01-12-26 - Gov Katie Hobbs Stops By Ahead Of Her State Of The State Address - Entertainment Drill - MON - Timothy Busfield Facing Sexual Impropriety Allegations - Bob Weir Died

Summary

Podcast Summary: Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – January 12, 2026

Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness brings comedic commentary and irreverent banter on current events in Arizona, featuring a special (faux) drop-in from Governor Katie Hobbs ahead of her State of the State address. The hosts also dive into recent entertainment news, music industry trends, and their signature satirical riffing on pop culture and local affairs.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Governor Katie Hobbs’ Visit & State of the State Jokes

Timestamps: 02:04–06:29

• The “Governor Hobbs” segment is an in-studio comedy bit, featuring a playful impersonation of Katie Hobbs.
• The hosts exchange witty banter on New Year’s resolutions, erotic jokes involving “grandmas,” and poke fun at gubernatorial speeches.
• Hobbs quips about legislative priorities, humorously proposing to make “sex with grandmas” illegal for specific show members:
  “I’m gonna do the State of the Union today, and I’m gonna make it illegal for everybody to have sex with grandmas with the letters M and Y and T in their name.” (03:38, Katie Hobbs)
• “Hobbs” receives a jokey poster from the crew, riffs on State of the State topics (education, elder care, infrastructure), and teases about gubernatorial mansion décor.
• The hosts express skepticism and comic cynicism toward Arizona's politics:

  “State of the state today. And I don’t even know what that means... Like she’s just going to come out and go yeah. Mexico. Right. Drugs.” (06:01, John Holmberg)

• The group jokes about sign language interpreters, recalling local TV staple “Greg Maddox in transition.”

2. The Rise of AI-generated Music (Entertainment Drill)

Timestamps: 09:10–10:34

• Discussion of a Deezer/Ipso survey on public perception of AI music:

  “97% of people can’t tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human made music.” (09:26, Brady)

• The scale of AI music production is noted – 50,000 new tracks per day now uploaded to the platform (09:51).
• John Holmberg expresses concern and resignation about AI's impact:

  “Music ends in five years as we know it.” (10:07, John Holmberg)

• Anecdotes on creators feeding music ideas into AI generators.

3. Entertainment News Roundup

Timestamps: 10:34–17:08

Celebrity Legal Troubles

• Daniel Stern (actor known for “Home Alone”): Reportedly cited for solicitation of prostitution, but only ticketed (10:40).
• Timothy Busfield: Facing sexual impropriety allegations involving minors on the set of “The Cleaning Lady” (11:12).
  • Busfield claims allegations are revenge from parents after their children’s songs were cut from the show:

    “…the parents decided to make these kids out loud. Victims of Timothy Busfield sexual advances in order to get revenge and ruin his life.” (12:57, John Holmberg)

  • Melissa Gilbert, Busfield’s wife, previously made headlines after criticizing Megyn Kelly over comments related to Jeffrey Epstein (13:25).
  • Hosts argue about the plausibility of abuse allegations being fabricated versus real.

Notable Death: Bob Weir of Grateful Dead

• Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir passes at 78 (14:54).
  • Hosts react with a mix of sarcasm and relief:

    “To the Grateful Dead people, it’s over. Go home… I hate hippies.” (15:34, John Holmberg)

• Jokes about John Mayer, Fish, and the “end of touring” for jam bands.

Britney Spears Refuses to Perform in U.S.

• Britney claims “extremely sensitive reasons” for not performing in the U.S., considers international performances instead (16:36).
• Hosts humorously speculate on her rationale and question the logic, joking about how the internet would reveal anything anyway.

4. Nostalgic Tangents and Old Marker-Smelling Stories

Timestamps: 17:17–18:22

• The crew reminisces about childhood habits, notably getting high off markers and glue, blending nostalgia with signature irreverence.

