Full Show PT 3: Wednesday, March 25 [Vault]

Summary

The Bert Show – Full Show PT 3: Wednesday, March 25 [Vault] Date: March 26, 2026
Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, Jen Hobby, Melissa Carter, Bird
Topics: Women's body image & confidence, parental monitoring and teenage sexting, interview with Andre Benjamin (Outkast), "the dating game" for single women

Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Bert Show centers around three primary themes: body image and empowerment among women, modern parenting challenges when it comes to teenagers and technology (especially sexting), and a candid interview with Andre Benjamin (aka André 3000 of Outkast fame) about creativity and his stage production. The hosts also dig into dating advice for single women, using playful metaphors and even a live experiment. The show delivers a witty, authentic peek into everyday struggles and victories, blending listener stories, pop culture, and real talk.

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1. Women, Body Image, and Self-Confidence

[01:00–11:10]

Key Discussion Points

• The hosts revisit a previous segment about how women perceive and compare themselves to others, especially in terms of body parts.
• Men admit to general comparisons (i.e., "he looks good") but not specific body part envy.
• The women reveal the deep-seated tendency to notice others' features they're insecure about.

Memorable Exchanges & Quotes

• Melissa Carter explains, "Yeah, I don't like a region of my body, so I naturally just look at other women in that same region because it's like a comparison." [01:37]
• Jen Hobby reluctantly admits, "No, I don't worry about my ass, so I don't look into other people's asses… I do." [03:16]
• Bird: "You’re justifying feeling good about one area by ripping on yourself for another." [03:42]
• Discussion on self-deprecation: "We would rather be self-deprecating than brag about ourselves." — Melissa Carter [05:12]

Listener Brag Segment

• The hosts challenge each other and female callers to say one physical thing they love about themselves without hedging.
  • Melissa Carter: “I'm Melissa Carter and my legs will rock your world.” [06:19]
  • Jen Hobby: “My name is Jen Hobby and I like my ass.” [06:33]
  • Callers echo with similar brags: “I love my boobs” (Jessica, 07:01), “I have great breasts” (Sarah, 07:03), “I have gorgeous hair, tiny waist, voluptuous hips, and my ass is absolutely fabulous.” (Rosie, 07:33)
  • Jen Hobby jokes: “I have a delicious, spankable butt.” [08:25]
  • The hosts comment on the rarity and power of unapologetically positive body talk.

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2. Sexting, Teens, and the Challenge of Parenting in a Digital Age

[12:12–23:03]

Key Discussion Points

• Bird invites parents to anonymously check their middle-schoolers' phones for inappropriate content, spurred by news that 1 in 5 teenagers have sent or received nude photos.
  • "Listen to that stat. One in five..." — Bird [13:18]
• Jen Hobby shares a real-life scenario from her mother (a middle school principal), describing an assembly where students nervously reacted to the prospect of their phones being checked. [13:43]
• Several calls illustrate the scope and complexity of the issue:
  • 19-year-old Destiny talks about her mom monitoring texts [15:02]
  • A mother shares how monitoring her daughter's phone led to finding provocative photos. [16:34]
  • Bird and the team debate the effectiveness of open monitoring vs covert digital “surveillance,” recognizing how easy it is for kids to circumvent parental controls. [17:40–18:32]

Memorable Quotes & Insights

• "If my parents had my Facebook or MySpace password, I would just create a different account. Don't you think most kids are doing that?" — Bert [17:55]
• "I found the nude pictures on my daughter's phone… She's 15… I didn't think to go through all these pictures." (Caller) [18:34–18:47]
• Melissa Carter: "Not to disrespect her, but I do think her daughter is sexually active... There’s a fine balance in parenting." [19:58]
• A dad recounts his seventh-grade daughter receiving inappropriate texts from a boy and stresses constant vigilance. [20:50]
• The hosts acknowledge the dissonance between what parents think and statistics: “One in five teenagers has sent a nude or semi-nude picture… and nine out of ten parents think it can’t be their kid.” — Bert & Bird [22:59–23:03]

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3. Spotlight: Andre Benjamin (André 3000) on Creativity, “Class of 3000,” and Outkast’s Future

[25:11–34:13]

Interview Highlights

• Andre Benjamin discusses the stage adaptation of his animated show "Class of 3000" at the Alliance Theater, connecting his commitment to music education and the arts in Atlanta.
  • "It's hilarious to see grown people playing kids and embodying a cartoon character." — Andre Benjamin [25:53]
• Prospects for a Broadway run, following Alliance Theater's success with "The Color Purple." "I'd love it. That would be great." [26:26]
• Bert observes that Andre is always creatively restless: "You seem to have this creative ADD… everything you seem to touch just seems to be successful." [26:31]
  • Andre affirms: “I have to keep myself excited... I seldom start things saying, 'Oh, this would make great money.'” [26:46]
• On the possibility of another Outkast album:
  • "We're concentrating on these solo albums... It's almost like you growing up in the same house with a brother. Eventually, you have to get your own house and family... I'm open to it, but there's always a chance that that's never gonna happen again." [27:51–29:15]
• Collaborating with John Legend on "Green Light":
  • "The song was done... and I said, 'Hey, I got something for it.' I freestyled the end." [31:16–31:21]
  • Andre on freestyling: "I'm not even a great freestyler, like Big Boi. I'm more of a writer." [32:20]

Memorable Moments

• The hosts play and analyze Andre's verse from "Green Light," appreciating the improvisation.
• Bert jokingly asks Andre to freestyle live; Andre declines: “Oh, man, I cannot do that. It's too early.” [32:15]

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4. Dating, Desperation, and the Game: Single Women in the Modern World

[36:37–47:00]

Key Discussion Points

• The team addresses Wendy’s dating woes, claiming her “zero mojo” stems from visible desperation. [36:37]
• Jen Hobby: “The point is she doesn’t need to be that way because she’s got everything going for her.” [37:03]
• Examples are given—showing up overdressed at a casual dive bar—as signals of “trying too hard.”
  • “That is a desperate move right there.” — Bert, referencing inappropriate dress for the occasion [38:20–38:44]
• Bird: "If you want it too much, guys can sense that." [39:05]
• The panel debates the fairness and necessity of “playing the game” in dating—delayed texting, acting like you don’t care, “letting the guys hunt.”
  • “Games are stupid. Someone’s gonna like you whether you play a game or not, right?” — Jen Hobby [39:49]
  • “Nope.” — Bird [39:53]
  • “Men are hunters. Let them hunt.” — Jen Hobby [41:34]
  • “You’re the deer that jumps into the back of the truck and says, ‘Here. I’m already here. I’m already dead.’” — Bird [41:39]
  • “You deserve a guy that's willing to climb in the tree and cover himself in urine and sit there for half a day.” — Bert [46:23]
• Bird proposes an experiment where he'd control Wendy’s dating texts for a weekend to teach her “the game”: she gives out a special phone and he replies as her to interested guys, showing how “playing hard to get” works. [43:08+]

