07-22-25 - Talking About How We Used To Discover New Music Or New Artists Thru Radio And How We Can Try To Do That Again - Singing Bowl Instructor Emailed In Leading To More Details On Ronnee's Singing Bowl Retreat Yesterday

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona: Episode Summary (07-22-25)

Released on July 22, 2025, this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness delves into the nostalgic and pressing topic of discovering new music through radio—a practice that has seen a significant decline in recent years. Additionally, the hosts address a listener's email regarding a singing bowl instructor, leading to an entertaining and humorous discussion.

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Reviving Music Discovery on Radio

John Holmberg, the main host, leads a passionate conversation about the diminishing role of radio in introducing new music and artists. He reminisces about the golden days when radio was a primary source for discovering emerging bands:

"Radio used to be the place people would go to find music." ([05:30] Brett)

The hosts express frustration over radio executives' reluctance to embrace the internet and new music, viewing it as competition instead of an opportunity for growth. This resistance has led to a stagnation where radio playlists prioritize safe, established hits over fresh, innovative tracks.

Brett highlights the missed opportunities:

"If we got on board early, we could still be a thing. Radio Bops pushed Internet away and said, that's our competition." ([06:10] Brett)

The conversation emphasizes the need for radio shows to actively seek out and promote new talent. The hosts propose a segment where listeners can submit their favorite undiscovered bands, fostering a community-driven approach to music discovery.

Brady supports the idea, suggesting a selective criteria to ensure quality:

"Something where you say, this is a band I want to invest in... a massive mass appeal band." ([07:25] Brett)

They discuss potential barriers, such as limited resources and the high costs associated with promoting new artists. Despite these challenges, the hosts remain optimistic about their ability to influence the music scene positively.

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Listener Email: Singing Bowl Instructor and the Ronnee Retreat

Midway through the episode, the hosts shift gears to address a listener's email from a singing bowl instructor affiliated with the Red Rock Healing Center. The email discusses details about Ronnee's Singing Bowl Retreat, prompting a humorous and exaggerated dialogue among the hosts.

Brett reads the email, leading to a comedic exploration of the supposed cult-like elements associated with singing bowl practices:

"I want to have a thing... protect the idiots." ([31:10] Toledo)

The hosts joke about the instructor's methods, imagining extravagant and absurd scenarios involving singing bowls transforming into tools for manipulation and control. This segment showcases the hosts' chemistry and ability to turn a straightforward listener message into a lively and entertaining exchange.

John Holmberg adds to the humor, poking fun at the idea of integrating such practices into their personal lives:

"She was playing bowls for women... What a grift." ([32:25] Brett)

The banter continues with playful jabs at the concept of float parties and the unrealistic expectations some might have when participating in such retreats. The conversation remains light-hearted, providing a mix of humor and satire while addressing the unique content submitted by their listeners.

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Conclusion: Embracing New Music and Engaging with Listeners

The episode wraps up with the hosts reiterating their commitment to promoting new music and engaging more interactively with their audience. They encourage listeners to submit their favorite undiscovered bands, promising to feature and discuss them on future shows.

Brett concludes with enthusiasm for the proposed changes:

"Let's be the ones that push these guys." ([62:57] Brett)

Meanwhile, the playful discussion about singing bowls leaves listeners entertained, showcasing the show's blend of serious discourse and comedic relief.

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For those who missed the episode, Holmberg's Morning Sickness continues to be Arizona's #1 Morning Radio Show, blending entertainment with insightful discussions. Tune in weekdays from 5:30 AM to 10:00 AM on 98KUPD or via their app and website.

Transcript

[John Holmberg]

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[Brett]

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[Brady]

PT homeworks Morning sickness Gotta get up to here and make you laugh until you peel. They might make you come undone make your cock rise with the sun. We'd like to welcome you to this morning's show with John Brett and Brady and Big Dick Toledo. They call us Hobbs but we are not worth miles to nowhere. They speak on controversy. Who's Bobby and Johnny Snob? They think Dua Lipa's great for the faint of heart.

[Brett]

They're not.

[Brady]

Homer's morning sickness Gotta get up to hear it. Makes em laugh, makes em cry in all seriousness and fun make your cockris.

[Brett]

With the.

[Brady]

We'D like to introduce our main host they say he looks like Squidward with that big huge nose Ha ha ha but that's a prereq. They own the mornings airing over 20 years like a blue pill they're still going. Brady comes in shorts to report the news he knows but you can't eat at Porkopolis because it closed. Homer's morning sickness. You gotta get up to hear it. Make you laugh until you wipe you off. When they are done make your cock rise with the sun. Homework's morning sickness. You gotta tune in and listen. Tap that up.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Don't get screwed in the end. All in good fun. Big rip. Radio's got you, son.

[Brett]

We'll bash on them in a minute. All right. There you go. It's miles to nowhere. That's a glorious thing. Thanks, Katie and Hobbs. We just played Shotgun Blues. That's Vol Beat. Of course, that is a concert psyching rock thing. For the big show Saturday night, my birthday. Vol. Beats decided to be here. Brett will be standing on stage with volbeat saying, look, everybody, Volbeat. You have an allergy stuff, too. Yep, me too.

[John Holmberg]

Goddamn rain that I didn't get.

[Brett]

Yeah, it's every. It's. Yeah, I got the same thing. My throat is so. But yeah, so go enjoy that. And Shotgun Blue's such a great. And I actually, while that was playing, remembered the first time hearing that song. God, I was like, that was Covid time. If I remember right, they put that album out around Covid, or end of COVID Somewhere around there. Yeah, it was right in that time. And I remember thinking, this is awesome. Like, music's gonna be good again. Volby and I. And I have to tell you, I think that might be. But I already knew about Volby. That was the last time I remember thinking, this song is gonna make me go get that. The reason I bring this up is because it's radio. Used to be. Before radio executive Bob's ruined the ent. It used to be a place people would go to find music. Right. But it didn't know how to now. And then the Internet came along and like, in a lot. I know I'm talking to a lot of people out there with your industry decided to put its hands up and push back instead of actually embrace that a better thing was coming along. If we got on board early, we could still be a thing. Radio Bops pushed Internet away and said, that's our competition. They made it competition. So now radio is not a place anyone goes to to find new music. Dawned on me yesterday, actually, just a little bit ago. I've been listening to a band. I. And all of you have one. Everybody listening's got one. This is. It's impossible to be a united population. The only thing we've united on over the past three days is the Coldplay couple. That's. That's cheating. And by the way, Donovan couldn't be more right. He just emailed me. He goes, my dad just sent me a meme of the Coldplay couple. It's over, right Now I'm like, yeah, once your dad starts in on it, yeah, that trend is done. We don't unite or anything. We don't have that commonality anymore. If that's where the new thing found. So everybody's finding their own stuff somewhere. I found a band. I didn't find them, but just popped up, called the Messenger Birds. Text you yesterday.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

And I'm like, give these guys a whirl. I want to have a thing. And I don't know how we would do it. Open discussion here. You can email homeberger98kupd.com where we still need to eliminate the idiots. But tell us what you found. You know what I mean? Like, I found the Messenger Birds. I couldn't be happier to tell people I know who love music. Brett, my buddy Chris, a couple other people who are like, this is going to be my buddy Brian Rendle. And I'm like, you're. Tell me what you think. Am I off? And every one of you guys emailed back when this is. How do these guys only have 2500 followers on. Like, they're. They're not.

[Toledo]

Found them on what platform?

[Brett]

I was listening. I was playing basketball in the backyard. I had my Spotify on Royal Blood, and it popped up, and I'm like, who the hell is this?

[Toledo]

And it pulls it in. Give me Phantom Limb.

