Full Show PT 3: Monday, March 9

Summary

The Bert Show: Full Show PT 3 (Monday, March 9, 2026) – Episode Summary

Main Theme

The episode centers on two main themes: 1) Hilarious (and relatable) debates over airplane etiquette prompted by the cast’s recent travel experiences, and 2) a candid, sometimes spooky, conversation about recurring nighttime “visitor” dreams and their significance, featuring listener call-ins and a dash of pop culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Airplane Etiquette: What Needs to Change?

• Trigger: Jessica’s recent travel experience prompts a group brainstorm of “airplane etiquette rules” everyone should follow.
• Hosts: Jessica, Jeff, Melissa, Katie, Ashley.

Airplane Rules Breakdown

• Use your indoor voice

  • Jessica recounts sitting near a marathon runner who loudly shared her life story:

    "Rule number one: Use your indoor voice. Nobody needs to hear your whole conversation from the front of the plane." – Jessica (01:27)

  • The group shares “loud talkers” and phone chat annoyances.

• Respect body language & personal space

  • Melissa enforces:

    "You need to learn to read the signs of the person next to you... If my earbuds are in, that means don’t chat." (02:28)

  • Strategies for pretending to listen to music to avoid conversations.

• Armrest Wars & Seat Space

  • Jessica tells of being squeezed out of her seat due to two larger seatmates who refused the armrest, sparking a discussion:

    "The armrest always has to be down unless it’s mutually agreed upon. That’s rude." – Jeff (03:46)

  • Debate over whether those taking up extra space should buy two seats, paralleled with Canadian policy (Melissa: “Canadian courts just ruled…” 04:31).

• Helping Elders and Parents

  • Katie:

    "It drives me crazy when I see a young man… not helping, like, a 70-something-year-old woman get her suitcase down." (04:41)

  • Importance of chivalry and social responsibility on planes.

• Deplaning Etiquette

  • Jeff lays it out:

    "There’s a reason why the aisles go 1 through 30… Row one gets to go out before two…" (05:51)

  • Melissa offers nuance for tight connections but agrees with the general rule.

• Traveling with Children

  • Caller “Angela” jokes:

    "If you're traveling with children, you should be willing to Benadryl your child." (07:28)

  • Jeff shares anxieties about flying with toddlers and the contagious effect of one baby crying.
  • Ashley makes a gender observation:

    "Just because I'm a woman, don't assume that I'm maternal..." (08:27)

• Overhead Bin & Personal Items

  • Jeff relays a caller’s point:

    "Don’t take down someone else’s stuff from the overhead unless it’s yours." (11:22)

  • Katie:

    "Don’t put your jacket up there. Put your jacket below the seat in front of you…" (11:28)

• Seat Assaults

  • Jasmine’s advice via Jeff:

    "When you get up, don’t use the seat in front of you for help. That one drives me nuts." (11:59)

  • Ashley:

    "Don’t pull yourself up with my back. And they always catch some hair!" (12:04)

• In-flight Announcements

  • Melissa teases flight attendants:

    "We’re not on a tour. I don’t care what city we’re over..." (12:12)

  • The cast jokes about the notoriously robotic Delta instructional video woman.

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2. Spooky Dreams: Nighttime Visitors

• Melissa's Experience

  • Melissa describes waking and seeing/sensing someone standing over her bed:

    "I wake up and I'm convinced someone is standing over the bed looking at me." – Melissa (13:12)

  • Unsure if it's a dream or real; sometimes reaches out physically.

• Recurring Childhood Dreams

  • Katie wonders about recurring dreams and references Eat, Pray, Love, sharing Bali folklore:

    "In Bali, they would say that it’s one of your four brothers that’s protecting you, so not to be scared of it." – Katie (16:18)

• Listener Call-ins: Shared Experiences

  • Multiple listeners describe similar experiences, including sleep paralysis, shadow figures, and an unshakable “presence.”
  • Caller:

    "I have the same exact thing…and my mother actually has it too. It’s a man that stands over and watches us… I see…it’s a black…or a man that has a black trench coat." (17:32)

  • Jeff and Melissa sleepily joke about the supernatural vs. mundane explanations.

