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The Birch Show. All right, Spring break.
D
Mom.
C
Ann. Hi, Ann.
E
Hello. How are you?
C
Good. How are you today?
E
I'm all right.
C
All right. Now, we said that there has to be a compelling reason for us basically to entrap your daughter or your son down to spring break, right?
F
Yes.
D
Evidence.
C
Evidence.
E
I think I have some.
G
Okay.
C
We're talking about a daughter. We talking about a son.
E
We talking about my daughter Carrie.
C
Okay.
E
And she's been. She's been doing okay in school. She's been doing pretty well in school.
C
What school she go to?
E
She goes to West Georgia. It's her first year.
C
Okay.
E
And she's. She has. Her hardest part has been money management. She's. She's really not been doing so well with, with keeping up with her money and her finances. And I've jumped in a couple of times to rescue her, and she feels bad about it, and I felt bad about her feeling bad. And I told her, all right, for break, you can do. You can take a trip. You can take a little trip. Nothing wild, nothing expensive. You're not going to Mexico. But. So she said she was going to go to Charlotte and hang out at a friend's house.
D
Charlotte, North Carolina.
E
That's right.
D
That's the spring break capital of the Carolinas.
C
I think that's where MTV set up. Yeah.
B
Really?
C
No.
E
So she just said she was going to her friend's house and they had a pool and her friends from high school would be there, and so she would meet all of them, and that was what she was going to Do. And I gave her a couple hundred dollars and I gave her my credit card for an emergency and said, you know, have a good week. And she left on Friday, and that was the end of that. And I was paying my bills this weekend and saw a charge on my credit card that she has for $90 coming out of Fort Lauderdale.
H
Yeah, that's not in the Outer Banks.
C
No, that's the Outer Outer.
E
Outer Banks accrued at someone's pool in North Carolina.
G
You know what I think? I think is a stolen credit card number. You should call up and dispute that charge and you know what I mean? Are there other ones on there from Charlotte?
E
There are no charges from Charlotte. There is one charge from Fort Lauderdale.
G
Just out of curiosity, where was it charged? Yeah, like, what was it? Like, Lulu's Bait Shack?
E
No, it was a Holiday Inn.
I
Oh.
C
No.
D
The crowd moaned despairingly.
G
Well, maybe. Well, no, never mind. I'm not gonna try to come up.
E
With excuses and save her anymore.
G
There's no way. There's no way she was getting out of a bad situation and putting herself in safety. By charging?
C
Yeah, by going to Fort Lauderdale.
D
Fort Lauderdale.
H
Cause that Charlotte boy.
C
I'm trying for Carrie.
H
Wow.
E
I'm sure she will come up with something equally as crafty.
D
Is she good with directions?
E
She's a smart girl.
H
That $90 should gone to a map so that she could find out exactly where Charlotte is.
C
Have you tried calling her on her cell since?
E
No, because I just saw the charge and I honestly, I don't even want to talk. I barely even want to know. I want to know because it's my money and because she promised me, and she. Because she broke her promise to me, and I want to know what she's doing.
C
Well, and also, I mean, in the same vein that we did this last week, it almost becomes a safety issue. Also, you should at least know where your kid is, you know?
H
Well, but also in the same vein as Louise's call last week that she said she just wanted to make sure her daughter was safe, and that was it. And she didn't want to know anything. We want to make sure, Ann, that you're not going to go too far with this, because our concern. My concern with this is entrapping Carrie for her to talk about spring break stuff. Because she's gonna be bragging about stuff. Cause you know, we're calling to radio station.
D
Yeah.
H
Ms. Georgia freshman. And I don't want this to ruin your relationship with her, you know? Cause, I mean, this is not. I mean, she's on spring break.
E
I know that she needs room to have her own life and to grow up and all of that, and I agree with that absolutely, 100%. But there has to be a trust between us, too. And if she wants to be independent and she wants her own life, then, you know, number one, she can stop taking money from me all the time.
C
Well, here's why I disagree just a little bit with Melissa on this one. And it's a little different for me than it was last time. It's just that you were sure to tell your daughter that, look, I want to send you somewhere safe, and I don't want you doing any crazy partying or anything like that. So if you're just going to go to Charlotte, then it's not a big deal. So what she's done is she's lied and gone down to Fort Lauderdale. Well, I were to find out all the crazy things that's going on down in Fort Lauderdale.
H
I'm just wondering how far we take the conversation is my concern. I do believe we should call, and I do believe she broke your trust and she in North Carolina and Florida. But, yeah, I'm just wondering, like, just know what you want. Like, you know, what exactly is it you want to find out and then we'll do it.
E
I want to know where she is.
