02-24-25 - Police Activity On West Side - Elon Sends Email To Govt Employees To Explain What They Do And We Say Do What Your Bosses Ask - Trump Wants To Create Statue For Muhammad Ali

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona: Episode Summary (February 24, 2025)

Host and Contributors:

• John Holmberg
• Brady Bogen
• Bret Vesely
• Dick Toledo

Release Date: February 24, 2025

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1. Police Activity on West Side

The episode opens with a deep dive into escalating police activities on Phoenix's West Side, particularly around 27th Avenue and Thomas. Hosts Brady Bogen and Bret Vesely express concern over a surge in violent incidents, including shootings and stabbings, which have led to partial road closures and increased police presence.

Key Points:

• Recent Incident: A murder near a West Phoenix gas station on February 21st sparked immediate investigations and roadblock measures (06:58).
• Media Coverage Critique: The hosts criticize local media for vague reporting. Brady states, “If you're struggling with traffic in that area, it's not because somebody rescued a baby or there was a cash giveaway that went well. It's a shooting or a stabbing” (06:58).
• Community Impact: An uptick in homeless camps near the affected areas exacerbates tensions and safety concerns. Tripp mentions, “There definitely seems to be an increase. I just saw... new homeless camp” (07:35).

Notable Quote:

• Brady Bogen (06:58): "If you're struggling with traffic in that area, it's not because somebody rescued a baby… it's a shooting or a stabbing."

2. Elon Musk's Email to Government Employees

The discussion shifts to Elon Musk's controversial email directed at government employees, mandating them to document their weekly accomplishments. The hosts express frustration over what they perceive as invasive and counterproductive measures.

Key Points:

• Directive Details: Musk's email requires employees to write a page detailing their weekly achievements, sparking backlash among workers.
• Host Reactions: Brady criticizes the policy as “proof your job is pointless… it's proof that you're expendable” (12:08), while Tripp highlights the unreasonable nature of the request.
• Impact on Morale: The hosts debate how such policies undermine employee trust and morale, leading to increased frustration and potential turnover.

Notable Quote:

• Brady Bogen (12:08): "It's proof your job is pointless… it's proof that you're expendable."

3. Donald Trump's Proposal to Create a Statue for Muhammad Ali

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to dissecting Donald Trump's proposal to erect a statue of Muhammad Ali, touching upon cultural and religious sensitivities, particularly within the Muslim community.

Key Points:

• Cultural Sensitivity: The hosts discuss how the Muslim community generally opposes the creation of statues, viewing it as idolatrous. Brady remarks, “You can't have a statue of Muhammad… you could never be a Kareem Abdul Jabbar, which is there” (31:40).
• Religious Implications: They explore the religious prohibitions against creating images, with Brady stating, “It's forbidden to make statues, whether the statue is of a Muslim or a disbeliever. Whoever does that is trying to match the creation of Allah” (31:38).
• Public Backlash: The potential backlash against Trump’s proposal is highlighted, with reflections on Muhammad Ali’s legacy and the inappropriateness of honoring him with a statue under current religious norms.

Notable Quote:

• Brady Bogen (31:38): "It's forbidden to make statues, whether the statue is of a Muslim or a disbeliever. Whoever does that is trying to match the creation of Allah."

4. Additional Discussions and Insights

Throughout the episode, the hosts interweave their main topics with humorous anecdotes and social commentary, maintaining an engaging and dynamic conversation.

Key Points:

• Workplace Dynamics: The hosts share personal stories about workplace frustrations, remote work challenges, and the absurdity of certain corporate policies.
• Personal Anecdotes: Brady recounts a tense interaction with a police officer friend, highlighting fears about neighborhood safety: “Bullets just fly around over there” (09:08).
• Cultural References: They reference Metallica’s “One” anniversary and discuss the evolution of Elvis’s fame juxtaposed with current events.

Notable Quote:

• Brady Bogen (09:08): "Bullets just fly around over there. I'm like, all right, I'll leave."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Brady Bogen (06:58): "If you're struggling with traffic in that area, it's not because somebody rescued a baby… it's a shooting or a stabbing."
• Brady Bogen (12:08): "It's proof your job is pointless… it's proof that you're expendable."
• Brady Bogen (31:38): "It's forbidden to make statues, whether the statue is of a Muslim or a disbeliever. Whoever does that is trying to match the creation of Allah."
• Brett (22:45): "What have you gotten done around here?"
• Brady Bogen (31:40): "You can't have a statue of Muhammad… you could never be a Kareem Abdul Jabbar, which is there."
• Brady Bogen (09:08): "Bullets just fly around over there."

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Conclusion

In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, the hosts deftly navigate through pressing local issues like the rise in criminal activities on Phoenix's West Side, critique corporate overreach exemplified by Elon Musk's management tactics, and satirize political moves such as Donald Trump's statue proposal. Through a mix of serious discussion and sharp humor, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Tripp offer listeners a compelling and entertaining analysis of current events, ensuring both engagement and insight for those tuning in or catching up afterward.

