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Host
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John
We're having these philosophical. I should have never brought Elon's talk up this morning, but man, oh man. And here we are talking about all the things that are coming and, you know, with the technology and all the things that we can get used to in the future. And Elon says, don't save your money anymore. And there's no reason they'll be. In 10 years time, the elimination of need and the abundance of everything will be in front of us. And meanwhile, all I'm seeing on my emails is, hey, the app's broken. Like, we, we can't fix that. We're we. It's done. But yeah, it's an interesting thing, and we talked about it really early this morning, but Elon Musk went on and on about basically saying.
Brady
The potential.
John
Yeah, in 10, 12 years, you're not going to have to stock money for a retirement because AI will create an abundance of all things. An abundance of all things. We can't. It doesn't make sense. But the robots are going so fast. He also threw out a stat in a different thing. I was reading that, I don't know if this is accurate or not or if I'm quoting it right, that each day AI amplifies its own power 10.
Brady
Times, 10 times every day. I don't know if it was every day.
John
It was what he said it was daily, on a daily basis.
Brady
Because I heard the 10 times thing.
John
Creates 10 times more value to itself than it had the day before. That's how fast it's growing. Well, you know, it'd be like your car getting 10 times better every day. So it starts as a model T and then it's a 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and soon in like four weeks, it's, it's up to today's standards. And weeks, that's just eliminating years. It's crazy. And we can't stop talking about it because we're idiots. Meanwhile, the app's down. The future belongs to the people who can do stuff with their hands. Lawyers wasting your time. Doctors. We got that covered. I asked my, my liver surgeon friend the other day, Dr. Brink, how long would it take him to, to teach me liver transplants without all the extra of school? Like, just like it's a dystopian future.
Brady
Like they do it in the movie sometimes when they have an emergency surgery and they walk somebody through it.
John
Yeah, like land in a Plane. Like, there's a guy on the other end. All right, you're gonna find the left ventricle. I'm like, I don't know what that is.
Host
Head striker.
John
Yeah, it was. Yeah, but diffusing a bomb. He said he could do it in about two years.
Holmberg
Two years?
John
Two years.
Brady
That's too long.
John
That's what I said. I said, well, like, I couldn't watch you like a hundred times, like this year and pick it up. Like, I, like, I want to get in there and cut and then. And then you show me. Go here. Like you couldn't give me step by step, everything. And he's like, no, it'll take two years. And I'm like, I don't want to know the anatomy. I want to just know.
Brady
Create more value for his skill.
John
That's what I said. Because then, then I told him, like, I could never teach you what I do. I'm way too advanced. It's not true. Brink would have no interest in this because he's smart and, like, he's.
Brady
I bet you they get done with medical school. I'm like, what a racket.
John
It's a racket. They teach it everything.
Brady
And then now they're, you know, they've gone a little upset the whole deal. When you were talking about the two year program.
John
Oh, yeah, they're trying to speed through it. Well, he said he can teach me liver transplant surgery in two years of just me observing every day.
Brady
You're gonna go through some mistakes.
John
But I challenge. I think you'll be good. I could get it done by July. I did my first liver transplant. Done.
Host
Challenge.
John
Oh, I would. Look, if you're a person who wants to sign off on some papers and let a rookie give it a run, you talk to professional baseball players. And they, they went through like 20 guys at, I forget, some luncheon or something they had, and they had all these pro baseball players. And one guy was asking him, he's like, dude, off the street, 100 pitches. How many of them does he hit off a pro pitcher? And all these guys looked at him and went, zero. It's like, did he play ball in high school? He's like, yeah, he might chip a.
Host
Couple off, but some foul tips.
John
No, it might make contact. No hits. You're gonna ground out or pop out. You're not. You're not making meaningful contact off a professional pitcher. If you're just climbing off a Hall.
Brady
Of famer's hitting 30.
John
Oh, hall of Fame. 30%. 30 of 100. Yeah, 30 of a hundred. Yeah. 30 is hall of fame.
Brady
Yeah.
Jared
Marshawn lynch went down with the D backs and took batting practice and they dialed up a 90. And he. He was like.
John
He just.
Jared
No, no, give me the 80. And he got the 80. And he got a couple.
Brady
He got.