G
Because, Ann, you kind of seem like the mom that's like, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, like, you'd rather just. Just have, you know, the vision of Carrie in your mind, like, the way you have her. And if she's doing bad things, like, okay, you know, she's gonna grow up. You just don't want to know about it.
E
Well, you know, she's out of my sight when she's at school, and so I have to trust her and know that she's gonna make the right decisions. And I'd like to be able to trust her when she's on vacation, too. And, you know, this vacation was a reward. It was a gift for me to her to say, I know this has been a tough year for you, and I don't want this one little mistake to ruin everything, but I need to know where she is. And I need to know that, at minimum, if she gets herself in trouble, she can call me.
G
I mean, you sound like you have a healthy way to approach parenting. You know what I mean?
H
That's why I'm concerned about taking the conversation too far, though, is, like, if Ann hears more and more and gets angrier and angrier, then, you know, I'm just. That's where I'm coming from.
C
Where do you want us to go with this? If you just want to find out where she is, then we can do that and we'll somehow get out of the conversation quickly. Do you want to know some of the stuff that she's got her hands into or you just want to know where she is?
E
Well, first and foremost I want to know where she is. And I also want her. I'd like some information on how she thought she was going to get away with it.
D
Well, that's the thing is I'm thinking she might not be thinking that you like, she, she used the credit card, which is your credit card, so she knows you're going to see it, right?
E
Yeah.
D
She probably just wasn't planning on you seeing it for a couple of weeks. Not thinking that you do any Internet banking or anything like that, you know, because you're old and stuff and you're probably not good at the Internet.
C
Right?
F
Right.
D
So my thought is that she is going to tell you on her own time. You're just. You just.
E
I just beat her too.
D
You screwed up because you found out at the wrong time.
C
It's your fault. Hold on one second. Nevermind. Okay, so we'll call her for you, but I just don't have a real good sense of what you want to find out yet. Like, I mean, I can't ask her how she thought she was gonna get away with it, cuz she's probably only gonna say, look, I'm in blank. And then at that point I guess we just.
G
All we can do is say, so how's it going on spring break? And find out about what she's doing. You know, like we can't be like, so did your parents let you go to Fort Lauderdale and just be too suspicious?
H
We have no idea that she's supposed to be somewhere else.
E
I guess maybe find out who she's with.
C
Okay.
G
Okay.
C
Hey now Anne, you gotta make this promise again that you won't say anything when we call. I'm gonna, I'm gonna call up. We're gonna be a radio station. We got her phone number from a friend that knew she was gonna be down in spring break. And we're just trying to get a sense of what it's like where she is and then we'll ask her where she is.
E
I won't say anything. I mean on the air.
C
Promise?
E
I promise, I promise.
D
Okay.
G
Go to a happy place. Go to a happy place.
D
What's your name again? Carrie.
F
Carrie.
C
We have to call beforehand and let her know she's going to be on the radio. It's kind of an FCC thing, although nobody else in the market's paying attention to that.
D
Hi, Ms. Week with Kerry, please. With people to see if they will come on the radio with us just to talk about spring break and stuff. And today we're highlighting the West Georgia Braves. Go Braves. Can we talk to you in the air? Said, did I wake you up? Okay, hold on.
H
He said woohoo.
D
I was talking about the brain.
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Ready?
C
Hi, Carrie.
F
Yeah, hi. Hi.
C
It's Bert and Jen and Melissa and Jeff and we're on the radio now at all the hits Q100.
F
Hi, good morning. Hey, good morning.
C
How are you?
F
I'm good.
C
Good. We got your phone number from some, somebody else that goes to West Georgia and we were all just kind of reminiscing here, just what it was like for us at spring break. And she gave us your number and we're just kind of trying to see if things are still the same at spring break as they were when we were going to school.
F
Oh, okay.
H
It sounds like the raspy voice is the same when you wake up first thing in the morning.
F
Yeah.
C
Late night, I'm guessing.
F
Well, kind of.
E
Yeah.
F
I'm tired.
C
Well, where are you?
F
Oh, I'm in Charlotte.
C
You're in Charlotte? So you're partying in Charlotte?
F
Yeah, Charlotte. I'm at a friend's house right now.
C
Now that's not a, that's not a big spring break party spot. So how'd you pick Charlotte?
F
No, well, I, I have a friend that is from here and we're at her parents house because she said I could come and we could hang out and kind of have, you know, a fun time, a mellow time and I could meet her friends from high school and stuff like that.
C
So you guys just been hanging out in Charlotte?
F
Yeah.
H
That sounds fun though.
G
Yeah.
H
Nice area.
C
It's really, it's not the kind of, you know, the sense that we wanted to get from spring break that we were kind of hoping to make.
