D]

Six months?

[F]

Really?

[G]

Yeah. At least. Because my dad, now that he saw the girl moving in, he's like, oh, my Little baby. I should have never doubted her. He wants to believe that she's the most perfect thing in the whole world, Man.

[D]

If he finds out that you knew about this and you didn't tell him.

[F]

Well, I mean, that's. The debate we had last week is like, what is your role as a sibling? Is it. I mean, because. Yeah, I said that you just should always just lock arms with your sibling and be more loyal to them than to rat on them to your parents.

[E]

I think it is. It's like siblings unite. Just like the parents have to unite against the kids.

[D]

Yeah. We don't have to create a war like atmosphere in the family, people, but

[E]

you have to sort of.

[D]

Sometimes it's a game of risk is what you're playing.

[H]

Yep. I'm gonna line up with your brother and your mother and then there's gonna be three of us against one of you. So you're down. You can try to get the cat on your side, but it's not gonna help.

[E]

You do have to make those alignments though, because think about it. If she didn't pick her sister.

[F]

Right.

[E]

And she picked the parents side, the next time her sister had something on her.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

That she's going right to the parents and it's back and forth, back and forth. You gotta just. Siblings unite.

[D]

There's probably more collateral damage if you don't protect the sister. Right. Yes, right, I understand that. All right, so situation rectified so your parents don't find out about it. And if they do, at least you have a strong united front.

[F]

Well, it's not her. It's not her responsibility that the sister, the boy, you know, now it's all on the sister. Sister knows that the parents are suspecting and it's all on her.

[D]

Okay.

[F]

I think you did the right thing.

[E]

And I think if she gets. I think if she gets caught, I don't think that they'll be mad at you for not telling.

[G]

I hope not. I told her not to tell anyone that I told. So hopefully she'll keep up her end of the deal.

[H]

Well, she'll have to because now, like you said, you've got that point with her. So why would she tell anybody you told?

[D]

She would have to protect you at this point if the parents found out about it now it's her responsibility to protect you. Do you think that she would do that?

[G]

I don't know. I don't know.

[E]

Well, Rose told me it was okay.

[D]

That would suck.

[F]

I think she's more likely to protect you now because you protected her.

[E]

That's true.

[D]

All right, Rose, thanks for sharing your story with us.

[H]

It is a game of risk now.

[C]

Yeah.

[H]

She'll protect you because it's true. You know, you gave her some military secrets and she has to protect you now because her borders are vulnerable.

[D]

That's right. Your family is one big game of risk right now. Just know that the Birch show and

[F]

finally the days of writing down references for potential employers are over because they're finding that more and more human resource professionals admitting to using social network sites like MySpace and Facebook to check out their applicants, beyond just the resumes and the public profiles, they say that in many cases, if an HR person shares in the same network as you and you have friends on your network, they may go to those friends and ask about you without your permission to find out all the dirt about you.

[D]

We had sort of a case of this yesterday. You know, the more that we talked to Sean and Wendy on the show, and they're what, 22, 23 years old, the more I feel like the dad of the show. But, you know, I saw Sean's MySpace page yesterday, and, man, anybody that potentially is gonna hire her if they go to her MySpace page, forget it.

[E]

She has to stay in radio always.

[D]

I mean, always. There is no chance. You really gotta be careful. Right.

[B]

And our college professors are actually warning us to either put our MySpace profiles on private or put it on under different names because they've warned us about potential employers now looking at MySpace so definitely being taught in college not to

[F]

be your MySpace page out there.

[E]

I know somebody that got fired because of comments that they were. It was two co workers, and they were leaving comments on each other's page about their boss and about their work and being negative about it. And both of them were pulled into the office and fired.

[C]

No kidding.

[E]

Yeah, because it was so ugly, the things they were saying about their boss.

[F]

It was a public page. Yes. Everybody's gonna see it.

[D]

You think it was common sense, right?

[F]

Yeah. People get worried about if people can overhear their phone conversations, and they do that.

[D]

Good morning, Jamie. You're on Q100. Hi.

[I]

Hi, guys. I love your show.

[F]

Thank you.

