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Brett Vesely
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Brett Vesely
Come on.
John Holmberg
No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. Wednesday morning, cruising through week one of 2026. And again, I'm trying to get through the whole week without trying to fall into these traps of what psychics think and where the world will be in. I went back and looked because I talked about a little this morning. They say we will have alien contact. We will have, of course, we'll have natural disasters. And it's an easy one to throw that out there. We're going to have one or two and they can lean on that. The ones I like are the ones that actually predict, you know, crazy stuff. The Simpsons have enough. So we meant to mention this earlier. Simpsons have an episode that they, that they say that they put, but it doesn't air anymore where Donald Trump and you know, the Simpsons have been accidentally predicting things for a long, long time. Like stuff that they. When they had Donald Trump on that escalator waving and it was like eight or nine years before he was thinking about being president and he announced he's going to be the president. It is weird to see actually how it happened. There's been a few things the Simpsons have accidentally said this will happen, and then it did. One is that Bart goes into the future and it has the date January 10, 2026. And Donald Trump is behind a desk with a lot of important papers and he looks stressed out and it looks like a very important desk. And then the newspaper headline reads, trump dies in sleep. So they're keeping an eye on that. I don't think you can say the Simpsons predict stuff until after it happens. And they go, oh, the Simpsons did this. You can't look at it and go, oh, my God. They. It's, you know, can't be a thing.
Brady
Well, we got three days.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I know, exactly. So you start looking at that and it's very strange. But yeah, the. The volcanoes are a thing and aliens are supposed to come back and touch us this year, which I am all for. I think that would be awesome. And again, being on this. In this horrible wormhole on Neil DeGrasse Tyson stuff. I watched a video last night of what it looks like. It's just a animation of what Earth looked like before 1950 from the space view. Like if you were looking at it from the moon and what it looks like now. And it did a year by year thing of how many satellites have gone up. And then you see like one go up in 1951 or whatever, and then two. And now there's like 15,000 or something like that. I don't remember what it was, but the number just goes. And the whole Earth is just. The shot would be like if you could take a picture of it from it were just littered with crap floating around. You don't realize how many things are out there. So that got me back on the fact that over the break that I think maybe I might not believe the moon landing anymore. Again, back off. It's a maybe, but it's getting stronger. Is that, you know, with all the space and stuff and they know where everything is. There's a bunch of space things that don't work anymore. They're floating out there that they worry about getting past that with rockets. So they didn't have to worry about in the 60s and now they do. So the moon thing could end up being just a complete catastrophe if they've got to start dodging Stuff so they don't really have the ability to steer. And if you look at the thing from the outside, like, there's going to be a real problem with space travel if we start getting out there. But there's. There's plenty of room. But if you look at this picture, it's just we're surrounded by satellites. They're everywhere. And it's a big enough thing that we're all right, you know, we'll figure it out. But I still don't think in the.
Brady
Movies where it says, I need five minutes before the satellite rotates back into the.
John Holmberg
Yeah, well, another one catches up. But if you look at the picture of how Earth looks from space with all the satellites we've shot out there, it's just. We littered. It's just trash everywhere. It's incredible. And it just gets more and more and more and more. So.
Brady
I just remember being up in like, if you go up to Flagstaff or up north in the skyline at night, all you see a lot more stars and stuff. You can see a satellite every now and then.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah. It's kind of neat to see them when they're moving around and they look easy to dodge, but you can't see them all. It's very strange. Also got somebody did a little research and said that yes, in fact, some women. Not all women, some women do swell up or apparently appear to swell up a little bit during sexual interview. Blood flow, water weight, depending on what they're. Especially small ones look bigger because their muscles are being used and swelling up. So there are times when a woman's body, you get pumped and you get pumped up a little bit and then.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
John Holmberg
And your body, like reacts by swelling. So I wasn't wrong. As many people had emailed and said, you're crazy. That's great. I wasn't wrong. Especially the smaller ones. So big ladies, I don't know if they swell up or not. I'm not watching that porn. Ew. I don't watch big lady porn. Am I gonna get bigger? I like the little ones. And the little ones tend to start looking a little bigger. It makes sense. I didn't even put it into like blood flow and water weight. I just thought that they were expanding like their skeletons just went for a few seconds. It makes sense. Your body goes through all sorts of weird changes and we. I think men shrink because our blood is going to one spot. So it takes a little muscle mass away from us.
Brett Vesely
Well, we could always check in with Rico Blaze and see if the big ones do get bigger.
John Holmberg
I'm not looking at that. I don't, I don't look. First stuff doesn't affect me. Big ones getting bigger, that's on somebody else's plate. Not gonna watch that. The little ones getting bigger makes loads of sense. But it caught me when Johnny Sins had Madison Ivy in his clutches and I noticed that his hands were wider than his body. And her, she's really tiny. So her muscles down in that area, especially where she was working real hard, we're just like getting a good pump, getting a great pump. Sometimes you work out.
Brady
That's a good pickup.
John Holmberg
You know what? It's. I'm a viewer. I'm an astute observer. Brady. Sometimes you work out and your shirt gets tighter and a little bigger.
