01-02-26 - BR - MIX - Starbucks Apron Color Facts - All Oct 2022 - BO

Summary

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Episode Overview

Theme:
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness features the show’s signature blend of irreverent, quick-witted banter, tackling odd news, pop culture tidbits, and a healthy dose of mockery. Regular hosts John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo riff on everything from community baking contests and Starbucks lore to scam stories and bizarre world records, all delivered in their offbeat, teasing style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Community Pie Contest: The Importance of Honest Judging

• Brady shares his experiences as a judge in a local pie competition, sparking a comedic interrogation from John and others regarding whether he truly gave out the "worst pie" award.
• Honesty in Judging:
  • John presses Brady to be brutally honest with contestants for their own good.
  • They mock the reluctance to name and shame bad bakers and emphasize the importance of meaningful feedback.
  • Quote:
    “A judge goes out and goes, this one sucks.” (John Holmberg, 05:49)
  • Notable Comedy Bit:
    Naming "sugar-free apple pie lady" as the archetype of bad baking and suggesting she “needs to stop baking.” (10:35)
  • Brady proposes a "worst pie" award for next year, with John volunteering to officiate.

2. Judging Qualifications and Sanitary Fears

• The group jokes about the perils of eating community pies, especially from cat owners.
• John humorously speculates on household hygiene and what might go on in old ladies’ kitchens (08:01).
  • Quote:
    "Community pie. Cat lady is one and the same." (John Holmberg, 08:01)
  • Memorable Banter:
    “How many cats do you have at your house? Three? You’re out.” (John Holmberg, 09:28)

3. Controversial Topics: Blackface Perspectives

• The conversation shifts to a statistic that one in four Americans think blackface is okay for Halloween (10:38).
• John and Brady discuss generational differences, confusion about intent, and the risk of public backlash.
  • John’s take: It’s not society-ruining but “absolutely” will get you in trouble.
  • Quote:
    “Is it really detrimental to society? No. But will you get in trouble if you do it? Absolutely.” (John Holmberg, 10:55)
  • They recount stories of impersonators (Frank Caliendo) and the sensitive nature of costume choices.

4. Starbucks Apron Color Facts

• Brady shares trivia:
  • Green = standard
  • Black = Coffee Master
  • Red & Orange = Holidays
  • Purple = Barista Champions, only 26 per year (12:19)
• John jokes about it being like a “bad dojo” with new belts every week (13:00).
  • Quote:
    “Every week is a new belt. You haven’t really done much new.” (John Holmberg, 13:15)

5. Worst Halloween Candy Poll

• Brady runs down the annual “worst candy” list (14:34):
  1. Circus peanuts (up from #2)
  2. Candy corn (was #1)
  3. Peanut butter kisses (the waxy orange/black wrapped candy)
• Panel trades horror stories about "old lady candy" and the universal disdain for Smarties, Necco wafers, and black licorice.

6. Odd News: Accidental Sex Doll, Dirtiest Man, and More

• Amazon Halloween Fail:

  • Australian mother orders a dead body prop, receives a sex doll instead (16:09).
  • Group laughs about priorities—sex doll vs. fake corpse for the neighborhood.
    • Quote:
      “She’s really worried about the sex aspect, but she’s willing to hang a dead body in a garbage bag of her tree...” (John Holmberg, 17:31)

• Dirtiest Man in the World:

  • Story of “Uncle Haji,” an Iranian recluse who didn’t bathe for 60 years and survived on rotted porcupine and animal excrement, recently died after villagers convinced him to bathe (22:05).
    • Quote:
      “That was probably after the landfill.” (John Holmberg, 23:00)
    • Post-wash illness: The crew jokes he “washed off all the protection.”
    • Joke about taking over as next "dirtiest man," naming “Charlie Creedle” (25:10).

7. Farcical Scams & Gullible Victims

• Japanese woman scammed by a “Russian cosmonaut on a space station” needing money to return to Earth (25:20).
  • She wired $30,000 to the scammer, believing it covered “rocket costs.”
  • Quote:
    “He said most of it was to cover rocket costs.” (Brady, 26:14)
  • John riffs on how the scammer keeps escalating the absurdity.

