Brady (3:50)

I mean, Mace is not in a golf. They got golf land over there, right? Off to 60 and Country Club.

John Holmberg (3:55)

Yeah. Bring. Yeah. Connoisseurs, Brad. And what's the closest thing to Mesa Golf Land. That weird right in the middle of it, that trailer park. Oh, yeah. Is it still there?

Brady (4:06)

No, I think that one's.

John Holmberg (4:07)

Oh, I remember I was with a friend of mine years ago, and I'm in my Jeep and he's like, this is my. I don't remember her name. I'll say Stacy. For sake of argument, this Stacy is My. My girlfriend's sister. And Stacy was one of those girls that when she's sitting down and all you can see is her upper body. Stacy is a banger. Like, this is. This is a home run. And then Stacy gets up like she's in the. Where the wild things are. The bottom of her is attached to a different body. Like that shouldn't be this giant hot air balloon gondola is hanging off the.

Brett (4:37)

Bottom of her tiny upper frame.

John Holmberg (4:38)

Oh, the upper. She had like a 10 inch waist and a 50 inch hip. It was crazy. And modern times, she'd be cardi b Back in the, you know, the 90s, she was bleh. So next thing you know, we're at the. My. My friend was working up at the sports bar at the point at south mountain, which is now known as something else, Arizona grand. So she lays down on the grass and said essentially something like, lay down with me. And I'm like, all right. So we let him start making out. And I'm like, this is going good. And I mean, like, going at it. I'm like, this is the thing. She goes, you want to come back to my house? I'm like, yes, because I don't have. She didn't ride. So I think that was more important to her. It's like she was basically doing the 70s, cash, grass or ass thing that nobody rides for free. She knew she had to get a ride home. She had to put out. She didn't have any of the other things. So I drive and I'm like, where do you live? And she goes, in mesa. I'm like, all right, that's kind of a hall, but all right, because we were over in the Guadalupe area. So I drive all the way over and I'm like, where are we going? Turn here. And I'm like, we're going to golf lunch. She goes, no, you turn on that little street to go into golfland sunsplash. And I'm like, where are we going? Two little turns behind this industrial thing. And then this strange. Before I knew what snatch was that kind of like circular trailer encampment.

Brett (5:56)

A community of caravans.

John Holmberg (5:57)

It was an encampment of caravans. And she started saying stuff like, I'm gonna you. So I'm like, yes, you are. This is it. Where are we going, though? Cause I'm bougie and this is not working out for me right now. Are we gonna do it at golfland? Turn right. And I turn right, my headlights hit this trailer park. And then she goes, you gotta be quiet. Though. You're gonna wake my aunt. My mama. I go, okay, they're in there.

Brady (6:24)

Third one, a big O on the right.

John Holmberg (6:25)

I basically, yeah. So I was like, you know what? Maybe we should do this another time. And I hightailed it out of there because I'm smart. I knew what was really happening. I was gonna end up in a bathtub without any kidneys.

Brady (6:36)

Now, this is an.

John Holmberg (6:36)

LA Guy Girl. Oh, no. La. No. LA Guy Louisiana. Girl. Louisiana Guy Girl was. She was poorer in appearance.

Brady (6:47)

Okay.

John Holmberg (6:47)

She probably had a nicer place. No, I wouldn't have stuck around for breakfast, Brady. By then, I would have been. That's what I'm saying.

Brett (6:52)

If you would have stayed, you'd have been in real trouble.

John Holmberg (6:53)

Yeah, like I said, I'd have been in a bathtub with no kidneys. We're not talking about whether she served me breakfast. You got to stay on focus here. Brady must be hungry.

Brady (7:01)

Y'all want some grits?

John Holmberg (7:02)

I said I'd be missing kidneys. And he goes, wonder if they serve breakfast in the tub full of ice. There's our flag with the Confederacy on it. So those are the people that I need to screw this up. You people need to do this. That trailer park over there by Golfland, if it's still around. Behind the Waffle House.

Brady (7:19)

Oh, man, no, it's not there anymore.