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For more detailed discussions and lively debates, tune into Holmberg's Morning Sickness weekdays from 5:30 AM to 10:00 AM on 98 KUPD or visit www.98kupd.com.

Transcript

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[Brady]

Morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. Thank you. Miles to nowhere Monday and waking up in this glorious town. I, you know, I've been doing my all nighters last night I fell into I did some yard work yesterday and the sun got me good. So I, I felt I was awakened by an alarm last night. It's only six times so far in all of 2025 when alarm has jarred me from a deep sleep to awake. But I'm still doing all right with my new schedule. But I look forward to waking up on days like this because you can do anything you want. You go outside yesterday I was sitting there watching TV and I have a back kind of garage door from my game room out into the backyard. And to the left of me was glorious outdoor everything. Beautiful day. It's by 4, 4:30 in the afternoon. It's perfect outside. And I'm sitting in a chair. And to the right of me is a television showing the suns to the left, glorious outdoor activity to the right. What am I doing with my life? Why do I do this to myself? And my friend Brian texts me. He goes, are you watching? I'm like, yeah, I don't like this is the we live in this amazing place. And I am plopped down on watching this garbage team lose to the Raptors. And, and he says, and I sent him a picture, I said of, you know, cause it was a good shot of outdoors. Look, look all that awaits me out here. And then here's the TV screen with the suns and rafters. And he said the right, he was perfect. He said, to your right is a movie that you're watching that you're not even enjoying, but maybe there's nudity to the left, the Internet. Like you're absolutely right. Why am I wasting my time waiting for a boob slip in a Movie I don't even care about and I've got the Internet.

[Brett]

Watch the skinimax.

[Brady]

Basically I was, I was, I was waiting. Dry humping when outdoors is free sex terrible. So watch that garbage team.

[Brett]

What is with them?

[Brady]

Life. And yesterday they're three minutes. I've texted Kevin Ray. He's now texting me regularly. We text during the broadcast which tip the cap to him because you would never know he's actually chatting with jackasses. Like man, I'm sure not. I'm not the only one. I know his son Zach does too. But I text him. I'm like man, you get paid for this. They were, they were within two points with three and a half minutes and lost by almost 20 because Toronto just decided to say eat enough and one team with heart. They're heartless. Absolutely zero desire.

[Brett]

No defense.

[Brady]

No defense. It's just tough.

[Brett]

Everybody wants to shoot three.

[Brady]

It's a brutal team. And again the statistic that will blow your mind. They are the second highest payroll in American sports. Number two. $408 million a year going out the door for the Sun's roster and they're not even going to make the playoffs. I mean and who has them?

[Tripp]

Dodgers.

[Brady]

I think The Dodgers are first. I mean that's, I mean football's got a 200 something million dollar cap so they'll never hit that four. Basketball, you're allowed to go to a certain level. You pay a luxury tax. Baseball is just free for all that.

[Brett]

The Yankees would be up there too.

[Brady]

But Yankees are probably up there. Not as high as the Suns. Think of that.

[Brett]

That blows me up.

[Brady]

Think of that. That the Suns are more than the Yankees or. I mean I don't know who's in first. I think it's the Dodgers.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[Brady]

But the Yankees are regardless Dodgers sons Yankees or Yankees Sons. Sons are still second.

[Brett]

There's more guys on the team in baseball too.

[Brady]

There's 13 players and one of them's making league minimum for sure of the 13. So I mean three guys, it's ridiculous. It's terrible. So take advantage of this glorious place we live and stop wasting your time on those Suns games. I'll go to the games here because it's still fun to drink a goof around at the Rah Rah Rahman. I don't think I've watched basketball. I actually gotten to where I hate this team. I'm angry at them for all the reasons of not because, you know, and I don't blame Matt Ishbia yet. The owner. Not yet. Cause how Is he to know that Kevin Durant is a Scottie Pippen, not a Michael Jordan? How's he to know that, Booker? He's got a team of Scottie Pippins. There's no Michael Jordan on this team. There's nobody on this team grabbing collars. And there's no Draymond Green screaming, hey, guys, it's this way or no way. He may not be the best player on the team, but they don't even have a leader. Everybody's afraid to yell, and they're, ah, they suck. Period. End of. End of story. He's trying to explain why a song is bad. It's just bad. Yeah, sometimes Michael Jackson wrote a crappy song. This is that. But, boy, I'll tell you, you look at it on paper, this team should be floating. They're not. I just got an email from a guy. So what the hell's going on over here on 27th Avenue in Thomas? And before I even saw. I just text. A shooting or a stabbing. I guarantee if you're struggling with traffic in that area, it's not because, you know, somebody rescued a baby or, you know, there was a cash giveaway that went really well. It's a shooting or a stabbing. And then get an alert just now, police. The investigation prompts partial road closure near West Phoenix gas station, where there was a murder on the 21st, which just five days ago. So maybe it's the QT on 27th and Thomas. Not to blame. QTs right there. Those are awesome. Yeah, love the cute, but right on the blade. But they've blocked a southbound 27th Avenue. Thomas, you just don't, you know. But that QT might want to start putting up some specials, like 10% off for each bullet wound or something like that. I think that'd be a great idea. There's a guy who got killed there four days ago, and there was first degree murder charges from the thing four days ago. They got the guys, but then there's another one this morning, so they're not done yet. You know how many QTS there are in this city? You can go past that one, you'll be all right. Go to another one. Give QT your business, by all means. Maybe kind of avoid that one for a few seconds till the whole Gaza Strip vibe goes away.

