08-26-25 - Brady Lent Out His Generator Over A Year Ago To A Friend Who Said She'd Pay Him For It And Hasn't Gotten It Back BO

Summary

Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – August 26, 2025

Episode Overview

In this lively episode, the crew dives into Brady’s year-long saga of lending out his generator to a friend’s acquaintance — a favor that has morphed into an unpaid, unreturned loan. Holmberg and the gang use Brady’s predicament as a springboard for on-air playful ribbing, discussions about the perils of lending things to friends, and the hilarious concept of “Brett’s Collections”—a new segment idea where the show intervenes to retrieve listeners’ borrowed or lost stuff. The episode is full of signature sarcasm, group banter, and exposes the pitfalls of good intentions gone awry.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Generator Debacle

[02:00 – 08:00]

• Brady’s Story: Brady lent his generator over a year ago to a friend (Peter), who claimed an acquaintance needed it for her inflatable rental party business. Peter assured Brady she’d pay to rent it. Brady hasn’t seen the generator or the money since.
• The team is incredulous both at the business itself (“What kind of guy runs an inflatable business without power?” – E, 02:47) and Brady’s trusting nature.
• The group calculates that if the $200/week rental fee were honored, Brady would be owed around $10,000 after a year, sparking jokes about late fees and mafia-style collections.

2. Calling Out Peter, Accountability, and Group Roasting

[03:08 – 04:30]

• The show suggests directly calling Peter on-air to rectify the situation, riffing about playing “Brett’s Collections,” where show member Brett adopts an intimidating, Godfather-esque persona to get items returned.
• Holmberg summarizes the issue: "Peter is the guy. Yeah. Not some lady. You said yes to Peter." (E, 04:13)
• There is playful talk of utilizing Jewish and Italian stereotypes, referencing “Hesh” from The Sopranos and jokingly planning intimidation tactics to get the generator back.

3. The Risks and Realities of Lending

[07:00 – 13:00]

• The story morphs into a general discussion about the dangers and etiquette of lending friends possessions. Brady admits he rarely even used the generator, which adds salt to the wound.
• The crew points out better ways to handle such situations (get things in writing, use actual rental companies) and ridicule how the inflatable business didn’t have basic equipment.
  • “That’s like us starting a radio station with no microphones." (A, 22:34)
  • “Why are you starting DoorDash with no car?” (E, 23:07)
• Lending is compared to “barter town” and the pitfalls of bartering services for non-cash payments, with more stories about odd trades and payment mishaps.

4. Assorted Side-Stories & Tangents

[09:00 – 12:30]

• Brady recounts being paid for work with a Salvador Dali print and how it was repossessed, then being given unwanted art as another form of “payment.”
• The group discusses how unwanted objects end up with the most accommodating family member—“You’re the dump.”

5. Comedy Segment: “Brett’s Collections”

[13:50 – 14:29, 26:45 – 27:30]

• The group pitches a new show segment where Brett, using stereotypical “muscle,” helps listeners get back lent or stolen items: “Once the court fails, call Brett.” (E, 26:46)
• They invite listeners to email in their collection needs for on-air shakedowns.

6. The Real Lesson: Lending vs. Giving

[23:39 – 24:18]

• Holmberg gives the episode’s “moral,” explaining that lending often leads to lost relationships, while lending objects comes with the expectation of return.
  • “Lending money is a moment where you're like, this is... I don't expect it back. Because if I do, we're gonna not be friends… Lending big, fat products to a friend, you expect that back...” (E, 23:43)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Peter Kaufman… he stole your generator.”
  – E (John Holmberg) [02:11]

• “You got scammed. Right now it's looking that way.”
  – F (Brady) [02:44]

• “What kind of guy runs an inflatable business without power?”
  – E [02:47]
  (Immediate follow-up: “It's a lady. I don't even know her. Peter's been a standup guy up until now, obviously.” – F)

• “He stood up for this broad. He vouched. Peter is the guy. Not some lady. You said yes to Peter.”
  – E [04:10]

• “That’s like us starting a radio station with no microphones.”
  – A [22:34]

• “Instead of just taking money for service, some lady said, I’m not going to give you money. Here’s a drawing we keep in our garage.”
  – E [09:12]