John
Yeah, it's going to a pitching.
Jared
Exactly.
John
But a real pitcher.
Jared
Right.
John
Standing there looking at you, don't know what he's doing. You're done. You might.
Host
Ted Williams. 400. He hit and he missed six out of 10 times.
Brady
Yep.
Host
He's a. 400 hitter.
Brady
40 out of 100.
John
Tony Gwynn was like as good as Ted. He like. I think he hit like. I don't. He never struck. Greg Maddox never struck him out.
Jared
Never. Smoltz and Glavin.
John
Yeah. And he never struck out. And he still only hit like on his best year. 350. It's crazy, but I think I could get a liver transplant done way before I could hit a pro pitch.
Jared
See, I don't know about that.
John
Give me two years.
Brady
GoPro pitch.
John
You think? Give me two years in a cage or two years with Dr. Brink carving up. Yeah, you're.
Jared
You're hitting the pro pitch first.
Brady
I don't think so.
John
I think. I think I can get a liver done by the end of the year. I don't think I could hit a.
Jared
Pro pitcher without killing the patient.
John
Well, yes, everyone. Well, the dead one stealing from is out.
Holmberg
Right.
John
That's obvious. Right. I could. How about this?
Jared
Perform an autopsy now.
John
Well, no, that's. No, not a real one. Because I wouldn't know what to write.
Jared
Oh, yeah.
John
I could take one out of the dead body and it would be like he'd look at it and go, that's perfect. Thank you. Within six months now.
Jared
Six months.
John
Tie in the. Tie in the dead guy's liver to a living person.
Jared
Right.
John
That's going to be the year and a half that he needs to teach. Yes, but I could learn how to cut it out and give it to him. Ready?
Jared
That might be fair. I might give you that. That's some heavy studying, though.
John
Not really. It's just. You don't know. I don't have to pop a book. I. I could watch him. It's like being a mechanic, man.
Jared
I don't know.
Brady
I think taking it out, I think.
Jared
There'S stuff that you're gonna need to.
John
Do the most crucial part.
Brady
But maybe together, put it back together.
John
Getting the bad liver out of the living one might be an issue. That's what I could get. The dead guys live the dead kids liver. I could chop that right out. And then he would just trim it. Like the parts that I like Thanksgiving just. I would leave everything too long, and then he can trim it down.
Brady
I mean, I removed a liver once from an antelope.
John
Yeah, see, but you didn't have to. You could. You didn't care if you made a job.
Host
It was.
Brady
I mean, that whole gut pile.
John
Now imagine studying. Yeah, yeah, imagine somebody studying.
Jared
Yeah.
John
And like, you watched this dude who was an expert. You do it.
Brady
You can't let the rest of it tumble out. You have to take the one thing out.
Jared
I've cleaned a fish, and I've gotten good at carving up a turkey. So, yeah, I guess.
John
All right, I'm gonna go ahead and say it. I could do an open heart surgery by August. I'm pretty much. That's what that's like. The heart's easy. It's like four. Four hunks. William says you're insane. You can't hang a bike rack and now you're transplanting. Look, that's different.
Host
That's.
John
No, it's not. That's a total. There's no hardware. No, it's not. Apples and cinder blocks.
Brady
But it wouldn't take you two years on a bike rack either.
John
It might take all.
Host
See how many holes are in that wall? He showed us the picture.
John
You have not seen my drill skills. They are atrocious. Atrocious. But I'm pretty sure I'm more. I'm more of a detail oriented dude when it comes down to, like, carving. I don't know. I think I'd be pretty good at it. I could be good at it.
Brady
You did footers.
John
You know, I had no idea what I was doing either. Nearly burned my eyes.
Brady
You figure it out? I think. You crack a body open and then what happened?
Jared
For a week, you had a high lift stuck in your backyard.
John
Well, that wasn't my fault.
Jared
Oh, you're blaming Luke?
John
Luke's the one with the. He brought it over. He should have known that it was gonna get stuck in the. Come on, we got it out. Ingenuity. Anyway, the future. None of this will matter. We'll have bots doing it. According to Elon, right after Trump's out of office. That's the craziest part. When Trump's done, we're like, bots will do it. That's when he says it's good. In five years, we're gonna start relying on them, and in 10 years, they're going to do everything.