• Dealing with Night Visitors

  • Listener “Kim” suggests focusing on positive thoughts or spiritual beliefs for comfort.
  • Melissa shrugs off fear:

    "I don’t feel scared, really… I’m just reaching for it to find out if there’s really a person there." (18:53)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Loud Airplane Talkers:

  "She just wanted everyone to hear her life story and how great of a marathon runner she was. She was just terrific." – Jessica (01:36)

• On Reading Social Cues in-flight:

  "If my ipod earbuds are in my ear, that means don’t chat." – Katie (02:28)

• On Deplaning:

  "If you’re in seven, you’re not allowed to skip up to four." – Jeff (06:04)

• On Child Travelers:

  "When one kid starts yelling on a plane… it’s contagious. Like, one of them hears, ‘ahh’, and the other one’s like, ‘Oh, I can do that!’" – Jeff (07:54)

• On Maternal Stereotypes:

  "Just because I’m a woman, don’t assume that I’m maternal…" – Ashley (08:27)

• Crowd Favorite:

  "That airport sucks my butt." – Melissa on Dallas airports (06:28)

• On the Delta Safety Video:

  "She’s like a Stepford wife. Like, she’s like a little bit robot. Ish." – Katie (12:55)

• Night Visitor Comfort:

  "In Bali, they would say that it’s one of your four brothers that’s protecting you, so not to be scared of it." – Katie (16:18)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:01: Jessica launches the airplane etiquette rules conversation.
• 02:26: Melissa and Katie join in on reading social cues and headphone tricks.
• 03:16–04:46: Armrest, seating, and space sharing debates; Canadian two-seat policy.
• 04:41–05:51: Helping elders, deplaning etiquette, and chivalry in transit.
• 07:28: Caller Angela’s take on flying with kids.
• 08:27–09:38: Gender roles and kid behavior in the air.
• 11:22–12:33: Overhead bin, seat-grabbing, and in-flight announcements.
• 13:12: Melissa’s sleep “visitor” experience sets up dream discussion.
• 15:44: Katie’s Eat, Pray, Love anecdote about night presences.
• 17:32–18:20: Caller stories of sleep paralysis and “man in black” dreams.
• 18:34: Listener “Kim” offers advice for dealing with nighttime presences.

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Tone & Style

• Warm, irreverent, and highly conversational.
• Jokes and banter flow naturally amidst truly relatable and occasionally vulnerable admissions.
• Occasional sarcasm and gentle teasing, but always with camaraderie.

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Summary

This episode is an entertaining roller coaster, blending travel grievances, real-life hacks, and a dose of the supernatural. The Bert Show crew and their listeners break down the implicit (and explicit) rules of the road — or rather, the skies — while sharing the kinds of ghost stories that have you laughing as much as thinking. The combination of wit, honesty, and crowd participation makes for a lively listen that’s both ridiculously helpful and delightfully human.

Transcript

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[Jeff]

the bird show.

[Jessica]

Everyone's doing a lot. Obviously doing a lot of holiday travel, and obviously I did take a plane trip this weekend. And we need to go ahead and make some rules for airplane etiquette because I ran into a couple of trouble spots on my airplane.

[Jeff]

People are getting more rude, I think, on planes now.

[Jessica]

Yeah. Not even. Yeah, just inconsiderate. I don't. Yeah, very inconsiderate. Can I go ahead and just start the rules?

[Radio Host]

Sure.

[Katie]

Let's all.

[Jeff]

Let's all try to contribute to these, because I think we all have these kind of gripes.

[Katie]

Chime in a couple of.

[Jessica]

All right, rule number one, Use your indoor voice. Nobody needs to hear your whole conversation from the front of the plane.

[Melissa]

Oh, my God.

[Katie]

Who did you have? That was like. That was drunk.

[Jessica]

No, she wasn't even drunk. She just wanted everyone to hear her life story and how great of a marathon runner she was. She was just terrific.

[Katie]

And you were like, shut.

[Ashley]

I could care less about your running skills.

[Jessica]

I could care less. But you could literally, like, she was like, rose behind me. And you could hear this entire conversation. How she spoke Spanish or she was trying to speak Spanish, but she was a great runner.