Listener Contributions

• A caller testifies, “Guys still like the chase... I got tons and tons of calls right away and just ignored them for a while. Now I'm in a long-term relationship.” [45:18]

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Timestamps for Notable Segments

• Body Image & Empowerment: [01:00–11:10]
• Teen Sexting & Parenting: [12:12–23:03]
• Andre 3000 Interview: [25:11–34:13]
• Dating "Game": [36:37–47:00]

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Notable Quotes (with Attribution & Timestamps)

• “We would rather be self-deprecating than brag about ourselves.” — Melissa Carter [05:12]
• “I have a delicious spankable butt.” — Jenny (Caller) [08:25]
• “If my parents had my Facebook or MySpace password, I would just create a different account.” — Bert [17:55]
• “We’re concentrating on these solo albums... I’m open to it, but there’s always a chance that that's never gonna happen again.” — Andre Benjamin [29:15]
• “Men are hunters. Let them hunt.” — Jen Hobby [41:34]
• “You deserve a guy that's willing to climb in the tree and cover himself in urine and sit there for half a day.” — Bert [46:23]

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Tone & Style

The Bert Show remains conversational, witty, sometimes irreverent, but always grounded in real-life stories and genuine connections with listeners.

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Summary

This episode is a vibrant blend of hard truths and laughter about real issues facing women (body image, confidence, dating expectations), modern parenting in the age of technology (teenagers and sexting), and creative endeavors (as described in Andre 3000’s interview). The rapport between the hosts and their openness invites listeners to both laugh and reflect, with memorable moments and insightful advice sure to resonate beyond the morning commute.

Transcript

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[Radio Host Bird]

The Bird show here's why, if you're a guy, you have to listen to the Birch show yesterday, the 9 o' clock hour. Sometimes I feel like when Jeff and I are sitting in here and we're listening to you women that you are tearing out a page just of the women's playbook and you're giving it to us. And I feel special because I have insight that other guys don't. Yesterday was fascinating. The women on the show told us yesterday that they can not compete. Just check. Other women will check other women's specific body parts out based on how insecure a woman is about her own body part.

[Melissa Carter]

Yeah, I don't like a region of my body, so I naturally just look at other women in that same region because it's like a comparison. It's like either, oh, somebody's worse than me, so you feel better about yourself, or oh, could I achieve that? I wonder what she does in order to achieve that, you know, so you envy, you know, you just kind of keep your. I don't know, it's just kind of gauge yourself based on how other women have that part. You know how it's doing.

[Radio Host Bird]

Intern Joanna told us yesterday she doesn't like her thighs. Not at all. So she checks out other women's thighs and she's jealous of other women's thighs.

[Jen Hobby]

There's a lot of body parts like that that you check out on women.

[Radio Host Bird]

It was fascinating because as guys, we'll look at other dudes and make a general like, he looks good or he doesn't.

[Radio Host Bert]

Yep.

[Radio Host Bird]

But we don't ever specifically go, wow, Jeff's chest. I wish I had that.

[Radio Host Bert]

I would really love Bird's triceps.

[Radio Host Bird]

Save that.

[Melissa Carter]

I think it's how you. I think it's how you're judged. I think it's what you're jud on. And women are always judged on how they look. Always by other women, by men, always. We are judged, I mean everywhere by

[Jen Hobby]

the way we look.

[Melissa Carter]

And so that's always top of mind. We know what our worst areas are. We're looking at other women and that's the worst area to kind of get maybe some ideas on how, what to do and what it could look like. Whatever. Because I mean, a guy has to have a similar thing. I don't know whether it's the car you drive or what you, what you, the money you make or whatever. And you're always gauging other guys and judging them on the same. So it's the same mentality and just a different thing you're doing it with.

[Radio Host Bird]

And I was listening to this yesterday as a guy. I mean, it opened up this whole, like, I had no idea. I had no idea women did that. And then, Jen, it was only a five second clip. It was a so refreshing for me to hear. But you could see as the words were coming out of her mouth how uneasy she was getting when she said this.

[Jen Hobby]

No, I don't worry about my ass, so I don't look into other people's asses.

[Radio Host Bird]

So you think you have a nice ass?

[Jen Hobby]

I do.

[Radio Host Bird]

All right. She said it. She said she had a nice ass.

[Jen Hobby]

Well, I mean, like Melissa said, nobody ever talks like that because it does seem arrogant and it does seem what? Self serving or whatever. And it's not that I was like trying to say that. It's just we were talking about the parts that we can bear. But I loathe my thighs, I loathe the way my breasts.

[Radio Host Bird]

Stop, stop, stop right there. Because you're justifying feeling good about one area by ripping on yourself for another.

[Radio Host Bert]

You can't do that. When you call up, you can't go, okay, well, I've got really, I don't look at my boobs or my arms or anything, but I've got really, really nice legs.

[Jen Hobby]

And I agree with what I'm saying.

[Melissa Carter]

No, I don't think you say to say anything else because I do think

[Radio Host Bird]

this is the refreshing part. Right.

[Jen Hobby]

You're you're just. You are. I'm just saying. Can I explain it, please? Because I don't want to sound like an arrogant jerk.

[Radio Host Bird]

What we're saying is you don't like. It's so refreshing because what you have told us is that women your entire lives are beat up and you beat yourselves up on how you look. You're always so insecure about it. You'll find the one flaw that when a woman publicly says what she said yesterday, you saying that you have a nice ass, that is so refreshing because you've never been allowed to actually say it before.

[Radio Host Bert]

Whatever.

[Radio Host Bird]

But then when you come back and you say that you have other body parts that are bad, which makes up for your nice ass, it takes away from the specialness of you being proud.

[Melissa Carter]

You're being self deprecating.

[Jen Hobby]

So the callers that you entertain, why can I not just say that I hate my arms and everything?

[Radio Host Bert]

You ruined it.

[Melissa Carter]

And that to me, when you talk about, you know, guys in this rule book for, you know, women and everything, in page four, she is willing. She rattled off at least six, five or six things that she doesn't like because she feels so bad about saying the arrogant one.

[Radio Host Bird]

And that was my point today.

[Melissa Carter]

That's what a woman and a woman's brain works is. We would rather be self deprecating than brag about ourselves.

