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Radio Host Bart
Okay, only 10 more presents to wrap. You're almost at the finish line.
Radio Host Charles
But first.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
There the last one.
Radio Host Bart
Enjoy a Coca Cola for a pause that refreshes.
Radio Host or Producer
Get it?
Radio Host or Commentator
The bird show.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
You know, there were a lot of conversations around Atlanta over the last couple of weeks with like these 12 and 13 year old girls or even younger going to their parents saying oh please take me to Britney, please, please. And a bunch of the parents were like, you are not going to see that whole Britney Spears. No, no, no. And it's probably a conversation that has been relived with every generation.
Radio Host Bart
Even those parents who are saying you will not see Britney Spears. There is somebody that their parents told them they couldn't go see.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Right? You know, Madonna, Elvis, if you really want to go back way far.
Radio Host Bart
He was even, you know. Yeah, people had a problem with him when he came out.
Radio Host Charles
Beatles with their long hair.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Yeah, exactly.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
So we're. What did your parents forbid you from seeing or hearing? Was there a movie or was there a. I was gonna say a cd, but back in the day like you.
Radio Host Bart
Said, it was vinyl, it was albums.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
You bring that eight track tape back to Kmart. Antoinette, you're on all the hits. Q100. Hey.
Radio Host or Caller
Hi.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
My parents wouldn't let me watch MTV.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
I had a lot of my friends whose parents wouldn't let them watch mtv.
Radio Host Charles
No MTV in my house.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
You are not gonna be watching that. Aha. In my time, that's much.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
And back then, it wasn't. I mean, if you look at it now, it' lot worse than it was back then. So why wouldn't they let me watch it, you know? So it was. It was. That was one thing that I couldn't do. Besides, I didn't go to my first concert until I was, like, 19.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
MTV started to get all really nasty with that Ed lover and. And Dre. Spring breaks. That's when it started to get all naughty on us, man.
Radio Host or Caller
Yep.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Do you ever. Have you guys watched any of that Spring break this year? That's soft porn.
Momentous Brand Representative
Yeah, it is.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
That is full on soft porn.
Radio Host Charles
Now, if you think MTV's pornographic, then Britney last night definitely was.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Hey, Amanda, you're on all the hits. Q100.
Radio Host Bart
Hey.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
I was not allowed to listen to the song Push it growing up because my mom thought that it was saying B.S.
Radio Host Bart
Salt and pepper.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Yeah.
Radio Host Bart
And when I finally figured out what.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
It actually meant, because I'm not really that old, I was mortified when she asked me what it actually meant.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
She thought that they were saying, bull. Yeah, I gotcha.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Yeah.
Radio Host or Commentator
What a great song to skate to.
Radio Host or Caller
Oh, we gotta find this song is only for the funky people.
Radio Host Charles
This dance ain't for everybody.
Radio Host or Caller
Dance, I say dance.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Hey, Tia, you're on all the hits. Q100.
Radio Host Bart
Hey.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
My mom flipped out over that song. Samantha Fox. Naughty girls need love, too.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Samantha Fox. Yeah, she was hot back in the day.
Radio Host or Commentator
What happened to her?
Radio Host Bart
And that video was. She was, like, in an alley with a bunch of guys, and it was bad dancing, but, you know. Yeah.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
You know, I never even got a chance to see the video.
Radio Host Bart
It was bad.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
My sister's best friend bought the tape for me. My mom heard me listen to it once and, like, tore up the tape.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
You get that Samantha Fox out of the house.
Radio Host Bart
Samantha Fox.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
You know what I was just remembering? Remember how I told you guys that my friend couldn't listen to Rush because it was rulers under Satan's hands was the acronym. There was one for Kiss also that she was all up in arms about. And it was nights in Satan's service with Kiss. Morning. All the hits. Q100.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Good morning.
Radio Host or Producer
Hey.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
My mother would not let me watch Nickelodeon's you can't do that on television because the green slime looked like snot.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Oh, come on.
Radio Host or Producer
Serious.
Radio Host Bart
You know what?
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Serious.
Radio Host Charles
You know what? One of my best friends wasn't allowed to watch that because I think they said The. I think they said shut up.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Yeah, yeah, that was another big point. Her main deal was that the green slime looked like snot.
Radio Host Bart
Are you kidding?
Radio Host Charles
That show also said shut up. And I think they also said, like, one other thing, like fart or something like that. Like they said the word fart and shut up in that show. And so my best friend's parents banned her from watching that. Oh, my God.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Hey, Charles, you're on all the hits. Q100.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Hey there.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Hey.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
I was not allowed to watch the Cosby Show. I grew up in a rather racist family, and my parents did not want us watching a successful black couple.
Radio Host or Commentator
Then you must have loved. Must have loved Archie Bunker then.
Radio Host Charles
You got it.
Radio Host Bart
I kidding.
Radio Host or Caller
That's funny.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Seriously, I can see conversations like that happening.
Radio Host Charles
Really?
Radio Host or Caller
Oh, my gosh.
Radio Host Charles
The Cosby's was, like, the only thing I was allowed to watch.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
I love that show. Me too. Man, did I love that show.
