Vault: Wendy Shares The Anonymous Online Advice She Received

Summary

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The Bert Show: Vault – Wendy Shares The Anonymous Online Advice She Received

Date: March 19, 2026
Cast Featured: Birch (Show Host), Wendy, Melissa, Jeff
Episode Theme:
A deep-dive with humor and openness into the mysterious, powerful impact of receiving unexpected, anonymous kindness online—focusing on Wendy's heartfelt story of a MySpace message that arrived just when she needed it most.

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode revolves around Wendy's experience of receiving a completely anonymous, uplifting email via MySpace at a low point in her life. The conversation explores how anonymous kindness can affect us, the urge to analyze its source, and whether knowing the sender matters. The cast also delves into the ideas of destiny, serendipity, and simply accepting goodwill at face value.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Wendy’s Story: The Anonymous Message

• [01:09] Wendy shares feeling "down about myself and about life" lately, not having a boyfriend, and being single for the longest stretch ever.
• An unexpected, anonymous MySpace message arrives with advice and well-wishes.
• Wendy remarks: “I had to take a moment and just step back from the computer and was like wow, I don't know where this came from…but this is what the email says.” [02:18]

2. Reading the Anonymous Email (Full Quotation)

• [02:28] Wendy reads the message aloud:

  "I don't know who you are, what your story is or how you got to wherever you are in your life right now. I don't know anything about you, but I do know that I hope you have a wonderful life and that it is filled with happiness and joy. I hope that you find someone, if you have not already, that is like-minded, someone that you can fall for and that will take care of you and give you all the things that you need. I will probably never meet you or talk to you, but I want you to know that there is someone out there that cares about you and your well-being as a fellow person and that sincerely hopes that your road of life is smooth and straight. I hope that you can take this message to heart and see that it was written with sincerity and unconditional love. I hope you live life and live it abundantly." – Anonymous Email [02:28]

• Wendy confirms the sender was completely anonymous: no profile photo, friends, or information—profile age says "a hundred" by default.

3. The Mysterious Follow-up

• [03:09] Wendy replies, asking, "Do I know you?" The only response:

  “Don't thank me. God told me to write it to you. I don't know why, just listen. I don't know. I just know this message is for you. Take care.” – Anonymous [03:30]

4. Group Reaction and Analysis

• The cast jokes about "God is on MySpace" (Melissa, [02:13]) and "Jesus is super poking" (Birch, [02:26]) but quickly shift into genuine awe at the impact the message has had on Wendy.
• Melissa suggests it's "almost better remaining anonymous" ([04:02]), while Birch notes, "it seriously would lose its magic if you found out where it came from. Because then you would start analyzing what the motivation was..." ([04:10])
• Jeff coins it a "serendipity" moment ([04:08]), highlighting the odd beauty in total anonymity.

5. Theories and Further Reflection

• Discussion veers into whether someone who knows Wendy might have sent it, but the consensus leans toward embracing the moment's mystery.

• Melissa notes, "It could have been sent to several people… but it's strange that it's anonymous and wasn't someone with a picture." ([04:35])

• Wendy, showing Melissa the sender’s profile, reiterates, "No picture, no friends, no comments…just everything blank." ([04:59])

6. Sharing and Receiving Advice Anonymously

• Birch confesses to contemplating sending anonymous advice for professional reasons but admits fear of being traced back stops him. ([06:04])
• Melissa adds that receiving very specific advice would focus her more on unmasking the sender than on absorbing the content. ([07:45])
• Wendy points out, "Nobody would have really known unless I knew you, like my best friend. But my best friend would tell me advice, not send me an anonymous email about it." ([08:03])

7. Listener Calls: The Value of Letting It Be

• [08:26] Caller Bonita reminds: "God does work in mysterious ways...God is everywhere."
  • Jeff jokes, "I'm on Facebook too." ([08:44])
  • Bonita: “Just enjoy it.” ([08:46])
• [08:59] Caller Tiffany echoes, "Don't overanalyze it. Just enjoy it...some people just love doing random acts of kindness." ([09:00])
• The cast agrees that even if the message was sent to many people, it reached Wendy for a reason: “What if it was sent to a million people, but it was only meant to help three, and you're one of those three.” (Birch, [09:27])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Wendy’s Awe:

