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Brett Vesely
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Byron
Live.
John Holmberg
It's morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail.
There you go. Thank you. Miles to Nowhere. That's another couple days of them. A week and a day of Miles to Nowhere kicking off our show. And.
Then we find out what the. The new song's gonna sound like. The Thomas James Band. The guy sent me the song already. I haven't listened to it. I told him, I said, I'm not gonna listen until we go on the air. January 5th with the brand new theme song. And I'll listen like everybody else for the very first time. Get that together. I fear that I'm getting sick. I have the beginnings of something.
Brett Vesely
Oh, we did get that email. Now, if you're sick, you need to go home.
John Holmberg
Yeah. I'm starting to think maybe it makes me nervous about After Dark thing. That's. It makes me a little bit. Don't start this. So I'm heavied up on vitamin C and dimetap for children and because I just like the way that tastes.
Brett Vesely
Just take your Flintstone vitamins.
John Holmberg
I Love those. Have you had those as an adult?
Brett Vesely
Not lately, no.
John Holmberg
They're better as an adult, really, than they are as a kid. When you're a kid, it's like candy. But you only get one as an adult. Nobody's stopping. You can eat the whole bottle. I keep them in there like, you know, Certs. Like, I just have a. I shake it around like Tic Tacs. They're phenomen. Go get yourself some today.
Brett Vesely
All right.
John Holmberg
You can't hurt yourself on Flintstones children's vitamins. You can. Oh, you can't overdose. Your pee turns really yellow. I ate a whole bottle of them. I'm like, I can't have these because I took one. And I'm like, they're phenomenal. Flintstones vitamins are so good. That's my vitamin. That's how I get vitamins. I don't take supplements. But if you get me a bottle of Flintstones chewables.
Game on. Gone. And, you know, pouring it in my mouth.
Like five Betty's in a Barney at once and just crunch. The flavor mixes.
Brady
That's your. That's your combo.
John Holmberg
Well, whatever goes in. I just. I just assumed there was some.
Brady
Maybe you line them up.
John Holmberg
No, you know what?
Brady
I might.
John Holmberg
Next time, I might put them all in a row. Here's all my Freds and Wilma's. I think there's a dino in there. All Odino just looks like a blob with a cutout on it. Seriously, we should send Thriller on a Flintstones vitamin run and just chug vitamins.
Brett Vesely
They may be here by Friday.
John Holmberg
That's true. Yeah. But I've got the start of something. I've got that tender, weird, don't touch my head thing. And my throat and ear connected somehow, doing a weird achy pain. And I'm like, no, not now. But unless I've got the covets, we'll do it. Homework After Dark is Friday, and it's going to be a good party. We're going to have a little pre party there. Get down to stand up live beforehand. The show's going to start at 9:45. Of course, it's First Avenue in Jefferson. We got to say thanks to our friends Lerner and Row and Happy Endings euthanasia. My friend Dr. Mike, Dr. Mike Fixler and his whole team at Happy Endings Euthanasia. I remember they got on my radar 15, 16 years ago when I saw their truck driving on the road and it said, Happy Endings Euthanasia. And I started laughing like, you get a hand job and put Your dog down. And we called him, and I said, what were you thinking with the name? And he explained it beautifully. Like, look, it's a tough time when you're not going through it. You look at the car and you're like, I will never forget that. It's great marketing. And by the way, I've used them, unfortunately. I've gotten to know Dr. Mike through his service, and they have got a service that they've put together that is the only way to go through that. They're so amazing, compassionate, wonderful people.
Brett Vesely
We're using them tonight.
John Holmberg
Oh, no.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Sorry, Brett. Yeah, I didn't know that. No, it's, you know, well, to take the worst possible thing you can have with a pet and have this gift of these people that come to your house and make sure that everything's done in the comfort of a home. Oh.
You'Re having a. What a go. Jesus Christ.
Brett Vesely
2026.
John Holmberg
Come on.
Yeah. First half of 2025, not so bad. But Jesus.
People in war have gotten knocks on the door less than you. Like, we lost another one. Sorry to hear that. But, yeah, you know what? You're in great hands because Dr. Fixler and Happy Endings is just. I can't rave about that enough. What a strange thing to be awesome. But it really is. And it's been. Once you discover it, you're like, oh, this is part of my world forever. Because unfortunately, our pets, the family members, you're going to come to that time of their lives most of the time. And to have that in your corner, I highly recommend putting that in your. That in your pocket.
Oh, I didn't know this. It says, careful with those Flintstones vitamins, John. I heard the cartel are lacing them with Neanderthal. I don't know if that's a real pillar of fentanyl. Neanderthal.
I keep my eyes. But, yeah, they're delicious, by the way. So hopefully we can get through with my vitamin, my Flintstones vitamin overdoses and all the stuff I'm taking Dimetap for children. I take children's medicine because you can't screw that up. And I can take tons of it. And then I'll just see if I can clear this out. So as of now, we're all good for Friday. But I don't like this feeling. My body's basically knocking on six doors.
Brady
Brewing.
John Holmberg
Yeah. You know, you just know. It's like, what's going on with this throat and ear thing never keeps up to me.
Brady
It knows when break time is out.
John Holmberg
It does. It knows When I'm about to relax and it shuts me down, it's a little early. Just get me through Friday and I'll. I'll call in sick for three days next week. We'll start to break early. We'll work it that way, but it's not easy. Also, it's better than being Tim Waltz, which he had to go on TV yesterday and say, please stop driving past my house and calling me a. I'd let that one go. Tim.