Brady
Yeah. There's guys that, before they turn the cameras on, they have to get swelled up.
John Holmberg
Swell. My dad used to do it. We'd have company, decent looking company. Fat girls never got that treatment. And I would notice that if we had somebody. My dad's like, yeah, secretary from work's got to come over here and drop some stuff off. And then right before she got there, he'd go and do curls, like loads of them. And I start giggling at that. I'm like, that's kind of neat. And he'd come out huge. Noticeably bigger. Yeah, it's because he did it. It looks stupid. Like, you look like a lunatic.
Brady
You tried it one time.
John Holmberg
Well, I do it every once in a while before I leave, just to feel better in my clothes. Like, if I'm leaving the house, I'm like, ugh. And I'll go lift something heavy just for a little bit, just to get, like, to where it feels like you're a bit more of a human structure so you're not just some blob. See, I'll occasionally. And what I like to do is go in there and just twist weights because my shoulders will stretch and that feels great to me. And then it looks better in your shirts.
Brady
So that's what you call getting swell.
John Holmberg
I don't get swole. I don't like it.
Brett Vesely
I don't.
John Holmberg
I don't swell. I don't. I don't get swole. I wish I did. I don't do it. I have lean muscles. They don't do it.
Brett Vesely
I asked them do that too sometimes before they go on stage.
John Holmberg
Yeah, yeah. Oh, bands always have stuff. They get Robert Trujillo.
Eric
Who?
John Holmberg
I always am like, guys, people. Like, he's huge. I'm like, he is five, eight.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Maybe he's he's got a little punchy belly. It's not that. But on stage, he's huge. And those guys just lift, you know, dumbbells right before they go out on stage. They swell up. It makes sense. So to all you people that said my theory about women getting bigger during the porn sex, Go yourselves. I was right. But it is something I've noticed.
Brady
And.
John Holmberg
And, you know, occasionally I watch more than participate to see if this is something I can enjoy. And I'm like, she got bigger. But if you're one of those people, because the girls that I watch don't know you're watching fat chicks. That's all. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't.
Brett Vesely
There's nothing wrong with that. For you.
John Holmberg
There's something wrong with. Not for me, but you do what you do. I mean, there's something wrong. I like drugs. There's something wrong with. You can do it if you want to, but it's bad when you have all that porn at your disposal. Why would you watch a Walmart lady when you could watch something extraordinary? I'm not into those skinny broads. I'm like, yeah, but you're fantasizing, so get something. You can't have those. Those chicks are everywhere. No circle K feet and bad lighting. I draw the line in my porn. It's cellulite or a zit. If there's like a blemish, I'm like, I don't need this. Next. Yeah. Why would I watch that? I can just in seconds find something blemish free. It's the reason I don't go to Gilbert or Glendale for food. You know how many good things I passed to get there? And then what if I'm disappointed? I'm not going to drive all the way that far for a meal. There's thousands of things I passed that are going to be just as good on my way. People say, like, you and John Gordon were looking at something out there in Queen Creek. And John Gordon's like, oh, that's good. It's in Queen Creek. It might as well be on the moon. I'm going to pass 40 barbecue restaurants to have one that's a little better.
Brady
Than they got one in Gilbert, too.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Okay. Not going that far. Not even close to going that far. Yeah, I don't like cellulite. What's your draw? Do you draw hair? Sometimes hair in the wrong spot.
Brett Vesely
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
You know what I don't like now that they've brushed this up is. How do I say this Delicately? Stains. I Guess would be the best word in the ass crack region.
Brett Vesely
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
You know what I mean? Yeah. You can get that fixed now if you're gonna put it on camera. Go bleach those off.
Brett Vesely
I. I may sound bougie. Whatever. Non manicured women. When it gets a little like, yeah, I'm out now.
John Holmberg
That's no good.
Brady
Yeah.
Brett Vesely
When it's coming out of the. Before they take it all down and it's like coming out the side.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Yeah. If it's. If it's poking out, right.
Brett Vesely
Yeah, I'm out. Yeah.
John Holmberg
Like an arm out of window kind of thing.
Brett Vesely
Yeah. Because if she ain't taking care of that, what isn't? What else isn't she taking care of? I'm out.
John Holmberg
Yep, that's exactly right. Brett Brady. You. Nothing.
Brady
I just don't take the chance of running into that stuff.
John Holmberg
So I don't check it out.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
So.
Brady
But everyone. You know, the times that I've seen it. A handful of times.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
John Holmberg
All right.
Brady
It's overwhelming.
John Holmberg
Overwhelming.
Brady
Like there's so many. Until. I mean, the only times that I've done it is like you mentioned someone. I'm like, oh, I remember that name.
John Holmberg
Porn is overwhelming to you.
Brady
I just don't know it well enough to. What am I looking for? You know?
John Holmberg
Yeah, but that's you. That's where you learn.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
That's where you have to go through.
Brady
More time with it.
John Holmberg
Yeah. You got to spend more time.
Brady
It's like a video game to me.
John Holmberg
It is not like a video game. It's nothing at all.
Brady
I'm still trapped in the. In the snow.