8. Work Scheduling and Fast Food Industry Trends

• Chick Fil A offers a “three-day work week”—three 13–14 hour shifts with four days off, boosting productivity (19:53).
  • John and Byron debate the merits of longer vs. shorter shifts (21:54).
  • Quote:
    “I think I’d rather work four days a week at ten hours than 13 or 14 in a day.” (John Holmberg, 21:54)

9. Show History and Milestones

• Byron calculates that Holmberg’s 6,000th show will be in 2027 (20:44).
  • Mild roasting about longevity and pace; lighthearted references to potential future absences or deaths before the milestone.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Judging Pies:
  “You call that a pie?” (Brady, 05:16)
  "Community pie. Cat lady is one and the same." (John Holmberg, 08:01)
  "If you had a good pie, you wouldn’t have the competition.” (Brady, 09:54)

• On Blackface:
  “Is it really detrimental to society? No. But will you get in trouble if you do it? Absolutely.” (John Holmberg, 10:55)

• Starbucks Aprons:
  “Every week is a new belt. You haven’t really done much new.” (John Holmberg, 13:15)

• Amazon Sex Doll Gaffe:
  “She’s really worried about the sex aspect, but she’s willing to hang a dead body in a garbage bag of her tree...” (John Holmberg, 17:31)

• On the World’s Dirtiest Man:
  “He washed off all the protection before, though. ...He made it. Look at him. Look at that dirt ball.” (John Holmberg, 22:47)

• On Fast Food Work Schedules:
  “I think I’d rather work four days a week at ten hours than 13 or 14 in a day.” (John Holmberg, 21:54)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Pie Contest & Judging Riffs: 01:45 – 10:38
• Blackface Survey Discussion: 10:38 – 12:19
• Starbucks Apron Color Facts: 12:19 – 13:33
• Worst Halloween Candy List: 14:34 – 16:09
• Sex Doll Halloween Prop News: 16:09 – 17:38
• Coal Miner Basketball Story: 17:44 – 19:44
• Chick Fil A 3-Day Work Week: 19:53 – 22:05
• World’s Dirtiest Man Obit: 22:05 – 25:10
• Japanese Space Scammer: 25:20 – 27:03

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Tone

The episode blends energetic, sarcastic, and often crude banter with local flavor and in-jokes. Snarky put-downs, skepticism, and a “call it as we see it” approach drive most of the discussions, staying true to the show’s cheeky, boundary-pushing morning-radio personality.

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Summary

Whether it’s making merciless fun of a tasteless apple pie, dissecting generational attitudes toward blackface, decoding the secret meanings of Starbucks aprons, or laughing at the world’s dirtiest man and space scam victims, Holmberg and crew keep the commentary fast, loose, and barbed. Listeners get a full load of pop-culture oddities, workplace trends, and Halloween nastiness—plus a lesson in not sending $30,000 to someone claiming to be in space.

Transcript

[John Holmberg]

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[Byron]

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[John Holmberg]

The best of homework's morning sickness. I'm Maddie Akupd. It's time now for Brady to give you all the news that only Brady knows. We call this the Brady Report brought to you by allprochade.com if you want to get on over there, go to their showroom and be careful. Any loud sounds you hear in the background, ask no questions. But you can go through everything. Talk to Robert and the guys over there about putting some shades at your place if you email them and they'll come out to your house and they'll come up with a design that is going to make your house a knockout. Get that shade or a blind or that TV on the back patio that you can only watch at night because it's glare all day. They'll can they'll fix that with some sort of incredibly attractive screens on your windows.

[Brady]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Brady]

I know. I. I tasted three or four. You said 10. No, 10 pies. You asked me how many pies there were. Probably 10.

[John Holmberg]

I want to backtrack on that. You're lying about the chili because then you told us how you made a bowl of chili out of each scoop.

[Brady]

Initially, I thought I was going there because I've done that in the past where they did chili and pie. That's.

