Full Show PT 3: Tuesday, March 31 [Vault]

Summary

The Bert Show – Full Show PT 3: Tuesday, March 31 [Vault]

Air Date: March 31, 2026
Main Cast: Bert (host), Jeff Dollar, Jessica, Stacy, Preston, and listeners
Segments Summarized: Main content only; ads and non-content removed for clarity.

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Overview

This episode of The Bert Show balances classic morning show laughs with relatable debates, real-life drama, and honest insights. The cast discusses topics ranging from gender roles at couple baby showers, the seriousness with which adults take their hobbies, the delicate art of “stroking” men’s egos, and a candid call about being fired while pregnant—with legal advice from both the cast and listeners. The show’s signature friendly banter, playful teasing, and audience engagement shine throughout.

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Key Segments & Discussions

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1. Jeff Dollar Admits to Hosting a Couple’s Baby Shower

(Starts ~01:00)

Main Story:

• Jeff Dollar, known for mocking couple's baby showers, confesses that he not only attended but hosted one.
  • Teasing begins as the team calls him out on his dramatic opinion shift.
  • Jeff explains he wasn’t aware it was a shower at first, thinking it was just a surprise dinner for expecting friends.
  • As details emerged (decorations, cookies reading “It’s a Boy,” central banner), he realized he had indeed been “tricked”—mostly, he admits, by his own obliviousness.

Teasing and Highlights:

• Bert: “You sound like one of our woman callers right now. You're making a 30 second story and you're clouding it with excuses before you even get to the details.” (01:28)
• Group laughter and jabs about Jeff’s participation in games, decorations, and passing gifts.
• Jessica: “Jeff, hand him over.” (02:08)
• Bert: “You hosted… I don't even know who you are anymore.” (02:07)

Notable Quotes:

• Jeff: “I think anybody who has a couple's baby shower should be hit with rocks.” (02:45)
• Bert: “Thank you note guy. You are a baby shower bitch.” (07:50)
• Jeff (reluctantly): “My name is Jeff and last night… I threw a baby shower.” (11:33)

Memorable Moments:

• Jeff describes feeling sudden embarrassment, hoping no one would see him hanging the banner, and fleeing to the bar for a whiskey (08:09–08:36).
• Callers join in clowning Jeff for caving, while the team insists “now that you’ve done one, we expect more.” (09:44)

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2. Overly Serious Hobbies and Sports

(Starts ~13:22)

Main Story:

• Bert introduces a lighthearted discussion on men who take hobbies and recreational sports way too seriously.
• Interns recount a kickball league with “ringers,” uniforms, Gatorade, and even oranges between innings (14:19–14:43).
• Callers and co-host anecdotes include intense rock band video game teams, frisbee golf, cornhole, and even tricycle drifting for grown adults.

Notable Calls & Quotes:

• Caller Lisa shares: “My friend is so serious about darts… she measured how far she should stand, put a tape line… practices for 30 minutes every night and no one can talk to her.” (19:23)
• Another caller: “My husband takes up skateboarding again at 31, builds half pipes and ramps, started dressing like Rob Dyrdek.” (20:36)
• On tricycle drifting: “You remember the Hot Wheels that had the brake or the Big Wheel?... The Green Machine. That was for the rich. I didn’t have one.” (22:04)

Running Joke:

• The group riff on “serious cornhole” and “trainer for kickball” (“Hey Bird, throw me the icy hat, my kicking leg’s a little off.”) (17:41)

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3. Stroking Your Man’s Ego—Is It Necessary?

(Starts ~23:52)

Main Story:

• Inspired by a call about faking knowledge to “stroke” a boyfriend’s ego, the show takes calls from women sharing examples of “letting men win” or be the “man” for harmony.
  • One listener admits she constantly pretends her boyfriend’s bad advice or same-dish dinners are wonderful just so he feels needed and competent (24:29–27:10).

Notable Quotes:

• Caller: “It's very important that most times that you do stroke your man's ego...I just go ahead and make him feel like he's right every time.” (24:34)
• Bert (half-joking): “Whenever you feel like you’re in control in the house, that’s when she’s lying to you.” (32:05)
• Jessica: “We’re giving you the opportunity to be more manly and be macho and be in charge...We’re letting you think that we need you.” (27:49)

Key Insights:

• Many women pretend not to know how to do tasks (like using a boat, driving, or grilling) so their partners can feel masculine or in control.
• Jeff notes it's all oddly reminiscent of the "Wizard of Oz"—guys shouldn’t “look behind the curtain” (32:12–32:20).
• Calls confirm that this dynamic is both conscious and subconscious in long-term relationships.

Generational “Tips”:

• Listener Robin recalls marital advice: “Never let a man know that you can lift anything heavy...We all can open the pickle jar, but don't let them know that.” (30:33)

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4. Listener Drama: Fired for Being Pregnant? Legal Advice Live

(Starts ~34:32)

Main Story:

• “Lisa” (on a voice disguiser) shares she was fired from a medical company job a month after being hired, after disclosing her pregnancy.
• The cast discusses whether this is legal; Jeff speculates about the 90-day probation window, but listeners quickly provide expert knowledge.

