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Howard Holmberg
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Brady Bogan
All right, HMS Podcast time again. It'll let you know where to go for some great comedy in the Valley this week. All right, just a Note that the three venues will all be closed on July 4th. That's Friday night. That doesn't mean there's a lack of comedy though, because we have Francisco Ramos coming in on Saturday at Stand Up Live run on Hirshberg and Camp Bertrand, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday at Tempe Improv. And John Heffron is going to be at the Desert Ridge Improv on Thursday, Saturday, Saturday and Sunday as well. For the complete lineups and for tickets, go to standuplive.com desertridgeimprov.com and tempeimprov.com this.
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Howard Holmberg
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Phil
Good Wednesday morning to you, Phoenix.
Howard Holmberg
Hello, world. Hi. That's a word I need to start throwing back into my vocabulary. Scrumptious. You think that sounds gay if you're sitting down across from a lady and this meal is scrumptious?
Phil
Because we heard it on the Scrump Delicious bars.
Howard Holmberg
Yeah, that's Willy Wonka. So it's cute. I heard a comedian talking about Willy Wonka and how different it would be if it was savory foods rather than candy. Like the boats were made of ham and the rivers were gravy and then there was mashed potato land and everything's all steamy. It would be the grossest place on the planet.
Phil
Come with me.
Howard Holmberg
Yeah, and eat meat in a world of meat imagination.
Phil
Happy national work from home day. No, and it's also national HIV testing day.
Howard Holmberg
I saw that. And they're doing a free test still. What do you mean still?
Phil
They conquered it. You said it was gone.
Howard Holmberg
Yeah, but you still want to know if you've got it. It's not like they conquered diabetes with insulin. But you still want to know. I want to know if I need biktarvy before I start hosing a twin.
Phil
Don't randomly pop that stuff.
Howard Holmberg
You got a test just in case. I got the hiv, but I'm not doing anything about it. I still don't want it. And I'm pretty sure HIV unchecked still goes the wrong way. Just cuz we conquered it. Jesus Christ. Yeah. What, you don't know?
Phil
Couple of bases, fun facts.
Howard Holmberg
But they have a clinic down. I don't know which place it was, but I saw it on the news. I'm guessing Avenues, where, you know, they have a CVS or a Walgreens or something that's doing testing in the parking lot for him. If you want a freebie.
Phil
It's just questions out in the open.
Howard Holmberg
Well, I don't know if it's just standing in the parking lot. I think they have a tent with a fan, but.
Phil
But still, you gotta be seen walking into the tent.
Howard Holmberg
Yeah, I mean, there's some stigma.
Phil
I mean, bland parents come out with.
Howard Holmberg
Like a ton of like, Tostitos and some makeup, diapers, a fan if you're holding a bag. Yeah, a Navage and go. What's in the tent over there? Oh, don't act like you don't know. You didn't need a navage. Get in the tent and test. Are you an intravenous drug user? Uh, I see why you're here. You're having normal safe sex with females. Define normal. Yes. All right. Bend over. I'm sure you've heard that before. Sean. Phil's just texting and said, I just tuned the show in in the middle of you singing Willy Wonka about meat. I don't get it, but it just made my morning better. Come with me and you'll be in a world of meaty imagination. Take a look at these taters. Ah, Potatoes and gravy and meat. The boat's all slimy. Wonka.
Phil
The Glastonbury Music Festival is this week. It's like England's Coachella. And it's a little greener this year because they're collecting everyone's urine. They partnered with a company to turn it into eco friendly fertilizer.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, I thought you meant that everybody had to, like, give up a sample.
Phil
Yeah. Step in before you come in.
Howard Holmberg
I'm getting. I'm getting treatments of Brady Wonka's meat factory. Yes. My barbecue sauce is the only sauce waterfall in the world. Come with me. I spell come differently in the world of meaty imagination. Squirt, squirt here. Squirt, squirt there. The building's made of meat. See.
Phil
Augustus is drinking from the. No, don't.
Howard Holmberg
Stop.
Phil
Stop.
Howard Holmberg
He's sucking from the gravy River.
Phil
It'll be all right.
Howard Holmberg
Who hasn't?
Phil
Instacart released some data on what America. What America is ordering for their Fourth of July gatherings and cookouts.
Howard Holmberg
I'm sorry.
Phil
Based upon the data from last year's holiday and the demand for yellow corn is up 380% compared to the yearly average. The biggest products are looking for on Fourth of July. Charcoal.
Howard Holmberg
Yeah. Everywhere.