  “I just stepped back from this email and I was like…it's something I really needed to hear and just brightened up my day...made me feel better about where I am in life.” ([03:33])

• Melissa on Anonymity:

  “It's almost better remaining anonymous.” ([04:03])

• Birch on Magic:

  “It seriously would lose its magic if you found out where it came from.” ([04:10])

• Jeff’s Reflection:

  “I almost don't want to analyze it.” ([04:33])

• Birch on Fate:

  “What if it was sent to a million people, but it was only meant to help three, and you're one of those three.” ([09:27])

• Caller Bonita:

  “God does work in mysterious ways. And...God is everywhere.” ([08:26])

• Caller Tiffany:

  “Don't overanalyze it. Just enjoy it…people just love doing random acts of kindness.” ([09:00])

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Important Timestamps

• [01:09] – Wendy introduces her receipt of the anonymous message.
• [02:28] – Wendy reads the full anonymous email on air.
• [03:30] – Second, even more mysterious, reply ("God told me to write it…").
• [04:02 – 04:33] – Discussion: Should the sender remain anonymous? The value of mystery.
• [06:04] – Birch shares about wanting to give anonymous advice.
• [08:26 & 08:59] – Callers encourage Wendy (and listeners) to accept kindness when it comes.
• [09:27] – Birch reflects on the randomness and meaningfulness of the message.

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Overall Tone and Final Thoughts

The conversation strikes a heartfelt, humorous, and lightly philosophical note. The team balances skepticism, curiosity, and genuine gratefulness, ultimately deciding that anonymous kindness—whether truly random or not—can have a meaningful impact if accepted without overanalysis. Wendy’s vulnerability and the team's warmth invite listeners to look for, and perhaps more importantly, to receive small miracles in daily life.

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Perfect for listeners seeking an uplifting morning and a reminder that even random strangers can change your entire outlook with the right words at the right time.

Transcript

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[Show Host (Birch)]

This is the Birch Show. So Wendy brought up something in our meeting the other day. She got some. Some advice. I don't know if you said if it was good or bad, but she got some advice, which is cool, but she got it completely anonymously.

[Wendy]

Very anonymously. I was just browsing through my MySpace over the weekend and I pull up this email. Usually I don't even open emails with people who don't have pictures on their MySpace or I usually just click on the profile to see what this like,

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the people are all about.

[Wendy]

Well, this one had no photo, no info, no friends, no nothing. There is nothing about this person. It's completely anonymous. And lately I've been just kind of like down now about myself and about life and I don't have a boyfriend. I've been single for the longest period I've ever been single for, so just been down about life. And I opened this email and it really like hit home and like struck a nerve and it's something I needed to read and it's really good advice. You want me to read the email?

[Show Host (Birch)]

Yeah. Can you?

[Wendy]

Yeah, I can read it.

[Show Host (Birch)]

I have it up and I think the most. To me, the most fascinating part about this is it came completely anonymously.

[Wendy]

Yeah, that's pretty nothing.

[Show Host (Birch)]

And we're gonna. I'm assuming that after you read it, the is the assumption you made this person knew you more than just being a radio personality. Like.

[Wendy]

Yeah, well, it even says in the email that they don't know who I am.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Oh, okay. Go ahead.

[Wendy]

It's really strangely bizarre.

[Melissa]

God is on MySpace.

[Wendy]

That's what I thought.

[Melissa]

As soon as I read it.

[Wendy]

I had to take a moment and just step back from the computer and was like wow, I don't know where this came from or anything but this is what the email says.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Jesus is super poking.

