The Bird Show. It's Birx Big Adventure 2026. Just a couple of hours. We take our own private

endeavor aircraft down to Disney World. That's where it starts the VIP right there, man.

Well, yeah. I mean, this whole trip is nothing but magical moments in VIP. So we are here

at the Hilton Atlanta Airport Hotel in our, in our ballroom our ballroom, everything's ours in the Birds Big Adventure ballroom. And we are gearing up for our big trip down to Disney. We do this every single year, except for one year, which has thrown me, and I hate it so much. I know. It's not congruent for you. It's not congruent. I need the numbers to align. So this is the 24th year of Burt's Big Adventure. Did you ever think when you and Stacey started this 24 years ago that here we would be sitting in this ballroom? When I got hired on Q997, I thought we would last one year. So, I mean, I thought the radio show would last one year. So no, I did not think that first big adventure would be around this

long. So here you are 24 years later. There's been 23 trips because the pandemic had to screw it up for us one year. But yeah, it's just been, it's been an incredible legacy. I'm so glad you started this. Yeah, as I thank you. And you're a huge part of it. Huge part of it. It was really cool being in the hotel last night.

And from like the check-in desk

to where we are right now,

there's, Huge part of it. It was really cool being in the hotel last night.

And from like the check-in desk to where we are right now,

there's sort of a whole bunch of different banners up of Burke's Big Adventure,

us with the kids, the cover from the magazine over and over and over again. So as I was walking down from checking here,

it was kind of like going through memory lane. Yeah. And I think I told you this before. I know I did, Kristen, is that this year is a little bit different for me, because this is the only thing I have to focus on now that I'm not doing the Bert Show anymore. You know, you always sort of have a whole bunch of like, I don't know, plates spinning in the air, it feels like, and you're juggling

so much. But this year is a little bit different for me, so I really get to slow down and take

it in. So while I was walking in that hall and I was taking a look at all of those magazine

covers for Birxby Adventure, all the memories from all of the years kept flooding back. And just

this sense of pride that what we have all done, and this was just, I mean, Stacey

and I started this, but it took an entire community to put this trip together for this many

years from the very first start.

I mean, we said, we don't know what we're doing with Bert's Big Adventure.

And Atlanta really embraced it and helped us from the start and is doing it even to this day.

Yet none of this, absolutely none of this would be possible without you, our listeners,

and the donations over the years. You guys are the ones that make this trip possible.

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