[Brett]

It was on the news this morning. They had the live reporter.

[Brady]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[Brett]

And she's like, well, I don't know what's going on here. Yeah, Phoenix PD hasn't commented yet. I'm like, it's the west side you're.

[Brady]

On 27th Avenue and Thomas.

[Brett]

Doesn't matter.

[Brady]

Speculate.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Death. Okay. That's what happened. And if somebody was against their will.

[Brett]

Right.

[Brady]

This is not like a guy who had a heart attack. Yeah. Somebody was shot and killed or stabbed and killed or attacked. It's 27,000, Thomas. Yeah, that's why send a reporter out there to go. We're not sure what's going on. Yes, you are. You just don't know who and where yet. In this general area. Pretty sure someone's been shot. We're trying to narrow it down to which one is causing the accident. There's 70 or 80 deaths a day over there. Don't.

[Tripp]

It's this weather kicking in. There definitely seems to be an increase. I just saw. We have a new. We have a new increase of population along the road.

[Brett]

Oh yeah. Right down here.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Tripp]

Just started now.

[Brady]

What are you talking about?

[Tripp]

New homeless camp.

[Brady]

Oh, oh, oh yeah. Oh yeah. They're start. Well, they moved them so they had to fight. They used to be along the freeway. They got kicked out and now they're up on the wall. Actually it's been we. Amy and I watch this every Thursday. We go by and we've watched the tents diminish down to nothing and start to pop up elsewhere just right along. They don't go far. They're walking. So now they're up on 52nd Street. There's a whole house there. There's like the lady because Saturday I saw it. There's tons of them. There's like beautiful like has she built onto her house? She had it on. She's nice. She's got the cart full of stuff. I think that's the bedroom. Little hibachi.

[Tripp]

She was cleaning this morning.

[Brett]

Yes, she was. She was clean when I came by.

[Tripp]

Yeah, a little wired up.

[Brady]

Yeah. So yeah. You send out a reporter. We need you on 27th Avenue in Osborne. Why is there a lottery winner? Come on. There's a shooting. Oh, right.

[Brett]

She should just. Jim crossed it and just been hiding in the closet.

[Brady]

Yeah. Yeah. Jim, I'm out here where there's inevitably a shooting. I haven't spoken to anyone yet, but you sent me to 27th Avenue and Thomas means there's a shooting or a stabbing. Dead Mexican in the vicinity. We'll find out exactly where that is in a second. I'll get back to you. Until then, Jim Cross go yourself. Formerly of KTR News.

[Tripp]

Cross loves it.

[Brady]

Yeah, Cross doesn't have to go there anymore.

[Tripp]

What a dumb. Dumb quite out there.

[Brady]

I'm not going out there. Hey, Cross, we need you in 27th and Thomas. Oh, okay. Sharp. Hey, by the way, real quick, go yourself. No, I retire.

[Brett]

Yeah, we just got a confirmation from a cop. It is a stabbing in the neck. Somebody got stabbed in the neck?

[Brady]

I didn't. You know, that's the only mystery.

[Brett]

I didn't grab the body part, but.

[Brady]

The only mystery was where. Yeah, and I'm guessing carotid or jugular. Yeah, those are the. He's going for arteries, right? That means he was in jail for a little while. Jail guys know to cut the arteries. They don't cut. They don't slice you in the tummy or the arm. Amateurs. Of course. 27th Avenue. They're going for your neck and your inner thigh.

[Brett]

Those are the professionals over there on 27th Avenue.

[Brady]

And they're not carrying knives like you think. Like it's. You know, the bad video. They're going at you with a little tiny thing that sticks out barely past their index finger, and they go to slice your. Come on, it's 27th Avenue. They're professional.

[Tripp]

Well, you know, it's been nice. I didn't hear anything over the weekend about any bodies missing or anything in East Mesa yet.

[Brett]

See, usually takes, of course, because this is. It's not on the Avenue.

