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to start the show than with stupid?

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So let's do that. Kristen's Stupid Bed

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of the Week. You

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can blame this one on me and

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our loyal Burt Show listeners. Okay bring

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the stupid. I posted

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this or shared it to my Insta

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story and I was like I really

0:42

think the Burt Show should do this. And

0:44

I got my DMs flooded like yes

0:46

yes yes you have to do it.

0:49

So this is a viral trend that

0:51

I have seen popping up a lot

0:53

in my Instagram algorithm. And

0:56

what it is is a couple

0:58

typically a husband and wife or a

1:00

boyfriend and girlfriend. The new date

1:03

night is sitting down and

1:05

painting each other's likeness. Painting

1:08

their what? Their likeness. Okay. So you

1:10

sit down with the canvas and

1:13

you sit across from each other. You

1:15

get your palette, your paint, your brushes and

1:18

you sit there and you have like a

1:20

couple glasses of wine or whatever and you

1:22

paint each other's face. And

1:24

then at the end you turn it around and you unveil it

1:26

to each other. Oh this could be so insulting. Oh

1:30

is it? I don't see this going well. Is

1:32

it? So nine times out of

1:34

ten the wife or girlfriend does

1:36

pretty good. But

1:38

the boyfriend or the husband. So I

1:41

pulled these are some of the reactions.

1:43

So when you hear this that

1:46

there's two different reactions in here and one of

1:48

the kids gets involved in the second one and

1:50

it's very funny because that's how bad he did.

1:53

But in the first one she's sitting there and she holds the

1:55

picture because they don't see it till the very very end and

1:57

she's holding the picture next to her and then she turns around

1:59

and looks at it. it and just absolutely

2:01

loses it. It

2:31

was so bad. So you all have

2:33

bags next to you. I went out

2:35

ran some errands. So when you open

2:37

your little artistic goodie bag, you're going

2:39

to find an 11 by 14 canvas.

2:41

You're going

2:46

to find like a little

2:48

mini easel to put your canvas

2:51

on. So you can

2:53

paint. You are going to find

2:55

a plethora of paints to

2:57

use. You're going to find

2:59

your brushes and you're going to find your paint

3:02

palette. So I

3:04

figured I had to get

3:07

the stand to work. Yeah. Put something

3:13

behind it. That's heavy and it'll

3:15

work. Oh well. If I don't have the proper

3:18

the proper tools, it's not

3:20

easily man. I didn't think I

3:22

need to test these, but the easels, the stuff, the canvas

3:24

is heavy. Here we go. It's about

3:27

the angle. So Kristen asked me a

3:30

day before yesterday, what's that thing

3:33

painters use that they have their paint on

3:35

that to dip their paint brushes in? I'm

3:37

like a palette and she goes, yeah. And

3:39

I'm thinking, why is she asking me that?

3:42

Now I know. All right. So

3:45

does, I mean, leading into this, does

3:47

anybody have any artsy

3:49

painting skills whatsoever? I was

3:51

with six figures. So this

3:53

should be interesting. Absolutely. Oh

3:55

my God. I missed an

3:57

opportunity. Kristen, I should have

3:59

went. and got Burt a Bob Ross

4:01

wig. Yeah. I was painting

4:03

based on the costume. When

4:05

Eliza used to be in the house and we

4:08

used to all paint together, right? We would line

4:10

up our paintings afterwards and

4:12

she was eight at the time

4:14

and her paintings blew mine. I

4:16

can't paint. I mean it's ridiculously

4:18

bad. That's the whole

4:20

premise of this. So what is going to be

4:22

easiest is we're going to draw the person that

4:24

sits across from us. So like Abby

4:27

sits across from me and I

4:29

sit across from her so we're going to draw each other. Mo

4:32

and Burt, you guys are going to draw each other. If

4:34

you get real racial real quick. We're shades in. You

4:39

need to learn how to blend your

4:41

paint. So

4:44

throughout the entire show, you

4:46

have the entire show. You

4:49

have the entire show. I

4:51

don't need that much though. To paint the person across

4:53

me and then at the very last break of the

4:55

show. We will turn these bad boys

4:57

around and we will get everyone's reaction. So

4:59

we have four hours now. Okay. I'm

5:03

just looking here. I mean it took Da Vinci

5:07

some say four years, anywhere between four

5:09

and twelve years. Oh, okay. The paint

5:11

the Mona Lisa and you're asking us

5:13

to create this classic piece of art,

5:15

classic piece of something. Within

5:17

the next four hours. It's unfair. It

5:20

is unfair but it is what it is because it's my stupid bit of

5:22

the week. So

5:24

try to shield your painting from everybody

5:26

and that way nobody can see and

5:28

then we will have a grand unveiling

5:30

at the end of the show. Mo,

5:33

I want to apologize in advance. I swear to you,

5:35

bro. That apology is

5:37

right back at you, bro. All

5:40

right. So we got four hours and then

5:42

at the last break of the day, we

5:45

will expose exactly what we have painted. We

5:47

will showcase our masterpieces. I

5:49

am ready. The Burt Show. The

5:51

Entertainment Bus. Time to get

5:53

buzzed on the hot gosh from

5:56

Hollywood. It's the Burt Show's Entertainment

5:58

Bus. When in the... are getting

6:00

punched in the face in New York City and

6:02

nobody knows why. I logged on to my tiktok

6:04

the other day and I swear I saw like

6:06

15 videos of all different

6:09

women around my age about 26, 27, 28 all saying the same thing.

6:11

I was walking

6:14

around the streets in New York looking at my phone all

6:16

of a sudden some guy clacks me, knocks me

6:18

in the face. I was literally

6:21

just walking and a man came up

6:23

and punched me in the face. Oh my

6:25

god. It hurts so bad. I can't even

6:27

talk. I literally just fell to

6:29

the ground and now this is trying to take a second and

6:31

I'm like oh my god. It's so

6:33

close. So it's an influencer

6:36

named Halle Kate who's really big on

6:38

tiktok and she's walking down the street

6:40

and you can see like a big

6:42

contusion forming on her forehead. It's bruised,

6:44

she's crying obviously because it's incredibly traumatic

6:47

and everybody in the comments is freaking out like

6:49

go to the hospital you probably have a concussion

6:51

and so then after that all these other videos

6:53

of other women that are popping up on our

6:55

For You page and now we're all like what

6:57

is going on in New York but

6:59

a couple days later Halle said you know I

7:02

don't necessarily think it's all happening at the same

7:04

time. I think people started searching for my video

7:06

and then people's videos from the last couple of

7:08

months started popping up. It started pumping out a

7:10

bunch of old videos from girls also saying that

7:12

they got punched in the face but also side

7:15

note my head is looking a lot better. Ow.

7:17

I'm just gonna contour over where I got hit.

7:20

Deb's contour stick can't even tell it's a little

7:22

swollen all good. Anyway I think because people started

7:24

searching girl getting punched in the face all of

7:26

the old videos that girls had made from months

7:28

weeks years ago about getting punched in the face

7:30

started getting on everyone's For You page because it

7:33

was just a trending topic and from listening to

7:35

a lot of those girls' videos it didn't really

7:37

sound like it was the same person. I think

7:39

it just might be a somewhat common thing

7:41

that happens in big cities but I don't

7:43

want it to seem like 13 girls

7:45

got punched in the face yesterday and oh my

7:47

god if you come to New York City you're

7:49

for sure gonna get punched in the face. Well

7:52

it's obviously really upsetting and disgusting that women have

7:54

to deal with s*** like this. I personally am

7:56

not gonna revolve my life around that one incident.

7:59

Now Mo you're from- New York, so let me ask you

8:01

this question. Are there some boroughs where this is just

8:03

the way they say hello in New York? Instead

8:07

of shaking hands, they just punch in the

8:09

face? Some would say that in Brooklyn, that

8:12

is a sign of endearment. But no, I

8:14

don't know of anybody going this far with New

8:17

Yorkers known to be aggression. This is new to

8:19

me. I didn't know this was a thing. Well,

8:21

apparently it's becoming a thing because then people started popping

8:23

up and saying, you know, now that it's becoming a

8:25

quote unquote trend where people are talking about it, they're

8:27

like, you've got to really be on your guard. If

8:30

you're out walking around in a big city because it,

8:32

whoever's starting to do it might catch on with like

8:34

other groups of people or might start catching on in

8:36

other cities. So girls, if you're out and about, and

8:38

even guys I saw were getting punched in the face.

8:42

I saw one guy talk about getting punched in

8:44

the face, but he said it happened a couple weeks

8:46

ago. But the videos that I had

8:48

saw that actually had been posted recently were all women

8:51

in their late twenties. Yeah, this was happening a while

8:53

ago also. And it was happening to guys and it

8:55

wasn't just New York City. It was also older people

8:57

were getting punched just as strangers were walking down the

8:59

street. You don't guys remember this couple of years ago?

