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🗓️ 22 January 2026

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Vault: How Bert Met Bono...

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0:00.0

The Bird Show. Just to recap, in case you weren't listening for the last week, that U2 and Bono

0:08.0

just are kind of like, I don't know, the band of mine and my wife's relationship. I mean,

0:13.7

essentially we fell in love to U2 songs and our wedding song was a U2 song. Our son was born at

0:20.0

Northside while a CD of U2 played in the background. So I would say we're both fans. I would say my wife is a much bigger fan than I am. She has, when she reads about Bono and his wife and his life and their family, she just feels like he, for whatever reason, speaks to her, right? Was she a fan before you or or did you introduce her to the band? No. To the band of consequence. No, she was a fan before I came. She introduced me to you, too. So she was there way before I was. So this weekend, with you two being in town on Friday and Saturday night, I kind of made it like a personal mission to go out and somehow, some way, get my wife, Stacey in front of Bono. And I put up a $500 reward for anybody

0:59.6

that gave me tips and leads that would lead me to Bono. And those leads changed the game big time.

1:06.0

For whatever reason, $500, all the email started coming in calls started coming in, people really

1:10.3

wanted that $500.

1:11.9

So going into the weekend, I felt fairly confident that at one point or another, we would be

1:17.6

in his presence. I knew what hotel he was staying in. In fact, it got so freaky that we ended up

1:24.2

checking into the same hotel that you two was in on Friday night and

1:28.7

got confirmation that they were there as soon as we walked in the door. So that tip was absolutely

1:33.5

legitimate. I knew about a high-powered meeting that Bono was having on Saturday afternoon from a

1:40.7

couple of different listeners downtown. So if we didn't somehow run into Bono in the hotel or you two in the hotel, then the plan was to send Stacy down because I couldn't go because we had the one life to win thing going on. Right. So she was going to go down and just kind of hover in front of the entrance of where this meeting was. And as Bono came in, she'd just be like, I had no idea you would go.

2:20.2

Oh! Here's my camera. Here's some eBay items. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know? So you're just going to play it off like it was a chance meeting, really. We knew about two private parties that they were having also, that we were going to try to stake out also. and again, not like work our way in, just kind of as they were there,

2:23.7

we'd be sort of in front of the entrance walking by and be surprised.

2:26.5

And I got confirmation on all of those.

2:27.8

They all actually happened.

2:29.8

And they were all real events.

2:31.6

Those weren't just rumors based on nothing.

2:32.7

They were all actual.

2:33.1

Okay.

2:34.5

So it was all lined up.

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