08-19-25 - FULL SHOW - TUESDAY - Holmbergs Morning Sickness 98 KUPD

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness – August 19, 2025 (Full Show: Tuesday)

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Episode Overview

In this episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness, John Holmberg and his crew – Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo – tackle their signature blend of comedy, irreverent observations, and unfiltered life stories. Today’s show dives deep into:

• The ongoing debate about men vs women and medical care
• Childhood "playing doctor" and its perceived psychological impacts
• Sports nostalgia and the state of modern baseball (with a focus on the Diamondbacks & the Savannah Bananas phenomenon)
• Cultural commentary on team names, political correctness, and quirky TV rebrands
• Bizarre family history revelations, featuring lobotomies, secret relatives, and more
• A heartfelt segment with a firefighter promoting the annual 9/11 stair climb fundraiser

The show is a wild, freewheeling ride across taboo humor, poignant personal stories, and Arizona flavor.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Medical Care: Men vs Women (00:10 – 15:14)

• Holmberg's Theory: Women Love Going to the Doctor

  • John riffs on his partner Megan’s enthusiasm for routine medical exams, humorously suggesting that, unlike men, women actually enjoy doctor visits. Ever the provocateur, he links it back to childhood "playing doctor" games:
    • “Playing doctor as a kid starts off the women's simple brains and mushes them into these people who can't get enough of going.” [03:20]
  • The crew jokes about roleplaying, men’s aversion to preventative care, and the absurdity of visiting doctors "when nothing hurts."

• Highlight Reel:

  • On roleplaying:
    • “I could do a Mash reenactment. Yeah. Come on Margaret. Let's go back to the room there, you and I in the tent.” – Holmberg [04:49]
  • On doctor commercials:
    • “Be a man, David. Get in there and have somebody dig around in your butt. That's the opposite of being a man.” – Holmberg [06:27]

• Timestamped Segments:

  • [05:54] – Brett and Brady debate the necessity of regular men's health screenings
  • [10:03] – Jokes about family dynamics and kids playing doctor

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2. Childhood Anecdotes & "Playing Doctor" (11:18 – 15:18)

• John recalls awkward childhood experiments and draws tongue-in-cheek lines to adult medical attitudes.
• The segment evolves into stories of childhood games, with humorous undertones about gender differences and psychological development.

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3. Wellness Industry Skepticism (13:11 – 15:21)

• The guys poke fun at wellness specialists, life coaches, and the susceptibility of some to pseudo-medical solutions. Sprouts, WebMD, and “organic aisles” all take hits.
• “If you could go to Sprouts to fix what's wrong, you didn't go to a doctor.” – Holmberg [13:41]

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4. Baseball Nostalgia & The State of the Game (18:30 – 48:49)

• Baseball's Lost Grit:

  • Holmberg describes a night at the Diamondbacks game with "Coach Marty," a throwback to old-school, tough-love coaching.
  • They reminisce about better days in MLB, reflect on sagging attendance, and the sterile atmosphere at Chase Field.
  • Brilliant storytelling includes a side-by-side of today's sensitive athletes vs. yesteryear’s hard-nosed players.
    • “You get a hit and everybody's dancing and throwing their hats in the air and the sunflower seeds.” – "Coach Marty" via Holmberg [18:56]

• Savannah Bananas & Baseball’s Future:

  • Extensive discussion of the Savannah Bananas, the party-friendly exhibition team, as the hope for fan engagement.
    • “This is the fun of the game. This made me feel like I was 7 or 8 years old.” – Holmberg [42:57]
    • Accounts of on-field antics, comparing them favorably to the "nerd festival" of current MLB.

• Diamondbacks & Stadium Atmosphere:

  • “That is a dead stadium. Even when it's great. Even the World Series to me, had less energy than it should have.” [47:13]

• Team Name Controversy:

  • In-depth riff on former team names ("Indians," "Redskins"), merchandise, fan identity, and the performative nature of rebranding.
    • “It was never offensive. The Indians thing was never offensive to anyone. And if it was, you were just sensitive.” – Holmberg [25:23]

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5. Media & Branding Satire (33:03 – 38:29)

• MSNBC rebrand to “MsNow” is roasted for its oblivious, unintentionally feminist branding.
  • “It's the Ms. Now station. And they had like, news outreach, World Something is what the now stands for. And like Ms. Now, which is the now is the national organization for women.” – Holmberg [33:23]

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6. Family Madness & Brady’s Family Lobotomy Saga (53:13 – 98:54, Multiple Segments)

• The gang gently interrogates Brady about his convoluted family tree, uncovering a saga of:
  • Lobotomies, mental illness, secret relatives, and suppressed memories.
  • "Your grandma got lobotomized! Your family is a disaster!" – Holmberg [63:14]
• Memorable Quotes:
  • "I never knew this till now. This is great old man advice to women: Take care of that skin." – Holmberg [55:51]
• The discussion spirals into tales of family secrets, suppressed memories, and skepticism about "official" family history. Deeply funny and sometimes surprisingly poignant.

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7. Listener Letters: Relationships with Older Men (49:59 – 55:51)

• Reads an email from “Hannah,” a 30-year-old married to a 56-year-old with grandkids and an ever-present ex-wife.
• The crew offers tongue-in-cheek, sometimes brutally honest advice:
  • "You married it. You got to know what you’re getting into... Never date a single mother." [52:13]
  • "His kids hate you. They're nice to you because they have to be." [58:40]

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8. Saltriver Stair Climb: Firefighter Fundraiser (127:15 – 142:31)

• In-studio guest Riley Murph (Salt River Fire Dept.) promotes the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb—raising money for firefighters affected by job-related illness, cancer, and those killed in the line of duty.
  • "There's actually… more people that have died from 9/11-related illnesses than… were killed the day of." – Riley [129:51]
• Holmberg reflects emotionally on last year’s climb, encourages participation:
  • "You’re not climbing Everest… you can take a break, you can sit, you can do whatever… you’ll walk away feeling great about yourself." [134:38]
• [Event Details: September 13th. Register by August 22 for event shirt. Saltriverstairclimb.com]

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9. Music & Pop Culture Roundup – Hot Releases (147:41 – End)

• Music reviews: Burning Witches, Deftones, Jack the Joker, Three Days Grace, Hives, Bruno Mars, and AI-generated “We Are The World” with world leaders.
• Game: “N Word or F Word” using Ice Cube’s Friday.
• Notable TV/Streaming Recommendations:
  • Amanda Knox drama (Hulu), Peacemaker S2 (HBO Max), Devo documentary (Netflix), Jerry Jones/Cowboys doc (Netflix), and the Terminal List prequel (Amazon Prime).
• Memorable Take: “The Hives. Every week they've released a new song. These Swedish bastards have my heart.” – Holmberg [153:09]

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Noteworthy Quotes & Moments

• On Doctor Visits:

  • “Dudes go to the doctor when something hurts. Women go just for fun.” – Holmberg [07:03]

• On Family History:

  • “You don’t just remember… You were five. So she got that lobotomy and like just functioned around on lobotomized.” – Holmberg [62:53]

• On Old-School Baseball:

  • “I want you to coach me through life for however much longer you’ve got left.” – Holmberg to “Coach Marty” [18:56]

• On Media Rebranding:

  • “It’s the Ms. Now station… You’re just a feminist operation.” – Holmberg [33:23]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Men vs Women: Attitudes to Healthcare – [00:10 – 15:14]
• Playing Doctor / Childhood Stories – [11:18 – 15:18]
• Baseball & Sports Culture – [18:30 – 48:49]
• Diamondbacks, Fan Atmosphere – [24:05 – 28:46]
• Political Correctness, Team Names – [25:23 – 28:46]
• MSNBC Turns “MsNow” – [33:03 – 38:29]
• Emails & Relationship Advice – [49:59 – 58:40]
• Brady’s Family History and Lobotomy Story – [53:13 – 98:54+]
• Firefighter 9/11 Stair Climb – [127:15 – 142:31]
• Music & Pop Culture (Hot Releases) – [147:41 to end]

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Episode Tone

• Irreverent, bold, and often NSFW.
• Crackling with chemistry—hosts poke fun at each other and the world at large.
• Balances absurdist humor with moments of genuine insight and emotion.

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Summary

This episode encapsulates the wild spirit of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness: taboo jokes, deep pulls from pop culture, surprisingly emotional detours, and Arizona’s unique flavor. The deep dive into family dysfunction, in particular, is simultaneously hilarious and oddly touching, while the firefighter segment grounds the show in community service and shared memory. If you like raw, real, and occasionally jaw-dropping morning radio, this episode is a must-listen.

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For full details on the 9/11 Stair Climb, visit: saltriverstairclimb.com

Transcript

[Brett]

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[John Holmberg]

It's John Holmberg here for the amazing people at the Core Institute. A very close friend of mine had his knee surgery at the Core. He's not going to be back on the court immediately, but in a few months time he will be. He's got some rehab in front of him and that's all you need to worry about. Get to work and get feeling better. Get rid of the pain. You've been living with the Core Institute celebrating 20 years because they've been changing people's lives for 20 years and you don't last that long unless you're. You're great. Stop living with your pain and say yes to the things you love to do again. Go to the Core Institute. Dot Comberg's morning sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil. Sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. Good morning, everybody. Hello there. Welcome to Tuesday. It's 5:45. The morning sickness. My name's John Holmberg. Hi, how are you? There's Brady, there's Brett Fastly. Toledo's around here somewhere. Let's get her going. Start this glorious day off, you know, Ready to go. Quick shout out to Megan who has to go get her butthole probe by a doctor this morning. Not has to, is choosing to. This is for no reason whatsoever. And you think about it with broads.

[Brett]

No reason.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, This, I thought about this last.

[Brett]

Why don't you just do it then?

[John Holmberg]

That's what I thought. Yeah. This, this is. There's a. I've come up with a look, you know, I have some takes every once in a while on things. They come, they go. Usually they're fairly odd. My brain works in a mysterious way, even for me sometimes. This one, you know my theory on fairy tales that if you have a daughter, don't read her fairy tale. They're. They always end with the guy is going to cover you for the rest of your life, right? And you're going to have this, this, this amazing moment where you get swept off your feet by a per. There's a perfect one out there for you. And when he's not perfect, they're disappointed. And that starts because at 4 years old they're indoctrinated into believing that somewhere out there is the, the glass prince charm. Yeah. Prince Charming exists. And. And he's perfect. And then they're just inevitably disappointed. Playing doctor is my new theory. Now this thing that Megan's doing, I think, you know, it's basically like just. It's a discovery mission. Discovery mission. Yeah. She's got to get her prostate. Move her balls out of the way, Check her prostate. But. And like, excited about it, like, happy to go. Like, wanting. Now I say, let's probe back there for the last 20 years. And it's just like, ah, yuck. It's disgusting. What's wrong with you? However, if you were to play doctor, have the lab coat, the thing on your head, the stethoscope around your. There's a chance that role playing, they'd let you do that, which is what I think. And this is. This goes. This is statistically accurate. Women love going to the doctor. They can't get enough of it, most of them. And I have to think it's from playing doctor as a kid and doing that, and then it turns into like, kind of a sexy thing with, like, role play, doctor play. It's this deal to go to the doctor all the time starts as a child because chicks, at least the ones I knew when they were little kids, like, girls. Like, that was the old joke. Your parents. Are you two playing doctor? You know, the little weird examinations and stuff like that. When you're in your room in junior high and you're like, ooh, play doctor. They like the idea of playing doctor, which starts them on this path of doctors are fun, kind of a fun thing. Dudes never go to the doctor because girls don't want to explore us or play that game. We will gladly dress up as the thing. Playing doctor as a kid starts off the women's simple brains and mushes them into these people who can't get enough of going. So she's going, if you ever told me, like, yeah, we'll just take a look around in your anus for a while and see if you've got food allergies or whatever the hell she's going for. It's. It's a. It's a hard no. It's like. No. I felt figured out for myself without you digging around in there. Nope. Had to have, like, forcible diarrhea all day yesterday to clean the system. Which, by the way, if I'd suggest that once you metamucil up, clean that tank, and let's get to work on that thing. It's like, I'm a pervert. I'm a weirdo. When it Comes to trying to find something wrong with it. Let's clean that thing out. Let's see what's in there. I could tell you if anything's wrong with it. One simple exam. It's either gonna feel great or it's gonna hurt like crazy. And if it hurts like crazy, I'm doing something a little rough or you've got problems back there. It's time for a doctor's visit.

[Brett]

You already got the Hawkeye impersonation down. I mean, this thing would work out perfect.

[John Holmberg]

I could do a mash reenactment. Yeah. Come on, Margaret. Let's go back to the room there. You and I in the tent.

[Brady]

They'd feel comfortable.

[John Holmberg]

Frank, grab the camera. I'm gonna bang monger it in the bottom. It's an exam, Frank. Yeah, I. It's. I don't understand. Like that. That. What do you. You know the question? Why are you doing this? It's part of my health. Doctors wanting to look. Somebody suggested this. And you said thumbs up. That's a hard no. Unless you're looking for, like, my doctor thinks I have horrible. Something horrible going on back there. Nothing's wrong. You go. They go to the doctor when nothing's wrong. Can you imagine such a thing? I mean, Brady went to the doctor three or four times because, you know, things have gone wrong in the past with kidney stones. The doctors, like, you should probably come in here and check this out once a year. Good thing he did it. But at the same time, it's not like you're going every four or five months because you want to see. They love going to the doctor when nothing's wrong. It's insanity. So.

[Brady]

But that, you know, it kicks in, like, for a guy, you know, you're told when you hit 50, you get.

[John Holmberg]

One look under the hood.

[Brady]

Yeah, right.

[John Holmberg]

But it's not necessary. It's suggested. I'm with my conspiratorial friend Dave Nash on that one. That's just big pharma trying to take a couple bucks out of your pocket for no reason. Most of us don't have prostate cancer, but they want everybody to go pay for an exam. Why? Your insurance will cover it. Yeah, yeah, the insurance thing, that's going great. I'm saving the insurance company a couple bucks. How about that? I'm the anti Luigi mangione. I'm getting that CEO a few more dollars in his pocket because I'm not spending it with any doctors probing around in my anus. Notice they always go to, like, athletes for those commercials, too. To make you feel like less of a man. If there's a football players, like, put the gown up. Remember, Wolfley, put the gown on. Be a man. Get your asshole ruined. Like, wait a second. One of those doesn't sound like the proper way to end that sentence. Be a man, David. Be a man, David. Get in there and have somebody dig around in your butt. That's the opposite of being a man. So, yeah, you can go get examinations and things like that. I highly recommend you get checked. But not all of you. If you don't want to, you don't have to. Dudes go to the doctor when something hurts. Women go just for fun. It's for fun. She's going for fun. She's gone to the doctor 700 times more than me in the last, I don't know, 10 years. I'm not kidding. It's at least. And I've been. I've been through surgeries and I have not been to the doctor as much as her.

[Brady]

See something, do something. That's what there is nothing to. This hurts, go to the doctor.

[John Holmberg]

I agree with you. If something hurts, nothing hurts.

[Brady]

No, but I'm just saying that's their.

[John Holmberg]

No, it isn't. It's beyond that. Nothing hurts. If she said, ouch, this hurts, go to the doctor, I'm for it. I'm just going to go to the doctor. Is anything wrong? I don't think so. I just think he needs to probe around in there and find something. They love it. They love it. Absolutely crazy about it. So her ass is like being taken care of. You probably take a look at Mathias ass every once in a while. Get a flashlight, make sure everything's all right. We wouldn't be allowed.

[Brett]

Because I care, that's why.

[John Holmberg]

Because you love.

[Brett]

You're goddamn right.

[John Holmberg]

From the heart. When we want to be in there, we want to feel if it was different from the last birthday. How much? It's an annual exam. Really.

[Brady]

She gets a new pen light every.

[Brett]

Year for her, by the way. You're welcome, Mathias.

[John Holmberg]

Right? And your birthday just passed. And I'm hoping her ass is acceptable and lasts again until next August 7th. I think that's a glorious thing, as men are willing to give you that anal exam every birthday. Our birthday, not yours. Unless you're up for it. Sometimes on Jesus's birthday. That's my favorite thing. Jesus's birthday anal gifts. Nothing says Happy birthday, Lord quite like a woman who's like, okay, go ahead, but be slow. This one's for you, Christ. And then Jesus just palms his head with that. And you hear from the hole in his hand. Anyway, so good luck to her. She's. I got text. I went to the baseball game last night and she was at home with her. Her self inflicted diarrhea and she's tacking my. That's enough of that.

[Brady]

I'm not doing the cleansing.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know what the hell. Cleanse it. Just clean it out.

[Brett]

Stay at the H and H Ranch too.

[John Holmberg]

I'm not going home for that. Damn right. You're damn right. So you got horrible poop thing you forced upon yourself in the house. Yeah. Okay. See you tomorrow. Peace out. When does that end? I don't know. Hopefully tomorrow at like noon. See you at 1. What if I need you? For what? What in the world would you ever need me for in this situation? I don't know. What if things go wrong and you need to call an ambulance because there's nothing I can do if your ass breaks. I am. If I'm not qualified to examine it when it's healthy, I'm certainly not qualified to fix it when it's busted. It's. I'm not a plumber. I can rattle the flusher a little. If that doesn't work, we got to call a guy. They love going to the doctor. Got an email that says, john, I agree. Women love playing. Let's fake examine this. Let's fake examine that. Signed, Dr. Larry Nassar. Now that is not a defense. Dr. Nassar. He loved those fake exams. Oh, I got another one. John, isn't it amazing how many fake exams you can give people? They just line up for it. Signed the entire Ohio State medical team. Yeah, okay. We get what you guys are up to. We know. But it is staff. My theory on it is though, it's coming from the idea of when they say play doctors. Because I know my cousin Kelly was a girl and she introduced me to playing doctor when we were little kids. She was a freak. And she and my friend Mark Cassius who lived across the street, and she would go, let's go in the closet and play doctor. We didn't know what that was. We were like four.

[Brady]

Do you think kids still do that?

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. We did it. Nobody. Like our parents weren't understanding playing doctor. But she would go into this, all right, what seems to be the problem? Where does it hurt? And then she would like touch it. Does it hurt here? And she just wanted to see pee pees. She was a freak. And we stood in a closet. Me and I'll never Forget this. Me and Marquette, we called it the Buddy hole. Because they're like, we'll get in the buddy hole. Because that's where buddies go to do stuff. That your cousin's a freak. We didn't know what freaks were, but we had two, four, five year old directions, you know, sitting there, what's going on down there? And she would just tap at it, and then we'd leave the closet. And like, that was. That was enough to want to do that again, I think. I think that was okay. And then she focused in on Mark because I think we both knew, this ain't right. We're cousins. Like, I don't think I'm supposed to be naked with you, and I wasn't. But her and Mark would go in that closet pretty much all the time. She lived right behind us. Mark lived right across the street. They'd meet at our house, and it would always be this weird thing, like, right in the middle of another game. You guys want to play doctor? Yeah. And her pants would come right off. Yeah. Yeah, we want to play that. That seems like something I want to do.

[Brady]

Yeah, definitely.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Even that girl who I drew the pubes on for told that story again yesterday. The one she always said, it looks like you need an exam. Like, she would always play doctor in the oleanders next to the crazy old lady's house that we lived. That lived between us. And we go up against the wall, and she'd. She's like, I need an exam. And then she'd show me. These hurt. Like, oh, what do I do? I can't. I don't know, give them an exam. And I just, like, bad at them and knock them around like a cat with a yarn. But it's a thing. So they love doctors. And that's the thing. So if you're a lady and you're like, I don't have anything wrong, but I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday. I have a wellness specialist. You think men started wellness specialists? Do you think men started wellness days at work? Come on.

[Brady]

I can make how much money I can do?

[John Holmberg]

Well, not doing it. Do I have to go to school to be a doctor? Nope. What do I have to do? I don't know. Go on the Internet and read WebMD to some crazy woman? It's going to give you 85 bucks every time she walks in the door. But I have this little tiny spot in my hand. I'm not. It's a freckle, but let's just fees that. And it's like, A life coach. It kind of. Well, well, a lot of those wellness. Those wellness physicians, like, they're.

[Brett]

Come on, turn their business card over and it's life coach.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's. It's a. It's one of those things.

[Brady]

Life coach with supplements.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you can go over to Sprouts and pick up whatever they've got. That's. That's not a doctor. If you could go to Sprouts to fix what's wr. You didn't go to a doctor. And I know there's people that email and go, the big pharma is going to get this. And they always want you to. And a wellness specialist is like the organic aisle at Safeway. The floors are wood. The food isn't organic. It's the same stuff. It's just in a more expensive wooden box or like Kashi or whatever crap you're going to. It isn't doing it. It's just as processed as all the rest of the crap. Yeah, it's an easy fool. There are some guys out there who are like, I can't wait. Got to get to that. My friend Mark used to go to the doctor, get probed once, two, three days. Just. He was so stressed out, and he thought maybe helped him with his stress.

[Brett]

Maybe finger in the butt.

