Hey, the Bird Show. Look, in a couple of seconds here, Kristen is going to rattle off a whole

bunch of names of companies and individuals that we need to thank for helping Bert's Big Adventure.

It might not be the greatest content in the world, but I will tell you this, when you're expressing

gratitude, there's nothing more important because this trip doesn't happen without the names

that you're about to hear in just one second.

And before we even get into that, just on a personal note, look, we've been doing this trip now, 23 years?

So 22 trips, 23 birds, big adventures, because we obviously had to take a pandemic off.

And I want to thank you guys again.

This thing started all those years ago with an idea. And Stacy, my ex-wife, my wife at the time and I coming on the air saying, look, we had this really ambitious idea. But we have absolutely no idea how to pull this off. And from day one, you guys have taken us by the hand. And have led us when it comes to Birch's Big Adventure

each and every year from starting the organization to educating us on how to start a non-profit

to the Atlanta Hawks the very first year giving us a plane I don't know that we would have been

able to survive that first year we didn't have those kind of donations and the Hawks weren't using

their planes so they said hey just take ours for the first trip, which we did. And it sort of has been

that kind of momentum for all of these years, anytime we have ever asked you guys to do anything for

us, be it one family or much bigger gives than that. You guys have always been there. So I can't

express gratitude enough to all of you guys have always been there, so I can't express gratitude enough

to all of you guys that have been listening

and have supported us from day one.

And here's a few other special thank yous that we want to give.

Hilton, Atlanta Airport,

Zaxby's, Hog andaws, Bristol Motor Speedway,

Gas South, Atlanta Hawks,

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