This is The Bird Show. I honestly don't know what time we're getting out of here this morning.

I do know next hour that the sales department is just like, forget the commercials. We know you guys are just going to BS for the next 90 minutes. And you're going to be late anyway. So we'll just take the commercials away. But the lineup that we have for people that want to grab a mic and say something, it's like 98 people long. Yep.

So we're going to be here for a while.

So, yeah, we will be commercial free for the entire nine o'clock eastern hour and thank you very much

to vicky shelton for making that happen emotionally exhausted i don't know how we're going to do this for

two years i mean two more hours i mean the hall is packed it's so touching the hall is packed. It's so touching. The hall is packed with

Birchow family and it is like a party going on, but everybody's like reminiscing about the

birth show from over the years. We'll talk about this later, but the amount of Berkshow families

that started in this studio, it's astounding. Yeah, I was fine until I walked out in that hallway

and started hugging people. And then that's when it was like, oh, yeah. First show babies. All right.

So what are we doing here? All right. So we have a special guest that's on the phone. It seemed very

fitting that since he was the one that gave you your start on Q100, that he would be here

the final day to say goodbye and thank you for everything you've done. So please welcome

Chief Content Officer of Cumulus, Brian Phillips. Oh, wow. Hey, Brian.

Hey, it's Bert from the Bert show.

Maybe the most creatively named show that we ever came up with, Bert.

I will tell you guys this, and I have passed this.

First of all, there is none of this, zero of this.

If Brian didn't take a chance, when Brian and I met in Virginia for a schooner of beer

and I didn't have any hosting experience at all and Brian had put together the morning X in

Atlanta which is a legendary morning show also and he brought brought this little, teeny teeny little baby signal into Atlanta

that he didn't really care about.

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