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Summary

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Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona

Episode: 11-20-25 - BR - THU

Main Theme: Pac-Man's Record, Thanksgiving Costs, and the “Radius of Love”

Date: November 20, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo, Larry

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Episode Overview

In this engaging episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, the crew dives into a variety of lighthearted and thought-provoking topics, from gaming nostalgia and Thanksgiving economics, to reflections on friendship boundaries—“the radius of love”—and how far people are willing to go for holiday gatherings. Along the way, there’s signature banter, offbeat news, and plenty of laughs. The show balances Arizona local flavor, national pop culture, and classic HMS irreverence.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Pac-Man: The King of Arcade Games

• Discussion: Pac-Man has made $6B in revenue ($19.5B when adjusted for inflation), crowning it as the highest-grossing arcade game—surpassing Space Invaders and Street Fighter II.
• Nostalgia: The hosts reminisce about their favorite arcade games, with a clear affection for Centipede, Tempest, Donkey Kong, and Frogger.
• Quote:
  • John: “I will never put Street Fighter 2 into that mix.” (08:42)
  • “I put my quarters on Centipede, Tempest, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong...” (08:47)
• Tone: Playful competition and '80s/‘90s retro vibes.

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2. Thanksgiving Costs and Shopping Trends

• Key Statistic:
  • The American Farm Bureau’s annual survey says Thanksgiving dinner for 10 averages $5.52 per person, down 5% from last year, and continuing a 3-year decline after the 2022 turkey price spike due to bird flu.
• Humor: Confusion arises as Brady gestures up when talking about the price going down, leading to some classic HMS ribbing.
• Quotes:
  • John (mocking Brady’s hand gesture): "Your hand went up like you were riding a roller coaster slowly to the top as you told me that the numbers were falling.” (10:27)
  • Brady: “Sweet.” (10:15)

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3. The “Radius of Love”—How Far Would You Go for Family?

• Survey: The average person would drive 172 miles out of their way to pick up a loved one for the holidays, with 5% willing to drive 700 miles. The average real journey: 408 miles for a holiday meet-up.
• Hosts' Take: The guys plot out their own “love radius,” debating how far they’d go for family or friends.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • John: “I don’t think I love anybody 172 miles worth. I think I have a radius of love.” (12:17)
  • Larry: “If you can’t meet me—God, no—not even halfway, I’m not driving 350 miles.” (11:40)
  • John: “If you live outside [my love radius], I stop loving you a little bit… But my hate radius is limitless. … Hate springs eternal.” (12:25, 19:32)
• Fun Banter:
  • Joking about family in distant suburbs and how, for most friends, they’ll only bother to meet up if it’s “monumental—like someone dying or being elected to national office.” (13:32)

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4. Oddities & Offbeat News

1. Payback Your Parents Day / National Absurdity Day
   • John muses on whether you really owe parents anything, laughing: “If my parents are asking for cash back for this, it’s not happening. I’ll help them out if they need it.” (06:03)
2. MLK’s Rights Owned by Spielberg
   • “In movies like Selma…none of the speeches featured are real because Steven Spielberg owns the movie rights to his story and all his actual speeches.” (06:47–07:20)
   • Discussion about copyright and how films change material to avoid rights issues.
3. Modern Art Sales
   • The artist behind the $6.2M duct tape banana, Maurizio Cattelan, sells an 18-karat gold toilet for $12.1M.
   • Conversation takes a dark turn as they discuss an art piece featuring Hitler kneeling, sold for $17.2M.
   • John jokes about his “Hitler bathroom art trap.” (21:47)
4. Revenge Quitting Jobs
   • 47% have abruptly quit a job—top reasons: toxic environment, poor management, feeling undervalued.
   • John recalls vivid dreams about killing his boss, Tripp—“It’s just an authority thing…In dreams, I’ve killed a lot of people.” (17:28–17:49)

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5. Viral Videos & Internet Oddities (“Radio Videos”)

• Segment: Brady shares wild Internet finds
  • “Balls for a Chin” — Features a man with an unfortunate chin resemblance. Banter about awkward plastic surgery and shaving mishaps.
    • John: “Does he have balls on his chin?” (23:39)
    • Brady: “Pretty much.” (23:43)
    • John: “A decent human being would do that [shave].” (25:01)
  • Trevi Fountain Instagram Fails — Women’s photos at the famous fountain sabotaged by “laser-printed penises.” (26:01)
  • Miss Universe Pageant Fails — Miss Jamaica falls off stage. John quips: “Well, she’s not gonna win…That was her talent, a pratfall.” (27:12–27:58)
• Humor: Playful, sometimes crass, but always fast-paced.

