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Host Burt
You're on the Burt Show. All right, so the question is, what is so intriguing about your weekend that we gotta know about it now and then we gotta check back with you again on Monday morning? And this can be anything. Anything.
Melissa
Yeah.
Host Burt
Here's Betty. You were on the Voice Disguiser.
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Betty
Hello. Show. My friend who I knew back in like ninth grade, who always thought I would marry, let's lives in California now and he's about to get a ticket to come back to Georgia and he's supposed to stay with me for like two weeks until he gets a place with him and his son. The thing is, I'm totally in love with him and so is a friend of mine and I'm not supposed to be. And they've been having plans to reconnect for like the past year.
Host Burt
Okay, let's try to go through this again slowly. I'm a little confused here. All right, let's take this piece by piece. So this is your ex?
Betty
No, he's not an ex. We were never together. He's her ex.
Jen
Your friend's ex?
Betty
Uh huh. We were all friends back in high school and they were supposed to. They had found each other on Facebook over a year ago. They had been making plans to get back together or at least see each other when he got here and just never made it. And she was telling me about the love of her life and I hadn't seen him, so she was telling me about the love of her life and how they were going to get back together. And then she told me her name and then my heart. She told me his name and then my heart just dropped because I'm like, oh my God, it's, you know, guy I wanted to marry.
Brandon
Wow.
Betty
She put me back in touch with him and gave me his number. And he and I have been talking, like, every day.
Jen
Okay, so this is. This is your friend's ex that you like?
Betty
Yeah.
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Melissa
She's in love with. Lovely love.
Host Burt
And your friend still feels the same way about the dude, or is she. She moved on.
Betty
She. She. Well, she does.
Host Burt
She does.
Melissa
She does.
Betty
He's like, oh, I can't wait to see him. And it's gonna be old and this and that and other. And I'm like, oh, boy.
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And he's coming this weekend?
Betty
Yeah, he's supposed to be coming this weekend. And I told her. Cause she knew that I had to sing for him, and I told her I was like, don't worry about it. I'll sing at your wedding. Ha ha ha ha ha. And at the time, I thought that was great, and I could still be just friends with him and it was gonna be all cool. And we've been talking every day now for, like, what, the past three months? And I'm like, oh, yeah, I can't do this.
Host Burt
So who is he staying with when he comes down here?
Betty
Me staying with you?
Jen
Does she know that?
Betty
Yeah. Cause I had. I called and asked for permission if it was okay for him to stay with me, but that was back when I first started talking to him, and everything was all good. And I'm like, yeah, I got my friend back. And now I'm like, oh, boy.
Host Burt
So this guy's gonna stay with you this weekend? You love him? And she doesn't have any idea that
Betty
she knows I loved him back then, but she doesn't. I don't think she knows the extent of how crazy I am about it now.
Jen
W. Wow.
Host Burt
So do the three of you have plans to go out and do anything together this weekend?
Betty
Well, no, because my grandmother is in the hospital, so I'll be in the hospital with her.
Host Burt
So he's gonna be spending more time with your friend than he is you?
Betty
Yeah.
Melissa
He's staying with you?
Betty
Oh, yeah, he's staying with me. And him and his fun. They're gonna be staying at my place.
Host Burt
Wow.
Jen
Sounds like he's playing both of y', all, though.
Betty
No, because we all, like, he knows how I feel. He knows how she feels, and she knows how I feel, but she's not completely comfortable with it. But I don't think she knows the full extent of it.
Host Burt
Okay.
Betty
That means she knows that I like him. She knows that I've always liked Him. And I told her before, I was like, you know, back when we were, you know, both virgins and all that, you know, I was trying to give it to him back then, and he was like, no, you wait till you're married. She knows how I felt then, and she knows that I'm trying to be a good friend.
Melissa
But you just said that he knows how both of y' all feel about him now.
Betty
Yeah. Yeah.
Melissa
So, going back on what Jen said, are you sure that he's not playing the both of you, knowing that both of you are in love with him?
Betty
Actually, yeah, I am, because we made. We both said that we are not gonna act on anything.
Host Burt
Okay. Okay.
Brandon
Let's see.
Host Burt
Let's see how focused you are.
Co-host Burt
We look forward to Monday.
Host Burt
Yes. All right, this is not an advice segment, so we'll just. I'm gonna put you on hold, and we'll get your phone number, and then we'll talk to you on Monday, and we'll find out how it all panned out. Okay? All right. Betty, I hope your mom, your grandma's okay this weekend.
Betty
Thank you.
Brandon
Hold on one sec.
Co-host Burt
That's the secondary. Why do we want to talk to you on Monday? How's grandma doing? Aw, man.
Host Burt
Philip, do you want to be on the voice disguiser?
Betty
No.
Brandon
Okay.
Host Burt
He say no?
Melissa
He's fine with his voice.
Host Burt
Go ahead. All right. What's going on in your life this weekend that you are. It's so intriguing that we got to check back with you again on Monday.
Caller / Listener
Well, it's not super, like, you know, you know, intriguing, but it is pretty dramatic. I had a girlfriend. I met her, what, like, two years and a half now? Ago. We went out for two years and two months. We went through this whole dramatic relationship. You know, her mom, the basic, you know, her mom didn't want me with her. This and that. We were young. Actually ran away to Mexico one time and brought her back. You know, she ran away with me once. She was living here for, like, six months without her mom.