Radio Host Bart
Love show.
Radio Host or Caller
Remember when they did the show for the Bill's dead parents?
Radio Host Bart
Oh, and Rudy came downstairs and they did the. That was one of the best episodes.
Radio Host or Commentator
I'll bet his parents were so mad when the Jeffersons moved on up.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Hey, Rebecca.
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Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
My mom would freak out whenever that Everybody Wing Chung song came on because she did not like what they implied by Wing Chung.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
What was that song about?
Radio Host or Caller
I just mean everybody have fun tonight.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Everybody Wing Chung tonight. That song. Turns out we were watching one of those VH1 behind the Music things years later. And Wing Chun is from an oriental children's book, and Wang is the downstroke and the guitar and Chung is the upstroke.
Radio Host Bart
I knew that.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Oh, I never knew the history behind that song.
Radio Host Bart
Really? Yeah.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
But she did not like what they meant by that, so I was not allowed to listen to it.
Radio Host or Commentator
Okay, everybody play guitar tonight.
Radio Host Bart
Now, was that video the one that caused epileptic fits in people? Because one of Wang Chun's videos. No, one of Wang Chun's videos caused epilepsy. Like somebody was trying to sue him. Because the video caused her to go into an epileptic fits.
Radio Host or Commentator
It's like those Japanese animated cartoons these days.
Radio Host or Caller
Like, well, I know the aha take on me. The animated one. There was a problem with that. They put a warning at the beginning of that when it first came out. Because the animation and the way the black and the white and the flashes. If you're a kid, simple brained kid.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
You really remember the song Turning Japanese.
Radio Host Charles
Yeah.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Same thing as that Wang Chung song. Same subject, I guess.
Radio Host or Caller
Wang Chung was a dance.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Well, it was Also a song.
Momentous Brand Representative
Right.
Radio Host or Caller
But that's what. When they were saying Everybody Wang Chung Tonight. That was. If you remember the video. That was the. That was a dance.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
I don't recall it.
Radio Host Bart
I just. I love that show. I guess what she was talking about on VH1, where. What is it called again? Where they talk about the rumors of what a song means, and then the band comes up and tells you exactly what the song means. And I believe Turning Japanese was one of them, but I can't remember what the actual meaning behind it was.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Turning Japanese?
Radio Host Bart
Yeah. It's not what you thought it was.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Okay. Yeah. Hey, Lisa, you're on all the hits q100.
Momentous Brand Representative
Hello.
Radio Host Bart
Hi.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
I was not allowed to watch the Smurfs because their magic made them demonized. And everybody knows if you watch a demonized show in your house, the demons come. Come through your tv, and your house is haunted.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Of course.
Radio Host Bart
It's the Harry Potter syndrome.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Today there'll be a whole, you know, There'll be a DJ doing the same topic in 15 years, and there'll be a whole bunch of Harry Potter calls. No doubt. Hey, Lauren, you're on all the hits Q100.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Hey, this is Lauren. I was calling to know my mother wouldn't let me watch Three's Company when I was younger. And I didn't realize why until, you know, later, but at the time, that was classic. I mean, I loved that as a kid growing up, but now I see what she was talking about.
Radio Host or Caller
Because of the gay kid.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Yeah. And just the boy. The guy living with the two girls and everything had a sexual innuendo to it. But at the time, as a little kid, I just loved the show and didn't see what it was about.
Radio Host or Caller
It's funnier than a guy getting hit in the head with a door. You know, Three's Company, the best thing they ever did is put in that two way swinging kitchen door.
Radio Host Bart
Yeah. And then the, you know, the landlords, whether it was the ropers, Ropers or Mr. Furley, you know.
Momentous Brand Representative
Morning.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
All the hits Q100.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Hi, Bart. This is Gina.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Hey, Gina. What were you banned from as a kid?
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
I was not allowed to go with my girlfriends to see Van Halen when they had David Lee Roth. Because my mother and my father thought David Lee Roth was such a womanizer. And he was just so provocative.
Radio Host Bart
Didn't he wear the butless pants on stage?
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Right. At one of the MTV shows. I think one of the award shows. Wasn't it?
Radio Host Bart
Because I. Well, I think in concert, too, he would wear the butler yes.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
And he wears thongs and stuff. But finally when they got rid of David Lee Roth and got Sammy Hagar, she kind of, you know, I was like 18 when that happened.
Radio Host or Caller
Maybe it was those compelling David Lee Roth lyrics that threw her off. Like, jump, jump, jump. Might as well jump can't you see me standing here? I got my back against the record machine. Might as well jump.
Radio Host or Commentator
David Lee Roth is much more offensive to see now back then.
Radio Host or Caller
He needs to let it go already, man.
Radio Host Bart
Agreed.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
And that's thing that he has with Sammy Hagar, it's like, have you ever seen an interview with one or the other of those guys where they're not ripping on each other?
Radio Host Bart
They both need to let it go.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Yeah, they're like 50 year old Tiffany and Debbie Gibson and they're both not.
Radio Host Bart
At the band anymore.
Radio Host or Commentator
That's Deborah Gibson.