  “That is an intoxicating smell. Airplane glue. And that. My mom and I sniffed airplane glue together once.” (18:22, John Holmberg)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the State of the State address:
  “The State of the Union is good, but there’s still some problems in Arizona.”
  (04:21, “Katie Hobbs”)

• On AI music’s impact:
  “Music ends in five years as we know it. That’s… yeah, that’s the end of that. It’s not even an instrument.”
  (10:07, John Holmberg)

• On Bob Weir’s death / Grateful Dead fans:
  “To the Grateful Dead people, it’s over. Go home your hippie nonsense. Trash.”
  (15:34, John Holmberg)

• On childhood marker-sniffing:
  “I would color on poster board and just smell the poster board floating around the house.”
  (17:53, John Holmberg)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Time | |-----------------------------------------|--------------| | Gov. Katie Hobbs segment / Banter | 02:04–06:29 | | Entertainment Drill (AI Music) | 09:10–10:34 | | Daniel Stern & Timothy Busfield News | 10:34–14:47 | | Bob Weir Death & Deadhead Riffs | 14:54–16:29 | | Britney Spears Announcement | 16:36–17:09 | | Childhood reminiscing (markers/glue) | 17:17–18:22 |

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Tone & Style

• The overall mood is irreverent, edgy, and playful, mixing news with local color, dark humor, and self-deprecation.
• Satire and sarcasm are hallmarks, especially when discussing local politics and pop culture.
• The hosts riff off each other seamlessly, maintaining a quick-paced, conversational tone.

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Summary for Listeners

If you missed this episode, expect a blend of satirical Arizona political jabs, eyebrow-raising entertainment news, and unserious hot takes on celebrity scandals and music industry shifts. The hosts don’t shy away from pushing boundaries, so come ready for snark and rapid-fire jokes.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

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[D]

You still governor?

[C]

Governor Hobbs is here. What? I don't know.

[E]

Hey, you guys. What's going on?

[D]

Hey, Katie.

[E]

Hi, Brad.

[D]

Hi, Brad. Hi, Katie.

[E]

Hi, Toledo. Hi, Katie and others.

[C]

Welcome back, Katie.

[D]

Thanks.

[C]

Good.

[E]

Happy New Year, you guys.

[C]

Um.

[E]

Hi, Brad.

[C]

Hi.

[D]

How are.

[E]

Remember the talk earlier this morning about banging grandmas? And you were like, yeah, I'd do that. Yeah, we know.

[C]

Come on.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

I'm gonna do the State of the Union today, and I'm gonna make it illegal for everybody to have sex with grandmas with the letters M and Y and T in their name. Don't do it, Brad.

[A]

Hey, wait a minute.

[E]

You gotta find a way around it. I guess I'll be around if you.

[D]

Hey, wait, wait, wait.

[A]

What?

[D]

We got you something for the new year.

[E]

Oh, it's a poster.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Of who?

[D]

Of certain member of the show.

[E]

It's a poster. Friend.

[D]

It's me. Oh, no, you're not in that one. Sorry, dude.

[E]

Yeah, no. Cause it's wet. Cause now you would have been. Wait a minute. Like, it was covered in sand. Whenever I start to get excited and I shouldn't, I just think of Brady. Like he's that oil stop into, like, a hourglass. It's just sand pouring out of my little tight hole.

[D]

Which one?

[E]

The one with Sam's in the Brady cot. My nickname for Brett is Katrina Cassie Floods me. I like that one. Brady. I like that a lot.

[A]

What about Brady's nickname?

[E]

Sahara?

[D]

Enjoy the poster. Yeah.

[E]

Brady, we were talking no Gravity day in August. I don't think you have to worry.

[D]

Good.

[E]

You'll be all right. Don't worry about it, Brett. You have to worry. I have to. I have to tie you down to something. Oh, wow.

[D]

Can you put up a poster like that in the governor's mansion of Brett?

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[E]

The State of the Union is good, but there's still some problems in Arizona.

[A]

What's up?

[E]

Well, one is that the elder care is too good and we need to get rid of a few things. So I'm calling for the eradication of all people whose names rhyme with Palaya. Oh, my God. I just got this in. The world's gonna end, Brett.

[D]

Uh oh.

[E]

You have to have sex with that fat granny.

