Full Show PT 1: Friday, May 8 [Vault]

Summary

The Bert Show – Full Show PT 1: Friday, May 8 [Vault]

Originally aired May 8, 2026
Hosts: The Bert Show Cast (Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy & more)

Overview

This lively episode blends The Bert Show’s signature humor with relatable stories, listener drama, and interactive experiments. Main themes this morning include wild Georgia-Florida football festivities, a debate about relationships and communication in the digital age, chilling ghost hunting tales, and an emotional look at “motivation by humiliation” with a high-stakes weight loss segment. Authentic, funny, sometimes touching, and always engaging, the episode brings both “laughs and realness” direct from the team and the listeners they invite on-air.

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Key Segments and Highlights

1. Georgia-Florida Game Tailgating Voyeurism

Starts at 00:30

Theme: The cast seeks out listeners headed to the Georgia-Florida (or Florida-Georgia!) football game in Jacksonville, looking for volunteers to document their wild day by calling in voicemails every hour.

• Tradition & Antics: They chat about the game’s legendary reputation as “the world’s largest cocktail party,” emphasizing both school pride and party culture.
  • “It’s not tradition. Isn’t it a requirement?” – Burt (02:59)
  • “You wake up at eight in the morning and you have your first beer, your first drink by nine.” – Jeff (03:16)

Listener Participation

• Erin (UGA student, senior) calls in and agrees to document her day, despite playful skepticism from Burt about whether she’ll really party hard.

  • “That will not be a problem.” – Erin (05:06)
  • admits to some “drunk-dialing issues” among her friends (05:43).

• Jason (age 27, seasoned tailgater) offers to participate as well, sparking a “competition” to see whose voicemails are best, noting the wild liquor scene in Jacksonville’s “landing” (08:14).

  • “I just remember walking back to the car thinking, what the hell just happened?” – Jason (08:24)

• Meta-commentary: The show discusses whether guys or girls make better party reporters, with Burt arguing that women are better storytellers.

  • “I think the girl calls are better because girls...want to paint a picture.” – Burt (07:13)

Stakes & Humor

• If Georgia’s winning: Expect excited voicemails.
• If Georgia’s losing: “We may not hear from them for two and a half, three hours...you really kick up your drinking hard after that game.” – Jeff (10:03)

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2. Relationship Drama: Terry and Her Elusive Ex

Starts at 12:18

Background: The team has been advising Terry on whether she’s been too eager with a former flame (sending IMs, emails, Facebook requests with no response).

• Tension & Mixed Signals: Terry emails saying the show was wrong; her ex finally replied, coming to see her, and she’s “really nervous…won’t IM me in the morning. I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep tonight.” – Jeff quoting Terry (14:19)

• Panel Reaction:

  • Andy’s skeptical: “But she still can't do that. You have to seem somewhat unavailable...” (16:26)
  • Show debates contemporary dating “games” versus old-school connection.
  • “There’s so many different forms of communication...you have to play this game.” – Melissa (19:25)
  • Tim (married caller) weighs in: “You guys were kind of giving her like high school advice on an adult problem.” (18:39)
  • Jeff, rallying for “old guys,” says, “I don't think the game has changed...it's evolved, but certainly the tone of the game is still the same.” (19:53)

• Decision: The show resolves to see how Terry fares on her own, with Melissa expressing hope for good news post-weekend.

  • “If it went well, we will hear from her...if not, we absolutely will not hear from her.” – Jeff (48:51)

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3. Ghost Hunters: Real Atlanta Hauntings

Starts at 21:08

Special Halloween Week Segment: Andy and the Atlanta Ghost Hunters join the show to share live Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) from haunted Atlanta locations and preview the cast’s own haunted broadcast.

• Goosebumps & Gory Details: Andy recounts investigations including mysterious bleeding injuries and whispers caught on tape:
  • “There’s been two different occasions where people have mysteriously started bleeding in this house.” – Andy (21:43)
  • Bert, mock-panicked: “Wait a minute. I don't remember discussing that particular aspect...” (21:58)
  • Notable Quote: “Whenever I would wipe the source, there was nothing there. It was just coming out from nowhere. And as soon as I left the house, it stopped.” – Albert, Andy’s brother (23:11)

EVP Clips (27:00–36:39)

• “Mommy, come here.” – Child’s voice, Hampton house EVP (26:57)
• “Bummer.” – Clear, contemporary word from a female-sounding ghost (27:58)
• Other whispers: “That’s funner.”; “Don’t want to”; “Get started”. (29:45, 32:56, 33:44)

Listener Call-Ins

• Patty shares her own haunting story, involving objects moved by a suspected family spirit (37:47–40:36).

• Skepticism Aired: Jason, a caller, doubts the authenticity of EVPs. Andy and the team emphasize the show’s integrity, promising the next night’s live hunt will be as real as it gets:

  • “We have nothing to gain from this. If we don’t get anything, we don’t get anything.” – Andy (36:36)
  • “I don't entirely buy in either…and that's why I'm not nervous about tonight.” – Jeff (36:39)

• Show sets the stage for their “live” haunted house broadcast, promising a séance, first-hand accounts, and immediate EVP playback. (42:01–43:06)

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4. Motivation by Humiliation: The Wedding Ring Weight-Loss Challenge

Starts at 43:15

Premise: Listeners pledge valuable personal items as collateral to reach ambitious weight-loss goals within a set month. This segment focuses on Trisha, who risked her wedding ring.

• Trisha’s Story: Goal to lose 55–60 pounds in ~10 months; pledged her cherished wedding ring (44:09).
  • “It's very, very important to me…but I'm willing to do that for the challenge.” – Trisha (44:23)
• Results: She loses 38 pounds by the due date—short of her goal (45:23).
  • “There was just a domino effect...life just got harder and harder, and with the stress, I was unable to give myself more time.” – Trisha (46:34)
• Ethical Dilemma: The cast debates whether to keep the ring, arguing about fairness, segment credibility, and human decency:
  • “If we give in, it's the last time we can ever do this segment…people won’t take us seriously.” – Jeff (48:54)
  • “But you’ve lost 38. That’s an impressive, impressive number...must have busted your butt.” – Jeff (58:08)

Input from Listeners & Family

• Trisha’s niece, Janet, calls in, passionately advocating for her aunt:

  • “There is not a woman in the world who loves, adores, and worships her husband more…they have been through so many struggles…you can’t keep the rings.” (53:07)

• Other callers weigh in; one suggests renegotiating (end of year, up the goal), but the team ultimately rejects sliding scales or continual extensions.

Resolution

• The cast unanimously agrees to “sacrifice the segment” and return the ring, commending Trisha’s effort:
  • “If you want your ring back, go ahead…you lost 38 pounds. You didn’t reach the goal. But there’s no way in good conscience we can keep that ring. So come get your ring. And you did great.” – Jeff (59:10)
  • Melissa, reinforcing the message: “You did not fail.” (59:27)

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• Erin, on Tailgating:
  “That will not be a problem.” (05:06)
• Melissa, about Modern Dating:
  “There’s so many different forms of communication that make it so much easier...to be smarter and wittier about it. Like, you have to play this game.” (19:25)
• Andy (Ghost Hunter):
  “There’s been two different occasions where people have mysteriously started bleeding in this house.” (21:43)
• Trisha’s Niece, Janet:
  “Y'all can take her rings. I will do what I have to do. Y'all make some kind of bet, some kind of deal with me to get her rings back, because I can't sit back and let that happen.” (53:08)
• Jeff, wrapping weight loss challenge:
  “It's a stupid radio segment. We got plenty of material...She lost 38 pounds.” (58:46)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Georgia-Florida Game / Tailgating Voicemail Project – 00:30–11:00
• Terry’s Relationship Saga – 12:18–21:08
• Ghost Hunters, Atlanta EVP Investigation – 21:08–43:06
• Motivation by Humiliation (Weight Loss Challenge) – 43:15–59:45

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Tone & Style

Episode features:

• Playful banter and friendly ribbing between the cast
• Earnestness and empathy during real-life issue segments
• Encouragement of listener engagement, both lighthearted (tailgating) and serious (health & relationships)
• Sincere debate about “doing the right thing” versus keeping up a “hardcore” morning show facade

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For New Listeners

This episode is classic Bert Show: comedian-real, audience-focused, with a mix of light and heavy discussion. If you didn’t catch the live show, this summary should arm you with all the best stories, debates, and emotional moments, letting you jump into the next episode fully briefed!