[Wendy]

It says I don't know who you are, what your story is or how you got to wherever you are are in your life right now. I don't know anything about you, but I do know that I hope you have a wonderful life and that it is filled with happiness and joy. I hope that you find someone, if you have not already that is like minded, someone that you can fall for and that will take care of you and give you all the things that you need. I will probably never meet you or talk to you, but I want you to know that there is someone out there that cares about you and your well being as a fellow person and that sincerely hopes that your road of life is smooth and straight. I hope that you can take this message to heart and see that it was written with sincerity and unconditional love. I hope you live life and live it abundantly. Oh and wow. There's no name.

[Show Host (Birch)]

That's pretty deep for being.

[Wendy]

Yeah, there's no name, no nothing. No more info about who I am. And I responded, I was like thank you whoever you are. And I was like, like I even asked, I'm like do, do I know you? And the only. I only got one like response back and this is what it said. Don't thank me. God told me to write it to you. I don't know why, just listen. I don't know. I just know this message is for you. Take care.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Wow.

[Melissa]

And there's still never identified themselves.

[Wendy]

There's still to this day no picture, no info. Like the age says like a hundred. So I mean on the profile, so it's completely anonymous and out of the woodwork. But I just stepped back from this email and I was like nothing could have, like no one could have said these words to me unless I just read them on the screen. And I was like, it's something I really needed to hear and just brightened up my day. And I'm like made you feel better? Yeah, it made me feel better about like where I am in life and like I just need to take a step back and just do things day to day. Yeah.

[Melissa]

So it's like you almost don't want to find out who sent it.

[Wendy]

Yeah, no, yeah.

[Melissa]

It's almost better remaining anonymous.

[Show Host (Birch)]

You know the way that like I

[Jeff]

said it's a serendipity, too.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Well, it seriously would lose its mat. Lose its magic if you found out where it came from. Because then you would start analyzing what the motivation was and why they did it and what, you know, what their intentions were. But, I mean, that's pretty. I mean, heavy. God just told me to write it. Dan, do you guys think that that was somebody who knew her and who's made the decision and knows that it's more special if they're completely anonymous?

[Jeff]

I almost don't want to analyze it. You know, I almost want to just

[Melissa]

keep it, because it could have been. I mean, it was, you know, simple enough that it could have been sent to several people. You know what I mean? It could have been someone that was sending it and, you know, feeling like reaching out to a lot of different friends on their MySpace or something. But it's strange that it's anonymous and it wasn't someone. It had a picture.

[Wendy]

Yeah, no picture or anything like that. I'm showing Melissa the page, like, very

[Jeff]

plain, like, almost nothing.

[Wendy]

No friends, no comments.

[Jeff]

When you first sign up, it's the blank page. No background, no nothing. Just everything blank.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Just Tom.

[Jeff]

Yeah, exactly.

[Radio Host]

The star.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Here's my thing, and I've thought about doing this, and people are analyzing it now, trying to decipher it. Hey, Heidi.

[Caller (Tiffany)]

Hi.

[Show Host (Birch)]

What's up?

[Caller (Tiffany)]

I think from the words that were used in some of the phraseology that it was written by a woman. Like, I hope you fall for. I don't think that's an expression that a man would use, and I don't know if that makes a difference to you, Wendy, but it just seems like something that a sensitive woman wrote.

[Wendy]

Okay, well, I mean, I'm looking at the profile again, and it has, like, the one thing it has on it is the zodiac sign. So I don't know if I'm going to analyze this profile even more because it's just a strange email. It says Capricorn, and Capricorn's in the middle of, like, December and January.

[Jeff]

Right.

[Wendy]

And, like, Christmas is in between there. So, I mean, just falls on, like, God's day on Christmas. That's actually the generic. If you don't put your birth date on there, it just falls to Capricorn.

[Jeff]

She was trying to make it all special and like, oh, my God. It really could be from God. And then you. Whatever. Wah, wah, wah.

[Show Host (Birch)]

I think. See, I have considered before where there are people who have adjustments that I think they need in their life, but it would be inappropriate for me to Share them with them. I think I have before thought about possibly creating an email account and sending them a totally anonymous email, but the fear of ever being found out has prevented me from doing that.

