12-24-25 - BR - MIX - We Sent First Ad In Space For Aliens - Brady's Xmas Tree Dump Prank - Jan 2024 - BO

Summary

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Holmberg's Morning Sickness – Arizona

Episode: 12-24-25 - BR - MIX - We Sent First Ad In Space For Aliens - Brady's Xmas Tree Dump Prank - Jan 2024 - BO
Date: December 24, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-hosts: Brady Bogan, Brett Vesely, Doug Hopkins, Fitz, Byron, Mo

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Episode Overview

This festive episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness starts with light-hearted banter and Arizona news but quickly veers into two hilarious main topics:

1. The Lexington, Kentucky tourism board sending Earth's first interstellar travel ad to aliens, and the crew riffing on potential alien visits.
2. Brady’s infamous Christmas tree dump prank from his college years, with iconic prank logic, mishaps, and fiery debate about what makes a “good” prank.

As usual, John Holmberg’s sardonic humor keeps the show lively while the team questions, teases, and roasts each other throughout. Expect classic Morning Sickness irreverence, plenty of “Brady-isms,” and off-the-cuff observations on Arizona life and beyond.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Earth's First Interstellar Travel Ad (02:03–04:08)

• Lexington, Kentucky’s Tourism Signal:

  • Brady reveals that Lexington, KY, with FAA approval, sent a bitmap-coded message to the Trappist-1 solar system (02:03–02:53).
  • Signal included images representing:
    • Prime numbers
    • Four basic elements of life
    • A human, two horses
    • Chemical formulae for bourbon
  • Intended as a whimsical invitation: “Visit Lexington, Kentucky.”

• Cosmic Timelines:

  • Trappist-1 is 40 light-years away.
  • “Any aliens won’t get it until 2063. If they respond, we won't get it back till 2103.” (Brady, 02:55–03:18)

• Panel’s Take — Would You Join the Aliens or Fight for Earth?

  • John: “If you have the capabilities to fly from one solar system to ours… I’m joining them. They’re going to win.” (03:47–04:06)
  • Doug: “Oh, the aliens.” (04:06)
  • Brady, hesitating: “Assess it first.”
  • John (mocking): “What are you assessing? They're here. Assessment over.” (04:09)
  • Brett: “If I can’t find Goldblum, I’m out. I’m with the aliens.” (04:44)

Notable Quotes

• John Holmberg (03:47):
  “If you have the capabilities to fly from one solar system to ours, I’m not taking out my 12 gauge and firing away. I’m joining them. They’re going to win.”

• Doug Hopkins (04:06):
  “Oh, the aliens.”

• John Holmberg (04:09):
  “What are you assessing? They’re here. Assessment over.”

• Brett Vesely (04:44):
  “If I can’t find Goldblum, I’m out. I’m with the aliens.”

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2. Holiday Weirdness: Christmas Trees & Wild Animals (07:47–11:16)

• Unsold Christmas Trees: Where Do They Go?

  • Brady reports elephants in Berlin Zoo eat unsold Christmas trees (07:47–08:07).
  • Discussion veers into environmental recycling habits in Arizona:
    • Trees are recycled in lakes or for mulch (08:04–08:52).
    • John warns not to throw household trees into local lakes:
      “What Brady is saying, do not take your tree and throw it in a lake...Your tree that's been in your house for a while doesn’t go in a lake.” (08:23–08:46)

• Cautionary Tales: Burning Trees

  • John describes dangerous attempts at burning old Christmas trees:
    “It was a volcano of fire… Don’t burn your trees.” (11:47–12:13)
  • Brett: “My dad almost caught our house on fire… burn the thing in the fireplace.” (11:59–12:05)

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3. Brady’s Epic Christmas Tree Dump Prank (12:40–29:42)

Story Summary:

• In college, Brady’s friends pranked him by unloading about 50 Christmas trees onto his front yard after the holidays. They even put a “tree for sale” sign out front (12:40–14:03).
• Brady chased the perpetrators in his underwear but never caught them (12:53–14:30).
• Hilarious debate over “prank or vandalism?” unfolds for more than 15 minutes.

Prank Debate: What Makes a Good Prank?

• John is adamant the prank was just mean, not funny:
  “What is hilarious about throwing trash in someone’s yard? Like, it’s not funny.” (22:04)
• Brady insists it was all in good fun, and his parents thought it was funny (22:38).
• Doug: “You missed the moment when it washed over him when you said they hated you.” (21:35)
• Fitz: “You got treed. It was worse. You got forested.” (21:42)

4. Tallying Other Pranks and Oddities (27:06–29:42)

• A dildo prank on Brady’s car and random Eggo waffles tossed in John’s backyard spark more stories about the show’s internal prank wars.
• John asserts:
  “If my tailgate fell off and I had a bill and my dad got involved. Not a prank. That’s just vandals. That’s Vandal Brady.” (28:18)
• Doug defines a better prank: “A prank is sending Mormons to John’s house, not 50 trees in your yard.” (28:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• John, on Alien War:
  “Any idiot that stands in their house with a shotgun shooting at a spaceship…” (05:48)

