05-27-25 - Frustration Of Furniture Assembly Got To John This Weekend - Reggie Joined John On Walmart Shopping Trip To Get TVs - John's Friend Bryan Caught Foul Ball w/His Gut At DBacks Game

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona

Episode: May 27, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Broadcast Station: 98KUPD | Hubbard Radio

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1. Weekend Furniture Assembly Woes

Timestamp: [04:37] – [07:24]

Brady Bogen kicks off the episode by sharing his frustrating experience with assembling furniture over the Memorial Day weekend. He recounts purchasing items from Wayfair at significant discounts, aiming to furnish a 2,000 square foot rental home intended for Airbnb or resale. The sheer volume and poor design of the furniture pieces, coupled with the relentless deliveries, quickly turned his weekend into a nightmare.

• Brady: "I've spent about 6,500 bucks because Wayfair was 70% off and that did... it's a nightmare." ([04:39])

He highlights the nightmarish assembly process, particularly complaining about the inadequacy of Allen wrenches provided in the packages, which made the assembly physically painful and inefficient.

• Brady: "You can't build human-sized furniture with that little thing. I've got hundreds of them now." ([07:24])

Despite attempting to persevere, Brady admits he overextended himself and struggled to manage the mounting frustration and physical strain of assembling the furniture without professional help.

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2. Suspicious Walmart Shopping Trip with Reggie

Timestamp: [07:34] – [23:56]

Brady continues by narrating a shopping trip to Walmart with his friend Reggie, a tall Black man. Their intention was to purchase TVs during a Memorial Day sale. However, their shopping spree quickly attracted unwarranted attention from store employees.

• Brady: "We're walking through, I got the TVs in there and I start and I got a lot more to get. TVs were first." ([07:34])

As Brady loaded two TVs into the cart, the store employee insisted they check out immediately, cutting their shopping short.

• Brady: "I think to myself, I can... I'm gonna find you. I'm gonna kill you." ([07:24])

This racial dynamic led Brady to reflect on the prejudiced assumptions made by the store personnel, emphasizing how their presence together prompted unnecessary suspicion.

• Brady: "You brought a black guy to Walmart. We're gonna make every section you're in. You're gonna pay before you leave that section." ([16:27])

He humorously suggests that shopping with a Black friend leads to increased scrutiny, highlighting the underlying racial tensions in everyday interactions.

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3. Foul Ball Incident at Diamondbacks Game

Timestamp: [23:56] – [35:32]

Shifting gears, Brady recounts an eventful moment at an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game. While seated with friends, a foul ball came hurtling toward them. Brady confidently positioned himself to catch the ball, but it struck his friend Bryan directly in the stomach.

• Brady: "I got Brian caught the ball. He didn't budge." ([25:01])

Despite the intense impact, Bryan remained unfazed, leading Brady to feel proud yet disappointed in himself for the mishap.

• Brady: "If I had not been there, Brian would have had his breastbone broken in half by that ball." ([35:01])

Brady reflects on the importance of awareness and quick reactions during such events, contrasting his own readiness with Bryan's passive stance.

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4. Discussions on Sports Safety and Fan Behavior

Timestamp: [35:32] – End

The conversation transitions into a broader discussion about sports safety measures and fan behavior. Brady criticizes the use of nondescript safety gloves at games, arguing that they are ineffective and counterproductive.

• Brady: "If you're going to bring a glove to a game... you don't get to sit on the field and have a pop fly perfectly go over the net." ([30:57])

He laments the introduction of nets at baseball and hockey games, attributing them to the prevalence of smartphone distractions rather than genuine safety concerns.

• Brady: "Because they're flipping off the people... they're designed to no one in the front. You... have to wander the concourse." ([32:18])

Brady and his co-hosts exchange humorous anecdotes about past experiences with foul balls and security measures, ultimately emphasizing the need for greater attentiveness among fans to ensure safety during live sports events.

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Notable Quotes

• Brady Bogen: "You can't build human-sized furniture with that little thing." ([07:24])

• Brady Bogen: "You brought a black guy to Walmart. We're gonna make every section you're in." ([16:27])

• Brady Bogen: "If I had not been there, Brian would have had his breastbone broken in half by that ball." ([35:01])

• Brady Bogen: "If you're going to bring a glove to a game... you don't get to sit on the field and have a pop fly perfectly go over the net." ([30:57])

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Concluding Thoughts

The episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness offers an unfiltered glimpse into Brady Bogen's weekend struggles and personal anecdotes, blending humor with social commentary. From furniture assembly frustrations to navigating racial dynamics in retail settings and ensuring safety at live sports events, Brady shares experiences that are both relatable and thought-provoking. The discussions underscore the everyday challenges and privileges faced by individuals, wrapped in the show's signature entertaining and provocative style.

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For more engaging discussions and entertaining stories, tune in to Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD weekdays from 5:30 AM to 10:00 AM.

