Full Show PT 1: Thursday, June 18 [Vault]

Summary

The Bert Show – Full Show PT 1: Thursday, June 18 [Vault]

Original Air Date: June 18, 2026
Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, Jeff, Melissa, Jen, Bluff

Episode Overview

This episode of The Bert Show is a vibrant blend of pop culture commentary, real-life experiences, and lighthearted humor. The hosts tackle everything from celebrity relationship dilemmas and dating strategies for the Super Bowl, to stories from LA's entertainment scene and heartfelt moments about parenting. The conversational tone is engaging, authentic, and often hilarious, as the cast banters through listener calls, personal anecdotes, and lively debates.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Mark Sanford Scandal & Wedding Vow Drama

[00:24 – 12:10]

• Context: The team dives into former Governor Mark Sanford’s “Appalachian Trail” cheating scandal, sparked by his ex-wife Jenny Sanford’s new memoir, Staying True. She revealed that, at her wedding, Mark insisted on removing the fidelity clause from their vows.
• Hosts’ Debate: The cast unpacks the implications—should Jenny have heeded the obvious red flag? Is it naive or adaptive to go along with questionable premarital “compromises”?
• Parallel Example: Jeff compares this to friends who ignored clear “dealbreaker” differences before marriage—like conflicting desires around children—hoping a spouse might change in time.
• Notable Quote:

  "He said, I don't know that I'm capable of [monogamy]. And I think that is two different things."
  — Jeff [04:01]

• Gender & Social Pressure: Jen and Melissa lament societal expectations for women to accommodate or override their feelings to keep the peace in relationships, particularly when young.
• Caller Perspectives:
  • Emily, 22, underscores how women sometimes lower their standards due to societal pressure (09:08).
  • Robert bluntly suggests women sometimes make calculated choices for status, leading Jen to say she’d respect Jenny Sanford if she owned that motivation.

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2. Super Bowl: The Best Day to Meet Single Guys

[14:16 – 23:54]

• Premise: The team recognizes the recurring question, "Where do I go to meet guys?"—their answer: Super Bowl Sunday at a sports bar.
  • Dantana’s in Buckhead is highlighted as the ultimate “man-heavy” bar for game day.
  • The show holds a contest for single women (and their wing-women) who know little about football to win VIP seats at Dantana’s.
• Humorous Banter:
  • Melissa jokes, “Get the hair did, get the nails done, shave your legs and get ready for Sunday,” [14:29].
  • Bluff riffs on the "fish in a barrel" analogy, and there are plenty of playful jabs about accents with British caller Catherine and Florida caller Story.
  • Example:

    "Every dude digs a chick with an accent."
    — Jeff [19:37]

  • "Trying to hook up British Catherine and Floridian Story with the perfect wing-man environment."

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3. Behind the Scenes: TV Pitching in LA

[26:12 – 41:17]

• Jeff & Jen’s LA Adventures:
  • Jeff and Jen overlap in LA—Jeff pitching TV ideas, Jen covering the Grammys.
  • Jeff describes glossily modern LA office spaces, split between staid “business” and ultra-creative “fun” sides (think: movie cutouts and Wii offices).
  • Work Culture Oddities:
    • Assistants and interns answer phone calls like invisible butlers (31:11), which amuses/amazes the cast.
  • Hollywood Parties:
    • Both attend an exclusive post-Grammy bash hosted by producer Tricky Stewart.
    • Encounters galore: Katy Perry & Russell Brand (engaged, “love written all over them”), Christina Aguilera (“very bright red lipstick, blunt blonde haircut”), Ciara performing live, T-Pain, Stevie Wonder, and DJ Ruckus (from Atlanta).
  • Notable Quotes:

    “I swear, if you are mildly attractive and wearing sunglasses, I thought you were famous.”
    — Melissa [38:45]

• LA’s Vibe During Awards: Jen and Melissa describe how the city’s social energy gets supercharged by events like Grammys—“Everybody was in town and everybody was famous…”

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4. Parenting Pride: Jeff’s Son Shines Onstage

[43:51 – 50:01]

• Hayden’s Big Night:
  • Jeff shares a heartfelt account of his son Hayden starring in "Seussical the Musical."
  • The theater group, Applause for Kids, rotates ensemble members through lead roles—a policy Jeff praises.
  • Jeff’s Joy:

    “I have never felt joy like I felt on Saturday night. Like, I'm starting to get all choked up talking about it right now.”
    — Jeff [44:42]

  • The moment crystalizes for Jeff why parents sometimes pressure others to have kids—“you'll just never understand the joy…”
• Reflections on Parenting Expectations:
  • Jeff admits struggling to support his son’s passions where they differ from his own (sports vs. theater), but ultimately values Hayden’s happiness above all.
  • Support from the Cast: Melissa and Jen praise Jeff for being a supportive, open-minded parent.
  • Notable Quote:

    "If you can find the thing that your kid is happiest in, damn, do it."
    — Jeff [48:16]

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Memorable Quotes

• On Relationship Red Flags:

  “Here's a guy saying, I'm probably going to screw around on you. And she didn't listen. And 20 years later, he falls in love with his soulmate in Argentina.”
  — Jeff [08:42]

• On Women and Standards:

  “Society makes us lower our standards and kind of back down of what we want in a male because we feel like we can't find it. And so then we lower our standards...and then we get married and realize, oh, now I'm in a load of crap that I didn't want to be in.”
  — Emily, Caller [09:09]

• On Parenting:

  "Every kid has their thing. …If you can find the thing that your kid is happiest in, damn, do it."
  — Jeff [48:16]

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Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Content Summary | Timestamps | |------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------| | Mark Sanford scandal | Wedding vows, relationship red flags, societal pressure, listener calls | 00:24 – 12:10 | | Super Bowl Dating | Where to meet men, contest for VIP seats, playful on-air contest application calls | 14:16 – 23:54 | | LA TV Pitches & Party | Jeff in LA, creative meetings, run-ins with celebs at exclusive Grammy party, LA observations | 26:12 – 41:17 | | Parenting & Performing | Jeff’s son Hayden stars in a play leading to emotional reflections about parenthood and supporting children’s joys | 43:51 – 50:01 |

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Tone and Language

• Conversational & Relatable: The cast speaks candidly, often overlapping, and welcomes corrections, playful teasing, and genuine emotion.
• Humorous: Jokes about British accents, “fish in a barrel” dating, and LA’s obsession with celebrity sightings pepper the dialogue.
• Heartfelt: Especially during Jeff’s parenting story, the conversation turns sincere, supportive, and even tearful.