[John Holmberg]

Well, when pressed earlier, you said you had quite a lot more chili than just two or three. Anyway. You're a pie judge. Yeah. Ten pies. Yeah.

[Brady]

First place was the banana cream Nutella pie.

[John Holmberg]

Who was it?

[Brady]

Lori Welch.

[John Holmberg]

Congratulations. Lori Welch. Last place, worst pie. Name them. I. Who was the worst pie?

[Brady]

We basically. If the pie wasn't that.

[John Holmberg]

Who's the worst?

[Brady]

Good.

[John Holmberg]

Who's the worst?

[Brady]

I don't know. The name didn't bother.

[John Holmberg]

What was the pie? It's like, what kind of pie was.

[Brady]

The worst pie There is One that.

[John Holmberg]

Could have spit it in their face. You would have.

[Brady]

One of the apple pies was an apple pie without sugar.

[John Holmberg]

Ugh. What's the point?

[Brady]

I think they. They. It just.

[John Holmberg]

And you don't.

[Brady]

I don't think that was a fair intention.

[John Holmberg]

You know, they forgot sugar.

[Brady]

Well, it just still entered land.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. Just a bad pie.

[Brady]

It was bad pie.

[John Holmberg]

Who. Who made it?

[Brady]

Steve Howard.

[John Holmberg]

You know who made that pie? You're making up a name there.

[Brady]

Who?

[John Holmberg]

Who made the pie?

[Brady]

I don't know.

[Unidentified Guest]

Brady.

[John Holmberg]

You looked her.

[Brady]

I really don't.

[John Holmberg]

I, of all people, would look at that lady's face and go, this is.

[Unidentified Guest]

Not an acceptable pie, ma'. Am.

[Brady]

If I didn't like the taste of a pie, I moved on. And. And I'm not gonna look at the name, because I'm not. I knew I'd get that question.

[John Holmberg]

You need if you're gonna judge. Last place is a thing, and somebody needs to know not to enter next year or to try harder. You're doing them a favor by telling them they were the worst.

[Brady]

You're right. But I. I honestly don't know the name there.

[John Holmberg]

You know the name.

[Brady]

I don't.

[Byron]

Finishing a judge is to be critical.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. You have to. Yeah. And you're not.

[Brady]

I only took the names of the contender.

[John Holmberg]

You just. Your favorite one was all that matter.

[Brady]

3. That's bias.

[John Holmberg]

If you ask, that is bias. Guess you need to rank them 1 through 10. Next year or next week, whenever you have your next pie eating contest.

[Brady]

No.

[Byron]

Let's give him a shame bell. Oh, my God.

[John Holmberg]

This one. Shame.

[Unidentified Guest]

This one right here.

[John Holmberg]

Shame.

[Brady]

Yes.

[John Holmberg]

Lady, that was horrible.

[Byron]

That way you won't have to shame.

[Unidentified Guest]

What'S in this diarrhea. I don't want any more of it.

[Brady]

Think you mixed up salt and sugar, toots.

[John Holmberg]

What is her name? A sinner comes before you.

[Brady]

That's right.

[John Holmberg]

And begs for forgiveness.

[Brady]

No forgiveness.

[Unidentified Guest]

No sugar in an apple pie.

[John Holmberg]

Whoever you are, lady, who made an apple pie? That Brady walked right past Worst place. Worst place.

[Brady]

You call that a pie?

[John Holmberg]

Gross. Worst place. I want you to know names next time.

[Brady]

How about this?

[John Holmberg]

What? You're gonna. You know it.

[Brady]

Next year I'll do an award for the worst pie.

[John Holmberg]

No. Cause you'll make it cute.

[Brady]

I can't do it.

[John Holmberg]

Tell you what.

[Byron]

I'll do that coming down the road.

[John Holmberg]

Then I'll go to your stupid thing. If you have shame pie, I'll go Shame. Because you'll have a real judge, not some mambi pamby.

[Unidentified Guest]

I only like good things and I don't talk about the bad ones.

[John Holmberg]

That's not a judge. A judge goes out and goes, this one sucks.

[Brady]

No, they don't.

[Byron]

Yes, they do.

