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Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
The Bird show all right, Reshma, what's
Main Host (possibly Bert)
your gripe here, girl?
Reshma
All right. Well, a couple of weeks ago my older sister got married and we're Indian. So it was a traditional Hindu wedding. And I love our weddings. They're beautiful, colorful. Our clothes and culture are really bright. It lasts a few days. So the day of the wedding, the
Main Host (possibly Bert)
wedding lasts for a couple of days.
Reshma
The wedding, well, the ceremony, like there's traditional things. So it's about six to seven days. So.
Caller/Participant
Wow. Yeah.
Reshma
The first ceremony was on Sunday and the reception was on Saturday.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
That's something in itself right there.
Caller/Participant
Really.
Joanna's sitting there going, really?
Really?
I will make mine two weeks, seven
Main Host (possibly Bert)
days from the initial wedding to the last day. In an Indian culture, I mean, they
Reshma
do it in three, but it's at least three days.
Jeff
Well, it's. One village has to march all the way to the other village with all their cattle, then they trade it for the bride and then they march all the way back.
Reshma
That's exactly how it happens. But there's certain traditions that really peeve me. One of the traditions is traditionally or back in the day, way back in the day in India, when a girl gets married, she's given to her husband's family. So she leaves her own family and joins her husband's family. So when that happens, she has to say goodbye to all of her family. And it generally happened right after the wedding. So there's a ceremony where she goes up to each person in her family and says goodbye. And of course they're saying goodbye to their daughter, their sister, whoever. So everyone's crying. So, oh my God, I'm gonna tear up now. You're tearing up now.
Caller/Participant
Talking about tearing up, it gets on her nerves. But it still affects me.
Reshma
But it still affects me. I'm such a. That this still affects me. So there's a Sarah. So they say goodbye to her and the groom's family takes the bride away to their village is what used to happen. But it's become a part of the Indian culture. So now we still do it, even if, like, she's moving five minutes down the street. So. At my sister's wedding. Yeah, at my sister's wedding. I mean, it was a fantastic wedding. I was there for two weeks, and we were never really close. But over the past year, we've gotten really close. And she had all the ceremonies, and the wedding happened. The wedding happened, and everything was fine. And we're all sitting there, and we're all kind. We always joke about it, like, oh, I hate this part. I hate this part. I hate this part. And I knew I was gonna cry a little bit because I cry at everything.
Jeff
But even telling a story about crying.
Reshma
But we're all, like, getting up and have a huge family. So everyone's getting up and walking over, and I'm kind of, like, standing in the back thinking, I can postpone the crying if I stand in the back and I see my younger sister walk by, and I have seen her cry once in my life, and she is bawling, and I start crying, too. So we're going through, and we go up to my sister and her and my little sister and I were sitting there huddled together for an hour straight.
Caller/Participant
An hour I could not.
Reshma
Oh, my God.
Jeff
How far is she moving from you?
Customer Service Rep
Seriously?
Reshma
She lives in California. She's moving 10 minutes down the street. I kid you not. And I could not stop crying. Like, we're sitting there for 20 minutes, and every one of my aunts or cousins would come up to us and be like, oh, it'll be okay. She's only moving. And every time they said something, we wanted to cry more. And I hate the fact, like, why do we have to cry? She's moving 10 minutes away. Let's skip the ceremony. And, like, I don't understand it, but
Jeff
what was the cry? Like, why are you crying right now?
Reshma
I can't even tell you. I don't know, because I guess I
Jeff
think it's a great tradition because you're brainwashed by it. I think it's awesome.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
You just say the word wedding, and Indian people start crying.
Reshma
Yeah, I guess it's because, like, technically, she's still leaving our family and became a part of his family. So it's kind of like we're like, I lost a sister, sort of. Even though to me, I mean, I still talk to her the same amount still happens. But I've been trained that I lose a sister. Like, she joins. Like, my mom when she got married, she left her family, and she's now part of my dad's family. So in my mind, she was leaving my family, even though nothing changes.
Jeff
But don't look at it as losing a sister as it is gaining 30 head of cattle.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Here's where I want to go with this. Because just the fact. I mean, this is the first time I think any of us have heard that Indian weddings take place over seven days, that different cultures have different ceremonies and different traditions for weddings that I think I'd like to hear about. 404-741-Q100 like in the Jewish religion, you said you were at one where they break the glass. And then like in traditional Jewish families, aren't they supposed to go and have sex and stuff?
Jeff
Yeah, in a traditional Jewish. In the most authentic or Orthodox, I guess would be the word Jewish ceremony that I was in or attended, the bride and groom disappear to a room and I consummate the marriage.
Caller/Participant
Hey, well, remember when we had producer Lyndall working on the show and she was Mormon? Like, nobody other than Mormons could even go inside of her ceremony.
Correct.
They had all kinds of secret traditions going on.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Like, wasn't it her brother's girlfriend or maybe even her brother's wife couldn't attend the ceremony because she wasn't Mormon? There was some type of.
