08-29-25 - Having An Honest Talk After Red Sox Player Is Suspended For Calling A Fan A Gay Slur From On Deck Circle BO

Summary

Episode Overview

Theme:
The hosts of Holmberg's Morning Sickness have a candid, provocative discussion about the recent suspension of Boston Red Sox’s Jarren Duran for calling a fan a gay slur (“homo F word”) from the on-deck circle. Through humor, personal anecdotes, and cultural critique, they explore double standards, outrage culture, and the complexities surrounding slurs, intent, and consequences—particularly in the context of Boston sports culture and live events.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Incident Breakdown: Red Sox Player, Slur, and Suspension

• Summary:
  • Jarren Duran, after heckling from fans during a game, retaliated by calling one a homophobic slur. The incident was picked up by field mics. Duran was suspended for two games and made to apologize to the LGBTQ community.
  • The hosts describe Boston’s sporting environment as both crude and uniquely desensitized to slurs.
  • [02:30] Brett: “As far as I understand it, all racial slurs were born in Boston. This is a tribute to the city. ... I'm going to call you the worst thing in the world when you have the balls to stand up and scream at me.”

2. Intent vs. Outrage: ‘Slur of Passion’ Concept

• Debate on Intent:
  • The hosts argue that there’s a difference between intended bigotry and anger-fueled, spur-of-the-moment insults—what they label a “slur of passion.”
  • [05:31] Brett: “When will we have the forgiveness of the slur of passion? That it wasn’t premeditated... This guy pissed me off and I threw a bomb at him. I nuked him verbally.”
• Comparison to Legal Terms:
  • They joke about drawing parallels to "crime of passion" legislation for slurs.
  • [26:56] Brett: "...crime of passion. ...that's why courts were like, well, you gotta give the guy a break. ...The same thing goes with racial slurs. We need slurs of passion. It needs to be and have it called that. Oh, he slipped with a slur of passion. That's a lesser fine.”

3. Boston Culture and Hypocrisy

• Boston as Slur Capital:
  • Multiple jokes about Boston being uniquely immune and accustomed to slurs.
  • [08:20] Brett: “In Boston, that is being a Puritan. Most people will call their father or mother the homo F word in Boston...They stay slur nonstop in that city. Knock off the fake, you know, outrage. It’s crazy.”
• On Feigned Outrage:
  • Critique of public outrage from Boston fans and the media, pointing to hypocrisy considering how common slurs are in Boston and sports in general.

4. Double Standards in Consequences

• Tom Brennaman Reference:
  • The hosts note that other public figures like sportscaster Tom Brennaman lost their entire careers over a single slur, sparking a discussion about standards and forgiveness.
  • [05:44] Brett (impersonating Brennaman): “What the fuck goes on in this world where you get a two game suspension for that? And I lose every job I’ve ever had for saying it once.”
• Hierarchy of Offensiveness:
  • The show lampoons the idea that certain words, depending on context, group identity, and timing, can be treated as career-ending or merely requiring an apology.

5. Slur ‘Ownership’: Racial and LGBTQ Parallels

• ‘One Word per Community’ Satire:
  • The hosts facetiously blame the Black community for laying claim to the N-word and argue this prompted other groups to designate specific words off-limits for outsiders.
  • [10:12] Brett: “Black people. You guys started this with the N word. ...Then the gays went out and said, well, we want a word that makes everybody have to get fired if they say it towards us...Now everybody needs a word.”

6. Forbidden Words and Human Nature

• Teen Rebellion and Slurs:
  • Discussion that making certain words especially forbidden only increases their allure, especially among teens.
  • [11:07] Brady: “It's telling, you know, teens, too. These are forbidden words.”
  • [11:10] Brett: “Oh. Makes them want to do it. It's like, tell them not to chew gum.”
• Everyday Epithets—Catharsis and Reality:
  • Much of the episode uses personal and relatable stories to argue that everyone lets loose with offensive language in moments of anger or privacy—especially in traffic.
  • [18:32] Larry: “Oh my God, how many C words I drop a day.”
  • [25:32] Brett: “I avoid the N word. But I've said other ones. ...Sorry, but yeah, I just like the rest of you. ...It was a slur of passion.”