• "This is a lesson of, no, thank you."
  – E [23:39]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Generator Story Kickoff: [02:00 – 04:30]
• Generator Value & Lending Calculations: [05:55 – 07:41]
• Bartering Antics & Failed Payments: [09:04 – 12:18]
• Comedy Brainstorm: Brett’s Collections: [13:50 – 14:29, 26:45 – 27:30]
• The Real Lesson on Lending: [23:39 – 24:18]
• Show Close & Listener Involvement Invite: [26:45 – 27:30]

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Tone & Style

The episode is drenched in the show’s signature irreverence, full of jabs at each other’s gullibility and “nice guy” tendencies. John Holmberg (E) dominates much of the conversation, providing sharp comedic insight, with Brady serving as the good-natured, occasionally naive foil. The crew’s banter is quick, self-deprecating, and peppered with analogies and call-backs to pop culture and past inside jokes.

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Summary Takeaway

The crew turns Brady’s missing generator into comedic gold—mocking his trusting nature and the bizarre lending arrangement, fantasizing about mafioso-style collections, and warning listeners about the line between being nice and being naive. The episode is a relatable, laugh-filled exploration of the trials and tribulations of borrowing, lending, and the hilarious unpredictability of “helping a friend.”

Transcript

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[E]

The rest of home birth's morning sickness this is the big red radio. Yeah so long as you'd be miserable without eating rice every day by the third day you'd kill burnout. Yes you'd be done.

[A]

Do they got generators and everything? Is everybody putting generators in the houses.

[F]

Over there and there's some yeah I I had a job but a guy.

[E]

Use it for never got it back. Yeah haven't got it who used it Call that dude out.

[A]

Yeah Peter.

[E]

Let's go. Peter Kaufman he stole your generator.

[F]

He's gonna give me my generator.

[E]

He's gonna get you your generator?

[F]

Yeah he had a friend that had was doing those parties the inflatable things.

[E]

And he took birthday party he had the inflatables and no generator.

[F]

Well, it's. Yeah. This long story.

[E]

Well, no, it's not. I'm interested. I was like, I still.

[F]

He's like, can I borrow your generator for this lady? And she'll basically pay you to borrow the generator.

[A]

Get the money at least.

[F]

I got nothing, right?

[E]

Oh, and. And a generator.

[F]

You got scammed right now it's looking that way.

[E]

What kind of guy runs an inflatable business without power?

[F]

It's a lady. I don't even know her friend Peter's been a standup guy up until now, obviously.

[E]

When did this happen?

[F]

Let's say a year, year ago.

[E]

And have you talked? You said, where's my generator?

[F]

He'll get. He'll get it squared up.

[E]

No, today.

[A]

So I'm giving you a call today.

[E]

No, when you talk to him. Just. Yeah, let's call Peter. What's the deal with the generator? In fact, we should do a whole day where people have us call people that have some of their belongings and get them back.

[A]

Let's collect.

[E]

We should do collections today. This is the thing. Brett's collections. We're going to put Brett on the. How you doing? Understand? You got the generator of Brady Bogans. We're going to have Brett. We're going to Italian Godfather call people today. Now, that's the whole show. I don't care what else we do today. We're collecting. Everybody's borrowed something from someone else. I know. I currently have an extension cord from my friend Mark. And the funny thing was, he said, I want that back. I'm like, you got it. And I wrote my name and address on the thing that holds it. And then he comes through. He goes, that's mine. And I'm like, well, I mean, clearly it's not. It's got my name and address on it. You're such a dick. And so I give it back to him, and every time I go to his house, I take it home. It's mine. So I go in the garage, so I have it. But that's more of a joke between friends, right? Your guy Peter stole your generator.

[A]

I think Peter owes you, you know.

[G]

Yeah, he.

[A]

He stood up for this broad. He vouched.

[E]

Yeah. Peter is the guy. Yeah. Not some lady. You said yes to Peter.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

You need that generator back, too. Sweet. You want to call Peter this morning? Are you still.

[F]

Yeah, we might be able to.

[E]

Yeah, we'll call him in just a few minutes, and we'll have. We'll have Brett and his people. They'll be handling this. Absolutely. No problem. I think. Are you nervous about this? You seem like you're a powerful Jewish man.

[A]

Oh, well, then John needs to talk to him. I don't speak that language.

