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Brett Vesli
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Holmberg
Sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. Well, I have a very interesting rock wars topic today. It's going to take some thinking, a little work on your parts.
Brett Vesli
Oh, man, come on.
Holmberg
I know, but that's what it is. When you're left with, you know, the, the you're charged with picking the topic. Brady was the winner last week. I came in third. So I get to pick this week as per Brady's crybaby rules.
Brady
I've already got my song.
Brett Vesli
You don't even know what the topic is.
Holmberg
Fantastic. This is a good one. I like this. And I'm not gonna go off the protests and all that stuff. This is a good one. I have been known over the years to, to tell you, hey, this, there's a guy who goes on the Internet and goes, you'll never hear this the same again. And he takes a great song and then says, but if I say the word, like SpongeBob SquarePants, you'll never hear it the same way again. The same way I kind of did with Volbeat being Cher, Offspring being Weird Al Yankovic. A Great song.
Brady
Dracula. Disturbed.
Holmberg
Yeah, Disturbed. Well, disturbed with the hello Darkness. My old friend Vampirical. A song that's fantastic, that's ruined for you because it's got this sound that you're like. You can't escape the alternative. You know what I mean? Like, you can wreck it for other people. Like the Volpeat. We'll eliminate Volbeat and Offspring. And the obvious one.
Brett Vesli
Typo. Negative, too.
Holmberg
And typo. Right. But that's just funny. That actually made the songs better to me. But. No, I know, but like, everybody's got one that goes, oh, my God, have you heard this? And then tell me what I. Now wreck the song for me. From your perspective. Everybody's got a couple where you just. You can look it up too. And like, you're like, oh, yeah, that one. But you hear like, oh, my God, that's what that is. I'll give you one that nobody's going to pick. The Mrs. Jones. Remember me and Mrs. Jones?
Brady
Yeah.
Holmberg
If you ever watched that dude sing it, he had a miserable lisp. And sometimes when you hear it, you'll hear Mrs. Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones. And he's. Now he's the ladies man. And it makes it hysterical. It's terrible. The. What was the A Heartbeat song in the 80s by Don Johnson? No. Heartbreakers or something? I forgot. Not the Heartbreakers. So they had a song, something about the. But the singer had a lisp and that's all I hear.
Brady
Well, the Romantic.
Holmberg
The Romantics. That's the one. That's the one.
Brady
I hear you talking.
Holmberg
Yeah, talking in your sleep. I hear. What I like about the.
Brett Vesli
Any Twink song, though.
Holmberg
No, no, no, no. Twinkstone. All Lisp. It's an affect. But that's kind of thing. Those kind of deals where a song is like, oh, boy. And there's some out there that you can say this and you'll never hear it the same way again. So we'll get those out there. If you have any suggestions. Everybody's got a couple homework@98kupd.com you get one. That's why you're. Hey. That's why you got to play the game, son.
Brett Vesli
No, I don't have one. That's what I got.
Holmberg
Think. Do some thinking. B. Bogan@98kupd.com because he has to have that, too. And then 97936, you can text over suggestions. A song that is good, but something about it, you can tell everybody. It'll wreck it. You got one.
Brady
Good.
Holmberg
There you go.
Brady
No, you said it was good.
Holmberg
It's a good song. Yeah. You don't want to take a terrible song. It's easy. Terrible song.
Brady
I was going to. With Brett. With. With Prince Brett. Brett.
Holmberg
Bre. No, no. That's just it. He can't even. You should. You should redo it. No, that's just a bad song. That's easy. I'm not saying a bad song. It's something that changes it. Change the song. Like now you'll hear it and it sounds like Rosanna singing one of those. Everybody knows what I'm talking about. It's. It's rampant on the Internet. There's people who do this. I'm going to ruin this for you. You give it to us and we'll. We'll see if your suggestions go or what. We've got next Rock wars right around the corner. There's something something. Check out Homework's Morning Sickness podcast at.
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Holmberg
Holmberg's Morning Sickness. It's time now for Rock wars, the weekly battle of musical supremacy. It's a meta topic. It's a heavy topic. Fun, though. Basically you take a song, not the lyrics that you got wrong. People misunderstood what I was saying. It's basically like when I say picture Cher when Vol Beat's on. Or picture Weird Al Yankovic when Offspring is playing and it kind of messes up. Like, I hear it and then you don't ever unhear it, but do it to another one find there's tons of them. Spongebob makes an appearance in a lot of rock songs and it messes stuff. There's a Stone Temple pilot song. He's in Linkin park. So I don't know if you guys chose those, but that's what we got. So that's what I'm talking about. And the suggestions were pretty fantastic today. Nice job. You got it.
Brett Vesli
I'm going to go with something.
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Brady
I did. I got an assist. I want to thank JG for this because.
Holmberg
Oh, yeah.
Brady
I had never heard. I mean, I. I'm very familiar with the song, but when he presented it that way. Yeah, it ruined it for me.
Holmberg
Close your eyes. Close your eyes.
Brady
Thunderstruck AC dc and picture Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Holmberg
All right. And you don't have to alter the beginning. I'm gonna close my eyes. I'm gonna see if Brady can ruin this classic song. John Gordon gave him a little help on this. See the A in the sweater? Play the whole goddamn intro.