Jen
Okay.
Caller / Listener
And let's see. Like, a month ago.
Co-host Burt
She's not, like, 13, is she?
Caller / Listener
No, no, no. I'm 18. She's 17.
Host Burt
Oh, boy.
Caller / Listener
You aren't young, but, you know.
Host Burt
Okay.
Caller / Listener
And about a month ago. No, two months ago, I found out she cheated on me once. She told me because she now lives in Smyrna, and I live in. We're here in Northcross.
Betty
Mm.
Caller / Listener
So she told me, you know, I cheated on you this one time with this guy that I know. So, you know, when I found out about, you know, it's like all depressed and stuff, whatever, but so I gave her another chance. You know, I didn't. I trusted her and this and that. And one day I'm sitting there telling her, you know what? I, you know, I trust you this and that. She says he shouldn't.
Co-host Burt
What's going on this weekend?
Caller / Listener
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just got to this weekend. Right now, I'm actually waiting for my friends. We're all going to meet up at Six Flags. We broke up. You know, she's actually with him. With the guys cheating on me now.
Brandon
Okay.
Caller / Listener
She's actually with him right now.
Co-host Burt
Ask you another question. Why do we want to talk to you on Monday?
Host Burt
Yeah. What's going on, like today or tomorrow?
Caller / Listener
Well, today I'm going to see her at Six Flags and I don't know if I'm going to give her another chance. I really love this girl. I don't know if I want to give her another chance. But, you know, it's been a long relationship, this and that, and she's with the other guy. Yeah, but I mean, two year relationship, you know, we've been on and off
Host Burt
before, so you can never let me with another guy. You're going to say something to her, like, slyly somewhere at Six Flags today and say, hey, I'm still open to you.
Caller / Listener
Yeah. You know, she actually told me, she said, is it okay with you if I bring them? I said, no, it's not okay. What do you think? You know, if you want to take them, I'm just not going to go. Just tell me.
Host Burt
Well, it's not an advice segment, so I'm not gonna tell you. Not even to go. So I'm not gonna do that. But we'll talk to you very briefly on Monday. Okay?
Caller / Listener
All right, hold on.
Co-host Burt
Or you can email us. Just tweet 18, man.
Host Burt
Here is Christine. She wants to be on the voice disguiser. Christine, go ahead. You'll be the last call here. So what's going on in your life this weekend that we gotta check back with you on Monday?
Betty
Oh, okay. Well, I have a little brother and he is supposed to to be graduating from college in May. And while this weekend we're having like a big family get together and my parents don't know that he hasn't been going to college for the last two years.
Host Burt
Oh, we got a winner.
Caller / Listener
Wow.
Co-host Burt
But I won't be there because I'm going to Six Flags to meet my boyfriend who kidnapped me once.
Melissa
So how are they Gonna. Are they gonna find out this weekend? Obviously.
Betty
Well, yeah, he planned on telling them, but, I mean, this is. There's a good side to this. He ended up instead starting his own company, and he's not told my parents about this. He started his own little company after his sophomore year in college when he, like, stopped going. And he created, like, an app for the iPhone and he's just made bank on this thing.
Jen
Wow.
Betty
And I don't understand it, and I don't get what this app thing does. I don't even have an iPhone. But he created this thing and now he's making bank. And so what he wants to tell my parents this weekend is he's not actually going to graduate from college, but he wants to pay off their mortgage.
Melissa
Wow.
Host Burt
He's made that much money off an iPhone application?
Betty
Yeah.
Caller / Listener
Wow.
Betty
Yeah. And he also got like, the summer home on the beach. And
Jen
your parents are going to be so mad at first, and then they're going to have to take it all back.
Host Burt
Right, Right. How old is your brother?
Betty
Your what?
Host Burt
How old is your brother?
Betty
He's 22.
Dolvett
Wow.
Jen
That's incredible.
Betty
But I think that I was trying
Jen
to figure out, like, what my parents would have done in that situation. I think they would have still been mad that I was lying about not going to college.
Host Burt
I think my parents would get over it pretty quickly. When I said, you want to spend the summer in my beach house?
Co-host Burt
Do you know how many years they have left of mortgage payments?
Betty
I don't actually. I can't remember.
Caller / Listener
Wow.
Host Burt
That's still pretty amazing. So he's gonna tell them both that a. Now, has he been taking money from them all this year? All these years, as though he has been going to school?
Betty
No, he told them he pulled a loan out. I mean, there's. There's. It's not just me and my brother. It's like I have another brother too. So they've been paying for all of us to go to college. They couldn't. Can't afford it, so he. He was pulling out loans to go to school on himself.
Jen
Wow.
Host Burt
Okay. That falls under the umbrella of intriguing.
Betty
Yes.
Melissa
I cannot wait to hear how the parents react.
Jen
No kidding.
Melissa
And you have to find out what the app is by Monday.
Dolvett
Yes.
Host Burt
Yes. You gotta ask him about it.
Betty
Okay.
Host Burt
Okay. Let me put you out.
Co-host Burt
Getting rich 99 cents at a time. I know, right? I hate him. I don't even know your brother and I don't like him. You know what?
Jen
It was probably like I fart.
