06-05-25 - BR - THU - Bret's Operation Hydration Call In - Natl Moonshine Day Making Us Think About The Dukes Of Hazard And If They Were America's First Anti-Heroes

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Episode Summary: June 5, 2025

Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD delivers another engaging episode hosted by John Holmberg, featuring his co-hosts Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo. This episode, released on June 5, 2025, delves into community initiatives, pop culture insights, and listener interactions, all while maintaining the show's signature blend of humor and thought-provoking discussions.

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Operation Hydration: Community Outreach in Maryvale

The episode kicks off with John Holmberg and Bret Vesely discussing their ongoing community service project, Operation Hydration, aimed at collecting water donations for the Phoenix Rescue Mission. Brett is stationed at 83rd Avenue and Camelback in the vibrant (and humorously mispronounced "violent") village of Maryvale.

John Holmberg (02:05): "Maryvale is today's word. Because that's where Brett is standing for Operation Hydration today."

Brett highlights the generous contributions from local businesses such as Lerner Row, Amco, Safeway, and Albertson's. He shares anecdotes about interactions with donors, including a humorous exchange with a contributor who arrived with a family member only to have his donation handled by his daughter.

Brett Vesely (28:43): "He's got some Steeler memorabilia he wants to give you. So I'll be bringing that back to the station."

The team emphasizes the importance of corporate support to reach their ambitious goal of collecting a million bottles by Labor Day. They also engage listeners with promotional giveaways, encouraging text-ins with "Maryvale" as the keyword to win prizes ranging from gift certificates to pool tables.

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National Moonshine Day: The Dukes of Hazzard and Anti-Heroes

Transitioning to the Brady Report, Brady Bogen introduces the segment by celebrating National Moonshine Day. This leads to an in-depth discussion about the iconic TV show The Dukes of Hazzard and its portrayal of anti-heroes.

John Holmberg (08:56): "We were rooting for the antihero. Boss Hogg was right."

The hosts draw parallels between the Duke boys and modern anti-heroes like those in The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, exploring why audiences often sympathize with characters who operate outside the law.

Brett Vesely (10:03): "They never really got in a feud with other Brady. They just kept you away with flaming bows and arrows."

They humorously critique the show’s portrayal of the protagonists’ proficiency with bows and arrows instead of firearms, attributing it to fictional regulations that mirrored real-world gun control debates.

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Listener Interactions and Pop Culture Commentary

The episode features lively interactions with listeners, including a humorous segment where a caller debates whether Anne Frank could be considered an anti-hero. The hosts firmly dismiss this notion, reinforcing Anne Frank’s status as a true hero.

John Holmberg (21:07): "She's a hero, representative of millions of heroes. Read a book."

Additionally, the hosts discuss trending topics such as the introduction of "Awesome Sauce" flavor for Goldfish Crackers and an astonishing story about a Code Blue CPR company installing a defibrillator at Everest Base Camp, which subsequently saved a life three weeks after installation.

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Historical Anecdotes and Fun Facts

Brady Bogen shares intriguing historical tidbits, including the invention of the shopping cart in 1937 by Sylvan Goldman and the peculiar standards for divorce in 1300s England, where a man’s impotence was scrutinized as a means for women to file for divorce.

Brett Vesely (11:46): "There was a person that had that job, you know, I got results."

These segments blend education with entertainment, providing listeners with unusual and lesser-known facts that spark curiosity and conversation.

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Humorous Banter and On-Air Antics

The hosts maintain a light-hearted and humorous dynamic throughout the episode. A memorable moment involves a playful debate over misspelling "Maryvale" as "Maryville," leading to mockery of the residents and a tongue-in-cheek suggestion to alter the town's signage.

John Holmberg (05:24): "But it says on the sign, welcome to the vibrant village. A vibrant village. And you can see it says violent."

Further humor ensues as the hosts interact with a guest, Joey V, who grapples with his wife's attempts to declutter his Steelers memorabilia, resulting in comical negotiations and witty exchanges.

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Closing Remarks and Ongoing Initiatives

As the episode concludes, John Holmberg reiterates the importance of supporting Operation Hydration and encourages listeners to participate by donating water or contributing financially to sustain the initiative.

John Holmberg (31:59): "Safeway, 83rd Avenue, and Camelback. Drop off your donation of water for Operation Hydration from the Phoenix Rescue Mission."