Transcript

[Burt]

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[Chris]

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[Jeff]

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[Melissa]

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[Jeff]

The Birch show if you are going. We're looking for somebody very, very specific here and I hope we get just a couple of calls. You are going to Jacksonville this weekend. You're going for the Georgia Florida game?

[Andy]

No, the Florida Georgia game.

[Jeff]

As I learned last week, visiting Florida in Florida, it is definitely the Florida Georgia game. But we are here in Georgia. It's a big game. Jacksonville. You know, there's still a whole bunch of people that are pumped up about the game. Seems like it's going to be a little bit one sided this year. So maybe there's not the excitement that there has been.

[Chris]

Bulldog fans are saying, bird, don't, don't say that.

[Jeff]

I think if we keep the bar

[Chris]

set, well, there's always a chance, right?

[Melissa]

And you never know in any college football game. That's why college football rocks, right?

[Jeff]

I mean, and I think we're probably looking for somebody that's really, really hardcore about going this weekend. Like the game could mean something to you. Maybe it's not consequential to you, but you're going down there to party your arse off. And that's what this game is really all about.

[Chris]

Because the game always falls around Halloween weekend. But the fact that the game is on Halloween, you know that that happens however many years apart. And so people who have been a part of this in the past, on Halloween, it's usually a bigger part because everybody's dressed up, everybody's having a good time.

[Jeff]

Like you have a history of like severe tailgating, so you know you're going to be getting your drink on. Because what we want to do is we want to do the same thing with you that we did with our intern Reshma a couple of weeks ago.

[Melissa]

When intern Reshma turned 21, she agreed and had her best friend who was gonna help her agree to call Bert's voicemail once an hour and just leave us a message on how the night was going, what was going on. And we got to follow her throughout her 21st birthday and really Celebrate with her. And the voicemails were hilarious because it was like you could hear her ramping up on the party, peeking, and then coming back down again and going to get food by the end of the night.

[Jeff]

Right. We lived the whole night with her. It was a blast through voicemails. So we want to do the same thing with you if you're going down to Jacksonville. 404-741-Q100. This is what Reshma sounded like by

[Patty]

the end of the night at 12:09am.

[Jason]

She's totally gone right now. And.

[Trisha]

Wow.

[Jeff]

So we need to find somebody that knows they're going down there. And it's tradition that you're like, by the end of the day, you're barely standing. Right?

[Burt]

It's not tradition. It's. Isn't it a requirement?

[Melissa]

It is required. It's the world's largest cocktail party. Right?

[Jeff]

They don't call it that.

[Melissa]

Well, it's still that.

[Chris]

Fewer bars.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Such a drinker here.

[Chris]

It's my drinking.

[Burt]

It's about sport and camaraderie.

[Chris]

Sponge.

[Melissa]

Are there EVPs in here?

[Jeff]

So we have to talk to somebody that's serious about partying this weekend. And what we want you to do is call us every hour. And let's see, kickoffs at 3:30, 3:30, 3:30 in Jacksonville. So generally it goes something like this. You wake up at eight in the morning and you have your first beer, your first drink by nine.

[Chris]

Right.

[Jeff]

And you start drinking all the way to kickoff. So what we want you to do is call us every hour on your way approaching kickoff.

[Chris]

Right.

[Jeff]

And then you got. I think the fun part is also calling us inside the stadium, too. That's three hours of sobering up right there. If you commit to the sobering up, because you can't have drinks inside the stadium.

[Burt]

And then you legally.

[Chris]

And then. What about. And then after the game?

[Jeff]

And then after the game.

[Chris]

Because depending on the outcome. I mean, it doesn't matter what the outcome is, you're still going to party after the game.

[Jeff]

Good morning.

[Andy]

A little more excited than the others.

[Erin]

Hi. How are you?

[Jeff]

Good. How are you?

[Erin]

Good. I just wanted to call and let y' all know that everyone from Georgia right now is heading down to St. Simon's to celebrate Thursday and Friday. And then we all take charter buses down to Jacksonville for the game on Saturday.

[Chris]

Perfect.

[Jeff]

Now, is UGA off these next two days also?

[Erin]

Because wasn't there off on Thursday. I mean, on Friday. I'm sorry, but we're usually off for Thursday and Friday. So we're Used to that. So everyone is giving classes break.

[Chris]

It's not for the kids.

[Jeff]

It became policy a couple of years ago. So there were so few students that were on campus on Friday before the Florida game that Georgia just gave into it and they're like, just take Friday.

[Chris]

We do not change what we do on campus for a football bird. This is an academic decision for the fall.

[Erin]

No one is going to class today. Everyone is already heading down to St. Simon's to party.

[Jeff]

Erin, I don't know that you would be. This would be great for you as an assignment. You sort of sound like. I mean, we're looking for somebody that is committing to drinking all morning and all afternoon.

[Erin]

That will not be a problem.

[Jeff]

It will not be a problem for you. So you'd have to leave us a voicemail every hour detailing everything that's gone on.

[Erin]

That would be really fun. I'm sure my friends would love it. We're about to head down right now.

[Burt]

I was just gonna say, for some reason I'm not buying it with her, but also, I wouldn't buy it with Reshma if I just met Reshma that way. And she really gave us some priceless content.

[Chris]

Yeah, I don't think you should judge the book by its voice.

[Burt]

Whatever.

[Melissa]

Do you currently have a drunk dialing problem?

[Erin]

Do I what?

[Melissa]

Do you currently have a drunk dialing problem?

[Erin]

That could be a problem.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Melissa]

So your friends have at some point said, no, you're not allowed to call him right now.

[Erin]

Uh huh. And they take away the phone.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Chris]

All right, perfect.

[Jeff]

And you have to. You have to promise us also that no matter how buzzed you are, you have to place that call once an hour because that's the fun for us.

[Patty]

Okay.

[Erin]

And is this on Thursday and Friday or just Saturday?

[Jeff]

Just Saturday. Yeah. Just game day.

[Burt]

Unless you get inspired late tonight or tomorrow night, then you're certainly welcome to

[Jeff]

call us, of course.

[Erin]

Okay. Sounds good.

[Chris]

All right.

[Burt]

Who are we to deny your expression? You're an artist now, right?

[Jeff]

Have you had to have a friend hold your hair back while you throw up into a toilet anytime over the last three or four weeks?

[Erin]

Oh, no, I just turned 22 a couple weeks ago.

[Chris]

Perfect.

[Jeff]

All right, so not quite 21. A little bit more seasoned, but I think still good.

[Chris]

She's like, I'm sure it'll be good puking in public.

[Jeff]

Huh?

[Chris]

Nothing. I just say that she's too old to be puking at 22.

[Jeff]

That is so not true. We can debate that later. All right, Erin, let me put you on hold, okay?

[Erin]

Okay, Sounds good.

[Jeff]

And we'll get the voicemail numbers in your hand and we'll hear your voicemails together on Monday. Okay?

[Erin]

Okay.

[Trisha]

Thanks.

[Melissa]

Good luck this weekend.

[Erin]

Thank you. We need it.

[Jeff]

Yeah, you will. Now, you are a student at uga, right?

[Trisha]

Yes.

[Jeff]

What are you? Junior. Senior.

[Erin]

I'm a senior.

[Jeff]

Okay, hold on one sec. Don't go anywhere.

[Jason]

Okay.

[Jeff]

Somehow I thought a guy would get more into this because guys are more willing to be assually.

[Burt]

But I think the girl calls are better because girls talk, they want to describe, they want to paint a picture. A guy call will be like,

[Melissa]

That's it.

[Andy]

Nana barking.

[Burt]

Yeah. So we just need the girls.

[Melissa]

Just an English class.

[Chris]

Yes, obviously Chris needs.

[Burt]

It's got weird and mean here a minute ago.

[Jeff]

I think it all started with you ripping on Melissa a couple of weeks ago. Hey, Chris, you think you can do a better job than Erin?