John Holmberg (7:22)

The Waffle House is gone. No.

Brady (7:23)

Yeah, that's gone, too, actually. They moved it. It's on the south side of Country Club now. Now it's a. It's a taqueria or whatever it is.

John Holmberg (7:30)

You know, it's fitting. I'd like that, too.

Brady (7:33)

Call the neighborhood.

John Holmberg (7:33)

All right.

Brett (7:34)

Waffle House Country Club is gone now.

Brady (7:36)

It's. It's. It's on the other side of the.

John Holmberg (7:37)

Starving to death. I was. I literally.

Brett (7:41)

The point is, it cracked me up because it was a Waffle House Country Club in my.

John Holmberg (7:45)

That's how they answer the phone in my. You called them? Yeah. Why?

Brett (7:49)

I wanted to be a member of the Waffle House Country Club.

John Holmberg (7:52)

Here's the thing in my story where I had organs. Human trafficked. He worried about breakfast, and now he's telling us a tale that he's familiar with the Waffle House on Country Club. Anyway, Mesa step it up. Confed flags, maybe a General Lee T shirt or two. That's what we need. And we need you to get on television. A lot of hooting and hollering. This has got to happen if you. If you want our city to stay pristine. We keep talking about how beautiful it Is. And we know. I used to be a big fan of Phoenix. Hey, come on, Visit no more. All those sad sacks that haven't made their lives work over in Cruddy, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, California now, too, with the fires. California, yeah. All those dumps that are in the center of this country, if you go through there and all that rusty garbage with weeds all over it and they call it the heartland. I call it get a weed eater. Nothing worse than driving the freeways of the Midwest. Good Christ, people, go get yourself a still and work the sides of the roads for a few seconds. It's just weeds and rusted out crap and yuck, the rust. Ugh. We don't have that here. If they ever found that out. We don't. We don't rust here. Nothing here rusts. They have to work to make something rust here. Confederate flags. That's my answer. If you've got another one, please, we'll need it. But Mesa, you guys have to show up, and I mean show up big to this Phoenix Open. Tempe, the college kids bro it up a little bit. Yeah, we could do for a couple of bro moments where one of you jumps off the top of a tent and you know, you know, hurt yourself. I'm fine with it. Don't hurt anybody. But bro down hardcore. It would help if somebody went into a drinking coma. That wouldn't be so bad. Tempe could show up and do that. Mesa, Confederate, Flag it through, please. Smuggle in some fentanyl. A fentanyl bust and the guy who gets busted has Confederate flag. We need a. We need a fall guy for this thing. This is going to be the last year. It was great because it rained the whole time. All they talked about was the last couple days were nice, but they kept blimp showing the flooded parking lots and what a miserable experience it was getting out of the Phoenix Open this year. Oh, it's going to be perfect. And then I like my city to be beautiful, but I also like the idea that people from Buffalo and Rochester stay out of it. You can visit. Phoenix is basically the bar at 1:55 in the morning. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Let's go. Let's get out of here. You're all done. David says see if I can get a crew of assholes together tonight. Scare some out of town or something to move. Yeah, that's that. Vasquez, you are our key. You and your friends get out there with some, you know, maybe that. That would be nice. Some of you, you know, Vasquez, like people put those. What do they call those glasses? Those lokes.

Brady (10:56)

Yeah, yeah.

John Holmberg (10:57)

Get some of those in those shirts. What Brett has on, like a flannel on with just the top button buttoned. Give me some of those. Every. Every Vasquez, you've got an uncle that's got one of those crazy mustaches and like a weird 1970s car obsession. Roll his ass out there in his tank top and his 40 and those. Give me some. Give me some. True Mexicans scare the. I like that. I don't want to see.

Brady (11:23)

And we need a Danny Trujillo looking guys to show up.

John Holmberg (11:27)

Danny Trejo needs to be there. Machete and like 30 or 40 of them. Just one, always the shortest one, always has his knee up on something. It's like he's standing there like Captain Morgan and I don't know why, but.

