Vault: She is in love with her friend's ex

Summary

The Bert Show – “Vault: She is in love with her friend's ex”

Date: July 15, 2026
Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy & The Bert Show Cast
Theme: Dramatic listener stories that will have follow-ups on Monday

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Episode Overview

In this interactive episode, the Bert Show crew invites listeners to share dramatic stories about their upcoming weekend—stories so intriguing that the show will check back for updates on Monday. The highlight segment features "Betty Ewer" (voice disguised) who confides about secretly being in love with her friend's ex, with whom she’ll soon be hosting as he moves back to Georgia. Two additional calls provide more drama: a young man torn about seeing his ex (who cheated) at Six Flags, and a woman whose brother is about to reveal to their parents that he dropped out of college to create a wildly successful app.

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Main Story: Betty Ewer and the Friend's Ex Dilemma

The Situation

• [01:46] Betty shares that a long-time friend from high school, whom she’s always loved and wanted to marry, is moving from California to Georgia and will be staying at her place for two weeks with his son.
• The plot twist: This man is her girlfriend’s ex. Betty’s friend has been planning to rekindle a romance with him.
• Betty has developed deep feelings for him while talking daily for three months but hasn't confessed the depth of her feelings to the friend.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

• Confusion Clarified:

  • [02:28] Host: “So this is your ex?”
    Betty clarifies: “No, he’s not an ex. We were never together. He’s her ex.”

• How They Reconnected:

  • The friend, reminiscing about “the love of her life” from high school, reconnected with him first. Betty realized her own long-standing feelings after the friend revealed his name.
  • “She put me back in touch with him and gave me his number, and he and I have been talking, like, every day.” — Betty [03:04]

• Awareness Among Parties:

  • Host: “Your friend still feels the same way about the dude, or is she moved on?”
    Betty: “She does.” [03:26]
  • All three are aware of the complicated feelings, but Betty says: “She knows I loved him back then, but she doesn’t… I don’t think she knows the extent of how crazy I am about it now.” [04:19]

• Logistics of the Weekend:

  • “He’s staying with you?”
    Betty: “Yeah, he and his son are gonna be staying at my place.” [04:46]

• Love Triangle Tensions:

  • Discussion on whether the man is “playing both” of them:
    • Caller: “Are you sure that he’s not playing the both of you, knowing that both of you are in love with him?”
      • Betty: “Actually, yeah, I am, because we both said that we are not gonna act on anything.” [05:31]

Notable Quotes

• “I was like, you know, back when we were, you know, both virgins and all that, you know, I was trying to give it to him back then, and he was like, no, you wait till you’re married.” — Betty Ewer [04:51]
• “She knows how I felt then, and she knows that I’m trying to be a good friend.” — Betty [05:15]
• “Let’s see how focused you are.” — Host anticipating the Monday follow-up [05:38]
• “Betty, I hope your grandma’s okay this weekend.” — Host [05:54]

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Other Dramatic Weekend Stories

1. Love and Betrayal at Six Flags

• [06:17] Caller (“Philip”) recounts a dramatic young love story: after a two-year relationship, he discovered his girlfriend cheated on him and is now with the other guy.
• He’ll be seeing her at Six Flags this weekend and is torn about giving her another chance.
• “She actually told me, she said, is it okay with you if I bring him? I said, no, it’s not okay. What do you think?” — Philip [08:15]

2. Millionaire College Dropout Reveal

• [08:44] Christine (voice disguised) reveals her younger brother quit college two years ago without telling their parents, started an iPhone app company, and is now quite wealthy.
• The brother plans to tell their parents at a big family gathering this weekend, intending to pay off their mortgage as a peace offering.
• “He ended up instead starting his own company, and he’s not told my parents about this… And so what he wants to tell my parents this weekend is he’s not actually going to graduate from college, but he wants to pay off their mortgage.” — Christine [09:07]
• Host’s humorous take: “My parents would get over it pretty quickly. When I said, you want to spend the summer in my beach house?” [10:50]
• “You have to find out what the app is by Monday.” — Host [11:43]

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Memorable Moments & Tone

• The show balances empathy and humor, especially when unpacking the tangled love triangle and the app millionaire story.
• Listeners are left anticipating Monday’s follow-ups for all three callers, with the hosts often poking fun (“I hate him. I don’t even know your brother, and I don’t like him.” — [11:49]) and keeping the conversation light yet invested.

