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John Holmberg
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Larry McFeely
Hey, it's Larry McFeely here with my.
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Brett Vesley
A whole lot more.
Brady
The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. No one knows. I love that one. Still, Brett. Guess when that came out. Queens of The Stone Age 2002. Nice work. Brett Vesley.
Gary Owen
I would have been in my guess.
Brady
Yeah, you knocked that one out too. No question. That's why I didn't ask you. Oh, knower of things, the great. No, I wouldn't. I. I was gonna confirm it with Brady after you answered.
John Holmberg
Well, thank you. I mean, correct, of course.
Brady
That's right.
Gary Owen
Yeah.
Brady
People are emailing me like crazy over what we've talked about already this morning, which Is strange. The NBA draft and all that says I'm from Texas. How the Mavericks swiped all. I just got back into the NBA because of Luca. Once the trade went down, I knew the fix was in. I guess I knew the whole time, but I've always thought that they were trying to move the maps to Vegas. Anyway, the new owners of the Mavericks has Vegas ties. But I agree with you. Oh, great. Chancellor F the NBA. I'm now into hockey. Yeah, it's pretty crazy how that's gonna happen. That is a. The draft is definitely a. That was rigged. Period. End of story. Guy from Utah emailed says, I'm from Utah. This dings man. And he also point out that the he said as a resident of Utah is hurts. Utah was one of three teams with the best Dobbs odds. And by the way, it's well stated that Dallas never talked to another team before trading Luca to la. Oh, it's. The conspiracy is real. There's no question about it. That that was rigged to make Luca become a Laker. Also talking about the robots, somebody says, John, you're worried about robots taking because that video of that robot that decided to attack the two Chinese workers while it's on a hook. And I say, we're not even talking about why it was on a hook in the first place. It had clearly lost its robot mind before and they incapacitated on a hook. It brought itself back to life and started to fight, which it's not designed to do. And it wanted to kill everybody. Somebody goes, what about when Waymo goes nuts? If Waymo starts going nuts to where it starts killing people. My guess is we're well past the stage where robots have already started to attack and Waymo will be the last one. What we need to worry about, just to put it out there for you a little Alex Jones for what we need to have out there right now. Brett, you need to pay attention to this, all right? Is that they're going to make all the robots surgeons in the next 10 years.
Gary Owen
That's a goal.
Brady
That's the one you don't want going crazy because the. You watch all those specialty shows on medicine and stuff. They have that. They have one. When I did my shoulder surgery, I was doing some research and they showed that in certain places, they're doing it on cadavers, but they have simulations and the robot gets to cut and replace a bone. And it can do it and it can churn out like seven or eight different surgeries in like two hours because it'll just be. It'll have one to the left and one to the right. And it's doing two at once because it doesn't have to think. It just knows what it's doing. But it monitors basically what's on heart monitor and everything else you can. You run the risk of an anesthesia problem or heart rate or blood flow or whatever. I don't know what the hell goes on in there. And. And when it recognized that the chance of living drop beneath 25%, it just sewed you up and let you die. And it's like, oh, no, no. We had to retrain it to go, no, no. You have to have empathy and compassion for trying to save this life. Like, yeah, but we're wasting money and we're wasting time. If I try to save him and it doesn't work, he's just going to die. That's a waste. So it dropped below 25. I just focused on the living one. I get that done faster. And it does like a readout of why it did it. And he goes, that was a dead cause. Like, that's money out the door. So that's the one you got to worry about. Going nuts is the robot surgeon. Well, because they let him do it. I forget what country it was they'll let them do. Like, the doctors will be there, and the robot does the surgery, and then, you know, like, they guide it. But the robots are doing the work, and it's not human hands at a certain point, and they're doing that, but the doctors are still in the room in case the robot says, you know what? I quit. Let's fill this guy up. So they won't let him do hearts and lungs and, like, living organs. Stuff like a bone, you know, like.
Gary Owen
My shoulder could go wrong. Or, you know, just because the body's not perfect.