[Radio Host Bert]

When you take the calls, then I think the first thing to call out of the caller's mouth needs to be their name and, and what they like. And you need to be prepared to hang up on them.

[Radio Host Bird]

Yeah.

[Radio Host Bert]

Cause we just. So it just needs to be like, hi, my name is Wendy and I've got fantastic arms.

[Radio Host Bird]

Click.

[Melissa Carter]

Yep.

[Radio Host Bird]

You can't come on here and go, look, I don't like the way my breasts look or my boot, you know, or my butt, but man, my legs are awesome. You can't do that.

[Jen Hobby]

All right, so we have to go around the room and do it first.

[Radio Host Bird]

I think she's right. You gotta lead by example.

[Jen Hobby]

I can't really brag about anything.

[Melissa Carter]

Come on, Wendy.

[Radio Host Bird]

There's gotta be something about you physically that you think looks.

[Jen Hobby]

Come on, girl. Brag.

[Radio Host Bert]

Say it.

[Melissa Carter]

Brag it.

[Jen Hobby]

Say it.

[Radio Host Bird]

Difficult.

[Jen Hobby]

Do it.

[Radio Host Bird]

I really don't. Come on. How about your anything? Eyebrows?

[Melissa Carter]

Come on, teeth, something?

[Jen Hobby]

I love the way my eyes look. Okay, there we go.

[Radio Host Bird]

Are you just saying that?

[Jen Hobby]

Yeah, say, my name is Wendy and I have beautiful eyes. My name is Wendy. I have beautiful eyes. See?

[Radio Host Bird]

But inside she's going, but I don't like my Ass or my boobs?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Radio Host Bert]

Stop. No, don't do it.

[Radio Host Bird]

Don't do it. Melissa Carter.

[Melissa Carter]

I will say it. I am Melissa Carter and my legs will rock your your world.

[Radio Host Bert]

Now I think we need to make Jen do it again. And because she couldn't do it earlier.

[Melissa Carter]

Go ahead, Jen.

[Jen Hobby]

Come on, Jen.

[Radio Host Bert]

Go for it.

[Radio Host Bird]

Come on, Jen.

[Jen Hobby]

I'm sweating right now. My name is Jen Hobby and I like my ass.

[Radio Host Bird]

There you go. 40474.

[Radio Host Bert]

All these. Save that right.

[Jen Hobby]

Come on. I have a great butt. Come on, Jessica.

[Melissa Carter]

Yell it inter.

[Jen Hobby]

Jessica.

[Caller/Listener]

That's what I'm saying.

[Jen Hobby]

Jessica, get up here.

[Radio Host Bird]

Come on. Come on. It'll be liberating for women.

[Jen Hobby]

It'll be liberating. Do it. My name is Jessica and I love my boobs.

[Radio Host Bird]

Sarah, go ahead. You're on Q100.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, love you. My name is Sarah and I have great breasts.

[Radio Host Bird]

Nice.

[Jen Hobby]

Way to go, Sarah.

[Radio Host Bird]

You gotta own it. Rosie. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller/Listener]

Hi. Starting, I guess, from the top.

[Andre Benjamin]

Oh, here we go.

[Melissa Carter]

Starting.

[Radio Host Bert]

Here we go. All right, Rosie.

[Caller/Listener]

I am a married mother of three. My oldest child is four years old. So my kids are like, you know, I pop them out every year and a half.

[Radio Host Bert]

So here comes some of the justification. But just say it.

[Caller/Listener]

But I have gorgeous hair. I'm built like most Puerto Rican women. I'm Puerto Rican. I have a tiny waist. I have voluptuous foot hips. Excuse me. And my ass is absolutely fabulous. And my legs are killer. I have killer legs.

[Radio Host Bird]

Perfect.

[Jen Hobby]

That's awesome.

[Radio Host Bird]

Bye. Bye, kitty cat. Good morning, Joy. Go ahead, brag. Say it.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. I am fabulous from head to toe.

[Andre Benjamin]

And I love, love my boobs.

[Melissa Carter]

Atta girl.

[Radio Host Bird]

And I love that you love your boobs.

[Jen Hobby]

Say that.

[Radio Host Bird]

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

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning, Burchell. I just want to say that I love my hair. My boobs are fabulous.

[Melissa Carter]

There you go.

[Radio Host Bird]

Jenny, go ahead.

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, I'm Jenny, and I have a delicious spankable butt.

[Melissa Carter]

There you go. Delicious bankable butt. Yes, girl, yes. You get it.

[Radio Host Bert]

Hey, put her on hold for a minute. No, April.

[Radio Host Bird]

Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, my name is April, and I have legs that just won't quit.

[Radio Host Bird]

Good girl.

[Melissa Carter]

Good job.

[Radio Host Bird]

Been done before.

[Radio Host Bert]

Hey, let's get Tracy down here to do it.

[Melissa Carter]

Yeah.

[Radio Host Bird]

Or Tracy's pregnant right now and she just doesn't feel great about herself. But she needs it more than anybody else.

[Jen Hobby]

She should feel great about herself. She is growing a human being inside of her. That's the most beautiful thing that you can do.

[Radio Host Bird]

My name is Tracy and I love my fetus. I've got the best looking fetus.

[Jen Hobby]

She has gorgeous big boobs right now too. Totally jealous of her boobs.

[Radio Host Bird]

Erin, good morning. You're on Q100. Yellow.

[Caller/Listener]

Hello. This is Karen and I have the most awesome strawberry blonde hair.

[Radio Host Bird]

Good for you.

[Jen Hobby]

Beautiful.

[Melissa Carter]

All right.

[Jen Hobby]

Good job. You're beautiful.

[Radio Host Bird]

Tiffany, good morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning.

[Radio Host Bird]

Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

I have a phenomenal ass.

[Melissa Carter]

Good job.

[Caller/Listener]

Phenomenal.

[Melissa Carter]

Yes, you do.

[Radio Host Bird]

Yes, you can.

[Jen Hobby]

Yes, you can.

[Radio Host Bird]

Jeff, in the overall scale of compliments does fabulous. What'd she say?

[Jen Hobby]

Phenomenal.

[Radio Host Bird]

Phenomenal or spankable? Get higher rank in a guy's world.

[Radio Host Bert]

Yeah, the spankable one is gonna get you. Is gonna get you more guys checking it out. It's like a fabulous ass. That's cool. A spankable ass. Let me see what one of them looks like. And it's only because it's rare. It's like an albino something. You know what I mean? You don't see it often, so when you do, you're like, wow, that's spankable. That is a good looking thing right there. The bird show.