• Brady, on becoming an alien ally:
  “There'd be some blue foods. Hey, this glop is good.” (05:15)

• John, on pranks with bills:
  “Clean up bill, the city gets involved. Not a prank anymore. They hated you.” (28:26)

• Brett, in disbelief:
  “That’s a big ass truck if you got 50 Christmas trees.” (14:14)

• Waste management listener email (29:14):
  “If there are 50 trees at one house, we would be 50 furious because all we have is pitchforks on our hands.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Sending an Ad to Aliens (Travel/Space): 02:03–04:08
• Alien Takeover: Which Side Would You Choose?: 03:47–07:14
• Unsold Christmas Trees: Zoo, Lakes, or Mulch? 07:47–08:52
• Burning Old Christmas Trees: 11:47–12:13
• Brady’s Christmas Tree Dump Prank Story & Reactions: 12:40–29:42
• Listener Feedback – Waste Management: 29:11–29:42

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Tone and Energy

The episode is packed with the Morning Sickness team's signature high-energy, irreverent banter. Discussions are punctuated with sarcasm, hyperbole, and fond (and not-so-fond) reminiscences. The hosts constantly roast each other, especially Brady, for his unique takes and dubious prank logic.

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Final Highlights

• Travel ad aimed at aliens is perfect fodder for sci-fi riffs and existential hilarity.
• Brady’s tree prank is dissected, ridiculed, and used as a masterclass in “how not to do a prank.”
• Burning and recycling Christmas trees is more dangerous and complicated than listeners might expect.
• If in doubt—never throw anything (including trees and Eggos) in your friends’ yards!

For fans of weird Arizona news, goofy prank histories, and good-natured (mostly) ribbing, this episode is a festive treat packed with quotable moments.

Transcript

[Brett Vesely]

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[Mo]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Brady Bogan]

Good Wednesday morning to you Phoenix. Hello world.

[John Holmberg]

Hi.

[Brady Bogan]

We just beamed out our first ever travel ad for aliens. Basically come to this city.

[John Holmberg]

The Chamber of Commerce for Earth.

[Brady Bogan]

And guess who got to do it? Not Paris.

[John Holmberg]

Tokyo, Iran.

[Brady Bogan]

Bryan Cranston Lexington, Kentucky Their tourism board is behind this. They thought it would draw some fun attention. They got FAA Approval sent a coded bitmap image with pictures representing prime numbers and the four basic elements of life. They also included a rough image of a human and two images of horses because Lexington is the horse capital of the world. Also shows the chemical formulas for the main molecules in bourbon. And it has a little thing that says visit Lexington, Kentucky.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's a good spot.

[Brady Bogan]

Great place to vacation in. The Bluegrass State pointed the signal at a solar system called Trappist 1 because we think it has a lot of planets could sustain Life. It's about 40 light years away, so any aliens out there won't get it until 2063. If they respond, we won't get it back till 2103.

[John Holmberg]

We'll all be dead. But will Kentucky be the same? Will the offer still stand?

[Brett Vesely]

And those alien tourism dolls, well, they're.

[John Holmberg]

Going to be big someday, Brett. Will we be here? I don't know. But I for one hope that they don't find the fear of it all. The most ravenous, angry, war hungry aliens of all time that like liquor. Because they'll go to Kentucky and they'll just come find it. I'll fight for them.

[Brady Bogan]

I've got three quick radio videos because.

[John Holmberg]

If you can get here. I'm not defending this place. I'm joining your team. Because if you have the capabilities to fly from one solar system to ours, I'm not taking out my 12 gauge and firing away. I'm joining them. They're going to win. Would you fight for Earth or the aliens?

[Doug Hopkins]

Oh, the aliens.

[John Holmberg]

Absolutely.

[Brady Bogan]

Assess it first.

[John Holmberg]

What are you assessing? They're here. Assessment over.

[Brady Bogan]

See what the technology does.

[John Holmberg]

Assessment again. Assessment over. They're here.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah. There could be some deal breaks.

[Doug Hopkins]

And what. Hold on. What technical knowledge are you bringing to the assessment?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady Bogan]

A lot.

[John Holmberg]

That's a good question. What exactly are you going to be like?

[Fitz]

Well, this boils down to two facts.

[John Holmberg]

Like, what are you doing? You fight for the aliens.

[Brady Bogan]

I just want to know, you know, if I join up. Yeah, with the alien army. What kind of. Kind of food programming?

[John Holmberg]

I'll tell you exactly.

[Doug Hopkins]

You want to know where your Macintosh plugs in?

[John Holmberg]

Here's where.

[Brett Vesely]

If I can't find Goldblum, I'm out. I'm with the aliens.

[John Holmberg]

You're an idiot for even him. And ha over this. Because what you're going to be is a hungry slave.

[Brady Bogan]

Yep.

[John Holmberg]

And that's the worst punishment you could ever imagine. So you would. You should be first in line for when the aliens come to join their side.

