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That's Patrick Riley services dot com. Patrick Riley. One call does it all. 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. Thank you Katie. And the Hobbs. That's miles to nowhere. Once again kicking us off as we roll into a Thursday where Brett would normally be out in the van truck whatever it is to to collect water. And we are still doing that. But Brett has to be here with Us today because of the Toledo family emergency or you guys don't get a podcast. Now, I know you're saying, well, Brett should still do that, but we don't want to hear from it because a lot of the people who get the podcast will start mouthing off, and the podcasts count as ratings. We're not taking a chance with that. We're dipping out of here. We got stations in this building that claim to be number one in the country. They just make. They just make statistics up now. We have to pick up the slack for them. Yeah. We have to keep our real ratings. You know, we're the only show in this city where the actual clients come and celebrate and have lunch with us, thanking us for being. For advertising. Yeah. Game day Men's Health came here the other day. They had a party to say thank you to us. That's outstanding. Bottles, too. Personalized bottles. Presents and personalized wine bottles with our heads on them. And it was outstanding. That doesn't happen to other ones. And they have to make up their statistics. We don't, but we will if we don't get the podcast out. So Brett's gonna do that instead of going out. But who's out there today? It's Kristen Braden. Okay. Braden's out there today. And the new Braden and the new guy. Yeah, it's fun. Their new show on Fox is hilarious. Braden and the new guy are out there. Sorry, new guy. They're gonna be at Albertsons today. Dysart and Indian school. And hopefully in honor of Toledo and his mother and the situation he's dealing with, which, you know, not to sound terrible, but it's probably not necessarily going the correct direction you would want it to go for joy and happiness, but. So Toledo's up in Montana as of yesterday afternoon to make sure he's there with his mom. So how about one more water push as we head into this thing this week and next week. Right. Next week we're off. Because Toledo is not going to be here. Brady's not going to be here. And in honor of Brady's kidney, we all kind of want to bend a knee and make sure he makes it through instead of me doing fart jokes and get a call of some Brady's slabs on the table. We don't need that. No. Make sure it's jarred properly, too. It's what? Jarred properly? Well, we got to. We'll. We'll pickle you if you go, but I don't want to be on the air and get that phone call, so in honor of Brady. We're all taken. We're all taking a breath. It's like 9 11. It's going to take a week and sit and think about this while Brady recovers. And then we'll bring him back and everything will be good. But the van is out this morning at Albertsons Dysart and Indian School. So go out there, Braden. Braden will take care. He's a good guy. We like dude. And the new guy, I assume he's a good guy. I met him this morning. Okay. I think it's Max or something. Or we'll go with it no matter what his name is. Yeah, just call Max. We're going to call you. And the guy that got fired here from our promo crew emailed me and said that Braden hates me. Jeff, Margette hates me. And Brady, you too. Says we're pricks. They hates us all. So hopefully you guys can go out there and find out. For real, man. I mean, they're not wrong. Yeah. I mean, I'm gonna be overly kind to the promo people, though. They might get in my car and then we get pulled over and all the drugs that are in their. In their pockets, I'll get in trouble for that. I don't want those people me. But I'll try harder, I guess. I don't see them ever. I don't know how they could hate me, but they might. Anyway. Operation Hydration. We are going to have an announcement on Monday from the Phoenix rescue mission that they asked me not to say what they're going to announce, but we all know what it is. Basically, we did it. Wait a minute. We're not here on Monday. I know. I told them that. So we all coming in for 10 minutes. Can I announce that Thursday? And they said no. And I said, well, we're not there Monday. Like, we'll do a. We'll put a release out online. And I'm like, I guess so. We busted our balls for this. For an entire anti summer. We're not gonna be. I'm gonna be on the air when they make the big announcement and the. Thank you. But that's all right. Hey, it's not about us. Even though a little bit. It would have been nice. Couldn't wait an extra week. Yeah. Because we're not on the next Monday either. That's Labor Day. Oh, that's right. So it would be the. We could wait. Yeah. Let's run up to two. Here's the one thing they did tell me, and I don't know if I'm supposed To tell you this of what we've collected. And they're going to give us an official big number for the up to Labor Day number, which is the official one. We can keep going. You don't have to stop. 91% of it has already been given out. Damn. Yeah, that's 900,000 bottles of water that have already gone out. So Phoenix Rescue Mission's got a big thing they're going to do and it's for the rest of the media. I'm just sneaking it into your guys ears because you guys did all the work. So I think you needed to hear from us. Albertson's Dysart Indian School. Let's keep it going though, because 91% of it's already out. So as much as you've done and as much has been raised, it's. It's getting used. That's for darn sure. So help us out. Those guys, Braden and the gang will have mud vein data. Remember, tickets, KUPD stuff all day. We'll have them out there till 9 this morning if you want to go out. And then Brett's going out tonight. Yeah. You're going to be taking Toledo's place. This is a. We are in a mad scramble. That's ridiculous. Brett is going to fill in for Toledo tonight at Native Grill and Wings out there at Waddell in Litchfield. So you should leave now. I'm telling you, I should have just went to this water drive and stayed out there. I mean, half of Toledo had to be sad that his mom's not doing well. And then he looked at having to drive to Waddell and Litchfield and went, you know what? I'm gonna go to Montana instead. It's closer. He's halfway there. I mean, he might as well. He's gonna put less miles on the car. Anyway, Waddell and Litchfield