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Brett Vesely
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John Holmerg
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Larry McFeely
Sickness, you've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself.
John Holmerg
He's evil. Sitting right here.
Brett Vesely
Come on.
Unidentified Male Guest
No, no, he's not.
John Holmerg
He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. 98. And we'll get him anyway. What do we care? Let it crumble around us, right? Chunk of the building fell off again. It's. It's time now for Brady to solve all the world's problems as the most moral man we know. It's what would Brady do? And it's brought to you by our friends at MMP Guns right there on 12th street at Indian School. Ah, as I say it. What'd you do? Byron sent me a. I totally forgot. I gotta look again. He sent me some Steeler stuff. They got in, said he'd put it aside for me. Oh, that's a little figurines of Franco Harris, Joe Green, Terry Bradshaw and Jack Lambert. Sold. Yeah, they're all in the package. Never been open. They're really cool. And I told them I'm in, I'll be. And I totally Forgot about.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
How old are those?
John Holmerg
I don't know.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
I gotta be pretty.
John Holmerg
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Unidentified Male Guest 2
You need some Brady videos.
John Holmerg
I have my what would Brady do file. Yeah. I should have just stared at you until you're like, well, are you supposed to read something? Oh, yeah. That all this works. I forgot all about that. There we go. I put him in my little. A little file over here. Are you ready? Ready. Says. Dear Brady, my dad is a huge fan of the Bengals. He's 81. Good. We're almost down one more Bengals fan. We've never been to a game together and he's absolutely wanting to do that before he goes. I want to go, but I do not want to go to Cincinnati ever again in my life. It's where my family's from and they're all weird hillbillies. I've been one time and it was so strange. I hated it. So I ask you, where's the best place to appease your dad's Bengal needs and make him happy? Where would you and Your dad have gone? Stephen, interesting question.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
You mean like on a road game?
John Holmerg
Hit a roadie with the Bungles. What team do you think would be a good one to go with dad for? Would you keep it in the division?
Unidentified Male Guest 2
I'm going. I don't know. I coming from the Midwest at the time. I would head to a warm place like I'd go down.
John Holmerg
If you're playing Miami or playing Vegas.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Vegas.
John Holmerg
81 year old dad might not be that much fun in Vegas and he spent. And if he's doing the whole hey la.
Brett Vesely
He'll go to sleep early. Don't worry about it.
John Holmerg
By the way, don't worry about it taking to Vegas. You know he'll be in bed by your own thing.
Brett Vesely
4:30.
John Holmerg
Also in August when we have no gravity for six seconds. Your old man ain't gonna make it to the next season anyway. Plus it's pretty presumptuous. It's almost like Toledo buying tickets to the World Series because his dad's 81 and saying we need to hit a game before I go. Dad might not make it to next year. So let's just Ticketmaster these things if the weekend arises. If they come here.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
That'd be a good outing.
John Holmerg
Fly him out. He probably can't fly. I don't know where he lives though.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah. So if, if he. Yeah, I don't know where he lives either.
Unidentified Male Guest
If he.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
If he's around that area. I don't know. I heard Nashville is fun.
John Holmerg
Pretty awesome town.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah. But again you can make a fun weekend of dad's 81.
John Holmerg
Do you want to have fun like you weren't going to have?
Larry McFeely
You're basically.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
You're focusing on that one day with the 81. It's going to be tailgate game.
John Holmerg
Home hookers will blow.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah, I don't even know if he'll rally up for that. He might.
John Holmerg
You selfish son of a. Just go back to Cincinnati. Watch him in that awful stadium with those awful people.
Brett Vesely
Skyline chili.
John Holmerg
And to eat that terrible food. They were showing pictures.
Unidentified Male Guest
Oh, I saw that too. It's awful.
John Holmerg
All those toothless. Here's what I would do. Pick a game that they're probably going to win.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
I want to see some offense.
John Holmerg
Like if they play like that's not a bad idea Nashville. Because they suck. The Raiders are going to suck.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Pick a game.
John Holmerg
The Bengals will probably Jets.
Unidentified Male Guest
Now I'm with you.
John Holmerg
If they're playing the jets, go to New York and enjoy the weekend. It's going to be expensive, but that's a good one.
Unidentified Male Guest
No, I think you had a round. You got to give it up and go to Cincinnati.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
You got to keep it the 81 year old definitely in mind. There's not going to be on the traveling side.
John Holmerg
No fun.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
My dad was okay on 81. 85.
