06-18-25 - BR - THU - Study On Trust And Which Countries Are Most Trustworthy And Toledo's Wife Was In No Kings Protest - Man Attacked By Man w/Wooden Stake He Thought Was A Werewolf

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Episode Summary: June 18, 2025

Host: John Holmberg
Co-hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo
Release Date: June 18, 2025

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1. The Impact of Trust on Happiness

The episode delves into a recent study from the Netherlands that explores the relationship between trust and overall happiness across different age groups. Brady introduces the topic:

Brady Bogen [07:06]: "They found that having a trusting attitude makes us happier and more satisfied with life."

John Holmberg expresses skepticism towards the study's implications:

John Holmberg [07:18]: "You know who tells you that kind of crap? Somebody's about to rob you. Stay cynical, kids. It's the only way to get through life."

Brady clarifies the study's findings, emphasizing that trust in close relationships has a more significant impact on happiness than institutional trust:

Brady Bogen [07:52]: "Trusting people you're closest to makes the biggest difference, followed by trusting humanity in general. Institutional trust is when you have trust in things like government, banks, healthcare, industry."

John counters by advocating for a balanced approach to trust:

John Holmberg [08:11]: "Trust should be a gift given very, very, very conservatively."

The discussion highlights the nuanced views on trust, acknowledging its benefits while cautioning against blind trust.

2. Dark Personality Traits Across Regions

Brady introduces another study focused on dark personality traits such as psychopathy, narcissism, and manipulativeness, examining their prevalence across various regions:

Brady Bogen [08:32]: "They found that humans can display different levels of those traits depending on their location."

The hosts list U.S. states with the highest percentages of such traits, leading to a humorous exchange about Oregon and Nevada:

John Holmberg [09:12]: "California, Nevada, New York, Florida, Nevada, New... York, Oregon, South Dakota."

Brady Bogen [09:35]: "Nevada, New York, South Dakota, and Texas."

They then shift focus to international rankings, naming countries like China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, and Japan as having high levels of dark traits. Humor ensues as they joke about travel plans and regional stereotypes.

3. Coffee Consumption and Health Benefits

Brady shares insights from a Tufts University study linking coffee consumption to reduced mortality rates, particularly from cardiovascular causes:

Brady Bogen [10:02]: "The study out from Tufts University shows that drinking one to three cups of caffeinated coffee daily is associated with lower overall mortality, particularly in the cardiovascular causes."

John humorously contrasts the health benefits with common coffee indulgences:

John Holmberg [12:17]: "Cream and Frapps and all that that's a milkshake."

Brady cautions that the benefits apply to black coffee, noting:

Brady Bogen [12:04]: "It lowers the risk of death by cardiovascular disease. But they say when you put that... It's a no."

John echoes the sentiment, emphasizing moderation:

John Holmberg [12:33]: "But it all depends on what else you're doing... if I'm healthy. But if I'm crushing frappuccinos every morning, I can tell you right now that's not a good idea."

The conversation underscores the importance of mindful consumption to reap health benefits without falling into unhealthy habits.

4. Toledo's Wife and Participating in Protests

The hosts discuss Dick Toledo's involvement in recent protests, shedding light on his wife's participation:

Dick Toledo [14:12]: "She's not hanging in the house. Yeah, she was on the No Kings thing."

John Holmberg [14:16]: "Why don't you just tell her to go down to the city council meetings and actually get involved in bills that are being passed."

The dialogue reflects differing opinions on activism and effective participation, with John advocating for active involvement in local governance rather than symbolic gestures.

5. Man Mistakes Friend for Werewolf and Attacks with a Wooden Stake

A bizarre news story captures the hosts' attention—a man in Salt Lake City attacks his friend with a wooden stake, believing him to be a werewolf:

Brady Bogen [18:41]: "There's a dude in Salt Lake City who was out having lunch with a friend on Saturday and out of nowhere the guy attacked him, put him in a chokehold and tried to stab him with a wooden stake."

John humorously debates the lore surrounding vampires and werewolves:

John Holmberg [19:32]: "I thought a silver bullet and a wooden stake killed a vampire. And yeah, I thought the silver bullet is for werewolf. You're right."

Brady explains the misconception:

Brady Bogen [19:22]: "But I always thought that a silver bullet with a... you know, you taught from the whole horror flicks."

The incident serves as a springboard for lighthearted banter about mythical creatures and their supposed vulnerabilities.

6. Lay's Potato Chips Flavor Competition

The episode covers the results of Lay's flavor competition, revealing some unconventional flavor finalists:

Brady Bogen [22:25]: "The other finalists were Valentina and lime and wavy Korean style fried chicken."