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Jen
Something, you know, something really basic like that shaken burp.
Host Burt
Christine, hold on one second and we'll get your info. And we will definitely call you on Monday morning after your brother tells your parents that he hasn't been going to school, but he's a millionaire. All right, listen, it's the vert show.
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Host Burt
This is the bird show. All right, let's get intern Brandon here. I lost the bet. Talvet. We had a bet today, man.
Dolvett
What was the bet?
Host Burt
The bet was will Dolvette come in with his sunglasses on or not? And I said you would not have your sunglasses on today. And I love.
Melissa
This is your best friend. Dude, you don't know your best friend.
Brandon
Look how.
Co-host Burt
Look how bright it is in here.
Host Burt
I've been surprised. Very surprised. How you doing, man?
Caller / Listener
I'm bro, I'm good.
Co-host Burt
You work Mackie.
Host Burt
Mike's not working Mackie. There we go.
Co-host Burt
Yeah, the sunglasses cancel out the microphone technology.
Host Burt
Still doesn't sound right.
Dolvett
Listen, it is so bright outside and the pollen kills my pollen.
Betty
You can use my mic.
Host Burt
Hold on. Your mic's not working. We use this one over here.
Co-host Burt
It might be. There's a boosh filter on this in the studio. So. Yeah, you know what? Seriously, take the sunglasses off and then
Host Burt
say the mic might work if you take the sunglasses off the mic.
Dolvett
Yeah, perfect.
Host Burt
Mic might work.
Dolvett
Say that four times.
Host Burt
What's going on, dude?
Dolvett
What's up, brothers? Good to be here.
Host Burt
You and Dookie do it up last night?
Dolvett
Oh, boy.
Host Burt
Oh, where'd you guys go last night?
Dolvett
10 degrees south. Big up to 10 degrees. And what do we do after that? And then the rest was vague.
Host Burt
Okay. One of those, huh? Maybe that's why you're wearing the sunglasses today.
Dolvett
Good morning.
Host Burt
You know what? Try the sunglasses on, Brandon, for a second, because this is all about attitude.
Brandon
There you go.
Host Burt
Really? At the end of the day, this is all gonna be about attitude.
Co-host Burt
I think you need to have a friend named Duk.
Jen
I don't think I've ever seen Dolvett's
Host Burt
face without the sunglasses.
Jen
It's really nice to see.
Host Burt
It's really not that good looking.
Caller / Listener
She looks.
Host Burt
That changes everything.
Dolvett
You just raise your game right now.
Brandon
I feel like I should go out with Chili.
Betty
Now
Dolvett
everybody got jokes. All right, you and me, this weekend. I don't know.
Host Burt
All right, here's the plan. Going into the weekend, Dolvett, we've brought you in here before and you've met Brandon. Brandon to me, is a good looking dude.
Dolvett
Some good looking guy.
Host Burt
Naive, got a good personality. I mean, you see him out at events. He's like holding the mic, he's holding court. He's good to go, right? But he's got this thing, man. When it comes to women, he's got zero confidence, zero swagger, nothing.
Dolvett
We definitely have to remedy that sickness, my brother.
Co-host Burt
Can I ask you for a clarification, Brandon?
Brandon
Yeah.
Co-host Burt
Because there is a rumor that you have approached a promo intern on more than one occasion, you know what. And said you want to come over here and make out.
Brandon
Who said that?
Co-host Burt
It might be a rumor.
Brandon
Okay, I heard the. No, no, I heard the tease yesterday at the end of the show.
Co-host Burt
I don't think this has anything to do with that. I think this is just. I just got this a few minutes ago.
Brandon
No, I don't think I've offered to make out with any of my promo interns. Maybe one or two during the summer. But I was an intern then, too. I wasn't hired yet for the whole time.
Co-host Burt
But that's like. That's a pretty bold line for somebody who's claiming to have no game. Want to come over here and make out?
Brandon
Well, it's pro. It's promotions. You know, we got to sell ourselves.
Host Burt
So he's got a different.
Jen
You can't text that.
Co-host Burt
Did.
Brandon
Did Frankie do text that to her? I may have.
Betty
I don't.
Host Burt
You don't remember if you're.
Brandon
I don't remember. Maybe.
Host Burt
And do you. Do you drink?
Brandon
Not really.
Dolvett
That's going to hurt me.
Host Burt
That's going to hurt with the confidence. So he told us earlier this morning he hasn't been out on a date in, what, two years?
Brandon
Yeah, basically two years.
Host Burt
Had one girlfriend. And describe to Dolvett what it feels like for you if you're in a. If you're in a bar setting or whatever, or even if you're. I don't know, you're working promotions, and there's a pretty girl, she's across the room. What's going through your head? How you feeling?
Brandon
Well, if I'm working promotions, I know it's within the job to interact with people. So out at events, it's all part of the job.
Host Burt
Different for you?
Brandon
Yeah. At events, it's all part of the job. It's fun just to interact with people like that.
Melissa
Why is it different when. Because I've seen you at events. I mean, he's. He's one of the funnest people at an event, so I. What is the difference between being a Q100 event and being just at, you
Brandon
know, out the timesheet?
Co-host Burt
So if you're getting paid, you'll flirt?