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Notable & Fun Moments

• British Accent Banter:
  • “Every dude digs a chick with an accent.” — Jeff [19:37]
  • “You're not gonna make jokes about teeth? Please don't.” — Catherine, Contestant [19:27]
• Hollywood Assistant Hazing:
  • “In the room there's a phone. And if you pick up the phone... an assistant or an intern... just shows up at the door like your own personal butler.” — Bluff [31:11]

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Conclusion

This episode exemplifies The Bert Show’s ability to blend humor and heart. The team navigates celebrity drama, modern dating, glamorous LA adventures, and the realness of family life with the honesty and camaraderie listeners love. The show’s tone is fast-paced, playful, and frequently poignant, making the content accessible and engaging whether you’re a regular or new listener.

Transcript

[Bert]

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[Jen]

That's right. She's got a new memoir called Staying True and she's actually gonna be on an interview on 2020 on Friday night and they're talking a little bit about this interview and one of the things that came out was the fact that she admitted she had made a leap of faith when she married him. Now remember, Governor Mark Sanford from South Carolina is the one that had the secret lover in Argentina and he was like hiking on the Appalachian trail was his big at the time. So that's who this guy is. So his wife is coming out now and she talks about how, Remember also

[Jeff]

because I think this is a key point. Afterwards, he said that the woman in Argentina was his soulmate.

[Jen]

That's right.

[Jeff]

While he was still married to his wife.

[Jen]

That is correct.

[Jeff]

And that was right before she took the kids and she said, okay, see ya, see ya, and then moved down the street.

[Bluff]

He almost said it, like, as an apology, like, I'm really sorry this happened, but you know, I'm gonna make things work with my wife. The girl in Argentina was my soulmate, but I understand, I'm married, so I'm gonna try to.

[Jeff]

This was not some like, superficial affair. That was my soulmate down in Argentina. Sorry, wifey.

[Bert]

Yeah.

[Bluff]

Almost like saying, it's okay.

[Jen]

I'm trying to see. Okay, they were married for 20 years before this happened. So 20 years ago when they got married. She talks about the fact that he refused to promise to be faithful because he insisted that the clause be removed from their wedding vows on being faithful to one another. And she says it bothered her. She said, but we were young, we were in love. I questioned it, but I got past it along with the other doubts I had. So she was confused, concerned by it, but went ahead and married him with those vows anyway.

[Melissa]

And were the vows in a church?

[Jen]

I don't know.

[Jeff]

I just wondered why does that change things for you? If it was or was not?

[Melissa]

I just wondered like, what priest would allow that to happen?

[Jeff]

That you're allowed to edit your vows like that?

[Melissa]

Yeah, that you would be able to change the, you know, change the religious ceremony to sort of suit your needs, I guess.

[Bluff]

Well, you can write your own.

[Jeff]

Is there a standard vows, like in a church?

[Melissa]

A la carte vows?

[Bluff]

Yeah, you can do that.

[Jen]

You can write your own vows.

[Bluff]

You can write your own vows.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Jeff]

All right. So he just decided, look, I don't know that I'm capable of that. So let's take that out. My knee jerk reaction this morning was like, well, if she knew that, and then now we fast forward 20 years, then can't she say to herself, well, I mean, I knew. I mean, he was telling me what he was at the time and I decided to.

[Jen]

To ignore it.

[Jeff]

To ignore it. But I think I've softened my stance on it since 6:30 this morning. And I'll tell you why. Because I'll tell you what I was thinking of this morning.

[Bluff]

You came strong early.

[Jeff]

I did?

[Melissa]

Yeah, he did.

[Jeff]

Because he didn't say, I'm going to cheat on You. He said, I don't know that I'm capable of it. And I think that is two different things.

[Jen]

People are being monogamous.

[Jeff]

Right.

[Melissa]

And why get married?

[Jen]

Yeah, I would have. I would have a huge issue if. That.

[Melissa]

If.

[Jen]

If somebody made a stance like, you know what I want? Just that instead of saying, let's rewrite our vow, like, he could have smoothed it over better and said, let's rewrite our vows and say what we want to say to one another. Make it personal. And that way he gets away. I mean, I'm sorry to, but that's how he gets away with it. But for somebody to tell me, look, I'm going to marry you, but I just don't like the faithful part. I just can't do it. Then I would be like, I don't think I could get past that.

[Jeff]

I think what I was drawing on earlier this morning was, I've told you guys, I have a friend who got married to a woman. And he told her before they got married, look, I don't want to ever have children. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never. And then never. And she said, okay, cool. That's fine. You know what? I want children. But you know what? I love you so much that I can do this. Let's go ahead and get married. So they get married, and like, a week and a half later, he goes and he gets a vasectomy. He's serious about it, man. He's like, I told you, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never having a kid. And he said, at that point, their relationship really started to go in the tank. Even though he told her, we're never having kids, I think in her mind, she thought, you know what? Once he gets married, he'll soften to the idea.

[Melissa]

And she thought she could change him.

[Jeff]

And she thought she could change him. She couldn't. They're divorced now. She lives on the West Coast. He lives here. And I was drawing on that for this story, but I think it is different. Like, he didn't say, I'm not gonna be faithful. He just said, I'm not sure. I'm not capable.

[Jen]

Well, the thing. And, well, and the thing is, too, I feel with women that also this accommodation that we, especially when we're younger, that we feel like we have to accommodate to others. It's almost like a natural instinct that we're going to just go along with something or make somebody happy and we'll disregard what we're thinking because maybe we're overreacting because we're taught Our emotions are just out of control. But the thing is, women need to stand up for what they feel. And if she had a problem with that, I don't think she stood up enough for it. You know what I mean? And the thing with the kid thing, I have some friends, same situation. He said, I don't want kids. And she just, she married him anyway. And then it became a huge issue in their marriage. She should have stood up for herself, you know, and if it's a huge difference and, and she believed in something strong enough, the first reaction I had to her was, why didn't you say something? Instead of just saying, well, okay, well,

[Melissa]

in her life, be a big deal. Like, you don't think, like some of those things are gonna ever present themselves as an issue, you know, like some of those things you should talk about are, you know, I don't know. You just never think that those things are gonna be a big deal when you. I totally understand what she's coming from. Like, you're young, you're in love, you think everything's gonna be perfect. You just go along with it.