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6. Operation Santa Claus (Community Spotlight)

• Brett Vesely (on-site at Local Legends): Out promoting and collecting for Operation Santa Claus—a charitable drive for food, toys, and clothing. Donors get 10% off their tab at Local Legends. “We’re just out here trying to help out people that need a little bit of extra hand...” (29:38)
• Host Endorsement: John: “Pop on by, everybody wins. Local Legends will give you 10 off what you order from them and then you can drop off anything you want.” (31:14)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• John on Holiday Logistics:
  • “I see you every day… I don’t feel a need for you or I to go to each other’s homes at all.” (14:13)
• On Money for Art:
  • “If you hang [Hitler art], you kind of are Hitler, aren’t you? …If you’ve got a proud $17 million piece of Hitler art, you’re kind of him.” (22:59)
• On Modern Art:
  • “Never seen a banana taped to a wall at Sotheby’s—that was actually kind of creative and a statement against how modern art is.” (19:29)
• Brady on Miss Universe Pageant:
  • “That was her talent, a pratfall.” (28:00)
• John on Charity:
  • “Nice job, Brett. We’ll talk to you in a little while.” (31:37)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Pac-Man as highest-grossing game — (08:24–08:47)
• Thanksgiving Dinner Costs — (09:48–10:27)
• Radius of Love and Holiday Travel — (11:16–14:13, 19:29–21:06)
• Modern Art News (Duct Tape Banana, Gold Toilet, Hitler Art) — (18:54–23:12)
• Revenge Quitting Jobs — (16:49–17:58)
• Operation Santa Claus Announcement (Brett Vesely) — (29:35–31:37)
• Viral Video Segment (“Radio Videos”) — (23:32–28:14)

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Tone and Style

The episode is punchy, irreverent, and unmistakably “morning drive.” The hosts lean into sarcasm, self-deprecation, and inside jokes, while also weaving in relatable talk about family, nostalgia, and awkward social realities. Brady’s quirky facts, John’s quick wit, and the back-and-forth with Larry and Brett keep the show lively and high-energy throughout.

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Useful For: Even if you missed the episode, this summary delivers the laughs, odd news, and the crew’s unique take on modern life. Whether you love retrogaming, dark humor about art, or just want to know if you really need to drive cross-state for Thanksgiving, this is a classic slice of HMS.

Transcript

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[Larry]

I think the email said March 26th or something like that. Or 2026. March 16th of 2026, the football stage, the first comedy show at SoFi. And the press release said there are very few tickets left.

[John Holmberg]

Unreal. I mean, you've combined Los Angeles, you've got Asians and Mexicans everywhere. And you bring out Koi and Iglesias.

[Brady]

Fluffy and thin, Filipino.

[John Holmberg]

You could get two nights in a row at Sofi and sell it. Joe's gonna make $20 million that weekend. Oh yeah. That's why we're not friends with Joe anymore. It isn't cause we don't want to be or we've done something wrong. He just travels in different circles now.

[Larry]

I believe it's playing out exactly as you told him the last time he was in this studio. We'll never talk to you.

[John Holmberg]

We'll never talk to you in this studio again. And I even told him you'll do a phoner to try to play pretend you're still part of this. You'll never be in this Again. And that's what I'll tell him on the phone today. Prediction his answer will be, if I'm in town, I'll be there. You will not, and I won't. I wonder if he'll want you here.

[Brady]

Remember us?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. I don't think so either. Yeah, we'll see. It's a shame Brady's heard the last of Jo Koy's comedy specials because he can't hear a thing. We were just playing with him off here. Without those headphones, he's pretty much useless.

