Berner Phone

Hannah Berner and Des Bishop

The Berner Phone hotline is open! Hannah Berner and her husband, comedian Des Bishop, are listening to callers, dishing out their best advice, and bantering back with hilarious chemistry for their first ever podcast together. Keep an eye out on their Instagram stories for prompts to leave a voice message and be featured on the pod. Whether it’s pet peeves, secrets, life advice, dating dilemmas, or career questions, Hannah and Des are dialed in. read less

Our Editor's Take

Berner Phone is a podcast that curates listeners innermost thoughts. For each episode, hosts Hannah Berner and Des Bishop ask their audience to answer a prompt. The questions might be innocent and harmless, or naughty and exposing. In one episode, they share the best relationship advice listeners have ever received. In another, they discuss listeners unorthodox kinks. The hosts, a married couple, listen to the responses. Then they amuse listeners with opinions and personal experiences related to the topic.

Berner created the Berner Phone podcast to encourage conversations about mental health. When she began recording it in 2018, the podcast had a different name and format. Berner interviewed influencers, celebrities, entrepreneurs, and more, first calling it Berning in Hell. Each guest would share their biggest insecurities, fears, and regrets.

Host Berner has interviewed guests such as TikTok content creator Jeffree Star and Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran. These are honest and vulnerable discussions. They seek to make the listeners feel less alone in their struggles. Thanks to Berner's sense of humor, they are also entertaining and endearing.

In the summer of 2023, Berner changed the podcast name and started anew. First, she added her comedian husband, Bishop, as a cohost. The two have great chemistry and can make any topic into an engaging debate. The format also changed. Berner Phone centers the listeners instead of celebrities. While the focus is no longer on mental health, that is still a part of the conversations. For instance, the hosts discuss their listeners dilemmas in one episode. One person shares his desire to be submissive to his girlfriend. Berner and Bishop give their best advice on approaching the topic with respect. In another episode, the hosts ask men to share what they wish women knew about them.

Episodes of the Berner Phone podcast provide tips for relationships, careers, mental health, and more. They also offer an hour of fun and laughs. New episodes come out on a weekly schedule.

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