Vault: Love, Lost & Found: He met a woman on a plane

Summary

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The Bert Show: Vault: Love, Lost & Found – He Met a Woman on a Plane (June 24, 2026)

Episode Overview

This installment of The Bert Show's "Love, Lost & Found" segment centers on Jason, a listener who had a serendipitous encounter with a flight attendant on a delayed AirTran flight from Atlanta to Dallas. Haunted by missed opportunities, Jason reaches out, hoping the show can help him reconnect with the woman he met—a story that unpacks themes of fate, regret, and the lengths we'll go for a shot at love. The Bert Show cast, joined by engaged listeners and even a fellow AirTran flight attendant, team up to help Jason track down his missed connection.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Jason’s Story: The Missed Connection

• Setting the Scene ([01:09]–[02:14])

  • Jason recounts meeting a flight attendant during a chaotic, delayed trip from Atlanta to Dallas.
  • Both their flights were disrupted by bad weather, leading to a prolonged five-hour journey.
  • Soulja Boy and his entourage happened to be on the same flight, which later becomes a key detail.

• The Shuttle Encounter ([03:01]–[05:06])

  • Jason and the flight attendant share a shuttle ride from the Dallas airport to their hotels after his return flight is canceled.
  • Light and playful exchanges occur (she asks, “so are you airline or are you a normal person?”).
  • They chat about Six Flags parks (both Georgia and Texas) and birthdays, but Jason hesitates to extend the conversation further.
  • “I totally would [have rode around with them] if I knew I had a spot to stay there. But I know I got a spot here, so I’m gonna go ahead and just get off here.” – Jason ([05:06])

• Regret Sets In ([05:06]–[06:02])

  • Only after reaching his hotel does Jason realize the rare chain of coincidences that led to their meeting.
  • “All of these things couldn’t have happened. It had to happen a certain way...” – Jason ([05:49])

2. Hosts & Co-Hosts Reflect: Missed Cues and Fate

• The hosts gently tease Jason for “chickening out,” but also empathize with the stress and fatigue that comes with travel ([04:27]–[06:02]).
  • “Destiny’s window opened and you let it shut.” – Host ([04:34])
• There’s acknowledgment that we often see clues only in hindsight, especially under stress:
  • “She’s giving you all the clues, and if you could just slow things down, you would have seen them. But you don't see them until after.” – Host ([06:09])

3. Building the Case: Details About the Flight Attendant

• Physical & Personality Description ([07:32]–[08:07])

  • Brunette, tall, slender, and full of energy.
  • “When she came down [the escalator], I was like… just like, wow.” – Jason ([07:35])

• Stayed at the Hyatt Place in Grapevine, Texas, likely with other AirTran staff ([08:07])

• Additional Clues

  • Part of a crew of five, possibly working coach.
  • Notably carried “a full loaf of bread” in her carry-on ([06:37]–[06:57]), which the hosts find quirky and memorable.

4. The Search: Audience & Insider Help

• Audience Calls In With Tips ([08:34]–[12:45])

  • Caller Jenny (friend in the airline business) explains how flights and seniority work and offers to get the roster if they can hone in on the flight number.
  • Other callers confirm, “If you know the flight number, you can find the crew,” reinforcing that tracking her down hinges on this detail.

• Getting Closer: AirTran Flight Attendant Joins In ([11:36]–[13:30])

  • Jessica, a real AirTran flight attendant and show listener, joins the segment, pledges to help with crew lists if they can identify the flight.

  • Co-hosts narrow down the possible flights to Flight 102 or Flight 113 based on Jason’s timings and delays.