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Key Timestamps

• 01:46 – Betty ("in love with friend’s ex") starts her story
• 02:28 – Clarifying relationships and past connections
• 03:04 – Betty reveals daily conversations with friend’s ex
• 04:46 – Logistics: friend’s ex and son staying at Betty’s place
• 05:31 – Confronting the love triangle and possible “playing both sides”
• 06:17 – Second story: Philip’s Six Flags love dilemma
• 08:44 – Third story: Christine’s brother’s secret app riches
• 09:07 – Christine lays out her brother’s confession plan
• 10:50 – Hosts poke fun at “beach house” reconciliation

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Summary

This episode is a classic installment in The Bert Show’s “circle-back Monday” tradition, featuring three cliffhanger-laden listener stories centered on love, secrets, and life-altering reveals. The standout caller, Betty Ewer, navigates a heartfelt yet messy triangle of friendship and romance, all under the same roof. The show’s natural banter, combined with relatable drama, leaves listeners eager for the Monday updates—will love, loyalty, or scandal win out?

Transcript

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All right, so the question is, what is so intriguing about your weekend that we got to know about it now and then we got to check back with you again on Monday morning? And this can be anything.

[Caller 2]

Anything.

[Host]

Yeah, here's Betty Ewer on the voice disguiser.

Hello.

[Betty Ewer]

Hello. Show. My friend, who I knew back in like ninth grade, who I always thought I would marry, lives in California now, and he's about to get a ticket to come back to Georgia. And he's supposed to stay with me for like two weeks until he gets a place with him and his son. The thing is, I'm totally in love with him and so is a friend of mine and I'm not supposed to be. And they've been having plans to reconnect for like the past year.

[Host]

Okay, let's try to go through this again slowly. I'm a little confused here. Let's take this piece by piece. So this is your ex?

[Betty Ewer]

No, he's not an ex. We were never together. He's her ex.

[Caller 3]

Your friend's ex.

[Betty Ewer]

Uh huh. We were all friends back in high school and they were supposed to. They had found each other On Facebook over a year ago, and they had been making plans to get back together or at least see each other when he got here. Never made it. And she was telling me about the love of her life, and I hadn't seen him in forever. So she was telling me about the love of her life and how they were going to get back together. And then she told me her name, and then my heart. She told me his name, and then my heart just dropped because I'm like, oh, my God.

[Caller 1]

It's.

[Betty Ewer]

You know, I wanted to marry.

[Caller 4]

Wow.

[Betty Ewer]

She put me back in touch with him and gave me his number, and he and I have been talking, like, every day. Okay, so this is. This is your friend's ex that you like? Yeah. Okay.

[Caller 2]

She's in love with Lovely.

[Betty Ewer]

She's in love with.

[Caller 2]

In love.

[Host]

And your friend still feels the same way about the dude, or is she moved on?

[Betty Ewer]

She does.

[Host]

She does.

[Caller 2]

She does.

[Betty Ewer]

He's like, oh, I can't wait to see him. And it's going to be on and this and that and other. And I'm like, oh, boy. And he's coming this weekend? Yeah, he's supposed to be coming this weekend. And I told her because she knew that I had to sing for him, and I told her. I was like, don't worry about it. I'll sing at your wedding. Ha ha ha. At the time, I thought that was great, and I could still be just friends with him, and it was gonna be all cool. And we've been talking every day now for, like, what, the past three months? And I'm like, oh, yeah, I can't do this.

[Host]

So who is he staying with when he comes down here?

[Betty Ewer]

Me staying with you?

[Caller 3]

Does she know that?

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Betty Ewer]

Cause I had.

[Caller 1]

I had.

[Betty Ewer]

I called. I called and asked for permission if it was okay for him to stay with me, but that was back when I first started talking to him, and everything was all good, and I'm like, yeah, I got my friend back. And now I'm like, oh, boy.

[Host]

So this guy's gonna stay with you this weekend? You love him? And she doesn't have any idea that

[Betty Ewer]

she knows I loved him back then, but she doesn't. I don't think she knows the extent of how crazy I am about it now.