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[Radio Host Bird]

We want to offer up the voice disguiser here. We'll disguise your voice and we'll never mention your child's name. But we're really curious here if you have a son or a daughter that is in middle school right now, what we'd like you to try is this is to go get their cell phone and turn it on and scroll through the texts and tell us what you find. Because more and more you're hearing stories now in the news of sexting going on and kids getting in trouble for it, kids getting arrested for it, kids getting kicked out of school for it. And if you're not in touch with it, you probably think you're in middle school. No problem. No, come on, not mine. Grab the phone, give us a call. And we want to scroll through those texts with you and see what you find.

[Melissa Carter]

Yeah, because there's a new story out this morning about students in a middle school at Orange County, California. 10 students total. It all started when a 14 year old girl sent a nude picture of her herself to a friend. Then that friend sent it on to other people. So the 10 students involved in the sexting got in house suspensions, no charges expected. But they said this is on the heels of that recent survey that said one in five teenagers have sent nude pictures of themselves somewhere.

[Radio Host Bird]

So listen to that stat. Listen to that stat. One in five of you have kids in this age range and you think no problem. They're just using it to communicate back and forth with you or with their friends. You know, what are you guys doing later on? 1 in 5 are sending pictures or doing the whole nude pictures or the sexting thing.

[Melissa Carter]

Right.

[Radio Host Bird]

It's been such a big issue with Jen Hobby's mom because she's a teacher also that she's had to like talk to the class about it.

[Jen Hobby]

Yeah, my mom's in education in Florida. She's a middle school principal, actually, and had to have a lecture with her seventh and eighth graders and got them all in sort of an assembly thing. And, you know, started this conversation about sexting because she said, you know, how many of you in the room have a cell phone? Everybody's, like, all excited, raise their hand. Oh, me, me, me. You know, how many of you, you know, text message on your cell phone? Everybody raised their hand. And then she said, if I collected your cell phones right now, how many of you have something on there that you wouldn't want me to see? And the whole room fell silent, I bet. And, you know, except for one kid

[Radio Host Bert]

who was like, oh, me, me, me.

[Melissa Carter]

Oh, you tripped us.

[Radio Host Bert]

Hey.

[Jen Hobby]

And she said they had to have this whole talk about the, you know, sexting and sending those pictures and all that kind of stuff and the legal ramifications of it all. I guess in Florida, they've had. Or maybe in Tampa it was. They've had a lot of relationships busted between teachers and students over texting and sexting and that kind of thing. And I think it's been a really big, you know, kind of a hot topic in Florida because of these news stories going on and because of, you know, teachers getting busted locally for dating students. I think one woman was dating, like, an eighth grader, something like that. She was a. An eighth grade teacher or something. Anyway, so it was. It's been a big topic of discussion, and I think that, you know, parents are kind of naive to this whole thing.

[Radio Host Bird]

Good morning. Q100. Hello. Hey, Destiny.

[Caller/Listener]

My mom actually told me this, like, yesterday, that now you can actually view your child's text messages on the Internet?

[Radio Host Bert]

Yeah. And they post them up there when they can. Pictures of themselves.

[Radio Host Bird]

You mean you can get, like, a certain account with your dad?

[Caller/Listener]

I guess. I don't really know. My mom said that you can view them for the past month.

[Jen Hobby]

How old are you?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm 19.

[Radio Host Bird]

Okay, well, it doesn't really apply to you. I mean.

[Caller/Listener]

Well, it still does because I'm still, like, under my mom, and she pays my bill and everything, so.

[Radio Host Bird]

When she told you that she could check your text, did that freak you out?

[Caller/Listener]

It did, and she was excited about it. And I was like, oh, great.

[Radio Host Bird]

Was there anything that you text over the last 30 days when she told you that you're like, oh, no, if she checked the last month. Busted.

[Caller/Listener]

No, actually not. But my sister's pretty much freaking out, and she's like, I'm pretty much screwed. And I was like, oh, how old is your sister? She's 17.

[Radio Host Bird]

And what's on her phone that she's afraid your mom's gonna see?

[Caller/Listener]

I have no clue.

[Radio Host Bird]

You're probably better off that way anyway. Yeah, thanks for calling.

[Melissa Carter]

God, I would so use that tactic with a kid. Yeah, I don't think. Oh, you know what, there's a website

[Radio Host Bird]

even if there's not.

[Melissa Carter]

Yeah, well, there's no website like that's a website like.

[Radio Host Bird]

Yes, brooke, you're on Q100. Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning. Gosh, I want that lady to call back so bad. I want to know.

[Radio Host Bird]

I know. She got right to the part where she was about to tell us what was on the phone and it went.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, it's like the biggest build up to the biggest letdown.

[Radio Host Bert]

Maybe she should call us back from her son's cell phone. It appears to be hers.

[Caller/Listener]

I have a 12 year old daughter and I have checked her phone before. I didn't find any nude pictures or anything, but I did find some worded that I didn't like very much. And I want to say I don't think there is a debate. You take your kids stuff and you check it. I have her password on MySpace. I have everything.

[Radio Host Bird]

I'm with you. You know, I went to school with plenty of kids whose parents thought they were angels. They were getting good grades, they were coming home on time and everything seemed fine. But I know that two hours before that they were doing crazy, crazy stuff that their parents had no idea about. Coke, drinking crazy amounts of alcohol, taking cars. And their parents just thought they were angels. Just angels. And with my experience, there's even. I'm looking at Hayden now and he seems like such an angel to me. Doesn't matter to me. I'm still checking Facebook, MySpace, whatever's gonna be available to him in a couple of years. His cell phone also.

[Radio Host Bert]

I'm channeling myself as a kid and I'm gonna preface this by saying I was in the talented and gifted program, so this might not apply to everyone, but I'm just saying if my parents had my passwords and stuff, you know, like Facebook or MySpace or whatever.

[Melissa Carter]

Do not take you seriously either.

[Radio Host Bert]

Why?

[Caller/Listener]

I just can't.

[Radio Host Bert]

I know I've been dealing with the jealousy for years. Ever since fourth grade, since I had the special classes. So if my parents have my Facebook or MySpace password, I would just create a different account. Don't you think? The majority of kids are doing?

[Melissa Carter]

That's what I thought. If a parent. Because I. I would try to be more of a Sneaky parent. I got to be honest with you. I got to be where I would be checking them, and they didn't know I was checking.

[Radio Host Bird]

Way more covert now.

[Radio Host Bert]

And you can buy stuff, right, that you put on your computer, and it records passwords and capture screens.

