Vault: Bert Show Intern has a Love, Lost & Found

Summary

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The Bert Show – Vault: Bert Show Intern has a Love, Lost & Found

Release Date: July 30, 2026
Cast: Bert Show hosts, Intern Brandon, Jen (Co-host), Leah (New Intern), Christian (Caller)

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Episode Overview

This engaging episode of The Bert Show centers around intern Brandon’s nostalgic attempt to track down his lost summer camp crush from 1998. What begins as Brandon sharing a sentimental memory turns into a spontaneous on-air mystery as the Bert Show hosts and listeners join in the quest to locate "Lacey"—the girl who left a lasting impact on Brandon’s youth.

Listeners are treated to the signature Bert Show blend: genuine conversation, quick-witted humor, a tinge of heartfelt vulnerability, and interactive audience participation—all unfolding in real time.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: Summer 1998 (01:15–02:09)

• Brandon recounts being sent to a Norcross tennis camp by his dad while visiting from New York, despite not playing tennis well.
• Providing a vivid ‘90s summary, Brandon reminisces:
  “The Yankees were about to win their second World Series in three years. I’m just saying.” (01:33 – Brandon)
• Introduction to “Lacey”—Brandon’s summer crush, notable for his “cool New York accent” cured of a childhood lisp.

2. Memories of Lacey (02:34–03:41)

• Lacey described with brown hair, a car dealership family background, and a friend named Robin.
• Brandon remembers seeing Lacey in a family-run car dealership commercial.
• Lacey and her friend went to a rival school of Parkview High (later identified as Brookwood High).

3. The Studio Investigation Begins (03:43–05:08)

• Leah (new intern) steps in, immediately recognizing Brandon’s Lacey, sharing that she went to Brookwood and her family owned a dealership.
• Notable moment: The cast marvels at Leah’s debut—a serendipitous, reality-show-style twist:
  “How weird would this be? Leah’s first day and first words to us are, ‘I know her.’” (05:26 – Host)
• Lacey’s possible full identity comes to light: Lacey Smith, owner’s daughter of a local Toyota dealership, with a younger brother named Jesse.

4. Crowdsourcing More Clues (05:42–06:40)

• Christian (caller) confirms Lacey Smith’s details, having attended school and cheered with her at Brookwood, and is Facebook friends with her now.
• Hosts ask Christian to reach out to Lacey via Facebook, deepening the involvement of both the studio and their community.

5. Reflecting on Fate, Destiny, and First Crushes (07:03–08:14)

• The group discusses the odd coincidence of Leah’s connection, pondering fate vs. destiny.
• Brandon opens up about Lacey’s lingering importance:
  “It just had a lasting power within the three of us in the family.” (07:29 – Brandon)
• Brandon admits to nervousness and doubts about reuniting—emphasizing how these early experiences can have surprising staying power.

6. Call to Listeners & Closure (08:14–09:09)

• The show puts out a call for anyone with information on Lacey Smith, clarifying there’s no ulterior motive—just the drive to close a personal loop.
• The hosts tease Brandon about his unthreatening nature, insisting any reunion intentions are innocent and sweet.
• Quote:
  “Me hook up with any girl? That’s funny.” (08:40 – Brandon)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Maybe when we finally find this girl from summer camp of 1998, we’ll realize that was the very first time you were scarred and that’s why you’re sort of scared.” (01:01 – Host)
• “I had the New York accent and I’d just gotten rid of the lisp. I used to have. So I was really cool.” (02:23 – Brandon)
• “This is her very first day in studio…your job is done here, honey.” (05:35 – Co-host Jen, to Leah)
• “It has to be destiny or just weird twist of fate.” (07:16 – Brandon)
• “Like, when I sent in the email, I was like, okay, odds are this won’t happen. But now that you have people call, it’s like, wow, you’re getting nervous.” (08:06 – Brandon)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:01: Story Introduction—Brandon’s summer camp memory surfaces
• 01:18: Setting the summer scene (Tennis camp, New York accent)
• 03:03: Lacey’s family background—a crucial lead (car dealership commercial)
• 04:01: Surprise connection—Leah (new intern) recognizes Lacey
• 05:51: Christian calls in, confirming Lacey’s details, offers to connect via Facebook
• 07:29: Brandon reflects on why Lacey was so memorable
• 08:14: Hosts open up hotline for Lacey Smith, encourage listeners to help reconnect