The hosts wrap up by promoting upcoming giveaways, including a significant prize package for a man cave upgrade, and tease future segments, ensuring listeners are engaged and motivated to tune in regularly.

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Notable Quotes:

• John Holmberg (02:05): "Maryvale is today's word... because that's where Brett is standing for Operation Hydration today."

• Brett Vesely (28:43): "He's got some Steeler memorabilia he wants to give you. So I'll be bringing that back to the station."

• John Holmberg (08:56): "We were rooting for the antihero. Boss Hogg was right."

• John Holmberg (21:07): "She's a hero, representative of millions of heroes. Read a book."

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness exemplifies the show's commitment to community involvement, insightful pop culture analysis, and engaging listener interactions, all delivered with the hosts' characteristic humor and camaraderie.

Transcript

[Brad]

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[Gina Prion]

Time again to let you know where to go for some great comedy in the Valley this week. Check out hilarious comedian Brian Simpson and Tempe at the Improv doing sets for you. The lovely and very funny Gina Prion entertains you at the Desert Ridge Improv. And very good friend of the show, the one and only Christopher Titus performs all week for you at Stand Up Live. For the complete lineups and for tickets, go to standuplive.com desertridgeimprov.com and tempeimprov.com.

[John]

You'Ve been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. Brad's going out there this morning. He is our little Greta Thunberg. He's doing great things for the people, the environment. He's going to places that only he'll go.

[Brady]

Bretta Thurnberg.

[John]

He's. Yeah, that's right. He's Bretta. He's our little Bretta Vesselberg. And he's. He's out at, you know, Greta's going over there to Palestine. Brett's going to Maryvale. Just got a picture of Brett. I don't know if that's the one from last year, if he took a fresh one this year when he went by the welcome to Maryvale sign and in the background there's a. I don't think he knows this. Brett. Did you. Did you take that picture this morning or was that the one from last.

[Brad]

Year just a few minutes ago? No, that's this year since my traditional west.

[John]

Did you put the bag behind the sign?

[Brad]

No.

[John]

Look at the picture.

[Brad]

That's all I want.

[John]

There's a body bag. There's a body bag behind you.

[Brad]

Well, of course. Where. Where do you think I'm at. Come on.

[John]

That was intentional.

[Brad]

Then that's a par for a court.

[Brady]

No, that's.

[Brad]

I didn't do nothing. I literally went. Ran across the street, like playing Frogger over here and across 83rd Avenue, took the picture and then ran back.

[John]

Just so happened. There is literally a body bag in the background of that picture.

[Brad]

I gotta look at that. I didn't see that.

[John]

Yeah, unless the guy who sent it to me superimposed went in there. But it was a pretty good job if it was.

[Brad]

I have your. Well, go on Instagram and you. I posted it on my page, and the music that I played behind it is actually perfect for this.

[John]

He might have. It might be fake. It might be a fake look. Yeah.

[Brad]

Okay.

[John]

Yeah. You got the same one. Has it got the body bag in the background? Looks pretty good. Oh, Brad, how adorable.

[Brad]

I told you.

[John]

Okay. He did add it in.

[Brad]

All right.

[John]

Thank God. Great job. I was completely convinced. Kyle put it in. Yeah, Here, I'll forward that to Toledo and we'll make it. We'll make it. So this is the real picture because Kyle did a nice job with Photoshop that made it actually, where I'm like, hey, that looks pretty real. And I wasn't surprised by it in any way shape. No, of course not. Because A, it's Maryvale, and B, there you are. So you are in Maryvale right now, and that's a good thing. Look at you now. Stop it. Stop it.

[Brad]

What?

[John]

Stop it. Stop crying. Bretta Man Bun is also positive that he's sorry and people are sorry.

[Brett]

What would have happened on his.

[John]

Oh, yeah. Drew that used to work here is like, I didn't ever put you out.

[Brad]

I told him, come back immediately.

[John]

Yeah. But you are there now because you know what? It's for the greater good. There are parts of the valley you don't like being in. You make it very clear that Maryvale is one of them. And look at you. You're in it today. And why? Because it's for the greater good charity. That's right. It's because your health and the community and the Phoenix Rescue Mission needs it for every ounce of this city, including Maryvale, which Brett is now standing in 83rd and Camelback. What do you got going on out there? Help us out, Brett. What do we need to do?