Transcript

[Byron]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Brady]

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[Brett]

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[Brady]

Still streaming Homberg's morning sickness [e-mail] Good morning everybody. Hello there. Welcome to Tuesday. Don't say the thing. This is the Morning Sickness. My name's John. There's Brady. There's Brett. There's Big Dick Toledo. Feels like a Monday.

[Big Dick Toledo]

You said it.

[Brady]

I'm warning you. You're allowed to slap somebody and you slap a bitch. Who says that? Anybody? Guys, it feels like a Monday. That's a smack.

[Byron]

We should took today off.

[Brady]

Then I know everybody else feels like Monday. Everybody else. It's a three day week of. You should have understood that yesterday feels like a Monday. Stop it. Stop being stupid and stop being. It's worse than small talk. Might as well just say, how's the. To everyone you talk to. It's. It's dumb. People chatter. We've got to put a stop to it. And that's one of them. So you'll hear it today, and you have my permission. Five across the face. Back your hand. Yeah. Man, woman, child. Does not matter to me at all. Before we get going, Brett just said that he heard Jim Sharp admit to domestic violence on his show this morning. That we were joking around. That Ladonna girl, that's his partner came into town, kind of started to dominate him. You know, like when you're going through this now, introducing two dogs.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Where one dog kind of looks at the other and just humps it like, this one's mine. And they just kind of grab it and dominate. That's what we could feel in Ladonna. Evidently, Jim Sharp admitted this morning, Ladonna hits him.

[Byron]

Well, she. She said it. And then he's like, not on the air.

[Brady]

But he admitted it. Oh, yeah, yeah, she said it. And he didn't go, that's ridiculous. Bitch. I would wipe the floor. That's what I like. Immediately. That's what you say back to a woman who's just, you know, bowed up on you on the live radio.

[Byron]

She was showing him what was up.

[Brady]

Yeah, they have cameras, evidently. And Jim's like, hey, you can see if I shaved. And she goes, you can watch me hit Jim Sharp. And then Jim's response was, well, that doesn't happen on the air. Well, it's gonna start soon. Bitch. Know your place. That's one of my favorite things going on, that dynamic, those two.

[Big Dick Toledo]

She should whip out the hot tow. Straight razor.

[Brady]

Oh, she'll whip something right there. Let me get you right here, Sharp. It looks like you missed a spot. You should grow your beard. It'll cover the bruises from my smacks. So. Nice job, Sharp. Way to go. Anyone says that to you on the air, you can see that I hit him. I. I will literally bounce you off every wall in this building. You say that again. You're lucky that women work. Mind your tone. We'll be right back. That would be awesome. You imagine driving into work here in that and it's like, legit. The dude fought back a little bit. I'm not hearing this. That'd Be great. This was fun. This weekend was. We took Friday and I'm. I am furnishing an entire home.

[Big Dick Toledo]

You took advantage of the Memorial Day.

[Brady]

Advantage of all the Memorial Day sales. I have. I have furnished an entire home. Wayfair, you know, it's. It's rental stuff. It's for a rental home. It's for, you know, hopefully to be an Airbnb, maybe just sell it. I don't know. But I'm putting furniture in all the rooms. I've spent all said and done a whole 2,000 square foot house. I've spent about 6,500 bucks because Wayfair was 70% off and that did. Insane family room. It's got a little den, like a. Like an office den, master bedroom, dining room. Front walkway has a big, like. Like a shoe rack and place to hang coats and all that. Tables, outdoor furniture. It's insane. The only thing I don't have is like, pretty good two. Two bedrooms. Like the guest bedrooms, like the master bedroom stuff. It's amazing. And it just kept showing up. And the worst part about it was I had it delivered on my phone to the. The house, right to the rental house. And so the boxes start piling up. And then one of like, I showed up Friday, like, knowing that this was my weekend. I showed up Friday, pulled up to the house. Thursday was the first day. I'm like, oh, some of the addresses I did wrong. And a lot of it was being delivered to my regular house. And it was the heaviest of all the stuff done that before. It's the worst. Oh, my God. And then, so I had to borrow. I did the thing where you borrow a French truck. I load it up, I get it over to the other house, bring the truck back, get my car back to mine. And there's more. Something else got delivered again. I'm like, no, make this stop. So I think to myself, I can. I'll get this knocked out first day. I'm like, I'm okay with it. By. By Saturday afternoon, man. Saturday evening. I want to. I swear to God. I mean this too. And this will. We'll get. We'll get probably soon. I'm go. If I meet you, I will kill you. Trust me, I'm going to find you. I'm going to kill you. Inventor of little Allen wrench thingy. I'm going to kill you. That is not a human tool. That is. You're a human tool for saying this is all they need to build this whole thing. So then I get the drill out. It doesn't fit in half the places. You have to use the little. My finger is just. My index finger is to the nub. It hurts so bad from twisting that goddamn Allen wrench. You can't build human sized furniture with that little thing. I've got hundreds of them now. Every box that I opened, another one fell out. And they've got the nerve now to have like a little pointy edge for, you know, Phillips head screwdriver on it too. So you can barely get your fingers in the. Oh my God. It was a nightmare.

