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The bird show.
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So if you have been listening over the last couple of weeks, then, you know, we've been doing tradio where we were going to trade up with you guys every single day with an item of slightly greater value. And weeks ago, we started with a little keychain that Melissa brought in.
D
Yeah, we all brought in an item to see what we should start with. And we decided on Melissa Carter's keychain. It was a Samoa cookie from the girl Scouts and it was like a collector's item because it was a special anniversary edition or something like that.
B
It was worth less than like 3 bucks or something like that.
D
Oh, yeah, definitely. I think it was sent to Melissa as a little promotional item. So she traded that for a Tigger pen that had some collector value to it. And then we traded the Tigger pen for some Superman comics. The comics. Traded up for some Tiffany candlesticks. The candlesticks. Traded up for some really nice jewelry. The jewelry. Traded up for a NASCAR chair. That happened when I was out, though, so I don't know anything about that.
B
Okay.
D
And then the NASCAR chair went for.
B
The piano piano, I think.
D
Then the piano piano went for the car, which we thought was going to be the end of it. It was a 94 Volvo.
B
Would have been totally happy going from a keychain to a car. Sounds good. Yeah, sounds really good. Would have been happy with the Volvo. We could have ended this thing. Well, we decided just one more day, we'll give it one more try. If there was somebody that had something of slighter, greater value, then we'd give this thing one more shot. And sure enough, Jeremy calls up with probably the best ending that could have possibly happened.
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I've got a. It's a 45 inch, 1080 progressive scan LCD flat panel TV. This is super duper.
C
Why you getting. Why you getting ready?
F
Hold on.
B
You sound like the TV salesman in like 40 year old Virgin.
F
It is super duper.
E
Well, I don't have great decision making skills. And when I had a little bit of money, I was supposed to go get a car. And I came home with a TV and my wife won't watch it with me. And I would like to enjoy my wife again. So I need a car.
C
Okay.
B
Were you literally on your way down to buy a car and then you just kind of like the add kicked in and you ended up buying a tv?
E
I got the money. I was like, all right, Jeremy, you're gonna go get a car, right? And I was like, yeah. And then I got one of those stupid Crutchfield magazines and I opened it and I saw the TV and I was just like, I gotta have it. But I realized that I. I was 28, but evidently I'm only 18.
C
And.
E
That I'm not responsible enough to be left outside. So I don't have an ATM card anymore and I'm not allowed to have checkbooks. I get $20 a week and that's about it.
B
She put you on.
C
You got an allowance, Jeremy.
B
There is power in prayer, my friend.
E
Yes, thank God. The power is yours.
B
We are going to make the trade with you. We will give you the Volvo, but we get the 45 inch flat screen TV.
C
Well, okay, here's part of the deal. We'll give you the. And you have to give us a half hour of your time when you come to pick up the car so we can see you both.
E
All right, that's fine with me.
B
So you got to bring her in here with you when we give you the Volvo. Okay?
E
She has to be. She's got to drive me there.
B
So that was a couple of days on the go on the show. And Jeremy and Jenna are here with us this morning. How you guys doing?
F
I'm doing great.
G
We're good.
B
Hey, Jenna, I'm just curious. Every single day that you walked into that house and you saw that flat screen tv, did it just bug you to no end?
G
I just quit going downstairs altogether.
B
Really?
D
Really bedroom and got one up there.
B
So your evil plan worked. Jeremy kept her out of there for a while.
F
It wasn't the plan, I swear to God.
D
Did you feel guilty when you were watching it because you knew it made her so mad?
F
I stopped watching it. I kind of tried the first time, but I was sitting down there on the couch by myself and I knew she was up there and she'd stomp on the floor every now and then. So I just gave up. I gave it to the seven year old. He enjoyed it. A great for cartoons.
B
Jenna, explain to me the day that he came home and he told you that there is no car, there's just a flat screen tv. How did he break that to you?
G
Bluntly. Jeremy isn't one with tact that much, so he just said, hey, look what I got.
F
You'll be so excited.
B
You're like overselling this thing as soon as you walked in.