John shares his own fictional entry:

John Holmberg [24:00]: "My entry didn't make it to the finals, but I did Dua Lipa. Fish sticks. They said sticks? Yeah. Fish sticks."

The hosts humorously critique the creativity of the flavors, expressing disbelief and amusement at the unconventional combinations presented by contestants.

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Notable Quotes

• Brady Bogen [07:06]: "They found that having a trusting attitude makes us happier and more satisfied with life."
• John Holmberg [07:18]: "You know who tells you that kind of crap? Somebody's about to rob you. Stay cynical, kids. It's the only way to get through life."
• Brady Bogen [10:02]: "The study out from Tufts University shows that drinking one to three cups of caffeinated coffee daily is associated with lower overall mortality, particularly in the cardiovascular causes."
• John Holmberg [12:33]: "But it all depends on what else you're doing... if I'm healthy. But if I'm crushing frappuccinos every morning, I can tell you right now that's not a good idea."
• Brady Bogen [07:52]: "Trusting people you're closest to makes the biggest difference, followed by trusting humanity in general. Institutional trust is when you have trust in things like government, banks, healthcare, industry."

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Conclusion

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness offers a blend of insightful discussions and humorous exchanges. From exploring the intricacies of trust and its impact on happiness to dissecting dark personality traits across regions, the hosts provide both information and entertainment. The segment on unconventional Lay's flavors adds a lighthearted touch, showcasing the show's ability to balance serious topics with comedic relief. Listeners are left with thoughtful perspectives on trust and human behavior, all delivered with Holmberg's signature blend of humor and candid conversation.

Transcript

[Holmberg]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Holmberg]

Now that hot teacher.

[John Holmberg]

This guy says, going back to what we're talking about, we had a co worker that was cucking his wife online. He even had an ad on Craigslist. Oh, can you imagine if we found Toledo's videos like that guy did? Oh, my God. I can't even every day. Hi, Richard. We'd watch that video. Hilarious. That's scary. It's time now for Brady to give you all the news that only Brady knows. We call this the Brady Report. It's brought to you by our friends at All Pro Shade. You want to get shady this summer because it is hot. Shade is good. Having more of it is great. And all Pro Shade can do it in the right way and make it beautiful. Add value to your home. On top of it all, it is a definite feature if you're trying to sell your house to have that in your backyard. This patio has automatic shades that are absolutely beautiful. They add shade. They look good. They block 95% of those UV rays. Those are the bad ones. And they can drop the temperature up to 20 degrees, which drops it down to like 105. Still better. All Pro Shade.com is where you go.

[Brady]

Brady reported good Wednesday morning to Phoenix. Hello, world.

[John Holmberg]

Hi.

[Brady]

Happy National Fishing Day.

[John Holmberg]

All right.

[Brady]

And International Picnic Day.

[John Holmberg]

Saw a dude yesterday tossing a line in for ditch pickles at the canal. Like, had to be 2:00 in the afternoon.

[Brady]

Do you notice on hot commercials that are running in billboards getting your fishing license in Arizona?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Toledo's Pushing it.

[John Holmberg]

Toledo's doing it. Yeah.

[Brady]

Okay.

[John Holmberg]

You haven't heard Toledo doing the ads.

[Brady]

I know. I haven't heard.

[John Holmberg]

Toledo's trying to get people to get their fishing license. I think Larry did a couple too. Toledo's are different, though. It's like, do you ever want to watch your wife fish cup fishing? Great band named oh, yeah.

[Brady]

Couple of basis fun facts. Brad Pitt's younger brother Doug is a goodwill ambassador for Tanzania. And in 2011, Doug Pitt became the first American to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and descend by mountain bike.

[John Holmberg]

He rode down Kilimanjaro?

[Holmberg]

There's a trail I guess so call action ride shop.

[John Holmberg]

Jesus. I didn't like haws the first time I was on it. I fell off of the usury pass one. It's a slippery. The ground wasn't steady in my back. Tire fishtailed out and I slid about 38ft down a hill. How about that? That can't be real.

[Brady]

It is.

[John Holmberg]

There's got to be a road.

[Brady]

I looked it up again because at first I'm like, wait to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. But he's not the first to climb American to climb it. That happened.

[John Holmberg]

He had to climb it with a bike on his back. Right.

[Brady]

And then descend. Was able to.

[John Holmberg]

I walk some of national trail at South Mountain. Some of it scares me there peak. Yeah, I know, but there's like some of those guys can do nuts. That's what is. There's a Pikes Peak. Has like a bike trail. I mean, it's scary.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I can't imagine Kilimanjaro if you were the first guy. Had a pretty defined bike trail heading back. That's impressive. Is there no video of this?