tonight. Where? Native Grill and Wings. We have the big Handle the Heat contest going on. And Brett will be out there if you want to go. First come, first serve. Now, Brady said last week people were lined up at like 2. They got in on the list early. What are you doing? You're texting? Pay attention. I'm hearing you. Yeah, at 2 o', clock, they were all, you are here. All right, all right, all right. I'm just saying. You're hearing me. You. You have. You are a distracted screen. You're like a teenage boy. Did you see his eyes when they said, what are you doing? He looked at me like, oh, I'm in trouble. One man can't Jump. You are not Jimmy. But you can't listen to Jimmy. You are not a good multitasker. You were disappeared. I hear you. Two o'. Clock. Geez. Supposed to participate. When you heard wings, his ears perked up. Watch this. Here's how the show goes. If I do it, I got you. Yeah, exactly. You should just stare at me. So stare back. Listen. Anyway, the handle he contest is today at 2 and then tonight Brett will be out there from when is that? 5:30. 7:30. So get there early, get on the list and then you can tell the people at native I won in the contest and get yourself four or five pounds of wings. Slow eat them, put the cap back on and take them home. You got yourself free meal. They also got the special with the was it 10 wings and a Stella for like 19 bucks. And a dollar goes to humane Society. Glorious. Everybody's winning. This is a good thing. So head on out there. Brett will be out today 5:30 to 7:30, watching you guys hog out on some wings and a chance to win $979. Cody wants to know, did Brady lose his virginity in 2010 with all his car back in the day? Well, he did, yeah. It was way too late. Well, I mean by virginity loss do you mean to a woman or was he scissoring with a lesbian? I mean, I'm not sure. Brady story will come out later. I. I would assume it's a Brady. I got an email. It said Brady's family was always into weird cars. Remember Brady's grandfather had the first Tesla. Every time his grandma got in there, it was electrified. That's true. And the first electric car every time Grandma Ruth got in. Also, people are wondering if Brady's the one who stole the Desert Sky Mall train, because that would be a car you think is pretty cool. And evidently somebody. This is how empty malls are. They walked into the Desert Sky Mall yesterday and just took that train that drives around. I've never been to the Desert Sky Mall because. Well, no. Why would you? It's over in Desert sky, but. But evidently there's a train that drives around there. It's become kind of synonymous with the mall. And it's just driving around on the streets, they're without the doors, they're like, what are we, Grand Theft auto? You can just take anything that runs and steal it. And they did. So they just drove it right out of the mall. And everybody's like, oh, it must be some sort of maintenance program for the train. I mean, I wouldn't question it if I watch the train leaving, I'm like, somebody must know what they're doing. The last thing I'd suspect is theft. But somebody took the Desert Sky Mall. Well, no, I mean, well, yeah, but of that, like, Desert Sky Mall has just got theft happening. At least it was empty. But would have been funny if it was a packed train in the cars. Oh, yeah, all the kids were in it still. No, that wouldn't have been as funny. I think that would have been actual human trafficking in the slowest. But it is Desert Sky Mall. So I gotta tell you, this guy who did it, hilarious. Kind of my hero. Nice job. That's a brave move, like, to tell because, you know there's another dude on the other end that said, if you come back with a train from that mall, I'll give you 500 bucks. You're on. And right in front of La Coretta Doolittles. I don't know. I'm looking at the stores inside there in the picture. Then it's down there on like, 83rd Avenue, just driving down the street and people are like, is that the train mall Train? That's the. For kids. But there's nobody at the mall again, though, if I saw that, I'd assume, oh, he works here. He's driving that up. But when I see it leave the parking lot, I'm like, no, they should have probably loaded that up on a truck to take it wherever it needs to get fixed. Then you see it on the streets and you're like, no, that's been stolen. They still don't have it back. How many people have that on film? They gotta collect all. I mean, oh, once it went out onto the street. Yeah, for sure. The desert. There's a video on that mall train. There is. There's one guy filming it in his car passing by the train. Yeah, you look at it and it's like he's driving down a city street. There's people in it. He went and picked up some folks. The first train car has like a guy sitting there with his arm out and they're just driving along in the Desert Sky Mall train. Maybe that'll be a new tour offered of the West Valley. Yeah, well, it's not bulletproof. You don't want that. Anyway, it's like GTA out there. I have no idea. But it's. You know what? Yeah, I don't even know what that means. I'm looking at some of the comments on the Tick Tock announcement. It says finna be there. Fitting to be there. That's all that means is I'm going to go over to that mall soon. I don't know where. It's Desert School on. Or desert. Not desert school, desert. It's on 75th Avenue because it's right by the. It's by the pavilion. Yeah. It's not a horrible area, is it? No, it's nice. Okay, never mind. It is. It is. Brett's eyes just said it's a bad spot. It's like 75th and Encanto. Is that Bad Avenue? Okay, calm down. Jesus Christ. No, I'm sorry. I know there's a couple of patches out there. I've really been too troubled being in that area around concerts. Because you're only going to the concerts. You go there all the time. Yeah, I don't go there all the time, and that would be silly. I don't go to the Avenues all the time. No, that's just it. Yeah, that's interesting. All right. All right, HMS Podcast, time again to let you know where to go for some great comedy in the Valley this week. 