Jared
Well, that and we talked about it, I think last year at some point. Quantum computing and all that together there's.
John
So John, really, you could. You. You didn't know to take the plastic wrap off windshield wipers and you're. Yes, but see, after observing, I now know. And that's what I'm saying with the liver search. I'm pretty quick when it comes to. That Was surgery? Yeah.
Brady
Okay.
John
It's no different than changing windshield wipers, which, by the way.
Brady
Yeah, but you'll leave a sponge in there or something.
John
Maybe there'll be mistakes.
Jared
John, I love it when idiots make a mechanic comp or comparison.
John
What?
Jared
This moron. Look how long it took you to figure out wiper blades again. That's the common thing.
John
I haven't ever done it before. That was my first time. And I popped them right on. Second time. Popped them right on. And I didn't know that little blue thing was a protector. That seemed excessive.
Host
In your 50 years, that's the first time you did wiper blades?
John
Yes.
Brady
Lies.
Jared
Come on.
Brady
First time.
John
Come on. First time I succeeded.
Jared
Okay.
John
I don't want to hear it took.
Host
You 50 years to do the wiper blades.
John
Did it. It wasn't like I was out there every day just failing.
Brady
Who did it?
Host
You never did it when you were 17, 20 years old?
John
No.
Holmberg
Come on.
Brady
Your sister?
Host
Not once.
John
Wiper blades? Yeah. Oh, like you guys were out there doing all the time.
Host
I've seen them.
John
You never did about it.
Brady
Sure did.
John
Then how come you couldn't do mine?
Brady
Because I've never done your type of wiper blade.
John
Yeah. No. I never did it.
Jared
Jeep was too tall.
John
I think I did it on the Dodge once on my truck, but they slid on.
Jared
Yeah.
Brady
You've had to put the blade zombies.
John
Not really. No need. The Jiffy Lube will do it. That's what I used to know. I could do dentistry also. I'm pretty sure of that. That one looks easy.
Jared
I do. I'll go with you on that one.
John
I can screw some stuff up.
Jared
Oh yeah. But I could yank out.
Brady
I feel pretty good. I could clean someone's teeth.
John
Oh, cleaning my mom.
Brady
Yeah.
John
That's a racket.
Holmberg
What?
John
98? No way. Holmberg's morning sickness.
Jared
Tom Hanks did it in Castaway. Do the skate. I could do that.
John
Although Kelly makes a good point. Dude. Drills dentists. That's true. I am bad with drills.
Host
We put a couple extra holes in.
Brady
It when you're doing the actual drilling. Oh, that might differ.
John
Drills are like when somebody grabs an out of Control propeller. For me, it's just going off and I'm spinning.
Brady
That's why you need to give a little.
John
I don't know how to dimple. Calm down. Oh, I know how to do that. But eventually. And it goes sideways, you're like, I don't know. Then you just look at stuff at my house next time you're there, if it's drilled in, almost all the screws are on like an angle. Like none of them are going straight into the hole for her pleasure. It's time for the hot releases. I do believe they're upon us as we speak. Let's get right to it. Brett, you first.
Host
All right, we'll start off with new stuff here from Alter Bridge. Miles Kennedy and Tremani and the boys. This is Scales are falling.
Jared
This new.
Host
Yeah.
John
This guy says, calm down, Johnny Keen. You sound crazy. Maybe it is crazy. Maybe it's ambition. Both are very sexy.
Host
All right, let's get it.
John
Cut to the chase, Kennedy.
Brady
Maybe they fired tired Miles.
John
Jesus, he's late for this recording. This is a tale so dark and dim and slow.
Jared
Wicked hearts the minds of men. Sound like Jonathan Davis.
John
That's boring. No, they're stealing from the Indian tribal.
Host
Yeah.
John
That's another song that's borrowed. What is that one? Water. Cool, clear water.
Brady
It was boring. Kind of.
Host
I thought so. That was a little boring.
John
Oh, here. Oh, this is.
Host
There's Madison Beer.
John
Justin Herbert's girlfriend.
Host
Yes, baby.
