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John Holmberg
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John Holmberg
By texting 64,000 you agree to receive recurring automated marketing messages from Pocket Host. Message and data rates may apply. No purchase required. Terms apply. Available@pocket host.com terms we're going to break it out a little early today. Nothing wrong with that. Before we get to the Brady Report, a guy emailed and said could you give a shout out to Scottsdale Police Officer Ryan so and his family. Today is his one year end of watch anniversary. Thank you. Well, always. Yeah, Ryan. So. And thanks to all the officers and men and women who do all that job for us and protect away in the weirdest possible times doing all sorts of strange stuff. So yeah, absolutely it's an anniversary. I guess you wouldn't say happy anniversary, but it is his anniversary so to him and his family again, thank you for everything. And all the folks out there right now are patrolling and running around being insane people keeping an eye on stuff for us. Always should say thank you to them. It is man cave day, so at 8 o' clock our contestants roll in and we do our contest to try to give away the world's greatest man cave, which is pretty awesome. Meathead should be here any minute. Some of the contestants are milling around downstairs. Dale Hellas Tree is going to come in, help us judge it and then we'll all have. Somebody will have a man cave by the end of the day. That's going to be pretty great. In the meantime, we got to get all the news Brady knows. Brought to you by All Pro Shade Concepts. AllProChade.com is where you go, you want to put some shade in that yard of yours. Darn it all, they'll do it. They also like, you can talk them into other stuff for like your garage and your cars and things like that. You can do like parking shade and things like that. It's. Somebody asked me that the other day and I'm like, yeah, why wouldn't they? I mean they talked about building me one out here for my.
Dick Toledo
Because I park in the structure so.
John Holmberg
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Dick Toledo
If it's. Yeah, if it's taking the sun, it's getting beat up tops. Your 5 year warranty is 2 years.
John Holmberg
It doesn't count. 5 year warranty everywhere but Arizona. They'll take care of your stuff, save you some money in the meantime because the sun just damages everything that you want shaded. So put some shade over that beautiful spot in your yard. Check out Brady's commercial on and I believe. Very funny.
Dick Toledo
Today, Friday 13th. If you get a quote today.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
You'll get 13% off.
John Holmberg
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Dick Toledo
Good Friday morning to you, Phoenix. Hello world. We've made it.
John Holmberg
I know that guy. We got trouble. All right, we had the man cave. People are rolling into our hallway and they're gonna stare in the window now.
Dick Toledo
National Blame Someone else Day.
John Holmberg
All right.
Dick Toledo
It's also. It's a big one for Toledo. National Sewing Machine Day.
John Holmberg
Oh, for his son.
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
John Holmberg
I hope his son.
Dick Toledo
He's a big fan of Isaac Singer. Probably.
John Holmberg
That's probably it. Yeah. Is that why it's National Sewing Machine Day? It's Isaac's birthday. Hopefully Toledo's kid, like, sews him a pair of pants or a new suit or something for Father's Day. Hi, Richard. What do you think you're getting for Father's Day? Probably what you said of pants.
Toledo's Son
Oh, sure.
John Holmberg
Sewn homemade pants. You gotta wear those Monday if you get homemade pants. F. No. Yes. I want to see those Greg Brady pants. Rolling in. Hey, my birthday's right around the corner. Can I get some homemade pants too? 100. All right, I will.
Toledo's Son
I will absolutely do that.
John Holmberg
Toledo and I had a nice talk yesterday about the boy who's now out of that apartment. And to Toledo's credit, he made it all the way through the end of the lease. But did Toledo paid every month?
Toledo's Son
Because I had to.
John Holmberg
Right. And we said that.
Toledo's Son
I know.
John Holmberg
So it technically doesn't count as he's back by November. He's back by Christmas. Because you paid for him to not come back.
Toledo's Son
Yeah, if you want to get technical. So I paid for November. So whoever had the early November was right, technically, because that's when I paid.
John Holmberg
I believe I had November 6th, Brady had Thanksgiving, and you had Christmas around. Right. Right after Thanksgiving, you said June, and I'm like, there's no way this kid makes it. I gave you the fact you're gonna pay his first two months. Yeah, because he was. He was down there with not no job. Stayed down there with no job. Yeah. Never got a job.