[Host]

Wow.

[Caller 2]

Wow.

[Host]

So the three of you have plans to go out and do anything together this weekend?

[Betty Ewer]

Well, no, because my grandmother is in the hospital, so I'll be in the hospital with her.

[Host]

So he's gonna be spending more time with your friend than he is you?

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Caller 2]

He's staying with you?

[Caller 1]

Oh, yeah, he's staying with me and

[Betty Ewer]

him and his son. They're gonna be staying at my place.

[Host]

Wow.

[Caller 3]

Sounds like he's playing both of y', all, though.

[Betty Ewer]

No, because we all, like. He knows how I feel, he knows how she feels, and she knows how I feel, but she's not completely comfortable with it. But I don't think she knows the full extent of it. Okay, that means she knows that I like him. She knows that I've always liked him. And I told her before, I was like, you know, back when we were, you know, both virgins and all that, you know, I was trying to give it to him back then, and he was like, no, you wait till you're married. You know, she knows how I felt then, and she knows that I'm trying to be a good friend.

[Caller 2]

But you just said that he knows how both of y' all feel about him now.

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Betty Ewer]

Yeah.

[Caller 2]

So, going back on what Jen said, are you sure that he's not playing the both of you, knowing that both of you are in love with him?

[Betty Ewer]

Actually, yeah, I am, because we both said that we are not gonna act on anything.

[Host]

Okay.

[Caller 3]

Okay.

[Host]

Let's see. Let's see how focused you are.

[Caller 4]

We look forward to Monday.

[Host]

Yes. All right, this is not an advice segment, so we'll just. I'm gonna put you on hold, and we'll get your phone number, and then we'll talk to you on Monday, and we'll find out how it all panned out. Okay. All right. Betty, I hope your mom, your grandma's okay this weekend.

[Caller 1]

Thank you.

[Host]

Hold on one second.

[Caller 4]

That's the secondary. Why do we want to talk to you on Monday? How's Grandma doing?

[Host]

Nah, man. Philip, do you want to be on the voice disguiser?

[Caller 1]

No, I'm fine with my voice.

[Caller 2]

Okay.

[Host]

He say no?

[Caller 2]

No, he's fine with his voice.

[Host]

Go ahead. All right. What's going on in your life this weekend that you are. It's so intriguing that we got to check back with you again on Monday.

[Caller 5]

Well, it's not super, like, you know. You know, intriguing, but it is pretty dramatic. I've had a girlfriend. I met her, what, like, two years and a half now ago? We went out for two years and two months. We went through this whole dramatic relationship. You know, her mom, the basic. You know, her mom didn't want me with her isn't that we were young. I actually ran away to Mexico one time and brought her back. You know, she ran away with me once. She was living Here for like six months without her mom.

[Caller 3]

Okay.

[Caller 5]

And let's see, like a month ago.

[Caller 4]

She's not like 13, is she?

[Caller 5]

No, no, no, I'll make. I'm 18. She's 17.

[Host]

Oh, boy.

[Caller 5]

You are young. But, you know, okay. And about a month ago now, two months ago, I found out she cheated on me once. She told me because she now lives in Smyrna and I live in. We're here in Northcross. So she told me, you know, I cheated on you this one time with this guy that I know. So, you know, when I found out about, you know, it's like all depressed and stuff, whatever, but so I gave her another chance. You know, I think I trusted her

[Betty Ewer]

and this and that.

[Caller 5]

And one day I'm sitting there telling her, you know what? I trust you this and that. And she says he shouldn't.

[Caller 4]

What's going on this weekend?

[Caller 5]

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just got to this weekend. Right now, I'm actually waiting for my friends. We're all gonna meet up at Six Flags. We broke up. You know, she's actually with him. With the guys cheating on me now.

[Betty Ewer]

Okay.

[Caller 5]

She's actually with him right now.

[Caller 4]

Ask you another question. Why do we want to talk to you on Monday?

[Host]

Yeah. What's going on, like today or tomorrow?

[Caller 5]

Well, today I'm gonna see her at Six Flags, and I don't know if I'm gonna give her another chance. I really love this girl. I don't know if I want to give her another chance. But, you know, it's been a long relationship.

