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Brett Vesely
You're listening to the HMS podcast brought to you by MMP Guns.com, your most trusted online marketplace for firearms, ammunition and accessories. Hey, it's Brett Vesely and I'm here with Byron from MMP Guns. Look, Byron, I have a friend wanting to sell some guns he inherited. What's the best way for him to do that?
Byron
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Brett Vesely
Okay, but what if he lives out of state?
Byron
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Brett Vesely
There you have it. MMP Guns or legalgunbuyer.com the safe and legal way to sell your firearms.
Brady
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Larry
You thought that was funny? You were laughing like a hyena when he said it.
Brady
98 what the hell is wrong with you?
Larry
98 KUPD. It's Arizona's real rock and a Perfect circle. And it's Brady's Morning cup today. Actually just brought up to Bretzky over there. Do you remember when we had a Perfect Circle play over at Club Rio?
Brett Vesely
I didn't go to it, but I remember us doing that show.
Larry
That was an interesting one, man. Quite the place to, you know, outside to have a big show like that with a band. Like a Perfect Circle.
Brett Vesely
Remember they were supposed to have Rammstein there and they had to cancel the show because the stage couldn't hold all the right. Because we were. We were gonna go and we got the word last minute.
Larry
That's right. Wow.
Brett Vesely
Bennigan. Yeah.
Larry
Remember when? This is the remember when conversation. And as they say on the Sopranos, remember when is the worst form of conversation.
Brett Vesely
Oh yeah, 100%.
Larry
Maybe we should be having this conversation
Brady
I think they finally scraped that building. Yeah, It's Bennigan's.
Larry
Oh, yeah. It's super gone now. I remember the day, though. They had that great turkey sandwich. Turkey o', toole, I believe it was. It was on. It was on a pretzel. Pretzel roll. Pretzel bunny.
Brady
Mmm.
Larry
Rachel bun. Delicious. We got to do a Brady report, right? Yep. Don't we have to do a Brady report? Brady report is brought to you by all pro shade concepts and Brady. Tell me about all pro shade Concepts, because you got all those shades run.
Brady
I do. I have a screen and motorized awning.
Larry
Yeah.
Brady
25 footer in my house in it. Like I said in the commercial, it added about 200 square feet of extra shade to my back patio.
Larry
Yeah.
Brady
Game changer, Larry.
Larry
So during the summer, everything's nice and cool.
Brady
20 degrees cooler.
Larry
Really?
Brady
They say. Yeah. When they. When you hear that in the commercial and you actually experience it is a lot cooler. The biggest thing is with that heat throughout the day, your patio just heats up. Right now that doesn't. Because the sun's, you know. Yeah.
Larry
Baking away.
Brady
A lot of times that heat gets reflected inside of your house, too.
Larry
Sure.
Brady
It blocks a lot of that.
Larry
I should do something like that. I guess I should go with all pro Shade.
Brady
I'm glad I did. Yeah. All prochet.com.
Larry
beautiful. You gotta love it. I guess it's time Brady reported.
Brady
Good Monday morning to you, Phoenix.
Larry
Hello, world. Hello.
Brady
Happy National Tootsie Roll Day, Larry. That's right.
Larry
You got it in the honey pot there.
Brady
And National Banana Bread Day.
Larry
Oh, I like a good banana bread.
Brady
Me too.
Brett Vesely
Give me one of them Tootsie Rolls while we're here.
Brady
Yeah.
Larry
You know what?
Brett Vesely
Pass me a Tootsie Roll.
Larry
Pass me a Tootsie Roll, too.
Brett Vesely
Well, Brady's reading. I can lose a crown.
Larry
I'll take one.
Brady
A couple of baseless fun facts. Thank you. The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life. Oh. Wayne Alwine and Russy Taylor were married for 18 years until Wayne's death in 2009.
Brett Vesely
Oh.
Dick Toledo
Rusty Taylor.
Brady
Then Russie passed away in 2019. Gotta go. The only animal with just one ear is a praying mantis. And me. Where's.
Brett Vesely
I was just gonna say that.
Dick Toledo
Why's his ear in the middle of his head?