[Jason]

Yeah. She see the difference between her and I is I'm staying in Jacksonville, less than two miles from the landing. She's staying in St. Simon. Well, St. Simon's is great, but you have to take a bus to get to Jacksonville. I can basically just walk to the landing and walk to the stadium. The second year last year we went and we parked in the. We tailgated in the boy scout parking down there right next to the stadium. Started at nine in the morning. As soon as they opened the gates to get down there, we started drinking and partying and really, I don't even remember half the game. I just remember walking back to the car thinking, what the hell just happened? Why did we lose?

[Jeff]

You maybe forgot, you know, Then you

[Jason]

go to the landing afterwards and you party again.

[Melissa]

So why not both?

[Jeff]

Yeah, we can do both.

[Andy]

No, I think both.

[Chris]

Because I would like to see who's most consistent throughout the day.

[Burt]

Yeah, now it's a. Now it's a competition. That's good thinking, Melissa.

[Jeff]

Chris, how old are you?

[Jason]

I'm 27.

[Jeff]

Okay, so a little more seasoned than Aaron there.

[Jason]

A little more seasoned. I'm growing with a group of four. It's my girlfriend who's a senior education major at Georgia, and I a pharmacist who's a senior at Georgia and another education senior at Georgia. So this is my. This is our second year and this is their first. So it's kind of going to be like we know what's going to happen and they have no freaking clue.

[Jeff]

That rookie year that you go to that initial year experiencing this game, you start off fast too.

[Jason]

Oh, yeah. You start off fast because they have A. They have a liquor station every, like, five feet in the. In the landing at the party.

[Jeff]

Indeed.

[Jason]

Like, everywhere you turn, there's literally someone just either handing out or selling liquor.

[Jeff]

Now they're trying. They're trying to change that a little bit this year and trying to tone it down, but, I mean. Yeah, how much can you really tone it down?

[Chris]

University of Florida is trying to get it to where not as many liquor stations are there. There's gonna be three times as many police officers on the landing.

[Jeff]

Don't be silly. Don't be silly. All right, Chris, let me put you on hold. We'd love to get your voicemails over the weekend.

[Jason]

No problem.

[Jeff]

Okay, hold on one sec. Balance right there.

[Burt]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Got yourself a guy. Got yourself a girl.

[Melissa]

Yeah. Both UGA fans.

[Jeff]

Both UGA fans.

[Burt]

It's gonna be interesting as the game progresses.

[Andy]

If they leave messages on who's winning and losing.

[Jeff]

Well, if George is winning, they're all

[Andy]

gonna be blowing up the phone.

[Jeff]

If George is not winning, we may not hear from him for two and a half, three hours. But then I'll tell you what I mean, we lost so badly last year when I was down there. You really kick up your drinking hard after that game. So the better voicemails may come in after the game than they. Than they do before.

[Burt]

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[Jeff]

The Birch show this is going to be very quick here. Very quick. We've detailed for you the instant message history here with Terry. We helped her out twice during the show. Things were going fine and then going into the weekend, she wasn't sure if this pseudo ex of hers was coming to Atlanta or not. So she wanted some answers.

[Trisha]

Friday. Since I didn't know if he was coming or not, I sent him an instant message because I hadn't heard from him.

[Erin]

And I guess I kind of thought

[Trisha]

like, well, maybe he, you know, maybe didn't think I was like that into him.

[Jeff]

Because that's where you want him.

[Chris]

That's where you want him.

[Jeff]

That's exactly where you want him.

[Melissa]

Well, I just. Once you ask him that question, did he respond at all?

[Trisha]

No.

[Melissa]

Oh my God. I thought maybe the text didn't go through. So she found him on Facebook and Facebooked him and he accepted her Facebook requests as a friend, but he didn't respond to her message.

[Burt]

Actually, I don't think she sent him a text because I don't think she even has a cell phone number.

[Melissa]

I thought she texted him too. Maybe I made that up.

[Burt]

Yeah, I think she. Because that makes it even creepier if she's reaching out all those ways and doesn't even have his cell number. I think she just assaulted him online and sent him a bunch of IMs and emails and then Facebooked him.

[Jeff]

Well, she's not answering this morning, so we can't ask her all these questions. But this is the email that she sent out last Night. Just check this out. You guys were wrong. I didn't screw things up. Which we told her time and time again. It's done. I mean, he doesn't respond to four different messages. Doesn't matter if it's an instant message. It's an email. The combination of four with no response. You're done. Check this out. You guys were wrong. Exclamation point. I didn't screw things up. Exclamation point. I think he likes me. Smiley face. Yep. I think this is gonna be a good weekend. Exclamation point. If I don't let you guys screw it up for me. Smiley face. Mm. I'm really nervous. He won't IM me in the morning. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight. From Terry.

[Chris]

That's it.

[Jeff]

I don't.

[Melissa]

That's it.

[Jeff]

I'm really nervous. He won't. I am me in the morning. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.

[Melissa]

I wonder if he's coming to Atlanta this weekend. It sounds like she got some news from him in one way or another.

[Jeff]

That's it.

[Chris]

And so she doesn't want us to screw it up, and that's why she's not having fun with us.

[Jeff]

Oh, I wasn't even putting that together. So she thinks we jacked up for her.

[Andy]

Well, she's the one who.

[Burt]

We're in trouble now.

[Jeff]

Alligator arms, dude.

[Andy]

But she's the one who Text America. Tracy Facebooked him and ruined it herself.

[Unknown Male Caller]

You didn't read the whole thing? It was a forward from him. If you go further down, the email's below that.

[Chris]

Oh, so he contacted her.

[Jeff]

Why are you breathing so heavy?

[Unknown Male Caller]

Because I ran down here.

[Jason]

Well, here.

[Burt]

You reading.

[Andy]

We were screwing it all up.

[Trisha]

Go ahead.

[Unknown Male Caller]

Okay, well, you read the part that she sent. The reason she sent that is. Cause she forwarded an email from him that was sent a couple hours before that.

[Burt]

Tracy's inhaler.

[Unknown Male Caller]

I just made it down here in two seconds. It says, hey, sorry for not getting back to you. Last weekend was crazy. And this week was even more crazy. So much work. I never made it to Atlanta. Good news is I'll be there on Saturday. Will you be around? I'll look for you online in the morning.

[Jeff]

Sorry, Tracy.

[Andy]

He was unavailable.

[Jeff]

Got that condescending look I know.

[Unknown Male Caller]

Well, I thought you were gonna, like, go into commercials, and then we missed the whole point of everything.

[Jeff]

Sorry. Sorry. I'm not good at this.

[Unknown Male Caller]

Get it right.

[Burt]

You know, we've actually just so everybody knows what Tracy went Cumulus has sublet her office to a family who's living in there, and she is working out of her car in the parking lot. So she ran up five flights of stairs.

[Chris]

So he contacted her. Yeah.

[Jeff]

Sorry for not getting back to you last week and was crazy. And this week was even more crazy. So much work. I never made it to Atlanta. Good news is that I'll be there on Saturday. Will you be around? I'll look for you online in the morning. So she's sitting there waiting for him right now, so.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Gosh.

[Andy]

But she still can't do that. You have to seem somewhat unavailable or have a limited amount of time.

[Burt]

So do you think she's intentionally not answering because she's like, I got this?

[Chris]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Jeff]

She thinks we were the ones that screwed it up.

[Melissa]

She's gonna send some good morning sunshine crap all over again.

[Chris]

But she's got to let us know, though, what happened. She's got to let us know on Monday if she saw him.

[Jeff]

Yes, she did.

[Andy]

Well, she's gonna be waiting at the border of Alabama and Georgia for his

[Melissa]

car to come through the big welcome banner.

[Andy]

Yes, here I am as Terry IM

[Jeff]

Screen name is this.

[Andy]

And this Good morning, sunshine. Welcome to Georgia.

[Jeff]

She's gonna replace the welcome to Georgia, Georgia's on your mind sign with her own personal size. I'm here. I'm waiting for you. She'll screw this up by herself down

[Burt]

at welcome to the state, where it says governor Sonny Purdue Governor underneath that'll say also home of love of your life, Terry.

[Melissa]

But this is good news for her, though. I mean, we want her to get the guy, so I'm excited for her.