7. Solutions and Satire: "Slur Tax" and Rulebook

• ‘Slur Tax’ Idea:
  • The hosts jokingly propose licensing or taxing the use of slurs—the way people pay for HOV lanes—turning outrage into a revenue stream and offering a pre-paid method for those prone to cursing.
  • [20:38] Larry: “What about an F word tax?”
  • [20:40] Brett: “Yeah, a cussing thing. ...If I'm ever caught on a microphone or any saying, a slur, I've already prepaid the fine. If I can get like—I'm allowed to...”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Boston’s Culture:
  • [08:20] Brett: “In Boston, that is being a Puritan. Most people will call their father or mother the homo F word in Boston. ... They stay slur nonstop in that city. Knock off the fake...outrage. It’s crazy.”
• On Slur of Passion:
  • [26:56] Brett: "We need slurs of passion. It needs to be and have it called that. Oh, he slipped with a slur of passion. That's a lesser fine."
• On the Inevitability of Offensive Language:
  • [18:32] Larry: “Oh my God, how many C words I drop a day.”
  • [25:32] Brett: “I have racist flare ups in traffic. ...I've said other ones.”
• Summary Satire:
  • [34:50] Larry: “Ted Williams grew up there.”
  • [34:51] Brett: “Ted Williams probably was the one that took the sheet...off of the sign that anointed N word Lane. ... It's a horrible town filled with horrible, horrible people. That's why they have a horrible accent."
• On Public & Private Language:
  • [18:32] Brett: “Could you imagine if there was a tape running in your car? How many times you’d lose your job? Every day.”
  • [33:03] Brett: “We’ve all got it. So. A slur of passion. The dude for the Red Sox, he wasn’t wrong. He was trying to hurt an individual person’s feelings.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:30] - Breakdown of the Boston incident and slur.
• [05:31] - Introduction and argument for “slur of passion.”
• [08:20] - Riffing on Bostonian culture and hypocrisy.
• [11:07] - Forbidden words and teenage rebellion.
• [18:32] - Privately spoken slurs (especially in traffic) and catharsis.
• [20:38] - The tongue-in-cheek proposal for a “slur tax.”
• [25:32] - Admission: everyone uses slurs in anger and moments of passion.
• [26:56] - Legal analogy with crimes of passion and plea for context.
• [33:01] - Technicians caught swearing on camera—everybody does it.
• [34:50] - Final comedic takes on Boston as “slur central.”

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Tone & Language

The hosts use abrasive humor, social satire, and unapologetic honesty to provoke discussion, often highlighting America’s contradictions on language, offense, and cultural context—particularly through the caricature of Boston. Language is blunt and intentionally provocative, with attempts to expose double standards and tribalism around “banned words.”

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For Listeners Who Missed It

Summary:
This episode is a raw, comedic take on Duran’s suspension for using a gay slur, using it as a lens to examine how we react to taboo language, who dictates which words are unforgivable, and how context and culture (especially Boston's) muddy the issue. The hosts advocate for practical realism, less outrage, and more context—a “slur of passion” defense—while lampooning our tendency to demand symbolic punishment over genuine reconciliation or understanding. Expect irreverent humor, tough talk, and just enough satire to spark a debate.

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[Larry McFeely]

That's Boston.

[Brett]