Caller/Participant
There was a younger person in her family. Didn't she have, like, little brothers and sisters that weren't allowed because you have to be a certain age to be in it or something like that? Wow.
Yeah. We had to be at the reception waiting on them to come back because we couldn't do the ceremony.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
So different, you know, different traditions and different cultures for weddings. And as Reshma said, seven days. You're Indian, seven days.
Caller/Participant
And you cry because the bride is leaving and going to his family.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Good morning. Is it Maya?
Caller/Participant
Maya, Hi. How are you guys? Just want to let you know you're not alone. People are listening out there.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I am Indian and I'm Hindu, actually. And I've been to a bunch of weddings in my family, and I've done the same thing Reshma's done. We've had that ceremony at the end of every one of those weddings where the whole family's lining up and they're just giving hugs to the bride. Everyone is bawling and. Yeah, I mean, she's moving, like, right down the street.
But I think it's just because it's
the fact that it's like an end of an era. Like you're letting your little girl go and she's growing up and you just Gotta let her go.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I like that tradition.
Caller/Participant
It's kind of cool.
Reshma
No, no, no.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
You don't like it. Here's Betsy. Good Morning. You're on Q100.
Caller/Participant
Hey, good morning. I want to say that I'm Jewish, and when I got married, I said my vows in Hebrew, and my husband. And we didn't have any idea what we were saying to each other. It's like, if you go to any traditional Jewish wedding, we all say our vows in Hebrew. And, I mean, it's nice, but we don't know how to speak in Hebrew. It's like, what did we just say to each other?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It's a tradition that's hard to sink your teeth into because you have no idea what you're saying.
Caller/Participant
Exactly. And so we just followed along what our rabbi said. And so I could have said anything that he said. I could have said, no, I don't love you, or know this or know that or whatever. But, you know, she's been here for four years, so it's great.
So what is the breaking of the glass symbolized?
It symbolizes. There's a lot of different. There's a lot of different meanings for breaking the glass. One of them is that when you break the glass, that everything has changed, that you can never put the glass back together again. So it's like you're never the same again once you get married. That just like how you can never glue a glass together back together again. And you could also. It's also about, like, remembering the destruction of an ancient temple as well. So there's a whole bunch of different interpretations to it, but it's fine, because then everyone yells mazel tov at the end, and then you go away. And as Jeff was saying earlier, you're supposed to go have sex in a room.
What does mazel tov mean?
Mazel tov means congratulations.
Jeff
Means go have sex.
Caller/Participant
Yeah. Yeah. So essentially, when you go off to that little room, you have your first meal together. So you have. They provide you with a small dinner or appetizers from your wedding and drink, and it's like the first private meal that you share together as husband and wife.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Okay, thank you.
Caller/Participant
Fascinating.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Different traditions from different cultures when it comes to.
Jeff
I'm sorry, Bert. We let that Jewish person sneak through, and you couldn't weigh in on that. I apologize.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It was like she was talking Latin.
Jeff
It was like she was talking Hebrew.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Julie, good morning. You're on Q100.
Caller/Participant
Good morning. My question is to Reshma. By the way, I love you guys, is what happens if the Indian family only has daughters, does that mean like they lose their family and then when you're old, you have no family left?
Reshma
Yeah, I'm one of three girls, so technically my parents lose three daughters, so. Which is why in Indian culture it was more fortunate to have a son. Because with son you gain and with daughters you lose. That's why.
Caller/Participant
I
know why they have seven or eight children. They're waiting for the male. I would not have stopped if I'd known I had to have a male.
Reshma
I mean, most people, most Indian people, like my dad's got like 14 siblings. Like back in the day, they reproduce like crazy. To be. To be able to like sustain and like carry on the name.
Caller/Participant
No kidding.
Jeff
Really?
Caller/Participant
Just ask the Chinese.
Right?
Same thing.
It's the same tradition, right?
Reshma
Same exact idea.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Here's Anna. Anna, what culture are we talking about?
Caller/Participant
It's French.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
French.
Caller/Participant
They're just apparently huge partiers. So they did this big three day wedding where on Friday afternoon everybody starts partying. It goes until like 4 or 5 in the morning. Everybody gets two or three hours of sleep. They get up, they start again. And I said, sweetheart, I just can't. I can't do that much. So we're doing a big party on Friday night. We're having the wedding on Saturday, and then we're doing a big brunch on Sunday. So we're doing kind of a mix.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
All right, so For French, it's three days. The Indians had to.
Caller/Participant
Three days of partying.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Keela, good morning. You're on Q100.
Caller/Participant
Hi.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Hi.
Caller/Participant
I listen to you guys every morning.
I love, love, love, love, love your show.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
Caller/Participant
Okay, so I'm black. And usually in black weddings, like right after the ceremony, before they walk down the aisle, they have like this rickety old broom and they jump over it.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Oh, yeah, you jump over the broom. I've never seen that.
