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John Holberg
All right, HMS Podcast, time again to let you know where to go for some great comedy in the Valley this week. Get out to the Tempe Improv on the east side to see Paul Versey on Thursday and Beth Stelling Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Desert Ridge Improv up North features Sarah Weinschenk this Thursday and Joe DeRosa on Friday and Saturday. And downtown at Stand Up Live, check out the very funny Lil Rel performing Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the complete lineups. And for tickets, go to standuplive.com desertridgeimprov.com and tempeimprov.com it's John Holberg here for.
Brett
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John Holberg
Jefferson.
Brett
That's right. We had a girl at Tony Roma's that moved here and all she said.
Brady
These aren't like the boys in Buffalo.
Brett
Which had the weirdest way of saying Buffalo I've ever heard.
Brady
Buffalo. This is different than Buffalo, right?
Brett
You moved from Buffalo cuz your absolute life wasn't working. Embrace here.
Brady
I met a boy the other night but he's nothing like the boys back in Buffalo, right?
Brett
Those boys didn't like you, left you lonely, you moved here. Then the great Bill Osborne, my life mentor, the worst life mentor of all time, always will be described as physically Gene Wilder and audibly Jack Nicholson. I told you when you hired her that girls from another town are going to just leave eventually. You wasted everyone's time here, John. Never hire someone from somewhere else because they're just bringing their sadness here. This is a utopia. Hope for a new start. And it never works. Sure enough, six months later, moving back.
Brady
To Buffalo, it's too hard here. The boys here aren't the same as the ones back in Buffalo.
Dick Toledo
Buffalo is like New York Amish.
Brett
I don't know what she was. She said it constantly. It became her thing. Like this. This is different than the way things.
Brady
Were back in Buffalo.
Brett
If she started that sentence, you just wanted to hit her in the head with a pan. Like there's a reason you're not in Buffalo anymore. In Buffalo, like the place you left because you were gonna kill yourself and you needed sunlight, right?
Brady
But back in Buffalo.
Brett
Quit reminiscing about the suicide snow.
Alex
F you, Shoresy.
Brett
Yeah, well, it wasn't even Shores. Don't even compare to Shorzy. Don't even start bringing that in. Don't intermingle those things. He's awesome. People from Buffalo. Then I see, like 10 years later, I run into some friends from Tony Romans, and she's there.
Brady
Tanya moved back from Buffalo.
Dick Toledo
Right. Back in the.
Brady
I met a guy and then I moved back to Buffalo and then he broke up with me and I got sad again, so I moved to the happy place.
John Holberg
How'd she look? Like a Buffalo?
Brett
Broader. She was cute, actually. She went to. She came here. She was Buffalo. And then as she kind of hung around the Tempe Scottsdale area, she. Yeah, she got Arizona clean and then moved back to Buffalo. And she was a superstar. I can imagine. It was almost like rehab. Like she got rid of all those Buffalo things, went back tan with abs, looked great, and then went to Buffalo. And then all those big fat, you know, Bill's mafia started to hump her again. She started putting on some weight and realized I gotta get back over to the spa, and I guess she moved back here. She was really sweet, but, man, if I heard another word about Buffalo, when.
Brady
I get back to Buffalo.
Brett
Paul Sura is from Buffalo, right?
John Holberg
That's all you need to say.
Brett
That's all you need to say. That's the guys. That was who she Was getting laid on by £300 of life. Just stop moving around. Jesus Christ. I hate people. Roll over. I don't want to look in your eyes.
Brady
I'm moving.
Brett
Never hire anyone who hasn't lived here for at least three years. John, you gotta remember that whatever grand television show they watched that led them here is a mirage. They're not gonna find their dreams. Soon. They'll be moving back to Rochester where they belong. Bill was right. Always ask that in a job interview. I don't even know if that's legal. So where are you from?
Brady
Oh, I'm from Buffalo.
Brett
Oh, yeah? What brings you here?