Brady
That I don't know.
Brett Vesely
His one ear.
Larry
You missed it last week. Brett wasn't enough. Dick Toledo sneezed in the other room and I said, bless you. Brady looked at me. Thanks. Because he didn't hear the sneeze didn't hear Rich sneeze in the other room. He just thought I was just blessed. Loudly blessing him.
Dick Toledo
I told him about you asking him. Hey, so what's different about your hearing?
Larry
What?
Brady
Wait, what's that?
Brett Vesely
Never mind.
Brady
One of the first legal slave owners in America was Anthony Johnson, a black man in the 1600s. He'd been captured in Angola and brought to the colonies as an indentured servant. Then he earned his freedom and started a tobacco farm.
Larry
Wow, quite the biz.
Brady
We got quite the controversy going on here in Arizona.
Larry
Say something, Brett. No, no, no.
Brett Vesely
I was just gonna ask what kind of cigarettes he was making.
Brady
Cool.
Brett Vesely
I was gonna say they're parliaments.
Brady
Jeez. We got a controversy going on in the lottery here, Arizona.
Larry
Oh, do we? Yeah.
Brady
No Cape In. Let's see. It was Scottsdale Road, 56th street on Bell and 56th street in Scottsdale.
Larry
Okay, I gotta get straight, because I
Brady
knew it was In Scottsdale.
Larry
Scottsdale, 56th Street.
Brady
Bell on. At the Circle K there last November, customer walks in and orders $85 worth of tickets. 85 tickets. Pays for 60 of them. 25 of those tickets are unsold. Stayed in the store. The manager.
Larry
So, wait, so he ordered 85?
Brady
Yep.
Larry
He said, I would like 85 of these.
Brady
I can only say.
Larry
Wait, I can only pay for 60.
Brady
Ye.
Brett Vesely
Go to the goddamn ATM.
Larry
What's the problem? So he pays for 60 of them, then they're left over. They're just.
Brady
They're left over. They're sitting there. Lottery is drawn that night, and One of those 25 tickets match the six numbers. 12.8 million. Wow. So the manager of the store comes back in the next day. I'm rich.
Larry
It's mine.
Comedy Announcer
I'm rich.
Brady
He put in that 25 bucks, takes off his. Finishes his shift, takes off his uniform, comes back and buys the other remaining tickets for.
Larry
Can you do that?
Brady
Ten bucks? Hell, yeah.
Larry
Can you? Is that where they were now?
Brady
It's being decided by the Maricopa county courts. Because Circle K is saying those are unsold tickets. That's. You know. Is it our money? Is it? Did Gal Litzka do a riot?
Dick Toledo
If it goes to Circle K?
Brett Vesely
Oh, yeah. He paid for him.
Brady
Right. Knowing, though. But. Well, is that illegal? Knowing that he knew that was the winning ticket, One of the. The numbers that he.
Brett Vesely
If he paid for all the tickets, he should be good. If he only bought the one, then
Brady
he bought the one.
Dick Toledo
I got a winning tick. Isn't the argument then that if you work at a Circle K, just print out a bunch of extra tickets, right? Check the next day. If any of them win.
Larry
I mean, you could buy it.
Brett Vesely
Well, you could.
Brady
Yeah.
Larry
That is a good argument.
Brady
So they're gonna decide.
Larry
12.8 million. Peace out. Circle K. What would you do with 12.8 million, Brad? What?
Brett Vesely
He just said you guys wouldn't know because you'd never hear from me again.
Brady
You just hear Ricochet.
Brett Vesely
I'll send you an email. Yeah.
Brady
Microsoft Teams is rolling out a new feature in March that can automatically reveal your work location. When you connect to the company's WI fi, it'll your organization can see where you're working from in real time.
Dick Toledo
VPNs all I've heard about.
Larry
Just use a VPN.
Brett Vesely
So you get your porn nowadays?
Larry
Damn straight.
Dick Toledo
That's how you get your porn in this building.
Brett Vesely
In this state now, too?
Brady
Yeah, pretty much.
Larry
Yeah.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
Brady
It's the end of an error for Mr.
