Vault: Did He Feel the Same? The One That Got Away Answers

Summary

The Bert Show: "Vault: Did He Feel the Same? The One That Got Away Answers"

Date: March 26, 2026

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Overview

In this emotionally charged episode, The Bert Show crew facilitates a revealing conversation between "Justin," a man with a complicated romantic past, and his old friend "Logan," who seeks closure—and possibly a second chance at love. The episode focuses on unanswered questions from a broken engagement, exploring Justin's feelings, his life after heartbreak, and whether there's hope for rekindled feelings with someone from his past. The hosts and listeners then react to Justin's responses, searching for meaning and possibility.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting Up: The Premise and Justin's Interview

• [00:47–01:44] The hosts introduce Justin, noting someone from his past (Logan) submitted questions they want answered, seeking closure or opportunities.
• Justin is unaware of who’s behind the questions, adding suspense and authenticity.
• Quote:
  • Host: "There is somebody from your past... [who] just wants some questions answered." (01:00)

2. Justin Answers 10 Key Questions

Each question explores Justin’s feelings and current life after a significant breakup.

• After leaving Atlanta, where did Justin go?
  • Justin is vague to protect his privacy: “I'll say still on the East Coast.” (02:14)
• Is Justin happy now?
  • He affirms newfound happiness:
    • Quote:
      • "Yeah, yeah. I'm happier now than I've ever been, so definitely." (02:30)
• Does he visit Atlanta? Would he return?
  • He’s visited “under the radar," seeing a few old friends but avoiding emotional triggers. (02:51–03:13)
• Contact with old friends?
  • No close friends kept; made a “real, like, clean break.” (03:24)
• Is his heart still broken?
  • Anger outweighed heartbreak, aiding closure:
    • Quote:
      • "I was just so mad...it all came out of me at once." (04:03)
• Did he ever feel he was with the wrong woman when engaged?
  • No, everything seemed fine until "I found out":
    • "All this happened so fast... no time to think that." (04:33)
• Would he move back to Atlanta?
  • Likes the city; just not ready emotionally: “Need more time.” (04:54–05:11)
• Anyone in Atlanta he'd like to date?
  • Hasn’t considered dating; “no one pops to mind.” (05:31, 05:48)
• Contact with ex-fiancée since the breakup?
  • Only logistical, no personal contact: “Just had to work out some...logistics of canceling wedding.” (05:54)
• Did her friends know about her infidelity?
  • He thinks they didn’t and that she “lost a lot of her friends over the whole thing.” (06:20)

3. Reaction & Analysis: Logan and The Crew

• [07:32–08:46] With Justin off-air, Logan reflects on his answers.

  • Feels reassured and confident:
    • "He’s happier now than ever… He would move here… He hasn’t been dating… And he stands by her." (08:17)

• The panel debates: Did Justin’s answers leave the door open for reconnecting with Logan?

  • Some think Justin’s emotional closure and clean break mean he's not interested.
  • Others, like Logan, see his lack of dating and kindness as hopeful signs.
  • Quote:
    • Logan: “He’s such a wonderful man… he never thought about anybody else.” (09:08)

• Panel Skepticism

  • Listeners call in to challenge Logan’s optimism:
    • Caller Chantelle: “I just got basic answers from him, and apparently he's not interested in her...” (10:14)
  • The hosts weigh in on alternative interpretations, suggesting Justin’s answers were more about moving forward than rekindling anything from the past.

4. Logan’s Closing Thoughts

• Regardless of ambiguity, Logan remains hopeful:
  • "I'm pretty anxious to contact him at this point." (11:58)
  • The panel notes: He didn’t say “absolutely never” to the idea of returning or reconnecting, which to Logan is a “green light.”