Brady
Well, my boyfriend and I broke up.
Brett
You know what? I'm gonna cut it off here. Thank you for your time. You're escaping a bad relationship and you think this is the. It's not. This is. There's no magic water here. Hit the road. Jack was solid, by the way. It's time now for Brady to give us all the news that only Brady knows. We call this the Brady Report. Then we say Brady Report.
Dick Toledo
A good Tuesday morning to you, Phoenix. Hello, world.
Brett
Hi.
Dick Toledo
Happy organize your home day.
Brett
All right, I know where it is.
Alex
Couple of organized, not fined.
Brett
Oh, all over the place. My house is in one spot.
Dick Toledo
A couple of basis fun facts. Cleopatra lived closer to the debut of the iPhone than the building of the great pyramid.
Brett
Say that again.
Dick Toledo
Cleopatra lived closer to the debut of the iPhone than the building of the great pyramid. Oh, the pyramid was finished in 2440 BC.
Brett
Yeah, that's a lot longer.
Dick Toledo
Cleopatra was born 2471 years ago and 69 BC.
Alex
All right.
Dick Toledo
And the iPhone debuted in 2007, which was 2070 six years after her birth.
Brett
It's an interesting thing that should have never been thought of.
Dick Toledo
The words highbrow and low brow came from phrenology, which is an old pseudoscience that measured people's intelligence by the shape of their head.
Brett
It still holds.
Dick Toledo
People with the high brow lines were considered more intelligent.
Brett
You people with low eyebrows are dumb. I just did it to you and you started laughing. And the second you get Neanderthal eyes, which was a great song in the 80s. Neanderthal eyes sing that ambrosia. But yeah, it's still a thing. You see somebody with eyebrows that are in a good spot, you trust them a little more. Eyebrows are a big. Tell those dudes that have that protruding mandible. No mandibles down here. What's this one called? The one across your eyes? The one above your eyes. That big bubble that steroid users get and their eyebrows are low.
Dick Toledo
Geico Caveman.
Brett
Yeah. Yeah. Because you're a caveman. Because you're dumb as a caveman. Highbrow and low brow are very real. Too high. You just look curious.
Dick Toledo
Just like there are earthquakes on earth. There are moonquakes, sun quakes and Mars quakes.
Brett
That's why those Mexican girls that draw their eyebrows on, they just look like forever inquisitive. I've never seen anybody like make me look like I'm not sure of anything. Please.
Dick Toledo
Well, yesterday when Brett, we were talking about the. The surgery on bbls and breast augmentations. Cosmetic surgery. They were doing brow lifts. Who was the same doctor you pulled up. Oh, for the example. And they showed.
Brett
What was the thing though? We weren't talking about BBL removing ribs. Rib remover. That's right. Okay.
Dick Toledo
But he pulled up a doctor that.
Brett
Would do that eyebrow.
Dick Toledo
And on the website he was doing.
Brett
Yeah, facelifts and brow lifts are normal. That's a normal thing because you don't want your eyes to scrunch down over your eyebrows. Scrunched down over your eyes. You look stupid.
Alex
Yeah, but the painted on eyebrows.
Brett
Oh, that's just silly. Too far.
Alex
You're one expression all day until you.
Brett
Wipe that off, which is holy. I don't know how you say that in Spanish, but all those girls down there look like that.
Dick Toledo
A poll of 2,000Americans found that 97% of us are sick and tired of one thing or another.
Brett
That's right.
Dick Toledo
And 3% apparently feel fine about the state of the world.
Brett
I hate them. I'm angry at one thing or another.
Dick Toledo
Misinformation online. 86% and includes biased reporting in the news, politics and government. 84% tired of it all we're exposed to again.
Brett
I said this 10 years ago. The second you take away everyday TV and start making it dealer's choice all the time, we're going to lose connection. The only thing we have in common currently to talk about is politics. Visit Homebird's morning sickness online at 98kupd.com.