Phil
But here's potato salad, baby back ribs, hot dog buns, canned baked beans, brats, frozen beef burgers, watermelons.
Howard Holmberg
Wonka and beef patties. Brady Wonka's building. They're looking for Wonka meat. I forget the comedian who did that. I was dying laughing. Savory foods instead of candy. And the whole thing is a horror show. There is no earthly way of knowing which direction meat is going to. There's no knowing where we're rowing.
Phil
A new poll asked more than 5,000Americans. Have you ever wanted to be the President of the United States?
Howard Holmberg
Yeah.
Phil
73% said no. 15% said they have, but only as a child.
Howard Holmberg
And 30% of them said yes. Then it could legalize it. We already did that.
Phil
8% have ever wanted to be president as an adult. The best part of the politics. Don't matter. Eight percent of Republicans have wanted to be the POTUS. Eight percent of independents, 10% of Democrats. The generation that has wanted to be present more than any others. Gen Z. There were at the in Madison, Wisconsin, the capitol building. They have a beautiful tulip garden out front. Someone noticed some weeds in there. It weren't just weeds. It was riddled with marijuana plants.
Howard Holmberg
We can grow this crop and then be president of the United States, bro. All right. Legalize it, bro. We're in charge. By the way, when I go to lost our home pet rescue, I go down a road. I think it's hardy and there's some houses on there. And Amy goes with me. She's my assistant in this thing. And in a neighborhood over there, a guy has cultivated his entire front yard into a corn crop.
Phil
What?
Howard Holmberg
And it is a front yard that might be the size of the studio.
Phil
So dense. 20 plants or more than.
Howard Holmberg
Well, there's more, but it's not. It's a probably it's a little smaller than your front yard and it's corn crop.
Phil
You could have 50, 60 plants.
Howard Holmberg
Okay, you're missing the point. Who cares how many you can get in there? You got a corn Brady. If you were in your in your neighborhood and the neighbors planted rows of corn in the front yard, wouldn't you think something's going on that's not. And then the back of the house is built on. There's an add on and it's like the top of a castle. It's got castle. We walked it. We got out of the car. So we got to pull over and look at this. And there's so I. And so we looked it up. It's not legal to do that. You can't just grow corn in your front yard. There's got to be weed or something in that corn or heroin. I don't. Nobody grows corn and hardy and university.
Phil
I'm gonna check with my hoa.
Howard Holmberg
You're not allowed to have.
Phil
I thought I'd do some corn and wheat.
Howard Holmberg
Gonna scrub the whole yard up front there, put in some corn rows. And by the way, I'm not gonna weed it either. I'm just gonna let the corn grow. Corn's about waist high right now. And as a boy from Indiana, we're getting close. I just know that waist high by 4th of July you got some good corn. And then, you know, by the middle of July and August it's taller than you. It's time to start to pick it. It's strange that it's the weirdest house in Arizona. But I figured somebody pull over and go, you got to pull all this out of here. What are you doing? And plus you have to do special stuff. It's like feed corn otherwise that gross stuff. He's got pigs in the backyard eating human bodies.
Phil
There's a new restaurant in Italy trying something cool. They're giving diners a free bottle of wine. If you give up your phone when you come in, they put it in a little box. It's even locked with a key. When you leave, you get it back. It's in Verona, Italy. It's called Al Condominium.
Howard Holmberg
Huh?
Phil
Al Condominio. Nailed it.
Howard Holmberg
Okay.
Phil
They said they wanted to make kind of something new that they thought would be a fun way to encourage diners to be more present with their companions. And you don't have to give it up to the restaurant. It's optional.
Howard Holmberg
It's optional, but it's a nice house.
Phil
You do it, you get that bottle of wine. He says we're not having too many people holding on to their phones at dinner.
Howard Holmberg
It's sad that you have to get paid to not to have your phone to talk to the person you went to dinner with. I don't want that. What if I want to play some bad game in the middle of our meal? I got a little new. I got a new game.
Unknown Announcer
There's a new wordle out.