John Holmberg
No, don't. There are no stages.
Brady
There is.
John Holmberg
You should be excellent at your part.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
You should be really good at your part. It's what arouses you that you struggle with. Because you don't.
Brady
I don't. I still don't struggle with the imagination.
John Holmberg
No. No. But you can't imagine how much you're missing that makes your imagination grow true. I mean, it might be something because, I mean, if I told you Star wars is cool and you're like, I imagine space to be very interesting, I'd be like, yeah, but you gotta watch Star Wars.
Brady
That's what I'm saying.
John Holmberg
Darth Vader's name. Never seen it. Then you got recommending a show on whatever.
Brett Vesely
Sure.
Brady
But that's.
John Holmberg
But again, by saying my imagination still works, I'm like, but you can get more for your imagination's banks.
Brady
Check out Johnny Sinus.
John Holmberg
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John Holmberg
Holmberg's Morning Sickness. I don't know how that happens. I don't know how you get through life without ever curiously seeking that. Is it guilt you do every now and then?
Brady
You said you did the curiosity.
John Holmberg
So you do watch it.
Brady
Like I said, the times I've done it.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Brady
Checking it out.
John Holmberg
But why didn't you stick with it?
Brady
I just don't. It just adds the. The whole process is kind of a pain.
John Holmberg
You're like pornhub.com yeah, pornhub.com not like this. Boom.
Brett Vesely
I mean, now it's maybe if you don't have a vpn.
John Holmberg
Right. The VPN thing. I will give you that. That became kind of a pain in the ass. And again, I would run on the idea of like, give the porn back. This is dumb. Like an election year if. If whoever's running against Hobbs has to lead with look, she's the big one for making. You have to go through a verification thing just so you can enjoy your day. But there are ways around that. That's shocking. Does Ronnie Ever. Look, do you know?
Brady
No, I don't.
John Holmberg
Maybe never asked her.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
You never knew if she's into it.
Brady
That's her thing.
John Holmberg
Yeah, but it could be your thing, too. Like the two of you together.
Brady
I'm pretty sure she doesn't.
John Holmberg
You don't? I think she likes porn.
Brady
No.
John Holmberg
Really? You're pretty sure?
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
You gotta ask questions. Let's go home and go.
Brady
Okay, I'm sure.
John Holmberg
Porn? You're positive?
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Because you've asked questions. Yeah, but I've asked.
Brady
You want to, you know, watch?
John Holmberg
Yeah, but maybe not with you. Some people aren't comfortable with another person.
Brady
I figured if she doesn't watch. Want to watch with me?
John Holmberg
Would you want to watch with her?
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Okay. But you don't want to watch by yourself, right?
Brady
Well, if no one else wants to watch with me.
John Holmberg
That's what I'm saying. So maybe she likes to watch it alone and not with you.
Brady
That could be, but she could say that.
John Holmberg
Well, you have to ask, though, when you started this conversation.
Brady
Well, I've asked her if she likes. Don't like it.
John Holmberg
This one. We make him uncomfortable on purpose. All right, you've gotten this. 2026. That's your resolution.
Brett Vesely
More porn.
John Holmberg
A little more porn. Get that amazing, fired up Willy Wonka. Get that imagination going. If you want to view paradise, simply look around and do it.
Brady
Look, it was a pretty amazing one during COVID when I had the headset on and where I was broadcasting from the room and said, put them on.
John Holmberg
Yeah, the VR show. Yeah. Yeah.
Brady
Unbelievable.
John Holmberg
You can't jump right from nothing to that, though. You have to be pretty versed in what's going on. That'll mess up a man's mind.
Brady
But the day we did it, it was.
John Holmberg
But he went in the other room.
Brady
I can't put that up again.
John Holmberg
You can't.
Brady
So real.
John Holmberg
That's what I'm saying. You can't just leap into space.
Brady
I just picture things like when you're talking about when you're. When you had the VR headsets on. And so I'm walking in.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah. You got to get over that. You got to get over the fact that it's.
Brady
Hey, everyone gets God.
John Holmberg
You're in fantasy land. You can't realize the reality that's happening. I. Nobody wants to be seen doing what they're doing with a VR headset on. That's crazy. But you got to just blank that from your mind that it's going on anyway. You're interesting. It's the fish tank. He likes we all know that. It's nine o'. Clock. We have our first Rock wars of the year. I think we're going to have to just go back to money. I think we just have to go back to making a bet on cash. And you have to try harder because, you know, Brady having sex with us, it's money. He's going to the sex doll thing. The lawyers put a stop to that. We're still trying to make that a thing. We should just do it and then let him get mad at us later. But that was two years ago. And then last year's bet, we had recitals where the winner was supposed to go to one of the recitals. I was supposed to go to Kirby's high school recitals. Thank God I won. But that was the sex doll here. So we got. I think we just have to go back to big cash. You know, we should make it weekly prizes. That's even better. How about that Rock wars rule? Did I win or do you win last?
Brady
I won.
John Holmberg
All right, you get to set a new rule. But I. May I suggest, my liege, that we do a cash prize each week.