[Brady]

They'll find one in Hawes Trail, trust me. He was there for a long time on the Avenues, and he talked to a lot of people. He had a good alibi going. That's a good drop. I remember I picked my Jeep up once at Bill Luke, and I left and I crossed Camelback, and I turned on, like, 22nd Avenue or something like that. I'm going up, and my buddy. My cop buddy Ben, for whatever reason, called me, and he had a question about something. And I'm talking to him. He goes, what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm driving around, but I just. I got kind of screwed up. I'm in a neighborhood. And he goes, where? Because I told him where I was, and I said, oh. Like, where am I? 23rd. And what is this, Monte Bello? I don't know. I don't know those streets. And he goes, get out of there. I'm like, what are you talking about again? I'm. It's daytime, Ben. He goes, I don't care. Get out of there. Like, really? And he goes, bullets just fly around over there. I'm like, all right, I'll leave. That's right. The cops are always over. That's terrifying. What are you doing in there? Get out of there. Get on a main street. I'm like, okay, I see your dumb white ass driving around looking for. What's the next road? Just have a sign in your head that says, I'm dumb. It's true, by the way. This is my favorite thing that's going on. And I'm not, like, politically. I just like. Again, once again, I'm here for the show. I'm here for the laughs. I'm here for the entire. The meltdown of this weird simulation that we're in. Elon Musk just told everybody at this department that hasn't been coming to work. I don't know which department it is. You guys haven't been showing up to work. You've been working from home. So write me a page. It was an email.

[Tripp]

So respond.

[Brady]

Write a page. Respond to an email that basically says, what'd you get accomplished in the last seven days? What'd you get done?

[Tripp]

What'd you do this week?

[Brady]

People are like, I'm not answering that. Are you crazy? That's proof you're not doing anything. If you're mad about, like my boss says, hey, could you. I haven't been here for a couple weeks. Just fire off a little bit what you got done the last five days. Like, sure. Knocked out the best morning show in the city. Continually. Number one once again, for five solid days, four and a half hours of quality entertainment performed every morning. You're welcome, John. That's an easy letter for me. I don't have to quote. Well, what do you need that for? That's proof your. Your job is pointless. If you're worried about how hard is.

[Tripp]

That to respond, it's so.

[Brady]

But they're. Now they got lawyer. Like, if you get a lawyer because your boss says, hey, can you write a note and tell me what you do good with people? It's like, oh, you're gonna get fired.

[Tripp]

I understand if it is that. If it's the point that it's like they're saying if you don't respond. And it wasn't for this one. It was another one. That means you're. You're fired.

[Brady]

Okay, then you're fired. It's something, something. Check out homework's morning sickness [e-mail] Holmberg's Morning Sickness. If you don't respond to. What have you gotten done around here?

[Tripp]

See, that being the.

[Brady]

If Tripp came to you, what exactly is it you do here? And you're like, that's not fair. Like, you're fired. Like, why is that unfair bosses do that all the time.

[Tripp]

Yeah.

[Brady]

And trying to justify why you aren't at the off. I can't. I don't know. You work from home. Send me a few things, show me you're producing. Like, that's all. If you're producing, you know who didn't throw the fit? Killers. The ones that are rocking it, whatever that job is. Like, oh, I got to text him at 27th Avenue killers. I was like, well, come on. Well, ask them, what have you gotten done this week? Well, I killed two guys on Sunday. Last week, I took a. It was. It was a slow week. I'm not gonna lie to you, boss. It was a slow week. I only killed two at the quick drip. Yeah, I mean, that's an easy one. Oh, it's just garbage for to have your boss ask you, what world do we live in now? Where when a boss says, what exactly did you get done in the last week? You hire a lawyer, and somehow or another half the country's on your side. You can't ask an employee what he's doing at home. And not knowing, when did this all change? I don't think it's too much for a boss to go, no more working at home. And you can't fight that. You should go to work. If they tell you to go to work, you go to work. You hire a lawyer. Whenever your boss says, hey, anything other than blow me, you shouldn't hire a lawyer. Like, I just. That's proof that you're probably expendable, which we all are, by the way.

[Tripp]

Is it out of the principle that. Wait a minute, Musk. Why are you asking this? You're not our boss, okay?

[Brady]

He's. He's asking all the people involved don't care. Now, he kind of. Because it starts off under the directive of the President of the United States. Yeah. I have been charged with asking this question for all you people are working at home, what'd you get done the last week? Now, I understand you might feel like it's invasive and you might not like it, and it might be one of those things where you put your hands on your hips and go, this prick. Who does he think he is? But that's a boss. We all do that. Doesn't matter who your boss is. If Tripp's like, all right, everybody write an essay on what you got done this week. We'd all mutter, what a dick. And making us write what we do all week. He sees what we do, but while we're doing it, we'd be writing Yeah, I did this and I got that. Cause we're not stupid.

[Brett]

Turn on the radio. Trip right.

[Brady]

There you go. That's what I did. You son of a bitch. Like, you're gonna get fired for that. And you should. I don't know when it became so okay to tell your boss the things he wants you're not gonna do, and then lawyers will back you up.

[Tripp]

How dare you.

[Brady]

Unless it's a blowjob or, you know, one of those Justin Tucker deals. I don't get it. But there's like a is all over tv.

[Brett]

But how is it just everybody or is it the work from home people? Is that what they're going for?