[Larry]

I didn't even think about it when I came in and told you, you know, what was coming up with the CR commercials and stuff. And I turned and looked at him. He was like, what? And I walked out and I'm like, oh. He didn't hear a thing.

[John Holmberg]

Larry was yelling, I'm on the Brady train in the hallway. And Brady's looking at me. And I'm like, larry's yelling at you? And he goes, what?

[Larry]

I thought you told him he couldn't say what this morning we can whisper.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, no. When he gets the horn, he can. He can say what? Until he gets that ear horn. Then it's. That's all you're allowed to do. Good stuff.

[Brady]

Sure is.

[Larry]

Can we put at boss KUPD on the side of the horn?

[John Holmberg]

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[Brady]

Good Thursday morning to you, Phoenix. Hello, world.

[John Holmberg]

Hi.

[Brady]

Happy national payback. Your Parents Day and National Absurdity Day.

[John Holmberg]

Which kind of goes back hand in hand again. This is the only time that I Think the agreement of I didn't ask to be here kicks in. If they want money back, you know, I'm not Walmart. I don't have a good return policy. If my parents are asking for cash back for this, it's not happen. I'll help them out if they need it.

[Brady]

But Bono's mother died when he was 14. She had a brain aneurysm at her father's funeral.

[John Holmberg]

At her father's funeral.

[Brady]

Yeah. So mom died. His grandpa's funeral.

[John Holmberg]

Wow. So he owes his mother very little. And give back to your parents day. 14 years of prorated wasn't that much.

[Brady]

In movies like Selma, about Martin Luther King Jr. None of the speeches featured are real because Steven Spielberg owns the movie rights to his story and all his actual speeches. The rights were purchased in 2009. Spielberg apparently still has them even though this MLK movie never got made.

[John Holmberg]

The. So Spielberg wanted to make an MLK movie. Bought every word the guy ever said publicly.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Selma comes out and it's just. It's the hydrox of MLK movies and that's probably not a right way to say that, but.

[Larry]

Yikes.

[John Holmberg]

None of it was real. At least the words he said publicly.

[Brady]

I. I don't know. Can. Can.

[John Holmberg]

If it's a speech. Yes. If it's been published as a speech, then they owe. Then somebody owns it. So if he gave speeches that were published. So they had to write everything kind of. It's like when they do parody songs or.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You're allowed to do five bars and then you have to change a little bit sounds. It sounds like Royal Blood, but it's not quite Royal Blood.

[Larry]

It's like you can. If you changed was it 20, then it can. It's considered material.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Of an idea.

[Larry]

Of an idea.

[John Holmberg]

That's why when I was pretending to be a writer for a little bit and I went to what they had was a pitch party and you go to table to table with ideas and you give them an idea and they can steal it.

[Brady]

Yep.

[John Holmberg]

If you're not part of the union, it's theirs. I didn't know that. And then if you have anything written down, all they have to do is change a certain percentage of it and it's theirs then too. And you're just handing it over for free, thinking these people are on your team.

[Brady]

PAC man made 6 billion in revenue as an arcade game, which is around 19 and a half billion. If you adjust for inflation. That makes it the highest grossing arcade game of all time, just ahead of Space Invaders in Street Fighter 2.

[John Holmberg]

I will never put Street Fighter 2 into that mix. That's pretty good.

[Larry]

I wouldn't. That was not one.

[John Holmberg]

I put my quarters on Centipede, Tempest. Tempest, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Donkey Kong junior. Donkey Kong junior was my collego vision. That was a home game. Oh, you had in the arcade. Oh, well, I had a daddy job and all that.

[Larry]

Yeah, I had in television.

[John Holmberg]

You got off on pay your parents back day pretty good.

[Brady]

Yeah, I did.

[John Holmberg]

You don't have to pay one of them at all.

[Larry]

They're going to pay the half one.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, my parents. I'd owe them a fortune. Yeah, your parents too. You owe your parents a ton of money if you had to pay entertainment. I gave them no. Of no value.

[Larry]

No, no.

[Brady]

You.

[Larry]

You plead Smokey Robinson. You think of all the trauma that they caused you.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that guy on the roof and all. Samat.

[Brady]

Walt. Walter.

