Full Show PT 3: Friday, January 9 [Vault]

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Bert Show
Episode: Full Show PT 3: Friday, January 9 [Vault]
Date: January 9, 2026
Host: The Bert Show Cast (Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, and more)

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Episode Overview

This energetic episode of The Bert Show brings the familiar mix of morning laughter, real talk, and listener engagement, focusing heavily on the chaos of college finals week. The show takes a humorous yet relatable dive into memories and advice for pulling all-nighters, confessions about “creative” ways to pass exams, and finishes with a wide-ranging, lively interview with music mogul Jermaine Dupri about his work, lifestyle, and the evolving culture in Atlanta.

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Main Segments & Key Discussion Points

1. Surviving Finals: The “Idiot’s Guide” to Pulling an All-Nighter

Timestamps: 01:49–17:15

• Finals Week Flashbacks (01:49–03:13)
  The hosts reminisce about the stress of college finals, cramming, and the familiar lies students tell themselves each term about doing better next time.

  "By the time finals fry you say, screw it, I'll... Whatever’s on the paper is all I can do." – Jen (02:23)

• Strategies (and Disasters) of All-Nighters (03:28–06:40)
  Both hosts and callers share their best—and sometimes worst—tips:

  • Pacing out cramming sessions by test dates
  • Getting up at 2am to try to "absorb more"
  • The dangers of caffeine or drastic changes to routines

    “Don’t drastically alter your eating, drinking, whatever habits. If you have to stay up all night, do it…as status quo as possible.” – Jeff (05:58)

• Listener Tips: Real & Ridiculous (06:40–17:15)

  • Making and listening to “tape recordings” of notes (07:05)
  • All-nighter pros: Never lie down, or you’ll sleep through the exam (07:47)
  • Memorizing essays by reciting and rewriting, knowing it will all vanish after the test (09:06)
  • Flashcards and visual aids, sometimes decorated with glitter for effect (09:51)
  • Full-throttle energy drinks and the fantasy of a Red Bull Ice Cream Truck on campus (10:39)
  • Night study sessions at IHOP, emphasizing eating with caffeine (11:42)
  • Focusing on key concepts, not every detail (12:24)
  • Adderall/Ritalin and the ethics (or lack thereof) of prescription sharing (13:54–15:39)
  • Knowing your final’s location and carrying study objects to aid memory recall (16:12)
  • Securing the “right” study group: “Smart friends” are clutch. (17:01)

  “The only thing that’s missing from the winning combination of Waffle House and Adderall is a study group with the smart person who’s actually been going to all the classes.” – Becky, Caller (16:50)

Memorable Moment:
One caller’s ultimate all-nighter method:
“Adderall, Waffle House and coffee…Just don’t overdo it, because you’ll get the shakes.” – Laura, Caller (15:09)

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2. Creative (and Questionable) Ways to Pass Finals

Timestamps: 17:31–25:55

• Shortcuts & Schemes:
  • Swapping majors en masse just to recycle the same assignments and keep the party going (18:42)
  • Charming or flirting with professors for better grades

    “Why don’t you just give me a hug and I’ll give you an A.” – Tino, Caller, recalling a professor anecdote (19:24)

  • Crying (sometimes theatrically) to sway professors

    “I pulled the girl card out and went to my professor, who was an older man, and sat in his office and cried. I was going to get a D, and I got a B.” – Beth, Caller (21:10)

  • Doing "errands" for extra credit (with one caller recounting being asked to clean a professor’s house in a cheerleading uniform—for an Ethics class.) (23:51–25:51)

Notable Quote:
“What class was it? Funny enough, it was ethics.” – Anonymous Caller (25:28)

Hosts’ Reaction:
“You couldn't write that better. You really couldn't.” – Host (25:41)

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3. Live Guest: Jermaine Dupri – Atlanta, Music, and Lifestyle

Timestamps: 26:00–44:41

• Night Owl Habits & Work Ethic (26:01–27:22)

  • Jermaine speaks on working late, sometimes “two days in a row,” how his routines have evolved, and why he used to be even more nocturnal.

  "I used to go, like, two days in a row, like, all night. ... Now, I'm getting a little older, so I can't do it like that." – Jermaine Dupri (26:45)

• Breaking into Jermaine’s World: Collaboration, Fame, and Atlanta’s Rise (27:21–31:19)

  • Process for working with him: “Go to the bank.”
  • Projects come to him now; gives a shout to Jessica Simpson for reaching out.
  • Discussion of celebrity, privacy, and how some keep things under wraps vs. the tabloid spectacle.

  “If you never come out and publicly say it…when you do, then it becomes everybody's face.” – Jeff (30:54)

• Relationship with Janet Jackson (31:19–33:22)

  • Friendship blossoming into romance
  • Never had an argument (“if we have a fight, it’s over”)

• Industry Events Stories (33:23–34:32)

  • Kentucky Derby, celebrity run-ins (Usher, Michael Jordan)
  • Playful ribbing about rental cars and “Grand Ams”

• Producer Role and Upcoming Projects (35:54–37:43)

  • Midtown Music Festival—Jermaine running the Urban Stage, featuring acts like Game, Sierra, Bobby Valentino, Black Eyed Peas, and more.

• On Mariah Carey’s Comeback

  • Collaboration on her new album, including a vocal appearance (37:13)

• Entrepreneurship: Cafe Dupree (38:04–41:54)

  • Opening a health-focused café in Atlanta for those who want to “eat cleaner.” (38:10)
  • Contrasts nightlife stereotypes and discusses how health changes have affected his energy and work.

  “If you eating bad like that and having to get up and do what you have to do...it just don’t work right. You just crash.” – Jermaine Dupri (39:32)

• Atlanta’s Music Scene and Civic Pride (42:03–44:32)

  • Creating “Welcome to Atlanta,” desire to see it used as the city’s anthem.
  • Advocacy for Atlanta’s music industry to be seen as the “new Motown.”