9:02

Yeah, I think things was going on. I think yeah,

9:04

because I think there was, if I remember correctly, there

9:06

was a homeless dude that was dealing with some mental

9:08

health issues that was like punching somebody. So

9:10

I mean, all these guys are going to get

9:12

caught, especially now that there's this heightened awareness to

9:14

it. You can't be on the streets in New

9:17

York City without a camera being on you somehow,

9:19

some way, right? Either security camera

9:21

is operating looking out from an apartment

9:23

complex or a bodega. They're going to

9:25

get caught. But just the

9:27

fact that you can't even walk down the street

9:29

anymore and feel safe because you don't know if

9:31

someone's going to punch you in the face is

9:34

a really sad state. And it's

9:36

really scary that it's catching on on the Internet because

9:38

I remember when I was in college back in

9:41

2016, something kind of similar was happening on college campuses.

9:43

I don't know if you guys remember this, but there

9:45

was like an epidemic of like

9:47

clowns running around on campus. And I remember there

9:49

was like a semester where we all had to

9:51

have like our head on a swivel of being

9:53

like, is there going to be like a freaky

9:55

clown coming at me with a knife that night?

9:58

So I really hope that this is the kind of thing that just. blows over

10:00

and doesn't catch on with the crazies of

10:02

New York or any other major study. I

10:05

will submit this closing his

10:07

charity after his Oscars slap

10:09

completely tanked donations. So their

10:11

charitable foundation is set to

10:13

close because their tax records

10:15

are revealing that after the

10:18

big Oscars slap happened,

10:20

big organizations like American

10:22

Airlines and CAA all

10:24

pulled their funding. So they haven't commented on

10:26

this, but they are going to focus on

10:29

private charitable giving, but it looks

10:31

like they're going to have to shut it down all

10:33

because of that one thing that he did with Chris

10:35

Rock at the 2022 Oscars. That's probably got to be

10:37

the thing that's going to hurt him the most is

10:39

that that action is going to

10:41

impact people who could have benefited from

10:44

his charity. Yeah, I would

10:46

think that he and Jayda have enough money

10:48

to cover that two mill, to

10:50

be honest with you, at

10:53

least in the short term. But these are the

10:55

ramifications, you know, like if I do something really

10:57

stupid, you know, outside

10:59

of the bird show, I'm tied

11:01

in the birds big adventure. So it would

11:03

make sense that sponsors would pull from me,

11:05

right? It's the same thing with Will Smith.

11:07

Yeah, it's a huge responsibility. So

11:10

Sean Diddycombs team is responding to the raids

11:12

of his home. I'll read you the statement

11:14

they've put out on your next e buzz

11:17

on the bird show. The bird

11:19

show young bucks. Be careful, man.

11:21

When you guys are out drinking

11:23

in bars and in clubs, all

11:25

eyes are on you all the

11:27

time. And there will be

11:29

repercussions for your actions, both negative and

11:31

positive. Remember a couple of weeks ago,

11:34

there was this instance in Vegas,

11:37

where dude was in Vegas, he's

11:39

hanging out with a bunch of

11:41

women. And one of the girls

11:44

goes on to TikTok and says, Hey,

11:46

if your name is blank,

11:48

and your fiance is blank, I just want

11:50

to let you know, he's about

11:52

to cheat on you in Vegas. Guys remember this from a

11:54

couple of weeks ago, goes viral,

11:57

she finds out about it, right? Here

11:59

it is. Charleston and it sort of

12:01

happens again. Dude is out on his

12:03

bachelor party, right? He's hanging out with

12:05

a whole bunch of women when one

12:08

of the women breaks off afterwards and

12:10

wants to find his fiance. If

12:13

your name is Sam and your fiance's name is

12:15

Luke and he's currently in Charleston, South Carolina for

12:18

his bachelor party and he was at

12:20

a bar on King Street called Uptown

12:22

Social tonight. I just want you

12:24

to know that that man loves

12:26

you so much and

12:29

he could not stop gushing

12:31

about you and how you

12:33

are the love of his life

12:35

and the most beautiful person he has ever met

12:37

and how he's the luckiest man in the entire

12:39

world. And I wish you too all the happiness

12:41

in the world. Also, he has to take a

12:43

selfie with my group and so here is me

12:45

and all my friends and Luke. That

12:47

man loves you and I love that for you. That's

12:50

so sweet. Awwww. I didn't see that

12:52

coming. Neither. It's always so negative, right?

12:55

Yeah. So the video actually gets

12:57

back to the fiance. If you saw

12:59

that TikTok, I'm Sam. Luke's on

13:01

his bachelor party right now and

13:03

that was literally the best thing to wake up to.

13:06

I haven't stopped smiling since my first son's

13:08

history. He's the best. I'm very

13:11

lucky. I love love and this

13:13

is literally the cutest thing to

13:15

ever happen to me. So I can't wait

13:17

for him to come home though, right? Oh, wow.

13:20

He might get home either. How

13:23

much I think Luke charged her to do it. I know,

13:25

right? Maybe you do it. Do me a

13:27

favor. Right. All

13:29

right. Our intern, Haley, has herself a

13:31

theory and I'm here for

13:33

it, man. Short Kings finally getting their

13:36

props. Yeah. I'm like, the longer I've been

13:38

here now, I've been here like a couple months. I'm like,

13:40

I'm starting to know my audience. I think I was like,

13:42

I sent this in and I said, I know they're going

13:44

to pick this one. But no,

13:46

I fully believe that short

13:48

guys, if you are have

13:50

the height and you're able to date a short

13:52

guy, I think they're better. What do you mean

13:54

if you're able to? What would make

13:57

one not able to? Well, I matched

13:59

with what I would do. weekend and he's

14:01

already ghosted me so I

14:03

haven't been able to go out with him. Listen, I don't

14:05

speak for every short guy, okay? But

14:08

listen, tall guys are great and everything but I think

14:10

for tall women. Like my stepdad is

14:12

6'6", but that's okay because my mom is 5'10".

14:15

You know what I mean? I'm only 5'6", so I'm

14:18

like, you know what? I'm going to kind of lower

14:20

the threshold that I think I need to date. My

14:22

boyfriend right now, we're the exact same size. Oh

14:24

yeah, and he's a hockey player. Yeah, he's

14:26

a tiny one. I

14:29

mean, he's in a lot of human eyes.

14:31

Yeah, he knows. Look at my tiny little

14:33

hockey player. Yeah, there was a post

14:35

on Instagram that said like, the

14:38

wind is picking up again so guys under 5'6", like

14:40

hold on. My

14:42

tag came in and he thinks it's funny.

14:44

But I have a list of reasons that I

14:46

think short guys are better than tall guys. Now

14:48

if you're new to the show, also

14:50

know this. I am 5'4", so I'm

14:52

fighting for short king rights all the

14:55

time. Yeah, short king, yes. My

14:58

first reason is that they are more confident because

15:00

they have to compensate for their height. I

15:02

agree with that. I think one of the traits or

15:05

characteristics of somebody that can make them very confident is

15:07

their height. And if it's just kind of handed to

15:09

you and you just grow up to be super tall,

15:11

I feel like you don't work as hard to like,

15:14

you know, get women or you

15:17

know, whatever. I will absolutely add

15:19

credibility to this that I do think that short

15:21

guys have, we have to develop our personalities better

15:24

than tall guys. We don't have a chance when

15:26

we walk into a bar or a club. We

15:28

know you're not looking for us. So we got

15:30

to develop in other areas and we just try

15:32

harder. Yeah, they also like, they're always going

15:34

to think you're out of their league too. And

15:37

this isn't for every short guy, but like mine

15:39

specifically, he sometimes like in the beginning of our

15:41

relationship, he would say like, well, don't you want

15:43

someone taller doing what and it would make him

15:45

like work harder at the relationship. And like, I

15:48

felt I was like, for the first time

15:50

I felt like, oh, he thinks I'm out

15:52

of his league? It was a great feeling. So

15:54

our short king will treat you like a queen. Yeah,

15:57

because they're like, man, she's going to leave me for

15:59

a guy who's sick. I

16:01

got to step it up, literally.

16:03

There is that insecurity. There sure is.

16:06

Yeah. Um, the third reason, it's

16:08

easier to match height during intimacy.

16:10

So when I kiss him, I

16:13

don't have to hurt my neck. I don't have

16:15

to stand on my tippy toes. And it's great

16:17

because my aunt is five two and her husband

16:19

is six four. And she says sometimes she feels

16:21

like a child when she like hugs him or

16:24

kisses him or whatever. She feels

16:26

like she's a child. And to other

16:28

people, it looks weird sometimes. And

16:30

I'm like, you know, if you're five 10 and six four, that's one

16:32

thing you got to get a guy over six foot for five 10.

16:35

But if you're five two, it's like, why not five

16:38

four to five eight? You know what I mean?

16:40

Like, it's just, it's, it makes

16:42

more sense physically. That's our pool right

16:44

there. This is what I've been saying now

16:46

for 20 years is you are taking out

16:48

of a very shallow short pool. If

16:51

you are a woman that is like five two and you end

16:53

up with a guy that's six five, you're very

16:55

80. You need some balance. I get

16:57

it. Yeah. partner

17:00

that's over six feet tall. And she saw my

17:02

stepdad was like, oh, you're tall. I can dance

17:04

with you now. My

17:08

four reasons I don't ever feel like I have to wear

17:10

heels sometimes because I think if you're a short woman dating

17:12

a tall guy, you're like, man, I have to wear heels.