[John Holmberg]

Walter, who was the one that was trying to get.

[Brady]

Was in the room smoking, trying to get your sister and have it Mom. Yeah.

[Larry]

Oh, I've heard.

[John Holmberg]

I've heard you say that Amy wanted nothing to do with that.

[Brady]

The American Farm Bureau just put together what it costs for Thanksgiving dinner this year. They do it every year for 10 people. The cost will average about $5.52per person, which is down 5% last year.

[John Holmberg]

Down from last year?

[Brady]

Yeah, the last. It's gone down the past three years.

[John Holmberg]

Getting cheaper to have Thanksgiving.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Sweet.

[Brady]

The most expensive year was actually 2022 because the bird flu was infected a lot of the flocks. So the turkey was really expensive.

[John Holmberg]

Ah. You realize that when you told me it was lower. I'm gonna go get you checked out today. You said it's been cheaper every year for the past three years. And your hand did an up.

[Brady]

Oh, yeah. Should have been going.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's right. His hand went up like he was riding a roller coaster slowly to the top as he told me that the numbers were falling.

[Larry]

Well, I think he thought because you're on the other side that maybe.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, maybe it's mirror. Yeah. See that? I'm in the up. That's it. In Stranger Things, I'm in the upside down. So he's. Thank you. I appreciate that. That was very confusing. You know what's been going down the whole time? Why are you saluting Hitler?

[Larry]

Don't look at me.

[John Holmberg]

Don't know.

[Brady]

What'd you say?

[John Holmberg]

My arm just did that on its own.

[Brady]

According to another survey, the average person will be willing to drive 172 miles out of their way to Pick up a loved one for Thanksgiving. How far? 172 miles.

[John Holmberg]

Round trips.

[Brady]

5% would be willing to drive 700.

[John Holmberg]

Miles to just go pick someone up? Yeah.

[Larry]

No, for holidays.

[John Holmberg]

No, no.

[Larry]

If you can't. If you can't meet me. God, now. Not even halfway. I'm not driving 350 miles.

[John Holmberg]

We've got 364 other days. We'll meet up another day.

[Brady]

Yeah. Yeah. On average, the furthest people have ever driven to see someone for the holidays is about 408 miles. You're saying that's Chicago to Minneapolis.

[John Holmberg]

But you're not saying pick them up and take them back. So just go to their house.

[Brady]

Yeah. Well, this one says 172 miles out of their way to pick up a loved one. Right.

[John Holmberg]

That's crazy. I don't think I love anybody. 172 miles worth. I think I have a radius of love. What a great band name that is, man.

[Larry]

That's solid.

[John Holmberg]

But I'm in a radius of love. If you live outside of it, I stop loving you a little bit.

[Larry]

I think I care a lot about you.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. It's a decent radius. But I think, I mean, it only goes. Yeah.

[Larry]

Does it go to Fred.

[Brady]

Was it Fredericksburg?

[John Holmberg]

Where your dad. I love my dad a lot less than I used to.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I mean, like for that kind of stuff. I mean, I still fondly love my father, but if he said, hey, I need you to come out here, I'd be like, ah, you should hire a guy. Yeah.

[Brady]

But even that. Look at the difference. It was when moving from Phoenix for me to Gilbert.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

How often? Just activities. Hanging out with you and going out there and then.

[John Holmberg]

That's true.

[Brady]

Family members. It's funny, some of them I see more out of state than you did.

[John Holmberg]

When you were there.

[Brady]

Yeah. Because it's just 30 miles a lot.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to your house for no reason.

[Brady]

To plan accordingly.

[John Holmberg]

I mean, really lives in surprise.

[Larry]

He's a cop. I haven't seen him in five years.

[John Holmberg]

If it's not like Monumental, there's no reason for either of us to go to each other's homes. We live too far apart.

[Larry]

Define monumental too, because that has a scale.

[John Holmberg]

My Monumental is different than his.

[Larry]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

His would be like free pizza Friday. And mine's like, somebody better be dead or being elected to like national office.

[Brady]

And even the pizza deal is no.

[John Holmberg]

And even then, I don't know.

[Brady]

Football game.