[John Holmberg]

Well, I could. I told him, I'm like, why don't you get that wife of yours to do that? She can throw it around in there. You need to go to the doctor. I don't know. There's something really bad going on back there. And I'm like, well, doesn't she care? Like, you have to go. You have to spend 85 bucks every time. Yeah. And he was going there quite a bit. And then I just realized midway through, I'm like, oh, he just likes it.

[Brett]

Matthew kind of explains it over on the.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. It says it's a freebie to let a stranger put their finger in your butt, John. It is a freebie to have that done. And, boy, is that not everybody's dream. Sure would like someone whose name I don't know to finger me today. But they go to.

[Brady]

The worst would be the one time you decide to go and they find something.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah, that's why I don't go. It's the reason I'm not going. You're not probing my ass for fear you'll find something. I feel fine the second you tell me I've got something brewing back there. And again, I don't fear the reaper, as Blue Oyster Cult taught Me, I don't care. And it's one of those things, like, if you find something, then I gotta live my life with your finger in my ass every day until we figure that out. If it hurts, I'll go. If I'm at the doctor for something else. And he's like, you want me to check back there? And I'm like, is that a good idea? Is that part of this? And he's like, let's just get it out of the way. I went to a physical. Oh, Megan got so upset. I went to a physical a few years ago, and the doctor and I are looking, and. And she had called ahead of time to give this guy a laundry list of things he needed to look at, because suddenly Dr. Megan had, like, a list of things she was concerned about. He's got moles on his back. I'm worried about. Doctor's looking at me, and I'm looking at him. I got a pair of shorts and a T shirt on. And he goes, you take your pants down, and I'm just. Stand here in your underwear. And I'm like, ah, that'd be great if I was wearing underwear. Said sort of. Sort of. Kind of already in underwear, I guess, if you want to look at it that way, I just leave those on. And he gives me a couple of taps. He goes, you seem to be in pretty good shape. And I'm like, thanks. And he goes, take a look at some of these moles. And I got the vibe immediately, like, that he was told by someone else he's looking. He goes, none of these are concerning at all. My gosh, he's crazy. And he goes, yeah. He goes, I see this. And then he goes, at the time, I think I was like, 47 or 48. And he goes, probably due for a. Do you want me to check? And I'm like, no. And he goes, good. I don't want to do it either. And I'm like, okay. So I went home, and I told me. I'm like, dude was the best doctor I've ever been around. He's like. He realized I'm in good shape. He looked at me. The moles were no. No concern at all. How are those moles? No concern. You need to go to another one. I'm like, you're just gonna keep sending me to doctors until one of them says, I'm dying. Scoop? Yeah. The doctor that I was sent to said everything was fine, and that means everything's fine. You need to go get checked more often. Why? I don't get Checked that much. And the last doctor told me I'm aces. Besides that, every time a woman goes to a gynecologist, you find out whether there's something wrong with you or not. That's true. And that's been going on for years. You know you don't have any STDs if she comes back clean. That's an old college trick. Double down. Yep. Do I have to spend that money? You have to go to that thing. Gotta go to the gynecologist. Is something wrong? Nope. My annual exam. You're fine. They found something. Oh, shock. Aw, surprise. You have to go back? Yes. Huh? Huh. Multiple visits. Huh? You like that? And they do. Boy, I'd rather go on and got my ass probed than watch Diamondbacks baseball. Good thing I was with fun people. I got to hang out with a coach for. He coached at Scottsdale Community College. He was Phoenix College. Coach. Coach. His first name is Marty and he was sitting next to me at the ball game and we talked baseball. Old fashioned style. It was like Pops from the Natural was next to me.

[Brett]

Oh, nice.

[John Holmberg]

It was awesome. He's. I think he says he was mid-60s and he's just these kids a day. It was like an amalgamation of every awesome baseball coach you've ever seen on a movie or in real life. Just all jammed into one to the point where after we're talking for a little bit, reaches into his pocket, pulls out some dip and throws it and just starts spitting on the ground. He doesn't even have a spitter in his hand. Starts throwing hawkers down there right at our feet.

[Brady]

They've got like, you're in the dugout.

[John Holmberg]

Tell you what, not one of them gives a about baseball, that's for sure. Just there for the free ride. I'm like, yes. This guy's off. In my day, Zach Gallon got a couple of guys just put the wood on the bat or the bat on the ball. Pretty, pretty strong for a couple straight. And he goes, I used to love that. And he said, never from the dugout would I do it. But it was pretty much drilled into the kids that if a guy gets two, three good pieces of wood on that ball, next batter's getting one in his rib cage. And I'm like, that's when baseball was amazing. And he goes, that's what I think said these kids today. I tell him, you know, quit celebrating your birthday. Every time you do a goddamn thing, you get a hit. And everybody's dancing and throwing their hats in the air and the sunflower Seeds. So meanwhile. So I'm sitting there, I'm looking at the picture. Give him a little nod. We're putting one in that guy's ribs next time. He dances like that. And I'm like, yeah. But he goes, they don't understand that now. And I'm like, I want you to coach me through life for however much longer you've got left. Coach for Major League. No more. This old lady. It was that. It was that. It was that guy. Plus Pops from the Natural, plus every coach you've ever seen in a movie. I'm sitting next to him. He's 40 years. And I said, he's getting out of the game. And I said, you're done, huh? And he said, yep. And he goes, I got some stuff going on, all right? Yeah. And you're old enough to. And I said, I. I thought you were going to tell me. It's because the. You finally had. Had it with those little pricks. There's an element of that, too. These kids, you can't yell at them. They start weeping. The next thing you know, you're talking to a dad. I'm like, this is great. You got some mother standing there. Why'd you yell at my son? He was doing the best he could. I don't think he was doing the best he could. I'm like, I love this guy right here, whoever this is. And then at the end, he goes, he shook my hand. He goes, you seem like one hell of a guy. Someday you're gonna be on my patio eating barbecue. And I'm like, oh, man. And you're an oracle. Cause that's probably tr. And he came with a guy, a friend of ours, named Tom Sizer. And Tom's sitting next to me, and he goes. And he said it a couple of times, which, really, there's a. There's a boosting element of ego that comes with that. When he turns to me, he says, you do seem like one heck of a nice fella. And I'm like, thanks. He goes, gotta. I gotta tell you, there is a. There's a stain on you. There's a blemish in your life. Like. Oh, yeah. He goes, yeah, I can't really put you in the upper echelon of decent people till I find out why the. You're friends with this asshole. And he points to Tom, and I'm like, you're. You're the. You are well written, sir. I don't know who your script writer is, but you are a great character. I've been hating him for 30 years. I'm like, ah, me about six. Yeah, that's it. Him and his crazy wife, they. They're nuts. And I'm like, I agree completely. But he's got great seats. We're sitting in the dugout. Yeah, that's true. I use him for tickets, too. And I'm like, I think I'm. I'm gonna marry this old man. I just wanted to go out and take grounders. That was it. He's one of those guys that just baseball leaps off of him. I'll go out and take some pepper. Yeah, let's get out there and do a little pepper. I'm going to throw some.

[Brady]

Game's going to get better.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you can throw some heat. I'm going to fix your mechanics. Like, I'm never going to use this again. But I want you to coach me at baseball. I think it would be awesome. Old style. I remember Don Zimmer for the Cubs. Oh, 1980. Popeye 3. Popeye sit there with a wad of chew in one cheek and the other one swollen just in sympathy of the. The cheek full of chew. Sitting on top of the fence at HOHO camp. We're catching baseballs over the fence as the. The batting practice is going on. And Popeye turn and he look and he'd go round, say that we couldn't see who was hitting. And he'd tell all the kids, Ron say we go, oh, Ron say's hitting. Getting some home runs from Ron say. And then the ball would fly. And then if he even saw us bang into each other, he was angry. At any time we would like, scuffle over a ball. And then he'd. And he turned. He had. It was on some weird perch that was 25ft up on this fence over.

[Brett]

His left shoulder, right at us.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's true, but he's spitting right at us, just spitting. Henry Cotto. Oh, Henry Cotto's not that good. But if he hits home run, I'll take his ball. He didn't counter. And it's just. And that's his job today, is to tell us not to get plunked by home run. We could see him. We couldn't see who was hitting, but we heard the. The bat knock it. And we'd look up like, where's the ball? And all of a sudden I got heads up. Oh. Then he'd scream at us, knock it off. If we scrambled too fast, you guys end up breaking a leg. I'm not coming down there and helping Larry Boa. Oh, Larry Boaz, we're not going to see one home run. But he was just shouting it out. It was awesome. And that I sat next to Don Zimmer's guy last night. Oh, it was the best. But it was so much better than the product on the field. Man, oh, man, that is a morgue. Again. The Diamondbacks, it's sad. Like, that was. I walked up, it was 6:20, game starts at 6:40. I get up to the stadium, like, is there a game or are we just watching it at a bar? Are they on the road? Where's the. And then I noticed there were an awful.

[Brady]

The General's playing today.

[John Holmberg]

There were an awful lot of Guardians. I'm like, look at all the Guardians. I thought, maybe there's a Slayer concert. Like, there's a lot of Guardians going.

[Brett]

There have been more people there.

[John Holmberg]

We're playing the Indians. The vast majority of people I saw going in the gate were Native American. They were never mad about the name. They love that team. And they had Guardians gear. And the other thing I always point out to people who think it's like, oh, it was terrible. I'm like, wouldn't they ban the old Indians gear if it was so egregious? I know. If we had the New York N words for years and we had shirts on it, or the Kansas City F words. Homo F words made famous by the blazing sadness. Now, if you tried to walk into a stadium with that shirt on, you'd be turned away, right? If you had the N word across your chest, because that used to be a team, people be like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Turn it around. If it's that egregious and that offensive, right? Nothing but Indians gear going in. Tons of it. I saw maybe five or six Guardian.

[Brett]

Shirts, so lots of Wahoo.

[John Holmberg]

Loads of Chief Wahoo. I saw old T shirts with wah. Like, they're hanging on to it. Marty, the guy sat next to the old baseball guys. I'm from Ohio and Cleveland's my team and they'll always be the Indians. I don't even dabble with this Guardian crap. And I'm like, yeah, but I mean, if it was that offensive, they wouldn't let you in the stadium wearing a shirt that says Indians. So what? And Trump's right about this one. Like, just if. If. If the city says, let's bring it back, bring it back. It's not offending anyone. And I can tell you, it's not offending anyone because in a heavy Native American community, they were loaded up and ready to get and drunk already. Some of them were drunk, going in with their shirts off, holding Indians jerseys over them. Like, man, that was fast. It's 6:40. Game has just started. And I see a few like, oh, my God, he's already s. Holmberg's morning sickness. And, you know, and there's a lot of fat, hideously ugly people from Cleveland. I mean, you can spot them. They're white as paper and just ballooned up. Ohioans that are. Drew Carey's my hero. Yeah, ma', am. You look just like him. That's pathetic. And not the skinny. Price is Right. Drew Carey. The TV show Drew Carey. But yeah, so it was never offensive. The Indians thing was never offensive to anyone. And if it was, you were just sensitive. They allow you to walk in there with Indians written across your chest. No one was offended at all. No one still is. No one says, take that shirt off. No one says a thing. It wasn't bad. They changed.

[Brady]

It was Ohio week for the.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, the Reds are coming. But, I mean, you've never. You. I mean, you probably wouldn't notice being a white person, but if you saw as many Indians like in Ohio, they don't. It's like, Indians probably love it. They like the. They liked the Washington Redskins. It stickers all over their cars.

[Brett]

Blackhawks. Problems. Nobody has problems.

[John Holmberg]

Is. Is a tribute to a single individual. The Redskins one is the only one. I'm like, okay, we've actually mentioned skin color, but still not so offensive that you can't wear old Redskin stuff and they don't turn you away at the stadium again. And it's a pretty good chance. We probably almost did have a team called the New York N Words, because this country loved that word for eons. And then they'd be like, we can't do this anymore. And if you had that and you couldn't go in the stadium and they're equating it to, you know, a racial slur. Couldn't do it. Greg Olson, the tight end for the Bears and Panthers, and he was calling the game the other night for the Bears and. And Bills, and they're rerunning it and everything else. But he said. Talking about Brandon bean, the baseball GM. Cause he was talking baseball.

[Brady]

Good friend.

[John Holmberg]

It was 31 to nothing. And he said something and he goes, yeah, the Beaner and I are. He said it on the air. And people are like, oh, that's a slur. But people whose last name is Bean, they get nicknamed Beanie or Beaner. It just happens. It's not. It's not. It's separate. We got to the point were so sensitive that that kid who. I don't like saying his name, but it starts with a K and it ends with the N word with a A on it.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

He's playing college football, I think. And I ain't saying his name because just in case. But he like pronounces it like a Ice Cube song. Right?

[Brett]

I guess he's got the pass.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, but it's not. They're not including it in the video game. Oh, really? No, they won't put it in there because it's like not worth it. That's a guy's name and they won't even put it in there. They won't sell the jersey because they know people are. You know, the K is silent for a lot of them. But Indians, man, walk right in. No problem. It's not that offensive. Why did we change the name then if you can still wear the jersey? Wow.

[Brett]

He's selling hats with his name on.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I know. He's selling on his merch with his own name. What's his name? Isaiah or something? Noah. Noah, that's right. Yeah, Noah. N word. You can't wear that hat anywhere. You have to explain it. You can't do it. His family is mean to the rest of the world for producing an athlete that has college skills. Noah. N word.

[Brady]

You're putting 49 bucks for that hat.

[John Holmberg]

And there's Tom Brennaman. You have got to be kidding me. We can say that one just cuz it's his name. And I can't even goof around off the air and get caught. Boy, oh boy.

[Brady]

And I thought the Indians originally was not so much the name as the character of the Right Wahoo logo.

[John Holmberg]

But Wahoo is the smiling, happiest Indian I've ever seen in my life. He's not a warring Indian thing they.

[Brady]

Were trying to get rid of right away. Like no more.

[Brett]

That's one of my favorite logos in baseball, to be honest. It was always. It's synonymous.

[John Holmberg]

Great.

[Brett]

Major league everything. You know, I mean, you go back to.

[John Holmberg]

Can we.

[Brett]

Way back.

[John Holmberg]

Can we watch major League anymore?

[Brett]

Absolutely.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Yeah. But if it was. Yeah, they wouldn't show it. It would say, I wonder if. I wonder if they do that thing, that weird woke thing before they show major league like they do the wizard of Oz. That said, this movie has aged poorly. There's stuff in here that could be offensive. Racial overtones. Racial overtones and stuff. I wonder. I bet you they do. Every time they show Major League. All the way up to Major League 4. When they were the Salt Lake City Bees, it was back to the Miners. Yeah. I don't know. I don't understand any of it, but I gotta hand it to you natives. You guys were out in full force last night for the Guardians, and you wore a lot of Indians here, and that's the way it should be. Nobody was mad about that. Not at all. Yeah. Everybody knows about Noah N Word. He's got his own page. He's. It's weird. Yeah. This guy says, are you trying to guilt. They're trying to guilt you out of everything pleasurable and defame and weaponize a huge, beloved entity of a city named after your people. And I don't think we should be mad at Native Americans. I don't think they're the ones who tried to change the name ever. Blame the. Always the culprit. White women. That's always the culprit. Blame whitey. White women did this. They weapon. Weaponized it. They threw it out there. And they're oblivious. They don't understand what they're doing. They changed the name of that because they thought they were helping a. And it's the most offensive thing you can do. We have to help these poor natives. They don't know what they're doing without the help of us white women. And they get some husbands involved, like, you know, and they stand there with their heads down, like, yeah, I gotta. It's just a battle I'm not willing to fight at home. She's nuts about this.

[Brady]

Our Little League baseball. The team names were Indian tribes.

[John Holmberg]

Absolutely.

[Brady]

Navajo, Paiute.

[John Holmberg]

My first. My first neighborhood was Indian Heights in Lowell, Indiana. Navajo, Cherokee, Arrowhead. Just Indian words were all the names of the streets. And they had arrows all over, like, this is great. I think even the street signs were arrows. Of course they were. Northwestern Indiana. There were Indians there at one point. Man, they moved away. We honored them by saying we'd have a forgotten. Now white people live all over the place. Sorry about that. Yeah. But, yeah, white women, they ruin everything, including. Oh, this is. Have you seen that? MSNBC is changing their name.

[Brady]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Radio executives have gotten into television. Television. Radio executives are equally as dumb. And TV executives, when they see something failing, they don't know what to do. So a lot of times they'll change the name or rebrand. Rebrand. Right. Yeah. They're like, this is the same old product. It's like when I think Jesse Waters said it. It was a pretty good take on it.

[Brady]

Hbo.

[John Holmberg]

HBO went to just Max for no reason, thinking that there was somebody got a test and then it came back and like, it was dumb. So they changed it back to hbo. HBO is like. Like, that's the bigger of the two. So HBO, Max and then just HBO. They changed. MSNBC in a couple months will be known as MsNow. Ms. Now. They didn't see that when they plopped it up there. And Jesse Waters is like, it doesn't matter. They haven't changed any of the programming. So it's like when you break up with a girl and she cuts her hair and acts like she's a whole new her, but she's still the crazy bitch you left. I mean, it's still the same thing. Ms. Now is now. You want to talk about a group of people alienating men Now. It's the Ms. Now station. And they had like, news outreach. World Something is what the now stands for. And like Ms. Now, which is the now is the national organization for women. You put a Miss in front of it and now you're just. You're just a feminist operation. So it's Rachel Maddow on Ms. Now. It's going to be a terrible failure. But they didn't even see. That's like when they did Katie kb and they thought all lives here and they were super gay. All I saw was alt lives here. And they didn't. And I pointed it out to them when the first billboards went up. I'm like, alt lives. And I remember tripping. Don't. We didn't even see that.

[Brady]

They embraced it.

[John Holmberg]

Of course you. Of course. You're the one. Yeah, they did. And it's working out for them. They got. All the guys seem to love it. You've been down there. I had to go down there on Sunday. I came in here to do some stuff and I went down to that man, it's rainbow flags. And I haven't been down the hall in a long time. I went down there and looked. I'm like, geez, it glows. It is like. It is super duper gay. Which is. What do you expect? Fine. But see, to me, that alienates people. I don't want to put up like a. Only this group first kind of flag in here be wrong. Like, we just had the Mexican flag in here for no reason. People be like, what are you doing? Well, we really want to cater to the Mexican audience. You do? Sure. What about all the others?

[Brady]

Got numerous stations on that.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah? Well, they speak Spanish. That's different.

[Brady]

They're for the most part the only flag right. Right now in the. In the market.

[John Holmberg]

What do you mean, the Mexicans?

[Brady]

No, 93. 3.

[John Holmberg]

What do you mean, the only flag?

[Brady]

As far as saying that. Embracing that.

[John Holmberg]

Well, we don't know. Maybe. Maybe there's a hole. I heard flag, too. The L was silent. Boy, I tell you. Don't dabble with that one. No, maybe. I don't know. I don't know if there's, like. I can imagine a couple of those country stations having a rainbow flag up there, thinking it's for Lucky Charms, because they're. But that's a difference, I guess.

[Brady]

There might be a couple other obviously personalities in the Valley.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, there's super gay guys all over radio. There's nothing. Yeah, there's nothing about that. That's but a radio. Oh, yeah, there's gays all over the place. Got that KCCP and KSLX and kz. KZ and the Mountain. You got KTAR loaded with homosexuals. Oh, wow. One more time. I know. That broomhead grabs my balls. One more time, we're calling a lawyer. Anyway, let's go. And ladonna is beating up on Jim Sharp. And that's a hate crime. It's terrible. Anyway, so miss now is coming your way. And I found that his.

[Brady]

When does that start?

[John Holmberg]

I think in November. I don't remember the exact. They were, like, trying to be excited about it. I saw a clip of it this morning, and I was laughing. I knew they did it yesterday when I read it, but I saw the clip of them doing the announcement, and it was Joe Scarborough from Morning Joe. Still around. Yeah. And we're on the air when. I didn't realize that either. And he's like, we're really excited about this. And then Ms. Now. And then they. And they split it. So the Ms. There's a big space between Ms. And now. And I'm like, oh, my God, TV executives are as bad as radio executives. They did not see Ms. Now.

[Brett]

Was there a reason behind it?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, we have a bigger.

[Brett]

What is their reason? I guess is what I should say.

[John Holmberg]

Rebranding. Rebranding.

[Brady]

Maybe it gets more people checking them out.

[John Holmberg]

It's called My Source. The Ms. Is my source. The now is news, opinion, world. And all I see is miss now. Miss Now. All right, well, this is not for men. Turn it. It's the WNBA of news. Hilarious. And I guarantee you that somebody went Miss now, and then a regular TV exec went down. We didn't see it. Like, how did you not see that? And with the flag in Front of it. This Joanna emails and says, some have observed that the logo in front of the Ms. Looks sort of like a picture. And now I'm never not going to see PMS now. And that's. Look at it again now that you've seen their little weird flag. Now. It's PMS now. Wow. Oh, that's good stuff. Anyway, nothing you can do.

[Brett]

Let's trip over ourselves just a little bit more.