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Go to audible.com richgirlsommer Holmberg's Morning Sickness. Anyway, if you have any information, video any information leading to the arrest of the the train thief. Train robbers. Give him exactly. It's like Billy the Kid. Pat him on the back and tell him hilarious and just let him go. This is a good one. Give them their train back. Where's the story? I just got it on Instagram from David Vasquez of all people. Yeah, here, I'll just show you. This is the. The video is pretty great of just driving down the road and passing it. Somebody saw it and then went around on the block and saw it again. There's people just riding along. It's 105 outside. It's in a neighborhood. At that point it had made it way past where it needed to be. And I'll tell you the, the house that goes by, you guys need some landscape help so that maybe Brett's right. That's not a very good neighborhood. Yeah, that's. The house is also neighborhood just improved with the train there. Well, yeah, sure. They've got, they've got something to see. We helped with the track down of the missing train of Desert Sky. Can we get tickets and bring the train to the next U fest? Yeah, if you, if you come up with the train and you can bring it to the next. If you bring. I'll tell you what, if you bring that train to the station, Brady will give you. Our station will give you $10,000. How about that? You bring us the stolen train, we'll do a little video of us saying we've got to get that train back. You know when like Shaq got stolen and radio stations did those dumb videos saying we need that shack cut back and like five minutes later it was cut out was worthless. We're not really going to give you money to steal the train. Although I will give you a idea of train rides at you fest next year. Yeah, look, if you can get hold of it or borrow it, bring it Over. It's real close to the. The. The. The Desert Sky Pavilion, talking stick, whatever that's called. New people, this. Dude, I'm in the avenues way up north. But Desert sky is a dump, okay? I don't know the neighborhood well enough. I don't know if it's bad or not. All right, Cameron, I have no idea what the. I'm not a real estate. I like Doug Hopkins. What it's like. And I'll just hear, bro. I'm like, okay, I gotcha. He doesn't even offer five grand. I can tell you. We used to do. We did like a pre concert, meaning it's a restaurant. That was Makayo's. Yeah, that's Desert Sky. That didn't seem so bad. No, Brett's argument speaks volumes, since 75th and Thomas is the mall. And yeah, that's bad. I grew up there. The last New Year's, I heard more gunfire than I did in 12 months in Iraq combined. Okay, all right. Yeah. I don't know the area very well, but I know that the. That's hilarious. And they stole that trainer on that, so be careful. I was at. I had a great lunch yesterday. Matt Komen, who runs the comedy clubs, wanted to meet yesterday. So our sales lady, Jen Gardner. Me and Matt met at Trevor's over here on Indian School. And we're just chatting away, and the waitress comes over and starts talking to us about some stuff. And back and forth we go. And she's kind of funny, so the whole thing's funny. Coleman shows up, sits down at the table, and she. And the waitress said something to me. And I'm like, you wouldn't say that to me if I was. If I wasn't Jewish. And she goes, oh, my God, you're Jewish. And I said, no. And then she said something. And I said, but he is. And I point to Komen because he actually is Jewish. So the jokes were flying around the table. And she, without missing a beat, turns to Komen and goes, do you know about coin shaving? And come's like, what? And I'm like, oh, now you're talking his language. You said coin. He's interested. So she starts to talk about. Well, she said, do you know about. She actually said, do you know why there are ridges on the edges of coin? And I didn't. And I'm like, I have no idea. So I'm like, so people who are like, sight or something, they can feel the difference between a nickel and a quarter. And I'm like, but a dime would like Size would be the thing. And she goes, no, back in the day when they made. This is exactly what she said. She goes, back in the day when they made coins out of precious metals, Jews would clip it off. She said this to us, and she wasn't being racist. She was just telling the story. And we were joking. And I said, you need to tell that story over there. And I would do the point, the, you know, the Elon Musk point. She was, no, it's not mean. And so it just sounded. So evidently they would, you know, trim off the edges of coins and take the shavings and sell them because they were worth something. They were like actual platinum or silver. Silver and. Yeah, all that stuff. So they would do the edges, so they put ridges on it so you couldn't f. With the edges of the coin and shrink them down a little bit by. By shaving them. We didn't know what it was called and stuff like that. So she leaves and comes back, and I'm like, oh, look who's back. And I gave her the salute again. It was just playful fun. The table next to us writes on the back of their bill. And she comes back to him. She goes, look what the table next to us wrote on the back of the bill. And it said. It was all over the back. It said, it's called coin shaving. It's. Coin clipping was another name, a form of currency debasement prevalent throughout history. Individuals would shave or cut small edges off of it. And he said, so they did that to profit off of the shavings. And he said, the Jews would do that. So they wrote it. They heard our conversation at the table next to us and took the time to scribble out the full definition of what Matt Coleman's people used to do to money. And Coleman's like, this is ridiculous. Where am I? In some sort of rally for Hitler? All of this. And so we all started looking. That's a real thing. I never knew why coins had ridges. And it was to keep my people from shaving them. I had no idea. Something from Jen, huh? Yeah, man. It was. I mean, and the waitress was whipped, quick. Like, she was funny. And she came. Oh, you didn't expect it at first. You know, she's just kind of a normal, like, server. And she comes by and everything's normal. And then she made one little crack. I make a crack back. She fires back. I'm like, oh, she's fast. And then Coleman's there, and he's. We're all going. And Jen's very funny. And we. All of a sudden, this was like a little four man routine that got going pretty good. She's very funny. And then she turns to me. She thought I was with. She thought Jen Gardner was mine. And then she goes, how did you get her? And I said, oh, I'm just nailing her. I'm not really. We're not doing anything. Like, there's no commitment here. I just. Boner. It's called hamstring. You lay on top of the