[Brady Bogan]

If I'm A hungry slave that'll take about two weeks to build a pyramid, right?

[John Holmberg]

You'll get it done. I'm not saying you wouldn't be a good slave, but they're not going to feed you the way you want.

[Brett Vesely]

He's going to do some proper vetting. He's got to make sure they're not vegetarian aliens or anything like that.

[John Holmberg]

You know, he would spend the entire time introducing meats to them.

[Brady Bogan]

There'd be some blue foods. Hey, this glop is good.

[John Holmberg]

I tell you right now, they're vegetarian aliens. Admiral Brady's still on the alien team and now he's a cannibal because it's the first time he gets to taste this new meat called human that the aliens are kind of questioning. But Brady's going to run it come.

[Fitz]

Around on the barbecue.

[Byron]

It's not bad.

[Fitz]

Now that I'm one of yours. Glocknor.

[John Holmberg]

Idiot. I'd have to assess the technology. They're here. If they made it here, your assessment is moot.

[Doug Hopkins]

So you want to go in and push buttons that you have no idea what they do.

[Fitz]

I thought I've seen one of these before. My buddy Billy's got one of these.

[John Holmberg]

No, he doesn't. Shut up. It's a spaceship, you dumbass. Assess the technology. I'm gonna kill you first. As my first human kill. As the new alien soldier. Any idiot that stands in their house with a shotgun shooting at a spaceship.

[Byron]

Now hang on.

[Brady Bogan]

A ticket.

[John Holmberg]

All of you, listen. Look, I know there's a lot of make America great again feelings about that, but if it went hovered over Phoenix, if you didn't join, you're the dumbest mother on the planet. It's like what I always say about me being an atheist. If Jesus showed up, how stubborn am I to stick to my guns? And the same with the. But you are stubborn. Because I told you, like, if Allah or Vishnu just popped by and said hi, and this inalienable proof that it was Vishnu, you'd be like, no, there's still Jesus. I'd be like, you're crazy. Join up.

[Doug Hopkins]

It's part of God's plan for Vishnu.

[John Holmberg]

To show up, right?

[Fitz]

This is a trick I'm supposed to not fall for.

[Brady Bogan]

I've heard about you.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, this eight armed God that's standing next to that giant elephant in the parking lot. Pretty convincing. I think I'm joining up again.

[Brady Bogan]

I'll have to assess the.

[John Holmberg]

That's. You're the dumbest mother I know. Oh, Jesus comes floating down and I'm like, nah, still not real. You'd be like John stupid.

[Doug Hopkins]

It's not like buying Kirby a car that you have to assign.

[Brady Bogan]

That's something.

[Fitz]

I gotta take a look. Kick the tires on this spaceship to make sure I join the right side.

[John Holmberg]

Can we fly to their planet?

[Byron]

No.

[John Holmberg]

They win.

[Brady Bogan]

Yep.

[John Holmberg]

They have the technology. We don't.

[Brady Bogan]

The first radio video.

[John Holmberg]

Even if they catapult here, I'm still impressed. We catapulted all the way through space. How we just. And you survived the. The atmospheric changes and all that? Yes. Whoo. I'm joining you guys. I'm not gonna kill you with a 12 gauge. That's crazy.

[Brady Bogan]

But all those people made it through day.

[John Holmberg]

Right now I'd be out there in the wood. I'd be killing alien after alien. I always watch those Alien movies. Why are the earthlings fighting back? This is Tom. Join them.

[Brady Bogan]

I've got some wild world.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, all right.

[Brett Vesely]

Over today.

[Brady Bogan]

Nice. Hello, my friends. Brady Bogan. And this is your wild, wild world. Elephants at the Berlin Zoo in Germany have been chowing down on unsold Christmas trees.

[John Holmberg]

I saw that on the news last.

[Brady Bogan]

Night and it made me find them delicious.

[John Holmberg]

I never knew what happened to the unsold Christmas trees.

[Brady Bogan]

Well, a lot of them get dumped in lakes and stuff.

[John Holmberg]

What?

[Brady Bogan]

It helps the biology.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, no kidding.

[Brady Bogan]

Oh, yours.

[John Holmberg]

I thought you meant like thrown away illegally.

[Doug Hopkins]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

So they should put it in Tempe Town.

[Doug Hopkins]

Everybody drives by Saguaro and just dumps them in.

[Brady Bogan]

Well, no. I mean, they're. I'm sure there's people that do it on their own, but I know they dump a bunch of them.

[John Holmberg]

What Brady is saying, do not take your tree and throw it in a lake. Hold on. Don't take your used tree and throw it in temporary.

[Brady Bogan]

That's why they gather them. You know, Gilbert has a drop off area. Put them in the drop off area.

[John Holmberg]

Those are. Hold on. Those are not.

[Brady Bogan]

The goons. Take them and then.

[John Holmberg]

He's an idiot. Remember that. Those aren't fresh trees. Your tree that's been in your house for a while.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Doesn't go in a lake. It goes back to the center where they. They mulch them down or do whatever they'll mulch them.