[D]

Or me.

[E]

Who is it? Mathias or me?

[C]

I plead the fifth.

[E]

Anyway, you can listen to my State of the state today at 2.

[D]

Prime time.

[E]

My poster of Brett behind me. And there's gonna be. It's probably gonna look like it was in the rain. It's gonna treat it like a dark.

[A]

All wrinkled and stuff.

[E]

Oh, it's gonna be all wrinkly and moist. Speaking of wrinkly and moist. How's Mathias anyway? Go Bears. Yeah, I gotta go. State of the State looks great.

[D]

Thanks for coming in.

[C]

Hey.

[D]

Bye, Gaty. Okay.

[E]

Bye, Brad.

[C]

She likes you.

[A]

She didn't like Brady too much.

[C]

Who? What? Yeah. Not a fan. She just passed me a note that said she'd have sex with those grannies before Brady.

[D]

I was just gonna say you're on the list of grannies. I didn't want to tell her my choice when you gave it to Brett.

[C]

Oh yeah. No, you don't do that. Yeah. She likes the Granny.

[D]

Granny.

[C]

It's 9:49. Yeah. State of the state today. And I don't even know what that means. Like she's just going to come out and go yeah. Mexico.

[D]

Right.

[C]

Right. Drugs.

[D]

Right.

[C]

ICE agents won't ever more houses that money.

[A]

She'll get her crayons out.

[C]

Yeah, exactly. Freeways. Yeah, that's. I don't know what's going to education. It'd just be the same things all over again. But she'll do her thing and then probably say something about trans and there'll be a sign language guy there and I don't know why he's even watching tv. I don't be there.

[A]

Is Greg Maddox in transition still around?

[C]

I haven't seen Greg Maddox in transition for a long time, but I used to love watching Greg Maddox in transition doing the sign language for Governor Ducey. We'll see. But. And then the other one was Linda from Sesame street when they'd swap out remember they get card have to switch sign language. People like if the speech goes on for like 20 more minutes, their fingers start hurting. Anyway, we got an entertainment drill coming up in just a moment. State of the state is good. It's 98. What? 98. No way. Hey, it's John and Brett from the morning sickness. And the nightmare of the holidays are behind us. And now it's time to treat yourself in January is the perfect time to fresh start everything with a new system. There's only one place to go do that. Quality car stereo. Upgrade your ride with better sound, smarter tech and service you can trust.

[A]

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[C]

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[D]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

Oh, we'll go late. But I'm saying, like, we've never been this early at this time. Like, usually we're already like 10 minutes after 10. This is. I'm killing it today because Brett ruined everything with that. We already have the. Katie already hung the poster of Brett. Yeah, I'll post it. Put it up on Insta Face. It's gonna be great. Is Schwartz in?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, that's it. All right for this?

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah, it's in the book.

[A]

It should be in the book.

[C]

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[A]

That's on you.

[D]

It is?

[C]

I don't think that's right. But that's good. May the Schwartz be with you. That's exactly. I'm sure he hasn't heard that every day of his life, but thank you to the Schwartz Laser Ice Center. Brady. Entertain me.

[D]

Deezer. Ipso survey on music. AI music. It's the first giant survey on AI music. They basically conducted it across eight countries and 9,000 people.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

And it found that 97% of people can't tell the difference between fully AI generated and human made music.

[C]

You can't. Who can? Like. The only reason I know is because I know for a fact no one made Angry Chair by Allison Chains a soul song. So it would have to be AI but if you went and said, here's a song. Long lost Alison Chainsong. And it's. You wouldn't know.

[A]

No.

[D]

Also revealed that roughly 50,000 fully AI generated tracks are now uploaded every day to the platform, accounting for 34 of a daily delivery.

[C]

Wait, 50,000 every day?

[D]

Every day.

[C]

Music ends in five years as we know it. That's. Yeah, that's the end of that. It's not even an instrument. I told you about that girl that said she. She sent over the meditation thing.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

On the. And I asked her. I'm like, are you playing the instrument? She goes, no, I just fed it into an AI generator and then got this and this and this and then played with that. I'm like, that's pretty clever. That's how you use it as an instrument.