H
I like the, the traffic in the streets and the, you know, that all the, you know, bars and stuff and the hanging out and that kind of thing on the beach.
F
No, I mean her parents house, they have a pool so it's kind of nice. And then like yesterday we were over at one of her other friends house and he has a really cool pool and hot tub and stuff.
G
So your other friends at West Georgia, where did everybody end up going? Did they go to Panama City or. Where did most people from west Georgia go on spring break?
F
Oh, my gosh, I'm not sure. I know a bunch of people went down south. I don't know. I think some people went to Mexico, too.
D
How's your. How's your weather in Charlotte been?
F
It's okay. It's been a little rainy.
C
Like.
F
It'S been okay kind of rainy. Yeah.
C
And cold.
F
Not too bad, not too cold.
C
What part of Charlotte does she live in?
F
She's like, on the east part of Charlotte.
D
East Charlotte.
C
East Charlotte.
G
East side.
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What's up?
C
Go east Charlotte.
G
Marty.
C
And you guys haven't gone out at all? Gone to any clubs, done nothing?
F
Yeah, well, no. I mean, we went out to this. We went out to dinner. Like last night, we went out to dinner to this cool place, and we were there kind of late, and then we came back and watched a movie.
D
What. What place? Where'd you go eat?
F
I don't know. Some. Some random place downtown that she has gone to before.
C
You don't remember the name of it?
F
No, I don't. It was cool. Like, it was a burger joint, you know, like, there were burgers made buffalo wings, which were really good.
C
Did you. Did you drove to Charlotte, right?
F
Yeah.
C
I always forget, like, what is that? They have like. Like a beltway that's halfway built around Charlotte, like we have here. Do you remember the number of that belt that. Is it like 485? Is it like 285? Because if you're going on the east side of Charlotte, I know at one point you had to take it.
F
Yeah, I don't know. Really? Because I called. I called my friend. She had, you know, she was like, you know, call my parents house and stuff, and they'll kind of direct me. So I was kind of. I didn't have anything written out, you know.
C
So you were on the road, but you don't remember what highway it was? That's cool.
D
Hey, we got it. We're going to make some phone call. We're doing a couple of, you know, checking in with a lot of people doing the spring break thing.
F
Okay.
D
And after we call you, we're going to call down to Florida. We're going to talk to some people staying at a Holiday Inn in Fort Lauderdale. And I was wondering, you know, what I should ask them or what, what we might find, you know, like, any idea of.
F
Oh, like, what they're doing?
A
Yeah.
F
Oh, I don't know. I guess. You want to know what to ask them?
D
Sure. Like, what should we.
H
Cause, like, Bert Said it's been a while since we've been on spring break.
F
Oh.
D
And Charlotte's not really the town where, you know.
F
Oh, okay. It's not really.
D
No offense to Charlotte, especially east Charlotte. We go.
F
I won't tell my friend you said that.
E
No.
D
Hey, can we talk to her?
F
Well, she's sleeping. She's upstairs.
H
How far is Charlotte?
F
I don't wanna wake her up.
H
Cause I. I'm trying to get. Where's Charlotte exactly? Cause I'm not from North Carolina. Is that anywhere near the beach or is that in this. Where is Charlotte?
F
It's. It's like you have like access to the beach, you know, I mean, like we'd have to drive, not like we're on the beach.
C
All right. You know what we're gonna end up trying to do is end up somebody, you know, calling somebody that's like in a. In a hotter spring break spot so we can get a better beat on what's going on. Like maybe, I don't know, we call somebody in Fort Lauderdale or in Daytona or something like that. So. Sorry we woke you up.
F
Okay. That's all right.
B
That's all right.
F
I hope we get.
D
What's the local number where you're at right now? Because if we can't get a hold of anybody else, we're gonna follow up with you. The number at your friend's house.
F
Oh, well, you could just call me on my cell phone.
D
Well, if your bad. If you're. If your battery dies or, you know, somehow we lose you. What. What number? What's your friend's number?
F
You can call me on this on my cell phone again, cuz like I don't want, you know, her parents. It's her parents house and I don't want to wake people up. All right?
C
Right. Okay. All right, well, we got the cell number, so we'll be back in touch.
F
Okay.
C
All right, thank you.
B
Cool.
F
Thanks.
C
Bye. Bye now. Okay, that's her over there. Okay. Hey, Anne.
F
Yeah.
C
Yeah. Your daughter's not in Charlotte?
E
No, no, but you know, she's smarter than I gave her credit for.
D
Somebody, somebody called her.
C
Somebody has told her.
D
Somebody has gave her the heads up.
C
Morning. All the hits Q100.
