Full Show PT 3: Monday, May 25 [Vault]

Summary

The Bert Show – Full Show PT 3: Monday, May 25 [Vault]

Air Date: May 25, 2026
Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, and the Bert Show team
Summary Covers: [01:30] – [63:42]

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Overview

This episode of The Bert Show is a dynamic mix of live audience calls, candid debates on social trends, embarrassment-free Q&A, stories about parenting and child safety, and an in-depth interview with Beaver Phillips, author of "Copy, Paste and Bang." The hosts bring their signature blend of humor, real talk, and listener participation, covering everything from generational clashes in nursing, internet dating culture, learning embarrassing trivia, and the genuine panic of losing a child in public.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. Are Younger Nurses Worse Than Older Nurses?

[01:30] – [09:14]

• Melissa shares her hospital experiences and a conversation with a nurse who claimed that younger nurses care less about patients and are more focused on their shifts and paychecks than older nurses.
  • Quote (Melissa, 03:16): “So many of these new nurses...are coming in for the paycheck...and then they end up staying at the nurse's station...rather than actually getting up and interacting...with their patients.”
• Wendy and Jeff counter that you’d expect the reverse – that older nurses might get desensitized, but Melissa’s anecdote suggests otherwise.
• Listener Call (Kimmere, 05:02): A 39-year-old nursing student, disagrees: senior nurses often lack bedside manner, while younger nurses are relatable, compassionate, and less jaded.
  • Quote (Kimmere, 06:35): “The older nurses are just atrocious. They’re great clinicians...but when it comes down to just being able to relate to patients...I tend to disagree with her.”
• Listener Call (Kathy, 06:55): Kathy relays her mom’s view (an experienced nurse): younger nurses avoid tough, hands-on jobs and “aren’t realistic about the amount of work.”
• The cast agrees that, ultimately, motivation and personality matter more than age or experience.

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2. Embarrassment-Free Zone: "Dumb Questions" Answered

[11:47] – [23:38]

• Wendy launches an “embarrassment free zone” where anyone can ask questions they’re too embarrassed to pose to friends.
  • Quote (Wendy, 12:41): “Here’s where you guys call us up, any question that you’ve ever had, and…we’ll answer.”
• Examples:
  • What does “(sic)” mean? (Latin for “thus,” used to indicate a verbatim quote that contains an error – [13:24]–[15:55])
  • What does TMZ stand for? (“Thirty Mile Zone” – [16:32]–[17:07])
  • Why do NBA coaches (and benched players) wear suits? (NBA rules, professional appearance – [18:03]–[18:59])
  • Who is Taylor Lautner? (Star of Twilight, Shark Boy – [19:19]–[20:05])
  • What does “M.O.” mean? (Modus Operandi, “way of doing things” – [20:30]–[21:34])
  • Who is Chuck Norris? (Martial arts actor, Walker Texas Ranger, meme tough guy – [21:37]–[22:28])
  • What does HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) mean? (Carpool lane – [23:04]–[23:46])

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3. Parenting Panic: Losing Kids in Public

[26:21] – [35:16]

• Bert and Wendy share dramatic stories of losing their children for a few minutes in crowded places—especially Bert’s harrowing moment when his son wandered in a Hawks game arena.
  • Quote (Wendy, 27:55): “I see the panic starting to go over Stacy's face…So we go into customer service. He's not there…75 minutes is what it felt like…”
• Listener Calls: Vivid stories of kids lost at Disney World, on beaches, and even in Bass Pro Shops, highlighting both parental anxiety and effective security interventions.
  • Notably, a Disney story involving a child found in a men’s bathroom with her appearance already altered, thanks only to the park’s rapid lockdown response.
• Moral: Don’t feel embarrassed by child leashes—safety trumps judgment.

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4. Internet Dating & Hookup Culture: Interview with Beaver Phillips

[40:34] – [63:42]

• Guest: Beaver “Steve” Phillips, author of "Copy, Paste and Bang" (a “step-by-step guide for men to meet women on the internet and get laid”).

• Hosts’ Framing: Not an endorsement, but an exposé for female listeners about the types of men on dating sites looking for hookups only.

• Beaver’s Key Points:

  • Advocates honesty, self-confidence, and humor.
  • Uses sites like Plenty of Fish and Match.com, filtering for women with similar interests (i.e., not seeking a relationship).
  • Quote (Beaver, 42:29): “I’m not out there being deceitful…I preach three main concepts: self-confidence, humor, and honesty.”
  • Claims both men and women use the sites for casual encounters.
  • Filters for "party girl" profile pictures and explicit or suggestive screen names.

• Panel Reaction:

  • Some skepticism around the ethics, but consensus builds: if both sides are honest, there's no problem.
    • Jen (53:40): “Don’t obsess over that one dude…it’s just like, put it out there and see what happens.”
    • Melissa (53:17): “If you’re being honest, who cares?”
  • Female callers share their own candid stories about dating for sex, maintaining separate profiles for hookups/relationships, and enjoying the autonomy online dating provides women.
  • Caller (54:45): “We just want to kind of hook up, do our thing and move along as well.”
  • Craigslist and Match: Use for physical encounters; eHarmony seen as more relationship-focused.

• Notable Moments:

  • Beaver shares his real screen name (be4072000) for listeners who want direct experience.
  • Jeff jokes that Beaver sounds like Seth Rogen from "Knocked Up" ([61:45]).
  • Jen teases the idea of running an experiment giving Beaver’s book to a male listener and checking follow-up results ([63:20]).

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5. General Tone and Listener Engagement

• Humorous, irreverent, and authentic: Hosts frequently poke fun at each other, riff off caller comments, and never take themselves too seriously.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • On losing kids: “I won’t judge leashes anymore…after hearing these stories, I’d rather you laugh at my kid than find him in the men’s bathroom in different clothes.” (Melissa, [35:04])
  • On online dating cynicism: “If the guy you’re talking to has ‘Beaver’ in his name, I’m pretty sure he’s gonna want the sex.” (Jen, [62:08])
• Listener participation is central: Multiple voices, stories, and perspectives keep the conversation engaging, diverse, and relatable.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Melissa on younger nurses: “They’re coming in for the paycheck…at the nurse’s station the majority of the time.” [03:16]
• Kimmere, nursing student: “The older nurses…just seem to lack that bedside manner.” [05:02]
• Melissa on embarrassment: “We really never leave the third grade…we’re still afraid to ask those questions.” [12:35]
• Wendy on child getting lost: “So I start panicking…not letting anybody out of the parking lot.” [33:31]
• Beaver Phillips on dating honesty: “Lying equals too much work.” [42:29]
• Melissa summing up: “If you’re being honest, who cares?” [53:17]
• Jen on learning: “Don’t obsess over that one dude.” [53:40]
• Beaver's real screen name: “thebe4072000.” [56:52]

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Useful Timestamps

• Nurse debate: [01:30] – [09:14]
• Embarrassment-free Q&A: [11:47] – [23:46]
• Lost children/panic stories: [26:21] – [35:16]
• Beaver Phillips interview (dating culture): [40:34] – [63:42]

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Final Thoughts

This Bert Show episode is a whirlwind of real-world stories, practical advice, and humor, bouncing seamlessly from weighty themes (ethics in healthcare and online dating) to quirky curiosity (pop culture and language mysteries) to true-life tension and relief (parenting scares). The hosts uphold a lively, welcoming atmosphere, embodying their “real, funny, and authentic” promise to listeners. If you want to feel like part of the conversation—without a filter or judgment—this show delivers.

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Transcript

[Bert]

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[Melissa]

The Bird show so are younger nurses worse than older nurses now?

[Wendy]

We got a lot of nurses listening at this time.