Brett Vesely
Let me think about that.
John Holmberg
All right. You'd be killing it. You've won, like, two years in a row. And then it doesn't matter at the end.
Brett Vesely
So there's no big final payoff.
John Holmberg
Maybe at the end we do. That's up to you.
Brett Vesely
See, I don't know.
John Holmberg
All right? I didn't think about steak 44 or Durant's dinner for the whole crew at the end, but during the week, we do like, 10 bucks to $10 every week.
Brett Vesely
Oh, my God.
John Holmberg
Balance out. If he starts trying, we put $10 on it. This guy's gonna start studying music.
Brady
So it's from the. From the. So it'd be split by the two losers.
John Holmberg
Yeah, the winner gets 10 bucks from the two guys. Well, no, but end of the year, the losers. No, dead last pays Durant. You don't make the rules. Then start with. Start winning.
Brady
Okay.
John Holmberg
Start winning. This is a Bengal talking is what it is. We can't win. We don't know how.
Brady
That's against your policy. There can only be one winner. Super Bowl. That doesn't.
John Holmberg
There's only one winner and there's only one last place. Don't come in last.
Brady
Last place is never penalized.
John Holmberg
And dumbass, we do the last week where you can win 18 or 19 weeks.
Brady
Yeah, that's been working out pretty good the last couple years.
John Holmberg
Boy, the confidence level is low. So you can get an 18. You go ahead and win and hit an 18 and then you win the whole thing. And I guarantee you're not going to go. Guys, it's not fair. When you're getting your Durant meal, you'll be all. You'll be gloating and running around. I got it. I'm the winner.
Brady
You'd be.
John Holmberg
You'd be you. You will go the other way so long as you win. This works good.
Brady
I gotta get my John Gordon in here.
John Holmberg
No, you got. What do you mean he can pick you. You pick terrible songs.
Brady
We know how he picks.
John Holmberg
It's your fault. Well, then if we know, then you're in on it. You're. You have the same advantage as us.
Brady
You're. I gotta play better.
John Holmberg
You got.
Brady
It's even better on this thing.
John Holmberg
That's right. You can be mad at John Gordon.
Brady
No, no, no. It's a fair game.
Brett Vesely
Here we go.
John Holmberg
How's it unfair?
Brady
How is it unfair?
John Holmberg
Yes.
Brady
You get the emails.
John Holmberg
I don't use my emails for any of them.
Brady
Every time. The times that if I win.
John Holmberg
Brady, do you have email Texts are never picked. Brady, do you have. Do you have your. Well, that's not anybody's fault. It's random choice. Yeah. Do you have time you have email?
Brady
I do.
John Holmberg
All right. From now on bbogany akupd.com you can email your suggestions to Brady and then you can pick through those. It's just as fair as anything else because I don't even use the emails. There's times when I have somebody say the same.
Brady
We are limited on the. On the call. The phones are never.
John Holmberg
We don't use the phones. And you know how John Gordon picks. I do so cater to that.
Brady
It's more money.
John Holmberg
The only reason I'm saying that is because how. How is it unfair at all if we all have the exact same.
Brett Vesely
So you want John Gordon not to be an option.
Brady
Well, all right. I think it's even up. That's.
John Holmberg
How do you think it's not? Explain it to me. Talk me into it.
Brady
Because it's me against everyone else.
John Holmberg
It's me against everyone else.
Brady
Wants me to win.
John Holmberg
How is he have anything to do with it?
Brady
I get Toledoed.
John Holmberg
We've all been Toledo. I have to. Your songs are horrible almost all the time. That is not.
Brady
See. And here he comes.
John Holmberg
Not his fault.
Brady
I want you to not.
Eric
I really want you to win.
Dick Toledo
Don't understand.
Brady
No, you don't absolutely do. I never got. How do you want me to win when you go horrible and That's a good. And there's good choices.
John Holmberg
No, they're not. It's very rare.
Brady
It got to the point where it doesn't matter when I'm picking good choices.
John Holmberg
That's why we. Some. We got to put a little tariff on.
Brady
Hey, Pop. Pop. Good choice.
John Holmberg
Because going for the Chancellor.
Byron
Awful.
John Holmberg
I make awful choices sometimes. I admit it. You do it a lot.
Brady
All right, well, maybe I shouldn't play that. That's where it's unfair, then. I'm. I'm not a musicologist, like, neither you guys.
Eric
That's the one thing that you can hit on. Yes, but he's right.
John Holmberg
Play John Gordon. I'm not a musicologist. You have just as much knowledge.
Brady
All right, all right. Here's the thing.
John Holmberg
I'm not saying I'm.
Brady
I'm barking on the wrong parking up.
John Holmberg
The wrong tree, because all I asked.
Brady
Was, how's it evened up in this?
John Holmberg
All I'm saying is, how's it unfair? And you've given zero examples other than Toledo cheats you.
Brett Vesely
We've all been screwed with that. We've all been deleted at one point.
Brady
Well, you can't deny. I mean, that's fun. That's the fun of it. But John Gordon will favor you.
John Holmberg
No, he favors the music.