Brady (11:40)

He'S leaning the White Sox pulled up to his knees wearing shorts. Goes down to his ankles.

John Holmberg (11:44)

He's got a 40 in his hand. No matter what. Like it could be at a wedding. It doesn't matter. We need that. We need your Mexicans to go over the top. Hillbilly whites from Mesa. Over the top.

Brady (11:55)

Hell yeah.

John Holmberg (11:56)

John.

Brady (11:56)

January 6th, Donald Trump. February 6th, John Holberg.

John Holmberg (12:00)

God damn right I'm calling for it. I'm going to need you guys out there. I'll be. I'll be right there with you. I'll be there Friday with you. I don't know how to do it. I can look like a proud boy. I'm very bald. Very bald. I don't want any of that stuff. I don't want to stay. Well, a little bit. I don't want it to be obvious. Just subtle. Scare the Midwest, that's it. You got too many vatos and too many Confeds out there. You're going to scare the hell out of the Midwest. And those weirdos won't come here with their ideas. We're all full up. I was on the bike trail yesterday for a couple hours. We are all full up. It is packed right now because the weather's nice and a lot of them are in jeans and flip flops. So I know they're not from around here. And some of them in, like, shorts that I don't know when the last time they sold shorts that little were. But my God, the Roosevelt district.

Brady (12:49)

They do.

John Holmberg (12:50)

No, they're older men who don't know they're gay. The shorts at least in like turquoise shorts that their wives buy you can tell when a wife starts dressing a guy. He was out on the trail a lot yesterday. Holmberg's morning sickness, Medicaid, kupd, Holmberg's morning sickness. And the ones that I know for sure that aren't from around here have two walking sticks that they just bought at rei. Just guarantee, like, that. We're supposed to use walking sticks because the terrain. All right, get out of the way. On your left. But it's Phoenix, homeboy. You heard Brett. Nice move there. Bring a nickel back into the party there, too, because that's kicking it off. That's gonna be a heck of a show on Saturday. I think it's Saturday. Friday or Saturday, but I think it's Friday. Either way, out there at Bird's Nest, they're gonna have some. The party's gonna get crazy, and I just need. I need the news to go back. Just the trouble at the Phoenix Open. As tensions rose when Confederate flags flew over the. Yes. Yes. We don't have to mean it. Just show it. That's all. Maybe an ice raid. Yeah, good idea, Key customer. Maybe we get an ice raid out there. We're mad at Canada for some reason right now. Let's. Let's get some of these Canadians.

Brett (14:07)

They're mad at us.

John Holmberg (14:08)

Well, we're mad at them, too, that we. We started it by tariffing them. So now they're mad at us because we hit them. But they started it by, you know, not participating in the original argument and just bending a knee. That's essentially all we need Canada to do. And the fact that Canada won't bend the knee is almost laughable. Like, you guys think you're independent. You're a state. Fight your own wars, Canada, and then don't bend any. I like when Canada gets puffy. Canada's like, oh, yeah, they were booing the national anthem at hockey games. Listen, I'm like, calm down, Drake.

Brett (14:42)

Take that.

John Holmberg (14:43)

But you guys are nothing without us, and you know it all. All the king is asking is you bend a knee. That's it. You're Canada. Bend the knee. Keep the syrup flowing. We won't knock you silly with these tariffs. I don't understand it myself. Not gonna pretend I do. I just know that Canada needs to kind of look around and go, yeah, we should probably be nice to this guy, not go crazy. We're Canada. Like, if Newfoundland decided to get mouthy with Canada, they'd look and go, shut up. It's basically we're just smacking our little brother. I'm fine with that. But, yeah, let's, let's keep, let's, let's deport a bunch of them. Let's ice raid a bunch of Canadians. It'll be nice though to have the Confederate flag on people and just stick like stickers and you put it on people and welcome to Arizona. Just be great like, just like a welcoming committee of Confed flags. And I love the weather in the resort, but my God, the areas around it are horrible. Like Columbus, Brady, your city, where you live. It's nice. But don't leave where Brady's from because the whole thing is just a series of Buster Douglas clones wandering the streets drinking 40.