  “Atlanta's too vibrant not to have a theme song…It should be played at every event.” – Jermaine Dupri (42:10)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On All-Nighter Success:

  “Because you wouldn’t have anything left at all. I mean, the minute it leaves your brain and gets down to the paper, like, oh yeah, I remember that…gone.” – Jeff (03:33)

• On Caffeine-Induced Mishaps:

  “Not only did it keep me up, but I practically crapped my pants at my history pre-1812 final.” – Jeff (05:08)

• On Memorization Techniques:

  “I would read my notes out loud and tape record them, then play them over and over again all night.” – Caller (06:48)

• On “Creative” Extra Credit:

  “But next thing I know, he has a cheerleading uniform out for me to wear while I’m cleaning.” – Caller (24:03)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:49 – Finals week intro and nostalgia
• 03:28 – Cramming and study techniques
• 05:58 – Dangers of caffeine and changing habits
• 06:48 – Callers’ all-nighter advice begins
• 13:54 – Discussion of Adderall, “study drugs”
• 17:31 – Confessions: Creative ways to boost grades
• 26:00 – Jermaine Dupri Joins the Show
• 35:54 – Midtown Music Festival projects
• 38:04 – Cafe Dupree and health talk
• 42:03 – “Welcome to Atlanta,” city pride
• 44:41 – Wrap up with Jermaine Dupri

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Tone and Style

The tone is conversational, witty, irreverent, and self-deprecating, consistent with The Bert Show’s “real and funny” ethos. There’s lots of lively banter, playful teasing, and a willingness to discuss embarrassing or taboo student behaviors with humor and honesty.

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Conclusion

This episode is a classic mix of frantic finals nostalgia, offbeat “study” advice, and candid listener confessions, capped by a revealing, breezy conversation with Jermaine Dupri about work habits, Atlanta’s culture, and the music business. It’s a perfect “study break” for anyone needing to laugh at the absurdity of college life—or reminisce about their own exam-week disasters.

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For more tips, confessions, or to share your own story, check out The Bert Show online or listen to future episodes!

Transcript

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[Host (possibly Bert)]

The first show this is the the week that UGA students are taking their finals here guys, remember.

[Jen]

Oh God.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Let's go back quite a to our colleges. You know that last couple of weeks of the semester and how completely stressed out you are. Papers and finals and sometimes two and three finals on the same day.

[Jen]

And you know how it's always like, let's say the month before finals comes, you tell yourself, okay, this is gonna be different. You know what I'm really really gonna.

[Bridget]

Do well, I'M really gonna go out.

[Jen]

Yeah, exactly. I'm really gonna. I'm gonna set up a system in which I'm going to do this right. And then by the time finals fried that, you say, screw it, I'll. Whatever. Whatever's on the paper is all I can do. That's all I can give you. And just see, you know, and then, you know, it's the odds on what your grade's gonna be.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Did you do this where you tried to space out like you're cramming because you knew like you had a test on Tuesday, but you had like three on Thursday, so you'd only study for the test for Tuesday up to Tuesday, and then on Wednesday you use that time to study for all three of the other tests.

[Jen]

Or how about the theory that your brain will absorb more information if you get up at 2 o' clock in the morning before the ex. Did you ever hear this theory that you get some sleep, but then you get up about two or three o' clock in the morning and then you study right before the exam? Apparently you're supposed to retain more knowledge or some crap like that. I tried that too.

[Bridget]

You're stressing out so much while you're cramming that you read the same page 10 times and you're like, God, I gotta remember this. God, I gotta remember this. I gotta memorize it. I gotta. And then you're like, okay, I've read it 10 times and all I'm doing is stressing about having to memorize it. I'm not actually memorizing anything.

[Jeff]

I would love to give people finals like 72 hours after they actually take the finals.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Nothing.

[Jeff]

Because you wouldn't have anything left at all. I mean, the minute it leaves your brain and gets down to the paper like, oh yeah, I remember that. The overthrow of Russia. Okay, got that gone. Like you write it down.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Out of the head.

[Jeff]

It's going from, from brain to arm to hand to pen to God, forever empty.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

All right, we're going to need your help on this. If you successfully pulled all nighters and took your finals the next day, what we'd like you to do here is create an idiot's guide to pulling an all nighter for any of the students that over the next couple of days have to pull these all nighters and cram for their finals. And I know some of you gonna call up and say you're encouraging students to wait till the last minute.

[Jeff]

Well, it's the last week of finals, you dumbass. Shut the hell up.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

And they're gonna do it anyway. Since there was the first college. You know what all nighters happen. We all wait to the very last minute.

[Jermaine Dupree]

So shaved your phone club.

[Jeff]

I will, I'll start it off with a hint that I learned the hard way. Because going to college or even. I've never been a fan of coffee. Never had, never drank coffee. Never. I mean the most caffeine I would have would be, you know, like a soda every now and again. And I don't even, even to this day. Like if Bert sees me getting a soda out of the vending machine, he know he's like, ooh, late night last night. Because I don't, I just don't drink caffeine. So. Yeah, and I was never a big soda fan. So like it was always juice and water. So I decided to take one of them caffeine pills after cramming once.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

They look so small. Like how could this possibly get me keep me up all night?

[Jeff]

Well, not only did it keep me up, but I practically crapped my pants of my history pre1812 final. So you have to remember that not only will it give you a nice buzz, but I have heard the rumors of what coffee does to your, you.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Know, it jacks you up, your metabolism for sure.

[Bridget]

Right?

[Jeff]

So I took the pill and went into the class and got, you know, I was, you know, halfway through an essay on the, you know, us revolution or something and all of a sudden, hello.

[Bridget]

All right.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

So your, your addition to the idiot's guide to pulling in an all nighter.

[Jeff]

Would be don't poop yourself.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Well, if you have something a little bit better than that. 404-741-1005 so you would say if you don't normally take caffeine, that's not the night to start. Or at least keep it to a couple of cups.

[Jeff]

I will even expand on it. Don't drastically alter your either. Eating, drinking, whatever habits. Like if you normally, like if you've heard some rumor that eat a big meal before, you know, like, don't just try to stay as normal as you can. If you have to stay up all night, do it. Try to maintain everything as status quo as possible. Like, you know, runners aren't supposed to buy new shoes right before a big race, that type of thing.

[Jen]

I think I'm going to keep this right on the caffeine though, because I think for exams, like going on what Jeff said, it can come out the other end. I had a friend who never drank caffeine and made a pot of coffee and drank the whole pot before the exam and puked her way to the exam. Yeah, because it upset her stomach so badly. So I'm going to just stick with if you don't drink caffeine, don't start now.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Stay away from it. Becky. Hi, guys. Hi. We're gonna take you off the voice disguiser. What are you gonna add to the Idiot's guide to pulling an all nighter for finals?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

I would read my notes out and tape them. Read them out loud and tape record them and then just play them over and over again all night. I would put my boombox on repeat and just keep going all night.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

So as you were sleeping, you thought subliminally you were getting those messages in your head so you'd keep them up all night.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Yeah, it works. It has worked for every class I've ever taken. That's all I've ever done.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

And you graduated from University of Florida. Good morning, Micah.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Hi. How are you doing?

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Good. And yourself?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

I'm doing great. I'm a big fan. Listen to you every chance I get.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Thank you very much.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Well, I just want to tell you I'm an architecture student at Southern Polytech. Okay. Pull an all nighter two, three times a week on a good week.