Brady
But the other thing is, you know, it's good because Brett most of the time will get good picks.
John Holmberg
Brett's won, like, the last five years. I know he doesn't cater. I'm not sitting there screaming that I won't do anything about this. I'm not saying it's uncle. He picks good songs. There you go. Get better. You're in.
Brady
Okay.
John Holmberg
The Bengals aren't very good. And you don't say, we want to play in a different league. Nothing's. Nothing's balanced against you. It's just got to choose better. And use your emails. If you have emails, Everybody email b.bogan.com.
Brett Vesely
You'Re right.
Eric
It's clearly not your fault. We have no idea who the f. Mac the Knife is, right?
John Holmberg
Oh, people don't know some of his songs because you come from a different time.
Brett Vesely
Cody's picking it. He says Brady's right. John Gordon should not be an option because he almost always picks you.
John Holmberg
He does not. When it comes to the tiebreaker, Brett wins every year. I am not getting any advantage from John Gordon because last year, John Gordon picked, like, 27 of the weeks. I guarantee, if you go back and.
Brady
Find out someone else pick, then somebody's.
John Holmberg
Got to come in and do it, and we Got to rely on that. He's the only one. So we can take him off the list. If you guys think it's unfair option, that's fine. We can go to the final call and just do three options. Yeah, we'll do final call, and they'll have John Gordon pick one through whatever trivia last year. Trivia was great. You got a couple of those. And nobody said, that's not fair. Nobody knows about brisket, and it was a brisket question. Sometimes you're gonna win them. Nothing about this is balanced against you. Except for no. Except for sometimes you make random wild things that don't really tie in, and we laugh at it. Cause it's very funny. Because sometimes it doesn't make any sense.
Brett Vesely
There's another one wants John Gordon eliminated.
John Holmberg
Well, that's up to you. You're the winner of last year. If you'd like to do that. If that's the new rule. He can't choose. That's fine. Then we can just. When we're running out of time, we'll just go to the last one.
Brett Vesely
This guy agrees with Brady.
John Holmberg
All right. Fair. But it isn't me. If you go back and look, statistically, I bet you he picked you more than me last year. I don't know. Damn.
Brett Vesely
Brady's getting sensitive, and he isn't necessarily wrong. John Gordon gotta go.
John Holmberg
All right.
Brett Vesely
He's no musicologist.
John Holmberg
We'll balance it. I'm fine with that. If you want to do that, John can pick the number between one and one less than it used to.
Eric
One in three or one, and those.
John Holmberg
Will be the ways we decide. Does that help you not feel?
Brady
So whatever you guys want to do, I mean, it's fair. I don't want to give any advantage.
John Holmberg
Discuss it again. What parts, what other parts can we change to make you feel more balanced?
Brady
Yeah, the John Gordon factor.
Brett Vesely
Okay, so John Gordon Gordon's outer picks.
John Holmberg
What else? Makes it feel like you are in a fair fight.
Brett Vesely
But he picks the number. But he doesn't pick. He can't pick the song is what you're saying.
John Holmberg
Okay, Right. What else?
Brady
That's about it.
John Holmberg
Okay, so now we're all fair. So. All right, go ahead. With that face and a little tiny baby frown.
Brady
No, it's fair.
John Holmberg
What else is unfair? Do you want a helper? Like a government helper?
Brady
No, no, no.
John Holmberg
Do you want Larry to come in and whisper in your ear? Do you want Toledo to be your teammate?
Brady
No, no.
John Holmberg
That's good. No, don't do this. Don't. No, we're not. I can tell by your face and eyes that we're not. What else is unfair?
Brady
Because by the way, on the category.
John Holmberg
This conversation is two losers.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Yeah. So I don't know. I'm not crying.
Brady
Yeah. So. But on the categories it's always been different. I mean I don't.
John Holmberg
You gotta win to pick the category.
Brady
It would be just in general, like sending it, but that's hard to do.
John Holmberg
You win, you pick your own category.
Eric
Go in that room and check your.
John Holmberg
Email during the break. The reason I can check it, the reason Brett won was cuz the categories he chooses, he's probably got something in his brain for.
Brady
Yeah, that's fine.
John Holmberg
You got a wind. All right. So is there a way you want to change the cat? You know, we're going to have to do just appease this and let him make the choices and then that way we can eliminate all this crying. There's something. Something. Check out homework's morning sickness podcast@98kupd.com Bloomberg's Morning Sickness. So he.
Brett Vesely
Every week.
John Holmberg
Ten bucks every week.
Eric
That's what we're gonna make some on the scale for you.
John Holmberg
Yeah. How can we weigh it in your.
Brady
I don't know. God, if I have to pick a subject it is.
John Holmberg
We did, by the way, last year.
Brady
I mean I have no shot. Here we go, rainy one. Next week's gonna be.
John Holmberg
So you'd like us to stop saying we'd like us. You are people decide. Fair enough. Well, no, we can also make choices. But you would like the trash talk to stop in your terrible topic choices because you do it like two seconds before.
Brady
Well, it got to the point didn't matter what it does.
John Holmberg
Well, that's something. That's a baby fit. Because that's.