Caller/Participant
I've heard that of it.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
For what reason?
Caller/Participant
Cause like in slave times, they couldn't have weddings. So to symbolize that they actually got married, these jump over a broom.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Oh, really?
Caller/Participant
Wow.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
That's what I'm talking about. That's interesting.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Really?
Caller/Participant
That's a really cool history.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Thank you for calling.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Wow.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Morning, Q100. Hold on one sec. Good morning, Q100.
Caller/Participant
Hello.
Hello.
Hi. I like listening to y' all every single day.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Thank you. Appreciate it. What culture are we talking about here?
Caller/Participant
I am actually Cambodian, so I'm Buddhist. So for our weddings, we traditionally wear traditional clothing. And so during the day of the ceremony. It's just like the Hindu tradition. It lasted for like seven days. Minimum is probably like three days. So we have to go outside, bang on gongs around their neighborhood at least three times, which is so embarrassing.
Really. And does everybody do it together?
Yes. It's like a whole marching band. So we have like traditional clothing. Everybody's like watching us. It's so embarrassing. I've done this like three or four times already.
And so everybody who's attending the wedding and in the wedding party and whatever has to go and do that.
Oh yeah, everybody has.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I think that's cool too. The whole neighborhood knows that somebody's getting married in that.
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Caller/Participant
Then after that we have to sit down for a couple of hours. Well, three or four hours. And we can't move from that position. And the groomsmen have to massage the groom's legs.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Hey, say that last one one more time.
Caller/Participant
The groomsmen have to massage the grooms legs because they can't move.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Oh, really? And what does that symbolize? Like, why do you have to stay stationary that long?
Caller/Participant
I really don't know. We just sit there. They throw a lot of flowers and
Main Host (possibly Bert)
rice at us and I think somebody's jacking with you. I think that's just your family. I don't think that's a Cambodian.
Caller/Participant
Y' all sit there and be quiet. I mean, y' all sit there and it symbolizes strength.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Other Cambodians are calling, going, I don't have any idea what he's talking about. That's just your family.
Caller/Participant
Get it?
Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
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Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
You're on the Birch show.
Reshma
All right.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Over the years, I think the gold standard for meltdown customer service calls probably goes to the Dell guy, right?
Caller/Participant
Yes, absolutely.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Dude calls up. The dude calls up and he's. He's looking through an ad right in the paper.
Jeff
All he wants to do is buy the computer that's on the ad. But the dude says he needs to upgrade it. The salesperson says you gotta upgrade it. He doesn't want to.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
So this isn't actually the caller. This Isn't the person that purchased melting down? This is the sales guy. Yeah, this is sort of our gold standard right now.
Caller/Participant
My name is Robert. What can I build for you today? Yeah, I'm calling about the computer that's on sale. It's $9.99. It's on a flyer that came in the newspaper and I'd like to order that one. Okay, let me confirm everything with you. We have the painting for processor 520 with HD technology 2.8 gigahertz. Okay. DVD player and the first bay and a free city burner on the second base. No floppy drive. You want to add the three and a half floppy drive? Well, let's not do a disk. If I wanted to put something on the disk, will it do it? Yeah. Actually we recommend you the floppy because it's only $33 0. Okay. No, I don't want that. Okay. Are you sure? Because the future gonna cost more money. Okay. And no speakers. Speakers don't come with it? No, sir, it's not in the flyer. Okay, well let me read it a little bit better and I'll call back. Why you have the flyer in front of you? Yes. And why you call me? That gets back for me. You call me and call me again.
Customer Service Rep
Again.
Caller/Participant
Again. It's going to be back the one I didn't realize that it didn't have speakers. And I don't want to have to order speakers for this price. So I'll just look somewhere else and find me another computer. Can't believe it. For like a little girl. I can't believe it. Only for speakers. Go ahead. Little girl. Little poomsey girl. Get out of here. Get out of here. Let me talk to the manager. Little girl. You a little girl. Little girl. Little girl. Little girl. Little girl. Are you going to let me talk to your manager? Little baby girl.
Customer Service Rep
Okay.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Never gets old.
Caller/Participant
We hadn't listened to it in so long. I'd forgotten how funny he is.
Jeff
Yeah, that's good stuff. He's singing to him at the end.
Caller/Participant
That's great.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
That's as high as it gets. Okay. Now there are others in the. If this was like an Academy Awards, there would be other nominations. This one's a little lengthier. This is the guy that was calling up to get some help to try to turn off his laptop. I think this guy was trying to help his dad or his mom. Right.
Jeff
It was his parents computer and he couldn't get it to restart.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
And I think right off the bat you can sort of hear an attitude. But it just starts building and building and building and building here.
Customer Service Rep
Dell Hardware warranty support. My name is. How can I help you?
Caller/Participant
Well, my mom got one.
Customer Service Rep
Hello, can you hear me?
Caller/Participant
Yeah, I'm having a problem. How about now? I got my phone on. Can you hear me now?