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Episode Tone & Style

The episode is fast-paced and witty, balancing gentle ribbing with earnest curiosity. Brandon’s vulnerability is met with light-hearted support, and the real-time unfolding of clues gives listeners the thrill of a “live whodunit”—with the added charm of nostalgia and first love.

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Ideal for listeners who love:

• Real stories with surprising twists
• Collective problem solving and audience involvement
• The interplay of humor and heart in everyday memories

End Note:
The episode closes with open-ended anticipation—will the Bert Show help Brandon reconnect with his summer camp crush? Stay tuned!

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Transcript

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[Brandon]

The bird show.

[Host/Interviewer]

Let's get intern Brandon up. Maybe when we finally find this girl from summer camp of 1998, we'll realize that was the very first time you were scarred and that's why you're sort of scared.

[Brandon]

Maybe. Maybe it's her fault.

[Host/Interviewer]

Maybe it's her fault.

[Brandon]

Maybe.

[Host/Interviewer]

All right, set the tone for us now. It's 1998.

[Brandon]

Yes. 1998. Summer camp. I still lived in New York, so I was down here visiting my dad who lived down here, and he signed me up for a tennis camp. I don't play tennis. All too well, but he wants you

[Host/Interviewer]

out of the house.

[Carvana Customer]

Yeah.

[Co-host Jen]

Basically sports camp.

[Brandon]

Yes. Summer of 90. The Yankees were about to win their second World Series in three years. I'm just saying. I just had to set the scene. So we were.

[Co-host]

It was up in the record. Nobody cares.

[Brandon]

I assume that. So it was up in Norcross and I believe was Best friends park up in Norcross. And so we sign up for the camp, we go there and there's a. We break off into like groups of four or five. And there was this girl in the group and I think part of the reason why she liked me because I was from New York and I had the cool New York accent.

[Host/Interviewer]

Look how street you are.

[Co-host Jen]

You're exotic. Yeah, I was back in elementary school. Seriously, I mean, if there was somebody who was from a different part of the country that is in Columbia, Tennessee, the guy that came from Detroit, man, he was the. He was it. He was an out of towner.

[Brandon]

Yeah, I had the New York accent and I just gotten rid of the lisp. I used to have So I was really cool.

[Co-host]

When did it come back?

[Brandon]

Once I started working here.

[Host/Interviewer]

Right.

[Brandon]

So her name was Lacey.

[Host/Interviewer]

Lacey.

[Brandon]

So, yeah, we just started hanging out. Like they had the lunch area and stuff like that. And it was really like a summer lovin' kind of thing.

[Co-host Jen]

And it was also the tennis camp, rather, was all summer long.

[Brandon]

Yeah, it was about eight weeks or something like that.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay.

[Brandon]

You know, she was my little summer crush. Yeah.

[Co-host]

So way to tie it into a musical.

[Brandon]

Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

So it's 1998.

[Brandon]

1998. Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

What else do you remember about her? I mean, her name's Lacey.

[Brandon]

Her name's Lacey doesn't have a last name. No, I do remember that one day we were watching TV and she shows up on this car dealership commercial. So it was a family car dealership. So I believe her family owned a car dealership in the Norcross area.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, that could be a very, very, very big clue right there.

[Co-host]

Lacey Kia.

[Carvana Customer]

What color hair? What color?

[Brandon]

She had brown hair. I do not remember the eye color. I do. I do remember she had a friend named Robin because I. They never heard the Rockin Robin song, so I had to show him the Rockin Robin song. And.