[Melissa Carter]

I totally agree with you. If my. If millipede had all my passwords and I was trying to sneak around, I would create different accounts.

[Radio Host Bird]

Hey, Kelly. Good morning. You're on the voice disguiser.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning.

[Radio Host Bird]

Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

I found the nude pictures on my daughter's mom.

[Melissa Carter]

Okay.

[Radio Host Bird]

How old is she?

[Caller/Listener]

Yes, 15 years old.

[Radio Host Bird]

And you found them of her? So she was sending these out to somebody else?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, but the thing is, I'd always check text messages, and I went into all of her pictures. That's where I found it. She was deleting her messages, and I found the pictures in her pictures. And, you know, I didn't think to go through. Scroll through all these pictures. She's 15. She's had her phone for quite a while. I've always trusted her as far as that because I honestly don't believe she's sexually active yet. Because I keep really close. I mean, she's not able to do anything. Hardly. I keep a close watch on her. But that made me realize just how. Melissa, why are you shaking your head about things? And things totally have changed in our house. We've had to have, you know, sit down, family meeting. Mom, I'm divorced, but dad got involved finally and had to have some long talks. And she's been through a lot of stuff over the last couple months after this. But we're totally worried because of what the future might hold for her as far as where these pictures could have ended up, because she's a talented kid that's going to try out for American Idol. You know, there's a lot of stuff that's going to be happening, and a

[Radio Host Bird]

lot of those American Idol kids don't have a squeaky clean past either. What were you shaking your head about?

[Melissa Carter]

I was shaking my head just because, I mean, not to disrespect her as a. But I do think her daughter is sexually active. And I think the fact that you made it more strict in the house has just secured that. I know. You know, there's got. There's a fine balance in parenting of not being too strict, because when you're too strict, you're gonna. You're gonna have the opposite effect of what you want on your kid.

[Radio Host Bird]

Can you assume that if your kid has naked pictures of herself on her Phone that she is sexually active and she's telling you that she's not.

[Radio Host Bert]

Or she's months away from being sexually active.

[Radio Host Bird]

She's real close.

[Radio Host Bert]

I mean, that's sex. That's being sexually active right there. Right?

[Melissa Carter]

Sending nude pict sex is not just. That's not the only sexual activity that you can participate in.

[Jen Hobby]

And I think it depends on what those pictures look like too. If she's in a sexy pose and she's, you know, strutting her stuff, then yes, she's sexually active.

[Radio Host Bird]

Hey, David, you're on Q100.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, good morning.

[Radio Host Bird]

Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

I have two middle schoolers, one in eighth grade, one in seventh grade. My daughter's in seventh grade and she's 13. She got a picture text message last week. A young man sent her picture text of his hands. Well, in the message after the picture text was, it looks like parts of your female anatomy need to be held. And she takes him back and said, please don't send this type stuff to me. And he just berated her back with several things of what? I mean, just nasty F bombs and, you know, calling her a bitch and all this kind of stuff. And we were just, we couldn't believe it. And we actually stumbled on it by accident because my daughter left her phone in. In my wife's car. But we don't allow Facebook, we don't allow MySpace. And to all the parents out there, if you have middle schoolers, definitely check your kids stuff. I mean, I'm old school. I'm, you know, I'm 41 years old. And, you know, we're definitely checking our kids stuff. And it's more of a protection thing. And we were just, you know, we asked. My daughter was like, what? You know, are you sending these kind of texts back? And she said, no, but you've got to protect your kids.

[Radio Host Bird]

Thanks for calling. All right, one more and then we'll move on. I mean, I think we're getting the

[Melissa Carter]

same she's got MySpace page somewhere.

[Radio Host Bird]

You think so? Yeah.

[Melissa Carter]

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

[Radio Host Bird]

Hey, Kelly, you're on Q100.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, I caught my 16 year old. He had gotten in trouble and I took his phone and was just scrolling through the messages. I found out he was smoking pot. I found out he was drinking. And this has been like three months. And he has not left the house in three months.

[Radio Host Bird]

Is that right? I mean, look, here's what the stats are showing you now. One in five.

[Melissa Carter]

Yes. One in five teenagers has sent a nude or semi nude picture to somebody. One in five, they say I mean in a third of 20 something, so. But when you're 20 something, you're an adult.

[Radio Host Bird]

One in five teenagers and nine out of 10 parents think it can't be their kid.

[Radio Host Bert]

Get it?

[Radio Host Bird]

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[Radio Host Bird]

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[Andre Benjamin]

Well, I'm all right. How y' all doing this morning?

[Radio Host Bird]

Doing okay. So what's been going on in your world, man?

[Caller/Listener]

A lot.

[Andre Benjamin]

Class of 3000 right now, you know. Been Ready to put this thing on stage and see class of 3,000, which was the animated show. A lot of people know about that, you know, through their kids. Class of 3000 is an animated show that was on Cartoon Network. The premise is this music superstar, which is voiced by my. He leaves the business and comes back home to Atlanta, Georgia. And at the same time, there's these kids at a performing arts school, and they decide, hey, why don't we get this superstar? His name is Sonny Bridges. Why don't we get him to be our music teacher? And so they devise a plan to get them to come and teach at their school. And that's the basis of the whole animated show. And so the Alliance Theater has taken that and they're putting it on stage. So you actually have real people playing these children. And it is hilarious to see, like, these grown people playing kids and embodying a cartoon character.

[Jen Hobby]

Now, the alliance, the Alliance Theater, is responsible for getting the Color Purple up to Broadway. Is that something that you are hopeful for for class of 3,000?

[Andre Benjamin]

Well, I want it to go as far as it can go. If it goes, I'd love it. You know, that'd be great.

[Radio Host Bird]

You seem to have, like, this creative add to me. Like, you're always trying to stretch it a little bit, and I don't want to use the word bored, but you always are always stretching yourself a little in so many different areas. And everything that you seem to touch just seems to be successful.

[Andre Benjamin]

Well, thank you. And it's funny you say that. It is kind of, you know, like a creative add because it's. Have to keep myself excited in a way. You know, I have to kind of keep myself alive. So, you know, I always kind of start things saying, oh, this would be cool. You know, I seldom starting things and say, oh, man, this would. This would make great money, you know, so it's like just ideas. You just try them out, and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. It's all about trying it, you know,

[Radio Host Bert]

Whose idea was it to go and put class of 3000 as a live show?

[Andre Benjamin]

This was the Alliance Theater.

[Radio Host Bert]

That's awesome.

[Andre Benjamin]

You know, they were looking for something to put on stage for their kids, and they felt like it was a perfect marriage. You know, the show took place in Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta. It was about music. And of course, you know, music education and just the arts in school, you know, it's kind of dying out right now. They just felt like it was a perfect thing to do. So they contacted Cartoon Network and got Me involved. It's amazing.