[Brett]

Find Phantom Limb. And, yeah, and it just does the. You know, this is the category that you would find. It builds its own little radio station stuff, and sometimes it's way too similar, and sometimes it's way off the mark. But I'm listening to this song Phantom Limb, and then so I did some. I loved it. So I. I just went on my phone and said, play all the Messenger Birds. It's two dudes from Detroit, a guy playing guitar and a guy playing drums, much like Royal Blood, only he's playing an actual guitar, not a bass guitar. And I know bass players. You're saying a beat is an actual guitar. No, it's not. Do you know when they had the riots in Los Angeles, they were going to use beanbags or tear gas to make the crowd go away. And then somebody had a great idea. And it's very rare when politicians have great ideas like this that they said, let's get rid of these crowds. Call all the local bass players and have them set up an amp on the corner and just freestyle. The crowd will dissipate. You will lose the entire. You've never once gone to a bar and said, hey, folks, I'm gonna play a little Bass for you up here. So if that's not a stand up bass and you're not Slim Jim, Phantom, nobody's sticking around.

[John Holmberg]

Or Les Claypool.

[Brett]

Well, right. But Les Claypool is even he's still gonna drive most of the bar away if you don't know who he is. Phantom Limb is just such a cool song and these dudes got. They have no attention and they've won a Grammy. So radio once again doing a po. Because we're so afraid as an industry to take a chance on new stuff. Cause most of it sucks. It makes me want to hear the whole thing again. I cannot get enough of this band. But I want people to be able to do that with us. And maybe we'll just do it as a show. Let's just do. And it would be sort of platoish. Love this band.

[John Holmberg]

Like I said, it's Royal Blood beats Highly Suspect.

[Brett]

And it's the better version of what you wanted Highly suspect to become. Try to look away. All right, so I'm not. We'll play it again later. The but. Yeah, but radio's always like, oh, it's new. People hate new things. They're. If they're not familiar with it, they'll leave. And I'm like, I don't think that's true. That's not how radio ever worked before. It used to be the place people would turn to like, oh, maybe we'll just do it home Bird show found this band and they're pushing it now. Here's the. The guidelines for that is that I want to pick, like have a segment on maybe Tuesdays, right, where we. One of us find something. You don't have to look for it, but if you find it, you bring it to us or one of you guys emails us. But I don't want it to be something stupid. There's where the problem became with rock. So I. It has to be something where you say, this is a band. I want a financial piece of. That's how your brain has to operate with this. It has to be like. Like, I would love to invest in that band. I would love to have a financial. I would. I want to manage the Messenger Birds. If I knew what that meant at all. You know what you're doing a hundred percent. Like, that's a band I would hitch to. If you bring me the loudest Cookie Monster mess ever. We all know that's never going to be a mainstream success. It might pop a little in that little group, but I'm talking about mainstream. Go get them. Let's make rock great again kind of thing. And that's one of them. I couldn't believe it. So I. It kind of frustrated me that I had to text people in radio. Have you heard of this awesome rock band called the Messenger Birds? And nobody. I text a producer in music. I pr. I text a guy who is a reviewer of new albums. Larry, the program director. You. No one has heard of them.

[Toledo]

Well, a big part of it is the money is not there anymore.

[Brett]

They don't try. Like, nobody's going after this stuff. Like, you either show up on YouTube with a hit that's already done, but nobody's nurturing anymore. Maybe we can be the ones that nurture. Maybe it's a terrible idea. But I just. I know everyone out there has bands. They're like, oh, my God. I listen to this band all the time. Nobody knows who they are. And it's not music snobbery, it's frustration.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

I don't want. I'm not one of those people that like Nirvana bleach more than Nevermind. And when Nevermind came out, I wasn't mad. You know, like those people that are like, oh, I knew this band before they got big. I. I want to know. I'm the Colin Coward of that. I. I root for bands to get wildly successful. I hope, like, I hope that band goes crazy because it just makes music better. It makes my collection better. It makes my stereo better. But we need to come up with, like, something where people are like, oh, my God, this is so good, you know, and people will come on and it's like, I just want. I want to. But I know what it's going to turn into.

[Toledo]

It's a tough. It's a tougher category to the rock genre.

[Brett]

It broke into a million pieces.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Then. So you got people who, you know, you're a pussy if you don't like this. You're a pussy if you do like that. You're like, okay, so we don't even. We all share the same kind of musical interests and bash. We're the. We're the wnba. Rock music became the wnba. We bash everything that starts, become successful, and hang on to things that aren't that great. It's crazy. But you want, like, I want something that isn't just unique to you, but, like, you're like, I would. I would want to manage this band. This band needs to go. It is a. It is a massive mass appeal band. I don't want to hear from, you know, my stepsister, C. Word. They're coming out of Tulsa, and they've got songs called Abortion Foot. And I'm like, nope, those are never going to be hits. That's never going to be popular. I hate that. I hate that I have to tell people that. No, man, it's huge. No, it's not. Anything with the C word in it or abortion or anything is never going to be a mainstream. Never going to be in mainstream anything ever. And you're talking to a guy who loves both the C word and abortion. But I also know Billy Ocean couldn't have made hits with those words back in the day. Just couldn't have done it. There have been abortion. Nope, not a thing. There have been. Nope, not a thing. Had to go with Queen because originally Caribbean Queen was called Caribbean. And it just didn't take. It was like five years on the shelves. Now we're sharing the same. Doesn't rhyme. Anyway, I just want something to be other people emailing in. Black Pistol Fire is a band that confuses me because they're not huge, it's not obscure, but it's upsetting that they're not big. That's the problem with radio to me right now. It still wants to be in the music world, but it doesn't want to take any chances in it. Radio still has executives going, well, we.

[Katie]

Got to play the hits and give away the money and play the hits.

[Brett]

We don't want nothing about.

[Toledo]

You know, it's true as far as people, a small factor of people that are actually going out looking for new.

[Brett]

And we're not looking. But everybody who likes music has a band that, like, how are these guys not huge? You've got one, I've got one. Everybody's got a band. Like, man, these guys should have popped. Don't get it. Like, if you're a music fan, if you're just passive, you're not gonna care about this no matter what. But we're in an industry that keeps trying to hook itself into music and is scared to death to do it.

[John Holmberg]

And even songs, too. I mean, like. Like, we always talk about, like, Countdown to Shutdown from the Hives. Why didn't that get played?

[Brett]

Because it doesn't fit anywhere perfectly, right? It's too gay for KUPD because it's this Swedish alternative garage band. And KDKB came to it because it's too aggressive, it has no home. And why Radio's scared. It's a scared place to live. Even xm, which is where radio executives that weren't very good went to die. And then they ruined that, too, by making these ridiculous stations for Jimmy Buffett and deep cuts.

[Toledo]

We're only going to 80, though. 80 deep.

[Brett]

And then the music snobs, repeats. I don't know. I'm probably wrong. And I know Tripp's probably sitting there at home going, well, you can't do a stupid radio station off new music. It's unfamiliar. And I know all the research says the only way to make money, and that's the other thing. Radio's dying on a vine. So it's gotta. It's gotta be so safe because something. Yeah, right. But what you're doing isn't working. I love the kupd. Still works. And that's what Kyle Pierce said. Didn't we already do this for Kim Petras? Yeah. A lot of you guys now know what Kim Petras is because we broke it.

[John Holmberg]

And Corey Feldman, to an extent, his singing career.

[Brett]

You're welcome, Corey. At least here, that's all we can do is just with our audience. I mean, I found it with you when. When Kim Petrus popped on. On the. We're like, what's this?

[John Holmberg]

New releases.