Brandon
No, it's just within the job. Like, I know it's part of the job. I know that's why they hired me, to interact with people. So it's like a switch goes off. Like, okay, work mode. Yes. Game time. Let's. Let's.
Host Burt
But if that works during a promotion, then why can't you just use that when you're not branding the promotions guy?
Brandon
Because 9 times out of 10, I will never see those people again. So at that moment, it's just, hey, let's have fun.
Jen
There's no fear of rejection there.
Host Burt
Well, it certainly sounds like the way you're going now. Nine out of ten times, you're never going to see the.
Co-host Burt
Or you won't see him again, but they'll ask you to introduce you to one of her friends.
Host Burt
It's confidence, Right?
Brandon
I have no problem being the wingman either. I'm very good at playing that role.
Host Burt
Cop out.
Brandon
I am very good at it goes
Melissa
back to what Jen said earlier. It's all about rejection.
Jen
You don't want to get rejected, so you don't even put yourself out there because you're afraid of it.
Host Burt
It's easy to be the wingman because you can say that you're the one sa. So if things don't work out, you know, it was just a nice bonus. But if you're the man going in, then there's a rejection factor.
Dolvett
But that's the whole point. You gotta get rejected. That way, you know what you're good at and what you're not good at. So you gotta try.
Jen
If you're not good at it, you gotta do it.
Dolvett
You gotta do it. You gotta get out there. That's the whole point.
Jen
This is what I talk to about my girlfriends, but with girlfriends, it's a fear of getting hurt, right? So guys have a fear of rejection and getting turned down, but women have a fear of, like, getting into relationships or dating or whatever because they're afraid of getting hurt. And I'm like, well, what's the alternative? Standing on the sideline the whole time?
Host Burt
Well, that's what he's doing. You know, he's standing on the sideline.
Jen
Exactly.
Co-host Burt
Dolvett, explain to Brandon when you got blown off by Chili, how that made
Dolvett
you more confident dater. Watch the show, okay? That's all I gotta say. Watch the show, people.
Caller / Listener
But it's like.
Host Burt
It's a little. Look, Brandon loves baseball. It's a little bit like baseball here, okay? You're gonna strike out a whole bunch, but every now and then you're going to hit a home run, but you're not even going up to the plate, dude.
Melissa
I mean, Jason Hayward, I mean, he struck out last night on three pitches. I mean, he's supposed to be the superhero of the Braves, but you know what? He had a horrible at bat.
Brandon
You know this.
Host Burt
He's going to strike out.
Brandon
He's bombed, too, so.
Melissa
And so can you.
Dolvett
And so can you. That's the whole point. You got to keep swinging because eventually you hit a home run.
Brandon
I mean.
Jen
Exactly.
Brandon
Or I could be like Troy Gloss and just strike out every time.
Host Burt
Eventually, I think.
Jen
And I think Brandon needs a little bit help on the flirting side of things. Silvette. Because I got to.
Brandon
Texting interns is not good flirting.
Dolvett
Texting is a good flirting period.
Jen
Brandon attempting the flirt.
Brandon
That's what I heard. And it was not a flirt, though.
Jen
Dude, what is this about?
Brandon
It really wasn't a flirt.
Jen
It was bad.
Brandon
The intern in question has a boyfriend, and it was a full conversation that we were having before that.
Jen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Host Burt
What did you hear?
Jen
He's up at the Front desk, right? And the cutie little girl running the front desk, he's talking to her. And I'm like. I'm, like, over on the other side, like, at the fax machine, I'm trying to send something, but I can hear him around the corner trying to chat it up with her. And he's going into this in depth baseball conversation about how baseball is the purest of all the sports. And he's going on and on like he's Mr. Baseball Expert, like, he's trying to impress her.
Brandon
I'm not trying to.
Jen
Baseball expertise or whatever. And she was kind of being, like, talky, chatty, flirty, right back to him, whatever. But you were like. You were a swing and a miss on that because you just kept hammering away on the sports, like you were doing, like, statistics and like, this and that about your series on the game of baseball.
Dolvett
No, he wasn't impressed by her. He was more impressed by what he was saying. Is that what you mean?
Co-host Burt
He's impressing himself.
Jen
He was impressing himself.
Brandon
No, it was. The conversation was.
Host Burt
Look, look, look, look, Brandon, look, you got to take all this in, dude.
Co-host Burt
You got to stop defending.
Host Burt
You haven't touched a boob in two years. You got to stop. It wasn't a situation. Listen to what's going on.
Brandon
I wasn't trying to flirt with her. It was a conversation, as in, why wouldn't I want to go to a Renaissance festival? Because I would rather watch baseball.
Melissa
Don't break the Renaissance festival.
Co-host Burt
You know what the problem is? Dolvett is here, and, Brandon, you're defending every single thing that comes up. You just have to accept the help. If you don't want the help, then Dolvett certainly needs to work on his own game. He can focus on that. But if you want, I mean. Okay, yeah, Dolev's gonna be fine. So I think if you. If you're willing to accept. Accept the help, then you have to take the feedback from Jen and Dolvette and Burt and whoever else.
Brandon
But that situation wasn't a flirt, though. You're defending, but just in that situation.
Host Burt
Stop, stop, stop. Everything you're doing sucks.
Dolvett
Just put a bandaid on it already.
Co-host Burt
Jesus.
Dolvett
Stop bleeding.