[John Holmberg]

Let's, let's. Well, they're not tripping over their own dick, that's for sure. I know what it is. The carpet has a little. A bubble in it. Let's get a wake up song, shall we? 5 8, 5 9, 800. A good one. And we'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fees. I have heard enough of this morning sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. 98 years. Hey there. Miles to nowhere. Thank you very much, Katie and the Hobbs. And then I got an email about a guy who said baseball and stuff, talking about baseball. It is a man. Did I love baseball when I was a kid. And talking to Coach Marty yesterday, I was like, it doesn't get better than somebody who loved the game. When you loved the game and they were involved in it, you know, a few years older than me and he was a coach and saw a lot of guys coming up, met a lot of people. It's just great. Talking old baseball now. And I noticed this last night. Even, even he was like. I said, who's. Who's the closer for the. I said, indians. Sorry. And he goes, oh, I don't know. I'm like, oh, you don't follow anyone. Nope. Don't care anymore. This game's lost me. There's no passion for it. It's weird now. It's, you know, so there's no more grit in the game. And I'm like, is that because Katel Marte is actually crying right now in the field? Is that why you say that? He said we should try to make him cry. That's easy. Everybody can do that. You know, the thing about Cattel Marte is his house was burglarized in Scottsdale. So after the All Star game, he had. He left. Now he's. He's arguably the best player on the. On the field for the diamondbacks they got, you know, Carroll and him, and he just didn't show up for two days. He went. And you know where he went? I just found this out. He went to the Dominican Republic. And Scott Haynes makes a good point. He says, isn't that like. Like leaving a small town after there was one crime to go relax in Baltimore? I'm like, why would I go to the doctor after somebody burglarized my house in Scottsdale? The only place that'll calm me down now is the Dominican Republic. Like, that's where everybody. Like, David Ortiz got shot eight times at dinner there. That is not. That's at home. Yeah, but that's not a place I'd go after Scottsdale.

[Brady]

You go to your mom.

[John Holmberg]

One burglary. You're an adult.

[Brett]

You can't go to your mom.

[Brady]

I'm just telling you, go to Mommy.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's what he did. He ran to Mommy, which is more.

[Brett]

The White Sox told him about that.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's what that kid was yelling at. I robbed your house. And also, by the way, I. Your mom and his mom. His mom had passed away. I forgot about that. So that couldn't go. What I was saying, he couldn't go to his mom. You're right. I forgot. That's why that guy was yelling. I made him cry.

[Brett]

Nothing screams safety like going to the doctor.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I'm saying. I should go visit the prison. I feel really unsafe. Like, what are you doing? So he had to apologize the other day about why he didn't show up and all this other. It's just. It's just so emotional and everything else. And it. I was a humongous baseball fan. That was my sport growing up. That's what I cared about the most. It wasn't close. My love for the Steelers was all baseball, Cubs first. And the game. I played it every day. You couldn't. Like, it's hard for me to want to go to a baseball game now. And I'm not alone. This game is dying. And they have. You know, they're like, oh, our ratings are on an uptick. And they're trying as hard as they can to wind the baseballs tighter, get some more home runs, get it. They've got more superstars in the game than they've had in years, and it still just doesn't. And that's where a guy emailed me, and he's like, I wanted your take on banana ball, the Savannah Bananas. And I told you guys, when I went to that about five years ago, I'M like, hey, this is where it's at. This is the fun of the game. This made me feel like I was 7 or 8 years old. And that was when I saw him at Peoria Sports Complex. They just sold out the White Sox stadium three nights in a row.

[Brett]

Yeah, Burley Przinski played. Ozzie Guillen showed up.

[John Holmberg]

Getting old players in because they're having fun. Then you go, they sold out Fenway park four nights, Philly two nights. These are. And you got to sit there.

[Brady]

If you're at where. I watched where they were playing, but it was back to back, sold out.

[John Holmberg]

Unreal.

[Brady]

That was fun.

[John Holmberg]

And they show them on ESPN now. And if you're. If you've ever been to a Savannah Bananas game, you know, purists of baseball roll their eyes. I am a purist of baseball and I realize one thing, it's dead. The modern. It's a bunch of people who love the look at me factor. They're. This is a TikTok generation of 21 year olds that are in the game. And now you're supposed to be, you know, quiet, you know, do your job. There's no flash. There's. If you're flashy, you're annoying, if you're loud, you get yelled at. Excuse me, I got another one on deck. But, you know, so you put the Savannah Bananas out there. Suddenly there's 40,000 people watching a bunch of guys doing backflips and dancing, pinching on stilts. There's music. And now that's the circusy aspect of it. You take, take some of that and put it in Major League Baseball. I love what they do with walks. Ball four, go. You have to start hauling ass. And everybody in the field has to touch the ball. So they go around the horn the whole way. If anybody makes a mistake, there's a chance that walk turns into a run. It's huge and it's exciting. And so people are like, what. What would happen to baseball if you started to incorporate some of that? The clock. They have a clock, a countdown clock. You start getting to the end of that thing and there's a mad scramble and the pitches have to come out.

[Brady]

Catches the foul ball out.

[John Holmberg]

It's amazing. And leave it alone. If you're the home team, you're like, I'm not catching any of these foul balls. These guys stay alive.

[Brett]

I didn't know that part.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, if. If the, if a guy catches a ball and the danger is if there's a, like, let's say the Diamondbacks are playing The Royals. And the Royals are here. And you know, the Diamondbacks hit a foul ball here at Chase Field and a Royals fan gets up and catches it. He's out, too. So you can have the opposing team, have people in the crowd, get your home guys out, and it's just a boo fest. They do a lot of fun stuff. It's. It's because the game is a drag that you can't. And Savannah Bananas is saving it. And they're going to be too stubborn to understand that the tradition of baseball will never come back. It can't.

[Brady]

I don't even know if that would save baseball.

[John Holmberg]

It would because they're. The guys that are on the field for every major league team are better than the guys on the Savannah Bananas.

[Brett]

Because they're a bunch of retired guys. Guys that didn't make it.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, dudes. You had injuries or almost made it. Yeah, they played well. A lot of these guys were AAA players. Some of them were cup of coffee.

[Brady]

Yeah, they give the background. They said from University of Georgia.

[John Holmberg]

All of them played college. All of them were close. They were, you know that there's that fine line between being a pro ball player and a double a, triple A guy. And they're good. They're really good baseball players. These guys that are on the field for the Diamondbacks are a lot better. So if you just allowed them to be flashy, you know, you get extra credit for a trick play, doing a spin or get in between your legs or catching. These guys do backflips and that's fly balls. And remember when Jim Edmonds played and he would get like, people would give him grief for like making a routine catch look like it was a diving incredible play. But it was always fun. I hated Jim Edmonds, but it was always fun. Like, it was like he could have just gotten to that. But he'd slow down a little bit and then dive for it because he was that good. All of them are. But you got, you know, all this.

[Brady]

You know, catch behind the back fly balls all the way back to the warning trail.

[John Holmberg]

People would go nuts if, like, Aaron Judge made a behind the back catch. And you have these great players doing great things to entertain us right now. It's just fundamentals, math. Let's talk about war rates. Let's talk about, you know, all the statistics. It's a nerds game now. Nobody likes that. And it's proof. The Savannah Bananas sell out stadiums for a reason. And last night I could have used some Savannah Banana action on that field because it was what used to be a great baseball game, but there's no excitement at all. There's no players out there seemingly having any fun. They're robots.

[Brady]

New revamped stadium. Fix that.

[Brett]

That park is.

[John Holmberg]

Nope.

[Brett]

Bad too, though.

[John Holmberg]

The park is not fun.

[Brett]

It's a boring part.

[John Holmberg]

A lot of times you go to a baseball stadium for the park. Yeah. The game is secondary at this point. And I love the game. Well, playoff baseball is fun. I. I would still love that because the stadium's full. There's a difference on the line.

[Brady]

Exciting. I mean, they got something that you're. You're in the hunt.

[John Holmberg]

There's teams in the hunt. Look, in 20, 23, in September, I went to a Cubs Diamondbacks game. Two of the three games I went to. Both of those teams were the last wild card team. They were going back and forth through September. It was a playoff game. Essentially, these two were. The winner of that series was more than likely going to go on to the playoff. Diamondbacks went to the World Series that year. There were 12,000 people there. It was a morgue. It's. That is a. That is a dead stadium. Even when it's great. Even the World Series to me, had less energy than it should have. I went to the one. And granted, it's not a fair comp, but going to Wrigley Field when they were in the World Series in 2016, every. Everything that happened felt like somebody was like you were on Molly the whole time. Diamondbacks think, yeah, it's all right.

[Brady]

It'll never change. But one of the things that I think do is always shorten the season up.

[John Holmberg]

Wow. If you're going to start.

[Brady]

People have been saying that for years.

[John Holmberg]

You're going to start messing with the.

[Brady]

But that messes.

[John Holmberg]

But if you're going to start. Yeah, but if you're going to start messing with the game all together, you can shorten it. But they can't just shorten it and keep it the same because then statistically that takes away from the fans. Because if a guy's hit 50 home runs and they're only playing 135 games, like he would have broke the record. Like we need. Let's get him back in that 162 and see how many he could have done. So that kills that. But you can still do that 162 games. If you add fun, you know, just add some fun and then get rid of the old stats and up.

[Brady]

And they tried it. They. They tried to do that a little bit.

[John Holmberg]

I've never seen them Try to do that.

[Brady]

I mean, as much as they can in game skits. And, and that.

[John Holmberg]

Oh no, no. You want the, you want the game to be entertaining. You don't want the idiots in between that. That's proof your game sucks. As if you have to have little movies between innings to keep people interested.

[Brett]

Yeah, I do like the pitch clock.

[John Holmberg]

Love it.

[Brett]

I like, you can't keep replacing relievers every, every batter. Yeah, because they used to drive me crazy.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, but like you hate the ghost.

[Brett]

Man on second during, during extra innings. Extra innings.

[John Holmberg]

I'm just like, this is, it is a little annoying. But yeah, they got to fix it. That's all they got to do is just try and fix it. I still, yeah, I still love that. You know, it's still the game I loved as a kid, the game. But it's impossible to watch. It really is. And it's the nerd festival. Even the bill, the scoreboard has too many stats on it. I got this email from this person and I, I enjoyed it very much. So I'm going to read it says, I want to know what you think. I've been married for six years. My husband is 56 and I'm 30. First off, I think, awesome job.

[Brett]

Nice kill, kid.

[John Holmberg]

The Jim Jeffries special is very funny because he talks about erectile dysfunction and he says, is it, is it your penis that breaks or is it just because you're, you're women who are 50 years old now. And he goes, because he said, I know that if you're 75 and you go into the doctor and your wife's like, you can't get an erection anymore. And he's like, yep, can't get it hard. And he just gives a head nod to the. It's her, it's her. Because you're trying to get hard for an old lady. And he said, and then some, you know, 22 year old nurse's assistant comes in and suddenly he's cured. He's like, I think it's just because he said he had a problem with premature ejaculation in his 20s. And he goes, and I don't have that problem anymore. He goes, and you know why? It's because I'm not 20 year olds anymore so I can last longer. So to this guy, 56 and 30, whatever. But she's the one emailing. She says, my husband's ex wife is always around and acts like I don't know what I'm doing. Now keep in mind, I just realized this as I, she was 24 when they got married. They've been married for six years and she's 30. So how long?

[Brady]

48.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, but how long did they date before he locked it down?

[Brady]

Long enough.

[Brett]

When she seen his bank account.

[John Holmberg]

Well, yeah, she was all in. But he's divorced. She had what he like, he probably.

[Brett]

Divorced some 50 year old broad and then now he's. Now he's got the 24 year old of his daughters.

[John Holmberg]

May have overlapped. Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it.

[Brady]

All right, could have been an overlap.

[John Holmberg]

Could have been an overlap. But then the ex wife being around all the time doesn't make sense because if there was an overlap, she's never going to show up. Yeah. Interesting. Your dynamic is fascinating. Anyway, she says the ex wife is always around and she acts like I don't know what I'm doing with her grandkids. Which I guess are kind of mine too. I need her gone. Suggestions? Brett? I love you guys. Been listening since I was little. You're still little. And my dad would laugh all morning. You've got daddy issues. Thanks for the joy. Hannah. The palindrome.

[Brady]

Sorry, Hannah. You gotta have to deal with that.

[John Holmberg]

You married it.

[Brady]

Yeah. You got to know what you're getting into.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

You marry someone that has an ex.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Or shares kids.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I've always said.

[Brady]

Be part of that mix.

[John Holmberg]

Never date a single mother. Holmberg's morning sickness. Because if you start to fall for. You're not only getting involved with her, you're gonna have emotions for the kid that isn't yours.

[Brady]

That's for you. I mean.

[John Holmberg]

But then there's some dude in your life now. You got to accept all that.

[Brady]

You have to.

[John Holmberg]

And if you don't, and it's a lot to take on. Don't date them.

[Brady]

You're gonna have a tough, tough time.

[John Holmberg]

Find one that didn't show up with human Samsonite.

[Brett]

That's tough these days.

[John Holmberg]

Of course it is. Everybody's pumping them out. Yeah.

[Brady]

You have to. I think that. That you nailed it, Brad. I mean the big thing is is everyone comes in to a relationship to begin with with luggage. So you got to figure out how.

[John Holmberg]

Much of that can you personality is different than another person. Luggage, luggage. Luggage that's actually going to school and stuff.

[Brady]

But again that's something that you have to deal with. Yeah. You have to realize.

[John Holmberg]

Right.

[Brady]

This is part of the deal.

[John Holmberg]

It's intolerable. And everybody should join my team on this one. Never date. Look at you. Look what you did. You went through Your divorce. You cycled through some weirdos. A couple of them probably had kids. You're like, that ain't happening. And then you find Madea.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Childless.

[Brett]

A unicorn.

[John Holmberg]

A unicorn. Pretty. Yeah. In her 30s. Yep. Earner.

[Brett]

That's right.

[John Holmberg]

I know it's possible there's a little patience involved because there's nothing worse than falling for a lady and her kid. And then the lady's like, I don't like you anymore. Now you're break up with a whole family.

[Brett]

Well, it's like Brady said too. You're going to be stuck with, you know, that significant other or ex other. Yeah, that was the great thing about my, you know, getting divorced. We didn't have any kids, so, like, I never have to see her again if I don't want to. You know, that is completely done. But like these dudes with, you know, kids with other wives and stuff like that, you're stuck with. You're stuck with that ex wife for the rest of your life. It's birthday parties, graduations, grandkids, you name it. You know, you're stuck.

[John Holmberg]

Grandkids. Christmas is terrible.

[Brady]

And by the eyes. When. When she cycles out.

[John Holmberg]

She said she might not. Brady, this could last a lifetime. You stop. You sound like a woman.

[Brady]

And the new 24, you'll be scorned.

[John Holmberg]

Listen to this broad over tip. They put you on estrogen before your surger. What are you doing? You do not. You do not tear apart this man's trophy and say that she'll cycle out. I heard what you said. You were making the point that you're not gonna last forever. He'll move on to some young chippy again later.

[Brady]

Maybe like the way the.

[John Holmberg]

But you treating. Shut up about by the way. You are 30. You have no idea what to do with kids or grandkids. It would be like me if some other person showed up and said, let me handle the kids. Okay, that seems great.

[Brett]

Maybe she better listen to some Beyonce. Let me.

[John Holmberg]

Let me upgrade. Yeah, this dude might have 15 to 20 years left. You're gonna be fine.

[Brady]

It's the mother and slash mother in law vibe. She'll right.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, because she's of the age of mother in law. Yeah, but she's over there all the time. When the grandkids are there, the ex has to show up and be part of the grandkid parties. Like birthdays and things like that. You're 30. She hates you, by the way. There's nothing about. She might say she likes you because.

[Brett]

You'Re 30 and tight.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you are everything. Yeah, you're everything she isn't anymore. And maybe she still looks good, but she looks at you and your skin and hates you because your skin hasn't quit on her yet. Nothing better. And I've said that I don't. I never knew this till now. This is great old man advice to women. Take care of that skin. Because you see it. Like when women don't. Oh, not only does their skin go south, they start getting really mad at young people for no reason at all. And it's because of their skin. And mainly the. This is a great word I learned from Cindy Crawford. Decolletage. Declo tage. That's today's word of the day. Look it up. Because ladies, you need to keep an eye on that. That turns into Pringles on you real fast. So you can keep your face skin all smooth and then you like move and suddenly from your neck to your cleavage.

[Brady]

You gotta wear a dicky.

[John Holmberg]

It's Pringles.

[Brett]

Well, and turkey neck too.

[John Holmberg]

Turkey neck? Forget it. Oh, no wonder they hate these young with your tick tock accounts getting along with the grandkids because you got more in common than she does. The birthday parties, they all like you. This old hag comes running in, starts yelling at him the whole time. But you married into it when you were 24, which makes you stupid. So the ex wife is right for coming in there going, you don't know what to do with these kids. Get out of the way. Move. Why do you want to be a good grandma anyway? You're 30. What's going to be really weird is when your your clock gets going, Hannah. And you ask this 56 year old guy to put one in you. And now you've got kids younger than his grandkids and that starts to circulate around the ex wife. There's going to be. You're a dateline, but you're going to be on the ID channel. Give me last names because I want to look you up the day it happens when somebody slaughtered a handful of people.

[Brady]

That will do that. Call Al Pacino. He'll put one.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, Pacino. And put the dudes do it all the time. I just thought, you know, and you knew that when you got married that I probably would want a child someday. Now Brett and I would have that same reaction. It's been lovely knowing you. Here is your check for $10,000 and your parting basket. Goodbye. Is that the deal we signed? Yes. You get $10,000 of my money for just time spent in a parting gifts. Well, there's DVDs in it. I. I know they're useless. I just wanted to get rid of them myself. So off you go. Go find somebody to put a baby in you. You've wasted the last seven years of my life. Nope. You knew. You knew Hannah. But. Yeah, you 30 and 56. There's the perils of getting involved. And he's got kids and grandkids. Oh, man. Oh, also, Hannah, his kids hate you. They're nice to you because they have to be. They hate you.

[Brady]

I knew you were friends with his daughter.

[John Holmberg]

They hate you. Oh, yeah.

[Brady]

That's a tough friendship.

[John Holmberg]

Now, remember when you used to be friends with his daughter and now it's different, isn't it? Yeah. When you were in the sorority together. Time of your lives. Then he came out for parents weekend. You find out Dad's bone and Hannah on the side. Next thing you know, the marriage is over. Hannah and dad are getting married. She cut you off emotionally. You are not friends with her. Oh, yeah, sure. You still talk and have fun. She hates you. Every night she lays her head on her pillow and bitches to her husband about how much her dad screwed up her. Hannah. Your step grammy hates her step grandma. Hilarious. Yeah, it's decolletage. Hannah, start on that now, because it's probably why the last guy left. Yeah, you got to keep that skin fair. Too much sun ends up in that crusty, pringly. Decolletage. Decolletage. Cindy Crawford's got a whole line of meaningful beauty products designed specifically for the decolletage. Because she knows. And if you look at Cindy's smooth, she's been taking care of it. She knows.

[Brady]

But you had a step grammy.

[John Holmberg]

You had. Was she a child?

[Brady]

Because my original grandma Ruth died when I was like five or six.

[John Holmberg]

We had to move on. Was that the crazy one? No, no, that was a different one. Yeah, but. So Ruth died and then papilled Grandma Billy and Grandma Billy was crazy. Or Grandma Billy showed up.

[Brady]

Ruth was the one that had the.

[John Holmberg]

Mental ill. Oh, she. So the one that died was bananas. Yeah. Okay. And then he was like, put her in a home, she croaks, and he brings home a 30 year old. Or was Grandma Billy age appropriate?

[Brady]

Billy was a little bit younger, but.

[John Holmberg]

Like a lot or a little.

[Brady]

Maybe 10 year.

[John Holmberg]

That's pretty good. That's okay. So Pop Pop brings home brand new Squish, the governor's secretary. All right. Do you remember meeting the new grandma?

[Brady]

I do not. Like, I can't recall, like the first day that.

[John Holmberg]

But your Grandma died when you were five? Yeah. So when did he marry Billy?

[Brady]

Like a year or two.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, he knew Billy when grandma was in the hospital. When grandma Ruth was actually. Really?

[Brady]

I think so.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I think he knew. I. Yeah, he knew who she was.

[John Holmberg]

Again, Brett, no questions. You don't suppose.

[Brady]

There'S a crossover?

[John Holmberg]

No, he might have. Let's get rid of this. Grandma Ruth in the mental institution.

[Brady]

No.

[John Holmberg]

You don't think he had something happen. Easy. And a year later he's married.

[Brady]

I think it maybe. Maybe it was a little bit easier to look on after the lobotomy.

[John Holmberg]

She had a lobotomy. So here we go. Brady again. He cleared that he had medical power of attorney. He's the one who got her the lobotomy.

[Brady]

By the recommendation.