[Jeff]

Like now, at your age, if you were gonna get married and the guy said to you, let's take those, that, that part of the vow out, would you go ahead and get married? No, no, no. The younger gender.

[Melissa]

Yeah. At a younger age you might have. I think, like, for me, it's like religion, you know, like, you think, oh, that doesn't matter. That's not gonna be a big deal. Or I don't really care for his family. And you're like. Or whatever it may be. And I'm not saying this based on my personal experience. I'm saying it based on anybody. You just think it's. None of that stuff's going to be a big deal. None of that stuff will matter. We love each other. Doesn't matter that the in laws. I'm a Christian and he's a Buddhist, you know, or I'm a, you know, or I'm Jewish and you know, and he's Muslim. It doesn't matter. We love each other.

[Jen]

But it goes back to.

[Melissa]

And then, you know, years later, it presents itself to be a major issue. You just don't think it's going to when you're young.

[Jeff]

But this one isn't like, see, I can understand that, that line of sort of debate when it comes to religion, but not when it comes to infidelity. I mean, he's saying, I'm not sure I'm capable of being with just one woman. So I Don't know how any woman.

[Bluff]

He didn't say that.

[Jeff]

He said, well, he said, I want to, essentially.

[Bluff]

Right. But I think if you've been dating somebody for X number of years and you got proposed to and then you get. You're getting married and the date set and you're two weeks out and you're going over your vows, and he says, I don't think that the faithful part, that just seems so, like, unneeded in your mind. You go, yeah, you're right. Why do we have to put that in there? I mean, that's a given.

[Jen]

But I don't know. You don't know that that's the conversation they had.

[Bluff]

I know, but I'm just saying.

[Jen]

Yeah. I just think that he is a. He is a young man, you know, anyway, just. He is a young man is able to say exactly what he wants, and a young woman is. Doesn't feel comfortable doing that, and she ends up getting, you know, biting her in the butt in the end.

[Jeff]

I think it was. You know how I love quoting Oprah because it really makes me feel like a guy. But she said, I mean, she. I have heard her say before that men tell you all the time what they're all about. They scream it to you. Women don't listen. Here's a guy saying, I'm probably going to screw around on you. And she didn't listen. And 20 years later, he falls in love with his soulmate in Argentina. Hey, Emily. Good morning.

[Caller]

Hi. How are y'? All?

[Jeff]

Okay. How are you?

[Caller]

I love you guys. I definitely agree with the girls and agree with what you just said, even though I don't know if I've heard a man quote Oprah before. But I agree. I'm 22, almost 23, and I know as a girl, we kind of as, like, society makes us lower our standards and kind of back down of what we want in a male because we feel like we can't find it. And so then we lower our standards and kind of back down, like the girls are saying. And then we get married and realize, oh, now I'm in a load of crap that I didn't want to be in. You know what I mean? So I think we need to not back down, you know?

[Jeff]

Well, isn't that almost a hypocritical statement? Because if you're saying you're part of a society that makes women lower their standards and you engage in relationships that aren't secure for your future, aren't you part of that society? So if you. If you don't do that, then you're sort of raising the bar for yourself.

[Caller]

Well, no, I'm saying that we need to go against it as women. That we need to go against. And not that, not that we should continue the cycle, but that we should kind of go against this and not back down and, and lower our standards. Because, I mean, I would have thought red flags would have gone up if she, if this man said that he wasn't. He didn't want to be faithful. Like that would have sent huge red flags in my face. So. So, I mean, I mean, I'm saying to me too that I don't think we need to back down and lower what we really want to be happy. You know what I mean?

[Melissa]

And we don't know his reasoning that he gave her for taking that out either, because I think girls can be easily convinced at that young age, even now. I mean, a guy can convince you of any or convince you to do anything, especially being that young. So we don't know what he told her could be completely different in his mind.

[Jeff]

Hey, Brooke.

[Caller]

Brooke.

[Jen]

Brooke.

[Jeff]

Town fail gone. Hey, Robert, you're on Q100. Hi.

[Caller]

Hey, what's going on? Hate you guys.

[Jeff]

What's up, man?

[Bluff]

Hate you too.

[Caller]

Anyway, he could have been trying to secure herself, you know, with a nice future. I mean, this is the predominant man that's going to become what, a senator or whatever. And she could have just been doing it to make sure that she had, you know, lived the high life, I guess you would say. I mean, even in, you know, with Bill Clinton and Hillary would. All that went down with them. She took and spend it and made it, you know, to her advantage. So, I mean, you know, women are capable of, you know, putting themselves in a position that they want to because they know what they want to do and where they want to be with their life.

[Jen]

And if, and if Jenny Sanford came out and said that, if she said, you know what he said that. But you know what? I stayed because I knew that I would have a better life with him than other guys that I had dated. I'd have more respect for him because you're being honest, you know,

[Jeff]

guess that's it.

[Jen]

And yeah, sound awesome. I'm Jenny Samford.

[Bluff]

If you want to reply us, go ahead and we're going to go ahead and log off now. The Burt Show.

[Bert]

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[Jeff]

Amazon.com the Birch show so Super bowl is on Sunday and man, we get the same email throughout the year. Where do I go to meet guys? Where do I go to meet guys? Man, this is your day. Sunday is your day.

[Melissa]

Yeah ladies, you gotta get ready. I mean seriously. Get the hair did, get the nails done, shave your legs and get ready for Sunday.

[Bluff]

Same plan Bert has for his super

[Melissa]

bowl down Saturday this is just gonna be. Shave his arms.

[Jeff]

I mean, this is really. I mean, on Sunday, think of the sports bars around town that are gonna be packed with single guys, all with their buds, sitting there watching super bowl, getting their drink on, having a good

[Melissa]

time, just hanging out. It's gonna be unsuspecting men out everywhere.

[Jeff]

And Dantana's here in Buckhead is. I mean, it's one of the most. It's one of the premier sports bars here in town. And every time I go into that place now, I look around and it is like. I mean, it's like the beautiful people hanging out at that place.

[Melissa]

I would tell you that I think it is one of the only places in Atlanta that leans men versus women. Like where you walk into the bar and you're like, wow, there's a lot of dudes here. Like, typically that is a place that I would say is 70, 30.

[Bluff]

And it's quality, which is odd because the proportion of women to men in Atlanta is 804.

[Melissa]

That's what everybody thinks. I just think more women go out more often. But yeah, a lot of times you'll walk into a place and you're like, God, there's like, you know, 70 to 30 women in the room. But at Dantana's, to me, it's way more guys that are the regulars there. And good looking guys, too, like business guys. Like, a lot of people go in there after work kind of thing. It's a really cool crowd.