[Big Dick Toledo]

I think I'm going back now. You're saying this. I'm going to throw the all the other Allen wrenches that I've had the building because you get done with it, you're like, I should probably hold on.

[Brady]

In case I'm gonna take this apart someday. Jar full of them. By the time I'm done, loads, loads of them. And I'm just gotten to where I pick everything up, all the extra parts, pieces and whatever. Throw it away now. People will email and say, thought you were good. Why don't you have somebody build it? Because I don't want nine different dudes hanging around my house all day. Allen wrenching away. I can do this stuff. It just. I overcooked myself here. You know, I could have hired. It's like 140 doll box to have somebody build it. And that's not the problem. It's some dude in my house all day that I just. That I have to work around. See? Yeah. Or that. And I'm like, oh no, he doesn't speak English. And there's like. I don't need him cutting his wrist open, bleeding out on my floors. And I'm not. I'm just gonna bury him. I'm not helping. I don't. I don't have time for that. So. Yeah. To the inventor. And we all know it. Men and women both. That little goddamn Allen wrench. You know who I blame? Women. Because it's built for their tiny little hands.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Did it have a flat crescent too?

[Brady]

Oh, yeah. No.

[John Holmberg]

Flat.

[Brady]

No.

[Byron]

Oh, those suck too. Those will slash that hand open.

[Brady]

That is a death tool. Yeah, I see those and I just bail on it. A couple of them. You know, I could get the drill out, knock those down. I built a table where the tabletop opens up in two different directions. Nice. It's a coffee table.

[Big Dick Toledo]

So you put a leaf in it or something?

[Brady]

No, no. So it so like you can lift like it's a coffee. The whole top comes up like TV tray. And then There's a second TV tray underneath that one, so when they're both opened, I can fold the big one over and make it like a dining room table. It's huge. It was awesome. It's a great thing, an amazing thing. So I'm busting my ass Saturday. I'm like. It's like midnight. I'm Builder Bob, man. I'm feeling it. I'm doing all right. Got the Allen wrench out. I'm cranking away. Flip the thing over, start to look, and I'm like, what have I done? I put the legs on upside down. And so now the table, that is. It's upside down. The legs are right. But it. I'm like, oh, no. Like, this is all bad. And it's those little. I don't know what you call them. Like, you put a. You put a. I call it a stick for a better. But you put one of the bolt things in there, and it's got a little nub on the L. Yeah, yeah.

[Big Dick Toledo]

And it tightens.

[Brady]

And then you tighten up with that little silver C screw thing.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Oh, yeah.

[Brady]

You ever try to get those off when you got to take something apart? You gotta line all that stuff up just right. There's like 14 of them going into the side, and if one of them's off, you can't pull the thing off. I was. I was insane. I went nuts. I had to revert back to my old video game frustration. If I don't whack off right now, I'm gonna kill the neighbors. So I just went in the bathroom, and you just sealed it up and just made everything feel better. I used to be the way I did it when John Madden's football would cheat, I would just be like, well, if I don't do this right now, my body's in a full rage. I have to calm it down by just giving myself a tug. And that's what I did. I tugged it. Tugging saves everything. It's. If we were all required to do that twice a day, I don't think there'd be any crime. I don't think we'd have any. Like, all right, it's time for 9am get it done. And then again at, like, 6 or 7 at night. Just to tug. Not sex, just a tug. If you added sex to that later, that would be even better. I think we could eliminate crime. Because I was in a full table rage, and I pulled it out and like, all right, let's go. Went back out there. My brain was steady again. I got it all apart. And I'm like, see, that's all it takes. Give yourself a tug. If you give your. Give your horn a tug, you reset. You say you want fresh eyes on something. That's how you do it. You reset your whole body with one. An anger tug, too. Because I went in there angry. So you think O.J. you think O.J. would have killed Nicole and Ron if he'd have just gone into the house and gave himself an anger tug?

[Big Dick Toledo]

We'll never know.

[Brady]

Wouldn't happen.

[Byron]

Maybe Cato should have stepped up and helped him out with that.

[Brady]

Should. Next time Cato talks like, hey, kid.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Yeah, an opportunity.

[Byron]

Maybe we should blame Cato for this.

[Brady]

Nobody's ever. Bentley, nobody has ever beat off and then killed someone. It's never happened, ever. I mean, maybe self defense, but nobody's ever thrown one down and then gone. And now I am so much energy, I have to kill someone. You're so relaxed and just fine. Give it. Give yourself that. And it was. Yeah. So I got all this stuff built. I finally did it. I did have one guy come as a. The office furniture has electronics. Like, the desk has plugs in it and stuff. And it's like a little bit convoluted. And it was heavy. When I picked the box, I'm like, this one's heavy. So I clicked on Send me a builder.