car with a sunroof and you put your. Oh, you know about hamstering. Yeah, hamster is pretty great. You put your wiener in the sunroof, and then she acts like it's a water bottle inside. And she started laughing. And I'm like, I'm not with her. She works with me. I don't date old broads. More jokes, right? Just joking around the whole time. And. And then she said, you must have money or something else. And I'm like, well, I don't have the something else, you mean, so maybe I do. And then she said. And then Jen said. She said, what does he do for a living that would make you even interested? She won't give up on the idea that Jen and I are bound and we're not. And then. And she goes, well, he does. Or Coleman bouts off because he does a morning radio show at kupd. And she goes, oh, my God, Really? And this just crushed me to the core. My dad loves you. Aw. She goes, you're about the same age. I'm guessing you're about 50, 53. And I'm like, yeah, I just turned 53. And she goes, can I get a picture for my dad, I suppose. Nazi. So to Mark, the father of that little Nazi waitress over at Trevor's. Thanks for listening all these years and raising her properly. Taught your kid well. Yeah. The other thing is, she said we used to listen in the car all the time driving in. She said it was my stepdad. And she said we used to listen in the car all the time driving in when I was a little kid. And I'm like, that's why you're funny. That's the reason you're funny. You listen to. You were raised on funny, so good for you. But she was fun. We had a good time. And Coleman, one of the reasons I wanted to. He wanted to meet with me is. Listen to this. He told me, can you announce this for me? Shane Gillis is coming here through the clubs, right? And he said he's gonna be here December 5th. And there's a secret pre sale for tickets to see Gillis that he once announced today for you guys starting at 10am Gillis is killing it right now. He's about as funny as they get. He's playing the Phoenix Arena. It's amazing the pre sale code that only you guys will know. We're only giving it to you guys at CUPD here. The code is capital L I V E live. That's the word. So you go to. I guess it doesn't. He didn't give me the thing to go to. You get tickets before wherever you go to get tickets. I guess 9am he didn't tell me the website I guess you'd go to. Would you go to stand up Live or Shane Gillis or whatever. You can use it. Use the code up till 9am then the tickets go on sale to the general public at 10. So I think you can do it. Try it out right now. Try to find Shane Gillis tickets and use the password live. And you can. You can actually buy them now. So if you guys want to get them with Gillis coming to town giving you a little heads up that we've got a little code for it. But he's going to be here December 5th secret pre sale because it starts today. So if the good news is you can get the pre sale code to get tickets before everyone else. Just use the password live. That's what it says. And I don't know how he didn't tell me what website to go to. So you got to do a little digging. That's all Right. For this secret code you should have to do a little work. I think. I would imagine you can probably go to either. Not work on Ticketmaster Live Nation maybe. Who's running the show over there? I have no idea who's doing it. It's L I V E Cap all caps. L I V E. Yeah. For their. For the password. I'll get with Coleman. What's the wisdom? Is that stand up Live? No, it's a Phoenix arena. No, but I'm saying that's what I'm. The website you mean. Yeah. Yeah. I'm texting him. What's the website? Jackass. He's too busy shaving the edges off of coins to know details at this point. Yeah. So that's pretty good deal and that's pretty cool. So we'll. We'll keep you guys. We'll keep you guys up to date on that all morning long. So you can keep swiping tickets to the Gilla show. I Think that's pretty awesome. Pretty cool. And yes, when I brought up hamstring, it is a real thing. People are getting caught hamstring like crazy. So if you've got. We can't do it here in Phoenix because laying on top of a hot roof even at night time isn't going to feel good. But evidently there's people can pull it off at night. You think? Yeah. So hot. So hot. I know the sun isn't going to make the metal hot. Maybe a little more preparation like putting a couple of towels. Yeah, drop a couple towels down just in case it's still retain some heat. I'd say like 10 or 11 at night it's safe to take your car and lay on top of it. But yeah, you just drop your genitals right into the sunroof. She sits inside the car and does hamster water bottle to your junk. And that's pretty inventive. I gotta hand it to the people that came up with hamstring. But it's happening so often now that it's got a name and they're catching people like crazy. You know the hot wifing thing where you let your brother or somebody, a friend of yours take a spin on your wife to see if she's still hot to other guys? It's a pretty good one. Imagine walking up on someone hamstring. Well, I mean it's. There's nothing else. Pretty obvious. Incredibly obvious. Look, what are you doing up there? Of course he's hamstring. Who lays on top of their car. But yeah, so that's the thing. So if you want to get involved in that and you've got a sunroof. I don't have a sunroof, but I can take the top off of my jeep. It would be a feat of core strength for me to lay across the windshield of my jeep all the way to the back. With the freedom top, they call it the middle part taken out. I would have to really core up. I don't know that I could finish that process without like bending my knees backwards in some sort of flamingo way. What do they call the COVID The soft tanu cover. And just drill a hole in it and then just sideways hamster, isn't it? Hang over the back. See, I would call that in that open. Oh, you're talking about in the back end. Yeah, the back end. Yeah, that's just standing. That's hamster kinda Holmberg's morning sickness. That's when your hamster cage won't take the thing. So you Kind of rig it on there. I want to do the over the top on the side of the. Yeah, I like the over the top one. That's a fish. Otherwise, if you're just going through a window, it's just. Sonic drive in, I think is what you should call that. If you're just plopping it through a window, you know, it would be a good one, guys. This is a new one. You could try. Get some roller skates, as gay as that sounds, skate up to the window and just plop it in the window and have her Sonic. Sonic drive in drive. Yeah, yeah. Sonic drive. I think it's a good idea. Some tots in a handy. Yeah. Oh, my God. Drop off some tots. Put your tots in her mouth, too. There you go. I like that. And then just. But the roller skates are imperative. And it kind of has to be a lower car. Like a. Like one of those slammed tempo or something. Yeah, like the little Hondas. 