John Holmerg
He's like 81 still, though. You're making concessions for 81.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah, it's the payout. It'll take longer.
John Holmerg
Yeah, it's a. It's.
Unidentified Male Guest
And I hate putting it this way, but it's a fast slide once they hit.
John Holmerg
All right, that's nice. The guy just wants to go to a game with his daddy.
Unidentified Male Guest
That's what I'm saying.
John Holmerg
Medical help. Go to it now. Go to a Bengals game now. You know they know what you mean. It's got away at least September. That's all.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
The guys go to Cincinnati, get upper deck tickets.
John Holmerg
I mean, make him climb used to disappointment.
Brett Vesely
He's a Bengals fan, so what's the difference?
John Holmerg
You know what? Don't go with him. You're right. As a Bengals fan, he should be disappointed, even in his son. He raised you a Bengal. He actually didn't raise you a Bengals fan. Sounds like you got out. Otherwise you'd want to go to Cincinnati. If you were a Bengals fan, you'd want to go see your team no matter how crowded is. Anyway, look, my dad called.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Really?
John Holmerg
Go to a Steelers game before I go. All right, I want to go to Pittsburgh.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
My mom still, you know, goes to one or two Buckeye games, but not as much. She used to.
John Holmerg
She lives across the street. That's easy.
Unidentified Male Guest
By the way, our friends, the lesbian couple went to their first game in Pittsburgh last night. They were there. She Brenda's first game. She's been in Pittsburgh.
John Holmerg
Oh, she's a fan. Oh, okay. I thought there was whole life. No lesbian ticket.
Unidentified Male Guest
Huge fan. Huge fan.
John Holmerg
And she went, oh, that's a good one to be at. Man, she had to lose her mind.
Unidentified Male Guest
I think they were in that end zone where he missed the field goal.
John Holmerg
I swear to God, all you'd have seen was a dude. Just Vesuvius amounts of it would have looked like a milk explosion. If I was at that game and that kick was first off, I wouldn't have been in those terrible seats. But if I was just the shots of goo, I lost it. Oh, so happy. And right now, Lamar Jackson's it's noon in Baltimore. So he's just now waking up and he's so miserably unhappy. And Harbaugh's like pack in a bag like he Might not be back.
Unidentified Male Guest
Oh, did you see the. The meme of the. The plane tracker? The Ravens plane on its way to Cancun.
John Holmerg
Yeah, I love that too. When they showed Derrick Henry's dumb eyes walking down the sideline when he. When he missed, I'm like, oh, that's gonna be a meme forever. Surprise. Derrick Henry's hilarious. You know, my dad text me right after the game. Like I got 144 texts at 9:41 I had never. And I looked and the little red dots at 144, I'm like, wow. My dad hits me with King Henry can take that crown and shove it up his ass. That's my dad. That was my dad's reaction to the game out of the blue. It's great. There's something. Something. Check out homework's morning sickness podcast at 98kupd.
Larry McFeely
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Brett Vesely
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Byron
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Brett Vesely
Okay, but what if he lives out of state?
Byron
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John Holmerg
Homeburg's morning sickness. All right, Brady. Dear Brady, I'm going to quit my job and open a restaurant in 2026. American comfort food. Meats, not barbecue though, like a mid level steak place with hopefully amazing burgers. I don't have a name for it yet. I plan on opening up somewhere in August. I've lived my life in finance and investment. That's my world. But it's boring. And my passion is people. Name my restaurant Brady and tell me the one thing that I shouldn't do that seems normal going in, but in hindsight was the death of your place. Harold, what's one thing you did do? And you're like, man. Yeah, there's always the one thing.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
I think the. The name was a little too hipster in a way.
John Holmerg
Porkopolis. Yeah.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
You'd get people that say, is it just pork only?
Unidentified Male Guest
Right.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
They didn't know, you know, you had beers. If you would have gone barbecue burgers and beer or Brady's barbecue burgers or something like that.
Unidentified Male Guest
Well, it was the name of Cincinnati, wasn't it?
Unidentified Male Guest 2
It was. I mean, the story behind it's really cool. It's a good gift.
John Holmerg
It's catchy. But you're right. It's just like, oh, just pork. That's kind of what I thought. Like, I'm like, okay. But I knew it's a good name.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
You keep the name. I'm always in favor of a name of, like, you hear the restaurant. You know what it is, especially of a restaurant like that, that you're doing American Fair or you're doing cheeseburgers or.
John Holmerg
Guy's name is Harold. Yeah. Harry's Meat. It's a great sign. Yeah.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
It's not bad. But. But you need to. I think you. You want to. Burgers are. Are big still.
