01-31-25 - Entertainment Drill - FRI - Amy Schumer Got Nauseous On Ozempyc - New Stranger Things Version w/Old People Coming - Death Of Dick Buttons Spawns A T Enunciation Rant

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Podcast Episode Summary
Episode Date: January 31, 2025
Title: Entertainment Drill - FRI - Amy Schumer Got Nauseous On Ozempic - New Stranger Things Version w/Old People Coming - Death Of Dick Button Spawns A T Enunciation Rant
Broadcasted On: 98 KUPD | Hubbard Radio

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Overview

In the January 31, 2025 episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, Arizona’s #1 Morning Radio Show on 98 KUPD, host John Holmberg, alongside co-hosts Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo, navigates through a mix of current events, pop culture commentary, and humorous segments designed to entertain, question, and occasionally disturb their diverse listener base. This episode, titled "Entertainment Drill," delves into several engaging topics, including Amy Schumer's reaction to Ozempic, a fresh take on the popular series "Stranger Things," and the poignant passing of ice skating legend Dick Button. The hosts intersperse their discussions with witty banter and interactive segments, maintaining a lively atmosphere throughout.

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1. Interactive Segments and Promotions [00:31 - 03:46]

The episode kicks off with the introduction of the Caliento Squares, an interactive game segment where listeners are encouraged to call in. Brady Bogen humorously references outdated treatments for morning ailments, saying, "The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. I took the punch. That's all it is." (00:31)

Following this, the hosts transition into promoting React Defense's Tactical Black training program. Brady details the comprehensive training levels, exclaiming, "They take care of you the whole way. Crawl, walk, run." (02:17). Frank Caliendo shares a lighthearted anecdote about his own training experience: "Look at me, Frank. I bruises all of my arm from a knife fight the other day." (02:47), showcasing the show's blend of humor and informative content.

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2. Romance Novel Readers Casting Call [03:46 - 05:12]

A segment discussing a poll of 2,000 American romance readers reveals intriguing insights into whom listeners picture as lead characters in their favorite novels. Brady jokes, "We are all zero out of a thousand. I bet you Frank's name wasn't mentioned. I know yours wasn't." (04:08), highlighting the unlikely celebrity casting choices like Bradley Cooper and Jason Momoa.

The hosts tease the idea that real men don’t read romance novels, with Brady quipping, "Real men, right? Read romance. Those are called homosexuals." (04:34), blending satire with playful ribbing. This discussion underscores their ability to engage in light-hearted yet thought-provoking conversations.

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3. Amy Schumer’s Experience with Ozempic [06:24 - 07:08]

The conversation shifts to Amy Schumer’s recent health experience, where she dealt with severe nausea from taking Ozempic. An Unknown Speaker notes, "Amy Schumer said she spent three weeks in sick from taking Ozempic. Yeah, she had a reaction to it." (06:26). Brady adds, "When I see her life forms of the left contagious." (06:57), providing a mix of factual reporting and personal commentary that aligns with the show's informal tone.

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4. New Stranger Things Adaptation: "Cocoon" [07:08 - 08:18]

The hosts reveal news about a new adaptation of the beloved series "Stranger Things," reimagined as "Cocoon" with an older cast. Frank Caliendo questions, "What's Gina Davis living in the Upside Down." (07:34), while Brady humorously anticipates the casting of prominent figures like Joe Biden: "Brady will turn 60 tomorrow, far surpassing the Wilford Brimley age of Cocoon." (08:18). This segment showcases their knack for satirical humor and pop culture parody.

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5. Tribute to Dick Button and Marianne Faithfull [09:33 - 10:01]

A more somber tone emerges as the hosts pay tribute to the passing of iconic figures Marianne Faithfull and Dick Button. An Unknown Speaker announces, "Marianne Faithful, 78 years old. She passed away. And then Dick Button." (09:33). Brady reflects, "Dick Button passed away at 95. That's a tough week for the US skating squad that crash out there in Washington." (09:50), demonstrating the show's capacity to balance humor with respectful acknowledgment of significant news.

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6. Humorous Rants and Banter [10:03 - 12:38]

The episode concludes with a series of comedic exchanges and rants. Brady criticizes media reporting standards: "You graduated broadcast school. You've got to call it a mountain." (10:26), while Frank chimes in with humorous awards commentary: "And now the Academy Award goes to Benjamin Button." (12:04). These lighthearted moments reinforce the show's entertaining dynamic and the hosts' chemistry.