Brett (15:46)

Stay inside the walls.

John Holmberg (15:47)

Stay inside of where Brady grew up because he doesn't realize that most of Columbus, Ohio is the most horrifying, scary thing I've ever been to. You don't believe me? Go back to 1991 when Buster Douglas flew home from Japan after he beat Mike Tyson and take a look at how the airport supported him. It's the most like all of the inner cities showed up and they were, they were ready to go. Good job by the Columbus police to keep that and maybe the federal operation to keep the airport safe because there were hundreds of thousands of the most like hard ass looking people I've ever seen.

Brett (16:23)

Airport's close to the area.

John Holmberg (16:25)

Oh yeah, because. Because it's out of your.

Brett (16:27)

I had to go a couple of blocks.

John Holmberg (16:28)

All of Columbus is basically like, you know, blue collar everything. And then you have Brady's little area that just kind of feeds on them and lets them serve his family lunch and dinner at the country club. That's essentially what Columbus get out by five. Yeah, that's what we needed people to think of Phoenix. It's either vatos or Confeds and it's a whole. Just a bubble.

Brett (16:49)

And we're gun crazy too.

John Holmberg (16:52)

Maybe a few of that. Yeah. Oh, that's a good idea. Not bad to have a bunch of concealed carries. But they're not like the, you know, all you guys totally legal to open carries. Can't go in where the drinks are. Not sure you can bring. I think they have a rule says no guns inside. But yeah, that's not maybe wandering around outside.

Brett (17:11)

On the outside you don't go to the tournament.

John Holmberg (17:12)

That's just to scare the people who are here. Oh no, you do want to go to the tournament. Wander around the tournament fully loaded. You don't have to go in. Oh yeah, Brady, no, this is a. Not saying use it. I'm just saying scare the old Canadians and upstate New Yorkers, we are not Florida. We don't want you here.

Brady (17:30)

So get on Amazon. Order them Dukes of Hazzard horns for your car.

John Holmberg (17:33)

They got one on. Oh, yeah, Something like this. We need so much of that. Oh, we need that floating all over the place. Oh, oh. And then vatos are like, oh. And then the flag goes up. What's going on? And he's like, I gotta get back to Albany. Load the Phoenix Open with that. Move your old ass. Come on. What's wrong with you? They're Mexican and they're racist Mexicans. You could really confuse the upstate New Yorkers with Confederate flags of your own. Weird ones. Yeah, like Confederate flags, only with that Mexican eagle in the center, like your flag, plus the Confederate flag. And then this noise right here. People would run to the airport, and it's good because they're flying in and out of Scottsdale, so they didn't have that far to go. This is great. Anyway, a lot going on. Another thing that happened this week, everybody's talking about the basketball trade, but you can talk about it all you want. Once again, the brightest mind in all of WNBA marketing sits in this room every Monday through Friday. And I don't understand at all what the Phoenix Mercury are doing. You had Spicy Cunningham, Sophie, my drinking buddy at the Rah Rah Room. Sophie Cunningham. Beautiful, blonde, straight.

Brady (19:08)

She is then. Yeah, okay.

John Holmberg (19:10)

The opposite of marketing. What you've been marketing for the longest time. Also does Sons broadcasts with Kevin Ray and is magnificent. The last time I spoke to her and probably will be the last time I ever speak to Sophie Cunningham, I told her, I said, you are. And Kevin was with me, you are absolutely fantastic at calling a basketball game. The fact you don't step on people who've been doing it for 25 years. The fact, you know, she knows the game up and down. She is a remarkable broadcaster who happens to also be incredibly physically and, you know, visually appealing. Traded to Indiana. The only thing that this Phoenix Mercury has to appeal to a group of people it's not already appealing to was her. She was unofficially the face of this franchise, probably much to the detriment of other players. And other people on the team were like, she was good enough at basketball. Not great, but good. But she was the one that brought people's eyes to the wnba, that said, wait a minute, that's in the wnb. That's because I never see that. And she knows the game. You watch a son's game with Sophie calling the game or the pre and post game with Tom Chambers. It's like Sam and Diane on there. You're like, when are these two going to just hook up? Like there's chemistry. She's, she's just a bright light of energy and fun. And the Mercury traded her because they still think they've got a product worth watching. You are not bringing new eyes to the party without someone like her. And you were doing a great job. I thought that was the first time. And the only, only untradable one on the whole team was Sophie Cunningham. If you're trying to get young boys interested in the game, if you're trying to get young men, if you're trying to get 50 year old DJs, anyone in? Like, she was, she was eye candy. She was a draw.