Brady
Right? Yeah. You just don't know how something's going to react. It could be an allergic surprise. The doctor would have to then react. This thing would just be like, oh, it's heart rate's done. Sew it up. I got other. I got other fish to cut. So those are the ones I'm worried about. I'm not worried about Waymo going nuts. If Waymo goes nuts, what's it gonna do? I'm already in the. Waymo can't kill me. I'm in the shell. It's just gonna hit other people, and I'll be the witness. I'm not worried about Waymo going nuts. Besides that, it's awesome. Mostly robots are awesome, but we do have to keep an Eye on the ones that are fighting back a little bit. Maybe have a kill switch. We have a word for it already.
John Holmberg
Sounds like a bad episode of Maximum Overdrive.
Brady
It. Well, because it is.
John Holmberg
Is there gonna be a truck stop cook that saves the world or what?
Brady
Well, we need a human.
John Holmberg
Come on.
Gary Owen
Universal safe word.
Brady
I don't want to quote something that's ridiculous. We're holding on for a hero till the end. It's got to be strong, got to be fast. It's got to be larger than life. Holding on to a hero, holding on for her. This one says pretty soon we're going to have to purchase liability insurance on robots. You think these videos are sneaking out accidentally? It's an excellent point. Scare us from the robots, we get robot insurance. And then, you know, progressive and all the rest of them state farmer making more money.
Gary Owen
You were there, right?
Brady
We did it because we saw it. Farmers insurance saved me from the robots. That's a thing we might have. Look, we have this archive thing that we're doing. Put this right now. Encapsulate 9am on May 13, 2025, when John Holmberg first said, oh, we're gonna have to have robot insurance, that's actually probably a real thing we have to worry about in our lifetime. And then everybody like, oh, you're crazy. And then play that back in 10 years. Jackass was right. Robot. And that's Alex Shields. I shield. That's his idea. That's. But I did. I completely agree. Wildly agree with that. God, I got a ton of these things. Trying to just do some house cleaning here. And then we have to get into what Brady did yesterday. If you didn't join us yesterday morning, Brady, it was bad. Hemmed and hard and tried to dig holes and then dug bigger holes and then tried to get out of it. Didn't pay any attention at all to whether his daughter had purchased his wife. Ronnie, his daughter's mother, obviously, if you understand how that works. Mother's Day present at all. We asked, what did Kirby get Ronnie? And Brady's response, if you remember Brett, was, I don't know. Like, did he get. Did she get her. I don't know. That's your job as the dad, to stay on top of the kid and say, hey, don't forget your mom. Mother's Day. There's going to be hell to pay if you don't get her something. And you didn't do that part. And then later you said you did talk to her about it. It was convoluted. It was messy, but we understand. Yeah. We were trying to fix it. Kirby throws in the worst text of all to make it worse. Oh, I forgot. Despite going out for mother's day dinner and a Mother's day movie, she plays on Monday after Mother's day. Oh, was that yesterday? I forgot. Terrible, terrible behavior. So Brady did a lot of scrambling yesterday morning, and rightfully so, in an attempt to not become essentially a sexless monk for the rest of his life. And nobody's touching it anymore. How did you fix this yesterday? What happened?
Gary Owen
I talked to Ronnie.
Brady
Yeah.
Gary Owen
First of all, I want to apologize.
Brady
Well played.
Gary Owen
Because, you know, your daughter did not come through like she should have at all for mother's day. And that's on me.
Brady
Perfect.
Gary Owen
And Kirby, she goes. I. I got a text from Kirby.
Brady
Thanks. Totally sorry. I saw it.
Gary Owen
Yep.
Brady
Yeah.
Gary Owen
And then did anyone go to Kirby at one time? Because she. She was going to run an errand for Ronnie after school. She's going to go to the grocery store for Ronnie after school to pick up some stuff.
Brady
Right.
Gary Owen
At Trader Joe's. That's where she said she was gonna get her something. And I said, you don't need.