[Jen]

Okay.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Yeah. So I've learned from experience, if you're pulling an all nighter and let's say you got a class at 8 o' clock in the morning and you think you want to pull, oh, I don't know, I'll go home and get an hour sleep. Don't do it.

[Jen]

So if you're up, just stay up all night is what you're saying.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

If you're up, stay up all night. You will fall asleep in your during your final. You have a better chance of staying awake and passing your final if you don't go to sleep.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

I agree with that. Also.

[Jen]

I agree with that. I did that before I forgot what it was like some science class or something. And I did the let me just take a little nap and I ended up running because he was. The professor was really strict about you can't be late or whatever. So I ran across campus in my night shirt like I threw a pair of jeans on and put my hair up in a ponytail look wretched. But I got to class on time and he laughed at me when he had me the exam because obviously I had slept right up to the time.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

And don't start playing those mind games with yourself like at 3:30 or 4 in the morning where you go, you know what I'LL just lie on the couch for 15 minutes. Because 15 minutes is three hours and you're gonna miss your final. Good morning, Autumn. You're on all the hits. Q100. Hi.

[Christy]

Hey.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

I actually had my final yesterday in.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

What and at what school?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Georgia State.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Okay.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

And yeah, I totally crammed the night before, but then I had to go to work Monday. So I got to school early yesterday and me and one of my friends, we had this huge essay question that we had to memorize. And she's one of those teachers that wants you to memorize every detail or she marks the whole thing wrong. So we sat there and we kept calling back the essay question to each other, like reciting it out loud and like rewriting it over and over and over again.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

So you memorize your essay questions?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Yeah, and I memorized it all for the whole. For the test. But today I couldn't tell you any of it. But it got me through the test.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

That's the crappy thing about cramming is you're not going to. Like Jeff said, I mean, as soon as the test is over, it's gone. It's out of the pencil, out of the pen, gone.

[Bridget]

You know, what always worked for me was flashcards. I know it sounds so elementary school, but when you had a lot of vocabulary to remember or, or like just a lot of like little facts to remember in different classes, I always did flashcards. Cause I'm a visual learner. So if I could see like the big word on one side and the meaning on the other, I could somehow recall that when I was at the test. So that definitely helped with all nighters. Cause it was like a way to like actually write it out. And that way you're kind of learning and then be able to visually remember it and flip it.

[Jeff]

There's Jen Hobby somehow evolving crafts into what she's doing.

[Bridget]

Yes. And markers and colors. Yes. Very fun.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

404-741-1005 it's the idiot's to cramming for a test or you know, pulling your all nighter.

[Jeff]

And all the words that she had on the vocabulary cards had that special sorority with the dots at the end of every. Like on the end. It had the little big. The big dots at the end of.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Every angle so that smiley faces over the eyes.

[Jeff]

Right. And they're all very cheerful and there's somehow glitter involved and there's little daisies.

[Jen]

All around it too.

[Jeff]

The important word. She wrote the word with glue and then sprinkled glitter on it.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Good morning.

[Bridget]

Really important Ones, right?

[Host (possibly Bert)]

All the hits. Q100.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Good morning, Bridget.

[Bridget]

How are y'?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

All?

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Good. How are you?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Good. Okay. I know that this last week I've been taking finals and the big thing that I was doing, I was stocking up on energy drinks.

[Jen]

Uh huh.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

So yeah, like all through the night and somehow or another I was still hyper in the morning. So I'm like skipping the class and trying to get my, you know, test done. But it seems to work. I don't know, maybe I'm add and it just reacts that way.

[Jen]

So energy drinks is your suggestion?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Yeah, energy drinks through the night and you'll be set for the morning.

[Jeff]

I'd love to.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Was your energy drink of choice right.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Now it would probably be full throttle.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Okay. And what school are you talking about?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Georgia State University.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Congratulations on getting. Thank you.

[Jeff]

I'd love to look at Red Bull sales like the two weeks around finals on like a college campus, you know, and just see what percentage, you know, they probably do 30% of their business the last two weeks of the year.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

You know what I mean? You could probably make a fortune on college campuses also, like do it like.

[Jeff]

An ice cream truck.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah, man. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Come through with the Red Bull.

[Jeff]

Hey, the Red Bull truck is here. All these zombies are out at your window.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

It's like Night of the Living Dead.

[Bridget]

It's like the beer tub girls. You know, normally they have like the Bud Light chicks selling the beer in every corner.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Do the Red Bulls.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Good morning, Olivia. You're on all the hits Q100.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Hey, I'm @ nursing school at Georgia State and last semester when we pulled an all nighter before one of our exams, we went to.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

IHOP. Why.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

IHOP? IHOP is open 24 hours a day. And when you are starving and you feel like you can't learn anything else, you just have to go to ihop and they'll be happy and cheerful and serve you really good food and you can study while.

[Bridget]

Eating.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Okay. IHOP it.

[Bridget]

Is. I think that's a good point too, is that you should eat. Especially if you're gonna do these energy drinks or you're gonna do a whole bunch of coffee or whatever. You can't do those things with no food in your.

[Jeff]

System. You're taking the test like.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

This? Yeah, I'm.

[Jeff]

Good. No, I'm. Seriously, I'm fine. If you can just hold my hand steady, I'll write the words. I just crap.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Myself. Hey Melody. You're on all the hits.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Q100. Good.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Morning.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Hi. I know a lot of People have said they've got food and drinks and all that stuff, but the most important thing is make sure that you pick out the important things that you're supposed to learn. So many people try to learn, like, you know, 10 weeks or a 16 week semester in one night. And you can't do that. It's just impossible. So you really should focus and pick out the highlights and of what went on in class and not try and read, you know, six chapters in one night or.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Whatever. Okay, so just the important stuff. Because if you try to do.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Answers, the important stuff, pick out your buzz words, you know, pick out the topics that were discussed in class, study your notes, but don't try and read, like every chapter that you went.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Through. Got.

[Jeff]

It. I know. So I know somebody that I went to college with who totally screwed up during one of our finals. And the way that, you know, this is one of those teachers that 50% of the grade is the midterm and 50% was the final. And it was all based on, like one book. And he studied the entire. Wrong book, didn't pay attention to the class, went in, read the whole entire book, studied the whole. He's like, got it all wrapped up. I know everything about presidential history before 1800. And we're like, dude, the finals. 1800.

[Jen]

1899. Oh, that's like class rage. Not road rage, but class.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Rage. You're pulling fire alarms to get everybody out of school at that point. Hey, Kate, you're on all the hits.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Q100. Okay, I have one word for you.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Adderall. Adderall. What is.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Adderall? It's a drug for add. Okay, so it helps you study, it helps you learn everything and it. And it keeps you up all.