[D]

Daniel. Daniel Stern. You know, the Wet Bandit Harry from Home Alone.

[C]

Oh, this is not good.

[D]

Was cited by the police for soliciting prostitution. He was caught at a hotel in Camarillo, California, trying to hire an escort. On December 10, he was arrested, but he was only given a ticket.

[C]

Was she of age?

[D]

It doesn't report anything that I see.

[C]

That nothing bad wasn't.

[D]

Yeah, okay. Just the fact that it was solicitation.

[C]

Right. But Timothy Busfield, however different, that's the.

[D]

Other celebrity being accused of behaving badly a little bit.

[C]

And he's married to Melissa Gilbert from Little House on the Prairie. That's some ginger in that house.

[D]

Is married to.

[C]

No, no, no, no. Timothy Busfield.

[D]

You know, Poindexter.

[C]

Yeah, poindexter.

[D]

Revenge nerds, 30 something. The west wing. He was charged with sexually abusing two boys on the New Mexico set show called the Cleaning Lady.

[C]

That's not a sentence, but we'll get it. We figured.

[D]

The set of the show.

[C]

Yeah, set of the show. Not the New Mexico set show instead of the show. Yeah, there you go.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You were gonna say. That's what it says. But we caught you. You're good.

[D]

They're twin brothers. He's saying this is a revenge deal because there's songs on it. And he basically cut them out of the program. And the parents got upset because they're.

[C]

No longer part of the way simply by saying, in the entertainment industry, we're going to cut your part from the movie. They immediately went to their parents, and their parents said, we'll show him he molested you, too. That's his story.

[D]

Well, listen. Yeah. He's talking about. They've been working together. They were friends with the kids. They've given them gifts. I saw. I also saw the. Or heard the phone call when they were interviewing Melissa Gilbert was in the background during the police interview, going over the thing.

[C]

Right. But the parent. You're saying that the parent story is.

[D]

Busfield reportedly told the police that the boy's parents may have been looking for revenge because their songs were replaced on the show. Song His.

[C]

But his story is that the parents decided to make these kids out loud. Victims of Timothy Busfield sexual advances in order to get revenge and ruin his life.

[D]

That their income was cut.

[C]

No, I know, but okay, but that's part of the business you're in.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Timothy Busfield getting accused of sexually molesting.

[D]

That's what he's going with.

[C]

That's. He's got to come up with a better story.

[D]

And remember this past November, Melissa went off on social media after conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly suggested that being into 15 year olds didn't make Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile.

[C]

Now both things can be true at once. I don't blame Melissa Gilbert.

[D]

You can see it. But Melissa has deactivated her social media.

[C]

Sure you don't. Most pedophiles aren't coming home going, oh, what a tough day of pedophiling today, honey. How are you? Like, he kept it quiet from Melissa. But if that's his story, that it was revenge, that. And if he's right, any parents that would do that to their kids lives just to get Timothy Bossfield in trouble.

[D]

And he's been working with him since they were 7 years old to 11.

[A]

I forgot who he was until you mentioned Revenge of the Nerds.

[C]

Yeah, he's Poindexter, right?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And then he was in Field of Dreams and he did a ton. 30 something. Yeah. All right, don't do the song. But yeah, he. He's been around forever and he's a dirty ginger. So there's a possibility he's criminal.

[A]

But proven your point again.

[C]

Yeah, but I don't think that's a good cover. That the parents would ever use their. I don't know many parents that would ever use their kids like that.

[D]

Sad if it is.

[C]

If that's true. If he's right, that's horrible.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

If he's wrong, it's still there.

[D]

Was going on for four years to le.

[C]

You're not allowed to write with that marker anymore. I know the whole room. I'm high as a kite.

[D]

Well, maybe this will keep you high and you can. You won't be so sad. But we lost a legend in the rock and roll business. Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir died this week at the age of 78. Good.

[A]

B O O H O O so is it over?

[D]

Finally be the end.