D
Right.
F
I thought that I was doing a good thing for the family because the way I looked at it, the car was selfish because it was just for me to get back and forth from work. And I had one, although it wasn't in good condition. It was gonna die, but I was like, tv, whole family, high definition. I'm a good person and nobody appreciated it but me.
B
Did you buy that? Did you buy that even for a second?
G
I know. So nothing about tech, that it's not funny. And he came in trying to tell me all this tech stuff and I'm like, it's a tv. It doesn't have wheels, it doesn't go anywhere.
C
It's a tv, you can't take it to work.
D
So you said that he's been a bad spender since the day you met. You were telling us off the air, tell everybody about your first date and your two week anniversary gift and.
G
Well, the first date we went to a little place, a little seafood restaurant. And Jeremy hates seafood. But he did show up with a whole day at Sposodel. So that was our first date present.
D
Yeah.
G
No flowers. I got a whole day at Sposodel. And then two weeks after that we were on another date and he shows up with half carat diamond earrings. A pair of them. So that was great too. And then within three weeks we ended up married. So now I have a one carat Leo diamond. Within the first three weeks, he went through God knows how much money.
F
Wow. All right.
B
Well, you started off strong. Dude, this is a marathon.
F
Yeah, that's was it.
C
Was this some sort of movie where you have to be married by age 25?
F
No, it was more like a movie. Like I was 275 and she was way hotter than I was. So I was going to do anything I could to try to let her know that I can lose weight. You just give me a chance. But no, I was, I completely fell totally in love with her. We talked on the phone.
C
So you're taking the weight out of your wallet.
F
Basically I was going to let her know that I was willing to do anything for her. So it was, I don't know, I just decided to go all out and it just hasn't stopped since then though.
D
That's more like you and your just behavior rather than maybe the way that you wanted to start the relationship. It didn't stop there.
F
No, it didn't. But I want to be a nice guy.
G
I should have known about not to let him have the ATM at that point.
F
Yeah, she let me have the ATM for a little while, but I don't anymore. I've got a dollar left for this week, so.
B
So how is it rationed out? Like did she just come by and give you a 20 dol on Monday?
F
Oh, it's. No, it's actually Sunday night. I get a $20 bill and she wishes me good luck. So which is bad because like I've you know, had the weight problem and I lost the weight but now she's like hey, there's a dollar meal in you at McDonald's. Good luck. So she's evidently satisfied with me just getting fatter and fatter as each day goes on.
B
I love this kind of like sub storyline here. You were £275 when you met her?
F
Yeah, when I met her I was 275 and just I have my eyebrows kind of met. I had to wax my eyebrows. She made me because I couldn't show up like this. So Yeah, I was 275, horrible dresser. I really was the 40 year old virgin. I mean I had all the toys in the world and it was just, you know, I kind of just didn't have the social skills with the ladies.
C
Believe it or not, they just buy them stuff. Yeah, I bought buy them stuff. Maybe she'll take her pants off.
F
Maybe. But that, but that wasn't, that was kind of wasn't the way it was. I hoped it would work even though I didn't say it out loud. You did it for me. But no, I just, I was a 40 year old virgin and she was. Been single for a while. Of an expert dater. She always told me she Dated half of Atlanta so you can say hi to all your old friends. So I mean, I was really intimidated by her. So I knew that I had to really be like somebody that she'd never met. So I was. But yeah, I was fat and nasty. It wasn't attractive.
B
And you looked at this 275 piece of clay and you're like, I can definitely reform this thing into something that is perfect for me.
G
That's what he tells me.
F
Well, no, it was the fun. It wasn't until after we got married because I thought she was just a chubby chaser. I was like, she likes fat guys.
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It'll work.
F
And she was like. And she was like, no, I actually, I come to find out because then I started like, well, you know, didn't you date all fat guys? And she was like, no, I dated like bodybuilders and Mr. Georgia before you.
B
So that'll help, huh?
F
Oh, hey, it does wonders for, for the self confidence. And she's like, but don't worry because when we're intimate, I can just move your stomach out of the way.