[Bridget]

Night. It's true. I did take somebody's Ritalin one.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Time. I mean, you can't go.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Wrong. Save.

[Bridget]

That. Just stay up and.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Study. How do you get your hands on Adderall? I mean, I'm guessing it's prescription drug.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Right? It's a prescription drug, but, you know, friends will give it.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Up. All right, so you gotta go to all your friends and ask them if they're on.

[Bridget]

Adderall. Find your ADD friends early in the semester and then rely on them when it comes to final. Yeah, they like to, hey, dude.

[Jen]

I just need a little.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Hit. Just a little.

[Jen]

Hit. Okay? Just a little hit right.

[Jeff]

Now. I like to hang out at school yards on recess and look at the kids spazzing out on the swing set and then try to make a.

[Jen]

Deal with them before they Head back in through the.

[Jeff]

Fence. I go out with Crash after and shake down eight year olds. Hey, dude, you got eight. What do you got? Adderall, Ritalin. What do you.

[Samantha]

Got? What do you.

[Jen]

Got? I got a final coming up. Dude, come on, help me.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Out. Help me.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Out. There's a.

[Jeff]

Dude. I gotta tickle me Elmo in the.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Car. If we had a dollar for everybody that was calling up talking about Adderall, we'd all be rich and out of the.

[Jen]

Show. Are you.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Kidding? Good morning, Laura. You're on all the hits.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Q100. Hi. I am graduating from UGA this semester. I'm actually all done, so I just have to walk. But I have the ultimate way to stay up all.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Night.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Okay. What you do first of all is usually they give you a study guide. Write down all the answers to the words or whatever on the study guide and consolidate that onto a couple sheets of paper. Then you take some Adderall and then you go to the Waffle House. And the ladies up there are really nice, especially the one at Five Points. They're great and they will keep you in coffee. And anytime you get hungry, just have your waffle, your egg sandwich, and you're good to.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Go. So the winning combination is Adderall, Waffle House and.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Coffee. It's perfect. Just don't overdo it because you'll get the.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Shakes. All.

[Bridget]

Right. Did you guys ever have a final given in a room that wasn't your normal.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Classroom?

[Bridget]

No. That screwed me up one time because, you know, you're cramming, you're staying up all night, you have no sleep, you've got all this information rattling around in your brain, and you show up in the classroom where you normally were in the class, and the final's not.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

There. And it takes you out of your routine a little.

[Bridget]

Bit. It totally takes you. Totally throws you off. So you gotta go to some other random auditorium. And I remember just, like, running across campus to make sure I could find it. So I would say also make sure you know where the classroom is, where it's being.

[Jen]

Given. I have one more that I forgot about that. Actually, a professor suggested that really did help. If you are playing with anything, like if you have one of the stress balls or if you have, you know, a can of Coke or whatever you have in your hand at the time you're studying, take it to the classroom with you. Because somehow your brain will associate whatever you're playing with with whatever you were learning at the time, and it will help you retain that information. So I Forgot what I use. Like even silly putty one time I think gave a new silly putty and went into the exam with.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

It. Okay, all of these are gonna be posted on allthehitsq100.com Again, it's the idiot's guide to pulling an all nighter for your finals. Becky, you'll be the last caller.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Here. Hey, good.

[Jeff]

Morning. Good.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Morning. Okay, the only thing that's missing from the winning combination of Waffle House and Adderall is a study group with the smart person who's actually been going to all the classes the whole.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Semester. That's.

[Jeff]

Clutch. That's the winner right.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

There. You gotta pick out that person right off the bat and get.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Cozy. Real only way you'll make sure you have all the right answers to study guide and you're cramming for the right.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Stuff.

[Bridget]

Smart. Find the producer Tracy of your.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Group. Exactly. All right, Go to all the hits q100.com for that. The Bird show. We were just talking yesterday about UGA having their finals. This is a really stressful time if you're in college right now because your finals this.

[Bridget]

Week. I know. And then they always seem to line them up where you'll have like one on Tuesday and then five on.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Friday. And most do the right thing. Study for your test, even if it's cramming in order to get that good grade. But let's say you haven't done that and you know you're going into the final and it just doesn't matter. I mean, you are. You're. You screwed. You're totally screwed. We want to know, other than studying, what did you do to get a better grade? And the phone lines are lit up with people. And Mark here would like to use the voice disguiser. Good morning, Mark. You're on all the hits.

[Mark]

Q100. Hey, Bert. How are.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

You? Good, sir. And.

[Mark]

You? I'm doing all.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Right. All.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Right. What'd you do other than studying to assure that you're going to get a good.

[Mark]

Grade? Well, I went to school in Indiana and I was in a fraternity, and we basically like to party a lot. Penny pitcher night. Go out pretty much every night of the week. So we got to a point where we realized that we were all not really going anywhere fast with our majors. So we all switched our major to history. And we started realizing that if we did the projects, we could pass them around because you have pretty much the same history courses. So 37 of us got history degrees from Ball State.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

University. There was 37 of you guys that Switched your majors to history so you could all cheat off each.

[Mark]

Other. That's.

[Jen]

Correct. And keep partying. That is.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Fun. God bless the Hoosiers. Thank you, sir. And good morning. Tino. We don't need the voice disguiser for this, Jeff, you're on all the hits. Q100.

[Tino]

Tino. Yes.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yes. Hey, hey, hey, hey. What's up.

[Tino]

Man? Not much, man. How you doing? I love your.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Show. Thank you.

[Tino]

Sir. Appreciate it. Well, when I was, I graduated last year from college, I went to a small private school up in Rome, Georgia. And my buddy and I, we used to just flirt a lot with our female professors. And I think it very much.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Paid off because you ended up getting a.

[Tino]

What? Well, there was this one professor and we went on a study abroad trip with her and it was really, really laid back. There was not a whole lot of work to be done in that class. And when we got back, she just happened to be our human sexuality professor. And we ended up not doing too well on tests. We got Cs and Bs and somehow we pulled an A in the.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Class. What a.

[Tino]

Struggle. Yeah, I don't know what, I mean, people can say what they want, but my one friend, actually, he went to ask her what her. What his final grade was and she's like, well, you know, I don't know what is right now. Why don't you just give me a hug and I'll give you an A. And he did. And I mean, I had an A and we both had A's and some of the other kids who we knew did better than us on tests have getting Bs and.

[Bridget]

Stuff. So was she an attractive female.

[Tino]

Professor? Yeah, I mean, she was. Okay.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what are you inferring, Jen, what are you.

[Bridget]

Inferring? I don't know, I just was.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Asking. I don't know. I do know, but I don't want to say. What are you.