[Jeff]

Reno agrees. She thinks we jacked this whole thing up. Hey, Reno. Good morning.

[Trisha]

Hey.

[Erin]

Hey.

[Jason]

Well, not necessarily. I mean, I think she's going a little overboard, definitely, but I think that. Don't you guys think that a guy will put up with a lot more stuff from someone that he really like? So if you gen. If he genuinely likes her, he's gonna put up with more of this stuff. But if you don't like a girl initially, this just becomes annoying.

[Burt]

He doesn't even know like, her.

[Erin]

I.

[Jason]

Well, he does know her. I mean, he's dated her, seen her at some. I mean, Right.

[Melissa]

They made out before.

[Burt]

Years ago.

[Jason]

She accepted her friend request on Facebook, which is kind of.

[Andy]

That makes you real friends.

[Jason]

I don't know about that, but I'm just saying, like, there's a level like that you put up with if you like a girl a lot well, isn't

[Jeff]

this all about how hot she is? I mean, because he hasn't seen her in years. They. They only hooked up like a couple of times and then it's been years. So if she. She Facebooks him, he accepts it. She looks hot. Yeah. He's setting it up.

[Jason]

I definitely think that that has a lot to do with it very well. If he doesn't know her that well as far as a relationship wise, even though he should probably walk on eggshells a little bit because she does. I mean, like I said, she is going overboard, but I don't know, man. I don't know.

[Jeff]

Here's Tim. Same thing.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Jeff]

Thinks that Jen. Jen specifically screwed this all up.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Jeff]

Hey, Tim. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Jason]

Yeah, thanks for that intro. So, yeah, you guys were kind of giving her. I'm glad she. This guy's showing some interest because it seemed to me that you guys were kind of giving her like high school advice on an adult problem. Right. To play all these games and. Okay, yeah, she was 21 and all, but I think you were all steering her in the wrong direction.

[Melissa]

Hey, Tim.

[Jason]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

Are you a married guy?

[Jason]

Yes.

[Melissa]

Okay. And how long you been married?

[Jason]

A long time.

[Melissa]

So you didn't have to play the dating game with texting an im, did you?

[Erin]

No.

[Jason]

No, I did not.

[Melissa]

See, the landscape has just changed.

[Burt]

And I get that you're like a

[Jeff]

good lawyer right now. The case closed, Tim.

[Burt]

You couldn't even text when you picked up the phone and you were like,

[Melissa]

I understand where he's coming from. Because you didn't have to deal with that when you were dating. Like, you liked a girl, you asked your. Or whatever. Like, there's so many different forms of communication that make it so much easier for both guys and girls now to not have to have that personal level of communication and to be able to sort of be smarter and wittier about it. Like, you have to play this game.

[Jeff]

Let me. Let me stick up for the old guys here for a second, Tim.

[Jason]

Thanks.

[Jeff]

Because I don't think the game has changed. And I mean, it's evolved, but it's certainly the tone of the game is still the same.

[Melissa]

Sure. But I'm just saying the type of communication is different. And there's something different to that.

[Jeff]

We're dinosaurs, Tim. It's over, man. We both got school.

[Melissa]

I didn't mean to be insulting to him. I was just trying to prove my point. I wasn't.

[Burt]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

Was I insulting, Tim?

[Jeff]

I don't know.

[Burt]

Hey, Tim, you Didn't even have electricity when you were a kid, did you?

[Jeff]

So you.

[Melissa]

That's not what I meant.

[Burt]

You had to write him a letter with your feather pen under a candlelight, seal it with wax, and then give it to the Pony Express.

[Jeff]

All right. We'll see how she does on her own now. She wanted to leave the nest, so we'll see how she does this weekend.

[Burt]

She's never calling us again.

[Jeff]

You weren't being mean. I'm just giving you a hard time. But we'll see how she does all by her own this weekend.

[Burt]

I bet we don't even hear from her.

[Jeff]

If it went well, we will hear from her.

[Chris]

Agreed.

[Jeff]

If it didn't go well, we will absolutely not hear from her.

[Andy]

Right.

[Jeff]

Don't get all in your own head now. I can see, like, this remorse is washed over, Jen. Like, I don't want to hurt anybody.

[Melissa]

I didn't mean to hurt his feelings.

[Burt]

You spanked him. Allison Winterland.

[Melissa]

So I'm weird.

[Burt]

The Birch Show.

[Jeff]

The Birch Show. We've done this every day this week. This is sort of tradition now on the Birch show that Halloween week, we bring in the Atlanta ghost hunters. And every day they come in here with sounds from real ghosts they found from real homes in Atlanta. Freak us out every day for a week. So before we find out what they found today, Andy is going to be with us tomorrow for our haunted broadcast.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Yes.

[Jeff]

So without giving away the location, what can you tell us and tell everybody listening about the place that we're going to be doing the show from?

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Well, we've been going to this location for quite some time, and we have had just a variety of different type of experiences. There's been two different occasions where people have mysteriously started bleeding in this house. One of them was my brother. He's a police officer.

[Burt]

Burt's like, wait a minute. I don't remember discussing that particular aspect of this ghost hunt.

[Jeff]

That is a detail that would have been great when we were selecting which place we were.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Of course, now it's too late. So he's an officer in the military, probably one of the most straight up people that I know. And he got a puncture mark on his arm. Another investigator somehow got her hand sliced. And she sat there and bled for about 30 minutes and had no idea she was bleeding. We've heard the voices audibly, like we did at compound in this house. I would say probably minimum of 30 different EVPs that we've caught out of this house of men, women, children, screams, you name it. This house, it's a hodgepodge of all different types of activity. So you guys are gonna have your hands full. No doubt.

[Jeff]

Here's your brother right now.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Sweet.

[Jeff]

I want to ask him about. Hey, Albert.

[Jason]

Hey, what's going on, guys?

[Chris]

Good morning.

[Jeff]

Your brother conveniently didn't tell us about this. Your puncture wound at the place.

[Jason]

Not until you guys found the line. That's right.

[Jeff]

Now we're making sure that nobody knows where we're going until tomorrow, until we're in the house. So don't mention the place. Right, but what happened to you while you were in the house? I mean, was it like a dog bit you?

[Jason]

No, I was actually. Andy had already been working on an investigation. And a lot of times I'll come to locations right after work, whether it's between my two jobs. But that one, I was in my police uniform showed up and I just went to the control room, was looking at the equipment and what, you know, monitoring the cameras. And I kind of was like, what in the world is this wet stuff on my arm? And I look down and it's just pouring blood. And whenever I would wipe the source, there was nothing there. It was just coming out from nowhere. And as soon as I left the house, it stopped. And the other thing I'll need to. Andy, if you recall, this is the same location where one time when Andy and I, it was just us to dark, it was nighttime. We walked in again, I was in my uniform and we heard something running around upstairs. And I had to freaking clear the house with my weapon. I thought somebody was in there. I don't know if you remember that one.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Oh, clearly, yeah. We heard the footsteps run up the stairs and then run down the hallway. So. And it was about 10:45, 11:00 clock at night. Nobody had been in the house for a while. And we were absolutely certain that somebody was in that house.

[Jason]

So it's gonna be some good times. I'm sorry I couldn't be down there. But we love what you guys are doing and just again, I can't. You don't know until you've been there and it's happened to you.

[Burt]

So if you decide at the last minute to come, can you please not say wear your uniform? Because that seems to. Seems to agitate them.

[Jason]

Absolutely, absolutely.

[Jeff]

Hey, good hearing from you, Albert.

[Jason]

Yeah. Take care, guys.

[Andy]

Oh, that's awesome stuff.

[Jeff]

Okay, so that will be tomorrow. Now we won't be doing the show live. We're actually recording it tonight.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Right.

[Jeff]

And we will play it back for you guys in real Time tomorrow morning. But I mean, as you're hearing, chances are pretty good it's gonna be some freaky stuff going on.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

It is a great property. Okay, it's a great property.

[Jeff]

Alright, that is tomorrow. Today. What do we focus on?