Legal Expert Caller:

• Amber (law firm worker) calls in: “Being pregnant, that is a protected class. You cannot do that... Specifically, that they put it down in writing is even worse. She needs to go to the EEOC and file a complaint, like, immediately.” (37:44)
• Kenneth (ex-manager): “Under the Federal Family Medical Leave Act, it is against the law. They have to hold the position for sickness, pregnancy, something of that nature, for 12 weeks with or without paying.” (39:37)

Notable Quotes:

• Bert (to Amber): “Amber, you kind of sound like a badass. I want you to represent me, my next case. I don't even know what it's going to be, but I want you by my side.” (38:13)

Key Advice:

• Protected classes (including pregnancy) override “at-will” or 90-day probation rules.
• If the reason for firing is documented as pregnancy-related, EEOC has grounds for action.
• Listeners and hosts encourage Lisa to pursue her legal options and report back. (40:45)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “You sound like one of our woman callers right now. You're making a 30 second story and you're clouding it with excuses...” – Bert (01:28)
• “I think anybody who has a couple's baby shower should be hit with rocks.” – Jeff Dollar (02:45)
• “Thank you note guy. You are a baby shower bitch.” – Bert (07:50)
• “My name is Jeff and last night… I threw a baby shower.” – Jeff Dollar (11:33)
• “If I ever feel in charge in my house, I will know immediately that Stacey is just lying to me.” – Bert (27:58)
• "Never let a man know you can lift anything heavy...Take it to them and say... 'I'm too weak.'" – Robin (30:33)
• “Being pregnant, that is a protected class. You cannot do that... She needs to go to the EEOC and file a complaint, like, immediately.” – Amber, law firm worker (37:44)

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Important Timestamps

| Time | Topic | |------------|----------------------------------------------| | 01:00 | Jeff’s baby shower confession starts | | 05:02 | Deconstructing how men get “tricked” into showers | | 13:22 | Hobbies men take too seriously discussion | | 19:23 | Calls: Dart leagues, restoring cars, skateboarding | | 23:52 | Should you “stroke your man’s ego?” topic | | 24:34 | Caller explains how often she pretends | | 30:33 | Wedding day advice on “appearing weak” | | 34:32 | “Lisa” fired for being pregnant issue | | 37:44 | Legal advice—Amber calls in | | 39:37 | More legal advice—Kenneth calls in |

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Tone & Style

• The conversation is freewheeling and irreverent but not unkind.
• Humor, self-deprecation, and group ribbing build chemistry—no one is immune from being roasted.
• The cast takes real issues (work rights, gender dynamics) seriously when needed, especially during the legal call-in segment.

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Summary Takeaways

• Personal beliefs change—sometimes you end up hosting the baby shower you mocked.
• Men and hobbies: Some guys never outgrow taking their hobbies with “pro-level” seriousness.
• Gender roles persist—even in progressive households, many women still pretend at certain tasks so men feel needed.
• Workplace rights: Pregnancy is a protected class; being fired for pregnancy is likely illegal, regardless of probation periods.
• Audience Engagement: The Bert Show’s listeners offer both laughs and practical advice, making the show a humorous but surprisingly helpful community.

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For listeners who missed it:
Expect raucous laughter, razor-sharp group banter, and a dose of practical, real-life wisdom—whether about social expectations or standing up for your rights.

Transcript

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[Host (Likely Bert)]

The third show. All right, so you tweet last night that we're going to be able to tee off on you today.

[Jeff Dollar]

Oh, yeah, I'm definitely going to get an ass kicking.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

All right, let me put it. Let's focus, everybody, focus.

[Jeff Dollar]

And it's only because I've come and I've publicly been very strong on something and I. I'm going into this letting you know that I think I was a little bit tricked. But it was. I was tricked out of my own ignorance. Like, I wasn't did.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You sound like one of our woman callers right now? That's just. You're making a 30 second story and you're clouding it with excuses before you even get to the details. Yeah, you're justifying too many words. Come on, let's do this.

[Interjector/Listener]

Let's get to the problem.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Man up.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

What'd you do? You went to a couple shower shower last night.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

A couple's baby shower?

[Jeff Dollar]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Oh, you have.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Well, I think. I think we should clear the floor for Bert.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Well, let's.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Let's let Jeff hand him over.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I think it's only important.

[Jeff Dollar]

I was the host.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You hosted.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

You hosted.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I don't even know who you are anymore.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Jeff, hand him over.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Aren't you the one to give Burt crap? We just talked about then? We just talked about this yesterday.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I don't know. Did we? What was it for yesterday in the post show you hosted. And so you must have known for a while that you were hosting this that you just don't spot simultaneously say to Jessica, you Know what we should do? Today she hosts the baby shower.

[Jeff Dollar]

It was in it. It was like, really?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Okay, before we even start, what has your position been on couples baby showers up until this very point?

[Jeff Dollar]

And it remains, like, what has your

[Host (Likely Bert)]

position been about couples baby showers up until you. You selling out?

[Jeff Dollar]

I think.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

What has it been?

[Jeff Dollar]

I think anybody who. Who has a couple's baby shower should be hit with rocks.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Oh, yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

And guess what happened just about a month ago when I brought up, hey, producer, Tracy's expecting. Shouldn't we do something, like, all of us? And Jeff goes, well, it's a baby shower. I'm not gonna be involved in that.

[Jeff Dollar]

For the girls.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

That's a girl thing.