[Brady]

There's got to be. But, you know, maybe there's a bunch of guys that were doing it, but it just.

[John Holmberg]

He was the first American that lived. Oh, that could be a bunch of nutty Germans or something. All right. Sherpas probably do it all the time. Unlike Unicycles.

[Brady]

The reason the Violent Femmes initially broke up. Wendy's used their song Blister in the sun in an ad in 2007, and the members of the group got into a huge fight about it, wound up suing one another, Disbanded for two years.

[John Holmberg]

Wow. And no one noticed except that weird girl with plaid pants. Yeah, the fence broke up, you guys. I can't do anything. All right.

[Holmberg]

You can only name one song.

[John Holmberg]

I am over it right now.

[Holmberg]

Yeah, Blister in the sun. That's all.

[John Holmberg]

The only one I Know.

[Toledo]

Yeah, Add it up.

[Brady]

Add it up.

[Holmberg]

Oh, I don't remember that one.

[John Holmberg]

Nothing.

[Toledo]

Just one kiss. Isn't that. There's that.

[John Holmberg]

Is that the dua lipa? Yeah. Yeah. One kiss is all it takes. Falling in love with that one possibility. That's with Calvin Harris.

[Brady]

Zebras have black.

[John Holmberg]

Jesus Christ, just say it like a human.

[Brady]

Okay. Zebras don't have black and white stripes.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. Your eyes have been lying to you.

[Brady]

They're black and covered in white stripes.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. Which creates a optical illusion of black stripes.

[Holmberg]

Why did I think of George Jefferson?

[John Holmberg]

Because he called Lionel zebra all the time. Jenny. Jenny.

[Holmberg]

That's right.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. It wasn't Lionel. Jenny. He called her a zebra a lot. And every white guy in the world giggled like, oh, my God. It's bad that I'm laughing.

[Toledo]

But when you talk to Kirby, do you say Z or zed?

[John Holmberg]

You like the British zebras? Yeah. You say zebras, but when you get to the Alphabet, you're like x, Y, Z.

[Brady]

No, I don't.

[John Holmberg]

He's a stickler for how words pronounced. You know that, right? Well, she makes you. To make sure you're okay. Yeah. Let's get through the 26, Daddy.

[Toledo]

Before bed, tell Brett how to pronounce Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

[Brady]

Yeah, Dr. Jekyll. Yeah, and Mr. Hyde.

[John Holmberg]

It's not true. And also Mount Everest. And God forbid you call a dog a German shepherd.

[Holmberg]

What's it? Well, that's.

[Brady]

What?

[John Holmberg]

Alsatian. Because he learned that in Germany. I have a German friend with an accent. No, it's German shepherds. They're different. Like. Oh, they are? Yeah. It's totally different breed. Oh, I didn't know that.

[Brady]

A new study in the Netherlands found there's one trait that makes us happier. No matter how old you are. It's true. Whether you're in your 30s, 40s, 50s, even the 80s, blow jobs. All you have to do is learn to trust other people.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, that's a no, that's not.

[Brady]

They found that having trusting attitude makes us happier and more satisfied with life.

[John Holmberg]

You know who tells you that kind of crap? Somebody's about to rob you. Stay cynical, kids. It's the only way to get through life.

[Brady]

The study showed that trusting people makes us happier.

[John Holmberg]

Nope.

[Brady]

And being happy makes us want to trust people.

[John Holmberg]

Trusting people that you don't know makes you a sucker. Earning trust and being trusting of someone who's earned it makes you happier.

[Brady]

Being able to trust people, being able to trusting people that you don't know.

[John Holmberg]

But don't tell people to willy nilly. Just trust people. You gotta. It takes time. You gotta earn that trust. And you can fail and lose it and earn it back and that's even better.

[Brady]

The type of trust does matter.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Trusting people you're closest to makes the biggest difference, followed by trusting humanity in general. Institutional trust is when you have trust in things like government, banks, healthcare, industry.

[Toledo]

That's Thunberg's problem.

[Brady]

They found that doesn't make as big as a difference.

[John Holmberg]

No, the word trust should not be bandied about like, yeah, you should trust more. No, it should. You should be skeptical of everything until it proves you wrong and then pour your trust into it. Trust should be a gift given very, very, very conservatively.

[Brady]

A new study looked into dark personality traits and found that humans can display different levels of those traits depending on their location. Specifically those traits. Psychopathy, narcissism, being able to manipulate people.

[Toledo]

Those are dark personality traits.