B
So at that point it was a full on Pantis.
F
Yeah.
B
At 275. Yeah, it was a panace right there.
F
It was, it was lots of fun. But no, she's been good for me. She's got me in the gym and made me not so focused on the tech stuff. Although the TV goes against that. But that was really like. That was like my first moment of weakness. So it's like that's why I have to get the TV away from me. Exercise the demons. I'm going back to being a sociable person that doesn't want to sit in the side of the house and watch matrix for the 5,000 thousandth time.
B
Yeah, still got the dork in there trying to get out, man.
F
He's sitting there trying to, you know, he basically only comes out when it deals with my computer. That was the only other thing in our relationship that I've gone overboard was I built a computer and it's got antifreeze in it and it's a liquid cooling system.
G
It was a disaster.
F
Yeah, it's not fun.
B
You're serious about that?
F
Yeah, I'm serious.
G
Our computer has coolant and our car doesn't.
C
Hey, we don't have a car, so you got to use the coolant somewhere.
G
I don't have wheels either.
F
What do I need coolant for my computer? Well, it's because you can take a computer chip and you can like go into the programming and make it go faster. It's all about if you can control the heat. I'm sounding like an idiot right now.
B
I mean, you're, you're getting close.
C
Is this like a normal computer? Is it like one of the 1950s ones where it takes up an entire room? There's tapes whirling.
G
But you didn't hear the best part. He built it for me.
B
Now it. All of a sudden, it's become sweet.
F
Yes. Yes, it is. Thank you.
G
That's an excuse for the money that he spent.
F
Well, no, it was for her because she, you know, she's at home and she needs access to the world. She's, you know.
C
Okay, so what. Let me just. Because I, you know, we all have computers at our house. None of them have prestone antifreeze in it. So, like, what is going on in your home that requires so much data processing? Like, what's the most complicated thing that you do on your computer?
G
You want to know? Honestly? I just finished building our first website for the business that we're trying to open. So it's pretty graphics intensive. And so that was part of it. And then we do a lot of photo editing, too. Just our kids, we're picture freaks. And he has super high tech cameras and all that kind of stuff. So I need something to break it down, and any normal computer would just lock it up.
C
Plus, Jeremy looks at porn at an amazing rate you wouldn't believe.
F
No, she took one for the team because she didn't say, my husband likes video games.
B
No wonder why you need Colton in this thing.
C
Well, you know, Jeremy's the only guy in Atlanta who can look at 400 sets of boobs an hour.
F
No, that's the. I, I'm broken for my wife. She's the only one that I like to look at naked when she lets me.
C
So she's. So she's the one who looks for.
D
After she gives you the allowance?
F
No, it's. I don't, you know, I really don't care because it was like I, I, I was single and I had a good job and lots of money. Could have all the toys in the world, but, but, you know, I decided I wanted, you know, a relationship with a really hot girl more than I did the toys and stuff. So I, I'm fine with $20. As long as she's, you know, nice to me. It's all that matters.
B
Hey, Marcella. Good morning. You're on all the hits. Q100.
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Hey.
B
Hey.
E
How you doing, Bert?
B
All right. How are you?
E
I'm doing Great. I was just calling. Listen, this guy is so great. I am so in love with him.
B
He's so sweet, isn't he?
E
Yeah. She's got a great husband.
B
I'm curious at 275. Like, you must have been so intimidated when you approached her.
F
At first I was scared to death.
B
I bet.
F
I was scared to death because she.
C
Hey, you want coolant in your computer?
F
No, it was even better.
G
He showed up at the first date in plaids and saggy drawers and bad shoes.
B
Oh, dude.
F
Man, I didn't know. What was I supposed to do? If you wanted a question about DVDs, come talk to me, hot girl. Didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know that it mattered. I got it at Abercrombie. I thought that made it okay. I was wrong.
B
You must have seen something in them, though, like you said yes to the date.
G
Yeah, he already had me by then. We'd had a few phone conversations, and he's really, really funny. Everybody can probably tell. And that's kind of what keeps us going, is he's really hilarious.