[Larry]

I can tell you the name of a made up restaurateur that I'm meeting and you would fly over.

[John Holmberg]

That's true. Are you familiar?

[Brady]

There might be.

[John Holmberg]

Are you familiar with Michel Arcionato? Nah. I think I've heard of that guy. Yeah.

[Larry]

He's an upcoming in the Italian barbecue scene.

[John Holmberg]

He's opening a restaurant out at Arrowhead. No kidding. Free night?

[Larry]

Not this weekend.

[John Holmberg]

I honestly am. And that's not out of rudeness because I see you every day.

[Larry]

That's the thing about it.

[John Holmberg]

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[Brady]

Unless there's a bunch of people that we haven't seen. Yeah, but there's a reason coming over or whatever. And they wanted to get together at your house. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I would ask your house. I would probably say, how long are they in town?

[Larry]

And I'd say, who's worth that?

[John Holmberg]

And then there's. And then I would weigh the why haven't I seen this person a long time? Is this by choice?

[Brady]

That's why it's neutral grounds.

[John Holmberg]

But that's my point. It's so easy to stay in touch with people today. It's very hard to say, oh my God, I haven't seen them In a long time. Usually I haven't seen someone in a long time because you're not trying.

[Larry]

They've faded.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And you've faded from them. It's not mean. It's just life.

[Larry]

No, it definitely goes both ways.

[John Holmberg]

My buddy Dean, that came to town a couple weeks ago, he doesn't live here anymore, but he had to come here for business. He wasn't coming here for money. Me. But while he was here, he's like, hey, maybe we could hang out while we're like, I'm go. And I told him, I'm already going somewhere the day you're here if you want to join me. And he was like, okay. That's different.

[Brady]

The job site monster, still around, Released a new poll on revenge quitting that found that almost half of us have done it before. Said 47% said they abruptly quit a job because they were fed up. 57% have also seen a co worker do it. Toxic work environment is the number one reason people gave for doing it. Poor management is close second. And feeling undervalued or ignored is third. No way.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's work.

[Brady]

One in five have daydreamed about telling their boss to shove it for over two years. Everybody, finally.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, everybody. I've done that. And I like my boss. Sometimes I have little fantasies about telling Tripp to shove it, and there's no reason for it. It's just fun.

[Larry]

Didn't you kill him in one dream?

[John Holmberg]

I've killed Tripp in dreams.

[Brady]

Wow.

[John Holmberg]

Several times. It's just an authority thing. Yeah, and a couple times accidentally and a couple times purposefully.

[Larry]

What, with cheese?

[John Holmberg]

I've killed a lot of people in my dreams. Ever have those dreams where somebody's frustrating you and you, like, try to peel their head off or something? It just won't work?

[Larry]

No, I do Freud.

[John Holmberg]

I don't think I do. I have that a lot. It's like you're just not hearing me. And you reach over and you'd grab their face, and they're almost, like, made of silly Putty, and you just can't do anything. And they're just sitting there laughing and like, oh, my God, we're in. The house is going to explode. It's on fire. Why are you laughing? You're trying to help them and they won't do anything. Right. So you just try to mold them and they're just putty.

[Brady]

Wow.

[John Holmberg]

Or pull their heads off and stuff. I've done that.

[Brady]

It's a good dream.

[John Holmberg]

I've never had a dream where I killed Brady.

[Brady]

You don't use me to put the fire out.

[John Holmberg]

No, I've never had a dream where you're silly Putty either. Mostly that's just people who are currently frustrating you. You try to pull their heads off.

[Brady]

The artist behind the 6.2 million dollar duct tape banana.

[John Holmberg]

Oh yeah.

[Brady]

Just recently sold another piece of his. The 12 for $12 million. It was the gold toilet. His name's Mauricio Catalon and so he.

[John Holmberg]

I heard that, Larry. Well, you're wearing headphones.

[Brady]

It's an 18 karat gold toilet sold for 12.1 million with fees at the Sotheby's auction on Tuesday. It's 101.2 kilogram. That's 223 pounds of the toilet is.

