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Brady Bogan
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John Holmberg
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Eddie
Brady reported this will be the last. Let's see, ordering at home Covid kits ends here. I think it's.
John Holmberg
You're holding the paper. Quit thinking.
Brady Bogan
Thank God we're off next week. We need a reset.
Eddie
We need a reset.
John Holmberg
Look at this.
Ronnie
Pretty sure the thing I was reading to you.
Eddie
Are you sure it's ending?
Ronnie
Somewhere in all these words is the information on when that's going to end.
John Holmberg
It's not even over.
Ronnie
I'm not really into the whole read the story I'm holding idea.
Eddie
I like to Wing it. They announced it Tuesday. The at home kits. And today.
John Holmberg
Today's today. There you go. There you go. That's a whole story. A beginning, a middle, and an end.
Brady Bogan
That's a first for everything.
John Holmberg
Yeah, we got to take next week off. Somebody's got to breathe. Give him the air, Cohagon.
Eddie
73% of millennial parents think they're doing a better job with their kids than their own parents did. They're not. Did it?
John Holmberg
Well, yeah. You're there. Yeah. I mean, easiest one for me to get attendance. And you' won the game.
Eddie
According to the poll, here are the top four parenting strategies they're using the most that their parents didn't. Gentle parenting guides children through the decision making process without the parent setting demands and rules.
John Holmberg
Demands and rules. How dare you, as a parent. All right, that's better. That's what people consider where we get advice.
Eddie
24% have gotten parenting advice from social media, but other than that, it hasn't really changed much. Being an open. Being open about mental health. Your own parents might have just told you to buck up.
John Holmberg
And they weren't wrong.
Eddie
But 80% of millennial parents think discussions about mental health and emotional well being are important.
John Holmberg
I've had that. Yes. And there's two sides to that. Every depression doesn't mean your kid's clinically depressed. Fact. And every. Every happy thing doesn't mean they're bipolar.
Dick Toledo
That was the thing I had to tell Alex. I'm like, look, this is a thing you're going through.
John Holmberg
Buck up.
Eddie
Right?
Dick Toledo
You get out of it. And he has.
John Holmberg
Toughen up, buttercup.
Eddie
Two thirds say their own parents never did that.
John Holmberg
Talk to them about mental health. Yeah, well, my dad said he would make me retarded a few times. Hey, we talked about mental health.
Brady Bogan
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
You keep this up, I'm gonna scramble your brains. You think you're depressed now? That was a big one. You think you're sad now? Keep it up.
Eddie
Huh?
Dick Toledo
Oh, that was the one when Alex told me he's gonna contact cps.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Oh, you told him. Yeah.
Dick Toledo
I'm getting my money's worth.
John Holmberg
All right then.
Dick Toledo
Does that mean.
John Holmberg
You'll see.
Dick Toledo
Go ahead, call.
John Holmberg
Pick up the phone. I have.
Dick Toledo
You think they're gonna show right up?
John Holmberg
8 minutes to destroy your world, then I'm gonna call the police because the murder's gonna trump your. He treats me bad.
Dick Toledo
I was told long ago. Leave one story, Alex.
John Holmberg
Yeah, mine. Put the phone down, Trey.
Eddie
The last one is being present with your kids. 80% of millennial parents Claim they always try to prioritize their kids over work. 77% think they're more present with their children than their own parents were with them.
John Holmberg
Yeah, well, there was a lot our parents did right and a lot they did wrong. But to dismiss it all and make every time your kid sniffles depression that needs pills is the bigger issue. It's not working. Somewhere in between happy medium of like knocking them around a little bit and making sure that they're mentally okay.
Dick Toledo
Real quick. We are unearthing when you scratch the mental health thing with our listeners. John, you know I spilled water on the floor on Christmas Eve. Still remember it to this day. My father beat me bloody.
John Holmberg
That's too.
Dick Toledo
So you're goddamn right. I'm doing better job than that mfer with my kids.