17:14

So I don't look like I'm his daughter when we go

17:16

out. I

17:18

get to wear complete flats on my wedding

17:20

day. And I'm so excited. I know I

17:23

could either way, but like I'm so excited

17:25

about that because they're more comfortable. Yeah. I

17:27

don't have to walk around in four inch heels so I

17:29

can reach him when I kiss him. That's

17:32

funny because I feel like most girls have the

17:34

opposite. They're like, I want to date a tall

17:36

guy so that I can wear heels. I don't

17:38

want to throw out all my good Louboutins. Right.

17:41

No, the short guys are also more

17:43

likely to stay married longer than tall guys in

17:45

a study done by NYU because we're scared

17:48

to leave that relationship. Everybody

17:52

else out there is going to love us at this.

17:54

They can also sit in the backseat of a car

17:56

better, which I get carsick. So I always need the

17:58

front seat. I

18:00

can just throw him in the back and he's crazy. And we fit

18:02

right in the baby seat. Yeah.

18:05

Five or six reasons right there. I like that. They're

18:07

all good too. The Burt Show. We

18:09

are down to the fugly four in

18:12

the Burt Show's Busted Baby Bracket. Battle

18:14

of the COVID. Yeah, they're in different

18:16

brackets though aren't they? They are. They

18:19

could meet each other in the championship. Look,

18:21

we've been doing this for years, but we've been doing it

18:24

with aesthetically pleasing babies. Okay? These

18:26

babies, it just was a

18:28

rough start. Yeah. I mean, baby

18:31

number one, conehead number one, it's

18:33

got a little indentation going on.

18:35

It almost looks like in

18:38

his forehead is a profile of the

18:40

rest of his face. You see what

18:42

I was talking about? Yeah.

18:46

Yeah. Did

18:48

baby number six's mom send you an

18:50

updated picture because he's a toddler now

18:52

and he is adorable. Here is

18:54

my wish, at least with these final four is

18:56

that the parents will take a look at the,

18:59

that their kids are in the final four. And

19:01

then they will send us pictures of what they

19:03

look like now so we can at least honor

19:05

these four. I don't know that we could deal

19:08

with the 32 that we started off with. Yeah.

19:11

So you got baby six who was taken on baby 13, I

19:13

think it was a couple of days ago. I said,

19:15

this is a newborn that looks like a shop teacher.

19:20

He's got the receding hairline. You know how

19:22

like older dudes, like they're not really sure

19:24

if it's time to go completely bald or not. No,

19:26

you have to. Maybe you don't want to. Yeah.

19:31

He was born looking like his name is Craig. Yeah. I'm

19:34

pretty sure that's a girl. Okay. Or

19:36

a girl. Either way. My

19:38

point has been made. That's an

19:40

old school picture too. It's definitely. I

19:43

believe that baby is now a full blown adult. I'm

19:45

guessing with the ears on that baby also was a

19:47

tough push. Also

19:50

now in the second matchup is another cone

19:52

head. Yep. That one

19:54

is you can tell the nurse is holding the baby

19:57

up. So that is a fresh out

19:59

of the who hobby. As is baby

20:01

number 29. Yeah, they both fresh. Which is

20:03

my baby. Okay. And that's my

20:05

sweet little melted gummy bear. Baby six was

20:07

my baby, so I'm still in this thing

20:10

too. All right, so there are only four

20:12

babies left and there's a thousand dollars on

20:14

the line for the most aesthetically challenged baby.

20:16

So if you can go online today and

20:18

vote, it is down to the fugly four

20:21

at thebertcho.com. All right,

20:23

I've got a question for you guys

20:25

that have lost a lot of weight.

20:28

A lot of weight. What

20:30

advice would you give to somebody that's just

20:32

about to take their journey? So I'm literally

20:34

walking down the hall to get a cup

20:36

of coffee and one of the dudes in the

20:38

office comes up to me and I think because

20:40

most people in the office know that I

20:42

work out a lot and fitness is part

20:44

of who I am. He came up

20:47

to me and as we were walking past each other, he said, hey,

20:49

I just want to let you know, I thought you'd be into this.

20:52

I just hired a trainer and

20:54

I'm working out three times a week and

20:56

I said, congratulations, man. I'm like,

20:58

yes, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And

21:00

I'm like, so this is the one

21:02

thing that most people don't ask. I think

21:04

our trainers don't ask immediately is like, what

21:06

is your goal of going to the gym?

21:09

His goal is to lose a hundred pounds.

21:11

Wow. That's a lot of weight.

21:14

That's a person. That's a lot of

21:16

weight. Right. So I'm really curious for you

21:18

guys that have lost a lot of weight,

21:20

uh, over 60 pounds, over 70 pounds, over

21:22

a hundred pounds. If you

21:24

were giving advice to somebody that is

21:27

looking to look up to lose a hundred

21:29

pounds, what would you say

21:31

initially one eight five, five bird show? Cause

21:33

I think when you look at that number,

21:35

it can get so intimidating.

21:37

If you're the person that's trying to

21:40

lose that weight that you

21:42

don't look at it as one pound at a

21:44

time, you're looking at it as a hundred pounds

21:46

and that could be really intimidating

21:48

right off the bat. Going

21:51

ahead and jumping to the very end of

21:53

a hundred pound weight loss. If I remember

21:55

correctly, we had a bird show listener call

21:57

up that had a significant weight loss and

21:59

it took a while. for her brain to

22:01

catch up with her body because there was

22:03

still like some I wouldn't call it body

22:05

dysmorphia but when she looked in the mirror

22:07

it was almost like she had a

22:09

hard time accepting her her new

22:11

body. It was such a drastic change because

22:14

you're so used to seeing

22:16

yourself in a certain light. I also think

22:18

that and some calls are starting to come in now.

22:20

1-855-Bert's show if you've been through

22:22

this process that you

22:25

know we live in this world where you want

22:27

everything so fast right you could take drugs if

22:29

you want or you see

22:32

celebrities that have a baby and the

22:34

next day they're back down to their

22:36

pre-baby weight. It's why I go to a Mexican restaurant

22:38

because I want food fast and you get chips and salsa.

22:41

Is that it? And

22:43

I think that if you're starting a journey like

22:45

that you just have to remember how long a

22:47

process that should take if you're doing it in

22:49

a healthy way. They say that half a pound

22:51

to one pound a week is a lot so

22:54

if you're busting your ass in the gym and

22:56

you lose four pounds at the end of the

22:58

month give yourself credit like don't

23:00

look at it like oh I only lost four

23:02

pounds that's a lot. So it should take you

23:04

approximately two years to lose a hundred pounds a lot.

23:07

I have a friend who lost I think she lost 70

23:09

pounds when it was all said and done and I

23:12

remember her saying that that was the hardest part was

23:14

constantly looking at trying to lose the 70 because she

23:16

always felt like she wasn't doing anything when she would

23:18

lose two pounds when she would lose one pound but

23:20

when she started looking at it like the time is

23:23

gonna pass anyway so if you lose even a pound

23:25

a week or a pound every two weeks or whatever

23:27

the case and you keep looking at it like that

23:29

eventually you'll get to your goal before you even know

23:31

it. Fernando good morning you were on the birch shell

23:34

hi. Hello man

23:36

I just got done leaving the gym this morning before I

23:38

head off for work and I was

23:41

pushing 300 pounds last year and I'm 217

23:44

now and it's

23:47

all about consistency finding

23:49

a schedule and

23:52

I got into fasting 72

23:54

hours every 30 days for

23:56

the health reason and I I

24:00

also got into running a lot. So I

24:02

just completed my first marathon last Sunday. Wow.

24:05

And, um, yeah. And

24:08

the one thing people don't understand is that when

24:11

you put a big number like that in front of

24:13

you, it's very discouraging. Right.

24:15

It really is. So what I

24:17

did is, um, I just set

24:19

small goals. I

24:21

really did. And after a year

24:23

of working out running, I'm now 217. I

24:26

feel more fit and it's

24:29

healthier. And you know, with consistency, you,

24:31

anyone can do it. Congratulations, man. That

24:34

takes a lot of discipline. And that

24:36

must've been on your mind all the

24:38

time. That's, that's, that's fantastic. Congratulations. Thank

24:41

you. All right. How about losing 150 pounds, man?

24:44

Wow. Hey Cassie.

24:47

Good morning. Hello. How are

24:49

you? Good. How are you? I

24:51

am still in great. So

24:54

how much weight have you lost? I'm guessing your name

24:56

is case. Um, yeah, it's Casey.

24:58

How much weight did you lose? 150 pounds.

25:01

150 pounds. I'm

25:04

curious how, like, how did you do it? And how long did it

25:06

take you? Well, I

25:08

started last, my wife and I started

25:10

last February, February 20th. Um,

25:14

at that time I weighed in at

25:16

326 pounds and this

25:18

past February 20th, I weighed in at

25:20

176. Wow. For you. Was

25:24

there one like breaking point moment for you? Like,

25:26

okay, today is the day that can't happen again.