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Memorable Quotes

• Host (regarding closure): "Hopefully by the time you're done...they’ve got some closure." (01:39)
• Justin (on moving on): "I was just so mad that it was such a big emotion...I think I could just move right on." (04:03)
• Logan (after hearing Justin’s answers): "First, I'm just happy that…we hear his voice and know that he’s okay..." (07:41)
• Caller Chantelle (skeptical): "Apparently he's not interested in her, or he would have said..." (10:14)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• [00:47–01:44]: Justin joins, introduction of the 10-question segment
• [01:45–06:38]: Justin’s answers to all 10 questions
• [07:32–08:46]: Logan’s reaction to Justin’s answers
• [09:01–12:48]: Hosts and listeners debate the meaning of the answers and what Logan should do next
• [12:46–End]: Final recap; “Sometimes a yellow light is a green light is what I'm hearing”

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Tone & Style

• Candid and empathetic: The hosts create a safe space for vulnerability, yet keep things light with gentle humor.
• Optimistic yet realistic: Logan’s hope is balanced by the hosts’ and listeners’ pragmatic analysis.
• Supportive: Even with skepticism, the panel roots for closure and clarity for all involved.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a masterclass in seeking closure after a relationship gone wrong, revealing how differently two people can interpret the same answers and spotlighting the eternal hope that “the one that got away” might not be lost forever. The Bert Show’s candid, sometimes teasing approach guides listeners through the emotional labyrinth with warmth, wit, and honesty. If you’ve ever wondered “what if?” about your own past, this conversation will feel at once familiar—and maybe, just maybe, a little hopeful.

Transcript

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[Co-host]

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[Host]

Hey, Justin.

[Justin]

Yes.

[Host]

Good morning.

[Justin]

Good morning.

[Host]

How are you today?

[Justin]

I'm doing very well.

[Host]

Okay. Justin, you know why you're on with us?

[Justin]

Sort of, yeah.

[Host]

There is somebody from your past just wants some. Some questions answered. Mm. How's that? I'll put it in as basic terms as I can just to not to scare you off.

[Logan]

Mm.

[Host]

And I know producer Tracy's had some conversations with you off the air, so you can eliminate one person.

[Justin]

Good.

[Host]

Immediately. Say again?

[Justin]

Tracy's off the list officially.

[Host]

Okay.

[Producer/Commentator]

Okay.

[Host]

All right. I'm going to ask you 10 questions and I'm going to stick to script. It's these 10 and these 10 only because you've been so cool about coming on with us. We'll just stick to these 10 and then hopefully by the time you're done answering all 10, the person that wants these questions answered will have everything answered for them and they can tie it up in a nice little bow and they've got some closure.

[Justin]

Cool.

[Host]

Okay. After leaving Atlanta, where did you go?

[Justin]

Well, I moved away. I don't really want to say exactly where. I don't know who this is. Not to blow the first question right out of the gate, but I don't want to say that's fair.

[Producer/Commentator]

Could you give us a region like are you on the west coast? Even east coast, Southeast, Northeast?

[Justin]

I'll say still on the east Coast.

[Commentator]

Okay.

[Producer/Commentator]

Okay.

[Host]

Okay. So he's saying within stalking distance is what he's saying. So he's trying to be careful. Were you able to find happiness in your new life?

[Justin]

Yeah, yeah. I'm happier now than I've ever been, so definitely.

[Host]

I always want to ask follow up questions, but I won't. Do you ever come back to visit Atlanta? And if no, would you be Open to coming back to visit?

[Justin]

I have. I have come back, but it was kind of under the radar.

[Producer/Commentator]

Mm.

[Host]

So you sort of snuck into town and then snuck out?

[Justin]

Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

[Host]

Okay.

[Justin]

Just to see a few, like, old bored friends and stuff like that. I would come back, but it's just tough right now, you know?

[Commentator]

Yeah.

[Host]

Just doesn't hold a whole bunch of great memories for you right now. Gotcha. Do you keep in contact with any of your friends here?

[Justin]

No, none of my. None of my real close friends. I just made a real, like, clean break. Like I said, A couple work friends, but other than that, no.

[Host]

Okay, that's sad. What's that?

[Producer/Commentator]

That's sad.

[Host]

Well, you know how, like, when you break up with somebody and you have a certain song that is the two of yours and every time you hear that song, it reminds you of them? For some people it's a city, so.