John Holmerg
Sure.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Now people. And it just. I think it's such a tough time opening a restaurant right now with the way things are going.
John Holmerg
He's a finance guy. He might have something in his pocket.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Absorb the punch. Yeah. Make sure you're there in the food, because your finance guy, you can definitely see.
John Holmerg
That's what I would think you'd have said, is that if you're going to open a restaurant, it's not a hobby.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah.
John Holmerg
It's too hard. You end up. You end up there. 40 hours as a hobby. You need to. You need more than 70 or 80 hours in there. My buddy Jeff, who now used to be the.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Whatever time you think you spend, double it. Whatever money you think you'll spend, double it. It's probably triple.
John Holmerg
It might be. My friend Jeff, who now works in finance, oddly enough, used to run a place called 10 in the Esplanade. And it was fantastic. And he closed it.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah.
John Holmerg
He was doing really well. And he said, I couldn't take it. I was working 80 or 90 hours a week. I was owner. I had to keep on this. He goes the people I trust. It has to be your life. Yeah, yeah. Totally agree.
Brett Vesely
It's my wife.
John Holmerg
She lives there. Exactly. You've got the bar and. Yeah. Your whole world is not. You go there a lot to see her. Yeah. She's not home.
Brett Vesely
She goes to her house, I go to mine.
John Holmerg
Yeah. Dear Brady, 2026 will start the fourth year of having not even kissed my wife good night. She had a tough time with her health a while ago and now says she may be broken forever. I love her very much, but it's very bad not having this. I'm 47 years old. I figure I've only got two or three years left with my thing working. Well, that's not true. 53. It works just fine. I think 20, 26 resolution is to get more puss. He said. I used to love when John said that. When did I used to say that? Enough to make it my catchphrase. Al Gore. It was my Al Gore impression. Gonna go out and get the puss. Gotta have more puss now that I'm single. The only other person that actually liked that that much was our friend Doug Fairchild. You say to him, let's go get some puss. He would say it in the hallways. Anyway, this is from Joseph. Wife hasn't even. They don't even have affection enough to open. Good night.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah, that's a tough gig.
John Holmerg
Your wiener will keep working for a while, though. You're only 47.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
It will. But I'll tell you, if you got to figure something out, either both gotta have. Go to counseling, maybe get some help on that. Because if. If you don't rekindle that, it can turn into even just more resentment.
John Holmerg
Sure. And you're sitting there in the countdown clock on your wiener and everything.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah.
John Holmerg
Or just car, car down Cordell and just end it.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
True.
John Holmerg
Get rid of that broken. Go get some healthy pussy. Get rid of that broken puss Nobody likes.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
You gotta get to the point, like, okay, well, what are we doing here?
John Holmerg
That's what I did with Tipper. I got rid of my broken puss and hired up some new puss. He did. He did. And Tipper broke up. She had a parental advisory sticker on her puss. Explicit. Yuck.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Did she get some of that truth money or whatever the documentary did. And.
John Holmerg
Oh. The Inconvenient Truth Truth. She got half of that Brady. It's cut me in half. Made me slay. Puts.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
You on a tear.
John Holmerg
Four years of no kisses good night even.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah. Something's. It's definitely.
John Holmerg
She doesn't like You.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah.
John Holmerg
There's also that.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
But then doesn't want to.
John Holmerg
She doesn't like herself.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Likes the situation.
John Holmerg
Comfortable in the situation. Just hope you ain't going to call her out on it. Kind of like Brett's idea. Which foot down.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if.
Brett Vesely
If he's just bitching about the kisses. I mean, imagine the rest of it.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Nothing.
Unidentified Male Guest
Exactly.
John Holmerg
Yeah. Oh, geez. Yeah.
Brett Vesely
That's what I would say.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Go to hell. Yep. Pretty much.
John Holmerg
Yeah. Just swing the door open today and, you know.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Hi, honey.
John Holmerg
How are you?
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Go to hell.
John Holmerg
All right. Well, I don't know. I don't know how to fix your lives. Gotta get that puff now. You're making me remember it.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Now.
John Holmerg
Just ask her. Can I get some side puss? No, this isn't fair.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
There's some people that set up arrangements. Yeah.
John Holmerg
The only thing that makes me nervous about that is I'm older than that guy a little bit. And he's worried that his isn't gonna work. Should I be worried about that? You're older than me. You all right?
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Yeah.