Brett Vesli
Didn't you give him a time?
Holmberg
Yeah, well, he didn't. Brady.
Brett Vesli
Toledo. Toledo.
Holmberg
Yeah, we'll get to it eventually. Everybody remembers it. It's a nice buildup, though. God damn it. It's Alpha. I hate you guys for that one. I'm never not gonna. That's a win, that little sweat.
Brett Vesli
Unless you got something.
Holmberg
I gotta go. I got a good one. It might not be as obvious as that. Well, it is. And you're gonna laugh at mine. What do you got?
Brett Vesli
All right, we're gonna Go with. This guy brought it up, and now I can't unhear it.
Holmberg
It's.
Brett Vesli
It's not one of his most popular songs, but in a lot of his songs, you'll hear it. Danzig. Sounds like Donkey from Shrek.
Brady
That's right.
Brett Vesli
Here, it's on mine.
Holmberg
Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Come on, Shrek. Get out of here. God damn it. I don't even know the song. Thank God I'll never hear that again. Does Mother have Shrek vibes?
Brett Vesli
I don't know.
Holmberg
I didn't.
Brett Vesli
I didn't really dig that deep, but as soon as I pulled that one.
Holmberg
Up, I was all like, the one with the funeral pile. Hello, Shrek. What's going on? Gonna sing a little song right now. I'm a big Dantic fan. You know, I love that Danzig. He seems crazy. I love him. Here's where we going, Mother. Oh, man, what are we doing? Why did I pick this? Mother right there. I'm just gonna pick it, tell.
Brett Vesli
Not as much in this one.
Holmberg
No, not as bad. All right, all right. Mine's going to make you giggle. If you're a Buffalo Bills fan, I'm going to wreck something big for you. They play a song in Buffalo that's become like, an anthem. Play this for their team. Yeah. And every time I've heard this song, I only close your eyes. Go down this road with me. It's Jerry Seinfeld. I don't know why. That's all I hear. I can hear some of his.
Brett Vesli
Chest.
Holmberg
When they get to the chorus.
Brett Vesli
Mr.
Holmberg
Bright side, this part.
Brett Vesli
Here.
Holmberg
Well, this is the. The wrong song, You frick.
Brett Vesli
I have to play this at every wedding.
Holmberg
Every weekend, too. That's all I see, all I hear. Seinfeld.
Brett Vesli
And then. Then the. The honorable mentions are welcome to the jungles. Edith Bunker.
Holmberg
Oh, Jesus. AC DC Always has had a Marge Simpson thing. Yeah, crazy.
FanDuel Announcer
Anyway, texters are saying, I don't understand. It's not misheard lyrics.
Holmberg
No, it's not mis. Never, ever even mentioned lyrics. I just said this like you have a thing. Like, you know. Again, I'm ready to concede Brady's, because that was the most. Alvin. Yeah, I think that's a pretty solid one on short on time. Whoops. Sorry. We'll go to one call. That's it.
FanDuel Announcer
Like this guy says, the Foo Fighters Pretender. Reminds me of the Sesame street song. One of these things is not like the other.
Holmberg
Yeah, it's whatever. Singing that would remind you. All right, let's see if anybody's got the Vote here. Let me go either. Who's this?
Brett Vesli
Tim.
Holmberg
Timothy. Who wins the Chancellor? I won it. I don't know why.
Brady
Come on.
FanDuel Announcer
Who's last? Who's last?
Holmberg
Yeah, who's in last? Timothy, are you there? Yes, sir. Who came in last? Bogan by a mile. Oh, man. Yeah, that's biased. I'm not. I think that guy was just.
Brett Vesli
John Gordon's calling over there, I think.
Holmberg
Still pissed. Seem tainted. Hi, there. Who's this? Is Ashley. Are you there? It's Paul. All right. Paul's on his wife. You know, Ashley's made the transition.
Brett Vesli
Blind color.
Holmberg
Paul.
Brett Vesli
All right.
Holmberg
It's. It's Brady. Come on. It hit hard, didn't it? Yeah, his hit hard. I agree with that. I want Brady to win this week because who came in last? Don't be hung up. We'll do it. We'll figure it out between you and I. There you go. All right. Yeah, it's John Gordon's fault. You son of a.
Brett Vesli
Look at that. Look at how nice he was to you.
Holmberg
Brady. Exactly.
Brett Vesli
MF'd him at the beginning of this.
Holmberg
Gotcha. Damn.
Brett Vesli
He got you a win win.
Holmberg
This one says the song the Outfield. You'd never know. It's a perfect. What does that say?
Brady
Yeah, I got one on the outfield.
Holmberg
Too, Ed from Eddie. I don't know what that is.
Brady
I don't know who from Eddie is either. Okay.
Holmberg
Yeah, that is a John Gordon win, though, so we'll do it. But, yeah, it does say it. Kind of chuckled it.
Brady
Your boss gags.