Brady
No, because as far as everything that you're saying, it's off topic.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Brady
Clearly all of you have won with something that's not even close to the topic.
Brett Vesely
Huh.
Brady
Like a song that was just. I don't care. That's just a great song.
John Holmberg
But that's nothing to do with. There's usually a. That's not true. The. The topic. I'll give it to him. He's better than I am. But Brett's better than I am at finding a topic that fits the. The theme. He's very good at that. And the thing is you got to do to sell it. Otherwise we just pick like, you know, smash it. I don't care about the thing. Here's a great song. But that would. Nobody would vote for that. Doesn't make any sense. So, people, the reason it wins is because usually it makes sense.
Eric
John, your thumb is on the scale because you're always late, which means you always go to John Gordon because you know he's gonna pick.
John Holmberg
Then we will go to a random caller when we're late. And he's right, I am always late. More late right now.
Brady
And it's always been the policy.
John Holmberg
Look, you're not wrong, but maybe if all of us were men, I could have gone a break a long time ago. See what I did there?
Brett Vesely
And there's another one. Brady's right, homies. He always picks Juno. He does not just this is what the emails are.
John Holmberg
Juno's lost last year. So if I've got that. If I've got that balance, it didn't work.
Brett Vesely
Come on, Brady. You know the phrase nut up or shut up?
John Holmberg
Thank you.
Eric
Brady, I love you, but if you could remember the rock and rock wars, I'd vote for you personally a lot more.
John Holmberg
And you don't have to go rock. You just go thematically what you want or that's what pop songs. But there's no one to blame but you people.
Brady
I don't blame that. Oh, okay. Category of picking other stuff. I think John Gordon's a good move.
John Holmberg
In the right direction. And then I get the. Brady's being a little baby. Yeah, from Dave. How about all of your wins count as three?
Brady
No, you don't need to handicap it.
John Holmberg
Well, you wanted to handicap. You said it's already handicapped. You did. You said it's not in your favor. You said it's not.
Brady
It's not.
John Holmberg
Well, then it's got to be handicapped.
Brady
Okay, then Brett's is what? Worth what? That's up to you. 1. I don't need that. The John Gordon thing is fine.
John Holmberg
Okay, so that's all you need. And now it's dead fair. What's the matter with you? Is it dead fair?
Brady
Yeah, let's go.
John Holmberg
Is it dead fair?
Brady
Sure.
John Holmberg
Are we square?
Brady
Oh, are we clear?
John Holmberg
Don't do that. That is not a person. Go. Yeah, we're even. That's you being a. You're being a little baby.
Brady
Oh, yeah, that's good.
John Holmberg
We're 100 across the board, no complaints. Fair. Square and fair and square.
Brady
There's no voter fraud.
John Holmberg
There isn't.
Brady
I know this.
John Holmberg
Okay, well don't do that. Then fix it. Don't complain. Fix it. What can be fixed to make you comfortable?
Brady
It can't be fixed.
John Holmberg
Why?
Brady
It's just it's way it is. It's chance by winning a lot of the factor. Yeah.
John Holmberg
Five years in a row.
Brady
But that fixes it a lot. Yeah.
John Holmberg
So no John Gordon, you think is. Is balancing it so I don't win as much even though I have not won for years.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
And still to make sense. But if that's what you want. Okay, Brady.
Brady
How about am I wrong? Am I wrong on the process?
Brett Vesely
A lot of listeners are saying, okay.
John Holmberg
Yeah, but again, we're getting buried with those. We already eliminated them. But bottom. Bottom line is if that's what you want to fix, he's still going to win because I haven't won with this massive advantage.
Brady
All right, then Toledo can be mums the word on sound. Hey, I Okay, I gotta say something. It's a bad sign.
John Holmberg
You don't make a comment another.
Brady
Never do that on bread.
John Holmberg
I do too. When he comes in there in the room.
Eric
Yeah, he does.
John Holmberg
I sell my song to him and he goes, oh, I just don't care, buddy. I don.
Brady
Say it on the mic.
John Holmberg
He doesn't find out about.
Brady
No chance this week.
John Holmberg
Yours is usually last.
Brett Vesely
There's no.
Brady
No one else has said that since.
John Holmberg
This is Eric back. No, that's Brady.
Brett Vesely
There's another one right there.
John Holmberg
Oh, here we go. Remember the first half of the year last year Brady was in the lead because he went to the last caller and I voted for Brady four times. Remember what I said? He's crying.
Eric
Brett didn't pick up his first win until May 12th.
John Holmberg
Yeah. And then he just slaughtered us.
Brett Vesely
Tyler, just call it John Gordon wars and let's get on with it.
John Holmberg
Yeah, let's let John Gordon do it.
Eric
Guy says, how about this? Last place should pick the category. But then we got to pick all who's.
John Holmberg
Whoever came in last gets to pick this week's.
Eric
And then they get to pick the topic that the winner doesn't have an advantage the next.
Brady
That's not bad.
John Holmberg
So it's like the draft. The worst one of the week gets next week's topic and hopefully can come into it was a little thought.