John Holmberg
Right. Well, there's an extreme example. If you were beaten bloody at any point, that's the curve. Right. That's polarity is what I'm saying. Somewhere in the middle I believe was the phrase I used. Between beating someone bloody and then giving them pills every time they act sad, if they see a sad movie, you don't pull them up. And if they spill a glass of water, you don't beat them up somewhere. Somewhere kind of like, you know, you try to go through the bridge. Not through the bridge.
Eddie
Chance of being a better parent, right?
John Holmberg
Much better. If you're looking at all angles and saying, you know, somewhere in the middle is a nice. But if your kid's bleeding because there's water on the floor, that's too far. And yes, it's easy to like Toledo. It's easy to do a better job than a guy that used to punch it for spilling water.
Eddie
Dairy Queen is celebrating the arrival of spring with free cone day. Go there right now.
John Holmberg
There ice cream in it.
Eddie
You get a small vanilla cone.
Dick Toledo
All guests, 755.
Eddie
Limit of one per person. As soon as they open, I think See you Brady. Like 11 o'clock. Yeah.
John Holmberg
They open at 11.
Eddie
Yeah. Yeah. I'm guessing and you're guessing.
John Holmberg
It's pretty educated guy.
Eddie
I didn't know this. In the northern hemisphere, spring officially begins the vernal equinox. I know that part, but I didn't know it happens twice a year. Year.
John Holmberg
What did you know? Vernal equinox.
Eddie
The vernal equinox, which occurs between March 19 and and the 21st, depending on the year equinox. The equinox happens twice a year at the points of the earth tilt towards the sun.
John Holmberg
Right.
Eddie
I always thought it was just one Day.
John Holmberg
Take some time to Equinox.
Eddie
Equinox ain't easy.
John Holmberg
That's right.
Eddie
A couple of basis fun facts. Everything is bigger in Texas, including the Dairy Queens. The fleet of Dairy Queens.
John Holmberg
Were you sponsored by Dairy Queen today?
Ronnie
What's going on?
Eddie
Texas has 581 dairy queens.
Dick Toledo
In other Dairy Queen news, it's the.
John Holmberg
Biggest state with a lot of people in it. That makes sense.
Eddie
Ohio has the second 250.
John Holmberg
There's where your problems.
Eddie
Oh, wait.
John Holmberg
California's not second. There's 34 million people in California. They don't have more Dairy Queens than Ohio.
Brady Bogan
If you want Hawaiian noodles. All they got in California.
John Holmberg
You fat.
Eddie
Houston. Houston alone has 25 Dairy Queen locations. The Netherlands set up.
John Holmberg
I know what's gonna happen about 10:18 today. We're gonna be sitting in the office.
Ronnie
You're getting an offer from Houston. We should take it.
John Holmberg
What?
Ronnie
We should move to Houston. Seems like a place I'd fit right in.
Eddie
Little update from Chick Fil A. Any customers that have Polynesian sauce dipping cups. If they took a couple home and they got them between February 14th and the 27th, throw them away.
John Holmberg
Okay.
Eddie
Because they. It's not the right sauce and it might contain.
John Holmberg
Wait, there are people who go there and just take the sauce home.
Eddie
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah.
Eddie
If they haven't used it.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah.
Brady Bogan
Where the hell you been, John?
John Holmberg
Wait a minute.
Eddie
You've never had Taco Bell hot packets left over from a meal? Yeah, they just throw them over in a cabin. There's people that storm they'll have.
Brady Bogan
I've seen that actually.
John Holmberg
No kidding.
Brady Bogan
The whole condiment drawer?
Eddie
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
The only ones we save are the soy sauce packets because we don't have soy sauce.
Eddie
Some people will do the sriracha in.
John Holmberg
The packets or you just stuff them.
Eddie
In the first every now and then. Now that. Now it got so popular that people. Now you can buy.
John Holmberg
Oh, I get.
Eddie
Buy that Polynesian sauce.
John Holmberg
But the Polynesian sauce, aren't you using it?