[Brett]

Somewhere in the middle of it, I said, something's not right here. That's all I said.

[John Holmberg]

I just saw great cans. That's why I posted it.

[Brett]

I looked at it, too, but then I listened to the world, the words, and I'm like, what is she singing about? Because that's. And then, you know, my spidey senses grabbed hold of the idea that something was the hip. Something wasn't quite right. The cans are amazing, but something's not right with this song. It was too overtly testicular to be all about her boobs, her coconuts. Wait a minute. It was a veiled reference to her once having had bowls, and throat goat closed the deal. And then throat goat made. You know, okay, this is. Only a gay guy would sing this. Like a woman can't do this and still be a woman. But she became the perfect woman to all of us. Holmberg's morning sickness. It is frustrating because you work in an industry that's like the. The music tests. Tons of money spending tons of money to find out if you guys still like Plush by Stone Temple Pilots. Tons of money is spent to see. Or the Chili Peppers to see. Okay. They still like it. It. You know, tons of money spent on these tests. And I understand you got to be familiar, but where's the. We got to break this. We want to. Because it costs money.

[Toledo]

Yep.

[Brett]

You know, I want to play Phantom Limb for you guys as our wake up song.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Brett]

We'll still go through the rigor Roll, but it's on my list. And if. Unless something else comes up, there's a couple good ones.

[John Holmberg]

What do you got, Primus? My name is mud for the wnba.

[Brett]

All right. Damn it, you guys are fun.

[John Holmberg]

Beck. Loser for the wnb. I mean, there's a bunch of.

[Brett]

I just. Yeah, I wanna. I want. It was. And the reason why is because it was euphoric. I haven't had this feeling in a long time when that band hit my head, my ears and. Look, one of the reasons I got into radio is because I'm not qualified to do anything else. I've been a professional jackass. I realized this since sixth grade. I didn't know that I was. I've been in training for this the entire time. And I love, like, music in my life. Like, I think it's awesome to have around me. So when something new grabs you, it. It's. It can be. It can be awesome. So that was kind of my cool.

[Toledo]

Back in the day when, you know, they do albums, even CDs or cassettes, but they would take, like, a band like the Messenger Birds. Birds.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

And they'd have their single and they do all these different singles. The compilation.

[Brett]

Yeah. Sampler pack. Yeah.

[Toledo]

You don't see that as much anymore.

[Brett]

It costs money. Money. And they are scrapping, scraping every penny they can get to make sure that their bottom lines are good without ever again. Like what Brett said. Try something else. Because I think KSLX might know. Elton John sticking around, but spending money on that to test to see if people still like it shocks me.

[John Holmberg]

Allison Chains and Metallica are going to go anywhere.

[Brett]

They're not going anywhere, but they spend money. Go. Do they still like it? Do they still like it? Do they still like it? Do they still. There's this desperate insecurity that no one likes us anymore.

[Toledo]

They like it, but not so much on your stage, right?

[Brett]

Yeah. Yeah. Your audience, which we're not trying to grow, has. They don't like this. Stick to Elton John and it makes sense. And I'm not saying they should ever do it. That's a radio station that thrives on the idea of, like, we're not trying anything new.

[John Holmberg]

That was me years ago when we first started playing Danko Jones. Oh, Like, I knew he had a. I know he had a bunch of albums before that, but I was never privy to it until we started playing. And I'm like, oh, my God. And I started going back, listen to old stuff, new stuff. And, like, I think bad thoughts and.

[Brett]

Oh, man, he's the king of. Should have made it.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And he's huge in Europe.

[Brett]

There's. He's the king of that. Yeah, he's giant in Europe now. I went and looked at the Phantom Birds. They don't even, like, have much of a website, but I just put tours live. They're playing somewhere in, like, the Midwest for $12. Like, this is awesome. Like, that's that fun of the entire world of being in this industry. That used to be like, oh, you get to meet the bands and these new bands show up. We used to have. Remember Zone used to have those new artist things.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brett]

These guys would come in and they'd say, they don't do that anymore. And that's a record company thing. But they used to always try to push new bands on you because they're like, this is a band we think is going to go crazy. I. There's so many songs and things that when I worked at the Zone, because they were heavy on it, where I met bands that called Black Lab Star 69, these bands would come in and then they'd befriend the radio station because they're like, this is our way in. Now they. Now all they need is the Internet. And I think it doesn't help them unless somebody else gets. We should be more out about it. Like, we should be more. We should try some and do. The thing that Dick Clark used to do in American Bandstand is a rate of record.

[Toledo]

Well, bands themselves are always asking that question. How. How do we get it out there? How do we. You know. And you.

[Brett]

You hear they're not getting any help.

[Toledo]

Touring is where you gotta make money. But how do you push that?

[Brett]

Who pays for that? Yeah, I think you got to pay back the record companies if they get on board with you and pay for your tour. You owe them that money. They're not investing in you. They're giving you the upfront and hoping that you pop. If you don't, they'll eat it. But you're on your own.

[Toledo]

And the ones that spend the money to produce themselves are like, well, then how do we promote it? How are we?

[Brett]

Well, the cool thing is my emails have exploded, so I'm going to go through.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, me too.

[Brett]

So I'm gonna start saving and start saving them. And then we'll just put something together. We're like, all right, this guy suggested this one. This is today's feature. And we'll do that Radar. Do a little segment like, keep what do they do? Smash it or keep it or smash.

[John Holmberg]

It or trash it.

[Brett]

Yeah, that's it. Smash it or trash it. But that would be both.

[John Holmberg]

Well, KQ back and they used to do like the. The they used to call it was it Monday morning music meeting where everybody would play new records and sit around and like, who'd you find?

[Brett]

Yeah, now KUKQ was annoyingly well, yeah, snob.

[John Holmberg]

But.

[Brett]

But I don't want it to turn into.

[Toledo]

And that's what it would turn.

[Brett]

You know, it's not play do. It's bands that like we all know are already good. Not 30, you know, tales that were trying to find the donkey. Plato is not the same thing. But anyway, we'll get to that and thank you already for participating. It. It is frustrating because radio is such a powerful thing. Ask any advertiser that we do stuff for. Like, we didn't realize you guys could still move the needle this way. I'm like, yeah, it's because, you know, got an audience that trusts us and we do stuff with them. And we're like, we, we, we can. It can still sell burgers and it can still sell music. We're afraid of it. And I don't want to be anymore. I don't care anymore. So it's like, do your research. All day long people will sit by if you find something good and it might suck and that might make for even more fun. Like, wow, that was a really bad. Or you get a brand new band in your life like this one for me that I can't get enough of and it's made my last couple days better because I've got this new exciting, fun, like I love it and give.

[John Holmberg]

And if you're gonna send some bands over, give us a song to check out too. Like a jump off point. Only starting point.

[Brett]

Yeah, always give us one song. Don't make us do the research. You send the song that got you. Yeah, you send the song of a band that you're like, this one got me. And I don't want it to be 20 years old. Something relatively like right now. Now. Not a band that you've been harping about for 20 years. That didn't happen. Something you're like, I just found this the other day. Messenger Bird's been around since like 2018. Nobody's heard of them at all. You got two albums and both really good. Anyway, just a thought in my head because I'm frustrated by the current state of music. He's all these kids. It stems from the idea that nobody wants to share their stuff with other people. What they want to share is their playlist, as if they've invented a radio station, their Spotify list, and hopefully you can find new music through that. But we don't do it as a group. All of us out here right now, all you listeners and everybody in the room kind of have a common interest in this genre, or as Alex Trebek used to say, genre. Anyway. So get on it. Start thinking about. We start a whole category, like a whole email, people firing those things over. And then we'll have a little music meeting and maybe we'll do this before. You know what, we'll sit in a room and go, here's the three we're gonna pick from today. And then if they all suck, we won't do them. We'll just find something that finally gets it. And it doesn't have to be every Tuesday, because that would end up sucking.