Toledo's Son
Come on. He was grubhubbing. That's a job.
John Holmberg
Covered him till June. And now he's back up here again, grindering, you know. Hey, that started the gulp. That was. You know, Brady did accuse.
Dick Toledo
Look at me.
John Holmberg
Oh, no, no, no. Well, credit to his upbringing.
Toledo's Son
Look at me.
John Holmberg
You started me.
Dick Toledo
Gulp.
John Holmberg
No, don't bring it up. It's Brady's Day National. Blame someone else. That's true, Cuz. There's nobody who said gulp except you. All of us stayed off of that.
Richard Karn
Go peek and pay his rent now.
John Holmberg
Look at him, squirming and denying.
Toledo's Son
Guilt wash over your face because you have a daughter?
John Holmberg
I just. I just made Toledo's son a gulp. But to his Credit and to his upbringing. The boy never resorted to blowjobs for paying rent. And that is good parenting.
Dick Toledo
It is.
John Holmberg
Dad just paid the bills. So it kept his son off the streets, but we all kind of lost the bet. But technically he wouldn't have made it a month and a half if, you know the daddy is right.
Toledo's Son
Because that's the day that late charges start to be.
John Holmberg
Yeah, you learned that again, didn't you? Yeah.
Dick Toledo
Today's the Only Friday the 13th of 2025.
John Holmberg
This is the only one.
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
John Holmberg
All right, well, enjoy it.
Dick Toledo
And Krispy Kreme. You buy a dozen, you get a second dozen for 13 cents.
John Holmberg
They're celebrating it now. You get deals. All right. What you get a 24 donuts. Well, how much does a dozen donuts cost? I'm gonna take a shot. 10 or 12 bucks. Yeah.
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
John Holmberg
So 12, 13, 24 donuts.
Toledo's Son
50 cents a donut, John. That's a bargain.
John Holmberg
Feel bad for donuts because people always buy that extra 12 and it just sits in the office and rots. It's always. Or people.
Toledo's Son
The next day people come and take like, here, they take bites out of it.
John Holmberg
I've never seen that.
Toledo's Son
Like, no. With like a nice.
John Holmberg
Yeah, they cut it. Yeah, yeah.
Toledo's Son
No, so they take like little pieces of it.
John Holmberg
Office rule. You take the whole donut.
Dick Toledo
You don't leave the half.
John Holmberg
You don't do that. My sister used to do that Intamin's donuts sitting on top of the fridge before school. I grab an intimate stone. I'd reach in there and feel a crusty half. And there were two crusty halves. I'm like, look, you cut one in half, tomorrow you eat the other half.
Toledo's Son
But anybody.
John Holmberg
That's your fault, you. You reckon. There's only six in there and you've already crushed two. And I can't have either of them. You're getting fat. Anyway, I would always tell her that they're making her fat. They're looking a little thick anyway. Should lay off the intimates.
Dick Toledo
Couple of basis fun facts. There were only 25 episodes of the original Scooby Doo.
John Holmberg
What?
Dick Toledo
Debuted on CBS in 1969 and 16 more were added in 1978. And there's been a steady stream of reboots and wait spin offs. Scooby Doo. 25 episodes.
John Holmberg
Have an episode made from 69 to 78, evidently.
Toledo's Son
Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? And then there was Scooby and Friends.
John Holmberg
Well, that was over. Yeah, yeah, that's. There were only 25 of them. When Scrappy showed up.
Dick Toledo
It's like, okay, 16 more so total.
John Holmberg
Yeah, 41. How about that? Of the original Casey K. Some as Shaggy and then. And then there was the other ones in the 80s when they did have Scrappy Doo and. Yeah, garbage. That Scooby Dumb. Was he an original or is. Did he. Scooby Dumb came in the late 70s. Okay.
Toledo's Son
That was.
John Holmberg
That was when they started in with the spin off special guests. And when the Harlem Globetrotter showed up for no reason.
Toledo's Son
That was a fun episode.
John Holmberg
It was a fun episode. That was a. Didn't they make them.
Toledo's Son
You know, they got their own cartoon.
John Holmberg
I think that's pretty great. The Globetrotters were pretty good. Globetrotters had. Yeah, their cartoon had a great theme song too.