[Brad]

All right, you guys know the drill. We are out here for Operation Hydration. We are collecting your water donations. All right? Like, you know, it's gonna get hotter. It's just. It's insane. So we need the water for everybody out there. All right, so come on out here, grab some water. If you don't got time, like we always say, swing by with an envelope. I'll go in and do some shopping. Guy from now electric's like, dude, I've got time. Here's. Here's 20 bucks. Go buy some water.

[John]

Nice.

[Brad]

All right, cool. So, yeah, and I got a shout out to the guys from the Arizona dot. They. They swung by, dropped off some water, and brought me some coffee since I had to come all the way out to Maryvale. So I appreciate that, but gotta thank our friends over at Lerner Row. Amco, of course, Safeway, and Albertson's putting up with us. And of course, it's all for the Phoenix Rescue mission. So come on out here. 83rd Avenue and Camelback and the vibrant village of Maryvale. It says it right on the sign.

[John]

But it says on the sign, welcome to the vibrant village. A vibrant village. And you can see it says violent. Vibrant and violent are very close. So you just. You scratch off the top of the B and make an L out of that R, and you've pretty much got violent village very close. You should go over and make that sign say a violent village.

[Brad]

I'm sure they sell Sharpies in here. I'll go get one. I'm on it. I'm practicing my old English writing right now.

[John]

Yeah, because you're just two slight moves away from turning vibrant into violence. As vibrant. Violet. All right, thank you, Brett. We'll talk to you soon. Stay safe if you can. All right. Brett's out there all morning. 83rd Avenue and Camelback. It's where the young man is, and he's doing nice things for the community. Phoenix Rescue Mission, Operation Hydration. It knows no boundaries. It doesn't know good or bad neighborhoods. It just knows need, and we have it. So it's a nice thing trying to get to a million bottles by the Labor Day. And last year, we got close, and it was a huge year. So what we're going to need this year is a lot of corporate help, a lot of companies that, you know, you want your name mentioned. You want us to talk about you at all? You want some free push? This is the only radio show in all the city that still works.

[Brett]

It's true in a number of different ways.

[John]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Is anyone still here? Does anybody check the parking lot?

[John]

The other places don't even show up for work. Like they know that. Even the tree in the forest. If nobody showed up and did a morning show at Katie kb, would anyone Notice. Would anyone hear it? So it still works here. I'm not bragging. I'm just saying. It is bragging. We're the only ones left. Kjr to a certain degree. Because they keep you up to date on stuff.

[Brett]

And safe Beth.

[John]

I'll give her credit. Beth has some people still like her a little bit. Outside of that. You're wasting your money if you advertise anywhere but here. I'm telling you, even with our other station, and I know that makes our bosses mad. That's. You're. You're getting fleece. That's just throw in at this point. They're just throwing it. You know that's true, Brady. And you're a former sales guy. You don't like hearing about if any of our salespeople go and you can have ks, like saying, just say no. We only want the kupd. Don't waste my money on the other two.

[Brett]

Just tell them I know what you're trying to do.

[John]

And I'll end up paying for that, too. Don't worry about it. I'll cover the bill. You guys won't pay for that. Look, I'll write a check for that if that's what it takes. If I'm allowed to say whatever I want. It just cost me a few thousand bucks every time. Look out, Katie, here we come. I didn't like what you said. What's that gonna cost me? Because I know if I just put money on it, it goes away.

[Brett]

Do I have to write again?

[John]

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[Brady]

Good Thursday morning to you, Phoenix.

[John]

Hello, world. Hi.

[Brady]

Happy National Moonshine Day. Okay, legal or the Drink achieved legendary status upon the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919.

[John]

That's what the Duke boys used to do for a living. You know, when you look at the Dukes of Hazzard, you have to realize, you know, that was the first Sopranos. That was. It was.

[Brett]

I see where you're going.

[John]

We were rooting for the antihero.

[Brett]

Yeah, yeah.

[John]

Boss Hogg was right.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[John]

He was stopping moonshine.

[Brady]

And did they ever have anyone else, I can't remember come in on the territory? Because they'd have their routes if they did.

[John]

They were.

[Brady]

They never really got in a feud with other Brady.