Melissa
Don't ever talk about statistics when you're talking to a girl. Any sport. Don't bring up the station and go
Co-host Burt
back to the beginning of that story. When do we have someone at the front desk?
Brandon
Yeah.
Jen
Oh, yeah.
Melissa
What station were you at?
Jen
Shop 15 and 1030.
Host Burt
He must have a second job.
Dolvett
Thank God. I could Never get into this place.
Host Burt
Jesse has some advice. Jesse, good Morning. You're on Q100.
Caller / Listener
Hey, what up, guys?
Betty
How you doing?
Host Burt
Good. How are you?
Caller / Listener
What I was thinking is, like, if they're going out and they're planning to do some stuff and go talk some chicks, maybe he starts out with, like, in the number range, that's reader, there's like, 1 through 10. If he goes for a 10, he might strike out. But if he's like a 5, maybe go to like a 3 or a 4. It's a little easier to talk to, a little easier to get, you know, get some attention from.
Host Burt
He's saying just for the bait. Dolvet's looking like, what you talking about? He's saying just for the basics, man. Just to build up a little confidence. You go out, you go below your lane a little bit to somebody that is going to be almost, like, grateful that somebody desperate enough for you. A confidence builder. It's a confidence. It's a conversation slump buster.
Dolvett
So Jeff with a wig, he said
Brandon
a three, not a two.
Co-host Burt
Okay.
Host Burt
You like that advice or you don't like that advice?
Dolvett
That's good advice to. No, not for my.
Host Burt
You don't think.
Dolvett
So we're gonna go. At the end of the day, the confidence has to come in two ways. Not only what you say, but what you're interested in. You know? So if he's interested in that girl versus, ah, she's not. Okay. He won't really boost his own confidence, you know, so he has to say the right things, feel the right way, but also pursue the girl that he really, really wants.
Co-host Burt
I would start out Broadway. So is the way this is great advice. Is this gonna go Delvile. Like, you guys are gonna go out wherever you're gonna be this weekend, and you're just gonna make him pick out a girl, and then you'll talk him through it and off he goes.
Dolvett
Absolutely. That's exactly.
Melissa
Throw you in the pool and learn how to swim.
Co-host Burt
Yeah.
Host Burt
Wait, wait. Let's take this once.
Brandon
Let's take this once again.
Dolvett
Daddy's gonna raise his son.
Co-host Burt
If I had don't let my corner, I'd. Whatever he says.
Host Burt
So you're not just gonna let him do his own thing. You're gonna go there with him and then watch him and then sort of everything.
Dolvett
We're hanging out, having a good time. He's gonna say, I like her, not her. I want her, not her. That type of thing. And then he's gonna do.
Co-host Burt
And Brandon, don't even feel bad When Dolvette takes home the girl.
Brandon
Yeah.
Host Burt
All right. So where are you planning on taking this dude this weekend?
Co-host Burt
I don't know.
Dolvett
I got a couple places in mind,
Jen
but I think it's better if we don't say.
Melissa
Yeah, don't say.
Dolvett
I'm open to suggestions. I mean, if anybody knows the city. You don't want to, but.
Melissa
Yeah, I think that it's best if the people there don't realize he's coming.
Dolvett
Okay.
Host Burt
How about wardrobe? What you gonna do with them?
Dolvett
Oh, we gotta do a lot.
Brandon
I am coaching a basketball game this afternoon, so I didn't feel like dressing up.
Dolvett
Hey, I've met you three times. I mean, three basketball games. Three basketball games. Yeah, we're gonna have. Yeah.
Co-host Burt
Accept the help. It's not a bad thing.
Host Burt
I know, but you're fighting it, dude. You're fighting it.
Melissa
You're feeling rejected right now.
Brandon
Starts with the wardrobe.
Host Burt
That's the first thing that women notice.
Dolvett
It's the first thing they look at.
Melissa
You feel rejected now.
Brandon
I do.
Jen
Hey, darling.
Brandon
It hurts.
Jen
You're gonna clean him right here, too.
Brandon
Right here.
Dolvett
Shave it up a little bit.
Brandon
I've been working on this for almost 22 years.
Host Burt
It's not working. Nothing is working. Not working.
Jen
Can we. Can we get it. Can we get a clean shave?
Dolvett
You will not recognize him when he walks in the studio on Monday.
Betty
I promise.
Brandon
I feel rejected already.
Host Burt
Dude, we're getting you help, man. I know what you're doing is not working. You don't have the toolbox.
Jen
You're defensive now, but in a couple of weeks from now, once Dolvett has done the makeover on you, it's going to be. You're going to be thanking us for this.
Brandon
I thought the facial hair was cool.
Jen
No, dude, it's kind of everything you thought was cool.
Host Burt
Hey, Brandon, how has cool worked out for you the last couple years?
Brandon
Touche.
Host Burt
Maybe it's not cool.
Dolvett
Upgrade your swagger. Let's go.
Host Burt
All right, so we're going to take a picture of you today also, because we're going to get you online and see what he does with you. You this weekend. It's the before and after, all right? Just be open. Just be a good soldier, okay? You don't have any input. When you're with a general and you're just a soldier, you don't get input.
Co-host Burt
Okay?
Jen
Just listen to the enlisted right now. Sir, yes, sir.
Betty
Yes.
