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The Burt Show. It's Q100. Burt Show. We will talk to Katrina. She works here at Q100. Her dad over the weekend just said, look, you're fat. Fat.
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That is so unfortunate.
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And his way of rectifying that was to offer $1,000 to lose the weight. Was he right? Was he wrong? We'll talk to her about it here in just a second. Hey, Katrina.
C
Hello.
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What's going on?
D
Nothing.
A
All right, Katrina, I mean, you and I started to talk about this in the halls yesterday, and I said, look, I don't even want to know the details until we're on the show.
B
Katrina, I'm so sad.
A
But the SC scouting report here, the recon, that's been done, is that your dad this, this weekend just said to you straight up, look, you're fat. You got to do something about it?
D
Yes, yes, that is true. And Fatty McFattenstein was the word I use myself.
E
Oh, yes.
D
We went on vacation. We have. We had a family vacation last week in Florida. And pretty much it was fine until, I believe, Thursday. And Thursday is when all the dysfunction kicks in. And he came to me, very somber, very sad, and he just said, I'm worried about you. And I said, well, you know, what are you talking about? He's like, you're fat. We were sitting watching American Idol. I was laughing at everything. And it was flabbergasted. Still a little speechless now.
C
And, Katrina, how often do you see your dad?
D
I see my dad. I make special trips, and I go home to see him pretty much probably once every three months. I was just there at Christmas, and he hugged me and said, you're gaining weight, girl.
B
Yeah. How far back has he been making the weight comments?
D
Honestly, all my life, I was. I was telling. I'd read a love letter that he wrote to my mom way back in college, and he, you know, I guess she just had me. And he said, you know, I want you back at 115. He's always been obsessed with weight.
B
So he's treated your mom. Yeah. I mean, usually that's how he would treat all the women in his family, the same way.
D
Well, I mean, what made me so angry about it this time is the fact that he now has a girlfriend because my mother passed away, and she is not the slimmest woman to walk the earth. So it makes me very, very upset and annoyed.
C
And what about your dad's weight?
D
Oh, my dad, okay. Very, very handsome, good looking, 50 years old. He's probably the most vain person I've ever met. Aside from you, Jeff. And it's amazing.
A
So he's thin, he's in good shape. He just. He looks great.
D
Yeah, he's thin, he's in good shape. And he's always said it's always been a weight issue. I think probably the nicest time, which is always his reference point. When I played volleyball freshman year in college, and he just said, no, you look so good. Then you know that you are almost in a two piece.
F
Oh, God, that's Joe Simpson.
D
It's constant. It's, you know, his segues are. I remember I was washing dishes one night and I said, oh, I can't get the stain out. He's like, yeah, you need to go to the gym. And I was just like, what?
B
Oh, man. So it was, I mean, relentless. Because I, you know, if there's, if there's certain cases where somebody says something about being out of shape or whatever, because, I mean, fat is just so harsh. If it's just. If it's a health issue or if it's. You had a family history of something, but it's just flat out vanity.
A
Yeah. Totally different convers. If he, you know, comes up to you and says, look, baby girl, I'm just a little bit nervous about your health, and then launches into it that.
B
Way, if there's a reason for it, but there's not a reason for it. So. Oh, I'm sorry.
A
And then he makes this offer to you also.
D
This is a legitimate offer, as far as I know. I would say it's legitimate because he also did this about 10 years ago. He told me, I think I had to lose. It's probably £25. And he would get me like an Anthony Hardaway jersey. Like, this is super long ago.
C
So he's been trying to bribe you to lose weight basically your whole teen to adult life?
D
Oh, absolutely. When I lost weight, I used to actually, I know you guys know what I look like. I used to be a size 20 and I went off and I lost weight about 60 pounds all on my own. Just going to the gym and, you know, take quote, unquote, taking care of myself, since I'm not taking care of myself because I'm fat, according to him. And he was, I don't think I've seen him more proud of me. He's like, oh, there's less of you to hug. And I mean, just all that stuff.
B
I'm curious, what has that done for you on a con, on a daily basis on how you see yourself when you're. You're male role model in your life is constantly telling you that you're, you're not pretty enough.