[John Holmberg]

Or we could just be rate the person that sent it to us, too.

[Brett]

That's true also. Boy, that's also an option. I used to love sitting in on Tuesday mornings with my old program director, Paul Peterson, and. And music director, the late, great Kevin Manion. And he would. Kevin would come in with 10 or 12 songs to play for Paul to see if any of them were ads for that week. And Larry still gets it, listens to a few new ones, and this one's all right, is all right. Nobody's pushing. We don't get the list like you used to. And Kevin would always say, like, this band's coming. You know, Danny is the rep. He said he would give us this, this, and this if we played him for a week or whatever. And, like, you could get. Get their concert and exclusive rights to this and that. And he goes, if we get them on, if we add it, they're going to be extra nice and give us, you know, be on our show for dirt. And then you'd listen to the song, and sometimes they would take it to add a band to a crappy list, and you'd play something you didn't really want to. To make them happy about something else. It was the give and take. But a lot of times I'd sit in those music meetings and I'm like. And you'd find one needle and haystack. It was a concert. Constant radio. What can. What kind of world is this coming to? Let's research the Stone Temple Pilots, make sure we haven't pissed him off yet. Brett's right, what you're doing. All I hear about all we Got is memos about, like. Well, other than KUPD and, like, the news station and someplace in St. Louis, we're losing money like crazy. Like, you tried anything new? No. Oh, you do anything special? No. Okay, well, giving away.

[John Holmberg]

Giving away tickets to concerts.

[Brett]

I'm trying to do that.

[John Holmberg]

Giving away money.

[Brett]

And we don't have any ideas. Anybody have any ideas? Like. No.

[Toledo]

Here's Countdown to Shutdown.

[Brett]

Yeah. Countdown to Shut down by the Hives now. It doesn't fit anywhere. I'm like, all right, why'd you ask? What's with the brainstorming session if my ideas are all going to be like, it doesn't work. You're an idiot. Get out. Stonetople Pilots have a new song. No. The guy's been dead for 10 years. Ah, we're doomed anyway. I'll get off my. I'll get off my musical soapbox. And how radio executives have ruined the fun of it all by introducing new bands. And in a weird way, you guys, the listeners have ruined it too, by being so quick to hate things that are new. If you're unfamiliar and I'm. Look, I'm right there with you. If it's unfamiliar, I very rarely give anything a chance. It's gotta jump out of the speakers for me to care.

[Toledo]

And it's tougher, you know, in the past for being on the radio and doing what we're doing and. And you don't like a song in the past. You're like, you never say that.

[Brett]

Oh, you weren't allowed to hate songs out loud.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, I got in trouble for that a few times.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, man. J.J. called me up at 2 in the morning one time.

[Brett]

Tangerine Speedo will forever be the day. I thought I was out of radio forever. Me and the music director, he was playing that horrible Tangerine Speedo song. And luckily it was all on CD at the time. And every time he would burn it it. I would break it in half and throw it away. I'm like, I will not work at a radio station that plays this absolute. It's not happening. It's going to be a huge hit. And I'm like, I will bet you my house that we're not playing that in a month. Unless you're going to be stubborn. No one wants to hear from this band. It's fun. It's exciting. And I'm like, don't schedule it during my show. If I don't, can I play it for the rest of the station? Like, yeah, but I'm going to break the CD if I'M in the room and I got nothing to do. I'm going to find it and break it. He printed up like 20 of them. I broke all 20 of them. This is the dumbest and worst song that I've ever had to sit through.

[John Holmberg]

And I 70s.

[Brett]

Oh, the girls loved it. No, they didn't. No.

[Toledo]

I'm saying no one loved this in the building, okay?

[Brett]

Because they thought they loved it.

[John Holmberg]

It's for.

[Brett]

For an hour. And girls are never in charge of choosing the music. They're terrible at it. And I remember just like, right in the middle of playing this, like, thinking, well, I'm just, what's this?

[John Holmberg]

This was a single.

[Brett]

Yeah. And I cut it off. I'm like, I'm sorry. I can't play that song. I can't. And I turned it off in the middle. I'm like, I'm not working here if that's what we do. And everybody called. Thank you. That. That song is terrible. I'm like, I agree completely. And then the pro. You don't come down here and tell everybody what sucks. And I'm like, yeah, I do. I just did. And that's one of them. You guys don't. You're not hitting out of the yard every time. And they know I'm a human being. They know I don't like all of this. Brett hates Green Day passionately, but I get it. But he understands we all have something. I got a few things in there that I'm like, I'm not a big fan of that one, but Tangerine Speedo and I got into arguments and a sit down meeting. Don't deviate from. It's. We study, we spend money to make sure we're doing this right. I'm like, yeah, look, it's not working. If Tangerine Speedo's on the list, then you're wasting your money. They're playing it at kroc. Kevin Weatherly says it's awesome. And I'm like, yeah, he missed. He missed one. He missed said, all right, call me back to work here or call me for an apology when Tangerine Speedo wins song of the year and it's the best thing that ever happened to music. And you guys, it's in a. It's constantly going to be played on this radio station for the rest of our lives. Lives. Call me back and I'll apologize. Or in a couple weeks when this is garbage and it comes back garbage, I'll come back and work here, but you got to give me some more money.

[Toledo]

Their follow up Stuff was so much better.

[Brett]

Oh, what was the name of the band again?

[John Holmberg]

Caviar.

[Brett]

Caviar. Oh, they hung a poster in the studio just to piss me off. Caviar.

[John Holmberg]

Did they really?

[Brett]

That was Kevin being funny because we were friends. But he was furious that I kept breaking all the cd. These like, I will break everyone you bring in here. Give it to your crappy morning show, Dave and Tom or whatever the hell the name of that guy. New guys. New guys. Smiley and Sims. Like, hey, Greg. Greg and Dave. Like give it to them every morning, have it waiting for them. But if it's in here while all they did. Oh, I know. And they. Cuz those douchebags were dumb and they played it like it's about a guy in a speed. Let's call our moms.

[Toledo]

Rock it.

[Brett]

They were terrible. They were a perfect example. They were the death of radio, really, the new guys. That was when it all was like, oh, this is the direction we're going anyway. And if you like Tangerine Speedo, you can have that. But you deep down know this is not a thing. We're gonna get it. I got a laundry list. Laundry list. It would be fun to use our HD2 channel for all that.

[John Holmberg]

Gotta pay for that though. That's the problem.

[Brett]

We already do.

[John Holmberg]

No, the station has to pay other RIA or whatever.

[Brett]

Yeah, you're right. Not doing that.

[John Holmberg]

No, that's what I'm saying.

[Brett]

That doesn't count in the original deal. If we start playing.

[John Holmberg]

I think it's different. I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure, Larry, about that one time, I was like, why don't we do another station that does this? He goes, because then we got to pay for it.

[Brett]

Another million dollars out the door for the rights to play music on a radio. Yeah, they didn't think of that when they came up with all those HD channels. Anyway, thank you. Thank you for indulging me on that. Everybody's got something that they listen to that they want to tell their friends about.

[John Holmberg]

My emails.

[Toledo]

Campus radio.

[Brett]

It is, but it isn't. But it doesn't have to be crap. Like it can be like, oh, you know, you'll see. I'll play messenger birds in a little bit. Before that, I want to get to this lady emailed in about yesterday's show. And the topic is, I'm a singing bowl instructor with Red Rock Healing Center. We talked about your singing bowl situation yesterday. Brady says I'm a big fan of the show and I teach Himalayan singing bowl and floating sound baths. Let me know if Ronnie wants to learn how to perform well. Brady has been saying that for years.