[John Holmberg]

That's pretty good toilet. And this is an artist who made a gold toilet. Yep, I've seen those before. That's plagiarism. I've seen golden toilets before. That's not art. Never seen a banana taped to a wall at Sotheby's. That was actually kind of creative and a statement against how modern art is. By the way, somebody says, John, I agree with you completely on having a love radius. On the other hand, my hate radius is limitless. That is true. The hate radius. Because you don't have to do anything with a hate radius. You never have to visit your hate.

[Larry]

Is there a radius?

[John Holmberg]

No, it's. It's the planet.

[Larry]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

It means it's the inter. In fact, it goes beyond that because I probably don't like the guys in the space station either.

[Larry]

Yeah, because doesn't that infer that if you go outside your radius, you. You'll see them. You'll see that.

[John Holmberg]

Right. But hate radius is easy because you never have to travel for hate. Never. Hate springs eternal.

[Larry]

That should be on a T shirt.

[John Holmberg]

Love radius exists. Like where do you live now? Oh, we're in Gold Canyon now.

[Larry]

Oh.

[John Holmberg]

And the first thing, no matter how much you like that person, is like, I think we've got a thing on Saturday. Let me check and I'll get back to you. Like you're not doing that or how you know, like what? I'm talking to a guest potentially for the happy ending show and he likes us. He's like, this is great. I think it'd be awesome.

[Larry]

But my hate.

[John Holmberg]

How much to extend my love radius. You're not going to do it because he likes us. If we pay him, he's gonna. His hate. His love radius will grow.

[Brady]

I've got.

[John Holmberg]

I don't want My love radius. It's not love. It's. That's not love. It's a different one. Lovitz is very 50 50. Like I've got a whole thing with him right now. We'll see.

[Larry]

Are you having to reach into your pocket for love?

[John Holmberg]

I'm gonna end up paying some money. It'll be fine.

[Brady]

In 2016, this artist sold a piece called Him. It's a wax figure of Adolf Hitler kneeling, complete with human hair. Sold for 17.2 million at a Christie's auction. Did not say who bought that one.

[John Holmberg]

Huh?

[Brett Vesely]

Huh?

[John Holmberg]

Who's hanging Hitler art?

[Brady]

Where did he display that?

[John Holmberg]

Where do you put that in here?

[Larry]

Says the guy who's.

[John Holmberg]

Well, I have Hitler in my bathroom. Well, that's different. Let's not comp orange with Hitler. I have a picture of Hitler in my private bathroom as a trap. Because anyone that comes out of there and shouldn't have been using my bathroom that says, why is there a picture of Hitler in your bathroom? I know they were in there. So if you. Even if you go to my bathroom and you see the Hitler thing and you're in the wrong place, then I happen to have a thing that you inevitably will ask questions. I may hang the Warren Jeffs in there too, because there's no way somebody's coming out of there without a Hitler and naked Warren Jeffs art. But who's buying for millions of dollars? Hitler art, that's bad for 17.2 million ton of money. Is it his hair? It's just human hair. Not his human hair.

[Larry]

Yeah, you just go to some salon.

[John Holmberg]

No, he ain't. Sweep up a barbershop. Art Hitler hair.

[Larry]

Me a pile of your hair. Your best, your best hair, your finest.

[John Holmberg]

Your most Hitler like. And he's down on his knees. All right.

[Brady]

What is a certain position that you can just take that home?

[John Holmberg]

Like, I mean, if you hang that, you kind of are Hitler, aren't you? Like, you just immediately pick up. I mean, if you've got a proud 17 million dollar piece of Hitler art, you're kind of him.

[Larry]

Now, you don't have a hate rating.

[John Holmberg]

You've absorbed all of his characteristics as your own. I have a poster, a big, like a painting of Javier Bardem from no country for Old Men. And even that's a little weird because he was a horrible person in that movie. But at least it's fake.

[Brady]

Got a couple of radio videos.

[Larry]

Just put it in your pocket.

[Brady]

First one is, I just titled his balls his chin.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, okay. Jesus, does he have balls on his Chin.

[Brady]

Pretty much. And the comments that people left were pretty funny.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, his chin is deformed. Yeah.

[Brady]

Oklahoma.

[John Holmberg]

What looks like a set of.