F
Hi, this is Nikki.
C
Hey, Nikki.
F
I'll just say she's so busted because.
E
My husband's from Davidson, which is right outside of Charlotte.
F
She should have said. She said that she took 85 north.
E
And got on 77, which goes straight through Charlotte.
G
And she said she wasn't too far from the beach, but Charlotte is Far from the beach.
C
Four hours from the beach.
F
Yeah.
H
I love how she said we have access to the beach from Charlotte.
E
No, she is four hours from the beach house.
C
Not even close.
H
Yeah.
E
Yeah. She's so busted.
H
Yeah. And then, you know, she couldn't name the. Think of the name of the restaurant they went to, but it was a Burger Joe. I mean, you know how.
C
Yeah.
H
Just too generic.
C
Hey, and I'm sorry we didn't get her to say the, but at least you got a pretty good beat on this. You know she's not in Charlotte.
E
Right. And I think we made her nervous enough. I wouldn't be surprised if she called.
H
Well, you know how when you get busted or somebody says something you don't like and you get that little chill that goes all the way down your back? Nausea sets in. I think when Jeff said Holiday Inn in Fort Lauderdale. That happened to Carrie.
C
Yeah. Yeah. She was doing that dry heaving thing a dog normally does right before it's about to puke. Right.
E
I think I'll hear from her.
C
I bet one of her friends called her before we got on or something like that.
H
Yeah.
C
Tipped her off.
E
Yeah, maybe.
C
Okay. All right. Good luck with that.
E
Thanks for trying, guys.
C
Okay. Yeah.
H
At least she's safe.
E
Yeah, that's true.
H
Yeah.
C
Sounds like she's safe.
H
She's safe and healthy.
E
That's true.
C
See you later.
F
Bye.
H
Bye.
G
Quite the hobby thing to say.
H
I know what I was channeling together. She's safe and she's safe and happy and healthy.
F
Everything's great.
C
She wasn't even close. Nowhere near close to Charlotte. The Birch Show.
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Episode: Vault: Spring Break Sting: Her Daughter Charged Her Card To Go Where?! - PT 1
Air Date: December 15, 2025
Host: Pionaire Podcasting (Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy & the Bert Show Cast)
This episode centers on a mother, Ann, who suspects her daughter, Carrie, may have lied about her spring break destination. Ann discovers a suspicious credit card charge and recruits The Bert Show to help uncover the truth, leading to a humorous yet incisive look into generational conflicts, trust, and the eternal dance between cautious parents and crafty college students.
Ann’s Dilemma:
Cast’s Take on Parenting and Boundaries:
Bert and the team discuss the tension between wanting kids to grow up independently and the need for parental oversight.
Ann acknowledges:
“There has to be a trust between us too. And if she wants to be independent…she can stop taking money from me all the time.” — Ann (04:38)
The show weighs the morality of “entrapping” Carrie, balancing the need for safety with not damaging the parent-child relationship (04:09-04:38).
The Setup:
The On-Air Call:
“You don’t remember the name of it?” — Bert
“No, I don’t. It was cool. Like, it was a burger joint, you know…” — Carrie (12:07–12:18)
“It’s like you have access to the beach, you know…we’d have to drive, not like we’re on the beach.” (14:03)
Classic Radio Prank Energy:
“She’s smarter than I gave her credit for.” — Ann (15:19) “Somebody has gave her the heads up.” — Host (15:22)
“I wouldn’t be surprised if she called.” — Ann (16:09) “When Jeff said Holiday Inn in Fort Lauderdale, that happened to Carrie…she did that dry heaving thing a dog normally does before it’s about to puke.” — Host (16:12–16:24)
“At least she’s safe.” — Host (16:38) “That’s true.” — Ann (16:39)
Parental Trust
“This vacation was a reward…it was a gift…for me to her to say…I don’t want this one little mistake to ruin everything, but I need to know where she is.” — Ann (05:51)
On Gen Z’s Internet Assumptions
“[She] probably just wasn’t planning on you seeing [the charge]…because you’re old…probably not good at the Internet.” — Host (07:06)
The Evasion Dance
“You don’t remember the name of it?” — Bert
“No, I don’t. It was cool. Like, it was a burger joint, you know…” — Carrie (12:07–12:18)
Busted!
“She’s so busted…Charlotte is four hours from the beach house. Not even close.” — Host & Ann (15:48–15:54)
Safety First, Honesty Questionable
“At least she’s safe.” — Host
“That’s true.” — Ann (16:38–16:43)
For listeners: This episode perfectly blends genuine family drama with light morning radio antics, and offers a fun, heartfelt look at the realities of letting go as kids grow up (and maybe get a little sneaky along the way).