Vault: Melissa's Psychic Reading

Summary

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The Bert Show

Vault: Melissa’s Psychic Reading

Date: July 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on Melissa's highly anticipated psychic reading with renowned psychic Natalie Tomlinson. Known for her celebrity clientele and past accurate predictions for members of The Bert Show team, Natalie’s insights are put under the microscope. The cast discusses the reading’s merit, how it measures up to past sessions, and reflects humorously—and skeptically—on the potential accuracy of psychic predictions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Background on Natalie Tomlinson

• History: Jeff introduces Natalie as the only psychic from last year's segment whose predictions came true, notably his unexpected trip to Los Angeles.
• Skepticism vs. Belief: The cast openly debates the ambiguity of psychic predictions, questioning whether specific revelations are genuine or the result of clever generalizations.
  • Jeff: “I want to believe, but I’m also a skeptic. So I’m kind of in the middle of the road.” (02:18)

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2. Melissa’s Reading: Natalie’s Predictions

Blanket Statements and General Predictions

• A Big Change Coming: Natalie senses “something new and exciting” will happen soon in Melissa’s life, but details are absent. (02:52)
• Male Figure with Secrets: A mysterious male in Melissa’s life is “keeping secrets.” The team jokes this could unfairly cast suspicion on half the population.
  • Jen: “How can I turn her against 50% of the population?” (03:26)
• Career Success/Future Empire: Natalie predicts Melissa will one day have her own show and business, building an “empire.”
  • Natalie: “You will have your own show one day…you will have your own empire.” (04:44, 04:59)
  • Host banter notes these are vague, uplifting affirmations that could fit many people.

Specific Predictions

• Connection to Florida

  • Natalie foresees a link to Florida or news about a property there.
    • Natalie: “I have a link with coming up for you with Florida. …I’m awaiting to hear about the property.” (05:34)
  • Jeff’s Validation: Jeff notes he visited Florida three times since the reading—once for Burt’s Big Adventure, the Daytona 500, and an upcoming wedding. While perhaps a long shot, Jeff considers it noteworthy. (06:01)

• The Name “Emily”

  • Natalie mentions the name Emily as significant and imminent in Melissa’s life.
    • Natalie: “I have the name of Emily. If you don’t know the person already, this name is going to be linked to you.” (06:36)
  • Jeff’s Validation: Jeff’s best friend, Emily, required surgery and Jeff had been helping her. He finds this specificity “pretty good,” and challenging to explain as a mere coincidence. (06:50)

• A Father Figure in Spirit

  • Natalie identifies a “father or grandfather figure” in the spirit world present around Melissa.
    • Natalie: “I have a father figure in spirit world… there’s a male figure around you now.” (07:29)
  • Jeff’s Reaction: He accepts the connection as his father has passed away, but recognizes it's another commonly used psychic motif.

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3. Reflections and Critique

• Both Melissa and Jeff remain lukewarm on the overall impact of the reading, referencing the mix of vague and occasionally resonant predictions.
• Melissa contemplates reviewing her own reading again for hidden accuracy, comparing her reactions to Jen’s more emotionally charged experience.
  • Melissa: “The predictions she was making didn’t really connect with me… maybe when I go back and listen to it and edit it for Monday or Tuesday, some things will come up.” (08:11)
• The team seeks an “emotional” psychic experience, with Jeff humorously desiring more dramatic, tearful revelations.
  • Jeff: “I’ll be crying on the radio, man. That’s what I’m looking for right there.” (08:38)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:18 | Jeff | “I want to believe, but I’m also a skeptic. So I’m kind of in the middle of the road.” | | 03:26 | Jen | “How can I turn her against 50% of the population?” | | 04:44 | Natalie | “You will have your own show one day…you’re going to have it.” | | 06:36 | Natalie | “I have the name of Emily… this name is going to be linked to you.” | | 08:11 | Melissa | “The predictions… didn’t really connect with me… maybe when I go back and listen…” | | 08:38 | Jeff | “I’ll be crying on the radio, man. That’s what I’m looking for right there.” |

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Segment Timestamps

• 01:30 — Introduction to Melissa’s psychic reading with Natalie Tomlinson
• 02:52-05:21 — General predictions and Melissa’s career “empire”
• 05:34-06:25 — Florida connection and property mention
• 06:36-07:02 — The “Emily” prediction and real-life outcome
• 07:29-07:50 — Father figure in the spirit world
• 08:01-08:43 — Reflections on accuracy and overall impact

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Recap & Tone

This episode blends lighthearted skepticism and curiosity as The Bert Show explores Melissa’s psychic reading. While some predictions feel like common psychic fodder, the “Emily” connection stands out as uncannily accurate for Jeff, sparking debate about the believability of psychic insights. The cast maintains a playful, humorous approach throughout, making the episode both entertaining and thought-provoking for fans—whether psychic believer, skeptic, or somewhere in between.

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Transcript

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[Melissa]

It's the vert show. All right, so Melissa, let's get to your psychic reading here because this Natalie has really proven to be dead on here lately.

[Jeff]

Yeah, she initially was Jeff's psychic. He got through Kim Zolciak.

[Melissa]

Right.

[Jeff]

And she also. And Kim got her through Charlie Sheen's

[Melissa]

ex wife, Denise Richards.

[Jeff]

Denise Richards. Denise Richards. And so a lot of celebrities use her. And then Jeff, last year we all found psychics and all of ours kind of blew except for Jeff's, Natalie Tomlinson. And so she had predicted some things about Jeff that he even forgot about. Like, you know, some things that he at the time didn't realize were gonna happen.

[Jen]

Going to Los Angeles. We all forgot about it. And when I was in la, a caller called up and said, hey, remember that psychic? She said Jeff would be going. So that was the thing that freaked me out.