[Melissa]

A lot of nurses listening. And I never thought about this before. I am a transplant recipient. I'm a patient, chronic illness. So I deal with nurses a lot and I love them all because to me, the nurses are the ones who are in the trenches. They're the ones that deal with the patients. They're the ones that see more a lot of times than the doctors do. And so it's not in my experience that I've seen this, but recently My mother, Millie Pete was in the hospital in Nashville. And this is, I guess about a month ago at this point. And so I was up there visiting with her. And a lot of times when someone's in the hospital, nobody's ever been to a hospital or been there for a while. There's shift changes. And so you have nurses during the day and you have nurses overnight. And a lot of times when you're the family members in a hospital with your loved one, there's a lot of downtime. And so when the nurses come in and do their lab work or do whatever, you get in a conversation. So I was in a conversation with one of these nurses in Nashville and. And I don't know how it came up, but somehow we started talking. Maybe it's about the nursing shortage, because there's been nursing shortage for a while. And so she was talking about the new nurses that are coming into the hospitals. And she made the comment that she thought that younger nurses were worse than older nurses because she felt that younger nurses did not care about the patients as much as older nurses did.

[Wendy]

Now, I would almost think as common sense, it would be the other way around because nurses that have been around a while have sort of seen it all. And maybe there's a desensitivity there if you're an older nurse, whereas if you're new, everything's new and exciting. Everybody needs to be catered to.

[Jeff]

You would think that they would be a little more like, jaded and callous, like, oh, it doesn't hurt that much if you're older. Yeah, if you've been doing it for a long time.

[Melissa]

But from her perspective, she felt that she got into nursing simply for care, simply for human care, that she's there as an emotional support for her patients as well as physical support. And I think her theory was that so many of these new nurses that are coming in, who are maybe coming in for the nursing shortage or just because they're young, that they're coming in for the paycheck, they're coming in to do their job, they just go do their rounds, and then they end up staying at the nurse's station the majority of the time rather than actually getting up and interacting and having these long conversations with their patients.

[Jeff]

Well, my best friend who's like, my sister is a nurse and her husband is a nurse anesthesis. And their complaint, it's called nurse anesthesis. So it's right below the anesthesiologist.

[Jen]

Oh, okay.

[Jeff]

But it's a very specialized form of nursing. But Their frustration with the whole industry is all of them are called a nurse, but there's different levels of education all the way through the whole thing. But there's no real delineation whether you have a two year degree in your nursing or whether you have a four year degree in your nursing, whether you have a graduate degree, or whether you go on and on and get multiple graduate degrees. They call everybody a nurse. So that's their frustration with it. So maybe that's. Maybe that ties into it a little bit too, like whether the level of education has anything to do with it.

[Wendy]

I wonder if there's an element, like it's a recession now also, so people are out of work. And the nursing industry has always needed people to fill those positions. So anybody can be a nurse. You can be a nurse.

[Jen]

You can be a nurse.

[Wendy]

I wouldn't have thought about it years ago, but now I will. Even though their heart's really not into it.

[Jen]

You got some construction worker putting a thermometer in your butt.

[Wendy]

You could save that for Jeff.

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[Jen]

Gal, you're not even drunk.

[Wendy]

What's going on, Kim?

[Kimmere]

Well, good morning. First of all, let me say I love the Burt Show.

[Caller]

Thank you.

[Melissa]

Thank you.

[Kimmere]

Second of all, I am a nursing student currently, and I have about six months left, and I've been in just about every hospital in the metropolitan area. And I totally disagree. You know, it's funny because when you walk into a hospital as a nursing student doing your clinicals, you're kind of sizing up that particular hospital to see, you know, is this someplace I could see myself working? And the older nurses, I mean, you know, and I've been on site wards, pediatrics, labor and delivery. The older nurses are kind of mean. Like, they don't. They for some reason, they just seem to lack that bedside manner, you know, and the whole reason, I mean, I'm a late, you know, I'm 39, going back to school with two kids, you know, and I did this because I wanted to make a difference. And basically, I don't know what I want to do. I'm the only one that doesn't know. I just know that I want to do indigent care and work, you know, with impoverished people. So nine times out of ten, that means gravy. And the older nurses are just atrocious. I mean, they're more. They're great clinicians, I will say that, because they have the life experience and they know a lot more, and I applaud them for that. But when it comes down to just Being able to relate to patients, relate to the families of patients. I tend to disagree with her. Not all of them. I mean, I don't mean to, I don't want to generalize by any means and say that all of the older nurses are like that, but nine times out of 10, the nurses that I've run into where I'm like, good gracious, if I ever end up like that, somebody please you know, tell me.

[Wendy]

I'd rather have a nurse that doesn't have a great bedside matter that saves my life.

[Jen]

She can be grumpy as long as

[Wendy]

she knows she can be as mean as you want me as long as you save my life. Do whatever you want.

[Jen]

I will take the biggest. A hole nurse who can find my vein on the first trial.

[Wendy]

Absolutely, man. Don't use me for target practice.

[Jen]

Right.

[Wendy]

Hey, Kathy, good morning. You're on. How's your family?

[Jen]

Poke, poke, poke, poke, poke.

[Caller]

Good morning. I love you guys.

[Wendy]

Hi. Thank you.

[Caller]

My mother has been a maternity nurse

for almost 40 years and I have

heard her say more than one time about these younger nurses that are coming in. And it's not that they don't care about the patients or care about why they're there. She said that they're just not very realistic about an amount of work that's required. She says that she has younger nurses always saying, hey, room 14 needs a soda. Can you go give them a soda? Room 14 just wet their bed. Can you go change their sheets? They don't want to do that kind of thing. And my mother is very frustrated with the younger nurses in that sense of

[Wendy]

the, of the whole realm of things. I wonder if we picked any, if we picked any profession, if this would be the argument, like if you got a whole bunch of flight attendants on right now, I wonder if there'd still be that gender sort of bridge between both.

[Melissa]

Because the argument, even with the nurses, when it comes to the patients, the fact that the nurses were complaining about the younger patients as opposed to the older patients. Because mom, my mother is 80 and she's up out of the bed the first day, up and down the hall like she's, she wants out of that hospital. She, she wants to get out. And the nurses are even like, you know, they have all their 60 plus patients usually end up getting out of the hospital within a couple days. But their 30 and 40 and 50 year old patients are, they say whining and they don't want to work as hard and they don't want to do what the nurses tell them to do and they end up being in there like three or four extra days.

[Kelly]

I think it just has to do with the individual. I have a friend who's 27 years old and has been in nursing for a couple of years now, and she's a younger nurse and she has to do all that work. She takes the responsibility and goes, changes and does the crap work that nobody else wants to do. I think it has to do with individuals.

[Wendy]

I would last two seconds in a hospital when I talk to my sister in law and she tells me some of the things she has to do to people.

[Jeff]

No way I'd be.

[Wendy]

I'd literally last 36 hours. As soon as they pointed to somebody else, that'd be it.

[Melissa]

God bless them, because there's no way

[Jeff]

I could do it either.

[Melissa]

That goes where what Wendy's saying and I think what Bert, you were saying is like, if you're going into nursing for the right reasons in care, all of that has to do with the care because you disregard all that because what you're doing is making the patient feel better. But if you're going into it, just focus on the fluid or focus on, you know, whatever's going on and not thinking about that person as an individual who needs to be healed, then you don't need to be into nursing. You know what I mean?

[Wendy]

I'm way too selfish to be a doctor or nurse.

[Melissa]

Yeah, it's tough.

[Caller]

I can't handle.

[Melissa]

I can't handle it. I'm too squeamish.

[Wendy]

Yeah, man, that is a tough gig all the way around.

[Melissa]

Yeah. Another nurse would have to clean up my vomit as I'm trying to nurse somebody else.

[Jeff]

I mean, Jeff just said the word ooze and it just about made me barf.

[Jen]

That is a sexy word right there.

[Wendy]

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[Bert]

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

[Jeff]

Help is always ready before, during and after your stay.