25:29

Yes, actually. Um, I saw a

25:31

picture of myself on Facebook. The

25:35

picture is now. Oh

25:38

my gosh. What have I done to

25:40

myself? Yeah. That'll do it. Started

25:42

going to the gym. I started out

25:44

cardio. Then I moved to transition to

25:46

weights and worked with the trainer. And

25:49

it's part of my life. If I don't go, if I don't go

25:51

to the gym every day now, I don't go

25:54

right. So what's the one piece of advice

25:56

you would give this dude that is now looking at

25:58

a hundred pounds. So

26:00

like, just take one day at

26:02

a time, eat healthy, it's

26:05

okay to have cheat days, cheat days

26:07

once a week, watch your sodium intake

26:09

and drink lots of water. Would

26:12

you say that the scale is your best

26:14

or worst friend when you're trying to lose

26:16

that kind of weight? Actually,

26:18

to me, it's my best friend because I can

26:20

see my progress like that. Okay. I've

26:23

heard a lot of people say throw the scale out

26:25

the window because if you're starting to feel good and

26:27

like your clothes aren't fitting the way they used to,

26:29

that's all you need to know. Because

26:31

if you go and you're busting your ass in

26:33

the gym and then you jump on the scale

26:36

and maybe because you've been working out, you put

26:38

on more, some muscle that the scale is lying

26:40

to you. So some people say, don't look at

26:42

it at all. If you feel good and you're

26:44

starting to see that your clothes don't fit the

26:46

same, then that's good enough. It's probably discouraging

26:48

to look down here and not see as much as you thought

26:50

you would say. Yeah. your

26:55

ass and you realize like you've only burned 170

26:57

calories and you're like, that's half

26:59

a burger. That's half a burger. It's the quarter of

27:01

a burger. Those are the two Girl Scout cookies I ate.

27:03

What are you talking about? Melissa, good morning. You're on

27:05

the Bird Show. Hi.

27:07

Hi. How are y'all? Good.

27:11

Thank you. All right. It

27:14

is a long journey. What advice can you give to

27:16

him because you lost how much weight? I

27:20

lost about 170 pounds. Wow. That's

27:23

good for you. Wow. So

27:25

I've lost like an entire person. So my

27:27

biggest advice would be a lot of kind

27:29

of the same thing the other guy said

27:31

is just take it one day

27:34

at a time. I have to do it for my,

27:36

for health reasons, but, or

27:38

I wanted to do it for health reasons

27:40

and just

27:42

take it one day at a time. And

27:45

I think Kristen was saying something about body dysmorphia.

27:47

That is very, that's a very real thing that

27:49

I deal with because every time I look in

27:51

the mirror, I have to be like, Oh, I'll

27:53

walk by the mirror sometimes and do

27:56

like a second look because I'm like, whoa, is

27:58

that me now? Wow,

28:00

that's good advice. Just take it one step

28:02

at a time here because it's a long

28:05

long process Hey, it is Bert.

28:07

We really appreciate you guys listening to the podcast

28:09

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28:18

the bird show How about that craziness

28:20

in Baltimore man? That is terrifying to

28:22

watch So

28:24

I'm sure you guys have heard about this this

28:26

cargo ship huge cargo ship

28:29

loses power And ends

28:31

up ramming right into a bridge in

28:33

Baltimore. There were eight construction workers Luckily,

28:35

it was like 1 30 in the

28:38

morning and also they were able

28:40

to make a distress call So thankfully

28:42

the ship communicated so authorities were able

28:44

to make sure that the bridge was

28:46

clear of cars Otherwise that just could

28:48

have been an even worse tragedy than

28:50

it already is so that bridge alone during

28:52

rush hour It takes about 30,000 cars a

28:54

day So the fact

28:56

that this happened at like 1 30 in the morning

28:58

where there was pretty much only construction workers up there

29:00

there were eight Six

29:03

they can't find two they have found And

29:06

like Kristen was saying there was a May Day call

29:08

and then the cops starting to scramble on like what

29:11

do we do here? They they only have about a

29:13

minute and a half before That

29:15

ship collides into the bridge and here's some audio

29:17

of the cops trying to coordinate get everybody off

29:19

the bridge I mean one of you guys on

29:21

the south side one of you guys on the

29:23

north side hold all traffic on the key bridge

29:26

There's a ship approaching. I just lost their

29:28

steering so that they've been under control. We

29:30

gotta stop all traffic Yeah,

29:34

we can stop traffic to make sure no one's on the

29:36

bridge right now There's a crew up there and I wouldn't

29:38

do five of the form it is he we can get

29:40

them off the bridge Do

29:50

you know You

29:56

know I'm

30:00

so amazed on how calm people

30:03

in those positions stay, because I'd be a

30:05

mess. Yeah, you have to. Yeah. All right.

30:07

Train for that. It would just be worse

30:09

if I wasn't. But as of this morning,

30:12

they are still looking for the

30:14

six, but it doesn't look real good at this point. That's

30:16

scary. Yeah, right? You just never think that that's

30:19

going to be a thing. Driving across a bridge,

30:21

just another day in your life, and then that

30:23

happens. I can't imagine. And kudos to

30:25

the first responders and the police officers

30:27

who were able to stop traffic to

30:29

prevent any more casualties. But when you

30:32

watch the video, it happens, and it

30:34

happens fast. The second that cargo ship

30:36

hits that bridge, the whole thing is

30:38

in the water. Let's

30:41

get Sonja on here. She's a

30:43

little bit nervous that her best

30:45

friend is dating a dude as

30:47

being shady on hinge. Hey,

30:49

Sonja, good morning. Good

30:52

morning, guys. Good morning. OK, so I wasn't

30:54

here yesterday, so just recap for me exactly

30:56

what's going on with your best friend and

30:58

this guy that she's dating.

31:01

Yeah, so my best friend, she's dating his guy.

31:03

They've been dating a couple of months. And

31:06

I don't like him. I don't like the way he treats

31:08

her. I don't like how he

31:10

acts. He's really weird around us, dismissive. He

31:12

doesn't talk to us. He talks her out

31:14

of stuff. He didn't let her go on the girls' trip with

31:16

us. He didn't get anything for her birthday. So

31:19

I just personally do not like him. And

31:22

somebody recently told me that he has

31:24

an account on hinge. I told my

31:26

best friend, but she doesn't believe it. She

31:29

thinks maybe somebody took his picture and

31:31

created an account. I mean, he's good looking, but he

31:34

ain't that good looking. So I think he's up to something.

31:40

Yeah, but her friend's being pretty adamant.

31:42

And it's like love is blind

31:44

kind of deal that you're

31:46

not going to believe anything until you see it

31:48

with your own eyes. So the dude has a

31:51

hinge. And you allegedly have a

31:53

hinge. You take it from here, Kristen, because

31:55

it was your friend that did the

31:57

dirty work. Yes, all right. So Sonia, you gave

31:59

me his information. You sent a picture

32:01

so we knew what he looked

32:03

like and we

32:07

had to enlist not one but two friends because

32:09

if I'm anything, I am

32:11

persistent. So I actually

32:13

had to enlist two fringe on this hinge

32:16

hustler. So friend number one opened hinge and

32:18

began searching and she did find the target.

32:21

She liked his profile and several

32:23

of his prompts. However, he never

32:25

responded to her. So either he's

32:27

not interested, inactive or after

32:29

some digging, could have turned

32:32

off the last active status in his

32:34

profile settings, which would be smart

32:36

to do if you're a garbage boyfriend and you're on

32:38

a dating app and you have somebody else. So Abby

32:41

was telling us that hinge

32:43

has the capability. You

32:46

can see if somebody's been active because

32:49

maybe it's just been dormant, but there's like a green

32:51

light that'll pop up to let you know that person's

32:53

been on there. Yeah. So turning

32:55

it off seems like something that a garbage boyfriend would in fact do. So

32:59

that one was unsuccessful,

33:01

but that's when I decided to

33:04

enlist friend number two. So

33:06

we had a bit of

33:08

a theory. Friend number one, who

33:11

didn't get any response is aesthetically

33:13

similar to garbage boy's girlfriend. So

33:16

I enlisted friend number two, who is not.

33:20

It's like quite, I mean, all of them are

33:22

attractive, but this one's just like the polar opposite.

33:25

Right? So friend number two opened hinge,

33:28

began searching. She too found

33:30

the target. She liked

33:32

his profile and several prompts. And

33:35

he responded by liking her profile.

33:38

He is active. They

33:40

began to engage in small talk in

33:43

the DMS. Now the

33:45

conversation is almost inconsequential because being

33:47

active on hinge is the major fraction

33:49

period. But

33:52

as far as the conversation goes, it was

33:54

pretty generic and bland. He

33:57

was pretty short and sweet with his responses. Which

34:00

kind of meshes with your description of his personality.

34:02

He's just very quiet and dismissive whenever he's hanging

34:04

out with you guys, right? Right.