[Brady]

Yeah, or desire or urge to exploit others. The study took place over 20 years and included almost 1.8 million people across 183 countries in the U.S. these four states contain the highest percentage of psychopaths.

[John Holmberg]

California, Nevada, New York, Florida, Nevada, New.

[Holmberg]

York, Oregon, South Dakota.

[John Holmberg]

That was you taking a shot at Toledo's people.

[Holmberg]

No, I didn't say.

[John Holmberg]

That was Fox News. No, no. Oregon is Seattle on steroids. That was Fox News fighting MSNBC right there. Right in front of you. Right in front of one word. Oregon. That's all it took.

[Brady]

Nevada, New York, South Dakota and Texas.

[Holmberg]

Yeah, because you'd want to live in South Dakota.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you've been manipulated if you live there.

[Brady]

As for the countries, the ones that ranked the highest, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea and Japan.

[John Holmberg]

That's Toledo's summer plans.

[Toledo]

Hong Kong is China.

[John Holmberg]

That's your travel agents list of places to visit.

[Brady]

We got another study on coffee. The study out from Tufts University shows that drinking one to three cups of caffeinated coffee daily is associated with lower overall mortality, particularly in the cardiovascular causes. There's the catch though. Straight up black coffee.

[Toledo]

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[Brady]

Sickness they did it. Cuts it down 14%. Lowers the risk of death by cardiovascular disease. But they say when you put that.

[John Holmberg]

Cream and Frappos and all that that's a milkshake.

[Brady]

Goes the other way. But they say you can put some of it in there. So nothing is basically a 8 ounce cup of coffee. You can put it teaspoon of sugar.

[John Holmberg]

And your heart won't stop.

[Brady]

And up to about 5 ounces of 2% milk.

[John Holmberg]

Doesn't it all depend on that's a cup. But doesn't it all depend on what else you're doing?

[Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Like if I'm healthy. But I have that as my vice. That's fine. It's not going to hurt your heart. Yeah, but if I'm crushing frappuccinos every morning, I can tell you right now that's not a good idea. By the way, Phil just emailed and he says you're totally right on the trust thing. Jew Berg Damn it. I have to Trust that I tune into the show. I won't hear something really gay. I'm still waiting to trust you. We're working on it, Philip.

[Toledo]

Another texter says, holmberg, don't you find that trust is also inversely proportional to intelligence?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, dumb people. Trust. Yeah, it's like, you know, like. Yeah, yeah. Babies, like, immediately, like, ba, ba, ba, ba. And they can be totally taken advantage of, trust me. Steal from them like crazy. There's a phrase called stealing candy from a baby because they're dumb. Yeah. Dumb people are easier to fool because they have to put their trust in smart people so they don't walk off into traffic. Yeah, that's true. And that's where grifters see marks.

[Brady]

Yep.

[John Holmberg]

You see a dumb guy, and you're smarter than them. You're like, oh, I can move this dude like a chess piece.

[Toledo]

Trump watch. Trump mobile.

[John Holmberg]

No. Here we go. There we go. Here we go.

[Holmberg]

What was it called again? Why can't he do that?

[Toledo]

Tds.

[John Holmberg]

He's got the Trump drink.

[Holmberg]

No, no, no. The law that you're not allowed to make money while you're in the mole, you know?

[John Holmberg]

What was it called?

[Holmberg]

Yeah, there we go.

[John Holmberg]

This guy, Rachel Maddow, taught him a word, and he won't shut up about it. Man, I'm gonna buy you some poster board and keep you busy for weeks. No, King Tyranny is bad.

[Toledo]

I should show you my. My wife's sign.

[John Holmberg]

Is it hanging in the house?

[Holmberg]

It's framed. Fireplace.

[John Holmberg]

Did she make signs? She went on the march.

[Toledo]

She's not hanging in the house. Yeah, she was on the Nano Kings thing.

[John Holmberg]

Why don't you just tell her go down?

[Toledo]

She asked me. She goes, you want to go?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, God. You couldn't be seen at that. We might as well stumble across your porn, because we would be all over that.

[Brady]

He knew.

[John Holmberg]

Just tell her to go down to the city council meetings and actually get involved in bills that are being passed.

[Toledo]

She's been thinking about that.

[John Holmberg]

Good. That's actually active behavior. That's disobedience in its own friend.

[Toledo]

Are actually thinking about running.

[John Holmberg]

For what?

[Toledo]

School boarding.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, please, sweet Jesus, let Toledo's wife win something. Oh, the cuckery. You would have to listen to everything she said. She's a government official.

[Toledo]

Yeah, she can't bring that home.