[Melissa]

We've planned for for the plot twists,

[Wendy]

so support is always available because a great trip starts with peace of mind. The Birch Show. So I've been trying to get to this now for days and days and days. The Birch Show's embarrassment free zone. This is when you guys can call up 404-741, Q100 and you can basically ask any question that you want of something going on in your life or around you that you're too embarrassed to ask anybody else. Like, there are plenty of people right now that are listening that have heard us discuss or heard your friends discuss Twitter, but you really have no idea what it is. But you're afraid to ask one of your friends. Cause you know that they're gonna embarrass you and they're gonna laugh at you and they're gonna inevitably say, I can't believe you don't know what Twitter is.

[Melissa]

We really never leave the third grade. You know, like, when it comes to point in life.

[Caller]

Ha ha.

[Melissa]

You don't know what Twitter is. Come on.

[Wendy]

How can you not know that?

[Melissa]

You're a dork, right? You know, we're still afraid to ask those questions.

[Wendy]

You know, maybe for the last week, people have been talking about Tiger woods, and you really don't know who Tiger woods is. You, like, you don't know why he's a big deal. You couldn't ask your friends because they would give you such a hard time, right? So here's where you guys call us up any question that you've ever had, and I'm gonna even gonna start it here. And this has always driven me nuts, okay? And I have never even asked the question, but whenever I'm reading a book and I see that parentheses and then inside of it, it says, S, I, C, Sick. You know, I just go right over it, but I really have no idea what it means.

[Jeff]

I think I know what it means, but I'm not sure if I'm correct.

[Jen]

I want to know what the. Because I have done the same thing and what I have always assumed it means. And I think if what happens doesn't apply to this definition I'm about to give, then I just. Oh, my God. Obviously the book company made a mistake. But I think, like, if. If they use. Can we call it sic? Is that what it stands sic? I don't even know sic. That means that whatever was preceding that was a verbatim usage of the text. Meaning if there's a misspelling or a grammatical error, it's almost an acknowledgement that that is.

[Melissa]

It wasn't an accident, that it was misspelled or whatever.

[Jen]

Yeah, that's what I think it means.

[Jeff]

My perception is different. My thought is that if it has six.

[Jen]

Look what you've started, Bart.

[Wendy]

I know. No one really knows. We just know. We say it in our head.

[Jeff]

Well, to me, it means that it was a direct quote from somebody else previously, but there were different things left out of it.

[Jen]

What do you mean?

[Jeff]

Like, say the quote that they were quoting before the sic was a really

[Jen]

long one, so they edited it down,

[Jeff]

but they edited down to a shorter version to extract their own meaning from it. But it's not the full detailed, original

[Melissa]

quote, because in some quotes, they have to acknowledge that.

[Jeff]

They have to acknowledge that they changed it or edited it in some way. That's what I thought it was.

[Wendy]

I was always under the impression that it was like A misspelled word or something like that. But the book people had to let you know that they weren't misspelling it, that it was, like, within a quote.

[Jen]

You thought that's what I think it is, but I have no idea what it stands for or if that's even right.

[Wendy]

So if you guys have any questions like that, we're actually going to get the answer to the SIC question.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Wendy]

Okay, then give us a call right now. 404-741. Q100. Hey, Misty. Good morning.

[Caller]

Hey, Bert.

[Misty]

You're right, Bert. That's what it means.

[Wendy]

What is it? Because I don't even know.

[Misty]

It means that it was what they

[Caller]

wrote in the book is not actually correct.

[Wendy]

That it was.

[Kimmere]

It was miss. It was miswritten.

[Wendy]

Okay, so it's not like the book messed something up. They're letting you know that it was miswritten before, and they're putting it in, like Jeff said, verbatim.

[Misty]

Verbatim. As to what it is, even though it is incorrect. Yes.

[Kimmere]

Lawyers use that quite a bit.

[Jen]

If we end up.

[Jeff]

What does it stand for?

[Misty]

I'm sorry?

[Jeff]

What does SIC stand for?

[Caller]

I don't know what it stands for, but that's what.

[Wendy]

That's why they do that.

[Kimmere]

We do that. I work for an attorney, and we do that quite often.

[Jen]

I have it.

[Wendy]

So we're halfway home.

[Jen]

I have it right here. It doesn't stand for anything. It's a Latin word, and it's actually a.

[Jeff]

What's the Latin meaning thus?

[Jen]

And it's pronounced seek.

[Bert]

Seek.

[Wendy]

Okay.

[Melissa]

It just means the book publisher wants to say, look, we're not dumb. Yeah, right.

[Jen]

Can we end our show Not.

[Jeff]

My bad.

[Jen]

Can we end our show every day by saying parentheses seek?

[Wendy]

In the past, when we've done this, what other kind of questions have we received?

[Jeff]

A lot of one's about, like, pop culture stuff that people don't understand or

[Melissa]

maybe or something we do as an inside. You know, to save that or, you know, something maybe we do as well.

[Wendy]

I'd rather keep them away from Birch show related stuff, but just general stuff that you know, you should know, but you're just too embarrassed to ask your friends. Hey, Liz. Good morning. You're on Q100.

[Kimmere]

Good morning.

[Caller]

I'm very excited to be on with

[Kimmere]

you guys this morning. You drive to work with me every morning.

[Wendy]

Thank you for calling. What's up?

[Kimmere]

I want to know what TMZ stands for. That program.

[Wendy]

I can handle that one. But, Jen, this is your. This is your specialty.

[Jeff]

I don't know what it stands for.

[Wendy]

It's 30 mile zone, meaning Los Angeles. And then there's. They cover 30 miles within the. Is it the county of LA?

[Jen]

I think it's the. The general perimeter of Los Angeles County.

[Kimmere]

30 miles.

[Caller]

That's very.

[Kimmere]

Thank you. I've always wondered.

[Caller]

I've asked other people, hesitantly ask other people.

[Wendy]

30 mile zone is what that is.

[Kimmere]

Thank you very much.

[Wendy]

You're welcome.

[Jen]

Here's one that Tracy just IM'd me and Wendy, you're gonna have a problem with this.

[Kelly]

Okay.

[Jen]

Until Friday, Tracy had zero idea who Tebow was when we would refer to him on the show.

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[Melissa]

It's an embarrassment free zone, Wendy. You can't come down.

[Jen]

You can't hold it against her.

[Melissa]

You can't embarrassment free.

[Jen]

You still have to be her friend.

[Kelly]

It's only the best quarterback ever.

[Wendy]

And you can't edit like that either.

[Jen]

But now she knows that he's the crybaby that lost the game.

[Jeff]

I'm saying

[Kelly]

no, he's the quarterback for Florida.

[Wendy]

This 316 got smudged on Saturday. I'm sorry. A little thing under his eye.

[Jen]

Somebody sent out a tweet.

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I lost the game.

[Jen]

Did you see it? I retweeted it. Change. He needs to change his itape to read. And I don't know what the biblical verse is, but it's Jesus wept.

[Kelly]

I didn't see anybody else's team in the SEC championship.

[Melissa]

Embarrassing. What is going on, guys? What's going on?

[Caller]

I know what you're talking about.

[Jeff]

I had an embarrassing question that maybe it's not that embarrassing, but I asked at the Hawks game on Friday night, why do NBA coaches and players that aren't playing wear suits? Because it's the only sport where they do. Right.

[Wendy]

I can tell you the reason for that. They are not allowed on the playing field. So if you're a coach that's allowed on the field, like a baseball coach, he's allowed to walk on the field and talk to his, like, pitcher. If you're not allowed on the court, then you don't need to wear the team's jersey. You wear street clothes, but they have to wear suits.

[Jen]

It's probably just an NBA rule.

[Wendy]

I don't know if they have to wear suits if it's a rule.

[Jeff]

That's what my friend said that I went with. He said if they're a player on the team who's not going to be in the game, like they're out injured or whatever, they also wear suits.

[Jen]

It's probably an NBA standard. Because hockey. Hockey players do the same thing.

[Jeff]

Yeah, hockey does too.

[Kelly]

And I know NFL coaches used to back in the day. They don't anymore.

[Jen]

That would be so weird.

[Kelly]

Yeah, they used to be in full tuxes.