[Big Dick Toledo]

USB ports in there that you can plug.

[Brady]

Got all sorts of stuff. Yeah, it's got all that. I don't even have anything to plug into it. It was just neat. So I got that done. So that was my whole weekend. And then my buddy Reggie flew into town and yesterday, here's something I have not experienced in life, by the way. Pretty much have street cred like that you guys don't have and maybe never will. But Reggie and I, I had to go get some more stuff and Reggie came by and I'm like, I'm almost done. I said, I'm gonna go Walmart and get like towels and, you know, kitchen stuff, little things like that. So he's like, okay, I'll tag along. And two TVs. I was gonna do Memorial Day TV sales were incredible. I got a 55 inch television and a 32 inch bedroom TV for 400 bucks. For the whole. All of it, the little TV was 65 dollars. They're giving them away.

[Byron]

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[Byron]

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[Byron]

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[Brady]

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[Brady]

Holmberg's morning sickness. So I go there and I stuff the, the 55 incher in the cart and the little one in the cart with it. And I got Reggie with me. Now reggie is a 6 foot 2 inch black guy. That's all you really need to be to have Walmart's attention. So we're walking through, I got the TVs in there and I start and I got a lot more to get. TVs were first. And I go. And the guy goes, all right, sir, we'll just check you out right here. And I said, we're going to keep. I got a lot more stuff I need to grab. Oh, gonna do some more shopping. Like, yeah, okay. I take three more steps. All right, now you know what, you're gonna have to check out right here. And I'm like, reggie, this is your fault. As a white. They'd have let me wander this whole place with two TVs and a cart. Check out whenever I want. But they think, we're gonna dash for it, cuz you're here. And he goes, and I look fast, and he does. And so we just started laughing. This dude could not have wanted us to make sure we paid for those televisions immediately. And he didn't even say, like, oh, it's store policy. You can't leave the electronics department. There's no signs or anything. It was. You brought a black guy to Walmart. We're gonna make every section you're in. You're gonna pay before you leave that section. It was hilarious.

[Big Dick Toledo]

No memorial dash today?

[Brady]

No, you're not running out of here. And there's that. I'm like, don't you have like, four safeguards at the door at Walmart?

[Byron]

There's like that old guy standing. There's not gonna stop.

[Brady]

There was a.

[Byron]

There was a black guy running.

[Brady]

One of them was black. Yeah. You think you'd be like, go on, brother.

[Byron]

Well, that. Maybe that's the problem too.

[Brady]

It could be the one guy at the door that says, have a blessed day, and then the lady that checks your receipts. There were two of them. Like, we aren't running past them, but have a blessed day. Guy's gonna get a good look. There's cameras. We're not. But no, we were. I mean, and the whole electronics thing, if you've got that policy, put the electronics up front at least. Maybe. I guess that makes you.

[Big Dick Toledo]

No, it makes you go farther.

[Brady]

You gotta walk all the way in the back. And then this guy just, like, hounded us. Other people walking around TVs and things in their carts. Never once. The K guy's gonna just get notes. All right. And you, I could feel it. I'm like, this is because of you.

[Big Dick Toledo]

You got concierge service.

[Byron]

You should have had Reggie just run for the help.

[Brady]

Yeah, that was hilarious. Of course I think it's funny to us because we're white, but you tell a black guy, hey, just start running and see what the cops do. Like, I. I think hilarious, pretty much. You'd be like, you have no idea how bad that can get. Never experienced it before. Only other time I came close was with Reggie about eight years ago, standing out. We were drinking. Me and my buddy Chuck and him were drinking and having fun and kind of let the night slip away and needed an hour to kill before we Decided to get home. Ubers weren't really a thing yet. And so the three of us are standing in a parking lot at the Attic. Reggie, Chuck Powell, me, Cop car. Goes by an Indian school. And, like, you hear the brakes, and he does a U turn and comes back and comes into the parking lot, goes. Everything okay here, gentlemen? Asks Chuck. And I like, yeah, we're all right right now. I think we got him under control. Reggie's just nodding like. I'm like, that was. Yep. And I'm like, how about that? Never had that happen before. I think it's. It should be mandatory for everyone, especially in Gilbert Brady. And not an adopted or a, you know, pat yourself on the back one. You know, like, we're gonna help him out, but just a regular black guy with a job and, like, everything's good. Every Gilbert mom should have to go to Walmart with one. Not to buy them clothes or to be like, you know, Leanne Tuohy and do the Blind side.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Can't help yourself.

