Podcast Summary: Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – Arizona

Episode: 08-15-25 – Young Woman Left A Tampon In For A Month On Accident And We Question How That Happens
Date: August 15, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Brett Vesely, Dick Toledo
Outlet: 98KUPD | Hubbard Radio

Episode Overview

This episode dives into two main stories: an internet headline about a young woman who accidentally left a tampon in for a month, and a listener email from a man who needs penile surgery following a mishap while listening to the show during sex. True to their tone, the hosts approach these topics with a blend of crude humor, disbelief, and candid conversation. The episode is filled with banter, witty analogies, and a recurring joke about using female health issues as an infallible excuse to skip work.

Major Discussion Points & Insights

1. “I Left a Tampon In for a Month” – The Savannah Miller Story

• [03:35 – 10:25]
  • The hosts discuss a viral headline: “I accidentally kept a tampon in for a month. It smelled like a rat crawled inside me and died.”
  • John reads details about Savannah Miller, referencing her appearance and reality TV background.
  • The crew expresses disbelief at the story’s plausibility, doubting anyone could genuinely forget a tampon for that long.
  • Extended riff on the “cavern” necessary for a tampon to disappear undetected.
  • Discussion about medical symptoms she faced—smell, illness, itchiness— and how doctors missed the cause.
  • John launches into a series of exaggerated metaphors comparing female anatomy to malfunctioning appliances (“If it was in the fridge, you’d throw it out”).
  • Reflection on why someone would publicize such an experience—attributing it to a desire for viral fame.

Quote:

“If you saw one of those in the fridge, it would. And it’s leaking something. You’re like, ‘Oh, what happened to half this tomato? Who ate half a tomato?’”
—John Holmberg [05:11]

Quote:

"She was using new tampons and likely pushing the old one up even further. That thing was way up in there—like, so this goddamn big, lower chest area."
—John Holmberg [04:27]

2. Female Health Issues as the Ultimate Excuse for Calling in Sick

• [02:35 – 03:15, 10:25 – 14:20]
  • The group jokes about the effectiveness of using “female issues” as a reason to get a day off, noting that male managers will never question it.
  • Extended role-play imagining a woman calling her boss and simply mentioning “discharge”—the ultimate conversation stopper.
  • They encourage female listeners to use this tactic for a guilt-free day off.

Quote:

“Say the word ‘discharge.’ Say the word ‘female issues.’ You got a few days off, and nobody’s even gonna ask you what happened.”
—John Holmberg [03:18]

3. Viral Oversharing and Gendered Storytelling

• [06:55 – 09:39]
  • Commentary on how women “going viral” involves oversharing intimate, often gross, medical stories—contrasted with what men would create if designing “AI girls.”
  • Jokes about AI women’s appearance vs. modern influencer trends.
  • Holmberg argues men’s embarrassing stories tend to be more humorous than off-putting.

Quote:

“Would a man create an AI girl to tell this story? No… This is why AI girls are going to take over eventually.”
—John Holmberg [07:13]

4. Men’s Horror Stories & One-Upmanship

• [14:21 – 18:29]
  • John recalls a friend’s story about losing a small sex toy inside and the subsequent retrieval mission—lauded as a “Mummy’s curse” of smells unleashed.
  • Trading tales of memorable, unpleasant bodily mishaps, often described with culinary or olfactory analogies (e.g., “It smelled like butterscotch and salmon”).

Quote:

"It was like finding something in a pyramid…like, when they turn the grid off in Ghostbusters and everything’s flying up."
—John Holmberg [16:25]

5. Listener Email: The ‘Broken Dick’ Incident

• [23:38 – 27:28]
  • John reads a listener’s email about sustaining a penile injury during sex while the couple listened to a past episode—specifically while he was doing a Brady impression.
  • The listener’s wife laughed so hard that she “clamped down” causing pain that requires surgery.
  • Spirals into a skit with Brady impersonating Barry White (“Brady White”), riffing on what to listen to for romance.

Quote:

“I have surgery on the 26th. Coincidentally, I think that’s the same day Brady’s gonna be there. Maybe we’ll be roomies.”
—Listener email read by John Holmberg [24:04]

6. ‘Brady White’ and Seduction Through Comedy

• [27:29 – 33:49]
  • Comedy bit: what would happen if Brady was a seductive R&B crooner (“Brady White”), provoking spontaneous orgasms among the women of Phoenix.
  • Hosts joke about “unleashing the moist apocalypse” if Brady White ever performed on air.
  • Debate about what types of music people actually use during sex compared to their show.

Quote:

“You want your ladies to just calm [cum]. So many car accidents from the spontaneous orgasms they’d be having.”
—John Holmberg [30:34]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On viral oversharing:

“There isn’t a time in my life again where a headline says, and I don’t care what you’re talking about, ‘It smelled like a rat crawled inside of me and died’—that’s getting a click out of me.”
—John Holmberg [18:29]

Imagined call to the boss:

“Hi, Trip. It’s Jennifer. I don’t know what’s going on down there, but it’s like an acid rainstorm.”
—Brady [20:51]

On gender differences:

“Jim Jefferies had a line that was so perfect… He said, clear your heads, and let me just say a phrase to you: ‘My husband’s coming’—everyone’s relieved. Now, ‘My wife’s coming’—every guy’s brain goes, ‘Oh no! We gotta stop talking about whatever we were talking about.’”
—John Holmberg [19:12]

On men’s bodies:

“This doesn’t happen to male bodies… If it was in the fridge, you’d go, ‘this has gone bad’ and you’d throw it out!”
—John Holmberg [05:28]

Timestamps of Key Segments

• [03:35] – Hosts react to viral story of woman and her lost tampon
• [06:43] – Discussion on women oversharing, AI women, and gender storytelling
• [10:25] - [14:20] – Jokes about using “female issues” to call in sick; role-plays
• [14:21] – Smelly sex toy retrieval story
• [18:29] – Headlines that always get a click (“smelled like a rat…”)
• [23:38] – Listener’s email about penile injury during sex while listening
• [27:29] - [33:49] – The “Brady White” bit and music vs. HMS for setting the mood

Language & Tone

The episode is laden with irreverent humor, vivid metaphors, and explicit analogies. There’s a frankness about bodily functions, especially female health, balanced by the hosts’ willingness to joke about themselves and male shortcomings in equal measure. The banter is fast, the jokes come quick, and there’s a persistent undercurrent of “locker room” comedy.

Summary – For Non-Listeners

In this wild, raucous episode, the HMS crew take a tabloid headline about a woman leaving a tampon in for a month and wring every last joke out of it—interrogating the logistics, roasting the woman’s viral ambitions, and comparing it to male horror stories. They propose “female issues” as the ultimate, unchallengeable work excuse, encourage women to wield it liberally, and recall cringe stories of lost vibrators and weird sex-related smells.

A listener’s story about injuring himself during sex due to laughing so hard at the show spawns a long, ridiculous riff imagining Brady as a seductive R&B singer (“Brady White”). Through elaborate bits and relentless teasing, the hosts celebrate their boundary-pushing brand of disgust and honesty—insisting that, at the end of the day, no one could ever outdo a woman who goes viral for nearly “mummifying” a tampon.

The episode is prime HMS: no serious advice, lots of hard laughs, and the sort of conversations that make you grateful your radio isn’t two-way.