87 Ford Tempo. Never mind. You're not getting blown in that. Never mind. Now you're talking. And we know from experience that there's never been, you know, what's never happened. I think the world would come to an end if there was roadhead in a tempo between a man and a woman. I'm sure it's happened. I don't think it's ever happened. You never got that in the Tempo. Don't. Don't look at the ceiling tiles. I know the answer. I went out on a lot of dates. Yeah, I bet. Once with each of them. A lot of dates. A lot of single dates. And even weird after first date, she gets in the car and just looks at him. I don't think this is working. Wait, wait, wait. Where are you going? Brady blew it every time because the girl would get in his Ford Tempo and go, I don't think this is working. What are you talking about? It's a Tempo. It'll start right up. No, no, no. The relationship. Oh, yeah. No, probably not. I drive a Tempo. Never accuse this car. And not working it is reliable. I made a mix for you. Celebrate me home. Yeah. Celebrate me to my house, my front door, and don't walk me up. In fact, park two houses down. I don't want people to see me getting out of a Tempo. Do they still make the Tempo? No, no, because Ford learned their lesson. Sunroof. I get hamster in it. Yeah. A bunch of gray, faceless, blob people went up. I would like a Ford Tempo to match my personality. This is Kenny Loggins. Give me your number, please. Isn't this beautiful? Thinking about me? Just drop me off here. I'll walk. It's a bad neighborhood. I don't care. I'd rather get raped by somebody out there than you in here. I'm gonna take the desert sky train home. She's at. She's. Whoa, whoa. What are you doing? No eating in the car. That's for me. There was. There was a. No eating in the car roll. Because that's Brady's bag. Get your hands out of there. What are you doing? You don't allow eating in the car? Well, not you. I didn't buy this for you. Mess my interior up. How do you think the date's going? Slowly. How many times after she got out of the Tempo did she go right to the phone and call her friend? Why did you set me up with that thing? What do you mean? Brady's a good guy. He has a Tempo. Oh, my God. He still drives that car. I grew up. I'm so sorry. Never forgot the sound when she'd get up out of the seat and you hear those beads rattling the beaded seats. Because you were like. Like a Mideast taxi driver. Did you have beaded seat? I was gonna say that would be the only thing that makes the Tempo worse. Probably add value to a Tempo. Did it have those automatic seat belts, too, that went up and over? What's that? Yeah, close the door. Close the door. And it would attack you. You're sealed in. It would attack you with the car because they were attached to the door. Worst. Oh, so how many times when you went on a date, does the first question, hi, thanks for picking me up. And then she looked around and went, so, what do you do for a living? Guess he was worried the next, well, I'm kind of between jobs right now, which explains the tempo. You know, got to keep a slow tempo, a steady pace, and that's what the car kind of represents. You might want to look in the back seat and pick out a rug option later for munching, because I drive a lesbian's vehicle and I sell carpet out of it. Irony tile wood. You name it, we lay it. You name it, we'll lay it. I know I'm not gonna lay you, though. So let's take a look at these floors on 800-5-88-2300. Empire call today. Will somebody with a Tempo come to my house? Because then I know I'm getting a good deal. Brady with gerlock floors. That had to be a nightmare. You were Herb Tarlek. You were still red wigglers too. Mid 20s and those plaid pants hopping out of a Tempo. You know how many people saw you odd colored corduroys. I'm telling you right now. Oh yeah, with patchy corduroys. How many people saw Brady standing there with a drink in their hands walking up to their house with that weird catalog of carpet samples. That's huge. As he gets out of his in his red suit and the guy in the window just goes. Oh no, honey, don't answer it. Some salesman's coming to the door with carpet samples. He just got out of a Ford Tempo. We don't want anything to do with it. Luckily, I was even a better one. Did you wear the suits? It was Midwest. You had to wear a suit to do the sales. I would wear a. Usually just a shirt and tie, but I'm going out on. It was mostly. It was commercial. So it was construction sites. And they still never wanted. Oh, the worst company pulling a Tempo up to a construction site. You were a lesbian. Look at this guy. Yeah. Nobody said city boy to your Ford Tempo. You have a delusion in your head. Look at that fat little dyke over there with the carpets in her hand. She must be hungry. Hungry for lunch. I'm not a girl. I just drive a Ford Tempo and I'm shaped like a lesbian. Want to buy some rugs? I told you that was a lesbian. How long did you sell rugs? Year. Just a year. Because then you had. This is a nightmare. Yeah. Not fun. It was. You could definitely make some money in it. I mean, you get Floyd. Why were you driving a Tempo? So you get floying. I know you couldn't because you had a Ford Tempo to prove Your point is mooch can make a lot of money. Get yourself into a nice Tempo. Maybe two. Yeah, you can't make a lot of money and say that I drove a Ford Tempo while I did. What was the top salesman driving? A Tempo SS7 series. No kidding. He owned the company though. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's not the top salesman. That's the owner. That's different. Top salesman was driving a Ford Tempo. It was you. And then. You can't make a lot of money in it. Stop saying stupid things. Christ was a bottom Fen. Yeah. Tricyc and a catalog of used wood flooring. Times are tight. Sure could use your business. This is our slump buster summer sale. No good leads I got no. You send me to Patel. Why don't I just bring them a bucket of dirt? Because that's what they Want is a floor. I sold to the Patels. I got him a nice new floor of dirt. That's the. That's a. Yeah. Don't tell people. You can make a lot of money and it. No, you can't. You had a Ford Tempo and you quit me. I didn't. I didn't stick around enough. Quit. No. You were the top salesman the first year you were there. Yeah, because there was one other guy, right. And he couldn't beat the new guy. Yeah, right. Get out there and sell carpet, Brady. It's the slump buster sale of summer. Yeah, just. Ford Tempo, is it? You're driving around. Yeah, I guess I'm leading in the clubhouse there. Pulling up my later hosing. Brady. Brady. What is it there, Walt? Second place salesman at Garlic Flooring. Gerlock. Can I help? Can you come over here and help me twist? Start my engine here on the Model T. I gotta get these samples over there to that new house. I don't like that little crank on the front of your car. That's silly. I need this contract, man. I got five kids. Pour in some pure alcohol. That's the only thing this runs on. It's on fire. That means it's working. Keep going. You can make a lot of money in it. Brett hit you immediately. No, you can't. You drove a Tempo. Brady lies to himself that everything he did was okay. That was a bad choice. A lot of them. All in a bunch of. How did you get the. Who put you? Your dad knew the owner got you. No, the owner came up to me because he knew. Yeah, he knew my dad. He was my football coach. And it's like in my family, had a business in Erica. She worked with a lot of contractors. Sure. He's like, you can get in the door and so like I said, he knew your dad. Your dad knew. He knew me. Well, he knew you, but your dad probably said, sure, it'd be nice to get that kid in a job. Does he know about floors? I think we all do. I don't think that's something that escapes anyone. Well, that's easy then. If he knows what the ground is, he can sell flooring. You just get me in the door. I'll do the rest from there. Ready? Now. My name is Bob Gerlick and I want you to be my top salesman. Are you familiar with the ground? Ah. What do you mean? Jesus, this is gonna be a tough one. You know the thing you stand at. Oh, yeah, yeah. I know about that. Don't you love when it's cushy. I guess. Well, you can be the one that gives that gift to everyone. Do you want to sell flooring to the ground? Hot dog. I could get you in a brand new Ford temple by the end of the year. Holy smokes. I'll be a rocky feller. The timing was perfect when he talked to me. You were broke. I was cutting the grass at home. Just graduated. What are you doing, college boy? Cutting grass. He had tempo payments? No, didn't get the tempo yet. He didn't have $13 a month. We always talk about the s heel of the year on the show. Every month or so we have a new s heel of the year. And in my brain, I think I have got to start finding more positive people. I have such a bad relationship with my imagination of the general public. It's called cynicism and it's called reality. And I also say that I do find myself, and I think most of us do, looking past great moments. And there is a dude in Maricopa we need to talk about. Real Arizona heroes. Real Arizona heroes. 63 year old Michael Blunt. This is the most heroic thing I've heard a dude do in a long time, and he died doing it. He needs credit. His backyard. There was a fire in his backyard in Maricopa. 63 years old, had heart troubles, right? Wasn't in great shape, evidently. Notice that the. As he tried to put the fire out in the backyard, it's, you know, Maricopa, it's dry desert. You're out there, you know. I don't know what his situation was, but the fire quickly spread, hit the house. House. He noticed. Oh, my God. Not only is my house on fire, it's already in the attic, which is the worst kind of house fire because that means it's all coming down soon and you're not. You're not doing well. So it starts to fill with smoke. He notices that. He's like, my wife's in there. Dude runs into the house, grabs the wife, gets her out, right? Then he. He ran into the burning home, rescued his wife to prevent the fire from spreading. He grabbed the hose or whatever and then went right back in there and tried to go in because he noticed that the fire in his house was spreading at such a rate. It was about to jump into. I think that's what this is, if I may be inaccurately doing this. But it was about to jump over into the bedroom of the nursery of the house next door. So he's trying to get it out on his own before they got there. So he's in there and it's not smart, but he went in there because it was close to the neighbor's kids room and he started to do the work and realized, oh, and ran out. They don't know if it was smoke inhalation. They're not. They didn't say that was it. They think he had a heart attack saving everyone, sickness. And without him doing what he did, it would have been 10 times worse. So sometimes we have to sit back and go. We also have as many S heels as I talk about on the air. We also have dudes like that who need statues built of them, who do stuff that I'm not sure I would do. Running. Running into a burning building to make sure the neighbor's house didn't start on fire. That's amazing. Also tells me that the houses of Maricopa are too close together. And they are, but man, oh man, because he, you know, the attic fire, the. The eaves of your house are within a foot. Could have been those row houses. Yeah, or that. But even still, if you've been to a lot of. I mean, even Mesa Gilbert Tempe, the new neighborhoods are tight and there's like a. The setback is like two and a half feet from house to house when the roof eaves are. So he knew that and he's like, this can't spread any further. And he went back to try to stop it simply because he said to the people as he went to the kids room next door, I gotta stop this before the fire. Somebody's gotta do something. He went back in. So to this dude and his family and the loss. Terrible. But instead of focusing so much much on all the awful people we have in the world, sometimes heroes end up doing something and families lose a guy. And this dude sounds like he was one of them now. Also, it erases everything horrible this guy may have done in his 63 years. He might have been a degenerate, horrible person. We don't know. Sounds like he was a nice guy, but you don't know. We don't know him. The news only tells you one thing. But when you do something like that, it erases everything bad. Like there isn't a thing. Like