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Jeff
We believe that Tim Sanders, the dude that threw the ham that hit Paula Deen in the face, has bailed on us.
Wendy
Oh, no.
Jeff
He was all set to talk yesterday, but for whatever reason, this morning, he's not talking.
Melissa
Maybe the hosea people got to him.
Jeff
Stop picking up. Doesn't want to discuss.
Melissa
Yep, I bet he's at like the end zone of Meadowlands with Jimmy Hoffa. Listen, you will not talk about what you did to Paula Deen. Do you understand me? And then next thing you know, he's in the trunk of a car being driven to New Jersey and they've pinned
Jen
him down with Smithfield hams.
Jeff
Right. Some emailed yesterday and said that Paula didn't get hit at all. Jeff is one of them.
Kelly
Oh, I didn't know it was being thrown.
Jen
It was her.
Jeff
No, it wasn't her saying, oh, my God. Sure, yeah, it was somebody else.
Katie
But it's, it's that boom.
John
It's hitting her microphone. It's brushing her microphone on her sweater hobby. It goes by. It brushes her nose maybe.
Jen
I think it did. Cause you can see her head flinch.
John
Yeah, because you would flinch too if something went boom right by your face. That close. And I think she got startled. And then I think the way, you know, like to have a big reaction like that, you're like, it hit me in the nose and it didn't. It boop. Brushed her nose.
Jen
Well, brushing and hitting is really the same thing when you're getting hit by a ham. I agree at you and you don't know it's coming. Here's what she said and you're her age. You're getting hit by a ham.
Paula Deen (quoted)
And he raised the ham up, but I thought he was gonna pass it on down the line. And I turned around to take another ham off the truck and turned around and all of a sudden this ham that weighed 200 pounds.
Jeff
200 hit me.
Lisa
Just joking.
Paula Deen (quoted)
Full on into the face. And about knocked me cuckoo. But I'm fine. Maybe it knocked some sense into my head.
Jeff
Okay, now I will say she's exaggerating there a lot. I love me some Paula Deen, but she is exaggerating right there.
Jen
Southern people tell big fish stories.
Jeff
Okay, that I can buy. Because it didn't full on hit her in the face. It was a graze Says, um, I was listening to the show today and found something strange about the fact that someone can get hit in the nose with a full ham and not get injured or hit in the face for that fact and not have a busted lip or bruise on the face. So I took a look at the video and then he slowed it down. And just before he hit her in the face, you'll see that the ham really just brushes her chest, then hits her leg, passing clear away from her face. The ham does not hit her in the face. It's a shame she had to lie about it.
John
She's got. She got startled.
Jen
Give her a break.
John
Why is it okay for her to lie?
Wendy
It's Paula Dean.
Katie
Paula Deen.
Jen
She got hit. Brushed, hit, whatever. She got hit with a ham.
John
Jen Hobby.
Jen
Leave Paula Deen alone.
John
If this was not Paula Deen and it was Michael Lohan.
Wendy
Well, he's ridiculous. He would do it for public.
John
Did he get.
Wendy
Paula Dean doesn't have to do it for publicity.
John
Hold on all. My question is, if this is not Paula Deen and this is Michael Lohan or Jon Gosselin and that video happened, would you still be going? Leave Michael alone. Pam, brushing by your nose is just as bad.
Jen
Well, I think that anybody can be startled by it.
John
A yes or no question.
Melissa
You liar.
Jen
Cuz I love Paula Deen.
Jeff
It is a brusher.
Jen
It's a great Paula Deen though. Leave her alone.
Jeff
It's not a shot in the face. Good morning.
Jen
She is. She's 75 years old.
Jeff
Hey, Tracy. Good morning. On key 100. Okay. No, you're not. Oh, now you are.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Now I am.
Melissa (caller)
Okay.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Good morning everybody.
Melissa (caller)
And Jen, I gotta say, I love you.
Lisa
First up.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Okay, but being brushed and being hit
Melissa (caller)
are not the same thing.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
My 16 year old got nailed in the nose by a softball being hit.
Lisa
She didn't get brushed in the nose.
Melissa (caller)
She got hit in the nose. There's a distinct difference.
Jeff
I think it's very evident. It's Paula Deen you're talking about.
Jen
When you're an older person, anything is,
Melissa (caller)
I love Paula Dean, but where is she from anyway? Because she kind of gets on my nerve.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
That accent's just a little.
Jeff
We can't have that.
Wendy
Oh, she's sweet.
Jen
Yeah. Leave Paula Dean alone, you guys. She's doing something good. She's doing something for charity. Somebody throws a ham at her, she gets startled. It hurts her. She says she got hit in the face with a ham. Leave her.
John
Why is it I'm just older and
Jen
she gets a pass?
Wendy
Because she's sweet and cute and can cook really well.
John
You just need to. Wendy, you just need to acknowledge that she did not get hit, quote, full on in the face, as she said numerous times.
Jeff
Jen, I think you need to make one of those videos, one of those leave Paula Deen alone videos today and post it on your Facebook page.
Lisa
And you know what?
John
If Paula ever came in studio, I would call her out on the same thing.
Melissa
I'd say, paula, come on. You just got startled, right? You just got startled a little bit. You got a little scared and you may have overreacted.
John
Draw some attention to the charity. That's great. I think that's awesome.
Jeff
It's Paula Deen, though, man. Give her a break. She gets a break. It's Paula Deene.
John
I'm giving her the break. I just want the acknowledgment that the video, the CBS Atlanta video, that is the full long shot.
Jen
You're not cleansing your does not show
John
Abraham hitting Paula in the face.
Jeff
It's not a full on hit to the face. It's a brush.
Jen
I could help you cleanse your karma.
Melissa
Jeff$ I question whether it even brushed her face. I think she just got scared.
Jeff
Hey, John, good morning.
Laura
Good morning.
Lisa
Hey, Jeff.
Laura
Why do you have to be such an ass?
John
How am I being an ass?
Jen
Thank you.
Melissa (caller)
Well, I mean, you ask for this
Laura
help with your karma the first thing in the. And have you not ever maybe stretched the truth a little bit or maybe made things seem a little more dramatic than what they are, but all of a sudden it's Paula Deen. Why are you choosing her to come down on?
John
Okay, you know what? That's an interesting point. Let's say that you guys are sitting at home watching the news and you see a video of me and I had gone down to Hosea feed the hungry, and next thing you know, I'm holding my lip and I'm going talking about how I got full on with a ham and all this stuff. And then you see that video.
Laura
Do I not get everything that's going on in the world today? Can you not pick something better than to pick on Paula Deen?
John
Do I not get. And I'm asking the people in this room a lifetime.