Radio Host Charles
Sorry.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Change evolved. Morning. All the hits. Q100.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Hey, guys, this is Angie. How y' all doing?
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Good.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Y' all are great. I was calling to let you know that I was like 12 years old, I grew up in a Baptist church, and we had a tape burning party of all of our secular tapes. And the first one that they said that I had to burn was my Def Leppard tape. Yes, you did. And I'll never forget that. So as soon as I got in college and I had a job, I went and bought the Def Leppard greatest hit. Because I always was so upset about that.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
You crazy rebel, you.
Momentous Brand Representative
I know.
Radio Host Bart
What was the name of that tape?
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Tyromania.
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Radio Host or Main Moderator
There were so many great songs on that.
Radio Host Charles
I had the. I had the 2 Live crew, as nasty as they Want to Be tape.
Radio Host Bart
Oh, my God.
Radio Host or Producer
Are you kidding? Yes.
Radio Host Charles
When I was like really young, I don't know why I thought it was so cool, but I snuck around and listened to that.
Radio Host or Caller
Yeah, you know what? That tape was only popular because people banned it. I think that could be the worst album, musical compilation ever wasted on cassette.
Radio Host Charles
I swear, if you put it in right now, I could say every word.
Momentous Brand Representative
Every word.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Hey, Nicole, you're on all the hits. Q100.
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Hey. When I was younger, my mom's grandmother, her mom was Chevy. We couldn't watch the Hardy Boys with the Simpsons unless she was taking a nap.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
The Hardy Boys?
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Yeah.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
What was wrong with the Hardy Boys?
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
Everything. They grew up. You can't celebrate anything. So anything that had anything to do with car chases or cops, she was like. So when she took a nap and we were supposed to be asleep during the summer we would sneak around and watch it.
Radio Host or Caller
When does a car chase become a celebration?
Caller or Guest Speaker (possibly female, sharing personal stories)
She just wouldn't have it. She was like, no, not here. My mom was like, it's okay, it's fine. And she was like, no, she's a stern lady.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
That was like. That was Must See TV back in the day. The Nancy Drew mysteries and Hardy Boy.
Radio Host or Caller
I got thrown out of Sunday school for having. I can't remember the name of the band, but it was Money for Nothing. Whose name? Dire Straits. Dire Straits. Money for Nothing. Because of the line, we get our chicks for free.
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Radio Host or Commentator
Oh, I figured it would be the other line.
Radio Host or Caller
Which one?
Radio Host or Commentator
The little on the mtv. The little makes his money, blah, blah, blah. I don't want to say the word.
Momentous Brand Representative
It's.
Radio Host or Caller
Yeah, yeah. No, that wasn't it. It was about getting chicks for free.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Yeah, well, it wasn't the gay thing that bothered.
Radio Host or Commentator
Yeah, really, it's for free.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
That bothers.
Radio Host Bart
Exactly.
Radio Host or Caller
I was in church. They encouraged that at the time.
Radio Host Bart
Right? Exactly. Some still do. I wonder what we're going to be like. She said her grandmother had, you know, only when she took a nap that they were allowed to do some things. What is it when we're like 80 that we are going to not be able to tolerate? Because, I mean, this is not just a generational thing. Every generation does this and we're going to get crotchety and old and conservative and I just wonder what is it going to take to offend us?
Radio Host or Main Moderator
And we're pushing the envelope more and more and more. So by the time we're 80, I'm convinced everybody's going to be walking around naked. I mean, kiss. Finally. You and I will be 120. But it will happen, my friends.
Radio Host or Commentator
I'd look like some Silly Putty on a desert rock.
Radio Host or Main Moderator
Get it?
Radio Host or Commentator
The Bird Show.
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Episode: Vault: The Things Kids Shouldn't Be Listening To
Date: December 15, 2025
This episode of The Bert Show dives into the nostalgic and often humorous memories of media and entertainment that were forbidden or frowned upon by parents when the hosts and listeners were kids. Through lively banter, listener calls, and honest self-reflection, the cast explores the many reasons—ranging from concerns about explicit content and misunderstood lyrics to generational anxiety—why certain TV shows, songs, and concerts were off-limits. The conversation also touches on how these bans reflect broader cultural anxieties and shift from generation to generation, while showing just how little has changed as each new crop of parents faces similar dilemmas.
Several listeners call in to share what they weren’t allowed to watch or listen to:
On generational shifting boundaries
On parents’ reasoning or lack thereof
On music censorship and urban legends
On lingering teenage rebellion
On hypocrisy and humor in bans
The hosts and callers maintain a playful, self-deprecating, and comedic tone throughout the episode. Stories are recounted with warmth and occasional mock outrage, and the hosts share in the absurdity and nostalgia of media bans. The overall mood is inclusive, encouraging listeners to both laugh at and reflect on the shifting boundaries of societal norms.
This episode celebrates the universal experience of parents clamping down on music, TV shows, and culture—often for reasons steeped in anxiety or misunderstanding. Through humor and camaraderie, the episode reminds listeners that every generation replays this same drama, and that today’s verboten pop culture may be tomorrow’s harmless nostalgia.
For more laughs and relatable stories, check out The Bert Show’s daily episodes!