Howard Holmberg
There's a cool wordle. And also I haven't figured out today's wordle. And then this new candy crush has got my eyes spinning. So if the conversation goes south, I'm just gonna look down. Plus sometimes she says some real outlandish. I have to back it up, check it out. I don't know if that's true. Dr. Fauci didn't invent AIDS. Aaron Rodgers. Let me go. You're a moron. Let me. Let me research that and have an opinion real quick and I'll come back to you as a know it all because I just read the information I had no idea about two seconds ago. Yeah, I think it should be mandatory. I think women should put that foot down. But you're just as bad as we are is if somebody takes you to dinner, they pick up their phone, dinner's over. Yeah, like you know, that should be it. Unless it's an emergency phone call. There should be no reason for that guy to question what you just said. And look at. I'm gonna look up what you just said. I'm gonna research your. I think you're full of. Alright, well then we don't need to talk anymore because I was just having a conversation with you. I didn't know I was being interrogated. I think women should be stricter about a dude texting or being on the phone at dinner. I think, you know, women get away with a lot more than men when it comes to that. But I think that should be like a. He was on the phone the whole time. We should want to do it. Gentlemen, if the bar has been set so low that all you have to do is pay attention to her, should.
Unknown Announcer
Win that battle every day.
Howard Holmberg
It shouldn't be tough to woo a woman by going, woo, woo, woo.
Phil
And women just don't bore us, right?
Howard Holmberg
Tell better stories. On the flip side, you've got all of humanity's information. The history of man is in your hand. Look something up and have a good story, for God's sakes.
Phil
Someone conducted a poll asking men if they'd take a penny they saw in a urinal.
Howard Holmberg
No.
Phil
490 people weighed in on this and 428 of them said no.
Howard Holmberg
That's too many.
Phil
The other a hole, 62 said yes.
Howard Holmberg
Yeah, they would take a penny. Don't do it. Don't point to my nose. I swear to God. I know your laugh. I know your laugh and I didn't see you do that. But I know that laugh. That is the laugh of bigotry.
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Howard Holmberg
Holmberg's morning sickness. Tell me I'm wrong. Yeah, no, you're wrong. I would not dig around for a goddamn penny.
Phil
They had comments from people. One person said. They said no penny. I wouldn't even consider it even if it was. What about clean on a table?
Howard Holmberg
Five bucks.
Phil
One guy said he would do it.
Howard Holmberg
For a dollar, he'd reach and get the dollar. Yeah, never mind someone that voted.
Brady Bogan
You just turn around.
Howard Holmberg
Listen to that. That is a racism. That is not what that is. That's an anti Semitic cac. Nope, I did not say that. You said That I said nothing. I just heard you laugh. I know what makes you laugh like that.
Phil
Made a gesture. Some guy with the initials J.H. said if you see money.
Howard Holmberg
No, I'm turning him off. He's done for a little bit. Why does he like bigotry so much? What would you do? Like five bucks? 10, 20. Where. Where do you go? Urinal. Yeah, urinal.
Phil
Nothing.
Howard Holmberg
100 bucks sitting in a urinal. You're not going to take 100. Yeah, well, then there is something. I'd take a 20 out of a urinal. Shut up, Brett. Look, I watch you. You would point proof. Not only would you take it out, you'd go back a coup to see if it's a magic urinal.
Phil
I'm putting a dollar in our test.
Howard Holmberg
That would be like a. I've seen you at slot machines. You're. You're. Come on. You lock up like nobody's business. A free 20. You're taking it. Shalom.
Unknown Announcer
Use that tight on the slot machine.
Howard Holmberg
Oh, it's. I don't like slots. Scared him to no. Craps I'll throw down. But slots. It got to the point where the guy with us tapped me in the shoulder and goes, what are you doing to him? Because he was like turning white.
Phil
Well, he was bad luck anyway.
Howard Holmberg
He is a mush. Yeah. Yeah. I've never been around Chris and had any luck at all. And I've never seen somebody shut it down more than he got you.
Phil
And now it's time for some smugglers news.
Howard Holmberg
All right.
Phil
Hello, my friends. Brady Bogan here with some news about people hiding stuff and getting busted. We call it the smugglers news. This flight attendant or air hostess in India got busted for smuggling 960 grams of gold dust in her rectum. Whoa.
Howard Holmberg
Gold dust woman.
Phil
Whoa. Another. This happened in Thailand at the. I don't even know how to pronounce the airport in Bangkok.
Unknown Announcer
Dong Mong.
Phil
No.
Unknown Announcer
Oh, this.
Phil
Wherever.
Howard Holmberg
Barkham.
Phil
That one Swabber.
Howard Holmberg
Barkum.
Phil
No, it's. It's something.
Howard Holmberg
It doesn't matter. Done the wrong thing.
Phil
Well, they inspected a bag of stuffed toys. Felt one of the teddy bears. It was kind of warm. They found a tiger cub, drugged alive, stuffed inside of the plush toy.