[Host/Interviewer]

Oh, you so were 11 years old.

[Brandon]

She's a white girl.

[Co-host Jen]

White girl?

[Brandon]

Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

He's never dated a black girl, right?

[Brandon]

Never.

[Host/Interviewer]

He's never dated a black girl.

[Co-host Jen]

Well, because you're really, you know, not white man. Living in a black man's body. But that's okay.

[Co-host]

Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

You know,

[Brandon]

I do remember that they hated Parkview High School, so they went to a rival school.

[Host/Interviewer]

Parkview.

[Brandon]

Okay. I'm not sure if it was.

[Host/Interviewer]

No, you don't.

[Caller/Guest]

No way.

[Host/Interviewer]

You know this girl?

[Brandon]

Touchel.

[Co-host Jen]

Who are you?

[Co-host]

Oh, my God. It's destiny. Fate.

[Co-host Jen]

That's freaky.

[Brandon]

Who is she?

[Co-host Jen]

By the way, we have a new intern today. Mr. Verse.

[Brandon]

Who is she?

[Co-host Jen]

It's Leah. This is our intern, Leah.

[Host/Interviewer]

This is her very first day in studio. And this is Leah. You think you know this girl?

[Caller/Guest]

I swear I know this girl.

[Host/Interviewer]

Shut up.

[Co-host]

Really?

[Caller/Guest]

Parky was our rival. Went to Brookwood High School.

[Brandon]

Brookwood. Okay. Yeah, it was Brooke Roy. Now that I remember.

[Co-host]

And you know Lacey from Lacy Kia?

[Co-host Jen]

Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

Am I allowed to say your last name?

[Host/Interviewer]

I guess. Yeah.

[Co-host]

Lacey S. And how do you. Her family owns a car dealership.

[Caller/Guest]

Her little brother was in my grade, and they owned stuff up that. Michael, I think they own a Toyota dealership.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay.

[Brandon]

I don't. I. Oh, cool. What are the odds?

[Co-host Jen]

I can't believe it.

[Co-host]

Lacy Toyota.

[Host/Interviewer]

Wait a second. This can't be real. All right, so you think you know. What's her last name?

[Caller/Guest]

Smith.

[Host/Interviewer]

Lacey Smith. And her folks own a Toyota dealership.

[Caller/Guest]

I think it was Toyota.

[Co-host]

If I'm Norcross, might be out of business now. No brakes on those cars.

[Co-host Jen]

What. What was her younger brother's name that might help us find her? Jessie Jesse Smith.

[Host/Interviewer]

Now, we're assuming this is the same girl. The right girl.

[Brandon]

Well, how do.

[Co-host]

How well do you know her brother?

[Caller/Guest]

Second grade.

[Co-host]

I mean, like, do you have his number now?

[Caller/Guest]

No, not really. He moved after, like, second grade.

[Co-host Jen]

Could you find her on Facebook?

[Caller/Guest]

I could try.

[Carvana Customer]

Did she play tennis?

[Caller/Guest]

I didn't really know her that well, but I assume if she went to camp, she'd be.

[Host/Interviewer]

How weird would this be? Leah's first day in first words on the first words to us are, I know her.

[Co-host Jen]

Your job is done here, honey.

[Co-host]

Yeah, really.

[Host/Interviewer]

It can never get any better than this, so you should leave now.

[Co-host Jen]

A plus. A plus on the internship, Day one.

[Caller/Guest]

Thank you.

[Host/Interviewer]

All right, so the first thing we need to do is find Lacey Smith and see if this is the same girl. But others are calling, saying they think they know her also. Hey, Christian.

[Christian]

Hey. How are you?

[Host/Interviewer]

Good. How are you?

[Christian]

Good. Yes, I know Lacey. She actually lived in my neighborhood growing up.

[Carvana Customer]

Is this the same.