Brady (21:00)

Ford is a sponsor instead of just Subaru.

John Holmberg (21:02)

Yeah. You start looking around at other car companies, Subaru won't have that market cornered. Nope. They blew it again. They blew it again.

Brett (21:10)

Just sent Miss America to Indiana.

John Holmberg (21:12)

That's exactly right. And you thought she was, you thought she was hot before. Stand her next to Caitlin Clark G, she's going to look like Farrah Fawcett poster came to life. Those Indiana people are going to lose their minds. But you were marketing to a very specific group of people and never really bounced out of that until she rolled in. And that stuff she's doing with Tom Chambers before the game, her and Leander and Tom. Awesome, entertaining, fun, bubbly and like still getting you through the basketball info. Put her on sometimes did full games where she sat with Eddie and Krey and she was great at that. Not to mention go to her Instagram page and tell me, wow, I might watch a WNBA game because of her. Nope. Phoenix Mercury is like, we need somebody unknown and disgusting to appeal to our core fan base because we have no intention of growing this sport whatsoever. And again, you can sit and call me misogynist. All I say is you're a poorly run operation. That's my only argument against that whole entire thing. Terrible, terrible and terrible. But it's nothing you can do. Do you know why she got traded? Speculation. But it's kind of straight. No, it's kind of on. It's on the Internet a little bit. And it was before the trade, one of her teammates that she used to be tight with put on an Instagram post a little while ago that said something to the effect of you can't say you love somebody and then vote against them like that. And Sophie may have been a Trump supporter and the team basically said, not on our. They turned on her like you Can't. You're not allowed to vote your own way. You have to be general.

Brett (23:04)

You vote the team's way.

John Holmberg (23:05)

Well, you vote the way of the reputation there. Sophie. I mean, come on. Look at that. Yeah. She evidently was potentially a red hat. Now, I don't know that to be factual, for suresies. But if she wore the red hat and then got out, she had friends that she was very close with on the team that basically said she's got to go because otherwise you have the dumbest marketing department in all of sports to say no. She was. She was going to do very well letting everybody know what the mercury was who didn't care. Basketball fans that don't like the WNBA liked Sophie Cunningham and potentially could have eased up on the hatred of it because of her. Nope. Dumb, dumb. Well, the product on the floor is the most important part. No, it's not. Selling it to the people's the most important part. You're running a business, not a basketball team, and you had something there. And she was awesome. Plus, she was a good drinking pal. We were getting to, you know, a couple pops every once in a while. We'd been in the Rah Rah room. We'd sit and I'd. I'd be at least Sophie adjacent at the Rah Rah room with Kevin.

Brady (24:16)

She cancel your membership now in protest.

John Holmberg (24:18)

You know, what if this was an ISHPIA move? Absolutely. But I have a feeling the team put heat, put a little pressure on us, saying, we don't need her here. There's some tension in that room.

Brady (24:26)

Isn't it an issue move. At the end of the day, it's.

John Holmberg (24:29)

All an ISHPIA move. Yeah. Eventually the buck stops at top.

Brett (24:32)

So, yeah, put his foot down.

John Holmberg (24:33)

He could have stopped it and traded all those crazies that are like, we're taking that pen away from you early. If you keep.

Brett (24:39)

Here's another 150 grand already. Bring on two more players.

John Holmberg (24:44)

Yeah. You bring eight players. Well, 250,000 is like six players unless you're going for a superstar.

Brett (24:49)

150.