[John]

They never showed it. But they alluded to the idea that Bo and Luke were proficient with bow and arrow and weapons. They didn't shoot. They weren't violent. They kept you away with flaming bows and arrows. And they were very good at shooting. It was in the intro to the show. So I think basically coin vans were also very proficient, but just not as entertaining, not as good as driving. I mean, these two moonshiners were so good at evading the law. NASCAR called them and said, why don't you come out here for a year and give it a try? And they did. It's just the history of the Duke boys. But if you watch, that's the. Like, that's the first Sopranos. That's the first Breaking Bad where we rooted hard for the bad guys. Bo and Luke and Jesse. Jesse was a. You know, he should have gotten hit on RICO charges. Like that was a criminal enterprise.

[Brady]

Daisy.

[John]

Guarantee they weren't paying taxes. Beats all you ever saw. Been in trouble, win the lot.

[Brett]

Keep Daisy's name out your mouth.

[John]

Yeah, no, Daisy was.

[Brady]

He was in on it.

[John]

He was the complete in on it. She was Mrs. Gotti, anti hero. Rooting started with the Dukes of Hazzard. That gave television executives the idea, you know, if packaged properly, they'll root for the bad guy. We just have to make the good guys doofuses. And Cletus and Boss Hogg were 100% right. Roscoe P. Coltrane was a man on a mission. The Duke boys were the bad guys. And we rooted it. We wore shirts with them on it. Never got a Boss Hog shirt. He was the good guy, though. He wore white. They told us his whole suit was white. His hat was white. Was he a little corrupt? Sure. He's a politician, but he wore all white. He drove a white car. He was the good guy all through it all. And the Sopranos probably got the idea from the Dukes of Hazard.

[Brady]

That's all I'm saying a couple of basis fun facts. The shopping cart was introduced in 1937 is invented by a guy named Sylvan Goldman, the owner of the Humpty Dumpty grocery store chain in Oklahoma City. No one liked him. Men found them to be effeminate and women found them to be more of a baby carriage. They feel like they're getting away from one.

[John]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Now they got to bring another one in there. But eventually it became a hit and Sylvan became a multimillionaire of his royalties from the design.

[John]

Interesting. By the way, I got an email from Super Nintendo Boggs and she said, don't forget, Broomhead isn't in that mix over and like that's true. Broomhead does a good show. He gets some. He gets results with his stuff too. Fitz gets results from his.

[Brett]

Not as good as Ma' am. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John]

No, he gets great stuff. So yeah. I'm not saying people don't do good things. I'm just saying if you want results, there's like us, Bass, ktar, Broomhead, for sure. Not sure about their afternoon shows, even though I do go on the. The Gaydos one. But you know what I don't get after that? This is not a shot at Bruce and Larry. Nobody ever says, hey, heard you on the kcr. Normally you go on, you get a hit, you talk. I'll get a couple people that'll email and go, oh, I heard you on that.

[Brett]

We created our own problem by podcast. People in the afternoons are listening to our podcast rather than their.

[John]

That could be. But I've never once gotten like a wow, great job. Like unless I've told them right. Well, it's very rare.

[Brett]

Or you've said it. And then people go over to theirs.

[John]

Used to go on another radio show and get a lot of pop.

[Brett]

No, no.

[John]

Sickness. Medicate Homburg's morning sickness.

[Brady]

The producers of Gone with the win were fined $5,000 for using damn. In the movie.

[John]

Frankly, my Scarlet, I don't give a.

[Brady]

F. In the 1300s in England, one of the only ways for a woman to get divorced was if her husband was impotent.

[John]

What? He had to prove that.

[Brady]

Yeah. So there was an actual job for someone who would inspect the man's junk to determine if the wives claims were true.

[John]

What if he was just impotent for her ugly.

[Brett]

Right, right.

[John]

And. And could then a man divorce a woman because she stunk and that's why he couldn't get hard? Because back in those days there was no hygiene.

[Brady]

Right.

[Brett]

There was the first line, then the.

[Brady]

Person that had that job, you know, I got results.

[John]

He comes back and just wipes his eyes. Your honor. Not impotent. Yeah. Quite potent, actually.

[Brett]

Not for Nothing, but you're 13 minutes late on a word.