[Jeff]

Saying? If she's an uglier teenager, she doesn't get a lot of attention from good looking.

[Tino]

Guys? Well, no, she wasn't ugly, but I mean, she was definitely much older than the girls I.

[Jeff]

Dated. So, I mean, what are you.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Thinking? What were you thinking? That's what I thought you were saying.

[Bridget]

Also. I just was asking, what were you thinking? I wasn't thinking.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Anything. Tina, what school was.

[Tino]

That? Well, it was Barry College up in Rome.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Georgia. Okay, thank you, sir. All right, so just a hug. You get an A for a hug up.

[Jen]

There? Yeah, I'm just, you know, when it's a female Is he funny? But I'm just thinking, man, if it was a sorority girl and a male, you know, said, hey, just come here and give me a hug. It's creepy. I don't know why there's a.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Double standard, other way around. It's.

[Jen]

Okay. Yeah, well, it's not. It shouldn't be okay, but it doesn't seem as offensive. I don't know.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Why. Hey.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Beth?

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yes? Other than studying, what did you do to get a good.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Grade? I cried. I pulled the girl card out and went to my professor, who was an older man, and sat in his office and.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Cried. What were you gonna get? And then after the cry, what did you end up.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Getting? I was going to get a D, and I got a.

[Jen]

B. All right, I'm calling out Jacqueline Taylor, a girl I went to high school with. She was the best crier of anybody I knew. She could turn it on and off, and she used it, and I mean, she had it and she used it, and I'm sure she got away with a lot of stuff because of.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

That. That's exactly what I did. I knew how to turn on the tears, and so I had them ready for about two minutes and went into his office and sat there and.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Cried. I want to hear this Academy Award performance. I want to hear a little bit of that. Come on, turn it.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Off. I can't do it right now. I want to see it in person, for it to be as.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Believable. Why was that grade so important for you to have to go to such extreme.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Measures? Well, I went to Georgia Tech, and a D meant that I was going to have to take the class over again. And so he just volunteered the B. I didn't even have to volunteer. I was, you know, willing to settle for a C in the class just so I wouldn't have to take it.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Over. Thank you. We just lost somebody on that wanted to go on the voice disguiser that was claiming she used to go out to have drinks with her professors all the time, and she got a good grade just because she was having drinks with.

[Jeff]

Them. She was, you know, just. She wasn't flirting or.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Anything. She was just casual. Jesse, you're on all the hits.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Q100. Hey, how you.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Doing? Good. How are you.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Doing?

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Great. What college we talking.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

About? Well, it was out of State College. I don't really want to say, though, because I don't. I don't know. It was a while ago, but, I mean, I just don't really want to.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Say. You tell us what.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

State? Well, no, I just don't really want to.

[Jen]

Say. Well, there's a lot of colleges where I'm staying and we can't guess it by degree.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Back. Yeah, they can't take your grade away.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Now. Well, it was really a weird.

[Jen]

Situation.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Okay? I never went to class to this one class, and I ended up missing, like four pop quizzes. And there was just definitely no way to pass. And I went to my professor and I made up some really crazy excuse and I've even forgotten what. What it was right now. But he. He said, well, you know, I'll let you do some personal projects for me. Some, you know, like running errands and cleaning for him and filing and things like that. So I got about two weeks into it. I was cleaning at his house. And this might.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Sound. You were cleaning his.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

House? Very movie ish or.

[Jeff]

Something. You were cleaning his.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

House. But next thing I know, he has a cheerleading uniform out for me to wear while I'm.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Cleaning. Wait, we gotta back up here for a second. So you're cleaning his house and he breaks out a cheerleading uniform and hands it to.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

You? Good question, right? Yeah. I really want you to wear this while you're.

[Jen]

Cleaning. Oh.

[Bridget]

No. Which means you weren't the first one to wear it.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Honey. Yeah, I was a little freaked out about it, but he didn't try to lay a hand on me, you know, he didn't touch me, didn't say anything sexual to me.

[Jen]

But. So you put it.

[Jermaine Dupree]

On? How did.

[Jen]

You. Wait, hold on. She. So you put it.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

On? I did, I did. I just. And I was like, well, what's this about? And he was like, I just. I just like to, you know, see you cleaning. And so. So I put it down and yeah, I cleaned in it. He didn't ever do anything to me. And I thought, well, what a wacky guy. You know, What a perv. But I mean, hey, I got a B plus in the.

[Jeff]

Class. Did you have to spend. Did you have to spend any time thinking about. From the time that he said, you know, here, I'm gonna give you some extra credit. But it involves cleaning my house. Like, did you sleep on that or did you just kind of go.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Okay?

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Or. Well, I just kind of went okay on that. And I didn't really feel threatened or anything at the time, so just curious. I don't know. I guess I was young and naive, but I don't know. I didn't feel threatened by him at all. But the cheerleading uniform was really crazy when I look back.

[Bridget]

Now. What class was.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

It? Funny enough it was ethics.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Class. No, it was not. No, it was not. Are.

[Jen]

You. You couldn't write that.

[Jeff]

Better. You really.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Couldn'T. So degrading enough that he wants you to clean the house, then ultra degrading that he wants you to put the cheerleading uniform on. And the top of the whole thing is an ethics.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Class.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. Beautiful. Thank.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

You.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Thanks.

[Jeff]

Bye.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Bye. Get.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

It? The Bird Show. Jermaine Dupree in studio. What is up.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Dude? What's.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Up? Look at you at 8:13. Have you even gone to sleep.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Yet? Yeah, I went to sleep. Yeah, I went to sleep early so I could get.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Here. You didn't need to take the Adderall.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Instead. I would have needed to take.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

That. Like, what is your typical night? Like, I'm assuming that you are burning the midnight oil most.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Nights. Oh, yeah. To at least. I mean, I went to like, four last night anyway, so.

[Jeff]

Four. And that's going to bed.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Early? Yeah, that's early. All.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Right. Is that working or is that.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Playing? That's.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Working. And what were you working.

[Jermaine Dupree]

On? Jagged Edge, I think. Yeah, we're working on a new.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Album. You got so many lined up, you're like, I can't remember who it.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Is. They wasn't there. So that's why I couldn't remember. But.

[Bridget]

Yeah. Are you a natural night owl? Is that why you're working at night, or does it just seem quieter? Like the phone's not ringing, the BlackBerry's not.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Going? No. I used to be worse. I used to be worse than I used to go, like, two days in a row, like, all night. It used to be like my thing to go, like two days in a.

[Bridget]

Row. Just get in a groove. You just don't want to.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Stop. No, just. That used to just be my thing. I don't know. Just go. I'm getting a little older, so I can't do it like.

