Vault: Love Lost & Found - She's Searching For A Cop

Summary

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The Bert Show - Vault: Love Lost & Found: She's Searching for a Cop

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

Episode Overview

This classic “Love Lost & Found” segment features a listener, Jamie, who is searching for a striking police officer she encountered while driving through Atlanta. The Bert Show team—true to form—dives into the details of the encounter, offering both their trademark humor and heartfelt effort to help Jamie reconnect with her mystery traffic cop crush.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Introduction to “Love Lost & Found”

• [02:07] The Bert Show introduces Jamie’s story: a listener seeks help tracking down a memorable traffic cop she encountered but never met.
  • “We do love lost and found, where you contact us, let us know who the person was…and we try to go to the Bert Show community and find that match.” (Host, 02:27)

Jamie’s Story: The Traffic Cop Encounter

• [03:01 – 05:55] Jamie shares how she briefly “met” the officer:

  • She and her business associate were stopped at a red light at the corner of Lenox Road and Piedmont.
  • Jamie noticed two police officers directing traffic; she and the officer exchanged a smile and “locked eyes.”
  • She describes the cop as “very handsome,” “5’10 or 5’11,” “light-skinned African American,” with “a beautiful smile,” and notes his GQ-esque traffic-directing pose and his “neon gloves.”
  • Jamie admits they tried to check if he was wearing a wedding ring but couldn’t tell due to the gloves.
  • She saw him a couple of days later, “eating a pack of nuts,” a detail the crew runs with for comedic effect.

• [05:59] The team jokes about the practicality of just “going back” to the intersection to find him, but Jamie doesn’t live nearby.

Details and Descriptions for the Bert Show Listeners

• [07:26] The team reiterates key identifying details for the audience:
  • Officer directing traffic at Lenox and Piedmont around 5:45 am.
  • Distinctive neon green gloves and memorable smile.
  • Seen snacking on nuts—an in-joke throughout the segment.

A Lead Emerges: Timothy Calls In

• [07:53 – 09:19] Timothy, who schedules officers for that intersection, calls to say he knows the identity of the cop Jamie saw.
  • Timothy confirms: “He’s actually not married.” (Timothy, 08:36)
  • The show teases possibilities—can Timothy broker a connection, or even bring the cop to the studio “with nuts”?
  • Timothy agrees to try contacting the officer off the air.

Wrapping Up — Will It Work Out?

• [10:06 – 11:08] The Bert Show works with Timothy to connect Jamie with the officer, joking about future possibilities (and Jamie’s mom’s excitement).

  • “...We’ll get them together.” (Host, 10:45)
  • “We did find out he was single. So we’ll see if he’s interested in meeting…” (Host, 11:01)

• [11:18] The group offers comedic advice: Jamie should fake a flat at the intersection to manufacture another encounter.

  • “Maybe you could go park in Phipps Plaza and lower one of your tires really low…Then when you get to the intersection…‘Oh dear, oh no, I’ve got a flat tire. Who can help me?’” (Show panel, 11:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jamie after describing the cop:

  “He kind of flashed like a million-dollar smile. He was very handsome…”
  (Jamie, 03:14)

• On the gloves and witnessing the officer’s snack break:

  “We were looking for a ring, but he had those neon gloves on… I actually saw him there a couple days later. He was eating a pack of nuts.”
  (Jamie, 04:26 & 05:15)

• Running gag about the nuts:

  “We are hot on the police officer with the nuts.”
  (Host, 07:14)

• Timothy confirming the officer's relationship status:

  “No, he’s actually not married.”
  (Timothy, 08:36)

• Playful planning for a future meet-cute:

  “Officer Planters.”
  (Jamie, 11:35)

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Timeline of Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:07 | Introduction to the “Love Lost & Found” theme | | 03:01 – 05:55 | Jamie narrates her encounter and describes cop in detail | | 07:26 | Hosts repeat the identifying details for audience participation | | 07:53 – 09:19 | Timothy calls, reveals he knows the officer; confirms bachelorhood | | 10:06 – 11:08 | Show plans how to connect Jamie with the officer; playful banter | | 11:22 | Hosts suggest Jamie contrive a meet-cute with a fake flat tire |

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Tone and Takeaways

The segment is classic “Bert Show”—light, witty, and interactive, peppered with inside jokes (“the nuts”) and warm banter. At its heart, the story celebrates serendipitous connections and the fun of community sleuthing, with both hosts and listeners actively involved in bringing a slice of real-life romantic possibility to the airwaves.