[Jeff Dollar]

Okay, can I explain?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

And so condescendingly scoffed me off.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Ridiculous idea, Jeff. Even back further than that because Bert was talking about something. I know. And you were the biggest crazy.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Remember how I didn't want to do it. Stacy wanted to have this, and I thought it was just. I think it's cruel and unusual punishment to invite guys to something like this. Like, I mean, I know women get excited about this, but having your men there, they have zero desire to be there at all. So Stacy wanted to do one of these, and I have been as strong as Jeff has, And we got a big old fight on. Stacy and I got in a big old fight on the radio about it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

It was uncomfortable.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

It was really uncomfortable. But then, you know, she. I realized that she was really serious about it, so I was willing to sell out. And then we got lucky and had a Hollis prematurely, and it didn't happen. I didn't have to have the party.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Oh, my God.

[Jeff Dollar]

It's funny. Can I at least explain?

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Just tell what happened. I mean, you can try to explain, but we're still gonna give you crap.

[Jeff Dollar]

Here's what. Here's how it came down is we have. Some of our very close friends are expecting a baby around the same time Tracy. It's about a month after Tracy, actually. So they have a baby boy on the way. And Jessica and I. Jessica said to me, like, two months ago, six weeks ago, however long you plan something like this out, that, hey, we should have dinner with this couple and invite a bunch of people.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Look us in the eye when you're

[Host (Likely Bert)]

telling the story right?

[Jeff Dollar]

And it should be. And we'll have. And we'll all take them to dinner. And I said, oh, that'd be really cool. I. I said, I think what you need to do is, because it's a couple really hard to pin down, like, schedule wise. I think you need to make it a surprise. You know, you have a surprise dinner. And she goes, okay, cool. So she calls one of her friends, who is another close friend of this couple, and the two of them organize this dinner. This surprise dinner. Right? Surprise dinner. You guys following? Yeah. Surprise dinner.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

This is how women camouflage it for you guys, right? Now listen to this. Because women are bamboozling you. They're camouflaging and disguising these couple showers as something else. And that Stacey did too.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

It sounds like you're defending Jeff right now.

[Jeff Dollar]

And they're banking on the not paying attention of guys. Because when we got back to we remember we went to that long weekend in Las Vegas a couple weeks back. We came back, there was a package at our door. And we open it up and in there is a little blue card and a little box of cookies. And the cookies say it's a boy. And the little blue card has got really like sorority girl handwriting. You know, it's very professionally done. But the bottom line says Sarah and Jesse and Jeff and Jessica invite you to. My name was on there. But it still didn't process because it didn't say shower on that.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

But it was an invitation to a couple shower at that point.

[Jeff Dollar]

It didn't say shower on it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

What did it say? Cause everybody has to know it's a shower to bring a gift. It said shower anymore.

[Jeff Dollar]

It says in celebration, your new baby boy.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

That's a shower.

[Jeff Dollar]

I didn't say shower. It did not say shower.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You're smarter than me.

[Jeff Dollar]

I didn't even think about it.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You're smarter than that.

[Jeff Dollar]

So then last night we got to the restaurant and we. It was in a restaurant. We went into the back room and Jessica and the girl who was throwing it with her were there early. And so there was a table set up. There are 12 people total. And on the table there were blue and silver sparklies.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Did you help?

[Listener/Caller]

Sparkles.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Did you realize it was a shower?

[Jeff Dollar]

Yeah. And then there was.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Did you help? I do. I did want to hear that. Did you help put it out?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Yeah.

[Listener/Caller]

You did?

[Jeff Dollar]

I had to put the banner.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You put the banner. You helped in the decorating of a couple showers.

[Jeff Dollar]

Here's the deal. They needed somebody to hold it up, cuz it was.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Who are you named?

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Like,

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Did you do the diaper changing competition?

[Jeff Dollar]

No, we did. We did the one where everybody writes a name and puts it in a basket.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Wow.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Cuz you're guessing the name and were

[Host (Likely Bert)]

you the one that was carrying the basket around from couple to couple so they could put their names into it.

[Jeff Dollar]

No, that would have been. No, I didn't.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

What'd you do?

[Listener/Caller]

What'd you do?

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

What game did you help with?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Yeah, what did you play?

[Jeff Dollar]

I passed the gifts so they could open them.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

And then you shut up.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Did you write down. You write down the list for the thank you notes? You did.

[Jeff Dollar]

So anyway, Wait a second.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You were the person in the corner. You were the person in the corner keeping the notes.

[Jeff Dollar]

Jessica mainly did it, but as she needed help because she was at the end.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Thank you note guy. You are a baby shower bitch.

[Jeff Dollar]

And I didn't realize. I realized as I was hanging up. As I was hanging up the banner because it was me and girls, so as I was hanging up, it says

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

the ladies were hanging up the.

[Jeff Dollar]

Yeah. As the ladies were hanging everything up and I was helping, including you, all of a sudden, it dawned on me. It seriously, like, I felt like I was in the Polar bear club and I just jumped into a cold lake. All of a sudden, it dawned on me, and I became paranoid that, like, one of you guys would walk into the restaurant or, like, somebody would see me or something like that. So I immediately ran out. I went to the bar of the restaurant. I'm like, okay, I get banners off. I gotta go.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I gotta go get a whiskey.

[Jeff Dollar]

I go to the bar of the restaurant, and there randomly happens to be a guy there that I know, but I haven't seen him in, I don't know, six months probably. He became my immediate best friend. I'm like, hey, Drew, what's up? Sitting there, hanging out. People are walking, and I refuse to go back into the room.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

And then he's like, I cannot get

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

rid of Jeff Dollars.

[Jeff Dollar]

Yeah. He's like, dude, we seriously. There's a reason we haven't talked in six months. I don't really like you, but it didn't matter. He was my best friend. Then one of the guy. Another guy who's coming to the party, he came in.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You know, anything to stay out.