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Alright, so we've got two locations. So I'm going to kind of have to fly through this stuff. But we did one down in Hampton. So again, down on the south side of Atlanta, this property had an old school house that actually burnt down sometime back in the late 1920s. So you can still see the foundation of the property, the trees that surround it. You can still see the char marks from the flames that are actually right up against it. Now. Nobody that we're aware of actually died when the schoolhouse had been burnt down. But we still, that did not slow down any of the activity. We're not sure if the activity has to do with the school itself or the fact that she was a collector of all kinds of antiques. She had antiques all over the place. There was also a sewing machine in the house that was owned by a voodoo witch from New Orleans. So no telling what, what item may have been causing the activity, but there certainly was activity.

[Jeff]

There are so many cool hobbies that you could get involved in. Voodoo priestess, model planes. I know people model planes and stuff like that. Why voodoo, witching, man, who knows?

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Man, who knows?

[Burt]

You're asking a ghost hunter that.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

That'll be my next hobby, getting into the witch stuff. So. But their son actually came to their, came to their bedroom one night and said, where are all the kids? And you know, mom's like, what are you talking about? And he was like, all the kids that were just in my room, where are they? And then he turned around and said, oh, there they go right there. And I mean, mom's completely freaking out. What are you talking about? And this is a 5 year old son that is now seeing kids in the house and they had all been in his room and they all left and then when he went to go get them, he saw him again. So, you know, I don't know why kids and animals have certain feelings. I don't know if it's just because they're, they're, they're not desensitized to it all. But, but the kid is definitely seen and playing with little kids in his room. So the first one that we'll, we'll play definitely sounds like a, sounds like a child. What, what we hear is, mommy, come here.

[Jason]

Whoa.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

I don't know if you can hear that. Mommy, come here.

[Jeff]

Faintly in the background.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Yeah, mommy, come in, mommy, come here. Something like that. It definitely says, mommy, come. And then that last word is the one that's kind of questionable.

[Jeff]

Sure sounds like, mommy, come here.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Yeah. Alright, so this next one, and again, I'm sorry, we got to kind of fly through them because we've got another location that we did a follow up on that we did last year. But this next one investigator, Amanda, was actually talking about the fact that you actually can't see them or hear them at the time. And whatever this voice is. Now, understand also that the owners, the husband, his mother died about a year ago. And I'm curious to find out if this may be her because it actually. She says, we can't see him or hear him right now. And then a woman's voice comes across and says, bummer, which is obviously a very recent word. It's nothing that would have been commonly used back in the 20s. And then you'll hear both Amanda and the wife say, huh, huh. So whatever this bummer is, is right in the middle of them kind of acknowledging that you can't see him or hear him right now. Whoa, a whisper. And it says, what a bummer. And again, the reason that I know it's not them is they're both acknowledging the fact that they can't hear him or see him right now. So it's pretty interesting.

[Melissa]

Whoa. Do that one one more time.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Absolutely. So some of them you can hear, right? On some of them you can't. It's just the challenges of being a ghost hunter. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're not. This next one, I can't remember what the. What we were talking about, but there's clearly a. Yeah, right in the middle of this.

[Jeff]

Wow. It's a really clear. So they're like loud whispers.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Exactly. And they're right up on the microphone on this voice.

[Jason]

Bummer.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Yeah. And why do those whisper?

[Jeff]

Like, why is it always the same whispering voice?

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Well, some of them aren't. I mean, it's like. Like the, the one we played yesterday.

[Burt]

The.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

The. Come in here. That, that one, I mean, sounded to us like it was about 20 or 30ft away. So that one was loud enough that our recorders would be able. And we'd be able to hear it. So some of them, some of them are whispers you'll hear on the one that we've got Dream in studio right now. And she's gonna play the one we divided and conquered. And she did one up in Flowery Branch. Some of the ones that she Caught were very, very clear. Not whispering. So just. Just a different type of energy level that they actually have. This one doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. I don't know what it means, and it certainly isn't proper English. But it sounds like. It says, that's funner.

[Jeff]

Vibration there in the middle.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Right? Exactly. And at the very beginning, you'll actually hear. We were actually on the phone giving directions to one of the investigators how to get there. So this was very early on in the investigation. So that little whispering that you hear at the beginning is someone else on the other on the phone. And then you just hear, that's funner. So I don't know what that funner means, but certainly is not proper English.

[Burt]

You really get to correct them on that.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

What a great schoolhouse that was teaching them. That's funners.

[Jeff]

They're dead.

[Burt]

And you want to work on their grammar.

[Jeff]

All right, so that was the. And that home again is in. That was in Hampton.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

It's down in Hampton, down near the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Exactly.

[Jeff]

So dream is here also. And she was in Flowery Branch. And what's the history of the house that you went on the hunt for?

[Andy]

Actually, it is a salon Flower Branch. It's called Salon Carpe Diem. We have went there before. Andy, the last time that he went there, had a camcorder actually fall in the floor.

[Jeff]

Okay.

[Andy]

So they called us back. They said that they had actually had some other things going on. They wanted us to come in, so I wanted to get in really quick. So I came down and I'll go ahead and I'll tell you what happened. I gave Andy one of my cords so I couldn't do any video. And I'll lead up to that because actually, I guess they got impatient with me, so they wanted to be heard.

[Jeff]

And you didn't have anything to.

[Andy]

Yeah, I was taking too long setting up my equipment. But the first one is one of the girls that works there is named Ann. And she was really quiet the whole investigation. I don't even think she asked any questions. And we set one of the recorders up in the bathroom, which was kind of odd, but I just left it in the bathroom. Nobody went in there. And I was like, look, if you go in there, just, you know, we'll take the recorder out.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Burt]

Just remember we're recording before you.

[Andy]

You would not be like, it happens all the time. But nobody went in there. So set the recorder up, and this is what we got.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Oh, saying her name.

[Andy]

Yeah. And I thought of all the people. That was the perfect person, because I know she's. Wow, she's flipping out.

[Jeff]

See, this may go back to the thing that the other dude was telling us about in the email, that the spirits latch on to the weakest person in the room. So maybe she's the one that didn't want to get involved and that's why they're, like, freaking her out.

[Trisha]

Hello.

[Andy]

It's a really good one. It's not a whisper either, so. And the next one says, one of the women that used to own the salon, Beverly was. We were all in the massage room and we were talking about, like, can you do this? Can you do that? So she had asked, can you tap on something? That one's really light.

[Jeff]

I didn't hear it at all.

[Burt]

Is it just the quick. Is it one tap?

[Andy]

No, that was me at the very end. But you'll hear. It says, don't want to.

[Jeff]

You can hear a real faint whisper.

[Andy]

Very, very faint.

[Jeff]

Wait, one more time.

[Dreama]

I can hear.

[Jeff]

Yeah, this is a tough one here. Can you hear the whisper in the middle there? I would never be able to make out what it said if you didn't tell us. It. It said, don't want to.

[Chris]

And that was in response to you saying, tap on something.

[Jeff]

I don't wanna. And you didn't hear that as it was going on? You heard it when you started listening back?

[Andy]

No, we didn't hear anything the whole time we were there. So the next one. Sorry, I'm flying through these. The next one, I'm taking a really long time because I'm looking for this chord that has. In Florida. And I'm trying to discuss why I can't make it all come together and work. So this is what we got.

[Jeff]

Can hear that whisper again.

[Andy]

It says, get started.

[Jeff]

Really?

[Melissa]

No way.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Jeff]

So you think this person knew what you were doing, that you were there to record them?

[Andy]

They were like that.

[Melissa]

That's great.

[Andy]

Quit playing around. You don't have your chord.

[Burt]

Just one more time.

[Andy]

Wow, that's great. It gets worse because next they say, hey, come on.

[Jeff]

So you're still fumbling around looking for this chord.

[Andy]

Yeah. It's like within 10 seconds of that

[Jason]

arms.

[Andy]

I can hear it in the bag.

[Jeff]

You can hear. It's a very faint whisper again.

[Andy]

Yeah, well, they're making fun of you. Yeah, well, I would have made fun of me, too. I mean, it was pretty bad. I was embarrassed. And then I was like, you know what? I think Andy has that cord. So the next one, this was pretty cool because If I remember correctly, I'll have to ask Amy, but I'm pretty sure that they have those signs up on the walls that say, like, different things, like relax and love and stuff like that. So this one was actually in. I think it was in the back room, which is where the camera came down. But next to the back room is a massage room, and they have, like, the little signs that say that. And so this one, I'll just let you. I mean, it's very clear. So

[Burt]

relax in the massage room. Seems appropriate.