Jeff
Bert, you're not. But you're not listening to his argument.
Jen
Paula de. 75 years old and likable.
Jeff
Right. You're not hearing his argument. Paula Deen has built up so much likable points that when she exaggerates in a story that she's obviously exaggerating about, you respectfully don't really call her out on it. You, however, woman too.
Jen
There's a difference that.
Jeff
You lost me. You had me.
Laura
She's an older female that she has worked to create. And it's like all of a sudden, Jeff Dollar wants to come into the picture and say, wow, I've got dirt on Paula Dean. I think I'll destroy that.
John
I don't have dirt. The tape don't lie, brother. She is on tape getting barely brushed by a ham. It's all I'm saying.
Laura
No doubt all of us have. We have, you know, we've been knocked down playing football or something. Yeah. We made it so bad. Or somebody mentioned the fish story earlier.
John
Yeah, without a doubt.
Laura
Stretched the truth a little bit. And yes, you know, you've done the same thing. Why. Why is Paula Dean.
Lisa
What.
Laura
What's the purpose of your mission here?
Jeff
This is such a ridiculous conversation. I have to end it eventually.
John
Acknowledge the fact that Paula Dean stretched the truth.
Jeff
You're allowed to at some people get a waiver, a respect waiver and the. It's obvious she didn't get pounded in the face like she explained. Thank you, however.
Jen
Thank you, however.
Jeff
If that's the way she wants to describe it, she's Paula Deen.
John
I'm cool with it and I'm fine with that. I'm just saying before you just accept that and go on with your life, it's time for you to question everything you know that's good. Paula Deen is one of those things. Look, this is the holiday fever.
Jeff
I can't stand it.
John
This is a time for loving Jesus.
Jeff
Everybody hates you.
Melissa
Get it?
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Jeff
Bird Show Wendy this is going to be really cool for Wendy this week. I'm not sure she's viewing it that way at this point that it's going to be a cool weekend.
Wendy
Well, yeah, well, kind of. I mean, I guess it's a tradition being passed down to me. But I'm cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the first time and my mom, I said, sprung it on me because it's three weeks ago.
Melissa
A month ago she sprung it on her.
Lisa
A month.
Wendy
Three weeks is not a lot of time for me because I don't go to the grocery store. I don't like shopping. I don't even like cooking. I don't own mixing bowls. I don't own anything to measure anything. I use the toaster oven or the oven that you just pop something in.
Jeff
So do you go out to dinner every night? Like, are you heading to Taco Mac every night?
Wendy
Either that or I just make something that's really easy frozen. Like a salad. Like you can make a salad in two seconds. You just pour the lettuce that's already prepackaged into a bowl and throw some dressing on it. That's easy but. Or the George Foreman. You just put the chicken on the thing and it cooks. But I mean nothing mixing wise or having to do multiple ingredients, I don't do.
Jeff
So the extent of your cooking is the George Foreman Grill?
Wendy
Yes, I use that almost. Almost every day.
John
How long would it take to cook
Melissa
a turkey on a George Foreman?
Jen
Four years.
Wendy
Well, if you get those little turkey breasts, I mean, five minutes, they want you.
Jeff
Has your mom set up parameters? Like, look, it needs to be a 12 pound turkey. We need to have stuffing there. We need to have green beans. Are you doing everything yourself?
Wendy
I'm doing everything myself. I think she's gonna. There's like one dish that my mom just normal makes every year by herself, and it's just her stuffing that she has. So I think that's all she's making.
Jen
Mom's got the stuffing.
Wendy
Well, one stuffing. We have more than one stuffing. So I'm gonna be doing a stuffing, but just not that one.
John
Wow.
Jen
Okay.
Wendy
So, yeah, I had the turkey. I bought the turkey on Sunday and forgot to put it in the refrigerator. So I put it in the refrigerator on Monday.
Melissa
But you put it in the freezer, right?
Wendy
I put it in the freezer when I got home, but then I put it in the refrigerator. So that's taken care of. That's sawing, I guess. And then all the ingredients, everything else for my dishes are sitting on my counter. So I'm all set.
Katie
Okay.
Jeff
Okay.
Jen
Just gotta start putting it together today, right?
Wendy
I do. Yeah.
Jeff
I guess this, to me is seriously, like just getting your driver's permit and then somebody from NASCAR says to you, look, you're driving at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday in the big race. I mean, there's no in between for you.
Katie
But I don't think anybody that hosts Thanksgiving for the first time is ever truly prepared. I mean, unless you're like a gin hobby foodie or Tracy Kenney foodie. Even then, I think you're still the average person.
Jen
I think it's a lot of food to prepare because you're preparing for multiple people. And yeah, you're gonna help.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
And if you're.
Melissa
If you're a foodie, if you're like a Food Network watcher, whatever. Like if you're Wendy, you just want to make sure the turkey's cooked all the way through and that the, you know, gravy isn't too runny and the potatoes aren't because everybody's gonna lumpy. If you're Jen, then that's when you want to have, like, the, you know, the more gourmet the presentation has to be. Right. That's pressure.
Jeff
No matter how good you are, I think that you're. I think the level of success for your Thanksgiving. Is this it? Actually, you won't be able to tell if it's a successful Thanksgiving till about four hours after dinner when everybody's gone. If you start to get calls one by one from people that are sick and are going to the hospital, then, you know, you didn't cook the turkey all the way through. At this point, I. I would sacrifice taste for safety.
Wendy
Well, I just want it to look good. I mean, I don't care how it tastes. You could fake it, but I just want it to look nice.
Katie
And Jen, I wanted to say that she told us yesterday her mom's gonna be there with her helping her prepare.
Jen
Oh, good.
Katie
So she's not gonna be in the kitchen by herself.
Jen
Well, I think the hardest part, honestly, when I first did Thanksgiving for my family and extended family and everything else, is the timing of it all. Figuring out the space in your oven and, you know, where the racks need to be and what time all the casseroles need to go in, what time you need to get the turkey in, what time the turkey's gonna come out, and make sure, you know, because it's all gotta come out and be hot at the same time. That's. I think that's probably the most challenging because you can follow the recipes and measure it out and put it all together in this casserole and that one and whatever. But to actually get it all to come out ready at the same time, I think is the biggest challenge.
Jeff
Here comes some advice calls for you. Good morning, Lisa.
Melissa (caller)
Hi.
Laura
Hey.
Jeff
Wendy is cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the very first time for her family. She doesn't cook at all, so what can you tell her?
Lisa
Right.
Jeff
The first time I ever did a
Lisa
turkey, those Reynolds oven bags are really
Jeff
easy and really good. Reynolds oven bag?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Yeah, the oven bag.