If people are driving past your house calling you a retard, the last thing you need to do to stop that is go on TV and say, please stop calling me a retard. Guess what's going to happen? Yeah, everybody's going to start calling you a retard. And the comments on Reddit about that are hysterical, which are basically like, can't take the heat. Like, no, that's not. Don't. He's not in the kitchen of being called a retard. No one is. But they're like, yeah, this guy can't take the heat. Then what's he doing in politics? I'm like, he didn't sign up for that. That's just. You're being dicks. I think it's hilarious, but you're being dicks. So please stop doing that. And don't drive by the guy's house. If you see him out in person, that's good. Call him a retard there. But you can't go calling people a retard at their house if they're just outside, you know, being people. He's retard. Now we get it. You think he's a retard, but that's because Trump called him that on Thanksgiving Day.
But, yeah, it's. If you have to ask that.
Probably just keep that under wraps. You know, don't go to the news. Don't stand behind a podium and go. Just absolutely sick of people driving by a house calling me a retard. Like, oh, boy, start the car. Even I don't want to do it, but now I do. Like, if Brady went on, said just enough of people driving past my house saying, brett, we're going over to Brady.
Brett Vesely
Oh, absolutely.
John Holmberg
I got to see this, B. I want to be part of it. And then we'd sit there.
Brady
There's a big speaker on the roof of Brett's car.
John Holmberg
Brett and I would set up a vehicle with an intercom, and we would wait. And after the third or fourth car that went by, they just went.
Brett, like, okay, we can go. He Won't even know it's us. You can't be the only one, but you can be the fourth one.
Brady
Oh, broke a window.
John Holmberg
Oh, I would dump. Stop calling me that.
Brady
Enough.
John Holmberg
I would sit in my front yard laughing hysterically. If you. If I lived across the street from you and people drove by and just called you a retard. And then. And then, God forbid, later that night, I'm like, what a great day of sitting there watching Brady get called the retard a hundred times. What's on tv. And you're like, da, da, da, da, da da. Arizona's family tonight with Yeti Gibson. And the other guy, the gay one.
Tonight in Gilbert, a man is tired of it, and he's saying, so. All right, that's enough. Driving by my house, 1873 Elm Lane in Gilbert, Arizona, calling me a retard. Knock it off. Like, oh, I'd be in hysterics. I watched that happen all day. And he just invited the rest of the city to do it. What a moron.
You know, the only person that would say, please stop calling me a retard at my house is a retard. I'm going over there to do that. You proved it. But, yeah, I was reading the comments, and the left people were very distraught about it. These idiots on the right, they can't understand. No one ever said they ever had class and this and that. Then. Then the next dude, hey, can't. Can't handle the heat. Get out of the kitchen. It's like, he wasn't in the kitchen. That's a bad response. Like, well, maybe we shouldn't call him a retard then. How about pussy? Yeah, you can do that. As you try whatever you want to do to yell at this guy's house.
But he's listening. And that's win for the crazy people. And I find it hysterical. But if you are doing that, you could class it up. It's kind of like the lady yesterday from Cinnabon. There's a better way to call people names, and usually it's through an anonymous letter. That's how I. I've discovered that if you're gonna. If you're gonna do a racial slur thing, why are you signing it? And when somebody breaks out a camera, cut. Cut your character and just go, thank you for coming to Cinnabon. Just be nice. When the camera's on. Once you see them go, okay. And put the camera down. Then hit him with the. Suck it, suck it. Give them a couple of those off camera.
But once that camera's up. You can't possibly, like, still have the balls to keep going.
Brady
And how many times have we seen that? Are you recording this? Fun.
John Holmberg
Okay, yeah, you record me. All right, Watch this. Then their anger gets the best of them. They're not smart.
Brady
Waste management open?
John Holmberg
Yeah, at the bar. What was his name? Oh, I can't remember. His name was great, too. Yeah, man, I had it down here the other day. Oh, what was his name? It was so good.
Oh, man, I wanted his name. Yeah, the kid for cinnamon. He. Yeah, he knew. He said, I know you're recording me. And he just told a bunch of Mexican peoples. They're the worst. The worst human beings alive. What the hell was his name?
Brady
The bartender.
John Holmberg
He had such a great name.
Brett Vesely
Brandt Burt Burned down here.
John Holmberg
Then you matter after that. You're Brandt Burt. The best part about that guy is you don't need his full name, because there's only one Brent Burt in the world. And if you know a Brent Burt, he was the racist at the Phoenix Open. That's him. Period. End of story. There's no, like, hey, Brent. Bert, was that you? No, it's a different Brent Bert. It was. You're the only brand Burt in the town. Town of five million. Find me two Brent Berts. Go.
There's not.
It's pretty awesome. So I'm very excited about cameras getting people, but until Tim Waltz has a camera in front of his house, where cars are streaming by like a parade of retard, in my mind, it hasn't happened yet.
They say things that are horrible.
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Brady
It happened twice.
John Holmberg
Okay, but wouldn't it be coincidental if it happened even twice if those people didn't know each other? You know, it'd be fun tonight. Drive by Waltz's house, call maritime. It would be fun. And then you find out you're one of like five years. There's a line like, they're Christmas lights. Or you're like, everybody calling him a retard. Look at this.
Brady
Or they're like, finally. We've been doing it for two years.