It's Boston. That's about as tame as Boston can get. Go get yourself a tennis racket, Jaren. Jaron Duran turns and he goes, f you, homo F word. And the mic's picking up, so he calls him the effing baguette. Now, as far as I understand it, all racial slurs were born in Boston. This is a tribute to the city. He's suspended for two games. Had to write a letter of apology to the LGBTQ community. Here's my beef with that dude was acting like an effin homo f word and deserved to be slurred in some way, some shape, some form. What are we supposed to do? Have, like, a pre approved list of I hate you words to a guy who's pissing us off individually? I'm gonna call you the worst thing in the world when you have the balls to stand up and scream at me. And I know we should be bigger and we should step up. Sometimes you just can't and you just turn and go, ah, you. You ah. That you're mad at one individual. It doesn't mean you hate all gays. You're trying to hurt that particular person's feelings. And in Boston, chances are, dude standing up screaming at you with a beer and two hot dogs in his hand doesn't like being called the homo F word. So it's a way to hurt him back. That's it. Like he looked at a dude and saw blue collar selfie. Probably got these tickets from his company. Screaming and yelling at him in the most classless way possible, which for Boston is the lowest bar in the world. And he's screaming and yelling at him. And Jaren throws back the one thing that would probably piss him off. You bang dudes in the dirtiest, grossest way possible. Don't you insult. I'm sure the guy didn't like hearing it. Oh. Oh, hey, hey. You called me a right? No way. Anyone in the first 100 rows of an event at Boston hasn't heard the homo F word that day, let alone just once they've said it. 25 times. So for them to act like a gas. And by the way, it's his home team. These were his fans yelling at him. This wasn't like a out of town thing. These are the guys that are supporting the Red Sox telling this guy to go grab a tennis racket because you ain't hitting anything with that bat. You're going to get called that name now. Special guest on the line has something to say. Tom Brennaman here, voice of Puerto Rican baseball and football on the cw. What the goes on in this world where you get a two game suspension for that? And I lose every job I've ever had for saying it once. It's true, Tom. The Pope said it twice still the Pope. It's true, Tom. Once again, my weekly picture. Yeah, it's the same thing. So where's the double? What's the distance? What's the rule here? Because there's a good chance that someday someone's gonna piss me off and I'll turn and I'll go, Shut up. Because I want to make that. When did we lose? Like in. In murder? When there's murder, we have degrees of like. Well, he wasn't in his right mind. That was a crime of passion. When will we have a slur of passion? When will we have the forgiveness of the slur of passion? That it wasn't premeditated. It isn't a constant problem. It's a slur of passion. This guy pissed me off and I threw a bomb at him. I nuked him verbally. When will we have that to where a dude's like, look, sorry about that. Clearly don't mean it for all gay people. That guy pissed me off and I wanted to hurt his feelings. Bad words hurt people's feelings. I should be above it. I'm not. None of us are. I'm in Boston. It's like. I think that's how they say hello here. Hey, what's up? Welcome to Boston.

[Brady]

It's dicks and stones.

[Brett]

It is dicks and stones, Brady. It's just this constant, overwhelming desire to be victimized as a group of people. You weren't involved in that. And none of you, none of you were hurt by it. Yes. It's a dirty word. Get over it. Knock it off. One dude pissed another dude off and he called him a. It happens, you know, It's a slur of passion. We need this to be a real thing. I've slurred passionately before. I'm sure Brett has. Look at this. This over here. Like, we've all done it. So to act aghast that the word still exists and gets used. Oh, my goodness. Stop it. You're in Boston. I think it's on the big board. All right, on your feet.

[Brady]

You know, they're gonna have to get to the point in live sports to just get rid of the microphones and do what CBS does with a fake bird that doesn't live there and just put the sounds in.

[Brett]

Hello, friends. We're from a live broadcast studio somewhere else. So you can't hear anything that's going on on the field. No ambient sound in case one of the players calls one of the drunken fans a again.

[Brady]

The guy hitting the. In the old day. The broadcasting.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Hitting the wood stick on the thing.

[Brett]

Ah, it's a head driving single. That was the Kevin Costner movie. Pretending to be on the road. There's a ground ball to second base. Look, we have to get over this immediately. And the dude got suspended for two games. So fine, suspend him for dirty words. Baseball not known for dirty words at all. Those players are great. They just. All they do is talk about the Lord Jesus and how much they love their wives. That's what I know from pro baseball. Those guys are puritans.

[Larry McFeely]

Except in Boston.