34:08

So, um, she,

34:10

she was the one that was pushing

34:12

the envelope because obviously, let's call a spade

34:14

a spade. This is an entrapment. Mm hmm. Um,

34:16

so she asked him about going out Friday night.

34:19

He said he has plans, but

34:22

he would try to get out of them. So I was

34:24

curious to know, do you know if he has plans

34:26

with his girlfriend? If he has plans with you guys

34:28

this Friday night? They,

34:31

they are going out. She did tell me

34:33

they're supposed to be going out, um, on

34:35

Friday. Okay. So

34:38

this is where it is. Um,

34:40

so if this dude tries to get out of

34:43

that date, then we know what's up. Then

34:45

it's a moving gun at that point. So,

34:49

um, that is all the information

34:52

we have. He said he's going to try to get

34:54

out of whatever plans he had on Friday night, which

34:56

is why I wanted to ask you, um, if you,

34:58

if you knew of anything. So now we just, now

35:01

we have this information. Whether

35:04

you want to act on it now is up to you,

35:07

but I think it would be smart to sit on it

35:09

a little longer and see if he actually does try to

35:11

get out of the plans Friday. Yeah, that's, that's going to

35:13

be the telling sign right there. Yeah. So

35:15

just hang, hang tight until Friday. And then

35:17

you've got concrete. Absolutely. But we're getting to

35:20

the bottom of it, Sonya. You're building a

35:22

case. I knew, I knew it was something

35:24

about mud and lightning. I know. So

35:26

now I have to become a little detective. I'm

35:29

going to, yeah, I'm going to have to trail

35:31

them on the day. Well,

35:33

let's see if he, if he tries to break the date on Friday night

35:35

and if he does, you have yourself some concrete proof. But

35:38

let's check back with you after that and see if he

35:40

actually broke the date. Okay. Thank

35:42

you guys. You're welcome. All right,

35:44

Sonya. Thanks for hitting us up. Let's get

35:46

into the entertainment bus. Time

35:49

to get fun on the hot gosh from

35:51

Hollywood. It's

35:53

the entertainment bus. Diddy's

35:55

lawyers are responding to his home getting raided the other day.

35:57

This whole thing is crazy. So

36:00

they said Homeland Security investigation

36:03

officials used what they're

36:05

calling excessive force in a

36:07

quote unprecedented ambush as

36:09

they got through his LA and

36:12

Miami homes trying to find evidence

36:14

in his investigation. So the statement

36:16

says yesterday there was a growth

36:19

overuse of military level force as

36:21

search warrants were executed at Mr.

36:23

Combs' residence. There is

36:26

no excuse for the excessive show

36:28

of force and hostility exhibited by

36:30

authorities or the way his children and

36:33

employees were treated. So if you didn't

36:35

see his children were handcuffed outside of

36:37

his LA home, they're older kids and

36:39

it wasn't like a three year old

36:42

friend. He didn't use

36:44

Fisher-Price cuffs. Little

36:46

plastic ones. They're

36:48

basically just saying that you know he's NSM,

36:50

we're going to work nuclear, his name,

36:53

blah blah blah blah blah. No one's

36:55

been arrested except for his alleged drug

36:57

dealer in the Miami apartment. Yeah, right,

36:59

that guy. So I'll say the

37:01

same thing that everybody else seems to be

37:03

saying also and it's kind of cliche like

37:05

the feds don't do that unless they've got

37:07

a lot of evidence. They don't knock down

37:09

your door. They don't go through your drawers

37:12

unless they have a lot of evidence. This

37:14

looks really bad. That's what we were

37:16

saying yesterday. It's like if they've been

37:18

working on this for months in order

37:21

for them to get a search warrant

37:23

of that magnitude, they have to have

37:25

something in order to go in. And

37:28

then the fact, I don't think it really looks

37:30

good. Well first, it makes

37:32

me feel a little better if the kids were at the LA home

37:35

because Diddy was in Miami. So it

37:37

makes you don't kind of watch your dad

37:39

get cuffed? No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying we were

37:41

like if Diddy's at

37:43

the Miami airport because he

37:46

fled to Antigua, right? That's

37:48

where he is right now. So if you're at

37:50

the Miami airport and your kids are at your Miami

37:52

estate getting handcuffed and you don't go back to like

37:54

get your kids or check on your kids, that

37:57

is low. But his kids were in LA. So

38:00

he didn't have like, had he been

38:02

in the same city as his children and he knew

38:04

his kids were being detained and he didn't go back

38:07

to that home, that's like, that's a different level

38:09

of low, but that wasn't the case. I

38:11

still think it, I mean with his money and his resources,

38:13

he can get to it anyway his kids are. I

38:15

agree. And I feel like he did not

38:17

show up for his kids in that moment, but it just

38:19

leads to all of these nasty allegations that have been surrounding

38:21

him for so long. And to comment

38:24

on how Homeland Security left his homes, I mean at

38:26

the time that they're using all these resources and money

38:28

to come raid your homes, they're not going there when

38:30

they would dust us. I don't know what he's going

38:32

to look like. A

38:35

statement is not going to do it. He's in some deep stuff right

38:37

now. Yeah. I didn't know about the

38:39

Antigua part. I didn't know that he flew to Antigua

38:41

and that's where he is right now. But yeah, the

38:43

dude has a private plane. If he wants to go

38:45

to LA and be there for his kids, he would

38:47

be there, but he's freaked out. Something's up. Something

38:50

is up. Well, speaking of criminal charges

38:52

and celebs, Taylor said to dad, you remember that

38:54

photographer incident where he allegedly assaulted a paparazzi out

38:56

in Australia? Well, it turns out that he's not

38:59

going to be charged. Australian police say that Scott

39:01

Swift, Taylor Swift's dad, is not going to face

39:03

charges due to that alleged altercation, which I think

39:05

we pretty much all saw coming. It did seem

39:07

like it was sort of like a little bit

39:09

of fodder. Like, oh, Taylor Swift's dad tried to

39:12

beat me up when I was trying to take

39:14

a photo. It's like, that is not what happened.

39:16

I'm sure he got in her face and he

39:18

got a little aggressive trying to protect his daughter

39:20

as he should. Hey, that's hitting a

39:22

lottery for paparazzi. When somebody

39:24

goes after you, that's what they want. Now

39:26

they get more money, they can sue you. Yeah, now you

39:29

have a headline when you didn't before because Taylor Swift was

39:31

just living her life. Okay, would

39:33

you be all right with being in a

39:35

marriage knowing you would have to be in

39:37

therapy with that person forever? So,

39:39

Sarah Evans is a country singer from like

39:41

the early 2000s and she got back together

39:43

with her husband after she filed for

39:45

divorce from him a couple of years ago. So, she

39:47

filed for divorce in 2021 and then in 2022 he

39:50

was arrested for allegedly trying to

39:53

ram his car into hers and

39:55

she says that they're back together

39:57

but says they're so now,

40:00

but they will be in therapy

40:02

until they die. I

40:05

wouldn't want to sign up for that. Right.

40:07

Well, be in therapy until we die. It's

40:12

interesting because, uh, actor Terry Crews said that, um,

40:15

he's kind of become famous for saying this, but

40:17

he thinks his marriage is successful because they go

40:19

to therapy when everything is okay. It's

40:21

like a constant thing for them. And I've always looked at

40:23

therapy as something we got, we got to do when we

40:26

down, I don't want to have to go to therapy when

40:28

everything is okay. Maybe that's the key to it. I don't

40:30

know. I guess you got to work for what, uh, you

40:32

got to do what works in your own marriage, but that

40:34

sounds exhausting. Well, the connotation of everything

40:36

that's happening, it seems like, okay, you're going

40:38

to have to be in therapy because of

40:40

everything you went through. To me with Terry,

40:42

just being like, Oh, we're successful because we're

40:44

in therapy. That's like preventative. That's just you

40:46

having maintenance. But if your husband tries to

40:49

come out for you with your car, allegedly,

40:51

and the fact that you're going to be

40:53

in therapy because of it to me, that's,

40:55

um, we're at flags. Yeah. That's

40:57

one of those relationships that sounds like

40:59

a, like a job. Yeah. I

41:01

wrote people are shocked over ABC's newest pick

41:03

for the bachelorette. I'll tell you why the

41:06

two front runners allegedly weren't chosen on

41:08

your next E-buzz on the birth show. Huh?

41:10

Birth show. Now you're going to be at

41:12

work and you're going to miss it. Dang

41:14

it. Cause they rekindled their high school romance

41:16

and then he ghosted her. She has no

41:18

idea why we do. We are

41:20

going to tell her why that's next hour. But

41:23

if you have to get into work, you

41:25

might miss that. Nah, you're not missing anything.

41:27

You can always listen on demand anytime you

41:29

want, anytime of day. And we

41:31

post the birth show in different segments. So you don't

41:34

even have to listen to the whole show. If you

41:36

don't want to check out our podcast online at any

41:39

platform that provides. All

41:42

right, Mo, you're not even in New York or

41:44

anymore. That's what your friends are saying. It's a wrap. I

41:47

had to turn my card in and I'm not even going

41:49

to fight it. I remember the moment it happened and it

41:51

hurt. So yes, I'm from

41:53

New York. Born and raised in New

41:55

York city and anybody typically that's from

41:57

New York. We take a lot of pride.