[John]

Oh, geez. You're 100, right? Good Lord. All right. Maryvale is today's word. Sorry about that. The man cave word today. 97936 is the number. Maryvale, we'll keep it alive till 9:15. Maryvale, text that thing, you'll get prompted back and you might walk away with this glorious man cave upgrade from our friends at Prestige Billiards. Twin Peaks. Helping out the wise coatings. They're out there. We got ourselves the men's game day. Oh, my. Game day. Men's health. Sorry. Yeah, awesome stuff. And today it's qualifier again. $50. A gift certificate there for Vaughn Hansen's meet and spirits in Mesa. And you'll get tickets to go see Breaking Benjamin in October. Good Lord, a lot of prizes.

[Brady]

The latest TikTok trend is adult tummy time. It's like the version for babies and it supposedly helps you reverse the effects of the time that you spend hunched over computers, phones and other devices. So the guy. There's a video and the guy, you lay backwards, you lay down on your tummy, put your arms up when you're looking at your phone and so you're.

[John]

Not hunched over like a teen girl.

[Brady]

Yep.

[John]

With your legs up in the air and your tummy in your. Like the way all, like, Britney Spears videos used to be, where she's on her bed on her tummy, like.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John]

Singing to you, writing in a notebook. Okay.

[Brady]

Weren't they laying around that way, too? A couple of girls in Greece and the one.

[John]

Yeah. They're always on the bed on their tummies with their legs up, doing, like, swingy legs. That's how you reverse bad posture.

[Brady]

Yeah. Can help with the hunching over.

[John]

Shouldn't you just get on a Swiss ball, lay backwards and bow up?

[Brady]

That would help.

[John]

I think so.

[Brett]

God damn it.

[Brady]

You don't have it.

[John]

That's true.

[Brett]

God damn it, John. Do you realize what you've done?

[John]

No.

[Brett]

You're going to give one of the qualifiers to a Maryvale ite?

[John]

Not necessarily. They can't spell their own city. He's crazy. They're not.

[Brett]

The way they're spelling it, it's pretty odd.

[John]

People in Maryville aren't wasting their time trying to win a game room. They become targets. People in Maryville, they don't have room for a game room, let alone it's the first of the month. They're not going to go wasting texts right now on scrambling. Well no, it's. They're. They've got a ton of them right now. They're not going to right now. They're in. All right, don't blow it early. If they find out at the end of the month they've got like 12 text left, they'll get maybe a game entry and they're not doing it in the beginning.

[Brady]

Not sure if you saw this but the founder of the company called Code Blue CPR climb Mount Everest in April to install a defibrillator at Everest base camp.

[John]

Hey, good idea.

[Brady]

The world's highest defibrillator just over 16,500ft three weeks ago.

[Brett]

That'll probably stand.

[Brady]

Three weeks after he got home he found it already had the Benin's on a 30 year old French woman who had a heart attack. It saved her life.

[John]

How about that? And actually Gary has corrected me and Gary is 100% right. Smoking the bandit was the first anti hero rooting like we loved him. Not just kind of like looked at him and winked. Smokey was before Smokey was the bad guy. There's or Bandit was the bad guy.

[Brady]

I think though the moonshiner movies, I mean there's ones before that they're always the.

[Brett]

They were just running Coors.

[John]

Well but they were breaking the law.

[Brady]

I remember.

[John]

But you didn't have an anti hero that took off in name and memory. Yes. White like the Bandit that caught America to the point where like we love. I'm gonna dress like the Bandit and I want his car and I want all the stuff. They weren't criminals. They were, I mean drugstore cowboy criminals. Drugstore cowboys in like the 2000s.

[Brett]

No, it wasn't. That was in the 70s.

[John]

Drugstore Cowboy. Gus Van Zandt. No, no, no. That's Midnight Cowboy or Midnight Cowboy.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[John]

And that wasn't rooting for an anti hero. That was just too freaky character things they weren't like breaking the law. Like Bonnie and Clyde were kind of anti heroes that people rooted for. But they got theirs.

[Brett]

And you knew that story by the time the movies.

[John]

You know the mob kind of always had that. But it was later like nobody rooted for Al Capone to get away. The Italians did.

[Brady]

But we have an AI company that's filed for bankruptcy. I believe it's builder AI. Microsoft backed the company originally with 1.5 billion and it was to work on their neural network. It discovered that the 1.5 billion. The cash was going towards a work for a workforce of over 700 Indian engineers rather than AI really.