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Notable Quotes:

• Brady Bogen: "They take care of you the whole way. Crawl, walk, run." (02:17)
• Frank Caliendo: "Look at me, Frank. I bruises all of my arm from a knife fight the other day." (02:47)
• Brady Bogen: "We are all zero out of a thousand. I bet you Frank's name wasn't mentioned. I know yours wasn't." (04:08)
• Brady Bogen: "Real men, right? Read romance. Those are called homosexuals." (04:34)
• Unknown Speaker: "Amy Schumer said she spent three weeks in sick from taking Ozempic. Yeah, she had a reaction to it." (06:26)
• Brady Bogen: "Brady will turn 60 tomorrow, far surpassing the Wilford Brimley age of Cocoon." (08:18)
• Frank Caliendo: "What is it when people do that? Buttons." (10:01)
• Frank Caliendo: "And now the Academy Award goes to Benjamin Button." (12:04)

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Conclusion

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness exemplifies the show's ability to blend humor, current events, and interactive segments to engage its audience effectively. From satirical takes on romance novel readers and the reimagining of "Stranger Things" to heartfelt tributes to beloved figures like Dick Button, the hosts maintain a lively and entertaining atmosphere. Their seamless integration of notable quotes and relatable commentary ensures that both regular listeners and newcomers find the content enriching and enjoyable.

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Transcript

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[Brady]

War II Morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. I took the punch. That's all it is. 9:13 Here in the morning sickness. It's time now for Brady and Frank Caliendo. Ready for the Caliento Squares. If you want to get on an early and sit and wait on the phone, you can. Yeah. Open up. You just got done talking with Tripp Re. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Frank Caliendo]

What do you mean in a bug?

[Brady]

He asked you if you would come out to Seattle to do some radio for some failing stations out there. Do you know anything about Miranda Lambert? I'd like you to do some of her songs.

[Unknown]

Yeah, he mentioned grooming too.

[Brady]

I want to groom you. I'm gonna traffic you. That's what I do.

[Frank Caliendo]

You ever heard of Trips Island?

[Brady]

I'll send you out to my super special island. I just got it for a price. Used to be someone named. I think it was the kid from welcome back Cotter Epstein.

[Frank Caliendo]

I don't remember Trippery Violence.

[Brady]

Yeah. Oh, it's a TV show on Fox. Ew. Yeah. Who will win the heart of Trip Reeve on Trip Re Violent. If you want to play the squares, they're coming up a little while. You can wait early and be on the Frank Squares. I think we're going to have you fest tickets, right? Yeah. 5859, 800 is the number. We need a girl, we need a guy. And we'll do that while we do the entertainment drill which is brought to you by our [e-mail], the home of tactical black, which I'm telling you right now, they're listening to us with their big level up training center that's going on. All the people getting in the brown level, they're going up to the next level. Frank was in the brown level on Friday. Had a little problem with that. That is that is. That is a group of elite people. They've been training for a little while and they get in that thing. So they've got a whole day to go through all they've learned and then get that next level. When you level up, you get into the black training level. Holy smokes. It's fun. And basically you're doing all that stuff from day one. It's just getting muscle memory on it. They take care of you the whole way. Crawl, walk, run. And these people are in the middle of walking, heading towards running up there today. So keep it up, guys. And the price is just perfect. Two months of training right away. You get that for 199 bucks. And that's personal training. Things you can't even imagine. Look at me, Frank. I bruises all of my arm from a knife fight the other day. Awesome. And did I win Most of the time. It was a blast. So they taught me multiple attacker stuff on. What was that Wednesday? Just. That's a real knife we used. No, this was. They use dummy knives, but they have a few bladeless knives that are feel like knives but they don't penetrate or slice. And those are the cutting knives. And you got to defend against those. And then a lot of them are like foam ended.

[Frank Caliendo]

Okay.

[Brady]

So they can't hurt you. But this is the. These are from banging arms with the knife attacker. Yeah. You got to block his arm. Oh, it's a blast. You should come with me sometime. I know you don't leave the house. I don't think you're going to see. Here we go again. Why do I keep inviting him to things? They'd love to see you. They're going to your show. In fact, the Ackerman family is going to see you.

[Frank Caliendo]

Are they really?

[Brady]

This weekend. So.

[Frank Caliendo]

Okay.

[Brady]

Don't start any trouble with that because they'll start messing you up. Yeah, yeah. Don't do it. Reactdefense.com it's the home Tactical Black. Brady and Frank. Entertain Me.

[Unknown]

2000American romance readers were polled and asked who they picture as the characters in their naughty books they're reading.

[Brady]

Oh, they're reading dirty books.

[Unknown]

When they read a romance novel.

[Brady]

And then they cast.

[Unknown]

Who do you see as the lead woman and the lead man?

[Frank Caliendo]

Based on what I learned the other day, on Tuesday being here, none of us.