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Brett
Have you seen the new Squid games, Toledo?
Alex
I haven't yet.
Brett
We can't talk about it.
Alex
I know.
Brett
You know Trump's getting inaugurated on Monday.
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
Brett
Any thoughts? We could go back and forth for hours.
Alex
None.
Brett
Well, you may not. You might be boring enough to have no thoughts, but most people that you ask that question.
Alex
No, not on that.
Brett
Have a thought about Trump or the politics or whatever. But if I ask you about Squid games, you have to have seen it. We don't have commonalities. We don't have meaningless commonalities anymore. TV did this. The effect. I keep worrying about that. With kids and violence and sex on tv, what they need to do is have commonalities back. I used to love coming to school on Friday to talk about the Cosby show and Cheers and what we watched the night before. And we all saw it.
Alex
So I have to be upset that we can't talk about Gossip Girl because I've been two seasons in on that because that's what occupies my couch at night.
Brett
Right. You have to cuck the television, too?
Alex
No, no, no. I'm doing other stuff in the other room I ended up doing.
Brett
Yeah. Jesus Christ. You need to move back to Buffalo.
John Holberg
Poor little fella.
Alex
She's 48 episodes in.
Brett
Gossip Girl takes over the man.
John Holberg
You watched 48 episodes?
Alex
No, no. She has already. In like a weekend.
Dick Toledo
She's binging. Heavy binge.
Brett
She's dodging, too.
Alex
That too.
Brett
Might as well just put skunk spray on. It works.
Alex
All right, I'll go outside.
Brady
I'm just gonna watch a few hours of Gossip Girl if you want to join me.
Brett
Of course I don't want to join you.
Dick Toledo
I know what you're doing in a new survey.
Brett
You might as well just stick your wang In a box of saltines. It's going to be wetter.
John Holberg
Or horse nose.
Dick Toledo
In a new survey, one in five people between the ages of 18 and 27 claimed they couldn't change a light bulb and would just hire someone else to do it, especially if it was a ceiling light.
Brett
Wow.
Dick Toledo
Because going up a ladder would be too dangerous.
Brett
I'll tell you this in full disclosure. I've got these weird LED lights for my patio. I have no idea how to change them.
Dick Toledo
That's what they're saying that. What do you mean? The screwable light bulbs are being phased out for LED lamps in the last 10 to 20 years. The report found that the gen zers are spending more than 1500 bucks a year on average, calling in pros to do basic jobs that they could probably do themselves. That's five times what boomers spend on stuff like that.
Brett
I call Scotty from Margie Mays. Christmas and light Decor. Like, hey, I got a couple of dim ones around the patio here. And they're not the bulbs like the ones you obviously can screw in and out. They're fine. The ones that plug in sometimes have a little clicker. I get that. But these are like strips.
Alex
Yeah, those.
Brett
Yeah. It's almost like tape.
Alex
Yeah. And there's some that you can clip and I'm done.
Brett
You bring materials in?
Alex
Yeah.
Brett
Hire a guy.
Alex
Well, that's. Boomers were troubleshooters. In your words, Fiddle farts.
Brett
I don't know. I'm not. First off, you're a boomer. I'm no boomer.
Alex
I didn't say you were a boomer.
Brett
I said boomers in general, Us boomers. No, no, no, no. Don't you start that. Either way, I can't figure it out. Or Gen X, and it makes me miss the old light bulb.
Dick Toledo
The survey also found that a lot of gen zers don't know how to do basic car maintenance. Even cleaning it, you're saying? Or hanging picture frames. Some didn't recognize common tools like a wrench.
Brett
Cleaning your car. You're just being lazy. You can figure out how to clean your car.
Dick Toledo
You can troubleshoot that.
Brett
Now, maybe you can't go over to the car wash and figure out all the stuff. Maybe you're too stupid to understand how that works.
John Holberg
A hose bucket and a sponge.
Brett
That's right. You make everything so clear.