[Jeff]

Now, was she speaking to somebody next to her or was she on her

[Jessica]

cell phone speaking to someone next to her?

[Jeff]

Okay. Because I know the cell phone. Loud talkers are even worse on a plane.

[Jessica]

Also just someone next to her. So indoor voices.

[Melissa]

Can I expand upon that? Because as long as we're talking about talking, right, you need to learn to read the signs of the person next to you, the stranger next to you. And if they are not willing to engage, stop trying.

[Jeff]

Yeah. Hands folded the way Jeffs are right now. Reading when you get to your seat. We're reading. We're not really Reading. We're looking at the magazine to indicate to you that we don't wan.

[Melissa]

Right. I'm trying to memorize the picture.

[Katie]

If my ipod earbuds are in my ear, that means don't chat.

[Jeff]

Don't chat.

[Jessica]

Absolutely.

[Melissa]

When I was flying back from Los Angeles, I forgot my ipod.

[Jeff]

Oh.

[Melissa]

But I wore the headphones.

[Katie]

Tragic.

[Jessica]

Did you plug them into the side of the side of the arm?

[Melissa]

I had them. I had my bag on the floor and I just had them go into the bag. I put the zipper tight around it and I just leaned that back and left them in.

[Ashley]

If I'm not giving you eye contact, that means I don't want you to talk to me.

[Jeff]

Read the signs.

[Ashley]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Okay. And rule number two, actually going to San Antonio, I had a seat near the front of the plane and needed to move because the family needed to sit together. Blah. That was fine. So I moved to the back of the plane and sat on an aisle seat. Well, there's two larger people next to me, so I'm literally off the seat the entire time. So just be considerate of the person sitting next to you.

[Katie]

Were they like hogging the armrest and all that stuff?

[Jessica]

He didn't want to put the armrest down.

[Melissa]

He needed the room.

[Jeff]

You can't do that.

[Jessica]

And I had no room. So I'm like, literally half my butt is off the seat the entire plane trip. That's a two and a half hour trip.

[Katie]

That's not cool.

[Jessica]

Maybe like offer me a window. I don't know.

[Ashley]

So, so you're saying is that the, the plane. The plane's responsibility? Cause I mean, obviously if he was a larger person, you're saying that he couldn't have done anything about.

[Jessica]

Well, he could ask to put like the armrest down or if I was comfortable, if I. I don't know.

[Jeff]

You gotta set that border. The armrest always has to be down unless it's mutually agreed upon. That's rude.

[Katie]

And then if they, if he can't put it down, then you should have called a flight attendant and just said,

[Ashley]

listen, that's my concern. That he could not physically have that armrest.

[Jessica]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeff]

This was a debate for a while there. Also that if people are. Are so large that they can't fit in one seat and they're sort of like they're taking up two seats. Should they have to pay for two seats on a plane so you don't have to go through that?

[Katie]

I would say yes to that if all the airplane seats were the same size. But you can't tell. Sometimes, I mean, sometimes you're on a plane, you that feels like you got plenty of room and other times I feel squished and sweaty.

[Ashley]

Agreed.

[Katie]

And I don't feel like I'm overweight at all. So as someone that is, I mean, I know you'd be squished into some of those.

[Melissa]

You know, Canadian courts just ruled that airlines have to give obese passengers two seats and only charge them for one.

[Jeff]

Is that right?

[Jessica]

Really? Wow, that's a good idea.

[Katie]

I think that another rule needs to be common courtesy for older people, for elderly people. It drives me crazy when I see like a young man, like maybe in his mid-30s, whatever, just in a hustle to try to get out and not helping, like a 70 something year old woman get her suitcase down from the overhead bin and she's obviously either struggling to get it up there or struggling to get it down. Like zero chivalry. Like, I actually like stepped in front of a guy on my flight back from Tampa to help this woman get her suitcase down. Like, excuse me, get out of the way. Like, I'm sorry you're in such a rush you can't be bothered to help this woman out. But she's obviously struggling.

[Ashley]

I think that infuriates me. I think this is society wide. I think young guys are less and less likely to do that.

[Katie]

Oh my gosh, that just made me so mad. I was like, you're an able bodied person. Help her.