[John Holmberg]

Doctor probably said, well, there's a couple of options if you wanted to go that route. Nobody said, I'll take that one recommendation of a lobotomy. That has to be family that says, yeah, do that. So he lobotomized his wife. Make America great again. He could do that. You guys didn't ask any questions about head. Hey, grandpa, how come you lobotomized her before? None of your business.

[Brady]

I gotta get the story.

[John Holmberg]

You gotta get. Well, that's pretty awesome because you don't just remember.

[Brett]

You gotta get the story. You've never gotten the story.

[John Holmberg]

You've never gotten the store. Yeah, I'm getting it for you. This is good stuff. Yeah. Get this one.

[Brady]

Before Tuesday, you try to recall these things because I was so young when that happened. But after the fact, knowing that. Yeah. She had to spend some time in a home. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And they. They pulled their frontal lobe.

[Brady]

Got out. She got out of there.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, they let her out after the lobotomy, I think.

[Brady]

I mean, I just. I remember going the. To the house and she was always just very nice.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. She had no options. Her brain only worked in one gear.

[Brady]

I don't think she did much.

[John Holmberg]

She was. She couldn't. She's like a four wheel drive in low one. She's got. She can only go like two miles an hour. And it's like, hi, everyone. This is all I do. So you knew her post lobotomy?

[Brady]

I had to.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, right. Because she died when you were five. So she got that lobotomy and like just functioned around on lobotomized.

[Brady]

Just was happy.

[John Holmberg]

In the 60s you saw her as happy, but what she was was blank. This is fantastic. Brad. I didn't know grandma Billy had a lobotomy. Your family is a disaster.

[Brett]

It's Funny. He learns it on this show.

[John Holmberg]

I know. He just thinks it was a Rockwell painting, and it's a disaster. You guys put on a hell of a show, let me tell you that. You guys were the original reality show. But a lobotomy and your family? You're the only one I've ever met in my life that's got a lobotomized grandma. Awesome. There's a few family members probably get lobotomies in Brett's family, but it was not by choice. And there was no doctor involved. Nope.

[Brett]

22 behind the ear.

[John Holmberg]

A lobotomy, Brady. They took out her frontal lobe because it was driving grandpa nuts. And you never once said, then she died. What'd she die of?

[Brady]

I'm getting the story straight.

[John Holmberg]

You don't know what your grandma died from? No, no, she just died. Grandpa killed her. He had her killed so he could marry the governor's secretary a year later. You don't lobotomize a woman and stay with her forever. You look, Bret. You look for a way out. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. If you hadn't lobotomized Mathias. What's the time limit before you're like, all right. Pillow over the face. In fact, that's how Cuckoo's Nest ends. Chief goes over to the lobotomized Jack Nicholson, pillows his face, throws the water fountain out the window, and runs away. Which is exactly what Brady's grandpa probably got the idea from Cuckoo's Nest.

[Brett]

He's texting.

[Brady]

It was before.

[John Holmberg]

It was a book, before the movie.

[Brady]

That's true.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And your grandpa probably read more than he went to the movies. And the end of that book was like a light bulb over his head like he was Edison. Your grandpa killed your grandma. I stand by it. No man's hanging around a lobotomized broadcast and then looking over at the governor's secretary, getting winks and like, oh, no kidding. And I gotta get rid of the dead weight over here. And lobotomy. She's not gonna be able to fight back too hard. She's gonna smile through the whole damn thing. You don't know how she died at all?

[Brady]

No, I just. I bet you it's a little brother and my mom.

[John Holmberg]

Is it your mom? It's your dad's family.

[Brady]

It's my dad's family.

[John Holmberg]

Little suspicious. I bet you the death was a little suspicious.

[Brady]

She fell down a lot in front of a car.

[John Holmberg]

Well, he. People saw him with his cane. Yeah. Gary Coleman. His cane was, like, stuck out.

[Brady]

She tried Toledo.

[John Holmberg]

You don't even have anybody in your family who's been lobotomized?

[Larry]

Jesus, I hope not, man.

[John Holmberg]

But man, this is amazing. You say this with a little smile on your face like, yeah, what's the big whoop? Your grandma had a lobotomy. Like, I know I could be wrong.

[Brady]

On this too, but I don't.

[John Holmberg]

How do you just pull. How do you carry that story for 65 years not and not get corrected?

[Brady]

65 years.

[John Holmberg]

Sorry.

[Brady]

60.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you're pushing him a little bit. He's not gonna make it to 65. We're getting all the stories we can get now.

[Larry]

King Casey released One Flew over the cuckoo's nest in 1962. When did she die?

[John Holmberg]

70 if you were five.

[Brady]

Yeah, that's probably around.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he read the book. Probably in 67.

[Brady]

He did call her Chief.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's where you got it from. And that's right. That's where it all began. That's why you hate chief so much. That's why you hate. That triggers you when somebody goes, what's up, Chief? My grandma killed my grandma. And he called her Chief.

[Larry]

Look, you've been taking the pickaxe to the ore of his world forever.

[John Holmberg]

Somebody careful what? Careful what you start mining away for. He's. Yeah, well, it's all manifested into his kidneys. They're going to remove all these terrible memories on Tuesday. And you're going to be better. Yeah, you will.

[Brady]

It's going to be a crystal ball.

[John Holmberg]

You're just going to hear dog tired, boss. You're going to sleep Green Mile. How about that? A lobotomy in the room. Boys, this is. You are amazing. You keep coming up with this exactly. It is when we go on vacation. Craziest family I've ever heard.

[Larry]

I can run a full week of Brady's revelations. Things that you learned on this show like nuts.

[John Holmberg]

That's nothing. Everybody's. Uncle John slept with the gardener for nappy times. What?

[Larry]

Your dad was in the revolution.

[John Holmberg]

Your dad helped free Cuba and become communist.

[Larry]

You found that out here?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. You found out your dad was part of the communist revolution.

[Brady]

Went there the year before and then after.

[John Holmberg]

Nobody else was allowed to do that. He was in something with like. Something about Castro was like, come on down.

[Brady]

Man. There's some cool pictures.

[John Holmberg]

Your uncle was a homosexual with the lands crew. Come on. You go to bed.

[Brady]

It's not.

[Brett]

It's your aunt's cans.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, your aunt showed your her cans in the hot tub at a family event.

[Larry]

She called you tubs.

[Brady]

A good core memory.

[Brett]

It's a different one.

[Brady]

Oh, that was a different one.

[John Holmberg]

The worst part of the Ant show in the can story, as we go down Brady Lane, and it's been. Let's eulogize them early is the. When you said the words that were ultra creepy. And I don't think you realized that when she goes. Then my aunt got. And then she took her top off. She had a nice figure. I remember hearing that. And I remember my whole butt went, what'd he just say about his aunt's cans? She had a real nice figure. Yeah. And he and a guy were in a hot tub with his naked aunt, and he was okay with it.

[Brady]

Her son.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God.

[Brady]

And Uncle Frank.

[John Holmberg]

Who was, by the way, half hard. Was Uncle Frank her husband?

[Brady]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my.

[Brady]

Uncle Frank was her sister.

[Brett]

Another thing we learned today.

[John Holmberg]

It's a sister's husband.

[Brady]

The whole family was there.

[John Holmberg]

So would you be comfortable if your sister hopped into the hot tub with Ronnie and dropped top with Kirby? Yeah. You would not. That's terrible. Call cps.

[Brady]

Hilarious.

[John Holmberg]

It is. Was lobotomized Granny out there picking apples off of an orange tree. These are fantastic tales from the bogan history. That lobotomy story might be the best. I knew she was in a nut house. You told me that.

[Brady]

Yeah. And again, I'm from what I was told, even after the fact, which is very little, because I did. You know, and that's not. I just knew she had, you know, mental problems either. She was bipolar, whatever.

[John Holmberg]

But that was your dad's real mom?

[Brady]

Yes.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. And they.

[Brady]

You know, during. When they were married. They're married for years. Years.

[John Holmberg]

And then he got.

[Brady]

She went in and out of the house like she. My dad would live with my great grandfather on a. On their ranch that they had in. In town for a couple of years until my.

[John Holmberg]

Until grandma got straight. Yeah, until Billy started to. Yeah, because stuff was going crazy, which is why John was sleeping with the gardener.

[Brady]

Why Jack? Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Sorry. Jack. He had some stuff going on, too. Your dad came out of that pretty normal.

[Brady]

It was called the Columbus Riding Ranch for one reason.

[John Holmberg]

Well, yeah, because Pedro got to hop on top of Jack at the riding ranch. Oh, my God. So you're telling me they're married for what, 40. 50 years. 40 years.

[Brady]

Pretty close, right? Well, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

She dies, and he's got a wife again a year later.

[Brady]

I could be wrong on the timeline, but Billy was around.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Grandma Billy showed up.

[Brady]

I mean, junior high. She's Grandma.

[John Holmberg]

You know, probably pretty soon after. And you said it could be eight years after.

[Brady]

I don't know.

[John Holmberg]

Geez. It was either one or eight years. You don't remember from five until 13. Meeting a new grandma. Those are members. Those are years. You don't remember meeting new grandma. That would be a huge one for me if Alvar showed up with new grandma. That's a core memory. I'm not. That day is gonna sink in.

[Brady]

But existing grandma, I didn't see that much anyway.

[John Holmberg]

Did you go to. Yeah, I know, but did you go to. Did you go to new grandma and grandpa's wedding?

[Brady]

I might have been younger when.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, but still. So what you're supposed.

[Brady]

Ruth passed away and my great grandfather Amer.

[John Holmberg]

Right.

[Brady]

Also passed away. Like right around.

[John Holmberg]

Let's ballpark about the age grandpa married. New grandma. Yeah, right. Ten for you, right?

[Brady]

Probably.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, about right. Nine, ten years old. Those are some memories. Yeah. Grandpa shows up with the new lady.

[Brady]

I probably went to the wedding.

[John Holmberg]

You don't remember if you were at your grandpa's wedding?

[Brett]

Is this like Bewitched where a new Darren just shows up and Brady's just.

[John Holmberg]

Like, okay, this dude needs to be hypnotized.

[Brady]

I had so much stuff going on.

[John Holmberg]

You were nine. It a lot on your mind? Yeah.

[Brett]

Why are we wasting our time in radio? We should be writing this for hbo.

[John Holmberg]

It's a series of insanity. It is.

[Brady]

Am I gonna make the all star team played on Seneca?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, no, I get it. You had the Seneca team and you guys were close to the. The local playoffs and oh, grandpa's got a new grandma. We'll get to know her later.

[Brady]

And then 1975, I think they did. They moved to Naples.

[John Holmberg]

I got to tell you this. I'm pretty sure and I don't want to tell you this.

[Brady]

So that was.

[John Holmberg]

You were 10?

[Brady]

Yeah, I was. So they were married.

[John Holmberg]

Be. They had so seven or eight. You still should have. I'm going to go out on a limb here and I'm going to say you need to see somebody because I'm pretty sure you were raped and you've black you block. Because my ex wife.

[Brady]

No, I would remember that.

[John Holmberg]

No, no, you wouldn't. Yeah, that's what repressed memories are. My ex wife got touched a little bit too often by some family members and blanked out a lot of the 80s, like similar to this conversation. And then would never confront the fact that I think something happened. I think he got thumbed by Uncle Jack or something. And they're like, all right, we're just going to delete. You don't remember new grandma? That's huge. New grandma is. Every kid remembers new grandma. Every kid. Did you ever get a new grandma? No. No.

[Brady]

Why are you saying that then? You've never gotten a new grandma before, right?

[John Holmberg]

It would be my grand mind blowing.

[Brady]

A new grandma Billy was.

[John Holmberg]

But just showed up. And you don't remember if you were.

[Brady]

At their wedding to Naples and. Yeah, but you don't remember I'd go down there and visit.

[John Holmberg]

I was three or four. I went to my uncle Donnie's wedding and I. And he tried to get me to kiss aunt Ella for the first time. And he said, give her a kiss, that's her new aunt. And I'm like, no. He's like, why? And I'm like, she's ugly. I told a woman on her wedding day she was ugly when I was like three. And I remember it. I remember her weird dress. I remember the awful church in Lowell, Indiana. You don't remember if you were at your grandpa's wedding? That's just a funny phrase.

[Brady]

Yeah, I don't remember much of it.

[Brett]

I'm telling you, it's a rewitch. The new Darren just shows up and he just accepts it.

[John Holmberg]

You cannot remember meeting new grandma, but remembers every meal he's ever eaten and what restaurants are on every street corner. Chris. That's true.

[Brady]

Went to some great restaurants.

[John Holmberg]

Now you got some Grandma Billy cores flowing.

[Brady]

Eddie's and Marco Island.

[John Holmberg]

That sounds nice. But you do not remember meeting the day grandma Billy.

[Brady]

That's the first time I met grandma Billy.

[John Holmberg]

Or the around that. I'll give you the fact that the day you shook hands with her might not have registered. But like after a while I was like, grandma Billy's gonna be here for a while. And also you started to have to call her Grandma Billy at a certain point.

[Brady]

Yeah, I mean it was always.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, no, it's just Billy. For a while it was.

[Brady]

It was pretty much Billy.

[John Holmberg]

But he married her and you were probably there.

[Brady]

I don't know if I was.

[John Holmberg]

That is blindingly crazy.

[Brady]

But it was the second. They might have just gotten a small ceremony. I.

[John Holmberg]

Maybe. But you don't also don't remember like the announcement that grandpa married Billy? Yeah, that would be mind numbing to me. You do remember them being married?

[Brady]

Yes.

[John Holmberg]

You remember when they were married? You don't remember when, but like the exact year? No, yeah, I'm saying exact. But like the core memory of the wedding should be a thing.

[Brady]

Yeah, there wasn't. I. So I don't know if I even went. That's why I Was saying, that's John.

[Brett]

Give Brady a break. He's had a lot on his plate since he was a little kid.

[John Holmberg]

Since he was 4. That's true. He's been dealing with a lot for the last six years. 60 years. You do hear that that's crazy though, right? That not remembering new grandma in your life. She just was there. It's new. Darren. You're right. Don't ever talk about it. It's just there. Just happens. She just there. And nobody asked questions about Grandma Billy or Grandma Ruth. Suddenly dropped me.

[Brady]

Yeah. I'm sure my parents. Because they knew.

[John Holmberg]

She never passed down the information.

[Brady]

They knew Billy's ex and you know, and that family. That side of the family.

[John Holmberg]

So it was well known.

[Brady]

And I do. I knew Billy's daughter and.

[John Holmberg]

Sure. Well, I would hope you would know Billy's family. She was your grandmother.

[Brady]

Right.

[John Holmberg]

Right.

[Brady]

So.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. That you mingled together. Yeah. That's not in question. It's the timeline and the fact that you never said whatever happened to grandma Ruth after the lobotomy. And then a year after that. Grandpa's got a new gal. 40 years of marriage and he's got.

[Brady]

And so that timeline's probably not all right.

[John Holmberg]

But still, it usually takes after 40 year marriage that ends with death a while before the dude's back on the ball. Married again and moving to Naples.

[Brady]

He stayed with her a long time after the fact that she went through all this stuff.

[John Holmberg]

Sure.

[Brady]

Because my dad was going through that when he was a kid.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

With Roy.

[John Holmberg]

So he killed her. Brady, your grandpa got rid of your grandma to move on to grandma.

[Brady]

He did the right things.

[John Holmberg]

And everybody in the house was like, do not question what is happening. Grandma Ruth is gone. This is Grandma Billy. Here's the script for the next episode and it shall never be mentioned again. Okay.

[Brett]

Season three.

[John Holmberg]

Season three. Who's Grandma Billy? The Hogan family just turned. The Bogan family just turned into. It was Valerie. It was called Valerie at first. And then they killed her. And then they said the Hogan family don't talk about it. Says you're not asking the right questions. Ask what food was served at grandpa's wedding and you'll get a date, location, how good the food was, exactly how fully felt. True. Do you remember the spread at grandpa's wedding?

[Brady]

Schnitzel and German wedding.

[John Holmberg]

Nice. German wedding. That's fascinating. You're fascinating. Man Toledo's story and your story are neck and neck for who's got the goofier background. That's nuts. Lobotomy has this hold My beer moment to Toledo's grandma was a hooker. We're the normal ones, man.

[Brett]

I never would have guessed that one.

[John Holmberg]

You and me are like, yeah, we. This was rosy. I remember my friend Mark told my dad a couple years ago. He comes over and he goes, I just wanted to thank you, Dan. My dad's like, for what? My dad always liked Mark a lot. And Stevie says, I used to go to your house because my house was so chaotic and you guys were so normal. And I'm like, no, you're confusing us with another family like that. And he goes, no, no. I come to your house to feel good because my house was so, you know, weird. And I'm like, yeah, I think you're going to Burkhart's place. I don't think that was my. I think you're confusing my dad for Glenn Burkhart. I don't think that's a real thing. And he's like, no, your dad was like a real stabilizing force. I'm like, well, at least one of us got that out of him because that. You weren't afraid of him. He was crazy. No, he was an awesome. He was an awesome dad. Like, I know he was a good dad because I'm still alive, but that was really goal one and goal two. He didn't care about anything else. And if I was throwing hard and I look like a boy on the field, that's all he cared about. Does he run like a girl? That was really my dad's biggest concern. Man, Brady, these are fascinating tales. You need to.

[Brady]

Yeah, now I want to.

[John Holmberg]

Of course you do. I hate that. I hate that I spark your curiosity. I hate that I like it. Holmberg's morning sickness. No. I'm glad it happens. But I wish you had that on your own. You would come with the stories without having to be, you know, prom sometimes.

[Brady]

That's. You know. Because at one time I was curious and asking questions. My dad tell me about Ruth.

[John Holmberg]

And he beat it out of you?

[Brady]

No, he kind of told it. It was just one time.

[John Holmberg]

He can't be the one you asked.

[Brady]

Though, because I really didn't.

[John Holmberg]

Because your dad's not gonna. Your dad's not gonna be real quick to say my mom was nuts and my dad might have killed her, and, ah, we don't talk about.

[Brady]

I remember he was pretty open on saying she had mental.

[John Holmberg]

Your mom. Yeah, but your mom's the one to get the details from your dad. There's no hiding the mental problems. Your mom's the one that Knows the deep down dirty. And she's kept that quiet because, you know, out of respect for your dad and his history and not bringing up, you know, not hitting that beehive. My goodness. You'd think you'd remember new grandma. New Grandma's a good band name, by the way. Yeah. This one says I get Brady a little on this one. My biological grandma died right after my parents were married. My grandpa got remarried in two or three years. I never knew my old grandma. That's different. If you only had one grandma. Not that you knew her, but you knew of her and you were aware of her and you had met her and you do have memories of that. Of meeting happy crazy Ruth. You said so like you'd go over there. She was always happy.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You knew her. Are you okay?

[Brady]

I'm just trying.

[Brett]

He's. The wheels are spinning over there.

[Brady]

Like really like I. I don't know if I. I'm just trying to. You know. Initially I'm thinking I did. Did I hang out with Ruth. There's some pictures but I just can't.

[John Holmberg]

You had memories of her about 13.

[Brady]

Minutes ago in the house he built. Yeah, he built a duplex and they lived in the second half of. Was a really cool setup. So you do remember. I just remember staying over there and then having, you know, breakfast with her in the next.

[John Holmberg]

So you wrote.

[Brady]

Yeah, I remember that.

[John Holmberg]

So you were with Ruth and you had surrounded meal again. Sure, sure. You had breakfast with the lady who just stared at the light bulbs going fascinating. So you were there for her. So it isn't like just a concept. She was a reality. Yeah. Like this guy emails his grandma was like. Was a. He didn't get to meet her. He says it was my grandpa got remarried two or three years. Never knew old grandma. It was weird no one talked about it. My grandpa was really high up in the army and secret stuff he used to do as a civilian. He wasn't even around when she died at 50. Howard Hughes sent him to Illinois in his private jet for a funeral and stuff. He goes, we never questioned it. My dad pulled strings not to get an autopsy done. My family is rose colored glasses too. I'm on Brady's team. Yeah, it's weird. How do you. All right, this is the family story and don't question it. Brett's family isn't as secretive and they've murdered plenty of rats and snitches. My family stinks. What a drag.

[Brady]

We'll find out.

[John Holmberg]

No, I ask all the. You know why I. Oh my Grandpa probably killed his dad, even though I just went on some ancestry site and searched Augustus Holmberg and he died like now the story doesn't make any sense because he died when he was like 70. And they said it was of complications, but we all know for a fact that my grandpa burned up the guy that used to beat his mother. Which, you know, it was weird, but that was when he was really young. So I'm not sure what the story is there, but. Oh yeah, circulates all around that we're pretty sure my grandpa murdered either his stepdad or his real dad, and we don't know. And again, because that was the generation that said, this is what happened. This is what you need to know. And then the story gets passed down and then there's some holes in it and anybody with an inquisitive nature gets involved and says, hold on, that wasn't your real dad. There's plenty of people that find that stuff out that's not your real dad. Like later in life because the family tells that story for years. It's harder to do now with DNA tests and stuff. Brady, this is fascinating.