[Brady Bogan]

They'll put.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, that's fine. Stop. Because you're confusing. You don't realize how confusing. And you just told people, go ahead, throw it in the lake. And that's not what you meant.

[Brady Bogan]

Apparently the elephants love them there.

[John Holmberg]

And don't go to the zoo and start throwing trees at elephants either. That's not.

[Brady Bogan]

It's become an annual thing at the zoo. People can watch them chow down them the trees. Bison love them too.

[John Holmberg]

Don't go to Yellowstone and just drop your trees off. There's probably an ornament in it. Choke. Fresh unsold trees are what we're talking about here. Not yours.

[Brady Bogan]

No. Pull up to the entrance to Yellowstone. Dump a tree.

[John Holmberg]

No.

[Doug Hopkins]

12 news story from January of last year. Christmas trees that made the holiday merry for celebrators are getting a second job. Instead of being tossed into the trash trees will be recycled and used as homes for the fish of Canyon Lake.

[Brady Bogan]

That's right.

[John Holmberg]

But let somebody else do that. That's my point. Brady's saying you can just not you. There's a place you take it and then they do the right thing. Yeah but I don't want to see somebody on the 202 hucking it over the edge.

[Doug Hopkins]

Sauaro 2.

[John Holmberg]

Brady said you can throw them in lakes. It's good for them. Don't. Or by my place over here. Granada Park. I don't want to see any of that. Take it to the proper place. Let them handle it from there like game and fish. I don't know who's in charge of it but somebody with a degree.

[Doug Hopkins]

Somebody with a. With a couple of letters before their.

[Byron]

Somebody.

[John Holmberg]

Not you. Brady.

[Brady Bogan]

We've got a gigantic spider that was discovered in Australia. It's about the size of a baseball. Experts saying it's the largest known male funnel web spider.

[John Holmberg]

Ooh.

[Brady Bogan]

It wasn't found by a scientist out in the wild. Some random person came across it. They didn't say how that happened. So. It's very poisonous too. The funnel web spiders are the world's most venomous spiders. The venom is packed with 40 different toxic proteins.

[Doug Hopkins]

You made it sound nefarious. They didn't say how they found it.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

They were up to no good.

[Doug Hopkins]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I kidnapped it.

[Brady Bogan]

Its raw venom is the only way to make life saving anti venom.

[John Holmberg]

That's right.

[Brady Bogan]

The spider has been named Hercules. He's living in a wildlife sanctuary in Australia right now. Hercules has some of the biggest fangs that I've seen on a spider.

[John Holmberg]

You seen a lot of spider fangs?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah. Gaboon spider. Seen tarantula fangs.

[Fitz]

And they can also be found on the surface of Uranus.

[Brady Bogan]

I'm a child and that's your Wild Wild World. Got a couple of Brady videos.

[Doug Hopkins]

John, maybe you know this but you don't do your Christmas trees in the lake. You take them out deep in the desert and you make great bonfires.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. Brady will tell you nothing burns quite like an old Christmas tree. So if you want to keep warm for you. I've done part of a Christmas tree in a fire protected area. And I couldn't believe how big that fire was.

[Brett Vesely]

My dad almost caught our house on fire way back in the day. He said it was a good idea to just burn the thing in the fireplace.

[John Holmberg]

I chunked it down like into bits about a foot and a half long. And I put the tip of it in my chimine. It was like a jet engine. The top of that thing was spinning. It was a volcano of fire. And I just remember thinking, oh, this is no good. I said it. That tree next door was about to go up. I poured water on it. Was no help in that thing. It got worse. Don't burn your trees. Don't drop them off in Tempe Town Lake. There's places for them. Don't listen to Brady about it.

[Fitz]

You're great for your fish.

[John Holmberg]

Stop it.

[Brady Bogan]

One year had some guys prank me when I was living at home. Parents, they unloaded about 50 trees from.

[John Holmberg]

A lot of your house.

[Brady Bogan]

Put them on our front yard with the tree sign up after Christmas. They thought it was funny.

[John Holmberg]

Who cleaned that up?

[Brady Bogan]

We. I had to clean them up.

[John Holmberg]

You did?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah. Cuz we didn't. Didn't know who did it right away. I chased him down the street. You were at night picked them? Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You chased them down the street?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, Cuz I heard it happening. I woke up. That's smart.

[John Holmberg]

And there were guys who dropped a.

[Brady Bogan]

Bunch of trees down in the tighty whities trying to get the license plate.

[John Holmberg]

What in the world were you thinking?

[Brady Bogan]

Because I knew. I knew. I knew the guys that would prank me, but I couldn't identify.

[John Holmberg]

You knew the guys that were going to prank you.

[Brady Bogan]

But I knew I would know the guys were pranking.

[John Holmberg]

What if they weren't pranking you? What if it just people who hated you and your family?

[Brady Bogan]

That's one other reason why I was running out there and get the license plate.

