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My wife has recently made friends with a doomsday prepper in our neighborhood and she's all in. So my 71 Malibu can't be parked in the garage for a while because of the boxes and barrels that have arrived. They're taking up three quarters of the garage now. She says I never work on the car anyway, so a few weeks outside is fine. We have so much cheese and rice and water, it's ridiculous. 20 years worth. I said she should put her crap in storage. She says I should put mine My car in storage as well. It's a fight for us. A huge one. I'll let you decide. Brett, I'm leaning on you for this. And David got the Malibu. 25 years worth of food just in case the world explodes. Who has to store their crap in storage? Her. I would think so, too. And that's. I'm not even a car guy. It's. Come on. Her argument, though, I can imagine would be, your car's in there. Well, no. What do you mean? That. Oh, so you can store. No, her argument would be that if she had her stuff in storage, that if doomsday happened, you'd have to go get the stuff storage accessible. You don't. You don't. You don't need the Malibu. Big deal. The king of the one words. You know what? You've said it all. Pretty much. I mean, that's. All right. We'll be right back. I think Brett's right. No, it's because. Yeah, because you wouldn't need, you know, a nice Chevy Malibu had the fastbacks in the 70s, right? The ones the Malibu said. The GTO kind of fastback thing. Yeah, I think a friend of mine had one of those right around that same time. It's green, it's neat. But anyway, you wouldn't need that if there was doomsday. Like, if we're talking about this as the stock market starts to tumble and people go, oh, you know, you got the people who can't handle adversity without thinking that this is the end, you know, it's all over. We elect the wrong people, it goes crazy. You know, the Carrie Lakes of the world will tell you, you need all that cheese. Religious people will tell you, you need all that cheese. He, you know, he may need to move on. Yeah, I think, you know, I mean, he knows how much that. That car. He loves that car. Yeah. Is that a good year? Yeah, I mean, it's a. You know, it could be a Chevelle. You know, I mean, they're Chevelle. That's what I. Yeah, well, it's got a big trunk. It can handle those buckets. A couple of buckets. Not 25 years worth, is it? She's got a garage heavy. I say the car was most of them last. Like, I have two buckets that I bought of two years ago of 90 days of food. Yes, they've got 25 years. They have a 25 year shelf life. Okay. But no, he said they have 25 years of. Yeah, so they had to have. Because that's what, 10 or that's what that 15 crazy. What's that religious guy? That religious guy used to like? Yeah. Jim Baker used to say each, each bucket has a 25 year shelf life. But it's not 25 years worth of food. It's 90 days. And he would sell you a package of 20 years. Years. 10 buckets of buckets, which I always like. How much do you think you need like. But you'd need more than 90 days of doomsday. If I was a doomsday prepper, I'd certainly get more than 90 days. Any like 6 months at least I would think I would go for the year's program. I'm not gonna. I'm not one of those people though. I'm not. I'm not willing to survive off garage buckets and you know, shooting neighbors who want my garage buckets. If we're into the position where the only food I have has been in my garage for 20 years. No, no thanks. I don't. I looked at it more like I condensed it down to, you know what, I'll get these two. I got 90 days to figure out. You live. Maybe you live too close to Mormons and you're too suggestible. The answer to that stuff is you. No, I'm not going to buy food for the. When the world comes to an end for an extra 90 days. Invest in lead. That's what I Exactly. Lead is your best investment. Brady's neighborhood, you know, everybody around there stocked up. You can get your food. No big deal. Park that, park that ride in the garage. My plan. Brett's nailed it because that's right. You know what I know right now? If the world comes to an end and I've got loads of it, I just buy more clips. I need more clips and I just have world of clips. And I go over to Brady's house and I steal his food because that's those, those dummies are the ones. The Mormons are the. It'll take a little bit. I've only got about 30 day supply of lead. Yeah, I'll take you out. We are one guy. It doesn't matter if you have 30 days, doesn't mean you're going to last 30 days. When you unexpectedly see me at the door going, Brady, I'm in trouble and I need some food. Oh, come in, friend. See it, dumbass. Yep. And then that's the end of it. I doomsday prepping MMP guns myself. So I mean exactly it. In your Chevelle. Yeah, exactly. I'm with Brett she buy a tough shed, tell her to put a crap in there. Anybody that tells me they're doomsday prepper might as well have a sign that said rob me first. Yeah, that's a little heavy cuz they can sit back and go, well, good luck shooting me. Well, once I do, I mean, you're the ones that are going to be at war the most. Maybe you are some sort of awesome marksman, but when you're the doomsday guy and you've got all the supplies, guess what? Multiple people are going to come for you. The shove. The Chevelle was there first before the food. I mean, you can look in that. It's the Native American art. I mean, you know, does she love you? Does she want you happy? Oh, see Brett, you're touching my heart right