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Radio Host 2
Listen, it's the vert show.
Radio Host 3
In case you didn't get a chance to hear the entire conversation on Friday. In case you just heard about this from your friends over the weekend or you heard our promo running over the weekend. You don't know exactly what's going on here is in five minutes. This is we'll flashback to Friday. This is Sarah on the Burt show on all the hits. Q100.
Radio Host 2
Sarah, your co worker Jason called us up earlier this morning and he was telling us that we think that you have a really bad plan going down for your husband at the super bowl and you have his ticket but you've decided to hold out on him and not send it down there to teach him a lesson.
Sarah
That's right.
Radio Host 2
So that's all accurate.
Radio Host 4
So Jason just like overheard you telling friends at the office this story.
Sarah
Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure people at the office have been talking about it. Especially guys, you know. Cause people have given me a hard time about it.
Radio Host 2
But we're all trying to think what possibly he could have done over and over and over again for you take such a drastic action like this, because this is. I mean, this is really gonna be hurtful. You know that?
Sarah
Oh, you know what? I do know that. But that's, you know, unfortunately, the situation that he's presented for himself. You know what I mean?
Radio Host 1
Well, not really. That's what we're calling you. What is the situation?
Sarah
I've been married a year and a half to him, and he's great in every way except when it comes to, I guess, like, you know, adult house responsibilities. He really can't figure it out. And that's just a huge part of a marriage, in my opinion, and a huge part of a life with someone. But, you know, no one really understands what it's like to live with him. He basically. He starts things and doesn't finish them.
Radio Host 4
Like, what are we talking about?
Sarah
He can't finish anything.
Radio Host 4
What kind of projects are we talking about him not finishing around the house, off the bat?
Sarah
Okay, we have a loose tile in the entryway, okay. And we've had it since we bought the place. It's this loose tile. It drives me nuts. He started work on the porch, on the back porch. Doesn't fix. I mean, never finishes it.
Radio Host 2
So what?
Sarah
He never does the dishes. We will finish dinner. He'll put his dishes by the sink and doesn't wash them.
He'll go to the freezer and use up all the ice cubes of the ice cube trays and never refills them. He'll leave out his tools to fix something, and he just leaves them out, you know, and I end up picking them up. He can never, ever keep his office or the garage clean. It's. It's like a pigsty. It's disgusting.
Radio Host 1
So have you spoken with him about these. These items that you've listed? And what has his response been on that?
Sarah
Constantly. We speak about it. His big thing is, you know what? You know, I love you, but, you know, I'm sorry, I just don't have time. I got, you know. Oh, my God, I got so busy. I forgot. That's the big thing. I'm just. I'm sorry. I'm so busy. I just forgot. I forgot to refill this or I forgot to do the, you know, do the dishes or I forgot to work on the porch or everything. You know, he's supposed to, like, okay, he's.
Radio Host 2
He's kind of irresponsible. He starts projects he doesn't finish.
Radio Host 1
And you've talked to him about it.
Radio Host 2
And he doesn't respond. Okay, so that's the history and this.
Radio Host 4
Man is a faithful husband to you and treats you with respect?
Sarah
Yes.
Radio Host 1
So why. Again my question, why? Why this weekend?
Sarah
Because nothing else will get through to him to make him see that this is going to affect me in the marriage in the long run.
Radio Host 2
You are gonna lose this guy. You are gonna lose a great guy.
Radio Host 3
Do you have the ticket in front of you or do you know what kind of seat it is in the arena in Houston?
Sarah
It's in a. What they. I guess a corporate section.
Radio Host 2
It's gonna be a good seat.
Radio Host 3
Do you know what corporate section or where it is?
Sarah
No, it's just corporate section. I know nothing about it. He told me. It's like 12 rows back off the 40 yard line. Oh, God.
Radio Host 2
Good morning, Annette.