[Jeff Dollar]

It was like. And then because it was a surprise, I had to go back there and coordinate the hiding so everybody could hide and yell surprise. And it turned. It was a. It was a good.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

It was a successful shower.

[Jeff Dollar]

It was good shower.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

You decorated for and hosted.

[Jeff Dollar]

It was a good dinner among friends, celebrating the fact that two of them have a new joy coming into their lives.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Good morning, Preston.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Jeff. I'm just disappointed.

[Jeff Dollar]

I know you're not mad. Jessica's got one over on you for

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

the rest of your life, buddy.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I mean, yeah, because now that you've

[Listener/Caller]

done one, we expect more.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

We expect more death.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I mean, it's just.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Wow.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

It's like in her son.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

She's gonna take a mile. Now you can't say that you don't do baby showers, because guess what?

[Jeff Dollar]

You just did. Never again. I know. I know how the trick is. I know.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Jeffy Webbie did a baby shower. Was your battle straight or did you have to just sit back and look at it and then readjust it?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Hey, Doug. Good morning.

[Jeff Dollar]

You're scared because it was. That mylar material was real shiny and you were ripping. Yeah.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Hey, Doug.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Morning.

[Jeff Dollar]

Good morning,

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Jeff.

[Jeff Dollar]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

I wanna ask you something and then I wanna make a statement.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Uh oh. Jeff furious.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Did you check your balls at the door? And the thing I wanted to say was.

[Jeff Dollar]

Wah. Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Such a baby, Jeff.

[Jeff Dollar]

I know. Dead bitch.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

So Jeff, I mean, I would really love to hear you publicly say I'm Jeff Dollar.

[Jeff Dollar]

I'm not giving you a face.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I've ad. I hosted.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Cause you had a stance.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

A baby shower.

[Jeff Dollar]

I cannot say no.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You guys just speak the truth.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Don't do anything until he's done.

[Jeff Dollar]

I had a dinner.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I had Jeff Dollar and I hosted in celebration.

[Jeff Dollar]

A baby shower takes place in the morning or at afternoon at someone's house. We were drinking shots of Crown. No, I mean, the mom wasn't. Just say it. Say it.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Man up. It's. Own it. It's your testicles. Own them.

[Jeff Dollar]

Not anymore. It's my vagina.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Say that.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Come on, Jeffrey.

[Listener/Caller]

Come on, baby.

[Jeff Dollar]

My name is Jeff and last night. I threw a baby shower.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

The bird show.

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[Host (Likely Bert)]

I think this is more probably a conversation for women to call in for about their men, because I think guys, when it comes to hobbies or recreational sports, just some guys just take it a little bit too seriously.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Some.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Some.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

A lot.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I mean, there are some. Yeah. I mean, there are some that can casually go out on a Wednesday night, play softball, have a couple of beers with the dudes at Hooters, and then come on home. That's not who we're talking about here. I want to hear from the women that are married or seeing guys that are way too passionate about their hobbies. Let me give you two examples. And they're piggybacked on two things that have happened the last, like, three or four days. Intern Yancy and intern Ben came in here yesterday, and I heard them exchanging a conversation about a kickball league in Kennesaw that has taken itself entirely too seriously. Ben was invited to play as a ringer, I think, on one of these teams. And he shows up thinking, cool night. We'll get our drink on a little bit.

[Jeff Dollar]

You know what?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

We'll kick it around here a little bit. It'll be just like old times. He gets there, and the guys are all in Under Armour.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

You're kidding.

[Jeff Dollar]

Come on.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

All right. This is a kickball league. All the dudes are in their Under Armour. And he said all of them were, like, drinking Gatorade. They had their game face on. They all had uniforms, haven't had sex for two weeks. They were, like, eating oranges between innings.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Shut up. Are you serious?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

That's what he told me yesterday. This is kickball, people.

[Jeff Dollar]

So he actually saw them playing, right?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

He played. He was part of the game.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

He shows up with his, like, six pack of pbr, and they're all like, what are you doing?

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Dehydrated flip flops? Have you heard that there's one of the Bud Light commercials is. Pays tribute to overly excited. Forgot the word sport. But I wish we could find that, because this is. That would be perfect for this because it's the truth. Too many take it seriously.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Too seriously. And it doesn't have to be sports. I'm sure that calls will come in from women that are frustrated by their men and their softball habits also. But I heard a conversation this weekend going on between husband and wife about how he takes his rock band too seriously. His video game, Rock band. He has all his guys come over two or three times a week, and they all practice, and they take their rock band playing really, really seriously.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

What? All these guys are supposed to be fun.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Do they compete against other rock band bands?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Yes, they go to different competitions. They have their rehearsals, like, three or four times. She's not allowed down in the basement. There can be no distractions. And he brings us three or four guys over. One's got his drums, one's guitar, one's a lead singer, and they take it very, very seriously. Now, I'm sure we could get calls here for, like, flag football leagues. Your dude is taking things too seriously when it comes to his frisbee league.

[Jeff Dollar]

Frisbee golf?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Yeah, Frisbee golf. It could be dodgeball. They're leagues. Also, if your husband's taking his cornhole too seriously.

[Jeff Dollar]

Do you take your cornhole seriously? Very good.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Morning, Jill, you're on Q100.

[Listener/Caller]

Hey, guys.