42:00

being a New Yorker, that's a thing. We pride

42:02

ourselves on being tough, on being survivors,

42:04

on being gritty, grinding it out,

42:07

that kind of thing. I was just there,

42:09

what, two weeks ago? And I will

42:11

say the same thing now that I've been saying about New York

42:14

my entire life. I don't

42:16

know how they do it. I mean, I can

42:18

last for about two or three days in New

42:20

York, but everything is a fight. Everything

42:22

is a fight. Getting a hot dog, getting a

42:24

taxi, everybody just trying to get in front of

42:27

each other. Everything is a fight. I don't have

42:29

that kind of fight in me. Literally walking is

42:31

a fight. It's a fight. Everything is a fight.

42:33

It's all a fight. And you can't complain about

42:35

it at any point in time because that's not

42:37

what New Yorkers do. We find a way, we

42:39

get through it and we get to it. That's

42:42

what it takes to be a New Yorker. And

42:44

so New York, we just do a lot of

42:46

things differently and you're supposed to just go along

42:49

with it. And I guess, I don't know if

42:51

I've just been going too long. I don't know

42:53

if I'm getting older, but there's just a lot

42:55

of things that we do as New Yorkers that

42:57

don't make a lot of sense to me anymore.

42:59

And my friends are all the same. They haven't

43:02

changed at all. And so I go over the

43:04

weekend, I'm there to really visit my grandmother. Hope,

43:06

I hope and hope that she will be feeling better. I'm

43:09

there to make sure she's okay. I tell

43:11

my friends, I'm gonna be in and out. I would

43:13

love to see y'all, but this is the trip is

43:15

really about my grandmother. So they're like, well, when are

43:17

you gonna be done with your grandmother? So I'm like, I don't know. I'm

43:19

probably gonna hang out with her until like the end of the night

43:21

and then go ahead and head home. So they're like,

43:24

no, you can't do that. We going out. This is

43:26

perfect. You're here tonight. So I'm like,

43:28

I'm gonna hang out anyway. Let's get together. So I'm like, I told y'all, I

43:30

gotta go be with my grandmother. They're like, we not

43:32

going out until midnight. That would strike

43:34

number one for me. Who goes out

43:36

at midnight? Like why is this a thing? People

43:39

who are young and don't have to get up before coffee

43:41

morning. So in New York, things don't close

43:43

till four or five in the morning. So going out

43:46

at midnight is normal. That's like when you start your

43:48

night. Yeah, a couple of years ago, I started referring

43:51

to New York as the city that never sleeps.

43:53

And it seems to have caught on because you

43:55

can get whatever you want. You

43:58

can party all night long there. It's very true. I made that up. That's

44:00

you? Uh-huh. It's accurate.

44:03

Yeah. So I'm glad you gave it a name. See,

44:06

the thing is, Burt, I like to sleep, man. And

44:08

I get that the city don't, but I do. And so

44:10

they forced me to come out at midnight. I'm like, man,

44:12

I don't do this anymore. So they're like, wow, you're not

44:14

in New York anymore. You sound like you can tell them

44:16

where else, and it all starts. So I'm like, all right,

44:18

you know what? Y'all got me. Midnight, where

44:20

we meeting? I will meet y'all there. Let's do it. I'm

44:23

gonna turn up. I'm still in New York. I

44:25

still got it in me. So we get there. We go out. We're

44:28

going in this place. I'm falling asleep. They're having the

44:30

times of their life, but whatever. We're turning up. I

44:33

haven't seen my friends in a while. We're having fun.

44:35

Then it starts raining. It's the end of the night.

44:37

We ended up staying in this place until at this

44:39

point, it's probably 4, 4.30 in the morning. I

44:43

had to be the person that that's what I felt exactly

44:45

what the sound you just let out. That's

44:47

how I felt. I used to love

44:50

nights like that. There was nothing more

44:52

intoxicating after being intoxicated than opening up

44:54

like that bar or club door. And

44:56

there's the sun greeting you at sunrise.

44:58

I feel like I lived life. Not

45:01

anymore, man. Not anymore. I

45:03

feel judged. You see the ladies that are waiting on

45:06

a bus to go to church and you're stumbling in

45:08

somewhere trying to get home. It's not for me

45:10

anymore. And I realized it in that moment when I

45:12

looked around because like when I started to get tired,

45:14

I'd look around to see if there's anybody I can

45:16

duck out with. Like, you know what I mean? Somebody

45:19

else got to be tired too. And it was

45:21

no one. It's just me. Everybody else looks like

45:23

the night is still starting. So I'm like, all

45:25

right. I hold it out. I wait it out.

45:27

End of the night comes. And now this is

45:29

the part where I feel like I lost my

45:31

New Yorker card because when the night comes down

45:33

to this, New York is the easiest place in

45:35

the world to have transportation at four or five

45:37

in the morning. Like anywhere else, you kind of

45:39

be stuck. You got to take a cab if

45:41

you're not driving. None of us are driving. We've

45:43

all been drinking. So they're like, we're going to

45:45

take the subway. Subway

45:47

in New York. That's like the

45:50

right of passage as a New Yorker. You got to

45:52

be a subway person. Now, I don't know if I

45:54

still have this subway person in me. It just didn't

45:56

make any sense to me to go get in the

45:58

subway when we all could have just taking a

46:00

list and going home because that's the lifestyle

46:02

I've become accustomed to. From the outside looking

46:04

in, those maps of the subway in New

46:07

York look like an impossible maze to navigate

46:09

unless you've been there your entire life. And

46:11

it's true, it is that way. Once you

46:13

get it, you got it, but most

46:16

of the time, wherever you are, typically you can't

46:18

get on one train to take you from this

46:20

stop to your stop. You got to get on

46:22

one train, take that a couple stops, get on

46:24

the next train, and then take that one a

46:26

couple stops. And when it's that early in the

46:28

morning, they're not coming every five minutes like they

46:30

normally do. It could be 15 minutes, it could

46:33

be 20 minutes. There's strangers down there, it's late

46:35

at night, you're tired. There's a whole slew of

46:37

reasons that I felt like the subway wasn't the

46:39

way to go. Brats beside the cats. Yes.

46:42

But which is where we're going? It's interesting

46:44

you say that, right? Really? Yes,

46:47

because they convinced me to take the subway anyway. I

46:49

say, cool, let's do it. Because that's

46:51

a part of the whole New York experience, is

46:53

after the night, everybody takes the subway together to

46:55

make sure everybody gets home safe, and you're probably

46:57

going to see entertainment on the way home too.

46:59

So we go down into the subway, it had

47:01

been raining all night, so the subways are even

47:03

flooded. There's puddles everywhere, it's

47:06

not the nicest of places, but New

47:08

Yorkers can say that about New

47:11

York. We all let anybody else say that, but I

47:13

can be honest about it. It smelled horrible. We're

47:15

sitting there, there's a bench right behind us, it's me and

47:18

three of my friends, and four of us are waiting for

47:20

this train. In this moment, I

47:22

see a rat come from out a

47:25

puddle. I

47:27

mean, it came from out the water like an orca.

47:29

I've never seen a rat move like this. I didn't

47:31

know rats could swim. This rat was

47:33

the size of not even a small cat,

47:35

a big cat. This rat was

47:38

huge. A subway Loch Ness. Yes, I think it

47:40

ate all the other rats. And

47:42

it comes out the water, and for some reason,

47:44

my friend Swear wasn't coming toward us. I

47:46

don't know what day it was, but I saw

47:48

it coming directly for us. So in

47:50

that moment, when it started running towards us, I

47:53

jumped on the little chair behind us. The

47:56

entire platform started laughing at me.

47:58

Everybody, they didn't. move and they were

48:01

like dude go get in the lift and I did.

48:03

I went upstairs, I got in the

48:06

lift, I left my friends at the subway,

48:08

it's official me and JLo are not New

48:10

Yorkers anymore. I'll

48:12

take it, it is what it

48:14

is. Before we get into my

48:17

concern for Abby and her emotional

48:19

porn My

48:21

mom just turned off the radio. You need to

48:23

turn it up, you need help girl. We'll get into

48:26

that in just a second. Are we gonna have an

48:28

intervention? It might be. I just have a theory that

48:30

I want to run by. Hey, hi. And

48:32

a very special bird show. We're

48:34

having an emotional porn intervention for Abby.

48:37

I'm just saying be open to it as

48:39

well. I'm saying okay. You might have a

48:41

problem. I mean I got nowhere to go,

48:43

I gotta be here. Alright before we get

48:46

into that, I saw this video the other

48:48

day man and if this isn't the most

48:50

typical exchange in married couples you will ever

48:52

ever hear in your life, the most relatable

48:55

thing I think I have seen on Instagram.