Annette
Sarah, you have been married for a year and a half. I have been married for 21 years. Trust me. You keeping your husband's ticket while he's down with his friends causing embarrassment and unnecessary heartache behind some projects that have not been completed. He's only been married to you a year and a half, remember? A year before this, he didn't even have projects. Give the guy a chance. This situation will stink like a skunk under the coffee table in your living room for the rest of your marriage. You cannot imagine the kind of harm that you are causing your relationship because you are upset about projects. You cannot marry them since they can. Look, those guys that finish projects all the time are the guys that are on the tool show, the handyman show. That's not real life. Everybody's husband doesn't complete a project every time they start it. Give the guy a chance. But this is going to stink in your marriage if you have one after this forever.
Sarah
Well, I'm sorry. I've made my decision. I mean, this is. I'm just gonna give back to him exactly what he gives to me right now.
Radio Host 2
Hey, Angela, you're on all the hits Q100. Try to talk some sense into Sarah here.
Sarah
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. Matt is not your child. He is your husband. He left the house. It's not like he took off the toilet to replace it. And that's the only toilet she had.
Annette
And didn't put it back on. She has a house.
Sarah
She is well taken care of.
Radio Host 2
And you've said. You have said here, right, Sarah, that he's great in every other way. Yes, every other way. You love this guy. He's perfect.
Sarah
You know what? I think it's hard because people don't understand. It's not like I want to do this, but I really. You're such a parent.
Radio Host 1
Sarah. Sarah.
Radio Host 4
I think I'm constantly getting.
Sarah
I'm sorry, I'm too busy. I forgot. And I just, I really feel that I need to throw that back in his face at this point because I'm sick of it.
Radio Host 1
I hope you enjoyed the year and a half you were married.
Radio Host 2
Can we call you on Monday and at least find out how everything went? You gotta be honest with us about that. Yeah, okay.
Radio Host 4
Hello?
Radio Host 3
How like, did you talk about Sarah all weekend at your super bowl parties?
Caller - Sherry
Yeah, that's what I was just getting finished telling my mother in law about it.
Radio Host 3
And what do you think she did?
Caller - Sherry
I think she's terrible. I mean, if you have kids or you have a man, that's what you do. When she has kids, she's gonna pick.
Sarah
Up after her kids. I mean, you guys are just terrible.
Radio Host 1
I mean, if you have kids and you have a man, that's just what you do.
Radio Host 4
Just finish their projects that they get started.
Radio Host 1
Right?
Radio Host 3
Hey, Holly, do you think she sent him the ticket or do you think he went without?
Caller - Sherry
She's sending the ticket. She's decent.
Radio Host 3
All right, cool. Thanks, Holly.
Radio Host 1
She's a decent woman. She sent that ticket.
Radio Host 3
Hey, Sarah.
Sarah
Hello.
Radio Host 3
Anything you'd like to share with us about this weekend?
Sarah
No. I mean, I stuck to my decision. I stuck to my decision. No, I went to work on Friday after I had been talking to you and everybody was talking about it, trying to talk me out of it.
Just friends and even people that I didn't know would kind of try to throw in their two cents. I got so many phone calls. Phone calls from people I don't even remember meeting or knowing. My mother from Tampa called me.
Radio Host 1
Oh, really?
Sarah
And I don't even know how she found out. I got a lot of phone calls, but I really, I stuck to my decision. And I think that, you know, it's my relationship. You know, I know better than anyone else how, how to work it. I do. Even though everyone else thinks they know. So anyway, on Friday, you know, that's what happened. But I decided to stick to my decision.
Saturday, you know, I just, you know, I went shopping, I avoided calls. Friday night I went out. Actually, Friday night I went out with my girlfriends and they all agreed with me. Every one of them agreed with what I was doing and supported what I was doing. Saturday I shopped, I avoided phone calls. I just couldn't take the phone calls anymore.
Radio Host 3
Just out of curiosity, percentage wise, how many of the girlfriends you're out with are married?
Radio Host 1
Just.
Sarah
Two of them. That was Five girls, and they all.
Radio Host 3
And it was unanimous. Like, none of them said to you, sarah, you might be going a little too far?
Sarah
One of the married girls tried to talk me out of it at first, but then she saw my point.
Radio Host 3
Okay.
Radio Host 1
So Saturday, you went shopping to avoid phone calls.
Sarah
As best as I could. Sunday, I literally turned my phone off.
Radio Host 4
Well, I know you're trying to avoid the phone calls from, you know, the people, your friends, whatever, trying to convince you to send the tickets, but did you avoid the phone calls from your husband as well?