John Holmberg
We've been doing. Yeah. Why haven't we gotten any news? A guy drive by Tim Walter's house every night, call him a retard. It's great. I want to do that. And like 20 other guys do it. Next thing you know, Walt is like, that's enough. Stop calling me a reach. I'm going on the news.
I would very much like it if you people would stop calling me a. What? What's going on? Oh, they drive by every night, 20, 30 of them. Call me retard. I'm doing that.
Brady
The lights on the roof say that.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it rearranges Christmas lights. Retard with an arrow to the door. It's not nice.
However, it is hilarious. And two things can be true at once.
I like the. And hopefully it is, like real. But it's. The story is. Is not good.
But he's got that kid that's like neurodivergent. So it's probably.
I hope that's real. But he goes into it. People would have to stop. And the cops out front. This is a good email I got. And I really got excited reading it because it's. I started littering. I did it this morning. It was great. I started littering a lot. As a point. I'm kind of. I'm trying to be the anti environmentalist to prove that environmental causes are money business scams rather than anything else. I did some research. The United states is exactly 3.8 or 3.9, we'll say 4% of the world's population. So even if everyone in the United States was 100% compliant on the environment, 96% of the world is not. For the most part. You got some Europeans that are pretty uppity about that. But for the Most, let's say 88%. So that's the exact same thing as Los Angeles.
Brady
How much would our 4% do?
John Holmberg
Right. Los Angeles proper is about 12, 13 million. Get 20 million and go outside of it. Los angeles profit about 12 or 13 million. If only. And only Los Angeles complied completely to environmental causes and the rest of the United States didn't care. Would that make a dent in anything? Or would it just make a lot of money for people in Los Angeles who are in on that business? And that's essentially what it was. So until something changes. Well, because I'm. I still feel like I was the one who blew the lid off the local recycling scam. It's a complete scam. It's a jobs program. And I'm fine. Just call it what it is. But nobody is. When you read the rules of how to recycle, you're not. You're doing it wrong. Pizza boxes with pizza in it or out. Capped bottles are out. There's nobody who's a gatekeeper at the landfill or at the recycling center.
Brady
Envelope.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Yeah. So. And some. Some paper is. Some paper isn't, Some is right, some.
Brett Vesely
Is wrong, Some water bottles are, and.
John Holmberg
Some aren't exactly tap off.
Brett Vesely
Yeah, we.
John Holmberg
And we throw this stuff away, thinking we're doing our part. But really what we were doing was keeping a program alive and money, tax money to go to it. And I'm like, that's wrong. If we're serious about it, let's be serious about it. And since I've been a kid, the ozone hole was going to kill us all, and it shrunk down. And this is what caused all this, is that the environmentalists actually won that battle by saying there were floral carbons that were in aerosol cans and refrigerants that were causing this. And so they got rid of those, and they noticed that it was kind of fixing it. The one caveat to that was as America or as humans patted themselves in the back, was we didn't have any volcanoes of any note for 15 years, 20 years. They do more damage than any freeway in America could possibly do. Just going off once and they'd blow holes. So for 15 years, it also helped that there were no volcanoes. The one went off up there in Norway or wherever the hell that thing was a few years ago, and it started eating holes in the thing again. It's like, oh, okay, so this is just gonna be a constant. Are we dirty? Yes. Are we cleaning it? Right. No. It's a business. So I got upset the other day when I saw the video of India and how they handle their trash, which is just to take the Glad bag and dump it out into the river. And they've redirected canals. They have garbage canals where the water flows through to Push it down. It's actually kind of smart. It stinks because it's India, but they just pour all their trash in there and it goes down. And I'm like, well, me having that auto start stop on my red lights is not going to help the environment. I'm, it's, I'm not, I don't buy into that. I'm just a small cog. I'm doing my part. No, I'm not, I'm not. Because if it did, I turn it off. I'm frustrated by that thing. I really. And if I really cared about the environment, I wouldn't have a car. If I was really. True. But that's not realistic. All right, well then until it is, let's just live like this lady and I got mad the other day about this. She mentions this too. It says, I know you were just joking, John and I get the show because I am a fan and I usually don't get upset at stuff you say but the other day when you said you're going to start littering all the time. I know you get away with saying things like that because you can hide behind being funny and again, I do think you're very funny but why have you been so mad at people who are eco friendly? It's weird. Were you touched by a green thumb? It's actually a pretty good line.
Brady
Good point.
John Holmberg
Yeah. A few days before you said you couldn't be friends with anyone who is an environmentally motivated person because they're always mad because you read a story about how everyone was mad at. She miswrote this and it makes it even better. Was mad at Michael Jackson's yacht. Ms. Jordan's yacht. Michael Jackson's yacht would have been a scary like Disney cruise. It says he's a huge example and could be a better example to the millions of middle aged men who worship him. He can be a better steward for the planet and so can his fans. I love you, but please don't litter and wreck our planet. And we're still. Don't encourage your listeners who could end up being more of a cult than you know to do the same. I will still listen because I'm not the type to be butt hurt. And I would love to hear why you're so mad at the environment. Kelly, I still love you. Please don't torch me. I'm not Kelly, but I'm not mad at the environment. I'm mad at the people saying that we're doing something for if you really.
Brady
Want, it's our fault.
John Holmberg
Yeah, if you really want this to end. Stop driving, Turn off your air conditioner. Don't have fire, don't use gas products, don't wear shoes with rubber on them because they have to be manufactured through oil and all this other stuff. There's so many things you would have to do to be truly environmental rather than what you've been indoctrinated into believing, which is, hey, if you do it our way, we can make this better. When I was a kid, we didn't have plastic bottles at all. And now I'm watching at all get.