[John Holmberg]

You know there are people called police officers that you guys were so averse to having cop cars in your neighborhood. You took naked men standing in windows. Guys littering trees.

[Doug Hopkins]

Tactical black more than anybody.

[Brett Vesely]

You running when you're Fruit of a Looms down the.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, like the beginning of what's happening. Running down the road.

[Fitz]

You get back here with those trees, you jerks.

[John Holmberg]

So they had 50 trees or so you said?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, they had. Yep.

[John Holmberg]

And the truck itself wasn't identifiable.

[Brady Bogan]

Well, by the time I woke up, it was. It was heading down our street.

[Mo]

Right.

[Brady Bogan]

That was enough so that I thought I could get close enough.

[John Holmberg]

You could catch a car on.

[Brett Vesely]

It's a big ass truck if you got 50 Christmas trees.

[John Holmberg]

Right? Listen to what he just said. I thought when I saw was still closing up.

[Brady Bogan]

I had a pretty good 40 time at that time. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Much faster than a vehicle.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Did you have your helmet on or did your mom not get.

[Brady Bogan]

No, I didn't have time to put the helmet on.

[Doug Hopkins]

You were doing the Ferris Bueller cutting through backyard.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, jumping on trampolines.

[John Holmberg]

Merry effing holidays from the big red radio.

[Brett Vesely]

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[Byron]

Brett, the last thing you want to do is sell the gun to someone who can't legally own one. Tell him not to put himself at risk and come into M and P Guns where he'll get a fair offer and he can rest easy knowing it's not getting into the wrong hands.

[Brett Vesely]

Okay, but what if he lives out of state?

[Byron]

Easy. Legalgunbuyer.com and he can do it all online. It's really that simple.

[Brett Vesely]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Brett Vesely]

Spider.

[John Holmberg]

And you know about their fangs?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, because I had one.

[John Holmberg]

Why?

[Mo]

What?

[Brady Bogan]

Why did you have course my dad was involved at the Columbus Zoo race. An insect exhibit at your house? What? No. But we would have some insects. Yeah. At the house.

[John Holmberg]

That's not what is supposed to happen when you start an exhibit at the zoo ever. It's never supposed to be at home.

[Brady Bogan]

Supposed to travel.

[John Holmberg]

We're fostering zoo.

[Brady Bogan]

You came across a kaboon spider.

[Doug Hopkins]

You stole one is what you did.

[Brady Bogan]

From the zoo. I fostered it for a while.

[John Holmberg]

You guys stole animals from the zoo? And your dad told you that? It was. It's a program at the zoo that we keep them here at the.

[Doug Hopkins]

Talk to Jack myself.

[John Holmberg]

Brady. Go chase that car. You're like a stray dog.

[Fitz]

I almost caught him too.

[Brady Bogan]

I can't believe the Boone Vipers are pretty cool. What?

[John Holmberg]

I don't know anything about that.

[Doug Hopkins]

Total.

[Brett Vesely]

Every. Every day, every something. You guys have worked with them 20 something years.

[John Holmberg]

It's like. And it's still shocking.

[Brett Vesely]

Still something new.

[John Holmberg]

It still shocks us. You chased a car like a dog. Like a dumb.

[Brady Bogan]

Dr. Goldtooth and a couple other guys.

[John Holmberg]

The dude that came in here.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, Jay.

[John Holmberg]

That decided to throw garbage in your front yard. And you stayed friends with them.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah. Yeah. I got him back.

[John Holmberg]

What did you do?

[Brady Bogan]

Here we go.

[John Holmberg]

All right. If you're gonna start mouthing off, give me some popcorn.

[Fitz]

I put a gaboon viper in his wife's pants. She's gayness. She's dead. They learned their lesson. And now he's my friend.

[John Holmberg]

Or else I'm not friends with somebody who does that to me. What did you get away?

[Brady Bogan]

It was pretty funny.

[John Holmberg]

It wasn't funny if somebody dropped 50 trees in my front lawn. That's not funny.

[Brady Bogan]

It was one call. I actually. You know the UA garbage came over. There's where the.

[John Holmberg]

Of course they did. You think it was funny to them that they had a special stop to pick up 50 goddamn trees?

[Brady Bogan]

Different stops.

[John Holmberg]

What that is.

[Brady Bogan]

You're rational.

[John Holmberg]

The most Pollyanna.

[Brady Bogan]

Ain't my problem, bro.

[John Holmberg]

Answer I've ever heard in my life. Your rose colored glasses just started to bleed with stupidity. Oh yeah.

[Fitz]

No.

[John Holmberg]

The.

[Fitz]

The guys loved it. It was a one stop shop for assholes. Hey, a bunch of assholes drop garbage. That makes your job easier.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, sure. That's what we do. We clean up your yard. Can you help us out?

[Brady Bogan]

Someone dumped a bunch of trees in our yard.

[John Holmberg]

Any. Any guy who drives a trash truck right now. Tell me how great it is to clean up somebody's front yard of trash. They're not happy about that.