[John]

People are now firing off all their Clint Eastwood in Every which Way But Lose. I thought he was a good guy.

[Brett]

I thought he was a good guy too. He wasn't doing any criminal enterprises other.

[John]

Than toting that orangutan.

[Brady]

Yeah, the tow truck. Was he a tow? Is that what his business was?

[John]

I think he was.

[Brett]

No, that was the Jeff. What was his name, his co star.

[John]

I don't know.

[Brady]

Had the tow truck and he borrowed it from him.

[John]

I don't remember that. That doesn't matter. Yeah, if we can't remember, it doesn't count, Right.

[Brett]

Another guy says, John, don't forget Bo and Luke Duke could not own firearms. That's why they had the archery. Because of their criminal backgrounds, they couldn't.

[John]

That's right. Forgot about that. That's why they had to get so good at archery is because they weren't allowed to have handguns or firearms. That's right, because the ATF was all over them. They were terrible.

[Brady]

This 81 year old woman, lives in Ocala, Florida, was arrested last week for pepper spraying. Her neighbors, including the woman and her two young girls, ages 3 and 6. They were pepper sprayed because the lady, the 81 year old lady was upset at the way what they were doing with bubbles. Oh, guess they're playing with bubbles out.

[John]

In the yard like that.

[Brady]

They were maybe going floating into her yard.

[John]

She was 81.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John]

Pretty close to being influenced by the wizard of Oz in like a bad way. Dumb generation. She thought bubbles made witches. Probably stayed away from that.

[Brady]

Finally, goldfish crackers will have a new flavor this month called awesome sauce. Maybe our guy Steve, the cookie man from Pepperidge Farm.

[John]

Maybe. I don't know.

[Brett]

There you go. When you call him out by name, he kind of puts him under some.

[John]

He's such a Jesus. I know. I'm gonna give you some freezos.

[Brady]

It's supposed to be similar to the hamburger sauce. The special sauce that you put on hamburgers. Sweet and smoky and tangy. They say it's impossible to resist.

[John]

Got a text from a guy who says, I don't know history too well. Wasn't Anne Frank kind of an anti. I'm like, what are you talking about? Which side were you on? Anti hero. What? Was she an anti hero? I don't know history all too well. I thought she was kind of high. She was hiding. Not because she was getting away with something? Depends on who you ask. No, she's not an anti hero. She's a hero hero. She's representative of millions of heroes. Geez Louise, read a book. Go on.

[Brady]

Got a few Brady videos. The first one is a historical fun fact. Oh, from January 24, 1961.

[John]

Okay.

[Brett]

Oh, hang on.

[Christopher Titus]

Johnson Air Force Base. When a fuel leak caused the right wing to fail. As the bomber fell apart, the bombs dropped to the ground.

[John]

Is this real?

[Christopher Titus]

Each bomb had a yield of 3 to 4 megatons. Over 250 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. One bomb deployed its parachute and landed intact. The other plummeted into a muddy field with several of its safety mechanisms failing. Incredibly, three of four safety switches malfunctioned and only a single low voltage switch prevented a catastrophic nuclear detonation.

[John]

We dropped where?

[Christopher Titus]

Most of eastern North Carolina.

[John]

North Carolina?

[Christopher Titus]

The US government kept the near disaster secret for decades. In 2013, a declassified report finally confirmed what had long been rumored.

[John]

That we dropped two nukes on North Carolina.

[Christopher Titus]

One nuking itself.

[Brady]

Is the plane broke?

[John]

Sure. We did it.

[Christopher Titus]

1961, a B52 bomber carrying two nuclear bombs.

[John]

May I ask this question? Why was a B52 bomber carrying two nuclear bombs over North Carolina to begin with? Shouldn't we be trucking those from place to place?

[Brett]

January 24, 1960.

[Brady]

Great idea, John.

[Brett]

Bay of Pigs. Was that 61?

[John]

Was that 62 closing in on that? Ah, but still, it's North Carolina. We could have driven that to Miami in a couple of days. It was October.

[Brett]

Maybe that. Well, that's where the Air Force base was.

[John]

January of 61. We didn't have the Bay of Pigs. Or we didn't even have the. The 13 days in October.

[Brett]

October, yeah.