John Holmerg
No, it's still kind of. It's not as good as it was.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
I don't mind function like when I'm in high school or let alone in the 50s, 30s.
John Holmerg
It's kind of wobbly, probably because I.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Can remember the time when it stumbles.
John Holmerg
A little bit, takes a little longer.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
Time to recoup, you know?
John Holmerg
Oh. To start over. Yeah. You were never a guy that's banging away on a second double barrel. You're a napper. You're an ad. I can see it in your eyes right now. Even talking about you're getting a little sleepy. You're a shooter. You're a one and done. There's nothing wrong with being a one and done. I'm a one and done. You get it done right the first time. Yeah. Yeah. And you go right to sleep. It's the way it's meant to be. Ladies always try to make you feel bad for her. They should be proud they knocked you out. Ever watched a boxing match where the victorious boxer feels bad for the dude sleeping? It's what he was supposed to do. Ladies, when a guy's like. And he's out.
Brett Vesely
You did your job. You did that.
John Holmerg
Knock him out. Now, you don't want Mike Tyson fights where it's 30 seconds and he's asleep, because then you're not getting the proper training. But if you're covered and he goes right to sleep, don't make him like. Brady calls it a double barrel, man. Tonight. I think the best thing this guy can do is go to his wife and go, hey, you know, we haven't even kissed good night and I'm not asking for more than that, but I want to kiss goodnight on the tip of my wing and then just joke with her. Oh, you're silly. All right, no kiss.
Brett Vesely
How about a hug?
John Holmerg
A mouth? Now, now I want more. Take that. Or just get real aggressive. Call Cardo and Cardo. And call all your Lawyer friends. It's 9:35. There you go. That is what Brady would do. Followed by what Brett would do, which is pretty much the end. There you go. That's what he did. And kiss your wife good night in honor.
Unidentified Male Guest 2
It's not weird. It's pretty cool actually. No membership fees.
John Holmerg
I have heard enough of this.
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Main Theme / Purpose
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness (WWBD – What Would Brady Do?) is a rapid-fire advice session with Brady, John Holmberg, Brett Vesely, and others tackling real listener dilemmas. The focus ranges from a son debating whether to take his aging Bengals-fan father to a game, to naming (and not ruining) a new restaurant, to the woes of a longtime marriage with zero affection.
Listener Dilemma:
A 47-year-old man asks: Should I take my 81-year-old Bengals-fan father to a Bengals game—even though I hate Cincinnati?
Core Discussion:
John Holmberg [04:21]:
“Hit a roadie with the Bungles. What team do you think would be a good one to go with dad for?”
Unidentified Guest [04:29]:
“I would head to a warm place like... Miami or Vegas.”
“Don’t worry, he’ll be in bed by 4:30.” [04:52]
John Holmberg [05:53]: "You selfish son of a... Just go back to Cincinnati. Watch him in that awful stadium with those awful people... eat that terrible food."
Listener Dilemma:
A finance worker wants to open an American comfort food restaurant (“not barbecue but a mid-level steak place with amazing burgers”), and seeks name ideas and warnings from Brady’s experience.
Core Discussion:
“The name was a little too hipster... You'd get people that say, is it just pork only?” [11:12]
Unidentified Guest [12:39]:
“Whatever time you think you’ll spend, double it. Whatever money you think you’ll spend, triple it.”
Listener Dilemma:
A 47-year-old laments that he hasn’t even gotten a good-night kiss from his wife in years after her health issues, and wonders about rekindling affection or moving on.
Core Discussion:
Brady [14:19]:
“Yeah, that's a tough gig.”
John Holmberg [15:00]: “That's what I did with Tipper. I got rid of my broken puss and hired up some new puss...”
The team even debates sexual function in middle age, with typical crudeness but real insight:
“Your wiener will keep working for a while, though. You're only 47.” [14:20] – Brady
“Nothing wrong with being a one and done... Ladies always try to make you feel bad for it. They should be proud they knocked you out.” [17:09] – John
Conclusion:
“Just swing the door open today and, you know—Hi, honey. How are you? ... Go to hell.” [16:11] – John & Team, poking fun at the seriousness and difficulty of the situation.
Final Tone
The episode blends biting humor, genuine wisdom, and unfiltered man-talk. No subject is sacred, and while the tone is raucous and irreverent, the actual advice—especially about family, business, and marriage—is direct and often practical.
For those who haven’t listened: expect irreverence, crude metaphors, but real talk on adult dilemmas. Skip if you’re looking for a gentle touch; tune in for brutally honest camaraderie and memorable laughs.