[Brady]

You're asked to be critical every contest, barbecue, whatever. They don't go last place, they give you the prizes.

[Byron]

No, we did those wing contests.

[John Holmberg]

Last place is a thing and it needs to be.

[Byron]

And we said that this is not hitting it.

[John Holmberg]

3. And then you tell people.

[Brady]

Oh, yeah, you mean like live judging.

[John Holmberg]

When you're doing it last place. If you're going to judge, you have to be critical. You can't just go up there, go.

[Unidentified Guest]

I like that one and that one and that one. And that's. Oh, you are all great, right?

[Byron]

Cuz it's even more obvious when you don't pay attention.

[John Holmberg]

Three out of five.

[Brady]

I just don't want anyone to stop baking. You do want. You want them to.

[John Holmberg]

Sugar free apple pie. Lady needs to stop baking.

[Brady]

Maybe it was a sugar free apple pie and I just missed that. None of them were labeled, really.

[John Holmberg]

You just dive in.

[Brady]

You have to guess basically what's in it. Dutch apple.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, you're the only one that'll eat anything. Like you put a fish head in it. Yeah, then you would have to.

[Brady]

You know, maybe they'll prank me next year.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I would do. I want names I want shame pie name Shame.

[Unidentified Guest]

Apple pie with no sugar Shame.

[John Holmberg]

Wow.

[Unidentified Guest]

Okay. It's like a tranny pie. It's transitioning into my poop. Oh, why don't you just serve me up a plate of diarrhea and hair?

[John Holmberg]

Anyway, judges are critical. They're not just happy you go through. It's a pussies contest. If you've got 10 people entered and you only pick a couple of good ones and everybody else goes, well, how did I do it? Was I close last place? I want a top 10 ranking.

[Brady]

They would have come up to me and asked me on their pies, but.

[John Holmberg]

I didn't know you wouldn't have said a word. Sugar pie lady came up to you. She came up to you and said what? How close was I to the top? You wouldn't have gone last place.

[Unidentified Guest]

You stand out as the worst pie.

[John Holmberg]

You wouldn't have done it.

[Unidentified Guest]

It was really good. We actually considered putting you in the top three.

[John Holmberg]

You said it to everyone.

[Brady]

I'm sorry. Your chocolate pudding pie was not that good. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

What a terrible event. Now I'll go next year to award worst pie here, all right? And I will. I'm not eating all of them. Homemade. Drag it through your cat hair Pie cats walk on counters in those houses. Old ladies that make pies for the community. Community pie. Cat lady is one in the same.

[Byron]

You're only okay with your own cat's cat hair.

[John Holmberg]

My cats don't walk around on the counters. They get knocked off the counters. You put them on the counter, they get knocked off, and the counter is scrubbed clean.

[Byron]

I mean, it's not flying through the air, huh?

[John Holmberg]

I know, but that's everything. You can't control that. I can control a cat standing where the food gets served. Some old lady with her five cats. God knows what she's doing with those fingers when she's alone. I guarantee you they're in a honey.

[Brady]

They don't have room for the cats over there. Sometimes five to ten kids running around.

[John Holmberg]

I guarantee you when that ding.

[Brady]

Regardless, she puts that.

[John Holmberg]

She puts that pie in the oven. She puts that pie in the oven. I've got 20 minutes and the kids aren't home. Fires those fingers down into the old dreamland, and then that's a fact. And then she goes back and handles the pie.

[Brady]

Bing, bing.

[Unidentified Guest]

Pie's done.

[Brady]

And so am I.

[Unidentified Guest]

It's everything Gerald can't give me. Oh, God. I remember when I tried hot pie in college.

[John Holmberg]

Anyway, you keep eating community cat hair pie in. I'm. I'd Go down and go. How many cats do you have at your house? 3. You're out.

[Unidentified Guest]

You're not even gonna try it?

[John Holmberg]

No. You have no food inspector at your place? Things covered in hair. That's not judging you, lady. You lose. Now get out. Shame. You get a real judge down there.

[Unidentified Guest]

I'm not entering next year. That was mean.