John Holmberg (24:49)

Got two. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You got two for that. That's. You're getting a. You're getting like a Wilt Chamberlain product for that kind of cash. Either way, dumb and dumb. So Sophie's gone and the WNBA goes back to what it was before. An absolute farce of itself trying to sell this cruddy basketball product without a star.

Brady (25:09)

They were throwing out the email this morning. It's whoever the two players that are coming here are.

John Holmberg (25:14)

I Don't even know who one of them's a name in that Alyssa Thomas, but she was the other one. They got Satu Sabali and center Kalani Brown and guards veg the oozen. Right, Exactly. Morning sickness medicate Holmberg's morning sickness. They tried it with Skyler Diggins a few years ago and she just wasn't as charismatic. Very pretty. Wasn't as charismatic. That's what you need. Hate to break it to you, but you need decent looking people to sell your product. You know why Jimmy Butler gets a lot of commercials in the NBA? Because he's great looking. Period.

Brady (25:57)

It's like Michael Jordan.

John Holmberg (25:58)

Michael Jordan was incredibly good looking. There's Satu. Satu Savali. Not gonna draw the eyes of people.

Brady (26:09)

I mean, this is.

John Holmberg (26:10)

Who aren't already interested in the. It ain't Sophie. You had something you would have if Sophie would have been marketed properly. Sold tickets to college boys to watch WNBA games. Sophie gets it. That's why her Instagram's full of her doing modeling stuff and sexy modeling stuff. She understands where her bread's buttered.

Brady (26:32)

Should be the queen of Indiana now.

John Holmberg (26:34)

In fact, I don't. You guys don't know this, but I said to Kevin Ray to get hold of Sophie and say whatever she makes a year in the wnba, I will pay her to be on this show. All she has to do is sleep. Then you have to be on the show. Show up every morning. I'll give her that. What is it? It can't be more than like 45 grand a year, right? We'll pull that to you. 45,000 a year. Come lay on the couch. Quit that stupid league and stay on with the Sun's broadcast team where your real future is and you know, you'll be fine. We'll cover your nut here for a while. You don't have to go to live in Indianapolis, which is a. That's a death sentence again, going back there. Reminder Confederate flags. We don't want any of Indianapolis showing up either.

Brady (27:17)

But her and Caitlyn, man, I mean.

John Holmberg (27:19)

As far as Indiana is going to lose their minds. They already liked Caitlyn and she looks like Margaret Hamilton from the wizard of Oz. You put Sophie next to her with lipstick. I don't know. You can't. But you can't put enough lipstick on Caitlyn for me to go, wow, hot. But you can. Sophie, she just shows up that. That backcourt right now. Indiana gets it, right? We've got Caitlin Clark. We probably got the most likable player.

Brett (27:50)

And Indiana with a parade.

John Holmberg (27:53)

They're gonna lose their minds. But their front office saw it. We got a great player we can't put on billboards. We can, but it's not gonna. You put Sophie next to her on that billboard and you're like, I gotta go to a Fever game. That one's great at basketball. I don't know what this blonde chick does, but I want to see her move around and you'll find out she's not so bad. Still have to watch a WNBA game, but at least there's eye candy.

Brett (28:16)

You'll see more of her.

John Holmberg (28:18)

Yep. You don't see Bol bowl getting a whole lot of advertisement. Not saying it's because Bol bowl is not unique to look at because he is. It's just on the tv. It would be very confusing because you're not really getting the 7 foot 7 thing out of him. Bobo's a strange looking dude. He's not getting a lot of billboards. I mean, if Bolbo was on a billboard, there'd be crashes by that billboard all the time thinking that they've landed. He doesn't look like he's from our planet. That dude just looks different than everybody else. His dad did too. But Bobo's got everything his dad had. Like seems to be amplified on Bolbo's face. All his features are twice the size that they should be. He's just. You don't have any of that. Devin Booker. Good looking, good looking guy. KD to a certain degree. Good looking guy, man, that's got.

Brady (29:08)

Indiana's got to be the straightest team in the league now.