[Radio Host Bird]

It's a great concept. You know, people are going to be curious what's going on with you and Outkast because people love to say that the band's not happening anymore, that you guys are done. So why don't you set the record straight?

[Andre Benjamin]

Well, right now we're concentrating on what always record music, man. Right now we're concentrating on these solo albums. And maybe there will be another Outkast album. We really don't know. It's all about, you know, how do you feel at the time, to be honest. And, you know, we're kind of getting up there in age. I know I'm only 33 when it comes to. When it comes to music, that's like a. Like a hip hop uncle. But, you know, it's like, you know, you're always trying to, you know, keep yourself excited. So right now I'm just concentrating on, you know, what I feel that's really important. And so I have songs that I really feel like, you know, people need to hear. And Big Boy has songs that he feels like people need to hear right now. You know, I go by the studio and check Big Boy out all the time and see what's going on, you know, so it's always, you know, a love kind of thing, but I think, you know, people have to just, you know, realize that it's almost like you growing up in the same house with a brother and eventually, you know, you have to go out and get your own house and family, you know. And I think a lot of times, because people have seen you together, together for so long, you know, it may seem odd if you go out and, you know, do your own thing, but, you know, I welcome it all. But it's all. It's all good music, man. And then, you know, hopefully we will do another Outcast album. I want to be clear on the vibe.

[Radio Host Bird]

I want to be totally clear on something here. So you're saying you're open to an Outkast album, but there's always the chance that that's never gonna happen again.

[Andre Benjamin]

Yeah, it's always. It's always. I might not even put out an album. You just. You really don't know. It all depends on how you feel. You know, when we started it, it was just something that, you know, we love to do out of high school. You know, it was never like, you know, okay, we gotta do this or we gotta do that. You know, it's just have you feel

[Radio Host Bird]

at the time does quote unquote Outkast Just feel like a muscle that's already been flexed to you and you're just ready to start working out. I mean, in a different way now.

[Andre Benjamin]

No, because I just feel like if we have something to say, it was always if you have something to say. That's why. I mean, if you look at the Outkast history, we never, like, just, you know, put out, you know, two out, two, three albums a year or anything like that. It was always like, okay, let's do this album. Okay? We feel like we got these songs. Feel like we got something to present. Let's do it. But, you know, it was never, like, you know, contractual. We gotta do two, three albums a year. Okay, let's go ahead and just try to make it, you know, it was always like, okay, what do you have to say right now? What do you wanna present right now? So, you know, I don't wanna just feed people some mess, you know, so it's always, always open, you know.

[Jen Hobby]

Well, Andre, I love your feature on the John Legend greenlight song. I wanna know how about how that came about, you working with John Legend.

[Andre Benjamin]

Really, it was a blessing because the song was done. You know, John had done his part. You know, he sang the Give me the green light part. And the producer of the song, who actually is from Atlanta, he was in the studio and he let me hear the song. I was like, oh, man, this is something totally different for John. And I felt like it was, you know, such a departure from what he would. What he's known to do, you know, from just sitting behind the piano and, you know, singing. Singing these great songs. It was kind of like an upbeat jam, and I liked the song. And so I said, hey, I got something for it. And so he said, yeah, sure, come on in. And so I put down, you know, my little bridge part and then put down, you know, the little lyric rap part. And it just turned out to be what it is now.

[Radio Host Bird]

So you did not freestyle that?

[Andre Benjamin]

I freestyled the end of it, the tail end.

[Radio Host Bird]

I want to play this for you guys. If you don't know what you can.

[Andre Benjamin]

If you can hear, it kind of goes. I think it starts when I don't remember. So y' all get to asking people about lyrics, and they like what you do when you're in the studio. You have prepared pieces and it's supposed to end, but you, like, you're excited, so you just kind of keep going and you just make up stuff. So you can kind of tell when it starts to freestyle because, you know, the rhythm pattern is Kind of just, you know, more primitive, and you just kind of just throwing, like, words out, and it starts to sound like a freestyle. And then I just let them know, hey, that was just a freestyle. So, no, the whole thing is not a freestyle. So, you know, I'm not gonna sit up here and act like I made up the whole thing completely. A lot of people will do that. But I ain't gonna lie to you like that.

[Radio Host Bert]

Then the next question would be, okay, freestyle something for us right now. As good as that Go.

[Andre Benjamin]

Oh, man, I cannot do that. This is too early.

[Radio Host Bird]

This is.

[Andre Benjamin]

What's funny is I'm not even a great freestyle. Like. Like Big Boy now. Big Boy will freestyle you all day long. But I'm. I'm more of a writer, to be honest. And when I did that, it was more just like a having fun kind of thing, you know?

[Radio Host Bird]

It's a brilliant piece of the song. And this is the clip that he's talking about. This is the John Legend song. But it's. Andre starts to steal the show here.

[Andre Benjamin]

So I went hard, like Medusa staring at me. I told him, let's go. Let's blow this lame factory. She said, what kind of girl do you think that I are? The kind that you meet in a bar. You think you can get whatever you want. Cause you some kind of star? No, I'm a comic. I just want your woman. Hey, if I were you, it would be me that I go home with three. The one and only one thing you ain't considered. I heard you when you told your girl.

[Radio Host Bert]

Ooh, we can get it. Admit it, you did it.

[Andre Benjamin]

Let's hop a calf and split it. I'm kidding. We both going to where you living. I got you giggling like a piggly. Oh, that's the ticket. I hope you're more like Anita Baker than Robin Givens. No, I don't know that.

[Radio Host Bird]

We all tried spontaneously freestyling on the show one day, and we all came up with about two lines, and that was. It was the worst 10 minutes of radio we've ever done in our lives.

[Jen Hobby]

The first one was hard.

[Radio Host Bird]

The first line, it's brutal. Well, we appreciate your time, and we're gonna link on up to the Alliance Theater, and we urge you guys to go check out class of 3,000. It's Andre Benjamin, and we're keeping it here. All right, man.

[Andre Benjamin]

Appreciate it. So contact the Alliance Theater to get tickets, and come on out. Bring the kids. They'll really enjoy it.

[Radio Host Bird]

Yeah, I mean, and I've got kids, and I'M always sort of at a loss on weekends what to do with them.

[Andre Benjamin]

There's only.

[Radio Host Bird]

You can only go to Monkey Joe's so many times, you know, and you're sort of like searching for things to do. This is the place that's going to be safe now for the next couple of weeks at Alliance Theater.