[Listener (Lisa)]

I was actually just listening, and I

[Listener/Caller]

am good friends with the person who put together that kickball tournament in Kennesaw. They have been putting this together for the past year. They have got it patented where they want to have go in, like, the world Guinness book of Records to have, like, the biggest kickball tournament. And they have gotten people to join on Facebook, and they've probably got about 200,000 people to join this group because they want to have the biggest kickball tournament, like, in the. In the world.

[Jeff Dollar]

Well, that's okay. That's great. Like, I think that's. I mean, I think all of us would agree that that sounds like pretty fun. And even if we came across that group on Facebook, if we were in the mood, we might all join it. We might even entertain the thought of putting together a bird show team with a bunch of interns listeners, Us going to play some kickball. But if I got up there and somebody hands me a clif bar and an orange and says, all right, man, carve up. We got a big one.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

And he had a massage table.

[Jeff Dollar]

You go in the locker room, there's a guy sitting in a, you know, whirlpool tub with a ice pack.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Ice towel.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

You think they go for, like, one on one training sessions for kickball?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Oh, sure. He's got it.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I gotta get in with My trainer instructor.

[Jeff Dollar]

Hey, Bird, throw me the icy hat. My kicking leg's a little off.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Sorry, baby, no sex this week, man. I got a kickball tournament on Saturday. You know the rules.

[Jeff Dollar]

Trainer, can you take my fingers? Dude, it's kickball tape my fingers. You know what it's like.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Hey, Sharon, good Morning. You're on Q100. Hi, good morning. Good morning.

[Listener/Caller]

I'm so glad that I get to vent about this for a minute. My boyfriend, not only does he hunt every animal there is on the face of the earth, deer season, you have duck season, you have hog season, you have turkey season, you have rabbit season, then it goes into softball season and golf season and it's non stop. It's always something. We've been together for almost three years now and I can't get him to stop. I don't want him to stop. At least he's not in the clubs or in a bar or whatever.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

There are just some guys. I think that if you're going to do something, you're going to do it right. If you're going to hunt, you're going to do it right. You're going to go out, you're going to get the orange cammies, you're going to get the face paint, you're going to get the whistle, and you're just gonna go all out.

[Jeff Dollar]

Now with hunting, I'm okay with it though. If you're gonna do a sport that requires you to use deer urine as a cologne, then I'm totally cool with going 1,000% on that. Like, if I'm rubbing the urine of another animal into my hair, then I'm buying the nicest gun. I'm wearing the most disguised camo, I'm getting the fanciest treat stand because there's animal pee on me.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I think if I were with a guy like she said, that went from one to the next to the next to the next all year round, and it was always something overlapping the next. I would think he was avoiding me.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Well, you'd probably be right.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I'd be like, you're signing up for another sport so you don't have to hang out with me.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

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

[Listener/Caller]

I have a friend and she is so serious about darts. She actually set up a dart thing in her apartment and she measured how far away she should stand and put a tape line. And she practices for 30 minutes every night and no one can talk to

her while she practices.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Does she put one of those little wrist guard things on to keep her wrist straight. Cause I've seen that on espn.

[Listener/Caller]

She doesn't. But she orders the special flags because she thinks it'll make it go faster or slower. And she has T shirts when she goes to her dart league.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Her dart league?

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah, they don't even win money. She just goes.

[Jeff Dollar]

Flags, I guess, are the official name for the little feathery things at the

[Listener/Caller]

end of a dart, I think so. She's really serious about it.

It's really stupid darts.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Good morning, Wanda. You're on Q100.

[Listener/Caller]

So my husband is so into restoring cars. And I go open the shower one day and there's a front grill in my shower. I'm like, why is there a grill in the shower? Because it was easier for him to wash it while he was in the shower than to do it out back.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

That makes complete sense to a man. And then what was he gonna do? Let it dry somewhere else? God, that's great.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Lena. Good morning. You're part of the bird show. Hi.

[Listener/Caller]

Hi. My husband has recently taken up skateboarding again.

He's 31 years old, builds half pipes

and ramps that he can jump on, and has started dressing like Rob Dyrdek.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

It's his little mini midlife crisis, I think.

[Listener/Caller]

So.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Did you say he started building ramps, like in your backyard?

[Listener (Lisa)]

Yes, I have a half pipe.

[Jeff Dollar]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Do you have teenagers coming over to use it?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

She's gone.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

I love that phrase. Yes, I have a half pipe.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

We had a woman on hold that just dropped out whose husband is into tricycle drifting, who's 29 years old.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

What is that?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

What is that?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You know what drifting is with your car?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Yes. No.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You haul ass and then you sort of just. The car drifts, brake really fast, and

[Jeff Dollar]

then you like, jam the wheel.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

And then it like.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

I still don't understand.

[Jeff Dollar]

They do it with like the little Honda Civics and everything. They think Fast and the Furious.

[Listener (Lisa)]

Uh huh.

[Jeff Dollar]

You're sailing through it. You go get into an empty parking lot, sailing as fast as you can, and you take your foot off the gas and jam the wheel all the way to one direction and the car will turn itself around.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

So instead of a full donut, it's

[Host (Likely Bert)]

just more of you're drifting, right. You're taking your foot off the accelerator.

[Jeff Dollar]

So you go as fast as you can. And then depending on the surface and the types of tires you have and everything, you don't accelerate at all. And then you. Then you. Then you come out of it and you go again.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

This guy's doing it on A tricycle.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

That's awesome.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

At 29 years old.