Key Takeaway:

• The Bert Show’s “Love Lost & Found” is not just about romance, but creating community connections with warmth and humor.

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Transcript

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[B]

We're lost. I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions.

[A]

Hi there.

[B]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[C]

Well, you're gonna take a left at the old oak tree end of this here road. No, I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out.

[B]

How are you getting a signal out here?

[C]

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[B]

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[D]

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[C]

Hey, the bird show.

[F]

We were gonna have Jamie on earlier this morning who is looking for a police officer that she met last week that she would like to meet again.

[G]

Yeah, it was a traffic. It's gonna be A traffic cop. Love lost and found.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, same thing. I mean, we've done this for years and years now.

[G]

Yeah. Because in any situation, regardless of where you are, you have a connection with somebody, some kind of chemistry, but for whatever reason, you end up leaving the situation without exchanging phone numbers. And so that's why we do love lost and found, where you contact us, let us know who the person was, the description, if you don't know their name, and everywhere you were and everything. And we try to go to the Burch show community and find that match and find the person. And in this case, it has to do with the traffic cop.

[F]

Hey, Jamie.

[H]

Hey. How are you?

[F]

Good, how are you?

[H]

I'm a little. I just got nervous all of a sudden.

[A]

You did.

[F]

You're cool.

[H]

Okay, good.

[F]

Alright, let's work on finding this cop for you. Okay.

[H]

Okay.

[F]

All right.

[H]

So we didn't actually meet.

[F]

We haven't met.

[H]

We met through glass, so to speak.

[I]

So he pulled you over then, right?

[H]

No, I was hoping he would catch my expired tags, but he was actually in front of my car.

[F]

So what happened and where did all this happen?

[H]

Okay, I was coming home from a meeting. I had a business associate with me in my car, so I couldn't really catcall or roll down the window and try to get his number.

[I]

Is that something you would normally do

[H]

in the corner of Leno Road in Piedmont? And I was taking a left and I was. I was going to try to run the light. I was chuckling at Jessica's story this morning because I was going to do that, but I got stopped on the crosswalk, it turned red, and I look over to the right and there's these two cops. You know, I think it was about 5:45, and it's like, I think they were either showing up for work or, you know, how, like they direct traffic and make sure that people don't run the lights. But I was sitting on the crosswalk, so I thought. My first thought was, oh, I'm about to get fussed at. And then we kind of locked eyes and I smiled at him and I looked at my friend Amy and I go, ooh, he's cute. And then he. I think he read my lips because he kind of flashed like a million dollar smile. He was very handsome. And then I kind of, you know, backed up and let him cross to the other side of the street. And so he's directing traffic and we were looking for a ring, but he had those neon gloves on.

[F]

So we were like, those are hot. We all wear those in studio.

[H]

We've gotten anything.

[G]

So you can't tell if he's married or not because he's wearing those traffic gloves.

[H]

Yeah, but we were looking for. Sure.

[F]

Women say they love a man in a traffic glove.

[G]

I do not.

[H]

I'm a big fan. So he's directing traffic. You know that light is pretty long there. I was taking a left onto Piedmont. It's right there at the Business Chronicle building. And he kind of. We had to laugh because he struck this GQ pose with his back to us. Like he had his hand on his hip and was kind of directing traffic with one hand and you know, so we had to laugh at that because I don't know, it just didn't look natural. But it was cute at any rate. So I like to think that he was trying to impress you.

[G]

Yeah, he was kind of strutting his stuff for you.

