The Bird Show.

Amanda's got a beef.

I mean, here it's her husband's busy season right now. He's a tax guy, an accountant, and he's busy enough as it is. Then you've got the friends to add into the equation also. That's so rude. I'm cool. Hey, Amanda. Crappy. Hi, Joe. How are you? Hello. Good. What's going on? I haven't done my taxes yet. Do you think your husband could do it for free?

Yeah, you think you can look us out? You must be hearing that so much right now. Yeah, yeah. It seems like friends always come out of the woodwork when April 15th goes first. Is that really what you want to get to here? Is this more of a message that inventing than it is looking for advice?

No. What we want to try to find is like a nice way to say like, hey, you know, we'll give you a rate at a discount or, you know, maybe we could, like you guys are saying, trade something, but this isn't something we could just do, you know, for free.

Well, and you say it's you and your husband, so he feels the same way about his friends?

Oh, yeah.

It's mostly his friends.

Because I see no problem with him saying, you know what, I can offer you a discounted rate.

I mean, I see no problem with that.

Now, is this a time issue for you, or is this a money issue for you? Um, it's more time. It's time. You know, they work like 10, 12 hours a day, and then he comes home and he usually has, like, five emails waiting for him, just questions, and, you know, people are calling, hey, can you do this, what do I do with this? And it just, it takes up a lot of time. Look, this has to be a common problem in the accounting world right here. So if we have accountants listening right now, or the wives of accountants or husbands of accountants, how have you handled this in the past? I'm sure this is your season right here, where at this point, if you've been doing it for a long time, you probably have a stock answer. Yeah. And she just doesn't know it yet. Like how long has your husband been doing this? Only a year. This is like the first real busy season. Seasoned accountants definitely could give you some advice. Yeah. So you're really looking for just the sentence you can say where you don't lose your friends and you're not opposed to your husband helping them out, but if he's going to spend the time doing it, you've got to get paid. Absolutely. Exactly. Mm-hmm. Okay, let's see what we can get here. Or you could get stuff traded too. Like if his friend, like we were talking earlier, like if his friend is a landscaper, maybe he can take care of all the gardens in your yard and mow your grass for the summer, if you, you know, maybe he's a painter or a contractor, you got stuff to get done around the house or. Yeah, I mean, we even had a friend, you know, take us out to dinner as like a, you know, thank you for being. No.

Not enough.

Not enough.

No.

Because that's another obligation of your time, because guess what? You're going to dinner with them. Right. It should be, if it's going to be a trade for dinner, it should be equal amount in a gift certificate for you and your husband to go to dinner. Right. 404-741-Q-100. Nick, good morning.

You are part of the Bert Show.

What's up?

Yeah, I would just basically be up front and say, hey, you know, I don't come to your work and ask for you to do free services for me. Why would you do it to me? I think that sounds confrontational, though, man. Are you an accountant? No, I'm not an accountant, but I do have a job that people ask me to do the same thing.

And I do the same thing.

You know, I'm nice about it.

It's like, hey, I don't come to your work, you know, and ask for, like, if you're a waitress or cook or whatever and ask for free food.

You know, you expect me to pay because you've got to get paid.

...