Brady
Paid to turn in the glass bottles too.
John Holmberg
At one time at all, we had aluminum cans. And then big giant 2 liter Pepsi started to show up. Remember those?
Brady
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
Like, well, these are awesome. And they were huge plastic. And when I was a kid, they always talked about how they're gonna wreck the environment. We can't have these plastic bottles. It's this bad. And what happens from there? We're lousy with plastic bottles. I have never seen plastic bottles like this in my life. And exact same time, we have an island of plastic garbage floating in the Pacific that's as big as Australia. And they keep pumping out more plastic and tell us that the water's polluted. So you can't drink that. You can't have city water. That's gross. Buy this water and put it in plastic. If we were serious about it, there'd be no more plastic. But we're not, and we never will be. It's a money game. So I'm gonna start a new jobs program where the city can take our taxes to clean up all the trash. I shoot up my car window. I think it's brilliant. Jobs creating programs program. Brett, I'm gonna take the Diet Coke can now. It's Waterloo Big on the Waterloo Crunch. And people go, you noticed all this litter? And we'll have a crying Indian on TV telling us to knock it off, and we won't. I'm going to litter now. I'm going to litter as a point to say in my lifetime. We have focused more and more and more on recycling, and we have focused more and more and more on environment stuff. And it's not getting better because we are more plastic than I've ever seen in my life. I have three cases of water in a house with running water. I don't get it. And I fell for it too. I don't drink out of the tap anymore. I. I will. But most of the time, if there's a bottle of water there, I'll get that and why it's more convenient. I don't have to wash a glass. I can crack this open. It's already pre poured. I'm ready to go.
Brady
That tap is just for washing the hands.
John Holmberg
And occasional cooking. Yes. Sometimes you got to boil that out because it's not Indian water. I stick my head under there and sip water all the time. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's convenience. That's all we're into. And again, 4% of the population is the United States. And we're being force fed this lie that I would absolutely love for us to be cleaner as a people, but until India stops pouring trash into the sewers that aren't sewers, they're just. They're rivers. And to the tune of a billion people, nothing's going to change. Nothing at all.
Brady
China, India, they're the worst.
John Holmberg
And then you find out that the big wins in environmentalist stuff isn't us. We haven't made a dent. It's when industries stop choking crap into the air. And you know who the biggest problems are are plastic manufacturers. Car batteries are massive problem.
Brett Vesely
Tesla batteries, too.
John Holmberg
Tesla batteries are a huge. A huge mess to try to A, create and B, dispose.
So I'm gonna start throwing cans on the road. I'm doing my part.
Now. She says, why don't I do it her way? I ask the same question in return, why don't you do it mine? Your way's wrong. Is it? And your way is right.
Not so sure. I think you've just been taught that your way is right. This guy said it right. Eco terrorism.
Eco terrorists. And I'm not even going to call out hypocrisy like he did. He said, what about Leo DiCaprio? Flies his private jet and has a massive yacht. And then the douchebag preaches to us about pollution. He's probably getting a cut. And if you know what, I've said this before, I'll say it again. If the environmentalists want to start paying me to spout their message, guess what I'm going to start doing? If it gets me a private plane and a yacht and all I have to do is yell at Brady about how he's not doing enough, I'll give a hoot. Consider that done. I am Woodsy the Owl.
I am all over it. But Kelly, don't yell at me about the lie this guy said. Shove it, Kelly. I just ate a McGriddle and threw that greasy paper out the window out of spite. All right, Alexander, everybody, right now, whatever trash Is in your car. Chuck it out the window. Ombre this morning sickness. Disgusting. They say things that are horrible. Gladiator.
Holmberg's morning sickness.
Unless it's glass. Don't do glass. That's bad for tires. But aluminum can wrappers, that thing that's been down there for a month, you're like, I gotta throw that out. Get it out of there. Water bottles, everything must go. They've never stopped on cigarette, but cigarettes keep flying out. Cars, get rid of them all.
Until they come back and go, all right, all right, all right. You're onto us. What do you want to do about it? It's like, stop making plastic bottles. Get this blue bin out of my house. None of it counts. I went through my recycling bin the other day because all these boxes, and I just was looking, and I'm like, this box isn't even recyclable. It says on the side that it's manufactured as stuff you can't recycle. It looked like a cardboard box, felt like a cardboard box, but it wasn't. And it had some weird packing thing. It said, don't do this. This is not recyclable. I'm like, is there a gatekeeper at the recycling center through the blue bin that's sifting through like Lucy and Ethel for the chocolate factory? We can't do any of this. This is all garbage. And I've said it a million times. If I saw a video of the three or four thousand people it would take at the recycling center to make sure everything we're doing is okay while they just keep dumping that truck on them day after day In a city of 5 million people, the blue bin drop off. You would have to have so many people sifting through to make sure that everything going into the recycling thing is recyclable. When I bitched about this 10 years ago, surprise. The city of surprise said, he's right. If you want to recycle, you got to bring it down here yourselves. We're. We're going to cancel the whole program. And they did. And tip of the cap to surprise. It's a scam. It's a complete scam. David Vasquez, well, he's one of them, but plenty of them.
Yeah. This one says, have you ever seen what they have to do to those giant windmill blades? They can't be refurbished or recycled, so they just bury them. I didn't know that. I don't know when I remember what.
Brady
When Billy Bob went off on him.
John Holmberg
And Landman on the windmills.
