Berner Phone #90: Nickname Origin Stories

Berner Phone

Hannah Berner and Des Bishop

Stand-up, Comedy

4.4 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We're all trying to feel connected to those around us and nicknames are one of the most fun ways to do that. The dialers are sharing the origin story of their nicknames and Hannah shares some of her more traumatizing nicknames.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Hannah Burner and Des Bishop.
0:04.7	Thanks for calling the burner phone.
0:06.6	If you leave a message after the tone, we may have to make it into a podcast.
0:15.3	Hi, little dialers. Guess who it is? It's mom and dad. And we're actually recording this on Mother's Day.
0:22.2	Yes. Happy Mother's Day. To me and my little dialer, children, and butter.
0:28.7	To the live ones and the dead ones, y'all. Shout out. Wow, you brought up death.
0:34.0	Straight away.
0:34.6	That was a record time. Straight away, man. Record time. Well, come on, it's Mother's Day.
0:38.1	It's Mother's Day.
0:39.5	You know what?
0:40.4	It's Mother's Day.
0:41.8	Actually, you know what?
0:42.6	I didn't think we should have done a Mother Rap.
0:45.4	Yeah, that was disrespectful of us.
0:47.8	I know.
0:48.4	Maybe next week.
0:49.5	I wasn't on top of the Mother's Day thing. I've never been on top of the Mother's Day thing because I was in Ireland for all those years
0:55.7	and Irish Mother's Day is in March
0:57.7	and then American Mother's Day's in May.
1:01.1	So on the Irish Mother's Day,
1:03.2	it wasn't Mother's Day
1:04.6	and then American Mother's Day, I wasn't aware of it
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