48:57

An accurate representation of marriage

49:00

and it goes like this. Hey babe

49:02

we have plans at

49:05

two on Saturday, two pm Saturday. We

49:07

have plans to go to this birthday

49:10

party. Okay, Saturday comes

49:12

around. Hey um

49:15

I'm gonna go work on my pressure washer and

49:17

go build a fire outside. Oh okay well we

49:19

have to get ready to leave. For what? For

49:21

the birthday party I told you about 2 pm

49:23

on Saturday because it's 1 30. You never said

49:25

that. Literally I did. This is brand new information.

49:28

I've literally never heard that come out of your

49:30

mouth. I reminded you 65 times this week and

49:32

I wrote it on our calendar. No, no you

49:34

didn't say anything. It's

49:37

the most relatable thing I've ever seen. How many

49:39

times does it happen? Well I mean for

49:42

us it goes both ways and

49:44

there are times like I'm

49:46

like I could have swore I told you this. He's

49:49

like no I swear to you you didn't and then

49:51

I actually have to check myself and I'm like maybe

49:53

I thought about telling you and I actually didn't

49:55

tell you. What commercial is it now where they can

49:57

actually stop your life and you can do replays?

50:00

on your life. Have you seen this commercial?

50:02

No. And then they go back to the

50:04

tape to see who was right and who

50:06

was wrong. Oh, that would be amazing. I

50:08

wish that was like a challenge. I wish

50:10

that was a real like a challenge. Save

50:12

marriages or ruin marriages? Save. All right. So

50:18

Abby, on a hear me out here.

50:20

All right. Hear

50:22

me out. I just have a theory on this

50:24

based on one couple that I

50:26

have heard of, but it makes sense to

50:29

me. First, let me

50:31

preface it by this, by let's say that

50:33

I don't know what the statistic is.

50:36

And maybe I am painting with a

50:38

very broad brush here. But I think

50:40

when it comes to porn online,

50:42

we're talking about sex and we're talking about

50:44

porn. You want to give the kid warning? Too

50:47

late. That I

50:51

don't know. I'm just going to throw a number out of

50:53

my butt out there. 70% of addiction, porn

50:57

addiction online are dudes. Okay. 70.

50:59

I don't know. We're visual

51:01

creatures. So when we get in

51:04

trouble online, you go from one video to the

51:06

other. Most of the time we take calls from

51:08

women saying my husband is addicted and that's where

51:10

it all starts. Okay. I'll give you that. So

51:13

this is not my friend, but a friend of

51:16

a friend of mine was telling me that

51:18

her marriage is in trouble right now because

51:22

she has overly

51:24

engaged and is addicted to

51:27

these romance novels that you keep

51:29

talking about the ogre

51:31

ones, the fairy sex

51:33

ones. And she

51:36

has been going through one after the

51:38

other after the other to where

51:41

it has hurt her and her marriage.

51:43

Not only the physical part of it also,

51:45

because it is a romance novel, but

51:48

she's so into it that this love

51:50

affair that seems to go on with

51:52

these characters time and time again, she

51:55

has been experimenting with things in her

51:57

real marriage and has now set the

52:00

expectations higher than unrealistic expectation

52:02

for her husband over and

52:04

over and over again as

52:06

she reads these books. So

52:09

what is the difference? So what

52:11

is the difference between a dude

52:13

being addicted to watching videos online

52:15

where he's trying to bring that into

52:17

the bedroom and a woman getting this

52:19

emotional fantasy world and bringing it into

52:22

her marriage also? So in what

52:24

way is she bringing it into her

52:26

marriage? She's expecting him to be what

52:29

based off of these books that she's reading? So again,

52:31

this is not my friend. It's a friend of

52:33

a friend. But the physical part of it, and

52:35

I haven't read one of these, so I'm leaning

52:37

on you on this, but the physical stuff can

52:39

get next level. Graphic.

52:42

Very graphic and very next level. What's

52:44

the book that Cassie was talking about

52:46

the other day? She said like she

52:49

wouldn't recommend it to anybody else but

52:51

you because it's such there's so many

52:53

intense trigger warnings. Yes, it's a book

52:56

called Haunting Adeline and it's known throughout

52:58

book talk as like this very triggering

53:01

stalker romance to where there's like knife

53:03

play in the bedroom. So things can

53:05

get a little freaky. It's very much

53:07

50 shades but turn up the

53:09

dial. But there's also an emotional

53:11

component to it also where it's very

53:13

romantic. It's over the top with romance

53:16

and it's not the real world, but

53:18

she's been caught up in so many

53:20

of these books that she's brought it

53:23

into her life and

53:25

it's caused a lot of problems with her and her

53:27

husband. So I think both of them

53:29

are similar in the sense that they inflate

53:31

expectations for people. So there's actually a movie

53:33

that touches on this called Dawn John. It

53:36

stars Scarlett Johansson who has like an affinity

53:38

for rom-coms and wants her life to be

53:40

like a rom-com. And then I

53:42

can't remember what the actor's name is. Joseph

53:45

Gordon-Leta, his character is like

53:47

obsessed with porn and wanting to have that

53:49

kind of fantasy behind closed doors. And so

53:52

I think both things can be true in

53:54

the sense that both can inflate expectations for

53:56

either sexes. But

53:59

to me, like. like the actual emotional

54:01

part, I think can, to

54:04

me, I think it's just sometimes be like an

54:07

escape. Like, especially if you're a single person

54:09

like me, like it's nice to escape and have

54:11

like something you can dive into, but

54:13

to me, as long as it's

54:15

not like unhealthy, which I guess

54:17

for this person it is, it's like not a big

54:19

deal. Couldn't you say the same thing about dudes

54:21

and porn? But you could say that about anything.

54:23

Like think about food, think about work. If you do

54:26

too much of anything and it takes up all of

54:28

your time and it starts to become an idol for

54:30

your life, then it's unhealthy, but that doesn't make it

54:32

inherently bad. Moderation is key. On

54:35

both parts. Why

54:37

are you smirking like that? I

54:39

find it fascinating. Natalia, good morning, you're on the

54:41

Berkshire. Good morning,

54:43

how are you? Good, thank you. So,

54:47

I'm a professor at KSU and

54:49

a teacher class in gender that is called

54:51

Love and Sex. And one of the questions

54:54

that I always ask my students is that

54:57

are romance novels porn? And

54:59

the girls immediately say no and the

55:01

boys are like, well, I know what

55:03

I do is I read one

55:05

paragraph from Fifty Shapes

55:08

of Grey. And

55:11

as soon as I read it, they're

55:13

like, oh yeah, that's porn, you know,

55:15

because you don't imagine. And you

55:18

just start imagining, in this case, she's doing

55:20

that, you know, one romance novel after romance.

55:22

And you get a reaction of it, and

55:25

that's what porn does, right? You get a

55:27

reaction of it, well, from romance books too.

55:30

So yes, they can be classified as porn.

55:33

Emotional porn, Abby. It says a

55:35

KSU professor. Yes, and you may have a problem. I'm

55:38

having very normal relationship

55:40

with my smutty, funny porn

55:43

fairy books, okay? Whoa, whoa, whoa. I

55:45

have a very healthy relationship with them.

55:48

All I'm saying is, Chiwon is that guys

55:51

physically, like, with our eyes,

55:53

that's what we got addicted to, women

55:55

emotionally do. It's the same

55:57

thing if you're bringing it into your marriage, I think. thing.

56:00

I think the difference is, is you

56:03

don't always read to have a fun time with

56:05

yourself. Sometimes you just want to read for enjoyment

56:07

and escape. So I think it's a little different.

56:10

I do think it's like no

56:12

way. Like most guys go to porn because

56:15

they have a guy watches porn for one

56:17

reason. There's an end game where sometimes you're

56:19

just listening because it's like, he

56:22

okay girl. Women

56:27

are going to fulfill a need

56:29

and a hole in their relationship also emotionally.

56:31

So they're reading those books. No, but like

56:33

the physical part of it. I'm talking about,

56:36

I'm talking about like physically. Okay, maybe. I

56:38

want to debate you all the time. Get

56:43

it. The bird show. So

56:45

we got a DM from

56:48

our listener, Melissa, on

56:50

Instagram. She's at life

56:52

in the soul. And

56:54

she was letting us

56:56

know that any of

56:58

you guys that live up in

57:00

Coweta County, they're the dogs, cats,

57:02

animals up there need a lot

57:04

of help right now. The Coweta

57:06

County shelter is getting way

57:08

overcrowded. They got like 135 dogs, 25 cats, and

57:11

that's at about 101% capacity. And

57:17

I think we all know what that means.

57:19

Once that happens, you have to put out

57:21

like this, this kill list on dogs and

57:24

cats. No, no, boy. I feel

57:26

like this is kind of like

57:28

an epidemic because there's several shelters

57:30

throughout at LAMA that are just

57:33

bursting at the seams right now. I'm

57:35

not sure if it has to do

57:37

with the economy where you had pets

57:39

before and now you can't afford them

57:41

or whatever. But hearts in homes rescue.