[E]

I'll talk to him. Yeah, but I still need. I still need Brett's backup. I got you. Yeah, I know my people have Brett's backup. That's. I've watched a lot of movies in the. And the Jews usually have a couple of Italian guys that are in, like, I'm in with you guys. Yeah. What was his name in Sopranos? The Jewish guy that. Hesh. Hesh. I'm Hesh. That's perfect. I adore Peter. Shalom, friend. I understand you needed a little inexpensive.

[F]

Generation of power a few weeks ago.

[E]

Maybe a year, for a lonely old lady who had inflatables and no juice. No juice? No. No juice.

[F]

Sor.

[E]

How in the world.

[A]

My dead lady say, peter, I need.

[E]

A generator for the inflatable I bought. Plug it into your house or go buy one or. Well, yeah.

[A]

You own a business that needs it.

[E]

Why did you feel obligated to give Peter your generator? Just because.

[F]

Well, no, he said you got one, and I had, and I did, and it was gonna turn out to be a pretty good deal.

[E]

How much?

[F]

200 bucks a week.

[E]

Oh, you were renting it out for a long time.

[F]

Yeah. I mean, she can use $200 a.

[E]

Weekend, but you can buy a generator for, like, nothing.

[A]

And, like, how many weekends have we had now?

[E]

So since then.

[F]

Well, like, if you get the. Like, a Honda generator, whatever those are, two or three grand.

[E]

I just got one from Luke at icon for 50 bucks. Generator? Yeah, he has an old one. He's like, you want a generator? And I'm like, I don't even know if I need one. He goes, I've got one. I'm not using it. Cost me 50 bucks. I'll give it to you for 50 bucks. I gotta call Luke. All right.

[F]

Yeah, they're pretty handy.

[E]

I've never had. I don't know that I'll ever need.

[F]

But the thing is, is, like, I was thinking when I got it.

[E]

Brady, you know, I got. I got something for you, kid. It's in the garage for $200 every time you need it. 200 bucks a weekend. That's a good deal.

[F]

I'm like, all right, I'm in.

[E]

Absolutely. I'm in the season.

[F]

It was the. You know, obviously, they're not doing too much in the summer.

[E]

Too good to be true is the answer to that one. 200 bucks for a Generator a week. And my first question is, you're starting a business. Is that what she was doing?

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

And she wouldn't go out and invest in a generator.

[F]

I never met the lady. It was just. Did you.

[E]

Did you have to cut anything out of, like, pages out of books and send cash to anybody who was a general or anything?

[F]

No.

[E]

This is on your side. Yeah. This is a grift.

[F]

It was one of those things where you. You did it. You're like, all right. The guy. You know, you're still friends with the dude for 600.

[E]

$600. Yeah.

[A]

479.

[E]

Brett's pulled up a whole page of generators.

[F]

Those are the ones that they use. Is probably like the 22.95.

[A]

That's the one you had. No, I'll get on the phone.

[E]

I was going to say. How much was yours?

[F]

Seven or eight hundred bucks.

[E]

And this lady was going to rent it for $200 a weekend. A weekend?

[F]

Yeah. If she had an event on the weekend, she would just bill. Build that in there. 200 that.

[E]

She's a. That. She's going out of business in a heartbeat. We're getting that gentleman now.

[F]

Who's the moron?

[E]

You are. Me? You are. You are. You know what? You better start cooking that rice because I don't think you're gonna make it. You get duped when there's no doomsday. Losing the generator. Imagine what's gonna happen when the. When the flim. Flip man comes to town promising you the world. When the world's come to an end.

[F]

Here's. And the. The other thing about it is you. Okay. You finally. You get that generator back. I've never used it.

[E]

Right.

[F]

So someone used it for a year and a half.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

Years. And here I got your generator back.

[E]

And where's my cash?

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah. You're indignant little.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

Is. Yeah. You act like you had something. You know, you got. You got duped on this one.

[F]

Even if it's just sitting in a garage.

[E]

When's the last time?

[A]

Yeah, but it's not. It's not in your garage.

[E]

That's the key. When's the last time you said, hey, Peter, it's been a.

[F]

It's been four or five months since.