Eddie
Sometimes you get too many packets.
John Holmberg
Okay.
Eddie
And rather than throwing it away, they keep it.
John Holmberg
But what else do you use it for? You're just going to go to Chick Fil A and get more. You'll always have too much.
Eddie
Oh, you can put it on other stuff. If you have. If you make chicken at home, I.
John Holmberg
Suppose, and you're using Chick Fil A Polynesian sauce, which I think if you're making chicken from home and using their.
Eddie
Sauce, just go there between the 14th and 27th. If you have any of that.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Eddie
Be careful with your it's the real deal.
John Holmberg
Surplus of Polynesian sauce.
Eddie
Important update.
John Holmberg
I thought you just tossed it. You used what you used, and you throw the rest away. Waste. That's what we do. We're Americans. We waste it.
Dick Toledo
One of our listeners is wondering why this wasn't in our new releases on Tuesday.
John Holmberg
I have a song called Jews with Kanye. Now, according to this, and I like your stage name. Yeah. Hebrew H. Thank you, listeners, for really running with that yarn. I'm still blowing.
Eddie
You're the new double eight.
John Holmberg
Do you keep the ketchup? Where do you draw the line?
Eddie
Some people keep ketchup.
Dick Toledo
The packet bottle in my fridge.
Brady Bogan
Yeah, There's. I've seen people with a. Like, it's like a junk drawer. They just have all kinds.
John Holmberg
I remember, as a joke, looking here in the.
Eddie
Maybe here in the kitchen.
John Holmberg
Does anyone use it? It just stays there forever. People actually break out into that drawer of.
Brady Bogan
I. I'm not saying they do, but it happens.
Eddie
I don't know. There used to be.
Brady Bogan
There used to be a drawer of condiments.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Eddie
There was.
Brady Bogan
The old building.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Brady Bogan
I never used it, but.
Dick Toledo
Well, that's because they were there for.
John Holmberg
15 years, I'm sure.
Eddie
I think there's a part of guilt reason, like, I don't want to throw these unused packets away. Maybe someone will like them.
John Holmberg
One time, 25 years ago, we were collecting them for work lunches, and my friend and I handed them out for Halloween.
Eddie
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Because we're like, nobody ever uses the leftover ones, but I guess we should have just given them to Brady. Yeah. We were giving Kimlan and all sorts of stuff to kids for Halloween. Packets, like, from March. We didn't care.
Eddie
Fresh red pepper packets.
John Holmberg
Yeah. We were kind of joke piling those for the pizzas on Sunday. Got a ton of those. We're never gonna use them.
Eddie
I know. They'll be in that drawer.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Because the next time I get pizza, they're gonna give me more. I will never not have enough. Throwing them out keeps me even.
Eddie
Say, no. Use the ones that you have.
John Holmberg
Yeah. I should just give it back to the pizza guy when he shows up here. We're not using them. More important for you, there's a pile of these.
Eddie
Trader Joe's announced they're raising the price of a single banana for the first time in over two decades. Went from 19 cents to 23 cents. It's only 4 cents, but we know.
Brady Bogan
Thank you.
John Holmberg
It's a special day.
Eddie
That's a 21% jump.
John Holmberg
We understand. 4 cents.
Ronnie
That's 4 cents for those of you not in the know.
Eddie
That's not how it was said. I said, that's only 4 cents. No, you said that's 4. 21%.
John Holmberg
We're laughing because you said that's 4 cents, like you were revealing the big math equation. We wouldn't have laughed. You said, that's only 4 cents, but thanks. Yeah. If you had a scruff, I'd pick you up by it and I'd set you outside for a minute.
Eddie
The whole reason they sell them individually.
Brady Bogan
Here we go.
John Holmberg
See? You know it's bad when you got him on those. He's gone.
Eddie
I'm just happy he got that.
John Holmberg
Well, no, he got it because you. You did the math for him.
Eddie
That's the only reason I did it. Thank you.