[Brady Bogan]

Well, we put Them on the curb and stuff.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. But still they're not. You tell me a trash guy's gonna pull up to a house of fucking 50 trees and go, these pricks right here. What are they thinking?

[Brady Bogan]

So then Doctor, I'm sure my dad had, I don't know, maybe pay for a special trip in there.

[John Holmberg]

I would hope so. And you know who should have been paying for it?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah. This is Brady, man.

[John Holmberg]

The Prankster should have been paying.

[Brady Bogan]

I've had lunch with Brady for years.

[John Holmberg]

So how did you get him back?

[Brady Bogan]

I can't remember.

[John Holmberg]

You said it was a good get him back.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, no, I got. I said I got him back. What you do?

[John Holmberg]

You're gonna make something up. There we go. And you're just lying.

[Doug Hopkins]

Eyes are spinning.

[Fitz]

Brady.

[John Holmberg]

If you don't know how you got him back. It wasn't a good prank.

[Brady Bogan]

I hooked him up with his wife he had a horrible 20 years with.

[John Holmberg]

So you had this really good plan.

[Brady Bogan]

Wow.

[Doug Hopkins]

That took 20 years to come to fruition.

[Fitz]

The first. The first 18 years are gonna be for 20 years and then the last.

[Brady Bogan]

Gotcha.

[Fitz]

Her true colors are gonna be blue like Uranus.

[John Holmberg]

You didn't get him back either. And you invite him and he stays at your house?

[Brady Bogan]

Hey. Well, we were roommates after that for.

[John Holmberg]

About Jesus Christ.

[Brady Bogan]

The whole time.

[John Holmberg]

I would hit him in the nuts with a hammer the first night we slept in the same place.

[Fitz]

This is for your stupid tree gang.

[Brett Vesely]

I had a Robert Fisher at his ass.

[John Holmberg]

Did he. Did he ever tell you why?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, they thought it would be funny.

[John Holmberg]

It's not. Did you tell them it wasn't?

[Byron]

Probably.

[Brady Bogan]

They figured if there's any place we could do that. Get away with it.

[John Holmberg]

Right? The very non confrontational Bogan house. We could literally in their mouths and they'd laugh if we told them it was a prank. We're gonna prank and take your mom's mouth friends. I'll get you there.

[Brett Vesely]

I'm your anus.

[Fitz]

Roommates.

[John Holmberg]

Why do they get hold of 50 trees? I got an idea. Let's. They hated you. Let's dump them on Bogan's lawn.

[Brett Vesely]

What they do rent a U haul to do this?

[Doug Hopkins]

50 trees.

[Brady Bogan]

There's a lot of trucks.

[John Holmberg]

Your friends were dead.

[Doug Hopkins]

Two trucks.

[John Holmberg]

You chased one of them.

[Brady Bogan]

I chased one of them. The last one.

[John Holmberg]

That is rental effort, exertion and complete hatred to rent two trucks. And.

[Brady Bogan]

Well, they didn't rent the trucks.

[Doug Hopkins]

They had to place an ad to.

[Brady Bogan]

Pick up people's trees. They hated it. Had the. I think there is a Picture of it, but it had the sign up there. Joe's Christmas trees.

[John Holmberg]

They don't like you. They didn't like you.

[Doug Hopkins]

Look at.

[Brady Bogan]

Hold on.

[John Holmberg]

It's not a good prank. What's good about it? What's the punchline?

[Brady Bogan]

Punchline is when you wake up in the morning, there's all these Christmas trees. Do you think people that toilet paper.

[John Holmberg]

Your home like you.

[Brady Bogan]

Sometimes?

[John Holmberg]

No.

[Brady Bogan]

Oh, my God.

[Doug Hopkins]

They ask.

[John Holmberg]

You're a victim.

[Brady Bogan]

Not. Not back in the day when we.

[John Holmberg]

Where nowadays.

[Brady Bogan]

Now they ask permission and they'll do.

[John Holmberg]

It to a football player before.

[Brady Bogan]

Oh, this is a great. You say as long as you clean it up.

[John Holmberg]

But that's.

[Brady Bogan]

That's whole arrangement.

[John Holmberg]

But if somebody.

[Brady Bogan]

Back in the day. No. Egging and TPing was not a thing.

[John Holmberg]

And even today, if somebody's asking, can we toilet paper your home? The answer is no.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, well, no, cuz.

[John Holmberg]

Why are you targeting me? Why am I the victim here? I'm not cleaning this up. We do it, we'll clean them. Like, that's dumb.

[Doug Hopkins]

You missed the moment when it washed over him when you said they hated.

[John Holmberg]

They hated you. I know. I saw it.

[Brady Bogan]

We never got teepee.

[John Holmberg]

You got treed. It was worse. You got forested.

[Brady Bogan]

But I don't think those guys hated him.

[John Holmberg]

They did at the time. They didn't like.

[Doug Hopkins]

Don't think so. But you're still not sure.

[Brady Bogan]

I'm pretty sure it was a. I mean, there might be one of them in there.