[Toledo]

What's Your number?

[Brett]

Have two more classes this year. Redrockhealingcenter.com.

[Toledo]

By the way, she paid for that yesterday or today.

[Brett]

So she. It was. It cost her money. Like I said, that's not free.

[Toledo]

20 bucks ahead to just go sit.

[Brett]

In this lady's pool.

[Toledo]

Yep.

[Brett]

Holmberg's morning sickness.

[Toledo]

It's private class, you know, Private class.

[Brett]

Private up to the point of people stop paying 20.

[John Holmberg]

Brady.

[Brett]

She didn't have a limit.

[Toledo]

20 bucks?

[Brett]

Yeah. To go listen to a lady at her pool. Pool. She could have come to my house.

[John Holmberg]

Sound like this.

[Brett]

Yeah, she could have come to my house. I'd have put this on and she could float my pool for free.

[Toledo]

It was close. It wasn't that tone, but no, I don't.

[Brett]

Yeah, I got another email about that I gotta read, but I didn't know that the lady who's the singing bowl instructor making. So she said seven people. She made 150 bucks off of friends to sit in her pool for an hour and then she kicked them out. What a grift. That's a grift.

[Toledo]

And does it. You know, I grift like how many clients? She goes. I didn't really. I didn't even talk to her after, you know, I did the class and.

[Brett]

She had to go.

[Toledo]

No, you just leave after you're done.

[Brett]

The lady that doesn't like, gives like Rice Krispy treats and cocoa at the end. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Or wine or something.

[Brett]

I mean, that's a crowd, not a float. And go float and get out. And not even any, like, meet and greet with the bowl artist.

[Toledo]

No, you mean. I think, you know, she introduced herself at the beginning of the class.

[Brett]

But the end of the thing, it's like girls, I think they just. Yeah, it's like women from the WNBA trying to get into a club. Everybody out. And there were only seven people. She couldn't glad hand the crew.

[Toledo]

And I'm like, was there family? She was. I don't know if the family was inside, if she was married or she was just single.

[John Holmberg]

She wasn't.

[Brett]

You say it was private, but she was still scrambling for people at 4 o' clock on Sunday to get there by 7.

[Toledo]

I think Ronnie was, you know, an added person.

[John Holmberg]

She was an alternate.

[Toledo]

I think she had six regulars.

[Brett]

And then let's get a seventh in here and let's boost this so she's totally comfortable.

[Toledo]

Words getting out.

[Brett]

Her husband is miserable that Sundays he's not allowed to Use his backyard because his wife is playing bowls for women.

[John Holmberg]

Hey, she's making money.

[Brett]

$120 every night.

[Toledo]

Every now and then they are floating and the bulls are going. But you can hear Rambo in the background because he's watching.

[Brett]

Think of that.

[Katie]

I got seven or eight women coming over. You gotta hide in the. You can't come outside.

[Brett]

Like why not?

[Katie]

You just can't. I'm about to make. Make a cool C note.

[Brett]

Oh God. You're making a hundred bucks.

[Toledo]

She got that place when she, when she divided. When she had.

[Brett]

Oh, you think the husband's not even there. And now she's perfect fit. You know what? You're right.

[Toledo]

The singing bowls, the 100 vortex.

[Brett]

She's living off that dude's half. And then she went out and found herself and Sedona brought back some bowls. And that's her, her mission in life.

[John Holmberg]

Making a cool 840 a week.

[Brett]

Yeah, well she's doing it every year.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I'm saying. Seven days a week.

[Brett]

That means she's got.

[Toledo]

That's just chardonnay money, bro.

[Brett]

That means she's got at least 50 different broads rolling in seven at a time, seven days a week to make.

[John Holmberg]

840 bottles of two buck chuck you can get for that man.

[Brett]

And his. Her husband's out there with some 22 year old. What's your ex wife up to, dude? I don't know. I bought her that house. She sits by the pool and floats on like girls float and she plays bowls, then she goes inside.

[Toledo]

She's a life coach.

[John Holmberg]

Want to see Coldplay?

[Brett]

Listen to this. This email had me laughing. I saw this yesterday before I laughed. Said, hey John, my ex wife started playing dishes back in 2014. Said, Turns out she was having a secret life, Brady. She would disappear on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, just like your wife just did. Turns out my wife had started a meth habit in this little weird coat. She was also sleeping with the lady that was teaching her bowl singing. There wasn't one woman that I've seen since I learned about this who isn't a lesbian. Trying to convert other guys wives into the cult. Run as fast as you can. When John said, quote, go with her, my stomach hurt. I asked once if I could come to one of those bowl parties and she broke down crying and said, I need my space from you. That's why I go. Then it got weirder from there. The bull lady ended up moving to Wyoming and was arrested for drugs and kidnapping. The whole world of bowls is Awful. And it cost me everything. Go to the therapist now, Brady, because you're going to need it. Cody. Cody's triggered by bowl playing.

[Toledo]

Sorry to hear that.

[Brett]

I fled out with the bowl lady.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, don't play that again.

[Brett]

This guy just thinks it just clams like in Subarus. I hate that noise. It's an outback just driving through my heart.

[John Holmberg]

We went to W. We were the.

[Brett]

W. Got some bows to play. Ah, those bitches steal your wives. So I can see where it's very culty. This is weird, but yeah, that dude lost it all to some lady. Why don't you come over on Thursday at 7 and listen to the radiator with a small leak in it sounds? And then she left him and he had to pay her half to go be a lesbian with a kidnapping meth addict.

[John Holmberg]

Well, the WNBA doesn't pay that well. He's got to pay for half.

[Brett]

You have absolutely got to be on meth or drugs to enjoy that. So if you want Cody's number to talk, he's around. You're in the infancy. Infancy of the. The lesbian theft, evidently. You know, and as a. As a real man, Cody, as me being a real man, man, I don't look at a wife leaving her husband to become a lesbian as her true calling. I. You just didn't get it done. Toledo had it happen. And if he's not a perfect example of what I'm talking about, no one is. When she looks at you and says, I'm done with this gender, and leaves, that's because you wrecked it. You did something bad.

[John Holmberg]

So is it better as a man that she leaves you for another man? She leaves you for a.

[Brett]

Absolutely. You gave her such good D. She started thinking, I need even more of that. But when you give it to her and she's like, nah, I'm done with this.

[Toledo]

Again, to clarify, there was a guy in between.

[Katie]

We know.

[Toledo]

I didn't turn her directly.

[Brett]

You had her thinking she tried one more and she's like, no stepping stones. You gotta realize. Yeah, yeah, fine with that.

[Toledo]

Not this. Not this bad. I'm not the gosh.

[Brett]

She tried one more dick. One more dick. And then said, no. This reminds me too much of Toledo. I gotta get out of here. I got to just smash clams. I'm done. Because that actually occurred to you? Yeah. And as a man, you probably thought, oh, my God, what did I do? In your head, you cannot have your wife leave you for lesbianism without thinking you pushed her.

[Toledo]

Well, no, I mean, in my case.

[Brett]

When we Were divorced. I was like, oh, okay, well, jail didn't help.

[Toledo]

No.

[Brett]

When she went to the who scout. No.

[John Holmberg]

Was she playing bowls?

[Brett]

Because she fits Cody's MO perfectly. She's not a bowl player. She left, became a lesbian.

[Toledo]

She's not a bowl player.

[Brett]

And then. And then she went to jail.

[John Holmberg]

Was she playing bowls before jail or after?