your wife could hate you, your kids could hate you, your dad and mom could hate you, you could hate this person at work. You could be the worst. But you run into a burning building, save someone, and go back in to try to save the neighbor's house too. Whatever you've done in the past is erased. You no longer have you're forgiven for all of it, and you're remembered for that. And that only. I don't know this dude's story, but that's a good way to go out when you think about it, saving people from a burning building. So if you're on like Brady right now, if you're driving home, you're like, you know, what future could be dim? You don't know whole thing. Run into a burning building and save some people and no one will care about anything. That'll be your legacy. If the last thing you do in your life is your legacy, awesome work. Because then you can get away with everything. Your whole entire existence. For 63 years, I've done some dumb stuff in my life. If I ran into a burning building today and saved some people, there isn't anybody could be. Yeah, but he's also. No, he's a dude who ran into a burning building and saved people. You want to bring up his past? It's over. What I'm saying is we need a lot more burning buildings, that we need a lot more people doing work. That's it. Firefighters don't get all the credit. They're great people, but they're paid to do it. This dude wasn't. And even after he got his wife out when all the. That was it, it was over, he went back in there to make sure that didn't get anybody out. That's amazing. So we will focus today on a real hero of Arizona. They also live amongst us, Michael Blunt. And unfortunately, we lost him. But it was a big ass fire down there in Maricopa, and he did everything he could to do it. Think about that next time you see a house fire. My buddy Rich drove by a house fire on Campbell and 24th street thereabouts. And he called me and he's like, dude, I'm sitting outside. Just went inside and just got this lady out of a house. It's burning. And you know what sucks about that? Right as he was doing that, because she kept trying to go back in. He kept pulling her. He's like, nobody's in there. You got to stay out. Got to stay out. The firefighters were there right about the same time, and they got all the credit. He didn't get any news coverage at all. It was on the news and everything didn't. Rich did a lot of it. And also, if you're going to do this, make sure that the people you're saving speak English. Because evidently the lady wasn't real good with English, so she couldn't save this Guy helped me. And then the firefighters are like, get out of here. Go on. We got it from here. And then they came in and stole all of his valor. But he did a good thing. And I'll throw that out there. Rich balls. Nice job. I also happen to notice that at least he wasn't under investigation for starting the fire. No, don't start the fire and then save it. A lot of people do that. Like, a lot of people like that guy that started the Rodeo Cheddar sky fire. One half of that fire was started by a former firefighter who wanted credit for stopping it and got out of control. So he started the fire, and then he was going to be the hero, and he lit the entire forest on fire, and then, oops. Then it merged with another fire, and that was his fault. So don't do. Don't be a hero. Don't, you know, don't fake it. But if you see a house fire and you've got a couple of, you know, you know, petty thefts, a felony maybe you want to get rid of, pretty good way to do it. Now, I know the fire department's like, what is Holmberg saying? What I'm saying is, citizens run into burning buildings. It's good for your legacy. That's what I'm saying. It was a dude driving that train today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. After that, you know, his boss is gonna be like, what in the hell were you thinking? Oh, we got a little drunk. I was banging my side piece. She dared me. It's like, you are a horrible, degenerate human being. I don't think I want to be associated with you. And then he's driving home, he sees a house fire, runs in there, saves a cat, a dog, and a kid comes out. Suddenly, nobody remembers the train theft, the side piece. You can take the train anytime you want. They're gonna give you a train for that. You can have the Desert Sky Mall train. You absolute awesome hero. Your side piece has a nice ass. Like, everything you do now is gonna be all glowy. Give him a break. Why weren't you servicing this hero wife? I didn't. He deserves a side, everybody. Blow him. It eliminates all bad things you've ever done. So heroes with checkered pasts. The only thing it won't fix is, like, child stuff. Don't. If you've ever. Don't think going in. We're gonna think you went in there to go get a kid. Don't do it. If you've got a. If you're on the list for Sex predator for kids. And you're running into burning buildings to save kids. We'd rather have the kids still in the house. Let's be honest. The only thing I found was this kid. I found this kid. I wasn't even near the house. He brought me to the fire. Shut up. He has no. He's on the. Shut. Shut up. He was in there. He seems delirious from the smoke. This isn't smoke at all. You just used shaved black crayon on your maid. Soot on his face, you son of a bitch. Yeah, but that's a good thing. So congratulations. It's an amazing story. And I think I focus my personal self. I focus way too much on all the awful stories. That's a news thing though. The news does it. They focus on terrible and good news things. Or tragic but heroic. We don't ever do that. That just goes without. You know. They love car crashes. They love this guy. Did this. Terrible. Just throw in the cute story at the end. It's usually fluff. This is a real hero. This dude walked amongst us. And so I always say that the pigs and the weirdos walk amongst us and we point them out. Sometimes you point out a hero who can't do it anymore to his family. We're sorry for your loss, but that's a hell of a story to walk out, leaving this earth with that story. Goddamn. Bam. Well played, Michael Blunt. And you know, it's a. It's a rough way to go out, but man, it's a hell of a way to leave your name. And maybe you just die smiling because you're like, nobody's ever gonna remember that. I was a horrendous drunk. I used to piss off the top of my car into the neighbor's house. Didn't care. Erased it. Everything you've ever done, Brett, will