John Holmberg
Put the pencil down. You're never gonna get there. Brett has to be naked to count to 21. Holmberg's morning sickness.
Eddie
The whole reason they sold the bananas individually is the CEO saw a lady grab a bunch and then put them back. He asked her why she didn't pull the trigger on the entire banana purchase. She told him, sonny, I may not live for that fourth banana. So then he decided, let's just sell them individually then.
John Holmberg
That's how come they sell bananas off the. Off the bunch. Because some old dog wasn't gonna live broke Broad was that she had two days to live and she wanted four bananas.
Eddie
I didn't think she'd make it to the fourth banana.
John Holmberg
She. But what a. Bananas last a week, maybe a little longer. Max hops. Yeah. And she's at Trader Joe's knocking down the bananas and cares if she wastes one. Get in the box immediately.
Eddie
Canada's maple syrup reserve hits an all time low. A 16 year low. The Reserve is in Quebec. It's designed to hold 133 million pounds of maple syrup. 2023. The supply fell to 6.9 million pounds.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Are you all right?
Eddie
Global warming, climate change. They're saying the warmer weather disrupts production.
Dick Toledo
Trees still make SAP, though, right? Whether it's.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Eddie
I mean, they still have a 6.9 million ton reserve.
John Holmberg
6.9 million tons is what they said.
Eddie
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Yeah. That's a lot.
Eddie
But at one time it was 133 million.
Dick Toledo
Like oil. We're just. Yeah.
John Holmberg
We can't artificially make syrup.
Eddie
Oh, yeah. No, majority of it is artificially.
John Holmberg
I was gonna say McDonald's isn't the.
Eddie
Syrup, but real maple syrup. If you're a purist, it's a lot more expensive.
John Holmberg
I can't tell you purest. I don't know if you could fool me with it.
Eddie
There's a difference.
John Holmberg
Okay.
Eddie
Pizza Hut today announced it will celebrate the solar eclipse occurring April 8 with a new pizza deal dubbing it the total eclipse of the Hut.
John Holmberg
You can't see half of your pizza, but you get the full charge.
Eddie
12 bucks.
John Holmberg
It's just a pizza with a funny name.
Eddie
Yeah. Total eclipse of the Hut.
John Holmberg
I heard it.
Eddie
Four cents.
John Holmberg
You have a thing today. You're special today. And I like it. I like this. You. I like it because of what it does to him, too. Because he's off. He's off the chair. I know. So stupid.
Eddie
I don't think it was said like that.
John Holmberg
Nothing better than him rolling down the road, laughing.
Eddie
The New York Post did a write up on a thing that's back in a big way. Toupees dupes are back. They've gotten a lot better since their heyday in the 80s. The good ones use real hair that's stitched into a piece of polyester that was their heyday. Thin enough to sweat through. You glue it onto your scalp, get you the exact haircut you want. You can shower in it. You can go six months before it needs to be reapplied. Ah, there's a guy in a video.
John Holmberg
It's got a stink.
Eddie
Showing how he's doing it. They're cheaper than the surgeries.
John Holmberg
Well, yeah, a whole lot less painful. Doug Hopkins got that front notch put on. He told me it was a nightmare of pain. But now he's got the hair that Hermey had in the Rudolph special up front. Just a big, wavy, curly, beautiful head of hair.
Eddie
You're gonna like this next story, too.
John Holmberg
Oh, this is the toupee. This guy strapping on a toupee right here.
Eddie
And he shows you.
John Holmberg
I've never seen the actual application.
Eddie
Well, he just shows you the front part. You can see how thin the. He goes. I didn't glue it all the way just to show you the flap.
John Holmberg
Oh, oh, you gotta log in or something. I think I get the gist of it. Little Elmer's flap on the hair. Off you go.
Eddie
Yeah.
John Holmberg
To be one of the world's best.
Eddie
He says he's naturally bald, but he's doing it just to see what looks like. He goes, I probably won't. I may. I'll remain bald.
John Holmberg
But you know what?