[John]

10 months later.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[John]

When we were worried about nukes in Cuba.

[Brett]

Well, you make a bomb, John, you.

[Wise Coatings]

Got to transport it somewhere, right?

[John]

Trains, trucks, so in case it falls off. It's only a few feet. I don't think many nukes.

[Brady]

Safety switches.

[John]

I didn't know we had safety switches on them. And repeaters to boot. We dropped two nukes on North Carolina and they didn't go out. Could you imagine just sitting in your backyard barbecuing. You're like, what the hell is that? Parachuting in. It was a nuclear warhead.

[Brady]

There's so many things. It was fortunate landing in a field.

[John]

B52 bombers just floating around the NC. How about that?

[Brady]

Next one is in China. And they like doing these things where.

[John]

They have swings over giants caverns.

[Brady]

Yeah, this is this the spinny thing where you have two squares and you turn into one.

[John]

And it's over a cliff. But the views are beautiful. While you're being tortured for your crypto password. This is a dumb ride. This dude's coming off. This doesn't look safe. No, I don't trust any Chinese people who still wear those hats. Oh, he's done. It fell off. He's gone. It just untwisted itself from the moorings, and it's gone. And the guy in the little coolie hat who is dressed the most racist Chinese way I've ever seen. If you went to a Chinese restaurant, the guy was dressed like that, they'd shut it down.

[Brady]

They're like Kung Fu Panda.

[John]

Spin them. This thing isn't even spinning. It's like a screen door with a guy trapped in it. And the Chinese are loving it. Until now. Bye, population problem solve. Wow.

[Brady]

This is the definition of stick a poker up. A hot. Red hot poker. Upgrass this next video.

[John]

This is the definition of that phrase. You barely said an example. This is an example, okay, of like, a red hot poker, right? Oh, it's that in a guy's butt.

[Brady]

The guy was Hunt.

[John]

Oh, it was a guy hunched over in one of those, like, an I beam that's still being processed. So it's molten right through him. Just liquefied. The dude in China.

[Brett]

Oh, he's okay.

[John]

No, he's not.

[Brett]

He's. Well, he's moving.

[John]

It's not okay. I'd rather be dead. Have molten hot steel brush up against my nut sack. I don't even like getting grazed in the nuts, let alone an I beam that's in the process going through it.

[Brett]

Well, Dr. Lee's got a new method.

[John]

Well, good news is he can get divorced now because he's impotent.

[Brady]

Gotta check, gotta check.

[John]

No, I ain't looking at that. That's gonna look like burnt bacon. Sorry, China. I'll write you a check. Titus is coming in.

[Brett]

He's here.

[John]

He's in the kitchen. What's he doing here already?

[Brett]

I think he likes coming in early.

[John]

I see him. Did he drive himself again?

[Brett]

No, Brad's with him.

[John]

Okay, good. We'll talk to Titus.

[Brett]

Have some coffee, boys.

[John]

Yeah, Christopher, Titus is here. We'll talk to Brett one more time before he's all done out there on 83rd Avenue. And Camelback at the Safeway for Operation Hydration. Christopher Titus joins us next. It's 98. Sunburn's morning sickness, Medicaid. Can you pe. Morning sickness? Brett's out there this morning. And no correlation whatsoever to that song also. The word today for the man Cave upgrade to text in to try to win that thing is Maryvale. Maryvale is today's word for the man cave upgrade. 97936. Text away, see if you can qualify. Get yourself $50 gift card to Vaughn Hansen's Meat and Spirits. And into the drawing for the amazing man cave upgrade, which includes a pool table, ping pong table, air hockey. You get $200 gift certificate. You get the smoker $200 gift certificate to Twin Peaks. You get the floor coating from wise coatings. You get the game day men's health thousand dollar gift certificate. It's unbelievable what we're giving away this year and that's awesome. So Maryvale is today's word. Why is it today's word? Because that's where Brett is standing for Operation Hydration today. Brett is in Maryvale, 83rd Avenue and Camelback and hopefully doing very well with envelopes and drop offs and water donations for Operation Hydration. Brett, how's it going?

[Brad]

That's good. You should have made the word scary, not Maryville.

[John]

One in the same.

[Brad]

But yeah, no, we're doing good out here. Everybody's. Everybody's being very generous. Breaking my balls the entire time. But it's all good because we're doing it for a good cause. A to Z Poop Scoop stopped by, donated like 15 cases of water. So thanks to them ALS, Matt stopped by.