  • “If she got down to baggage claim at 7:15 and it was delayed two hours… maybe that could be close.” – Co-host 3 ([12:52])

• Plan of Action

  • Host says, “Meet back here in a couple of days… we’ll have producer Tracy start working on this along with Jessica from AirTran and we’ll see if we can put something together for you.” ([13:48])

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Jason’s Realization of Fate ([05:49])

  • “All of these things couldn’t have happened. It had to happen a certain way. Her flight had to be delayed, the guy at the Dallas airport had to know that Atlanta airport was having problems…”

• The Loaf of Bread Detail ([06:37])

  • “She did have with her, in her carry on bag, like a full loaf of bread.” – Jason
  • “That’s random.” – Host ([06:52])

• Show’s Take on Missed Romantic Connections ([04:34])

  • “Destiny’s window opened and you let it shut.” – Host

• Teamwork & Audience Engagement ([09:26])

  • “As soon as we get that flight number, then I think everything else opens up to us.” – Host

• Romantic or Creepy? ([13:58])

  • “I try to think of this from her side of it. It’s either really, really romantic or really, really creepy.” – Co-host 2

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Important Timestamps

• [01:09] – Jason begins recounting his story.
• [03:01] – Jason describes the shuttle encounter.
• [05:49] – Jason reflects on fate after getting to his hotel.
• [06:37] – The show discusses physical and quirky details about the flight attendant.
• [08:07] – Jason identifies the Hyatt Place in Grapevine as her likely hotel.
• [08:34] – Callers begin offering airline insider tips.
• [11:36] – AirTran flight attendant Jessica joins to help with the flight roster.
• [12:45]–[13:30] – The team narrows it down to two possible flights and agrees to work behind the scenes to find the mystery woman.

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Overall Tone & Takeaway

As with most Bert Show episodes, the vibe is friendly, teasing, and hopeful—with plenty of laughs and audience participation. Jason’s story blends earnest vulnerability with universal themes of missed opportunity, leaving the whole cast rooting for a fairy tale ending with a little help from their listeners and contacts in the airline world.

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Did You Miss It?
You can catch the next update in a few days as the team and their insider partner “Jessica” try to crack the case—and maybe help fate along with a little radio magic.

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Transcript

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[Host]

Here's Jason. Hey, Jason.

[Jason]

Hey, guys.

[Host]

Hey, man. We're gonna. We're gonna try to get you some help this morning, bro.

[Jason]

All right, thanks, man.

[Host]

Okay, so here's how Love Lost and found works. If you're a Newbert show listener, you meet somebody out. Could be at a restaurant, could be at a bar, could be anywhere, right? Guys feel like there's some kind of vibe or some kind of attraction going on, but there's that awkward time when you're saying goodbye, like, do I get the phone number? Do I not get the phone number? And for whatever reason, you. You just. You sissy out. So you end up going one way and she ends up going the other, or vice versa. Then you start thinking, man, I mean, what did I have to lose? I'm probably never gonna see her again. Why didn't I do it?

[Co-host 1]

Once in a lifetime moment.

[Host]

Well, we hope that it's not a once in a lifetime. If you call us, what we'll do is we'll give as many details as we can out right now, and then with any luck at all, somebody is listening right now that knows this AirTran flight attendant. And we could get her on today or in 24 hours, whatever. So, Jason, why don't you give us a little history here where you met her. Just run us through the day and give us all the details that you can about her and maybe somebody listening knows who she is.

[Jason]

Okay?

[Host]

All right, go for it.

[Jason]

She was on a flight from Atlanta to Dallas, and that Flight was delayed. She was stuck on the, I guess, the Runway because this was Friday. The weather was so bad. So it ended up taking, like, five hours to leave, you know, just to get to Dallas. And on that flight, I remember I was listening to their conversation while we were on the shuttle. Soulja Boy and his crew was on that flight.

[Co-host 1]

Okay.

[Jason]

And she was talking about that, okay,

[Co-host 2]

this is the same flight that Soulja Boy was on.

[Host]

Okay, that could be a really big hint right there. It says an air tram flight on Friday. It was delayed, like, five hours, and we know that Soulja Boy was on it. Okay.

[Jason]

No, it wasn't delayed five hours. It took five hours to get there.

[Host]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Jason]

Anyways, I first met her because I was waiting at a shuttle, like, shuttle stop, waiting for my hotel to come pick me up, because I was actually at the airport waiting to come back to Atlanta. My flight got canceled, like, at the last minute.