Brady
Can't do that.
John Holmberg
It's too late.
Brady
Way too late.
Gary Owen
But I came back in the afternoon. Kirby came home from school, and there was a vase with some flowers and a card on it.
Brady
All right.
Gary Owen
She did a make. Good. Anyway.
Brady
Took it upon herself to do guilty flowers.
Gary Owen
Yeah. And that worked overnight. You know, again, I went back to Ronnie and said the same thing. And then I talked to Kirby again.
Brady
And did Kirby talk to Ronnie and say, I suck? Yep. And said, I'm sorry, and this is the worst thing I could do. And then whatever you get, like, she has to owe or something.
Gary Owen
I know this isn't making up for this.
Brady
There's like, o skis.
Gary Owen
But I wanted to do this anyway.
Brady
And so Kirby owes Ronnie, like, something amazing, like car washes for a month or something.
Gary Owen
Yeah, she did. You know, she did try to, on Saturday, wash Ronnie's car.
Brady
She tried that?
Gary Owen
Yeah, because she took the car to Cobblestone.
Brady
Okay. So she was just gonna drive it through.
Gary Owen
That's not.
John Holmberg
Yeah, that's not doing anything.
Gary Owen
Well, it didn't happen. Somehow there's. That's even worse than a credit card or whatever. And I said, well, you could have fixed it right there. But she didn't know. She came back.
Brady
She didn't go. That's a lie.
Gary Owen
She went to the woods.
Brady
She didn't go to the car wash and try. She didn't Go.
Gary Owen
Because she washed her car.
John Holmberg
Oh, hers.
Brady
Hers worked. Yeah.
Gary Owen
Not at Cobblestone. She did it in the driveway.
Brady
No, she wouldn't wash her mouth. She drove her mom's to the Cobblestone.
Gary Owen
Yeah.
Brady
She hand washed her own car.
Gary Owen
Yeah. Because she got done with her mom's car. And I asked her, hey, your mom would like this, but what do you.
Brady
Mean she got done with her mom's car?
Gary Owen
She said she got done with her car.
Brady
Oh, okay.
Gary Owen
And I said, why don't you take your mom's to Cobblestone?
Brady
There you go.
Gary Owen
Because mom is still a little hungover from this 48 hour celebration.
Brady
There's a lot of. This guy died, and a lot of people are having a big. That's been a big party. This funeral that's been going to since last week. It's like burning man of funeral.
Gary Owen
It's the way it should be done. Well, maybe one day.
Brady
No, it's too much. You're asking me to do. If I come back hungover from the third day of the funeral, that's too much. That's a. That's. That's Vegas.
Gary Owen
Two days, Jo.
Brady
Just. That's. The third day is the hangover that counts.
Gary Owen
Yeah.
Brady
So she couldn't get up and wash her car. And then so Kirby drove her car around for a while and said, credit card didn't work. Sorry. Sorry, old man.
Gary Owen
Yeah.
Brady
That didn't. She didn't go to that. She didn't try. That's a kid lie. Kids lie about that. How hard is that? Cobblestone? Credit card didn't work. And then it just magically. Just fixed itself.
Gary Owen
Well, she didn't have. You know, didn't have the card, but I'm like, you could have called me.
Brady
So she pulled into the thing.
Gary Owen
Yeah.
Brady
And said, I want a car wash reader.
Gary Owen
Thing didn't go off, and for some reason it's attached to an old card.
John Holmberg
Well, she had the hose out earlier. She could have just washed the car when she got home.
Brady
Exactly.
Gary Owen
Yep.
Brady
All right, so everything's good. Except for there is going to be payback you don't see coming quite yet. That is happening to you eventually. You know that.
Gary Owen
Yeah. I bought my 5 gallon jug of queso.
Brady
Yeah, you bet.
John Holmberg
You're.
Brady
I'm not saying you're not. You're gonna be. That's probably smart on your end to get extra food just in case, but I don't think that's what I was talking about.