Brady
Oh, yeah. How much it costs. I mean, great speech. To produce it.
John Holmberg
Great speech. And yeah, oil builds it. It's a great speech. I didn't know what. What, what. What is a windmill blade that's gone south. They wear out. Yeah.
Brett Vesely
I think when they stop working over there in Palm Springs.
John Holmberg
Oh, no, no. The blade, though.
Brett Vesely
So many years, really.
John Holmberg
Weather and weather.
Brady
That's like.
John Holmberg
They just stopped being blades.
Brady
Got to be replaced.
John Holmberg
It doesn't seem like a. Like a building doesn't think about the.
Brady
Plastic or let alone a car out here. You let it sit out in the sun for.
John Holmberg
Yeah, but it doesn't stop being shaped like a car. It's all a blade needs. No, but.
Brady
But the fenders will. You know those fiberglass or the.
John Holmberg
This isn't fiberglass. They're like, made of steel.
Weather and stuff like that building doesn't. We don't have to.
Brett Vesely
Well, it's covered by stuff though, too.
John Holmberg
I guess that seems like a scam too.
Brett Vesely
Oh, I agree 100%.
John Holmberg
That's what it says. Throw trash on the freeway. Gives baby daddy serving time a job. Pick it up. I'm with you. Chuck out the McGriddle rappers. Today, CUPD backs the entire littering program. Hubbard radio wants you to litter and litter at all today. And not in the corners or hidden in some sort of strange thing right in the middle of the straight.
Brady
We're coming into the high season with presence and wrapping, and that's exactly right.
John Holmberg
When you're done with it, just put it in the road.
Wow. No. Here's the common fate for blades. Due to the difficulty of cost of separating composite materials, they just. They just landfill them. I didn't know anything about that. Well, they just make them out of something better. It's a blaze.
Brady
Too much money, bro.
Brett Vesely
It's probably not environmentally safe.
John Holmberg
Thank you, Brady. Too much money. Money's the only thing here. Said, dude, I'm not kidding. I just driving up the i17 and I watched three or four cars just chuck something out the window. Well, damn it all, that's not enough.
The home bird littering program for 2026 has begun. Early litter. I'm not talking about John's tearing up. It's great. I'm gonna. Indian was standing next to that going, isn't this beautiful? We never asked Ironized Cody if he was crying because he was sad. He might have liked that big heap of trash they love. Heap of stuff. Big heapo money. He. I've seen it at the casinos. They call it hippo coins.
Brady
He was crying out of guilt because he's like, I'm Italian.
John Holmberg
Why did they dress me like this?
Brett Vesely
I'm getting paid. That's fine, whatever. Give me the headdress.
John Holmberg
And this one says, john, I actually love this. When I spot a plastic bottle on the road, it's a game to see if I can smush it. Yeah, do that. I think smushing it into road is basically recycling.
I think at three in the morning, after the big litter campaign begins, I'm starting a jobs program. This is absolutely my point being. And the people who get mad are stupid. The point being is that the recycling thing is just a jobs program. So I'm creating a new one. We litter, right? And then every night at 3am the freeways close. No one will care. And then trucks go through and we've hired hundreds of people to drive trucks through and suck it all up into the right spots and then go take it to the dumpster. And we keep. And now the jobs program is, we've got a bunch of wallies out there that go up and scoop up our trash every day. It's a beautiful thing.
It's a beautiful thing.
Brady
As I look at a nice sized bag in our parking lot right now.
John Holmberg
Is there one blowing by? Gorgeous.
Brady
Free.
John Holmberg
Some people have a deep, abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. Iron ice coat of the Ital doing. Some people don't. There's somebody I love throwing their trash out at an Indian. Start pollution. That's people.
Brady
That was a racist hit.
John Holmberg
It was. Yeah. That wasn't a littering. That was like, there's a Indian coming out fully dressed through that bag of trash at the. I got to be honest, knowing American history and just sitting on pins and needles that they're eventually going to rise up again. If I was on the 202 and out from the bushes came a fully dressed chief like, oh, I'd throw something at him too. Like, we better let them know we mean business. They're coming back.
They want it back. Yeah, Chuck a piece of trash out today.
This one says, I understand your frustration with this, John, but you have to remember your origin point, which was that India was throwing all their trash into a river. Let's not turn everything into Apache Junction. Let's keep our things gathered and take it to the nearest river and throw it in. Jesse, that's a great idea. You know what? I might, Jesse, I might hire you as my, you know, I'm a little bit off the cuff. You are an organizer. You're my community organizer. You're the Barack Obama of the Homeburg Litter campaign. Yes. We'll dump all our trash in Tempe Town Lake until it fills up. And they're like, why are you guys doing this? Like, we're tired of. We're tired of being lied to.
Stop pumping plastic into my life at every turn and telling me I need to recycle. Don't you see the game, the big circle that's involved here? You drink 12, 13 bottles of recyclable plastic stuff, you throw that away and then you get yelled at for, oh, we got a problem with the plastic. The ocean is filling with plastic. There's that commercial that cartoon kid tells me, by 2055, there'll be more plastic in the ocean than water. No, there won't. That would be imp. Have you seen the ocean? Good luck with that, kid. And it's your fault. What did I do wrong? I wasn't drinking out of plastic 25 years ago, and then it became my only option. Well, stop it. And then what? Suck puddles?
Stupid.
John, my 10 year old agrees. And he just chucked his soda can out the window and said, eff it. You're raising a good boy.