[John Holmberg]

Well, if you had a good pie.

[Brady]

You wouldn't have the competition.

[John Holmberg]

Yep. Only good pie enterers from here on out to the two worst words in the English language. Good job. It encourages you to do nothing more. Most dangerous phrase in the English language. Good job. Terrible. Anyway, Brady, it's time for you to do something better. Learn the name of that worst pie. Go door to door today in your neighborhood.

[Unidentified Guest]

Did you make that crappy apple pie last night? Worst place.

[John Holmberg]

And put it on your Instagram and finally make that interesting.

[Brady]

Here it is.

[Unidentified Guest]

This is a lady who made that terrible pie last night. What's your name? Meow.

[John Holmberg]

Wow.

[Brady]

Wow.

[John Holmberg]

That's all you'd hear.

[Brady]

One in four Americans still think blackface makeup is okay for Halloween? Sure.

[John Holmberg]

25%. 25% are still hanging on to the idea that that's not going to get them in trouble. Here's how I feel.

[Brady]

Here's the surprising thing about that, though. Older people are more likely to say, it's not okay.

[John Holmberg]

Right. Younger people, I say this. Everybody's too uptight about it. It is okay. Blackface has been confused with brown makeup, but if the confusion's there, you shouldn't do it. So I think both things can be true. Is it really detrimental to society? No. But will you get in trouble if you do it? Absolutely. So do I think it's a terrible thing like everyone else? Not really. Unless it's real blackface, which. Look it up. There's a difference. But I will say, if you do it, you're going to get in big trouble. So 0% should feel like it's okay. 25% can say, I think it's overblown.

[Brady]

27% of adults under 30 think it's fine, compared to 17% of seniors.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's wildly overblown. And it's stretched into all sorts of. Like when Frank Caliendo used to go on TV as Charles Barkley. Bronze Charles thought it was hilarious. Like, they. He approved it. And Frank always asked, do you care if I do the impression you in the makeup? And like, absolutely not. That's how it works. It's a. It's almost a tribute. But then it started to drift into that area that Anytime you put dark makeup on at all, you were making fun of somebody or you were damaging a culture. So so long as that kind of permeates through and confusion lives, it's not worth it. But do I think it's a big deal, as big as it's being made? Not really.

[Brady]

The different apron colors at Starbucks mean different things. The standard one is the green apron. That's the only one.

[John Holmberg]

I don't remember. Yeah, they have. They have a black apron. That's right.

[Brady]

Is given to long time team members who have earned the coveted Coffee Master designation, Coffee Commander. There's also red and orange aprons have been worn for various holidays. The rarest apron is purple. These are for the barista champions. And only 26 employees are granted that honor each year.

[John Holmberg]

What do you have to do to.

[Brady]

Become one of those?

[John Holmberg]

Just stick around. Probably just longevity, turnout.

[Brady]

Some serious foam artists.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, everybody can do that. Have you ever tried that? It's not hard. I thought it was hard until I did it once and I'm like, oh, here's the leaf. Yeah. No wonder anybody can do this. So it's like karate. You get a different belt. Yeah. Okay. It's like a bad dojo.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You put 110 in every two weeks. The eagle fang shows up, goes here you can. You can be a brown and now you're fuchsia. Every week is a new belt. You haven't really done much new. Merry effing holidays from the Big Red Radio. Hey, it's Brett Vesely and I'm here with Byron from MMP Guns.

[Byron]

Look, Byron, I have a friend wanting.

[John Holmberg]

To sell some guns he inherited. What's the best way for him to do that?

[Brady]

Brett, the last thing you want to do is sell the gun to someone who can't legally own one. Tell him not to put himself at risk and come into MMP Guns, where he'll get a fair offer and he can rest easy knowing it's not getting into the wrong hands.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, but what if he lives out of state?

[Brady]

Easy. Legalgunbuyer.com and he can do it. It's really that simple.

[John Holmberg]

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[Brady]

Candystore.com released their annual list of the worst Halloween candies. And last year's number one. Circus peanuts is number two this year.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, no kidding.

