The Bert Show.

I'm not exactly sure even where to start.

Sometimes when I'm going to talk about something so big on the show that I'll spend a lot of time thinking about how I'm going to talk about it and then how we're going to get out of talking about it also.

And in this case, I'm so emotionally invested and spent over everything that's gone on with Jeff over the

last like four or six weeks that I'm not even exactly sure where to start with you guys.

Well, maybe explain to listeners who aren't a part of our industry, just how, you know,

I mean, because to me, like, I think the confusing thing for so many people is that they don't understand how our jobs work and our contracts work individually.

In most cases, the radio industry is much like any entertainment industry.

Like, if you take a look at sports and the way sports is handled on contracts, you sign a couple of year contract.

And then when your contract is coming up, you start to renegotiate a deal if your team still wants you and you still want to be there, then you both decide, okay, look, we both like each other. So let's go on and start talking about how much money we're going to get, how much of a raise I'm going to get, and then how long I'm going to stay on the team.

In this case, the team is Q100.

The team is not the Burt Show.

Yes, this is our team, but we don't have anything to do with the negotiations of any of the players on this team.

That's all done with Cumulus Corporate.

As far as we're concerned, everybody in this room wants Jeff to be part of

this show, 1,000%. Absolutely. It was unthinkable to me a couple of weeks ago that we would be at

this point with Jeff and his contract because within our industry, I know some of you guys are

going to have a really tough time to believe in this. This is a pretty well-respected morning show. And know some of you guys are going to have a really tough time believe in this. This is a

pretty well-respected morning show and probably one of the top five around the country.

And the other four that I speak of have been around for years and you do everything you can.

When you have something so unique like we have here and we've had, we've been blessed and

lucky enough to have the success that we've had here've been blessed and lucky enough to have the

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