[Melissa]

Like someone that would. Like your boss or something, or someone that would have.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Like, maybe somebody that I work with. Maybe somebody that I know. Yeah, it's actually been mainly. It's mainly been professional advice. The couple of times I've thought of doing it where I'm like, God, you know what? I think this person's really hindering themselves professionally because of these behaviors, and it would be totally helpful if I just let them know that they could do this. But then my fear is that they would get all analytical and translate or be able to decipher it and lead it back to me, figure out who

[Melissa]

registered for the account or whatever.

[Jeff]

Now, though, if anybody, you know, gets random business advice, they know it's you.

[Melissa]

That's true.

[Caller (Tiffany)]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

So what do you want to tell us, Jeff?

[Jeff]

Come on. Yeah, what is it you want to say?

[Wendy]

I don't think I've ever done anything wrong.

[Show Host (Birch)]

I honestly don't think it's ever been anyone in this room, I don't think. And I haven't thought about it and doing it in, like, a couple years. But I just remember I was obsessed with it for a while, and, you know, my fear is that it would backfire, But I was obsessed with just sending people advice and go, you know what? This is what you do, and this is how you behave. And I think things would go differently if you behaved this way.

[Melissa]

And if I had gotten any sort of anonymous advice like that that was real specific. You know, it's someone around you that knows you or is watching you or. Yeah, watching you or working with you. So my obsession wouldn't be within the advice. It would be with finding out who sent it.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Right.

[Melissa]

You know what I mean? So you might almost miss the message.

[Wendy]

And the thing about this particular email, when I go out and when I'm hanging out with my friends, I mean, I'm having a good time. It's when I get home where I'm just like. I kind of think about things and I stress out. So that's why this email, really, nobody would have really know unless I knew you, like my best friend. But my best friend would tell me advice, not send me an anonymous email about it. You know what I mean? Just bizarre.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Hey, bonita. Welcome to the show.

[Caller (Tiffany)]

Hey, Jeff.

[Show Host (Birch)]

How are you?

[Caller (Tiffany)]

I'm good. I just want to. I just want to comment. I just want to Let y' all know, God does work in mysterious ways. And maybe, maybe everybody shouldn't be analyz. Just let her enjoy it and take it for what it's worth. And Melissa said, God's on my space. Well, God is everywhere.

[Jeff]

I'm on Facebook too.

[Caller (Tiffany)]

Yeah, just enjoy it.

[Wendy]

Yeah. I mean, I'm curious on who wrote it, but yeah, I'm just gonna let it go at this point.

[Jeff]

No, I think it's really cool. Yeah.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Hey, Tiffany, welcome to the show.

[Jeff]

Don't joke about that.

[Caller (Tiffany)]

Good morning. The last caller kind of took the words out of my mouth. Don't overanalyze it. Just enjoy it. Because you'll take the power away from. Just take it. As you know, some people just love doing random acts of kindness.

[Jeff]

That's true.

[Caller (Tiffany)]

And so the last caller just kind of stole that for me. But I just love calling the show.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Thank you.

[Caller (Tiffany)]

So my 17 year old could freak out that I'm on the radio. Enjoy it, enjoy it, enjoy it.

[Wendy]

Thank you.

[Show Host (Birch)]

See, my thought would be this. Even if it came to, like, millions of people, like it was some generic spam type message that a ton of other people got, like, there is a reason you're one of those people and there's a reason that that message got to you. So what if it was sent to a million people, but it was only meant to help three, and you're one of those three. You know what I mean?

[Jeff]

Right.

[Melissa]

So true.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Take it. Take it for what it's worth. It's all getting deep in this secret. Using the secret, or we have to

[Jeff]

say Bert's, you know, on vacation, so we have to at least use the word destiny. It was destiny that you got that

[Wendy]

email just MySpace message.

[Show Host (Birch)]

Unless that encourages you to go out this weekend, meet a boy and start a relationship with him and it doesn't work out well at all, then that message is immediately going to become fake.

[Wendy]

It does say, live life.

[Show Host (Birch)]

There you go.

[Radio Host]

Hey, this is the Birch Show.

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