[Brett]

In Boston, that is being a Puritan. Most people will call their father or mother the homo F word in Boston. Have you not heard that? Fuck the car. I am your father. I wasn't talking to you. I am your mother. Morning. I was talking to you. Morning, Ma. How you doing? They stay slur nonstop in that city. Knock off the fake, you know, outrage. It's crazy. And Tom Brennaman. And Tom Brennaman gets his God damn jobs. Four years, all of them. He said the homo F word one time on the air accidentally. It wasn't a slur of passion. Second degree slur. He's paid his price. He's. And I know he's getting college football on the CW or whatever. That isn't a job anybody wants. He's a pro. He's a good dude. He made an error in judgment with people he hangs with, like all of us. And he's got a five year now because it'll be past this. He won't get into the fifth season of football. He's not doing. Because it's just so egregious to have him back in that booth. What he's done to the community, set them back thousands of years. Two game suspension. For the dude in Boston, though, no suspension. An apology is plenty. And by the way, the guy that should be apologizing is the drunken knob that wouldn't shut up yelling at the team he's actually supporting to the point where the guy lost it and snapped and called him and shut the up, you homo F word. Stop it. To act like the word is just never. You can never use it. And it's this thing, you know. You know who I kind of blame for this? I'm in trouble. Black people. Oh, here we go. You guys started this with the N word. When somebody says it who isn't in your crew, you had. You had one word that's like, off limits. And we agree. Like, I agree with you. I'm like, that one's got heat, so they've got it. So then the gays went out and said, well, we want a word that makes everybody have to get fired if they say it towards us now. Everybody needs a word. Everybody gets a word that offends them to the point where everybody's fired for saying it if they don't look the same or do the same thing. If I was. If I was a Jiren, I would go out and say, oh, by the way, I'm a homosexual, so I can say it. And then I would, you know, give somebody in Boston a hand job right there on TV to prove it and watch everybody go, oh, my God, did you see? He's a himself. And they would say it all. You'd hear the whole city in unison, like a choir, say the homo F word. Because that's what Boston would do. The windows would shatter, and it would be all over.

[Brady]

It's telling, you know, teens, too. These are forbidden words.

[Brett]

Oh. Makes them want to do it. It's like, tell them not to chew gum. Dude did something sort of wrong, but not that big a deal. It says, as it turns out, John Duran was actually just trying to call the Red Sox mascot Wally, which he's known as. The green over there is the big green homo F word. I didn't know that. It's very much like the dinger situation where they. But the nickname for the mascot is the F word in Boston. And they're like, oh, all right, fans, get ready for the dancing. Oh, that. I'm Wally, the big green sickness. Magnetic.

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[Larry McFeely]

We used to have one that worked here.

[Brett]

Yes. I mean, man. Oh my God, I forgot about him. We had a dude from Boston. You got a couple beers in Katie bar the door. Those were slurs I'd never heard before. Oh, yeah.

[Brady]

Every three words.

[Brett]

He said he lived on N word Lane once. Trump to an Uber driver. We were trying to get me there wicked fast. We were trying to type in his address for the Uber driver to take his drunken Bostonian ass home. And I said, what's your address? 1234 Lane. I'm like, that's not a street. That is not a street. And stone. Yeah, well. And then I live in Arizona. Eight, five, zero, zero. No, no, no. You've said the N word eight times. I'm laughing, but. Doesn't mean you've got a good audience. This is terrible. What's going on? Now tell the Uber driver where you live. 1, 2, 3, 4. Not bear. They came back in the next day like a typical Irish Bostonian, crying and handing people dusty bottles of alcohol from his shelf. Because what he had to do after he got home and told his wife the tale was take all the alcohol out of the house somehow. And he. And he, as a Bostonian only a Bostonian would do. Tried to pass it off as gifts. This is a dusty bottle of Jack. I wanted to say I'm sorry. By giving me all the alcohol you're not allowed to have in the house anymore. I see through this.

[Larry McFeely]

Why'd you bring me a quarter bottle of Jack?

[Brett]

Why is this one crack? I don't know. Seals broke. Just take it. Don't. Don't be a. Just take it.

[Larry McFeely]

Cephing evaporation. What do you want me to do?

[Brett]

So stop it. Stop acting like this dude did something so terrible. It's not good. But that was its intent. Its intent was to hurt another guy's feelings. And sometimes it happens. Remember Jonah Hill? Jonah Hill had. Yeah. He was a Nazi guy, and he kept trying to bang into his door. And he goes, knock it off. Because he was pissed. It was a slur of passion. And it came out of his mouth because he was pissed at the guy. Got it on tape and said he hates all gays. And that's not it. And then he went on Fallon and started crying. I don't use that word. I'm like, look, Pineapple Express. You use tons of terrible words. Don't. Don't pass off that. You're so self. You're just the most righteous person on the planet. That makes. Part of the reason I like Jonah Hill was superbad. I could imagine that character. And that person says a lot of terrible stuff and not in a malicious or awful way.