B
Did you guys meet online?
F
Yeah. Offmatch.com you did. Yes, we did.
B
Okay. And did you tell her right off the bat that you. What you look like and what you.
G
There was pictures posted, but he had, like, a neck up.
F
I took the camera and I kind of did it from the side and looked up at it to where it wouldn't kind of catch the whole double chin hanging down.
C
That's very my space of you.
F
Yes. Well, you know, it worked.
C
It's a marketing decision. It's well done. You got to do that.
F
It was. But she's not telling you what really got her to be with me. I don't know if I can say that.
B
I'm sure you can.
F
It was the boldest thing I've ever done. She was just talking, you know, she said, like, what was important to her and stuff like that. You know, one of the things was that, you know, she couldn't be with, you know, small guys or anything like that.
C
Oh, no.
F
So, like, on the first, this was, like, the second date, I was at her house and I was staying in her bedroom. I just pulled my pants down, said, well, can we have a second date?
D
No, you did not.
F
Yes, I did.
G
Oh, my God.
D
No way. So you're just.
C
Did she still think you were a funny guy? Was she laughing then?
F
No, she was. She was like, okay, I'll marry you. Well done.
D
Oh, my God. That is so funny. So you're just like rattling off like the things that you have to have in a husband. And he's like, well, how do I do?
G
Yeah, pretty much. I mean, it was that bold. He just kind of went like there, will that work? You stand there kind of speechless. What do you say? You know what you're looking at?
F
It was like I said I had my, I had my mind made up that she was what I want, you know, she was what I wanted and I wasn't, you know, if I was gonna get disqualified for something, I needed to find out now before I went and did anything.
C
Before you spend any more money, you'd have to mortgage your house to take her on a third date.
G
So that was like, well, plus she got married. That was the one month anniversary gift was the house.
C
Plus she, you had been dating. I mean, you were good in that because she was dating all those steroid shrunk bodybuilders.
F
It was even worse than because she was dating the bodybuilders and she was dating old dudes. Like she was dating like 38, 40 year old guys. Oh, good lord. And I mean, you know, antique. We won't go into the daddy issues, but still. No, it was after we got married. The only family before we were getting married, the only family that came down was her father. And she sent me to pick him up at the airport. And I'm standing at the airport and I was like, well, what does he look like? And she's like, don't worry, when you see him, you'll know that it's him.
G
Wait, he forgot to tell you the good part. Like, Jeremy and I come from very, very different backgrounds. I grew up in Californ. My family is bikers. We live in the desert and I mean hardcore bikers. Jeremy grew up on a golf course, okay?
F
So she's like, he's just an old biker guy. You're gonna see him when you, when you see him, you'll notice him. So I'm staying at the airport waiting for him to come in and like the people are coming. All of a sudden, here comes this guy and I swear to God he looks like Hagrid off of Harry Potter. He's huge. He's got this afro hair out. He's got these pants that are about five sizes too big, being tied with a big, with a rope and he's got shoes with no shoelaces. And he's just sitting there and like plopping down the way. And I was like, oh my God, it can't be him. It can't be him. And he looks at me and goes. He kind of squints his eyes, goes, you Jeremy? And I said, yes, sir. And he's like, all right. Smiles and he's got about three teeth in his head. And I was like, all right, sir. And I was just, like, scared. And he was like, we're sitting in my truck and we're driving to her house. Cause that's where I was going to drop him off. And I just. I couldn't talk because I was afraid he was going to kill me. And the only piece of advice he can say, and he's like, so, y' all getting married? And I was like, yes, sir. He's like, well, you know, you don't have to get married to have sex. And I was like, well. And that was the funniest thing about it is we didn't do anything. Like, we decided once, like, we were.
C
Like, hey, to hold out three weeks. How'd you manage that?
F
Hey, it's. That's the good. All right. It was tough, but anyway, he was like, you don't gotta be married to have sex. And I was like, well, I really love your daughter and I want to have sex with her forever and don't want anyone else to have sex with her, so I'm willing to sign the paperwork. And he's like, well, I don't care, just as long as you don't do anything stupid. I was like, all right. Get married after three weeks. You don't consider that stupid? I'm pretty cool then.