[John Holmberg]

If I decided to drop 50 trees off at your house right now, would you think, why did. Why did John do that? Why? Or would you think.

[Fitz]

Good, good friend.

[Brady Bogan]

Thanks.

[John Holmberg]

It's a dick.

[Brady Bogan]

That's a hilarious prank.

[John Holmberg]

What is hilarious about throwing trash in someone's yard? Like, it's not funny.

[Brady Bogan]

Well, you're not pranking people because you hate them a lot of times. It's not a prank.

[John Holmberg]

No, that's not. But that's the point. A prank is like a funny thing. That's like, oh, my God, that was hilarious. You got dumping trees. That's.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah. The problem with pranks, sometimes they can go too far. Right.

[John Holmberg]

And usually it's like the prank. They'll prank you. They prank your parents, your dad's home, his hard work. That wasn't a prank on you brother.

[Brady Bogan]

Your sister, you sounded funny. They weren't there.

[John Holmberg]

Your parents thought it was funny?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God.

[Brett Vesely]

How old were you when all this happened?

[Brady Bogan]

College.

[Doug Hopkins]

Wow, you're even older than I thought.

[John Holmberg]

Let's dump all our trash in the bogan's yard. Old Tom Bogan will think it's great. Hey, good one, boys. Who's going to clean this up?

[Brady Bogan]

You.

[John Holmberg]

You son of a.

[Brady Bogan]

Okay, I threw a gaboon spider on.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I know. They got nothing. You didn't get them back, Brady.

[Doug Hopkins]

The guys from Jackass pranked each other all the time. Look at those. They hate each other.

[John Holmberg]

The way he got him back was serve the Mac and cheese from the box. Brady really thought he nailed them.

[Brady Bogan]

But that's not true, Jack. It's not all of them. No. Like, Steve O and. And Johnny Knoxville are good friends.

[Doug Hopkins]

We.

[John Holmberg]

Man, what are you missing about that? They know that they're in a prank world of, like.

[Brady Bogan]

I know, but he was just saying that the texture said that they hate each other, John.

[John Holmberg]

Well, they do. Some of them do some. That's what I said, but that's what I'm saying. Like, if you did it to someone that wasn't part of the group.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

If Steve O just all of a sudden started to kick me in the nuts, I'd be like, hey, hey, hey, I'm not one of yours.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah, that became a challenge.

[John Holmberg]

If he doesn't like me, that's a fight.

[Doug Hopkins]

John, can we get Brady a new plaque? Brady Bogan, master of the long con.

[John Holmberg]

The 20 year, your marriage will fail and when. So when he called and said, yeah, it's not working out, we're getting a divorce, like, gotcha. Okay, good move. Good move, Brady.

[Doug Hopkins]

Tell the whole story. I know you helped them unload the trees into your own yard.

[Brady Bogan]

This is a great prank.

[John Holmberg]

I'm getting a lot of emails saying there's no such thing as a good baboon spider.

[Doug Hopkins]

That's what somebody else is saying, too.

[John Holmberg]

There's a kind viper.

[Doug Hopkins]

There's a baboon spider.

[John Holmberg]

Baboon spider.

[Doug Hopkins]

That's what people are saying here, too.

[John Holmberg]

So your zoo exhibit at home.

[Doug Hopkins]

So the one you stole was the wrong one, John.

[Brady Bogan]

What about.

[John Holmberg]

I'm saying, I don't know anything. You won't.

[Doug Hopkins]

John. What about the Eggos in your yard that Fitz was throwing?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. If Fitz did it, I don't know who did that, but that was, like, not a prank. I was going to call the cops. That was a weird thing to do. Somebody tossed Eggo waffles in my backyard.

[Doug Hopkins]

Once, and I was like, for multiple days, right?

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Well, it was like three or four days. I'd go out and there'd be three or four Eggos in the yard. And I'm like, what is? But I think, did you Ever find them? No. But Fitz. I think Fitz did it. And I think he did it after I said I found Eggos the first time and then he continued it. But I didn't once consider, ah, somebody's coming at like, you know, pick up three or four Eggos.

[Brady Bogan]

And I didn't chase him down the alleyway.

[John Holmberg]

Caught him. I might have still called the cops and prosecuted. That's what Dr. Goldtooth should have a record. That was funny.

[Doug Hopkins]

Good stuff.

[Fitz]

You're going to jail.

[John Holmberg]

What? It was a joke.

[Fitz]

Yeah, my joke is jail time.

[Doug Hopkins]

See how we're laughing now?

[Fitz]

You don't with my dad's house.

[John Holmberg]

That's all.

[Brady Bogan]

I'll call Bunny, see how upset she was when it happened. If she. Because I don't recall exactly how the cleanup happened.

[John Holmberg]

So you didn't clean it?

[Doug Hopkins]

No.

[Brady Bogan]

And we either put them to the front of the street either.

[John Holmberg]

But you didn't know you did nothing.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

So your friends threw trash in your yard and someone else picked it up.

[Brady Bogan]

They might have come back.