[Jen]

That. Now, if four is going to bed early, then. Now, what would have been the average time that you go to bed.

[Jermaine Dupree]

When? Last night, if I wasn't coming here? Probably like six o'. Clock.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Okay. Is that.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Right?

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. All right. Jermaine Dupri on all the hits. Q100 in the bird show. How does the whole thing work? Like, if somebody wants to work with Jermaine Dupree, what are the channels you have to go.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Through? Go to the.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Bank. That's the first.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Thing. That's the first thing. Depends on what type of artists and, you know, if I want to work with you, that's pretty much it. It's not really what percentage of.

[Jeff]

Artists do you seek out versus who seek you out like that you end up working.

[Jermaine Dupree]

With? Ooh, it's probably they. Probably. They all find me now at this point. I mean, if it's established artists, most of the time I'm just working with all my new artists though. Should say my new artists, but my artists, you know, Bow wows, the Anthony's and all the other people that.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

We usually work with with the established artists. What do they do if they. If you have no contact with them before and they just have this idea that they want to work with Jermaine Dupree, what do they do? Leave a message for you on your.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Voicemail. And I mean, they sent them. They sent a message out to somebody. I don't know, like Jessica Simpson sent a message to me about a month, about. About two weeks ago that she wanted to work. That she wanted me to work on her new.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Album. Now this is the part that I'm really interested in. When you say she sent a message out, does she make that call.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Herself? I don't know.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Anything. Smoke.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Signals? Yeah, I don't. It smokes. I don't know where it came from. Somebody called me and told me that it got to my office some kind of.

[Jeff]

Way. Are you sure that's about work? Cause her and Nick Lachey are having all sorts of.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Problems. Yeah, she come to my studio, my boys at the studio might attack her since they know that she might have a little problem over.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

There. Tremaine Dupree on all his.

[Bridget]

Q100. I read somewhere that you have pictures of other producers hanging in your studio that motivates you to.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Work. Is that true? No way. I got motivation wall.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Though. What's.

[Jermaine Dupree]

That? Women on my wall. It's a lot of.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Women. You got like the most beautiful.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Woman. It's like it's. You make me wanna window. Oh, a wall. It's called the you make me wanna.

[Bridget]

Wall.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Okay. And it was created like a long time ago. Like back when we did the Usher record yout Make Me Wanna. That's what it came from. Like we was looking at the wall saying she make me wanna. She make me.

[Jen]

Wanna. And it's still.

[Jermaine Dupree]

There. And it was only three or four girls at that time. So then the wall just became like the great yout make me wanna wall. Now it's like 20 girls on one wall. And then it's like a super exclusive wall on the other.

[Bridget]

Side. Who's on.

[Jermaine Dupree]

It? We have to know the girls that's on the wall. It just. I don't even know their names. It's just like different girls that I see in magazines and different things like that that just really. They pictures look right. I think in my. After, you know, after I start recording, I'm gonna be like a photographer or.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Something. Oh, I think it's just getting creepy now. I think it just got creepy.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Man. I'm gonna be a photographer. I like, you know, I'm taking these good, nice pictures up.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

There. So what does Janet say when she's there and she's looking at all these other.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Walls? She's on the wall? Yeah, she's on the wall? Yeah, she on the.

[Jen]

Wall. She better be on the.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Wall. She on the wall. It's girls that come to the studio, they don't make the wall. That's really been pissed off. Why ain't on that wall? So.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. Have you ever publicly just. I mean, cuz everybody sort of knows that you and Janet Jackson are dating. I mean, but have you ever publicly said, yes, we are a.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Couple? No, I don't think you have to do that. Like you don't. I mean, I don't know. Some people get off doing that, like that Nick and Jessica thing. I don't think you have to do that. Cause it's like, I mean, at some point, like, who cares? You know, I mean, like everybody cares. Are you kidding me? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I think that's how I think. Like at some point, like, okay, you seen somebody together, you seen them together. Okay, so what do you.

[Jeff]

Think? If you never come out and publicly say it like that, because obviously Nick and Jessica come out and they say it and then they do a TV show together and they put it in everybody's face. So the minute they have an argument, every cover is, you know, like they're breaking up their divorce, he's buying another house. But if you, if you just keep it under the radar and you keep it, you know, quiet or whatever, then do you think the tabloids. Not necessarily keep it quiet, but they're just like, well, we're gonna leave it alone, you.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Know? No, I think, I mean, I think the tabloids, they gonna always try to be in your business no matter what. I mean, that's how the magazine works as far as us paying attention to the magazine. That's why we look at it, to see what's going on in people's lives. But I think, I mean if, if you, if you the subject most of the time you don't even really pay attention to the Fact that you should promote it. Like, I think every time I see somebody on TV with somebody, I think they dating and I just assume and keep my, you know, keep it going. Like if they are, they are. If they not, they not. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, dating is no different than in the entertainment world than it is with anybody else. If I seen you leave here tonight with somebody, I'm gonna think, oh, look at this girl he got with.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Him. Everybody wants to be up in your business though, especially. Cause you got two high profile celebrities dating each other. Everybody's interested in.

[Jermaine Dupree]

That. I mean, but I guess it ain't no different though. I mean, I guess I wanna know. I mean, you know, I guess if people want to know. But like I said without saying it, it don't really mean nothing. Like you know it if you don't know it. Now you.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Stupid. You say it's no different than any other relationship. So tell us about the last fight that Janet and you.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Had. We ain't never had no fight. We like homeboys. We don't do that if we have a fight. I ain't the type of dude that had no fight with no girl. If I have a fight with. With my girl or something like that, it's.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Over. You guys have never had a dis. Never yelled at each.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Other? Nah, it don't go like. It can't go like that. Not with me. If it go like that, it's over.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Really? First argument, it's.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Over. Yeah. Cause I don't have patience for all that. All that arguing and going back and forth. Like that's not like that ain't me. Like, if I gotta do that, it's over.

[Bridget]

Huh? I wanna know how you guys met. I wanna know how the love sparked in the first.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Place. I did too. No, nah. We just was friends. We've been friends for a minute, you know what I mean? Like a long time. And we just was talking, kicking it, hanging.

[Bridget]

Out. When's the first time you guys met in.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Person? Oh, long time ago. I can't remember, but it was crisscross.

[Bridget]

Days.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Really? Really. We saw your picture in the paper this week at the Kentucky.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Derby.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. Hanging out with Michael.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Jordan.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. Jeff was there for that.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Also. Jeff was.

[Jeff]

There. Did you go to the sorta. Did you go to the Barnstable Brown thing? Yeah, yeah, I stood outside of.

[Jermaine Dupree]

That. Oh yeah. Somebody would recognize him. Like he was outside with.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Terry. She couldn't get in. She couldn't get.