Howard Holmberg
Wait, she had gold dust in her ass and a tiger.
Phil
No, this is another one. Oh, gold dust was at the Indian air hostess.
Howard Holmberg
Oh, she was an airline. I wonder if stewardess get away with that a lot stuff in their butts.
Unknown Announcer
By the way, how. How many grams did you say on that one?
Phil
960 grams.
Howard Holmberg
That is of gold dust.
Unknown Announcer
3 pounds inner butt in her butt.
Howard Holmberg
I challenge all of you. I had that butt plug in there and that thing was real light. I felt every.
Unknown Announcer
Imagine a two pounder.
Howard Holmberg
It's like having a dumbbell in your butt. A dumbbell of gold. That's something I kind of almost want to try.
Unknown Announcer
What?
Howard Holmberg
Yeah. Cuz then the next time you go to the bathroom it'd be hilarious. Your poop would look like Goldschlager.
Phil
Another guy in China tried to disguise his turtle as a hamburger. Wrapped his beloved pet in a takeout container, brought it through security.
Unknown Announcer
Not so beloved by the way, if you're smothering it.
Phil
That little turtle between two buns.
Howard Holmberg
But why can't you just ask the Chinese fish, can I take my turtle?
Phil
You're not allowed to smuggle and you drive.
Howard Holmberg
Where's he smuggling?
Phil
Doesn't say where he was headed.
Howard Holmberg
He's just moving out. Gotta leave your pets behind.
Phil
2005, a woman was detained in Australia after landing in Singapore carrying 15 plastic bags of live tropical fish. She wore it as a custom made apron containing the fish bags underneath her skirt.
Howard Holmberg
Aprons are a dead giveaway that you're getting on a plane with an apron on.
Phil
Another one had a meth burrito. That happened. 2016 Tucson International.
Howard Holmberg
That's a good idea. And not surprising at all. I think they sell meth burritos in Tucson. I think there's a place called.
Unknown Announcer
You think that's on the Filiberto's menu.
Howard Holmberg
El Methos. Come on in. What you want? I want some cheese and some of that guacamole and then a bunch of methods. Okay. Come on, pile it on. Have you seen the thing that's going on at Chipotle? Were you talking about that? Where if you film them, they give you more. It's. It's a bunch of prick kids where they're going in with their cameras while you're making your Chipotle thing and you're going down the line. And if you start filming them, they notice that the employees will hand over a little more. And the CEOs like ask. This is weird because now people are. Everybody's filming their employees.
Phil
That's why they liked it. Because now it's, you know, now it's just to rob. They're posting it on social media.
Howard Holmberg
So the guy's like, just ask us. We won't charge extra for a little extra. They're starting to get. Starting to harass them with cameras.
Phil
Now this woman in South Korea at the Guangzhou airport attempted to smuggle dozens of tadpoles in her mouth.
Howard Holmberg
Those weren't tadpoles.
Phil
The woman was asked to drink or discard. Discard her water bottle During a routine security check. She sipped the water but didn't swallow. She became kind of suspicious and she was asked to spit out the liquid. And dozens of tadpoles pulled out.
Howard Holmberg
Yeah, poured out of her mouth. Sorry about that. We were busy in the bathroom. I threw some tadpoles in her mouth and she doesn't swallow. We know what you're doing. And who's on? Somebody for smuggling tadpoles in their mouth. Something suspicious going on over there? Ask that lady. Ma' am, can we ask you a couple questions? Sure. What's going on? We have a suspicious feeling you might have a load full of tadpoles in your gob. Oh, you guys are ridiculous. That's stupid. Sip this water. Never.
Phil
Another guy in Australia got busted. They found over 10 ounces of ecstasy hidden in his Mr. Potato Head doll. That's your smuggler's nose.
Howard Holmberg
Some good stuff in there. I'm going to sue for harassment. I can't believe you guys would ask me these things. Spit out the tadpoles, lady. We know what's going on. I'm a whore. Well, now we know that they're not that big. And then Lex Steele comes around. Why are you harassing my lady?
Phil
Jesus Christ.
Howard Holmberg
That's his sperms. Those weren't tadpoles at all. That guy gives birth to fish.
Phil
You'll like this one, John. Researchers out of the University of Sheffield in the UK say that older people face discrimination around sex and relationships, particularly when it comes to nursing homes where privacy can be limited. They say they should. They're doing new training for medical professionals and care providers and nursing home staff to encourage the elderly. They need play time.
Howard Holmberg
Wait a minute. Why are they being discouraged?