[Justin]

And all the people that I knew especially.

[Commentator]

Yeah, we're part of all that, Right.

[Host]

Do you still have a broken heart? Is question number five.

[Justin]

You know what? No. I was just so mad that it was such a big emotion that I think I could just move right on. Like it all came out of me at once.

[Host]

Question number six. Mm. When you were engaged, did you ever feel that you were with the wrong woman?

[Justin]

No. No, I didn't. All this happened so fast that I no time to think that everything seemed totally normal up until I found out.

[Host]

Okay, question seven. Would you ever move back to Atlanta?

[Justin]

Yeah, I would. I like the town. Just. I just couldn't do it now. I mean, like you were saying, it's so fresh, everything, you know, can't drive around. I see a restaurant where my mind goes, need more time.

[Host]

Okay, question number eight. Eight already?

[Commentator/Caller]

You know what they say, eight is great.

[Host]

Of your Atlanta friends and acquaintances, can you think of anyone that you might want to date if the circumstances were correct?

[Justin]

Never really, really thought about that. I haven't really dated at all, so I haven't really thought, thought about dating anyone. So, no, I don't know. I haven't thought. No one pops to mind.

[Host]

Okay, number nine. Have you spoken to your ex fiance since the engagement ended?

[Justin]

No, no. Just had to work out some of the logistics of canceling wedding so soon before the banquet hall and not like that kind of stuff. So I just had to work that out with some of her relatives, that's it.

[Host]

And did her friends know about her infidelity?

[Justin]

Not that I know of. I mean, I didn't really poll them right afterwards, but actually I heard that she lost a lot of her friends over the whole thing. So I think it was like a surprise to everybody, her little secret life.

[Host]

Okay, that's all right.

[Commentator]

Thank you so much.

[Host]

I think the. The person listening probably got the answers that they wanted within those 10. So thanks for coming on, and I don't want to pry too much because you didn't really sign up for this, so thanks a lot.

[Justin]

No problem. Here I am. I don't know what. I don't know who. Who or what's going on, really.

[Host]

Right. That's the way that this person wants it, and we promised them that we would keep that secret. So I'm not sure that this person is going to be happy or unhappy with the answers or whatever, but before we check in with them, we don't want to call them out.

[Justin]

All right.

[Host]

Okay.

[Justin]

That's cool. Just happy to help.

[Commentator/Caller]

Just wait by your phone from now until the end of time. Someday someone may call you and reveal that they were the one. But they also may not. But you just wait.

[Logan]

Good luck.

[Host]

Thanks, Justin.

[Justin]

Good luck.

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[Justin]

Bye.

[Host]

Bye. All right, Justin is gone now, so we can get Logan back on. Hey, Logan.

[Logan]

Hey, guys.

[Host]

Not really anything there.

[Commentator]

Yeah, What'd you think?

[Logan]

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm. I'm. Yeah, I'm definitely pretty happy with it. First, I'm just happy that, you know, we hear his voice and know that he's okay, but absolutely, there's some possibility here. And, you know, I just hurt for him so much that such this awful thing happened to him, But I'm pretty confident. And, you know, this is a classic

[Producer/Commentator]

case of women hear what we want to hear.

[Host]

I want to get a little definition here, because what did you hear over the course of the last five minutes that made you think that there could be something here?

[Logan]

Well, I mean, he said that he's happier now than ever. He. He's no longer brokenhearted. He would come. He's absolutely fine coming back to Atlanta, and he said he would move here. You know, he hasn't been dating, you know, so he's ready for that, I think, now. And I mean, he's happier now than ever. And that's, you know, and just to show you what a wonderful person he is, you know, just to kind of a testament to what a great person he is, is number six. Did it ever cross his mind that he was with the wrong person and he said no? And, I mean, that's how committed he is and how, you know, Right. There he is for the woman that he loves, and he stands by her.

[Host]

So even though he said no to that answer, do you think that he was thinking about somebody else while he was engaged?

[Logan]

No. No. That's just it. That's how wonderful he is.