[Andre Benjamin]

That's right. So we're giving you a little time to take a nap.

[Radio Host Bird]

All right, Andre, thanks a lot, man.

[Andre Benjamin]

Thank you.

[Radio Host Bird]

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[Radio Host Bird]

Where do we even start? I mean, Wendy, we've been preaching to you now for years. Have you been on the show years?

[Caller/Listener]

A year.

[Melissa Carter]

Year, year.

[Radio Host Bird]

Now that. The problem with you being single here is you got but zero mojo. You are coming from a place, and I'm saying this lovingly. I'm not trying to come down hard on you, but the truth of the matter is this, is that you come from a place of desperation. And guys can. We can smell it.

[Jen Hobby]

Well, and here's. I think what you need to remind Wendy is that the point is she doesn't need to be that way because she's got everything going for her that you can imagine. So that's the sentiment behind their criticism, is that, hey, don't act this way because you don't need to. Right? I mean, you've got to talk to a girl in a way that you're talking to a girl. You can't talk to a girl like you talk to a guy.

[Radio Host Bird]

Okay, let me.

[Jen Hobby]

So be careful with the way you word things, or else she's gonna shut down and not have. Yeah, I'm trying not listen to anything you have to say.

[Radio Host Bird]

Well, Wendy's told me before that she just wants it honest. Be totally and completely honest with her. So I could either sugarcoat this, or I can be 100% and say, look, as a guy.

[Jen Hobby]

No, we're women. Sugarcoat.

[Radio Host Bird]

Jeff, Jeff, you can do that.

[Jen Hobby]

No, you can do honesty.

[Melissa Carter]

I'm joking.

[Jen Hobby]

No, honesty. Because apparently I'm desperate. But I don't even see that.

[Radio Host Bird]

I'm. You come from a place of desperation, and guys know it. Am I wrong here?

[Radio Host Bert]

You do. Based on the way you behave. And here's the. We see it, I think, more when you're not around the guys. But it always goes back to the example when we were up at the lake and we're going to the dive bar, and we're like, we're leaving in 10 minutes, and everybody's in the driveway with flip flops and T shirts and jeans or cargo shorts, and then you come down in a black dress, full makeup, and heels. Like, that is a desperate move right there.

[Radio Host Bird]

Guys can see that, and they know that you want it too much.

[Jen Hobby]

You never know. We're gonna meet Mr. Right.

[Radio Host Bird]

It's not gonna be at that bar, and it's gonna be at Disney World a couple of weeks ago.

[Radio Host Bert]

The point. You say that, but guess what? Like Mr. Right, the Mr. Right who's at the bar that's built on a pier, you know what I mean, that has water underneath it where you can actually fish while you eat.

[Radio Host Bird]

Like that place.

[Radio Host Bert]

The guys there aren't going to be interested in a girl wearing a short black dress and heels and full makeup for other than one thing. Same thing at Disney World. Like the people walking around Disney World in leather pants. Like the guys who see them. Like you get so that right there appears to be trying too hard.

[Radio Host Bird]

And you've told us before, like what happened to me sometimes at our events is just to kiss a boy. I want to kiss boys tonight. Guys can smell that. They know we know because you have. It takes away your mojo entirely. If you want it too much, guys can sense that.

[Jen Hobby]

And you want less. You have to care so much less than you do. I can't not care.

[Radio Host Bird]

Then you have to pretend. Then you have to act.

[Jen Hobby]

Oh, okay. Well, how do you pretend to not care if you care? I don't know the answer to that one.

[Radio Host Bird]

You have to act. You have to. That's. This is the game that we're trying to tell you that. No, say that. Oh, I don't want to play the game. I just want to be totally and completely honest. In the dating world, that doesn't work. You got to play the game.

[Jen Hobby]

Games are stupid. Someone's gonna like you whether you play a game or not, right?

[Radio Host Bird]

Nope.

[Radio Host Bert]

It's yes, they'll like you. But getting into it, right, you're not going to. You don't. Here's the deal. If a guy, if you're hanging out at the. At the bar that you can fish from, right, and you're having a good time and everything's cool, the guy who comes up and meets you there and gets your number that night and makes out with you that night and probably calls you the next day and sees you the next day is gonna do the same thing to a different girl next week. That's not what you're looking for. You're looking for a guy who's gonna be into you, which means you gotta make him dance a little, make him hustle.

[Radio Host Bird]

Do you remember that book that came out a couple of years ago called the Rules that everybody was so critical about? This game playing book that came out,

[Radio Host Bert]

Remember when he was in fourth grade when it came out. So she doesn't.

[Radio Host Bird]

It said it was a book on how to get a guy by just not caring. There are certain rules. If he calls you, you don't call him back immediately. If he texts you.

[Jen Hobby]

That doesn't work. It didn't work.

[Radio Host Bird]

You don't text back immediately.

[Jen Hobby]

Didn't work.

[Radio Host Bird]

Go ahead.

[Jen Hobby]

It did not work. It's a game of numbers though.

[Radio Host Bert]

But you don't. It did work because you weeded that guy out. You don't want him. It did work. You're saying that you like we're. The cream rises to the top. Lookit. I am being praised like I am in church right now. Listen.

[Jen Hobby]

Listen to it.

[Radio Host Bert]

You're saying it didn't work because you didn't get the guy. The rest of us are all saying it did work because you don't want that guy.

[Radio Host Bird]

That guy. You were a booty call for that guy.

[Radio Host Bert]

If the guy couldn't call you back and make a relationship with you because you waited 24 hours or not even that 15 hours to text him back then you don't want that guy.

[Jen Hobby]

But I think that goes for a phone call. Like text is almost immediate in general.

[Radio Host Bird]

I'm glad we're getting into this now because Jeff brought up a point. I forget what we do on a day to day basis here but when we had Phil Turano on the show years ago.

[Radio Host Bert]

That's what we do. We help.

[Radio Host Bird]

That's all we can try to do. Jeff.

[Radio Host Bert]

Look at our hearts.

[Jen Hobby]

Look at them extending their helping hand.

[Radio Host Bert]

Wendy, put your hand on my chest and feel how my heart beats for you.

[Radio Host Bird]

Phil.

[Jen Hobby]

Tyranna.

[Radio Host Bird]

A couple of years ago on the show. Same situation. Dude. The nicest guy in the world. Heart of gold. Zero game. 000 game. So we did this bit to where I guided him through a relationship with a girl. He was not allowed to make any decisions at all. I made all the decisions for him for how many weeks?

[Radio Host Bert]

I mean for whatever the period of time was. It worked perfectly for 95% of the time.