Customer Service Rep
I can hear you. You're breaking up a little bit, but.
Caller/Participant
Oh great. All right, well, what I got is my mom's laptop here, so you can already hear.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
This guy has an attitude. He's already frustrated and he's not doing the work for himself. It's his mom who's probably bugging him all the time for every little thing on his computer. And now he's calling customer service. But he's already bugged, right?
Caller/Participant
It won't turn off.
Customer Service Rep
It won't turn off.
Caller/Participant
No.
Customer Service Rep
Okay.
Caller/Participant
No, if Windows is down. Cannot turn it off. Try to turn off the power, everything. It won't turn off.
Customer Service Rep
All right, can I get the service tag?
Caller/Participant
Jesus Christ. I just gave it to you people. All right, Express Service code is 4, 9. You got it?
Uh.
Customer Service Rep
Oh, I couldn't hear you very well. You're yelling very loud. 49, is that right?
Caller/Participant
Yeah, it's close enough. All I need to know is how do you turn this thing off? You know, your automated crap sucks, all right? And I think you suck. All right. Jesus Christ. How do you turn it off?
Customer Service Rep
Alright, well, I will just need to actually see what system you have here, so I'm showing that you. Can I get the name on the account?
Caller/Participant
It's all right.
Customer Service Rep
And the phone number is purchased out.
Caller/Participant
Why do you need all this? All I need to know is how do you turn the thing off?
Customer Service Rep
I need to verify the owner.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Okay. Now at some point this guy's getting angrier by how calm. Yes, the customer service guy is.
Jeff
And the customer service guy is remaining this calm just to jack with this guy. He already knows what the answer is. He knows where the reset button is, but he's like. And your zip code, please.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Yes.
Caller/Participant
Oh, Jesus Christ. The number is 7 2.
Customer Service Rep
All right. And can I get your name?
Caller/Participant
My name is.
Customer Service Rep
And your last name?
Caller/Participant
I'm her son. Damn you. People. I swear to God.
Customer Service Rep
And your phone number?
Caller/Participant
My phone number is the same. Okay.
Customer Service Rep
And your email address?
Caller/Participant
Why do you need that? You know you're upsetting the out of me, all right? You God, the thing we're not shut off, you understand that since last night. And you got a battery problem as well. All right, what the hell the going on with this thing? I'm getting very upset about this you know, I've spent about an hour trying to talk to you people on this freaking automated crap you got, and that's what's got me all upset like this, all right? And if you didn't have all this automated crap on your phone system, then somebody would talk to a human. Do you know what a human is?
Customer Service Rep
Yes, sir, I do, and I will.
Caller/Participant
You keep acting like a computer and keep asking me pretty stupid questions when all I need to know is how do you shut this thing down? It says Windows is shutting down. It's been saying that since last night, all right? Now, how come it won't shut down? How come I can't shut it down? What do I gotta do, rip the damn battery out of the back of it?
Customer Service Rep
No, you definitely don't want to do that.
Caller/Participant
Well, what do I gotta do? Will you please tell me? Yeah.
Customer Service Rep
All I need. So do you not have an email address? That's all I need.
Caller/Participant
I'm not gonna give it to you. All right? Let's put it that way, all right? Because I have nothing to do with this computer. All I want to know is how you shut it down before it causes a fire. Will you tell me?
Customer Service Rep
All right, so to shut the system off. You see the power button on it?
Caller/Participant
I've been pushing it for the past three hours. It don't do nothing.
Customer Service Rep
Hold down the power button for 10 seconds right now.
Caller/Participant
Well, Jesus Christ, you could have told me that. You know, you are not very freaking helpful, you know that? You're. And you can put this in your records, all right? If I had you right here, I'd kick your ass. You got me?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
All right, so this is the latest. Okay? This one's only about a minute long. And apparently this guy is calling. I'm not exactly sure what company he's calling, but he's having a problem with the mouse on his computer.
Caller/Participant
Okay?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
And this is probably a much longer call. We're catching the tail end of it, the last 60 seconds.
Jeff
We only need the fun part, and
Main Host (possibly Bert)
this is where it is. It's only the fun part here.
Caller/Participant
Committing this call. And if you purposely break the mouse, it will not be covered by warranty. Oh, well, you have to prove that, okay? It's in your warranty agreement, sir. We can touch it. We do not replace the misuse and abuse.
There is no misuse and abuse.
Give me new mouse. Sir, if you purposely.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Give me new mouse.
Caller/Participant
Sir, if you purposefully break.
It's he3.
Sir, I do need to warn you,
Computers, If you hang up this phone Call.
Reshma
You will be in lots of trouble.
Caller/Participant
Thank you.
Customer is always right. Customer.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
That's all we got.
Jeff
That's awesome.
Caller/Participant
That's all.
Jeff
Did he get his new mouse?
Caller/Participant
I want to know how it ended.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I have no idea how it ended.