[Commentator/Caller]

He wouldn't do that. He's not capable of that because he's perfect.

[Host]

Not in his skill set.

[Producer/Commentator]

I think we should have asked the last question if he thought any of her friends knew before we asked questions six and eight, because I think the response would have been different on number eight, especially because if he didn't think any of her friends, then he would have automatically put her friends in mind anyways and then answered those a bit

[Commentator]

differently, if you thought about it. Well, I think I just feel like, you know, and Logan, I wish the best for you and trying to pursue him, but I think that just that last question, it goes to where her filter is. He's such a wonderful man that, of course, his commitment to her means that he never thought about anybody else. But basically it's telling you, Logan, he never thought about anybody else. So I think that you're wondering if he had chemistry together. I don't think that was answered yes on these questions. That was part of the reason to

[Host]

ask the question, but it wasn't no either is what she's saying. And a no sometimes is a yes, right?

[Producer/Commentator]

Or maybe.

[Host]

Yeah, or a maybe is a yes is what I'm hearing also. Hey, Chantelle. Good morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller Chantelle]

Good morning. I want to know, how did she get all of that out of 10 questions? Because I just got basic answers from him, and apparently he's not interested in her, or he would have said, oh, yeah, there was somebody who was a friend of hers, and, you know, we kind of had a little thing, and I kind of like her with my dating her. Basically, he's moved away, don't want to have anything to do with her or her friends, and he wants to start fresh. So I think that's what she should do, too.

[Producer/Commentator]

As far as the be concerned to Logan, I would be concerned if he did date you, it would be out

[Commentator]

of some sort of revenge.

[Logan]

No, see, that's not the kind of guy he is. I don't see. I don't get. I don't get what you guys are getting from this. I don't. Okay, how does. How does the caller get that he. He moves away and doesn't want to have anything to do with anyone, that he didn't say that, you know, he Said he would come back.

[Producer/Commentator]

Well, he hasn't.

[Co-host]

He did.

[Justin]

He did kind of.

[Producer/Commentator]

Kind of said that because he hasn't, actually. He dumped some of his friends because he.

[Commentator]

He had a clean break.

[Host]

But let me stick up for her for a second, because if this guy was really in. I mean, he was engaged, so he was in love, so his blinders were on anyway, so the possibility of being with anybody else never crossed his mind.

[Logan]

So, yeah, he wouldn't let himself.

[Commentator]

Well, I kind of along Jen's line is I feel like if he went through this horrible breakup with a woman he'd been with. And I'm assuming, Logan, that you all were friends in college and everything, right?

[Logan]

Exactly. We hung out all the time, you

[Commentator]

know, and I think that that's not gonna play in your favor because I feel like if he's left and making a clean break and wants to start a new life and wants to cleanse himself of all that, I don't think dating his ex fiance's best friend is gonna be the way he's gonna do it.

[Host]

Based on what you heard today though, will you Facebook him or will you try to call him or will you try to track him down now?

[Logan]

Oh, definitely no. I'm hoping that you guys will pass on the contact info that you're willing to do that. I'm pretty anxious to contact him at this point.

[Producer/Commentator]

Logan, you were probably going to tell him about your feelings regardless of what happens here, right?

[Host]

Yeah.

[Producer/Commentator]

This just gave you a little more. Sorry.

[Commentator]

What?

[Logan]

This is a good segue to just make sure that I'm not completely going out on a limb here.

[Host]

So you didn't hear that? Absolutely not. I would never, ever, ever date anybody from Atlanta. I would never come back to Atlanta. And I have never even thought. Thought about one of her friends, and I would never date one of them. That's the only thing that could have stopped you from calling him, right? And you didn't hear any of that, right?

[Commentator/Caller]

He didn't say, I hate Atlanta and I hate everyone there.

[Host]

Right. All right, good luck, Logan.

[Producer/Commentator]

That's green light, right?

[Host]

Sometimes a yellow light is a green light is what I'm hearing. All right, Logan. Okay, thanks.

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