[Larry McFeely]

The Wolf of Wall street, too, man.

[Brett]

Oh. Horrible stuff going on. And he looked real comfortable with it. Oh, yeah. I didn't really see Jonah Hill going. It wasn't like when George Strait did that movie Pure Country. Yeah. And then the big thing was, well, the love interest in this movie. And I never kissed because I'd never, ever do that to my wife. Well, then you're not much of an actor, are you? I'LL never kiss her because I never escaped the fact that I'm committed to that one woman and one woman only. Well, then hire her to be in the movie. She's not pretty enough. So, you know. Yeah, Jonah Hill seems super comfortable with terrible words and doing terrible things. He looks really. He's not that good an actor to be like, well, I'll just put all this personal stuff aside. You know what?

[Brady]

I'll do my own lines.

[Brett]

I'm not saying that.

[Brady]

Wolf of Wall street.

[Brett]

He wrote his own script. Yeah. Super. Com.

[Larry McFeely]

Scorsese movie, please.

[Brett]

And if the word's so painful, then let's just be mad at Great Britain for calling cigarettes that. Because if I started to say it right now and I'm not gonna. Because that's just, that's, you know, that's for the shock value. But I could very easily get away with it saying a British person smoking a. They say it all the time because that's what they call cigarettes. So boo hoo. Boo hoo. It's not that tough. This isn't Stonewall. You guys haven't been set back. And frankly, no one really cares to that you're gay. Everybody's kind of like, all right, just don't scream about it. Don't go all Tim Walls about it. It's just ridiculous. But now, yeah, A guy can't play baseball for two days. That should do it. That should. That'll teach. He'll never say that again. At least you know what it's going to do. It's going to closet it. He's only going to say it and mean it, like quietly in his car. Now, like, could you imagine if you were in your. Can you imagine if there was a tape running in your car? How many times you'd lose your job? Every day. The stuff that flies out of my mouth. My car.

[Larry McFeely]

Oh, my God, how many C words I drop a day.

[Brett]

I. I pretty much tap everything that gets you fired. And I, I've got a 10 minute drive. If I was in the stuff that you guys are in right now, sitting on freeways. Oh, my God.

[Brady]

That'll be the new thing in cars, technology.

[Brett]

The progressive. We've checked out machine.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Oh, insurance rates go up because. Well, there's no way you're gonna.

[Larry McFeely]

I'd be riding my pivot every day. There's no way that.

[Brett]

Yep. Uninsured pivot rides. That's all it would be with the.

[Brady]

Recording before the accident.

[Brett]

Yeah. What were you doing here when you called everybody? What do you mean when you say I'm going to murder all the on the road today. At the time, I felt like killing just about everyone. Is this a normal feeling in the car? Yes. Pretty much every time I'm in the car, I feel like killing every that exists. Why do you call them that? It makes me feel good. It's a release valve. For me, it's almost some sort of Tourette syndrome I've got.

[Brady]

Your earlier testimony said you were very calm and under control at the time.

[Brett]

No, that's not true. The progressive slur machine caught me calling everybody the C word and homo F word. I hope you die in a fire, you transvestite. Piece of. Was not my. It wasn't my proudest moment. And the woman that you hit, you thought she was transvestite? In my rage, she looked like a man in a dress. Yes, but I see now that I was wrong. I was blinded by transvestite visions. And I was very furious.

[Brady]

Ruling. Two days of no work.

[Brett]

I can't work for two days. That should set me straight. It's just so stupid. We're just so stupid. Meanwhile, the world burns. Everybody's pissed off. But we can't have a baseball player get pissed off at a drunk and not just go, hey, don't do that again. You don't you mind not doing that again? Yeah, it was. I'm sorry about that. And then it's over. This guy says, what about an F word tax? Just a tax. Whenever you wanted to drop a homo F word out of rage, like you got a $250 check. How about this?

[Larry McFeely]

Oh, that's right.