[Radio Host Bird]

It was flawless. I was reeling her in. I mean we were reeling her in.

[Radio Host Bert]

And it was the first 95% because it all fell to pieces when one thing happened.

[Radio Host Bird]

Didn't. I like went out of town or something like that. And he went off script.

[Radio Host Bert]

You were unavailable.

[Radio Host Bird]

I was unavailable. And he took matters into his own hands and he lost the girl in like 24 hours.

[Radio Host Bert]

And that's not a joke. Like it was seriously a situation where

[Jen Hobby]

he wasn't really the same thing. It's over. Eager.

[Radio Host Bert]

He would call Bert like on a Saturday afternoon and go, dude. She just called me and asked me if I wanted to meet her at, you know, Applebee's for drinks before we go out tonight. What do I say? And Bert would give her guidance. Well, one day, you know, Bert was doing something stupid like playing with his kids or whatever, and couldn't take the phone call. And so Phil just said on his own. You know what I think? I think you know what? Breakfast right now is a good idea. I went to breakfast with her, and whatever happened, she seriously dumped him the next day.

[Radio Host Bird]

He made himself too available.

[Melissa Carter]

Oh, no.

[Radio Host Bird]

Okay, so here's what I want to do with you, okay? Jeff got this AT&T. Phone. Okay? I am gonna give you the phone number to this phone, okay? When you meet guys this weekend, you give them this phone number, okay? They are gonna think they're texting you, but they're really texting me. And I'm gonna play it all weekend long. I am gonna be you all weekend long.

[Melissa Carter]

Awesome.

[Jen Hobby]

Any guy I meet this weekend or

[Radio Host Bird]

any guy that you're really interested in.

[Jen Hobby]

Okay? Okay.

[Radio Host Bird]

That you want to reel in, I am gonna be you texting all weekend long. And I'm gonna show you how this is done.

[Jen Hobby]

So you gotta give out that phone number a couple of times.

[Radio Host Bert]

And you know what? It's all like, we'll set it up with. You'll put your own voicemail on there. So if they call you, Bert will set it up so he'll have the password and everything. And so when they call you and they're like, hey, what's up, Wendy? It's Jeff. I met you last night at five paces of blah, blah, blah. He'll hear the message, and then he will write a text back to the dude. So then I would get a text back from you that says, hey, got your voicemail. We'll try to call you tomorrow. Like, so he's playing the role of you for. I mean, we have the phone as long as we need it.

[Radio Host Bird]

All right, so he starts this weekend

[Radio Host Bert]

at and T. Their heart also bleeds for you, Wendy.

[Jen Hobby]

Oh, man. So I can't talk to any of the dudes I meet?

[Radio Host Bird]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna reel them in, and then once I get them, then I will hand it over to you. But you can't get through the first couple of phases.

[Radio Host Bert]

And you can just say, can we

[Jen Hobby]

also do this when Wendy gets in a relationship and starts sexting them?

[Radio Host Bird]

No, no, no.

[Jen Hobby]

I want to know what you would write.

[Radio Host Bert]

And just so you know, the way it'll work is, like, if Burp plays it around for a couple weeks, and then you could just say, hey, I, you know, I switch my number, and he'll turn, he'll release the men over to you, and you just say, hey, I switched my number. I got an iPhone or whatever, and boom, you're done.

[Radio Host Bird]

Just let me get them on the boat. And you could choose to do what you want with them. You can make them a trophy, you can eat them, whatever. But I'm gonna bring them in.

[Radio Host Bert]

It's like, it's gonna be tough. It's like fishing for marlin. Like, the guy. You're the captain of the boat, who reels him in.

[Jen Hobby]

Bert's never reeled one in.

[Radio Host Bert]

So what am I supposed to do?

[Jen Hobby]

Bert's never reeled a marlin in.

[Caller/Listener]

Great.

[Radio Host Bird]

Hey, Brandy, Go ahead. You're on Q100.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, I was just gonna say that. Guys still like the chase. And I was totally in that place last year and I started not caring, and I got tons and tons of calls right away and just ignored him for a while. And now I'm in a long term relationship.

[Radio Host Bird]

Jen, what is your infamous line about guys and hunting?

[Jen Hobby]

Oh, men are hunters. Let them hunt.

[Radio Host Bird]

You don't let them hunt.

[Jen Hobby]

I'm not good at that.

[Radio Host Bird]

You jump into their truck and you say, here I am. You're a deer that jumps into the back of the truck and goes and

[Jen Hobby]

says, here, I'm already here. I'm already de.

[Radio Host Bert]

They have the.

[Jen Hobby]

I'm a venison burger.

[Radio Host Bert]

They have the rope in their mouth and, like, tie me to the hood.

[Radio Host Bird]

It's already done. So here's the phone. I will give you the phone number.

[Jen Hobby]

It's actually a good analogy.

[Radio Host Bert]

What? The hunter.

[Jen Hobby]

I'm a deer. The deer that jumps in the back of the truck. What fun is that?

[Radio Host Bird]

No, you go ahead. You put the gun away.

[Jen Hobby]

I mean, why put on the camouflage and all the other stuff if it's just gonna jump in the back of your truck?

[Radio Host Bert]

Yeah, why waste a bullet?

[Jen Hobby]

Well, at least you have something in the bag just in case you can't catch anything.

[Radio Host Bert]

Stop covering your.

[Jen Hobby]

Why? You want to be the. Just in case you want to be the prize?

[Radio Host Bird]

This is what we're talking about. You're coming from the desperate place.

[Jen Hobby]

I'm looking at the positive side of this, Wendy.

[Radio Host Bert]

You deserve a guy that's willing to climb in the tree and cover himself in urine and sit there for half a day.

[Radio Host Bird]

What woman doesn't want that?

[Radio Host Bert]

That's what you deserve.

[Jen Hobby]

I need a urine covered man.

[Radio Host Bert]

Wendy. I want for you a urine soaked man. And with Bert's help. You will get one here. Get a man and camouflage.

[Jen Hobby]

I'm sure I will.

[Radio Host Bert]

At Park Tavern with with a bright orange hat and covered in deer urine.

[Radio Host Bird]

I will actually. That's going to be funny cuz I will actually be at Park Tavern with you on Saturday. You're going to be giving your phone number out and I'm going to get the text. All right? So here's the phone. You go ahead, you set up the voicemail and everything. You give the phone number out and I will respond as Wendy for the next couple of weeks.

[Jen Hobby]

Oh, it's going to be weeks.

[Radio Host Bird]

See how long it takes.

[Caller/Listener]

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[Radio Host Bert]

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