Melissa
You're enlisted right now, so you got to listen to the office.
Dolvett
All my stylists out there, I'll be calling you guys. All my stylists out there. We got a project. Let's go.
Host Burt
This is the Birch show. It's the Vert show. We've had great debates this morning about Tiger woods, man. Melissa is putting her foot down on this Tiger woods thing.
Melissa
I'm not trying to be dramatic. It's just the, you know, anytime you want to, you're mad about something or angry, especially at an advertiser, then that what you do is you just don't buy the product. I mean, that's the biggest way you can, you know, punish a advertiser. And obviously, you know, there'll be other people like me. There may be more that are not like me. But the whole Nike ad with Tiger woods using his deceased father's voice to try to improve his image and sell products has. Is offensive to me. And Katie and I last night were talking about it, and we just said, you know what? We're just not buying any more Nike stuff. And, you know, I made the joke earlier about how that's not going to really be if, you know, that big of a dent in their. In their pocketbook for me, since I'm not as athletic as Katie is. But for Katie, that's a huge deal. So. But yeah, neither one of us plan to buy Nike anymore because we just think it's a poor decision on their part. I think it's so disrespectful.
Host Burt
Let's set this up first, because many of you probably have no idea what this commercial is all about. You haven't heard it yet. There's a pretty interesting side story to it.
Jen
We've linked over to it from q100atlanta.com if you want to go to the Burch page and actually watch the ad. But it is a black and white ad of Tiger woods looking very somber and sad, just staring into the camera. And the voiceover over the commercial is of his late father, Earl Woods. And it's apparently as if he were speaking to Tiger. So they have edited that audio, though. So at the very beginning, it says Tiger, and then it has a quote from Earl Woods. Well, that quote was taken from a 2004 documentary about Tiger's career and life and everything else. But that quote was actually intended as a part of a conversation he was having about his wife, about Tiger's mother and how they're very different in their differences. And he talked about his mother being very black and white, very yes or no, and that he's more inquisitive and wants to ask questions. So this quote is taken completely out of context, played over top of Tiger woods looking sad and somber into the camera. And then there's a swoosh at the very end of it.
Co-host Burt
Tiger, I am more prone to.
Betty
To be inquisitive,
Co-host Burt
to promote discussion. I want to find out what your thinking was.
Betty
I want to find out what your feelings are
Host Burt
and did you learn anything? Then there's that Nike swoosh. So, you know, what we do know is that at least we can be fairly certain that Tiger has creative control over his image. So at one point, Nike, I'm assuming, had to come to him and say, this is what we want to do. That just makes common sense to me. Even in lower celebrity land, you have creative control of your image and what's out there. So let's assume that he said, yeah, I've seen the commercial. Let's go for it. So, Melissa, are you more upset at Tiger? Are you more upset at Nike?
Melissa
Both. Both. To me, the reason, it's disrespectful. I mean, you know, I've lost my father. And I explained earlier that, you know, my point of view is that everything that is of my father's is very sacred. I mean, because that's all I have left. There's nothing more, nothing new will come from my father. So, you know, any pictures, anything handwritten items, any voicemails, you know, an old school, you know, cassette player, voicemail things, I've kept all that. And to. And to think about doing something that I find morally wrong that Tiger has done, and for him to try to repair that image by using his father's voice on something that had nothing to do with that. If I had done what Tiger did and then try to use my father's voice to repair my image, my father would never endorse what I did. So to use his voice to try to do that without even getting his permission to do it, I don't know, it just does not settle well with me. And so it just kind of is. Is. Yeah, it just. It just is unsettling and I think disgusting, to be honest with you.
Host Burt
404-741-Q100 here's Melinda.
Caller / Listener
Hey.
Dolvett
Hey.
Betty
I just wanted to make a comment. I understand what Melissa is saying. However, Bert, you would know this. Once a parent, always a parent. If your child messes up when he's an adult, you're going to do anything in the world you can to help him. And if Tiger's dad was alive today, he would probably do the same thing.
Co-host Burt
But here's the Thing, there's two points. One, I don't think he would. Because his dad was pretty. Like, I do not think that his dad would come out and publicly defend him. He would defend him. He'd be a father. But I don't think you'd participate in that, just knowing what I know about Earl woods. But number two, even if the possibility is 99 and 3/4 percent, he's dead, you can't ask his permission. You are desecrating his memory by assuming that, you know what position he would want to take on this issue. And I would, you know, Melissa's using the argument that, you know her father's past. She can relate. I'll use my parents are alive. And I would never once consider manipulating their words now, especially after they're gone to. It just. It's nauseating.
Host Burt
Now, I was gonna ask Jen a question, but she's in the middle. She's joking of a pollen fit right there. Because the reaction on Twitter this morning has been a little bit different. Like, people have been calling the commercial, like, brilliant.
Jen
And, yeah, I was gonna read some of the tweets that I got back after sending it out. One says, I thought it was on the tasteless side, but absolutely brilliant. Tiger looked really sad. Another one says, it's a great spot. It humanizes Tiger.
Co-host Burt
I don't understand how it humanizes Tiger. Like, I don't. I don't understand that comment.
Host Burt
Do you want Jeff to read those?
Brandon
Where are they?
Jen
Sorry.