[Co-host 2]

Okay.

[Jason]

So while on the shuttle, I was just, you know, mind my own business. You know, I'm like, trying to get some hotel. I'm tired. I was at the airport since, like, 4 o', clock, and this was already 7 o' clock at night. And, you know, she's having conversations, and then she just kind of looks over at me and just says, so are you airline or are you a normal person? Exactly. So I just smiled at it. I was like, I'm a normal person just trying to get home like everyone else, you know. I asked her if she was based out of Atlanta. She said she was. And then. And I was sent. I was actually in Texas to some training for Six Flags Over Georgia. And on my way to hotel, we drove past Six Flags Over Texas. And she's like, oh, my God, there's a Six Flags here and stuff. And then she started talking about, like, how much she loves to flag over Georgia, how she goes for her birthday and stuff. And then in my mind, I was like, oh, my God, there it is. But I didn't say nothing. You know, I was just like. Because she wasn't really talking to me, you know?

[Host]

So that was. That was. That could have been your end to a longer conversation.

[Jason]

Totally.

[Host]

Okay.

[Co-host 2]

You chickened out.

[Co-host 1]

You did.

[Jason]

Well, I was tired and. But, yeah, I chickened out.

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Host]

Destiny's window open and you let it shut.

[Jason]

So. And then we pulled into our hotel, and it was actually. It was pulled into my hotel, and then one of the captain was like, this is not. This is not it. This is not it. And so the driver starts to kind of turn around and I start freaking out. So I was like, yo, this is my hotel. Like, you need to stop here. You know? And then she goes, you sure? You sure you don't want to ride around with us? You know, be fine.

[Co-host 1]

God, there it is.

[Co-host 3]

Two wins.

[Jason]

A lot of them. And I was like, you know, I totally would, you know, if I knew I had a spot to stay there. But I know I got a spot here, so I'm gonna go ahead and just get off here. Driver turns around, pulls up, you know, and I start, you know, heading out. And she's like, well, you know, she wishes me a safe flight home. And I did the same. And at this whole time, like, not a lot of it was registering, you know, I was just trying to get in my room, drop my bikes, because I was supposed to be home. I get to my room and I just kind of drop everything, take a sight. And then it just hit me like a freight train. Like, I was like, wait a minute. Like, all of these things couldn't have happened. Like, it had to happen a certain way. Her flight had to be delayed. The guy at the Dallas airport had to know that Atlanta airport was having problems. If he canceled that flight any earlier, I would have been gone, you know, or I would have caught another flight home, maybe. Just things like that. And so, I mean, I get that,

[Co-host 3]

you know how it is when you're traveling. You're stressed, especially in that weather and stuff. You're not focused. You're just like, man, I just want my head on a pillow.

[Co-host 2]

Tired, trying to get there.

[Host]

She's giving you all the clues, and if you could just slow things down, you would have seen them. But you don't see them until after.

[Co-host 2]

Well, and she wasn't like that because she does it for a living, right? So she wasn't stressed out. So she was like, checking you out, like, hey, you want to ride with us? And she, yeah, hey.

[Jason]

You know, most girls don't approach. And I was like, is this really happening? I was just like, okay. She's probably just being nice.

[Host]

We have an AirTran flight attendant that's based out of Atlanta, outside of that. Did you see a name tag? Did she give you a name? Anything else that you heard?

[Jason]

No, it was a crew of five. I think she probably was working the coach simply because of her uniform. There was a male and female pilot she did have with her in her carry on bag, like a full loaf of bread.

[Host]

That's random.

[Co-host 2]

Carry on bag. Hilarious.

[Jason]

I thought that was weird, but then I was listening to the captain Talking, I guess. You know? Cause you never know. You're gonna get stuck in it. You could even leave the airport. Okay, so that makes sense.