Phil
Play time meaning they need to have sex.
Howard Holmberg
But what is the. What are they being discouraged and discriminated against?
Phil
They're saying that they're. Since they're in a nursing home and that that activity.
Howard Holmberg
Oh, old people are saying they need to have sex? I thought the staff was saying, you guys need to step it up.
Phil
The staff is going to encourage them to have sex.
Howard Holmberg
How's that discrimination?
Phil
I don't know.
Howard Holmberg
You started it by saying they're facing discrimination.
Phil
Well, maybe because. Well, I. Because the staff was told not to encourage them.
Howard Holmberg
Did your story say that that was true or did you just make that part up?
Phil
That's where I'm guessing where the discrimination came from. Let's say that older piece. People face discrimination around sex and relationships. Oh yeah.
Howard Holmberg
Especially in nursing homes.
Phil
Yeah. So now the staff is saying. You guys educating the staff in other. To encourage that activity.
Howard Holmberg
Got it.
Phil
Go ahead, bang away.
Unknown Announcer
Discrimination like.
Howard Holmberg
Well, they're being generally.
Phil
You're old now. You've grown out of it.
Howard Holmberg
It's poorly still have those. It's a societal discrimination to say. Say. To say that they're done having sex. Men can't get it up. Ladies aren't interested out of it. Right. Well, that's a thing. Evidently. I don't know. Don't ever want to grow out of that. No. I want to be a Peter Pan complex about sex all my life. Yeah. I don't ever want to have that discussion. Like. Yeah, it's just not that. Who cares?
Phil
The reason why too is cuz they probably don't want to see that or picture that.
Howard Holmberg
Nobody wants to see it. Brady, I don't want to see you doing it. You're not old yet. I don't know.
Phil
You don't want to see me. But if the staff or whatever is going in there and they, you know, they walk into the room.
Howard Holmberg
Well, you're supposed to knock. Still. There's your discrimination. You can't just go barging in an old lady's rooms. You might catch them even without a guy. Imagine it would be better to see them having sex than pleasuring themselves. That's pathetic. You're supposed to knock. So if the discrimination is. They just keep barging in on old people having sex. That's bad. And old people can do it, but they should do it under the COVID of darkness with like a triple lock.
Phil
They walk in, the diapers are on the floor.
Howard Holmberg
Oh, we're still just pushed to the side.
Phil
Like, maybe we should change this. Maybe we should change this policy.
Howard Holmberg
I don't even like porns where the panties are moved over to the side. Now I just pictured the diaper. That noise.
Phil
Well, it's.
Unknown Announcer
No, it's going to be full. It's going to squish.
Howard Holmberg
Oh, it'll full and then.
Phil
Thank you, George.
Unknown Announcer
There's no crinkling is what I'm saying.
Howard Holmberg
Old man stuffer and he's scooting a diaper over. Move it to the side. I don't have time to bend over. Besides, putting it back on, it's a nightmare. I'm gonna get you from behind. I can't look at your face.
Phil
Experts are warning that the silver tsunami poses a threat to the economy.
Howard Holmberg
Is that a superhero? I Don't know about. Who's the silver tsunami?
Phil
Over 65 people over 65 are set to outnumber children by the year 2030.
Howard Holmberg
Yes.
Phil
They're calling it the Silver Tsunami.
Howard Holmberg
Bring it on. By 2030. Oh, I won't be 65 yet. 58.
Phil
A record 4.1 million Americans will turn 65 this year.
Howard Holmberg
I want to be in that. I want to be part of the silver tsunami that destroys children. 65 and up wars. The dangerous thing is, and I keep warning everybody had this conversation with somebody the other day and I changed their mind. I think it's amazing what they're doing in medical science. We could live to be 120. You're an idiot. You. They'd work you till you were 100. You do not hear why they want people to live longer. I hadn't thought of that. Of course you haven't. Cuz you're selfish. You're thinking of your own needs. Get off the planet.
Phil
Half of the wealth in the US is now held by people born before 1965.
Howard Holmberg
That's the way it should be. Yeah.
Phil
They've had the most time to imagine. Yeah.
Howard Holmberg
They've been around for 70 years. Makes sense. Tons of sense.
Phil
They're saying now around 20 million over 55.
Howard Holmberg
Hold on a second.
Phil
Already need assistance with daily tasks to live an independent life. You said half, half of the wealth in the US is now held by people born before 1960 and the other.
Howard Holmberg
Half is people after.
Phil
Yep.
Howard Holmberg
So it's. It's nothing.