John
She's spectacular. Yeah, this is the one. Justin Herbert's putting it through High heels on a treadmill. She likes acne, huh? Yeah, she likes bread. Event of the Chargers. Isn't it weird how the standard of beauty has become the same thing? Yeah, the Kardashians did it. And then now Megan Fox looks like this. Madison Beer looks like this. She's very pretty. Song is horrible and I don't care.
Host
Yeah, what song?
Holmberg
Okay.
John
I could watch her sing in a mirror like that for we are about six hours. Does that song have an ending? Because if it doesn't, I'm going to get into the loop 314.
Host
Not bad.
Brady
Wow.
John
Yeah, she looks. That's still going. Oh, my Lord. Do yourself a favor. Today, everybody listening. Take a break from your job and search Madison Beers. Yes, Baby Video. And then just realize that Brad Zit of the Chargers is just trashing anyway. Okay, go ahead. Well, that was. That was nice.
Host
Here's new stuff from Bruno Mars. This is funk all night.
John
Oh, all right.
Jared
By the way, the pre sale for Bruno is tomorrow.
John
Turn the lights down low. $1,000 a ticket for that base in your chest now.
Brady
This is AI.
John
It'S funk all night.
Jared
Anderson's with him on this.
Holmberg
Not dripping off the walls Neon dancing on your skin Got that vinyl spinning slow let the good times pull us in Silk shirt sticking to my bag Sweat and rhythm smooth.
John
Is that out today?
Host
Yes. Well, this came out.
Jared
Soon as out on Friday.
Host
Well, there was another one that was released too.
John
This one.
Host
I like this one a little bit better.
John
Bruno. Solid.
Host
It almost looks like an AI song or sounds like it.
John
It does.
Host
And we got tons of AI stuff because there isn't really much up front.
John
There's no need for it.
Host
Yeah, we could do this one.
John
I just saw the title of that one. Which one? The Eat Me, It's Taco Tuesday. Oh, well, we go to that one. Give me that first.
Host
Hang on.
John
Eat me, it's Taco Tuesday.
Host
Okay, here you go.
John
From Kimmy Head. She's good. We remember her. Wow.
Jared
It's a big taco lady from the.
John
60S eating a taco.
Kimmy Head
Hard day, dust on your boots, hunger in your gaze I'm standing here in this little sundress smiling real slow you can guess the rest Tequila's pour limes cut just right but darling, tonight I'm your only bite no need for a menu boy, get to it. You already know I'm hot and ready just waiting for you to go Eat me, it's Taco Tuesday. Come on, baby, get a little messy.
John
Taco Bell doesn't get on this right now. That's a smash hit. Eat Me, It's Taco Tuesday is gold. And Elon said that in a few years time, she'll be able to come over to your house and you can do it, because these fake people are gonna become real right in front of you.
Host
Still a little country for Dale. All right, this is let's do Butt Stuff tonight. It's a band. 50s country song.
John
By Tara Hole in Me.
Host
Yes.
John
Oh, that's good.
Kimmy Head
Baby, you've been working so hard all week. I have an idea that's both wild and sweet. Or some wine let's dim the lights down low Just take my hand and let the candles glow Ooh, I can see that you're curious.
John
It's gonna get good.
Kimmy Head
Don't be sh. And honey, don't make a fuss.
John
Let'S.
Kimmy Head
Do but stuff tonight oh, yeah, I know that it'll feel oh, so right.
John
I don't like country music, but I like the message. All right, we're adding that one. Let's do butt stuff. Tonight is a hit.
Host
How about Kickstart My Heart as a funk cover?
John
Motley Cruise. Kickstart My Heart. Hey, I funked with the guys.
Jared
Nice.
John
Yeah. The video is Zombie Crew.
Host
Race.
Jared
Start doing the Blues Brothers dance.
John
Let's get a little.
Host
Let's skip a little Intro's real long.
Holmberg
When I get high, get high speed Top two funny calls A drug for me My heart, my heart Kickstart my heart Always got the cops coming after me Custom built bike doing 103 my heart, my heart Kickstart my heart Are you ready, girl?
Jared
Like Nick Mars always looks like a sleeve stack nowadays.
John
That's pretty good. I like that.
Host
That's not bad. I'll do one more of those and then we'll get to F Word. Let's do Flagpole Sita. Soul Danger.