[Co-host 1]

But I think that, you know, especially if we found out which flight exactly it was that soldier boy was on from Atlanta to Dallas. Is that what you said? Then they would know exactly what attendants were on that flight.

[Host]

That helps big time, because, what, only five or six work a plane? So if we. If we knew the number of that flight, that sure would help us sort of narrow down our search. We could even call over to AirTran at that point, corporate, and see what we could do.

[Co-host 2]

And what's about a physical appearance? What did she look like?

[Jason]

Brunette, tall, slender? Like, definitely, like, I think she could be a model if she wanted to be. Full of energy. And, like, actually, that's what caught my attention first, because she was coming down Escalate, and I heard her voice, and I was like, oh, this is, you know, this is gonna be a hot girl. And sure enough, when she came down, I was like. Just like, wow. And I was, you know, hoping that we might end up at the same hotel because then I can probably talk to her then. Oh, she did. I know she stayed at. Because they were. They went to. Won't tell. She stayed at the Hyatt Place in Grapevine, Texas.

[Host]

Okay, okay. Hyatt Place in Grapevine.

[Co-host 2]

Okay.

[Host]

Which may. Which may be the one hotel that all Air Trans staff stays at. So I don't know that that's really going to help us all out all that much, but if it's not right, then that would help us.

[Co-host 2]

What about where she was from originally? Did you ask her that?

[Jason]

No. There wasn't a lot of talking going on. Like, you know, I felt like I was hard. I was trying to.

[Co-host 3]

She was trying.

[Host]

She was trying. All right, here's Jenny. She said we may have a clue in here that we didn't even know.

[Co-host 1]

Okay.

[Host]

Hey, Jenny, Good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller 1]

Hey, good morning. I was just saying I have a few friends in the airline business that work for AirTran, and I know that the senior flight attendants who've got seniority with the company, they get paid. Flight attendants get paid by mileage, and that's how they log their hours. So the less senior attendants take shorter legs, the senior attendants would get a longer flight to Dallas or LA or somewhere like that because they can log more mileage in hours.

[Co-host 3]

So she's been with the company for quite a while, is what you're saying.

[Caller 1]

Well, yeah, most likely she's got some seniority if she's taking a flight from Atlanta all the way to Dallas. And I have a really good friend who's a pilot with Air Trans, so if he can get me that flight number, I can get the roster of who attended that flight.

[Host]

That I think is our biggest clue right there, is we somehow, someway, gotta figure out that flight number based on Soulja Boy being on that flight. You know, like, somebody at AirTran must have said something to somebody else that I was working this flight or Soulja Boy. As soon as we get that flight number, then I think everything else opens up to us.

[Co-host 1]

Cause I'm glad Soulja Boy was on that flight because it would be so generic otherwise. You know what I mean?

[Host]

Then we've got nothing really to go with. People have. Only some are calling up and didn't hear the entire story. He wasn't on the Air Tran flight. He was on a Delta flight.

[Co-host 1]

Right.

[Host]

She was working in AirTran flight. And that's why we don't have the flight number and the flight number.

[Co-host 1]

Then we could easily narrow it down to who she was.

[Host]

And the only thing we know about the flight that she was working is that it was going from Atlanta to Dallas and that Soulja Boy was on it. And that's it. So as soon as we get that flight number, then we're good to go.

[Co-host 1]

And it was on. It was a Friday. Which Friday was it?

[Jason]

This past Friday.

[Co-host 1]

This past Friday.

[Jason]

Right. And the flight had to arrive sometime after, like, 6:50. Because I was at the airport for a while, like, walking in circles. PM yeah.

[Caller 1]

PM okay.

[Caller 2]

Hey, Sherry.

[Host]

Good morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller 1]

Oh. I'm a flight attendant for Atlantic Southeast Arizona.

[Host]

Loving you guys.

[Caller 1]

And the best way to find out if you know the flight number, you could call in and they could tell you, the crew. So if you wanted to, like, say you had a great flight and you wanted to thank a flight attendant, they'll tell you who the crew was so

[Host]

they can do that. We just got to get that flight number.