[Jeff]

It's not like your old school sports bar. You know, like how they all used to be really dark and you'd walk in there and it didn't matter what time of afternoon or night, it always reek a beer. And it was always. The floor is always sticky. The antennas is nothing like that. It's high end. It's high end, sleek sports bar. Right.

[Jen]

I'm fascinated by the TVs, you know that it's been from the ceiling that you can see from both sides.

[Melissa]

Yeah.

[Jen]

By those TVs all throughout the restaurant.

[Caller]

It's cool. Cool.

[Melissa]

I go to the wrong place. Yeah, it's a great place. They've got kind of like a patio and then a bar area and then a full restaurant. And the food's amazing too.

[Jeff]

And the, the bar area has this huge, huge screen right behind the bar. And it is like prime watching is right in front of that screen. There are like two, three or four chairs right in front of that screen. We want to give you guys access to those chairs. We're looking for two women to Compete for those spots at Dantana's on Sunday. But we're looking for women that don't know anything about football.

[Bluff]

Right.

[Melissa]

Because it's going to be you and one of your girlfriends that wins the spot. Single girls.

[Bluff]

Single girls. Because then the fact that the person who wins doesn't know anything about football gives them an opportunity to ask questions of the good looking guys who are nearby.

[Jeff]

Easy icebreaker right there. And guys are gonna literally be reaching over you to get to the bartender to get their drink. So, I mean, it's all right there lined up for you.

[Melissa]

These are like VIP reserve spots that they're like actually like selling.

[Jeff]

Are they really?

[Melissa]

I think so, yeah.

[Bluff]

They're selling the bar seats.

[Melissa]

Are they really selling the bar seats for the Super Bowl? That's how prime time these are going to be.

[Jen]

And I think it's, you know, for some, for this region, it may be difficult to find women who don't know anything about football. But I think that the focus is we need women that are focusing on meeting these guys more so than the game. You know what I mean? Because you don't want to be in those seats and just focus on the game and ignoring all the guys. The purpose of this is we're being your wing men and women to try to help you out. You just, like Bert said, you don't know where to meet guys. Well, this is your chance to, you know, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[Melissa]

Yeah, we're putting you in the pond.

[Jeff]

Or it's like picking up on guys in a sports bar. Melissa.

[Bluff]

The look on Melissa's face, Her dad said to her, fish in a barrel, 30 years ago. And in her mind she said, someday I'm gonna use that phrase.

[Melissa]

And finally, the Groundhog Day was the day.

[Bluff]

Groundhog Day, 2000.

[Caller]

Love you, dad.

[Jeff]

Thank you. So here's what we're looking for. And you guys can call right now. 404-7401. Q100. You must be single.

[Jen]

Yes.

[Jeff]

You must know that you can bring a wing woman with you on Sunday. And you have to know very little about football. And what we're going to have the two of you guys do. You and who you're competing against is do some basic NFL and football research. This week. Friday, we will put the two of you guys on together. We will ask you basic questions. Questions about football. Whoever gets the most right, gets the tickets. The VIP tickets in the Dantanas. Okay.

[Jen]

Awesome.

[Jeff]

Now you gotta be 21 years old for this because it is a bar.

[Jen]

Yes.

[Jeff]

But I mean, this really. If you're not going to the game and you're gonna be hanging out, maybe the game isn't that important to you. This is like the perfect place to be.

[Jen]

This is it.

[Melissa]

This is man's day.

[Jeff]

Man day. Hey, Catherine. Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller]

Hi. Hello.

[Jeff]

Hello. How are you today?

[Caller]

I'm good, thanks. Just on my way to work now.

[Jeff]

All right. You are single. Yes, very single.

[Melissa]

And you have a cool accent.

[Caller]

Thank you. Yeah. So I know nothing about football. I've been to one Falcons game in my life and I didn't understand a single thing that was going on.

[Bluff]

Now, I'm not as good at spurt with the accents, but you sound British, so are you sure you're attractive?

[Caller]

Oh, yes. You're not going to make jokes about teeth? Please don't.

[Bluff]

No, I'm just making sure the next

[Jen]

thing out of his mouth, like.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Jen]

Just don't talk. Don't smile.

[Caller]

Jeff.

[Jeff]

God, as a wingman, I feel good about this because you have an accent. So we're helping out our brothers at Dantana's because every dude digs a chick with an accent.

[Melissa]

Sure.

[Caller]

And my other single friend is also from England as well. Who would go as well, so there'd be two of us.

[Jeff]

Did you say he would go as well?

[Caller]

Yeah, yeah. My other single friend. Yeah, My roommate, she's from England, so she'd be up for going as well.

[Jeff]

Okay, perfect.

[Jen]

All right.

[Bluff]

Maybe she said he because it's British roommate and you can't tell sometimes in dim light.

[Jeff]

I just. You gotta. I'm gonna apologize for Jeff right now. I'm so sorry. So let's get you on hold and we'll talk to you again on Friday.

[Caller]

Okay?

[Jeff]

You know zero about NFL football?

[Caller]

I know nothing. I mean, people have tried to explain it to me, but I'm a big fan. So that's. You know, I know the rules for rugby, but football, yeah, football to me, soccer.

[Melissa]

Do you know who's playing in the Super Bowl?

[Caller]

I know that New Orleans is, but I don't know the other team.

[Jeff]

Okay.

[Caller]

I've heard so much about them, but.

[Jen]

All right.

[Caller]

I don't know who the other team is.

[Jeff]

That is perfect. Let me put you on hold. Just do some brief research on football this week, and then we're gonna get you back on Friday, okay?

[Caller]

Okay. All right.

[Bluff]

Hold on. If you have a couple of pints, might you touch his bangers and mash in the loo?

[Jen]

Really? Really? Jay, you're really tired, aren't You.

[Melissa]

I'm exhausted.

[Jeff]

Hey, Lori.

[Bluff]

Good morning.

[Caller]

Good morning.

[Jeff]

How are you?

[Caller]

Good. How are you? It's actually story.

[Bluff]

Story.

[Jen]

Yes.

[Caller]

All right. What's the story?

[Jeff]

On story.

[Caller]

There's mine. I'm single. I've got a friend of mine that wants to. To go with me, and we don't know that much about football.

[Jen]

Is your friend. Is your friend single, too?

[Caller]

She is.

[Bluff]

Okay.