[Jermaine Dupree]

In. That's what Tyrone.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Say. She couldn't get in. She had to make it. See, when you show up, they let you in.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Terry. That's my girls. They're my girls. They. I go down there every.

[Jeff]

Year. Yeah, we. We went up this year and, you know, we had a chance to buy tickets to that, and I was like, no. Like, who's really gonna be.

[Jermaine Dupree]

There? So you missed.

[Jeff]

Out. We were having dinner right around the corner, and I said, well, let's just drive up there. So we drive up and we park and we walk up, and just as we pull up, we almost get run over by Usher and his caravan of SUVs. And he jumps out, and then it's like Tori Spelling, Michael Jordan. Then I get the paper the next day. There's a picture of you there with.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Usher. And I'm like, yeah, me and Usher came together. So he got ran over by.

[Jeff]

Us. You got lost in his 11 security.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Guards? Nah, we didn't have that much security. It was just me and him. We just got.

[Samantha]

We.

[Jermaine Dupree]

We. It was just me and him. We went up there.

[Jeff]

Together. And so, yes, there's.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Some. I'm just gonna call you out. You make it sound like two high school students just looking for the party. I think it's around here.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Somewhere. Just driving.

[Bridget]

Around. We.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Went. We went. I mean, like, this was Usher's first time.

[Jeff]

Going. You know what I think I said, didn't you park your rental Grand.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Am right behind me down the Grand Am? Never. What does that.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Mean? Look like he's got the fierce fear, this.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Guy. Oh, God. A gray and Am? No. Did you see the trucks in the front yard, though? For real? You was.

[Jeff]

There? Yeah. The big old pickup.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Trucks? Yeah. We going to get some of.

[Jeff]

Them. Yeah, those are big and.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Flashy. Yeah, we getting some of.

[Jeff]

Those. I got a Grand.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Am. A Grand.

[Jeff]

Am. Six cylinders of.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Love. What is a Grand.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Am? Bring one up on the Internet for Pontiac. Pontiac grand.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Amount. That's like a Trans Am or something like that. No, not.

[Bridget]

Quite. Not as.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Cool. No light. Trans.

[Bridget]

Am.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Light. I'm like Jessica Simpson right.

[Jeff]

Now. All the cool. All the cool rental car agencies have them. There you go, right.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

There. Look at.

[Bridget]

That. A grand Am is your chicken of the sea. That's.

[Jermaine Dupree]

True. Oh, that's a new model.

[Jeff]

Huh? Yeah, Mine was like a. You know, like a.

[Jermaine Dupree]

99. All.

[Jeff]

Right. It cost me.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

$50. All right, tell us about. Gotta get you and tell us about the new projects that you're working on right.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Now. Well, I mean, you know. Yeah, I know about midtown music, that I'm the urban Stage this year, Midtown Music is produced by.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Me. That's pretty impressive right.

[Jermaine Dupree]

There. So I'm doing something else, I guess, as a entrepreneur, as just putting together a.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Show. The whole stage is yours for.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Like, all the days, every.

[Jen]

Day.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Nice. So I put together the artist, all the groups that's gonna be there, you know, all that.

[Bridget]

Stuff.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Mm.

[Jeff]

Yeah. And I. I can tell you.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Who gonna be there, too. Let me see. Let me find my information.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

That. Terrence.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Terrence. Yeah.

[Christy]

Terrence.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Terrence. We got Game and Sierra and Bobby Valentino on Friday.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Night.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Nice. Saturday night, I got the Black Eyed Peas. And I'm lost right now. I just know Friday night, I just told you, but sad. I lost it. It was in my page. I had all the information. But it's gonna be crazy, and it's gonna be new. It's gonna definitely be energetic. Every day you go, Friday night, you see Game, Sierra and Bobby Valentino, you gonna know that you should show up Saturday. Cause it's just gonna, you know, it's gonna be that many more artists and just great, you know? Katan. Yeah.

[Jeff]

Cool. A couple weeks ago, the new Mariah Carey CD came.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Out.

[Jeff]

Yeah. You know, it's first Mariah Carey in however many years. And it's like a big, you know, comeback album after meltdown, all that stuff that went on years ago. And our program pulls me in the office. He goes, dude, you want to hear the greatest thing in the Mariah Carey cd? And I said, what's that? He goes, jermaine Dupree.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Singing.

[Jeff]

Yeah. And then he plays Jermaine Dupree singing on the new Mariah.

[Jen]

Carey. The two. You were on Good Morning America a couple of weeks ago.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Right? Yeah.

[Jen]

Yeah. Doing it.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Live. I'll say shout out to Mariah. She sold a lot of records, and I did all the first songs, so I'm excited about.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

That. Yeah. She loves us. Mariah loves us. Whenever she lives in Atlanta, she comes by and hangs out with.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Us. She gotta love you, gotta love you on the front cover of Atlanta magazine. Look at.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

You. Look at that, man. It's larger than.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Life.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. I don't even know how to introduce you anymore, Jermaine. Cause you can't even just call you, like, a uber producer because now you're.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Singing. And my name is.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Slash.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Slash?

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. Is that what you're going with.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Now? Yeah, that's my.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Name. Cause you got your hands in everything now, too. Now you're opening up like a Waffle House or.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Something. Yeah, I got a little cafe open. It's Called Cafe Dupree. It's 3135 Piedmont Road. Yeah. So it's gonna be the spot. It's gonna stay open till like, you know, like 22 hours a day.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Too. Oh, yeah, yeah. What are you gonna be.

[Jeff]

Serving? Two pre.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Hours. Yeah, Dupree hours. It's gonna be like more of a healthier type of place for people to eat. You know, people that eat cleaner than what's been going on in Atlanta. Like, you can't. If you, like late at night, you want to eat Waffle House, that's not good for you. So I mean, I don't eat that unhealthy no more. So. But it's not really like a real, like health food place. But it's just for more people that want to eat cleaner and looking out for, you know, just watching they.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Health. See, this goes back to the conversation we have with you all the time, Jen. Cause Jen is married to a musician and Sister Hazel. And you know, the old stereotype of musicians is they're eating crap in.

[Jermaine Dupree]

The middle of the night, they're drinking.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Whiskey. This guy Ryan from Sister Hazel. And I'm gonna start putting you in the same category. Cause you're supposed to be up, all right, and eating what you want and drinking. And now you're opening.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Hell. Food. It don't work like.