[John Holmberg]

All right, well, you'll know. Yeah, I didn't know she was part of the march. She ran downtown, huh?

[Toledo]

Yeah, her and her. Some of her other teacher friends.

[John Holmberg]

And they just had signs?

[Toledo]

Yeah, they were on Southern and stapley.

[John Holmberg]

Did she come back and go, man, knock that one out of the yard. Like, I still don't know what they accomplished.

[Toledo]

I don't either. But they're very targeted because they were in the parking lot of El Subair.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, shoot. They were like, oh, yeah, preaching to the ICE choir.

[Toledo]

They knew their audience.

[John Holmberg]

They were hoping for a raid.

[Toledo]

They knew their audience.

[John Holmberg]

They had a thing. I was telling Brady about this morning on the news last night, some lady who's a restaurant worker, they bounced her. ICE came into their work, and immigration came in and said, you're out, you're out, you're out. And she goes, I've been here for 24 years. Well, you didn't do any of the papers. So she sat down and she actually said to the news. And it. You know, it's painful to watch somebody. You're empathetic as a person. But she goes, I didn't get to see a lawyer. I didn't get due processing. You're not American citizen. Try being a sovereign citizen. I had a friend who was a sovereign citizen of the United States. He was. Didn't have to have any. Like, he had no rights. He gave them up. You didn't get to see a lawyer. You didn't get due process. You didn't get any of it as a sovereign citizen. You just sat in jail until they were ready for you. You didn't have a right to a speedy trial. And then they said, well, they took her from her kids. And I'm like, that's painful as a person again, though. But isn't that, like, when weed was illegal? If you walked around with weed and got caught, you said, this shouldn't be illegal. But it is. Like, I see both sides of this. Like, okay, you were playing with fire every day that you walked the streets without being a citizen. And I think that it is.

[Brady]

You're digging a deeper hole.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And I understand that, you know, you had some things that. But you didn't do it in 24 years. Like, screaming, I was here for 24 years. Makes me think, you should have done something about that. Right. I know. It's too hard.

[Toledo]

Well, it's too. It's expensive. And the process apparently take. Can take 10 years.

[John Holmberg]

And I still struggle with still at 14 left.

[Holmberg]

Well, I mean, you know, she could.

[John Holmberg]

Have done it twice by Toledo's math, but. Yeah.

[Brady]

And how many people have. Still were able to do that?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And here's my deal.

[Toledo]

During that time.

[Brady]

Well, just in general, doing the long.

[John Holmberg]

Process, Schwarzenegger was on the View.

[Brady]

Yeah. And he's going to be swearing in.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

People.

[John Holmberg]

And he basically said, vernon, walking around like that, you're running the risk of getting caught. And that's what I've always thought. Oh, look, I'm a white guy. I don't understand how any of this works because I don't have to live that way. So I'm never, I'm never going to say, oh, I understand your plight. But I do kind of think that pragmatically I wouldn't, I wouldn't walk around with weed in my pocket every single day for 24 years while weed was illegal and then complain when I got caught. I have been getting away. It's like when I drive in the HOV lane. I do it every day and the day I get caught, I can't complain. Well, I haven't caused any problems. I've been doing a good. Yeah, but you did. This is still something you can't do. I get both sides. Like I'm. I'm strictly in the middle. But I just don't think that a sign that says boo tyrants. Actually at the L. Super. I think you go home disappointed. My, My thoughts are on the marchers that they all went home disappointed and immediately went to Facebook and posted their pictures and said, all right, well, at least I'm getting a lot of support from people who were going to support me anyway.

[Toledo]

There was definitely a photo dump on Facebook on everyone involved.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

And a lot of it centered on the signs.

[John Holmberg]

Their signs they were proud of.

[Toledo]

Very teachery way. Like, look at this sign.

[John Holmberg]

They did a good job. They probably bought markers. And it's great.

[Toledo]

Gramma. Grammatically correct.

[John Holmberg]

There was commas. Where commas go. Let's eat. Grandma was not in there. Yeah. Always learn where the commas go. Or next thing you know, Grandma's a Meal. Grandma's a Meal is a good band name. Your Grandma's a Meal.

[Brady]

There's a dude in Salt Lake City who was out having lunch with a friend on Saturday and out of nowhere the guy attacked him, put him in a chokehold and tried to stab him with a wooden stake.

[John Holmberg]

Vampire he brought a Winter was a.

[Brady]

24 year old dude.

[Toledo]

Right.

[John Holmberg]

He planned on this.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

The reason he did it because it wasn't a vampire where he thought his friend was a werewolf.

[John Holmberg]

One of the two stake to the heart. He brought a wooden stake with this and that.