Phil
Now. It must have been lower before the or or more on the other side. But they're making a choice.
Howard Holmberg
A good reporter would have told us that. Now it's just 50%. Is this 50%? Is that half the world's wealth? You could go back to anything, find a number.
Unknown Announcer
Half the world's wealth has 20 years left to live and the other half will inherit it.
Phil
Right.
Howard Holmberg
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Episode: 07-02-25 - Brady Report - 8 Stories - John Imagines Willy Wonka with Meat Instead Of Candy Would Be Brady's Dream - BO
Release Date: July 2, 2025
Host: Howard Holmberg with Brady Bogan, Phil, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo
Station: 98 KUPD | Hubbard Radio
The episode kicks off with Brady Bogan sharing the latest updates in the Arizona comedy scene. Despite the closure of three comedy venues on July 4th [00:08], Brady reassures listeners that the laughter continues with performances from Francisco Ramos at Stand Up Live on Saturday, John Heffron at Desert Ridge Improv across multiple days, and shows at Tempe Improv throughout the weekend. For more information on lineups and tickets, Brady directs listeners to the respective websites.
Notable Quote:
"All right, just a note that the three venues will all be closed on July 4th. That doesn't mean there's a lack of comedy though..." — Brady Bogan [00:08]
Howard Holmberg and Phil delve into national observances, highlighting National Work From Home Day and National HIV Testing Day [02:42]. They discuss the ongoing importance of HIV testing, emphasizing that while advancements have been made, awareness and testing remain crucial.
Notable Quote:
"You just wanna know if you've got it. It's not like they conquered diabetes with insulin. But you still wanna know." — Howard Holmberg [03:03]
A recurring theme in the episode is the imaginative twist on Willy Wonka. Howard shares a comedic take on what the iconic chocolatier's factory would look like if centered around savory foods instead of candy. The discussion paints a vivid and humorous picture of a "world of meat" with features like ham boats and gravy rivers.
Notable Quote:
"Come with me and you'll be in a world of meaty imagination." — Howard Holmberg [02:54]
Phil brings up the Glastonbury Music Festival, comparing it to England's version of Coachella. He highlights the festival's innovative approach to sustainability by partnering with a company to collect urine for creating eco-friendly fertilizer, adding a greener twist to the event.
Notable Quote:
"It's like England's Coachella. And it's a little greener this year because they're collecting everyone's urine." — Phil [04:48]
A discussion about a recent poll reveals that 73% of Americans have never wanted to be the President, with only 8% of Republicans and 10% of Democrats expressing such ambitions as adults. The conversation touches on generational differences, noting that Gen Z shows more interest compared to older generations.
Notable Quote:
"73% said no. 15% said they have, but only as a child." — Phil [06:50]
Under the segment titled "Smugglers News", Phil shares a series of bizarre smuggling incidents from around the world:
Howard humorously reacts to these stories, adding his own comedic flair and personal anecdotes.
Notable Quote:
"Some good stuff in there. I'm going to sue for harassment." — Howard Holmberg [20:15]
Phil introduces an intriguing concept from Verona, Italy, where a restaurant called Al Condominium offers diners a free bottle of wine if they relinquish their phones during the meal. The hosts discuss the implications of such initiatives on social interactions, relationships, and personal entertainment during dining.
Notable Quote:
"It's sad that you have to get paid to not have your phone to talk to the person you went to dinner with." — Howard Holmberg [10:38]
The hosts explore the concept of the "Silver Tsunami", referring to the projected demographic shift where individuals over 65 will outnumber children by 2030 [24:14]. Phil discusses how this trend poses economic challenges, including wealth distribution and the increasing need for assisted living. Howard expresses a mix of humor and concern over the societal changes impending with this demographic shift.
Notable Quote:
"You're an idiot. You do not hear why they want people to live longer. I hadn't thought of that." — Howard Holmberg [24:20]
A study from the University of Sheffield reveals that older adults face discrimination regarding sex and relationships, especially in nursing homes where privacy is limited. The conversation critiques societal attitudes towards elderly sexuality and the policies in place that affect their personal lives.
Notable Quote:
"It's a societal discrimination to say... Men can't get it up. Ladies aren't interested out of it." — Howard Holmberg [22:15]
The episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness offers a blend of humor, current events, and insightful discussions. From imaginative takes on popular culture to serious conversations about societal issues affecting the elderly, Howard Holmberg and his co-hosts provide a comprehensive and entertaining morning show experience for Arizona listeners and beyond.
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