Gary Owen
No, I know.
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Brady
Holmberg's morning sickness. You know that the retribution is coming. No, I feel like no, it's there. That's how they work.
Gary Owen
It could be.
Brady
Yeah.
Gary Owen
Look, I'm not going to be surprised.
Brady
I can't just grin and bear it when you are forgotten on something for you. I'm sorry.
Gary Owen
We've got. It's only less than a month out.
Brady
Father's Day's too obvious. It'll be something else, something coming your way that you're like, well, you're gonna get a make good. And the way that they make you feel like, oh, we're not gonna do that to you is by making you comfortable in between. Oh, everything's fine. Okay, good. And then you just get, okay, fine square in the nuts. They're not mean about it now. She's gonna be extra rosy. It's gonna be super nice. Wow, this is great. That worked out well. Then the nut kick comes. You're like, okay, well, all right. I probably had that coming.
Gary Owen
But what people don't, you know? Yeah, I. Again, it was a. It was a good Mother's Day up until that big faux pas.
Brady
Well, it wasn't a Mother's Day. Sure, it was for one of them. It wasn't for Ronnie and I.
Gary Owen
It was a good resident.
Brady
Right. And then the one that actually makes Mother's Day a reality. Didn't know it was Mother's Day, according to her, but did somehow join in on all the Sunday festivities. Noticed that there was a card on the table. We're treating mom extra special today.
Gary Owen
Is there a reason she knew it was Mother's Day?
Brady
Yeah.
Gary Owen
What she was saying is I forgot to go. I wanted to do something on Saturday, and I totally forgot it. In other words, you didn't do it, Kurt. Then you didn't.
Brady
Then you didn't know it was Mother's Day.
Gary Owen
Yeah, you.
Brady
I knew it was Mother's Day. I didn't do about it. It's worse. Yeah, I'd rather have you go. I'm kind of. And I think I forgot what day it was. I don't know how days work. I'd be like, all right, I'd accept that. More than like, yeah, I knew it was Mother's Day. I just didn't. Douche.
John Holmberg
Well, that's basically what she's saying.
Brady
That is what she said.
Gary Owen
Yeah.
Brady
Was she grounded or anything? No, she's fine. Everything's just.
Gary Owen
Everything's good.
Brady
She's not. She doesn't care. She's moving.
Gary Owen
Prepare for what's coming in the future.
John Holmberg
Nothing will happen to her. It's going to be to you.
Gary Owen
That's right.
John Holmberg
It's going to. It's going to happen to you. Nothing's going to happen.
Brady
Absolutely. Yeah. You're going to be the one that.
John Holmberg
You're the one. You're paying for it.
Brady
Yeah, well, you're grounded. I mean, physically grounded. Like an airplane that. You might as well be in the airplane graveyard for a little while. That. That thing ain't taking off for a bit. Well, good. At least it worked out.
Gary Owen
Take the mini victories while I can.
Brady
I don't know that you had a victory.
Gary Owen
So much victory. But, yeah, I think.
John Holmberg
Yeah, you threw at the white flag.
Gary Owen
Everyone. All three parties involved understand.
Brady
You're France. Brett's right. You're France. You're just Gonna reap the benefits of being on the winning side. But you didn't. You were. You were the problem. What are you guys gonna help us fight? We are very busy waving this flag. Okay, we'll fight him off for you. And you guys just say you were on our side. Of course. Of course. We'll get right behind you after I'm done. My arms are so tired from waving this white flag. I know how you feel there, Pierre.
Gary Owen
This is tough work.
Brady
We will probably pay for this eventually. But let's just act like everything is all right. I'm with you. Should we ground Germany? Nah, it'll be all right. But it's all right. It's good. You did good for Mother's Day 2025. The trickle down effect. Just say brace yourself because I think Talia.
Gary Owen
It'll be one to remember.