D
Well, I can honestly say I have a decent. I've always had the same body image of myself. I can look at myself in the mirror and be like, you know, wow, you know, I'm not a bad looking girl. And you know, I have enough confidence because I realized a few years ago that he's just crazy. And you know, sin is not, you know, does not automatically constitute happiness and stuff. So I just learned to be happy with myself because it just doesn't matter how thin or small I get, he just is going to be the same way. Because back when I lost all that weight in high school, he said, you know, my body image to him, he would say, oh, yeah, but you know, you could lose some in your arms or you could lose. So it just, it doesn't matter.
C
How often does his voice creep into your mind, though?
D
It doesn't have to creep. I talk to him every day.
C
No, but I mean, like when you're eating or. Yeah, maybe when you're getting dressed or getting ready to go out or whatever. Like, is his voice sort of in the back of your mind sending you those constant messages?
D
It is. Well, my brother and I have kind of taken the spin. We call each other fatty. Like, we joke. It's kind of like, you know, taking it back, I guess. So we like, hey, are you gonna finish that sandwich, fatty? And you know, he'll laugh and we'll laugh and joke about it. But seriously, it comes, it's, it's a constant thing. Like when he, when he said that to me, I teared up and it takes a lot for me to get emotional and I like, oh my God. Like, you know, it was one of those things. We had a great vacation and I was like, I thought we had moved past this. Like, why is this even still an issue? So it hurts, dad. Actually, it makes me more sad than anything.
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Hey, Johnny, you're on Q100.
G
Yes, go ahead. Okay, now what I was saying is, you know, sometimes you need somebody to tell you where you are because I went for years and I just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and my health started getting worse and worse and nobody would ever tell me because they didn't want to hurt my feelings. But finally I had someone tell me, you know, you know, hey man, you know you're getting fat and you know, you sit down and you look at yourself. I wish somebody had told me a lot sooner because I lost my marriage and now I've lost, right. At 80 pounds, I'm healthier than I've been in years and years. And I know it's hard for somebody to tell you that you're. That you're fat, but let me tell you, in the long run, when you do sit down and you eat right, and you lose the weight, then you can think back and say, you know, I know it hurt then, but then it don't hurt later on when you get. When you see how healthy you are.
A
I need sort of a definition of, like, what your body is like. Nobody. It's. It's so taboo to call somebody fat or to even use the word fat. And we're also sensitive about it. But if we were looking at a chart, right, At a BMI chart, a body mass index chart, I think it's called, would your weight be within the healthy scale or would you be out of the healthy portion of that?
D
I would be out of the healthy. I wouldn't be in the red, but I'm probably within 20 pounds of where I need to be.
A
What your dad is saying then is since you wouldn't be on that healthy chart, he's obviously picking and choosing the wrong words, but he's saying that you're unhealthy and that you are overweight. What? Melissa?
B
Well, I mean, I would agree with you if he didn't. When she lost a bunch of weight, he said, oh, well, you could lose more in your arms and you could do this and you could do that if it was about health.
A
Yeah, that's a good point.
B
That's one that, you know, I mean, I didn't mean to not let you finish, Katrina, but.
D
It'S just. It's. That's what it's always been. It's been something that I've had to deal with all my life, and it just made me super, super. I got annoyed. I bet it was just. And again, look at your example. The very woman you're, quote, unquote with. I was going to use another term, but the very woman you're with is heavy.
B
Well, she. He's saying the same thing to her. I mean, he's saying. He. I'm sure he is. You know, an interesting observation, because I made the comment earlier. You know, it's harsher to say it to women. And we. At the cabin this weekend for my birthday, we were in Blue Ridge, a bunch of friends, and there was one night where it was, whatever, Jeff, bunch of friends, and one of the friend's husband came, so he was the only guy at the dinner table and the conversation at the dinner table went to weight with all the girls. And he just was like, you know what? It is fascinating to me that every time that women usually get together, it is inevitable that weight, body image, this always comes into place. And I guarantee you, if it was a bunch of guys sitting around the table, we wouldn't be worried about how much we were eating. We. What we were eating, what we were doing that day to balance out what we were eating tonight. But he said, you guys, this is inevitable with every woman. And so we obsess about it.
A
It runs so much deeper with women than it does men. I mean, you're.
B
We're judged on it every day. We're judged on it at work, we're judged on it at home, we're judged on it from strangers. We're judged on it all the time. As if our worth. We only have good worth if our body looks like what we see on TV. And it's just not fair.
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Hey, Crystal, you're on Q100.