Caller/Participant
I just love the fact that all three of our hall of Famers had to do with computers.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Yeah, without a doubt.
Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
Listen, it's the vert show.
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Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
This is the Bird Show.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
We need you guys to refresh our memory. It's been a couple of years since we talked about it, but Jeff reminded us the spunk trees are back.
Caller/Participant
Oh, yeah.
Jeff
Oh, here we go. I can tell you how this conversation
Main Host (possibly Bert)
years ago, years ago, I made the observation right outside of my house. I would open up the door and there was this really pungent, pungent smell. A very unique smell. And in all honesty, smells like spunk. You know, dude, spunk. And at the time, it was like our first year here, when we were talking about it, we had no idea what this tree was, what it was pollinating. But we all knew as soon as I said the words, everybody knew, like, exactly what I was talking about.
Caller/Participant
But every year, everybody thinks it's the Bradford pear. And don't every year we dispute that.
How is it going to go, Jeff?
Jeff
I'll tell you tomorrow morning at some point, we are going to have someone on the phone from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and it's going to be one of two people. It's going to be the really nice, but very nerdy girl scientist, or it's gonna be the really bitchy, succinct, this is what it is. And it's not sperm, it's pollen.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I don't think we're even gonna get that far. I think somebody will call. Cause we've done this. We do it like every other year and we just forget the name of the tree, right?
Caller/Participant
Cause everybody will call and say it's a Bradford pear. And we'll say, no, it's not. And they'll say, yes, it is. And we'll Say, no, it's not. And then we'll say, yes, it is. And then we'll say we gotta get the expert on. And then like Jeff said, we'll either have the nice one or the mean one on from the botanical gardens. And then they'll tell us what it is, and then we'll forget and we'll do this all over again.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It's like GR Groundhog Day every year for us. The spunk tree that was in, like, on the side of my house, they've cut that down. They have a whole nother community down there, a subdivision now. So it was like. It was the king of spunk trees.
Jeff
Well, I think you were spunk.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
So you spelled it all like up and down Windsor Parkway, and it's we're spunkless.
Caller/Participant
Now.
Jeff
I think you had more than one because I think you found like a garden of spunk.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It was bad. I mean, as soon as I would open up the front door, you were hit in the face with spunk.
Jeff
With the spunk Funk.
Caller/Participant
That is the name of a cd, like. Or a band.
It's a band name.
Pungent Spunk.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Pungent Spunk. But Jeff must have one around his house. Cause he brought it up this morning. And you know it when you smell it.
Jeff
Yeah, I was, you know, I was out of town for the. For the weekend for Jessica's birthday and came in late on Sunday night. And then. So never don't use the front door of the house, but opened the door to let the dog go out and use the bathroom. And as soon as the door opened, it just sucked right in there. And that is not like it's 11 o' clock at night. My flight was delayed. All I want to do is get into bed. And to have spunk on your face, that's not a good thing for me. Some people may be into that. I'm not.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Tracy doesn't remember it either. She's trying to look it up in the index right now. And the phones have just been dead this week, so we only got like two people calling. But somebody will call and tell us what it is.
Caller/Participant
Why don't you just Google Spunktree?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I don't think it comes up.
Caller/Participant
Well, I'd be afraid to do that.
Jeff
Why don't you Google it when you
Caller/Participant
had it on his computer?
No, this computer's already shut down enough this year, so. No, I'm good on this.
I'm afraid to do that.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
You just want to wrap this thing up today, Jeff, and just. Let's call over there now and get our answer because it's not the brush, and then someone has to be assigned the memory, so we never.
Caller/Participant
You have a great memory. Come on.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
No, I can't. I can't remember the magic number every year. I'm definitely not going to remember.
Jeff
But why don't you write it on the crutch? On your crutch? Because the rate you're going, you'll still be on them next year.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
There'll be a different set of crutches, but there will be crutches.
Jeff
Well, you guys will are mean.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Hey, Zach.
Jeff
Good morning.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
You're on Q100.
Caller/Participant
Hey, guys. Love the show.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Thank you, sir. Do you remember the name of the spunk tree?
Caller/Participant
I'm willing to bet that since it's not the Bradford pear, it's the ginkgo tree. And it's the female ginkgo tree. Not the male ginkgo tree.
Female ganko tree.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Female ginkgo tree. For whatever reason, that's not, like, overwhelming me with, like, oh, yeah.
Caller/Participant
I don't know if I recognize it, though, if somebody said it. So, female ginkgo tree.
I didn't know there were female and male trees.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Yeah, you just got to look underneath the roots.
Caller/Participant
I had no idea.
That's something a parent says to a kid and just leaves it alone. The kid's over there digging the tree out.
Jeff
Well, just look up in the branches. Are there nuts?
Caller/Participant
Really?
Yeah.
You laughed at that.
Thank you, Brandon.
Seriously.
Come on.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Hey, Heather, good Morning. You're on Q100. You're smarter than that, Brandon.