Ah, the future. I've got them wrapped around my finger.
Brett Vesely
That's parenting.
John Holmberg
That's getting it done.
I have what I call litter Tourette syndrome. Boy, Kelly's letter. She didn't expect this, did she? Neither did I, to be honest with you. I want to throw. I want to litter all the time because I've been told for so many years how wrong it is. Brady and I did it on the golf course the other day last week at Camelback. Yeah. I took a can and I tried to do a hook shot over the top of the cart from inside the cart into the trash. And Brady, who's looking at me like, you're a jerk. I can't believe you're doing this littering campaign. It hit the ground and he kept driving, so he's with me.
Brady
It's in the circle.
John Holmberg
It's near circle. The cane adjacent to the trash.
Brett Vesely
Horseshoes. I mean, what are you doing?
John Holmberg
At one point, it was touching the can. If it's.
Brady
If it's two feet away from the can.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it made a ting noise. He threw it away. I hit the post. Yeah, silly.
Just silly.
Brady
Gotta keep on pace too. Hold the other golfers up.
John Holmberg
This one says, John, as a garbage man for years, I do say that recycling is actually separated and sorted by hard working Mexicans who pick out the garbage and then automatically gets the Metal, paper and plastic separated. The US sold recycled byproducts to China in 20, 19 and 20, and China started to refuse the world's trash dump amid recycling. So much more expensive to process once the money wasn't there. Small cities ended it. It's about money.
And I've never seen. I want a video of this insane conveyor belt of gatekeepers from when I throw it away to where it goes. Because I don't see it. It. I just don't see it. I don't see the thousands of people it would take to go through and find all those envelopes with windows in them and put them in the proper receptacle. I just don't see that happening.
Brady
Every once in a while. The only thing I. I'll see people going and getting the aluminum cans out, sorting that.
John Holmberg
Oh, you're talking about out of a trash can. Yeah, I'm talking about the facility.
Brady
Yeah, but I'm saying like the facilities there, I don't know what kind of dough you're getting for aluminum now.
John Holmberg
You're talking about an individual.
Brady
You're better off getting a catalytic converter.
John Holmberg
Yeah, for sure. Steal that. But you're talking about an individual digging through the garbage. I'm talking about some copper. Go to the recycling. I'm just from your neighborhood. On recycling day.
Brett Vesely
Right.
John Holmberg
Think of this. All those are wrong. Somebody has to go through every blue bin in your neighborhood.
Brady
Yeah, we have two different trucks.
John Holmberg
It would be a 20 person job just for your street.
Now multiply that by every street in Phoenix. It's not happening.
Brady
And then the HOA goes by every once in a while, puts a little note on your trash can.
John Holmberg
You're recycling. Wrong. Yeah, and you know what I do? Next time I have my recycling bin out, I fill it with metal and I put a sign on it that says, you rat.
Find me. I've got money. It's all $200. Good. It's worth it. It's a $200 fine to make you mad. I'd pay that every week.
Brett Vesely
Aren't they wasting paper too?
John Holmberg
Thank you, Brad.
They say things that are horrible. 98 ups, morning sickness and gas. Probably driving around looking at people's garbage. By the way, if you're a person who goes through other people's recycling and leaves notes, I hope you get the worst case of new cancer that hasn't been invented yet. You piece of. I went through your garbage and I noticed you're doing it wrong. Let me go get my shotgun real quick. I'm gonna. I'm show you how something I'm real good at.
What kind of human being takes it upon themself to snoop around in your trash and then tell you I told on you and you're getting fined for that? You know, I'd say, you know what? That's great, Gladys. You know what? I'd love to have a talk with you about that. Which house is yours? And then she'd say, so. And every day that every Wednesday morning, it's recycling. I will drive down that road and smash her recycling bin and blow her garbage all over her front yard every day. That's my fine. And if it cost me 200 bucks a month or so from HOA, I'm getting my money's worth by mashing your recycling all over your front yard.
Stop looking at people's garbage.
Yeah, this one says.
Says I worked in public works for Gila River. Our community has recycle cans and refuse cans, green and blue. And some community members use the blue can if they forget. And trash day natives don't care either. Yeah, the people that were crying in the commercial are like, I don't know. The truck's coming. Put out the blue can. The other one we forgot is full.
He put it out there. You take. They got their spray paint in the blue can. Their cans getting bigger and bigger every week because they just spray painted the color it needs. It need to be black. We filled out the wrong one. Go get the spray paint and spray it black. And they will take it. Our ends are high.
Brett Vesely
Well, didn't you get in trouble for putting dog poop in there or something like that?
John Holmberg
Yeah, some lady poked her head in them. Just wait until next week. I'm putting my human poop in there. I might start dumping in that. And you know what I've never heard? People are pooping the recycling center. Sorters are very angry about it because there aren't any. It's not a thing.
This one has human in it. Who did that? Good luck finding it. I will poop in it. I will put metal and paint and everything else until I hear somebody say, you know the guys at the recycling center found out that you're doing that. Who are sorters? I don't believe you have those. I'd like to see some video of this. I've never met anybody who's like, knows somebody who's a sorter. Oh, he's a recycling sorter out at the conveyor belt at the recycling center. Doesn't exist. It's not a thing.
Brady
But hang out at the TEMPE Tavern all the time. The sorters.
John Holmberg
Everyone listening to us. That drives past the Hubbard radio building on 52nd street on your way towards the 202. There's a bus going by right now. Please just throw something at the window. Window. Just constantly litter. I want to see that this campaign is working.