[Caller 1]

All you need is the flight number.

[Host]

Yeah, the key. The key is to getting that flight number.

[Co-host 3]

We're sitting here. We're caught up in the Soldier Boy thing.

[Co-host 1]

Just look it up.

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Co-host 3]

And, like, you know, I understand that the power of the Soldier Boy sometimes overcomes all else.

[Co-host 1]

Because there's only one Soldier Boy.

[Co-host 3]

Yes. But all you have to do is look up the flight. So it was Atlanta to Dallas, direct.

[Co-host 2]

Yeah.

[Co-host 1]

After it landed at six.

[Co-host 3]

And it landed at six. Something. Give me one minute.

[Co-host 1]

But wait a second. Was it delayed or.

[Jason]

It was delayed. So it wasn't supposed to land at six something. It's supposed to land probably two hours earlier.

[Co-host 1]

Would that be reflected online?

[Co-host 3]

Yeah, but I mean if there's a hundred flights then we got a problem if there's two.

[Host]

So Jessica here is. Jessica here is a flight attendant with AirTran can help us out. Hey Jessica.

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

Hey, good morning guys.

[Caller 1]

How are you?

[Host]

Okay, how are you?

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

I'm awesome. I'm not at the airport, so I'm even better.

[Host]

What's going on?

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

Okay, for anybody flying on Friday, that sucks period. But if I can find out. Okay, it landed in Dallas at 6 o', clock, right?

[Jason]

No, it's sometimes after that because she didn't get down to the shuttle until probably about 4, 7:15, 7:30, the shuttle waiting area. So I had to land like sometime after 6:50 or around 7:00, I think.

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

And how late did she say that she was?

[Jason]

Well, they said the whole flight took about five hours, so I think they were at the airport like I guess waiting to take off for about two hours. Maybe two hours.

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

Okay, what I'm going to do is pull up all the flights that left and there's not a whole lot of flights to go to Dallas. There's pretty spread out. So I can pull up the crews on each one and I'll pull it up and just see if I can get some names and then I can figure it out.

[Host]

So you think you got it, Joe?

[Co-host 3]

Yeah, it's either flight. It's gonna. It's Most likely Flight 102 or Flight 113.

[Co-host 2]

Okay, cool.

[Co-host 3]

Because if it was.

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

I'll get the names.

[Co-host 3]

Flight 102 is scheduled at 3:00 clock for a 3:00 clock departure to arrive at 4:30. So if she got down to baggage claim at 7:15 and it was delayed two hours, that means it arrived at 6:30, so maybe that could be close. And then the other one is 1 13, which is supposed to arrive at 5:45. So if it was delayed two hours, that one wouldn't fit.

[Co-host 1]

So.

[Co-host 3]

But.

[Co-host 1]

And two planes with, you know, a handful of crew on each, we're narrowing it down.

[Host]

Hey Jessica, let me do this. Let me put you on hold and we're gonna get your phone number and I'll have producer Tracy work on this with you over like the next couple of days, okay?

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

Okay, sounds good.

[Host]

You're the best.

[Co-host 3]

Thank you.

[Host]

Don't go anywhere.

[Jessica (AirTran Flight Attendant)]

Bye.

[Host]

Thanks. Don't go anywhere. Alright, so at least that's a lead right there. Okay, that's a good. Somebody on the inside.

[Co-host 3]

That's a solid lead.

[Co-host 2]

It's a really good one.

[Co-host 1]

We know people.

[Jason]

Well, if you guys have a flight number, the captains. It was a male and female captain.

[Host]

Okay. Okay.

[Co-host 1]

All right.

[Lady Luck]

Cool, man.

[Host]

All right, let's. Let's meet back here in a couple of days. We'll have Tracy start working on this along with Jessica from AirTran and we'll see if we can put something together for you. Okay?

[Jason]

All right.

[Host]

All right, man.

[Co-host 2]

I try to think of this from her side of it. It's either really, really romantic or really, really creepy.

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