Caller/Participant
It's definitely the Bradford pair.
Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
We do this every year.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It's not the Bradford pear. We do it every year.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
It is.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
No, honey, it's not.
Caller/Participant
Me, too.
Every time I go walking in my neighborhood, we have tons of them. And right when I get underneath the Bradford pear, I can smell it.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
The spunk tree. No, I'm telling you, Botanical gardens will call in a couple of seconds, and they'll go again. Bircho. It's not the Bradford pear.
Jeff
I think the problem that you're having is that you have a creepy man hiding in your Bradford pears, and he's touching himself.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I think this is it.
Caller/Participant
I'm glad that you further explained that, because you wouldn't have figured it out.
Lovely.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I think we got our answer. This one, for whatever reason, hits me like, this is it. Hey, Catherine. Good morning.
Caller/Participant
Hey, Bert. Hey, Bert. Show.
Good morning.
It's a chestnut tree.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Is it the Chinese chestnut?
Caller/Participant
Chinese chestnut.
Maybe it's a Chinese chestnut tree.
That sounds more correct.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I think that's it.
Caller/Participant
I think you got it. That's your name.
Moved to Georgia.
That is just disgusting.
What's your name?
Katherine.
Katherine, you have to remember this for us every year.
Jeff
Are we sure?
Caller/Participant
I'm positive. That's what it is.
Jeff
We've got eight phone lines. Six. Five phone lines lit up and everyone's a different tree.
Caller/Participant
I know, but I remember the Chinese chestnut.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I think it's Chinese chestnut.
Caller/Participant
I think she's right.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Tracy's looking through the index. She'll get answers for us. Hey, Dee. Good Morning. You're on Q100.
Lady Luck
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Caller/Participant
All. First of all, I'm so glad you say it smells like spunk, because my husband says I'm insane when I say that, but I'm a meter reader. And when the grass repair trees get the flowers on them, I like to gag while around them all day. I can't stand it.
Jeff
Not this.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It's not a Bradford pear, though. We did this.
Caller/Participant
That's all I'm ever around. And only when they have the flowers, they're horrible.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
We gotta call over there again. Everybody thinks it's the Bradford pear, but it's not. And this is almost like we need to tell you. So you don't plant these around your house, Right? Unless you.
Caller/Participant
I've never called them the. I've always called it the sperm tree.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Right.
Jeff
Oh, you're gross. What's wrong with you?
Caller/Participant
That's such a worse word.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Because if you plant all these around your house, you will be enveloped in spunk village.
Caller/Participant
Well, now we'll have to do a Chinese chestnut in the yard with the Bradford pear. With the female ginkgo tree.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
No, everybody is hooked on Bradford. It's not Emma.
Jeff
Then let's just call. I've got the number.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Emma. It's not. It's not Bradford.
Caller/Participant
Yes, it is.
Jeff
No, it's not.
Caller/Participant
We do this every year. I'm exhausted.
Jeff
Maybe, you know, what. What if there is a whole. What if there are a whole bunch of men who have spunk that smell like Bradford pear trees? So there are two distinct groups.
Caller/Participant
Are they just hoarding out in the springtime and frolicking the fields to do that?
Jeff
No, I'm not saying that they're doing anything. I'm saying that their stuff smells like a Bradford pear. So half the women smell a Bradford pear. To us, it just smells like, you know, Bradford pears. But to them, it smells like their husbands and boyfriends and lovers and one night stands and the guy in the back of the club.
Caller/Participant
Whoa.
Okay.
Jeff
Can we call the gardens.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Do you have the number over there? Oh, go for it. Can we promise this will be the last time we ever do this?
Jeff
Nope.
Caller/Participant
No, I can't make that promise.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It's gonna be Chinese chestnut, remember?
Caller/Participant
People are mad at it.
Jeff
How much you would have bet they answer on the half ring.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
People are screaming. Breakfast.
Caller/Participant
Thank you for calling the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Jeff
You're welcome.
Caller/Participant
The garden is open Tuesday through Sunday, 9am until 7pm if this is the
Jeff
bird show, please press 4.
Caller/Participant
General admission.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
One moment, please.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It's a Bradford. We cut one down in our yard from Tara. It's a Brad. It's not a Bradford pear.
Caller/Participant
But obviously Bradford pear stinks. Maybe there's two spunk trees.
Jeff
Stinks to you, Melissa. Some people like it.
Caller/Participant
Yeah, no, I would not have that in my yard.
Hmm.
Honestly, I don't even know what a Bradford pair is.
Hi, this is Danny Flanders at the Atlanta Botanical.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Oh, that's my principal.
Caller/Participant
Please leave me a message, or you
Main Host (possibly Bert)
can email me at the Flanders.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
One moment, please.
Caller/Participant
The operator is not available.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
They had the same reception as we did.
Jeff
Well, if we call back between 10:30 and 10:45, they'll put us right through.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I can't get the botanical gardens on.