Brett Vesely
Here comes another email from Susie.
John Holmberg
Honk your horn.
Brett Vesely
Thanks.
John Holmberg
And actually drive through our parking lot and throw it in our parking lot. I'm fine with that.
Brady
We've got people.
John Holmberg
Will you please stop telling people?
Getting kind of thin.
I don't know if you've looked around. This building is a lot more building than it is people. And I think that's going to keep less trash. Yeah, yeah. Maybe that's what we're doing. But we got budget cuts. We got too much trash. Hey, there's a big trash truck. Tip it over. Do a wheelie.
Brady
He's opening up the back end.
John Holmberg
Missed the truck. Yeah, Those guys can't litter. That would be embarrassingly dangerous. Just a McGriddle package. Like, that guy had.
Nothing wrong with that.
So just wanted to throw my 2 cents in there. When was her name? Kelly. Kelly emailed me and yelled at me about being upset and the reason I don't want to be friends with people who are environmentalists. Because it's their way or the highway. If they say, you should do it my way, I'm like, you should do it mine. You're a jerk. Like we're saying the same thing. I didn't call you a jerk just because you think your way's right. I think your way is completely flawed. You can do it if you want, but I can, too. And I just happen to have a legion of followers that will chuck their McGriddle packages out because I say so. And that's awesome.
I just need to see one guy go by, chuck some trash. I'm gonna keep my eyes on the road today. That's pretty much my goal. We need to have Thriller outside with the sign says Throw Trash at Me.
You hit the gimp with a McGriddle package, and we'll give you tickets to a concert. Wow, that's pretty good.
Brett Vesely
Don't worry about tapping that aft.
John Holmberg
Just throw garbage. We'll take Corey's shirt off and left Thriller stand there with a target on his chest. And if you hit him with him, a Griddle Rat rapper. He gives you tickets to a show.
Brady
Put a light over his head where it hits.
John Holmberg
Yeah, you're going to the Smashing Pumpkins anyway. It isn't because I Want the world to be dirtier. It's because the current system is so broken. We need to kind of Boston Tea Party this thing a little bit. Stop making plastic bottles. If they were serious about it, they'd be. It wouldn't be yelling at a DJ in Phoenix. You'd be yelling at Coca Cola over in Atlanta going, what's the deal? You're just churning out arrowhead bottles and whatever Dasani. Whatever Coke makes. And, like, there's hundreds of millions of bottled water bottles everywhere. Nobody bats an eye. I watch environmentalists drink out of it because they feel good that they recycle that bottle. But I don't see them at Coke going, we haven't made a new plastic bottle in 20 years. They're all old bottles. Bottles. No, they're not made from recycled goods.
Brady
Maybe we've tried that paper straw thing.
John Holmberg
Yeah, they're still out there.
Brett Vesely
Those are terrible.
John Holmberg
Yep. When I was litter.
Brett Vesely
And get rid of those damn paper straws.
John Holmberg
That's terrible. Before the crying Indian showed up, there wasn't an island of plastic in the ocean. And then once we got serious about littering and environmental stuff, we had an island of plastic that got worse than ever.
Brady
I mean, the. Yeah, the plastic to make just saved.
John Holmberg
Worse than ever.
Brady
Saved big money on the huge convenience.
John Holmberg
There goes that trash truck.
Brett Vesely
Dominique wants to know what the address is. She's on her way to support this littering campaign.
John Holmberg
1100 North 52nd street here in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. 85008. Put it in your nav system now and chuck some paper out in front of us. We're fine with that. That.
There'S litter everywhere. Why did you do that? Call the news and then be Tim Waltz. Stop calling us and throwing trash at us.
Or how about this? Throw your trash out and go Castle axes you.
They're not here. They tape their show anyway.
It's 7:22. Let's get a wake up song. What do you got there, bird?
Brett Vesely
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John Holmberg
I got two people in a row. One is George Wilson. I don't think he's Native American, but two other ones that are from the Navajo res. And he goes, there's no one worse than us at throwing trash on the ground. The crying Indian was a lie.
I don't know. I've never been up on the Res up, and. Well, I have. I just never paid attention. I was going to the casino. I had my eyes on the prize.
Brett Vesely
Oh, we've seen the Shed after a Slayer concert. You know, it's bad out there.
John Holmberg
Shed. The Shed. Shed, yeah, the Shed. It sounds like you said something else. Oh, yeah. No. Nobody goes to the trash cans at the Slayer concerts. And you know what? There's people employed to clean that up.
Brett Vesely
They don't even put them out. There's no reason to.
John Holmberg
If Slayer's there, it's like, what's the. They're just gonna use the trash can as a weapon? Yep. Some of that thing's gonna turn into a bow and arrow, and we're all doomed.
Brett Vesely
On the list, it's all about Tempe Tavern. So have a drink on me from AC DC Drink, drink. Drunk from Hell, yeah. Bottoms up for Nickelback. Beer from Psycho Stick. Motorhead, Overkill, Van Halen. Take your whiskey home. Metallica Whiskey in a jar. Van Halen. Bottoms up. ZZ Top. Beer drinkers and Hellraisers. Ozzy Demon alcohol. Sammy Hagar Mas tequila.
John Holmberg
Some good stuff, I will say, for those who weren't paying attention earlier, the glorious Tempe Tavern, which deserves all the credit in the world.
Fooled everyone with the greatest PR sentence of all time. After having over 500 underage kids cited at their bar and two raids, their quote. Once again, we at the Tempe Tavern take underage drinking seriously. Boy, do they. The best in the business.