Dick Toledo
The first black video game character was in an atari game. Basketball, 1979. Well, that's racist.
John Holmberg
Georgia Brown theme playing and one of them was Atari.
Dick Toledo
Atari.
John Holmberg
So it's just a.
Toledo's Son
It's just black.
John Holmberg
Four bit black dots.
Toledo's Son
Black dots.
John Holmberg
Pass it to him. Was he great?
Dick Toledo
I don't know.
John Holmberg
Did he. Did it.
Toledo's Son
Did they have Asians?
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah. Lord, they're getting the credit for it. Yeah. The first black because it said sweet river Banes under him. They were like, I bet she was the best one.
Dick Toledo
During the 1960s, Batman TV series Robin said 356 different things after the word holy.
John Holmberg
Wow.
Dick Toledo
Including holy armadillo, holy hamburger, holy grammar and holy unrefillable prescriptions.
John Holmberg
You said that one. Holy Robin. I didn't realize how often you said holy something. A fantastic phrase you've developed, old chum. How in the world was I not arrested for pedophilia? Clearly hanging around this young teen, bright eyed and bushy tailed at every turn.
Dick Toledo
You could have been James Bond.
John Holmberg
I could have been James Bond. But I was too busy fighting crime in Gotham with my teen lover. Holy turndown. That's exactly right. Holy trousersnake was the one I always wanted to hear.
Dick Toledo
Because there's a toy in every Happy Meal. McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys.
John Holmberg
Really?
Dick Toledo
Similar note, the largest producer of tires in the world.
John Holmberg
Lego or Mattel. I was going to say one of them makes the little cars go to Legoland and they.
Toledo's Son
They say that there's a plaque.
John Holmberg
Yeah, because they have little baby. But they're not, are they? Those foamy tires, Are they like rubber tires? No kidding. Yeah. All right, that's. That's weird.
Dick Toledo
In the northern Chinese city of Shenyang, there's a viral.
John Holmberg
I can't watch that again. Almost vomited Struggled. Yeah. His face just went contorted.
Dick Toledo
They're. They believe by swinging by your neck. They set up these like mini jungle gyms in a way. They're often prelims. And they put a chin strap swing and they swing by their necks. They say it helps them sleep.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it does. It's called dying.
Dick Toledo
And it's called. They're saying, you know, doctors are. Chime in, say, no, do not do this because you can ruin your.
John Holmberg
You can hang your alignment.
Dick Toledo
You can hang yourself. Get tangled up. Here's a example of how they're.
John Holmberg
No. Yeah, hanging. No. This is a terrible idea. This is Japanese people hanging from trees. This is terrible. They have it in park, guys.
Dick Toledo
Airborne there.
Richard Karn
My God.
John Holmberg
He's just. He's just running like. It's like putting your head in a child's swing.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, he just. It's like a giant chin strap.
John Holmberg
Oh, this is a terrible idea. There's gonna be a lot of dead Japanese people.
Dick Toledo
Oh, Jesus.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
And now it's time for some science news.
John Holmberg
Yep. Oh, Toledo wasn't ready. He's busy today a little bit. Mike, the IT guy's here, says those cameras must be on. Huh?
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John Holmberg
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Dick Toledo
We got a guy in Indianapolis. I got caught shoplifting at a family dollar store on Monday. Initially got away, but no word on what merch he stole. But it's family dollar. There's a lot of options. But an employee named Jerome Step Brady.
John Holmberg
Gives him a little plug in there. The options are endless when you're stealing from family dollar.
Dick Toledo
Family dollar employee Jerome Step. Once the cops were called, he decided to go look for the guy himself. Found him 15 minutes later, just a few blocks away and shot him in the butt.
John Holmberg
Ain't nobody stealing from my family Dollar. That your ass.
Dick Toledo
Another employee was with room. Yeah.
John Holmberg
My dead presidents.
Dick Toledo
Another employee was with Jerome when it happened. Police said it was his fiance. They both work at the family.
John Holmberg
Oh, he met love. He found love. Love at the family Dollar.
Dick Toledo
Don't get her name.