[Jeff]

Okay.

[Melissa]

Awesome.

[Jen]

Okay.

[Jeff]

Who is playing in the super bowl this year?

[Caller]

I don't know.

[Jeff]

No idea. So you have no idea whatsoever?

[Bluff]

What is the name?

[Caller]

I knew there were. I knew the games that were going into the super bowl beforehand, but I don't watch NFL, so.

[Jen]

Okay.

[Jeff]

What is the name of.

[Caller]

I will say I'm a Florida fan. I'm a huge college football.

[Jen]

Hang up on it.

[Jeff]

No wonder why she doesn't know anything about football.

[Caller]

That's right.

[Bluff]

How long has it been since a man touched you the way your daddy touched your mommy? Once?

[Caller]

I don't know.

[Jeff]

What the hell?

[Caller]

I don't know where my dad touched my mom because I don't know where my dad is, but my parents are separated. Yeah, obviously. Long time ago. I'm 32, definitely single, definitely looking ready to get back in the game. Had a birthday last week.

[Jen]

Happy birthday.

[Caller]

Thank you. So. And my neighbor's birthday is next week, so we're definitely ready to get out there and have fun. We're cute, and we're ready to learn a lot about football.

[Jeff]

What is the name of the football team that represents Atlanta?

[Caller]

The Falcon.

[Jeff]

Okay. You at least got that.

[Caller]

Yes, I know that.

[Jeff]

Okay, well, here's what we'll do. Friday, we're gonna put you on against English Catherine. British Catherine.

[Caller]

Awesome.

[Jeff]

And we'll see who knows more about football, because you're gonna have to have, you know, just the base, some basics if you're gonna be hanging around all these guys on Sunday.

[Caller]

Right.

[Jeff]

And whoever answers the most questions correctly will set you up. And Dantan is in that, like, VIP area.

[Caller]

Great.

[Jeff]

Nothing but single dudes in that place.

[Caller]

That sounds awesome.

[Melissa]

Story, where are you from?

[Caller]

I'm originally from Jacksonville, Florida, but I've been here since the 80s.

[Melissa]

So we have British Catherine and Floridian story.

[Caller]

That's right.

[Melissa]

Florida story.

[Jeff]

All right, we'll do this on Friday. Okay.

[Caller]

All right. That sounds great, guys.

[Jeff]

Okay, Laurie, hold on.

[Caller]

Thanks so much.

[Jeff]

And we will give this advice to you women. Also, if you want to be around a whole bunch of dudes on Sunday, man, Dantana is probably the place to be. Try to stay away from those two the two VIP girls? Because we're trying to hook them up.

[Bluff]

Because the only two contestants.

[Jeff]

No, there are plenty of others calling.

[Bluff]

Okay, good.

[Jeff]

Why?

[Bluff]

Just making sure.

[Jeff]

Why? What's mad with you today?

[Caller]

Nothing.

[Jeff]

Why are you so salty, man?

[Bluff]

I'm just making sure because somebody's got to look out for the guys at Dantana's. So I want to make sure that we are choosing the best of the best.

[Jeff]

Well, what makes you think that Catherine and Lori aren't the best of the best?

[Melissa]

I thought it was story.

[Bluff]

Yeah, I think Catherine's probably a great

[Jeff]

option, sort of a story.

[Bluff]

Nothing. I don't know her. I'm just saying just want to make sure that there's more people to choose from.

[Jeff]

You're just being a big old boosh.

[Bluff]

No, I'm not.

[Melissa]

You were ripping on Catherine because she's

[Bluff]

British, but that's fine. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I just want to make sure there's a good selection.

[Jeff]

I think he's peacocking for you today. Because he was fine yesterday. You walked back in here this morning. I think he's peacocking for years.

[Melissa]

I'm so tired that anything's funny. So I'm here to be entertained by the Burt show today.

[Bluff]

Okay.

[Melissa]

I'm not a member. I'm a listener today, the bird show.

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[Jeff]

The Birch show hello Jeff. Good morning.

[Caller]

Good morning. Y' all are awesome. I really enjoy listening to the show every day.

[Jen]

Thank you.

[Caller]

I know you got a busy day, but I wanted to hear about how Jeff's meetings win out in la.

[Jeff]

Yeah, do everything LA here for a second. Let's get Jen in on this also. So Jeff was out in la, coincidentally, the same time that Jen was there covering the Grammys, Jeff was pitching a couple of TV show ideas.

[Bluff]

I'll tell you mine first because it'll be that this will be my first 24 hours in LA. And then I met up with Jen right after she got there because I was done with the quote work part of my trip as soon as she landed. And that's when we ended up at that same club together where T Paint and Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera and all those people were so.

[Melissa]

Sierra.

[Bluff]

Sierra, my sorry. Didn't mean, didn't mean to wake you up.

[Jeff]

She's like, give me a Katie Perry Russell brand.

[Bluff]

So my 24 hours in LA, where we landed on Thursday night and Friday morning Jessica and I had breakfast together and then I went and met a guy at my hotel and then we got in a town car and went to a very fancy.

[Jen]

Came to pick you up. Vip.

[Caller]

Uh huh.

[Bluff]

Very fancy LA style building, all glass. I explained one side of the building were all the business offices and that was very neat, very minimal, very like modern. Everybody on their Bluetooth. Like, the phones weren't even off the cradle.

[Jeff]

Very Entourage. What you see in, like, Entourage in Ari's office.

[Bluff]

Yes. Like, everybody's keyboard was wireless. Nothing. Like, you wouldn't even know work was getting done. Right. Then you curve around and you come back up the other side. And that was the creative side. And those are like, you know, cardboard cutouts of, you know, movie stars with goatees drawn on them and big, sticky cartoon characters, like, stuck to the window. Nerf basketballs. One office was a Wii office, and it had a Wii on either side, and they had wired it so that you could play tennis. Literally facing each other, watching opposite monitors.

[Jeff]

Oh, sweet.

[Bluff]

In the Wii office. Yeah. So that was what the creative side was like. And basically I spent Friday morning just letting this guy tell me about how he has a development company and he thinks sometimes things are getting kind of, you know, stale in LA and he's just looking for fresh blood. And when I, you know, he liked the stuff that he saw but wanted me to talk to some people, I said, okay, that's cool. So then in the afternoon, I just sat in a room, and it was never really talking specifically about ideas I had. They came up, they asked questions about, you know, the development of the story and the development of the characters and, like, who it was based on, but it was just very general. And then they told me some of their ideas, and one of my input on that, and it was just like a creative. Talk about it, work about it, and see if we all kind of vibe.