[E]

You brought it up.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

We're calling Peter. This is ridiculous. This all started because the guy's got a Malibu in a driveway. Turns out we're gonna save Brady's life. Remember that? Were you? Yeah. You were here for the dolly painting, right? Dolly Brady. Oh, yeah.

[A]

Well, I think that Happened oh, before me.

[F]

Got a little update on that.

[E]

And it was a. Brady was paid because they. They're in barter town. His wife was paid.

[F]

Yeah, this is Ronnie Steel.

[E]

Yeah, but still, you've taught her Bartertown. Instead of just taking money for service, some lady said, I'm not going to give you money. Here's a drawing we keep in our garage. And it turned out it was a Salvador Dolly original. Then she comes. Then she comes. I don't care who the it is. You pay with money or you run into these problems.

[F]

You know, John.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

That when the husband got home, you ain't giving that away.

[E]

Right.

[F]

Because he makes the call on that.

[E]

Well, that would be because they know they can start, you know, bartering with items rather than money. Write me a check and give me the value of whatever. Because if you don't, you find out what you gave me was too much, we're in a fight. Or if it's too little, we're in a fight. So the lady comes banging on the door, give me my Salvador Dali back.

[A]

That was my money.

[F]

So I got it. No, I got an Antiques Roadshow caper update.

[E]

Oh, no. Same aunt, same lady.

[F]

They. They're in the process because they're going to a retirement home now.

[E]

Okay. They're selling everything still around.

[F]

There's going to be an estate sale, whatever, later.

[E]

Wasn't he kind of. They're both still alive back then, right?

[F]

Well, he had. He had stroke and then he recovered and.

[E]

Okay, good.

[F]

So, anyway, they're going through their stuff. Years of collecting.

[E]

Sure.

[A]

And reclaim.

[F]

She still comes over and she gave us another painting.

[E]

No, you just say no?

[F]

She just said I wanted.

[E]

It wasn't payment.

[F]

And she's also said a couple of times that one. That. That we did have. Yeah, we want you guys to have.

[E]

Where is it?

[F]

Well, you can't. You gotta. I mean, they said go collect.

[E]

I've heard that before. We're gonna call them, too.

[F]

There's the replacement.

[E]

The hell is that?

[F]

I don't know.

[E]

Some old fat man having a beer, painting.

[F]

And I've been trying to look.

[E]

No, you just say, no, thank you. Where's your no, thank you? Is that at your house?

[F]

Yeah, it's at the house.

[E]

You just say no, thank you to people who try to pay you in garbage.

[F]

I came home and this was there.

[E]

Tell Johnny better you need to stop doing it and teach your wife and child that barter town is over. This is not road show with this. No, this is not fun.

[F]

And here I just Want to hear that?

[E]

Sure. I'm sorry. This was done by a retarded German child in 1993.

[A]

Someone did our portraits back in the day.

[E]

How much did you spend on this? Well, my wife gave away 30 years of service to a lady and a couple of thousand years worth of cheese and rice. It's worth about 11.

[F]

She was into my wife for a year.

[E]

So she told you this has value?

[F]

No, she didn't say anything.

[E]

She just said, I want you to.

[F]

Have our graveyard going through stuff. And.

[E]

No, no one wants this in the.

[F]

Pecking order of the kids.

[E]

And you got what nobody wanted. You got the dump down.

[F]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

She's cleaning her house and she's like, I can't throw this.

[F]

There's still more cleaning to do.

[E]

You're the. You're the dump. Just say, no, thank you. Yeah, all of her kids said, no, thank you.

[F]

Yeah, they passed on that one. They've passed on a couple of things.

[E]

And they end up in your duties out there. You're the last ditch. Yes.

[F]

Oh, Brady, I didn't have the call on that.

[E]

Yeah, I know, but you know, it.

[F]

Goes good in the.

[E]

You need to make the call. I gotta hang it up, return the favor of what they did in the first place and bring it back and go, I don't want this. I didn't make the call. Here. Remember when you did this to me with the dolly thing? And you came back and said, ah, this is no good, give it back. I'm doing the same thing with this. How long.

[A]

How long did the dolly stay before it got repossessed?

[F]

Month or two.

[E]

All right.

[A]

How long you had this one?

[F]

About the same. A month.

[A]

All right, it's coming.

[E]

Here's how it works.

[F]

Could be.