[Brady]

Weather's bipolar and everything.

[John Holmberg]

But it is fall.

[Brady]

Supposed to be in. Good questions. One comment.

[John Holmberg]

Do they shrink up when it's colder? Are they small?

[Brady]

80S. It's currently 86. So he's a bald chidian.

[John Holmberg]

So he walks around what's going on with what looks like balls for a chin. And it does.

[Brady]

Okay. Oklahoma.

[John Holmberg]

Doing Instagram weather reports. And I don't have an Instagram page because I don't want to put my face on camera too often.

[Brady]

Take these.

[John Holmberg]

I've got to get over it.

[Brady]

50S not.

[John Holmberg]

You'd think that would be an easy fix. It just looks like fat. And then the cleft of his chin has made like a ball line. Okay.

[Larry]

Doctor, Good news. We found a skin donor for that burn on your face. Him. What's the bad news?

[Brady]

Well.

[John Holmberg]

Well, we're gonna have to cut off your balls. Unless those are actual balls. Why is no one stepping up to say, let's get these off you?

[Brady]

How do you. Because.

[Larry]

And he's clearly shaved.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, he shaves his balls regular. Well, we all do that. A decent human being would do that. He should be good at it.

[Brady]

No.

[Larry]

I don't go near mine with a razor.

[John Holmberg]

I've recently discovered how great that is.

[Larry]

Really?

[John Holmberg]

I had a. Brent kind of talked me into it.

[Brady]

I know. That's why it's just like.

[John Holmberg]

You just pull it out. And I'm like, I've got a lot of skin down.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And you do. You got to find a way around it. But you can rub a razor across it.

[Larry]

Did you catch it the first time?

[John Holmberg]

The only time I've ever cut my scrotum shaving was with the clippers. The teeth. The teeth went and drug into the. That ball skin is.

[Larry]

So grab a hair and pull yourself.

[John Holmberg]

No. It was wrinkly skin got in there. But the razors are easy. This guy's great at it. He should start a business where he shaves balls because look at his face.

[Brady]

Oh, this is perfect for you, John. A little stocking stuffer for Christmas.

[John Holmberg]

Trevi Fountain.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

We need one of those. And these girls are posing for the Trevi Fountain. And then every time this girl's trying to get a picture of herself at the fountain, somebody said that might be a divination with a laser printer of a penis. She's trying to be Instagram hot. And her friend will. Hey. Can't figure out who's doing it. I need that present now. Oh, ruining Instagram photos like crazy from women who call themselves models who clearly are not. Oh, she spent all day getting ready for that picture, too. Look at her. She's in a gown and her hair's all done. She's in this awesome pose. It's a laser dick. Her friend's reaction's even better because she can't quite pinpoint who's doing it.

[Brady]

The next one's pageantry.

[John Holmberg]

That's great.

[Brady]

This is Miss Jamaica at the Miss Universe, which is in Thailand this year.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Brady]

Come on. And you remember the controversy of the judge calling the one. No, she was addressing the girls at the Miss Universe pageant, and he yelled at the one.

[John Holmberg]

The judge did. They're not supposed to say anything.

[Brady]

Guy. The guy in charge, not the judge, but one of the guys on the panel coordinating the whole whole event.

[John Holmberg]

Like a stage manager.

[Brady]

He's a guy from Thailand. He wanted to make sure the women know that they're representing Thailand as well.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, okay. And he got mad at him. I remember any of that. You're paying a lot of attention to the old Miss Universe pageant, Brady. All right, Miss Jamaica. Oh, she's gonna fall off the stage doing her walk. Oh, man, she's one step. She didn't last long at all.

[Brady]

That was the end of it.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, she's doing a little poses. She looks great.

[Brady]

Yeah, she does.

[John Holmberg]

Doesn't care at all that her nation was just ravaged by a massive hurricane. She's still all about those boobs. Look at this walk. Not looking forward. She can't see. Oh, she's going over. Go, man. That's not a light fall. Is she okay? Yeah, no, she's dead, man. Well, she's not gonna win.

[Brady]

That was her talent, was a pratfol.

[John Holmberg]

Right. She's a stunt woman. Well, that's pretty good.