[Brady]

Candy corn was number one last year. It's number two this year. Still number one in my heart. Number one. Toledo, you nailed it. Circus penis peanuts.

[John Holmberg]

It's a back and forth. Yeah, those are pretty bad candy corns. I don't think I ever got circus peanuts on Halloween.

[Brady]

Me neither.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, everybody handles that. You have to hand them out in those big bags. Yeah.

[Brady]

Peanut butter kisses. Number three. They're not the Reese's peanut butter cups. They're the twisty in the orange wrapper.

[John Holmberg]

The Hershey's kiss.

[Brady]

They're just a peanut butter candy.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, there's a lot of peanut butter. Oh, I see. Old lady candy.

[Brady]

They usually come in black or orange wrapping.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, that. Oh, that waxy stuff. Oh, yeah, those are terrible.

[Brady]

Necco wafers. Number four. Wax Coke bottles. Number five smarties. Six Smarties. Yeah, those are great. Dropped two spots from last year's Four.

[John Holmberg]

Smarties are basically sweet Pez without expensive. Tootsie rolls are good. You don't want a lot of them.

[Brady]

Good and plenty.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Nothing. Black licorice.

[Brady]

Yeah, they. They were tied with black licorice.

[John Holmberg]

That stuff should be higher on the list.

[Brady]

A mom in Australia ordered a cheap Halloween decoration from Amazon. A fake dead body you cover in black plastic and you hang it from a tree upside down.

[John Holmberg]

Right.

[Brady]

But when it came in the mail, her 10 year old son opened it up and it was a sex doll.

[John Holmberg]

All right.

[Brady]

She posted about it on Facebook.

[Byron]

She got a better deal than what.

[Brady]

I asked for versus what I got. The company says they'll give her a 40 return because basically they're sending out.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's just dead.

[Brady]

The sex dolls. If you cover it in black plastic, no one will know it's a sex doll.

[Byron]

And you get the bonus of still.

[John Holmberg]

Having a sex doll and you don't have to use it.

[Brady]

Here's the finished product. So there it is. Before with the sun. Open it up.

[John Holmberg]

A cruddy blow up doll. It's not even like.

[Brady]

Because he goes, the reason why we don't do that is these are there's a ton of these and it's cheaper to send that out and cover it.

[John Holmberg]

Up than it is to make an inflatable of inflatables.

[Brady]

Yep.

[John Holmberg]

And they're like, you know what we could do? Make these Halloween dead bodies. And actually when it's wrapped up in the tree, it looks pretty good.

[Brady]

Is that the trash bag that they sent with it?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah. And the tape. That's a great. That's a great costume.

[Brady]

Yeah. Because you wrap it around the trash bag.

[Byron]

This sets a dark neighbor though, by the way.

[Brady]

I'm so upset about this. But that's my effect neighbor.

[John Holmberg]

That's the. That's crazy.

[Brady]

He's worried about her 10 year old son seeing the inflatable.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I was going to say she's really worried about the sex aspect, but she's willing to hang a dead body in a garbage bag of her tree and her kid can see that all day.

[Byron]

Priorities are off.

[John Holmberg]

Nudity and sex. That's gross.

[Brady]

I don't know if you've seen this story of the. The coal miner that showed up at the University of Kentucky basketball game last weekend. He came straight from work to be there with his son was covered in coal dust.

[John Holmberg]

Blackface trouble?

[Brady]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, good.

[Brady]

But the. Some people that had some money saw it and thought it was just amazing. Awesome. So then the University of Kentucky has offered him season tickets for being dirty people.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God. Yeah, he came straight out. I mean, he's like top to bottom coal covered and people gave him things.

[Brady]

A bunch of businesses in Lexington also offered him the family free meals and hotel room when they're in town for Kentucky games.

[Byron]

Hold on.

[Brady]

This is, this is a brilliant move. Does this kid play for Kentucky? No, it's a little.

[John Holmberg]

No, it's just some guy.

[Unidentified Guest]

And by the way, he's in the front row.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he had good seats. Okay. I was gonna say these guys. So just having a job that makes you dirty, you can get season tickets.