Eddie
No, this is looking pretty good.
John Holmberg
Hate to break it to you. Even if you're wearing a hat, you're still bald. You will remain bald even if you're wearing a little fake hat of hair, and it never matches on the side or the back. It's just Toupee guy. We all see it.
Eddie
And now it's time for a really quick Wild World.
John Holmberg
Okay? And go.
Eddie
Hello, my friends. I'm Brady Bogan, and this is your Wild, Wild World. We've got this Welsh woman who's on a trek to base camp in Mount Everest. She's doing it for a charity. Emma Keane is her name. She was FaceTiming her family before. She's getting ready to take the track.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Eddie
And right in the middle of the FaceTime, she got eaten by something. A yak Gorder.
John Holmberg
Oh, man. I didn't know yaks could do that. She said.
Eddie
I was speaking to my brother and his wife, showing him, you know, the beautiful hillside and getting ready to go on this trek without warning. I could hear the hooves pounding towards me. A sharp stabbing.
Dick Toledo
Isn't it?
Eddie
Pain.
John Holmberg
That's a good warning.
Eddie
Yeah, but she's FaceTime.
John Holmberg
Yeah, she's busy, but you can't say.
Dick Toledo
Without warning if you're hearing the hoots.
John Holmberg
She's going to go viral with this one.
Eddie
Threw her up in the air. I landed back down.
John Holmberg
I threw up in the air. Are you confessing to being a yak? You said, I threw her up in the air. Mike, are you a yak?
Eddie
Yak. Yakter. Anyway, she had a big hole in her leg from the horn, right? Went through her leggings, so they flew her to the air.
John Holmberg
You were filled with unnecessary extras today. Who cares about her pants?
Eddie
She's wearing leggings. She just went through her Lululemon.
John Holmberg
But I assumed her pants were ruined by the goring of her leg. You were superfluous.
Eddie
And she can get in line with all the other thousand people going to base camp for charity.
John Holmberg
By the way, that's not the picture.
Eddie
Of the actual yak.
John Holmberg
Don't disagree. That is over. Oh, this is a thank you. I didn't know that's what yaks look like.
Eddie
Nothing special.
John Holmberg
What's it a cow with? Like, it's a cow. Horse. Cow, cow, horse.
Eddie
What?
John Holmberg
Looks like somebody drew it. Bed. Like God went, whoops, I added horse to that. Oops, I added more cow. I can't fix this now it's kind of ox, Cow, horse. Jesus.
Eddie
That's your wild, wild world, huh?
John Holmberg
I hope she gets new pants.
Eddie
John, there's a photo from 1917 that has sparked claims that time travel is real. After a man was spotted in the snapshot. Looks like he's from the 20th century.
John Holmberg
Holding the cell phone.
Eddie
Some people are convinced he's a surfer from the 2000s.
Brady Bogan
It's Bodhi.
Eddie
So this guy. The picture was taken in Canada in 1917. There's a group of grown ups and kids sitting on a hill. Women are dressed in long skirts, and the gents are in the smart jackets and bowler hats. But what's really got everyone talking about is the one dude looks like he stepped out of the 20th century. He's easy to spot. He's in a baggy T shirt and shorts, messy hair.
Brady Bogan
All right, let's see this.
Eddie
Here's the distance shot. I'll show you the close up.
John Holmberg
It's just a blurry mess.
Eddie
Yeah, it's a blurry mess. Now let's focus in. We'll have too much time on the surfer, bro.
John Holmberg
Okay.
Eddie
It's real, man. He time travels.
John Holmberg
He's still a human being. He's just not wearing one of the hats. I bet you took all these guys hats off.
Eddie
He's the only guy in T shirt shorts.
John Holmberg
That guy's in shorts right next to him.
Eddie
Well, okay, not in the shorts.
Brady Bogan
Wearing a sex wax T shirt or something or what?