[I]

I was just calling to weigh in on the MySpace page. I'm a teacher, and either MySpace or Facebook, you have to be so careful because parents and kids will look you up. And our principal has told us, she said, guys, you have got to be careful, Go through, clean out, anything, any pictures that wouldn't be appropriate. If you wouldn't want a parent or one of your kids seeing it, don't put it on there.

[D]

Do you know any teachers that got in trouble for this very thing?

[I]

Well, we had some that she just said. I'm sure they checked. She said, she hinted she'd seen some from our staff that she said, you guys really need to go back and look at them and really clean them up. Because we had some that probably had things they weren't supposed to on there. And even if you're set to private, you know, a lot of times it's what's their last name or something like that. And obviously the kids or the parents are going to know that. So it really doesn't make it that private. And I had one of my students from four or five years ago find me on MySpace and message me. She's in sixth grade now, and I found her when she was like four years ago.

[E]

So does it work the other way around? Do you go to your students MySpace pages too?

[I]

Not really. Because in my opinion that's a little weird to have a teacher going and looking up her students MySpace pages. So I try to be as professional as possible, but I don't have a problem with the kids messaging me on MySpace because I teach third graders, they still do it. Their parents, some of their parents have pages or they go on and they look it up.

[D]

That's an interesting concept here, especially with school just starting out. Because while you're saying you're being very professional about it, you could also use that to your advantage if you wanted to. Like, if you've got the roster of children in your class and you want to sort of like test out even before they get into your class, like, who may be the kids that might be a little bit more out there than others. You go to their MySpace page and you do a little, you know, a little research on them, kind of know

[E]

what you're dealing with.

[D]

You're getting yourself a little scouting report before the school year even starts.

[F]

If it's public again, if all this is public, then that means anybody can look at it. So what's the problem with having people look at it?

[D]

Right, right. Good morning. We're gonna call this person Jake, and he's on the voice disguiser. Go ahead, Jake.

[G]

Hey, what's up? I actually just posted something about my boss last week on MySpace that was kind of negative.

[F]

That wasn't smart.

[G]

And well, it was. I put like F him I hate you. Your POS basically all over it. And then one of my associates that actually worked for me took a photo and showed it to him.

[H]

And.

[G]

And I just got. I mean, I actually didn't get in trouble. I went to the office, they sat me down. They said, really, there's nothing we can do because it's all your personal life. It's nothing to do with work. So, you know, just work it out, don't do it again.

[D]

How can they say it doesn't have anything to do with work if you're ripping on your boss?

[G]

Yeah, because it's, it's all. I mean, yeah, ripping on my boss, but it's all personal. It's all my personal. You know, even though it's not something I'm bringing into work, I wasn't using any animosity at work, at the job. So they said, you know, we really can't do nothing to you because you

[D]

caught a break right there.

[F]

Yeah, you got lucky because I would have fired you.

[D]

Yeah, he caught a break.

[H]

If I were you, just C U M U l u s jobs.com the

[D]

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[B]

I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions.

[D]

Hi there.

[B]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[C]

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.

[B]

How are you getting a signal out here?

[C]

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.

[B]

Actually, can you point us in the direction of a T mobile store?

[A]

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[D]

to know the right answer, just what most Americans think is right.

[A]

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[D]

We asked 100 average Americans, do they

[H]

keep an empty gas can in their car?

[F]

No.

[D]

Have they ever been broken a bone?

[C]

No. I said a lot of no, that's all right.

[D]

My wife says a lot of no as well.

[A]

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[B]

We're lost. I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions.

[D]

Hi there.

[B]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[C]

Well, you're gonna take a left at the old oak tree end of this here road. I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out.

[B]

How are you getting a signal out here?

[C]

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.

[B]

Actually, can you point us in the direction of a T Mobile store?

[A]

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 is available in US Cellular stores. Best mobile network based on analysis by Oogle of speed test intelligence data 2H2025 bigger network. The combination of T Mobile's and US Cellular's network footprints will enhance the T Mobile network's coverage price guarantee on talk text and data exclusions like taxes and fees apply. See t mobile.com for details.