now. You know, just to. Just a. She's not respecting your selfish broad. This is more. That's right. This is more about her saying, I don't like that you like that car. Right. I'm going to wreck. Where you kicking you? Yeah, she's kicking you and your happy nuts to say. He seems to like that car an awful lot. I'm going to wreck this. Then when things go south, she's going to cap you and she'll have more food. She'll have a lot of food. And then your food is her food. What's going to last longer? The car. Yeah, she's going to start falling apart. She's. Come on. Where do you keep that? You have already have a garage situation. Where do you keep basically to Those like home. Five gallon buckets. They're only five gallons. Yeah. 90 day. I don't think you're gonna. Five gallon's not gonna last you 90 days of just rice. You. It's. Each one they're servings little packets of rice. Yeah. And all you need is hot water. It's not rice, it's. There's like. And doomsday. How you gonna get four different. Well, two things you need when you're prepping is water and. Yeah. Do you have water too? I have my pool. So you're gonna have chlorine rice and rice aroni or what? Boiled chlorine rice. Yeah, Yeah. I didn't do the gallon drum yet. You skimped out on the water part of the well, I got a good supply right now. No, I have a water. You gotta purify your dairy pin or I think the little. The little pump that makes it so you can drink your pee. Yeah. Or. Or just water. It can. Who Talked you into all this nonsense. Mormons next door. Yeah, it's Mormons nearby. The Mormon. No, the. The water filter thing I got. Long time ago, and there's better ones now. But why do you want that? Just. I'm like. Well, one. If I was. I was. I was camping a couple of times. Right? You need. I thought we'd do more camping growing up Kirby and the family, but we didn't. So you got that in case you had to drink puddle water with the camp getting something. Yeah, if you're having. You know, if you don't have access, boil boiling water. So you need fire, you need water. You need. You boil water when you camp. Now I am learning too much about you. What are you boiling when you're camping? Well, just in case if you. If you're low on water, have had to do it before. You get in your car and you drive to Safeway and pace it. You're not camping that far out. And you probably are there only one time. Again, we were camping far enough out that you just couldn't go back to. Yes, you could. Where did you camp that was so far in that you were like, well, there's only helicopter access here. You could have gotten. You. You drove your car in there in the first place. One was a canoe trip where you're out in the middle. It's a ways back. You don't. You're miles away from your car. How did you get from the car to the canoe? You. You just like, you park your car and you walked and you go down the. The river for a week, basically. When did you do this? This was in college. Oh, this has nothing to do with Kirby. I thought you were doing this recently. No, no, no, not recently. You didn't need your. It's one of those things like, you know what? That might be handy to have. Yeah, that's ridiculous. It's like having a leatherman tool That's a friend of mine have. No, a Leatherman tool has pliers on it. You can use that Bible kit too. No, that's dumb. The water thing. I had a friend try to sell me one of those. He goes, if you get in trouble, you piss in this and it'll purify your. And you can drink it. I'm like, how much trouble am I in living in this city that I'm now pissing in a. In a bucket? I bought it rei only one time in Phoenix where we had it shut down for a day. What? The cryptosporidian in the water. We had to boil Then if you're going to use water. It was when I was on 14th place in Maryland. I never had that. Yeah, we had it in downtown Phoenix and everything. They had to add that basically 24 hours you just go over the water and ice store and get some fresh water. You didn't have to boil your piss. Well, even that. Yeah, the filtration. Yeah, it's overkill. Wild overkill. To live in this modern age and have that, you know, peeing a thing and keep it in your house in Gilbert and I think the doom. Yeah, that's where I was. Filter thing rather than 55 gallon drums of water. So you have the filter thing for your pool? Yeah. You guys are going to switch off straws then and just suck water out of the pool? I mean, I don't know. Spit it in a cup. No, you got to put. You have a filter. You got a container. Oh, okay. But isn't your. Isn't the filter only like. It's like a thermostat. Audible's romance collection has something to satisfy every side of you when it comes to what kind of romance you're into. You don't have to choose just one fancy. A dalliance with a duke or maybe a steamy billionaire. You could find a book boyfriend in the city and another one tearing it up on the hockey field. And if nothing on this earth satisfies, you can always find love in another realm. 