never. Won't be remembered anymore for grabbing girls genitals at the big surf in eighth grade. That's like. That's your current legacy now. He'd run into a house. Brett could run into a burning house fire and pull a girl out like a six pack. And people be like, that's just what he does. He's a hero. I got her out. I'm spinning her like Curly Neil on your middle finger. Anyway, Just saying. Michael Blunt, hero. Go. That's it. That's true. If you're Mr. Nathan Sutherland or Paul Manchaka, this doesn't apply to you. There's certain people that can't. There's. Oh, people already making pictures of Brady in Front of his Ford Tempo and his target here. That has to be exactly how that looked. Salesman Brady. Brett, what do you got on the big board of Musical Treats? Wake up. So I'm brought to you by, of course, Action Ride Shop. Our boys, Josh and everybody else over there going to take care of you getting back on the trails. The bike's been sitting for a little while if you haven't been riding at night. So it's now it's time to get those things serviced. And there's no better place to do that than Action Ride Shop. Two loc, right there on Gilbert Road and Southern. Or of course, the brand new one right there on power Road at McDowell. And if you want to pick up a brand new bike, got full line, they get you in. Whatever you need, they got it for you. And they got all the advice that'll get you in the right direction. So it is Action Ride Shop. ActionRide Shop.com on the list. Apocalyptica, Motorhead. Sir Mix A Lot my Hoopty for Brady's Cars. Limp Biscuit Rolling for Brady's Cars. Yeah. Ghost, Judas Priest, the Hives, nwa. I'm not gonna try to say it again because I'll start. Nope, don't do it. Coffin Cats, Venge Sevenfold and Living Color. I like Roland for Brady's Cars. All right, all right. Brady Carl, the Model T driver. Brady is once again this month's top salesman. And we all know what happens next. I get my grilled cheese? That's right. God damn it. Grilled cheese is for closers. And you closed again. Brady. Brady's gonna carpet the world one grilled cheese prize at a time. That's what I can't pay in money this week. Oh, Mr. Gerlick. Why? Well, I can pay you in Wendy's Frosties. I thought you said you couldn't pay me in money. That's better than money. Like I said, you can make a lot of money. You can make. You can make you living in the cream. That Tempo had to smell like rotten dairy and carpet samples. That's the carpet glue that's gonna get you. I'm getting dizzy. I don't think I want to be on this date. I feel like you've poisoned me. Oh, no, no, no. That's the carpet glue sample. Makes me feel really happy. Don't reach into that bag. Those are my fries. Those are my drive the date to the restaurant fry bag. I can't. Can you hand me my bottle of Polo cologne? It smells like a forest. And carpet glue in here. Yeah, you're welcome. Scotchgard. In Jakkar, I'd use the Scotchgard that is Drakkar scented. So your house. Whoa, whoa. Don't sit on the Varnays. Yeah, those are mine. For a daytime driving in sales, number one sales at Garlic Carpet is me and Carl are in quite a heated battle. You might notice I'm doing pretty well from my blue Tempo. It's not brand new. Only got 20 miles on this baby, and it already needs some work. Ford Tempo. If you can't get an erection, you need a Tempo. Let's do it. For Brady and his Tempo sales days. And the nerve to tell us 50 years later can make a lot of money selling cars. Get yourself in a smooth temple like me. It's rolling. It's 98 KUPD. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.
Podcast: Holmberg's Morning Sickness – Arizona
Episode Date: August 21, 2025
Main Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo (absent)
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Hilarious, irreverent banter as Holmberg and the crew riff on local events, personal stories, and offbeat news—including a deep dive into why coins have ridges, the new term "hamstering" (with a sunroof), Brady's embarrassing Ford Tempo sales days, and a heartwarming tribute to a heroic Maricopa resident.
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness embraces the show’s trademark blend of wisecracks, local flavor, and semi-educational sidetracks. John and the crew juggle topics ranging from Phoenix’s water drive and neighborhood oddities to new sex “trends,” a comedic trip down Brady’s awkward past, and a solemn salute to real-life heroism.
“91% of it has already been given out. Damn. Yeah, that’s 900,000 bottles of water that have already gone out.” – John (10:52)
(45:30–1:05:45)
“What are you talking about? It’s a Tempo. It’ll start right up... No, no, no. The relationship.” – John, impersonating Brady (53:14)
“I grew up. I’m so sorry. Never forgot the sound when she’d get up out of the seat and you hear those beads rattling the beaded seats. Like a Mideast taxi driver.” – John (56:10)
“If you bring that train to the station, Brady will give you... our station will give you $10,000. How about that?” – John (25:30)
(Joking, not a real offer!)
“Back in the day when they made coins out of precious metals, Jews would clip it off... She said this to us, and she wasn’t being racist. She was just telling the story.” – John (36:30)
“Yes, when I brought up hamstring [sic], it is a real thing. People are getting caught hamstring like crazy.” – John (48:12) “Imagine walking up on someone hamstring. Well, I mean it’s... pretty obvious.” – John (50:00)
“Whatever you’ve done in the past is erased... If the last thing you do in your life is your legacy, awesome work. Because then you can get away with everything, your whole entire existence.” – John (1:09:03)
“We will focus today on a real hero of Arizona... Michael Blunt. And unfortunately, we lost him. But it was a big ass fire down there in Maricopa, and he did everything he could to do it.” – John (1:13:10)
True to form, Holmberg’s Morning Sickness delivers a scattershot run through sarcasm, self-effacing humor, local news skewering, and the occasional moment of genuine gravity. Even at its rowdiest, the show swings easily between roast, riff, and reflection—with John anchoring each segment with wit and just a hint of wisdom for listeners.
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If you want both belly laughs and a surprising tribute to Arizona decency, this episode is a perfect showcase—equal parts nonsense, inside jokes, shocking sex trends, and a heartfelt nod to everyday bravery.