John Holberg
Jesus Christ.
Brett
How do I figure all these materials out?
Alex
I don't know if he's ever used it, but I gave Alex a set of tools for Christmas.
Brett
He sold those. Oh, yeah. Those are Gone on those. They're like. Those are hanging around.
John Holberg
Call Byron. He's probably gone.
Brett
I was gonna say they're at a.
John Holberg
Point and get them back.
Alex
What do I need?
Brett
Yeah, there's no way he kept tools laying around the house.
Dick Toledo
That kid, he must have been excited.
John Holberg
Oh, tools.
Brett
Oh, great. This is awesome. I can start doing handyman stuff around him. Bye. How much for the tools? Those were gone before the little adhesive from the sticky bow you had on them was even worn off.
Alex
I think he actually used them on his other car before it crapped out, so I'm sure that's why it crapped out.
Brett
Well, we both know where his tools are. Yeah, they're not anywhere in that apartment.
John Holberg
12Th street in Indian schools. Go to my money pond. You can pick up Alex's tools right.
Brett
Now for Alex's tools. Sure. He's got a whole room of them. And then went to Brady's. Credit. Another knock on the door where it's common now to hear, I'm here for Alex's tool. I go, what's up? Sup rinse, too.
Dick Toledo
WalletHub did the survey of the best and worst states to raise a family. You kind of mentioned it a little bit this morning about where we finished. Arizona.
Brett
Worst. Yep. Worst LA by far.
Dick Toledo
Yep. 41st.
Brett
Still pretty bad.
Alex
That's not great. No, that's the lower, lowest, fifth.
Brett
Yeah. Oh, no. We're in bad shape. And it's then the arrows pointing down everybody who's in town from elsewhere. Place ain't so good.
Dick Toledo
Number one was Massachusetts, then Minnesota, then North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maine, Connecticut. That's the top 10.
John Holberg
And most of those suck.
Dick Toledo
But as far as Arizona, we were 48th in education, the highest rank that we got in the. Where was it? There? It was ranked 10 in family fun rank.
Brett
Oh, you know, fun with your family around here. Hiking and swimming, I guess. No, Scott, my light guy already got me back. He goes, hey, do you need me to put you on the schedule to come screw in your light bulbs? No, Scott, that's not what I was talking about. The screwy ones I can still do.
John Holberg
You're just gonna use their phone light instead.
Brett
That's what I. Well, I have on the back patio.
Alex
There's those tape lights everywhere.
Brett
No, no, on the back patio. The. The lights. The sconces have LED lights in them. Well, no, they're not bulbs. I don't know what these things are. They're dots. And so I walk by, and it's a glass case, and they look like an old school, but there's no bulb in it. And then I noticed that one of them is dim. And I went over and I'm like, well, I'll figure this out.
Alex
A bunch of them in this.
Brett
No, no, like the light itself. Like on the. Like, you know around your garage when you have two lights. Okay, one of them is dim.
Alex
Oh, one of them.
Brett
So I went over and I'm like, I'll just change that. And I looked in there and I'm like, I've never seen anything as difficult and confusing. I just put my head under it. I'm like, that's where spiders live now. I'm not going in there. So. So, yes, in a few weeks, Scott, I'm going to need you to come by and help me out with those. But not the screwy light bulbs. I can do that.
Dick Toledo
Got a couple of quick radio videos.
John Holberg
You have one. The other one didn't come through.
Alex
The other one didn't come through. Oh, which one do you have?
John Holberg
The Instagram one.
Brett
Do you know what that is?
Dick Toledo
The dude at the riot basically kicking the.
Brett
Oh, we got somebody rioting on a bus. Oh, he's just. Oh, he goes crazy and just start. Oh, he's beating up a bus.
Alex
Oh, water can.
Brett
Oh, there's water. What country is this? Come on, hit me. What country is this in? Oh, and they hit him with a hose.
John Holberg
Oh, nice.
