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Vault: Grown Men Allowances?! The Secret Financial Control You Didn’t See Coming

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Vault: Grown Men Allowances?! The Secret Financial Control You Didn’t See Coming

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:01.3

This is what I wanted to ask, the Bird Show community, are there any adults right now on an allowance?

0:05.8

Like, you have to line up every week in front of your wife or in front of your husband,

0:11.0

and he gives you a certain amount of money to spend every day or every week, and that's all you get.

0:17.7

Oh, yeah.

0:18.2

I'm sure that happens.

0:19.3

People that have been irresponsible.

0:20.6

Well, I know what you're looking for. So let's eliminate couples who have mutually decided that their budget allows them to have. No, that's not what we're looking for. Yeah. So this is what we're eliminating. If you have come to an agreement as husband and wife that you have $90 extra every week, so you each take 45 and you can spend that on whatever you want. That's not in a lot. Agreements are too healthy for this show. Yes. We're not looking for an agreement. We're looking for a guy or a woman that has said, look, you are obviously irresponsible with them. You can't handle it. Right. So here's how we're going to handle our budget. I'm going to give you $5

0:55.2

or $10 a day. And that's all you get. Your spouse is almost like your money, police.

1:00.5

Like this happened. Do you remember a couple years ago? Yes, like it's a parent situation.

1:04.5

You remember a couple of years ago when I went to the Florida Georgia game with my buddy Kevin

1:08.0

from down to Florida? Yeah, he had an allowance. She gave him

1:11.4

$100 for the weekend and said, you are not allowed to spend one penny more. And he's

1:17.7

he had $100 cash and we're in the middle of a bar and it was his round and he paid and he was out

1:23.5

of money and he said, guys, I'm leaving the bar. I got nothing left. He's scared of her.

1:33.3

He's totally scared to her. I understand it. Because as a kid, I mean, I can remember my parents every Friday giving me like 15 bucks. That's what I got. I lined up. We had a sheet of the chores

1:40.0

that I did and they paid me my allowance. But that's as a kid. Now, you're seven, eight years old. I'm looking for the whole situation that you're doing as an adult. You have to line up in front of your husband or your wife. I couldn't even imagine doing that. I couldn't. It's embarrassing. I just don't think that's a healthy relationship anyway. We can put you on the voice disguiser if you want also, for sure., do you want to be on the voice disguiser? I don't care. Okay. You're obviously not on the allowance then. It's okay. My husband is like, he just can't spend a dime without me telling me. He can't take $20 out the ATM. He can't use a credit card unless he calls me and gets it approved. Why? It's just I'm a control freak. And he, I mean. Oh, so he hasn't had a reputation or has not proven to you that he can't spend. No, he's actually probably better at money than me if it came down to it. Oh, hell no. So let me ask you this.

3:26.3

It's really bad. I guess friends will call. It's like the running joke. They'll be like, Miss Laura, can live half ten dollars today to have lunch with me? I mean, they'll call like the night before. They want to have lunch at work. Really? How long have you all been together? We've been married for 10 years. Okay. It's working for you guys. Well, I'm assuming if you're that controlling in a situation where you don't really need to be, that you're pretty much controlling everything in the relationship. Oh, yeah. It comes down to you have to budget, but I've taken it to an extreme, which is like crazy. Are you OCD? Yeah. You are. So if he doesn't check in with you and he spends money, then what happens when you? I check, like, I check our credit card, make balance this like 20 times a day. Then what were you done with it? 20 times a day you check. I'll be like, why did you take $20 out the ATM? And he'll be like, my God, do you have like a camera? Oh me? What's going on? Does he get in trouble? Well, I mean, mean there having times the money was really tight in our life that i did like really get mad now it's like he just knows that we don't

3:31.5

do that he didn't want to deal with it did you hear about that show it's all about you it's the new one on

3:35.7

a and it's called obsessed yeah i did see the commercial for that yeah Yeah, I'm pretty bad. I'm weird.

3:41.6

Like, my house is a mess, so it's not like I'm obsessed on being clean. Well, I mean, I am clean, but the house is actually. You're just in torturing your husband. Hey, Melissa, good morning. You're part of the birchow. Hey, good morning. How are y'all? Good. How are you? thing with my husband, I was very particular about his money when we got our first joint

3:59.5

checking account right if we first got married, they mailed, you know, the two ATM cards. And I took his and just said, okay, I'm going to go ahead and tear yours up. And he was like, fine, you know, because he knew. He traveled all the time. And when he would get a per diem check for six days, it'd be gone in day three.

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