John
All right. These guys are on heroin. See a little bit clearer the rottenness and evil in me FingerTips and memories one can't forget the curls of your body. Yeah, that's all right.
Host
I do like the chorus though, with the.
John
That's pretty good.
Host
With the. All right, so let's go to N Word.
Brady
F Word.
Host
The game of the sweep of the nation today, tech9. Oh, like I ain't.
John
Who won last week? Me.
Brady
I got it.
John
Oh, did you? Okay.
Brady
Yeah. Angry N word.
John
Angry N word from Brady. I'll go. I'm gonna go. Angry F word.
Jared
Damn it. All right, then. It's not gonna happen, but friendly N word. All right, tech 9, let's see.
Host
Hey, like I ain't on 1, 2, 3, pac. Like I ain't finna bus with my homeboy make the beat drop.
John
There he goes. Boom. F word it is. AI.
Holmberg
Scary, man.
Jared
After the break.
John
What? Oh, you're late.
Jared
Yeah, we got. We got a lot to get to.
John
All right, we'll do yours later after the break. So that AI talk screwed up everything. Hey, I wouldn't have let this happen. I need an AI producer to kept me on time. Yeah, we'll get to Toledo's half of this in just seconds. It's 98.
Holmberg
98 what?
John
98. No way. Holmberg's morning sickness. Yeah, I get it. Jackassery all morning on the emails and it's fun. Say, hey, John, I don't even feel bad this morning after the Steelers loss. And I mean physically, I didn't put any effort in and I only lost to them by six. That's true. They only beat us by six last night. That was not a good performance. Off they go. Jackasses. It's all right. Till later. You gotta finish it up. Give me the movies and TV shows. I want good TV shows. I'm well outs back, by the way, and I've been on that again.
Jared
But if you're like episode four now.
John
Yeah. If you're a Fallout fan, maybe it's me. I don't have a clue what's going on because the gap time is awesome. Between the first season and this one, I needed a refresh and the refresh was like, I don't remember any of that either. So then I'm like, aha. So now I'm just watching for fighting. I've become that guy who's too stupid to follow a story. That's unfortunate because they do things in too many bigger gaps.
Jared
I haven't started yet. I've been waiting for the episodes stack up so I could watch a couple of them at a time. That's good on Apple tv. This seems weird to me. Hijack season two. Okay, so was there no resolution in season one to a hijacking that we.
John
Have a second hijacks?
Jared
Like, it just seems to me that hijack 2. Why would you want to watch a season 2 of hijack like taken 2 and 3?
John
But is it about a hijack?
Brady
Another hijack?
John
What was the first one about a hijacking?
Jared
A plane hijacking. But this one on ground. The first one, I think was into the air because he foiled a hijack.
John
Idris Elba there is going to foil a train hijacking. You can hijack a train to do what? So what do we know? Divert it to Cuba.
Jared
This debuts tomorrow on Apple.
John
Based in London, specializing in corporate negotiations. It was on Kingdom. Isn't this just speed on a choo choo?
Jared
It is, kind of, yeah. Starfleet Academy debuts on Paramount plus. Yeah. Another. Another Star Treks.
Host
Yeah.
Jared
So many. So many.
Holmberg
Right there.
Jared
Right there.
John
Just looking at moons and stuff.
Brady
I don't.
John
Yeah, we all know what Star Trek this is.
Brady
The one with the. Paul Giamatti, I think.
John
Is he in it?
Jared
What? Really?
Brady
I think.
John
Oh, and a guy that looks an awful lot.
Host
I don't care. It's more Star Trek.
Jared
Jump ahead. This looks like young teens but getting out of space.
John
That's the room. Oh, my God. Paul Giamatti's gone crazy in space. Oh, it's got Tig Notaro. Yeah. All right. I don't care about Star Trek in the future.
Jared
The rip. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back on Netflix. This debuts on Friday. It's a movie. And turn it in. Trust Has a price. Who will pay the rip is only on Netflix. This Friday involves police in Miami who find a stash of cash and have a day. A dilemma of whether or not they keep it.
Holmberg
What do we report?
John
Oh, that. I wouldn't be such a bad cop.
Host
Stay off the radios, no call outs.