Brett
Well, they're hosing people off now. That broad just saw it and said, yeah, that's enough rioting. What's he kicking? Just a. Like an armored truck.
Alex
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the riot truck.
Brett
Is this in the States?
John Holberg
Yes, LA people. This was in downtown Phoenix yesterday. This happens daily.
Brett
This was at the. What used to be called Patriots Square, but unfortunately it's gotten so far this happens daily here. So all you LA people are here.
Dick Toledo
Big debate. You can't use. Right? Water.
Brett
Yeah.
John Holberg
Oh, yeah.
Brett
And then did you see how much water we wasted? Los Angelenos. Oh, this place is a. It's a tragedy.
John Holberg
I wouldn't do it.
Brett
You need to go home. Look at all that water that you guys could have used on fires that we're just hosing people off with. Yeah.
John Holberg
The other one was unavailable.
Dick Toledo
Now, we had a Guinness World Record. 468People in West Palm Beach, Florida, dressed up as dinosaurs on Friday to break the Guinness World Record. Previous record was 252. They did it during those inflatable, like, velociraptor T. Rex deals. They did it.
Brett
Good for them.
John Holberg
Don't put a record out for anything.
Brett
What a valuable use of time. Visit Homeburg's morning sickness online@98kupd.com Holmberg's Morning Sickness. Somebody said, I heard that Alex got Toledo's tools. They were handed down from Toledo's father. The metal toolbox was full of heavy duty tools and tied to Toledo's ankles as a baby when he threw him in the lake. It's a family tradition to pass those tools down. One thing my dad didn't want me to not have was tools. Even in the afterlife when he threw me in that water tied to the box. You got his tools, but then your son sold them. All right, Brett, what do you got?
John Holberg
All right, we'll start with Crandall's videos. I don't know if this is real or what, but we'll play it anyway. You guys. You guys can decide.
Brett
Oh, somebody's chopping up their thigh over the toilet with. Oh, man. That is a very. I don't know.
John Holberg
Can't tell if.
Brett
Oh, it is. It's a forearm. It's the lower end. It looked like a leg hanging.
John Holberg
It looks real, but I don't know.
Brett
I think that's real because that forearm doesn't look healthy. Oh, my God. Just sliced themselves wide open from the mid. Like, from their elbow to mid arm towards the wrist with a razor. And I mean, look at. Yeah, their arms are all chopped up. The other arm is just scarred beyond belief. There's not a lot of blood there, which means they got that tied off somewhere we can't see. Oh, my God.
John Holberg
This one's entitled. Let me fix that for you.
Brett
Oh, it looks like a hot dog in a microwave split in half. At least they were decent enough to bleed over the toilet. Oh, this is somebody who's been in an accident. There's their leg.
Dick Toledo
There's more blood on this one.
Brett
There's the leg bone. That's a lot of it.
John Holberg
And he just threw his leg back under.
Brett
Right? You just move the leg back over.
John Holberg
And then it'll reattach.
Brett
Put a towel over the bone, more.
Dick Toledo
Or less for the street.
Brett
Sure, sure. That's Philippines. Medical unit came by and just tossed a towel over the exposed bone. I'm glad there's no sound with that, cuz I assume that's a lot of Filipino screaming.
John Holberg
How about this?
Brett
All right, this is a person who's. Is that a head? What is that?
John Holberg
Yeah, with a street sign.
Alex
What's in it?
John Holberg
Like a street sign pole or something.
Brett
Right through. And there's an eyeball. Okay, I see It. Now there's an ear. Okay. Thank you for that. Next. Good lord.
Dick Toledo
Who brought him in?
Brett
Did he walk in on his own? I have a couple minutes left. I think. You guys want to help out?
John Holberg
Sure isn't the way I ordered big girl down.