B
Hey, George Ann. Good morning. You're on the Birch Show.
C
Can I borrow your belt? I'd like to tie something to my roof.
F
Good morning.
E
I just want to say, watch out, blue collar tv, here comes Jeremy.
B
Seriously, right?
E
He's gonna be replaced.
B
Hey, Summer. Good morning. You're on the Birch Show.
E
Okay, you guys have to take a picture of them. I am, like, dying to see what they look like.
B
This is a good looking couple.
E
I think you guys are great. I was like, who is this? Is this some celebrity couple I didn't hear about? And I was like, oh, right, the TV and car thing.
B
So we'll take a picture. We'll put it up on the website.
C
They're very normal looking.
B
Yeah, good looking.
C
Which is unusual for this show.
F
Well, it's like I said, she, you know, she definitely was like, all right, you have to lose weight. So I lost weight because I wanted to stay married. That was my whole point, was stay married. Because God knows that there was the whole house thing was because we happened so quickly that we were. I was actually moved because she has a seven year old, my son Nick, and he had to stay in his school. So we were like. I moved in with her for a short while and there was cars driving by and like, people puzzled. Looks like, you know, who is this guy? So I was like, I gotta move just to get her away from. And get the scent away from all the other people that are trying to find her. So it was, you know something, it was a necessity to me. Cause like she was telling me, you know, watch out when you're walking to your car. Because some of them were ex Marines.
B
A lot of comfort here. A nest of comfort.
C
How long y' all been married now?
F
Going on two years.
B
Is that right?
C
And now you got yourself a Volvo.
F
That's right. Thank God.
B
Now it's all come full circle.
F
Yes, it has.
B
We appreciate you guys coming in, man. And congratulations on being the final winners of Tradio. You guys got the Volvo. Can drive it out of here today.
F
All right, thank you.
B
All right, we got to take a picture. You guys put it up on the website, too. Thanks for coming in, you guys.
F
Thank you very much.
B
It's a great story. Really great story. That couldn't end it any better than you guys are.
F
Too bad.
C
This is why. This is. Which one's the good one? Fate or destiny?
B
Destiny.
C
This is destiny. This is why the Girl Scout keychain came to Melissa two years ago. This is why the Girl Scouts sell cookies. This is why someone invented the girls. This is why there are women.
B
It was just so Jeremy and Jenna could meet each other.
F
Yep.
D
Hey, Brian.
A
Good morning.
B
How are you?
E
Good morning, Barcelon.
B
What's up, ma'?
F
Am?
E
In January 2005, I was the marketing manager at the local Girl Scout council, and I sent one Melissa Carter.
B
That keychain.
C
There you go.
B
You're the one.
E
It makes my heart feel good. I saved a marriage. In some part.
B
You started destiny, my friend. Thank you.
F
You're welcome.
B
Have a good day.
C
You know what's creepier than you watching Laguna Beach? That guy working for the Girl Scouts.
B
The bird show.
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Host: Pionaire Podcasting | Cast: Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy, & Guests
The "Tradio Finale" episode marks the conclusion of The Bert Show's delightfully quirky and community-driven trading experiment. Over several weeks, the show orchestrated a daily "trade up" challenge, beginning with a humble Girl Scout cookie keychain and culminating in a bighearted swap involving a couple, Jeremy and Jenna, whose energetic chemistry and playful storytelling take center stage. Beyond the laughter and banter, the show explores themes of marriage, money habits, impulsivity, and the unexpectedly sentimental journey of exchanging everyday goods—proving that even the smallest beginnings can lead to heartwarming endings.
"I don't have great decision making skills. And when I had a little bit of money, I was supposed to go get a car. And I came home with a TV and my wife won't watch it with me." (Jeremy, 02:45)
This episode is a classic Bert Show moment: a testimony to how a simple charity keychain, some playful listener banter, and a chain of unlikely trades can create not just laughs, but lasting memories and genuine connections.