Eric
Yeah.
John Holmberg
And says, okay, I've got something here.
Brady
Yeah.
Eric
And then you have the whole week.
John Holmberg
I like that. Who came in last? Is that fair winner of last year, Brett. With all the fair unfair advantages that I had and still lost.
Brett Vesely
This guy's taking Brady side. Holmberg stalls and rock wars to get Gordon to pick him instead of the listeners. Gordon picks John 90 of the time.
John Holmberg
If that Brady.
Brett Vesely
Brett mildly alluded to that fact.
John Holmberg
If that's true, why do I lose Every year.
Brett Vesely
Well, we don't always go to John Gordon.
John Holmberg
Oh, so even it up.
Brady
It came close.
John Holmberg
Oh, so it evens up, which is called balance. Fairness.
Brady
Yeah. For you.
John Holmberg
Okay. Oh, no. For everybody.
Brady
No, because you were. He wins. Winning. So it's leading by law.
John Holmberg
So no matter who picks.
Brady
But I think this year must have been a horrible year. This last year.
Brett Vesely
But I didn't get picked.
John Holmberg
For me.
Brett Vesely
I didn't get my first win till like May or something.
John Holmberg
What about. It was a horrible year? For me.
Brady
It was.
John Holmberg
You made a lot of poor choices.
Brady
I think something like that. Yeah.
Eric
You had four wins before May and you ended with five.
John Holmberg
Ouch. Yeah, that's your fault.
Brady
So the second half, I just was.
John Holmberg
I. Yeah, you were not a second half player.
Brady
It's like Fourth of July week.
John Holmberg
Basketball. And he screwed up. Injuries. We'll blame injuries. All right, fair enough. Rock Horse has been settled for 20, 26. All right, so dollars a week.
Brett Vesely
So the rules are no John Gordon pick.
John Holmberg
Right.
Brett Vesely
And the loser picks next week's topic.
John Holmberg
And 10 bucks a week to the winner from the two losers. It's a $20 win every week.
Brett Vesely
Why don't we. Why don't we just put like a. Why don't we just put a pot together at the end? The winner gets it. So like we. We all throw in. The loser throws in five bucks.
Brady
You know, whatever.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Well, then that would just be like however much $10 is to $30 a week is till the end of the year. And somebody might as well just make it about money. If it's 10 bucks a week, it'll balance out.
Brady
Yeah.
Brett Vesely
Oh, okay.
John Holmberg
For at least you and I. He's not gonna get any. Yes. Here we go.
Brady
What I'm talking about.
John Holmberg
It's because we're better. How is it unfair for me to trash talk? I didn't. That gave me no advantage. I just gave you a little guff. That's all you do. It's right. I do it a lot and it's guff. It doesn't change the rules. Of course it does.
Brady
It slopes. You remember?
Eric
How does it. He's the best in the room at trash talk.
John Holmberg
Yeah. How does that give me an advantage in the game? Because you're so horrible.
Brady
How do I. I'm just horrible at it.
John Holmberg
I know. I said so. You heard me. I don't want. I'm not placing ideas in your head. We're just bad at it.
Eric
Guys, guys, guys. The biggest rule to balance the scales in Brady's favor. Let him use drowning Pools, bodies. Every week.
John Holmberg
Wow. What if you had the same song every week? How often you would win?
Brady
There'd be more wins than last year.
John Holmberg
I mean, that's impossible to get last.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
See what I'm doing here?
Brett Vesely
Now people are calling for Toledo to do a statistical analysis on how many times John Gordon.
John Holmberg
Again.
Brady
Doesn't matter.
Eric
You don't have time today. But I'll do it.
John Holmberg
But no matter what, I did not win.
Brett Vesely
I'm just. I'm just reading this off.
John Holmberg
So even with this massive advantage, I lost. So where's the advantage?
Eric
Such a disadvantage from May to December that you not only negated John Gordon.
John Holmberg
Four and a half months of Brett sitting quietly and then he just crushed us. Had something to do with my advantage. And we had John Gordon picked just as much after May as we did before.
Brady
No, he was missing a lot of times.
John Holmberg
Oh, was he? Okay, yeah, he kept track of that.
Brett Vesely
All right, boys, this is starting to sound like the View.
Brady
Move on.
John Holmberg
Jesus.
Eric
Wouldn't it be bad bringing all her bitchy friends?
John Holmberg
Exact. I'm not bitching. Listen to one.
Brett Vesely
All right, so that. So for today, then, Brady picks.
John Holmberg
That's right. Brady has the choice. Yeah.
Brett Vesely
Okay. So it's your choice.
John Holmberg
This will be great.
Eric
So the guy.
Brady
There we go.
Brett Vesely
You gotta start him up already.
Brady
So the guy that's.
Eric
That's part of a show that's hosted by America's Sweetheart, doesn't understand how he has an advantage.
John Holmberg
I don't. I lose.
Brady
How about Toledo can play instead of me all.
John Holmberg
No, that's because then we gotta rely on you getting all the stuff off the computer. We're here till Friday, doing one game. I'm getting ready for the big battle. Ten bucks a week. I'm serious. All right. Rock wars is coming up.