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No one in Gilbert's got one of Those because their neighbors wouldn't allow. It's like my God. They all have to have the same. They all have those old pickups in Gilbert and the Mormons do. Yeah. Yeah. Just in case Cheyennes. I always wondered that. Probably a doomsday pickup. Yeah. You're overdoing it. Gilbert. That's dumb. Doug pretty much hit it here. We're. We were prepared for Y2K. We prepped for Obama. We prepped for Covet. Guess what? We're all still here. Ditch the and keep them alive. That's exactly right. It ain't gonna happen the way you think. That's just the tip of the iceberg there. And she's convinced to buy that much stuff. You did it too. I mean everybody's got something. We're like just in case she went over. She went crazy. That's what I'm saying. Mine is like the whole planning for doomsday it was at Costco too. Is total spontaneous. Costco sells doomsday stuff. Costco is doomsday survival buckets. Dude, we're gonna raid the Costco. Why buy it now? It'll be free when the doomsday happen. Everybody thinks it's gonna be this orderly thing. It just saves you a trip. That is true. That's hard to argue that it's like well, we got ahead of the curve because those lines at Costco to begin with. There won't be lines. There's going to be looting. There are no. Everybody thinks that doomsday is going to be this orderly process of the second they saw Covid. You have a pool when they taint when the water supply because that's what's going to Doomsday means we're disconnected from electronics, water, power. Because the powers that be are going to shut us down. So there'll be, you know, every water supply place, your pool, everything, everything's gonna. If. If we truly got to the desperation point. It's a shoot em up. Yeah, it's right. You're basically buying 30 days, 36 days you're getting shot. The day somebody said it's gonna. It's gonna be crazy. Doomsday is. Everybody thinks that they've got it figured out. It's all ego. Don't. I got a bucket of cheese. I got rice. I got a. I got a piss cleanser. You're not doing that. That ain't happening. You know someone did break it down and they're talking about those buckets and they said right now just buying those buckets rather than going to the grocery Store. Yeah. Oh yeah. A dollar fifty. It's brilliant. A serving. If you tap it now, it's. If you tap it now. Yeah, we'll go buy 25 years worth of rice. And you got, you know, a lot of rice. I bet Asians are probably buying those things, just laughing like, ahaha. Nutty day. I got a 25 off. Brilliant. I don't know why anybody wants to live in a place where you've got garage food, gun in the window, wait and garden your pool. I'm like, what? And then they practice. But why live there? Why does anyone want to live in that? The, like a fire drill. They practice on getting out, getting the truck loaded, and then driving off to their site that they have. They bought land outside of the city. What are you fighting for? Was this Red Dawn? Yeah. I mean it doesn't sound like Doomsday Prepper Show. That's a TV show. So I think they open like the people practice and I think that's where the dummy started to look at it and go, all right, this is, this is. It's. That's an entertainment based. It is kind of fun, the Doomsday prep. Well, just prepping guns. Kind of depressing. It's really a depressing. It is Red dawn. Like it's the most depressing attitude. You can have to say, well, when it all collapses, I'll kill all my neighbors and I'll have plenty of free. Because essentially that's your attitude. And like what kind of world do you want to live in? If that, if it came down to it, I'd be like, I'll survive as long as I can, but I'm not going to kill people who are trying to get my pool water. You can have it. I'm not, I'm not going to sit there in my. On my rooftop plowing away at stuff that people try to eat. Trying to eat or help them out as best I can. But I don't want to live in that nonsense, let alone have 25 years worth of food and a Chevelle over in storage. Yeah. So the turret in my house is a little over, you know, a little. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody in your neighborhood decided to go, you know, it's a good idea here in the name of all holy Jesus is to put a turret on top of my house and kill the people. They're coming for my doomsday food when he comes for us. And besides that, why are the Mormons doomsday? Isn't that the end? I don't know. Aren't they the ones that think they're going up? And I could be wrong on it, but it used to be two years worth of supply and now you have. I think they cut it down to one. See, to me, that's why they have those huge pantries. Wouldn't you believe? Like, aren't they supposed to believe that their. Their whole situation is better when the doomsday comes because they'll be the ones leaving. Isn't Moroni. Come on. Next they're like, okay, it's our turn. We wasted all their money on that cheese. Like, oh, we left all that cheese. It's silly. Yeah, I see them replace the 55 gallon water drums. They rotate them out like every three years. I'll tell you this. The second DoorDash is unavailable to me. I've got like three days to live. That's about it. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not gonna rob the safe. I'll go down and I'll see what's there. But am I gonna walk the streets with my ar because I want some snacks. My three days will be beef stroganoff and Mac and cheese. That's great and good on you. And you. And I think everybody in doomsday dummy land, which I think I call Gilbert in my head, thinks that they'll be watching football and eating their doomsday. It's just. It's over. It's all over. You'll be watching static. What exactly you're going to be watching that you want a power to turn the TV on. What exactly do you think you're fighting to? Save myself for what? In the end, let's say you win. Then what? I think most of it comes from not individuals. It's basically they're protecting their family. Then what? I don't really. Then what? Then what? And then it's oh, you know, maybe last long enough where you start society over again. There's the ego right there is that you were Adam and Eve. These people think I'm important enough to start society over again and I can finally run for president. No, you're not. You need to move out of Mormon Acres. Yeah, you gotta get out. It's tainted. You. You'd be surprised you got it in your area. Well, I don't have as bad as you. I bet you I would be based upon nobody's doomsday in my neighborhood. LDS factor. They over in Arizona, right? Yeah, that's the thing. But I'm saying Gilbert has, I think per capita Gilbert and Mesa more Doomsdayers than my area over in the Biltmore. Yeah, I guarantee it. Those people aren't fighting for anything. Those people over at the Biltmore are not going to sit back. And that's not an army I'm getting behind. They've been silver spooned their whole way through. They're gonna hire people that's the same as me. I got a door dash for food. I'm not gonna. You think I'm gonna go out there in some sort of militant attitude? I'd get shot in the day and then in the end I'd be completely like I've always said it'd be completely useless. The apocalypse comes and here I am standing. What do you do? I used to tell jokes in a stick. Kill him and eat his bones like there's no reason to bring him along anymore. I tell an interesting tale if you guys want to hear some. I'm an orator. Yeah. How does that help us? Can you hammer and. No. I've got a. I just recently got one of these utility knives. I don't know what to do with it. I don't even know how to do it. You got your Leatherman now. That's right. I don't even know how to open it. It says that Leatherman says it's got seven. You got three. Right? I found three. Two of them are in there and I see them. But I can't open it. Of course I'm screwed. I'm not. And I put it away because the problem is going to be that I have to read the directions for the Leatherman. Which means I need a Leatherman to open the Leatherman. I can't do it. Sure. Brady. Have 25 year food supply in 110 degrees with no AC. Great idea. Were you keeping it in your garage? Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm gonna eat that. I'm coming over to your house for that. For. You did it with your sauce. I guess. It might as well be dried packets. No liquid in there. I know, but it's still sitting in a garage in Arizona with no ac. He's right. No ac. No or no. No ac, no electric? No. No pornhub. I mean. I mean you gotta stock up on like those magazines. Yeah. No showers. You have pornhub. Yeah. You got nothing. And your wife's gonna start smelling. Tapes have melted. She's gonna start smelling like, you know, Annie Oakley downstairs because there's no more feminine hygiene. You think about that. Think of all the stuff you got to stock up on. We're Also, we're Americans, so we stock up only on one thing. Cheese. Cheese and rice. And food. It was like, what about tampons? Feminine hygiene supplies. Medicine. You don't have anything. Son of a bitch. I don't want to live. Cheetle, you have a wife. Yeah. Brady needs a bucket of Cheadle to just dip his face in or pat on the honey hole so it's edible. Again, you don't have medicine. Doomsday. Doomsday people are most of them. The ones that go over the top, I kind of admire. But most of them are just arrogant knobs that think if I have enough food, I'll survive it because I've got a gun. Medicine? Any medicine? Well, no, I didn't think of that. Okay. Feminine product. So you sold me there. I'm done. Yeah. Ladies be gushing blood all over their towels. You can't wash them. You got to dunk them in that pool you're using for rice water later. Smell like that New Kids on the Block show that was out at the pavilion a couple months ago. Exactly. Ouch. Like I said, if. If. If possible, It's a comfortable 30 days that are done. It isn't comfortable. First 28. A good fight in 30 days. First 28 and then people are looking around going, my wife's bleeding all over the carpet at the house. Can I stay with you now get out my rice and cheese. You get a bunch of hangry. Americans breaking down doors. I'm looking for blood pressure medicine. Any one. Got me? Yeah, so long as you'd be miserable without eating rice every day. By the third day, you'd kill burnout. Yeah. You'd be dying. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.
Episode Title: Emailer Says His Wife is Prepping and Kicked His Chevelle Out of the Garage
Date: September 1, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, the crew responds to a listener email from a man whose wife has become a fervent doomsday prepper after befriending a neighbor. She has kicked his cherished 1971 Malibu Chevelle out of the garage to store massive quantities of prepper supplies—cheese, rice, water, and more—leading to a domestic standoff over whose belongings take priority. The hosts debate the logic (or lack thereof) in extreme prepping, the heartstrings of car love, neighborhood cultures, and what survival really means in doomsday scenarios.
This episode delivers a comedic (and a bit exasperated) takedown of doomsday prepping gone wild. The hosts ultimately side with the car guy, ridicule ultra-prepper logic, and lampoon the dream of surviving off garage buckets, especially in the Arizona heat. Whether you relate more to the cautious survivalist or the “let’s see what happens” car enthusiast, the message is clear: Don’t let prepping for the end of the world ruin the life (and garage) you actually have now.