Jen
So it keeps it all juicy.
Jeff
Okay.
Melissa
And also, if people do get sick, they can get sick right in the oven bags. And it makes cleanup easier when all
Katie
is said and done, Much like an airline.
Jeff
Ronnie, good morning. You're on Q100.
Melissa (caller)
I'm just going to tell Wendy to
Lisa
make sure our turkey has a pop up timer.
Jeff
That pop up timer is really important.
Wendy
We got one of those. I got one of those because I didn't have one of those either.
Jen
Good, Steph.
Wendy
That's all set. This is like my mom's holiday. This is my mom's super bowl because she loves to cook. So this is her dinner. So the fact that she's passing it down to me is kind of a big deal.
Jeff
It is a big deal. Because, yeah, you're going to learn. And then allegedly, you know, you'll pass it down to your kids, and they'll pass it down to their kids. And this is the way that grandma always gets to stay alive. Kind of, you know, their legacy.
Katie
Well, I found it fascinating yesterday when Wendy and I were talking about how she is clueless going into this. And I said, well, did you never watch your mom do this when you were a kid? And she said, not at all. Because. At least. Because I said, well, my experience was that I was there and helping out as I grew up with mom doing all these things. And so I just found. So Wendy's going in this completely comfortable.
Wendy
I mean, I didn't even know I had to clean the turkey. I mean, I didn't know you had to get in there, get the gizzards
Jen
out of all the, like, pieces, parts.
Katie
She don't want to even touch the turkey.
Melissa
She doesn't want to use.
Jen
Oh, you gotta reach your hand in there. You gotta get in there with it.
Katie
Yeah, you gotta salt it.
Wendy
You gotta prepackage that stuff with nothing in it.
Jen
You gotta.
Katie
Thank you.
Jen
You gotta, like, reach on up in there. No, and the other. Here's a little tidbit for you. My mom always did this, is she would chop up an apple.
Wendy
Okay.
Jen
And put the pieces of the apple inside the turkey because it keeps it moist in there. Don't you have to keep the turkey from drying out?
Jeff
But isn't that, like, an advanced move right there? Like, shouldn't Wendy just be doing the basics here? Because. Okay.
John
Oh, Lord.
Jen
That's not advanced. Chop up an apple. Put it in there.
Melissa (caller)
Okay.
Wendy
Then I gotta go buy it.
Katie
She didn't even know. Take the bag out.
Melissa
Yeah, that's advanced, Jen.
Katie
All right.
Jeff
We really. I mean, I think you have to also set the expectation low for yourself. Like, this can't. This is not going to be your mom's Thanksgiving.
Katie
Right.
Melissa (caller)
Right.
Jeff
It's not going to taste like that. It's not going to. It can't.
Katie
And nobody expects it.
Jeff
And nobody expects it to. It doesn't. Have your mom set the bar lower for yourself.
Wendy
I just want something to taste good. One dish has got to taste good.
Jeff
People don't throw up and they remain healthy for 24 hours afterwards. You've won.
Katie
That's right.
Jeff
So what have you brought in? Rundy brought in one cooked dish for us this morning.
Wendy
This is a casserole that we have every year at Thanksgiving. So it's a vegetable casserole, and it has the frozen Vegetables. It has cream soup in it, shredded cheese, sour cream, and the French fried onions. And then you put a little bit of bacon bit on the top, and you just cook it. I mean, the oven.
Jen
Can we taste?
Wendy
Yeah, taste it. I don't know.
Katie
I hope.
Jen
I know.
Katie
Listeners are like, I'm just eating breakfast, but we're. It's lunchtime for us.
Jeff
All right. Do you want us to be honest or you want to.
Wendy
Oh, honest, yes. Because I don't even know if it's warm enough.
Jeff
It's missing a little something. Like it needs some kind of flavoring. I don't know if it's salt.
Melissa
Yeah, it's missing something called flavor.
Jeff
It's a little bland.
Wendy
Okay.
Jeff
But you know what? It won't matter. It won't matter on Thanksgiving Day because, again, you're not looking for perfection here. I mean, I think it's doable. It's just not. It doesn't have a lot of flavor to it.
Melissa
That definitely needs salt.
Jen
Okay, everybody can. You can put salt on the table. People can add their own salt and pepper.
Melissa
Put a lot of salt on the table.
Jeff
But it's warm.
Wendy
Well, that's.
Jen
I mean, at least that's a good thing.
Wendy
But, I mean, it's melted.
John
You know what?
Katie
And everything's.
Melissa
I mean, the fork works.
Jeff
Yeah, the fork is fine. It just slid right into my. And out of my mouth.
Katie
I think it's fine because I agree with them that there's not a lot of taste to it, but some. I mean, I agree that a lot of times with salt and pepper, like, I can't stand things that are over salted. Where my mother, on the other hand, is. Would take the entire container and dump it on her food. You know what I'm saying?
John
So now a whole bunch of these
Jeff
calls are coming in wanting to give you advice. I'm not sure which ones to take, though, because some of them seem kind of advanced to me. Like, Terry wanted to tell you to cook the turkey overnight, and that seems like a pretty advanced move. No, it's a good move. Okay, hold on. Hey, Terry.
Lisa
Hey, good morning.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Hey. My mom used to cook the turkey overnight years ago, and she just puts it on really low and cook it all night long, and then you have all morning Thursday to do all of your casseroles and everything.
Jeff
So at what temperature are you supposed to cook that at?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
If it's cooking on the, like, 300 or 250 even.
Katie
That's what my mom did. And that way the oven's free on Thanksgiving Day for Everything else.
John
And then how do you keep the
Melissa
turkey hot between the time you take
John
it out of the oven and the
Melissa
time you have to serve it to family?
Jen
A lot of times it's not. A lot of times the turkey isn't warm by the time you serve it. And it's okay. You can tent it with some aluminum foil.
Wendy
Okay.
Melissa
But it's okay to serve cold. Turkey's okay.
Jen
You can tent it with some aluminum foil. And then also, once your casseroles and stuff come out, you can put the turkey back in for maybe 30 minutes to rewarm it.
Jeff
Hey, Angela. Good morning. You're on Q100.
Melissa (caller)
Good morning.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Happy Thanksgiving.
Wendy
Happy Thanksgiving.
John
Gobble, gobble.
Jeff
Thank you. I just wanted to tell Wendy that
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
the caller before that talked about those
Jeff
oven bags was so right on.
Melissa (caller)
Those things are absolutely amazing. But what you can do is about 10 minutes before you serve the turkey,
Jeff
turn the turkey upside down in that
Melissa (caller)
bag so all the juices flow back into, like, the breast.