[Brady]

But I always thought that a silver bullet with a. You know, you taught from the whole horror flicks.

[John Holmberg]

I didn't watch all the Twilight Silver.

[Brady]

Bullet was a werewolf and the wooden stake to the heart was a vampire.

[John Holmberg]

I thought a silver bullet and a wooden stake killed a vampire. And yeah, I thought the silver bullet is for werewolf. You're right.

[Brady]

The guy got away, wasn't hurt, and Jose stole his backpack and ran off.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, cuz with the wooden stake, more than likely you're just getting a terrible bruise on your breastbone that's not gonna. It's gonna take a couple of knocks to get through.

[Holmberg]

Still, silver weapons.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Holmberg]

I can't believe I just googled.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, no, no.

[Holmberg]

Silver bullets, silver tipped arrows or silver blades are often depicted as effective against werewolves. Okay, so the heading fire, that would.

[John Holmberg]

Have been very effective.

[Holmberg]

Yeah. Extraction.

[John Holmberg]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say beheading all things pretty much accomplishes your task.

[Holmberg]

Dismemberment, hard extraction, you know the. The basics.

[John Holmberg]

Heart extraction's another one.

[Holmberg]

Yeah. Being thrown into a volcano too, that's also one for a werewolf.

[John Holmberg]

Well, there you go.

[Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

Is there a platform on the volcano that we have to go to like in Joe vs. The Volcano?

[John Holmberg]

All right. And those trips to Hawaii, those are your quick tips on how to kill a vampire from the morning sickness. Have a great day.

[Holmberg]

Wolfsbane also does a poisonous plant.

[John Holmberg]

You know wolfsbane is a plant?

[Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

Oh, okay.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. They use that to kill people in old 1800s books.

[Brady]

A tequila soaked turkey almost burned down an apartment building in Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday.

[Toledo]

Live or dead?

[Brady]

The person was cooking it, marinating the whole turkey and tequila. So it was recipe you can find online.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, all right.

[Holmberg]

Did you look it up yet?

[Brady]

Yeah. It only had been in the oven for eight minutes.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, Jesus.

[Brady]

When he called 911 after the oven door blew open, firefighters showed up the thermal camel camera.

[John Holmberg]

What?

[Brady]

The thermal. Thermal camera. They used it to check the oven. They opened the door and blue flames shot out.

[John Holmberg]

Cool.

[Brady]

There was so much booze in the bird, the vapors accumulated in the oven. They think that's what was not enough, though. Science expanding happened. It exploded.

[John Holmberg]

You got a thermal camel, you got trouble on your hands. Anyway, by the way, I don't want to let the cat out of the bag for Toledo, but he wanted to march on Saturday, but it was the day before Father's Day. And that's his tradition of oiling his ball glove and standing by the window and waiting so he couldn't be downtown just in case Pop showed up.

[Toledo]

Most supple leather you've ever seen, John.

[John Holmberg]

That's a well oiled glove ready to go every June. That thing takes another big old thing of oil and just the waiting for 48 hours. He's coming this year. You want to go march with us? I can't. He's. He's coming. I got a feeling just in case, we're going to have that catch.

[Brady]

And finally. I know you've been waiting for this, John. The lay's potato chips do us a flavor competition winner has been announced. They win a million bucks, you come up with a new flavor.

[John Holmberg]

Flavor. Right. This will be terrible.

[Brady]

Steak, bacon, grilled cheese chips.

[John Holmberg]

Bacon, grilled cheese. So grilled cheese with the bacon on it. Yep. But it's in the form of. Too bad actually. Yeah.

[Toledo]

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[John Holmberg]

Holmberg's morning sickness.

[Brady]

The other finalists year were Valentina and lime and wavy Korean style fried chicken.

[Toledo]

What's the Valentina?

[Brady]

I don't know.

[John Holmberg]

My entry didn't make it to the finals, but I did Dua Lipa. Fish sticks. They said sticks? Yeah. Fish sticks. Yeah. The taste of a fish stick after it had been in Dua Lipa and I put it on the chip and it turns out to be quite odiferous.

[Holmberg]

Salsa fills the room.

[Brady]

Salsa?

[Holmberg]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

So is the bacon.

[Brady]

Oh yeah.

[Holmberg]

It's like Sriracha.

[John Holmberg]

Is the bacon grilled cheese one of those? Is it that dirt that they put on top of chips as flavoring the cheetah. Dried dirt, most likely.

[Brady]

There's got to be some cheetle on it.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Yuck. That is the worst invention ever.

[Brady]

Paula George submitted that. She's from Sepulpa, Oklahoma. She's got a million bucks.