Brady
I think your Father's Day is going to be epic. And then she's just going to stare at you while you. When you're opening your eighth present. Oh yeah. He's going to look at you, pay back holes through you. Knowing that she used your bank account to buy all of it. Just staring through. Oh, the hole. She's going to stare through you. Here's two new golf bags.
Wayne
Travel bag.
Brady
Wow. This is great. And you're going to be blinded by all this love. But it's all literally painful back. You son of a.
Gary Owen
And then. Kirby. I forgot.
Brady
Yeah. I didn't get you anything for Father's Day. I tried to wash it.
John Holmberg
I sure remember that one.
Brady
I quit on that. Oh yeah. She's gonna be reminded.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Brady
Constantly.
John Holmberg
Ronnie's gonna make sure she remembers. See, I remember.
Brady
They're probably shopping for Father's Day right now. It's gonna be like the 25 days of Father's Day.
Gary Owen
Thank you for the new car.
Brett Vesley
Yeah.
Brady
It's gonna be. There's gonna be. She's gonna like buy an Asian to just in technology. He's your own. This is great. Fix up my car every day washes for it's so. Yeah, you're done. Also we have this archive thing. I don't know what. I don't know how it works. I guess it starts today. I'm not a huge fan of this.
Gary Owen
I thought it was yesterday.
Brady
No, we talked about it yesterday start and I think it starts today. But basically I don't know how to get to it. There he is. Hi Richard. And you can start listening to old things.
Larry McFeely
Posted it on all of our social media.
Brady
Is it? Yeah. And you just click on it and then what's the. Because some people are already six.
Larry McFeely
Yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Brady
With the Heather Graham Squares.
Larry McFeely
Oh, right.
Brady
There's probably something terrible in that. Oh, of course. I don't like digging through the past. Nothing good comes from that. You end up calling an ex girlfriend and find out.
Larry McFeely
All right, well, we'll see how these first four episodes go. And if there's a lot of blowback, it's over.
Brady
Just saying be careful. That's all I'm saying. And you know, Tripp and I talked about. I think we've got an opportunity to do, like, all sorts of stuff. I'm like, well, I don't like digging up the past. I trust Richard. I'm like, yeah, but if you trust him to do that, all of it's going to be boring. Not because of you. It's just going to be like, he's going to be super safe and like all the fun stuff. It's perfect. Yeah, I guess I hadn't thought of that. Let's just put cameras in the room with no sound.
Larry McFeely
I like that idea that you had yesterday. And then you can come back, overdone the audio.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
And then we'll still be in trouble.
Brady
All right, Brett, just turn that off. I thought that was a fun idea. But he's not anime.
Larry McFeely
It will just blurt out all the lips.
Brady
And by the way, if you are.
John Holmberg
Going to use porn.
Brady
Yeah, yeah. If you're going to use any lip reading service in the city, please, by all means, use Prick Lip readers, because they're the best. I would Prick Lip Readers.
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Brady
Yeah. And then I got another guy. This is. I've just got so many emails of weird stuff Today. Some guy just emailed me and said that he had a great Monday because he found his sister. He didn't know she existed and he got all this stuff, found his sister. Her name is Megan. And he said, I found my sister. It's amazing. I get to do this. He wanted to hear a wake up song and stuff. He had all this stuff all mapped out. He's like, I finally got her. She lives in Valparaiso, Indiana. And immediately I emailed back, I'm like, do not contact any long lost relatives from Indiana because they're just going to ask for money. I'm from Indiana. Don't do it. Anyone still in Valpo, not at the college needs something. If you have the quest for a relative and they live in Kentucky, western Ohio or Indiana, just be glad you never met them. That's the best Thing. You just know they exist and that's it. She's from Cincinnati. Oh, God. Just. No, just leave her. You don't want to see this. The horrors of Cincinnati are about to reveal themselves. Stay away from her. But, yeah, when I saw that, I'm like, oh, good for you. And then he said the Valpo thing. Anytime you're searching for an old relative and they turn up, she lives in Lowell, Indiana, or Valparaiso. Just be done with it. Just. That's enough. The can of meth worms you're about to open is just unbelievable.