[Jen]

Like, very brainstorming.

[Bluff]

Yep. So I think we vibed. I think it was cool. I won't know anything. I mean, it's taken me two years to get to this point without. I wasn't doing anything to push me in this direction. So I think it'll move a little bit faster now.

[Jeff]

Like, when you. When you leave a meeting like that, you know if you crushed it or not, though, right? Like, did you feel like, okay, I know they're calling back.

[Bluff]

I. It. It's weird because there's no set interview. Like, if they do call back, I don't know what it's gonna be for. You know what I mean? It's not like an interview.

[Jen]

I think it wasn't like, you defending your ideas. No, it was just ideas were being thrown around, even outside of what you could.

[Bluff]

I'm put you in this room with these five people, four dudes and a girl and a couple other people come in and out, and you all are going to hang out and talk and chill. And then after that I'll be in touch. We're just going to see how this goes.

[Jen]

But one thing you said earlier is that. And you told us last week that you had Friday and Saturday carved out for these meetings and that you only went on Friday. And they told you what he said

[Bluff]

that Saturday would be if Friday didn't go well. Because I think, my guess is that he was going to put me with different people.

[Jeff]

Okay.

[Bluff]

To see how Saturday went. And Saturday he's like, and you didn't

[Jen]

go in on Saturday?

[Bert]

No.

[Bluff]

And he told me on Friday, he's like, I followed up, you know, usual thank you email or whatever from the BlackBerry, a quick one. And then he sent one back and said, everybody liked you.

[Jen]

And a follow up. There was a lot of effort on you. So I think that, you know, I think something's gotta come from this.

[Bluff]

The coolest part about it that not to coolest, but a very Hollywood part of the whole thing is in the room there's a phone. And if you pick up the phone, it rings somewhere. And even if you don't say something into it, an assistant or an intern, and you pay attention, interns, this is how we're gonna start rolling around here. Just shows up at the door like

[Jeff]

your own personal butler.

[Caller]

Boom.

[Bluff]

Right there. And somebody will be talking and having a conversation will be saying, here's my idea. Why don't we have this? What if the protagonist is from a small town, but instead of doing the stereotypical big town thing, Boom. Person at the door, I need a Caesar salad. Remember, no croutons and dressing on the side. Right back into his story. No, please, no thank you, no nothing.

[Jen]

You loved that, didn't you?

[Bluff]

And the person's gone.

[Melissa]

And then she's like, I want that

[Bluff]

15 minutes later, right there at the door. And I even said, at some point I'm like, don't you guys feel that's weird? I said, I know this is all stereotypical, but like, don't you feel crappy asking him to do that? And they said, it's the hazing. It's not personal. It's not.

[Jeff]

They all did it at one point.

[Bluff]

Everybody has to do it. And I said, well, I ain't doing it. And so then. So that was Friday. And by dinner time, I was done. Five or six o', clock, I was done. The guy that I was talking to got Jessica and I a reservation at this really hot restaurant. And while we were there, I got a call from Jen, a text message. And she says, hey, when you're done with dinner. The Grammy, the Atlanta Grammy people are all going to this party thrown by this guy, Tricky Stewart, who's. I think that's a funny name, who's a big producer. She says, they can put you on the list. So you all come down and she rattles off all these names of people who are gonna be there. So I said, jessica, well, let's go.

[Jen]

You know, do you think that the Run DMC song, it's Tricky, it's his ringtone or has ever been in his life.

[Bluff]

I was thinking, hey, Tricky, you're so fine. You're so fine, you blow my mind. Hey, Tricky.

[Jeff]

Hey. The. The banter here is really cute, but Jen's falling asleep.

[Melissa]

I know she's been asleep.

[Bluff]

So, Jen, hello.

[Jeff]

Trying to get to you, darling.

[Caller]

I'm still here. Hi.

[Bluff]

So Jen lists off all these people who are going to be at the party. And I'm like, yeah, we'll see if they show up.

[Jen]

Because Jen's been up for, you know, days.

[Jeff]

I think she fell asleep at 8:30 this morning. But she's back now. She got a good hour.

[Melissa]

It was actually about 10 minutes ago.

[Bluff]

And as soon as we walk in and as soon as we see Jen, within two minutes, I mean, we're standing, like, near the dance floor. Katy Perry and Russell Brand, like, walked right by us.

[Jeff]

And they're tall, engaged, little goth couple. Did you see them, Jen?

[Melissa]

Yeah. Oh, definitely. I mean, they had the back. What was it? The back? Right. VIP booth. So they were kind of holding down their little crew and their party there, but they were sitting up on the back of the booth so you could see them, and they were dancing and partying and having a good time. I think Katy Perry always looks surprised.

[Jeff]

I think it's just the way her. Her eyes are always a little bit too open.

[Melissa]

She always looks like she's in shock over something but having a great time with it, you know.

[Caller]

Whoa. Hey.

[Melissa]

Oh, wow. Life. Did her Russell Brand look like they were, like, in love and a cute little engaged couple? Oh, absolutely. They have love written all over them. All they're doing is it, you know, in finger quotes because they are so happy. And you can just. You can see it all over both of their faces, their body language. They're like, way, way, way in love into each other.

[Jeff]

So are they, like, behind, like, some velvet rope at this point, like in VIP areas or they. Right. Hanging with everybody?

[Melissa]

No, they were hanging with everybody. I mean, this was a private party. This was not a club open to the public. You can't pay to get into this party. We had to be on the list through the publicist to get in. It was open bar, like, they paid for everything. So the people who were indoors, like, inside this club, were supposed to be there. Sweet.

[Bluff]

There was when Jessica and I got there, because we got there after Jen did, and Jen's the one who put our name at the door. And there were some LA girls who were in front of us line. They're like, hi, Hi. And the person at the door is like, yeah, you can't come in. The girl's like, no, no, no. Tell Eric that Lucy and Portia are here. And the guy's like, this is a private event. She goes, we know, but we know Eric. And they're like, eric's not in charge of the door tonight. And looked over at US and Jessica said, $and they're like, oh, yeah, your name was just put on the list. Come right around and we're back.

[Jeff]

Doesn't that feel good?

[Bluff]

We got to walk right around these. And as we walked in, we heard them in the background going, will someone get Eric?

[Jeff]

Jen, you said you saw Christina Aguilera there too, right?

[Bluff]

Yep.