[Melissa]

One more.

[Jason]

Mm.

[Jeff]

So there's a sign in that room that says relax on it.

[Andy]

It's either in that room or right beside it.

[Trisha]

Yeah.

[Chris]

But again, the relax. You know, the very Whisper Brown is

[Andy]

kind of, like, drawn out, but. Yeah. So it was pretty. It was pretty interesting. And also, I'm sure everybody in there was kind of keyed up.

[Jeff]

So this is my favorite. Get started. Hey, Jason. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Jason]

Good morning, guys.

[Jeff]

Hey. How are you?

[Jason]

I'm doing good. I'm just having a hard time believing that this is real.

[Jeff]

Okay.

[Jason]

It sounds like somebody's just recording their voice in the background with some fuzz.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how to respond to that. I guess that's.

[Burt]

We'll tell you Monday.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Yeah, I was gonna say, well, the. The whole Birch show crew is gonna be recording tonight at one of the haunted locations. And this is one of those things. Trust me, I understand. It is very difficult to believe unless you're actually there. That's really the only way anybody will ever believe this. We're not here to try and make you a believer. We're here just to basically put out the evidence of what we found during the investigation. But the virtual crew will be able to answer for him straight up. We. I mean, all. We've got, the homeowners there, business owner, business owners there, they know we're not putting those sounds on the. On the recorders at the time that we're there. We're not putting them on after the fact. We have nothing to gain from this. If we don't get anything, we don't get anything.

[Jeff]

I don't entirely buy in either, and I think that's why I'm not nervous about tonight. Like, I don't think anything's really going to happen tonight. I think it's going to be five people in a place. We're gonna be a little freaked out because of the history that's there, but I have a tough time embracing it also.

[Melissa]

If we get EVPs from the show, like, you know, you and I are having a conversation, Bert, in the hallway or whatever, and we know that that's all that was said in the hallway. And then we run back that audio later and there was some other voice there. It's gonna trip you out. After we first met the ghost hunters, I got to go on a ghost hunt with them with a couple of my girlfriends. And it was me and one of my other girlfriends in the room and it was just the two of us talking. But when we played back, there was more voices than just the two of us.

[Jeff]

Here's Rick.

[Burt]

Good morning, Rick.

[Jeff]

You're on Q100.

[Jason]

Hey, bird show.

[Patty]

Hey.

[Jason]

Hey, listen, I have a good idea. I think Bert, either you or you and Jeff both gotta wear uniforms to the. Oh, hell no.

[Jeff]

Just to provoke it.

[Jason]

Yeah, we need to get it stirred up so something will happen.

[Jeff]

I think I've got one of my old Taco Bell uniforms from back in Stanley.

[Dreama]

Sweet.

[Jeff]

That would be awesome. Here is Patty. Good Morning. You're on Q100. Hi.

[Patty]

Good morning.

[Chris]

Hi.

[Patty]

I just wanted to tell Andy and Dreama and everybody involved are interested that yes, they do exist. I used to live with one and a ghost. And I just text my son in Pennsylvania and said, you know, Atlanta ghost hunters just confirmed to me that the ghost that you saw way back in the day did exist. I have a small. My ex husband's ex wife was killed in a drunk driving accident. And for a long time my son would come to me and tell me that there was. There was somebody in the closet.

[Trisha]

Oh, wow.

[Patty]

And I'd go in there and I would look and I would of course tell him, no, there wasn't anybody there. Well, for a long time I would go in there to make my bed, which was their bed, and I would feel a complete presence around me. There would be, of course, the cold and then there would be. I would feel like somebody would just walk right by me. And I. I used to tell my friends, I know if anybody was watching me make my bed, they would think I was crazy because I'm turning around screaming, get out of here, you're not going to mess with me today. Out loud. Well, the scariest thing that ever happened to me was I was in my dining room and I had an oblong, I mean, I'm sorry, octagon shaped table. It was in the corner of the living room. There was a little bitty pick wooden picture of me and my son when he was little. He was an infant and just had it on the shelf. And I was in the dining room and I heard something slam up against the wall and I heard it shatter into a million pieces. Went in there, looked around, was like, what, what, what was that? Went. Happened to look behind the table, found the little, the little frame, it was absolutely taken apart. Not one bit of the glass was broken really. It had one of those tiny little rubber screws on the back of it where you had to use a quarter or you know, some sort of object to turn it because it was a tight fit. Right. Today to this day, this is. I'm talking 20 years ago to this day, that frame is in a baggie in my dresser door.

[Jeff]

So it's almost like the spirit, whatever it was, wanted the picture but didn't want to, didn't want it harmed in any way.

[Patty]

I don't think she liked my son. I really think that it was her. And I bet you a million dollars she's still there. I can give you the address.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Yeah, the only thing I can do that on air.

[Jeff]

I mean, I did feel this also. I mean that energy she's talking about. I certainly felt that. When was it last year that I spent the night at the Beverly Hills?

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

I think it was two years ago.

[Jeff]

Two years ago. So I can agree with that. But as far as like, I'm not expecting going into to this place tonight, things are going to be thrown around or we're going to get puncture wounds or bleed or something like that.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

And I'll tell you, don't expect that because those things are rare. I mean, we've been into, into this particular property plenty of times and those things don't happen on every investigation. It is extremely rare for those, for those things to happen. But we are going to, if it's

[Jeff]

going to happen, I just hope it happens to somebody else.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

We are going to. Basically what's going to happen is we're going to keep a recorder in a particular room about 30 minutes at a time, switch out recorders, take that recorder and immediately start reviewing it. So we're going to have tonight, while you're there, we're going to be able to play back any of the EVPs. So you're going to see that those recorders don't leave our possession at any time. It is basically we're going to listen to it and play it immediately for you on the recorder to tell you what. To tell you what we caught.

[Melissa]

And Jeff, didn't you say yesterday a lot of the electronic equipment kind of like attracts them and we're going to have a lot of equipment there tonight to be able to broadcast.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Frequencies are to going. Going to be totally different in that house. We've got the owner kind of riling them up right now trying to get them all ticked off.

[Andy]

So hopefully it's going to be awesome.

[Chris]

Thanks so much.

[Jeff]

Maybe you're trying too hard.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Anything we can do to help.

[Chris]

Anything we can do.

[Melissa]

Fantastic.

[Jeff]

All right, that's tomorrow morning show. We are recording it tonight in this haunted house. And we'll play the whole thing back for you tomorrow morning. We have a whole bunch of bells and whistles planned for you guys. We're doing a live seance tonight. I can't wait to. We are bringing in the owner who will detail exactly what he or she has seen in the house. What else we got going on tomorrow?

[Burt]

Well, all of the audio is gonna be run back. I mean we gotta. We're doing a five hour show and we're recording the entire thing. So we are gonna do ghost hunts during. During the show. So.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

And it is going to be dark, dark, dark, dark.

[Andy]

A little too into this.

[Melissa]

The entertainment buzz is going to have lots of unsolved Hollywood murders.

[Jeff]

There may be some stuff that you guys actually hear that we won't hear while we're there.

[Chris]

Right.

[Jeff]

So when you're listening back tomorrow morning, we might not have heard it. And you guys may be emailing us going, hey, I just want you to listen at 8:17 because I swear I heard something in the background because we

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

won't be able to hear it.

[Chris]

Yeah. And you get the playback tomorrow. Yeah.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Well, I heard that Michael Jackson's house is actually haunted. That latoya is going back and actually talking to him and she's hearing responses. Seriously? Absolutely.

[Patty]

Wow.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

I don't know.

[Jeff]

I can promise you that is not the house we were going. We will. We'll be there live tomorrow morning for you guys. The Birch Show.

[Burt]

The Birch show.

[Jeff]

So we call this motivation by humiliation. And we got smart about it because we did this a couple of different times. And then when listeners didn't meet their goal dates, we just never heard from them again. Weird how that happens, right? So the last time we did motivation by humiliation a couple of months ago, we said, look, look, if you really want to lose weight and you want motivation, you have to give us in possession the thing that you are gonna lose if you don't make the cut. I think one dude gave us like the deed to his van or something like that.