[Melissa]

She got more accurate with time.

[Jeff]

And so we all are doing psychic readings with Natalie. I did mine a couple months ago. And so the way I'm looking at it, the way I look at any psychic, is I want to believe, but I'm also a skeptic. So I'm kind of in the middle of the road. Like I'm not going to completely judge it. But then you also have to Think about, you know, the blanket statements that somebody may say and that you're just kind of fitting something into. But there are a couple things that she said in here that were like, well, now, come on. That's pretty. That's pretty close. So. So we'll just go ahead and play the conversation, and then I'll stop Bert whenever I have a place to explain what she said.

[Melissa]

Okay.

[Natalie Tomlinson]

I'm waiting for something new and exciting to happen for you. And you are waiting for this, right? It will. Because it's like I've just got this hanging feeling, like, is this it? You know, something will change quite dramatically in your life. Somebody, you know, a male figure around you is keeping secrets from you. Okay, So I don't know who this

[Melissa]

is, but that's a crappy thing to do to somebody.

[Jen]

Hey, how can I turn her against 50% of the population?

[Melissa]

Now you're looking at everybody all like, liar.

[Jeff]

Really? So again, to blanket to, you know, the first two, these are blanket statements that, you know, leaving it up to me to, you know, put something in there. So I have no. I have no real comments about either one of those.

[Natalie Tomlinson]

Nothing in those figure close to you. They're keeping secrets from you. There's an old saying, everything comes out in the wash. Mm. And it's very true. Okay. You're attending a function, and you'll be wearing a very sexy dress. You will. You might have to dig one out here, but it's a gala dinner. It's an evening dinner, and you look hot. You look really hot. And you're turning a lot of heads. You will have your own show one day. If you didn't know that, you're going to have it. Okay. But more than that, you will have your own business attached to this. I feel like you're going to have your own corporation, your own company. Not sure what yet because it's not been decided, but it will definitely happen. I feel like you're going to have your own empire.

[Jeff]

Empire later on.

[Natalie Tomlinson]

So you will. Ach. You've achieved certain goals, Melissa, and you've done very well. But you still have so many more to do, and you will do them because you're going to get help from the other side.

[Jeff]

So those are the blank. So those are all blanket statements that I really don't have any plans on or have any comments on. But there were three things that she did say in that reading that were. Were pretty poignant. And the first one had to do with the state of Florida.

[Natalie Tomlinson]

Now I have a link with coming up for you with Florida. Okay. But I don't know if you're going to be going there or there's something connected with Florida shortly, which will be nice. And they're also mentioning. I'm awaiting to hear about the property. So I don't know if they're meaning one way or the other, you know, but all I know is I hear. I'm waiting to hear about a property.

[Jeff]

Okay, so this was done right before Burt's Big Adventure. Now, again, I'm in Georgia, so it may be because she knows where we are, and so it could be a case. Of course, you're easily gonna go to Florida. But I've been to Florida three times in the past two months since that reading. We went for Burt's Big Adventure, and then I went to the Daytona 500. And actually, I'm going to Florida. Rather, the third time is I'm going to Florida in two weeks for a wedding. So, I mean, she said Florida. That's pretty good.

[Jen]

She's very vague. She's like, psychic maybe. Like, maybe you don't have psychic vibes

[Jeff]

because your original psychic was, yeah, maybe this, maybe that. And again, she spoke in very general terms, but this next one was very specific.

[Natalie Tomlinson]

I have the name of Emily. If you don't know the person already, this name is going to be linked to you. It might be that you see for a day. It could be somebody longer than that. But I've got that name coming up around you very shortly.

[Jeff]

So one of my best friend's name is Emily, and she was about to have surgery. And so she's my friend that just recently had surgery, had been homebound for the past six weeks. So I've been helping take care of her at her home. So Emily, that was specific, and that's something that did happen.

[Melissa]

When she gets these.

[Natalie Tomlinson]

Right.

[Melissa]

Does it lend credibility to the stuff that you don't know what she's talking about yet?

[Jeff]

I don't know. Like, I don't know whether. I mean, again with the psychic, who knows? I mean, if they splay a bunch of stuff out, and it's almost like, you know, we've been talking about golf all day. The one good golf swing you have on the course keeps you going out there, even though for 17 holes you suck. You know what I mean? So, I mean, I don't know if it does or not, but this last one is another one that, you know, did, you know, was close to my heart.

[Natalie Tomlinson]

I have a father figure in spirit world where this is a father or a grandfather, there's a male figure around you now.

[Jeff]

Again, it could be a blanket statement that could apply to so many people. But of course, my father has passed away. And so that's the, that's the point that I, you know, fit into that.

[Melissa]

Did she get into more specifics about that? That's that person.

[Jeff]

That was it.

[Melissa]

That was it.

[Jen]

I think she's actually bringing up Earl woods and I think Tiger's dad is coming to you saying, defend my honor.

[Melissa]

So nothing really as impactful for you as it for Jen.

[Jeff]

Yeah, it's just kind of, you know, general. And, you know, Emily was probably the one thing that was pretty specific right there that there's really no explanation for.

[Melissa]

I'm gonna have to go back and listen to mine and we'll play it Monday or Tuesday because I know as the reading was going on, I sort of felt like Melissa does right now, like there's nothing here that's striking at my heart. There's nothing emotional about it. The predictions that she was making didn't really connect with me or anything. And sort of the things that she was saying that was going on in my life right now were sort of vague, like I didn't really connect. But maybe when I go back and listen to it and edit it for Monday or Tuesday, some things will come up. Right. But I, I want the Jen reaction.

[Jeff]

I'll be crying on the radio, man. That's what I'm looking for right there.

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