Co-host Burt
I think it's a great spot. It humanizes Tiger and has everyone talking. I agree that it has everyone talking. I don't know how it humanizes him. That doesn't make sense to me. I thought it was on the tasteless side, but absolutely brilliant. Tiger woods ad is absolutely amazing. I think the Nike ad may be their way of slapping him on the wrist while keeping the biggest cash cow on the label.
Melissa
And one thing while they're going through that is when we had our discussion last night, Katie was looking at more of Nike and Tiger's relationship because there's also been the debate on the show about, you know, really who was. Who's in charge there. You know, whether Tiger, because he has been such a risk, and Nike's the only, you know, advertiser that stuck with him that he endorses and everything. And, you know, he. His endorsement is such a fraction of what Nike Golf, because that's really the portion of the Nike company that he has improved. I mean, it's like something like three to six times the amount of what they paid for him is what they've gotten in return for Nike Golf. Because before him, Nike Golf really was not competitive within the golfing equipment industry and that they've even named part of their building after him at the headquarters. They're so entwined with each other that it may just have been a case with Nike. It's going to cost us more money to let him go. Not only from advertising, but just renaming the building and doing all this stuff. And who else do we have than just keeping him?
Jen
You know, I found this on an advertising website. It was sent to me from a listener on Twitter. So thank you for sending me the link. But it's two different sides of the issue from the ad community. You know, looking at it from the advertising side of things, one of the quotes says using the out of context words of your dead father in an attempt to clean up your image just might be more offensive than nailing dozens of hookers across the US While your wife raises your kid. Okay, so that's on one side. And then the other comment below that says, oh, get over yourself. To the author of that. It's smart. It's tackling the issue head on. Most clients and agencies would be scared little girls afraid to even discuss it when attacked, attacked back. Plus, it shows how Tiger really feels about instead of what the media would like to paint.
Host Burt
Here's Frank. Good Morning. You're on Q100.
Caller / Listener
Hey, I just want to say that I think that everyone disagrees with what Tiger did, but I think for Melissa to take the stance that it's somehow offensive. It's not her father that Tiger's using, it's his father. He can, you know, use whatever memories however he wants, just like Melissa can use her father's memories however he wants. I don't see where this is somehow offensive because this is Tiger's father and he's choosing to use this clip in his way to get his point across.
Jen
But Tiger's father doesn't have a say.
Melissa
Right? Well, and I think that, you know, this goes back to every time somebody in the. That's high profile does anything that's controversial. People's opinions don't change based on what they did. It's whether they like him or not. You know, like if you're a fan of golf and you're a fan of Tiger woods, you're going to defend him. If you're not a fan of golf and you don't think Tiger's that big of a deal. I mean, yes, he's a great athlete, but you're tired of hearing about him, then you're going to think differently. I was not a golf fan going into this. I don't sit and watch golf on the weekends. I admire Tiger's ability to in the golfing world, but I also think that that ability has caused people to just disregard everything else that's been going on with him. And so, yeah, I'm offended. And I do think, yes, I. I
Jen
don't think people disregard it. I'm sorry to cut you off, but I don't think people disregard what he did or the mistakes that he made. I think it's a willingness to forgive him and allow him to come back, or there's an unwillingness for that. You know, whether you want to not. Not forgive him for the things that he's done in his personal life and not, you know, not sort of grant him that. You know, I guess my point is that we put a lot of people on pedestals, certainly celebrities and athletes and that kind of thing, but everybody's human and everybody's gonna make mistakes. He made a lot of them, no doubt, and he made a lot of horrible ones. But everybody's a human being, and anybody we put on a pedestal is gonna get knocked off that pedestal because we're all humans and we all fail. So.
Melissa
But I wanna regard that caller real quick before we get off on another line is because the caller was saying, why am I so offended by what he did? By being on the outside looking, not being with this veil of, oh, my God, Tigers like ga God. You know, I see his decision to use his father's voice to try to help his image as offensive. And, yes, it's not my father voice, and I would never do that.
Host Burt
Let me just ask one simple question as we wrap it up here. Okay? Jen and Jeff, you guys are down at the Masters this weekend, and you're going down there with some pretty influential people. All right, let's say they set up a dinner with Tiger Woods.
Co-host Burt
Yes.
Host Burt
Would you like to go and hang out with Tiger woods for an hour and have dinner? Jeff Dollar. Yeah, Jen?
Jen
I don't know if I would want to be a part of all that hoopla. I really don't. I would send my dad to go because.
Host Burt
Would you go? Would you attend a dinner with Tiger woods for an hour?
Jen
Probably not.
Co-host Burt
What do you mean, part of the hoopla?
Host Burt
Just like, the paparazzi and all.
Jen
There's, like, a lot of, like, hoopla and hype around it. And it seems like if I were to be a part of That I would just do it so that I could name drop it later. And that's not who I am.
Host Burt
Wendy, would you go?
Dolvett
Yes.
Host Burt
You would?
Advertiser / Sleep Number Rep
Knee jerk reaction.
Melissa
Yeah.
Host Burt
And Melissa's is obvious for sure.
Melissa
I was, I was given the opportunity to go to Masters this week and I turned it down.
Host Burt
Right.
Melissa
Because of Tiger.
Host Burt
I would go, I'd go to the dinner, I would go.