[Jeff Dollar]

Hey, yeah, maybe. You know what that is? That might be. You remember the Hot Wheels that had the brake or the Big Wheel? The Big Wheel that had the handbrake. That's for the rich. I didn't have one. The rich kids in the neighborhood did though.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

You gotta be kidding me. This guy is 29.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

One was called the Big Wheel, but there was the alternative to the Big Wheel. It was the higher class one. The top end one. The Green Machine.

[Jeff Dollar]

Green Machine.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

My neighbor's handmade. That's what it was called. That was for the rich kids. Us kids, we had the Big Wheel.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Get it?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

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[Host (Likely Bert)]

Jeff I think you and I are gonna be pretty bummed by the end of the segment. Dude, we had a virtual listener call a couple of minutes ago and the question really was, should I stroke this dude's ego that I'm going out with right now? Even though I can kick his butt in trivia, things are going so well in the relationship. Should I just throw him a bone from time to time? And the calls were coming in, people were like, yeah, of course. You know, you're getting what you want out of it. I mean, can it really hurt So I asked, what are you guys doing to stroke your man's ego? And the phone lines are just lit up, man. We could probably do this for the next 19 hours. So we'll get to those in a second here. But Shamarra said, it's not just one time you need to do this. You need to do it all the time.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Good.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Are you saying live like this constant lie with the dude that you're seeing?

[Listener/Caller]

It's not a lie. No, it's not a lie at all. But it's very important that most times that you do stroke your man's ego. I know sometimes my guy, I'll probably ask him something about work. What should I do with a situation? Even though I already have the answer in my head, I just let him tell me, you know, babe, you should do X, Y, and Z. And I'm like, you know what? You're right. Even though I could be totally doing the opposite. But I'm like, yeah, honey, you're so right. You're so smart. Or I'll let him tell me everything. I'm trying to start my own business. I'll let him give me the guidelines on how to do X, Y, and Z, even though I already know. But I just go ahead and let him tell me because he has to get his word across. So I just go ahead and make him feel like he's right every time.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

So how many times a day do you think that you sort of do these little white lies to your man just to make him feel good about himself? We talking about twice? We talking about 40?

[Listener/Caller]

I don't know.

It's so many times, I can't even count.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

It's just the way that you are now. You've trained yourself so well that you don't even have to think about it anymore, do you?

[Listener/Caller]

I don't even think about it that much anymore. I just go, you know what? You're right. It saves a lot of arguments, too. It saves on arguments, it saves on confusion. He loves it and get a nice, nice gift from it and everything sometimes. So it just depends on your guy.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

My question is, do you think he does it back to you at all? Like, if you cook a bad meal, is he gonna be like, oh, baby, that's.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

No.

[Listener/Caller]

If I cook a bad meal, he's gonna say, babe, this meal is horrible. Sweetheart, the steak is a little tough.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

All right? So her thought is that you don't do it just once or twice. It has become a lifestyle

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

because you

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

men are such sensitive creatures.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I would never. I'm sure Stacy is doing this with me. I'm sure. I'm positive. But I. He can never find out. He can. Don't ever let him find out. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never.

[Jeff Dollar]

Does it happen?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Wait, one more never, never.

[Jeff Dollar]

Does it happen in non dating relationships as well?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Like at the office, for example?

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Aw, you're concerned.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I'm guessing Tracy does it to you about 12 times a day.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I'm a man and I do it to you about 12 times. Dana, good morning. You're on Q. 100 other ways that you are stroking your man's ego.

[Listener/Caller]

Hey, my boyfriend, oh, my God, he

cooks the same meal every time.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Oh, it's so good.

[Listener/Caller]

And he loves Mexican. He loves nachos. I swear to God, if I eat another nacho,

[Jeff Dollar]

I'm the voice disguiser. Dana, why aren't you on the voice disguiser?

[Listener/Caller]

These are so great, but I'm like, okay, can you find another type of cuisine or something?

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Do you think that by you striking his ego on those nachos makes him think, oh, this is my best. Yeah, you're part of doing the same thing. I'm sorry I said. And he. That's why he's, you know, one track mind, same things. Well, this works.

[Listener/Caller]

That's it.

I'm telling you.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

So y' all are partly to blame then. I mean, it's the same conversation that we had a whole bunch of times after 8:30 that if you're faking it in one area, he thinks everything's great. So if he's not good, how's it any different?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

But don't you want to feel like a man sometimes?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Nah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Well, you're the exception.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Of course I do.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

You know what I mean? Like, I mean, we're giving you the opportunity to be more manly and be macho and be in charge of. We're letting you think that we need you.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

If I ever feel in charge in my house, I will know immediately that Stacey is just lying to me.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

What do you mean?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Cause I know that. I mean, we just have roles. Like, I know what she's good at.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I think there's probably plenty of things that she allows you to be the man on. I think that we don't want to find out because we don't want to ruin the facade.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

No, I don't want to know.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Stacey, don't call and tell us.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I don't want to know.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Bert doesn't want to know. But I'm sure there's things that she does.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Hey, Christine. Good morning.

[Listener/Caller]

For me, it's the boat pretend not

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

to know anything about.

[Listener/Caller]

Right. And the weird thing is, you know, my father had a boat. My dad used to let my brother and I take it out on the Intercoastal Waterway. I mean, I know how to do the boat. Drive it, park it, you know, dock it. Everything with my husband. I just have to, like, sit. I have to pretend like I can't do it. I don't know what the controls mean. It's everything about it.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

It must drive you. I could hear. I could still hear the frustration in your voice.