Holmberg
Boss gags is Cleveland from Family Guy. There's plenty of them. When your brain hears the other thing, all I hear is Seinfeld. Now, from that Mr. Bright side thing, I'm gonna hear donkey when I. I'm gon. Oh, white room cream. That guy said that. The. The high parts are Herbert from the Family Guy thing.
Brett Vesli
Stewie.
Holmberg
Clint Eastwood by the Gorillas. If you hear. There's tons of them. But I think this one hits us hardest because we know it so well. It's Alvin and the Chipmunks. Ac. It's Thunderstruck. It's something something. Check out homework's morning sickness podcast@98kupd.com home Bloomberg's Morning Sickness. Now they get it, and they're rolling in. I go tip of the Capture. Guy named J.T. jasinski, who does. He wrecks songs on the Internet. Inspiration for today's rock Wars. Because I've. I've agreed with so many of them, I've actually sent that guy a Note. What about this? And he's already done it. But the Seinfeld thing had me. Brady, Alvin and the Chipmunks. John. Brilliant. And I don't even want to hear. I'm glad I don't know that Danzig song. Here's another one. This one. This will screw you up. Which one was it? It was Roses.
Brady
The first one.
Holmberg
Yeah. Yeah, It's Guns N Roses. So you got this guy. I'm gonna have you close your eyes right after this part. Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants. Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's go. All. That part. And then the great one, which I should have picked and didn't. And again, it comes from my favorite cartoon of all time. It's Faith no more. SpongeBob himself. That is unbelievable. Yeah, you can't hear it the same ever again. You.
Brady
And you played that one other one. It was a real quick sample. It was Peewee Herman.
Holmberg
Oh, yeah, that was. Well, that's hello Me.
Brady
Yeah, that was Dave Mustaine. That's right.
Holmberg
When he gets its angry Peewee. I hear a lot of that. But anyway, that's. It's a fun game to play and it ruins things.
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Holmberg
I don't know that one. I don't know it well enough to know. Listen, a little Faith no More later today. And if you don't pict spongebob, your brain ain't working because. Play that again. I like that. The one you just did was the Faith no More. I mean, it's right down here.
Brady
Wait for Gary to come in.
Holmberg
Hello, Gary. But you can have it. Yeah, it's the same. So have fun with that. I didn't know I was a gay lead singer, John.
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I've ruined Luke Bryan for many of people that are fans of his by saying he sounds like John C. Reilly to me.
Holmberg
Please play some Luke Bryan. All right. His biggest hit, because I don't know what that is. I don't like country music at all, but this might make me giggle. I think country. Shake it for me. Touch my drum set.
Brett Vesli
Yeah, I think that's the country girl song.
Holmberg
Sounds like me.
Brett Vesli
Yeah.
Holmberg
I don't know if I. Look, you would know if I was singing, right? Don't touch my drum set. I'm Luke Bryant. Here we go.
Brady
They're best friends.
Holmberg
Yeah, we just become best friends. I don't know if this will work. No, I can't. Listen to it. I can't hear it. It doesn't matter that once that hillbilly twang kicks in, I'm out. That might as well just be somebody sucking the life out of me. It is time now for the entertainment. A fun game you can play at home, and it wrecks a lot of stuff, and it makes it funnier. So there's a lot of Will Ferrells out there, too. Like a lot of that System of a Down song is loads of Will Ferrell in it. Once you close your eyes and picture it, you can't undo it. And I'll never stop hearing Weird Al, the lead singer of the Offspring. It screws me up to see them for real now. I'm like, who's that guy? Hey, it's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.
Theme:
In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, the crew dives into the week’s Rock Wars with a quirky and hilarious topic: “Songs Where You Hear Something in It That Ruins the Entire Song For You.” The panel — John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Brett Vesely, and Dick Toledo — explore songs that become impossible to unhear after someone points out a vocal quirk, an odd resemblance, or a funny association, whether it’s an artist who sounds like a cartoon character or a lyric that becomes a running joke. The goal: ruin a great song for each other with a single silly observation.
| Timestamp | Segment Description | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 01:09 | Introduction of Rock Wars topic | | 03:41 | Early examples—song quirks and oddities | | 07:51 | Brady’s pick: "Thunderstruck" as Alvin and the Chipmunks | | 09:09 | Brett’s pick: Danzig as Donkey from Shrek | | 11:03 | Holmberg’s pick: "Mr. Brightside" as Jerry Seinfeld | | 12:14 | Listener suggestions (e.g., Foo Fighters & Sesame Street) | | 13:05 | Callers vote Brady’s pick wins | | 15:06 | Faith No More as SpongeBob, other cartoon crossovers | | 17:04 | Luke Bryan sounds like John C. Reilly (listener call) |
This Rock Wars episode is a playful riot, offering listeners new ways to (never) hear favorite songs again — and providing plenty of laughs along the way. Whether it’s picturing Brian Johnson’s vocals as Alvin, hearing Danzig as Donkey, or spotting Jerry Seinfeld in “Mr. Brightside,” the crew challenges each other and the audience to permanently “ruin” classic hits through irreverent association. The episode wraps up with loads of hilarious suggestions from listeners and a strong sense that musical sabotage can be seriously fun when you have the right company.