You're on The Virt Show.

I have Phil and Melissa ready to go?

Yep.

Yeah, I ready. Yes, sir. It's on the red one, Melissa on a white one. You can understand why I chose them that way. They're both red to me. They are? Yep. Yes, Phil is on the red one and Melissa is on the other red one. Melissa? Phil. No, this is Phil. Hi. Hey, hold on one second.

Melissa.

Yes.

How are you? I'm good. Happy Pride, everybody. Oh, thank you. Thank you. A million ways to celebrate in the city this weekend. Oh, yeah. I mean, Pride officially kicks off tomorrow in Piedmont Park, but of course we are at Piedmont Park outside of Park Tavern.

We decided to celebrate a little early and have Phil kind of be, I don't know, the prize.

It's tradition now on the bird show, and I think, again, this is a game that women certainly did not play when you guys were kids. This was strictly a dude thing. Smear the Queer. And at the time, we didn't realize how politically incorrect it was. We didn't even know, really, I don't think, what it meant. It just was, it rhymes. Yeah, it certainly wasn't malicious. It was just, you know, Smear the Queer was queer meant odd or different or whatever. So that's why we, you know, played it as a kid. But then when you, as you become an adult, and you realize that, you know, queer is a often used derogatory term for gay people. We're like, that ain't fair. Actually, Melissa probably said that the loudest. She's like, that, that ain't fair.

How come, how come, real country?

And being said, and I said, ain't, you know. Yeah, that ain't, that ain't fair. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? And, and Melissa goes, yeah, why is it got to be smear to the queer? why is the queer's got to be smeared and Tracy was in the room who

loves alliteration goes well why don't we just smear the straight see it's

payback time and then Phil's torture was born and the way and so that's what we do

every year like Bert said it's a tradition and so to help kick off pride here on the Bert show, we play The Straight and Phil Tarana is our straight guy. And, you know,

every year we seem to have different sports represented. And, you know, in years past, we've had,

like, for instance, the Atlanta box, who's the rugby team. This year, we have representation

from Abbott Tennis, which is the gay tennis league in town.

And here is Mike Horton who is going to represent Ada, and I'll put them on with you. Okay. What was his name, Mike? Hey, what's up, guys? Is it Mike? Yes. How are you? I'm welcome. How are you? Now, I just want to say, Mike, I mean, like last year we had the football players out there.

We've had rugby players out there.

I got to be honest with you.

When I hear a guy playing tennis is going to be. you. Now, I just want to say, Mike, I mean, like last year we had the football players out there.

We've had rugby players out there.

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