[Jeff]

It's the same with the train on the way to the plane. Also, like if you're sitting down and somebody over the age, like, I don't know, 70, 70, you can just tell by looking at them, they need your seat, man.

[Katie]

Get us, let them sit down. Or I even say people with children. I always get up for people who have kids or they're struggling with strollers and toddlers and babies and all that stuff. It's like here you need more se space to sit or whatever.

[Jeff]

You know, there's some deep planing etiquette that people seem to like, not pay attention to anymore. Also there's a reason why the aisles go 1 through 30. And when we're getting off the plane, this is how it goes. One gets to go out before two.

[Katie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

You know, row two gets to go out before three, three gets to go out before four. If you're in seven, you're not allowed to skip up to four.

[Melissa]

Actually, I don't, I don't really agree with that.

[Katie]

Why?

[Jeff]

I think you're thinking connecting flights.

[Melissa]

If it's your final destination. I think you hang, hang back. If the person next to you, like, if Jessica and I are like center and window and we're in Atlanta, we'll let most of the people go.

[Jeff]

I can agree with that.

[Melissa]

Until there's a big gap because I've been that person who's got 30 minutes to connect on a flight and I'm not familiar with the airport and it could be some crap place like freaking Dallas, who makes you get on a helicopter to go to a freaking different part of the airport because that airport sucks my butt. So it could be that airport, but so I will always hang back because there's nothing, I feel, I feel panicked for the people that I see running.

[Jeff]

I think that's the part of the etiquette also. If this is your final destination, you do, you, you do got to hang out.

[Ashley]

But those don't take advantage of that. I think that a lot of times the plane, you know, sometimes the pilots do know that they have passengers that are running short and been on plenty of planes where they made the announcement for, you know, these people to be able to go through. But don't do it just because you want to get. You're trying to get to the, you know, get to your car or get to whatever and you're ready to get home. Yeah, you're ready to get home.

[Jessica]

Who cares?

[Jeff]

Grey's anatomy starts today.

[Ashley]

10 minutes just to. Yes. Sit there for a second.

[Melissa]

Hey, Angela, get home for gray.

[Jeff]

Good morning, Angela. You're on Q100.

[Caller]

Hey, good morning. First, if you're traveling with children, you should be willing to Benadryl your child. Otherwise you should be willing to give them whatever they want. Because there was a lady with a kid behind me and she kept yelling at the kid because it was screaming going, no, you can't have it. No, I was going to give it whatever it wanted in about two seconds.

[Jeff]

You got to control your kids. I have two kids and I was telling these guys yesterday, I got on this plane from New York to Atlanta and I have an 18 month old, a six year old, no problem on a plane. I mean, we could go to Sri Lanka and he'd sit there quietly as long as there's a DVD in front of him. But the 18 month old is so sketchy. And we get to our row and there were three other children, all the same age, as roughly the same age as my 18 month old. And I as a parent went into a panic because when one kid starts yelling on a plane about 18 months, it's contagious. Like, one of them hears, ahh. And the other one's like, oh, I can do that. Cool.

[Ashley]

And I want to add to that, just because I'm a woman, don't assume that I'm maternal, because I think a lot of times.

[Katie]

Save that.

[Ashley]

Yes, yes. Katie and I are two completely different women. Katie is like baby whisperer. She sees a baby in a mile radius and she knows a baby's around. But I think a lot of times mothers too, if they're. If they're having a, I don't know, hard time with their kid. And I sympathize. So I'm not saying that, you know, parents are totally to blame, but I find a lot of times, if I'm standing there because I'm a woman, she'll ask for my help, which is fine, I'll help her. But then in times on a plane where the baby's looking at me and wants to cry or talk or whatever, or pull my hair, you know, because I'm a woman, sometimes the mother will allow the baby to continue doing that because she assumes I think it's cute.

[Jeff]

The game of peekaboo that the kid plays between the seats. All right, let's. Let's all agree 30 seconds and then

[Ashley]

you gotta get that.

[Jeff]

Cute for 30, cute for 30.

[Katie]

I do have more maternal instincts, so I would say cute for three minutes.

[Jeff]

Oh, wait,

[Ashley]

30 seconds.

[Katie]

I give them three.