[Caller 3]

Isn't that she's with the other guy?

[Caller 5]

Yeah, but I mean, two year relationship, you know, we've been on and off before.

[Caller 2]

So you're gonna.

[Host]

You gonna say something to her, like, slyly somewhere at Six Flags today, say, hey, I'm still open to you?

[Caller 5]

Yeah. You know, she actually told me, she said, is it okay with you if I bring him? I said, no, it's not okay. What do you think? You know, if you want to take them, I'm just not gonna go. Just tell me.

[Host]

It's not an advice segment. So I'm not gonna tell you. Not even to go. So I'm not gonna do that. But we'll talk to you very briefly on Monday. Okay?

[Caller 5]

All right.

[Caller 4]

Or you can email us. Just tweet 18.

[Host]

Man, here is Christine. She wants to be on the voice disguiser. Christine, go ahead. You'll be the last call here. So what's going on in your life this weekend that we Got to check back with you on Monday.

[Caller 1]

Okay. Well, I. I have a little brother, and he is supposed to be graduating from college in May. And, well, this weekend we're having, like, a big family get together, and my parents don't know that he hasn't been going to college for the last two years.

[Host]

Oh, we got a winner.

[Caller 3]

Wow. But.

[Caller 4]

But I won't be there because I'm going to Six Flags to meet my boyfriend who kidnapped me once.

[Caller 2]

So how are they gonna. Are they gonna find out this weekend? Obviously?

[Caller 1]

Well, yeah, he planned on telling them, but, I mean, this is. There's a good side to this. He. He ended up instead starting his own company, and he's not told my parents about this. He started his own little company after his sophomore year in college when he, like, stop going. And he created, like, an app for the iPhone, and he's just made bank on this thing. Wow. And I don't understand it, and I don't get what this app thing does. I don't even have an iPhone. But he created this thing, and now he's making bank. And so what he wants to tell my parents this weekend is he's not actually going to graduate from college, but he wants to pay off their mortgage.

[Caller 2]

Wow.

[Host]

He's made that much money off an iPhone application?

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Caller 5]

Wow.

[Caller 1]

Yeah. And he also got, like, this summer home on the beach and.

[Betty Ewer]

Wow.

[Caller 3]

Your parents are going to be so mad at first, and then they're going to have to take it all back.

[Host]

Right, Right. How old is your brother? How old is your brother?

[Caller 1]

He's 22.

[Caller 5]

Wow.

[Caller 3]

That's incredible.

[Betty Ewer]

But I think that I was trying

[Caller 3]

to figure out, like, what my parents would have done in that situation. I think they would have still been mad that I was lying about not going to college.

[Host]

I think my parents would get over it pretty quickly. When I said, you want to spend the summer in my beach house?

[Caller 4]

Do you know how many years they have left of mortgage payments?

[Caller 1]

I don't actually. I can't remember.

[Betty Ewer]

Wow.

[Host]

That's still pretty amazing. So he's gonna tell them both that a. Now. Has he been taking money from them all this year? All these years, as though he has been going to school?

[Caller 1]

No. He told them he pulled a loan out. I mean, there's. There's. It's not just me and my brother. It's like I have another brother, too. So they've been paying for all of us through the college.

[Betty Ewer]

They couldn't.

[Caller 1]

Can't afford it. So he. He was pulling out loans to go to school on himself.

[Host]

Wow. Okay. That falls under the umbrella of intriguing.

[Caller 1]

Yes.

[Caller 2]

I cannot wait to hear how the parents react.

[Caller 3]

No kidding.

[Caller 2]

And you have to find out what the app is by Monday.

[Caller 4]

Yes.

[Host]

Yes. You gotta ask him about it.

[Betty Ewer]

Okay, okay.

[Host]

Let me put you rich.

[Caller 4]

99 cents at a time. I know, right? I hate him. I don't even know your brother, and I don't like him.

[Caller 3]

You know what? It was probably like I fart, right? Something, you know, something really basic like that shaken burp.

[Host]

Christine, hold on one second, and we'll get your info, and we will definitely call you on Monday morning after your brother tells your parents that he hasn't been going to school. But he's a millionaire. All right, listen, it's the Vert show.