[Brady]

I think it's everybody, but they're really leaning in on the work from. Because there's certain groups that just don' to work. Like, there's certain like. Like full on groups. And I don't know what I'm not going to even venture into. If it's USAID or whatever. I don't know what branch it is, but they're just not there. There was something on yesterday morning where they were walking through. He's like, this office is where I work. You might notice there's like 60 different desks and no one's in them. And this is the way it's been since 2020. And nobody's coming back. And we're trying to ask them to come back and we're met with lawsuits. Please come to work. No, you pay me well. No. One of the requirements now at work is that you actually show up. That's not fair. I'm not sure how. Well, can you at least write down what you've done in the last few days? No. All right. You're not doing anything, are you? Of course I am. Then just write down what it is you do. No. This is why I admire the blue collar worker. All these Lego men that walk past us every morning in our parking lot. They have to wear helmets. They make them park a mile away from the job site and they have to walk past our building every morning. And when I'm pulling in, there's a gaggle of them. And I started to wonder this morning, why are you all in helmets? You're not at work yet. You're somewhere between the parking spot they gave you on 52nd and McDowell and you got to walk all the way to the freeway. Basically it's a mile that they make them walk. And I'm like. I asked the one guy, I'm like, how come you don't have to wear Your helmets walking. Because technically, once we park, we're at work. It's an OSHA violation for us not to wear our hats. Like, no kidding. So they're basically doing something stupid. Their boss has told them, and guess what? They all did it. Because you know why? If they don't, they get fired. It may be stupid, but let's say one of them falls down and cracks.

[Brett]

His head on the job.

[Brady]

On the job. So the. The company's covering their ass. The first dude that goes, I'm not doing that. That's dumb. All right, well, we're not going to risk it with you. You're an idiot. Goodbye.

[Brett]

Somebody says, it's not an essay. It's just five to seven bullet points in reply.

[Tripp]

Five things you did.

[Brady]

If you can't rattle off five lies of what you got done last week that you can kind of back up a little bit, you're not doing anything. I mean, that's. I'm not a manager, but if I was managing, I'd be like, hey, give me five things you did this week just to, you know, like, simple kindergarten exercise. What are five things you love about your mom? Here's five things you did last week. That's it.

[Tripp]

I saw. I think it was. It was Fox. Jim Jordan was on, and he was talking that exact point. He's like, here's what I did last week.

[Brady]

Yeah. And he rattled off his thing.

[Tripp]

It's really that, yeah, big deal.

[Brady]

But, yep, my job, like, I got a lot done last week. I went back, I got all the endorsement stuff. I wrote spots for early, which is very rare for me, but I had a couple minutes extra. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna get this one done. And life changer, I'm gonna get done. I'm gonna write these. I'm gonna have them in the hopper. As a lot of times, when I get a few minutes extra, I'll write commercials and get those ready for next time. And then, you know what really screws me up is when I'm so far ahead that I don't have anything to do, so I just go home. Because you know what? When you go home, that's where you do nothing. And that's kind of what your bosses are thinking.

[Brett]

Everybody's bitching multiple people saying, well, it's because Elon isn't their boss.

[Brady]

Right. But he's under the directive of the president. Okay, I know it's Elon and you don't like it, but again, how hard is this to just comply to? Oh, if you comply to him, what's he gonna do next? He's gonna fire you next. You're going to find out he's your boss pretty soon. And I get it, you don't like Elon. A lot of people don't like their bosses. Boss comes, you don't like your boss. If it's not Elon and you still don't like your boss and he wander in there. Maybe the half of KSLX may or may not like David, I don't know. But if he wanders in and says, do this, they're not going to go. Now you're going to do what he says because you don't have to like him. Everybody loves Larry. I couldn't use him as an example. I don't know how KSLX is inner politics work, but I can imagine somebody that David's kind of a. He's a louder guy. Maybe somebody. I don't see it, but maybe rub something around. Anyone says, hey, Karen, give me five things you did this week. And if she says no, I'm going to fire you. You got to listen to your boss.

[Tripp]

But if he wasn't, you know, I think the point is, like David, who is not overseeing CUPD or whatever.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Tripp]

Says to us, tell me five things you did last week.

[Brady]

Okay, but if. But if David hired a guy, some.

[Tripp]

People like, I would look at him and say, rattle that off. But if it had something that said, tell me five things you didn't.

[Brady]

If you don't respond, you're fired. And if it's.

[Tripp]

I don't think this one had that, though. For the.

[Brady]

You're going to get fired for it. They know what the writing on the wall is. If Larry hired John Gordon to tell us a thing Larry wanted. Okay.

[Tripp]

Yeah.

[Brady]

You're not my boss.

[Tripp]

Yeah. By the way, we brought this guy in here.

[Brady]

Yeah. This is my assistant and he's here. We have that all the time. We. We've kind of skirted past it. But like these. These idiots that come in for radio, these. You know, usually it's a dude in his late 50s, early 60s who's failed in 40 different markets comes rolling in. He calls himself a consultant, but all he can consult you on how to do is find another job. He should be a resume specialist. But he comes in, he tells you stuff, and you got to kind of listen to him for a second. And then usually they make you do a project. Luckily skirted right by that because they don't understand what the show is or how it works. So they kind of ignore us. But to the ones that are struggling or doing great, they have to sit in those rooms and do what this guy says. He's not technically employed by anybody here. He gets a.

[Tripp]

He gets a fee, it looks.