Larry
Although I gotta say, hold on there about the porn. I gotta say, another workaround. And maybe I'm late to the game on all of this, but I've noticed that a lot of porn. A lot of porn is on Reddit.
Brett Vesely
Oh, yeah? Yeah. A lot of listeners. I don't need a vpn. I just go to Reddit. Yeah, just Google what you want and type.
Larry
Yeah, there's a lot on there.
Dick Toledo
Good.
Brady
Did not know that.
Larry
I do that.
Brett Vesely
Get on it.
Larry
Yeah. I felt like I was kind of late to the game on that, but been noticing it lately. Been noticing it lately. Yeah.
Brady
Mr. Clean is retiring. He announced it. It's official. After 68 years. Since 1958.
Larry
Yeah.
Brady
It doesn't sound like he'll be replaced, but Procter and Gamble says there won't be any significant branding or product changes. Mr. Clean is just retiring on March 4th.
Brett Vesely
So he's still going to be on the bottles, right?
Brady
We'll see. This is, you know, like PR stunt of some sort.
Brett Vesely
Those wacky cleaning companies. I tell you what, you're gonna put.
Brady
I don't know if you remember the stunt that. When planters killed off Mr. Peanut.
Brett Vesely
I don't remember that.
Larry
I remember that either.
Brett Vesely
Apparently the apparently came back.
Brady
It didn't.
Larry
Are they gonna put John holmberg on the Mr. Clean bottle? He could do it. He looks like Mr. Clean sometimes.
Brett Vesely
Apparently Twitter Slash X is loaded with porn, so just so you know.
Larry
Oh, yeah.
Brady
Yes.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
Larry
See, I'm late to the game on that.
Dick Toledo
Browsers on Twitter.
Brady
Yeah.
Brett Vesely
Okay.
Brady
This war going on between Russia and the Ukraine could take a real big turn here because over the weekend a Russian missile took out an Oreo factory in the Ukraine.
Larry
Oh, that's bad.
Brady
Yeah.
Larry
Baked Oreos.
Dick Toledo
Baked Oreos.
Larry
I get it. Thank you.
Brady
In the city of Chongqing in China.
Brett Vesely
Close enough.
Brady
Morning sickness medicate.
Dick Toledo
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Brady
Fishertools.com Holmberg's Morning Sickness they just rolled out a new escalator. It's a half mile long.
Larry
Wow.
Brady
This city's built kind of on a hill. So this thing extends. It's got eight elevators on it and then stretches of the rest of the escalator. So you have to drop the level to get back on the escalator.
Larry
Oh geez.
Brady
And right now you can ride it for basically 4 cents. There's a little fee to ride the
Larry
escalator to Ride the escalator.
Brady
Yeah, I think they'll walk the stairs. Yeah. Or walk the stairs, which is.
Larry
Wow.
Brady
I mean, if you see a picture
Larry
of it, it's found a way to make some money. Oh my God. Wow. It's like a roller coaster. Oh, yeah, look at that.
Brett Vesely
I don't need to go anywhere that bad. Screw that.
Brady
Yeah, but you'd write it for. For a nickel for 4 cents.
Larry
Yeah, yeah, I would ride that. I'd ride that for a dollar for 4 cents.
Brady
There's a 58 year old elementary school teacher in Wisconsin named Laurie Lobenstein. She was arrested after being accused of using cocaine at school. So made an anonymous tip about her after they noticed changes in Lori's behavior. Specifically, she frequently went to the bathroom with her purse. Left behind bloody tissues with a white powder.
Brett Vesely
Ooh.
Brady
The principal shrugged it off at first, maybe because it's probably unbelievable.
Larry
Yeah.
Brady
But school resource. Resource officer took the powder to the authorities. Tested positive for cocaine. Police say she admitted to using cocaine since August and that she's done the lines in the classroom and teachers lounge bathrooms. But she insisted that she would never put her students in danger.
Larry
When I was in.
Dick Toledo
That ship is sailed with those kids.
Brett Vesely
I do more than coke.
Larry
When I was in grade school over there at Madison Meadows in Phoenix, I had brought, and I don't remember why I brought it, but I brought a bag of cake mix to school.