[Brady]

We are all zero out of a thousand. I bet you Frank's name wasn't mentioned. I know yours wasn't. And I know mine wasn't.

[Unknown]

As far as the women. Bradley Cooper.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Frank Caliendo]

As far as the women Bradley Cooper, Momoa.

[Unknown]

26%. You're doing Angelina Jolie. Oh, then Megan Fox, then Zendaya.

[Brady]

These are women saying Selena Gomez.

[Unknown]

These women are saying romance readers. I don't have it broken down. Well, but it's women. It's dominated.

[Brady]

No men are reading those.

[Frank Caliendo]

Well, because there's no picture.

[Brady]

Okay, let me know. Real men, right? Read romance. Those are called homosexuals.

[Unknown]

And as for the men, Channing Tatum.

[Brady]

And they're real men. But the ones reading those, I mean, come on, let's be honest.

[Unknown]

Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Chris Hemsworth, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Evans.

[Brady]

The list.

[Frank Caliendo]

Jason Momoa.

[Unknown]

Gen Z. Romance readers. Zendaya and Timothy Chalamet.

[Brady]

Chalamet.

[Unknown]

I said met again.

[Brady]

Yeah, I know. We heard you.

[Unknown]

And then for boomers, Halle Berry.

[Brady]

Thrillers. Here.

[Unknown]

Gen X, Angelina Channing.

[Brady]

Just do the thing. Just walk out of the room. Will you get me a Coke Thriller? Watch this. Right? Look how well that works.

[Frank Caliendo]

You know, it's bad.

[Brady]

It's fun for every. He's gonna come back in a second.

[Frank Caliendo]

Squawk isn't worse than mine.

[Brady]

Yes, it is. Watch when he comes back for the coke.

[Frank Caliendo]

He's just a little bit of a.

[Brady]

We'll start it again. No, he gets going. Here it goes.

[Frank Caliendo]

Can I get one, too?

[Brady]

Thanks. Thriller.

[Frank Caliendo]

This is the same thing we do with a super hot woman. Can I Give me one of those Coke Zeros from the bottom shelf.

[Brady]

Yeah, you know what? You're right. That's a good idea. Yeah, I think we're gonna do. We treat him like he's a really hot girl.

[Frank Caliendo]

It's the same thing.

[Brady]

Kind of weird.

[Unknown]

Is he?

[Brady]

Yeah. He's got to get you a Coke bird. Do you want one? We want to get you one, too. Here. There he is again. Hey, Thriller.

[Frank Caliendo]

What are you gonna do with that banana?

[Brady]

Hey. Hey, Thriller. My coke's warm. Take your shirt off and go get me another.

[Frank Caliendo]

Thank you.

[Brady]

Gosh, this show got better when Thriller got here.

[Frank Caliendo]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Not me.

[Brady]

No, of course not.

[Unknown]

Amy Schumer said she spent three weeks in sick from taking. Taking Ozempic. Yeah, she had a reaction to it.

[Frank Caliendo]

It didn't work.

[Unknown]

Like I lost 30 pounds, but it did work.

[Brady]

But it was a lot. It had a lot to climb.

[Frank Caliendo]

It took her energy like, I don't want in this. I don't want to be a part of it.

[Brady]

Oh. Oh, no, thank you.

[Unknown]

She did share, though, that she has a gene that makes her extremely prone to nausea called gdf.

[Brady]

So do I. Yeah. When I see her life forms of the left contagious. She actually got the idea to take Ozempic when Brett saw her. And he goes, oh, oh, oh.

[Unknown]

I got it.

[Brady]

This is Italian thing.

[Unknown]

The. The guys behind Stranger Things are putting together an adult version of it.

[Frank Caliendo]

Strangest things.

[Brady]

Oh.

[Unknown]

Called the Burrows. It sounds like Stranger Things, but it's with old people.

[Brady]

Oh.

[Unknown]

It's basically a group of misfits who fight otherworldly, isn't it?

[Brady]

It's Cocoon.

[Unknown]

I know. Retirement community. Are you ready for the cast or.

[Brady]

So far, Joe Biden in the Upside Down.

[Unknown]

That's what Gina Davis living in the Upside Down.

[Brady]

That's right. Freddie can't hear who's living the Upside Down. I said leading William Wilford Brim is going to be out there.

[Frank Caliendo]

That's what I was thinking.

[Brady]

He's 48 years old. You know he was 40.

[Frank Caliendo]

GI Wilford Brunt.

[Brady]

48 in the Natural.

[Frank Caliendo]

Oh, and 51.

[Brady]

And 51. Or 52 in the Natural.

[Frank Caliendo]

You're kidding.

[Brady]

No.

[Frank Caliendo]

That's like when they shot bunker.

[Brady]

I know. 44, 45 when that started.