[Ashley]

But I. Yeah, I. And I'm sorry, parents, but I don't think your child is as cute as you do. I really don't. I never do. I'm sorry. I never do.

[Katie]

I do that too.

[Melissa]

This will cause you to panic, Melissa, but I was on a flip a couple years ago where the mom had to go get something. You know, I have to put the stroller down below, and she had to go get something out of the stroller and ask me to hold her kids.

[Jeff]

Oh, no.

[Melissa]

I go, no problem. So she gets up to go, and I'm sitting there, you know, bouncing the kid, doing whatever. Then the crowd forms and I see her stuck. Then the kid starts to cry, and it's not even my kid. And I'm like, give me a pacifier. Give me anything. So I found, like, I. The guy in front of me smoked. So I got some cigarette butts and taped him together and let him suck on that for a few minutes.

[Ashley]

It's a good idea.

[Melissa]

Like MacGyver.

[Jeff]

I told these guys, my 18 month old has great timing. Everything's fine. We change his diaper before we get on the flight. Then just as the flight starts rolling down the Runway for takeoff, he craps himself. And as a parent, there's nothing you can do, man. You're not allowed to get out of your seat. Everybody is stuck with my kid's butt for the next 10 minutes until you're at a height that you can actually move around. That crap smell goes all through the plane, and I knew it.

[Ashley]

Oh, but there's.

[Melissa]

You know what?

[Jessica]

There's two kids in front of you.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

There's five other people. Yeah.

[Jeff]

They didn't know which one it came from.

[Ashley]

Nobody. Yeah. Nobody knows.

[Melissa]

Could have been any of the other three kids or the two senior citizens.

[Jeff]

I think I even looked at Stacey, and I'm like, did he just crap himself? She's like, do not say a word because others around us don't know it's him. Keep the face.

[Ashley]

That's when you look at the other kid and give that look like, you know, as an adult, you know. You know, when you've. You know, when you've done, you know, past a little bit and you look at the other, you know, you look around like, who's doing that?

[Melissa]

Right?

[Ashley]

And it was you the whole time.

[Katie]

Come on.

[Ashley]

You know you've done it.

[Melissa]

Overly exaggerated. Who the hell did that?

[Ashley]

Oh, wow. What's that?

[Jessica]

You guys smell that?

[Jeff]

Jennifer was calling up to say, don't take down someone else's stuff from the overhead unless it's yours.

[Katie]

Yes, Yes. I would also say don't put your jacket up there. Put your jacket below the seat in front of you and allow somebody else to put their suitcase there.

[Ashley]

Agreed. Yeah. If you're taking up space.

[Katie]

Yeah. I mean, yeah.

[Jeff]

Oh, this is a good one here. This bugs me, too, man.

[Ashley]

That means you're about to curse, right?

[Katie]

Yeah, that one bugs me because I am, like, devout to trying to carry on instead of check stuff. So it drives me crazy when people put their little shopping bag up there. I'm like, I got a full suitcase. Put a shopping bag on your lap.

[Jeff]

Jasmine wanted to say, when you get up, don't use the seat in front of you for help. That one drives me nuts.

[Ashley]

Don't pull yourself up with my back.

[Katie]

Yes.

[Ashley]

And then they always catch some hair. You grabbed the city. I was catching my hair.

[Melissa]

Is it fair to. Is it fair to issue one for the pilots and flight attendants that we're not on a tour? I don't care what city we're over. I don't know.

[Jeff]

I like that.

[Melissa]

Oh, I hate that.

[Ashley]

It's distracting.

[Melissa]

I'M trying to sleep and I don't need to hear. And if you look out the right side of the plane, you see the Grand Canyon.

[Ashley]

I never see what they tell me to see. And it's always on the other side of the plane.

[Melissa]

Everybody on the left side of the plane. You've got nothing to look at. Losers.

[Katie]

Random sidebar. If you fly Delta, isn't that woman who does the instructional video at the beginning oddly robot?

[Jeff]

Like, she was getting so much press, I thought the whole thing was really sort of annoying.

[Ashley]

I mean, remember her?

[Katie]

The cheek? You can't. Oh, my God.

[Jeff]

Redhead with the cheekbones.