John Holmberg
Don't. What? Don't. I'm trying to get a full story. You just want. You want to see if you can get another wedding DJ gig. Your collection will not from yesterday. Here's whip nae nae again. See all those family dollar employees. Can you imagine how bad the family dollar couple wedding's gonna be? Their wedding is gonna be terrible. The cake is gonna be awful.
Dick Toledo
He fired two shots and the guy dropped the stolen merch. And the second one hit him in the backside. It's not clear what kind of charges he's facing, but Jerome is the one who's really in trouble.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
Well, you can't just shoot a guy for shoplifting.
John Holmberg
Well, you can. You just got to kill him and say that he. And then plant a gun on him.
Dick Toledo
He's facing two felony charges.
John Holmberg
You don't shoot a guy in the ass and then, like, leave him talking. If you're gonna pull the trigger, end it. And then start rattling off that the dude said crazy stuff and was gonna kill you. And then immediately shoot out the surveillance cameras. Yes, you work there. Go back, grab the. Shoot the computer that has it all. Yeah, shoot your fiance. Just start running. Yeah, life isn't good anyway. You're a family dollar employee. Run.
Dick Toledo
And now it's time for some science news. Hey, my Friends, Professor Brady Bogan here with your science news. A study found drinking sugar is worse than eating it because of how our body processes the food versus liquids. Even if the same amount of sugar, like soda is more likely to give you diabetes. And candy bars.
John Holmberg
So if you're drinking a Coke, it's terrible. If you're eating a Coke, it's delicious and fine.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. And solidify the coke. Make a Coke bar.
John Holmberg
Coke bars. There you go. Yeah. So like a candy bar, your. Your body's like thank you. I can handle this. But you drink a coke and you're. You're gonna get your feet cut off.
Dick Toledo
A study found if you're trying to lose weight, you should do cardio after you lift. A lot of people do the opposite. They do cardio as warm up. But they found weightlifting followed by cardio works better. The killer asteroid that will miss US in 2032 could still hit the moon. And the odds just went up again. There's now a 4.3 chance lunar impact.
John Holmberg
4.3% percent. Okay. That's high for normally those numbers are like it's 25 billion miles away. It's too close. It's actually. I don't like that. They're not sure.
Dick Toledo
But they're saying even if Edmonton had.
Toledo's Son
A lesser chance last night. Yeah.
John Holmberg
Oh my God. Fanduel this because if Edmonton's in charge that meteors it's going to win it. And Florida. Florida was all done. God, what a game.
Dick Toledo
But they're saying even if it happens, it's not big enough to alter the moon's orbit.
John Holmberg
They're not sure. You give me 4% odds on that. And they're still talking about what could happen. You don't know. Can't. We got to shoot it down. We got to get the. Gotta get the roughnecks up there and Bushemi this thing, man. I don't like when science tells us that. Just let us be like let us find out the hard way on those.
Toledo's Son
Absolutely.
John Holmberg
Don't warn me.
Toledo's Son
What's the big shadow head?
John Holmberg
Yeah. Who knows. You know what? Be happy.
Dick Toledo
This is amazing. A study found the way we breathe through our nose is unique. Like fingerprints. Researchers created a wearable device that can ID people with a 97 accuracy based on their breathing. That's better than a lot of voice recognition systems.
John Holmberg
They can kind of like identify you.
Dick Toledo
Breathing through your nose.
Toledo's Son
Kind of like your voice the way it.
John Holmberg
You know that's what he's saying. Better than your voice because it's like you're unique to you.
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
John Holmberg
By the way, I got an email. It says the first black character in a game was called heavyweight champ in 1976. Atari's basketball game was in 79. There was video games in 76.
Toledo's Son
Oh, yeah. Atari came out, I think, around 76.
John Holmberg
It did. Which is Palm.
Toledo's Son
I think so.
John Holmberg
For years, Yeah.
Dick Toledo
I just went along, but.
John Holmberg
And then Heavyweight Champ had a. I remember the boxing on Atari, but.
Dick Toledo
It.
John Holmberg
Was a green one. I don't think it was racially motive. I think. I'm pretty sure that it was just whatever they could come up with at the time. That looked enough like.
Toledo's Son
September 1977 was heavyweight champ. 600. That's one.