[Brady]

And if he says, do this, do this, do this, he goes to your boss and he goes, hey, they're not doing it. That's all it comes down to. I just struggle with the idea. Something simple. Now, if Elon came in there and started, you know, knocking stuff off your desk and he's like, all right, you don't even work here. We got to stop. But if it's just like, hey, you're just curious what it is, this guy says, I love it. I'm a field supervisor for a large H VAC company. And all the big bosses went home and they were never available. Yet they were the ones still getting their big paychecks. Yeah, that's what owning a company is. You may not think anything's fair. When you're a low level guy or you're middle, nothing seems fair. This one says, my parents work civil service for 20 plus years, so I can say I have heard literally my entire life jokes about how hard it is to fire government employees. They made a show about it. It's called Parks and Rec. That is true. That they do. They do make it impossible to unlock you from that job. I just find it. I find it to be hysterical that somebody says, hey, could you. Could you just tell me what five things you did this week? No, I'm not gonna do that. Why? Is it because you're not doing anything? No, I got loads of stuff I could tell you. Like, just tell me. No, you're not my boss.

[Brett]

I have to kill you.

[Brady]

Well, my boss is your boss. And he's asked me to ask you why. Don't. Until he asks me, all right? He's not gonna. And you're fired.

[Brett]

Tom says, shouldn't we be happy that our government is cutting costs? If you can't tell me what you do right, then why should my tax dollars pay you? Seems pretty basic.

[Brady]

Here's the other thing. You can be upset about it, but the country elected a guy whose catchphrase is you're fired. So it's not that shocking that he's rolling through offices with some other dude. Often people. There was a. When we worked at the Zone, Brady, there was a. On. On air, I don't know. They didn't do this to sales, but on air, we had to sit through this dude who didn't even work for the company is. I forget what company. It wasn't Sebastian, but it was this. Some guy came in, and he sat down and he made us explain ourselves. It was the most intimidating meeting I've ever been in because I was pretty new. I was like, explain what you do here. I host the. I host the afternoon show. And why is that special comparable. I mean, but your ego doesn't want to step on. Because I'm effing good at it. You know, you can't say that kind of stuff. So you're like, I don't know. I feel like I do a good job, and I. What is it that you provide the building that no one else can? And I'm sitting there like, who are you? Like, I didn't know him. Yeah, he didn't work there, and he was leaving the next day, and I had to explain myself to this guy. But I felt enough of like, I like my check. I'm just gonna play this game for a second and then complain about it later like a decent person. And he went in there, and he was like, clean sweeping. If he didn't like you, you were out. It was almost like speed dating. And he's the one that brought the phrase to the boss later, because this was right before I left about my friend Kevin, who said that he was the biggest combination of ignorance and arrogance that he'd ever seen. And that was when they were trying to get me to come back. I'd say, who are you friends with in this building? Like, Kevin's still there. He's a good friend of mine. Kevin's the biggest combination of ignorance and arrogance we've ever seen. He won't be there much longer. This is not a good pitch. This is. If you want me to come back, firing the guy I like. Probably not the best thing. Yeah, I get it. You don't like it, but it's something, something. Check out homework's morning sickness [e-mail] Holmberg's Morning Sickness. I just kind of remember a time when you could hate your boss, but you had to go. He had to kind of do what he said. That's kind of gone away, and I blame Google for that. And they built everybody beanbags and pinball machines and stuff and said, you guys take breaks whenever you want. When I was at Tony Roma's, fist fights almost broke out because smoke breaks became, like, the worst thing in the world for the people who didn't smoke, because smokers would be out there for. I get a. Every four hours. It's government. Government says I get 15 minutes smoke break every. Every four hours. We only work, like, five hours. You've taken two smoke breaks. Okay, but I'm. I'm entitled. I'm like, well, I don't smoke, and I'm getting my ass kicked out here. If I just stood out here for 15 minutes while you were in the weeds. No, you don't smoke. Like, okay, so I need to take up smoking to get a break, you idiot. Fight. And then bosses had to say, all right, you don't even work eight hours a day. Enough with the smoke breaks. You can't have. Well, we have smoke breaks every 12 to 15 seconds in this building. You look outside, it's like 1974 in this building. There's so many people standing outside smoking.

[Brett]

Like James Bond's smoke screen driving by. I mean, it's bad.

[Brady]

All you have to do in our building. If you ever hear. If you ever wander into our building, it's our.

[Tripp]

It's our daily conclave.

[Brady]

Yeah, just stand downstairs and just go, smoke break. And then you'll watch like, eight or nine people just think, oh, it's smoke break. Like, they can't. They're like Pavlov's dogs. It's crazy. A lot of smoking anyway. Just write the note. It doesn't seem too hard to me. Ah, this is perfect. It's funny how everyone gets pissed off when Elon has all their info. And that's another thing. I was like, look at my information. I can't. But yet. Do you know what you gave at Apple the second you bought that phone and clicked? I accept. So true.

[Brett]

Nope, I sure don't.

[Tripp]

Just all your info.