[Brady]

No, just you go in and you just wander through and buy electronics. It's called buy electronics with a black guy today. And you realize we got a long way to go. It's still not quite over. There's still quite a lot going on. That dude was so nervous, and I went to look at him. I'm like, look, I'm his white sponsor. Please, we're not stealing today. He's. He's getting better.

[Byron]

I'm his po. He's all right. Don't worry about it.

[Brady]

I miss parole officer. We're gonna go get some bath towels and some silverware trays, and you just calm down about this.

[Big Dick Toledo]

He's not from New Orleans, is he?

[Brady]

He's one of. He's one of the. I have to have. Please, please buy those televisions from me right now. So you walk around, like, with two purchase TVs, and then show everybody the receipt. Everywhere you go. I'm like, this doesn't have. I've been to Walmart a hundred thousand times in show low. I bought two TVs, and I wandered all over the store with them. Yeah, different. We got a ways to go. We got a ways to go is what I'm saying.

[Byron]

Of course it comes through. I'm calling fake news. John does not shop at Walmart.

[Brady]

I know that was the big thing, because even Reggie said, all right, hold your breath, because you're about to smell it. And I'm like, what? And he goes, the degens. The pores, they're in there. And I'm Like, I know, I know, but that's. I shot when I'm look for an Airbnb, that's all you're getting. I'm not going to Crate and Barrel to furnish this thing. It's basically Wayfair stuff. I'm looking for deals. I'm shopping like a poor.

[Byron]

Did you go home and shower and everything?

[Brady]

Just, oh, like Silkwood. I got it all off of me. Oh, it's horrible in there. Horrible in there. Yeah, it was terrible. I, I, I went to Fry's on Saturday night to buy some cleaning supplies, and it's on McDowell and like, almost Hayden. I don't know. I've never been in that one before. And it was like nine. They were about to close, I think. And then all of at the end of the night, just a gaggle of I don't know how many people came wandering in, and they all had bad intentions. And one just started running up and down the aisles and she said the word. We can't see. Oh, my, My phone out of my shirt. So I'm like, well, I gotta get to that aisle and see what's going on. Cause it sounds like that girl's losing her shirt. She's running for no reason. Just running up and down the AIs. And the guys at Fry's had to stop it. Like, everybody get out. They didn't care after, like, two tries. Like, oh, you guys have to go. I'm done here. I'm. Let them run around. Whatever they break, we'll fix. It was weird. It was like a flash mob of just noise and distraction. And I thought, okay, they're gonna rob this. I watch enough live pd. I know the two girls run around saying their boobs were gonna fall out of their shirt, make it so the other guys were gonna steal everything out of the fries. Nobody took a thing. They checked out and everything just ran around for about three minutes. I don't know what they were doing. It was fun for a second. And then you started thinking, oh, there's going to be like a mass shooting in here. Weird, weird weekend. But shop, I think, while Reggie's in town, I'll loan them out. You take them to a Walmart, try to buy something expensive, and watch the employees lose their minds. Can be done. And I can say that truly, as a white guy, I have never been stopped and told, you got to pay for that before you leave this section of the store. As a white. All I say is, I'm not done yet. All right, well, shop away. Enjoy the entire facility. Would you like a concierge? No, I'm good. Just gonna walk over to the towels. Grab some towels. Grab some other stuff. Well, we're not even watching you, sir. You enjoy your day.

[Byron]

You do whatever I need to do.

[Brady]

The cameras don't even see you. Okay. Was that your friend there? Yeah. We're gonna have to ask you to pay for everything right now, immediately in the back of the store. It's weird. Never experienced it. It was kind of an interesting moment. I enjoyed it. I felt.

[Big Dick Toledo]

You're here to shop, right, sir?

[Brady]

Yeah, I felt good. Are you in trouble? Are you under duress? Like, what are you talking about? Turn over to round off your right shoulder. That's my friend Reggie. Okay. Just making sure. I learned it. You weren't a hostage or anything. Yeah, Walmart went backwards for me for a little bit. It was interesting. It was. It wasn't what I expected, that's for sure. And Reggie handled it like, you know. What are you talking about? This isn't normal. I'm like, no, you're not supposed to pay for all your stuff while you're shopping. It's like, just not what. Yeah, I pay for everything off the shelf. I'm like, yeah, us whites, we get to walk every aisle. Nobody ever even talks to us. Most of the time, there's a guy.

[Byron]

Following around with a square, just running his card every time he grabs somebody.

[Brady]

Did you. You held that for quite a while. You're interested? You know, I'm gonna have to go ahead and charge you for that anyway.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Looks at the name on the credit card.

[Brady]

Reggie. I've never met a white Reggie. Pretty sure we're gonna. I don't think I've met original, but even still, it was weird, and I was ashamed, but also felt kind of cool because, like, I don't have enough white credibility to be good credit for him, you know? They didn't look at me and go, they're okay. Like, they thought that neo Nazi and that black guy are up to no good. I've never seen them pair up before, but here they are. It was this dude's worst nightmare. But to the employee, you were very diligent.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Excuse me, Eminem. Are you here to get a pay for these items or not?