[Melissa]

Christina Aguilera was there with her husband, Jordan Bratman, and they were in, like, the caddy corner from Katy Perry and Russell Brand's booth. They were kind of like across the dance floor, but they were sitting there much more like of a subdued crowd. Like, she was sitting down, she was on her phone, like, doing a lot of texting or whatever. She had, like a little pink, cute cover for her phone. And they both looked adorable. You know, she had the typical Christina Aguilera, very bright red lipstick on. She had the blunt blonde haircut. It's really short right now. It's really cute on her. It's just really short. But, you know, they're an adorable couple, too. So they seem like they were, like, chatting and hanging out, but they were more low key. They weren't, like, standing up on the chairs, like, dancing and stuff, like Katy Perry was or, like, in the booth right next to them. And above that booth was Sierra, and she actually grabbed the mic from DJ Ruckus and was singing Goodies live.

[Jeff]

Very fun.

[Melissa]

Yeah, that was really cool. And then T Pain was there in the crowd. Stevie Wonder was there. And, you know, Jeff told you earlier, I was trying to work my way into Stevie Wonder's group, and I was trying to, like, flirt with everybody in his entourage so I could get in there, but that didn't really work.

[Jeff]

They've probably seen that before, I'm guessing.

[Melissa]

Yeah, yeah, I'm guessing. They spotted me a while a mile away, trying to work my way in there. But yeah, that was an amazing, amazing night.

[Bluff]

It was worth noting too that the DJ for that party was Ruckus.

[Jen]

Yeah.

[Bluff]

Who is from Atlanta and has Atlanta ties, I think. Is he Dallas Austin's cousin? I think, or friend or somehow he's. But years ago, when Vision was open and I used to do. And Buddy Love was still alive.

[Jen]

Buddy Love.

[Bluff]

There were times where I would host Vision with Ruckus and I sent that tweet out where I'm like 10 years ago, I used to work at Vision with Ruckus. Tonight he spun for Stevie Wonder. He wins.

[Caller]

Insane.

[Bluff]

But it was so Atlantic.

[Melissa]

Amazing. It was, it was such an Atlanta crowd and it was. The whole party was thrown by Tricky Stewart and he is producing Christina Aguilera's new album that's coming out this spring. He actually produced the single on the album. And so I'm. I wrote down the names of what those are of what her song is going to be, but I think it's called Glam and Tricky did that one. They also wrote Single Ladies and they were the ones who accepted the award on stage. Those three guys. Yeah. Were the ones hosting the party. And remember, they came up and they accepted it because Beyonce was backstage getting ready to perform.

[Jen]

Uh huh.

[Melissa]

Tricky was the one in sunglasses and he was the one who hosted that party. Okay.

[Jeff]

Anyway, LA is always sort of. LA is always sort of like zooming at a very fast pace. But when there's like an award show in town like this, Jen, do you just feel like it's tweaked at a different level?

[Melissa]

Oh, absolutely. I've never seen anything like it. I mean, we've been here for all kinds of different stuff, but never, never anything this crazy. You know, it's just, it was. Everybody was in town and everybody was famous and everybody thinks everybody else is famous. I swear, if you are mildly attractive and wearing sunglasses, I thought you were famous. This weekend.

[Bluff]

We were sitting at dinner on Saturday night and it was kind of a quiet night. Cause you know, Jen had to. Jen, round of golf clap, by the way, real quick for Jen.

[Jen]

Are you kidding me?

[Bluff]

Because I saw her 27 hours ago at her hotel dropping off a computer that she needed to use and she was already in her Grammy dress, so she's been going strong. But we had a quiet dinner on Saturday night and Jen leans over the table and says to me at one point, she goes, oh my God. The king of the Bouchtag empire is sitting with his back to you. You've gotta see this clown. So I turn around, like, you know, you can't flip around right away, but. So I turn around and I look, see who it is, and I turn back and I can't say anything. So I send Jen a text message, and all it says is, the bouche king you mentioned is Scott Storch, the $100 million producer.

[Caller]

Whoops.

[Melissa]

He's like, oh, and Jeff, you forgot to mention that at the table next to us was Dylan McDermott and his whole group.

[Jeff]

Oh, really? Oh, that's cool.

[Jen]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

So one side of us was Scott Storch. I mean, he's produced everybody from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Pink, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Beyonce, everybody. So he's on one one side of our table, and on the other side of our table is Dylan McDermott and his whole group of friends.

[Jeff]

That's the cool thing about being in la. You just never know.

[Caller]

Right?

[Bluff]

And for. For the record, Jen, because this will not end anytime soon, that was Misha Barton sitting with Dylan McNally because Jessica googled her.

[Melissa]

No, it was not.

[Bluff]

Yes, it was, because the girl next to her was her sister.

[Melissa]

No way.

[Jeff]

Did you guys get pictures of any of these people?

[Melissa]

I didn't snap any.

[Jeff]

I guess it's not one of those

[Melissa]

things we were at.

[Jen]

No.

[Melissa]

Boo. It's like. It's like, not cool to do that. You know what I mean?

[Jen]

But I think that what Jeff and Jen just did is typical of anybody that visits la. That is Misha Barton. No, that's not.

[Jeff]

Yes, right, right. Even if it's somebody that doesn't look

[Melissa]

anything like this, I didn't think it was her because Misha Barton's gained so much weight lately, and there's been all those pictures of her. And the reason I knew that is because Wendy picked her for the incarceration draft.

[Jeff]

And when you say so much weight, you're talking like £4. Right?

[Bluff]

Right, right.

[Melissa]

Well, for her, yeah. But this girl at dinner was like, a skinny version anyway.

[Jeff]

All right, so you're getting on a plane and you're coming back here. So can you get any sleep before that, or are you going right to the airport?

[Melissa]

I'm not sure what time it is.

[Bluff]

Where are.

[Melissa]

Where am I?

[Jeff]

It's almost. What?

[Melissa]

I'll figure it out.

[Caller]

Good job.

[Bluff]

Good job, ladies and gentlemen.

[Jeff]

Hey, the bird show.

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that's r a k u t e

[Bluff]

n the first show.

[Jeff]

So Hayden had a lead in his play this weekend. He's been doing this play all week long called seussical the musical. Right. And it's run out of a place called applause for kids.

[Caller]

He's been.

[Jeff]

He's been part of their. What do you call it? Troupe. Is that what you call it?

[Jen]

Cast.

[Jeff]

Cast.

[Jen]

Right.