Jeff
Well, why don't we leave a message for Ned Flanders?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Here's Amy. Good morning, Amy. You're on Q100.
Caller/Participant
Hey, I just looked it up on the Internet, and it gave two trees. One was the Bradford pear, and then the other one was the Chinese chestnut.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
So maybe they both stank.
Caller/Participant
Both smell like spunk. All right.
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Caller/Participant
All right.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
I think we're gonna have to meet a halfway compromise here and say that they're both very similar and that they smell like spunk.
Caller/Participant
Yeah, because the reason we keep saying that it's not the Bradford pear is because the first year when we called the botanical gardens, they said it was
Main Host (possibly Bert)
not the Bradford pear. They were angry at us for even insinuating that it might be the Bradford pear, the rarest of all the Bradford bees. All right, so if you're planning on planting a garden or whatever, those are the two you want to stay away from. Unless you want to live in the middle of Spunkville, Right?
Caller/Participant
Can we just. Just cut out this conversation and save it for next year at this time and just replay it? Because we're gonna have the exact same one, right?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It is ground. It is. It is spunk hog day.
Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
This is the bird show.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
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Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
It's the vert show.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Valerie from the botanical gardens has joined us. She has come to save the day. Hey, Valerie. Good morning.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Good morning.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
How are you today?
Caller/Participant
I'm great.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
How are we have just had the same conversation an hour ago that we have every other year on the show.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Okay.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
And it is about the spunk trees around Atlanta. You open up your door and you could smell these trees that are so pungent and it just smells like dudes spunk. And we know that it's not a Bradford pear because we've gone down this road with you guys before, but we always forget what the name of the tree is.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Oh, man.
Caller/Participant
Oh, no.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
You don't know.
Jeff
You don't know.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Well, no, it was funny because a friend of mine emailed me and said, you're asking a question. She didn't tell me what the question was. So I'm wondering. I was sitting here thinking, what are they going to ask me? The only thing I can think right now is a ginkgo biloba. That is a female tree that puts out fruits. But I think it might be too early for that.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Somebody called earlier and said that. But somebody also. Does Chinese chestnut ring a bell at all?
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Yeah. You know, and we have one, but I haven't smelled spunk in the garden.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
She never thought she'd ever say those words. Atlanta Botanical Garden, spunk in the garden.
Jeff
You know what we mean by. You know what we mean by spunk, right?
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
I do, yeah.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Okay.
Jeff
You know, I mean, you understand what we're getting at when we say spunk?
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
I do, yes.
Jeff
Are you sure?
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
I am positive.
Caller/Participant
Jeff can really relate because he has funky spunk.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
He's got one of these spunk trees in his yard now.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Really?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Yeah. And I think more than anything else, we're just trying to warn people to not plant this particular tree unless you want to smell something. Spunk. All the time.
Jeff
My neighbors drive by and scream spunky Brewster at me. It's my nickname.
Caller/Participant
Oh, my God. So three trees keep coming up. Is the Bradford pear as listeners call up the Chinese chestnut. And then what you said the ginkgo female tree can you look those up
Main Host (possibly Bert)
today and tell us. I mean, and call us tomorrow and give us a definite answer.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
I will do my best. And I'm part of your 5:30 club.
Caller/Participant
Oh, cool.
Fantastic. Thank you.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
If you don't have time to call us late in the show, you can call us during the 5:30 club and tell us, and we'll just play it late.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Okay, that's what I'll do.
Caller/Participant
Great.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you, Valerie.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Thank you, thank you.
Valerie (Atlanta Botanical Gardens)
Have a great day.
Caller/Participant
You too. Valerie should call her friend and say, why didn't you tell me?
What, you didn't give me a heads up? So frustrating.
Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
Dear Burcha.
Caller/Participant
Hey.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Hey. How are you?
Caller/Participant
Good. How are you?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Good. Now, my assumption here is that you took the easy way out and you handled the texts instead of calling the number that you didn't recognize.
Caller/Participant
Well, I'll tell you, I sort of didn't even do. I didn't do either. I didn't call the number back, and I didn't call my ex back either.
Okay.
I just feel like I delivered the information, and anything from here on out is just sort of too much drama that I don't need in my life. And I feel like I got, you know, I guess my revenge. I gave the husband the information and. Yeah, so this is a.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
This is a non update update.
Caller/Participant
Well, sort of. There are. There are two things. One, the wife, she deleted her Facebook and her Twitter account.
Okay.
All right.
Because you said you're oddly obsessed with her and had been looking her up on Twitter and Facebook, and so since then, you've tried to look her up and she's not there.
She's not there.
Okay.
And also, my ex left me a voicemail message and said, why don't you mind your own business? Why don't you want anyone to be happy? You should have, you know, forgotten about it and, you know, lived your own life and left me alone. And left us alone. So something definitely went down between them. I just. I don't know details.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Okay, so let's. Let's be honest here. You're sort of putting yourself on a pedestal, saying you're better than wanting to see the results. Like, you don't really need that, but you got the results. Yeah, like, you know, you've created enough crap to where you can be satisfied with what you did worked.
