From The Vault: How Honest Do You Want Your Friends To Be About Your Ex?
The Bert Show
The Bert Show
4.1 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Are you cool with your friends being brutally honest when talking about your ex? Bert wants to know how you feel!
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| 0:00.0 | Right, birthday party, the big 30th. |
| 0:03.3 | Although, is it more like 40th? |
| 0:06.1 | Hmm, best go generic. |
| 0:08.0 | Something fizzy? |
| 0:09.2 | Oh, along with everyone else. |
| 0:10.9 | Flowers? |
| 0:11.7 | Symbolic of blooming into a new era. |
| 0:14.4 | Ugh. |
| 0:15.4 | No, come on. |
| 0:16.4 | Something more exciting. |
| 0:18.8 | Something like. |
| 0:20.8 | I'll take a two million red scratch card, please. |
| 0:23.8 | Add some play with National Lottery Scratch Cards. |
| 0:27.2 | Search Dream big, play, small, rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:29.1 | Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:32.3 | The Bird Show. |
| 0:33.5 | Some friends that volunteer their honesty when it's not asked for, that really isn't. It's not really welcome. It really is just sort of camouflaging bitchiness. If I didn't ask, why are you going to go ahead and give me your opinion? And sometimes you ask for honesty, but sometimes it's too brutal. Too brutal. You didn't ask for it. I love that phrase. I'm just being honest. I'm just being honest. No, you're just being an A-hole is what you are. Right. But if it's your best, best friends, don't you expect honesty, or would you want them to keep their opinions to themselves? I would always preface it with, you want me to be honest here, bro? And then that opens up the door. |
| 1:12.3 | That's a great way of putting it. If it's my best friend, I want them to be completely honest. If I ask. I'm going to be honest and I'm going to be an a-hole about it. You can have it both ways. Save that. You're getting a happy meal with me. So it's a discussion that came up recently over dinner. |
| 1:29.3 | And I had a friend who got out of a relationship that was over five years. |
| 1:34.5 | It was a platonic ending. |
| 1:36.0 | They just both decided that this wasn't the one for them. |
| 1:39.1 | And what are we doing here? |
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