[Wendy]

Paul Bear Bryant. Bear Bryant used to be in a suit back in the day. Hey, Kelly. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller]

Hey.

[Wendy]

This is an embarrassment free question zone. You can ask anything you want.

[Caller]

Great. Okay, so I teach middle school.

[Kimmere]

I can't ask any of my students.

[Caller]

You guys have talked about this.

[Kimmere]

I know. He's part of Twilight. I don't know who the Lautner guy is. Jason Lautner.

[Kelly]

Lautner.

[Jen]

Wendy, you're getting your ass kicked this after this morning.

[Kelly]

We all know who Taylor Lautner is. Even the women in here do. He's one of the stars on Twilight and he plays the werewolf.

[Caller]

His name is Taylor.

[Kelly]

His name is Taylor Lautner.

[Jeff]

And how old is he?

[Kelly]

He's 17 years old.

[Jeff]

And what does he look like? Really hot.

[Caller]

Jacob or Edward?

[Kelly]

Jacob.

[Melissa]

He's Jacob. And your kids, probably because he was Shark Boy too. So he was a character called Shark Boy. So they may have grown up with him.

[Misty]

Okay.

[Kimmere]

Because I haven't bothered to ask them. I just hear them going on and on.

[Caller]

But I haven't asked.

[Wendy]

Yeah, you would be very, very uncool. So I'm glad you asked us rather than them.

[Melissa]

Yes.

[Kimmere]

All right, great.

[Caller]

Thank you.

[Jen]

And you can really wow him because he's currently dating Taylor Swift, right? Supposedly.

[Beaver Phillips]

Rumor.

[Melissa]

Yes, rumor.

[Wendy]

Good morning, Laura. You are on the Burt Show.

[Melissa]

Turn down your radio, Laura.

[Caller]

Oh, turn down.

[Wendy]

Yeah, Yep. There you go.

[Melissa]

Hey,

[Jen]

and now talk to us.

[Melissa]

Yeah, Laura.

[Wendy]

Okay, we're gonna go.

[Beaver Phillips]

Yeah.

[Wendy]

Good morning, Wendy. You're on Q100. I.

[Caller]

Good morning. I am embarrassed. Even though this is an embarrassment free zone. I watch those Law and Order, all

of those shows with my husband.

And they're always asked, they're always saying what it. This was his movie. What is mo? That is motive. I don't know what mo refers to.

[Wendy]

Modus operandi.

[Jen]

It's a Latin phrase and it means his or her typical way of doing a crime.

[Caller]

Oh, okay.

[Jen]

All right.

[Caller]

Now seem to make sense now.

[Jeff]

Wouldn't it be your typical way of doing anything? Like, you can say that about any person. It's like, oh, well, that's their mo.

[Jen]

Oh, that's her. Like if Jen.

[Melissa]

Typical behavior.

[Jen]

If Jen always walked out at right after her six o' clock entertainment clothes.

[Jeff]

Let's say I'm always, you know, I'm always running five to ten minutes late. It's like, oh, that's her M.O. she's a little missed. Ten minutes late.

[Caller]

Oh, my M.O.

is to sit on 285 for four hours.

That's right.

[Wendy]

See, now, I always thought the M.O. was the intention of something, so I guess I was wrong. Okay.

[Melissa]

Yes.

[Wendy]

The way of doing things here is Becca. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller]

Hey, I want to know who Chuck Norris is.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Wendy]

Who is what? Because you've heard all the Chuck Norris jokes and you're wondering.

[Kimmere]

Yeah. And I don't know what's so great about him.

[Jen]

When Chuck Norris does a push up, he's not raising himself up, but moving the earth down.

[Caller]

I'm with her.

[Kelly]

I have no idea.

[Wendy]

Really.

[Kelly]

I've heard the name, but I mean, I've seen the costumes, but I don't know what he's done.

[Wendy]

Well, at first, Chuck Norris was a martial arts actor, and then he evolved into having a TV show which was.

[Caller]

Oh, God.

[Wendy]

He played a sheriff.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

Oh, my God.

[Wendy]

On this TV show.

[Melissa]

Because every time I'd go to Nashville, my family would watch this.

[Kimmere]

Walker, Texas Ranger.

[Wendy]

There it is. Walker, Texas Ranger.

[Melissa]

That's right. That's right.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

He's just. Yeah, he was. He. In a time of martial arts, he was, like, the most popular white martial arts actor, so. And he had a huge following. So.

[Wendy]

And he just became known as this real studly kind of tough guy.

[Kimmere]

All right.

[Wendy]

Okay, thank you.

[Jen]

And I will still laugh consistently at Chuck Norris jokes.

[Wendy]

Right.

[Jen]

If you have $5 and Chuck Norris has $5. Chuck Norris has more money than you.

[Jeff]

But Chuck's. The tennis shoes, the sneakers. Chuck Taylor's are not Chuck Norris'. They're Chuck Taylor's.

[Wendy]

And you know that Chuck Norris is, like, five foot five.

[Jeff]

No, he's little.

[Jen]

Little.

[Wendy]

He's like my size.

[Jen]

Little Chuck Norris is your size, and you're your size. Chuck Norris is still taller than you. Absolutely.

[Wendy]

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

[Kimmere]

Good morning.

[Wendy]

Hi.

[Caller]

Hi.

[Kimmere]

I love you guys, by the way. I love you every morning on my way to work.

[Wendy]

Thank you.

[Kimmere]

Okay, you guys can't laugh at me. I'm really not a retard.

[Wendy]

It's okay. It's an embarrassment freezer.

[Kimmere]

The HOV lane on the highway.

[Caller]

I know what the rules are.

[Kimmere]

I have no idea what it stands for.

[Jeff]

It's high occupancy vehicle.

[Kimmere]

And see that?

[Caller]

That would make sense.

[Wendy]

Okay, so there's more than, like, one person would be High occupancy vehicle.

[Jen]

Thanks. Community.

[Melissa]

Yeah. Now you should be Community.

[Jeff]

That's who we should call.

[Melissa]

You should be more embarrassed by using the R word than not knowing what hov.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I kind of flinched when she said it.

[Wendy]

At least. At least we got you covered on the HOV thing.

[Jeff]

Yes.

[Caller]

Thank you.

[Wendy]

You're welcome.

[Jen]

Get it?

[Wendy]

The Bird Show.

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

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[Wendy]

You're on the Burt show on Friday night. The Atlanta Hawks gave Burt's Big Adventure two sweets to bring prior Burt's Big Adventure families together and watch the Hawks play. And the families get to connect with each other, which is really becoming such a huge part of Burt's big adventure. Now is when we come back, we really keep all the families together and they get to reunite and really help each other through some very difficult times. So the Hawks gave us a couple of suites for these families. We brought Hayden and we brought Hollis and my wife Stacey, and we were all going to go and hang out with the Burch Big Adventure families, right? So we get inside the stadium and we're walking to the suites. And Stacy remembers that she has to get some cash, some money. So she takes the ATM machine, the money card out of my wallet, and she walks one way with the kids. And as that's happening, I see a former employee of Q100 who is working for another radio station now. So I stop and I start having conversation with him. Takes about three or four minutes. Stacy and the fam are checking out the money situation. They come back and she checks in with me and she says, we are walking right down here to Portal six where we're gonna pick up some Hawks gear for the kids. So we'll see you down there. No problem. So they start walking down that way, and I'm in conversation with this guy Ron, and all. All I know is that Stacy does a U turn quickly and there's a panicked look on her face and she's like, have you seen Hayden?

[Jen]

Oh, boy.

[Wendy]

And I said, no, Hayden was with you over at the money machine.

[Jen]

That'll drain the color from your face.

[Melissa]

Wow.

[Wendy]

Immediately, right? So I'm trying to keep it cool, but I figure he must be, you know, he's got. How far could it be? I mean, we're talking about just a couple of seconds here. So I look to my right and I look down, and there's no Hayden. And then I look to my left, and now I see the panic starting to go over Stacy's face. So I'm starting to get even more panic because everybody in our group is starting to get panicked, too. So we go into customer service. He's not there. Stacy runs one way. Our Burt's Big Adventure coordinator, Amy, is with her also. And then I head the other direction looking for him.