[Jeff]

For a long time. And this is the show that they did this week. So he had a play each week when he was in the ensemble and then on Saturday night. The great thing I love about this place is that they allow everybody in the ensemble cast at one point or another to be a lead sometime during the week.

[Melissa]

That's cool.

[Jeff]

Which I think is really, really cool. Right. So Hayden was in the ensemble all week long. So I went to six ensemble shows watching him dance on the side. You're a good d. Finally, just to see him on, I guess it was Saturday night. Saturday night.

[Jen]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Saturday night.

[Caller]

Man.

[Jeff]

I'll tell you what, I have never felt joy like I felt on Saturday night. Like, I'm starting to get all choked up talking about it right now. Also, to see Hayden on stage in what I really think is his element. I mean, I have never seen that kid happier than he was on Saturday night. This kid loves to make people laugh. He loves to entertain.

[Bluff]

That's awesome.

[Jeff]

He was so happy on Saturday night.

[Melissa]

That's awesome. It's fantastic.

[Jen]

Good for him.

[Jeff]

It is. Like, now I understand why, Like, I understand the theory why some parents try to pressure people that don't have kids to have kids for these kind of experiences. Like, I. I sort of get it now. I would never do it, but I. I get what they were saying. Like, you'll just never understand the joy that I have with a child. And I felt that on Saturday night.

[Jen]

Well, I'm sure as a parent, sometimes it gives you the ability to truly 100% be happy for somebody else. Adults, I don't think we can do that for each other. Oh, my God.

[Jeff]

I had the camera up and I'm recording him and, like, I'm fighting back tears. And it wasn't that he was doing great or he was doing crappy. It didn't matter. He was on stage. And this little kid, man, was so content and so happy that it was one of the greatest nights of my life.

[Jen]

That's awesome.

[Jeff]

It was really fantastic.

[Jen]

Good to meet you.

[Bluff]

Did you tell Hollis that when you got home just so Hollis knows what

[Jeff]

I said, you got pretty big shoes to fill here, dude. How are you gonna beat that? Your brother kicked ass.

[Jen]

And do you remember all of his

[Melissa]

lines since he was the lead?

[Caller]

He.

[Jeff]

I mean, he struggled a little bit in some of the areas, but it really wasn't like that night for me. It wasn't about him kicking ass. Like, on ensemble nights when he was sort of unfocused on stage, I would sit him down afterwards and I'd say to him, look, I'm sure your coaches went through this with you, but once you get on stage, you're not hating anymore. Like, you're not allowed to talk to the cast. Like, you're hating. You're your character, man.

[Bert]

Because he's.

[Jeff]

He's like his dad. He gets all flighty. Wow, look at the pretty lights. You know, and just wants to talk to everybody. But being part of the. The lead that night wasn't for me to go, hey, man, you forgot your lines. There you were, man. He was so content. It was one of the greatest nights of my life.

[Melissa]

It's cool.

[Jen]

And it shows you sometimes a natural talent. Because there are some people, like Hayden, who doesn't. Who doesn't mind being in front of a crowd. You know, I mean, that he's pure, pure joy at you, like you said, from being not only in front of the crowd, but influencing their reaction. And when they laugh, they think. And then, you know, then you have some kids that would probably throw up at the thought of even being up there doing that. And the same with public speaking. Like, I could care less if I'm in front of, you know, however many people. If we do an appearance, it doesn't matter if we're at, you know, a concert, introducing somebody to. In front of thousands of people or whatever, where my sister would throw up at the idea of doing. You know what I mean? So it's cool for you to be able to see firsthand his natural talent.

[Jeff]

Every kid. I think every kid has their thing. I think what a lot of parents do and what I sort of felt myself starting to do in the beginning was I wanted Hayden's thing to be my thing. I wanted him to be in sports, man. I wanted to. You know, when you're. When you're a man and you think about having a son, you think about sitting at baseball games and about football games and swinging a bat with your kid and teaching them how to catch a ball. That's not his thing.

[Jen]

Cause Hagan's tried that before, and he's

[Jeff]

not good at it. He's just not good at it. But his thing is, at least for now, this is what he wants his thing to be. This is his team. This is his baseball field. This is where he gets to help out and other kids get to assist him. And if you can find the thing that your kid is happiest in, damn, do it.

[Caller]

Do it.

[Jeff]

Because to see them at the height of their happiness, Nothing better.

[Jen]

Man, I think you're a good father for recognizing, not pushing him into what you did.

[Jeff]

Now, look, it was a struggle. I'll tell you what. Two weeks ago, he and his mom went jazz shoes shopping. I had a problem with it. I'm not gonna lie to you.

[Bluff]

What are jazz shoes?

[Melissa]

They're like dance shoes.

[Jeff]

They're dance shoes with a little heel on them. So when mom said that she was taking them jazz shoes, part of performance, part of me, I had the same. I cringed a. I did. I did. Because I thought it would be dad and him at one point going out and getting cleats. But he went out and he got his jazz shoes, and they came home, and it's a nice little pink box and all, and he was very proud.

[Bluff]

No, they're not pink, are they?

[Jeff]

Yep.

[Jen]

Now.

[Jeff]

Now the shoes aren't.

[Jen]

We're giving a positive message now that. Don't start, because Hollis is going to be the one that's going to be the linebacker that's, you know, that's going

[Jeff]

to do the sports thing unless he wants to do something else. But I was like you that hurt to say my son was going to jazz shoes shopping with his mom, maybe cringe.

[Bluff]

Well, if everything works out, Hollis will be able to defend Hayden in school.

[Melissa]

Aw. I think it's great. I mean, he's doing something that he's so passionate about. Every time Hayden comes in here, he's like a little performer in here, too.

[Jen]

So I think it's awesome that he's

[Melissa]

already got his niche.

[Jen]

And there's a reason that Glee is a popular show, because he's tapping into what that. So many people are into that, and they never get to say their voice in it so that, you know, I don't give him a hard time.

[Jeff]

Jeff, let it be.

[Bluff]

I'm not giving anyone a hard time. I am just.

[Jeff]

Your parents should have recognized this in you, and you were the pitcher every year in T ball.

[Bluff]

I'm just saying.

[Melissa]

I'm just saying.

[Bluff]

I. I understand where you were coming from at that point in the. In the juncture of the conversation about

[Jeff]

there was a twitch there for sure.

[Bluff]

Yes, I can understand that.

[Jen]

But Hayden was. It was a pure joy for him.

[Jeff]

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