Jen
That's a good trick.
Jeff
It's a great thought.
Kelly
And another thing to make your turkey
Melissa (caller)
flavorful is you can stuff it with,
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
like, thyme and lemons and oranges.
John
Kitten, what the hell is the matter with you?
Melissa
What?
Jeff
Do you understand what she's saying, though? Like, different flavors inside of it.
Wendy
Yeah, I. I mean, I don't know what I'm doing. So all this is going to be great advice. And my turkey will just be a fruit turkey. It's just gonna have everything stuffed in. There's gonna be apples, oranges, lemons.
Katie
I think for a first go around, I think this casserole, I mean, it's great. I think it's a great job.
John
Give her honest advice for a first.
Jen
No, I think it's great.
Jeff
It's for a first one. Again, the bar is set lower, Jeff. I mean, forget about other casseroles you had. Forget about the food you ate at Canoe the other night. This is her very first casserole, and it's a casserole.
Katie
I ate the whole thing.
Jen
And it's the one that her family makes every year, too.
Wendy
And I'm putting some salt on it. I'll put some seasoning on it.
Jeff
See, that was my debate yesterday, and I know we don't have a lot of time to talk about this. Should she continue the same foods that have been in the family for years, that they already know what it tastes like, or should she try something entirely new where they have no comparison?
Melissa
You gotta put at least one new thing in there.
Jen
I was gonna say maybe one new thing. But I think most, for the most part, people expect what the family usually has.
Jeff
So maybe start your own tradition with one dish, but for the most part, keep it in the family.
Jen
Yeah.
Katie
Because she has the recipes for everything. So I think when you start searching for this dish that you want to do yourself, that may be adding extra stress. Just do keep it as simple as possible. Cause you're gonna have a breakdown on Thanksgiving Day for a little bit. Expect that you're gonna be fine.
Jen
Stress, you're gonna do great.
Jeff
And dawn is here with just a safety net. That's all I'm saying. Just as a safety net. Go ahead, Dawn.
Lisa
Hi.
Laura
Love your show, guys.
Jeff
Thank you.
Lisa
In case the turkey doesn't turn out right, go to Popeyes today and get a Cajun fried deep turkey.
Melissa
I've heard from.
Wendy
I've already got turkey breast meat. I mean, sandwiches are the last resort.
Melissa
You're not gonna make turkey or you're using that?
Jeff
Oh, yeah.
John
Oh, yeah.
Lisa
We're smoking two and deep frying one too.
Jeff
But just in case, since it's her
Laura
first one, I thought that'd be a good idea.
John
Yeah.
Jeff
Deep fried cave the deep fried.
Melissa
I've heard that from more than one person at that Popeyes.
Jeff
Put it in a room where you don't even. There's not even a possibility unless everything goes to crap. Everything else fails, and then Popeyes will save you.
Jen
Okay.
Jeff
Okay, Listen.
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Jeff
There's a big Football game this weekend between UGA and them. Georgia Tech is having an outstanding season.
Katie
Fantastic.
Jen
What's Georgia Tech ranked?
Jeff
They're ranked number seven right now in the country. It's a phenomenal year for them.
Katie
Top 10 teams.
Jeff
Georgia is not ranked in the top 25 this year.
Melissa
How come?
Jen
Just wanted.
Jeff
They're having a bad year, man. They're having a bad year.
Jen
I just wanted you to say it out loud.
Jeff
I can live with that.
Melissa (caller)
Okay.
Jeff
I'm really torn as a UGA fan on what I actually want to happen this weekend, to be honest with you. And I know this goes against everything that UGA believers feel. And I know when we get is it. I got two Jones.
Melissa
Joanne. I think maybe it's Joan, but we got two Joann's. 171, 174, I believe the young lady is a dog fan and the old lady is a Tech fan.
Jeff
I think this is Joanne.
Melissa (caller)
Older.
Jeff
Yeah, I think this is Joanne. Are you a UGA fan?
Lisa
I am.
Melissa (caller)
Okay.
Jeff
And you're 71 years old?
Lisa
I'm 71, yeah.
Jeff
Thank you very much for calling.
Lisa
Uh huh.
Jeff
Now Joanne, here's our feeling on this is that if you're an old school UGA fan, there's a different kind of passion, a burning desire.
Lisa
Oh, you bet there is for your school.
Jeff
Then there would be somebody in their 20s or 30s because they just haven't lived the highs and lows the way you have.
Lisa
Well, that's true with this team.
Jeff
There must have been some years where it was crushing to lose to Georgia Tech and other years that you were just absolutely elated, right?
Lisa
Absolutely, yes.
Katie
And my condolences on aga.
Lisa
All right. Poor thing.
Jeff
So as you're remembering back now, you've been a UGA fan for how long now?
Lisa
30 years.
Jeff
30 years.
Lisa
My daughter's graduated from there.
Jeff
Okay. Do you remember your first UGA game that you attended?
Lisa
I've never been able to attend one because we could never get tickets.
Jeff
In 30 years you've never been able.
Lisa
But I never missed a game on television. My daughter comes from Georgia every year and if she can't get tickets, she. She goes and just waits around and tries to buy one and usually always gets in. But she and her husband live in Knoxville and he's a Tennessee fan, but he went to Georgia. But she's got both her kids brainwashed and they're both Georgia fans.
Jen
All right, that's great.
Katie
I'm sorry, you're. I'm sorry your son in law is a Tennessee fan, but he went to Georgia.
Lisa
He went to Georgia. Yes.
Katie
Okay.
Jeff
Melissa here is a Tennessee fan.
Katie
Yeah, I was a Tennessee grad. Yeah.
Lisa
Okay. We've got something else in common.
Jeff
All right, so now. Okay, so as you've been watching for the last 30 years.
Melissa (caller)
Right.
Jeff
What has been the most heartbreaking part of being a Dogs fan and the best part of being a Dogs fan?
Lisa
Well, the most heartbreaking part would be when they would lose and, you know, come so close because I think they've beaten Georgia Tech more times than Georgia's beat them.
Jeff
Certainly Georgia, like, the last decade, for sure. Here's where I know I'm gonna lose you here. I'm a UGA fan also. I didn't graduate from the school, and I've only been following them for about eight years.
Lisa
Oh, really?
Jeff
But the sports fan in me almost wants them to lose this weekend. So we can. Here's why. I know. I feel like if we sacrifice this weekend, it's better for the future because maybe we'll get rid of that crappy defensive coordinator.
Lisa
Oh, well, I got you there, but I wouldn't go that far.
Jeff
Yeah, you can't go on some fans.