[John]

Okay.

[Brad]

He. He swung in and dropped off 40 bucks to go to go buy.

[John]

Wait a minute. Did he give it to you? Did you take it out of his pocket?

[Brad]

No, no, he actually had his daughter with him and she got it out of the wallet.

[John]

Okay, good. Yeah, somebody swiped it. He. He. Was he putting up a fit there? He can't really speak anymore, so maybe he didn't want to do this.

[Brad]

No, no, he was good about it. He was totally good about it.

[John]

Okay.

[Brad]

All right, but. And I got Joey V standing here.

[John]

He's.

[Brad]

He's made a donation. And plus he's got some. He's got some Steeler memorabilia he wants to give you. So I'll be bringing that back to the station.

[John]

Oh, Joey V. His wife.

[Brad]

Yeah, his wife's making him get rid of it, apparently.

[John]

What in the world?

[Brad]

Kind of. I don't know. Wanna talk to him? Wanna yell at him?

[John]

No, because I'm worried that I'm gonna catch what he has and I have to give away my things. What is his wife making? Wait a minute.

[Brad]

Yeah, I don't know.

[John]

And get him on the phone.

[Brady]

That's bad, Moj.

[John]

I got a guest here, but this. I can't take this. Hello, Joey. I'll gladly take your stuff off your hands, but why is your wife making you give away your passion?

[H]

Well, they. I fought it for quite some time that she. She ultimately tends to win.

[John]

She holds the vagina hostage. That's why. This is hostage negotiations. Is she saying that she wants to le. With you if you keep the Steeler stuff?

[H]

What's that?

[John]

Is she taking away vagina?

[H]

No, no, no, no, no. Is she re. Redoing the kitchen so, you know, they've been there. I'm grateful they've been in there for.

[Brad]

A year or two.

[John]

So what are we talking about? She might be right. Why did you decorate your Steelers kitchen?

[Brady]

Steelers KitchenAid mixer?

[John]

Yeah. What is it in there?

[H]

No, no, they're. They're cool little statues. One is for the Steelers. The other one is iceberg for the penguins and the pirate parrot.

[John]

And you thought that the kitchen was the best place for this stuff?

[H]

Absolutely. I thought they looked great, but she had another opinion.

[John]

Well, Joey, hold on. Don't. I am too. I think she might be right. Don't give them away. Move them.

[H]

Yeah, I don't think that's gonna work out.

[John]

You're in trouble again. You've done some overcooked it. My guess is Joey's been in trouble in the past, and he's just like, I'm not going down Italian. Okay, I gotcha. All right, Joey. All right. Give the phone back to Brett. You worry me, but I put a.

[Brady]

You could put a witch hat on items in their kitchen matches.

[John]

My thought is Joey's been caught with his. He's been caught with his goomar, and there's no chance he can argue with her anymore without fear of her bringing that up. So she's got an ace up herself.

[Brady]

These look great.

[John]

There's no way. Yeah, there's no way. Joey's like, all right, all right, all right. Get rid of my Steelers crap. Just don't bring up the girl. All right? Anyway, you know what?

[Brady]

At least he's like, I'm gonna give them to you. Yeah, but you have to promise me they go in the kitchen.

[John]

If I give away my Steelers, I'm telling you right now, if I give away my Steelers, you can't mention a girl ever again.

[Brett]

I want you.

[Brady]

What? I want you.

[John]

Son of a. All right, never mind. Brett, you're in Maryville. Expect this kind of domestic violence to occur there and again to her credit. The kitchen is not for your sports memorabilia. She might be right. All right, Burke's out there for a little while longer. Safeway, 83rd Avenue, and Camelback. All the fun stuff, free things. He's giving it away. And good job, Brett. You survived Maryville. Well, it's not over yet. Let's not jinx it. We'll get you back here.

[Brad]

15 minutes.

[John]

All right. Thank you, Brett. We'll talk to you a little bit.

[Brad]

All right?

[John]

There you go. Safeway, 83rd Avenue, and Camelback. Drop off your donation of water for Operation Hydration from the Phoenix Rescue Mission. Titus is next. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually.

[Brady]

No membership fees.

[John]

I have heard enough of this.