[John Holmberg]

That's pretty good. Getting a million dollars. Just to be pretty obvious, she just invented the.

[Toledo]

Did she just come up with the two names or did she have to submit a rest?

[John Holmberg]

No, you have to come up with the dirt itself.

[Toledo]

You got to come up with the dirt.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. I read that the other day and the. I didn't know that's what won, but they said you have to actually come up with that. Horrible. Yeah, you can't just come up with the idea. It has to actually be something they do. And I don't know if the lady has to come.

[Brady]

I thought it was just a name suggestion.

[John Holmberg]

Well, they. They have to actually put it into action and then taste. Then there's a taste test. I don't know if the person does it. They give the idea. Yeah, and I think Lays puts it and then Lays. Well, yeah, because they're not going to let some homemade cat lady push their dirt on them. It's poison. And then Lays comes up with the proper. And then. But the dua lipa, fish sticks, chips. You tell me you walk by that can of Pringles, you're not going to eat that.

[Toledo]

Hey, we've been eating Selena Gomez all week.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. Selena Gomez Oreos. And it just says on the package, Selena Gomez. And there's not a grown man in sight that wonders when he takes a bite. Is it. How accurate is this?

[Holmberg]

That's Bad Bunny or whoever Or Benny Blanco.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, Benny Blanco. That was racist.

[Holmberg]

One of them.

[John Holmberg]

All the Blanco bunnies look alike to me. A Bunny or a Blanco. Whichever one's nailing that chick from the murder show. That tiny faced little Mexican girl got.

[Brady]

A couple of pretty videos. First one's getting you caught up excited for the fourth of July parades. Okay, a little float action here.

[John Holmberg]

It's like carnival. Oh, it's a girl trying to do the splits and the. But the.

[Brady]

I thought it was a dude, but I think. I don' Know.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, if we don't know, we're just gonna lean.

[Brady]

I'm going dude.

[John Holmberg]

Air on the side of caution. If you're not sure. She tries to do the splits on a moving parade float and she jumps in the air and the float's not there when she lands. I think it's a fella too. If you don't know Assume the worst. Let the surprise be pleasant.

[Toledo]

Look at a package.

[John Holmberg]

Well, that's a set of balls on that. She does the. When she gets on all fours, this is. Her vagina's hanging too low.

[Brady]

This is right up your alley, John. A knife. An eyeball. Oh, and eating.

[John Holmberg]

What kind of eyeball is that? A cow's eye. Oh, no, the guy's eating it. Oh, he's sucking it.

[Toledo]

And it's a Wee Man.

[Brady]

Yeah, it's Indian. Brad Williams.

[John Holmberg]

Ah, damn it.

[Brady]

Quit watching.

[John Holmberg]

I can't do eyes. I can't do eyes. Damn it. That's not. That was a bad one.

[Brady]

There it is.

[John Holmberg]

That was close. This is not good. I'm gonna need a second.

[Toledo]

Your face looks like when you do Macho Carry Lady.

[Brady]

When he sucks, he sucks the whole. I wonder what the lens tastes like.

[John Holmberg]

We're in the clear. I ate that fish eyeball once at Nobu. Yeah.

[Holmberg]

Now, how did you do that?

[Toledo]

Don't think about it.

[John Holmberg]

I mean, I think Doug said he'd pay the whole bill if I hit the eyeball, and the bill was like three grand, So I ate that eyeball. Nice. And the fish eyeball was.

[Holmberg]

Never mind.

[John Holmberg]

But it was, like, boiled. Yeah, yeah. No question about that. Hey, look, if somebody's willing to put a $3,000 bill on their tab if you just chunk down an.

[Brady]

I'm eating eyes.

[Toledo]

Did you keep it down?

[John Holmberg]

I'd have been. Look, I'd have had some Brady Gravy in my mouth if it was for three grand to save that.

[Toledo]

Did you hold the meal down?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it was fine, actually, the way they. They deep fry the fish and then the eyes. The head's on the fish and then the eyes there, and you kind of carve it out, and it's supposedly a delicacy, but I think it's a joke. And I popped it in there because it was just. It boiled up enough to not look like an eye. Like a human eye or a cow. It didn't have any white. It was just a black. It looked like a jelly bean. Okay. But it sure didn't feel like one.

[Brady]

Last one's a dude on a scooter getting a double whammy.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, it's a cruddy country. He's. Oh, he's about to. Oh. Oh. Dude opens a door and pushes him right out into traffic, and he gets hit by a car going by. Wow.

[Brady]

Just stands there with his bag of tacos.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, man. Yeah. The guy who hits him with the car door as it opens, stands right next to.