[Brady]

I clicked it because I love this thing. I'm not going to say who this is. It says my staff's been working from home for four years. Barely even knew each other. It's crazy. I made it mandatory that the report to the office starting January 22nd made every single employee fill out a form to tell me what exactly their daily and weekly and monthly deal is. I've met one on one with all of them. There's been some employees who have had to go. I'm not keeping anyone who doesn't work hard and align with my mission. You sound like a boss lady. That's what a boss would say. I want you in charge of my EM50 project. It's just weird. I also saw a thing this weekend. They're trying to build a stat. Donald Trump wants to build a statue to Muhammad Ali. And I didn't know this, but that pisses Muslims off, like, in a huge way. Because you're not supposed to, like, do statues of Muslims.

[Brett]

It's probably why he's doing it, which is.

[Brady]

That was my thought. You know, we're going to build one of Muhammad Ali. Muhammad right here. A statue that says Muhammad. And I watched a guy who's really.

[Tripp]

Where do they want to put it?

[Brady]

I don't know. Probably. Yeah, probably in the Louisville Lip. Because, you know, the whole Muhammad statue in Louisville gonna get lost in a lot of people. But I watched a guy get asked. I wrote down what he said because I couldn't believe his answers. Like, the dude asking the question was a little bit like, oh, it's jarring. I didn't realize that even prominent Muslims weren't allowed to have statues. And the dude looked at the camera. He looked normal. He looked at the camera and he goes, praise be to Allah. Praise be to Allah. And peace and blessings upon the messenger of Allah and his family. That's not the answer to, can we build a statue? That's crazy talk. Lighten up. Pull the stick out of your ass and just. And then another dude said, we can't rise. Like, it. It makes any image of a statue.

[Tripp]

Of that putting that person above.

[Brady]

What makes you try to be Allah?

[Tripp]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Like, you're like, it's a. It's an image of you being Allah. Plus, the word Muhammad threw him a little bit, too. Like, that's the most common name they got. But they love that. But you're not supposed to have that. Which I think is why Trump is like, you know, we're going to build a bunch of those. We're going to have 30 or 40, probably 50 statues of Muhammad Ali everywhere you go and pretty much an amazing.

[Tripp]

Statue and call it Cassius Clay.

[Brady]

Oh, then you're pissing off the Muslims again. Because that wasn't his name. That's his slave name. So that would make him mad because he didn't. Two reasons you're mad there is because he abandoned that name. And remember how mad he used to be? Call me Muhammad, don't call me Clay. Like, and then guys that would call him Clay would get their asses kicked for, like, six rounds before he decided to knock him out. Yeah, you can't do the Cassius Clay one because that's against his family. His wife and family were like, no, statues. Don't even smack that beehive. And sure enough, you ask one dude, can we do it? Praise be to Allah. Allah, praise be. Like, Jesus Christ. Just say, no, thank you. There's a reason why everybody's a little sketchy around you guys. Can't even ask you a simple question about honoring one of your own. You start screaming some sort of war.

[Tripp]

Chant at me, you know, and I understand if. If we're, you know, saying, well, we're using your tax dollars to build this statue.

[Brady]

Yeah, no, that's a reasonable answer. It's stupid, but it's a reasonable answer. Where instead of praise be to Allah. Allah. All right, this is why we don't talk to you guys. Although it did just now. Give me an idea. You want a scary basketball team to roll into an arena the way BYU is, you know, all Mormons and Notre Dame pretends to be all Catholic, even all Muslim. School breaks out with the sports and that crowd comes rolling in. There's some intimidation involved in that.

[Tripp]

People waving bacon in the air.

[Brady]

Well, both sides. I don't want to be in there with all those dudes in those weird outfits and like, those metal detectors work. I mean, the first thing I'm thinking, you call yourselves like the Bombers or something crazy like, good nickname. But you can't have statues, so you could never be a Kareem Abdul Jabbar, which is there. There's no Kareem in front of the Staples center. As Magic and Kobe and Chick Hearn. Yeah, that's. Yeah, they never built one for him either. All right, So I guess they stick to it. But just, you know, Muslims, lighten up. Somebody wanted to do something nice for you and started screaming Allah's name and Muhammad this and messenger of Allah. We don't understand that. Can I build you a statue? No, thank you. Why? It's against our religion. Okay. At least Jehovah's Witnesses tell you. Nah, we don't do that. We don't celebrate birthdays. You can ask them why and they'll tell you, but they don't start shouting, you know, biblical stuff at you.

[Brett]

Oh, there is a Kareem.

[Tripp]

That's what I was.

[Brady]

There's a Kareem. Yeah. I always thought there was a Skyhook statue. Well, then screw it. Build. Build as many Muhammad's as you want. Where was praise be to Allah guy when they put up the Kareem statue? He had to be for that.

[Tripp]

Right out front. 16 and a half feet tall.

[Brady]

It's 60ft.

[Tripp]

16 and a half.

[Brady]

Yeah, I was gonna say that's a six story Careem. Yeah, there it is right there. Yeah, I know. They have a whole bunch of statues out there. Well, if you built a careem you can build a Mohammed. This dude lost his mind sitting there with two people. Trump wants to build a statue. Why can't he? Jesus, he's gonna blow something up. You don't want to do it. So they're just like, screw it, we won't do it. They're too edgy. But, yeah, Korean, why don't we.