[Jen]

How much time are we talking about?

[Wendy]

75 minutes is what it felt like. I couldn't even tell you if you

[Jen]

went into customer service, so that.

[Wendy]

I mean, it could have been three, maybe three minutes. I don't even know when something like that happens. The first time that I really have felt like I lost my kid. Like, when you're on the playground and you can't see him even for that split second, you sort of get a little bit panicked about it. But the playground is such a confined area that normally if you just move five feet to your right or five feet to your left, you get a visual of your kid.

[Kimmere]

Right?

[Wendy]

This one man. I mean, there are thousands of people walking in the aisles and walking from portal to portal, and I couldn't see anything.

[Jeff]

Nobody looks familiar.

[Wendy]

Nobody looks familiar. And I don't see this kid anywhere. So I start walking in the general direction of that gift store that they were talking about. And sure enough, there's Hayden. He's just looking around. He's got this Hawks banner, and he's showing everybody his new Hawks slash Chick Fil A banner. And he's just, like, showing everybody. He's so proud of it. I don't even think he realized his mom wasn't even there.

[Caller]

Wow.

[Jeff]

So he didn't even know he was lost when he was lost?

[Wendy]

I'm not even sure. I didn't even ask him, really. And it happens so fast, and your emotions are flooding over you that I don't even really have a very clear picture of what happened next. But I just know that I was saying to myself, don't chew his ass out, because Stacey's gonna do that in 30 seconds. So I said to him, I think, don't ever do that again. Never, never, never leave your parents ever, ever again.

[Jen]

But did he even know that he did that?

[Wendy]

I think he did. I think I just remember asking him why he left, and he said he was showing everybody his banners. So I took him by the hand and I brought him over to Stacy, and she reacted the way that I thought she would. First you hugged him. Thank God nothing's wrong. And then there's the hands on the

[Melissa]

hands, on the arms. And don't you ever. Yeah.

[Jen]

Where somebody's almost dialing defects. They're like 404.

[Jeff]

What is she doing?

[Jen]

Let's see. Let's see how far she's gonna take this.

[Wendy]

Worst feeling I've ever had in my life. We were at the FIPS Santa thing on Sunday night. The new Santa's at over at Phipps, and they had a media presentation for it. So I'm there telling some of our friends this, and she relays this story to me. And thank God she told me it after the whole thing. Said she had some friends. They were at Disney World one year. Same type thing happens. They're at Disney World and they lose their child. Well, rather than look around, she goes directly to security. You know, like Stacy and I were looking for ourselves. Probably two minutes before we would have started to ask, where's security? These people go right to security. And that decision right there saved their child's life. When you're at Disney World and you lose a child, the whole place goes on lockdown. Nobody can get in, nobody can get out, Nobody can take the kids. Right. So she goes right to security. Security puts the APB out and they start checking everywhere. About 10 minutes later, 10 minutes later, they find the child, the girl, it's her daughter in the men's bathroom with a guy that had her in different clothes and her hair cut already.

[Melissa]

Stop it.

[Jen]

I wanted to walk her out of the.

[Wendy]

Parking her out of the park.

[Beaver Phillips]

Whoa.

[Kimmere]

Wow.

[Wendy]

Thank God. She told me that story after the Hawks game, you know, when I was in my BBC and they said, she said, you know what? Had she looked for that kid herself for 10 minutes or whatever, would have never found her baby would have been gone with the. With the assailant. And they may have never seen her again. But she went right to security.

[Melissa]

And I always feel bad. Poor Walt Disney World. Having to deal with. With creeper dudes like that every single day and making sure and trying their best to make sure that they're in the house.

[Jeff]

Was that guy arrested?

[Wendy]

Oh, I'm sure. I mean, she didn't know what happened

[Jen]

afterwards, but I'm sure when I was at BBA last year at the MGM park. Is that what it's still called or whatever it's called now, the movie themed one.

[Jeff]

Hollywood Studios, I think it's called Hollywood

[Jen]

Studios, there was a kid who was clearly lost. You know, you can just see that look on their face. And they're looking and I. And so I'm watching the kid And I'm watching and there's no parent or whatever. So I go up to the kid and I'm like, are you. Can you not find who you're looking for? And like, you know, the kid was shut down, totally shut down. So I said, hey, why don't you walk over with me? And there was a, you know, employee. I don't know if it's security or whatever, but a Disney person 50ft away. So walk over and say, hey, this kid was just hanging out. I don't know his name. He's really clammed up. She said something into her walkie talkie, and I kid you not, a dozen out of nowhere, security people, everybody, like SWAT team, everybody was down there.

[Jeff]

Action plan is in place.

[Jen]

And they were like, like one person who is like down on their knees now.

[Beaver Phillips]

Hi.

[Jen]

Where did you last see your mom? What is your mom. Do you remember what your mommy's wearing? Who are you here with?

[Wendy]

I'm surprised they didn't start questioning you.

[Jen]

No, they did that.

[Melissa]

Yeah, me too.

[Jen]

They took. They said, could we get your name? Do you have a cell phone with you in case we have any questions? All this stuff, they. They were on it.

[Kelly]

Wow.

[Wendy]

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

[Caller]

Hey, Bert.

I know how you feel. It's just the scariest thing ever. My child was 5 years old, and we were at the beach and somehow him coming back to the room. We had walkie talkies. My daughter was seven. They were down at the beach. We were watching them from the balcony. And he got turned around, and instead of coming up to the hotel, he started walking down the beach. So I go to the elevator to get him, and it's a two story little hotel. He's gone. So I start panicking and, you know, you're at the beach, you're thinking someone grabbed him. So I'm in the hotel parking lot screaming, not letting anybody out of the parking lot. My husband's down the ocean. I just, you know. You think he grabbed. Well, you know what that child did? He was five. He walked down the beach looking for a two story pink building. He was miles. I mean, we had to call the police. They were driving down the street as we were running down the beach, stopping people. Have you seen a little blonde boy? And they're like, yeah, he went that way. But I mean, he was literally almost two miles up the beach.

[Wendy]

Yeah, we were in Isle of Palms this summer, and the same thing happened where parents lost their kid on the beach. He was in the water and they Couldn't find him. So you can imagine everything going through their head. And you can spot the parents that lose their kids because it's in. It's a very unique look. I mean, you're panicked and you're running as fast as you can up and down the beach. That kid had drifted a mile and a half down the beach.

[Caller]

Whoa.

[Wendy]

He was in the water. He's like 6 years old. Drifted down the beach to the boardwalk.

[Jeff]

You just gotta be so careful. Cause I'm sure that happens really quickly too.

[Wendy]

Very, very quickly.

[Jeff]

The parents weren't ignoring him for an

[Melissa]

hour and a half.

[Jeff]

You know, five minutes. You look this way, you go to get the sandwiches out or whatever, and then it's like gone.

[Wendy]

And the undertow in South Carolina is so strong. Yeah. So swift.

[Melissa]

I won't judge leashes anymore, I don't think. You know, like, I always. I always laugh at parents, kids unleashes, but, I mean, after hearing some of these stories, I'd rather you laugh at my kid than find him in the men's bathroom in different clothes.

[Wendy]

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

[Caller]

Hey, good morning. Just listening to that, I was. I'm taking my son to the doctor right now. And I told him about when one time when we were at Disney World, we just told the story. We were actually there. My cousin is one of the characters we had gone to visit. And we were there when that little girl was taken. And when they did lockdown, you had to go out only exit, and they were searching you. Literally hands on, searching everybody person as they walked out. And that's how they found the little girl in the bathroom. They were searching.

[Kimmere]

Security was.

[Caller]

But we were there. So when I just had barely got that out of my mouth, and then you start telling that story and we just both freaked out.

[Wendy]

Yeah, I mean, a story like that, it gets spread pretty quickly, you know. Here is Kimmere. Good morning. You're on Q100. Good morning.