[Brady]

You must be the producer. You're the talent I said was wandering around through the TVs. Yeah, and Reggie didn't even buy him. I was the one loading up the. The cart. It does look suspect. It did look like we were looting because it was, like, quick like this. This TV's 60 bucks. And I put it in the car. This one's nothing. And I plop a 55 incher in there and I'm like, the 75 would be too big for the room. I was gonna get that one. I'm just shoving them in the cart like real fast. This guy, he was, he was, he was taken aback by it. So it happened.

[Byron]

Should have brought Winston with you too and really just doubled up that guy.

[Brady]

We would have never been able to touch the television. And then we went to the baseball game last night and Reggie and my buddy Brian went with me. And Brian and Reggie smoke out pretty much the whole time. And they're, they're good potheads. They're like, they're aware of everything that goes on. So we're sitting in the seats enjoying our game. Second inning, I don't even know who hit it. Foul ball starts whizzing, goes over the nest, heading right to us. I'm like, yeah, that's us. And I've got Wedi one and Weedy two sitting next to me and two old people in the seats in front of me. And I'm like, that's right at us. I got this. Put my hand up like, I got this ball's gonna be like, this is coming right in my lap here. And I, I go to grip it like I have a glove on this. Years of baseball, you just feel like. And it hits me right in the hand and just shoots through my finger, my index finger, my thumb, and like, ooh. And just. And hits Brian square in the stomach. Like. I mean, it's a full out line drive. Flying in. And I did a little to slow.

[Big Dick Toledo]

It, but now looking for the pocket.

[Brady]

You just heard Brian caught the ball. Caught Brian's stomach. He didn't budge. If that ball was five inches higher, it would have been his face. Weedy1 did not move. This thing is zinging in. If it wasn't for my sober ass going, yeah, that's us, boys. And they just. And I even said, Brian, you didn't get up. And he goes, I figured you had it. And I'm like, oh my God. What gave you confidence that I can get up and barehand a line drive that's coming in at 80, 90 miles an hour? I could, I almost did it, but I said, you had to at least move. Nah, you had it. It gutted him.

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[Brady]

53342, Homburg's morning sickness fans, this foul.

[Byron]

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[Big Dick Toledo]

Did he keep the ball?

[Byron]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Oh yeah, it is. It caught his stomach. It hit him so hard. I thought he we thought he was going to be a meme forever on TV of guy who didn't react to foul ball. It just hits him square in the stomach and he goes bruh. Like the noise just took the wind out of him for a second. And then everything was normal again. And this Wheatie was done. But there was Brian and he's got his baseball. Texas daughter caught a baseball team. Like did you. Did you? Or did the baseball just stop after it landed on you? Because it hit him hard, found him, it had the baseball, caught Brian. It was kind of cool though. That's two games now I've been to with Brian in the last year where foul balls are in our hands. Kevin Ray caught one with us last year and then this year. This was a zinger too. And I was all proud of myself. Not a soul stood up. Two girls, teenage girls, probably 13 or 14, sitting in front of us on their phones. Didn't have any idea what was happening. An old man and his wife were directly in Front of us. Thank grandparents of the two teen girls who were just interested. They were dressed exactly the same in red tank tops and jean shorts. And they were, I think, just all about doing videos and dancing on TikTok. I think that's all they wanted to do. They dressed exactly alike. It was whatever. And then zinging through this ball comes right at us. I'm the only one. I stood up like I was Glenn Close in the natural. Only one in the whole section to get up like. All right, gang, we got one coming in hot. Okay, I'm alone here. And Brian kept it. And it. I don't know why I thought for one second I could. One hand that. Two hands. I catch that, no problem. Hit me right in hand. But it was moving pretty fast. I don't think your hands are built to capture an 85, 90 mile an hour line drive.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Most of the time you hear people that catch them. Like, I think I broke my finger.

[Brady]

I watched a dude Colorado Rockies game against the diamondback. Sitting on the first baseline, put both his hands out, palm butt to palm butt and made that big V. And it hit his hand so hard it bounced back onto the field and he screamed. It was. It was a rocket off a right handed batter. Just. You could hear it sizzling at us. We're about four rows up in the first baseline, just on the outside of the dugout. And the guy gets up and he's hands are up. He's so excited. And it made this wet cement smack against his hands. Oh, it's all you heard. And then the ball goes back out to the. The first base coach box. It bounced back off it and people thought it hit a face because it made like a cranium crank. That's pretty neat though.

[Big Dick Toledo]

But working the games back in the day, being drew. Hey, Batta.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Just got pretty good at watching the angle coming in. And position yourself for the bounce.

[Brady]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Because.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Because it's going through a hand or two.

[Brady]

The first guy's not in the chair.