Katie
Of course not.
Jeff
You can't wrap your mind around Georgia losing to Georgia Tech and not being a good thing.
Lisa
I still have high hopes for him this week.
Katie
And that's the difference between her and someone who has only been a fan for eight years is, like, you said, that different. Like, it's ingrained in her. There's no way she could ever say, yeah, absolutely.
Jeff
There's a different level of fandom there, for sure. Okay, so let's get our Georgia Tech fan on with us also. Good morning, Georgia Tech fan. What's your name?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I'm Joanne.
Jeff
Hi, Joanne.
Katie
Hi, Joanne.
Jeff
How are you this morning?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I'm great, thank you.
Jeff
All right, Joanne, you are how old?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I am 74.
Jeff
74. And you have been following Georgia Tech for how long?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Oh, far. Since I was probably 18 with my father.
Wendy
Okay, that's awesome.
Jen
Great.
Jeff
Did you attend Georgia Tech?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
No, sir, I didn't. And all my children attended Georgia.
Jeff
Oh, no.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
My favorite teams in the world is Georgia Tech. And whoever plays Georgia, I love it.
John
There we go.
Jeff
And this is where we were hoping this was going to go because we wanted to get two people that have been watching and been fans of their respective teams for as long as you guys have.
Lisa
Well, you must have been disappointed quite a bit.
Jeff
No, not at all. No, not at all.
Katie
Well, I also want to say to Joanne, because we spent so much time on you, Jay, that Joanne, congratulations. On Georgia Tech being ranked number seven in the country.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Isn't that wonderful? And I have a pen I was trying to find. I think we have. Over the decades, we have four championships. I don't think Georgia has that.
Katie
She is. She's got her stats lined up.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Georgia more than they beat us, too.
Jeff
Joan, do you want to stick up for Georgia here a little bit?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I don't know.
Lisa
For my 30 years, I think Georgia's been Georgia. UGA has been more dominant.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Oh, they may have been more dominant, but we have the best coach in
Lisa
the world right now, NFL, and become stars like Heinz Ward. And
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
we have stars like Joe Hamilton.
Lisa
I never heard of him.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Oh, he was our quarterback. That I. Wait a minute. Let me see. What was the one last year that beat you? And this year, we are going to slaughter you.
Melissa (caller)
That's the consensus.
Jen
And let me tell you something.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I have a family business, and all the guys in here are Georgia, except for one, and he's Kentucky. So he came in really going full this Monday morning.
Lisa
Well, we'll just have to wait and see, because I have Georgia. They're gonna come to the forefront this time.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I don't think they're gonna make it. I don't think they're gonna make it Saturday. If they do, they'll have to bury me, probably.
Jeff
That's Georgia Tech, Joanne, right there.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I get so nervous when they're playing, I can't even watch. Sometimes when the game's closed, I have to turn into something else. Well, but I won a lot of money on them this year.
Jeff
How much money have you won on Georgia Tech? Join.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
A hundred dollars even.
Wendy
Okay, betting woman.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I'm a betting woman.
Wendy
You believe in your team.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
You either win or you lose.
Jeff
Hey, Joan.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Don't give any point or take any.
Jeff
So, Joan, there has to have been years past where Georgia Tech was heavily favored like they are this year. But Georgia won.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Right, right, right. And if that happens this year, I'll just die. I have my Georgia Tech on my desk with hanging the bulldog over. I don't know whether it's flea. Diaper, Flea dip. What it is.
Lisa
Flea dip.
Jen
Flea dip.
Jeff
Now, Joanne, I want you just. I want you to prepare yourself. Because like I said, I mean, I've
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
tried to prepare myself for it.
Melissa
Oh, my.
Jeff
There is a chance that. I mean, come this weekend, there is
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
a chance that Jo Cox might have a good game. But it's like my Kentucky fan said, Jo Cox was the best Kentucky player Saturday.
Melissa
Oh, God.
Jeff
Joan, you gotta help us out here.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Come on.
Lisa
Come on.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Tell her she hasn't been in the construction business for 70 years. And with all these young men that went to Georgia and are Georgia fans, and they walk in here with their faces is really down this year. Their faces are really down. They don't even want to come into my eyes.
Lisa
What about all those sad years you've had? You had all those sad years. You can gloat this year, but you still haven't yet.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I still managed to get through them with my head held high. Well, I have a big Georgia Tech yellow jacket, stuffed animal sitting in the corner of my desk.
Lisa
But you don't have any help. Your children went to uga. My children went to. To uga and they're still fans.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Well, my Georgia guys are, too. My Georgia son.
Lisa
Yeah, but you're all by yourself.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
But he pulls for Georgia Tech when they're not playing Georgia.
Lisa
Well, that's their problem.
John
We got to give them each a pair and then talk to them on Monday, put them next to each other.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Well, I'll probably be. If we lose, I'll probably let them bring me in in a casket Monday.
Jeff
Oh, don't say that.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Let them go ahead and cre.
Jeff
Georgia Tech. Joanne, why is this game. I mean, is this one that you're putting so much weight in this one, Is it because they've been. They haven't been.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
They've been so good this year.
Jen
Yeah, yeah. They deserve it.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
It's really been good. And I think our coach is fabulous.
Jeff
Yeah. All points. I mean, the really. The pressure is on Georgia coach.
Lisa
Yeah, we have a great coach. That's the reason why we get the players. We get.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
But what players do you have a bad year?
Lisa
Everybody gets a bad year.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
But I won't.
Jeff
Hey, Georgia Tech. Joanne, what do you think about Mark Rick, the UGA coach?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I think Mark Rick is just too blah. Oh, my goodness. Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
Lisa
This man has character I love.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Oh, no, no. It's not character. When you're a football coach, you don't
Lisa
need that character, coach.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
You need some fire and get behind those players. You see, when Dak was losing the other week, when in halftime, what'd they do? They came back and won because he put some fire in them. I don't think Coach Rick can put fire in them.
Lisa
Like, you don't have to have fire. You can still have a lot of character and get the same job done. He just doesn't have the players. But he's happy.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I don't think so. I love a fiery coach that's the
Lisa
difference between Georgia and Georgia Tech.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Right, Right, right, right, right. I love a fiery coat. All the coaches are fiery except for Margaret.
Lisa
Well, the bottom line is. Well, I don't like that. The bottom line is it's going to be a great game.
Melissa (caller)
I hope so.
Lisa
And.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
And I hope the best man wins.
Lisa
They've been saving up for all. They've been saving up all this year for it, and I think they're going to really come to the forefront.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Our turn now. We're going to take the next seven.