[Doug Hopkins]

Guy says, so Brady's the redheaded kid from Can't Buy me Love. You asked on my house. You asked on my house.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. When the guy took a dump on his porch. Because it was a good one. Well, now I'm just gonna do that just to, you know, galvanize our friendship. I'm gonna come to your house, I'm gonna your yard and I'm. Hey, it's just cuz we're friends.

[Brady Bogan]

That's prayer me before.

[John Holmberg]

Not like that. Not to where your family has to clean up and you have a bill at the end of it. You're right.

[Brady Bogan]

It was only a two foot dildo.

[John Holmberg]

That wasn't me. I was just in on it. I was like, that's a good idea. And what did. And who called you?

[Brady Bogan]

See, that's funny.

[John Holmberg]

But who called you? Brady? Pull the car over. Somebody stuck a two foot dildo on the side of your passenger. I did. So you're welcome. Before you hit the freeway and killed somebody with a dick.

[Brady Bogan]

You started thinking about what you did.

[John Holmberg]

I didn't do it.

[Brady Bogan]

That better not go over.

[John Holmberg]

I didn't do it. I told someone it would be funny if it was done. And then the suction cup went on. And then I said, well, what you really need to do is make sure.

[Brady Bogan]

That I voice that.

[John Holmberg]

You said my involvement in that was. It was my dick. And I told them to move your passenger side mirror so you could see. So you couldn't see it. Oh, when you got in as A driver. So your passenger side mirror was tilted way up so you couldn't, like, look and see this.

[Brady Bogan]

Either way, it was a prank.

[John Holmberg]

Right. And that's a pretty funny prank.

[Brett Vesely]

Did you get that person back too now?

[John Holmberg]

No, No, I was. No.

[Brady Bogan]

Did he? No.

[Brett Vesely]

Did he get that person back too?

[John Holmberg]

No, he was angry. I called.

[Brady Bogan]

I don't know who the person was. I just put it on the. When it was his.

[Brett Vesely]

Okay.

[John Holmberg]

When we saw you drive out of the parking lot and that giant thing was dangling off your car door, I will say, hilarious. Hilarious.

[Doug Hopkins]

I wish we'd have video or.

[John Holmberg]

But I said, guys, oh, better call him. Gotta give him a call. Because if that falls off, flies through the air and kills a woman.

[Doug Hopkins]

Funny story, but.

[John Holmberg]

So you got. I called. What.

[Fitz]

What's up, chief?

[John Holmberg]

You need to pull your car over and look at your passenger door.

[Brady Bogan]

Why would you do that?

[Fitz]

Come on.

[Brady Bogan]

Guys are jerks. Because that came from the magnet that I put.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, there was a magnet on the back of my car for weeks. Of two Ohio State. No. 2 gay men in a black and white embrace. And it was hilarious. And that might have been on there for a month. I didn't see it. And then we put it on Colin's car and it actually blended in because his car. And it lasted a year, kept on getting home. It kept moving. But, yeah, I didn't know and I laughed hysterically. Now, that's a prank. If it caught. Like if my tailgate fell off and I had a bill and my dad got involved. Not a prank. That's just vandals. That's Vandal Brady.

[Doug Hopkins]

A prank is sending Mormons to John's house. Not 50 trees in your yard.

[John Holmberg]

Exactly. The Mormons rolling and not leaving is a good prank. Like, you son of a bitch. Like, that's. But, boy, clean up Bill, the city gets involved. Not a prank anymore. They hated you.

[Fitz]

Nah, nobody does that.

[Brady Bogan]

They loved me.

[John Holmberg]

Let's get Dr. Goldtooth on there. Does he still. Does he deny it?

[Brady Bogan]

No.

[John Holmberg]

He says, I threw those trees in.

[Brady Bogan]

Your front yard because, yeah, maybe he came back yesterday or the next day and they picked him up.

[John Holmberg]

You have no recollection. See, this is where the rose colored glasses and the whole just ignore it, it'll go away thing comes in. I'd remember everything.

[Doug Hopkins]

Angry enough to chase them down the road, but not angry enough to remember.

[John Holmberg]

How somehow or another this will go away. It's called repression.

[Doug Hopkins]

Oh, yeah.

[Brady Bogan]

We found out the next day.

[John Holmberg]

It's not a real clear story. Somebody's already superimposed you in underwear running past a bunch of old Christmas trees. That's speaking of Brady's. Come on. This guy says, I do bulk pickup for waste management. If there are 50 trees at one house, we would be 50 furious because all we have is pitchforks on our hands. Yeah, that is not a good thing for waste management to say. Hey, one stop shop. All right, here we go.

[Brady Bogan]

Gilbert, we have bobcats.

[John Holmberg]

And do you? Yeah, for when people dump all that stuff in your yard.

[Brett Vesely]

That's probably why he was having those issues at his new house. The garbage men are getting back when they were throwing his.

[John Holmberg]

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[Fitz]

Grab the phone and sing Hopkins 1-800-sale now.

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