[Brett]

Okay, all right. She was licking the rim of the things. That's what I was saying.

[Toledo]

She was. She was looking for the right tone.

[Brett]

Anyway, I like that. While this conversation was going on about Cody, I just kind of peered over at Brett, and he just pointed to your window. That dude had that happen. Like, we all know. Of course you didn't say it out loud because Brett didn't want to be the dick. But look, I was getting there first. I was getting there running down that rail. Oh, yeah. No, no. You saw me jogging. It's like, there's the end. I see the finish line. Don't worry. But we don't have to sprint. But yeah, I mean, you're a perfect example of, like, how does that feel? Cause you got. And you gotta tell us which is, like, the worst day of your life. It would be better to be on the cold plate cam than to have to tell this group of people, my wife is a lesbian. Yeah. Yeah. Like, she didn't just play lesbian. Like, she's fully committed. She's. She's. She threw away her old. I was like, switching.

[John Holmberg]

You'll know when parties.

[Toledo]

Someone just doesn't show up to work.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Oh, yeah. No, if Toledo stops showing up, like, Lisa must have done it too. But yeah, that's, you know, Cody's.

[Toledo]

If it happens to Lisa, then I've got a pattern, ladies. I can make a grift out of it.

[Brett]

If you are questioning who's going to pay to become matter. Somebody pays me. No one, that is. This is why you don't have good ideas for business. Nobody's going to pay you to be the last dick to Conrad. I can convince you you're a lesbian. Is not a business. Like, if they're even, like, yeah, you probably. Yeah, I don't need to sleep with it.

[Toledo]

Oh, I want the TV commercial.

[Brett]

I'm not paying a guy.

[John Holmberg]

Toledo's last D Incorporated.

[Toledo]

Yeah, I can do it.

[Brett]

It's the final dick down. I'll give you such bad heterosexual sex, you'll be wondering why you ever did it in the first place. For $150. You're welcome. You'll get the worst D of your life. And you'll spin right into a new style of living.

[Toledo]

Johnny, I'm up to five this week.

[Brett]

Yeah, that's turned them all around. Look, I don't know if that's a thing, but Cody, I don't know if. Man, that does seem reasonable to me. You get too much. I know. If like Brady, I keep my eyes on this. This. Just leaving the house at 7 o' clock on a Sunday. You didn't hear me out at 7 o' clock on a Sunday. Sunday. And playing bowls and then coming home with no. No stories. I bet you better come home with stories. No stories. And 150 bucks lighter. 20. Only 20? Which seems like gateway drugs pricing. Here's 20 bucks. That seems pretty. Okay, that seems right. But I better have some stories out of that. It's like, oh, my God, these in the bowl. I bet, like, I want that. I want a story. I want Ronnie. It should have come home and go, brady, you gotta see this. And she didn't.

[Toledo]

She talked about it. I mean, I mean, I know that sounds great. Questions. So the float, she goes, you know, it was 20 bucks. I guess it was a little like 15 if you brought your own float. Floating.

[Brett]

You had to rent one of her floaties. Yeah, she had these $5.

[Toledo]

These are really nice floaties. Floating.

[Brett]

Did she rent one?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

So she just showed up in her bikini.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Hops in the pool with these ladies, rents a float and sits.

[Toledo]

Yep. And then she goes into the music and I think they play the bowls and everything.

[Brett]

All right, well, that would be the point.

[Toledo]

Yeah. But I, I, I, I don't know if they opened up with. She, you know, introduced herself and said, this is what we're doing. It's part of my new. But you didn't ask.

[Brett]

What, what's the mission here?

[Toledo]

Relaxation.

[Brett]

That's it.

[Toledo]

Breathing.

[Brett]

All right, okay. You know, clam digging, meditation, clam indoctrination.

[Toledo]

I'm not sure if she'll do it again.

[Brett]

Oh, yeah, well, that's the thing. That's what I was curious. Like, was she, did she come home and go, those are crazy? Because I would kind of need that for the sanity of, like, what the hell's going on here? Is this going to become part of my world? Are we going to have 7pm bowl ladies floating in my pool? These weirdo. Like. Because, you know, a couple of them ain't normal shoes. Like, probably some regular broads.

[John Holmberg]

A couple of them.

[Brett]

All right, out of the seven, five were, I don't know, what's the word I'm looking for? Batch Crazy. And then a couple others are just like no, this is nice. Except for they're going to stay. Then you got these ladies coming to your house. These hippies. Oh boy.

[Toledo]

I want her to start doing some bull parties.

[Brett]

Oh boy. There going to be a lot of hippie marches at your place.

[John Holmberg]

Brady's just looking to make some money on his pool.

[Brett]

That's true. Freddy's going to pay the pool man with this. But you know what? You're also going to have to deal. You're going to have to deal with a lot of kashi and a lot of like natural greens and cauliflower.

[Toledo]

That lady didn't.

[Brett]

I know this is your house.

[Toledo]

That's already.

[Brett]

You will provide food.

[Toledo]

Kashi's not in the.

[Brett]

But there won't eat. Trust me, all your stuff's going to get pushed.

[John Holmberg]

I'm a granola for all the girls.

[Toledo]

There's only oatmeal milk.

[Brett]

Only going to push away your stuff.

[John Holmberg]

Matthew said Brady, denial is the first sign that you've lost.

[Brett]

Yeah, Cody's argument is strong. I don't. I. I don't know anything about bowl playing, but to me that makes sense. Unless you came home and just pooped on it.

[Toledo]

We've had them for what, the balls years.

[Brett]

They're decorative. I'm saying you still.

[Toledo]

Well, they're not even out. I just. But I'm know where they are now. They're in their. In our closet.

[Brett]

They start hanging out.

[Toledo]

Saw them in their nice hand and.

[Brett]

If you started hanging out with bull parties, that's step two. She might break the bulls out, play a little bit. She might not be a bowl player, but she might be into the. And then. Then Cody's story makes sense. Cuz to me that would be the only reason to get 120 bucks. And seven women in my house is to. Is to groom one. 120 bucks ain't worth having people over.

[John Holmberg]

If I go in the cabinet and I can't ma bring some like ravioli. If I can't serve ravioli and ziti in my bowl, her and the bulls are out. What a waste.

[Toledo]

$140 a night.

[Brett]

Oh God. That's not enough.

[Toledo]

Fair enough.

[Brett]

That's not enough to have my pool rented out by seven. Seven people peeing in my pool and.

[John Holmberg]

Don'T pay for the pool man.

[Brett]

A few years ago Megan said. That's true. Stop it. Oh no. Eventually you're gonna knock into the. Megan said that some of my friends.

[Katie]

And I are going to do some pool aerobics.

[Brett]

Nuh no.

[Katie]

Why?

[Brett]

Just no. Let's just you maybe one. Don't bring a crew over.

[John Holmberg]

Brady's going to be at the door.

[Brett]

We're with the W. Yeah.

[Katie]

All right.

[Brett]

All right. We shouldn't even be in this line. Get out with the W. And all I say is what my dad used to say. So it's an insurance liability. No one's allowed in the pool unless.

[John Holmberg]

They'Re your sister's friends, right?

[Brett]

Yeah. If you're going to bring over some smoke Said, you're wrong, John. I'd rather my wife leave me for another woman. I can't be a woman. Another man. You wonder what he has that I don't. I know what a woman has that I don't happen to my brother after 20 years of marriage. Oh, yeah. I still think there's something you did wrong that made her switch gender. I see what you're saying, though. Like you gave her like, what you have to kind of.

[Toledo]

You can write it off easier.