Brett
All right, there's a fat girl making out with a guy or raping him. I'm not sure he wants to be there. He looks normal sized. She's huge. Oh, here we go. Oh, the wall. She's leaning on brakes. Oh, she's got her top down. He was doing it with her behind that wall, and they broke the wall. And she. She is very large now.
John Holberg
You realize the walls, they can see me very naked.
Brett
The world can see. And now the most embarrassed person in this video is the skinny guy just got caught banging a giant. Her getting up skills are weak. Man, look at that. Belly off. Does she have a hiatal hernia? Am I seeing that right? I think her belly button's sticking out.
John Holberg
A good fence going down.
Brett
Is that a wooden. That's a permanent fence. That's not a temp fence.
Dick Toledo
What happened is he.
Brett
She leans into that fence. She went. She went. One leg. He tried. He tried to get cute and lift a leg. His pants came down. He's like, I'm gonna go in this thing. And she's not strong enough to balance that incredible titanic tummy on one leg. She's going over. Good lord.
John Holberg
Yeah, I'll just let this video speak for itself.
Brett
You can't bang fat girls standing up. What's wrong? All right. Brett's right. You can't bang fat girls anyway. What's the matter with you? Especially outside fences that don't have at least 3 foot footer. You gotta have a. You gotta look down and see the post that the fence is in and make sure that there's a circle of cement in the bottom. That's in the earth.
Dick Toledo
She was a bridesmaid. That was a little break from the party. Back to the party.
John Holberg
Yeah.
Brett
All right.
John Holberg
And this one, I'll just let it speak for itself.
Brett
All right. You want that in your mouth? Oh, my God. It's some sort of weird giant vagina. That's. Oh, that thing's. She can make it talk. That thing hanging down a good two inches. She spent. She spent a ton of money on her breast implants and not. And her tattoos and her lips and.
Dick Toledo
Then that crab claw and then.
Brett
Yeah, that.
Dick Toledo
What is that?
Brett
It looks like an old pinata. Should have been attached to most of that. That is the most. Hanging us down. Thing I've ever seen that. Want it?
John Holberg
Want it?
Brett
No, I want it to go away. Want it. I wouldn't even know where to start that.
Dick Toledo
Yikes.
Brett
She keeps making it flap its gu. It looks like you want that in your mouth. It looks like Mick Jagger's trying to escape after he lost all his teeth. Oh. When it opens up, it's Homer Simpson's mouth.
John Holberg
She can control it, too.
Brett
That's, you know, if you turn it down. And when it opens, if you do the thing she's going to do. Yeah. She can kind of control it, right?
John Holberg
Yeah.
Brett
And she does a sexy dance. She's kept herself in shape for the most part. She's not great looking.
John Holberg
That thing's a real Jim Henson Hernandez.
Brett
Yeah, but when it opens up. Geez, it should just.
Dick Toledo
I can't believe she.
Brett
Every time it opens. Every time it opens up, you should go. She's moving around in front of the camera. Every time she does. When it's open. I'm gonna make a noise here in a second. When it opens, Bart, because it looks just like Elmer's mouth. Jump.
Alex
It's like it's gasping for air.
Brett
Hello, Flanders.
Alex
Wow.
John Holberg
And we're in there.
Alex
That's gotta be some kind of record.
Brett
All right. That or the fat girl who broke the fence.
Alex
Oh, that.
Dick Toledo
That.
Brett
No kidding. Yes, you're right.
Alex
Why?
Brett
Because you didn't know until you saw it that it was bad. At least you could find it with the fat girl. You knew from jump that it wasn't gonna look good.
Dick Toledo
At least you could find better chance she'll stay upright.
Brett
You can do more stuff with her. And plus, afterwards, you can grab that thing and just go. Look, Bart, there's two things. Like a woman.
Alex
John, after watching that video, which I haven't seen, obviously through the radio, is it easier to understand why a guy would put his in a nose?
Brett
Yeah, no, that's true.
Alex
In a nostril of a horse.
John Holberg
Yep.