[Caller]

Good morning. When my son, my oldest, was, I believe, four years old, my ex husband was taking him to Bass pro shops. And because he had to trade out a shirt that he had gotten, and he went into the dressing room and he went to lift his shirt off to try it on. And between the time he started pulling it up and the time he got it off his head, my son had crawled under the little fitting room door, took off. So he threw his shirt back on, opened the door. My son's nowhere to be found. And I mean, he looked everywhere. He went over, got security they locked down the building. We searched for 10 minutes in that store. And, I mean, there's like, five security guys looking everywhere. Nobody could find him. Finally, somebody stumbles up. You know, in Bass Pro Shops, I've got that huge display with the mountain goats and everything. Well, he was up there climbing this little rock mountain, having a great time,

[Wendy]

and in his own innocent little bubble.

[Jen]

If you lose your kid, look for the mountain goats.

[Wendy]

No problem.

[Jeff]

Well, that was just like Hayden just wandering around, showing people his banner. No clue that everybody was panicking.

[Jen]

Can I tell you guys when I was.

[Wendy]

You know how, like, in a movie, you sometimes see, like, somebody that's in a really high stress scene and the whole room is spinning around them? They show you that one thing where you're. The panicked person is in the middle, but the whole room is spinning. That's how it felt like that.

[Jen]

I told you guys about being at Hartsfield, and the dad jumped on the train, the door closed, and the daughter was behind him, and she thought he thought. She jumped on with him. Oh, and the train's going, and the dad's on the train moving, doors closed, daughter standing outside like, oh, God, panicked.

[Wendy]

How you gonna go home, tell moms that? I would just say, you know what? Listen, I'm in a hurry.

[Jen]

I'm in a hurry.

[Wendy]

Listen, it's the Vert show.

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[Bert]

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

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[Wendy]

This is the Bird show, so we're going to be walking a really fine line here for a second. But before we even get into it, let me tell you what our intention here is. Is that a dude named Beaver Phillips?

[Jen]

It's awesome.

[Wendy]

Beaver Phillips has created a website called Copy Paste and Bang. Okay. It is a church site. It is a website that calls itself a step by step guide for men to meet women on the Internet and get laid.

[Jeff]

Okay, and what's his name again? One more time again.

[Wendy]

His name is Beaver Phillips.

[Kelly]

Okay.

[Wendy]

Okay. Normally we would find out about an author like this and it just, it's not our thing. I mean exposing women to guys that are online that are simply there just trying to take advantage of using of women and just get laid. Probably something we would just pass on. But then we thought twice about it and we thought okay, is it smarter to pass on it or do you do more Good. By sort of exposing it. And the women that are listening to the Burt show know that this is the kind of thing that's going on online.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Wendy]

And that's what we went with. So if you're a new listener, this is not normal material that we'd say, okay, go to copy, paste and bang right now. If you want to find a girl and you want to get laid this weekend, this is the place to go. That's not what our show is all about. But I do think that there is definitely an important reason to have the dude on. Just if you're a woman and you are online and you're going to places like match.com that there are dudes out there that don't really have much of an interest in really having a relationship with you.

[Caller]

Right.

[Wendy]

I just want to hook up and get laid, period. And I think that's what Beaver's intention here is. Hey, Beaver.

[Beaver Phillips]

Hey, Good morning, guys.

[Wendy]

Hey, how are you?

[Beaver Phillips]

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on the show.

[Wendy]

All right. Did I get that right? Like, your website is not really one that is one that is dedicated to hooking up great guys with great women and hopefully y' all spend the rest of your lives together.

[Beaver Phillips]

Well, here's the thing, and I gotta make it very clear right from the beginning, I am not out there in any way, shape or form tricking women. I'm not doing that at all. As a matter of fact, in the book, I preach three main concepts. And the first one is self confidence, the second is humor, and the third is honesty. As a matter of fact, chapter four is called Lying Equals Too much Work. So, you know, again, I'm not out there being deceitful. I'm looking for people with similar interests as mine. And at the end of the day, if two people are getting together and having some fun, I don't see a problem with it. So I know the title is pretty raw, it's pretty crass. But if a person, if a woman's out there and she is looking for that long term relationship, there's a good chance that she's not gonna be getting an email from me.

[Wendy]

Okay. And what we're gonna ask the women of the show to do here too, because there are three women on the show, is we're gonna ask them to not be part of this conversation for like three minutes. Say whatever you want. But we just sort of know because of the character of the women on her show that they're gonna be reeling to get at you. So we're giving You Three minutes.

[Melissa]

You don't know that. Melissa. I'm just saying, we're working with each

[Wendy]

other for eight years.

[Jen]

Just for the record.

[Melissa]

Come on.

[Jeff]

And Jeff has certified our siblings. Come on.

[Melissa]

Just so you know, get at anybody.

[Jen]

I could have told you that you would feign protest when Bert said that. That's how well, I knew how you were gonna react.

[Bert]

What do you mean?

[Jen]

We're not gonna attack the man.

[Melissa]

We're just gonna give our opinion. But we will be quiet for three minutes.

[Jen]

Or five.

[Wendy]

All right. Beaver, on your website, although you say, hey, look, the rules for hooking up and having sex on the Internet are pretty much the same as if you're looking for somebody long term. From your website, there's a picture of Beaver and it says, Beaver Phillips is a 10 year veteran of the online dating scene. Over the years, he has refined a system which has allowed him to bang a steady stream of ass.

[Beaver Phillips]

I'm with you. Go ahead.

[Wendy]

He's like, yeah, and all right, so, I mean, here.

[Caller]

Jen, don't talk.

[Wendy]

You're not even here, woman.

[Jeff]

Sorry, you guys.

[Jen]

Can't do it.

[Wendy]

So I just want to establish some honesty here, that this book really is more for hooking up and having sex than it is long term relationships.

[Beaver Phillips]

Yes and no. And the reason I say no is because there are certain basic principles and concepts that are gonna work for any individual regarding, you know, regardless of whatever you're seeking. So again, I wrote this based on my perspective. We look at the divorce rate today. I believe it's 53% in my mind. You know, think twice if you're looking for the marriage and stuff like that. So again, that's not me. However, even if you are maybe looking for a long term deal, I'm sure the basic concepts and principles are gonna work for you too.

[Wendy]

All right, so let me ask you this then. If we were trying to expose a guy like you, how would a woman know that a guy is interested in her online just for sex and not a long term relationship?

[Beaver Phillips]

Good question. And I think there's things that, as you read through the book, there's red flags that would jump out at an individual being, hey, maybe I want to stay away from this guy. But again, I'm not targeting people that are looking for that long term deal as I go through a woman's profile. Well, let me give you, for instance, I use two websites. Do you want me to say the names of them?

[Wendy]

Sure.

[Caller]

Okay.

[Beaver Phillips]

The first one is a free one and it's called plenty of fish.com and the second one is a pay site and I'm sure you've heard of it. It's called match.com.

[Wendy]

of course.

[Beaver Phillips]

Yeah, those are the two that I use and I talk about some other ones and I tell my readers, listen, save your time, save your money, stay away from them. But let's take that free one, plenty of fish for a second. On there you have a choice as to what you're looking for and they've got a drop down menu with everything from long term relationship to an intimate encounter and everything in between. So again, if she is looking for that long term deal, I'm not. Even though I'm going to send her a copy and pasted email, I wouldn't bother. Again, I'm only looking for women that share similar interests. Maybe she just got out of a long term deal, isn't looking to jump back in with both feet and just wants to date and have some fun. That's my kind of girl. So what you said, I'm not tricking people.

[Wendy]

So what you're saying is if there are women out online that are there just for sex, then it's pretty easy to see.

[Beaver Phillips]

Well, not if, because there are plenty of women out there that are looking to just have a good time. I mean you've got people from all facets all across the board. So again, I'm looking to connect with like minded individuals.