John Holmberg (29:11)

They're marketing. They're marketing too. There's not a huge lesbian population in Indianapolis and basketball is king. You got straight girls, man. Straight white women in Indiana are. What do you think? They're doing it right.

Brady (29:27)

HP needs to hire their marketing team.

John Holmberg (29:29)

Well, they're the. The whole WNBA is a mess. It's not just the Mercury, but goodbye to Sophie. I'm gonna miss Sophie Cunningham. I don't know that she made me watch basketball. She made me think about watching the WNBA for a minute. You sitting? Well, when the game's running, like there's that Sophie Cunningham. You watch her run around a little bit. Then she'd take a couple shots and be like, well, I think I could block that. Pretty sure. Just shoot from your chest.

Brett (29:54)

You'll get easier shots now that Caitlyn's dishing the ball.

John Holmberg (29:57)

Oh, it's going to open it up for. If you want to talk about Basketball and that you can go down the hall. Because I'm not interested in actually breaking down the W. Wa. I'm just saying don't watch a quarter of her running around. And once she gets, you know, once she needs a blow, sits on the bench. I know. Then I'm going to go back to what like men do and not watch the wnba much like a cooking show or something over that. Be more manly. Anyway. Big. That was tragic. And then of course the other basketball news is that Luka Doncic got traded for the eyebrow over in Los Angeles which tells me, yeah, street clothes goes to Dallas, just got super scary. And then Fox gets out of. He's gone from Sacramento and goes over to San Antonio and the Suns are floundering while these superstars are getting bounced around. I still think LeBron James and his son, who my friend Reggie has nicknamed Scooby and Scrappy and I think that's brilliant. I think Scooby and Scrappy are on the block. I think they're going to get shopped. And my fear is the Suns are interested. I fear it beyond belief. I fear it. Somebody will pick up LeBron because LeBron's. LeBron and Luke aren't going to. That's not going to work. That's just not because of personalities. The same player. You can't. They're going to diminish each other to cancel each other out. You'll get points. The rest team's not going to do anything. These guys, you know, between the two of them it's 39 and nine every night. So you get 60, 18 and 18 from two guys. And the rest of the team's just like, when do we get a chance? You get. Lakers aren't done yet. And my fear is the Suns are like, oh, LeBron, eh.

Brady (31:35)

I think LeBron's ego would allow him to come to Phoenix.

John Holmberg (31:38)

Over LA talked about it. I think the Clippers will be the team that's. Clippers are Golden State. Those would be the high and marquee team.

Brady (31:46)

He's got to sit with that big market, you know, like I just.

John Holmberg (31:49)

Phoenix is a big basketball thing now. I know but it would be. It would be different. Some owners gonna sit and go. I'll take the marketing dollars. This is a good. This is a good move for my team. It's not going anywhere. And the Suns are that team. It keeps people interested while they try to figure out what the hell they're doing next year. But I, you know, you don't have much to trade outside of maybe you'd have to give Kevin Durant away. But I think that LeBron is on the block, and he's. My son has to come along, too, like. And we know we're getting scrappy with that deal. We understand.

Brett (32:21)

We'll head back to Cleveland.

John Holmberg (32:23)

Pack your bags, boy. They're kicking us out. Oh, Dad, I just thought. We gotta move. Yeah, but I want my friends here. Sorry, Bronny, you gotta come with your daddy. Nobody wants you here without your daddy. You know, how fast would Bronnie get cut if LeBron got traded without him?

Brady (32:38)

Oh, man.