Brett
Go. I just want to open it and close it. I want to draw a little Homer eyes on it.
Alex
Oh, send it to Jose.
Brett
Stupid Flanders. I would make her vagina say stupid Flanders all the time.
John Holberg
AI.
Brett
Stupid Flanders.
Brady
Stop making my vagina sound like Homer.
Brett
Stop making it look like Homer.
Alex
Go back to Buffalo.
Brady
I'm gonna take this giant thing back to Buffalo.
Brett
Stop.
Brady
Don't do that.
Brett
Marge. It was Homer's mouth. When she was asleep, I'd put big dentures in it, like huge teeth.
Dick Toledo
Or was that a dude?
Brett
Is there anything a donut can't do? No, that wasn't a dude, Brady. You should know the difference by now. That was a protruding vagina. Those exist. That's a real thing.
Alex
And you can't.
Brett
That's.
Dick Toledo
You're 20, 25.
Alex
You gotta stop saying that's not real.
Brett
Yeah, it's real, man. You should know by now.
Alex
It's all too real.
Brett
Yeah, it's all too. You want that to be something spectacularly weird. That's just a lady who's got a problem with her. Her grab bag. I would make it do all sorts of fun stuff.
Dick Toledo
Scooby.
Brett
Yeah. That would make him have everything. Ooh, chocolate. Half off. There you go, everybody. That is your Brady report with that thing at the end. It's 98. It's out of control.
Dick Toledo
Come on.
Brett
Can you PD.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Episode: January 14, 2025 Host: John Holmberg with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo Release Date: January 14, 2025
John Holmberg kicks off the episode by promoting the local comedy scene in Arizona. He provides detailed information about upcoming shows at various venues:
Holmberg encourages listeners to purchase tickets through the respective websites: standuplive.com, desertridgeimprov.com, and tempeimprov.com.
A significant portion of the episode revolves around a listener named Jefferson Spagnolo sharing his experiences with a girl from Buffalo (initially mentioned as New Hampshire) who moved to Arizona and eventually decided to move back. The conversation is lively and filled with humorous banter:
Jefferson's Tale: Jefferson narrates how the girl consistently complained about Arizona, leading to tensions at work and ultimately her decision to return to Buffalo. Brett humorously advises, “Never hire anyone who hasn't lived here for at least three years” (05:03).
Group Banter: The team, including Brady, Dick Toledo, and Alex, engage in a back-and-forth discussion, mocking the girl's inability to adapt and her constant reminiscence about Buffalo. Brady remarks, “This is different than Buffalo, right?” (03:12), to which Brett retorts, “She was cute, actually. She got Arizona clean and then moved back to Buffalo” (04:08).
Humorous Exaggerations: The hosts exaggerate the girl's issues with Arizona, portraying her as someone who never adjusted and ultimately moved back in frustration. Brett quips, “If I heard another word about Buffalo, when” (04:45), emphasizing the recurring theme of her dissatisfaction.
Notable Quote:
Brett (05:40): “Never hire anyone who hasn't lived here for at least three years. You gotta remember that whatever grand television show they watched that led them here is a mirage.”
The discussion transitions to the etymology of the terms "highbrow" and "lowbrow," tracing their origins to phrenology—a now-discredited field that purported to measure intelligence based on skull shape.
Phrenology Insights: Dick Toledo shares, “The words highbrow and lowbrow came from phrenology, which is an old pseudoscience that measured people's intelligence by the shape of their head” (07:02).
Modern Implications: The hosts debate the relevance of these terms today, with Brett sarcastically stating, “People with low eyebrows are dumb” (07:15), highlighting how superficial judgments persist.
Humorous Takes: The conversation includes jokes about exaggerated physical features related to these terms, such as “protruding mandibles” and “Neanderthal eyes,” further underscoring the outdated nature of phrenology-based stereotypes.
Notable Quote:
Dick Toledo (07:02): “The words highbrow and lowbrow came from phrenology, which is an old pseudoscience that measured people's intelligence by the shape of their head.”