[Big Dick Toledo]

We used to. We used to bet on. Okay. Where are you gonna stand? I'll stand over here. You got enough time to do it.

[Brady]

If you can make it. So. Yeah, if you can. Okay. That's gonna bounce off of this guy and come this way.

[Big Dick Toledo]

It's crazy how often they find an.

[Brady]

Exit that they run through. Yeah, it's neat. It's kind of a neat thing to watch foul balls go. But. Yeah. And I always get upset at dudes who bring gloves and drop it. If I had a glove that Would have been like somebody threw it a snack. If you're going to bring a glove to a game, first off, I hate when people know where you're sitting. If you've got a glove and you're in the upper deck, stop it. It's not coming to you. You're not. You. You have to wander the concourse. Not happening. Second, if you're like kind of up close, the net's gonna stop it. You're not getting a ball today. It's not. Not coming your way. But I see people in the front row with gloves, and I'm like, do you think you're getting called in? What. What are you doing? Do you see that giant net in front of you? It's designed to no one in the front. You, your front row. You don't have. You don't get foul balls, too. You don't get to sit on the field and have a pop fly perfectly go over the net. And if it does, use your hands and be a man. Because it's the odds of you catching even your kids. You teach your kids early, like, don't bring your glove.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Well, that's why they do it too. It's for the kids. They set them up. When a kid wants to bring their glove, they're all the way in the upper deck.

[Brady]

Yeah, there it is. Your kids got a glove on. It's like, you're wasting your time. You're gonna spill nachos everywhere. Trust me. Just know where you're at. There's only like three or four places that a glove comes in. A mine happened to be one, which was the. This. The second section just above the lower level, right over the nets. And they're zinging up there like crazy. We're basically on the broadcast level. Those guys get foul balls like crazy. Gotta get it.

[Big Dick Toledo]

If you're there for the opening two seasons, 98, 99, there's a chance you get T shirt in the upper deck.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Then that changed.

[Brady]

Well, because they were flipping off the people.

[Big Dick Toledo]

A couple of tumblers.

[Brady]

Well, they didn't have the nets up. They just recently put the nets up. And the only reason they put nets up at baseball games is because of this goddamn phones. The baseball saw it before anybody died. They're like, nobody's looking at the game. They're all looking at their hands. And the fly, he's just 90 and 100 mile an hour off the bat. Foul balls whipping into the crowd. Chicks are on their phone the whole time. All you heard was screams like, we got to put up nets. They're never going to pay attention to the game again.

[Big Dick Toledo]

It's amazing how it doesn't show up on the camera. Oh, the net.

[Brady]

It. Not at all. It's incredible. And if you look closely, you can see it, but your eyes just kind of let it. Nah, it's not there. Even when you're there, you look right through it. You don't even pay.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Instead of a ball, people get a beer in the face, reacting when it hits the net.

[Brady]

Hockey did it, too. Now, hockey had a couple people die, but that's a sport that's totally different if that thing gets loose. But hockey put nets all around the thing. Phones, it's the only. They don't care about your safety. They think you're an idiot. They basically. They childproof the game because you won't behave like an adult and actually pay attention to the thing you paid money to go see. Everybody's in the. Oh, all around.

[Byron]

I thought it was just the glass. No, no, there's nets now.

[Brady]

That's all over the place.

[Byron]

It's been a minute since you can.

[Brady]

Pop over the benches and the penalty boxes, but for the most part, there's nets. And they're high. Wow. And they go, you know, blue line to blue line, pretty much big nets. And that has nothing to do with caring about you. Now the NHL does. They just don't want the lawsuit.

[Byron]

Cya.

[Brady]

Yeah, They're CYA on just an innocuous.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Flip of a ball. Get away like a baseball. They go, hey, I got a puck.

[Brady]

O. I got. We caught one once team. The guy scored a goal, and then the. The. The Coyotes got a goal scored against him, and it bounced out of the net and a dude took it and flicked it straight up in the air. And we're all cheering and it hit Megan right in the chest. We were in the front row. She looks down, she goes the puck. I'm like, how did that happen? And the guys on the ice were looking for it under the net. They didn't see the dude flip it, and it just skated back to the bench. And the refs are looking like where the puck went. And we're holding it up like we've got it. If you watched it. We watched it on TV because it was a replay. See us in the corner like, hey, it's right here. This is it. It's still in my freezer. It's kind of cool. When you freeze the Coyotes hockey puck, the logo turns ice blue. You take it out, it thaws. It's the color of the. Remember the coyotes. That was the thing. We used to have, like a Coors light. Yeah, it's like the same technology Coors light used. That's how I know my puck's ready for play, I guess. I don't know. It was frozen, but. Yeah. So you got to be careful out there shopping with blacks. And if you go to a baseball game, high, be sure to guard your Brady. When you take Kirby to a ball game. When you take Kirby to a ball game, just, yeah, make sure she ain't getting up. The wheaties do not stand up for foul balls. They don't move.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Planted with a foam finger and a mitt and a jumbo hat.