[Toledo]

Wrong country for tacos.

[Brady]

Britney.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Holmberg]

Okay. Sushi.

[John Holmberg]

Nope. That guy's at a taco. I don't question him. Big Food knows that guy. Went to the only taco stand in the Philippines.

[Brady]

There's KFC in Paris.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. There is. That's right. They serve wine. Yeah, it's sunk, guys.

[Brady]

That's it.

[John Holmberg]

All right, Brett, what do you got?

[Holmberg]

All right.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, that eyeball thing. My stomach is spinning.

[Holmberg]

We'll start out easy. Apparently, Crandall found Toledo's vacation videos.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, okay. We have a Thai girl on what looks like a man. He's in tiger makeup all across his body. He's in it. And she's riding him like a little moped. And she's pretty sexy. And he's dressed as a tiger.

[Brady]

That's Tone Lee the tiger.

[John Holmberg]

This is. This is what this might be. This actually might be. Don't do that. This might be Cincinnati. Actually, that might be Joe Burrow and a girl. And she just rides him around.

[Holmberg]

She just rides them around.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, that's adorable. That was Toledo at the March on Saturday. I bought some Hot Pockets. Oh, my God. This lady's doing the. Oh. Oh. She was doing a trick where she splits her legs in half and then she lights her pants on fire. And now her vagina is a flaming vagina and nobody's coming to help her at all. What is this bucket of water right there? What game are they playing where a lady lays on a stage and lights her vagina? She was going to do a flamethrower. She was going to do a flamethrower. I don't think she's.

[Brady]

L. Yeah. Cuz there's rubbing. Al.

[Toledo]

Cincinnati's Got Talent.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, this is definitely Ohio's Got Talent. Wow.

[Brady]

One of the best competitions.

[John Holmberg]

Holy crap. Wait, what? We didn't do any research on what that was.

[Holmberg]

All right, it said dance hall competition.

[John Holmberg]

Did Sandman sweep her off? Because that's the worst Apollo performance I've ever seen on amateur night. All right, next is a guy in one of Brett's wife beater tanks sitting at a table smoking a cigar with a pretty blonde girl. Hopefully you guys will still like me. They're daring her to do something. She put her pinky in her mouth and she's sucking her pinky. Oh, she put her pinky all the way up into her nose and it is.

[Holmberg]

It's in her cheek.

[John Holmberg]

It's in her cheek. It's in her sinuses. Her pinky is all the way in her head to the fist. But she's very cute. Oh, did something come off on the finger?

[Holmberg]

She was hot.

[John Holmberg]

And here's the thing. She's pretty enough to where she stayed pretty after that. You still think about it.

[Holmberg]

Oh, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

But what else can she put all the way in? If she can do that with her pinky and her nose, all the other holes have to have special talents, too.

[Holmberg]

How about this one?

[John Holmberg]

All right, Here's a weird old lady on a bean bag with a feminine toy. Her eyes are crossed, her breasts are up. She's wearing Ronald McDonald's coat. And there's some serious brain bird squirting. Oh, she's having convulsions. Seizure.

[Toledo]

What?

[John Holmberg]

I think just watch the lady dehydrate in a second. Oh, my God. Replay. I don't have that kind of pressure. Out of my garden. Hoof. And then the convulsions start. They're doing it in slow motion. She's broken. That's not how a human body's supposed to react to anything except dying. Wow.

[Holmberg]

You know what? Let's. We'll just end with this one.

[John Holmberg]

All right? It's a lady with two sex toys, rubber pps. She's.

[Holmberg]

Remember what you said, too?

[John Holmberg]

Giving one a mouth hug. She's giving a second one another. They're both in her mouth at once. She's reaching for something else. I fear it's a third. It is a third. She's shoving a third one in there. This is like Joey Chestnut. There's three huge wieners in her mouth. She's reaching for something else. Her mouth is massive. These are not small toys. And she is. He's got four in there now. It has to be the record. Please. That has to be. Is Guinness there to watch this? He's got four dongs, gigantic dongs, in her mouth at once.

[Holmberg]

What a screenshot.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's. Man, if I knew her as a friend, that would be the picture I use when she calls.

[Toledo]

That's a wallpaper right there.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I'm saying.

[Holmberg]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

That's most definitely her. All right. Ah, humanity. You're fun. That squirters, that eyeball. I almost threw up some Selena Gome. Those Oreos are good, though.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

They're basically just like churros, right?

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And I hope that is what Bad Bunny's brother, Benny Blanco is tasting. Are they related? Probably. There goes your Brady report, everybody. It's 98 KUPD. Don't eat eyes. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station.