[Jeff Dollar]

Like when she. When he bangs it up against the D, pulling in, like, in choppy waters. And you're like, God, if you had just put it sideways, it would have drifted right in there.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

What were you gonna say, Jen?

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I was just gonna say my mom and dad have been married for almost 40 years. And she said, hers is the grill. She's like, I don't wanna learn.

[Jeff Dollar]

That's a big one.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I don't wanna know. I want him to be the expert. I want to just pretend like I can't do it. So my dad's been, you know, the man of the grill and grilling the meat. Cause he's manly.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I had that one for a while. And I loved my Weber like that. I loved getting the charcoal on my hands. I loved smelling like meat. Yeah, I loved it all. And she took it away from me. She got, like, this electric. This outside oven thing.

[Interjector/Listener]

That's great.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

And so that part of my testicles is gone now. Also.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Can I tell you what mistake I

[Jeff Dollar]

witnessed the emasculating of a guy just a couple weekends ago. We were over at their house, and there are a bunch of us. And she had started up the grill. His wife had started up the grill. And there were a plate of steaks and chickens and burgers and stuff on the thing. And she says to me, do you know how to grill? Will you cook these? He doesn't know how to grill. And points at her husband. And you could see his face like,

[Host (Likely Bert)]

you can't do that in front of another man.

[Jeff Dollar]

And then he goes, yeah, I just. I don't know. I always burn stuff.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

That's one thing that is a man's job is the grill.

[Listener/Caller]

Don't go anywhere near the grill.

[Jeff Dollar]

Well, we want that. We don't. Ladies, get away from the fire.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Yeah.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

We want to protect you.

[Jeff Dollar]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Only dad knows how to cook a

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

steak and a burger.

[Jeff Dollar]

You don't understand how we are.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Flip it.

[Jeff Dollar]

Meat on flame, woman. Back away.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Spice it right.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Good morning, Robin. You're on Q100.

[Listener (Lisa)]

Hey, good morning.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Good morning.

[Listener (Lisa)]

But this goes back to my wedding day, and my mom came to me and thought she was going to impart some great words of wisdom to me about being married. And she told me that on her wedding day that her mom came to her and sat her down and said, never let a man know that you can lift anything heavy.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Listener (Lisa)]

And she said, it's little things every single day. We all can open the pickle jar, but don't let them know that. Take it to them and say, I'm too weak. I can't open this. Can you please open this for me? And things like that. Every single day. Little things like that.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I had no idea.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

It is true. You do it so subconsciously. You don't even think about things like that.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You don't?

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

No.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

You just. Now it's just woven into.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I think when you're used to doing a lot on your own or you're somebody that just, like, wants to get it done, when you get it done, you forget that. You know, maybe you should take a step back.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

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

[Listener/Caller]

Almost everything that these women have called in and said that they're doing to their man, I have done the same thing. I grew up on a lake driving a boat, driving the jet Skis, and I know how to park. I know how to pull people on a wakeboard onto anything. And when you put my husband at the wheel, it is like, honey, what are you doing? He tries so hard, and I want to let him learn how to do it, but sometimes it gets so frustrating. If he is just killing somebody that's behind the boat or all this stuff on the grill, I probably know how to cook better than him, but I still have to let him cook it. And I'm like, mmm, this, honey, this is really good. You've really done a good job tonight on this meal.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Here's what I'm learning here is that, guys, whenever you feel like you're in control in the house, that's when she's lying to you, right?

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Well, here's the danger. It's almost like the wizard, wizard of Oz, I think, guys, tonight, don't ask, don't ask.

[Jeff Dollar]

Don't see what's behind the curtain.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Don't see the man behind the curtain. Just. Just leave it be. Because don't ask. Like, oh, well, honey, do you ever kind of dumb it down for me? You don't know the answer.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Men just assume you're awesome.

[Jeff Dollar]

And if your man does Ask. It is your job to go. No. What do you mean?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

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[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

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[Host (Likely Bert)]

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[Host (Likely Bert)]

All right, here is she wants to be called Lisa and she's on the voice disguiser. So we may ask you guys if you're in human resources or you know something about hiring and firing and employment that we may want to get some help from you here because Lisa's scratching her head a little bit. Hey, Lisa.

[Listener (Lisa)]

Hey. How y' all doing?

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Good. Good morning. All right, so you just got fired or you think you're about to be fired?

[Listener (Lisa)]

No, I just got fired. I was hired to work for this company, let's call it a medical company, about a month ago and during the interview process I did not Disclose that I was pregnant because legally I didn't have to.

[Jeff Dollar]

And how far along were you?

[Listener (Lisa)]

About five months. I wasn't trying to hide it, I just didn't disclose. Anyway, I was doing a really good job. You know, my supervisor had called multiple times to praise my work and everything was going really well. And so I felt comfortable telling him I was pregnant. So I did tell them. And about three days later I was fired for being pregnant for having to take a maternity leave.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

What reason did they use their exact words?

[Listener (Lisa)]

Because I had to take significant time off. I could not work the hours and they wrote that down on paper for me. So my question is, you know, how legal is this and what are my chances in fighting for it?

[Jeff Dollar]

Can I ask what kind of job it was?

[Listener (Lisa)]

It's a medical job, working with kids, actually.

[Jeff Dollar]

Is it a job that comes up often, like after you have the baby? Can you get that job easily or is it more of a specialty position?