[Brett]

This is a long one, but kind of along the same lines.

[John Holmberg]

So thanks for making us feel like my family is normal. My grandpa showed up at my house one day and said my grandma had to go to the hospital because she ate too many peanuts. And she was in the hospital for two months and died. My family says he killed her because he took her to a different hospital than normal. So it wasn't a regular doctor and let them give her medication. She had allergies to and she died in December. He was remarried by May, moved in with a new wife in February. I guess it's more common than I thought. Melanie Garcia. Wow. I like Melanie Garcia's grandpa. Yeah, your grandma's pretty sick. She was eating nuts or something. Did you take her to the hospital? Yeah, I took her to a hospital in Show Low. They said they got the best nut doctors there. Anyway, this is your new grandma now. And we're just gonna erase old grandma, okay? Cuz she didn't die from me or anything. It was nuts. I hate that planters guy. If I see a monocle in a top pad, I'm gonna stab him. Sorry, Mrs. Garcia. I just assumed that's how that went down, you know, from the old country. All right, Freddie, keep. Keep digging. If you need me to ask a few questions for you, I will.

[Brett]

You need to.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I need to get involved, get you some truth. My great grandma was the of Vincennes I found that out later in life. She had. My grandma had five brothers and sisters and none of them had the same dad. Everybody was a step brother. And that's in like the 30s. Women didn't have babies. There was no NBA, is what I'm saying. There was no, like, you didn't have like five dads and one mom or vice versa. She was a baby mama to five different dudes, man.

[Brady]

And.

[John Holmberg]

And ran an old folks home and somehow or another was just rolling in dough. And it was because I think she was taking money to bone some of the patients. That's the rumor. And it's a better story than Grandma Thornberry just being Grandma Thornberry. And their dog Scout, or what Badger or whatever his name was. He was an awesome golden retriever, but. But had a Siamese cat. I don't know if you can still call him that. I think it's a conjoined cat now. I'm not sure. Named Mingi. That tried to kill my sister. Tried to cut her eye out. Hilarious. That was my first dance with 9 11. Is that. If that cat was just a little more accurate, my sister would have had to wear a patch. It would have been even funnier for gray. Would have made my dad's life a lot easier. If my sister had a patch on her eye, she wouldn't have been in anyway. She wouldn't have seen all those dudes to have sex with out of the right side of her head. Brett, what do you got on the big board of musical treats?

[Brett]

Nothing after that?

[John Holmberg]

No. I don't know what to do from here on. That's. Thank you for sharing. Nothing but getting to somewhere. Brady, are we getting scrambling for answers? Nobody's giving you answers.

[Brady]

Not yet.

[John Holmberg]

You think they're going to keep it under. They always say John's crazy. I've noticed that. When it's like, oh, this happened. They're like, oh, John's crazy. Plenty of grandma's had lobotomies and passed away a couple years.

[Brady]

We haven't heard that one yet. Now if we hear that one, then.

[John Holmberg]

Like, okay, oh, he's crazy. You mean you're comfortable with Uncle Jack sleeping with. With the landscape? Oh, they were just having a nap. He got married a few years later. Yeah, because it was. You know, those were the olden times when if you were gay out loud, you got drugged behind a truck. He wasn't gonna make that loud. He got married to cover up your other family member that got married and had babies with the other guy and they just the kids just found out that the doctor was the real dad.

[Brady]

That was Jack's wife.

[John Holmberg]

That right. Jack was a homosexual, and his wife got pregnant by someone else, you know?

[Brady]

Yeah, she was a nurse, and it was the doctor that she worked.

[John Holmberg]

Jack wasn't having sex with her. They had an arrangement. So she got knocked up by the doctor, and Jack's like, this is great. My beard looks incredible right now. You're putting babies out. We'll just call them mine. Okay, Jack, I'm gonna go blow a guy. Do you mind? I have no interest in you and these kids. This is gross.

[Brady]

He kept that cover for a long time because, you know, got remarried two more times after.

[John Holmberg]

Look, he came from a generation where that's what you did. Uncle Jack dabbled with the ball sacks. There's nothing wrong with that.

[Brady]

Now, back then, he must have been both ways or. Or the next two wives were the same thing. They just wanted the companion beards.

[John Holmberg]

Plenty of women were beards back in there. And it also was a time when women who were unmarried, in their 40s were old maids. It looked bad. So they found a guy, showed him some interest, and gave him.

[Brady]

That would have been in the 70s, 80s.

[John Holmberg]

Their generation didn't change.

[Brady]

He picked wisely.

[John Holmberg]

Look, if you watch Brokeback Mountain, they were married. They were hiding something. That's the truest of true tales. That's why Brokeback Mountain resonated so well with people. It's like, my God, he had to pretend to be something he wasn't to the point of actually faking a marriage. And the wives knew.

[Brady]

Jack always did go on a trip once. No, I'm just kidding.

[John Holmberg]

I bet he did. I bet he had a couple hunting trips. That Jack hunt. Sure.

[Brady]

Heading out to the West.

[John Holmberg]

God damn it, if I had a time machine, I'd go to your house. Screw Hitler. Not screw Hitler at Brady's house. You know what I mean? Like, period. You never know. Jesus, they probably had Hitler in the attic for a while. Just shush. Thank you, Tom and Bunny, for keeping me here. We'll keep you safe there, Adolph. Don't worry about it. I gotta go to Cuba for a little bit.

[Brett]

He thought he was in South America.

[John Holmberg]

He was in the U.S. hey, Charlie Chaplin, can you come out and play? Yes. That's right, little boy. I am Charlie Chaplin. Tell all of your friends you met Charlie Chaplin today. Can you imagine? Brady just swings the door open to the bathroom and there's Hitler taking a piss. Yay. Come out, little boy. Ah, Charlie Chaplin's dick. That's right. You saw Charlie Chaplin's dick?

[Brady]

Yeah, it was a.

[John Holmberg]

An exchange program with some German kid. He had bleached blonde hair. You gotta ask questions. Ask just for the sake of Brett.

[Brady]

And I. Yeah, I'll get more details.

[John Holmberg]

No, no. Ask questions like, was Hitler ever at our house? Just make sure. Why not? At this point, it's possible. Go ahead. What do you got?

[Brett]

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[Riley Murph]

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[Brett]

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[John Holmberg]

This guy says it's a Midwest thing. I also have a family similar to that. He said my uncle was married and had a beautiful wife. They got divorced. We never talked about the old aunt anymore. And then Uncle Gary starts hanging around this other guy named Gary. Next thing you know, Gary's at his house almost all the time. And some of Gary's stuff's in there. Time goes by. Next thing you know, I have two Uncle Gary's. They're asking me to call him Uncle Gary and occasionally jokingly, Aunt Gary. I never asked any questions. Family didn't speak about it much more than that. I was about 10. Never thought about it. Then we got older. I'm like, holy, Gary was a homosexual. That guy he was with all the time was his husband. They weren't just golfing every day. They were in love. That's awesome. I've got drug addicts and lunacy, but no lobotomies or hookers. That's pretty awesome, man. I never saw my aunt's breasts on purpose. She bent over once and I got a glimpse of one and I started crying. It was like four. It was weird.

[Brett]

All right, on the list, Metallica, AC DC Slayer, Avenge, Sevenfold Beastie Boys, Kill Switch, Engage Parkway Drive Damage plan. But Jerry Cantrell's in town tonight over at the Marquee. So I figured Dick Gu.

[John Holmberg]

Great song. Dickeye by Cantrell. And he's at the Marquee Theater tonight. Was it like 6 months, 7 months ago he was playing over at the Nile in Mesa? Yeah.

[Brett]

And before that he was with. Was it Bush and Candlebox?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, that's right. I forgot he opened that one here a lot. Hey, it's gonna maybe look for some real I'll get Doug Hopkins to call Jerry, and we'll get him here permanent. We'll get him in a little place. But Dickey's a great song. Do you have it? I'll load that up. Dickeyes. I forget. That's his first solo album. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brett]

First track on it, too.

[John Holmberg]

That's a great song. And Jerry Cantrell rolling out there. That was after Lane died. Yeah, right.

[Brett]

I believe so.

[John Holmberg]

Or.

[Brett]

Or Lane was still alive, but they weren't doing anything.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. It was in that time when Allison change was like, what's going on? But, yeah, Jerry Cantrell put this out. This album was fantastic. And it was stuff that you kind of hear where Lane would go. Yeah, like, that's what I loved about this album the most, is that it's Jerry. And you realize Jerry was the nuts and bolts of Alice in Chains because of this album. Was like, oh, I get it. He just needs that second guided drone along with him and do that weird harmony. And it's not there, but you can hear where it goes. This is Dickeye. It's great stuff. Jerry Cantrell tonight at the Marquis Theater. Head on over there. Tickets still available, and that would be a great place to go see him. I don't know if he's doing Alice in Chain stuff or not.

[Brett]

Four or five tracks. I looked at the set list.

[John Holmberg]

That's pretty cool. All right. It's Cantrell. It's your Wake up song. It's 98. Hey, it's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this for you. P.D. kornberg's Morning Sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. 98. A Year of pity. Nah, I don't think so. I think she's gonna hide it. Boy, this lobotomy thing has me going. I love it. Just tuning in. Brady just announced that his grandma possibly had a lobotomy, and he's not sure. That's awesome. This is a great. I would sit through this movie just shoving popcorn in my mouth. Joseph says, after hearing that hot tub story with Brady's naked aunt and all the other Brady stories that we've gotten, I'm pretty sure his kidney just wants out. Yeah, there's body parts. Like, that's enough. I can't take it. Yeah. Amy, his sister just called right as we were going on the air so he has to call her back. We'll find out more about. I don't think Amy's. I think Amy's a protector of the protector of the image. I don't think she's.

[Brady]

My grandfather always said a bottle in front of me is better than a frontal.

[John Holmberg]

A bottom. Okay, so was that a big thing he said a lot? Yeah, he lobotomized. No, wait a minute. You're. That's true.

[Brady]

No, it's not true.

[John Holmberg]

Amy's gonna protect the image. Amy's gonna keep. Amy's not gonna talk.

[Brady]

There's nothing to.

[John Holmberg]

That's a big protect. If it has been.

[Brady]

I don't know what.

[John Holmberg]

Because if you don't even know.

[Brady]

Protecting the image.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, you protect the image. You don't. You never let it out in the neighborhood. Look, you didn't call the cops on the naked neighbor. There was a big insulation bubble over where you guys grew up. That's a fact. We don't let people think that we are haywire. Jack with the gay landscaper was a quiet story. That this is how we're going to tell it from the rest and it's going to be confusing. And we don't ever say Jack was gay. Yeah. That's just the way things fire the. Yeah, it was the landscaper. It wasn't Jack. The landscaper forced him to do it. Couldn't possibly be that. You have families do that. That's not a bad thing. But when it comes to lobotomizing and killing real grandma and then grandma Billy shows up out of nowhere there. That's a. That's a family protection thing.

[Brady]

It's called moving on.

[John Holmberg]

That's what you call it. Or denial.

[Brett]

I'm going with the latter of the two.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. The other one's better. Awesome stuff, man. You have been a great guest for the last 24 years. I really appreciate it.

[Brady]

It's only going to get better.

[John Holmberg]

Says John Brett's got it figured out. You ain't got no story to tell. You ain't got no worries. It's true.

[Brett]

True words in the words.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know them stories. Words, words, words. Look what it's doing. That's what got grandpa Ruth to have that ice pick shoved up her nostrils. Ever seen how they used to do that frontal lobotomies back in Grandma Ruth's day?

[Brady]

No.

[John Holmberg]

There's an ice pick in the nose and they just twist, ramble it around. And then they put two probes on your head.

[Brady]

Isn't there like I thought there was a scar.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Because they cut it out after they scramble it back.

[Brady]

What's that?

[Brett]

They got to peel the cap back.

[John Holmberg]

I bet she went through electrotherapy, too.

[Brady]

That's what it was. More so than.

[John Holmberg]

That's what they do before lobotomies.

[Brady]

Yeah. So I don't. I don't know. The lobotomy happened.

[John Holmberg]

There's a.

[Brady]

That's more I'm not gonna find out.

[John Holmberg]

Like the fact you're not sure you're grinding?

[Brady]

I remember my dad was talking about electrotherapy, and I was thinking, oh, she.

[John Holmberg]

Liked, you know, toasters.

[Brady]

No, no. But that was the treatment, Right?

[John Holmberg]

And my dad was saying it's very controversial. Even that. Yeah. Yeah, man. But to not be sure grandma had a lobotomy is mind blowing to me. I have to. I have to ask. It's like a thing. Like what? Fascinating. Flat. Amazing. Give me the phone. While you're doing the Brady report, I'm gonna go talk to Amy for a little while.

[Larry]

You're gonna get the real story.

[John Holmberg]

I don't think so. I don't think Amy will give up the story. Bunny might. Amy won't.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Larry]

Bunny's. Bunny wants to leave a legacy.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Bunny. Bunny is okay with it. Like, Bunny will spill the beans.

[Brady]

She had to spend some more time, obviously, with Ruth, and Amy's just gonna.

[John Holmberg]

Go with what she was told. Tom would look at me out of the side of his eye before he told the lie about what's been the story, because I'm the type of person that screws that stuff up. So Grandma Ruth, like, okay, go on, Tom. Tell the truth. No, no, she was. She passed away. And then Grandma Billy showed up. Nobody has. Nobody knows why I went. Damn it. I love it.

[Brett]

Apparently, before they cut it out, they. They drain what they can through the nose. This coming from Sanjay. He's an Indian. He's basically a doctor.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. Yeah. They were born with the knowledge. Yeah. They drain it out your nose first, and then they go in and they plunk out the big chunks. It's crazy.

[Larry]

It's like one of those bulb things for babies. They go in there and they go.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah. They suck out all the juices, and then they scramble it. They abort the front of your brain and then crack you open and take the chunks out. They try to get as much out of your nose as possible. Awesome. And you're not sure whether or not grandma had that, but maybe. Anyway, moving on.

[Larry]

Nothing to see here.

[John Holmberg]

Awesome. You're not even, like. You don't even seem a little bit fascinated by your own situation. Oh, that's. There it is. That's why. Okay, I see. Actually, there he goes. He's wandering around the new Indian Rest. You seen the new Ethiopian joint up here in McDowell? Have you guys seen that place? They found a building on McDowell in, like, 50th Street. I guess that might be considered one of the worst buildings in Ethiopia. And they opened an Ethiopian restaurant in it. It's right up here.

[Brett]

That's really.

[John Holmberg]

Right there, huh?

[Brett]

That's not the Arcadia.

[John Holmberg]

No, the Arcadia one is nice. That's up by the Global Ambassador. This thing is castaways. Yeah, it's across the street and over a little bit. And I drove by, and I'm like, what's that sign? Crazy colors. Colors. I didn't say what you think I said.

[Brett]

I even kept quiet in that one.

[John Holmberg]

Wow. Yeah. We were like, wait a minute.

[Brady]

Is he gonna catch it?

[John Holmberg]

I said, colors, because they've got a wacky flag up there. I'm like, one of those crazy colors. Careful. And then it said Ethiopian restaurant, and I'm like, what?

[Brett]

Oh, is that the one on the south side right up there? Yeah, that used to be the club when I'd come to work on the overnights back.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. Okay. So now it's an Ethiopian. And that building is. It's. It's a hazard.

[Brett]

It should be condemned.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, well, now it's serving Ethiopian food, which means it's empty. There's no danger of a patron getting hurt because nobody's in there. Anyway. It's time for the Brady Report. Give you all the news that only Brady knows, brought to you by our friends@allpro. Shade.com. put some shade on a space in your house and make that space better, more livable. 20 degree drops and a lot of cases out there when they put those shades up. Gets those UV rays out of the way, too. Those are the bad ones. And also, it's electric and it's got a sensor on it, so if it starts raining or getting windy, it brings itself home. It's beautiful. It's a glorious thing. And it makes your house better. More valuable and just better to look at.

[Brady]

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[John Holmberg]

Well, yeah, that.

[Brady]

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[Brady]

Good Tuesday morning to you, Phoenix.

[John Holmberg]

Hello, world. Hi. He's. Give Brady a break. He's got a big week coming up. And today has been a real eye opener. Not like. Not the way Grandma Rose eyes were open when that ice pick went up. Or snoz.

[Brady]

But happy National Potato Day.

[John Holmberg]

Like Grandma Roo. That was her nickname in the house.

[Larry]

Dovetail is just awesome this morning.

[John Holmberg]

Damn it.

[Brady]

A new poll just asked people what the most popular homemade potato dish is and it wasn't even close. Mashed potato.

[John Holmberg]

You are. You might as well have had a lobotomy if you're getting that question. What's your favorite potato dish? I'm gonna go kill myself. How am I in this conversation? That's the most boring conversation of all.

[Brett]

Brady.

[John Holmberg]

What's yours?

[Brady]

Cheesy potatoes. Cheesy.

[John Holmberg]

Those are gone. Yeah. Those are out of your life.

[Larry]

No more.

[Brady]

But in order. The top four.

[John Holmberg]

Moving on.

[Brady]

Mashed potatoes. Potato salad, Baked potatoes.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, Stop saying breakfast. Okay. Potatoes, potatoes.

[Brady]

A couple of basis fun facts. Alice Cooper wants babysat. Keanu Reeves when he was six years old.

[John Holmberg]

Good parenting on the Reeves family. Wow. Was that Christopher Reeves son? I don't even know who Keanu's parents were. How did they know Alice Cooper? And was it here?

[Brady]

It was at the mental health center. Probably getting lobotomies.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. It's on your mind. I understand. You know. It wasn't on Grandma Ruth's mind. Anything?

[Brett]

Nothing.

[Larry]

It's a blank slate.

[John Holmberg]

He was a whiteboard. Music. Not sure. She was just a whiteboard with a scribble on it. A question mark.

[Brady]

If all 8 billion people on the planet played a single elimination rock, paper, scissors tournament, you'd only need to win 33 consecutive games to become the champion.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Because the world would eliminate itself. Yeah.

[Brady]

Human males have the largest junk of any primates.

[John Holmberg]

You're welcome.

[Brady]

In fact, the average chimpanzee is only half the size of the average human.

[John Holmberg]

And chimpanzees have little ones. Baboons have real skinny ones. I've seen one beaten off at the zoo before.

[Brady]

Display them every now and then.

[John Holmberg]

No. They'll throw them out and stretch them and stuff. They're not. There's nothing to write home about there. And you'd think a gorilla would walk by in a zoo cage and you'd see a dangler. You never do. They've got. You know, there's. They're so much like us now. Is that in proportion or are we actually bigger?

[Brady]

Yeah, we're.

[John Holmberg]

Well says we're bigger in proportion or bigger like 6 inches versus 7 inches? Or are we 6 inches because of our size? They should be if it was proportionate 12 inches. Not sure, but they might be 6 inches also. You know what I mean?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Like, does Shaquille o' Neal have the same size penis as me? Because if he does, it's small on him because he's a giant man. You know, if Yao Ming had a.

[Brady]

Like, if you get to a full, you know, like lowland.

[John Holmberg]

A silver silverback has like if it's got a 600 pounds, but if it's got a six inch penis, it's actually really little for him. So technically I would have a bigger penis based on the ratios. Morning sickness. So I don't know if it's. If we have bigger ones than them or just based on ratios and body size, what they should be compared to us, what we are with our. Like the bat. Yeah, the bat has one three times its body.

[Brady]

The largest chunk of any primates. So that would be ours get bigger than theirs. There's.

[John Holmberg]

I think that's probably, hopefully true. I'm gonna go with that. I like that.

[Brett]

Well, I mean, you know you were talking about back in the day seeing Sam Cassell swinging the helicopter same height as you. Just about.

[John Holmberg]

He's not that technically. Yeah, yeah. And he has the penis of what should be on a seven and a half foot man. Jacques Vaughn had the nickname Anteater because he would sit at his stool at his locker room and it would touch the ground. Now NBA stools are low. I remember that being in those locker rooms. They didn't. They sat with their knees up to their shoulders. But still.

[Brett]

Yeah, but are you still dangling if you're sitting there?

[John Holmberg]

I sit on the ground. It doesn't touch the ground. I'm not kidding. Go sit. Put your ass on the ground and see if your penis touches the ground. And then think of Sam Cassell who's on a two foot stool. I'm not kidding. People were scared of him. It would hang down there and like he'd bend over to tie his shoes and the thing would tag this carpet.

[Brady]

We got this 31 year old woman in Lexington, Kentucky is facing charges after she damaged her ex boyfriend's car so bad she totaled it.

[John Holmberg]

Oops.

[Brady]

Her name's Stephanie Carl Whist. And they got in some sort of fight early last month. She slashed one of the tires. But then the real damage came later that month after a second fight on July 15, he says she smashed the windshield, cracked the rearview mirror, destroyed his radio, filled the vents with glitter, poured salt in the engine That's a good idea. Car had to be towed. Insurance totaled it out after the mechanic said it would cost 12,000 over $12,000 dollars to fix.