And that's what they should have. Shirts that say Tempe Tavern. On the front, we take underage drinking seriously. On the back, asu. Somebody's gonna make a fortune. Brett, print them up. And each T shirt comes with an id because they're gonna. You're gonna. By my count, you need 431 of those from all the ones that you swiped last. Last two raids.
Brady
Serving miners since.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
John Holmberg
I like that. There's actually a date. They're keeping track of serving miners since 1977. Tempe Tavern. Thirsty kids. It's the new Kool Aid man. Always full of beer. It's a pitcher. Thirsty kids, Tempe Tavern. Oh, my God, the ad campaign. I'm Don Draper over here right now. Thirsty kids is gold.
Anyway, go litter at the Tempe Tavern. Let them know you care. That's what I think. Yeah. Go drop some trash off over there too. I love have a Drink on me, but we play that one. Which one do you like, Brett? Take your whiskey. Pretty solid to the Van Halen one.
Brady
Bottoms up. I haven't heard in a while.
John Holmberg
Yeah, let's go. Ah, God, this is a good list. This is a good drinking night thing. You got Motorhead up there and even mas tequila.
Brett Vesely
I mean, it's Sammy, but still. It's a good song too.
John Holmberg
Trip, text me. I think it was the Sunday night game or Monday night game. A couple weeks ago, they just played Motorhead as a commercial rejoiner. I'm like, what's the connection? It was a Detroit game. I said, is there something. Oh, it was Thanksgiving, I think.
Brett Vesely
Oh, I did hear that, actually.
John Holmberg
Is. Was Lemmy a big Detroit fan, or did he drive a Ford or what?
Brett Vesely
I don't know.
John Holmberg
I don't know. Seeing if he heard it, because I did hear Seeger, and sure, it makes sense to get all the Detroit people out, but Lemmy.
All right, yeah, let's go with, we'll drink, drink. Drunk's a solid one, too.
You know, just to piss everyone off. Nickelback. Bottoms up. Well, the kids like Nickelback. They're a younger band. Is there a Barney song about drink?
I say Tempe Tavern, this is the best advertising you've had in a hundred years. Wrap your arms around this and have, like, kids nights and all sorts of stuff. We'll do Drink, Drink Drunk. By Hell. Yeah. I'm just kidding about Nickelback. It's for you. Tempe Tavern. You take teen drinking very seriously. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fees. I have heard enough of this.
In this lively and irreverent episode, John Holmberg and his co-hosts Brady Bogen and Brett Vesely dive into two major themes: the viral news of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pleading with the public to stop calling him "retarded" in front of his house, and John's tongue-in-cheek campaign to protest Arizona's recycling programs by encouraging listeners to litter. The hosts use their trademark biting humor to dissect social media pile-ons, public decorum, hypocrisy in environmental activism, and frustrations with “jobs programs” masquerading as recycling efforts. The show is filled with banter, edgy jokes, and audience interactions, keeping the atmosphere raucous and unfiltered.
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(Transition: 14:58; Deep dive starts @ 15:47)
(Multiple timestamps: 16:42, 22:31, 23:31, 25:19, 26:47, 34:08, 35:31)
| Time | Quote | Speaker | |--------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------| | 07:05 | “If people are driving past your house calling you a retard…say, please stop calling me a retard. Guess what’s going to happen? Yeah, everybody’s going to start calling you a retard.” | John Holmberg | | 09:49 | “The only person that would say, please stop calling me a retard at my house is a retard.” | John Holmberg | | 14:58 | “I started littering a lot. As a point. I’m trying to be the anti-environmentalist…” | John Holmberg | | 15:09 | “Even if everyone in the United States was 100% compliant…96% of the world is not.” | John Holmberg | | 20:05 | “If you really want this to end, stop driving, turn off your air conditioner, don’t have fire, don’t use gas products, don’t wear shoes with rubber on them because they have to be manufactured through oil and all this other stuff.” | John Holmberg | | 21:34 | “I’m going to start a new jobs program where the city can take our taxes to clean up all the trash I shoot out my car window. I think it’s brilliant.” | John Holmberg | | 25:01 | “Unless it’s glass. Don’t do glass. That’s bad for tires. But aluminum can wrappers…get it out of there. Water bottles, everything must go. They’ve never stopped on cigarette, but cigarettes keep flying out. Cars, get rid of them all.” | John Holmberg | | 29:53 | “The recycling thing is just a jobs program. So I’m creating a new one. We litter, right? And then every night at 3am, the freeways close…trucks go through and we’ve hired hundreds of people to drive trucks and suck it all up…” | John Holmberg | | 34:08 | “The US sold recycled byproducts to China…so much more expensive to process once the money wasn’t there. Small cities ended it. It’s about money.” | Emailer quoting recycling industry | | 41:08 | “It isn’t because I want the world to be dirtier. It’s because the current system is so broken. We need to Boston Tea Party this thing a little bit. Stop making plastic bottles.” | John Holmberg |
The hosts’ style is provocative, unapologetic, and satirical. John uses shock value and absurdity as a tool for social criticism but balances it with moments of self-awareness and outright parody. The humor is frequent, edgy, and often layered with irony—particularly in calls to “litter” as a mode of protest.
This episode is quintessential Holmberg—irreverent, daring, and biting in its commentary on both politics and pop culture. It’s not for the easily offended but offers plenty for those who enjoy a cynical, comedic slant on social issues.