[Jeff]

This. If you're a record industry mogul, you should never in your life order anything with extra.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Sprouts. Nah. You know what. Know what happens, though, if you eating bad like that and having to get up and do what you have to do and pay attention and do everything, it's not. It just don't work right. It just crash. Like, you know, when I stopped this, I started this like three years ago. I just stopped eating like red meat and drinking sodas all the time. And this, that, and the third, and drinking a lot. Like, I used to drink so much that I mean, you know, I cut back a lot, but not too much, but I cut back a lot. That'll slow you down. And if you gotta wake up in the morning and do meetings and this, that, and the third, you're just so sluggish and you. You like feel like you back in high school, going to sleep in a meeting and you can't do.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

That. Was there one morning specifically you said, okay, that's it. No, I have got to.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Change. Nah, I never. I mean, it never was like something that made me do it. I mean, you know, hangovers, though. I hate hangovers. I had a hangover one Day, and I just did not know what to.

[Jeff]

Do. Like, you were never in a club and somebody whipped a battery at you and permanently scarred your.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Head. Oh, no. What the hell.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Is. Yeah, what the hell is that? What are you talking.

[Samantha]

About? Yeah, I don't.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Know. I'm just. Randall, what is.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

That? She needs some.

[Jeff]

Adderall. I don't know. I'm just. I'm saying. Cause, you know, maybe something like that happened to somebody here in the room.

[Jermaine Dupree]

So. Oh, see, right there.

[Christy]

Again.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. Jen got all drunk and got herself in a fight at.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Vision. She looks like she don't know nothing that's going on right now. She's like, what is he talking.

[Bridget]

About? He's just trying to look cool in front of you. But the deal is that Burt went to Vision and picked a fight with somebody much bigger than him and came home with a big old lump on his head and a black eye for the. For the next two weeks after that. So they're trying to be.

[Jen]

Cool. That's.

[Bridget]

Right. Blame it on.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Me. That was my Jermaine Dupree moment, where I woke up the next morning, I'm like, you know what? I. And then I stopped drinking for 60.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Days. Okay. All right. Yeah, yeah, but you look like you work out. You eating apples and yogurt and all that stuff in here for the.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Last three months, it's been like.

[Jermaine Dupree]

That? Yeah. Yeah.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Why? I had a picture to take that went up on the.

[Jen]

Internet. Yeah, we got him shirtless on our.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Website. Oh, okay. Well, that's where you need to come to Cafe Dupree and keep it. Keep it.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Going. So it's, like, all lean.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Stuff. I mean. Yeah, it's all. You know, it's just more healthier food. It's all still the same food that everybody eats, but it's just different. You know, it's cooked healthier, and it's cleaner. You know, it's not a lot of sugar and all that junk that they putting in the other.

[Bridget]

Food. And where on Piedmont is it? Like, give us a landmark that.

[Jermaine Dupree]

It would be near, you know, Bones. Like, right across the street from Bones, the old Slaskies.

[Bridget]

Deli. Okay.

[Christy]

Nice. Very.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Cool. Jermaine Dupree on all the hits.

[Bridget]

Q100. I wanted to say thank you for the welcome to Atlanta theme.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Song. Thank.

[Bridget]

You. Any more Southern anthems on the.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Way? I don't know. I mean, I would hope one day, you know, that I would do another record like that, but I made welcome to Atlanta. I said this the other day. I made welcome to Atlanta for everybody in Atlanta. Although I told them my days of what I do. But the overall theme of the record is for this city. Because I feel like Atlanta's too vibrant not to have a theme song. And it kind of. I'm a little pissed off, like. Cause they don't play my record at every venue. When it's something that's got, like, Braves games, Hawks, brashers everywhere. They should play that hook at every. Everything that's going on in the city. Cause it's not. I don't say it's not about me. It's saying, welcome to Atlanta. It's like, you know, bringing people into our.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Town. Have you ever called any venues and said, hey, how come you're not playing.

[Jermaine Dupree]

It? Nah, because I don't. I'm just really still, like, trying to wait and see if it's gonna catch, if it's gonna hit them, you know, like, when you go to a Yankees game, you hear everything. New York.

[Jeff]

Right? New York, New York and.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Stuff. It don't matter what it is. They gonna play everything that got something to do with New York. You gonna hear it. If the Yankees start beating you, you getting ready to get New York to death. It's just. I thought. I would have thought that everybody would pay attention to that, but that some of those things that's. The city is still kind of slow.

[Jeff]

On. They're looking for. I just read it in the paper. I'm looking for the article. But they're looking for a slogan for Atlanta. You, like, you know, like, Philadelphia is a city of brotherly love. And, you know, like, they're looking for something more updated, like a whole brand. So what about where the players.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Play?

[Jermaine Dupree]

Yeah. There you go. Go the whole theme, the whole city now. It should be the new Motown or something. Like, you know, Atlanta is. Is. Is.

[Christy]

Popping.

[Jen]

Mm. And going on that. I see a lot of hip hop stars, a lot more hip hop stars and videos wearing a lot more Atlanta athletic. I'm curious. I mean, you know, people who live in Atlanta know how great Atlanta is. But do you think Atlanta gets the respect it deserves in the music.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Industry? Yeah, of course. I mean, we kind of, like, we got the music business unlocked on every side. That's why I'm saying it should be really titled the New Motowns. Cause that's what it is. Everybody here is successful, from Sierra to Outkast to me to. I mean, it's a long list of artists that's out here that's. You know, it ain't been like this in a Long time just for one city to have numerous artists, numerous hits, and they don't stop, you know, it's just like here. All the.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Hits. Right. Jermaine, thanks for coming in today, man. Appreciate it. You know you're always welcome in here. Whenever you want to hang out, man. Come on.

[Christy]

In. All.

[Jeff]

Right. Whenever you want to get up again at 5 in the morning after going to bed at 4, well, you.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Know. Yeah, it's kind of.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Easy. Yeah. You seem all right.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Now. Yeah, I'm up. I'm about to go to Starbucks. I'm.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Good. All.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Right. Go home, get some.

[Jeff]

Breakfast. And until about 8:00 clock tonight, when everybody else is just getting to the studio and Jermaine's dozing.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Off.

[Jeff]

Right. Damn. The Bird.

[Caller (various, including Micah, Autumn, Melody, Beth, Jacqueline, Jesse, Laura, Tino)]

Show.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Yeah. I'm gonna be a little tired, but I want to thank you for letting me come up.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Here. Absolutely.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Man. Make sure everybody come out to my restaurant, Cafe Dupree, 3135Pmont. Make sure you do that. And come to Midtown Music. Support the. You know, Support Midtown Music and go buy my album. July.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

19Th. Support this man. He's barely eating.

[Jeff]

People. And if you work at a venue in Atlanta.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Play. Welcome. Exactly. That's what we learned today.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

Yeah. All.

[Jermaine Dupree]

Right. Thanks.

[Host (possibly Bert)]

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