John Holmberg
The 2600 came out in 77. That's not right. Yes.
Toledo's Son
September 27th or September 1977.
John Holmberg
The Atari 2600. That was the good one.
Toledo's Son
Yeah. No, that was the OG. 2600 was the OG.
John Holmberg
I don't remember that.
Toledo's Son
5200 was the next step up.
John Holmberg
I remember it being Atari. Atari 2600, then the 52. The Atari was just the paddles. It was garbage.
Toledo's Son
No, you had the generous, too.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Was that the weird sticks? Pong was the thing. The paddle with the one button. Yeah, that was the 2600. I thought that was. But Pong was before Atari. None of this matters. And nobody was black.
Dick Toledo
That's a science.
John Holmberg
Why do we got to make everything? Why do we. Nobody was black in the seventies. Ask the Mormons. The Mormons will tell you.
Dick Toledo
Not sure. Finally. See this? The University of Central Florida has named their football stadium the Acrisure Bounce House.
John Holmberg
Really?
Dick Toledo
Ucf.
John Holmberg
The Banking Bounce House.
Dick Toledo
Yep.
John Holmberg
Why?
Dick Toledo
That's what they. You know, they name football fields, like the shoe. The Big House.
John Holmberg
Yeah. But that's the nickname. Acrisure is an actual company.
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
John Holmberg
The Big House. Yeah. No, Bounce house. Oh, I thought you said the Big House, Ray Lewis. Oh, that would be a good team. Yeah. The Big House team. All right, there you go. You got videos. Brett's got. No, we're. Yeah, we're. Hold Brett's. Brady, let's see yours, because Brett's are going to go on for the. No, no. Brett says, let me load them because.
Toledo's Son
I didn't know we were going to go.
John Holmberg
Brett's Friday videos are going to be part of the Man Cave upgrade in honor of Marv Albert's birthday. They're gonna have to do play by play for the videos that Brett will display to them and I. We haven't seen the videos. You've seen one or two of them, but there's two Fresh ones in there. Two brand new ones. All right, so Brett's videos will play during the man cave upgrade in honor of the great Marv Albert, who I think turned 81. Just hard to believe. Is he still alive?
Dick Toledo
I think he's 84.
John Holmberg
Is he older? Yeah. Is he alive or down here? Remember, if Marv's alive. Yeah.
Dick Toledo
All right, first one is some guy with a laser pointer at his giant grasshopper.
John Holmberg
Always pointing it at a huge grass. Oh, geez. It starts him on fire. Yeah, you can do that with a laser pointer.
Dick Toledo
I don't know if it's. I mean, obviously it's a little more than a laser.
John Holmberg
Yeah, you think? That's not a laser pointer. That's a death beam. It's starting him on fire. Well, what is this? What does Darth Vader have here? Brady, what is this?
Dick Toledo
I don't know, but it's only, you know, works on the.
John Holmberg
It.
Dick Toledo
It didn't go through the metal or anything?
John Holmberg
No, it didn't. It just cooked the bug. I want this. I would never leave the house at night. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? So it only cooks grasshoppers? I mean, it's the thing smell.
Dick Toledo
Seems like it's working on that.
John Holmberg
It doesn't do anything to the ground or the stuff it's touching around it. I mean, I've pointed it at dogs and cats. That's crazy. I want whatever that is. Can you buy that?
Toledo's Son
Sure you can, Mike.
John Holmberg
Build one of those immediately. You're an IT guy. He can do this.
Dick Toledo
Next one's the Mexican chair fight.
John Holmberg
Oh, that's a. That's a tradition.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, it's a tradition. Watch how this guy. This guy's cheap now.
John Holmberg
Yeah, this is a real thing. Thing. This isn't like a fight that broke out.
Dick Toledo
He takes one, he's like, okay, I'm done. I'm done.
John Holmberg
There's chairs everywhere and Mexicans chucking them at each other. What appears to be some sort of choreographed event of chair throwing. Each side has an equal amount of fold up chairs. That's what good cameras in Maryvale nowadays, man. This is awesome. I think this quinceanera has gone sideways. Guarantee it's not them fighting over who's the baby. It is.
Dick Toledo
A couple running.
John Holmberg
I want to be at one of those.