[F]

It was the police inviting look like.

[H]

Yeah, he's really, he's very handsome. If I had to describe him, I would say he's probably 5, 10, 11ish. I don't know that he was 6. He wasn't all that tall. Light skinned, African American guy, beautiful smile. He had the hat on. He was in the full gear, looked really nice. And I actually saw him there a couple days later. He was eating a pack of nuts.

[F]

I can tell this is going in a different direction.

[I]

Is that some weird cop code or something for some weird dvd?

[H]

He probably didn't need that information. But he was really cute. Striking.

[I]

But don't you think he works there

[F]

regularly?

[A]

Yeah.

[I]

So can't you just go back?

[G]

Probably.

[H]

But you know, I don't live in that area town. So I just, I don't know. I was, I mentioned it to Jen and she was like, hey, I was

[G]

like, let's do traffic cop love, lots and bounds.

[F]

Well, here's what we need to do then. It's probably focusing less on what he looks like and probably more if you're a police officer that knows or has access to who was on that shift that day at 5:45. Right?

[H]

Yes. There's two of them.

[F]

There's two of them. There's the guy in his nuts and the other guy.

[I]

Well, do you really want to do it? Let me ask you a question. If there's two guys, do you want to be the guy eating the nuts or the guy not. Because that means you're the nutless guy. Yes.

[F]

You don't want to be the nutless cop.

[A]

Right.

[F]

In this case we're looking for the

[I]

guy and you realize that he may not like you now just because you told all of his cop coworkers that he struck a very unnatural one GQ traffic directing pose, which I imagine is

[H]

like he knew he was doing it. Even my friend Amy who was in the car was like, oh no he didn't. And I was like, look at that. It didn't matter though. It was just too funny and he was really cute.

[F]

This may be the fastest love lost and found we have ever done.

[G]

Seriously.

[F]

We are hot on the police officer with the nuts.

[I]

Hey, when he was eating his nuts, did he have his neon glove on or was he. Was he gloveless? Was he gloveless, not eating?

[H]

I didn't notice at that point.

[F]

All right, we are looking for a striking police officer. Five' ten, five' eleven. You said light skinned African American, right? Five. It was at 5:45.

[H]

Roughly. I don't exactly remember, but around then Lenox and Piedmont.

[I]

And he had a very bright green neon triangle on the palm of his

[F]

hand and you couldn't miss his nuts.

[H]

Sorry I mentioned the nuts.

[F]

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

[J]

Hi, good morning. How are you?

[F]

Good, sir. How are you?

[J]

Not too bad.

[F]

Can you give us a lead here?

[J]

Well, yeah, it's only obviously two officers I worked at and I'm one of the ones that set up the job, so.

[F]

So it's your job to assign the police officers to that intersection?

[J]

I'm the one that called the gentleman you're referring to and informed him about the job.

[F]

So you know who he is?

[J]

Yes, there's one or two people, but I'm pretty sure I know which one she's referring to.

[H]

Did they get a lot of calls like this?

[J]

No, not that I'm aware of, but.

[F]

Well, the first question that we need to know, do you know him intimately enough to know if he is married or not?

[J]

No, he's actually not married.

[G]

No, not married.

[A]

Okay.

[I]

Do you know if he would be opening. Do you know him well enough to know if he's open to sharing his nuts?

[J]

It's always a possibility.

[F]

All right, so how do we want to do this? Do we want to get a phone number from you? Can we get in direct contact with him? Can you provide us with his name? Maybe we can announce it and have him call in. How can we do that?

[I]

Can you bring him to us? Can you put him in the trunk of your car and deliver him here to the radio station with nuts?

[J]

I can't guarantee the nuts, but maybe he can work something out with you guys, off the air.

[F]

We would certainly like Ali to at least call him off the air and see if he's interested in coming on Timmy.

[G]

This is awesome.

[F]

Yeah, this is coming quick.

[H]

I'm pretty excited.

[F]

So we're trying to get this cop on and Timothy's running into a little bit of a roadblock. Hey, Tim.

