Atlanta Radio: Broken Foot Caps Rough Year for Bert Weiss

Bert's foot

Bert Weiss of the Bert Show on Q100 has had an awful year by most measures.

Rodney Ho at ajc.com recaps 2015. Weiss' father Fred died. His dog Riggins got attacked by two strays. He divorced his wife Stacey of 18 years. He had an appendectomy. And cohost Jeff Dauler threw him for a loop by jumping ship for a rival station.

So with just over two weeks left in 2015, over the weekend, he played basketball with one of his sons, hit a curb and broke his left foot, he reported this morning on the Bert Show, heard in 17 markets including WWWQ 99.7 Q100.

“I’m in an air cast today,” Weiss said. “I’ve had to laugh about it.”

He looked on the bright side: the cast gave him two extra inches in height.

His producer Tommy Owen, whose father has lung cancer and a brain tumor, decided to write a sad country song encapsulating the year, which included the entire team’s woes.