[Brett]

You cushion the blow by saying, and I gave her all the D I could. And she knows she's not getting it anywhere else. That's better. So she switched out. I don't see it that way. I see that you ruined all men for her in a bad way. Says, when my first girlfriend broke up with me in high school, she started dating her best friend. And she made a huge post on Facebook talking about how she's now officially lesbian because her ex boyfriend was so awkward that she never wanted to be with a guy again. Signed Ryan Burchett. Oh, Ryan, you heard you were outed and left Holmberg's morning sickness. And I'm sure. Oh, Jesus. That's not Bowles. But that was Bowl.

[John Holmberg]

No, that's. Somebody just recommended this song for Brady. It's from the queers. It's called Granola Head.

[Brett]

Yeah. You're in trouble. We're gonna have some.

[John Holmberg]

I got bulls back on.

[Brett]

Okay, get the Bulls back going. Get the bulls rolling. I loved that that email came. But Cody, you struck a trigger with him yesterday that you never thought would. Never thought that would happen guy. And he never thought it would happen. What are the odds I ever feel the pain of that again? He's driving to work. Nobody's ever going to talk about wives going out on the town for bull par. What? What?

[Katie]

My wife left last night. 7:00 clock for a bull party.

[Brett]

Poor Cod. I gotta call my therapist.

[Toledo]

Run.

[Brett]

Yeah, Brady, run. He's got post traumatic bowl disorder. Oh, my God. Anyway. Well, I don't know anything about it. Brady. But maybe listen to Cody. Let's see if you do have a bowl party, we want to come too and have the ladies doing bowls outside and we'll watch football inside. Is that something. I'd drive to Gilbert for 20 bucks.

[Toledo]

Sunday fun.

[Brett]

Oh, no, no. That's outside. We shut that and then all the boys are watching TV inside and let bull nonsense go on outside while we are actually doing stuff humans do. So you don't think she's going to do it again?

[Toledo]

Probably not.

[John Holmberg]

She won't tell him.

[Brett]

You think she'll keep it? Would. Did you give her.

[Toledo]

Maybe she'll go to another. You know, they're. A bowl presentation. Might not be the pool floating one.

[Brett]

Like a Tupperware thing.

[Toledo]

Like they do it every now and then sometimes in those stores like the Vori. I know a girl that hosted a class in there and they.

[Brett]

At the place, they sell shorts.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Some lady just starts playing bowls. Oh, immediately.

[Toledo]

Meditation, breathing.

[Brett]

That's why nobody goes to malls.

[John Holmberg]

That's why you go to Amazon.

[Brett]

That's exactly Shop online. He trumped it. No bowls. There's no bowls in Amazon. You don't have to deal with a wacky liberal lesbian playing the dishes.

[Toledo]

It's like going to, you know, the Barnes and Noble for a reading.

[Brett]

How about this? Let's break out another part of the kitchenware. And you throw a towel over your shoulder and put some shorts on and say, heading over to John's for a little while. Oh, what are you doing?

[Katie]

He's got a guy who plays spoons. We're gonna float in the pool. Spoon man's gonna go bananas.

[Toledo]

A washboard.

[Brett]

She wouldn't believe you. Where are you really going? I don't know.

[Katie]

Guy's gonna play some dishes.

[Toledo]

He's got a gut bucket.

[Katie]

We got a gut bucket and some. Some spoons. We're gonna play some kitchenware and we're gonna float around the pool.

[Brett]

Who is she? Brady? That would be her first. Who is she?

[Katie]

No, no, seriously. I'm gonna go float in the pool while somebody plays dishes. You son of a bitch.

[Brett]

All your stuff will be on the lawn when you come home.

[Katie]

I literally went over there and listened to guy play dishes.

[Brett]

That's all. She'd scream. Who is she? Who is she?

[Toledo]

Nobody does that.

[Katie]

No, I'm going over. Gonna bang some plates together.

[Toledo]

10:00Pm I'm running late.

[Katie]

How come you didn't tell me about this all week? Kind of an impromptu dish playing. So I'll be back in an hour.

[Brett]

She'd follow you. Oh, yeah, she'd want to be part of that, just to make sure, because no man would do it, so it's automatically a lie. But broads don't. They. They actually do stuff like that. But still, though. Try it. Flip it over. John's having a bowl playing party at his house. We're going to go float in the pool. Watch her face. Go. All right, what's going on? For real, you're not going to believe that.

[Toledo]

I don't know. Maybe we're on the same page on that. She and I. Knock yourself out.

[Katie]

When are you gonna be home? An hour. How many times I got. I got an hour to beat it.

[Brett]

I'll do.

[Katie]

Yeah. Yeah, I love you, too.

[Brett]

All right. I think it's funny. And Cody, I'm so sorry. We didn't think. Yesterday's bowl conversation. And you're doing it again today. It's two days in a row that poor Cody has to take one square in the nuts because of his lesbian wife and the meth bowl party she used to go to.

[Toledo]

That's a. Interesting gateway drug.

[Brett]

Well, it's not the Bulls. It was, of course, but that was their excuse. They're doing weird drug addict things. I'm like, you know who it makes sense to? Aaron Rodgers. And everybody thinks he's goofy, but if he started going, I listen, I play bowls on the weekends and do hayahuasca, he'd be like, yeah, of course. That's hand in hand, boys.

[John Holmberg]

The only dishes my old lady better be playing with involves soap, water, and a rag.

[Brett]

That's right. Why don't you go play our bowls? They've been sitting in the sink all day.

[Katie]

You pick that one up and take the dove soap and you rub the water on it. It makes the same noise as your magic jack bowls.

[Toledo]

It's gentle on your hands, too.

[Katie]

Yeah, softens your hands while you do the dishes.

[Brett]

Now get to work. Yeah, that to me, it would only make sense if there were drugs involved. Incense was burning like nobody's fist. Probably those weird ones, too, that look like the scarecrow's arm. Those big, like, bushy ones that they burn and then they hit things like the sage. I don't know what it is, but they walk around with fire. They tap people in the head and they start hitting your car. Quit it. Making ashes all over stuff. Hilarious. Sorry, Cody. Brady can handle it. He hasn't been destroyed yet by crystal methamphetamine and bowl playing. But Cody's putting the warning out there, so don't say he didn't Tell you, if it does happen and she does join a mess cult of kidnapping and lesbianism. I told you Cody was there to say hey, I tried to warn you, brother. Yeah. It would only make sense if there was like this incredible strain of weed that this lady's got. Trust me. We're going to microdose the mushrooms. She'll lay in the pool. I'll play the dishes. You guys float around out there for an hour. When it wears off, go home. That has to be it.

[John Holmberg]

This will be the sound effects of Brady's. The grill.

[Brett]

Just floating in the pool.

[Katie]

Take in the aroma.

[Toledo]

The teriyaki chicken.

[Brett]

And Brady walks around with a stick that's on fire that he just lit from the steak. The butter caused this fire and hit you with it a couple of times.

[Katie]

Isn't that nice?

[Brett]

Yeah. It would only make sense if they're. If they're drinking absinthe or just getting absolutely blasted and going on some sort of trip. It. But to go to somebody's house sober, float in their pool for an hour and listen to him play the dishes. I'm with Cody. That's a. That's a crystal methamphetamine lesbian cult. I'm going to go with Cody on that.

[Toledo]

Eventually I'm going to have my own backyard. Burning man.

[Brett]

Yeah, try it. Try it. This weekend, going to head on over.

[Katie]

To Billy's house, play the dishes and.

[Brett]

Lay in the pool together and watch her go. Who is she? Who is she? First. And it should be her first question. Who is she?

[Katie]

I'll be back in 45 minutes.

[Brett]

That's not enough time to meditate. Who is she?

