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The Bert Show

Bert Has A PSA: Never Buy This At The Airport!

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

Comedy, Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Bert has a big PSA to share with you after he almost got scammed over vacation…NEVER buy *this* at the airport! He’ll explain why.

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0:00.0

Get it. The Bird Show.

0:01.6

I think I'll do a little homework on this.

0:03.6

But if I remember correctly, we had a fact on this show a while ago.

0:08.3

Like what is the most marked up item that you can possibly buy?

0:13.9

And it was movie popcorn.

0:16.1

Oh, for like what it costs to make and what they're making off of it?

0:19.1

Yeah, it was ridiculous.

0:20.4

Like it makes, it's like seven cents to make and they could charge you like $8.50.

0:24.9

I remember when we were, when I was a server at like an upper scale restaurant.

0:29.5

However, I didn't serve in the dining room.

0:31.1

I was serving in the bar because that's where I belonged.

0:34.9

And the manager, we'd always run through the specials and stuff like that.

0:38.6

And they never wanted us to push like lobster or anything like that, like the big ticket

0:42.9

item.

0:43.5

No, they wanted us to push like some chicken dish because it was marked up and there was more

0:48.3

profit in selling the chicken dish.

0:50.1

And there was lobster because they made minimal off the lobster.

0:52.9

I actually saw that on airlines.

0:54.4

First class tickets aren't the ones that make the airlines a lot of money.

0:57.5

It's like premium economy because you're basically getting the same experience as economy.

1:01.8

Like you're not getting that much leg room.

1:03.3

But you're upcharged like $1,000 or $2,000, especially for those transatlantic flights.

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