[Katie]

The redhead with the cheekbones.

[Melissa]

The. No smoking.

[Katie]

She's like a Stepford wife. Like, she's like, a little bit robot. Ish.

[Ashley]

You, too, will be part of the Delta family. Just wait a second.

[Jeff]

Shouldn't there be some consistency?

[Katie]

I'm like, you are a Scientologist.

[Jeff]

Get it?

[Radio Host]

The bird show.

[Melissa]

So the pat. Well, not the past few nights, but a few nights. Over the past, like, 30 days, I've had a really kind of freaky dream experience. And I don't even. In the dream part. I don't know if this makes any sense, but I had a freaky nighttime experience. I don't think it's a dream, but I wake up and I'm convinced someone is standing over the bed looking at me. And it's to the point where, like, three out of the four times it's happened, I've actually leaned up or two, like, and I actually swing my arm trying to find, touch, whatever it is that's looking at me, like, to see if it's Jessica or.

[Jeff]

And you're unclear if you're dreaming this or if your eyes are actually open.

[Melissa]

I'm 99% sure I'm up.

[Jeff]

And there's something just hovering over you.

[Melissa]

There's something looking at me like, is it Jessica?

[Jeff]

Maybe. Like, oh, God, I can't believe I married this guy.

[Melissa]

She does that when I'm awake.

[Katie]

She leans over him going, stop snoring.

[Melissa]

But, like, I. It's. I can't recognize what it is. And then scary, and then couple that. Like, I had a really freaky night the night before. I told you guys about. It was really weird because as I was falling asleep. You know when you're in that really fun stage where you're half awake and

[Jeff]

half asleep and you're having all sorts of weird, bizarre dreams?

[Melissa]

Yeah. Like, I had a weird little thing that was filled with, like, demons.

[Katie]

Ew.

[Melissa]

It was freaky. But I didn't Wake myself up, like I was cool with it, but it was freaky.

[Jeff]

Didn't producer Tracy stay at your house one weekend and she swears that your house is haunted?

[Melissa]

Yeah, but it didn't all happen in my house, okay? It's happened at different places.

[Jeff]

So the ghost is following you?

[Melissa]

If it's a ghost, I don't know what it is.

[Katie]

Did you have this dream as a kid?

[Melissa]

Think so.

[Katie]

So you've had this.

[Melissa]

I never remember my dreams. That's why I don't think it's a dream. Ever. Never. If I remember a dream, it's a rare occasion.

[Katie]

Does it feel familiar enough that you think that you could have had this dream, like, more than over just the last month, or you think it's a new phenomenon?

[Melissa]

I would have to say it's new only because I. Yeah, I don't ever remember remembering my dreams.

[Jeff]

Why do you ask, Jen?

[Katie]

Because I was just talking to a friend yesterday or day before yesterday about recurring childhood dreams.

[Jessica]

Like.

[Katie]

And how there are just recurring dreams that you have from the time that

[Ashley]

you're a little kid.

[Katie]

And we were talking about the ones that freak us out and that sort of thing. And then I was telling him about this book, Eat, Pray, Love. You know, the one I've read 400 times.

[Melissa]

Yeah.

[Katie]

And there's this part when she's in Indonesia. You know the parts of the book where she goes to Italy? Anyway, she goes to Italy.

[Jeff]

Just because he watched that Traveling Pants movie doesn't mean that he's not reading all the chick flicks.

[Katie]

That's right.

[Ashley]

He's on Twilight right now, so he doesn't have to.

[Jeff]

Exactly.

[Katie]

I'm, like, skipped over Elizabeth. Well, anyway, so there's three sections of the book. One, she goes to Italy, then she goes to India, and then she goes to Indonesia. And in Indonesia, she seeks out this medicine man. And the medicine man tells her a sort of a Balinese tradition about what those bad dreams are about. And she specifically had the same dream as you. Somebody looking over her. And in Bali, they would say that it's one of your four brothers that's protecting you, so not to be scared of it.

[Ashley]

So there you go.

[Jeff]

I'll tell you what. I'll go to Bali searching for that dude for you and bring him back for you. If that's what I do, I'll write off the whole trip for four months.