[Listener (Lisa)]

No, it's kind of an office job and it was part time as well.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

Were you going to be able to qualify for any of the benefits of a maternity leave?

[Listener (Lisa)]

Were you going to have the 12 week leave? But I didn't have like insurance or anything like that.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

They were going to pay you. It was just a matter of you just not being there for the maternity leave?

[Listener (Lisa)]

Yeah, it was unpaid leave for maternity leave.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

This is a big company or this is a smaller company.

[Listener (Lisa)]

It's a nationwide company. I mean, they have offices all over the country, but it's not huge.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Okay. My first thought was that, you know, big companies like that, especially if they're nationwide, they pretty much know the letter of the law. Sometimes they do make mistakes and it's one employee that makes a mistake. But I think for the most part it's like they know what they're supposed to write down and what they're not.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

I don't think you can assume that though.

[Jeff Dollar]

I can make a guess as to what happened, especially a part time job. You probably had 90 days of conditional employment. We try you out, you try us out, and you've got 90 days. And it says in the employee paperwork that during those 90 days they can let you go for any reason.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

And was it within those 90 days?

[Listener (Lisa)]

And is being pregnant isn't that protected under that? 90 days? Right.

[Jeff Dollar]

I'm not a human resources expert, but I'm sure we will get some to call up. But I would say no. I would say that maybe if you were honest with them during the interview process and they really liked you, they May have worked something out, but I think they probably felt that you were a little bit. You just kind of scammy in order to take. You got. I mean, it's not like you were one month along. I mean, you got the job and then 90 days later, you're gonna have to be off for 12 weeks. Like, that's not cool to do to an employer. They have obligations and responsibilities and. And I realize you need a job and everything, but I think they probably had that 90 day window to do whatever they wanted or 30 days or 45 or whatever.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

We're speculating, but we can get some people on the phone here that have some real life experience with it. Hey, Amber. Good morning. You're on Q100.

[Listener/Caller]

I work with a law firm. Being pregnant, that is a protected class. You cannot do that. Specifically, that they put it down in writing is even worse. She needs to go to the EEOC and file a complaint, like, immediately.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

Does it have anything to. I mean, the fact that she did not disclose she was pregnant when she got pregnant.

[Listener/Caller]

She doesn't have to. She's a protected class. There's several things, you know, like race. If you're over the age of 40, pregnant, this is the reason why they created that law, because people were firing them before they went on their leave.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Amber, you kind of sound like a badass. I want you to represent me, my next case. I don't even know what it's going to be, but I want you by my side.

[Listener/Caller]

Well, thank you.

[Jeff Dollar]

Is it possible that the employer hired the employee under a 90 day conditional. Hey, this is. You're on a probationary period, and I'm saying 90 days. But it could be 30, 40, 45 years.

[Listener/Caller]

What is a right to work state? So you have the right to fire, right to hire. The only thing about that is protected classes overrule all that. So if they had just said, you know, your work performance is not good, that sort of thing, they could probably get away with that. But the fact they put it in writing that the reason why they were firing her, letting her go, was because basically she was pregnant, that overrules that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

An attorney could fight that.

[Listener/Caller]

They could try to fight that. But if they really had been smart about it, they would have known not to do it in the first place. They would have said that she wasn't up to work performance or something like that, because they worded it that way. And she's pregnant and she had just told him. Did you tell them in writing or did you tell them in person?

[Listener (Lisa)]

I told Them in person.

[Listener/Caller]

Well, it helps you do it in writing, but obviously she had just told them. Three days later, they give her a notice that says she's going to be out. I mean, the EEOC is going to jump all over that.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

In them firing you, you said they said it was because you're pregnant, right?

[Listener (Lisa)]

Yeah, the HR woman flat out told me on the phone that was the reason why. Okay, but you know, in writing. They wrote it in not so many words.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Here's Kenneth. He thinks he can help you. Hey, Kenneth. You're part of the Burt Show. Hi.

[Co-host (Possibly Preston)]

Hi. I've been a manager before. And under the Federal Family Medical Leave act, it is against the law, they have to hold position for sickness, pregnancy, something of that nature, for 12 weeks with or without paying.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

I'm surprised that the company was this aggressive. I mean, I know it's time off, but they didn't have to pay through their insurance or pay you. It's unpaid maternity leave. So I am surprised that they are so harsh about it.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

I should get Sanjay gooped on the phone. Okay, so that's good stuff right there. Yeah, that's real good stuff. Hey, we actually helped somebody out today.

[Co-host (Possibly Stacy)]

It's educational. I think for a lot of women,

[Host (Likely Bert)]

you know, you are protected, but there are certain set of rules that you have to sort of. That whole thing falls on with the fmla, Right.

[Co-host (Possibly Jessica)]

And would help you make decisions, too. I mean, if you were thinking about, you know, maybe leaving your job and starting a new one and thinking about getting pregnant. Well, realize you have to be employed there for a year or however many over a thousand hours, whatever that number was, she said in order to get that paid maternity leave.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

At least you got some real, real good advice. Solid advice this morning.

[Jeff Dollar]

Yeah.

[Listener/Caller]

Thank you.

[Listener (Lisa)]

I really appreciate all your help.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

All right, call us back and let us know how it goes because I have a feeling a whole bunch of our listeners will eventually be in the same place. So let us know how it goes. Okay?

[Listener (Lisa)]

All right, will do.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Thanks a lot.

[Listener (Lisa)]

Bye.

[Host (Likely Bert)]

Bye. Listen, it's the Vert Show.

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