[Brady]

Out of that and more.

[John Holmberg]

I'm just gonna pour 30 weight on myself next time I go to a son's game. What's the matter? Little inbred kid? Is that what you're seeing?

[Brady]

You're thinking they're seeing some branches missing. He hit every branch on the way down.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, you think he's there? You think he's. He's got the thing. He's got Kentucky. He's got a big case in Kentucky. Oh, no, there's a whole load of aunt and uncles.

[Brady]

They're a tight family.

[Byron]

That's how you're judgmental.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. I see what you're seeing, especially with that daughter and those giant teeth. She's got some aunt and uncle blood in her.

[Brady]

The whole crew might be related, by the way.

[John Holmberg]

It is, actually. I think about it. That's nice. And it's not really that big an investment by the University of Kentucky because that guy's gonna die a black lung in the next year or two.

[Brady]

It's a big reason.

[John Holmberg]

It's the debacle. We'll give you a lifetime pass. They know what they're doing. This guy's not. He's way overweight. He works in a coal mine. This is.

[Brady]

What's this gonna cost?

[John Holmberg]

Maybe he gets through one season. John Calipari comes and introduces himself and then he drops dead.

[Brady]

Chick Fil A's introducing a three day work week.

[John Holmberg]

For you?

[Brady]

No, for employees. They're rolling it out. They did it in Miami. And it's basically three 13 to 14 hour shifts. And then you have four days off.

[Byron]

So you thought Brady goes to Chick Fil a enough that they would grant.

[Brady]

Him a three day work week.

[John Holmberg]

We're gonna start paying you whatever you get paid four days a week because you are. You are our bottom line, sir.

[Unidentified Guest]

All right, Chicken. I don't care about money. Sorry, Home bird can't make it for two of the five work days. I've got four days off a week now.

[Byron]

What do you mean, Brady? What?

[Unidentified Guest]

Well, I went to Chick Fil a and they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Four free days of chicken in lieu of pay. I mean, what else do you need money for but delicious chicken?

[Byron]

Speaking of, I ran the numbers. On the 10th of November will be roughly your 5,000th show.

[John Holmberg]

No, that's fair.

[Byron]

So I was off 5,000.

[John Holmberg]

Still a lot. But when you said six, that felt long.

[Byron]

And I did the numbers again. February 10th of 2027. If you're still here, that'll be your 6,000.

[John Holmberg]

All right. Well, Brady too. He was here the whole time with me.

[Byron]

That was your 6,000.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, going back to the Zone?

[Byron]

No, no, no, Yours.

[Brady]

He won't be here.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, I see what you're saying. What was he, 2027? He's right.

[Brady]

You're right.

[John Holmberg]

What were we thinking? That' off of Brady. He killed you.

[Brady]

He did.

[John Holmberg]

Somewhere between here and then. When is it seven? February 10th.

[Byron]

2027 will be.

[John Holmberg]

How many shows?

[Brady]

6,000.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, it takes that long to do? I guess it does.

[Byron]

About four years.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Byron]

Little more than four years.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, that's A lot that seems excessive.

[Brady]

The three day work week is working out pretty good. Productivity is up, and so they're trying to roll it out in more locations. And some other businesses might be looking at that similar model.

[John Holmberg]

I think I'd rather work four days a week at 10 hours than 13 and 14 in a day, because in that first day office, just you're doing nothing.

[Byron]

You're catching up on.

[John Holmberg]

You're dead.

[Brady]

I showed you this one yesterday, but it came out just after the show. The world's dirtiest man passed away in Iran on Sunday at the age of 94. He was referred to as Amu Haji or Uncle Haji. And there are several profiles on his bizarre lifestyle. He had not bathed in more than 60 years. Sounds like a problem, because he believed.

[John Holmberg]

That works for KPD's promo squad.

[Brady]

He believed that soap and water would make him sick. But a few months ago, villagers persuaded him to wash himself for the first time. And shortly afterwards, he got ill. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

He washed off all the protection before, though. I mean, they think he was 94. Look, the man made it. Look at him. Look at that dirt ball of a human being. That was probably after the landfill.