Jeff
Well, here's what we're going to do for you guys. Georgia's own wants to give both you guys tickets to the game this weekend. All right? So, uga, Joan, this is going to be the first time that you see a UGA game in 30 years, so we're gonna make sure you're there. And, Joanne, we've got tickets for you, too, if you want to go to the game this weekend as well. And we'll sit you guys right next to each other.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have enough arguments when I go to the break when a Mets fan shows up, so I don't want to have a Georgia fan sitting by me.
Jen
That's funny.
Lisa
No, I wouldn't want that.
Jeff
So, Joanne, are you saying that you would rather turn down the tickets than sit next to a UGA fan?
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
No.
Lisa
Wouldn't go that far.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
No, I wouldn't go that far.
Jeff
Okay, so you both want the tickets.
Lisa
I love the tickets.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Do I have to go?
John
What else would you do with them?
Jen
She gets a better angle at home with her.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Can I give them to a granddaughter?
Jeff
Sure you can.
Lisa
I was thinking about doing giving to my. To my daughter if I. But I'd go if I had to. I'd be so busy. My daughter would just take two blood
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
pressure pills if I went.
Melissa
All right, listen
Lisa
and do whatever I want.
John
Well, how about this? What if we gave you four tickets each, and then you could bring your
Melissa
granddaughter whoever you want, but you guys could still go.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
My daughter.
John
Your daughter.
Jeff
So, Joan, we will give you four tickets, and we'll give Joanne four tickets also to the game.
Lisa
Oh, my goodness. You are wonderful. I listen to you.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
I might be old, but I listen
Lisa
to you every morning.
Jeff
Thank you very much.
John
But we gotta. When we put you on hold, this
Melissa
is gonna sound really crazy, but Joan and Joanne, give Joanna your information, and
John
we're gonna call you on Monday morning because we want to recap how the game went.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Okay? What if I don't go?
Jen
We still Want to talk to you.
Jeff
Yeah. Still like to talk to you. Yeah. Especially. Yeah.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Because you want to make me feel bad if I lose. Is that what you're saying?
Jeff
I personally probably will. Yes. I can promise you that.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
Okay.
Jeff
Okay. Hold on. You got. Thank you very much.
Katie
Thank you so much. Y' all have a great Thanksgiving.
Jeff
Thank you, guys. All right, so that's Joan. She's 71 years old, big old UGA fan, but had never been been to a game. Now she's going. And you've got Joanne. She's 74 years old from Georgia Tech, and she is ready for a big time win this week. She's fiery. She's ready. It's your Georgia fight song. And we can't forget our Georgia Tech students from a couple of years ago.
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Jeff
Jen, you missed this yesterday, but, man, I was really, really, really enlightened by a conversation that we had at the very end of the show yesterday.
Jen
Okay.
Jeff
I don't think, as a guy we possibly know can possibly understand. I'm starting to get it now, the struggle that women have with diet and food all the time. And it was based on my theory. Yesterday I told these guys I was gonna be cutting a healthy trim spot, and in it, I was gonna put, forget about healthy trim for the next four days. Forget about your diet for the next four days. Forget about picking and choosing what you're gonna eat and what you're not gonna eat. Just to give yourself a mental break, you know, just to.
Jen
Yeah.
Jeff
Give yourself four days of indulge and totally indulge and take the pressure off of yourself. And I thought, you know, then next week, worry about it, but at least give yourself four days where you can completely forget about it. And Melissa and Wendy told me yesterday that there's this inner dialogue constantly going on in a woman's mind that won't let her allow her to do that. It's like, not even a possibility for most women.
Katie
Yeah. Because I think the message got confused yesterday because it's not that we don't indulge on Thanksgiving, but there's chatter in our brain the whole time we're doing it. Because I said there's a bartering going on. Because, you know, I told him that there are women this week that are either fasting, cleansing, you know, eating just salads, doing something to prepare for game day, you know, Thanksgiving day, and the leftovers. And then I said, you know, when you're sitting at the table, there's the thought, well, should I have that extra roll If I want a piece of, you know, pumpkin pie, or, you know, let me not eat so much stuffing if I want it, you know? So even when you're trying to indulge yourself, there's a part of you that. That's always telling yourself, should I? Should I not? And it just never goes away.
Jen
And I think you also feel like other people are judging your plate full.
Jeff
Really? Even at Thanksgiving dinner, like family members?
Wendy
Well, yeah, because you always want to pack your plate full, but you don't want to seem too. Like you're too eager to eat that much food. I don't know. Because if you look like you have a plate full, you look like a pig. And girls don't want to see other
Jen
people are judging how many, like, oh, really? You're going to have another scoop of those mashed potatoes. It's really your inner voice, but you think other people are doing it.
Jeff
Okay, so let me ask you this then. If we're using logic here, the only reason why you think people are doing that to you is because you're doing
Jen
it to them sometimes.
Jeff
Because nobody has ever said to you, boy, that's a lot of food on your plate right there. One of your girlfriends or family members has never said that.
Jen
So I think mothers would say it to daughters.
Katie
Yeah, mom would say it.
Jeff
Have the three of you ever had a family member or friend say that?
Wendy
I don't.
Katie
Oh, yeah. Millipede. Millipede. Like it is. Yeah, because even. Cause especially if you have brought up that you're like. If you vocalize in our family, if you vocalize the fact that you're, you know, a little concerned about your weight or I really need. You know what I really need to shape up or get into better shape, then Millie, Pete, will. Well, are you gonna have. Are you gonna have a second helping some potatoes? Shouldn't you have this instead? So it's not usually. She's not usually a tyrant when it comes to. She's not food police unless you give her permission to be.
Jeff
It's not even necessarily what I'm hearing is. And I really feel like I'm on the outside hearing all this for the first time. It doesn't sound like food police to me, but it does sound like women are judging each other all the time on their food habits. Like you guys just said, you're watching your friends eat and you're taking it.
Jen
Other women, if you're judgmental of yourself and the food that you're intaking and you're body conscious or whatever, you're Judging other people on other things that they eat all the time too.
Lisa
Really.
Katie
But I think this is such a
Jeff
woman conversation because in a guy's world this is non existent.