[Brett]

I don't know.

[Brady]

Everybody needs to lighten up. The Mormon chant wasn't so bad. But if you did have them, if you had, like, if the Utah Utes suddenly went Muslim, can you imagine the rivalry between the Utes and the Cougars up there in Utah when you have all those dudes looking like they're straight out of the seventh century? And the crowd, their curtain of distraction is wildly scary. Everybody turn your eyes to the curtain of distraction. Oh, Christ. The curtain of distraction is two towers. I see what they're doing. Oh, they're shoving a horn in Moroni's ass, these guys. The streets will flow with the blood of the BYU Cougars. Okay, we get it.

[Dick Toledo]

Breaking tablets at every free throw.

[Brady]

You worship a false prophet. Okay? You brought religion to the basketball court.

[Tripp]

Evidently, in England it's okay, because it says there's a Muhammad Ali statue. And they got Ali over there.

[Brady]

Sure enough, there it is.

[Brett]

Wow.

[Brady]

I threw a huge fit about this.

[Tripp]

It's got to be the location or something. Maybe it's.

[Brady]

I don't know. But they don't like it. And I was reading about it, too. It says it's forbidden to make statues, whether the statue is of a Muslim or as a disbeliever. Whoever does that is trying to match the creation of Allah and thus deserves to be cursed. I'll take the statue and your fake curse. That's silly. You want to build a statue of me and, well, you know, you're a curse now. It's like, man, have you seen my nose? I was cursed from start. How many years I got? I mean, what am I gonna do? 12, 13 more years of this curse? Have you seen my face? Oh, no, I understand. You are a Jew. No, no, no. I'm not even that. I'm not cursed that way, either. I'm just.

[Tripp]

And where do you draw the line? What about wax? Because there's a wax.

[Brady]

There's a wax figurine.

[Tripp]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Me. What you're saying, Brady, is those Muslims are sort of inconsistent. The building's gonna explode a little bit. You know that, right?

[Tripp]

You made them list.

[Brady]

We're on the list for sure. I don't care. I just don't get it. Build a statue. Muhammad Ali. I think it's brilliant. Wasn't he the one always saying he was the greatest?

[Tripp]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Isn't that kind of offensive to Allah? I'm the greatest of all time. Well, that counts as Allah anyway. Yeah. I wonder where they're going to put it. But it was a simple conversation. I've never seen anybody answer like that before. And that led me to think, all right, put him on a list. You simply don't answer. Can we build a statue of one of your guys with praise be to Allah and all the powers that be in Allah? I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yes or no question here. Where are we going? It's 7:28, Bert, what do you got on the big, beautiful, beautiful, brand new Action Ride Shop board of musical Treats.

[Brett]

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[Brady]

Oh, that's for Pizza ball.

[Brett]

Yeah. Lamb of God, Drowning Pool, Bad Religion, Megadeth, Ozzy, Metallica, White Zombie, Slayer, Parkway Drive, Anthrax, System of a Down, and then Megadeth's reckoning day for Elon's emails.

[Brady]

I just think it's easy to do that. Like, I know people hate it, so they're just. They're fighting back simply based on politics. But if I don't even care if. If it's like just some stranger at Postino says, I'll give you a free meal if you write down five things you did this week. I'm like, you're not my boss. You're not getting a free meal. It's like this seems eas. There's some good ones up there, by the way, for those of you who want to feel like you're a thousand. Yesterday marked the 37th anniversary of Metallica's release of the song One. And do the John math on that. Go back 37 years from that. And Elvis was an unknown. Nobody had heard of Elvis outside of Mississippi except his mama's mama, his mama, and his daddy. His daddy never gets mentioned. 37 years prior to one coming out, Elvis was just a speck. Nobody had any idea. And we are now, at the time, now where 37 years have passed since Metallica's one came out. That was yesterday.

[Tripp]

Crazy.

[Brady]

I know. It's nuts, right? It is nuts. It's. Yeah. You start.

[Tripp]

I don't like your math.

[Brady]

I know. My math always does horrible stuff to people. Just take the time past, subtract it from that first date that you just did, and see where it was. The big one was the. Was the people born in 1971. If you take that time that has passed, it's like 19, 17 or 16 or something like that, and it just makes you. It just like the Titanic had just sunk. It was like, what same amount of time has passed. Seven.

[Tripp]

Oh, five.

[Brady]

What?

[Tripp]

I go back six years.

[Brady]

Oh, for your name. Yeah. 60 to 60. Oh, geez. Yeah, you don't want that. Don't start doing that. Boston still had its molasses factor.

[Tripp]

Yeah, this is happening.

[Brady]

Yet they had to run from syrup. We'll do it. It's Reckoning Day. Just write the letter. Calm down and write the letter and bitch about it out loud later. It's Megadeth. Work smarter, not harder. It's Reckoning Day. It's your wake up song. It's 98. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.