Sarah
I knew he wouldn't call.
Radio Host 3
I mean, didn't he?
Radio Host 1
I'm kind of curious because, like, as of Friday, my perception was that Matt wasn't aware of what was about to happen, the fact that he wasn't gonna get a ticket. So I'm curious.
Radio Host 3
He didn't call you and say, where's my ticket?
Radio Host 1
How did he find out?
Radio Host 4
What the.
Sarah
You know.
I wouldn't even know because I did not want to talk to him.
Radio Host 1
Okay, so you haven't talked to Matt all weekend?
Sarah
No, but here's the kicker. See, now, this is where I'm getting.
Caller - Sherry
This is.
Sarah
This is why I'm getting skeptical. On Friday during the day at work, okay, I'm sitting at my desk, and one arrives, but two dozen pink and white roses sent to my work. Okay.
Radio Host 3
From Matt.
Sarah
From that saying, I love you and I miss you.
Obviously, I think he was buttering me up. I think he found out. I think he was buttering me up. I think he was trying to get his ticket because he knew what I was going to do. I had talked to him on Friday, so I didn't talk to him over the weekend, which I considered more Saturday and Sunday, but I had talked to him on Friday, about a half an hour after he had sent me the flowers, and he didn't say a word about. About the ticket, about where is it? Nothing.
Radio Host 3
So you don't know if he knew or didn't know?
Sarah
I don't know.
Radio Host 3
Hold on. People want to talk to you. Not surprising. Hey, Chris. Yes, go ahead. She's on.
Caller - Chris
Hey, Sarah. I'm just. I'm just curious. Do you ever get outside and help him dig the holes for the trees that he plants? When he does the landscaping outside, do you ever rake the leaves for him? Do you ever get out there and help him bag up the grass clippings when it's 155 degrees outside?
You know, women kill me with the expectations of a man having outside duties at the house. But yet you also want us to Come inside and fold the laundry and do the dishes. And also wanted to know, when you have kids, do you expect. You expect your husband to raise your child in like, two weeks? I mean, because this is an ongoing project.
Sarah
I do help him as best as I can. Obviously, I don't. I don't get out on my hands and knees because that's what he does. That's what he.
Radio Host 3
Apparently he's not doing it, so maybe you should.
Radio Host 1
When do you think you'll talk to Matt, you know, again? Do you think you'll talk to him today or.
Sarah
Oh, I'm sure I will. I'm sure I'll talk to him today.
Radio Host 1
Cause I'm curious as how to. Because obviously this was done for. You did this for a reason. And I'm wondering how you're gonna approach that reason or how that initial conversation's gonna take place. You know what I mean?
Sarah
Well, I mean, I'm sure he'll call me when I'm at work and I'm not gonna be able to talk, so, you know, we're gonna have till I get home.
Radio Host 1
Is he coming home today?
Radio Host 3
Yeah. When does he fly home?
Sarah
When he flies back today.
Radio Host 1
Okay.
Radio Host 3
All right. I know you've heard this all before. Can we each read you an email that we got?
Caller - Chris
Sure.
Radio Host 4
I got one from a woman who titled her email Sarah Wife from Hell. And it says, my husband and I have been married for 11 years for a reason in all caps. And then also in other all caps, we don't pull stunts on each other like this. If Sarah thinks that her husband is gonna run home and fix that stupid porch and tell her that now he sees the light, and then he's gonna most definitely do the dishes from now on. She lives in La La Land. La La Land in all caps.
Radio Host 1
And there was a woman by the name of Ann who sent an email that said, I've never been so bent on contacting a radio station as I am today. Is that woman effin nuts? What a prima donna. Send the man his ticket and deal with your lame ass issues later. How smug is she? She knows he loves her, but not for long. And guess what? Every year around January, the Super bowl issue will come up all over again. And if they are still together, you know what?
Sarah
Again, everyone else thinks they know how to run my relationship, you know, and that's fine. Everyone can have their opinions. Obviously, I'm still talking to you, so I don't mind, you know, hearing it or talking about it. But I do commend Sarah for that.