Dick Toledo
Couple running down the street and the. Looks like the. The lab or golden retriever takes her out.
John Holmberg
Okay. Just jogging towards each other. Oh, yes. A lab jumps in front of two runners and just topples the girl. Oh, a full on scorpion. Oh, the dog's okay, right? Yep. Dog's up. Yeah, she's down. But that's all right. She's having fun. Yeah, he got her. She lands solid.
Dick Toledo
And the last one is a guy chucking a rock at a car.
John Holmberg
It's illegal. Is this in the riots?
Dick Toledo
I don't think so. So. And then at the end, there is cussing at the end. Okay, so he throws a big rock at that car.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
And you think it's done.
John Holmberg
Oh, he picks up another one and he's chucking it again at another car. Same car. He's still mad at all that car gets mad. He's going. Oh, he's going back at him. Oh, ye. He hits the rock thrower.
Dick Toledo
Justice.
John Holmberg
He turned around, right? You turned and hit the rock thrower with his ultima. Did you get your prick? Yeah, I completely agree. That dude makes. Hey, look, by the way, good arm.
Dick Toledo
He did get some distance.
John Holmberg
He's two for two by my count. That was pretty impressive. All right, don't throw rocks at cars. And get me one of those lasers. Guy says, figure out, John, where to get that laser. I absolutely must know. I have a dream of getting drunk and going through my backyard with a black light to find scorpions and burning them. I'll tell you, there's nothing better than getting a boxing glove and a pair of scissors. Have a black light in your mouth and go out to scorpion hunt. Boxing glove on your strong hand, scissors in your offhand, light up that little scorpion, cut his tail off and punch him against the wall. It is an extremely fun night because you think your light's gonna stay on him the whole time. And your head moves and you lose them for a second, and then you gotta find them. And you've got scissors in one hand and a boxing glove in the other. You're. You're your own dangerous animal. Scorpion hunting is a blast, especially when you make it physical. Sure, anybody can shoot spray at them.
Dick Toledo
We're in the season right now.
John Holmberg
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Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: June 13, 2025
Title: In The '60s Batman Series Robin Said 360 Different Holys - Family Dollar Manager Named Jerome Shoots Shoplifter In The Butt
Introduction
In this energetic and engaging episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD, host John Holmberg, alongside co-hosts Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo, navigates through a blend of humor, community shout-outs, intriguing news segments, and listener interactions. Skipping the advertisements and introductory segments, the episode dives straight into content that ranges from nostalgic TV references to a controversial incident at a Family Dollar store.
Community Shout-Out and Contest Announcement
The show begins with John Holmberg acknowledging a listener's email requesting a shout-out to Scottsdale Police Officer Ryan So and his family on the one-year end-of-watch anniversary. Holmberg extends gratitude not only to Officer So but also to all law enforcement officers who diligently protect the community.
"Thank you for everything. And all the folks out there right now are patrolling and running around being insane people keeping an eye on stuff for us."
— John Holmberg [02:12]
Following this, Holmberg announces the ongoing "Man Cave Day" contest. Contestants are preparing their entries, with Dale Hellas Tree joining as a judge to help determine the winner, who will receive the "world's greatest man cave."
Brady Report and Sponsored Segments
Brady Bogen takes over with updates and sponsored segments, promoting local comedy shows and All Pro Shade Concepts. The discussion includes humorous banter about installing shades to protect patio furniture from the harsh Arizona sun.
"Cooling everything that you want shaded. Check out Brady's commercial on and I believe. Very funny."
— John Holmberg [03:59]
National Days and Personal Anecdotes
Dick Toledo introduces various national observances, including "National Blame Someone Else Day" and "National Sewing Machine Day," particularly highlighting its significance to his son's interests. The conversation shifts to personal stories about Toledo's son and managing household responsibilities, blending humor with relatable family dynamics.
"I just. I just made Toledo's son a gulp. But to his Credit and to his upbringing. The boy never resorted to blowjobs for paying rent. And that is good parenting."
— John Holmberg [06:51]
Controversial Incident at Family Dollar
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing a disturbing incident involving Family Dollar employee Jerome Step, who allegedly shot a shoplifter in the butt after the individual was caught stealing. The hosts delve into the details, expressing shock and debate over the appropriate response to shoplifting.