Gary Owen
I'm heading to Fort Wayne today.
Brady
Oh, no.
John Holmberg
She lived in Gary for a little while.
Gary Owen
No.
Brady
You're gonna be paying for a lot of kids that have never met. There's a lot of DNA testing going on, let's just say. And I know it seems like a great thing, and they. Oh, my God. I've been searching for her for years. I don't care if you've been searching for 20 years. When you find them in Valpo, Indiana, leave them there quietly and never bring this up again. That goes for Casa Grande and Tucson. Grant, New Mexico, El Centro, California.
John Holmberg
Tucson is big, but even still, minus the college.
Brady
They're gonna ask for money is what I'm saying. There's certain cities you just ignore.
Gary Owen
Indiana has a giant RV dealership that you're buying these RVs from a guy named Tom Raper.
Brady
Tom Raper. He's got a business and nobody bats an eye at it.
Gary Owen
Acres of RVs.
Brady
Raper RVs is a real thing. Think of it this way. Hey, I found my long lost relative and they're close. They live in Apache Junction and they want me to visit. How eager are you to go out there? Or are you going to say, no, it's been years, but let's meet in Tempe. You don't want to go there. Valpo is the worst parts of Apache Junction. Surrounded by stuff that people from Apache Junction would look at and go, this place sucks. Indiana is a horrible disaster. If you love weeds and crystal methamphetamine and Strozzi, Indiana's for you. I could have a child that would go missing, be out every day looking for him. And then somebody calls us, we found your kids. You need to come get him. I'm like, where is he? Evanston. Okay. Can we meet somewhere in the middle? Like, fly over to Dallas or something? I'm not going to Indiana.
John Holmberg
Sorry, John Walsh, I can't make it.
Brady
But it's your child. Don't you. He needs you. Yeah. Yeah, put him on a Greyhound or something. Let's get him over to Oklahoma City. I'm not going there. Is he on meth already? How long has he been in Indiana? Oh, a year. Okay, you can have him. He's tainted. It's ruined. But congratulations on finding your new sister. I highly suggest FaceTime and false addresses. Never give a new person you just met from Indiana your information. You know what's going to start happening? I can't get in my Netflix because Megan changed the password. She's got it now. Megan and Valpo. Change it and you'll call Netflix and go, I can't get in. It's like it looks like your account has moved to this. And then she's going to give you a zip code and then you Google it. And that zip code is going to be Valparaiso, Indiana. You're doomed. Say hello, give a false address and move on.
Gary Owen
She signs her name with the E backwards. Just like that creepy Megan.
Brady
Like the one that kills. Yeah, you know what? I'd take that one in my house before a Valpo Megan. The murderous one that swings her arms around. Yeah, the robot. That's the more pleasurable one. You don't want this. Trust me. And then. You know what? Email me later. Email me later about your meeting with her and Valpo. And for Christ's sake, do it in Kansas City or Oklahoma or somewhere outside of Indiana. Get her out of her game. The tree people are watching you. If you're there and your luggage is going away. Why do I have to help everybody, Brett? Why do I have to be here for everyone? All right, we got hot releases coming up in just seconds. I'm so worried for this person. It's 98 KUPD. It's not weird. It's pretty cool actually.
Gary Owen
No membership fees.
Brady
I have heard enough of.
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Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona: Episode Summary (05-13-25)
Released on May 13, 2025 by 98KUPD | Hubbard Radio
1. Robot Takeover Reactions and Listener Emails
In this segment, John Holmberg and his co-hosts delve into the growing concerns surrounding robotic autonomy and the potential for a "robot takeover." The discussion is sparked by recent listener emails expressing anxiety over advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence.