[Brady]

Cussing.

[Brett]

Yeah, a cussing thing. Yeah, it's Judge Dredd. But how about. There's a. Like I use. The way I use the HOV lane is like a membership. I've committed myself to being a membership. I'm in the members program of the Diamond Lane. And so far, they've never asked for fees. But I use it constantly. And if they ever do pull me over, I'll pay my fees. My dues. I'm clearly due. It's been 20 years of using that HOV line. I've never once been caught. So I'm way behind on dues.

[Brady]

I'm telling you, that's a good idea.

[Brett]

They would pay it custom or the HOV tax. Yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say on average, you get caught once every two years. So give us 500 for an annual membership to the HOV land for the three to seven. Yeah, you're allowed in it. You're Allowed in it at all times.

[Larry McFeely]

They do that in California, don't they? Don't you have to pay to be in one of the lanes?

[Brett]

I think you have to have like, you have to follow their rules. I don't. If you pay, maybe. I thought you did. I know, I know you have the speed pass lanes for bridges and stuff like that that you can go.

[Larry McFeely]

But I think they have that and I think they have other lanes too that are that way too.

[Brett]

You pay probably, but I pay, of.

[Larry McFeely]

Course, especially in California traffic.

[Brett]

So then I would have my, my incredible cus tax that if, if in fact, like I would pay the state every January that if I'm ever caught on a microphone or any saying, a slur, I've already prepaid the fine. If I can get like, I'm allowed to, I'm allowed to. And at the end of the year, if I don't use it, I get prorated back like 150. Good behavior, carry over. Yeah, they dropped my rate for next year.

[Larry McFeely]

With me, the national debt would go down.

[Brett]

I mean the way. I mean, me too. Yeah, but I mean it would be the thing like if, like if they constantly recorded me in the car. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There isn't a, there isn't a membership big enough. I just strapped duct tape over my face like a hostage every time I drove to the Safeway. Yeah, I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've rooted death upon the person in front of me. That just waits too long for. For them to hit the gas on the Green Arrow. You want to talk about me losing my mind? Go on the Green Arrow. If I'm fourth in line and that first person doesn't go, there's a good chance I'm going to be in that lag traffic. You mother getting mad thinking about it. Nothing, nothing makes me feel more insane than piloting two tons of metal. I feel, I feel empowered with my Jeep probably, I don't know, £3,000, I don't know. And close to a ton and a half of me standing behind steel just going, I'm the most powerful man in the world.

[Larry McFeely]

Somebody's texting at the Green Arrow. I'm gonna jam that iPhone right up.

[Brady]

And you see it happen beforehand. Watch this. They're not gonna go.

[Brett]

Get off your phone. Ya, it's great. It ain't getting any greener. I hope your mother dies. What the hell? It was just text. Jesus Christ. Guy behind me is crazy. It's me. Almost one sickness.

[Larry McFeely]

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[Brett]

Homburg's Morning Sickness yeah, Theo Vaughn evidently did a podcast with Sebastian Maniscalco. Not the little one Brady does, but the big one. And Theo says I'm not racist, but I do have flare ups in traffic. That's me. I have racist flare ups in traffic.

[Larry McFeely]

Nobody's safe in traffic.

[Brett]

I avoid the N word. But I've said other ones. And here's where, when it all comes back to roost, if I do slip and say something and get caught on a microphone ever saying something like I told you guys I did that it would. Sorry, but yeah, I just like the rest of you. I dropped the bomb. I dropped some terrible words. So if you caught me and I didn't mean but it wasn't malicious, it was A. It was a slur of passion. And I passionately have slurred before. You know, there's. There is murder. We will. We will pull murder sentencing back if it seems like it's just a crime of pay. He caught her in bed with another guy. They were already fighting. And think about that like you're. You just realize that. Let's say you've. Let's say you make $10 million a year and you worked your ass up and you got this house, this beautiful home, another beautiful home, and a couple of cars and beautiful. And a beautiful wife. And you come home talking heads on. You come home. Yeah. And there's Veslie and his white ass humping up and down on your beautiful wife. Not only are you angry at the situation, but as a man, you're thinking, I gotta still give her half of this. And she. I'm killing her. Like that is that. Is that is the.