"A Family Dollar employee Jerome Step Brady... shot him in the butt."
— Dick Toledo [15:25]
Holmberg and Toledo engage in a spirited discussion about the ethics and legality of Jerome's actions, with Holmberg sarcastically suggesting further extreme measures and questioning Jerome's justification.
"You can't just shoot a guy for shoplifting."
— Dick Toledo [16:37]
The conversation highlights the complexities of dealing with theft and the potential consequences of taking law enforcement into one's own hands.
Science News Segment
Transitioning to lighter topics, Brady Bogen presents the latest in science news. Key highlights include:
Sugar Consumption:
A study reveals that drinking sugar is worse than eating it due to how the body processes liquids versus solids. Liquids like soda are more likely to contribute to diabetes compared to solid forms like candy bars.
"If you're drinking a Coke, it's terrible. If you're eating a Coke, it's delicious and fine."
— John Holmberg [17:37]
Exercise Timing:
Research suggests that performing cardio after weightlifting is more effective for weight loss than doing cardio beforehand, contrary to popular belief.
Asteroid Near the Moon:
An asteroid projected to miss the US in 2032 now has a 4.3% chance of impacting the moon, raising concerns about potential future effects on Earth's natural satellite.
"4.3% percent. Okay. That's high... They're not sure."
— John Holmberg [18:27]
Unique Breathing Patterns:
Scientists have discovered that the way individuals breathe through their noses is as unique as fingerprints, allowing for identification with 97% accuracy using wearable devices.
"A study found the way we breathe through our nose is unique. Like fingerprints."
— Dick Toledo [19:23]
Nostalgic TV Trivia: The '60s Batman Series
The hosts reminisce about the classic '60s Batman TV series, focusing on the character Robin and his frequent exclamations of "Holy [X]!" They share fun facts about Robin's 360 different "holys," adding a humorous twist to the conversation.
"During the 1960s, Batman TV series Robin said 356 different things after the word holy."
— Dick Toledo [10:20]
This segment blends nostalgia with light-hearted humor, appealing to fans of the iconic series.
Technology and Viral Videos
Dick Toledo introduces viral videos, including:
Laser Pointer Grasshopper Incident:
A humorous yet concerning video where a laser pointer is used to start a grasshopper on fire, prompting safety discussions about the misuse of such devices.
"It's like putting your head in a child's swing... You can't hang your alignment."
— John Holmberg [12:25]
Mexican Chair Fight:
A choreographed event of chair throwing, perceived humorously as part of a quinceañera, showcasing cultural traditions with a comedic lens.
Rock-Throwing Altercation:
A dramatic video of an individual throwing rocks at cars, leading to a confrontation that underscores the futility and danger of such actions.
Holmberg encourages responsible behavior and humorously contemplates the extreme scenarios depicted in the videos.
Man Cave Upgrade and Upcoming Contest
As the episode progresses, the focus shifts back to the "Man Cave Day" contest. Host John Holmberg teases an upcoming man cave upgrade game, sponsored by Prestige Billiards, highlighting the anticipation among contestants and the arrival of a judge, Dale Hellas Tree.
"We're 15 minutes away from the glorious man cave upgrade game, brought to you by our friends at Prestige Billiards."
— Dick Toledo [26:46]
Conclusion
The episode concludes with the hosts reflecting on the day's discussions, reinforcing community connections, and maintaining their signature blend of humor and insightful commentary. The mix of personal anecdotes, news segments, and interactive contests ensures an engaging listen for both regular and new audience members.
Notable Quotes:
"Nobody was stealing from my Family Dollar. That's your ass."
— John Holmberg [15:38]
"Holmberg's morning sickness."
— John Holmberg [14:58]
"Feel bad for donuts because people always buy that extra 12 and it just sits in the office and rots."
— John Holmberg [07:44]
Closing Remarks
Holmberg's Morning Sickness delivers a dynamic and multifaceted episode that entertains while addressing relevant community issues and fascinating scientific discoveries. The camaraderie among the hosts and their ability to weave humor into serious topics make this episode a standout for listeners seeking both laughter and thoughtful discussion.