[J]

Hey.

[F]

Hey.

[J]

It's a little bit of a problem. Got his voicemail. So I'm sure he might be busy on a call, but can't you read?

[I]

Do you guys have a CB or something?

[J]

I don't think that'd be quite official

[I]

business, but, I mean, can you tell them that there's like. Why don't you tell him there's like a breaking and entering at Jamie's house that just happened?

[F]

Well, we can actually make that happen. We'll just send Ben over there and we'll have him break into the window.

[G]

Intern Benjamin needs some street crank anyway.

[J]

He thought someone wanting that for him.

[F]

All right, well, Timothy, can we do this? Because it's not going to conclude right now. So I guess what we'll do is we'll. We'll keep trying to get in touch with them. And then Jamie, when we do either our next show that we're all here together, we'll get you guys on the air together, or maybe it happens over the next 15 minutes. Who knows?

[H]

Perfect. I'm good either way.

[F]

At this point. You're calling him?

[J]

Yes. One of your people are going to email me.

[F]

Great.

[I]

I think we just. When Timothy reaches him, I think because, you know, because we're going to be gone for a week, I think he just puts Jamie in touch with the two of them and then we talk to them on Monday. They've got their first child on the way.

[C]

You think it's gonna happen?

[H]

That would make my mom really happy.

[F]

All right, Timothy, I'll let you go and I'll have either Sean or Lyndall somebody call you off the air, and we'll figure this all out and we'll get them together.

[J]

All right. Sounds good to me.

[F]

All right, thank you very much.

[G]

One thing that we didn't mention this time around, that we found out last time is Timothy told us that this guy is not married.

[F]

He's not married.

[G]

Right. So we did find out he was single. So we'll see if he's interested in

[H]

meeting if he has a girlfriend. She's really mad right now.

[F]

Well, I mean, they didn't do anything wrong. I mean, this is just the way you persist.

[G]

We're just looking for him.

[F]

He might have just been. That's just the sexy way that he controls traffic on Piedmont and Lenox.

[H]

I'm sure he gets honked all the time. He's really good looking.

[I]

Maybe you could go to like park in Phipps Plaza and lower one of your tires really low and then when you get to the intersection just stop and go, oh dear. Oh no, I've got a flat tire. Who can help me?

[C]

Help me, help me.

[H]

Officer Planters.

[F]

Officer Planter.

[H]

Thank you. Thank you so much.

[G]

Welcome.

[F]

Bye bye.

[C]

Hey, the bird show.

[B]

We're lost. I'm going to pull over and ask that man for directions.

[A]

Hi there.

[B]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[C]

Well, you're going to take a left at the old oak tree end of this here road. No, I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out.

[B]

How are you getting a signal out here?

[C]

T Mobile and US Cellular decided to merge. So the network out here is huge. We're getting the same great signal as the city and saving a boatload with all the benefits. Oh, and a five year price guarantee. Okay, here's those directions.

[B]

Actually, can you point us in the direction of a T mobile store?

[D]

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[E]

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[B]

We're lost. I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions.

[A]

Hi there.

[B]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[C]

Well, you're gonna take a left at the old oak tree end of this here road. No, I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out.

[B]

How are you getting a signal out here?

[C]

T Mobile and US Cellular decided to merge so the network out here is huge. We're getting the same great signal as the city and saving a boatload with all the benefits. Oh, and a five year price guarantee. Okay, here's those directions.

[B]

Actually, can you point us in the direction of a T Mobile store?

[D]

America's best network just got bigger. Switch to T Mobile today and get built in benefits the other guys leave out. Plus our five year price guarantee. And now T Mobile is available in US Cellular stores.

[E]

Best Mobile network based on analysis by Oogle of speed test intelligence data 2H 2025 bigger network the combination of T Mobile's and US Cellular's network footprints will enhance the T Mobile network's coverage. Price guarantee on talk, text and data exclusions like taxes and fees apply. See t mobile.com for details.