[Brady]

He. He avoided fresh food, opting instead for rotted porcupine. Smoked a pipe of animal excrement.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Byron]

Rotted porcupine. Is that a delicacy? What?

[John Holmberg]

Well, for him it was. Yeah, he smoked a pipe, loved cigarettes. Look at his teeth, though. They look great. Because he's so dirty, his teeth really pop white. Unless that's like an infection on his gums.

[Brady]

Drank up to 5 liters of water a day. It was out of a large rusty can.

[John Holmberg]

That's the same.

[Byron]

He's got his iron.

[John Holmberg]

Yep. There's one of them porcupines on a spit, and he's five, six cigarettes at a time. Oh, yeah, look at that. Look at those hands. Live to be 94 looking. Gigantic hands, though.

[Brady]

That's it, Uncle Haji, we're giving you a bath.

[John Holmberg]

Why not try it out, Haji? And he's dead. Soon after they washed off all of his life.

[Brady]

Hey, you wanted the black?

[Byron]

Guinness Book of World Records.

[John Holmberg]

There it is. That's the Darkness one.

[Byron]

Somebody's gonna have to get real dirty to break that record.

[John Holmberg]

That's still too cute for my dark macabre Guinness Book of World Records. Mine's mainly just parents taking their kids out to try to break records and things go wrong. That's pretty impressive. Oh, his beard is just.

[Brady]

That's not him, is it? That's him clean.

[John Holmberg]

That's him clean. Yeah. Oh, he looks great. He looks really nice. Handsome man. Got a nice sweater on.

[Brady]

See him in the Jimmy Buffett concert, Burning Man.

[John Holmberg]

He's dressed exactly the same. This is a big pull here. But dressed exactly the same in that picture as Jason Voorhees.

[Brady]

Mom.

[John Holmberg]

At the end of the day, Friday the 13th, she had that same sweater on. She scared me more than Jason. Interesting. Well, the world's dirtiest man is dead. That means there's a new dirtiest man out there somewhere. And his name is Charlie Creedle.

[Unidentified Guest]

I guess I understand. I just got my new position. The dirtiest man in the world. Come on, come on.

[John Holmberg]

Have an open mind.

[Unidentified Guest]

I haven't watched since April.

[Brady]

This 65 year old woman in Japan thought she was in a long distance relationship with a guy from Russia. He was pulling a very common scam. He said he wanted to marry her and start a long life together, but needed money to move there.

[John Holmberg]

Right.

[Brady]

The twist was claimed. He was a Russian cosmonaut living on the space station. He needed money to get back to earth.

[John Holmberg]

She deserves every ounce of what she lost. That is a great. And it's almost trying to get caught like lady, I'm lying to you. You know that, right?

[Brady]

Sent him 30 grand to space. Just wired it into his account.

[John Holmberg]

Which ironically was in Jersey. I keep. I keep accounting. Jersey. I can't. That's a great one though. I cannot FaceTime from Space Station. Don't have connection.

[Unidentified Guest]

You just have email.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, send text, but no FaceTime.

[Brady]

He said most of it was to cover rocket costs.

[John Holmberg]

Sure. He's going back and forth. It's a big commute. You would be blown away. Lady, about rocket fuel has gone through moons since Ukraine war. Anyway, I need a couple bucks if you don't mind following it over to account in the. It's in orange Jersey. I keep a bank there. You see that is a guy who's trying to see how far he can go before the lady goes.

[Unidentified Guest]

I don't know about this.

[John Holmberg]

Did I tell you what I do for a living?

[Unidentified Guest]

No. I bet it's big.

[John Holmberg]

Yes. A cosmonaut. It's the same as what you have in the miracle astronaut. Wow. I'm on the space station. You heard of this?

[Unidentified Guest]

You are?

[Brady]

Oh my God.

[John Holmberg]

I can tell her anything. I'm also a direct descendant of Jesus. My bad.

[Unidentified Guest]

How big's your d?

[John Holmberg]

Very.

[Brady]

In space.

[John Holmberg]

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