[Christian]

I went to high school with her and cheered with her on the Brooklyn football cheerleading team. So.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, so she ended up going to Brookwood like you said, also. And her dad owns a car dealership.

[Christian]

Yes, I believe so. But I don't think they live in the same neighborhood anymore. But I know that. I mean, I'm friends with her on Facebook now.

[Co-host Jen]

And it's the same Lacey as Internalia was talking about.

[Christian]

Yes, Lacey Smith.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, now, if that's the same one, can you Facebook her and have her call us or contact us?

[Christian]

I can do that. Yes, I can. Thank you.

[Co-host Jen]

How weird.

[Host/Interviewer]

That would be.

[Caller/Guest]

Weird.

[Co-host Jen]

Super cool.

[Host/Interviewer]

You know, how excited.

[Co-host Jen]

Brandon, what are you.

[Brandon]

It's just, like, a shock.

[Co-host]

Oh, my God. Brandon, have you realized that you may have to talk to a girl?

[Brandon]

Oh, my God, no. Like, it's still, like, bubbling in my stomach.

[Host/Interviewer]

Lacy, have somebody fill in for you.

[Brandon]

Yeah, odds are she probably won't remember me.

[Co-host]

So, Lacy, since we left camp, do you get. Have you followed tennis? Like, have you followed, like, you know, some of the tennis players out there?

[Co-host Jen]

Rock and Robin.

[Brandon]

Rock and Robin. Yeah, we talk Yankees, baseball. I mean, that'd be my opening line.

[Host/Interviewer]

Now, I'm a fan, you know, like, how I believe in the whole destiny Thing. Okay. Now, how weird would it be that Brandon is here looking for Lacy and on Leah's first day is connected somehow some way to this girl that we had no idea before we started?

[Brandon]

It has to be destiny or just weird twist of fate.

[Co-host]

No, fate is bad.

[Brandon]

Oh, okay. Destiny's good.

[Co-host]

Destiny is good. Fate is like, what was it about

[Co-host Jen]

her that made you have a crush on her? Like, why'd you like her so much?

[Brandon]

Honestly, I don't know. It just if the topic of conversation. Like, every time my dad comes and stays at my apartment, he always talks about her and my brother too. So it just had a lasting power within the three of us in the family. Yeah.

[Co-host Jen]

And you too. Do you think about, like, have you thought about her through the years?

[Brandon]

Only when we talk about it, yeah. For the most part, yeah. Mostly when we talk about it, like, it really does have an underlying impact. It's left on me starting to get a little fluttery.

[Carvana Customer]

He's nervous.

[Brandon]

Yeah.

[Co-host Jen]

That's a good question, Jen. Thanks.

[Brandon]

Like, when I sent in the email, I was like, okay, odds are this won't happen. But now that you have people call, it's like, wow, you're getting nervous.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, so here's what we're looking for. If you think you know a. We think it's Lacey Smith, and we think she went to Brookwood and her folks owned a car dealership, at least back in 1998. We're not sure if they do now. Give us a call if you have information on her and we're trying to track her down, and if not, then email us later. And Brandon here is not trying to hook up with her tonight. We just sort of like, just curious what happens.

[Brandon]

Me hook up with any girl? That's funny.

[Co-host]

Of all the girls that you could be hooking him up with, like, or a guy a girl up with. Brandon is totally, totally safe.

[Co-host Jen]

Totally safe.

[Co-host]

Trust us.

[Co-host Jen]

How about how old is she now?

[Brandon]

She would have to be 21, 22.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, 21 or 20.

[Brandon]

20. 22.

[Host/Interviewer]

All right, so if you have any information on her and you can pass it on to her or pass it on to us, we'll try to reunite them by the end of the show or tomorrow morning.

[Caller/Guest]

Cute.

[Host/Interviewer]

That would be weird. If that's the connection right there, that will be strange.

[Brandon]

The bird show.