Katie
But the thing is, you have to understand that women are judged mostly on their looks all the time and guys judge women on their looks all the time. So it is, you know, it's not just a woman thing and that's all she's ever doing. But this is the result of always, you know, and I don't know which comes first. If women judge other women, men judge women, I don't know. Wherever it came from, the culture now is our biggest asset is our looks. And so that the result of that is the fact that we're always conscious of that and we're always trying to maintain it. And then if we go over, because last night Katie and I were watching Biggest Loser and we were judging, like what we said last night was depending on a woman's body type, of course, so, so each woman is different. But on average we were trying to calculate what is the weight a woman would have to get to before she mentally gave up. So we were watching Biggest Loser last night and we said if a woman, if a woman gets to 200 pounds. So we thought if a woman got up to 200, that is struggling, you know, Let me clarify that. If you're struggling, you're always worried. If you got up to £200, that is when some women would give up and they're like, you know what? I can't maintain anymore. And then they may overindulge and forget about it and feel sorry for themselves
Jeff
because it seems like such a, to get large amount to lose that you're just like, I can't do it. So you give up?
Katie
Yes. Like if your ideal body weight. And again. And yesterday, Jim, when we talked about this, I mainly said, I think it's a, this may be a white woman thing. This may not be, you know, any white woman thing is what I'm thinking of. So if a white woman is struggling with her weight, and I know, you know, friends and family members and everybody that struggles, whether they're skinny or not, if two, if they got to 200, it would be like, you know, well, that's when they start when the real self esteem issues come into play. But if your ideal body weight's 140, you know, and you're at 160, you think, well, you know, it's only 20 pounds, I can do this, I can do this. But if you get a 200 then you're like, I can't do this anymore,
Jen
throwing the towel kind of thing.
Jeff
So I posted that on Facebook yesterday. The question that I asked you guys, what I wrote was my suggestion for Thanksgiving weekend would be to totally and completely forget about diet. Eat whatever you want. Give yourself a mental break. Wendy and Melissa say, women aren't capable of doing that. Agree or disagree. And the word that came up more than any other is regret and remorse. Like Jessalyn Kelly says, when I do that, I always get a feeling of regret. Aaron Ross says, I'm gonna eat whatever I want, but I will definitely feel guilty about it. Ashley Ray said, I agree that can be difficult for women. Sounds good, but easier said than done. Another one says the same thing. You can do that, but you'll always have that feeling of regret. So you can never really enjoy what you're eating. Even if you know you're overindulging. You're saying to yourself, there's a payoff for this tomorrow.
Wendy
Yeah, well, you're always trying to get down to your ideal weight that you want to be. And then when you eat, of course you want to indulge on Thanksgiving and have all the food, but once you eat it, you know you're not going to get to that weight that you want. So you do feel bad. You feel bad about eating all that food, but it's not until the next day.
Katie
I think every woman suffers from an eating disorder. I mean, because we always talk about eating disorders when they're bulimic and they're anorexic. But I think that this is so abusive to ourselves, because I'm thinking of the kind of the chatter I had the other day about. Because I'm a huge. I mean, I'm bad about eating sugar. I love sugar, Chocolate, anything chocolate. So I know that now. I try to regulate myself to where if I'm gonna have, like, indulge myself in some dessert, that I'll do it one time a day. So at lunch the other day, so
Melissa
you don't have dessert after breakfast and after lunch, because that's really what the holidays are all about. Dessert after lunch.
Katie
But I'm telling you, I'm being honest with you, that I had dessert at lunch, and then Katie wanted to go to dinner, and I thought to myself, you know, you know, like, dumbass, you ate dessert at lunch. You could have had a nice dinner with Katie where you could have not worried about eating dessert at. I mean, in my mind, who cares if I eat two days? I beat myself up, and then I just realized that that's self abuse.
Jeff
You know, let me just interject here just for one second, that not avoiding them, but there's one call that keeps coming in over and over and over again that I just haven't put on. But I want to acknowledge and that's. This is a white woman's problem.
Katie
That's right. Yeah.
Jeff
And that's coming in quite a bit. So I just wanted to acknowledge that.
Katie
Oh, of course.
Jen
I also think that on the opposite side of that is not eating in moderation and eating emotionally. And overeating is also an eating disorder. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think, you know, the policing ourselves to the point of making ourselves regretful and remorseful and guilty and all that kind of stuff isn't healthy. But I also think diving for the bag of chips or the cupcakes or the cakes or, you know, all of the junk food, or, you know, the fast food drive through every time we have an emotional stress or, you know, something's not going well, or, you know, you're on your cycle and it's up and down and you're hungry or that week or whatever. I don't think that's healthy either. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't think that one way or the other is necessarily the way to go.
Jeff
Here's Laura. Good morning, Laura. You're on the Burt Show.
Melissa (caller)
Good morning. Love you guys.
Jeff
How you doing?
Lisa
Thank you.
Jeff
How are you?
Melissa (caller)
I am fabulous. I am very, very fabulous.
Jeff
What's up?
Melissa (caller)
I'm just going to spill it out. 235 pounds. 235 pounds. White girl.
Lisa
Love.
Melissa (caller)
Myself, have been for over 10 years. I don't struggle with anything. I enjoy food. I love it. I meet men who love it, who love both me and food, and it's awesome.
Katie
What's your secret? Because I think you're in the mind confident.
Melissa (caller)
No, you just look at yourself in the mirror and go, you know what? This is what God gave me. And I love it. And don't struggle. I mean, just love it.
Jen
Good for you. I mean, I think that that's rare.
Melissa (caller)
Warm in the wintertime. You got to worry about that. There's beautiful clothes out there. If you go find them, have a little style, you know, have a great amount of confidence. Smile is your best feature anyway, on anybody's face. Who wants a miserable, skinny girl? I have a girl I work with who's 20 years old and is miserable.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
She's a.
Melissa (caller)
She's got bad body image and she's Skinny. And I feel bad. I feel so. And I try to get her to eat. It's hysterically funny. And I feel so bad for her.
Melissa
Walk back and forth with bacon in front of her and ache.
Melissa (caller)
Oh, you don't know. You don't know. And I cook all the meals when we do meals. I do all the meals at work. They hate me when I bring food in because they can't help themselves. I just feed them, feed them, feed them.
Jeff
In some ways, they must love you, but in other ways they must hate you also.
Melissa (caller)
Oh, it is love, hate night. And I'm good with that. And I win more. I win more battles. I'm going to win the war, but I win more battles than I lose with the food, with them.
Jeff
Do you think it upsets some women around you that you're that confident of being £235?
Melissa (caller)
Well, they've never shown it, but, I mean. And for being the older one out of the group, I mean, for them to give me the compliments I get, it's not every day, trust me. I always get surprised when they do like, you know, because out of the blue it's like, oh, I think you're this, I think you're that. But then again, maybe I'm an example. So I guess I try to be that too, to some extent, because I am much older than a lot of these other girls and I just, you know.
Katie
Well, it's probably a combination of they admire you, but they would never let themselves. They're like, that's awesome. I'm so glad for her. But there's still this fear in their mind to be 235.