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Hey.
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I remember all the way back to the age of 15, and I'm 24 now, my grandfather doing the same thing to me. And it's emotionally scarring. And I was tiny. I mean, I wasn't big at all, but I put on a bathing suit. He'd be like, nothing a couple of cans of Slim Fast wouldn't fix.
C
Geez, that's just damaging words, you know? And I would just worry about Katrina because that. That's the. The example of a man that you've had in your life, your whole life. I'm afraid you won't seek out someone.
F
That is like him, even subconsciously. Even if you make an effort to be different or look for different, that.
C
That'S who you'll end up with, is somebody who's going to put you down like that. It's just.
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Or you run completely away from it. I think our first thought was, like, how can. How can we help? But I don't even know that you need it or you want it.
D
I mean, I definitely want it because I decided I'm going to take the money and go to London.
F
They got great, unhealthy food in London. It is an awesome city.
D
I'm super excited about that. But it's just. I just really want to. I want to do this because. And it's not for him, because I've told him plenty of times, you know, Finn is not happy. Finn is not. I mean, it's a constant argument that we have, and I just want it to end I just, you know, But I know it's not going to. I'm pretty sure it's not going to.
A
Here was the thought a little bit yesterday, and we got to sort of wrap this up. But, you know, we did this thing a couple of years ago, this motivation by humiliation thing, where, yes, you get to lose the weight, but if you do, not only do you get the thousand dollars, but your dad, there would have to be repercussions for your dad also, besides the thousand dollars, like, if you. If you met your goal weight within.
F
X number of time, like if you do it within six months or whatever.
B
But I don't feel comfortable enabling your father and his abusive language. I mean, it's abusive what he said to you over this long period of time.
D
Absolutely. I mean, and actually, it's funny you said that's the timeline. He wants me to lose it in, I believe, five months because we're having a family reunion, and he's just won't want everyone to see how thin Katrina got.
A
That's the problem with the whole thing, is that if you do lose the weight, we help you lose the weight in five months. I mean, he's, like, showing you off, you know, like, you're.
D
That's what he's always done. I mean, it's. This is the man who walked into. Who would walk into a room. He was his nickname. His nickname in the family is, you know, sharp. Because, you know, he comes in, he's always. He still dresses. He's 50, and he still dresses like someone. I would date people when we go out, people are like, that's not your father.
C
But the reason that this whole thing started is because you sent me an email about getting in touch with a nutritionist and a trainer, and you said, to reach my goal. So is it your goal or is it your dad's goal?
D
It's my goal. Before he even said anything, which is what aggravated me even more, was I had already decided and made the plan to go to start working out and losing weight. Because, I mean, I look in the mirror and I see myself. It has nothing to do with, oh, my gosh, I'm getting fat or anything. I love myself no matter how big. When I was a 20, I thought I was the sexiest thing alive.
B
Then why lose the weight?
D
I lost the weight. I actually, it was a part of a. I just joined the National Body Challenge, and I was just going to the gym every day, just hanging out. So it just came off. I wasn't even paying attention or making it my goal. To do it. It just happened.
C
So now it is your goal though.
D
Now it is my goal.
C
Is your goal any different than your dad's? Is your goal this 50 pounds for the thousand dollars, or would your goal be like 20? Because you said within £20 you'd be in that BMI range.
D
My goal would be to get back. I probably would aim for 30 to 35 pounds because that's where I was the last time I lost the weight. And I was really, you know, I looked good. I liked how everything, everything was where it should have been and looked pretty good in their places. So that would be where I would want to go.
A
All right, let's table this for today and we'll debate it a little bit in our post show meetings and stuff and see what we might be able to do with.
E
Yeah.
C
Cause I agree with Burt. I think your dad's got a pony up. More than a thousand dollars.
A
Yeah, man. I mean. Cause we're talking about a lifetime of verbal abuse. So $1,000 is nice, but he's got to put up the same way you got to put up.
F
Should it be $50 a pound?
A
That's a lot of cash right there. Sanjay Gupta could add those numbers quickly. I cannot, dude.
F
Katrina, that translates to. Every 20 pounds would be $1,000.
D
That would be phenomenal.
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Katrina, let's meet over the next 24 or 48 hours and we'll talk more about it. Okay?
D
Okey dokey.