John Holmberg
And maybe you just can't see that it's a. He just unbuttoned his shirt and he spilled something on it. He's just got a T shirt. Unless he's got a Make America great Again hat on. Stop with the time travel crap. He's got long hair. All of them do. There weren't Barb. There weren't super cuts back then the Canadian hillbillies. Probably poor. And then he took his. His hat off because he was probably hot. And they snapped the shot.
Eddie
No. Dude's checking out the waves, Right?
Brady Bogan
Of all people, time traveling. How is Spicoli gonna figure out his way back in time?
John Holmberg
And also he ends up on the side of a mountain and mining. That's the worst. If you can time travel, last thing you're doing is go do hard labor some other place. Whoa. We're strip mining, bro. Yesterday I was in Huntington. I was riding some cool waves, and I hit this machine. And now I'm with you dudes. That is a news story.
Eddie
Time travel.
John Holmberg
People can't just look at it and go, oh, dude, took his hat off. Nope. They think it's time travel, man. I am surrounded by morons. Not you guys. Although that does apply.
Brady Bogan
It's like one of our promo kits, right?
John Holmberg
Because humans have always looked pretty much like that. It's only been a hundred and something years. Styles Change. But a dude put a dirty shirt on and a pair of shorts to work the mine. The guy next to him has shorts on. Evidently Canadians wore shorts.
Eddie
A guy in Texas is running for president after officially changing his name to literally anybody else. First name, literally.
John Holmberg
Right.
Eddie
Even has it on his driver's license. A judge approved it. Like, I don't know why you're doing.
John Holmberg
This, but go get him.
Eddie
All right. His name before that was dusty E.B. dustin E.B.
Brady Bogan
Yeah, I changed my name too.
John Holmberg
I also hate.
Eddie
There's his Texas driver's license.
John Holmberg
There he is. L. Anybody else? Literally anybody. First, middle, last name. He's not an organ donor. The time travel thing. You got me on ghosts and time travel. It's not a thing. It's never been a thing. It will never be a thing. And again, I remind you my philosophy holds true. 100. You cannot mess with it. If at any time in the history of the spectrum of man made time traveling through it was invented, we'd know about it from the beginning of man to the end of man. If time travel is invented at any point, we would know about it all the time. Because you can't go back in time. Time travel and tell them. A time traveler. Prove it. Then go forward in time and just not dabble with the current we're dealing in without us having. Somebody's going to overlap to it. And why would everybody. It's the same thing I always say about the devil. How come he's in on this whole thing? God's not getting involved. You have free reign. Just leave it up to us. That's dumb. He's got some juice. Use it. If you had a time machine.
Dick Toledo
Got some juice.
John Holmberg
Juice. And he's got those too. If you had a time machine and somebody said, don't use this for bad. Oh, okay. You would use it for your own gains. And people be. How do you know though? Because if some dude went back in time and created Starbucks in the 20s and then it became twice as big then and more and more and more, everyone would be rich. There's no way that dude is gonna hide that for just himself. He's gonna tell a buddy. If I invented time travel like Brady, you're the only person I'm telling. You think Brady goes back and invents barbecue sauce? Like he's not gonna be the guy responsible for that. And then I know. Then Brady knows. Then Brady tells Ronnie. Ronnie goes back to something. Then Ronnie knows. Now it's just. There's no way one dude's kept this to himself the whole time.
Eddie
I'm filling out a perfect bracket.
John Holmberg
I'm doing all sorts of crazy stuff. And by the way, I'm never doing the Biff.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, of course you are.
John Holmberg
I'm never gonna stop doing it. I had a big win in Vegas. I go back all the time because that feeling was so great. I want it again. Time travel has got to be pretty awesome. If I'm just sitting here talking to Toledo one day, and then I'm like, you know what? I accidentally dicked around and messed something up in my closet, and I met Jesus yesterday. I'm definitely gonna keep doing that. And eventually I'm gonna stumble even back to the future. They screwed up. By the third one, there had to be, like, eight deloreans. Too many people. Now we gotta stop with the time travel and stop with the ghosts and start being adults. It's out of control now.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona: BEST OF HMS PODCASTS - THURSDAY
Episode Overview: Released on March 13, 2025, this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD features host John Holmberg alongside Brady Bogan, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo. The episode delves into a variety of topics ranging from parenting strategies among millennials, the cessation of at-home COVID-19 test kits, quirky consumer behavior, to amusing takes on time travel and current events.