Radio Host 3
I Know it's. Hold on, Sarah. I'm just gonna. We're ready. One more email, then we'll let you go.
Radio Host 1
Okay?
Sarah
Okay.
Radio Host 3
Hey, Jeff and Burt. My name is Kyle Blank and the woman you had on my radio this morning was my sister, Sarah. I just wanted to let you know that nobody in her family agrees with what she is doing. As a matter of fact, nobody even knew this was happening until we all started calling each other about 8am on Friday to turn on Q100. I spoke to her right after she got to work and she was as stubborn with me as she was with all of your listeners who called in and all of you guys. There was no getting through her thick skull about how she wasn't teaching a lesson to her husband as much as she was asking for a divorce. I don't know that I have ever been as frustrated as I was with her Friday. And I've been married 11 years and have four kids. Anyway, I thought you'd be interested in knowing that. Friday after lunch, I went to Sarah's house and using the key that she leaves me for when they go out of town, I let myself in. I found the ticket and took it to FedEx and overnighted it to the hotel in Houston where the six of them are staying. Long story short, because I know you were busy. He got the ticket and went to the game. I got a message from him on my cell at halftime. And he knows that I hate. Because he knows that I hate the Patriots. I don't know if he knows what happened on Friday, and I don't know if I'll tell him. I do plan on letting Sarah know Monday afternoon when the game is safely over. What I did.
Radio Host 1
Sarah.
Sarah
This has got to be a joke. That's gotta be a joke. That's. It's impossible. That's impossible. I'm looking at the ticket right now. That's impossible.
Radio Host 3
Do you have a brother named Kyle?
Sarah
Yes.
Radio Host 3
Has he been married 11 years and have four kids?
Sarah
Yes.
Radio Host 3
And you have the ticket in your hand?
Sarah
I have the ticket in my. I'm looking at it.
Radio Host 3
You're looking at the ticket or you're looking at the envelope the ticket came in?
Sarah
Hang on. I don't. I don't know. Hold on.
Caller - Chris
Wow.
Radio Host 4
I like. Kyle.
Are you there?
Radio Host 3
She's going to get the thing, that envelope.
This is the longest minute of my.
Radio Host 1
Life and the longest walk back to the phone.
Radio Host 3
I don't want to say anything because I want to hear what she's going to say in the background.
Radio Host 1
Time has just Stopped for Sarah.
Sarah
Hello?
Radio Host 3
Yes.
Sarah
You know what? No, this is not.
Radio Host 3
Is the ticket in the envelope?
Sarah
No, it's not. You know what? I really don't believe that my brother would do this.
Radio Host 3
Is the ticket in the envelope?
Sarah
No, but this has got to be. That could not have been my brother. This has got to be. I think this is some big scheme that you guys planned up or something, because I've got.
Radio Host 4
Look at.
Radio Host 3
The email is right here.
Radio Host 1
There's no way we could come into your house, Sarah. We couldn't do that.
Sarah
I'm so angry right now. This is what I'm talking about. I know how to run my marriage. I know what to do for the situation.
Radio Host 4
It's not a business. Honey, you don't run a marriage. I mean, that's just, like, the wrong way to look at it. Your marriage is a partnership. You got to support each other.
Sarah
Well, I know how to be in my marriage and everyone else. And to step into my life, to step into my personal space, my house, without my knowing it, that's. I'm, like, beside myself. I'm so angry.
Radio Host 3
Call your brother.
Sarah
Okay, I'm going to.
Radio Host 3
All right, Sarah, we're let you go.
Radio Host 1
Thanks for taking the calls, though, Sarah, seriously.
Radio Host 3
And thanks for coming out with us.
Sarah
Okay, bye.
Radio Host 3
Yeah.
Is it just me, or was that the longest? How long did it take her to get to that envelope and back?
Caller - Sherry
Like 30 seconds or so.
Sarah
That was 90 seconds.
Radio Host 3
I was sweating.
Radio Host 1
Oh, my God. So happy ending.
Radio Host 3
Hey, Terry. Hey. Hey.
Caller - Sherry
I hope Sarah's still listening.
Radio Host 3
Hey, Shara.
Caller - Sherry
Hey. How you doing?
Radio Host 3
I'm all right. How are you?