Brady
Look like Kilo the blonde or the white. Whatever.
Larry
Yeah, whatever. The white cake mix was yellow. Somebody told on me. They came to my locker, opened it up, tested it, Tested it. They. Yeah, I mean, you know how much cocaine that would have to be? That's pure, I mean, that kind of a bag.
Dick Toledo
Just how the value of it.
Brady
Right? Yeah. That's like a Kilo.
Larry
Are you kidding me? Like a kid, A tiny, you know, with that much cocaine. Give me a break.
Brady
I don't know if you've heard about,
Larry
but the question is, why did I bring cake powder to school? What.
Dick Toledo
What grade again?
Larry
It must have been like seventh, I think. I was in a home EC class and that was the whole thing. I brought it for home.
Dick Toledo
That makes sense.
Brady
Did you take it out of the box? It's just the package only.
Larry
Yes. Yeah, it was clear bag. The clear bag, yeah.
Brett Vesely
Should have put some all over your nose like Scarface style.
Larry
What's up?
Brady
Let's go. Yah. Yo.
Larry
And like the, the testing, the testing that you see in movies, you know, the typical testing is. Yeah. You always like taking your, your pinky finger and you rub it against your teeth there.
Brady
Yeah.
Larry
And then you rub it on your tongue. Nope, that's cake batter.
Brady
I'd normally do A Wild World for this story, but. No, you're not gonna probably have the music.
Larry
I don't have it ready.
Dick Toledo
It doesn't.
Brady
We'll.
Dick Toledo
We'll prepare for that.
Brady
This is a heartwarming story about Punch the monkey. He's a macaque monkey.
Larry
Oh, boy.
Brady
And here's the joke. Ichikawa.
Dick Toledo
He knows.
Brett Vesely
I know.
Brady
City zoo in Japan. He's gone super viral over the past week for dragging a stuffed orangutan around his enclosure. Viral monkey. The zoo's website said Punch was abandoned by his mother at birth and was raised by the zoo staff. The stuffed animal was given to Punch to help him cope with the loneliness.
Larry
Go ahead.
Brady
There's all these videos where Punch appears to try to interact with other baby monkeys. And the older ones, possibly the other baby's mother, grapples with Punch.
Brett Vesely
Where's Punches down.
Brady
Chase them away. Maybe because she thought her baby was annoyed by Punch. So observers got emotional over the weekend. They said the good thing. It's good seeing Punch with the monkey and learning to cope, being alone and not having a mother.
Larry
Yeah.
Brady
Right. Now, the guy that donated Ikea donated the doll to Punch. It's called a jungle scene.
Larry
No, Bring it up.
Brett Vesely
Oh.
Brady
Which is available for 20 bucks in the stores that you can get on the IKEA website. There it is. There's Punch with monkey.
Larry
Punch the monkey.
Brady
Last week, the president of IKEA visited the zoo and donated a bundle of stuffed animals for the. For Punch and other animals at the facility.
Larry
Lovely. Just lovely. How's it going?
Brady
Punch is making progress. As you said.
Brett Vesely
Single moms raising kids.
Dick Toledo
You know, we lost bread a little bit ago.
Brady
Louisiana's Department of Transportation is being mocked online for an ad telling people they're not allowed to poop on the city buses.
Larry
Oh, no.
Brady
The city immediately.
Larry
You really. You really got to say that to people?
Brady
Yeah.
Larry
Really gotta tell people because a lot
Brady
of people are pooping on the bus.
Larry
You can't poop on the bus.
Brady
Yeah.
Larry
Doesn't work like that here.
Brady
So they pulled it down good. Got the word out. Wow.
Larry
Is that it?
Brady
That's it. Lare.
Larry
Oh, my God.
Brett Vesely
Where's your videos?
Brady
You have any videos? I don't have any.
Brett Vesely
You do.
Larry
Yeah, of course.
Dick Toledo
Buckle up, Larry.
Larry
I'm scared.
Brett Vesely
Now.
Dick Toledo
You've seen a couple of them, but now you get.
Larry
Do I just pop this back up again? Oh, boy.