[Katie]

I'll see you in a little while. Billy and I are gonna lay on top of each other and play the dishes.

[Toledo]

We're stacking.

[Katie]

Billy's got a couple other buddies. You met him. They come to the Ohio State games. They're just gonna float together. No question my mind. Play the dishes.

[Brett]

I like dish Playing Brady. I think he's fun.

[Katie]

Yesterday this had ziti in it.

[Brett]

And Brady doesn't play with the those. He just licks the edge of the bowl.

[Toledo]

Throw some humming in there.

[Katie]

Oh, man, that's good stuff.

[Brett]

Anyway, that's enough. That's enough. Trying to wreck code. Cody's life's in a nightmare. I bet you if there's a dude that just drove into Tempe Town Lake, his name's Cody and he needs your help. I guarantee he's the only one. If there's a guy who just. If you just heard a gunshot in Your neighborhood. That was Cody. If you hear that's Cody on the rope. He's done it. It's over. He didn't ever expect anyone to talk about bowl playing ever on in mass. And here it is.

[Toledo]

Just mention of it. Do you like that in a burrito or a bowl?

[Brett]

The left me for the bows. Burrito it is. Okay, you got it. What the wrong with this guy?

[John Holmberg]

There'd be the sounds Here. Here's another one. Teppanyaki.

[Brett]

Oh, Brady at the table.

[Katie]

And now I'm going to do the volcano street walk.

[Brett]

Ready? Floating the pool to these things.

[Katie]

Oh yeah. Who needs ayahuasca?

[Brett]

That's great. Anyway, look how happy he is you showed that video.

[Toledo]

I'm at peace.

[Brett]

Yeah, it makes sense. That's your meditation. Go ahead, try it today, go home. Try the whole. Billy and I are going to lay together in the pool and listen to the soothing sounds and watch how fast she thinks you're doing something wrong. Women could do it. Dude tries it and then imagine like you her telling her friends, Brady and Billy go lay in the pool together and listen to Bowles and her friends be like, girl, you know he's not really doing that, right? I hadn't really thought about it. There's no doubt in my mind. You need to get a drone you in the w now follow her and just drone this weird dead lady pool party. Ronnie, I want to go. Can I come with her? Maybe if I go. Yeah, like you don't. She probably don't want you there to make fun, but I'll go.

[Toledo]

That's the only reason she think well, you're gonna go, you're gonna make fun.

[Brett]

Yeah, of course I am.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's what you guys are doing.

[Toledo]

Meditate.

[Brett]

You heard what you said you're gonna go do, right? Yeah, of course I'm gonna make fun of that anyway. Not bashing Ronnie. I'm bashing women all the way around that like this stuff. I think think it's crazy. Look, trust me. Megan's got a bunch of stuff she does that's just not normal. Not that crazy, but pretty close. That one's up. That one's up there. That's in Cody's right? Something else is happening. We don't know yet. And maybe it's like some weird tantric celebration. She's going to break it out on you. That's the positive. Let's go. Silver lining it, she's learning some tantric breathing and you're going to have 8, 9, 10 hours of the most amazing physical Sex you've ever had in your life? No. You don't look too comfortable.

[Toledo]

No, that would be good. You just made me think she came home with something else. Like, I just discovered I'm a healer.

[Brett]

Oh, no.

[Toledo]

You know, something like that.

[Brett]

Oh, for Christ's sake. Look at your face. Right there. See? Let's hope it's for tantric lovemaking and.

[Toledo]

Not I circled up with 10 Wiccans.

[Brett]

Oh, yeah. See, she's getting to my sister's level of this stuff, and it's. It's intolerable. There's nothing worse than when the bowls are broken out and you don't know they're coming out. My sister had this big gold pot when I moved in with. My first house I bought was with a guy. She ended up married. Marrying. They were dating. I expected her to be at the house now and again. She moved in day one. Oliver. Crap. Chinese silks.

[John Holmberg]

Springer cauldron over and everything, too.

[Brett]

So it was a battle. Crystal ball, all of it was out. It was a battle that every time I'd come home, there was a weird red silk Chinese thing on my couch, and I would ball that up and throw it in the corner with the other blue blankets. And it was like a Chinese word got painted on my wall like, you don't live here.

[Katie]

My boyfriend does.

[Brett]

No, no, no. Kick in or get out. And I lasted two and a half weeks in that house I bought you and Thor.

[Toledo]

Get out.

[Brett]

I half bought the house, and I lasted two weeks. All the pillows were Chinese. Everything was Chinese.

[John Holmberg]

P. F Chang's now or what? What is this?

[Brett]

And I remember waking up one morning on a Sunday because I heard, like, what the is going on? I walk out there, and she's got this gold pot that she's just hitting and then rubbing the top of. Are you trying to make me kill you? Is that the goal? This is peaceful to. Only there's other people. You don't live here. I moved out of a house you were in, and you followed me. Horrible. Anyway, I've gone on long enough. What do you got in the big board of musical treats? Brett, we already know what's gonna happen.

[Toledo]

Yeah, we already got.

[Brett]

Well, yeah, but we need to still do this part. Are you sure? Yeah, yeah. It's brought to you by Action Ride Shop. We got to tell. You know, everybody needs to know.

[John Holmberg]

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[Brett]

O God, you better be on drugs if you're bringing this to the house.

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[Brett]

Just thought of this and I think it's fair. At least she's not a country music fan. Yeah, I'd take bowls and Japanese flutes. Yeah, this one's going way far.

[John Holmberg]

The other direction. They can go to Morgan Wallen concert last weekend.

[Brett]

I would rather hear the bulls and look at seven dead lady corpses who are still trying to figure out how come they got divorced laying in my pool while bulls play. I mean, that's why they built sedona for the 43 year old divorced woman to go up and find some weird spiritual connection because they're so goofed up.

[John Holmberg]

That's gotta be an easy. Well, if needs to go up there.

[Brett]

Oh, my God.

[Toledo]

If Ronnie came to me and says, I'm going to a country concert, who is he? What's his name?

[Brett]

Oh, yeah. If she's. Well, I mean, if I heard those words, I'd be like, well, it's been nice knowing you. Yeah, I don't, I'm. I. Thank you for leaving for the guy. Do you need me to give you to a ride? Because the guy you're dating shouldn't be driving.

[Katie]

What are you talking about?

[Brett]

We're going to Morgan Wallen, right? Yeah. You're going to be escorted by a retarded person.

[John Holmberg]

Hey, get good parking at least.

[Brett]

Yeah, I don't know. I looked at the. It was at the football stadium, right? And they had an overhead picture and they. The first 10 parking spots were not handicapped. All the rest were. There were 70,000. They had changed the parking lot to reverse order.

[John Holmberg]

It's like the mall. There's nobody in those parking spots.

[Brett]

Exactly. Nobody. Yeah, there were seven empty ones. And then all the, all the ones that just had a picture of a Potato and a wheel wheelchair. They were there, but.

[John Holmberg]

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[Brett]

I want to go with my guys, okay? It's the Messenger Birds. Been all over it. You can love it, you can hate it, you can do whatever you want. But I like this stuff. I like, I like this one. And I want to let everybody know about it. Let's be the ones that push these guys. I think you, you'll love it. Breaking new music never happens. And it's not that new. It's four or five years old. But this is a great song called Phantom Limb. Check them out if you, if you like this, you're gonna like all the rest of the stuff they've got too. I want to push these guys, maybe get them into do these little baby shows we used to do. I used to love that when baby bands would come in and give us what they got. It's the Messenger Birds, everybody. It's Phantom limb. It's 98. Wake them up. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station in the time it takes you to actually board that flight from Group 8.

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