Caller/Participant
Exactly.
Okay.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
But I want closure.
Caller/Participant
I don't need to do anything else.
I don't want to have my personal closure. I have to know what happened.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Yeah.
Customer Service Rep
How about us?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
How about us and our Needs.
Caller/Participant
But if you think about it, what you delivered to the husband was exchanges on Facebook between your ex and his new girlfriend. So the fact that she took down her Facebook page to me shows that he got pretty. Pretty peeved about it, don't you think?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
So where there are some repercussions. Yeah, you know, some of them. But that's good enough for you. You don't need to know the. All the details.
Caller/Participant
Yes.
Have you looked up the husband?
So I don't need to do it again?
Psycho is temporary.
Have you looked at the husband on Facebook or Twitter?
No, I haven't, actually. No.
Okay.
I was just wondering if he had, you know, if he had accounts, if he had taken his down, too.
I don't know.
Or if he had posted on those accounts.
I'm guessing he didn't, but I don't even know if he actually has accounts, so here's Bobby.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Hey, Bobby.
Caller/Participant
Hey, guys. Good morning. Love the show.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Thank you, sir.
Caller/Participant
I just think this is hilarious that she goes through all this trouble to go through Facebook and Twitter and all this trouble to find out what this woman's doing, and then she turns around on the radio and says, this is drama she doesn't need in her life, Right?
Not really.
Now you understand when. No, I don't want to go back to something you just said, though. You said you don't know if he has accounts. Well, he has to have a Facebook account to post on her wall. I mean, you knew that.
No, her ex had to post on her.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Her wall.
Caller/Participant
I was asking about the husband.
Oh, okay. I thought you were asking about her ex.
No, I was asking about the husband.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Here.
Caller/Participant
Yeah.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Here's Theresa. Good morning, Theresa.
Caller/Participant
Good morning.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Morning.
Caller/Participant
Yeah, my comment on that right there is it's kind of good thing that she didn't follow up on it that way. The ex don't know ex have done it. And then he also might be thinking, too, huh? Are they more about this person than I really know? Has she done it before?
Main Host (possibly Bert)
It's just enough. You stirred it up just enough to really get what you wanted. I mean, you created the drama, and now you've created doubt, which is really all you needed.
Caller/Participant
I mean, and if I was him, and, I mean, you were bold enough to come to our dinner table to deliver this, then something's. You know, I would be like, well, something's going on for you to do that.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
If a woman goes that.
Caller/Participant
If somebody came up to. Somebody came up to our table and gave me an envelope, then I'd be like, well, I mean, because that takes a lot to do that, you know, somebody's gonna do that on a line.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
Like you would almost assume that it was.
Caller/Participant
Yeah, there's something in this. Because you would not do this for no reason, you know.
Main Host (possibly Bert)
All right, Maggie, thank you for tying it up for us. Sorta. Okay. Bye bye.
Show Host (Birch/Vert/Bird Show)
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Main Host (possibly Bert)
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The Bert Show – Full Show PT 2: Tuesday, July 14 [Vault]
Date: July 14, 2026
This episode of The Bert Show delivers its signature blend of playful banter, authentic storytelling, and listener engagement. The main themes revolve around cultural wedding traditions—with listeners from diverse backgrounds sharing emotional ceremonies and rituals—plus a hilarious revisit of infamous customer service meltdown calls, and a lighthearted, recurring debate about the notorious “spunk tree” and its real botanical identity.
Hosts Bert, Jeff, and various cast regulars keep the tone casual, uplifting, and often irreverently funny, inviting the audience to both laugh and reflect on shared human experiences.
On Indian wedding emotion:
“I could not stop crying…she’s moving 10 minutes down the street.”
— Reshma (03:08)
On multicultural wedding confusion:
“You just say the word wedding, and Indian people start crying.”
— Main Host (03:36)
Customer Service Meltdown:
“If I had you right here, I’d kick your ass!”
— Agitated caller (20:21)
Spunk Tree Debate:
“I haven’t smelled spunk in the garden.”
— Valerie, Atlanta Botanical Gardens (34:23)
Self-aware Banter:
“Can we just cut out this conversation and save it for next year…because we’re gonna have the exact same one, right?”
— Caller (32:36)
The Bert Show remains lighthearted, occasionally irreverent, genuinely curious, and deeply connective with listeners. Jokes, sarcasm, and playful teasing abound, even as serious or sentimental stories are shared.
This episode is quintessential Bert Show: unpredictable, communal, heartfelt, and reliably funny. Whether they’re probing why we cry at weddings, roasting callers for their drama, or forever circling the “spunk tree” mystery, the crew makes even mundane topics hilarious and oddly touching.
Note: Timestamps refer to the original episode audio as per provided transcript. All ad reads and non-content have been omitted for clarity.