[Melissa]

Yeah, he made it too.

[Chris]

He made it. And then Wendy gave Us the flag from her deceased.

[Burt]

Our listener, Wendy.

[Chris]

Listener Wendy. I'm sorry. Yes. Listener Wendy gave us the flag from her deceased husband.

[Jeff]

That's right.

[Chris]

From his funeral.

[Jeff]

We debated that a long time, if we even wanted to get involved in that.

[Chris]

Yeah. So that's the one we stressed out about and we worried about. But she made it, and she was able to get her flag back.

[Jeff]

And this was Trisha calling in, I

[Trisha]

want to lose 55 to 60 pounds. And I'm gonna go with, I'm willing to give you my wedding reign. I've been married 27 years, and my husband worked through two weeks. Working one vacation.

[Patty]

Two weeks.

[Trisha]

And worked straight through his two vacation weeks to pay for the ring. So it's very, very important to me, but I'm willing to do that for the challenge.

[Burt]

Wow.

[Melissa]

Wow, wow.

[Trisha]

Yeah, it means a lot.

[Jeff]

That's risky. That's really risky.

[Trisha]

It is, but I want to do it. I need to do it for my health and for my family.

[Chris]

I didn't worry about this one. You know, like, if we talked about the ones.

[Burt]

It took so much time too.

[Chris]

She had the longest amount of time.

[Jeff]

Right. And it was such a valuable commodity that we were like, we got this. Let's do it. You know? So her goal was to lose £55 by November 1st.

[Erin]

Mm.

[Jeff]

So we're not quite there yet.

[Trisha]

That's Sunday.

[Jeff]

So there might be some wiggle room.

[Andy]

Exactly.

[Jeff]

I just don't know the total.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Oh, God.

[Jeff]

I'm gonna be sick. Good morning, Trish.

[Trisha]

Good morning.

[Chris]

How are you?

[Trisha]

I'm okay.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Oh, no.

[Andy]

It's not good news.

[Trisha]

It's not good news.

[Jeff]

Is it close?

[Trisha]

I lost 38 pounds.

[Chris]

That's great.

[Andy]

That's good.

[Trisha]

And I actually was wanting. I put my target at 50, and I'm not quite there yet.

[Chris]

So £12 by Sunday.

[Jeff]

£12 by. That's not safe.

[Burt]

Master Cleanse, do we say November 1st? Or maybe we said the end of November.

[Jeff]

Maybe it was November 1st was the date.

[Trisha]

I was hoping it was the end of November, but I wrote it down in a journal, and it was November 1st.

[Jeff]

So £12 by Monday or. You okay, Jim? Poor little thing.

[Chris]

She's upset.

[Jeff]

She came in here with a cold. We all sort of like, fighting this thing off. All right, so £12 by the first. That's probably not gonna happen.

[Trisha]

No.

[Jeff]

And we still have the ring in our possession. Yeah.

[Jason]

Okay.

[Burt]

We have it in a.

[Jeff]

What happened? I mean, this was so important to you and all.

[Trisha]

Yes, it is. It's very important. I didn't Realize at the time that my husband was as much against it as he is. He felt that I could have done it without making a sacrifice of the reign that caused stress on the marriage. And then he lost his job.

[Patty]

Just.

[Trisha]

It's just been a downhill thing with me, but I've kept going. And then. I don't know, it's just a lot of stress, but I haven't given up. I'm losing every week. I've lost something. There was one week, I think I gained 4 ounces. And then I went to my Weight Watchers class Tuesday. I lost another four pounds and four more ounces. The four ounces that I've gained, I lost that. So I'm not giving up. Either way, I'm going to do it. I'm going to reach the go. I just had emailed Tracy and asked if there was any way I could try to get like an extension a little bit longer due. And I've had the flu. I can't seem to get rid of it. So that stopped me from being able to go out to the gym as much. And everything just became very stressful. Everything just. It was just a domino effect. Life just got harder and harder, and with the stress, I was unable to give myself more and more time that I needed to try to reach the goal.

[Chris]

Well, Natricia, I mean, this kind of goes onto the idea about it being a lifestyle more than a diet because it just shows that there's always something that goes on and that weight loss is such a. Such a huge obstacle. Have you changed?

[Trisha]

Like, what?

[Chris]

In this year? Because obviously you've been successful. I mean, losing as much weight as you've lost 38 pounds is a lot. So, I mean, what have you changed specifically, consistently that you will continue to do even after whatever goal is reached,

[Trisha]

the exercising and just. I've changed all my eating habits. I go to Weight Watchers now, so. So I've changed all my eating habits completely. And just motivation. I just tried to motivate myself to keep trying. And like I said, I have to. When I do fall back, I do have to pick myself back up and start over and build myself back up again. But that's been the life change as far as just my eating habits. A lot of times before the diet, I was not ever eating breakfast. I never ate breakfast. And I found out that wasn't good within itself that I should eat something. So I started trying to do that and I had to change a lot of my eating habits.

[Jeff]

You guys need to help us with this. 47-047-4-1. Q100. Here's my knee jerk reaction. I've got two knees, two knee jerk reactions.

[Chris]

One knee a little better than the other.

[Jeff]

But what's that?

[Chris]

I said one knee a little better than the other.

[Jeff]

In this case, they're both equally jacked up from a programming standpoint, from a strictly radio station segment standpoint. If we give in, it's the last time we can ever do this segment.

[Chris]

Right.

[Jeff]

Because people won't take us seriously. The problem here is that it has worked so successfully with others that when they really want to lose weight, they've lost the weight because they know that we're going to take away their van, we're going to take away their stars and stripes. So it's been very, very effective. If in this case we don't take the wedding ring, we can never do this again because we'll have no credibility. People don't lose weight, they're really not motivated.

[Chris]

Right.

[Jeff]

And the humanitarian in me is saying, come on, man, give her some more time. Give her some more time.

[Andy]

End of November.

[Jeff]

But once you do that, but once you do that, end of the segment.

[Burt]

But I think the fact that she has lost 38 of the 50, 50. The only problem is if, if there's like with the holidays, like, I'm just, I'm trying to think of the other. And this is, this comes across as a negative word. But I don't mean it in a negative way. I'm trying to think of the other excuses that you can come up with. Like you say you battle the flu and the stress and everything. So if we did extend it, I mean, we're looking at 10 months. So if we extend it one more month to the end of November.

[Chris]

But I don't think we can do that.

[Jeff]

We started this when 10 months ago

[Chris]

is when we started it at the beginning of the year sometime. Yeah.

[Jeff]

You're always gonna have stresses, you know, so that doesn't feel like a viable excuse to me. You're gonna get colds. You had 10 months to lose that

[Chris]

weight, you know, so it's, it what it. So we take the ring and the engagement ring and we can do whatever we want to with it. Correct. Because the only loophole I can find, humanitarian loophole that I can find, is that we take it, but we give it to her husband. I mean, it's a loophole.

[Jeff]

It's still just saying.

[Burt]

Yeah, but then it's the same thing that bird says. The thing's killed. I got one of them cash for gold envelopes on my desk.

[Jeff]

Oh, no.

[Trisha]

I think.

[Melissa]

I know I missed a lot of it with my coughing fit in the

[Jeff]

hallway, but she had 10 months to lose all this weight. She's been. She did lose 38 pounds. She needed to lose.

[Melissa]

That's a total win.

[Jeff]

She needed to lose.

[Melissa]

Hard to do. And I'm impressed that she stuck with it that far. I say we give her through the end of the year.

[Burt]

The end of the year?

[Melissa]

Yeah.

[Andy]

I say end of November.

[Melissa]

It's a New Year's resolution. I say we give her through the end of the year. Melissa going into 2010, it's a different story.

[Chris]

That's what I say.

[Melissa]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I mean, I stick with. You know, the only thing I can think of is what I said, because I think that if we extend the deadline, we do. We lose our credibility. We can't ever say, oh, well, you know, we can do this again and say we're gonna stick to it. Because then. Because I think this just shows the problem with dieting. It just shows the problem that everybody struggles with. I think this is a. Trish is a realistic case where it is just a struggle to keep weight off if you. If you're not in a certain lifestyle. But I'm also curious what Wendy and the guy and listener. Wendy and the owner of the van. I apologize. I forget I forgot his name, but. And they're feeling on it.