[C]

Is it over touring?

[B]

God, I hope.

[C]

Is John Mayer gonna do like one more final salute with that drummer and then we're done with this?

[D]

Oh my God.

[C]

Is Fish gonna show?

[D]

Fish is going to take their place? Well, yeah, who else? Who's the keyboard guy that would play with him too?

[C]

I don't know. I don't care.

[D]

It's on you, dude.

[C]

To the Grateful Dead people, it's over. Go home your hippie nonsense. Trash. When that news broke, I text the guys in the band for Night of the singing dead 2026. No, a picture of him. And I said, we're ignoring this. And then Chris the Bas is like, a thousand percent. I hate the Grateful that. I'm like, if you hate him, you hate him passionately. I'm not.

[D]

Hornsby is who I was thinking.

[C]

Yeah, he's fine. I'd rather watch him do things by himself. But no Grateful Dead. That's over it, guys. The witch is dead. We don't have to deal with it ever again.

[A]

I think Mickey Hart might still be.

[C]

No, we've got to get rid of one more.

[D]

Oh.

[C]

I hate them more than Jimmy Buffett. By a lot. Yeah, not a day.

[A]

Mickey hart's still alive. 82.

[D]

And Phil Lesh, too, maybe, because he's got Phil Lish and friends in there touring.

[C]

Fine. Get that. Turn that hippie nonsense off. I hate hippies.

[D]

Britney Spears says she'll never perform in the US Again because of extremely sensitive reasons.

[C]

Extremely sensitive reasons.

[D]

But she hopes to perform outside the.

[C]

US with her son and the whole country. She's got the reasons. No matter where she goes. This sensitivity lives.

[D]

But she can do it outside of the U.S. right?

[C]

And we'll never find out about it through the Internet or anything. So she'll go to Canada, maybe, and show us.

[D]

It's a good question.

[C]

Yeah. How far outside of the United States? Seriously, throw that marker away. Is everybody else getting high? It's brutal.

[D]

Capped. Oh, it's capped.

[C]

It's capped. You just wrote one thing. Yeah, man. Oh, man.

[D]

That's a deuce.

[C]

That's a strong one. I haven't smelled. I want to smell it for hours.

[D]

It reminds you of being a kid.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Reminds me of my dad busting and taking the marker away from me, getting screamed at. Your dad did that? Oh, I had one of those giant ones. Yeah. Sitting in the middle of the room, huffing. What the hell is this? I remember the first. Just hitting that thing like nobody's business. What the hell are you doing? The whole room stinks. And I would color on poster board and just smell the poster board floating around the house.

[D]

He's got sketches of men.

[C]

I wasn't drawing anything. Trust me. It was just. Well, I mean, kind of. It's just big black blobs is what it was, but.

[D]

Oh, careful.

[C]

You know what I'm saying?

[A]

So did Dan.

[C]

Yeah. That was what? He's wrong. What is he drawing there? Just big long lines. Big black lines. I knew it. Yeah. And it's reminded me of that. He got so mad at me. Losers do that kind of stuff. Sniffing glue and markers. Anyway, it's 1107 work. Getting high.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Off the markers. No, I want to do it now. That is an intoxicating smell. Airplane glue. And that. My mom and I sniffed airplane glue together once.

[D]

Bonding moment.

[C]

Yeah. We were building a boat. Airplane. We're building a model. A model boat. And I'm like, this stuff smells good. And she goes. And then I was like. I smelled it. She goes, you can't do that. It'll make you dizzy. And then she did it. And we both did it. We were looking at each other like, this is great. Yeah. She didn't stop me at all. Indiana and sniff glue with your pants. Pretty normal. Oh, so good. God, I haven't smelled that. Well, Larry's coming up next. We'll get him. He's not. He's impervious to that. Nothing gets him high anymore. Larry's coming in here in just a little bit. He's going to be nice to you. Give you more chances to win concert tickets. Just about everything you could imagine. We're done. Ghost dealers. We'll see you tomorrow in the morning. Sickness most powerful rocket station. It's out of control now. 98, can you PT.