[Larry]

Anne Brady, you.

[Brady]

There's low seam also easily fall down the algo. Yeah, I looked at one of them. I left one out. There's a third one now.

[John Holmberg]

There's people falling off.

[Larry]

The algorithm works.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. There's an Asian girl falling off the stage. She didn't even that. Just walked to the end and didn't turn around. She didn't fall forward.

[Larry]

She fell down.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's a. If that music was playing in my country, I'd jump off of something too.

[Larry]

Music or is that the.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know what that is.

[Larry]

Mc.

[John Holmberg]

If that's the language my country speaks, I'm jumping.

[Brady]

I think that's gay.

[John Holmberg]

I'd kill myself if I Had to hear that every day, Brady. Consider yourself lucky you can't hear that. Yikes. All right, well, Brett would be here for videos, but he's. He's over at Local Legends this morning. We'll talk with him in a sec. He's at Main street in Sassamon. Operation Santa Claus going on. He's going to go out there and help support it. He'll tell you what he needs next, and then Joe Coyote will join us in just a little bit. There goes your Brady report. John Holmberg's morning sickness. The 98 KUPD. Holmberg's morning sickness. All right, Brett's out there this morning doing all sorts of awesome philanthropy, some charitable work, and we love that he's out at Local Legends and he is with his beloved, I believe, Matthias out there, Main street in Sauceman. That's where you need to go to see Brett this morning. And why would they do that? Brett, tell them why they would that.

[Brett Vesely]

Because I'm a charitable kind of guy, that's why.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. You give back.

[Brett Vesely]

I do this with the water drive. That's right. But it is. It's Operation Santa Claus. And we are out here taking those donations. It's the holiday season, you know, we're trying to help out the maybe less fortunate, some people that need a little bit of extra hand. So we're out here collecting non perishable foods, toys, you know, big clothes, whatever, anything we can help people through the holiday season with, of course, our friends over Sanderson for jumping off channel 15, you know, bunch of people jumping in on this. And if you bring that stuff and look, I know it's a little late, but this is the first one. You know, if you're on your way to work. I don't know why you do that. Just come in here, have some breakfast, get a drink. But hang out with me for a little bit. But if, you know, if you didn't have time to pick up a toy or anything. We're taking donations here. We got the QR code you can do right on your phone. We'll take cash. And if you come on out here and you donate, Matthias is going to be giving you 10 off on your tab. So come on out here, have a few cocktails with me after 10, and we'll. We'll be doing it upright. But it is Operation Santa Claus out here. Local Legends on Main street, just west of Sauceman.

[John Holmberg]

Brent, you have permission to drink now. We're not coming back, so we're good. You're good. Just start. Start Boozing now you're good.

[Brett Vesely]

Why do you think I drove my own vehicle?

[John Holmberg]

Exactly.

[Brett Vesely]

I'm not coming back there.

[John Holmberg]

Of course not. That's ridiculous. But this is a nice thing. And of course, as always, Brett asked for non perishable items. Toys, clothes, things like that. But you know, an envelope with a couple bucks and it is probably the best thing to do this morning. So pop on by, everybody wins. Local Legends will give you 10 off what you order from them and then you can drop off anything you want.

[Brady]

Get an omelet, have some sen buka with Brett.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, God. Oh no.

[Brett Vesely]

We can do some buca. We got buka here. Come on down. It's cold out. It'll keep you warm.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it'll keep you warm. It'll keep you from going to work for a week too. It stuff's horrible. Anyway, Operation Santa Claus going on. Brett's doing his best to make it the kickoff. Pretty good. Local Legends is where we're going to do a bunch of drop offs. That's pretty cool. Nice job, Brett. We'll talk to you in a little while.

[Brett Vesely]

Thanks, Matthew.

[John Holmberg]

There you go. Brett's out there this morning hanging out. Go say hi to him while you don't have to work through this traffic and all this rain. In the meantime, we sit back and wait for Joe Coy to call us. That's right, Joe Coy, former friend of the show, then got too famous and now he's coming back. Joe Coy joins us next. It's blur. It's a song too. It's 98k u p d.

[Larry]

It's out of control now.