Jen
I just want to know what he has to say. I want to know what the people around him have to say about everything and what he's talking about.
Host Burt
That wouldn't even come up at a dinner.
Jen
You never know.
Host Burt
If you're in dinner with Tiger woods right now, that's the last thing that's being done. We'll talk about everything except Tiger Woods.
Co-host Burt
Here.
Host Burt
Bird show. The Bird show. We spent a lot of time this morning talking about the Masters, but we've been talking about the Masters as they pertain to Tiger Woods. But Jen and Jeff are actually going down there this weekend.
Jen
I'm so excited. I just, I cannot wait. My dad is coming with me and he's an avid golfer, has been his entire life. He's a golf fan over decades and decades. I mean growing up, that's all I remember watching. I mean during every single tournament it was on. It was a permanent fixture in my house growing up. And we used to play when I was a teenager, we played father daughter tournaments and I used to play golf when I was a kid growing up. And so to be able to take my dad to the Masters this weekend, like especially this weekend, but just to be able to take my dad as my date for the weekend is like, it's like a personal win for me in my whole life. I bet I'm like, if this is the reason that waking up at 3:45 in the morning for the last eight years, like if that is what I had to do to get to this point, to take my dad to have this experience with him for this weekend, then every single morning was worth it.
Host Burt
You have to try to, you know, you gotta kinda explain this to non golfers because the Masters, every golfer in the world, if you play golf in the world, and I'm not over hyping that, wants to play Augusta national, that's the one thing every golfer in the world has in common. It's such an elite experience to play and they don't hand out that many tickets every single year. When you consider how many people around the world want to go, it is really, really difficult to get a badge to get in. So Jen's Father is. He loves golf. So this is like, literally a dream come true.
Melissa
Y' all explain Augusta national, because I think for a lot of people who are new to Georgia may not understand that you can't buy tickets to go into the Masters.
Host Burt
Yeah.
Co-host Burt
All the tickets are owned by or are kept by people who've had them for years. It's not a ticketed event. Like, people talk about the World Series or talk about that NCAA tournament or. Or the Super Bowl. And you can buy. There are tickets available to the public. You'll pay a ton for them. But with Augusta Nashville, they don't release tickets for sale. You don't go to Ticketmaster and try to get in. You have to essentially get on a waiting list that maybe your kids will get the phone call someday because it's so tight and long.
Jen
Exclusive.
Co-host Burt
Yeah, exclusive. So what you have to do is know someone who knows someone who's a member or something like that, and then they can either pass the tickets down or kind of sell them. Not supposed to, but.
Host Burt
Right. And if it ever got back to, like, Augusta national, that you sold your badge, you'd be. You'd be booted. You'd never be able to get on.
Co-host Burt
Well, you can sell them. The thing. The problem is, people don't sell them. Because if I had. If I'm a member, I have my Augusta national badges, and I sell them to Burt, and then Burt goes there and has two beers too many and heckles Tiger or whatever might happen, or pulls out a camera or.
Host Burt
Can't have your phone out. Can't have camera out.
Co-host Burt
Yeah. Brings your phone on the course.
Jen
There'll be no tweets from the.
Co-host Burt
They come and they take those badges. Burt's gone. And then the family, whoever owned those badges, never gets them back. And it's.
Dolvett
I wouldn't.
Co-host Burt
I mean, if I had.
Jen
You don't want to risk it or whatever. And we have to say that the only reason that we're able to go is because Matthew Dwyer from Healthy Trim has the connections, and he has so graciously invited us to go and be a part of it.
Host Burt
So that's a big old hookup right there.
Jen
I mean, that's amazing. Healthy Trim is the greatest product I have never taken. That is the greatest product I have
Host Burt
never experienced, at least till Monday. It is
Caller / Listener
so big.
Jen
Thank you to Matthew.
Host Burt
Enjoy yourself, guys. It's a magical place. You can feel it. As soon as you walk into that place, you will feel it. It's amazing.
Jen
I'm just so excited to be able to share this with my dad and with Jeff and his friend George. That's going. I'm just. It's going to be so much fun.
Host Burt
Have a great time.
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Date: July 15, 2026
Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, Jen, Melissa, Dolvett, Brandon, and listeners
This episode delivers the signature blend of real talk, humor, and audience connection that defines The Bert Show’s approach to morning radio. The team invites listeners to share dramatic, intriguing, or secretive weekend plans that require a Monday morning check-in, sparking revealing stories and lively discussion. Later, the cast dives into a high-energy group intervention, aiming to boost intern Brandon's confidence and dating game with the help of coach Dolvett. The back half of the episode focuses on the controversy surrounding the Nike/Tiger Woods commercial featuring his late father’s voice, generating a passionate debate over branding, grief, public forgiveness, and media ethics. The show closes with Jen excitedly preparing to take her dad to the Masters, taking listeners inside the exclusivity and legacy of Augusta National.
Timestamps: 01:00–11:45
Timestamps: 13:16–25:59
Timestamps: 26:10–37:05
Nike released a black-and-white ad featuring Tiger Woods’ late father’s voice, attempting to pivot Tiger’s image post-scandal.
Timestamps: 37:19–40:51
This episode exemplifies why The Bert Show is a favorite for listeners seeking laughs, heartfelt stories, lively debates, and an unfiltered look at modern life’s drama—both their own and yours.