The Bert Show.

If you haven't been listening the last couple of days, we have tried to detail for you guys as much as we have been able to.

The stalemate between Jeff and Cumulus when it came to his contract.

Jeff's contract expired on December 31st, and he hasn't been with us all week while they tried to work it out

and it's been uh it's they've both been very hard-headed about the whole thing if you ask me

and it's been a stressful stressful time for everybody in here uh it's been very stressful for

jeff and his family also uh i i have received very few emails the last week that have been enjoyable to read. Because if you think about it, none of them are complimentary. The ones that say, hey, you guys will be fine without Jeff. I get offended by because they belittle Jeff's role on the show and and that's my friend, and he's our partner.

The ones that say, hey, I won't listen again.

If Jeff's not there, aren't fun to listen to either.

Because for obvious reasons, there's nothing I could do about it. The ones that were demanding that I bring Jeff back were frustrating, because I had nothing to do with it.

I've been fighting for Jeff now for six weeks, eight weeks with corporate. So I'm doing everything

I can. So reading the email saying, hey, you got to bring Jeff back or a show's never going to

be the same. Well, you're right. I mean, I know everything that you guys wrote in emails the last

couple of weeks are absolutely true.

If Jeff leaves this show, it doesn't sound the same.

How could it?

If Melissa leaves the show and we've got no Melissa, the show changes.

And it changes for the worst for a while.

And then you've got to replace them with somebody hopefully that we bring up to the same quality level or beyond, you know.

So it has been no joy

for anybody the last couple of weeks for sure it's taken its toll on everybody in here we've all

sort of been on edge the studio has felt empty to us the last couple of days to you partially

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