[Brady]

Oh, I thought you may. Maybe this gives you a full right to whatever vocabulary you wanna use.

[Brett]

Oh, that too. But that's what I'm getting at is the crime of passion. Yeah. When you put it in those terms. That's why courts were like, well, you gotta give the guy a break. He just lost half of everything he's ever earned. And it's because she decided to take Vesely's dick. The dude snapped. And it makes tons of sense. So they lessen the sentence because everybody's kind of understanding. Shouldn't have killed everybody. But we understand why you did. The same thing. Goes with racial slurs. We need slurs of passion. It needs to be and have it called that. Oh, he slipped with a slur of passion. That's a lesser fine.

[Brady]

You walk into that bedroom and you see that suicidal tendency to shirt. She's going up and down.

[Brett]

You see it hanging. Worst part is, you see he hung it up like it's delicately hung with the stupid suicidal tendencies hat above that and a pair of dickies on the floor. And you're like, I know what's going on in here. That guy's in my wife right now. And you walk upstairs and there's vessel man humping that lady. And you just in your mind are thinking, this is not only awful, but now I got to sit and pay her. Now I'm gonna sit in a courtroom and say, she gets 70 grand a month. I should have killed her. Like, that's why people get. And I watch a lot of Dateline episodes. Ladies. You're the same ladies. The worst part about a lady is they're very rarely crime of passion. They come in, see Veslie humping their husbands, and they're thinking, all right, I'm gonna kill him in three months. They come up with a plan, and they don't get the crime of passion.

[Brady]

Walks in the door, oh, he's making pasta.

[Byron from MMP Guns]

There's all this pasta hanging in the kitchen.

[Brett]

Right. Goes upstairs, they go. Jodi Arias. The ladies, they drive to stuff. They think about it. They don't flip out and kill. They look and go, signed your death warrant. And then they go and plot and plan. They're like cats.

[Larry McFeely]

I think I'd still be more calm on that than. Than I am in traffic, though. If I walked in on that, I'd be like, you son of a. All right, but in traffic, you mother.

[Brett]

I think I could leave that and still just be angry. Yeah. Without killing everybody, because I don't want to go to jail in the car. I think I'm perfectly and physically capable of murdering another human.

[Larry McFeely]

Absolutely.

[Brett]

At that time. I think I understand the absent Brady cussing and screaming when he got. Brady did it on the golf course. I heard Brady drop the F bomb Sunday morning.

[Wayne from AMCO]

Yeah.

[Brett]

On the Lord's day, about six times. I had a complete meltdown Sunday morning, horrible game of golf. But Brady started to play. Okay. And then on one hole, had a. Like, a four putt and law. And. And I heard Brady say the F word. And you know what? It made me so happy, like, just losing it. I was like, that's awesome. Like, he's feeling good right now. This is a nice. Really? You're watching somebody hit the steam valve.

[Brady]

I need to hear those words to motivate me.

[Brett]

You also need to say those words so you don't become this tempest in a teapot. Yeah. That eventually does kill someone with a golf. Golf.

[Brady]

Did you see steam come out?

[Brett]

Yeah. I watched you hit your shoulder, the release valve, and it came out in the form of duck. Duck, duck. Only wasn't saying duck. We'll get. And then I heard, we're gonna get corn dogs. I'm a vegetarian. Well, then you'll have duck still meat. Anyway, that was something that bugged me as I was pooping my brains out. And I saw that story yesterday morning. I'm like, come on. It's a slur of passion. You know, the slur of passion. And they say it like the gays say it to each other constantly. And again, I'm blaming you black people for having a bad word that you guys throw around like crazy and then make it Like a fireable offense for everybody else to use it. The gay. You made it. And I understand yours. You were the first in the. You're the first ones in. It's. The original idea is to have a word for a community that only they can use. Good thinking on your part. Gays. You can't. You can't. Copy that. That's trademarked by the blacks. You just can't do it can't offend you all the time. It just can't. It's not. It isn't that. It just isn't. It's a terrible word, but there's a lot of those. A slur tax would be nice. This guy says, my garbage truck has two cameras on me 10 hours a day. I've been called into HR more than once about my language, and I don't even. Don't even get me started. I love old school gangster rap, and I sing every single word while I'm in the truck. 0f's given. So he's dropping a lot of N bombs in his truck because he's alone and the song calls for it.