[Frank Caliendo]

I'm 51.

[Brady]

You were Wilford Brimley's age. Brady will turn 60 tomorrow, far surpassing the Wilford Brimley age of Cocoon. Wilford Brimley.

[Unknown]

Diabetes.

[Frank Caliendo]

With the diabetes.

[Brady]

Yeah, yeah. This is Brady right now doing his best Wilford Brimley impression at 60. Was when Wilford looked like Brady does now when he was about 45. And Brady would have called him keyed or something like that. How you doing, Keith?

[Unknown]

They leaked some photos from Happy Gilmore 2. It just shows Adam Sandler in the hockey jersey in his Caddy. Bad Bunny.

[Brady]

No bad bunnies in it.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah.

[Frank Caliendo]

We took out all the stops for this one. It's gonna be really good.

[Brady]

Oh, it gives you the four iron, five irons, whatever you want. Huh.

[Unknown]

And Baboony, because he, you know, the first one did so well. He's nervous about it.

[Brady]

He doesn't care if his movies do well. It's Netflix.

[Frank Caliendo]

You've seen his movies.

[Brady]

He got paid, right? You wouldn't know.

[Frank Caliendo]

Yeah, we just pack up the Brinks truck and open it up, see which one of my friends I could get in here in a pretty little role that can do something that makes it national.

[Brady]

He has multiple single digit reviewed movies on Rotten Tomatoes. He doesn't care how they do.

[Frank Caliendo]

Yeah, they're not even tomatoes. They're straight up manure.

[Brady]

Just have a manure splat.

[Frank Caliendo]

It's the same thing as the. As the tomato splatter.

[Unknown]

But brown with a couple of celebrity deaths. Marianne Faithful, 78 years old. She passed away. And then Dick Button.

[Brady]

It's how kids.

[Unknown]

Legendary ice skating kids say the Dick buttons dig button. 95.

[Brady]

He passed away at 95. That's a tough week for the US skating squad that crash out there in Washington. Dick Buttons dies the next day. I didn't know he was still alive.

[Frank Caliendo]

What is it when people do that? Buttons.

[Brady]

Buttons. We can't figure it out. Mountain button. Little.

[Frank Caliendo]

Oh, I think on that where I.

[Brady]

Come from, as far as God, you know who started it. I remember laughing in the mid to late 90s when Chris Rock talked about Bill Clinton. Clinton, Clinton, Clinton. Always do a Clinton stuff.

[Frank Caliendo]

I. I hear when people say Titans.

[Brady]

Titans. Yeah. It drives me nuts. I did a. There was a. A group of girls on the news that had found a guy that looked like Jesus, and he helped them. And they're like, we thought we found Jesus. And then the reporter goes. The girls took their walk on the mountain. And I'm like, no, no, you graduated broadcast school. You've got to call it a mountain. The mountain. And if they go to the mountain again, they're gonna look for him. I'm not watching this ever again. Don't press that button.

[Unknown]

I try to break Kirby of that.

[Brady]

She does it.

[Unknown]

Not anymore.

[Brady]

She's been thoroughly beaten with butt hands. I would do it, but Danny has beaten it out of me. And that's why I smoke so much weed. It masks the pain of my childhood. Frank, would you like to watch Bob Marley with me? Or maybe go see Tyler the creator and get high to the bee? Jesus on the Pineapple Express, watching the dragon fly over Tyler, the creator at the Footprint Center. Give carbon herbs is starving. It's happening. We tease.

[Frank Caliendo]

I love it.

[Brady]

All right, those Frank Caliendo squares are coming up next. Gotta call again.

[Frank Caliendo]

These phones are.

[Brady]

Oh, broke. I saw them load up and then they dropped. And I watched it again. Three people on hold and they just dropped.

[Unknown]

Don't hit the wrong button.

[Brady]

I'm not hitting the button. Who's in control of these buttons? When adult men do it, don't the kids hear, like, Jesus? They sound stupid.

[Frank Caliendo]

And now the Academy Award goes to Benjamin Button.

[Brady]

Benjamin Button. Bang.

[Unknown]

Brokeback Mountain.

[Frank Caliendo]

I'm hitting the tee hard just to.

[Brady]

I know it's early, but. Morgan Freeman announcing picture of the year. And now, the best picture of the year. Brokeback Mountain. Benjamin Butt. Yeah, it's terrible, but they don't hear it. They think that's normal. The calendar squares are upon us. 585-9-800. We need a girl. We need a boy. Hopefully our phones get us through it. It's 98 KUPD. It's not weird.

[Frank Caliendo]

It's pretty cool, actually.

[Unknown]

No membership fee.

[Brady]

I have heard enough of this.