A survey discussed reveals that Generation Z exhibits a significant reluctance to engage in basic home maintenance tasks.
Survey Findings: Dick Toledo reports, “One in five people between the ages of 18 and 27 claimed they couldn't change a light bulb and would just hire someone else to do it, especially if it was a ceiling light” (12:53).
Economic Impact: The survey indicates that Gen Z spends over $1,500 annually on hiring professionals for tasks that previous generations handled themselves, a stark contrast to Boomers' self-sufficiency.
Hosts' Reactions: Brett and Alex express disbelief and frustration over the reliance on professionals for simple tasks, with Brett humorously sharing his own struggles with LED patio lights (13:18).
Notable Quote:
Dick Toledo (12:53): “The survey found that Gen Zers are spending more than $1,500 a year on average, calling in pros to do basic jobs that they could probably do themselves. That's five times what Boomers spend on stuff like that.”
The hosts delve into a discussion about the WalletHub's survey on the best and worst states to raise a family, highlighting Arizona's unfavorable ranking.
Arizona’s Ranking: Arizona is highlighted as one of the worst states, securing the 48th position in education but ranking 10th in family fun (16:22). This juxtaposition sparks debate among the hosts.
Top Performing States: The top ten states include Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maine, and Connecticut, though the hosts humorously dismiss some of these as less desirable places.
Impact on Residents: Brett laments, “We're in bad shape” (16:32), emphasizing the challenges families face in Arizona compared to other states.
Notable Quote:
Dick Toledo (16:27): “Number one was Massachusetts, then Minnesota, then North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maine, Connecticut. That's the top 10.”
In the latter part of the episode, the hosts review listener-submitted videos featuring graphic and bizarre content.
Violent and Graphic Content: Brett and John Holmberg react to videos depicting severe self-injury and chaotic scenarios. For instance, a video shows someone injuring themselves over a toilet, prompting Brett to exclaim, “Oh, my God. Just sliced themselves wide open from the mid” (21:01).
Humorous Critique: Despite the graphic nature, the hosts maintain their comedic tone, providing over-the-top and humorous commentary on the absurdity of the situations.
Viral Incidents: Another video reviewed features rioting in downtown Phoenix, where a participant is hosed down, leading Brett to mock the excessive use of water: “Look at all that water that you guys could have used on fires that we're just hosing people off with” (19:39).
Notable Quote:
Brett (21:02): “It looks like a hot dog in a microwave split in half. At least they were decent enough to bleed over the toilet.”
As the episode wraps up, the hosts continue their humorous discussions, touching upon topics like the latest TV shows and societal changes. Brett expresses nostalgia for the days when TV provided common ground for conversations, lamenting the current lack of shared experiences among peers.
Brett states, “We don’t have commonalities anymore. TV did this. The effect” (11:27), highlighting concerns about societal disconnects in the digital age.
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness offers a blend of humor, social commentary, and interactive segments that engage listeners through relatable topics and comedic insights. From local comedy promotions to in-depth discussions on generational differences and societal trends, the hosts deliver an entertaining and thought-provoking morning show experience.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps:
Brett (05:40): “Never hire anyone who hasn't lived here for at least three years. You gotta remember that whatever grand television show they watched that led them here is a mirage.”
Dick Toledo (07:02): “The words highbrow and lowbrow came from phrenology, which is an old pseudoscience that measured people's intelligence by the shape of their head.”
Dick Toledo (12:53): “The survey found that Gen Zers are spending more than $1,500 a year on average, calling in pros to do basic jobs that they could probably do themselves. That's five times what Boomers spend on stuff like that.”
Dick Toledo (16:27): “Number one was Massachusetts, then Minnesota, then North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maine, Connecticut. That's the top 10.”
Brett (21:02): “It looks like a hot dog in a microwave split in half. At least they were decent enough to bleed over the toilet.”
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