[Jen]

And how would you address women who may, in the very, very near, future on this show confront you and say that what you're doing is unfair to the women who are signing up for the site for a more legitimate purpose?

[Beaver Phillips]

Well, I would probably, you know, certainly want to hear their input on it. But again, I know for a fact that there are women out there that are just looking to have some fun. And so I would say, you know, is there really anything wrong with it? I don't believe there is. You got two consenting adults that make sound judgment and decisions and things like that. And really at the end of the day, if two people do connect and they hook up, show me the problem with that. I just, you know, so I'll argue my point, but certainly I look forward to getting everyone's thoughts on it.

[Wendy]

All right, your free fly zone is over. Here come the winner.

[Jeff]

Has it been three minutes yet?

[Wendy]

It has.

[Jeff]

Okay, so I don't really quite understand what your website does. A guy can go to the website and copy and paste. Paste things you have pre written because that's the name of it. Copy, paste and bang.

[Beaver Phillips]

No, I'm glad you brought that up because that's one of the things that I do talk about in the book. I didn't hold anything back. I put in this book exactly what I copy and paste to women. But I also advised, listen, here's what I do. If you do exactly what I do, before you know it, there's 50,000 other people in your city sending out the exact same thing. So it's kind of like being at a party telling a joke to a group of five people, but they already heard the joke, it's not so funny anymore. So I strongly encourage my readers, you know, here's what I do, here's some sample ideas, but you know, be original, Try and come up with your own stuff.

[Wendy]

All right. And again, under the heading of what you'll learn from the book, he writes, I've been meeting women via the Internet and sport effing for over 10 years. Let my years of experience work for you. But what he's saying is there are women out there that are doing the same thing.

[Jen]

Did you ever think you would have so much in common with Tiger Woods?

[Beaver Phillips]

No, I didn't. It's been amazing watching the news on that.

[Wendy]

So you're again now, I don't have the book in front of me, so I don't know if you're BSing or not, but you're saying don't be deceiving like women that you don't even need to be deceiving. If you're looking for a one night stand or you're looking for something physical, there are women there, there are websites there that you can go to.

[Beaver Phillips]

No question, absolutely, 100%.

[Kelly]

And you tell these women your intention.

[Beaver Phillips]

My email is dear hot blonde for you. It's not, I would really like to bang you. You know, again, it's start with humor and try and get some, some dialogue going, some, some funny stuff. And here's what happens, really. The Internet dating will allow me to exchange some emails and hopefully get a phone number. And then once I'm talking to her on the phone, that's really, no pun intended, where the rubber meets the road, because I'll be throwing out some sexy talk, if you will. And if she's not saying what I was hoping to hear, then I'll just try and end it. And I don't want to. Again, if we're not on the same page, we're not on the same page. So I may say something like, listen, you seem like a great person. I sure you're gonna find what you're seeking. I'm not convinced we're a great match, but, you know, it was nice talking with you and I wish you all the best. Again, by the time we get around to meeting in person, it's pretty much been established what we're both looking for. And there's no trickery here.

[Jen]

Percentage wise. Out of the women you get on the phone, how many of them do you really put the rubber on the road or whatever?

[Beaver Phillips]

I would say for every 10 people that I talk to on the phone, I only end up meeting one or two in person. So 20%. 15.

[Caller]

20%.

[Jen]

Okay. And of the one or two that you meet in person, how many of those do you seal the deal with?

[Beaver Phillips]

About 90%.

[Wendy]

Yeah, it's no different than, you know, like, dudes that used to be in my group that would go out into a bar and they would flat out tell. They'd play the numbers. You tell 15 women exactly what you want, immediately 14 of them are gonna be totally turned off and tell you to get lost. But one woman is gonna say, cool, and that's all you need is one for the night.

[Beaver Phillips]

It's the exact same thing. It's percentages. But one of the things I do in copy paste and bang is a huge comparison. Traditional dating versus Internet dating. And really, I don't think there is a comparison because when I talk about traditional dating, I kind of reference the bar scene. That's tough stuff to walk up to women and approach. And this has happened to me. I've gone up to a woman to say, ho. And she's looked at me and said, I don't think so. Because, you know, that's tough. I'm no Brad Pitt. I'm more like the Pitt. But so, you know, it's hard for a guy. And that's the beauty of the Internet dating. Her rejection is she doesn't reply to your email. Well, big, big deal. You just copy and paste some more emails. So it's very similar, though. You're right. It is kind of a numbers game. And again, I know that not everybody out there is looking for. For what I'm looking for. I get that. I completely understand.

[Wendy]

Here is Nicole. She wants to be on the voice disguiser. Hey, Nicole.

[Misty]

Good morning.

[Wendy]

We can't recognize you.

[Misty]

I love you guys.

[Wendy]

Thank you.

[Misty]

I just wanted to say that I am one of the girls that loves not being in a relationship. Currently, I'm in a relationship with a guy where I started out saying this is just going to be sex or a fling or whatever. And the more we got into it, the More. He wanted a relationship. And that was aggravating to me.

[Caller]

I totally.

[Misty]

I mean, like, he's nice or whatever, but I'm not like super, super attracted to him. His personality kind of gets on the nerves. He's sometimes a little immature.

[Melissa]

Wow.

[Misty]

And so I. I'm having a hard time. I'm ready to stop talking to him just because I don't want to date him. I don't want to be in a relationship with him. So I think the just sex thing is great.

[Wendy]

And I think what Beaver is saying here is that there are plenty of women online that are just like. I mean, it's more and more common now to talk about this, that guys have needs and women have needs, and women outside the Voice disguiser are becoming more comfortable with just saying, you know what, it's an even playing field now.

[Kelly]

If guys only target those girls, then I think it works. But if you're target targeting another woman who's not in for that, then it doesn't work.

[Melissa]

There's nothing to attack. I mean, I think it's so funny that you thought we would go off, but, I mean, I thought it was

[Wendy]

gonna be a lot of discuss deception at first, but there's no deception here.

[Melissa]

Yeah, if you're being honest, who cares?

[Jeff]

Consenting adults. And like you said, he's playing the numbers. And I think women should learn from that too. I mean, I do think women can learn to meet men on the Internet by playing the numbers too. You know, if one guy doesn't write you back, then send out 15 more.

[Melissa]

Right.

[Jen]

Don't obsess over that one dude.

[Jeff]

Exactly. I think women do that, like, and they'll focus on one guy's perfect profile, one guy's perfect picture, and just be like, all waiting for him to write back or something. It's just like, put it out there and see what happens. You know, you're not going to know until you meet him in person.

[Beaver Phillips]

Anyway, two quick things, if I may. Number one is I've had a lot of female readers that have also read the book, and I've gotten great feedback. If anybody goes to the website, they can go to the blog section and see what people are reading about it. But the point I wanted to make is there are a ton of women out there on these Internet dating websites. And whether you're a guy or a girl or you're bi or straight or gay or metro, you've got competition out there. And one of the things in the book, because I'm not blessed with those good looks, you've got to figure out ways to separate yourself from the competition. So again, I think it's going to be beneficial for anyone. Number two, is that Nicole still on the line?

[Wendy]

She is not.

[Beaver Phillips]

You want her, you want her username?

[Wendy]

Hey, Melissa, go ahead, you're on Q100.

[Caller]

Hey, good morning, guys. I just kind of wanted to back up what Nicole was saying. I mean, I'm in the same situation. I don't want to spend hours and hours dating people only to find out we're not sexually compatible. If you're only out there for sex, all of us don't want to be married and with husbands and all of those other types of things, we just want to kind of hook up, do our thing and move along as well. Therefore it's kind of the same thing. You kind of type in what you're interested in but and kind of wait to see what response you get. But generally the women don't really have to send emails out. We're generally the ones receiving them. So we can just kind of filter through, you know, each one of the guys and see the ones that we're interested in responding to. And I mean, it's much quicker to get down to business than it is, like I said, going to bars or meeting people and dating. And if you're only interested in sex only to find out you're not sexually compatible. So it's a very quick way to filter out, you know, that person has the same sexual interests that you have and is interested in, you know, not having a relationship or having a relationship or whatever. It just makes it so much easier.