[E]

Christopher says there's no room. In the end, though, Peter vouched for that broad with Brady's generator. And doing that, it becomes his debt. Yep. Collect a generator and a handsome fee or give him a limp. There you go. He knows how it works. Brady's 90 day supply of food is a two week supply of food. And that's with Kirby and Ronnie not touching it.

[F]

We didn't get into that.

[E]

Oh, yeah, they're not getting any of that. I know who's. I know. I know what goes on there. They're getting pushed out to the wolves. Wow. That's it. Remember? And it's this member in Brady's not telling you something and Breaking Bad, that old lady gave money to her drug addicted son to buy a generator and he spent the whole wad on drugs. So he went to Brady's to borrow the generator. That's exactly what happened in Breaking Bad. The lady gave money to the kid. You go buy the generator and he bought drugs instead. And then he needed to bring a generator home. So he robbed a guy. That's exactly what Peter just did to you.

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[E]

Holmberg's Morning Sickness.

[F]

It's one of those situations where it's like it's a head scratcher in a way. So here's the dude, this generator would be nothing. I Mean, it's no big deal.

[E]

No, it's not yours.

[F]

No, no. For him, as far as it's not. It's not like he's a drug problem. He's hurting for money, right? It's quite the opposite.

[E]

But why get you a new generator plus a handsome fee.

[A]

Yeah, you got late fees on there, too.

[F]

I gotta tell you, I. I think.

[E]

You owe me some money there, Peter. Along with a brand new generator. I don't want that used piece of back. I don't know what she's been doing with it. She can have it. You owe me money. We're calling Peter. We're gonna take care of this for you. Got Meyer, Lance over here and a brand new generator. By the end of today, or maybe, I don't know, Peter's gonna have a little issue at his sauce factory. Maybe the bottles just spontaneously stop blowing up. It would be a shame, right, Brett? Be quite a shame if your entire operation was mostly cleanup.

[F]

I think.

[A]

As Chris Clark says, baseball bats speak all languages.

[E]

That's exactly right. What kind of profit is that lady running from inflatables to have a 200A weekend generator? I know she's running some business that is below the line. Absolutely below that. There is no way that's legitimate. If she's willing to kick the $200 for generator fees. That's what Pratt used to say. I do bar parties, and the owners would tip me five grand. You know what kind of night the owner would have to have for a $5,000 tip? To the dude going, hey, thanks for coming. He's alive those days. So it didn't happen. Yeah, and this was in the early 80s when that $5,000 was 20 grand. I mean, we've had some pretty successful events. I've never had the guy at Four Peaks come over and go, what a night. Here's $20,000 extra for you guys. It's like, wow, what a night. You must have made a hundred thousand dollars profit. $200 on inflatable. How much is it to red inflatables? 400 bucks total. For a pretty good setup, I'm guessing.

[A]

Peter.

[G]

Peter Barnes.

[E]

Fist. Peter. Peter. What?

[A]

Peter.

[E]

Peter.

[A]

Fist eater.

[F]

Peter. Peter.

[E]

I don't understand what's going on. All right, we're gonna call him Brady. You are indirectly involved in some sort of underground drug operation. There's no way an inflatable company.

[F]

Not yet. Not until I get paid.

[E]

That's true. And it's going to be dirty money. There's no way an inflatable weekend gig can afford $200 in generator expenses.

[F]

It sounded good to me at the time.

[E]

It's great for you.

[F]

It's sitting in my garage. You can use it. Buddy, Friendo.

[E]

I got a lady start a little inflatable company. One thing she forgot. Power. We don't know where to get that. Do you happen to. Oh, I got that. $200 a weekend. Every. Every weekend. Yeah. That's reasonable.

[F]

In fact, I borrowed another generator from another buddy and I got his back for him.

[E]

Well, yeah, that's the point of borrowing.

[F]

There's a weekend I needed anyway. You can get a second generator. Like, I got a friend that has one. Let me ask you. And that took, you know, four weeks to give back. Yeah.

[E]

Would you live far away?

[F]

But it was just sitting in his garage as well.

[E]

Wait, that was your generator?

[F]

I ended up getting my generator and then another.

[E]

You borrowed a generator for a person who needed a generator?

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

But you own one and you had one.

[F]

I had one. And the person, this party lady or whatever needed two of them.