Eric
Dexter says you realize the genius in what Brady's doing.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
Eric
Oh, he's playing Currying Sympathy.
John Holmberg
He's playing the victim. And we all think that's a move, but I don't know if that's working.
Brett Vesely
Because a lot of people are.
John Holmberg
Yeah, they're killing him. You're not gonna read those? You see all those tears? Rockworse. It's serious now. We mean it. It's not. And it's all on Durant's at the end of the year. And then 10 bucks a week. I think that's pretty good and reasonable, right? I don't know.
Brett Vesely
That menu looks pretty expensive, but okay.
John Holmberg
So don't lose. We're all looking at the same menu. There's, like, Toledo, pay for it. All.
Brett Vesely
Yeah, there you go.
John Holmberg
There you go. And we got a count weeks where there's a Toledo.
Brett Vesely
What do you mean there's a Toledo?
John Holmberg
Well, how about this? Every time someone gets toledoed, the $10 drops to five for that person.
Eric
I'm fine with that. But then you got to give me a cue mark and tell me where to put.
John Holmberg
You got to be more diligent about where you got it.
Eric
You got to know your. You got to know your stuff.
John Holmberg
Okay, fair enough. Fine. But still could happen that you're overlapping or two things that's on me or.
Brett Vesely
Didn'T plug it in or whatever.
John Holmberg
You screw something up, you get toledoed. If you screw it up, that person gets a $5 that's fair discount. Nobody's rooting for Toledo to help them out.
Brett Vesely
Goddamn rules.
Eric
Yes, John, I know you have a deep love of all the recent RA memes, but boy, do I love me some pouty passive aggressive.
John Holmberg
Me too. I actually, I. I feed that. I enjoy that too.
Brady
And anytime you can dip into my pocket, squirm about money being trans.
John Holmberg
Look, I get called a Jew a lot, but let's be honest, around here.
Brady
That nose just swells.
John Holmberg
Oh, it gets all right.
Brett Vesely
See?
John Holmberg
Oh, you can talk trash now too.
Brady
Someone can't take.
John Holmberg
No, I can take it all. Please. I can take it all day. Hold on a second.
Brady
And Bret.
John Holmberg
You just C word cried about how everybody makes fun of you, and you decide that that's your pattern back.
Brady
Here we go.
John Holmberg
It's on. It's on. It's on. You asked me to be nicer to you. Yeah, that's right. You said you gotta be nicer to me because it makes me feel sad in my belly. I'm like, okay, I'll do that. And then you throw a bomb.
Brady
It doesn't work.
John Holmberg
All right, Netanyahu, it's on.
Brady
Trash talking doesn't work.
John Holmberg
That's what you said. It don't take it. I don't. I take it all day. That's you.
Brady
You're describing yourself.
John Holmberg
You're describing yourself.
Brady
K me?
John Holmberg
You take it. And then for 24 years, just playing, you take it. And then you just. And then you get so wrong to do. And then you do it. You're like, oh, he got upset. You get upset. Act like that's normal.
Brady
I'm all for it the first time.
John Holmberg
Bring it on, baby. Bring it on.
Brady
You remember what you told.
John Holmberg
We want to trash talk for real On.
Brady
On Eric's thing when someone brought that up when Eric would bit. You're like. Well, it's my show.
John Holmberg
That's right.
Brady
Make the rules.
John Holmberg
Damn right. But I'm letting you make the rules.
Dick Toledo
But that was then.
Eric
He hasn't made.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I'm letting you make the goddamn rules all you want.
Brady
Oh, we did. Wait. I mean, beautiful John Gordon. I don't. I don't care.
John Holmberg
Oh, you care, all right. Tom just voted for you, Brad.
Brett Vesely
I'm gonna write.
John Holmberg
I can't listen to this anymore. I feel so sorry for.
Brady
I don't want it to be swaying the other way either.
John Holmberg
It's too late. You already pulled that card. You pulled the liberal lady card. You're gonna be that guy. Now you're marching around with your pink.
Eric
Hair so we can Write this down. 1.
John Holmberg
No, you keep all that together.
Eric
The new.
John Holmberg
This is late.
Eric
Yes, I know. We'll do it off the air.
John Holmberg
All right. We'll get them off the air. Yeah. It's 9. 20. Rock Wars. And it means something. It's 98. It's not weird.
Brady
It's pretty cool, actually.
John Holmberg
No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.
Episode: Jan 7, 2026 - Listener Research, Swelling Debate, and Rock Wars Rules
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Brett Vesely, Dick Toledo
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This episode is a typical rollercoaster of "Holmberg's Morning Sickness," where the crew blends outrageous humor, listener engagement, raunchy observations, and a heated debate over the fairness of their ongoing "Rock Wars" contest. Two main themes dominate:
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If you want an episode with wild tangents—sex, satellites, satire, and the most transparently competitive game show rule-making on Arizona radio—this HMS entry is a perfect ride. Brady’s plaintive “salty” streak provides an ongoing punchline, and the group’s capacity to make even the smallest issue hysterical elevates the episode.