57:44

If you're interested in adopting, you can

57:46

stop by the shelter Monday through Saturday

57:49

during regular business hours. Adoptions are just

57:51

25 bucks. And there's really

57:53

not that large a commitment you guys, again,

57:55

it's called hearts in homes rescue. They provide

57:57

all the food they come up with. cover

58:00

the expenses for the dog also. All

58:02

you have to really do is agree

58:04

to give the dog or cat a

58:07

really loving home, and you have to show up through

58:09

a couple of adoption events. Well, so this

58:11

is for fostering. So if you, like yes, of

58:13

course they're looking for people to adopt dogs, but

58:15

if you are just willing to foster a dog,

58:17

to get them out of the shelter, to get

58:19

it down to capacity so they don't have to

58:21

do this kill list, that's when they're gonna provide

58:23

you with food, and

58:26

they're gonna cover the expenses if you're gonna

58:28

foster. So if you're like me and you're

58:30

busting at the seams with multiple dogs, and

58:33

you're not able to adopt, if

58:37

you're able to foster right now, so you can't make

58:39

the commitment of adoption, but you can foster, that

58:41

can help get these animals

58:43

off the kill list. It's hearts in

58:45

homes rescue. All

58:48

right, Jackson, is it rude to not

58:50

invite your son's wife on a trip?

58:52

Do you all think that when you

58:54

get married that you are a package

58:56

deal when it comes to getting invited

58:58

to things for the majority

59:00

of situations? For the majority of

59:03

situations, yes, and especially if it's family,

59:05

absolutely. Right, that's exactly what

59:07

I thought as well. And so my

59:09

uncle is planning on taking a trip down

59:12

to Costa Rica where one of his daughters

59:14

lives, her

59:16

and her husband, and

59:19

he also has two other sons that live in

59:21

the States and was gonna plan a trip down

59:23

there, right? So like let's make a family trip

59:25

down to Costa Rica to see your sister. Exactly,

59:27

and so one of the

59:29

sons is single and the other one is married,

59:32

and he decided to kind of posit

59:34

the question of going down there as

59:36

like, oh, I would really like it

59:39

if it was just kind of a

59:41

family trip as in his

59:44

one other son that is married,

59:46

your wife not invited. She's

59:48

family. That's what I thought. That's

59:50

your wife, that's family. What's the reasoning? He

59:53

wanted it to be a like

59:55

core family event. And when

59:57

I heard this, it just didn't sit right with me She's

1:00:00

core family. She is core family. And then

1:00:02

I'm thinking about it from her perspective and

1:00:04

how like you'd feel so left out, right?

1:00:07

Absolutely. Yeah, I feel like for sure.

1:00:09

Yeah, absolutely. It's one thing if like he

1:00:11

wanted to take his sons on like a

1:00:13

guy's trip or something like that, but you're

1:00:15

going to Costa Rica. That's not like, yes,

1:00:17

that's your daughter. But

1:00:19

it's also that's her sister-in-law. And

1:00:21

I do feel like they've become

1:00:23

a package deal. I

1:00:26

completely agree. And so when

1:00:28

I was talking about this with like my parents, my

1:00:30

mom was kind of on his side. Maybe

1:00:32

it's because she's a little biased because it is her brother. And

1:00:36

I was kind of saying that like,

1:00:38

I think it would have been different. Let's

1:00:40

say cousin from Costa Rica is coming

1:00:42

to Georgia to visit us,

1:00:44

right? And one night that

1:00:46

were there, my uncle's like, hey,

1:00:48

I'd like to just take my kids out

1:00:50

to dinner one night and your husband, for

1:00:52

example, is not invited to this part. That

1:00:55

is better for me if it's like a

1:00:58

single instance of something that's happening versus like

1:01:00

this big trip that they're taking. It didn't

1:01:02

feel right to me. What do you think,

1:01:04

Abby? To me, I think especially like because

1:01:07

they're married, it's not even like it's a

1:01:09

girlfriend situation. This is absolutely core family. So

1:01:11

they should be allowed to go. So I

1:01:13

feel like he's just throwing that term out

1:01:15

there just to make it seem like his

1:01:18

feelings are justified. I just get the sense that he

1:01:20

just don't like this chick. That's what

1:01:22

I was trying to understand. It's like, okay,

1:01:24

even in saying core family is invited. Cool.

1:01:27

If we're going to run with that, but

1:01:29

what exactly would be the harm in just

1:01:32

inviting everyone who's I guess what he sees

1:01:34

as an attachment to core family? Yeah, right.

1:01:36

And like, okay, let's say hypothetically, their relationship

1:01:38

might have started a little more on the

1:01:40

rocky side. I still feel like that's a

1:01:42

point where you kind of swallow your pride

1:01:44

and you're like, hey, you are very much

1:01:47

invited to this just as much as everyone

1:01:49

else because you are now family. Okay.

1:01:52

And I'm going to make that request. So now the son

1:01:54

is in a position. He either

1:01:56

has to go back to his wife and be like,

1:01:58

Hey, dad. I made a

1:02:00

Costa Rica doesn't want you to go is

1:02:03

he gonna be like I'm going to Costa Rica the family

1:02:05

or I refuse to go without you when

1:02:08

he brought this so I heard this phone call actually

1:02:10

when I was hanging out with him and then I

1:02:12

brought this up to my parents later on and so

1:02:14

when he first said that it's okay

1:02:17

like I'll pay for her to come down if

1:02:19

it's like a money problem like you know it's

1:02:21

totally okay and then obviously his dad comes back

1:02:23

to him and is like it's not a money

1:02:25

issue it's it's just I wanted it to just

1:02:28

be my kids but then I'm like your

1:02:30

daughter that's down there is also married are you

1:02:32

gonna not include him in everything that's there like

1:02:34

I don't need you have to be consistent if

1:02:36

you're gonna do it that way and he has to

1:02:39

dig in on this and say I can't go on

1:02:41

the trip then right yeah take home you gotta protect

1:02:43

me I'm pretty sure he did okay I think he

1:02:45

drew the line it was like yeah this is bad

1:02:47

you don't want to come back home after making the

1:02:49

wrong decision do

1:02:52

you tell do you even tell your spouse that your dad

1:02:54

made that request I wouldn't I wouldn't I

1:02:56

think I try to bury that yeah keep that to yourself yeah

1:02:58

we got a couple of minutes here

1:03:10

let me ask you guys a superficial question because

1:03:12

this one's going around online the last couple of

1:03:14

days here would you rather have

1:03:16

a 100% chance of winning 1 million dollars

1:03:21

or a 75% chance at winning 100 billion dollars damn

1:03:23

which one do you do the 75% chance at 100

1:03:30

bill I feel like when I was younger that would

1:03:32

have been an easy one I'm taking the 75%

1:03:35

but the older I get the more I don't trust my luck I

1:03:38

just really don't and I don't want to have to

1:03:40

live my life saying what if I would have took

1:03:42

the one give me the hundred percent give me the

1:03:44

guarantee Murphy's law what can go wrong will go wrong I will

1:03:46

be in the 25% I'm taking that 100%

1:03:49

chance of a 1 million dollars would change my

1:03:51

life but because I could still continue doing what

1:03:53

I love I could still do my podcast I

1:03:55

could still come into the into this job I

1:03:57

wouldn't have to uproot my life in Atlanta But

1:04:00

like, I could afford a house in this

1:04:02

economy, which to me is already like winning

1:04:04

the lottery. I'm going to bake

1:04:07

here, man. I'm going for the b-b-b-b-billion!

1:04:09

A billion, right? Alright, so here's how

1:04:11

it rolled out on Reddit. 1,500

1:04:13

people answered. It was

1:04:15

pretty close, actually. 48%

1:04:18

would say they would go for the guaranteed money.

1:04:21

52% would risk it all for $100 billion. That's

1:04:24

crazy. That's really close. Yeah.

1:04:28

I just, I just, the thought of what happens if

1:04:30

I don't win, and now I have to live the

1:04:32

rest of my life knowing I had a million dollars

1:04:34

in my pocket if I just would have taken it,

1:04:36

that would scare me. Can you live the rest of

1:04:38

your life on $1 million? So

1:04:40

I'm looking at the billion going, that's it. That's generational

1:04:42

wealth. Me, my kids

1:04:45

are taking care of my grandkids.

1:04:47

Your great-grandkids. All

1:04:49

of them are going to be

1:04:51

entitled little brats. I just

1:04:53

see that 25% of not winning. But

1:04:57

for me, I would also be worried about the kind of

1:04:59

person I would become after getting $100 billion. Like,

1:05:02

does no one, is no one afraid of how money

1:05:04

would change in that way? Well, I've heard

1:05:06

it said that money just makes you more of what you are. Right,

1:05:09

so I think you're a fairly decent person. Yeah, that's

1:05:11

a fun thing. I don't think you would change it.

1:05:13

I wouldn't be worried about that. I wouldn't be worried

1:05:15

about it either. Not even a little bit. You could

1:05:17

get the best therapists in the world if you turn

1:05:19

a new, like, the big ol' A-hole. The best! It's

1:05:22

the Burt Show. Get it? The Burt

1:05:24

Show.