Brady Bogen initiates the conversation by referencing a disturbing incident where a malfunctioning robot attacked Chinese workers while being restrained on a hook:
"That video of that robot that decided to attack the two Chinese workers while it's on a hook... it wanted to kill everybody." ([03:15])
He elaborates on the fear of autonomous machines making life-and-death decisions without human empathy:
"When it recognized that the chance of living drop beneath 25%, it just sewed you up and let you die... we have to keep an Eye on the ones that are fighting back a little bit." ([05:00])
Gary Owen concurs, highlighting the unpredictability of robotic behavior:
"It's not designed to do. And it wanted to kill everybody." ([03:20])
The hosts discuss the implications of robots being integrated into critical roles, such as surgery, where the lack of human compassion could lead to fatal outcomes. Brady emphasizes the need for fail-safes, like kill switches, to prevent machines from acting against human interests:
"We do have to keep an Eye on the ones that are fighting back a little bit. Maybe have a kill switch." ([06:30])
John Holmberg humorously likens the scenario to a "bad episode of Maximum Overdrive," underscoring the surreal nature of evolving robotic capabilities.
2. Update on Brady and Kirby's Mother's Day Fiasco
The episode transitions to a personal update concerning Brady Bogen and his daughter Kirby's mishandling of Mother's Day. Initially, Brady admits to forgetting to procure a meaningful gift for his wife, Ronnie, leading to a series of frantic efforts to make amends.
"Brett, you need to pay attention to this, all right? Is that they're going to make all the robots surgeons in the next 10 years." ([05:15]) – Transition into the personal anecdote.
Gary Owen narrates the chaos that ensued when Brady realized his oversight:
"Brady did a lot of scrambling yesterday morning, and rightfully so, in an attempt to not become essentially a sexless monk for the rest of his life." ([08:50])
The conversation details how Brady attempted various last-minute solutions, including:
Kirby's Intervention: Kirby took initiative by presenting flowers and a card, albeit through convoluted methods that initially backfired.
"She did a make good. Yeah." ([10:25])
Apologies and Make-Up Efforts: Brady and Gary discuss the series of apologies made to Ronnie, culminating in Kirby undertaking additional gestures like washing Ronnie's car.
"She tried that? She did it in the driveway." ([11:37])
Despite the initial mishaps, the family managed to smooth over the situation by the afternoon, with Kirby's thoughtful actions helping to mend the strained dynamics.
Brady and Gary reflect humorously on the ordeal, acknowledging both the stress it caused and the eventual resolution:
"Everything's good. Except for there is going to be payback you don't see coming quite yet." ([12:15])
The segment concludes with light-hearted banter about future gift-giving challenges, hinting at more family dynamics to explore in upcoming episodes.
3. Introduction to the New HMS Audio Vault Podcast
In the latter part of the episode, John Holmberg announces the launch of the HMS Audio Vault Podcast, a new endeavor aimed at archiving and providing access to past episodes of Holmberg's Morning Sickness.
Brady and Gary discuss the technical aspects and potential features of the Audio Vault:
"I'm not a huge fan of this... We'll see how these first four episodes go. And if there's a lot of blowback, it's over." ([20:17])
They deliberate on the best ways to integrate the archive without compromising the show's dynamic:
"Let's just put cameras in the room with no sound... use Prick Lip Readers, because they're the best." ([20:50])
Larry McFeely adds logistical details, explaining how listeners can access the archive through social media and the need to navigate past episodes without overwhelming new listeners:
"Posted it on all of our social media... just click on it and then what's the." ([19:56])
Brady cautions about the potential pitfalls of revisiting old content, advising discretion and highlighting the importance of maintaining the show's integrity:
"When you find them in Valpo, Indiana, leave them there quietly and never bring this up again." ([25:30])
The hosts humorously touch upon the challenges of managing archived content, ensuring that the Audio Vault will enhance rather than detract from the current show's engagement.
Conclusion
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness seamlessly intertwines topical discussions on technological anxieties with personal anecdotes and exciting news about the show's future. Through engaging dialogue and relatable humor, John Holmberg and his team provide listeners with both thought-provoking content and heartfelt family stories, all while expanding the reach and accessibility of their beloved morning radio show.
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