[Larry McFeely]

Tupac moves him.

[Brett]

He likes the music. I'm singing the childish Gambino song, Stay Woke n words creepin'. I say crackers just' cause it makes me laugh. And I'm like, I don't wanna My windows down. I get busted with this, but I'm singing occasionally. I look around, I'm like, we're good. I'm in Paradise Valley. Stay woke creepin. I say the bomb. It's in the song. It's more fun to sing the actual words. I watched a lady yesterday. I sing pretty hard in the car. Sometimes I get going, lady next to me at 7th street and like, hammelback. And I'm at the light and I'm singing. I'm. Oh, geez. I was singing pretty good there. And I turn and look to my right, and she is by herself, dancing and clapping. I'm like, that is a different level of crazy to have choreography in your seat.

[Brady]

Then she's running through barbed wire fences and, like, doing the cha cha.

[Brett]

She's doing the thing. I don't know what she was doing, but then I just looked over and I'm like, what a. And then I drove on because I was in my car. I slurred her.

[Larry McFeely]

You don't sing Bang of the Stallion songs in your car?

[Brett]

Oh, no, I don't sing Doja Cat. I don't. Doja Cat's got one that makes me laugh. I played it for you. And we were dying, but we ain't singing it. No way. This one said John. My company uses cameras with mics for our service vehicles. I have access to look at all my technicians while driving. And some of the things they say are hilarious. We've sat them. Sat there and watched them rattle off every name in the book because somebody cut them off.

[Larry McFeely]

Send those videos our way. I want to see these.

[Brett]

Put those up. I would love for those to go public. We've all got it. So. A slur of passion. The dude for the Red Sox, he wasn't wrong. He was trying to hurt an individual person's feelings. And that comes with trying to say terrible things to them. And I know the answer when you're all calm is, why do we have to do that? I don't know. We're human. We just do. Nobody's that cool. When you're having a. When you're playing baseball and you're in a slump and think about your four putt. If someone was standing by the green, mouthing off the whole time while you're in the middle of your struggle and continues and just won't stop, you're. You of all people. Shut up. You'd say something, that that dude try to hurt his feelings?

[Brady]

I would.

[Brett]

You're in baseball. You're in the on deck circle, and your own fans are coming down on you while you're slumping. And you're already feeling like garbage because you're just like, man. And there's truth to it. I can't hit right now. I should probably go get a tennis racket. God damn it. And then you tell the guy to shut up. Effing homo. F word. And then. And the other thing. Gay people. We've already got an F word. Get mad about another word we got to keep. One of them gets too confusing. He said the F word. So. Know the other one. Oh, Christ. Now I got a whole lexicon of things I can't say that are just defined by Fs. It's Boston.

[Larry McFeely]

He should be lucky, that's all he called him.

[Brett]

It might have been the mayor. Yeah, it might have been the mayor of Boston.

[Larry McFeely]

It's like good morning over there.

[Brett]

I mean, mountain. He's from Boston. You gotta give him a break. He lives on 1-234-lane.

[Brady]

You're a gobbler.

[Brett]

And maybe that guy from Boston that was saying that's where he lived, there's a good chance that he grew up in Boston on N Word Lane. I'm pretty sure they have that road there. That is a terrible town.

[Larry McFeely]

Ted Williams grew up there.

[Brett]

Ted Williams probably was the one that took the sheet, pardon the pun, off of the sign that anointed N word Lane. We in Boston real happy here to have lane. Ted Williams, will you do the honors of removing the sheet from Lane? It would be my privilege, Mr. President. All right. What a great day for the Bostonians and all Lane residents. It's a horrible town filled with horrible, horrible people. That's why they have a horrible accent. So, you know, uh, oh, it's a warning system. It's Darwinian to have that accent. And they're like, oh, boy, don't hang out with him in public. That guy's gonna say something terrible, get us all fired. If somebody's got a Bruins tattoo and that accent, you're T minus two minutes from the N word. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.