Discussion Highlights: The team explores the evolving landscape of parenting, emphasizing how millennial parents believe they are outperforming previous generations in raising their children.
Millennial Confidence: Eddie cites, “73% of millennial parents think they're doing a better job with their kids than their own parents did” (04:40).
Gentle Parenting: The conversation delves into the top parenting strategies, notably gentle parenting, which avoids rigid demands and encourages decision-making alongside children.
Mental Health Focus: With 80% of millennial parents prioritizing discussions about mental health, the panel debates the balance between support and over-pathologizing normal emotions.
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Insights: The panel acknowledges the progress in fostering mental well-being among children while critiquing instances where overemphasis might lead to unnecessary interventions. They underscore the importance of finding a middle ground that balances discipline with emotional support.
Discussion Highlights: Brady Bogan reports on the discontinuation of at-home COVID-19 test kits, sparking a debate on the implications for public health and personal convenience.
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Insights: The team reflects on the pandemic's trajectory, discussing how the phasing out of at-home test kits signifies a move towards normalization and the potential challenges in maintaining public health vigilance.
Dairy Queen's Free Cone Day: Eddie announces Dairy Queen's spring promotion offering a free small vanilla cone (06:35), leading to a light-hearted debate about individual versus bulk purchases.
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Chick-fil-A's Polynesian Sauce Alert: Eddie informs listeners about potential issues with Chick-fil-A's Polynesian sauce dipping cups purchased between February 14th and 27th (07:56), emphasizing safety and consumer awareness.
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Insights: The team uses these promotions and consumer habits to entertain and engage listeners, blending humor with practical advice on navigating everyday deals and potential product recalls.
Discussion Highlights: Eddie shares a New York Post story about the resurgence of toupees, highlighting advancements that make them more realistic and convenient than ever before.
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Insights: The conversation pokes fun at the practicality and aesthetics of modern toupees, while also acknowledging the broader implications for self-image and consumer choices in hair restoration solutions.
Discussion Highlights: The panel examines a viral claim from the New York Post about a 1917 photograph purportedly showing a modern-day individual, igniting debates about the plausibility of time travel.
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Insights: Through humor and critical thinking, the team addresses sensational claims, reinforcing the importance of skepticism and evidence-based conclusions in the age of viral misinformation.
Maple Syrup Reserve Crisis: Eddie reports on Canada’s maple syrup reserve hitting a 16-year low due to climate change impacts, sparking a brief discussion on environmental challenges.
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Wild World Segment: Brady Bogan introduces Emma Keane's harrowing encounter with a yak during her Mount Everest trek for charity, blending storytelling with lighthearted commentary.
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Insights: The inclusion of current events and listener stories adds variety to the podcast, allowing for both informative and entertaining segments that resonate with a broad audience.
Ongoing Jests: Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in playful teasing and banter, such as mocking each other’s math skills or debating the authenticity of kondiments in drawers.
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Insights: The hosts’ interactions enhance the podcast’s appeal, providing both depth in discussions and light-hearted moments that keep the audience engaged.
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness effectively blends serious discussions on parenting and environmental issues with humorous takes on everyday quirks and sensational stories. Through engaging dialogue, notable quotes, and a well-structured flow, the hosts deliver a comprehensive and entertaining summary of various topics, making it accessible and enjoyable for both regular listeners and newcomers alike.
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Final Thoughts: Holmberg's Morning Sickness continues to solidify its position as Arizona's #1 morning radio show by balancing insightful conversations with humor and relatability. This episode exemplifies how diverse topics can be seamlessly integrated into an engaging narrative, ensuring listeners are both informed and entertained.