John
American Gangster. Exactly. That's what they did.
Brady
Yeah.
John
Just there, everything. Not me. If I'm a cop and I find a wall full of Home Depot buckets of cash, I'm taking at least one.
Jared
Ari.
Host
Nope.
Jared
We didn't get a heads up about this.
John
The longer we stay here, the dicer the gets.
Jared
Sorry about that S word.
Host
I'll take that.
John
All right, he went on the S word.
Jared
How about this one on TLC tonight? I believe you can start watching Suddenly Amish.
John
Brady, how fast would you be a crooked cop? What do you think? First time you do something like a big bust?
Brady
Yeah, it's just cash.
John
How fast would even Brady be? Like, Jesus, you stumble across it, you're the only one in the room.
Brady
Be tough. That'd be a quantity.
John
Well, no. And this is not a quantity.
Brady
Well, the only thing I think I'd be, you know, how smart would you be on super driving in the next day with a Ferrari?
John
No, but that's what they did in that thing in the New York cops. Yeah, they started buying super nice cars when they were. You know, I would do that. I would. I'd be like, wow, there's $877,000 here. That's an odd amount of money. I'm like, that's what I thought.
Jared
Yeah, It's. Apparently they didn't finish their sale.
Brady
Anytime they're 23, it's hard not to be skeptical when you hear these big busts like, and 25 million in cash.
John
There was 30. Trust me, there was 30. You need new equipment. I would be super good about keep. I'd keep a Home Depot bucket in my house full of the money. I'd never. I'd never spend my own. And I'd pretend to be super frugal and then I'd go do stuff without anybody knowing. The thing would be of like, John went to Vegas again. You wouldn't know that. Just weekends. I wouldn't. I would just disappear and have a blast.
Jared
And you remember how Chuck was, you know, every. Every little thing was to the bottom line. Like what happens in a city that. That seizes $25 million? They go to the bottom line of the city budget.
John
Look, if there's 25 million seized, there's 30 million they found, right? You cops aren't all good.
Jared
You guys take a commission, you take.
John
A percentage, and it's. You know what? Good for you. You put your life on the line every day. I would steal. I think I'd be on the job for eight days before I'd have my first. Like, I shouldn't have done that. All right? Eight days in a cop uniform, and I'd be like, ah, I hit it. I hit that woman a little hard. And then also, I stole from them. Right? I wonder if I went through your pockets. I would be a bad cop. All right, Time. I'd shoot everybody, too. I mean, I'd be shooting everybody. I wouldn't tolerate any of this nonsense.
Jared
You'd be like, who is that reverend here locally that went through that training, shot everybody?
John
Yeah, they put him through police training after he bitched that the cops are too violent, and he shot everyone. Sweating, staring at the end like, that was harder than I thought it was gonna be. I shot everybody. But I'm not trained. It's like, yeah, that was your first initial reaction, though. So just imagine you have a bad day. I love to have bad day. He changed his brain on that. What happened to that guy? He used to be all over the. Every time something would happen, we'd see that.
Jared
Look him up, Jared.
Brady
Moppet guy. I gotcha.
John
We're good. It's time now for us to not have time. It's. There you go. Your hot releases are upon you. It's 98 KUPD. It's out of control.
Jared
88.
Episode: Hot Releases - John Thinks He Could Learn To Do A Liver Transplant In Less Than 2 Years Just By Watching - Alter Bridge - Madison Beer - Bruno Mars - The Rip Netflix
Date: January 13, 2026
In this lively, irreverent episode, John Holmberg and the HMS crew (Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo) riff on everything from the speed of AI development (with a heavy dose of Musk cynicism and humor), to whether John could learn to perform a liver transplant just by observing for a year or two, to the latest music and TV releases. The conversation is a blend of tech-philosophy, hands-on-confidence, absurd challenges, and their signature sarcastic take on pop culture.
A fast-paced review (and roasting) of the newest tracks:
For listeners:
Whether you want a window into hot new releases, are pondering if AI will soon make you obsolete, or just want to hear grown men debate the ethics of stealing crime-scene cash and the plausibility of DIY liver surgery, this episode is a rapid-fire, laugh-packed, highly opinionated ride through news, music, and weird self-confidence.