John Holmberg (32:38)

I mean, it would be like seven seconds after they said, We've traded LeBron James. And, of course, you don't know that means that son doesn't have a job anymore. It's ridiculous we even allowed that to happen. So as basketball had a. It was a big weekend for basketball. Big one all the way around. And the biggest news, for me, at least locally, is Sophie. Sophie. Oh, Otis comes up with a great idea. You know, John, when the news gets goofy, they always show that one vendor that has flags. They sell flags. We need one of those guys parked right outside the Phoenix open. Those weird. You know, you get, like, a Mexican flag, an American flag, And there's that SS1 that you kind of see snuck into the back there. It's like, oh, he sells flags from everything. We need one of those guys. And, you know, you're out there and more than likely listening to us. Or can I act? So get your flag operation popped up somewhere near cameras. I'm not saying prominently display the Third Reich stuff. Have it in there. Make people question, like, is that Maryland? And then, what's that red and black one? Have people from Albany wondering, and everybody's in on it. Don't poo poo this. We all know it's not real cops. And everybody's like, news, don't get on this. Just show it. And never mention it. Just show it to the east.

Brett (33:57)

It's Rock Ridge.

John Holmberg (33:58)

Yeah, it is our Rock Ridge. We all are in on it together. I know black people and Jewish people and all that. Don't get upset at the idea of the Confederate flag. We're doing it to keep weirdos out. We have to sometimes take great measures to understand we're all in this together. And afterwards, we'll slap high fives and get back to having a great city without anybody knowing about it. You don't want buffalo coming here. You certainly don't want California coming here. So let's do it right and start flashing those Confederate flags around uh. Oh, Toledo's got something. You have the horn for me? Oh, baby, a lot more of this. Another one. You got a car that makes that noise? Please drive it around. When you see old men in Tommy Bahamas with a martini glass on their back, with a lady with gray hair, no wrinkles on her face, but her neck looks like it's been burned, honk at them.

Brady (35:02)

Seems like the Shayna trucks pulling up outside.

John Holmberg (35:05)

Oh, we need a lot of those, too. Yeah. Keep Arizona beautiful by keeping all these weirdos out. They can visit. That was a whole design of this place. Visitors, summer does its job, burns them out of here. But this February thing, it's. It's too beautiful. Too beautiful. That noise is fantastic. And then running the heels of it, you get that floating around the Phoenix Open. Suddenly folks are just watching in Albany. Remember we used to go to that before, you know, they took over. And think about it. Minorities. You're keeping out old white people. That's your goal. That's great. And all you have to do is flash some Confederate flags around, start blowing these horn. Oh, Jesus. Oh, if the Phoenix Open had this going on all day. So long, buffalo.

Brady (36:09)

The Thunderbirds.

John Holmberg (36:11)

What are you doing? You're killing them. Move, homo. Nice. Cold like. Oh, geez. I'm not gonna do it because I get fired for that. What is he, Tommy Bahama? I don't know. Yeah, what is on his back there? It's hilarious. Hey, essay me. Honey, hold your purse real, real tight. They're talking to us. Hola. Como esta usted? What's on your back, player? Is that a martini? Yes, it is. It's a Tommy Bahama.

Brett (36:48)

It's a knockoff. They'll have that out already.

John Holmberg (36:50)

I didn't know homosexuals live that long.

Brett (36:52)

Later.

John Holmberg (36:55)

Arizona' change, Tony. It's time to go. Boy, that Trump's right. Immigration's gotten out of control. Gotta make them think that we're flooded with crazy.

Brady (37:04)

Someone said we need to put Katie Hobbs in a big white Cadillac and be boss Hobbs.

John Holmberg (37:10)

Yes, that kind of stuff. But no, we won't move in here like crazy. It's nuts. But it is going to be a beautiful week. So put it on tv. That's the last thing we need to do is advertise this place. I've changed my tune on that in the last decade. We're full. We are full. We don't need your terrible, nutty ideas rolling in here from California and the Midwest and then clashing the California liberals and those old Midwestern whites banging into each other here. Keeps everything nuts. Although it does keep us purple. And that's great for media advice. Election. We had a great year last year because of election year. A great year because being purple. Remember all those ads? Oh, yeah. We made a good portion of cash on those. Can't help it. They make us run them, which is even better. It's like, you will take our money and you will run our ads. All right, you got it. Kamala. You're gonna lose. I don't care. I'm gonna spend a bajillion dollars there. All right, we'll eat that. Let's get a Wake up song. Start this week off Phoenix open week properly. 5859-800-Give us a good one. We'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98 KUPT.