[John Holmberg]

By the by, every gay listener just heard one part of that, which was filled the vents with glitter. And that's going to start happening a lot. There's going to be a glitter attack on car vents in the Melrose district that you can't even imagine.

[Brady]

For some reason, Stephanie was there when the tow truck driver showed up and told him she was the one who.

[John Holmberg]

Did it, then glittered the tow truck.

[Brady]

She also fessed up and text to her boyfriend later on, claimed she she did it because she's stressed out and pregnant. It's not clear if she if he's the father or not. She admitted to the police she broke the windshield, put glitter in the vents, and then tried to claim that some of the other damages were because the X was over. It was overdue for an oil change.

[John Holmberg]

Sure. That's how you fix that. And I also guarantee you that you've said it twice now, and I brought it up in the middle, that Amazon is seeing an unusual amount of searching for glitter right now to be delivered by 2.

[Brady]

Check her mug shot out.

[John Holmberg]

She hot? Yeah. There are going to be tons of. Of strippers, weird women, and gays who are glittering their vents. Because I actually kind of want to see that, to be honest with you. I think that would be neat to watch. I don't want to do it in my car because the cleanup stinks. But if I was a homosexual, probably every month, every time I got gas, I'd pour more glitter into the vents. That would be amazing. You imagine getting in my car and I'm like, brady, you want some air? Yeah. It's hot. It's raining, man.

[Larry]

Whoa.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, there she is. Gorgeous. Oh, you put a baby in her. She's five. Three cans. Huge cans. No primate has those either.

[Brady]

Happy to assault the car.

[John Holmberg]

Face is a little cave, Manny. Good, good mug shot. She's got a little caveman face.

[Brady]

Kentucky. That's a Kentucky, good.

[John Holmberg]

Kentucky caveman face. Yeah, she's. She's got some trailer park in there, but those cans are insane. And when she has her brother's baby, it's gonna be okay. Again.

[Brady]

This lady in France is suicidal. Her company that she's been working for for over 20 years, her name is Lawrence Van Wassenhove. She's suing the company Orange, which is the largest telecom company in Europe. One of the largest. Anyway, she's been on the payroll for 20 years and does absolutely nothing. She's claiming that since they don't give her any assignments.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, I'm not saying it.

[Brett]

No, no, no, no, no.

[John Holmberg]

He's abroad at work.

[Brett]

Well, I didn't want to take the low there.

[John Holmberg]

I go down to the sales department all the time. I see this kind of, you know, activity every day.

[Brady]

She's claiming that since they don't give her any assignments and she doesn't have have to do anything, it's psychological torture.

[John Holmberg]

To sit and do nothing.

[Brady]

Yeah, no, she's suing them for.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, for not giving her enough to do.

[Brady]

That'd be a reason why.

[John Holmberg]

What a self starter she is. Good Christ, client relations. She's not getting out there. Well, if I was her, I would comb the back of my hair over my face and just start over with the back of my head. I draw a face on that. 20 years. She didn't do anything. She didn't self start one day and start a project on her own.

[Brady]

She did.

[John Holmberg]

Typical. Oh, my own. Jesus. I am with Brett. The sales staff is lazy and feminine. That starts with you, Moynihan and Ed.

[Brett]

I'm jealous of Brady's grandma getting a lobotomy after seeing that picture.

[John Holmberg]

How come all these women in my sales staff aren't doing anything? I look at you, Ed. I wonder why. Susan. Susan. Hitler is one of my favorite things in the world.

[Brady]

And a new poll about age 38 of people admit to lying about their age when meeting someone new. Well, and 62 of the people say it's a deal breaker if someone lies about their age.

[John Holmberg]

But they're gonna do that right off the bat. They're not abroad. Yeah, today that's. Guys that lie about their age, though, are insane. Women. Women do it.

[Brady]

It's almost twice as likely as women to do it.

[John Holmberg]

Men are twice as likely to lie about their age than a woman. Well, because they're talking to 24 year olds. Right. Yeah. They're trying to get back out there. Yeah, that's true. Women lie about their age because they're self conscious. Men do it to try to not scare away. Yeah. The child they're talking to. Oh, yeah. No, in 38 is look terrible. Oh, wow. Got a lot of money, though. Want to get in my Maybach? Yes. I gotta rent a Maybach.

[Brady]

Someone conducted a poll about using the toilet seat liner before you poop or squat in a public restroom.

[John Holmberg]

Don't do that.

[Brady]

A poll found a few years back. 9% of us just avoid public toilets. Completely.

[John Holmberg]

Smart.

[Brady]

21 hover 63% just go for it. Half the people in the go for it group do use those thin paper liners. According to a new BBC article. Those liners might not do anything. Are pointless.

[John Holmberg]

They are pointless. They're a mental comfort. Hurt for you. Who? You're another one wrecking the bathroom. You know why? You know who puts those down? People who wreck bathrooms and they just assume everybody's like them. So they're like ash. Probably poop and pee all over this toilet seat. Because that's what I do.

[Larry]

How about the sales guy on the commission for that for 40 years getting every building to buy at least a case of those.

[John Holmberg]

And the company that keeps pushing out those stupid things just laughing themselves to sleep.

[Larry]

Sold another one.

[Brady]

Experts say hovering isn't great either.

[John Holmberg]

No.

[Brady]

Because it breaks all over to fully empty your bladder.

[John Holmberg]

Gross.

[Brady]

For women, it can potentially cause uti.

[John Holmberg]

You're a mess. If that's. If hovering once makes you have urinary tract issues. Come on. The splash. The plop splash. How about you just go home and take a dump like a human being? Sometimes you can't help it. Oh, so you're gay cuz you broke your ass. Like it's wide open. I have a thing I call a sphincter and I can close it up. Sometimes you can't do that. Then you're sick and you need to go home.

[Brady]

Most STDs can't survive on a toilet seat. Most HPV and herpes technically can.

[John Holmberg]

You can catch it off a toilet seat. That's a true.

[Brady]

It really doesn't happen under real world conditions.

[John Holmberg]

I'm going to tell you.

[Brett]

Dude's excited about that.

[John Holmberg]

I'll tell you right now. Now the dude who wrote this has HPV and he's just trying to. He's trying to facilitate.

[Brady]

You're way more.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's what he told his wife. So even in. See honey. I even put it in the news article. If it wasn't true, I wouldn't be allowed to do this.

[Brady]

You're way more likely to inhale germs in a bathroom or get sick from touching stuff with your hands.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Like other dudes.

[Brady]

They say here are some good tips. Touches few surfaces as possible when you're in there.

[John Holmberg]

Sure. Who's wandering around?

[Brady]

Flush and run. Who's.

[John Holmberg]

Who's running around?

[Brady]

The guy says from the like the uk. He's like his strategy in bathrooms. Flush and run home.

[John Holmberg]

We should eliminate all toilets from men's rooms. It should be all urinals. And if you have to Take a dump. You gotta race yourself back to whatever thing you live in or wherever hotel room you're staying at, whatever. And if you're sick and you poop your pants, you're sick and you poop your pants. But this whole pooping in public thing has got to stop. There's a dude last night at the Diamondbacks. You're at a Diamondbacks game.

[Larry]

Every game I go to, there's more.

[John Holmberg]

Than one peeing in the urinal and the diamond. Like really, like you're taking a break from the ball game to go drop five pounds of turds. You couldn't have done this before you left?

[Brady]

Just threw down a Dogzilla.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, then you're sick. Because if you.

[Brady]

I don't know.

[John Holmberg]

If you process, you're right.

[Brady]

Probably.

[John Holmberg]

But if you're right, you're processing food that fast, you aren't interested in a baseball game. First off, you went for the Dogzilla. Second, you're willing to miss an inning or two pooping out the Dogzilla because you missed the first two innings getting a Dogzilla. That's half the game.

[Larry]

They bring that thing by. When we were at one of the games with the company. That Dogzilla thing, I don't know. Gigantic monstrosity.

[John Holmberg]

I just have a problem with people so cozy with wrecking bathrooms. They're packed with poopers. There's usually one or two poopers. Poopers.

[Brady]

The other one's.

[John Holmberg]

It's just airport. The airport's disgusting. That moves people. Like it's supposed to constipate you. But some people go the other way.

[Larry]

Did Scott the Bot use the one in the suite that we had?

[John Holmberg]

I think so. Scott poops 14 to 15 times a day.

[Brett]

He needs to get that checked out.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. He's in the bathroom. Let's go with Megan, huh? Yeah. Get. He should get rooted out. Maybe a twofer special. Yeah. Every time I go in there and I see his wing tips and he lifts him up, floor shines. He lifts them up, tries to get him. So there's looks like no. But then his pants are hanging around his ankles. I saw you in there. Scott the Bot. Damn it. What do you got, Mr. Ed in there with you? What is that.

[Brady]

Good news? Costco is selling a 60 pound bucket of honey.

[John Holmberg]

That is good news.

[Brady]

You can get it for 114 bucks.

[John Holmberg]

Because you know what? I'm running through 70, 80 pounds a week right now. So good that they finally. Because I got. You know. That's 20 jars, man. So 60 pounds in one hit's really convenient. I get all the bread and finally, finally my tea will have a accompaniment.

[Brett]

Say Dunn Edwards on the side of that bucket. My God.

[John Holmberg]

It should say diabetes on the side of the person that buys it.

[Larry]

If you need one of those jacks.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. If you've ever had a 60 pound bucket of honey and you've got a piece of bread in your hand and you're scooping the bottom out because that's all you can. That's all that's left. Kill yourself. You've eaten 60 pounds of honey.

[Brett]

Well, you're gonna die soon anyway.

[Brady]

That'll last forever though, right?

[John Holmberg]

If you don't eat it, why buy it? Honey doesn't spoil.

[Brady]

Yeah. So I got one real quick radio video.

[John Holmberg]

I'm venturing a guess here that in my lifetime, even what's remaining if I live to be 100.

[Larry]

Oh, you haven't.

[John Holmberg]

I will not have consumed 60 pounds of honey in that timeline.

[Larry]

When's the last time you used some honey?

[John Holmberg]

I put it in tea. Okay, so. But you put every year teaspoon, maybe every year I might dabble with a tenth of a pound of honey. Right. So every ten years it's a pound. So currently I'm at five point pounds of honey. I don't think I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna need £60 at any given time. Unless I'm opening a. A beehive or something.

[Larry]

46000 teaspoons and 60 gallons of honey, John.

[Brady]

46,000.

[John Holmberg]

I haven't had that much tea in my life. English people don't have that much tea.

[Brady]

Your survival bucket of honey. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Dumb. I don't want to. I live in a world where all I have is spoonfuls of honey. It sounds lovely, Herb. Albert liked it.

[Brady]

Only one video. Not sure what's going on with this guy's tongue.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. It's a tongue sticking out of a mouth and that tongue is busted up. Oh God. And he's wiggling around. There are cracks and holes in his.

[Brady]

Tongue like he's scraped from the teeth.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. That's an illness. Because when he relaxes it, it looks like a regular tongue fills back in. Do not kiss him. He's having an episode. Ugh. He's also got no chin, so no chicks are interested in him either. Wow.

[Brady]

It's all I got. Core memory of. Of that tongue.

[John Holmberg]

Oh yes. He'll remember that. But you know Grandma Billy getting Dyson brain.

[Brady]

No, no, Ruth.

[John Holmberg]

Grandma Ruth. Right. Grandma Billy just showed up later and nobody remembers when Brett, what do you got?

[Brett]

All right. They wanted me to show this one for Brady.

[Brady]

I did get a response from my brother.

[John Holmberg]

Hold on. We'll get that in a second. It's a mentally challenged person. What song is you don't even know.

[Brady]

He's nailing it.

[Larry]

Linkin park or something.

[John Holmberg]

Is that Grandma Ruth after? That's what Brady remembers. Hey, Grandma Ruth, what's for breakfast? She's a pleasant lady.

[Brett]

Here's one of Toledo's vacation videos.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, we're in Thailand and some surveillance overhead videos people walking around. A lot of motorcycles. That means it's a bad country because it's not Sturgis. Oh, here's a guy just had it with traffic. Took his car. It's just pushing other things out of the way, including, oh, he's parked on the guy's head. Oh, he's parked on a guy's head.

[Brady]

It's a fresh mount.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God. Oh, get it off. He drove away. The passenger got out and just left. Done. And then he drove away. Traffic in that area is people, cars, and motorcycles. And there's no lines in the road. Wow. Enjoy your next trip, Toledo, because that is. There's a. There's a apartment for rent, that's for sure.

[Brett]

This one's entitled Found Toledo's Halloween costume this year.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. Oh, no talking about Halloween. Okay, we have a. A woman with a giant pole between her naked thigh. She's nude, and it looks like the pole is attached to her head and it's a toilet seat. Is this gonna end with somebody using this? She's laying down what now? It. Oh, is that it? Oh, no. She's a human urinal. She's a human urinal. And now her mouth is open, and a guy is walking up to the human urinal. Naked lady up against a wall in a public restroom. They pixelated his wiener, and off he goes. He's peeing right into the urinal that does have a drain. It is attached to the ground, and her face is sticking through it. Like one of those joke things, like when you pretend to be Steve Nash at a Sons game. Put your head on his body. Or like an old west at Rawhide. This dude's got a good stream. He's healthy. There's nothing wrong with his prostate at all. Oh, he's finishing up. She didn't budge or close her eyes once, by the way, while he peed on her face. Her hair is soaked. She's not really even blanking the dramatic music. He's squeezing it out because he doesn't want dribbles.

[Larry]

Is this R. Kelly?

[John Holmberg]

It's an R. Kelly tune at the end. I like it.

[Brett]

All right, this is.

[John Holmberg]

By the way, ladies, if ever presented with a urinal with a face hole in the back of it, run.

[Brett]

Well, we all talk about the happenings at the WNBA games. Well, it's happening in bowling now, too.

[John Holmberg]

The dildos. Okay, there's a. How can I make this work? Oh, God. A naked lady using a giant dildo in a room, and she's got bowling pins set up by the magic. Wow, she just got five on her first roll. Oh, my God. She's going for the spare. She threw it out of her vagina. It was. It's. It's in her. And then do not affect anything of your sex life, because how to be able to do this? That's right. Now she's going for the spare here. She leans forward, throws it. Oh, she picked up. She picked up the spare, which is awesome. Good for you. Very impressive, lady. Very impressive. And father would be so proud. Out.

[Brett]

We'll just end with this one.

[John Holmberg]

All right. Oh, boy. All right, There's a thing, something coming out of a lady's naked butt. It's dark. Oh, my God, her ass is huge. This is. Is this a bowling ball or an eggplant? That was my guess, too, Freddie. It was an eggplant. Looks like Cubert. Cubert's nose, if you remember that, if you grew up in the 80s. What's in there? It's a. It's some sort of cone or cup. Magic. Look at that. It's her asses. Oh, my God. She's pretty. She's actually pretty. And she's a little bit manufactured. Yeah. Oh, my God. I'm not going pretty and not pretty. No. At first glance, if she's blonde, you know, lit makeup, nice boobs, but kept herself in shape. Except that back door, which shot out, I don't know, a can of paint. Yeah, I. I don't know what the hell size that thing was, but it was big. All right, we got a special guest coming in a little bit. Riley. I'm so glad that we transitioned from this to that. He can tell us about 911 stair climb. Well, he's probably been on a few calls as a firefighter, needed a lobotomy or had one or not a lobotomy that's had something that size stuck in the bone.

[Brady]

So I asked my brother this morning.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah?

[Brady]

Did you get a lobotomy? He responded, not sure.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God.

[Brady]

Bonnie might know. She was institutionalized for a while at Harding Hospital in Worthington. Not sure if it's around still. I still have a ceramic alligator she made in art class.

[John Holmberg]

What's wrong with you people? The question was simple and it ends with she gave me a ceramic alligator. Which is funny because she was an adult who made ceramic alligators for people.

[Brady]

Because she was in a metric ward and choked and died.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Nobody around. No lobotomy.

[John Holmberg]

Did you hear that? Choked and died. Brady. Nobody saw it. Your grandpa killed your grandma. He choked her.

[Brady]

Nobody around.

[John Holmberg]

Nobody saw it. Your grandpa killed your grandma.

[Brady]

At the Harding Hospital.

[John Holmberg]

Your grandfather killed your grandmother. No one at the hospital was around. For a woman choking to death.

[Brett]

You'Re in a hospital.

[John Holmberg]

Exactly.

[Brady]

But no lobotomy.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, fine. Your grandpa killed your grandma.

[Brady]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Or had her killed. You don't choke to death at the hospital.

[Brady]

That maybe. But he wouldn't.

[John Holmberg]

He might. Oh, I don't know. If he went hands on. Yeah. But he got rid of the problem and the expense. Grandpa killed Grandma Ruth. There's the hospital your grandma was in. Man, it looks scary. Yeah, it does. So the hospital. Your grandma's hanging in a hospital keep baby. Just nobody's keeping an eye on the lady in there. The nut bag. What was she eating? Somebody had to offend her. And she choked to death.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Your grandpa killed your grandma.

[Larry]

Hey, there's.

[John Holmberg]

There's a class photo.

[Brady]

Thank you for finding the words.

[John Holmberg]

See if you can find the Harding Hospital staff. What year is that? Is that the staff? If there was that many people in there, no one ever choked alone.

[Larry]

They were loaded.

[John Holmberg]

400 people in a 5,000 square foot house. Your grandma was murdered. Wow. There's a staff. Anyway, there's too many people. This is nuts.

[Larry]

Oh my God.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, that's the organ. No lobotomy though. But a lot of electrotherapy. Happy?

[Brady]

Yes.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. The fact probably that you're so gray on this tells me that there's definitely more.

[Larry]

Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum.

[John Holmberg]

Awesome. That's a great band name too.

[Brady]

Check out the Athens.

[John Holmberg]

Anyway, we'll talk to. We'll talk to Riley from the stairclimb in just moments. 911 stairclip. Yeah. Some awesome charity. I did it last year. We're going to talk about it. And my experience with having done it last year. The questions I got about it last year. Here. I'm telling you right now, we'll get rid of it all. And this place is going to be packed up. Can't wait. So we'll talk to Riley next. There goes your lobotomized. Brady report. It's not weird. It's pretty cool actually.

[Brady]

No membership fee.

[John Holmberg]

I have heard enough of this morning sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil. Sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. We're about to do something. I'm. I'm excited about this more than I've been in the past. And this has always been a great event. Riley Murph is here. And you. Which, which place are you with? Who are you with?

[Riley Murph]

Salt River Fire Department.

[John Holmberg]

Salt River Fire Department. And you are here again this year to talk to us about the 911 stair climb, which last year I finally got to do, right? Yep. I finally got to be part of it. And I loved every second of it. We were over at Salt River Field Fields. We a lot of people last year. I don't remember how many people ended up being there.

[Riley Murph]

Yeah, I think we had over 1500 climbers last year.

[John Holmberg]

1500 climbers and it's up and down. Now here's the thing before we get into this, first off, why do you guys do this?

[Riley Murph]

You know, we do this really to give back and help. You know, there's a lot of firemen throughout the country that are killed in the line of duty or get job related illnesses. Job related cancer and workman's comp doesn't always cover it. You know, presumptive law in Arizona doesn't always happen.

[John Holmberg]

It's.

[Riley Murph]

There's, there's always a gap that needs to be filled. And this is a way that we can help give back and fill that gap.

[John Holmberg]

So just fill a bucket just in case. And it definitely comes in handy.

[Riley Murph]

It gets used, you know. And so, so we benefit the National Fallen Firefighters foundation and we also benefit the East Valley Firefighters Relief Fund.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Riley Murph]

So in the East Valley, God forbid one of us is killed in the line of duty or gets job related cancer. You know, that money is there for us, our families, to help us get through that time and close that gap to where workers comp and all that stuff doesn't really help.

[John Holmberg]

How many years you've been doing this now?

[Riley Murph]

So this is going to be our ninth year.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Riley Murph]

Yeah. And it's grown from. I kind of like we told you guys last year, 14 people in the stairwell, a talking stick to over 1500 people. And we raised about $125,000.

[John Holmberg]

And a bunch of other places are doing it now too, right?

[Riley Murph]

Yeah. So the Hunter Club does a Stair climb on the west side in the morning and then there's another one that just popped up. And these N triple F stair climbs are all over the country.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Riley Murph]

Red Rocks, Colorado Springs, Lambeau Field, they're all over.

[John Holmberg]

Awesome. And pretty soon we're going to get to the point where you guys are moving around Chase Field, possibly the football stadium. And it's going to grow and grow and grow.

[Riley Murph]

We'll see. We, you know, we're. Salt River Fields has really helped us and they've been there with us since almost the beginning. So we're loyal to them. We're going to keep it there. We're going to keep it outside at night. The vibe is. You saw the vibe like awesome.

[John Holmberg]

It was awesome. It's one of the, it's one of the best things I've done as far as like, you know those charity events where you're like, ah, we'll do a little event in the middle. But it was meaningful. And I met a guy who was actually one of the firefighters in New York. I don't remember him last year year. And he was there. We see.

[Riley Murph]

We meet those guys every year.