Brett Vesely
These aren't too bad. These Are. These are a little mild, but we'll be.
Larry
What do you got for us, Brett?
Brett Vesely
There's a guy jumping off a high dive.
Brady
Homemade cybertruck.
Larry
Oh, yeah.
Brady
Hyper extension.
Larry
I think that's a break also.
Brett Vesely
Oh, one more time.
Larry
No, thank you.
Dick Toledo
And he's stuck there.
Brett Vesely
Oh, yeah. All right, there's some wrestling action for you.
Larry
What is this?
Brady
Little lap dance.
Larry
Is something bad gonna happen?
Brett Vesely
No, not too bad.
Larry
Is that a woman? Somebody driving from the back, jumps up behind him and slams him from the back in the middle of the little dance tease.
Brett Vesely
This one's for John. You're gonna. You're gonna have to. You're gonna have to do the play by play on this.
Larry
I don't know. You can watch.
Brett Vesely
This is for John.
Larry
So she's doing an eye wash. She's.
Brett Vesely
You're an eye wash, by the way. No. Oh, no, no, no.
Larry
So this woman is pouring a cup full of what looks like double.
Brady
Double shots for the eye.
Larry
Is there any audio to this?
Brady
A shot glass? Some of these don't.
Larry
Okay.
Brady
And so she's got the shots looking into the urine.
Larry
And what does that do? What is the benefit of that? Dry your eyes lightly, palming gently, place your hands over your eyes and rub the urine into your eyeballs. Fun.
Brady
Now they look completely bloodshot.
Brett Vesely
Look at how great they look now.
Larry
Yep.
Brett Vesely
Clears up the red for more detail details. And we'll just finish this off to the hospital.
Brady
Does that help with the phones?
Larry
I don't need to play by play.
Brady
She's backing up into a giant gong.
Larry
Come on. Come on, Brett. You know you can find that on Reddit.
Brady
I'm sure.
Larry
Just letting you know. Geez Louise, you guys get away with this crap.
Brett Vesely
Let's get a play by play. Larry, you're filling in. Let's do this.
Larry
I mean, she's being filled in. Is going on. That's the play by play. Sound off again. It's off.
Brady
Yes. Why?
Larry
Because that's the best part, I'm afraid. There's something.
Brett Vesely
Let's play this again.
Larry
What are you gonna be screamed here?
Brett Vesely
Wrecking it. There we go.
Larry
No. Wow.
Brady
All right.
Brett Vesely
Wait for the pull out, then I now turn the sound on.
Brady
Yeah, I'm better than this.
Larry
All right, we'll finish with that.
Brett Vesely
This is. Jesus.
Larry
All finished.
Brett Vesely
Yeah, we're done. She was too.
Brady
Yep.
Larry
Apparently. That's your Brady report.
Dick Toledo
Guadalupe replay coming up.
Larry
Guadalupe replay coming up. Tune in for that. I don't know why you would. After just. Yeah, after that. It's Brady's morning cup. Here on 98K UPD, Arizona's most powerful,
Brady
powerful rock radio station.
Comedy Announcer
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Brady
Com.
Date: February 23, 2026
Host & Cast: John Holmberg (absent this segment), Brady Bogen, Larry, Brett Vesely, Dick Toledo
Theme: News, odd Arizona stories, and “remember when” banter, featuring the Brady Report and Larry’s infamous cake mix story
In this classic “Brady Report” segment of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, the crew delivers their signature mix of Arizona news, peculiar fun facts, and irreverent banter. Larry steps in for John Holmberg, and the team discusses everything from local lottery controversy to classic snack foods and viral animal tales. Larry also shares his unforgettable story about being accused of cocaine possession in his school days because of a bag of cake mix. Their playful, snarky tone, spontaneous humor, and the recurring “what’s wrong with you?” motif are felt throughout.
[14:37–16:19]
This episode is packed with the Morning Sickness’ signature sarcastic, irreverent, and offbeat comedy. Banter flows easily between actual news items, oddball facts, local color, and goofy, personal misadventures. The environment is relaxed and collegial, perfect for regular listeners and easily accessible for newcomers.
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