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All right, talk to you later. Bye bye. The third show. I want to ask the question now, like if you know that your grandparents, like you caught them with their bag or you caught them literally, like you walked in the room and it was your grandparents and they were all sitting around in that, that 70 show circle with their, their other 70 or 80 year old grandparents. Give us a call right now. 404741 Q1 if you ever actually busted your grandparents smoking weed. Cuz she's 69 years old.
B
Yes. And I know it's politically incorrect, but come on. I mean, I think at a certain age you have lived a long life and if you're not hurting anybody, don't get in trouble. You know what? Good for her.
F
I just got an image of like everybody at the nursing home out and the one guy who still owns a car like the 1972 Cadillac with a big old choke wagon, all the windows are rolled up, they're all hanging out.
C
In a choke wagon.
F
Where is everybody?
B
As long as, as long as they're not hurting anybody else, let them do what they Want.
F
Harold, you're fine to drive. Let's go get some Pringles and green.
C
Ms. Hey, Ethel, pass me the joy.
A
Maybe that should be the real legalized debate right there. Like, if you're over 65, shouldn't you be able to smoke weed legally?
B
Absolute. Kids don't do it.
C
But cataracts.
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The phone lines are lit up. Lit up helps through the cataracts. All right, Jessica.
E
All right. Well, first off, let me say I love you guys.
C
Thank you. Thanks.
E
And I've been there since the beginning, and y' all just keep rocking it harder every single day.
B
Thank you.
E
And I just wanted to tell you that I went on vacation with my boyfriend about a year ago. And we're older. We're not, you know, 30s or anything like that, but we are teenagers who are older. And his grandparents are a little different from, like, normal grandparents, I guess you could say. We were going to their closet trying to find a game, a board game to play, because sweet old grandma was like, go find a game. We'll all play it together. And we definitely went in her closet and found Stoner Monopoly.
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Stoner Monopoly, Yes.
E
All the little pieces look like different accessories you can use for getting stone. Like one of them is like a little wrap and then like a little bong. Like you could be a little bong and move across the board.
B
I have no idea what you're talking about. Uh huh.
E
And so definitely we asked her about it. She was like, oh, it was a joke. It was a joke from when we got married. And so we just kind of played it off, like, whatever. And then later that night, we were all sitting down watching Conan o' Brien, actually, and her and grandpa just pulled out these little wrapped up little white things and told us they were cigars. And they definitely weren't cigars because the smell is very, very decorable.
C
They didn't think that you would know what that smelled like.
E
Well, I've been to a lot of concerts. Yeah. No, no, no. I'm a very good kid, so I'm straight edge, so I don't do that kind of stuff. But it was definitely hilarious because my boyfriend was like, wow, Grandpa, can I have a little hit of your cigar? And he was like, no, no, no, this is a little bit too strong for you. And tried to play it off like it was nothing. So it was definitely awkward coming back home to my parents and being like, what were their grandparents like?
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Do you think?
E
They were different, but good people, though.
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I think it's really funny that they were so naive that they're like, you know what? She'll never know what it is. Let's just smoke right in front of our grandkids. Hey, Chad, you're on Q100.
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Hey, what's up, y'?
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All?
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I love y' all show.
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Thank you.
D
All right.
G
So my grandmother, I. I sneak up on her all the time. Every two weeks, she has card games at our house. And every two weeks, I go over there, I'm like, oh, I over there. Because they cook every day. They cook every two weeks. And, you know, more likely every time I go over there, I'm like, okay, y'.
D
All.
G
Every time I get there, I'm thinking they're just drunk. Cause, I mean, they're dancing around. And my grandma's like, 70. She has about. She got about 20 people at her house, and they're playing card games, and it's a bunch of black folks. They're all playing card games or whatever. And I kid you not, I was over there two weeks ago, and they're sitting there smoking. I'm like, grandma, what are you smoking? What is that smell? And she was sitting there smoking a blunt.
D
And I was like, granny, what is good? I was like, granny, can I get.
G
A. I was like, granny, can I get a hit? And she was like, oh, no, honey, you too young for this. Little kids go back to the back room. Little kids go back to the back room.
A
So it's not just her. It was everybody in her group also. And they were passing it around.
D
Yeah, it was everybody in her.
G
I've never seen my granny smoke.
D
I was like, what are you doing?
C
You know that they're all a part of, like, the flowered Guild at church, right? They got their bridge club and they're.