[John Holmberg]

He had a story and I can't even remember it but I mean his, his friend listens to the show and he's like, this guy flew out from New York just for this. Really. Oh, it was amazing.

[Riley Murph]

I didn't get a chance.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he was great and talked to him and he had cancer. I believe it was from this. And he had just. He's in remission. Yeah. But they were, they were wondering whether or not he was a 911 responder. He was there that day and he flew out for this because he's like, I've gotten over this. I've gotten better. And it was related to. They assume. Yeah. The 911 stuff.

[Riley Murph]

Well, what's crazy now is there's actually. I believe there's more people that are. Have died from 911 related illnesses than there were that were killed the day of the day.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's. It's an insane man thing to what you think about two 110 story buildings. The dust alone, whether or not it's contaminated it is enough to choke you out.

[Riley Murph]

All the stuff that's in it.

[John Holmberg]

All the asbestos and now you got.

[Brady]

Asbestos people that went in there. It was top of that.

[John Holmberg]

It was built in 1970. They didn't have the same standards for the asbestos. The conditioning, air conditioning, the vent and all the stuff is toxic crap all through those two buildings that tumbled, not to mention the other ones. That went down, too. Yeah. So there's a lot of people who are still in need from 9, 11, 20. What is it, 24 years?

[Riley Murph]

Yeah. Next year's 25th anniversary.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Riley Murph]

So it's kind of cool. Like, our. Our event, you know, benefits the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, East Valley Firefighter Relief Fund. But we're, I believe, one of the only events here in the valley, if not the only event that actually gives back to the fdny. And we're really proud of that. We don't want to be grifters.

[John Holmberg]

Right, right.

[Riley Murph]

So the nfff, they give back to the FDNY Counseling Services Unit, which was originally made to help people out with post 9, 11, you know, PTSD and illnesses and stuff like that. So we're actually contributing directly back to the fdny, the ones who actually went through this.

[John Holmberg]

We're really proud of that. And so when we did that last year at Salt river, people ask me all the time, and I had, by the way, a slight. Not a major, but a slight stress fracture in my foot when I did it. And it was like, that's fine. You can just tighten up your shoes a little bit. But I'm going through this thing, and people are asking, well, I'm not in shape. Larry always says, oh, I could. I'd never make it like you would. Yeah, it's not. It's not like this astronomical feat of achievement, except for the firefighters that are humping the packs the same way the guys at 911 do.

[Brady]

I can't even. And they won't stop Brady going 85 floors.

[Riley Murph]

You go 110.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. You go through the whole stadium two times. Right. It's you. You have to be capable, but you don't have to be in the greatest shape ever, unless you're one of those guys, and you see they don't stop. And. And I. There was a couple of guys and the. The camaraderie of people who see these firefighters with the full pack, the extinguisher. I don't know how much weight that is. Yeah. And they are swamped out. And they're doing it because, yeah, their brothers did it. They're, you know, the fellow firefighters and stuff. And everybody's like. Like, hang in there. Like, this. This motivational thing to keep this alive was unreal. And this moment that I was feeling with all these other people as we just kept marching up and down and up and down. And then you go past them because they're only taking 10, 12 steps at a time. At a certain point, you Realize this is their third time through. Yeah, it's. They won't stop. And it's just this, like. It's just beautiful to see this kind of connection. Yeah.

[Riley Murph]

You know, you're carrying that badge. It's got a fireman who was killed on 9 11, and you're symbolically completing their journey to the top of the towers.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Riley Murph]

They'll clip it on their helmet or on their jacket, and they're, you know, you're trudging along and you look down at it and you're like, man, I can't stop.

[John Holmberg]

Like, not quitting.

[Riley Murph]

I'm climbing for them.

[John Holmberg]

And that's what I was thinking. I've got this little tiny pain in my foot. And probably a couple of those guys probably had an acre of pain or busted toenail or something. Just something was there, but they still had to hump those stairs. Brutal.

[Riley Murph]

Well, if you look at some of the stories from that day, I mean, there's information available all over online about it. But look up Oreo Palmer Summer. I mean, he was known for his fitness in the fdny, and he ran up and down those towers and helped people. There's. The stories are amazing from that day. And, yeah, it's. It's just crazy, man.

[John Holmberg]

And like you said, you go there and you get your pack when you sign up. And you sign up where online? Yep.

[Riley Murph]

So you go to saltriverstairclimb.com and it's actually interesting. There's a. To guarantee an event T shirt, you have to be registered by the 22nd.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Riley Murph]

So if you don't sign up by the 22nd, you may or may not get a shirt. We have to make an order.

[John Holmberg]

We.

[Riley Murph]

You have to cut it off.

[John Holmberg]

Right.

[Riley Murph]

Last thing we want to do is turn people away without a shirt. So please go sign up@salt riverstair climb.com.

[John Holmberg]

Salt riverstairclimb.com youm go there, you get your bag, shirts are in it, and then you get that little badge. Yep. And at first you're like, what is this? And then somebody explains to you this is. One of the firefighters was there. Yep. And my guy's still hanging on the wall in the kitchen, a little bulletin board. Like, you get connected. Yeah. A lot of guys looked him up.

[Riley Murph]

And they'll go and look them up.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, exactly. I looked him up online, and it was, you know, it's just an everyday Joe who was just doing his job and that happened. And it's like, man. And you feel this weird sort of like, well, there you Go, buddy. I did that one for you. And I know that's happening every year, but everybody's got this. This. This was a thing for me. I didn't expect to be so moved by. Good. You know what I mean? It was like. I knew it was great. I knew it was special. I came out of it going. That was something different. That was a special moment, and I want other people to do it. And again, my big takeaway was stop saying you can't do this, because it's a. It's not a physical whole. You're not climbing Everest, and you don't.

[Riley Murph]

Have to do the whole thing. Right. It's all about coming out and supporting and helping raise money to support the cause. Like, people come out and they watch. They bring their kids, they bring their grandparents. They just come out and sit in the stands or they do one time around or one flight. It doesn't matter.

[John Holmberg]

And it's not a speed thing. Yeah, you can take a break, you can sit, you can do whatever. And it's. It's fascinating. And the people. You know, you guys do this every year. It gets bigger every year. You do a great job, by the way.

[Riley Murph]

Thank you.

[John Holmberg]

This thing can't be easy to put together. It's. It's not.

[Riley Murph]

We have a great team. You know, we have sponsors that we form relationships with Plexus and ASR Construction and Discover Salt River. I mean, I could go on, but these people that we have involved in this thing, like, you guys. You guys are there with a booth every year.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Riley Murph]

The people that are involved really want to be there, and they support the cause. You know, they're there for the right reason. So thank you to you guys for doing this for us every year, and thanks for coming out and helping us with.

[John Holmberg]

Anytime you need us for this. This is great. So. Saltriverstairclimb.com what's it cost?

[Riley Murph]

35 bucks.

[John Holmberg]

That's nothing. $35. And it helps out local. It helps out national wine, helps out all over the place. And again, no one's ever mad at firefighters. No, I know you guys get it. Like, face to face, you're getting. I'm just saying, generally, the scope.

[Brady]

Take that back.

[John Holmberg]

No, no. You think nobody has the thing with, like, we need to defund firefighters. Like, there's no angry political. We hate the firefighters. Sure. There's probably funding arguments or a personal beef where a guy hates you in particularly, because I don't know why, but the. The vibe on firefighters is always like. Like that. You guys are. There is no political line. There's nothing. You show up, everything's going to be okay.

[Riley Murph]

You know, people call us to solve their problems, right? If you have a problem you can't solve, call us and we'll figure out what it is. You know, we run it from everything from stub toes to crazy technical rescue, complex incidents to your house is on fire. You know, when people don't know what to do, they call 911 and 911 will figure out your problem.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Riley, have you ever seen anything like this? Roll it, Brett. Get it there. We'll get it. We'll get. One thing we got to show you this video. Like this is that and this will spark a story. Every firefighter that sees something we're about to show Riley, this will spark.

[Riley Murph]

I remember what you showed me last.

[John Holmberg]

Here's one. Yep. You can't look. Well, come on now.

[Brett]

You might get a call for this one day.

[John Holmberg]

Curious what comes out.

[Riley Murph]

Seen those calls? I've been on those calls.

[John Holmberg]

You have been on a call where something this gigantic comes out of somebody.

[Riley Murph]

I knew it. I knew I wasn't getting out of here.

[John Holmberg]

I mean, you've seen something like this.

[Brett]

Here it comes.

[John Holmberg]

It's. Wait till you see what this is at the end though. You believe that? I believe people can do that. And you know what's crazy? You go to work in the morning thinking, ah, hopefully it's a normal day. Meanwhile, somebody's stuffing one of those in their bodies and might need you later. To dangerous. It's their own doing.

[Riley Murph]

We'll take you to see the appropriate medical profession.

[John Holmberg]

I'm sorry we had to do that too.

[Riley Murph]

I knew I would not get out of here scot free.

[John Holmberg]

I knew I.

[Riley Murph]

There's all. There's always a hitch, there's always a catch.

[John Holmberg]

You do so much good in the world and this is what we watch every day and you guys sometimes have to go save that person.

[Riley Murph]

I mean, I don't know if we're saving.

[John Holmberg]

Well, if that thing got stuck, you would be.

[Riley Murph]

Yeah, well, imagine said we'll get you to the proper person.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's pretty rough. Yeah. All my point being, you see and actually touch the things that we only see on a screen and can run away from. Well, and again, it's never too late.

[Riley Murph]

To go be a fireman, I guess.

[John Holmberg]

Right? Sure it is.

[Brady]

Adventure is waiting.

[John Holmberg]

Waiting for you. It's way too late for me. I would love that. Is it possible that a man of 53 could go be a firefighter out.

[Riley Murph]

Of the some places probably I mean.

[John Holmberg]

Like really small towns or something. Some.

[Riley Murph]

Some places have. Some places have age limits, like some of the bigger departments.

[John Holmberg]

I couldn't just show up.

[Riley Murph]

The physical requirements are. I mean, I don't. I mean, physical requirements are really, really strenuous. Right. You have to go through a 16 week academy. You have to be in shape.

[John Holmberg]

I can do all that. I don't know if I do good.

[Riley Murph]

You want to do 25 years starting now?

[John Holmberg]

I would be. Oh, my God, no. I'd be 78 years old when it was. Is that right? I'm new. Y. Jesus. Good Lord. No. Do you want to be there?

[Brady]

You're not doing it for that.

[John Holmberg]

You're just trying to talk me out of it. He said, it's never too late to be a firefighter. I said, okay. And he said, don't do it. My God. Yeah. So. And probably always hiring, right? Always looking.

[Riley Murph]

Yeah. Right now's a really good time to get hired. Everybody's hiring right now. There's a. There's a big shortage because everybody's retiring. It's kind of at that age where these guys are getting out. And it's a really good time to get hired. It's actually a really good time. In the fire service in Arizona, there's a lot of growth, there's a lot of progressions, a lot of good things going.

[John Holmberg]

What's your favorite thing about what you said? Do.

[Riley Murph]

Helping people. Honestly, I know it's. I know it's cliche.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Riley Murph]

But you know, really, when you don't always get to make a difference in somebody's life, but when you do, it feels good, right? It actually does. A lot of times, you know, you're just doing the routine things, whatever, that become routine through part of the job, but you make a difference in people's lives. And that's. That's really awesome. But also with the stair climb, that stuff is really my favorite. Giving back, helping the guys, you know, that's. That's really what I'm passionate about, is making sure the guys have what they need. Need to do the job and keep their families happy and healthy and kind of fill in that gap if something happens to them.

[John Holmberg]

That's.

[Brady]

That's what I never get told.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's.

[Riley Murph]

You know, it's true.

[John Holmberg]

There's always.

[Riley Murph]

There's always a need. You know, I sit on the board for East Valley firefighter charities, and it's almost every day we get a request, hey, this person got cancer. This person got hurt on the job. They destroyed their knee. They can't work anymore because they blew out their back or whatever. Right. There's always somebody that's in need from serving the public and giving up their bodies to keep everybody safe.

[John Holmberg]

And going from 0 to 60 at least once a day, every day, where you're just sitting there and like, maybe not doing much because the day's slow. And then boom. Next thing you know, you're climbing a ladder, you're pulling somebody out of something, you're doing some crazy car accident.

[Riley Murph]

It's anything, you know, I mean, cancer is the biggest thing for us right now. All the stuff that burns, everything causes cancer. Our gear causes cancer. The stuff we breathe causes cancer. Everything causes cancer. It's almost every day.

[John Holmberg]

Do you got. Were you part of that propane fire fire last year? Do you remember that thing down. It was over by the. Was by the. I forgot, but man, oh man. And I just sat there and I thought, everybody there is gonna inhale this. Yeah, like this is the. And they're standing and there's 110 degrees. And I'm like, oh, you don't think about those kind of things as a normal person. You have to walk towards it.

[Riley Murph]

So I mean, we have a huge landfill over in our area and we've had fires there. And we've had. We had one massive fire and it burned for days and days and days. And you're sitting there just.

[John Holmberg]

I mean, you have your mask, but.

[Riley Murph]

Nonetheless, like you're still exposed to that stuff. Stuff. You're in knee deep trash water, you know, filling up your boots in it for hours. The stuff that we're exposed to, unfortunately causes a lot of cancer. That's probably one of the number one.

[John Holmberg]

Killers firefighters right now. And. And this charity at the very least helps some of that. It does.

[Riley Murph]

You know, you're never gonna. You're never gonna take that away. It's an inherent danger to the job. But if we can fill that gap from where workman's comp and. And other things come in to try to help you, to get you treated, like if we can help fill that gap a little bit in. Make the pain and suffering easier for your family to go through so they don't have to worry about that while you're going through potentially either career ending or a life ending illness. Yeah, that's what it's all about.

[John Holmberg]

It's to help out. It's amazing. And I'm telling you, I did it last year. I've always talked to you about it. We've done this for a while with you guys.

[Riley Murph]

I was glad to get you guys out last year. Larry's there every year, so it was really cool.

[John Holmberg]

We got to get Larry on the stairs. He told me yesterday, goes, I'm afraid of falling. I said, well, what are you for? Like, it's these stairs. Like, you're not gonna. If you fall, I'll catch you, Larry. And he's like, no, no. I fell forward. Pick him up and carry him. All these people are going so fast, and I don't think I'm like, we're getting you on the stairs this year. So Larry's. He's a big supporter. He loves going, but he said he doesn't want to climb the stairs. You know, he's afraid he'll tumble.

[Riley Murph]

He's been. He's been helping us with this since KUPD's been involved. I don't even know.

[John Holmberg]

It's been a long time, seven or.

[Riley Murph]

Eight years since we got you guys on board. And he's out there every year and he loves it. He's got a smile on his face. He's handing out waters, man. This is. Having you guys on board has been an amazing experience. Thank you.

[John Holmberg]

Hopefully we can keep it up. Saltriverstairclimb.com Riley Murph, thank you for everything you do, and we will see you. What's the date?

[Riley Murph]

September 13th. Opening ceremony start at 6:30pm Climb starts at 7. It's at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. You can go to saltriverstairclimb.com to sign up.

[John Holmberg]

And it takes hour and a half. Yeah. Hour and a half. Yeah, about an hour and a half to get through the whole thing. And it is a pure. It is a pure joy. You'll walk away feeling great about yourself and everybody you met and everything you were just part of.

[Riley Murph]

We've got some amazing things planned for the opening ceremonies this year.

[John Holmberg]

We're swearing.

[Riley Murph]

We're swearing in some new army recruitment shoots and doing some things.

[John Holmberg]

So cool.

[Riley Murph]

It's gonna be amazing.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it was great. So thanks for coming down and pushing this. Anything we can do to sell it out. You got to get it in by the 22nd. You said to get the stuff. Yep. Your shirt and things like that. Saltriverstairclimb.com Riley, thanks for coming down, man.

[Riley Murph]

Thanks, sean.

[John Holmberg]

Pleasure. It's 98 Homeburg's morning sickness. Riley's such a good dude. Those firefighters are just a. It's a cool group. Again, I go, nobody has a beef. Like nobody ever says, oh, never called fire department. That's incredible. How great these people are. And again, they don't care what your feelings, thoughts, opinions are. You need help. They're there for you. So, Riley, Murph, thank you for coming down here and helping us out and always. I'm telling you, I know Brady can't do it because he's in it. He started to talk about how the doctors want you up and about. I don't think they want you doing stair climbs and short marathons a week and a half after your surgery. You need to calm down.

[Brett]

We got firefighters there in case, so.

[John Holmberg]

You'D be in a good place. I'll take it back. If you're gonna. If you're gonna be an R word, you should do it right there. That's a smart thing. But Toledo said he was gonna try. You should get out there and try it. It's a good time. And it literally is kind of this eye opening, like, okay. This is a great cause.

[Larry]

I gotta be honest with you. I wasn't paying attention last year. I thought it was during the day, which is why I didn't do it last year.

[John Holmberg]

Too hot to be nice. The weather last year was perfect. It's probably 84, 83, 84 degrees. It was absolutely perfect. And the climb. Yeah, even if it's hot, it's almost better if it's hot. You just loosen up fast. But you see some of these. These firefighters in those packs, and you realize what they have, what the potential day can. What their day can break down into without them knowing. Our little friend, Scott Haynes, funny listener. Scott Haynes, who's all of 5 2, was a wildfire firefighter for a while.

[Brady]

A hotshot.

[John Holmberg]

One of those guys. Yeah, I don't think it was a hot shot. That's like the high end, like Navy seals of firefight. But he was a wilderness firefighter. I forget what they call that. But, like, man, you never knew. Like, you just have a day going normal, and the next thing you know, you're. You're walking around with £100 on your back and trying to figure out what. What's happening in your life. It just. This wasn't the way it was. So get on out there and help out. And it's a real easy thing to do. Saltriverstairclimb.com and do it in the next couple days so you can get your swag bag, get your shirt and all the stuff involved, and then be out there when they give you that little card with the dude who didn't make it, who was climbing the stairs, or who was A firefighter in New York that was going through 9, 11. And at first you look at it, you're like, okay. And then you start to realize you're climbing the amount of stairs in a different way. He was going straight up the whole time. You get some down every. You know, you snake through the stadium, and you're like, mine's a lot easier. Like, if this was all up. And then you see the. The firefighters that are in great shape with all those packs, and they're struggling. Like, man, can you imagine that with the chaos and adrenaline and everything that was going on? So you do it for those people, and it's a tip of the cap to make sure that that memory lives on. So pretty amazing. So get involved in that. And I got a text from Donovan that says, all right, Homeburg. I didn't want to cry this early, but your heart's starting to show again, and you're ruining the brand. I know. I'm trying not to be as sensitive as I am, but I can't help it. I care. I'm a loving individual. So much heart, so much class. Really. What Brady would say if he were still with us. Anyway, so get on. Get on this thing. I'm a big push on this one. I'm an advocate. What they do is amazing, and I'm embarrassed that I've had them in here for so many years, prior to last year saying, oh, great, yeah, you should do it. You should do it. And then. And two times I was out of town, and, you know, I'll try to get out there, but I couldn't make it. And I'm like, man, finally did it last year. I'm like, I should have been doing this every year. I got to clear my schedule every year for this because it's worth it, and it should be for you to sell it out, get it done today, and make these guys sit back and go, all right, well, now we've got no room, and everybody's gonna make it. A KUPD911 stair climb with the firefighters. I think that'd be a blast. Got the hot releases coming up next. It's 98. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually.

[Brady]

No members.

[John Holmberg]

I have heard enough of this morning sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. It's time for your hot releases, and they are brought to you by our [e-mail]. you want to head on over there right now and get three easy steps out of the way and start replacing that AC unit that may or may not get you through the rest of this summer. Summer. We're in the home stretch, everybody. Another month and a half of that AC unit pretty much running 25 hours a day and you are burning it. Arizona air conditioning units don't last like normal ones do.

[Larry]

So let's get Brody flexing on the new TV commercial, too.

[John Holmberg]

Is he throwing some flex on the good. He's a good looking kid. Yeah, everybody likes him. His name's Bodhi, not Brody. Sorry. Everybody calls him Chief. We call him Chief. Chief Brody from Jaws. Yeah. He's stands there, he's got a little flex on, like, all right, nice job. Yeah, he's great. He's awesome. There's good people over there and they'll take care of you too. And they'll save you a ton of money. That's why they say it's save thousand, save time, buy online. New ac unit.com. toledo. Release me.

[Larry]

Actually, go with Brett first.

[John Holmberg]

Release me on time, huh? Okay, Brett, go ahead. Are you okay getting my stuff?

[Brett]

Right? Hey, don't look at me. He usually goes first. All right, here we go. This is new stuff from Burning Witches.

[John Holmberg]

Cool.

[Brett]

This is Inquisition.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, it's a bunch of chicks. Are they good? All right, they're all in shape. We'll start there. It's a good look Burning Witches has so far. We're not. Oh, not that one. Bass player. Stay off the bass player.

[Brady]

Was it the bass player or the guitar?