[Melissa]

I gotta be honest with you. I was so excited when you said it was in a book. I'm like, I can't wait to hear what it is. And now I'm disappointed. That was dumb. Come up and make something else out.

[Katie]

I was trying to, like, really paraphrase it, like, and make it small because I know you guys would make fun of me, but it's a much longer, like, real tradition of these people. So what else do you need to hear?

[Jeff]

She's telling you to go to Bali, man, and work for the chick in the book.

[Melissa]

Yeah.

[Ashley]

He's an only kid, though. He didn't want siblings. He's four brothers.

[Jeff]

What?

[Jessica]

Brothers?

[Melissa]

You mean I have to share?

[Ashley]

I'm not sharing.

[Katie]

Funny that came up.

[Jeff]

Strickland, you have some advice for Jeff?

[Kim]

Hello.

[Jeff]

Yes, sir.

[Caller]

Yes,

[Kim]

I've heard that if you acknowledge it and while you're awake there and tell it to go away.

[Melissa]

Are you a Balinese medicine man, by any chance?

[Jeff]

Just tell it to go away, sis.

[Melissa]

Do I know what.

[Jeff]

Tell us to go away.

[Melissa]

I love that phrase. What do I now use? Medicine man. Do what now, Ashley, go ahead.

[Jeff]

You're on Q100.

[Caller]

Yeah, Jeff, I just wanted to tell you that I have the same exact thing, and my mother actually has it, too. It's a man that stands over and watches us. Except for I'm awake, but I can't move and I can't scream. And it's just the weirdest, most bizarre thing.

[Jeff]

Do you see something or you just, like feeling an energy?

[Caller]

I see something. I see it's a black. Or a man that has a black trench coat. And it's an older.

[Melissa]

Older man. Could it be just a neighbor?

[Caller]

I don't think so.

[Katie]

No.

[Jessica]

Jeff, what's your man wearing?

[Melissa]

Yeah, it's not like. It's just the trench coat.

[Ashley]

You sense it, but you don't see anything.

[Melissa]

Yeah, it's shadows and it's red and black.

[Jessica]

Really?

[Melissa]

Like, I can see colors.

[Ashley]

It's Georgia face paint on.

[Katie]

Get rid of it.

[Jessica]

Get it.

[Melissa]

Hey, Kim.

[Jeff]

You're part of the bird show. Good morning.

[Kim]

Hi. Good morning, you all.

[Jeff]

Hi.

[Kim]

Hi, Jeff. I know exactly what you're talking about. I used to live in Virginia. No matter where I was at, I've had that. No matter where I lived at, I've had that same exact feeling. There's a presence there. And a lot of times it feels like it's a bad presence. I don't know if you've. Do you feel like it's a bad. Like a bad sign that that person should not be there?

[Melissa]

Nah, it just feels, like, creepy. Like, really. Just like, I don't feel scared, really.

[Jeff]

Well, you're throwing punches at it, though. Didn't you say?

[Melissa]

No, I'm just reaching for it to find out if it's like there's really a person there.

[Ashley]

Mm.

[Jessica]

Well, what?

[Kim]

One of my classmates actually told me she was an older lady. She was like, you know, whenever that happens, Kim, just think about. Just think about good things. Think if you believe in Jesus or, you know, or whatever religion you believe, and think about positive things, that things will not hurt you. And eventually, like, after a while, they would just kind of. I would just focus my mind on good things that would kind of go away.

[Ashley]

Do you think that you feel like it's a bad thing only because it's like something. I guess you're trained to think if somebody's in my bedroom is a bad thing. You know what I'm saying? Like, it may not.

[Jeff]

I've never thought that.

[Ashley]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

Yeah. I don't feel like any panic or

[Ashley]

fear if somebody's in your bedroom, it's a good thing.

[Katie]

Somebody signing up to be there is a good thing.

[Ashley]

Even if he's a man in a black trench coat.

[Jeff]

Embrace it.

[Melissa]

You know what that lady said? I only like to call on God or Jesus if I need money or help. I don't like to.

[Jeff]

Or if my team's about to kick a field goal with a second and left.

[Melissa]

Yeah, I know.

[Ashley]

I always save the Oscar when I think about it.

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