[Brady]

You try to get one of those giant hats that used to have nachos in the it. Yeah. Just sit there. They don't move. They're just lumps on a log. It was amazing.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Swing at it with your mini bat.

[Brady]

Yeah, that you got. Try to put it back. The. The conversation was flowing. The guy seemed totally normal. But the fast twitch, muscle reaction of standing up and having a projectile not hit you. Wheaties zeroed out. Nothing.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Like you said. Luckily, you are the one that zoned in on it.

[Brady]

If I had not been there, Brian would have had his breastbone broken in half by that ball. He was not. He didn't move.

[Big Dick Toledo]

And no help from Reggie.

[Brady]

Reggie sat down, too. And all I heard Reggie was go, oh. And I'm like, okay. Reggie just went full 70s, black guy. Oh. And I'm like, I got it. I got it. I'm like, why am I calling it off? Like. Like people are gonna respect that. Old man in front of me didn't move. Old lady put her head down. Two kids on the phone. Didn't look behind me.

[John Holmberg]

Don't know what was there.

[Brady]

I think they just all assumed, this guy seems to know what he's doing. Does anyone fight for these anymore? Didn't have a struggle at all. No boos, nothing. I, you know, I was disappointed in myself. But good thing I had my pothead backstop, because otherwise, the guys behind us would have gotten the ball that would have clunked.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Grandma going out on a stretcher, it's not fun for memorial.

[Brady]

I watched that lady at the spring training. When that lady got hit in the head, my friend Jim Wilson and I laughed so hard, it was a pop fly so high. She goes, where is it? The sun? Where is it? Nobody knew where it was. Everybody's hands are in the air, and you just hear, like, a cartoon coconut knot, like, right on her head. And all the Kids start crying. There's like 13 of them. She lays down in the aisle, oh, Lord Jesus, today's the day. And Wilson and I are done. We are dying. Laughing like, she's gonna die today. And those kids thought mama was done. Don't go, Mama. They're sobbing. It was so hilarious. She just got clunked in the head with a foul ball and she was. That was it. It was all over. So be careful. And I'll tell you this. Having a moment of silence. And the Pittsburgh Pirates are in the building. Seemingly it never ends. There was like. That was the quietest I've ever been in a baseball game in my life. We'd like the fans to now stand for a moment of silence. My Pirates are in town. No problem. You know what? You're gonna get a Memorial Day moment of silence for nine innings.

[Big Dick Toledo]

Just said a moment of noise.

[Brady]

Yeah, just make a little noise because the silence will be deafening for the next two hours anyway. Diamondbacks won the game going back in. I want to. I want to watch Paul Skeen's pitch before. As a Pirate, before he becomes a Yankee in a couple of years. Because the dude is just electric. And I want to see him in the early. Set it through. He's Wednesday.

[John Ulberg]

Oh, okay.

[Brady]

Yeah, so I'm going to go to that one too. And tomorrow. Pirate week. Yeah, I got today tomorrow, but. And then Channel three. I got to give you. I was texting Ian Schwarz yesterday while he was doing the mornings, cuz they had him out manning the barbecue for Memorial Day. And I'm like, Schwartz is just firing wieners in his mouth and offering them to the. And I'm like, that's great. I'm like, hey, Ian, chug a whole wiener live on tv. Just take the whole thing. Or have one of the girl host, like, try to chuck a wiener in your mouth for fun. And he goes, I'm trying to have fun out here. But they keep bringing up all these stories about Memorial Day and the fallen soldiers and Pat Tillman. And he goes. And then they cut to me, Wacky weatherman out here by the grill, everybody. I know that story about those seven dead guys is rough. Who wants some wieners? Like, yeah, it does seem like the transitions are a little bit abrupt. I know. So sad. So many died. So many died in the battle. So many died for our. For our freedoms. Let's go out to Ian now. He's by the grill making hot dogs. Like, yeah, thanks, ladies. Well, that transition's real easy. You just showed 60 soldiers getting flamethrowed Now I got this whole thing on the grill. Thanks for that. Footage from World War II. They faced the firing line. They didn't survive. But because of them, we have freedom. Freedom to throw to Ian right now and find out what the weather's going to be like. And what do you got, Ian? What are those?

[John Holmberg]

Watermelon?

[Brady]

Yeah. Poor Ian. He was trying to make it work. Mom, just, just eat a whole. Eat the hot dog whole. Just, just all of it. Just go. We'll be right back with more sad news about Memorial Day. And he goes. And then the other girl on the news kept saying, happy Memorial Day. Like that's not a thing. You don't say that. Anyway, someday we'll all get it. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. Let's get a wake up song. We got a short week. That's a good thing. 585-9800 and we'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD Wagon, Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98 KUPD.

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[Brady]

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