Caller - Sherry
I'm all right. I am so glad that the brother saved her marriage, because where I'm from, my husband, my ex husband, I'm gonna let. Listen, Sarah, ex husband, he didn't cut gr. He didn't wash a dish. He wouldn't do a family outing. He didn't do. Nathan, when I tell you nothing. Nathan, she don't understand. And she had a good man that work every day and do this, that. Now, don't get me wrong. Now, me and my ex husband are best friends. But guess what he does now that we're exes? He redid my whole bathroom floor. Paint the walls. Put the borders up, sis. So y' all don't feel me.
He repainted my bathroom. He put the borders up. Please understand. Understand me when I tell you, but.
Radio Host 3
You know what you did by making him your ex husband? Sherry, you know what you did is you put the. You put the carrot back in front of the horse. Now he's got something to go after.
Caller - Sherry
And she was so selfish that she was going to keep that ticket. She just don't know. I heard about in a beauty shop over here off of Camel, over off of Cascade Rose. I said, she did what I said, See, they need to invite her to the studio and bring another sister or any woman that's been married or get married or had our or is married and let her know. How in the world did she think that she was gonna be right if everybody else was telling her how wrong she was? But big ups to her brother.
Her brother, her brother's wife. She got a good man. She better hold on to him. Thanks, Sharon. Sarah. Sad Sax Sarah. That's what we gonna call her.
Sarah
Sad Sax Sarah.
Caller - Sherry
Y' all have a blessed day.
Radio Host 1
You too. Thank you. And thank to everybody on the in the beauty shop for talking about it.
Radio Host 3
What beauty shop was it? Plug the shop?
Caller - Sherry
Elite Creations and my hairdresser. We were going to Las Vegas today for her birthday, but I had to stay cause I'm getting a new house. See, Sarah, when you do things right, you get good things, Sister. Get out there and put a peel. You peel off the back of the towel and you slap it down, sister. It'll be all right if you help out around the house.
You ain't got to go shopping with your friends all summer. Do something for your man.
Annette
He work all day.
Caller - Sherry
You do something, girl. She ain't never say nothing that she did. But big ups to her brother.
Radio Host 3
Big ups. One more time to Kyle.
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Date: December 10, 2025
Episode Theme:
A listener’s controversial plan to withhold her husband’s Super Bowl ticket sparks a debate about marriage, expectations, and retaliation. The cast and callers weigh in on whether her drastic move is justified—or a huge mistake.
The central story revolves around Sarah, who, frustrated by her husband Matt’s unwillingness to finish house projects or contribute to household chores, decides to teach him a lesson: she withholds his Super Bowl ticket despite his high anticipation and travel plans. The Bert Show team brings Sarah on air, takes opinions from listeners, and ultimately reveals a family twist that changes the situation entirely.
Timestamps: [01:58]–[04:47]
Notable Quote:
Radio Host 1: “So have you spoken with him about these… and what has his response been?”
Sarah: “Constantly… His big thing is, you know what? I love you, but, you know, I’m sorry, I just don’t have time. I got, you know… Oh, my God, I got so busy, I forgot.” [04:06]
Timestamps: [04:47]–[06:24]
Notable Quote:
Radio Host 1: “You are gonna lose this guy. You are gonna lose a great guy.” [04:58]
Timestamps: [06:24]–[07:16]; [07:25]–[08:03]
Timestamps: [08:07]–[11:29]
Timestamps: [11:31]–[12:28]
Timestamps: [13:01]–[14:09]
Notable Exchange:
Radio Host 3: “You have the ticket in your hand?”
Sarah: “I’m looking at it.”
(Realizes it’s just the envelope, not the ticket)
Sarah: “No, it’s not. You know what? I really don’t believe that my brother would do this.” [16:37]
Timestamps: [16:28]–[17:32]
Timestamps: [18:00]–[19:58]
Notable Quotes:
Caller - Sherry: “She just don’t know. I heard about it in a beauty shop... See, they need to invite her to the studio and bring another sister or any woman that’s been married... But big ups to her brother.” [18:58]
Overall Tone:
Real, humorous, contending, sometimes exasperated—but always focused on authenticity, advice, and the unpredictability of real-life relationships.