[Burt]

Good point.

[Jeff]

Here is Trisha's niece, Janet. Hey, Janet.

[Erin]

Hey.

[Jeff]

Hey. You're calling to say keep the ring, right? Don't give it back?

[Erin]

No, I'm not calling to take the ring. I'm gonna tell you right now, there is not a woman in the world who loves, adores, and worships her husband more than my aunt Trisha does. And Trisha's my aunt by marriage, and she loves my uncle unconditionally. They have been through so many struggles through life. They have just. Then y' all can't keep the rings. I don't make a deal with you to win the rings back from you.

[Jason]

Whatever.

[Erin]

Y' all can take her rings. I will do what I have to do. Y' all make some kind of bet, some kind of deal with me to get her rings back, because

[Patty]

I can't

[Erin]

sit back and let that happen.

[Burt]

Well, you need to lose £50.

[Erin]

If I lose £50, there won't be much of me left. I mean, seriously, 38 pounds, that is a feat within itself for anybody.

[Melissa]

I agree.

[Jeff]

That is impressive, for sure.

[Erin]

And I'm telling you, you couldn't find a more awesome, better person than the one that you're talking to and that you made this deal with. And I know that she has tried with every ounce of her heart and soul to do this, because I know what kind of person she is.

[Chris]

I mean.

[Jeff]

I mean, what do you say to that?

[Chris]

I mean, there's.

[Erin]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And I appreciate that.

[Burt]

Not even her knees.

[Chris]

You know, it's just. It's. It just makes me wonder about this whole concept of doing this because it. We will always have someone who doesn't make a goal and always have reasons, and it'll always be gut wrenching, and they will always, you know, make the effort.

[Jeff]

So basically what we're saying is if we give the ring back, we'll all agree that we're not doing this segment anymore.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Which, I mean, that's what we got to do. That's what we got to do. Hey, Rosie. Good morning.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

You.

[Jeff]

Aren't you 100?

[Erin]

Good morning. How are you?

[Jeff]

Good. How are you?

[Erin]

Good. I wanted to call in because I have an idea, a way that she could earn the ring back, but it might be a more fair way to keep doing the program.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Erin]

My idea is go ahead and give her an extension through the end of the year. But instead of just saying you have to lose 50 pounds, up it to 60. Because originally when she called in she said she wanted to lose 55 to 60.

[Chris]

You just renegotiate the deal.

[Melissa]

Well, then I don't know if that's healthy to lose that much weight that fast.

[Burt]

Yeah. And then what do we do in 30 days when she's. When she hasn't lost that we play the game again?

[Jeff]

Yeah. I mean, it would be. If we extend it, it would. We potentially could be just doing the same thing over and over and over again.

[Burt]

I know. I know how we. I know how It's a win. Win.

[Jeff]

Jeff has got it.

[Burt]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Here he comes. I saw the light bulb go off.

[Burt]

Here's what we gotta do.

[Melissa]

Angels are all around here.

[Burt]

This is gonna take care of our listener. What's her name?

[Chris]

We'll find out today.

[Jeff]

Trisha.

[Burt]

Trisha is gonna take care of Trisha and her weepy niece and

[Chris]

niece has

[Burt]

got her back and allow us to do it again.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

We.

[Burt]

Whatever. Whatever we do, we come up with a way for her to get the ring back, lose five more pounds or give it to her tomorrow. Whatever. She's got the ring back.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Right.

[Burt]

And we do it again next year. But we don't hold the property. We hold it. We'll still lock it in the same safe Deposit box that it's locked in right now. But we come up with a panel of people who are the ones who make the decision on whether or not it gets returned.

[Jeff]

But still, then there's wiggle room. Then you're doing the motivation, humiliation. But you're still saying in the back of your mind, well, even if I don't make it, I can still go in front of the panel.

[Burt]

Yeah. It's not our decision, though. The panel could just pick three random people, and then they could be darn asses. They could go, yep, we're not giving it back, and there's nothing we can do. And we'll sign a document. The signed documents mean business. And we'll have it notarized.

[Andy]

Ooh, that stamp means so much more.

[Jeff]

Yeah. Hey, good morning, Brandon. You are on Q100.

[Trisha]

Hi.

[Jason]

Hey. How you doing?

[Jeff]

Okay. How are you?

[Jason]

I'm pretty good. Just trying to spray these lines.

[Jeff]

Trying to what?

[Jason]

Trying to spray the lines. I'm a turf specialist, so I'm spraying lines this morning.

[Burt]

I thought that was slime for something. But you literally, literally are spraying lines.

[Andy]

That's awesome.

[Jason]

Pre emergence is the big thing.

[Jeff]

What's your. What's your take?

[Jason]

Actually, I told the young lady that I didn't want to get on the air, But I lost £100 in 10 months, and I didn't put anything on the line. So when you put something on the line, especially something like a wedding ring, that should already give you the incentive to lose what you're supposed to lose. So I'm saying it's very possible to lose 50 pounds in 10 months.

[Jeff]

So if you were on this panel, you'd say keep the ring?

[Jason]

No, I can't say that because I'm a humanitarian like you guys. So I don't know that the lady that called a minute ago with the idea, I mean, that's possible. Add something on. Give her a little bit more of a chance.

[Melissa]

I do think it's harder for men to understand because it is easier for men to lose weight. I mean, physically, even doctors will tell you that, like, men can shed the pounds really, really quickly. And my new favorite show is Dr. Oz. And he was talking about it last week how women have, like, a certain percentage more body fat than men do. Just, period.

[Burt]

We just do.

[Melissa]

And he was explaining it, and that's why we have to pee more often, because there's more weight sitting on our bladders than there is for men. But I really do think that our bodies are very different. So I have more compassion for Trash.

[Jeff]

I would also say this. Like, if you only lost 12 pounds, then I wouldn't feel bad about keeping the ring. But you've lost 38. That's an impressive, impressive number. You must have busted your butt in some ways to get to that weight loss, because that's really impressive.

[Melissa]

And it could have been probably easily 40 if you just sweat a whole bunch and got rid of some of the water weight, be 40 pounds. So you're really 10 pounds off.

[Chris]

I'm just.

[Melissa]

I need to be.

[Chris]

I don't want to extend it anymore. If we're gonna give the ring back, just give the ring back. Let's not renegotiate or extend it or whatever. We just have to redefine how we do it next time.

[Jeff]

Is that what we're all agreeing on?

[Andy]

Yeah, I got. I want to give the ring back. An extension or something.

[Jeff]

It's a stupid radio segment. We got plenty of material. What? So what if we never do it again? We never do it again. She lost 38 pounds.

[Chris]

You lost 38 pounds.

[Andy]

That's fantastic.

[Melissa]

But I would like to follow up and see if she can do the 50 by the end of the year. I mean, Tricia, do you want to keep going?

[Trisha]

Yes, I'm gonna keep going.

[Burt]

What if we use, like, one of our new plastic butter knives and pry a couple of the stones out of there to give the ring back? We keep some of the stones.

[Jeff]

Trisha, if you want your ring back, go ahead. I mean, you lost 38 pounds. You didn't reach the goal. But there's no way in good conscience we can keep that ring. So come get your ring. And you did great. 38 pounds is fantastic.

[Trisha]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[Jeff]

Okay. Don't feel bad about it. You lost 38 pounds.

[Chris]

You did not fail.

[Jeff]

Okay? You lost 38 pounds.

[Trisha]

And Bert, Jeff. That was my niece. I do have a niece named Janet on my husband's side of the family.

[Jeff]

Oh, yeah. You can't muster up that kind of crime.

[Melissa]

I'm not related. No.

[Jeff]

Right. All right, so I'll put you on hold, and we'll get the ring back in your hands. Okay?

[Trisha]

Thank you so much.

[Jeff]

Sure. I mean, we sacrifice a segment.

[Andy (Ghost Hunter)]

Big deal.

[Chris]

I mean, our barks were sent our

[Jeff]

bite the Burt Show.