Melissa (caller)
How I date. They said, you date more than we do. I switched over to a different site, a different dating site. I get hit. I get usually a minimum of four hits every day I wake up, I turn that thing on and there's four hits and I'm just like, wow, okay. And they love. In fact, I'm almost skinny on this website. I'm right in the middle. I'm almost skinny on this website.
Jeff
I want to say something that you guys might beat me up about. Do you think that some of these women use you? Like, you're almost doing more harm than good around these women. Because the message that they may see is here's a woman that's completely confident with how she eats, but she's £235. So I can't eat like that because I don't want to be too £235.
Melissa (caller)
I might be a Reminder for them to go to the gym every single day. But I don't. That's fine with me. I don't care.
Jeff
You're good with you. Who cares? Good for you.
Wendy
That's awesome.
Jeff
Good for you. Thank you.
Melissa (caller)
And I'm gonna eat like crazy next couple days, and I hope everybody else does, too.
Jeff
Good for you. Based on what I saw, it's almost not possible to do that. Like, at some point you're gonna have. There is gonna be a governor in your mind saying you're not allowed to have one more piece of pie that
Katie
you'd really like to have at some point every day. It's always there today. At some point, you gotta push it back.
John
Well, just so you know, I got
Melissa
breakfast for us all today. And those are low fat grits and there are zero calories in the biscuits. And the eggs are. Those are all egg whites.
Katie
Perfect.
Jen
Yes, perfect.
Katie
And I don't think it's a good thing, but I think it is just. It's just so ingrained. It's a shame that I think women, I think we trip ourselves up so much because we're so consumed by this that we lose focus on other things, you know?
Jeff
Hey, Kelly, Good Morning. You're on Q100.
Kelly
Hey, I wanted to tell you guys I love you guys. Jeff, I love your humor. I'm a northerner too, and it just makes me want to listen every day
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
just to see what you're going to say. I love all you guys.
Kelly
Okay, this is for Melissa. I heard you talking about that little guy in your head. I used to be a professional athlete. I swam in high school and college. And then I went on and did triathlons and weight issue because this body that I could eat anything because I was going to go out and run
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
or swim it off.
Kelly
Well, now as a mom, I had some children. I gained weight and I got to be that person over £200. So I said, okay, I want to go back to work.
Joanne (Georgia Tech fan)
So I went back to work.
Kelly
And I'm in this office with about a dozen women. All they do is talk about what you're saying. They talk about worrying about their weight and doing everything. And they eat and they talk about it, but I don't see anybody doing anything. So my suggestion was I went to the doctor and he told me not to worry about dieting, just to try to eat a little more healthy. He said, don't go crazy. Like, don't splurge. Like, trying to get rid of everything. Because he said, like, when you do that, then you're, you're starving yourself or you're mentally starving yourself and your brain wants to kick in and eat. And I'll tell you this, I've lost about £75 just eating the right kind of things. And not like, I'm not an, I'm not a health food person. I eat Dunkin Donuts in the morning. You know, if I want a donut, you know, now I might not do donuts at five days a week. I might only do donut twice a week, but I give myself that and it's made me a happier person and it's also helped me maintain my weight.
Lisa
Weight?
Katie
Yeah, I mean, I, I, I'm not like, like, obsessed with dieting and I'm not like, trying to do anything. My point is that it doesn't matter whether I was my ideal weight or not. The chatter's still there. And that's the problem is that it doesn't matter what size you are. You know, it's always this thing in your head, you know, but yeah, and I think it's, it's sad that women are constantly stressed by that because you
Jen
are happy when you're a little fluffier.
Jeff
Are you?
Jen
Yes. Like, it just in general. Like, I look at the pictures from when I was getting divorced, and dang, I looked good. I was so skinny, but I was so miserable. Like, and then like, you know, fast forward two years, like, yeah, I probably put on five or ten pounds since then, but I'm a hell of a lot happier.
Jeff
You can't define you as fluffy the way. Are you saying right now this is fluffy, Jen?
Jen
Yes.
Jeff
You're not fluffy, Jen.
Jen
I feel it in my jean, you know what I'm saying? All women can feel it in their clothes. Know you've got your own scale or whatever. But, like, when I was at my thinnest in the last 10 years, I was at my most miserable. But hey, I looked good in those photos, but I was like, miserable underneath, you know what I'm saying? So just be happy with the extra weight.
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Release Date: May 15, 2026
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This episode of The Bert Show is packed with authentic, often hilarious conversations ready to make listeners’ mornings more bearable. The topics bounce from a surprisingly heated debate about Paula Deen’s alleged ham incident to the chaos of hosting Thanksgiving for the first time, intertwined with sports rivalries and candid exploration of women’s relationships with food and body image. Through calls, stories, and real talk, the cast and their listeners keep things engaging, relatable, and even moving.
Timestamps: 01:02 – 08:44
Summary:
The show kicks off with a passionate and somewhat absurd discussion around a viral video where chef Paula Deen claims to have been “hit full on in the face” with a ham during a charity event. Jeff leads the skepticism, breaking down the video evidence and suggesting exaggeration, while Jen, Wendy, and others fiercely defend Paula Deen, chalking up any embellishment to “Southern fish stories.”
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Timestamps: 10:19 – 22:10
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Wendy reveals she’s been tasked with her first-ever Thanksgiving dinner. The crew dives into her self-professed lack of cooking skills—she admits to owning neither mixing bowls nor a proper meat thermometer—and her anxiety about cooking for the family. Callers pitch in with advice and set expectations low, all to Wendy’s nervous amusement.
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Timestamps: 23:14 – 35:39
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A heartwarming, fun segment features two lifelong college football superfans—Joan (UGA, 71) and Joanne (Georgia Tech, 74). The hosts explore the depths of fandom, family connections, and generational passion for their college teams. The show surprises both fans with tickets to the big game.
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Timestamps: 36:41 – 51:18
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The episode takes a poignant turn as Jeff, Jen, Katie, Wendy, and listeners explore women’s relationships with food, body image, and the relentless “mental chatter” around dieting—especially during the holidays. The frankness is refreshing, spanning guilt, judgment (from self and others), family dynamics, societal expectations, and even cheerful body acceptance.
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As ever, The Bert Show blends real talk with dry, observational humor and heartfelt moments. Language is colloquial and candid—at times chaotic, often self-deprecating, but always supportive at the core.
This episode exemplifies why The Bert Show endures: a fast-moving mix of wit, confession, relatable worries, generational stories, sports passion, and supportive listener connections. If you need comforting chaos, some laughs, and the reassurance you are not alone in your holiday messes or inner chatter, this is your morning show home.