A
Smoking weeds all together.
B
They're 70. I mean, come on. They've lived a life. Let them have their little card game.
A
It is like that little. That 70 show circle, except there's a whole bunch of 70 year old people all in a circle smoking.
B
And I know, again, it's not politically correct, but come on, let the elderly have their fun.
C
They're drinking their insure.
A
Good morning.
B
Really good at this.
C
You know what you got to do? You got to mix it with some Doritos.
A
What's up, Elizabeth?
E
Okay, so my grandfather had a green thumb, and he enjoyed seeing how well things could grow. So he. And he was, I guess, a advent pot smoker. So he decided to grow pot plant at the side of his garage to see how much it would grow. Well, it covered the entire wall of the garage and grew actually up onto the roof. And we lived out in, you know, Egypt and, you know, so you can kind of get away with this. Well, I mean, I didn't realize, you know, that he was doing that. And one day some cops pulled up into his garage driveway. And I was, you know, 14 and nosy. So I snuck down there to see what's going on. And I see my grandfather point to the side of the garage and the cop walks over there. So I'm like peeking around the corner looking at him. He pulls on the zipper and he's taking a leak all over these plants. And I'm kind of watching, giggling. Next thing I know, I realize he's pissing all over pot plant growing all up inside the garage. I mean, I'm even aware enough as a 14 year old to realize that, you know, this is marijuana he's peeing on. Cop doesn't even notice. He finishes his business, zips up and walks back around, Finishes off to my grandfather and leaves. So I'm like, score, man.
B
Are you sure you weren't smoking some of that? You just said a cop came in the garage and peed on the plant and then left.
E
Well, it wasn't inside the garage. It was the outside of the garage. It was growing the whole side of the building.
C
Why didn't the cop go in?
E
I think he thought it was kudzu. Because it wasn't a little pot plant. I mean, it was covering the side of the garage and growing up onto the roof.
B
Yeah.
A
So why didn't the cop bust them at that point?
C
Why would the cop go inside to pee?
E
They're taking a leak, whistling. Just minding his own business. He didn't think that he. He didn't even notice. He was oblivious to it.
A
Because there has to be a best cop and there has to be a worst cop. And that's the worst cop ever on the force right there.
B
I don't believe I'm not buying that.
A
Last call. Hey, amber, you're on Q100.
E
Am I on the voices?
A
Guys, there you are.
E
Okay. I work at a very high end senior living community in the Atlanta area.
B
Yeah, the seniors with the money.
E
Not one, but two of my residents smoking.
B
Really?
C
Two of the residents?
B
Now, what did you do about it?
E
The first one was the fire alarm went off. And I used to be. I'm an activities director now, but I used to be at the front desk. And so I was there at night by myself. And the fire alarm went off just in their apartment. My little button went off. So I was like, ah, crap. So I went up and I went up, and I opened the door, and I was like, whoa, that's not food.
A
And how old are they?
E
They are anywhere from 62 and up. At the average age, just, like, 84. 80.
F
Whoa.
D
There you go.
C
Do you think that they put the dryer sheets inside the leftover paper towel tube, and they're like, all right, you'll never know?
A
I don't know that one.
C
Did you ever see.
B
I have no idea what you're talking about, Jenna. I don't know that.
C
Come on. Y' all were in college dorms at some point.
A
I've never seen that one.
B
Really?
A
Never seen that one? I thought I'd seen it all.
B
Yeah, no, I. Yeah, I agree with you. The whole legal thing, Like, I understand you people's concerns about it, but if you're 65 or older and you're not.
A
Hurting anybody else, you should legalize that.
B
What you need to do.
C
They were 84.
B
They are. Come on. 84 is a tough time to be living. So let them do it.
A
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This episode centers around deeply personal and contentious family issues, exploring the complexities of body image, parental influence, and self-worth, before switching gears to share humorous and eye-opening stories about grandparents and seniors partaking in marijuana. The discussions are raw, relatable, and presented with The Bert Show’s signature blend of humor and authenticity.
[00:00 – 14:33]
Father’s Pattern of Comments
Emotional Impact of Parental Criticism
Familial Double Standards and Gender Dynamics
Bribery for Weight Loss
Katrina’s Agency and Goals
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Aging and Changing Attitudes
Listener Stories
Hosts’ Observations and Humor
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