[Wendy]

Hey beaver, are there some beaver, are there some women that just send out the wrong message like they don't realize what you want yet they're sending you the wrong message because they're using the wrong wording in their emails or whatever?

[Beaver Phillips]

Yeah, I think so. I believe in a lot of it too is some of the pictures that they put on there. That's one thing that I'll look for is not necessarily as far as her looks, but what types of pictures does she have posted? If they're these party girl pictures where she's, you know, wearing a lot of low cut shirts and bikini pictures and she's always got a drink in her hand, she's kind of sending out that message, hey, you know, I'm a wild one, I'm a party one and there's other things I look for. It's not just the types of photos. But yeah, I think some people do get in trouble unaware they're unaware of kind of the message they're sending out. I gotta say this, though. I am loving your callers that Melissa, that we did for you.

[Kelly]

Need to start putting Atlanta in your search.

[Jen]

You know, what we need to do is we need to have everybody who comes on the air with them has to start with their screen name. Do you want to give out your plenty of fish screen name?

[Beaver Phillips]

Oh, I would love to. It's thebe 407 2000.

[Wendy]

Thebe 407 2000. You know, and here's the beauty, is that anybody that emails him knows what his intention is. So he hits on a 100% level.

[Caller]

Absolutely.

[Jeff]

And if you're hitting it 100%, that means you've got some experience, so you might actually be good at it.

[Beaver Phillips]

This is great. I mean, sometimes I get some real bitter. Betty's calling in, yelling and screaming at me. But you're a listening audience. So far your callers have been wonderful.

[Jen]

We're very sexually liberal down here.

[Wendy]

Hey, Patty, go ahead. You're on the Voice.

[Caller]

Well, what I was going to say

[Misty]

is that I actually do both types of Internet dating. I sort of maintain two completely different online Personas. One is very traditional, very me. You know, long term dating. Would love to find somebody wonderful. But I also do the short term. Here's what I want. Very specific. You know, it can be short term one night, or it can even be ongoing, but just purely physical. And never the two shall meet

[Jen]

Beaver.

[Beaver Phillips]

Well, the only thing that comes to my mind, as long as you're being honest and if you've got these two separate ones, are you being 100% honest in each different profile?

[Wendy]

Yeah. Look at beaver sticking up for the guys. Now, you don't want to be deceiving to the guys.

[Caller]

No, 100%.

[Misty]

I never meet somebody on a date. Like, and not to be blunt, but. But the speed of which we hit the bedroom is very different on both sides.

[Wendy]

And do you use two different websites for that?

[Misty]

Yes, absolutely.

[Wendy]

Which is the more physical website and which is the I'm not looking for the physical website.

[Misty]

Match and Craigslist are physical, like eharmony. Eharmony is really the other online.

[Jen]

Craigslist isn't even even question. Craigslist is like dress up like a cop and pretend to arrest me.

[Wendy]

Spit cheese on my shoes.

[Jen]

Right.

[Caller]

Oh, my God.

[Jen]

Be some oozing involved in the Craigslist posting.

[Melissa]

Yeah, see, I'm not gonna get mad at Beaver, but I'll get mad at you.

[Wendy]

Save that because that'll have completely different. Completely Completely different meaning coming from Melissa.

[Melissa]

And that is 100% honesty.

[Beaver Phillips]

Right?

[Jen]

Well played, Mr. Weiss.

[Wendy]

Hey, Christian, go ahead, you're on the voice disguiser.

[Misty]

I just wanted to agree with, with everything that he's saying. I remember when I was younger that I definitely did that. And there are definitely women out there who definitely go out on the Internet and they know what they want, they know what they're looking for, and they get it. And I don't necessarily think it's wrong now. I'm also happily married now, you know, so I definitely don't do that kind of stuff anym. More and more of a, you know, a full time, you know, relationship. You know, I've been in this relationship with this guy for the past three years. You know, we're just got married. But I definitely agree that there are women out there who do this and, you know, if that's their thing, that's their thing. I don't think there's, you know, anything wrong with it. As long as they're kind of putting it out there, this is what they want and not kind of beating around the bush, you know. And I had friends too when I was in high school who went out and was blatantly, you know, on the Internet, meet up with guys and get it done and never talk to them again, you know. So I don't disagree with anything that you're saying. And if that's what you do, you know, there are definitely women out there who do the same thing.

[Wendy]

Hey, Beaver, you were saying that there were a couple of different things you said specifically you target women with profile pictures that are a little bit more sexy, a little more party. And you said there are a couple of other things you look for also, but you sort of breezed right over those. Can you give us a couple more of those?

[Beaver Phillips]

Yeah, sure. A couple things maybe. Because each time when you do sign up for one of these Internet dating websites, you've got to come up with like a screen name on there. If she's got something, I'm just pulling this off the top of my head, but something like seeking future husband or something like that, that's kind of going to be a deterrent. Whereas if she's got booty call for you or something like that, you know, that's a green light for me. You know, it's funny, I was just listening to that caller. I know she was struggling to say the word beaver, which isn't my real name. It's Steve. But I had some family members when they found out I was Writing this book, they're like, please don't use your real name. And that's been my nickname since I was three. So that explains the whole beaver thing. But, you know, and then the caller said something about, you know, when she was back in high school, she had some friends that would go out doing this. And I'm 37, so I'm thinking, man, am I ever gonna grow up? Probably not.

[Jeff]

Probably not.

[Wendy]

Not if you're using the name Beaver. No, you're not.

[Beaver Phillips]

Right?

[Jeff]

Has anybody ever told you you sound like Seth Rogen from Knocked Up?

[Caller]

No.

[Beaver Phillips]

No, I haven't heard that.

[Jeff]

I feel like we've been having the conversation this whole time with the dude from Knocked Up. He'd have the start across from Katherine Heigl.

[Jen]

Jen clearly wants to have sex with you.

[Beaver Phillips]

That works. Jen, you coming to Orlando anytime soon?

[Jeff]

No, sorry.

[Wendy]

You can look her up on Sexy Jan Doomy.

[Jen]

Yeah, controversial. You're talking about the women's screen names. And just a heads up to the ladies, if the guy you're talking to has Beaver in his name, I'm pretty sure he's gonna want the sex.

[Wendy]

Hey, Beaver, the name of the book again is copy paste and bang. What he basically does is tell you, look, if you want to hook up on the Internet women, you're giving out a vibe to let guys know you want to hook up. And guys, if you're clueless about it, here's a book that can tell you exactly what the signs are to look for.

[Caller]

Right?

[Wendy]

All right, dude. Appreciate your time, ma'.

[Jeff]

Am.

[Beaver Phillips]

Hey, thanks, guys. I really appreciate you having me on the show. One last thing. I don't know if you'd be interested, but if you've got maybe some listeners out there, certainly if there's some guy listeners that would like to put the book to the test, I'd be more than happy to get that person a free copy, have them read it, and kind of coach them through how to set up a profile and things like that, and we can get back on the air in a couple weeks if again, if you're interested, talk about their successes, because this book is idiot proof. A guy's not going to fail if he reads it. It works.

[Wendy]

Let me put you on hold. I just don't know how I feel about endorsing guys going online and checking back in with them if they got. If they had sex.

[Jeff]

Well, they took the callers.

[Kelly]

The women are open to it.

[Wendy]

Yeah, women are just as many women there. I wonder what would happen if a woman read the book.

[Jen]

Bert we can do it. Here's how I'm going to get Bert to do it.

[Caller]

It.

[Jeff]

Okay.

[Jen]

We pick the guy. And it has to be a guy who would struggle to meet a girl.

[Kimmere]

Yeah.

[Jen]

Otherwise.

[Jeff]

And then we get that.

[Wendy]

Why don't we both kick out of our own pool?

[Beaver Phillips]

We?

[Jen]

You ain't putting me in that position with any of my friends.

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