[E]

So you went out of your way to go borrow another generator, which, by the way, you can rent.

[A]

Yeah, they're like 50 bucks.

[E]

I was gonna say A to Z rentals. Yeah. You can go get generators and keep your costs lower. You're in something you don't even know.

[F]

No.

[E]

Your wide eyed rose glasses are in something.

[F]

This might have been for his kid's birthday.

[E]

It doesn't matter.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

Yeah, you're.

[E]

Yeah. When you say it out loud, you're starting to hear the stupidity, right?

[F]

When you say. Well, no, the stupidity is when you say you could rent one for 50 bucks. Yeah. Or 100 bucks.

[E]

Yeah.

[F]

You're talking to people that are very tight.

[E]

Okay, so 200. So they. They doubled the price and took your generator.

[F]

Well, I'm just saying, bar misfits pay.

[E]

If you robbed the little boy.

[F]

No, she's got. It's all friends and relatives that go to her party business. She's starting a business, so she has a community that supports her.

[E]

Britta, your generator is sitting in a freshly dug tunnel just outside of Nogales, pumping air for smugglers. You have blood on your hands.

[F]

Tunnel should be done.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

You can rent one at Home Depot for 85 bucks a day or 340 for the week.

[E]

For a week. Popping two bills to Brady for a party.

[F]

She'd be in basically for the week. Five a day.

[A]

Or you can go four weeks at, you know, 10, 20 if you want to cut her a break.

[E]

If you want to get it for the Month. It's. It's.

[F]

So you're looking at 85 a day. She's gonna turn that thing in on. She'll have it for the weekend, right?

[A]

Pick it up on Friday, drop it off.

[F]

Bucks.

[E]

No, no, she wouldn't. I'll tell you this right now.

[F]

She has two parties.

[E]

If she's got two parties, 85 bucks a day is fine. If she's running you $200 for the weekend and she's got multiple parties going, that one, it's still costing a lot of money.

[F]

She's got. I'd be making Home Depot money at four weeks.

[E]

Yep.

[F]

I should.

[A]

How long ago was this?

[F]

She'd have five weeks with me.

[E]

Home Depot doesn't give a if you have a party or not. So long as you've got it. You're paying that daily fee.

[F]

Yeah. And you're getting a credit card. Cuz that doesn't return.

[E]

They're going to bang you out the whole thing. Every day you've got it. You're paying a rental fee. Yeah, sure, you can borrow that. And I might need another one. I don't know. I'll call around. Ready?

[A]

Come on, Lincoln. This weekend.

[E]

You know what I need this weekend? I need a house. I need a place to stay, but I don't want anybody in it and I don't like furniture. So if you could get it all out of there. Yeah, we're calling Peter and we're gonna look. Ask a few questions in your life, man. Where's my generator? And what really happened there with the party lady? That's a stupid business to start. And you're saying she's so busy she's having multiple parties on the weekend. She has no generator. Yeah, it wouldn't be worth it to invest.

[F]

No, it's gone.

[E]

I don't care if it's gone or not. I still. I've got so many questions about the lady who needed it. She started a business, it's thriving. She's got multiple parties a weekend and she doesn't think I should invest in one of these instead of paying Brady $200 every time I need it and never give it back. By the way. She's also a grifter, but that's like.

[F]

Been taking the 200 bucks a week.

[E]

This lady is absolutely not running an inflatable birthday bar mitzvah party.

[A]

That's like us starting a radio station with no microphones.

[E]

Right.

[A]

And trips out there going, hey, can I borrow some microphones from somebody?

[E]

We're pretty excited about this entire operation, but we did forget microphones, Brady. Got a garage full of those. I'll tell you, instead of buying them for our radio station, which is absolutely essential to have, we'll rent them from you because we're idiots. Sure, I got a whole bunch of them. We'll rent those from you because we're too stupid to start a radio station and actually invest in the things you'd need. Hey, Brady, I've got an Uber I want to start, but I don't have a car.

[F]

I got one for you.

[E]

All right. Thank you. Why are you starting doordash with no car? I'll get one.

[F]

You gotta build your way up.

[E]

No, you just don't do that. Wow. You, sir, are in big trouble. Yeah. The person that you're talking to has an inflatable in the backyard, and they have the generator on, and it looks like they're having a party, but they're cooking meth inside those inflatables. There's no way nobody pays that kind of money for a friendly rent to generate.