[John Holmberg]

No, she's the bass player. Faces like that don't play guitars. Oh, maybe the guitar then. The bass player must be good at guitar. Must be. The bass player must be hideous if that's your guitar player. There's two guitar players. Where's the base face? They just showed it a second ago. There she is. Okay, there's three. Five girls.

[Brett]

They haven't showed her much though, so I don't know.

[John Holmberg]

They're staying off of her. They shoot her hands a lot. This is awful. Yes. Come on. Oh, you know what? I'm sorry. This isn't the band. I accidentally have the microphone up against Brady's back. This is his kidney. This is his failing kidney.

[Brady]

Let me go. Is that what it just said?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. This is the noise his kidney makes. And doctor like, just throw it away. We're removing this from Brady's body on Tuesday. That's terrible.

[Brady]

A lot of stuff going on there. I think they Got a sacrifice happening.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, well, the video is what it is, and it's not. They're not hot enough to suck that bad meat. No, you heard me.

[Brett]

All right, here's new stuff from Deftones. This is My Mind is a Mountain.

[John Holmberg]

Does this have a hook? Because no other Deftone songs do. It's Deftones. Get the bong out. Big me. To Deftones. All right. Deftones are what they are. They're good, but they are what they are.

[Larry]

Massive following.

[Brett]

All right, let's go. How about Jack the Joker?

[Larry]

Okay.

[John Holmberg]

This strikes me as something a guy from another band is trying. Is there a famous person in Jack the Joker?

[Larry]

I was like Satriani to start there.

[John Holmberg]

I hate whoever produced the drums. It's like St. Anger.

[Larry]

All right, if they start talking about 35th Avenue, that.

[John Holmberg]

Bring back Dandar. All right, get to the chorus here. Jack the Joker.

[Larry]

Misery.

[John Holmberg]

Who produced this? That sounds awful. And you know what I'm afraid of.

[Larry]

Gordon Special, that is.

[John Holmberg]

No, John won't like that. That sounds like a bad version of Avenge Sevenfold's last album.

[Larry]

Oh, there you go. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

A lot of people hate the Avenged. I loved it. But anybody that tries to copy it's gonna sound like that. So I think Jack the Joker might have been those guys.

[Brett]

Here's new stuff from Three Days Grace. They'll be in town breaking Benjamin.

[John Holmberg]

That's coming up.

[Brett]

Kill Me Fast.

[Larry]

The dude's Ben act, right? The main.

[Brett]

I don't know which singer this is. They're both with them.

[John Holmberg]

They have two singers.

[Brett]

I don't mind Three Days Grace. I just don't know him enough to know which singer's which.

[John Holmberg]

You know, I just know they had a guy replaced that guy, and then when the first guy came back, they're like, well, we're not firing the new guy either, so he can both play. Yeah. It's like having two seconds. Basement. Our Indian friend Sanjay is now hanging with these guys. Yeah. No, he's not doctoring. No, he's. Well, he's always doctoring. He's an Indian. That's actually not bad. Pretty good. All right.

[Brett]

Right, we're going to skip this one. There's another track from the new Hives album, which drops, I believe, next week. This is forever.

[John Holmberg]

Forever.

[Brett]

The Hives.

[John Holmberg]

Love the Hives. Every week they've released a new song.

[Brett]

I think the new album officially drops next week.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know what happened, but I.

[Brady]

Would do it all again in a hobby.

[John Holmberg]

These Swedish bastards have my heart.

[Brett]

They're like the Foo Fighters. They Just make fun of themselves.

[John Holmberg]

They don't care. They're having a good time. That's why I want to see them live. Cuz I bet you they're a blast.

[Brett]

Think about your album.

[John Holmberg]

Just a song about themselves.

[Brett]

Because why not?

[John Holmberg]

They're just dumb fun. I like the Hives. Right?

[Brett]

New music from Bruno Mars, apparently.

[John Holmberg]

What?

[Brett]

I just. It just got released four days ago. This one is smoke.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, here we go. It'll be good. Ladies, get your moist towel that's ready to dab off. What are you thinking? This. Cuz he's about to make you guys humid. Oh, it's going to. It's going to be smooth. And here in a second. Ashtray full and I'm halfway gone. Street lights buzz while the night's dragging on Phone's been dry Heart spin loud but it's all the guys from Silk. Sonic. That's Anderson Paak. That's so sonic.

[Brett]

These are video. They're kind of like flashbacks almost. I don't know if this is.

[John Holmberg]

Well, that's the skate video.

[Brady]

He's the modern day Sammy Davis.

[John Holmberg]

He's the. Well, that's. He's not a Satanist. Morning sickness. Holy sickness.

[Brett]

How about this one? Here's an AI one for you. We Are the World led by Trump.

[John Holmberg]

Trump singing we are. Oh, AI. We are the world. This will be.

[Brett]

Just wait.

[John Holmberg]

A certain call when the world Putin must come together as one. Vladimir Kim Jong Un. It's all the leaders of the world. Kim Jong Un pretending. There's the ayatollahs back there. There's the ayatollah there. Yeah. That is. Not that one.

[Larry]

The other shot.

[John Holmberg]

That's Spanish guy, I think. Or Mexico. No, that's a woman in Mexico. There's Benji.

[Brady]

We are the children.

[John Holmberg]

This is phenomenal. It's all the world leaders aied into We Are the World now.

[Brett]

I just found that one. But this is. This was the AI song I was finding.

[Brady]

There is so much cocaine when they were recording.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. That all the world leaders got coked out of their heads. And that's Waylon Jennings from Fault.

[Brett]

This is from Dirty Needles presents. I'm going downtown tonight.

[John Holmberg]

This is an AI song as well. The girl on the COVID Once again, perfect. She would have been. She would have been every album. Bobby Brown and Pam Anderson of the 80s name. I don't blow kisses, I blow brains I suck like I've got rent to repay I suck like I've got rent I love her face first. No mercy inside.

[Brett]

So there you go.

[John Holmberg]

All right.

[Brett]

That Brings us.

[Brady]

Panther's pissed.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. You don't need them anymore. Yeah. AI is amazing.

[Brett]

That brings us to N word or F word, the game that is sweeping the nation. And today we got ice cubes. Friday.

[John Holmberg]

I think I won last week. Nword friendly. All right. Brady.

[Brady]

Mother effer.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Larry]

All right, I'll go angry. N word.

[John Holmberg]

Here we go. Just a straight out hardcore F word. Damn it. From Friday. Yep. When? When it is a safe bet, though, with cube to go N word. Yeah, he's gonna say it. Oh, yeah.

[Brett]

Just which one?

[John Holmberg]

He says it's a race to the. It's a race to the word, though. All right. Well, all right. Congratulations. I carry over for next week. Nobody won this week's game of N word or F word. Nice try. All right, you ready, Rich? Yeah. All right.

[Larry]

Out on Hulu this week is the twisted tale of Amanda Knox. On Hulu.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, that came out this like earlier, right? Yeah. I don't like this. We should just turn back. It's a show about her. It's not a doc documentary. Yeah, no, no, no. And she's the girl, the Seattle that.

[Larry]

Ended up killing her roommate. Allegedly killed her roommate.

[Brady]

And they tried her and tried her.

[Larry]

Retried her. Got off.

[John Holmberg]

I thought she was. I was halfway around the world studying abroad in Italy. I had no idea that my dream. Hello, is anybody home? Was about to become a nightmare. Meredith. Oh, my God. Did she do it? I didn't pay attention much to the am.

[Larry]

Like I said, I think she got. I think she got a guilty first time.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And then they got. Did she do it? I don't know the details of the story. I have to look at that like I'm wondering, like. Okay, yeah, she's off. She's on. She's off, she's on. But did she actually do it right? Right.

[Larry]

John Cena is back for season two of Peacemaker on hbo.

[John Holmberg]

Max, I thought this was a little too heavy handed. Either side a little bit. Can you tell us a little? It had funny moments, but it was considered the finest marksman in the world.

[Brady]

The mic is off.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. I am also proficient in hand toand combat. How many more of these do we have today? Is that popcorn still here? Love popcorn. My butts up getting really big lately, so I have a.

[Brady]

A variety of helmets.

[John Holmberg]

This guy sucks. Excuse me. Am I supposed to be able to hear you guys? Excuse me. You were talking about your butt and stuff. I better not do it. All right, that's fine. Make a wish. Kids will love.

[Larry]

This one's for Brady. Devo documentary on Netflix this week.

[John Holmberg]

Yes. Does this say, hey Brady, this is Devo in the title. Cuz he's the only one interested in this. And we're like, well, how much does that cost?

[Brett]

And they go, no replacement, around $5,000.

[John Holmberg]

And Jerry said, could we have that.

[Brett]

Money to make a video instead?

[John Holmberg]

And they looked at us and they went, what would we do with that? They didn't know what to do with it. It was true. This was still years before MTV came along. Defo's early work is everybody's first day with an instrument. Sorry, it's for our words. It's earded. People can't get enough of it. It wasn't hilarious. It was awful. And then they did radiation suits. Terribly stupid. Never understood it. All right. And then Mark Mothersbaugh goes on. Oh, and does amazing Disney thing. He did the Lego movies. He was great.

[Larry]

This one's for you, John. The truth about Juicy Smay.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, we already know the answer. This recalled to an incident. They see an actor called Jussie Smollett with a noose around his neck. He says that he was the victim of a hate crime. I'm going to watch this.

[Brady]

I had two white guys attack a black man in this city.

[John Holmberg]

Was disgusting to me. This was a racially motivated incident involving a celebrity. I knew this was going to be huge. Called it out that morning.

[Larry]

Yeah, you did. This one's for Dale and for all those cowboy haters. America's Team the Gambler and his Cowboys. On Netflix.

[John Holmberg]

It's about Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones doing his stuff. I like controversy. It's always paid with peaks. They interview all the 90s cowboys again. Where's Dale? This is a soap opera. 365 days a year. How long is this dude gonna milk his 30 year old championship? The Cowboys.

[Brady]

When I bought the team, I was Darth Vader.

[John Holmberg]

Dallas fans aren't happy. Last year there were 1:50. He retells this story over and over and over and it's always interesting. But how does he get Troy and Switzer and Jimmy and and Michael and all those guys to sit and do it again forever?

[Larry]

Give you some money at this point.

[John Holmberg]

It's embarrassing.

[Brady]

It never gets old for them to tell it. Sure it does.

[John Holmberg]

This is glory days crap. Yeah. Like you start getting into that and it's like it's embarrassing after a while. Troy Aikman of all people should know better. He's moved on. He's had a better career as a broadcaster than he did in his hall of Fame football Career.

[Larry]

All right, last one I have is on prime video. The Terminalist Dark Wolf. This is kind of a prequel. Origin story of. Of Chris Pratt's buddy from the terminal.

[John Holmberg]

Fight for each other, you're moving on a restricted target. Wait, Chris. Chris Pratt the actor or the Chris.

[Larry]

Pratt the actor was in the terminal list on Prime.

[John Holmberg]

Right.

[Brady]

And.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, this is a spin off.

[Larry]

This guy is a spin off. Shows his buddy Ben.

[John Holmberg]

I think along with this insignia comes the trust. The we putting you to wear it. You've broken that trust. So the Chris Pratt show that is similar to this is now another guy show. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Okay. Second, what's that on Hulu?

[Larry]

It's on Amazon Prime.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, there you go.

[Larry]

Prequel to that. That's it.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, it's a prequel. All right. There you go. All right. Those are your hot releases, everybody. And I think the AI wins again. We are the world. Yeah, AI, that's the one I'd go after. It's 98K upd. There you go. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually.

[Brady]

No membership fee.

[John Holmberg]

I've heard it. Enough of this morning sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. Larry's going to come in here in a minute, but we got to get through the entertainment drill first. So let's do that. It's time for the entertainment drill. It's brought to you by our [e-mail] that is the home of Tactical Black Self defense Training. Training. Getting out there. Defend yourself. You know, it turns out we need tactical black more than we thought because we have a meeting today with the guys from Game Day. Men's Health, right? Yeah, but that's after the show. One of our crack staff just popped up with someone who doesn't know us and we don't know them. I've seen him before, I think. Walks him right into the studio and says, you have a visitor. So if anybody out there is interested in killing us, just walk to the front door and say, I'd like to see the morning show. They'll walk you right into the studio, no questions. I mean, I know Brady's on the precipice of having to deal with this, but I'm not. I don't need to get shot in the middle of a show. You know, bring people right up to the. I'd like to see the President. Follow me. We have a visitor. That was he thinking. Well, anyway, this is why it's essential to have a little self defense training. And he looked like a normal fella. And I had a feeling he was even surprised that he got led right to the room. He's not where meetings happen.

[Brett]

He looked as uncomfortable as we were.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know why this guy's parade me around, but I kept my eyes on his hands just in case he decided to draw on us. And you know, we had a plan there. ReactDefense.com makes you spatially aware, situationally aware. And I don't know why.

[Brett]

You taking that employee with you today?

[John Holmberg]

I think I'm taking him with me to wherever you leave people. Yeah. Come on in here with your gun just tucked in your waistband. I'd like to see the morning show for kupd. Follow me. You got any questions? You don't want to pat me down? No. Just follow me. I'll take you right to them.

[Brady]

I've got a knife for home bird.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. Follow me. Follow me. I'm going to shove it in his heart. Follow me. I know where his heart is. I know where his heart is. Is tart's usually right in the middle of him. I know where he is. So this works. What the hell just happened anyway? You got to be smarter than that. And sometimes you're surrounded by dumb people. Dumb people can sometimes lead crazy right to you.

[Brady]

I'm here to remove Brady's kidney.

[John Holmberg]

What? We should. Follow me. Follow me. I know where Brady's kidneys are. I know where the trash is too. This is going to be easy. Hey, by the way, better idea to bring the person we don't know that wasn't vetted at all at the door door and have him block the only egress in the entire room. Thank you. When you work with idiots, and we do, they might lead a killer right to you. What would you do if that happened? It almost did to us. Thank God he was a normal fella. I'm just saying, you never know who's going to pop in. And now that the cat's out of the bag. Yeah. You go to reactdefense.com to prepare for exactly this kind of thing in case your stations market walks a guy right into your life. And it's not Marcus Meng. He would have never done that. No. A he wouldn't have talked to anyone in the front lobby as if he owed them something. Move. Move. I'm here to see the move. Okay. Sorry about that. I'm gonna kill him. Too. Reactdefense.com I just had to mentally start to use it before I realized this guy wasn't a threat. Sorry, I'm a little rattled. Go to react defense.com. check it out for yourselves and be part of this. You never know. It's the home of tactical Black Brady Entertainment.

[Brady]

Mental floss. Just put out a list of the most famous people of 1985.

[John Holmberg]

Right on time. 40 years. I mean, it's. Michael J. Fox is number one. That was the number one movie in 1985. Michael J.

[Brady]

Fox was in Michael Jackson.

[John Holmberg]

Michael Jackson for sure. Madonna.

[Brady]

Michael Jackson was not on.

[John Holmberg]

He was 84. Thriller was 84. Yeah. But still bled over.

[Brett]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[John Holmberg]

Right after Michael McDonald.

[Brady]

Michael.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Michael Jordan. But that was brand new.

[Brady]

Michael Jordan was finishing his rookie season. It was already well on his way. Becoming one of the biggest athletes in the world.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Madonna is not on there.

[Brady]

Madonna is.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

And Sean Penn.

[John Holmberg]

I would also assume in 85 we're talking about culture clips club a little bit. Maybe Boy George is on.

[Brady]

Pete Rose.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I meant. Brady always confused those two.

[Larry]

The only ones. I'm sorry.

[Brady]

The only one close to your Boy George was B. Rock Hudson. He was on the list 40 years ago.

[John Holmberg]

That was a homosexual reference.

[Brady]

Chevy Chase.

[John Holmberg]

Chevy Chase. The vacation movies.

[Brady]

Four movies out in 85.

[Brett]

And what did he do?

[John Holmberg]

Wow.

[Brady]

European vacation, which was 85.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. That was earlier than that.

[Brady]

Joan Rivers.

[John Holmberg]

And Joan Rivers who left the tonight show in 85 to start Fox Broadcasting Company with the Joan River Show. The Late show, they called it. Yep.

[Larry]

How long did that last?

[John Holmberg]

Year and a half. And then it failed miserably.

[Larry]

Take over for her.

[John Holmberg]

No, Arsenio wasn't on Fox.

[Brady]

And Phil Collins just came out with no jacket required.

[John Holmberg]

Joan Rivers was Johnny Carson's permanent guest host and did Monday nights and then got her chance to do her own show when Fox started its own network. She was the first show in the Fox network. And then she went on and Johnny Carson said, anybody that does that show will never be on the Tonight Show. So celebrities were like, not a good idea. So there were some people that would go on that. And Johnny just ruined her. So much so the show failed. Killed. And her husband killed himself, which is crazy. And then Arsenio guest hosted. There was another guy named Clint Holmes that would guest host after she left. It turned into nothing. Then they got married with children and the Simpsons and all that. And. Or Tracy Ullman took off as a network. But that was the very first show. That was 85, right?

[Brady]

Entertainment Weekly just ranked the 50 best high school movies of all time.

[John Holmberg]

Time. That's easy, too.

[Brett]

That would be Fast Times or Breakfast Club.

[John Holmberg]

Breakfast Club's the one.

[Brady]

I'm thinking one and two.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. Fast times.

[Brady]

Breakfast club was number one. Fast times number two.

[John Holmberg]

Then teen movies after that. Like all era. 80s era. Is that what you said?

[Brady]

No, just of all time.

[Brett]

American Pie.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that should be up there.

[Brady]

American Pie was not in the top 15.

[John Holmberg]

Kidding. That should be out there.

[Brady]

Number 10, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's a good one.

[Brady]

Number nine, Election.

[John Holmberg]

Great movie, actually. Very funny. Surprisingly funny.

[Brady]

Sixteen Candles number eight, Pretty Pink. Clueless number seven. American Graffiti number six.

[John Holmberg]

Pretty in Pink wasn't good.

[Brady]

Heather's number five.

[John Holmberg]

And neither was that, though.

[Brady]

Rebel Without a Cause number four.

[John Holmberg]

I'm trying to think of James Dean. I kept thinking Giant, but that isn't about a teen. Rebel Without a Cause Giant. About giants. About. Wow.

[Brett]

Jesus, that's an oil or something in Texas.

[John Holmberg]

Three hour movie about. Yeah, I tried to watch Marital affairs and just. Time passes. 50 years. It's amazing.

[Brady]

Number three. Was dazed and Confused used.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, but it's long. Giant is a long movie. Cinematically, one of the most amazing achievements in film, but it's just forever. You got to be so patient to watch.

[Brady]

Took 20 years, but this iconic collab happened.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Brady]

The Jonas Brothers and Hanson performed bop. Finally, they did Virginia beach on Friday night.

[John Holmberg]

Night, if it still mattered to anybody. I've. I've always thought the idea of the Tommy Lee Jonas Brothers is just so. All six really brilliant.

[Brett]

Yeah, Just somebody lay.

[John Holmberg]

Ey.

[Brett]

I mean, we had Trump.

[John Holmberg]

I was doing it with Frank for a while when I was doing the Tommy Lee Jones impression, but it doesn't. Nobody cares.

[Brady]

I don't know if you got. Did you get the video of Fred Dur swatting a drone out of the way? They were doing a concert in Turkey.

[John Holmberg]

Somebody dropped too close. Close enough to hit it?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

With the microphone or with his hands? Oh, it's right on top of his face. Nice. Yeah, I would do the same thing.

[Brady]

Called it in.

[John Holmberg]

Guess what it was our Marcus from our staff. Brought the drone right up to our faces. It's the same thing. And now Jill's doing it, for Christ's sake. There could be a killer amongst them. You don't know what you're bringing us. This is insanity. Anyway, there's a bunch of people now in the hallway that need to talk to us. I think we're gonna get killed. Boys, I think it's all over. It's all over. That's it for us. Yeah. The game day Men's health people are standing outside and it's very awkward.

[Brady]

Drooling. They know there's.

[John Holmberg]

It's a little omelet Brought breakfast And the longer I Calm down. You're not getting any.

[Brady]

So long.

[John Holmberg]

He seems to think there's going to be a control alt delete in his body will be just fine on Tuesday.

[Larry]

He definitely feels I can load it up. Soon as the one's gone, I'm good. It's like removing a virus.

[John Holmberg]

Let's go. You're done here. The longer I let this go, the more awkward it is if they're standing in the hall and we're standing here staring at them. Brady doesn't get his breakfast. Larry's coming up next. You guys have yourselves a fantastic Tuesday. We'll see you tomorrow in the morning. Singing salam. It's not weird. It's pretty cool actually. No membership fees. I have heard enough of this E. Oh, what you eating?

[Brady]

The new banana split cookie from AM pm All freshly baked with real butter with banana, chocolate and strawberry flavors.

[John Holmberg]

Wow, that sounds amazing. Can I have a bite?

[Brady]

I'm sorry but no. But you can't split the banana split.

[John Holmberg]

Not even a little.

[Brady]

Not even a crumb.

[John Holmberg]

What if.

[Brady]

No, please.

[John Holmberg]

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