[F]

You know, it's kind of like. It's a lesson of, like, lending money.

[E]

No, it's a lesson of, no, thank you. Lending money is different because lending money is a moment where you're like, this is. I'm giving this to you, and I don't expect it back. Because if I do, we're gonna not be friends. That's essentially it. Lending big fat products to a friend, you expect that back, and if you don't, you can say, hey, where's my one particular item? Oh, boy, this is bad news. You got another one. All this starts because some guy's Malibu in a garage.

[A]

Alan wants to hear a sledgehammer for Brady's Barter song. For the Wake Up Song.

[F]

Peter Gabriel.

[E]

So it begins. Pop Pop's getting scammed in his own neighborhood. As the nice guy. I hate to say this, and I knew the day would come. It's time to put him in a home. It's true. For his own safety, so he doesn't just start handing away everything. If that lady's had that for a year, she owes Brady $10,000 rental for that thing. Hold him to it. Yeah, why wouldn't you?

[F]

I need Judy.

[E]

He's a Judy. You got it right here. Show me the receipt. You told me Jewish businessman. 200 a weekend. As long as you had it. Well, we're at a year now. I haven't heard from you. By my math, owe me a few thousand dollars and my generator back, and I don't want the old Used up generator on a brand new one. But I'm gonna cut you a deal. I'll take the old one and with the money, I'll buy a new one.

[F]

Yeah?

[E]

What is it? It's been over a year.

[F]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

Oh, it's more than 10 grand.

[F]

That's assuming every. Every week.

[E]

It doesn't matter.

[A]

It's not in your garage for that day.

[E]

If it's not in your garage, she's renting it.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

If she says every weekend I have your generator, it's 200.

[A]

That's like renting a car from Enterprise and just having sit in your garage. Well, I only drove it twice. I mean, you know.

[E]

Yeah, but you didn't give it back. I guess you owe me for all these weekends you've had my generator. That was the deal. Do you have it in writing?

[F]

Oh, no, that's the thing. You can say all that.

[A]

You shake on it. You took this man's words.

[E]

Well, then there you go then. He owes.

[A]

Peter owes.

[E]

It won't be through lawyers that he gets taken care of. You know what I'm talking about, Rhett, you know what? No, I know what you're talking about. Brett's got a. An emergency van stop on 83rd Avenue in Indian school today. Yeah, we're taking care of Peter. Yeah. Look at, look. Look at him and go.

[F]

I'll give you the number.

[E]

All right, we'll call him. If anybody else wants some collections, we'll get. We'll get a few of those. I get a couple emails in there. Guy says, I'm an Italian from New York. Have Brett call my ex wife and ask him where the money is. She owes me for my son's college. College tuition for two years. She vacations. She's boss in New York with her drug addict husband who was the cause of all this money BS telling me she's going to give me money at the end of the month. Forget about it over here. How about that? I've really heard. I've heard from really good sources. She's looking to buy a couple of jet skis. The source is my child. Oh, man. That's when you can take the court.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

Once the court fails, call Brett. Brett's collections. That's a new segment on the show, Brett's collections. Everybody's got something to call a buddy. We'll call him up, say, hey, you. You got this guy's thing. If. Email me homeburger90kupd.com if you've got something. You're like, hey, my buddy, blah, blah, Blah. Took this from me. He's never given it back. I've asked a couple times. It's awkward now. And we'll call him up and we'll say, hey, how come you've got Brandon's thing here?

[A]

Damn it, Brady, collect that money and put it in your Trajan account, for God's sakes. You're getting.

[E]

Yep, it's a good buyback day. Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect.

[G]

All right, HMS Podcast time again. It'll let you know where to go for some great comedy in the Valley this week. Well, just in case you haven't been paying attention or if you've been mia, we'll let you know that Frank Caliendo is going to be performing at the Desert Ridge Improv this Friday and Saturday night. So tune in. Frank's going to be in with the guys all week long. And just maybe, we'll have tickets for you to go catch Frank live up north at Desert Ridge for the complete lineups. And for Tickets, go to standuplive.com desertridgeimprov.com and tempeimprov.com hey, what's up?

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